In the temple, there was silence for a long time.

Zhu Biao's face was constantly changing, and his eyebrows were wrinkled for a while, and then stretched again. After a long time, he opened his mouth and asked again: "Dad, is it true?" ”

"As a Ming Jun, do you have to abandon benevolence and righteousness, be lawless, ruthless and unrighteous?"

"Gentlemen and villains, children are willing to be gentlemen! If so, then I ...... the position of the crown prince."

"Bastard!" Before Zhu Biao could finish speaking, Lao Zhu stepped forward in shock and horror, and slapped Zhu Biao in the face. "What do you want to say? Do you mean to scold you, Lao Tzu, I am lawless, ruthless and unjust? ”

"What do you want to do? We've been training you for 18 years! What do you want? ”

As he spoke, his voice trembled a little. He didn't expect that he had gone to great lengths to find a famous Confucian as a teacher for Zhu Biao, which had such a great impact on Zhu Biao!

They helped teach themselves a good son who is humble and benevolent, but he can't be an enterprising king just because he is humble and benevolent!

For the so-called benevolence and righteousness of Confucianism, this son just wanted to ...... You want to take the initiative to give up the position of prince?

Zhu Biao also has persistence in his heart. Lao Zhu's slap he didn't dodge or dodge, and he was slapped hard. As if to show his innermost persistence.

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting stiffer and stiffer, Zhu Su had no choice but to stand up again. "Dad, don't worry. The eldest brother is too honest, so he was coaxed by those Confucian old papers! ”

"Big brother, don't stare at me, wait for me to explain it to you. Let me ask you: Is it the great benefit of our Ming to promote the Confucian principles of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith, or is it great to benefit our Ming Dynasty by allowing treachery and recklessness and trampling on the dignity of the law at will? ”

Zhu Biao was stunned. I didn't want to answer: "Naturally, it is to promote benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith......"

"Isn't that the end of it?" Zhu Su spread his hands, "Who said that when you become an emperor, you have to abandon benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith?" I am not a country of beasts in China. The implementation of morality can make our Han people different from the barbarians in the world! ”

"As an emperor, you naturally need to be the first to practice it. Otherwise, how can you convince the public? ”

"It's just that when the moral code of the individual is contrary to the interests of the state, as a king, the interests of the country must be put first! Damage the selfish virtue of one's own body, and benefit the people of the world! ”

This is the most rare thing about being a king, and it is also the responsibility of a king. Harming oneself and benefiting the country, isn't this precisely a selfless act that only a virtuous king can do? Why is the eldest brother so despicable, only willing to take care of himself, but he wants to escape the heavy responsibility that you should have been born to bear? ”

"Harm yourself and benefit the country!" Zhu Biao's eyes widened, and his eyes gradually brightened.

"Big brother, you just made a sarcastic remark to your father, presumably because those staff officials complain a lot about your father on weekdays, right?"

"How can you know how your father's morality will suffer when he makes one decision after another? Didn't he know that someone hated him to the core? Doesn't he want to be a moral gentleman who does nothing? ”

"It's really a heavy responsibility, I have to do it! Dad reads and recites every day, and he doesn't dare to rest at night, just because when he dreams back and forth at midnight, he often has worries in his heart! ”

Lao Zhu stared at Zhu Su who was talking in a daze. When did we toss and turn around at midnight and always be worried? As soon as we put on the pillow, we can sleep until dawn!

It's also morally tormented, what do we eat on weekdays, but I ate a lot of fried cakes, and I really didn't eat it!

However, seeing Zhu Biao's eyes turning to him, Lao Zhu still hurriedly cooperated to make a haggard appearance that had been tormented. "Biao'er, your fifth brother is right!"

"A moral gentleman must do it, and he must do it in the interests of the Ming Dynasty first!"

"Why is the Emperor of your Dao called a lonely man? It is because whenever these two conflict, no one can help with this torment of conscience, and the emperor can only bear it himself! ”

"Everyone in the world thinks that the emperor is easy to be, but your fifth brother is smart, and he can see at a glance that this position is difficult, and he wants to hide far away. You are the eldest brother, you are lazy and don't want to bear this heavy burden, which brother do you want to carry for you? ”

"I ......" Zhu Biao's eyes were red when Lao Zhu said these words, his mouth opened and closed silently a few times, and finally knelt heavily on the ground with a thud:

"Daddy! It's the son who is not filial, he can't see his father's hard work on weekdays, and he still has a grudge against his father! ”

"Today's teachings are remembered. My son must learn from you, shoulder this burden, and be a good prince and emperor! ”

"Good! Good! Old Zhu was overjoyed and helped Zhu Biao up. laughed happily: "This is our good standard, this is our good prince!" ”

The father and son looked at each other and smiled, what a picture of father and son's filial piety!

Zhu Su looked at Lao Zhu first, and admired Lao Zhu's acting skills in his heart. is worthy of being a self-made man who can do it to the emperor, and this improvisational bitter performance directly fooled Zhu Biao, his own son. In order to educate the prince, Lao Zhu really spared no effort.

looked at Zhu Biao again, but he didn't expect that the Confucian benevolence and morality were so deeply rooted in Zhu Biao's heart. Today's rhetoric of "putting national interests first" hopes to change this somewhat pedantic big brother, help him break through the shackles of Confucianism, and plant a seed for him to become an iron-blooded king.

However, it is precisely because of the "pedantic" in his heart that he hopes that he can become the next emperor the most, right? After all, if it was him, he would never attack his younger brothers for unwarranted reasons.

Zhu Biao wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve. His eyes are resolute, slightly different from his plain and humble appearance, although his clothes are embarrassed, he has a resolute temperament. "Dad, you're right."

"Sons should not tolerate vegetarianism. Although his actions were within his authority, he relied solely on his own assumptions to instigate his son to have a relationship with his fifth brother. ”

"Even under his son's repeated orders, he still acted arbitrarily. Although this is a small matter, this case is not open. ”

"The son went to the cabinet and drafted the rules of punishment. It is also good that the government and the opposition know that I am of the same heart as my five brothers and brothers, and there is no trace of suspicion! ”

"Good!" Old Zhu was overjoyed. "We want you to punish him, here's why!" After thinking about it, after all, he didn't want his son to be infamy, so he woke up and said: "You want to make a separate start, just move this Ru Taisu far away from Beijing." Those officials are more refined than monkeys when they are stained with hair, so they naturally know what you mean behind it. ”

"In the future, I will not dare to look for your fifth brother like this."

Previously, Lao Zhu shouted that he was going to kill Ru Taisu, but now that Zhu Biao has opened his mind, he ignored the words he had released, and thought about Zhu Biao wholeheartedly.

"Yes. The son got it. Zhu Biao nodded. said hello to Zhu Su again, thanked him a few times, and hurried to the cabinet. He already has a lot of affairs, and Ru Taisu's matter can be resolved as soon as possible, so as to avoid the spread of rumors from the government and the opposition.

Take the interests of the Ming Dynasty as the priority, so let's start from here. Zhu Biao's steps were firm, and he felt that his criteria for acting were clearer than before.

"Not bad. It's a bit eloquent. Watching his eldest son walk out of the hall with satisfaction, Lao Zhu patted Zhu Su on the back. Why, the art of the emperor, you have also learned? ”

"What kind of imperial art is this?" I didn't dare to admit this, Zhu Su hurriedly shook his head like a rattle. "It's just that the eldest brother was too deeply poisoned by Confucianism, and he thought of a way to make him self-consistent with Confucianism."

"It is better to believe in a book than to have no book. Hehe, if you want your eldest brother to be an emperor of the ages like your father, you naturally have to think of ways to make him ruthless. ”

"You kid!" Lao Zhu smiled. "It's a good material that is born to fool people!"

(End of chapter)