Watching Li Zhen's coffin disappear from sight, Zhu Yuanzhang was still reluctant to leave for a long time.

"Father, it's windy upstairs, let's go down." Zhu Biao looked at his old father distressedly, it had only been more than a month, and his hair had turned a lot grayer. The lingering sadness on his face made his father, who was high-spirited in the past, feel like he was several years old.

"Stand a little longer, Boss." Zhu Yuanzhang muttered: "I really envy you, you have so many brothers, we don't even have the last brother-in-law now, and there is no one of our relatives of the same generation left." ”

"Father, you still have the queen mother, and we still have us." Zhu Biao hurriedly comforted: "There are also these grandchildren, there are too many relatives than back then." ”

"It's different." Zhu Yuanzhang's hand tightly grasped the cold and rough city wall bricks, as if he was trying to grasp something, and said:

"When you look at the brothers and sisters who were with you at the knees of your parents, all of them have left you, and you will realize more and more clearly that you are not far from that day."

"What did my father say, you are still in the prime of spring and autumn," Zhu Biao sighed lightly: "Give birth to younger brothers one after another." ”

"Hehe, that's right." Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile and said: "But our old Zhu family doesn't have a long life, don't look at our body bones now, who knows when it won't work?" ”

His expression gradually became firm and said, "There are some things that can't wait any longer, and they can only be thrown to you when they wait." ”

"Father......" Zhu Biao choked up, he obviously felt that since his uncle left, his father's mentality had aged a lot. The temper is also more irritable.

"Let's go, no more time can be wasted." After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he turned around and went down the city gate.

Before boarding the holy car, he said to the princes standing aside: "The second, third, fourth, and sixth, we will come to the Qianqing Palace later, we have something to tell you." ”

"Yes, Father." The four princes hurriedly responded.

On the way back to the palace, Zhu Zhen saw that the fifth brother seemed to have something on his mind, thinking that he was sad because he was ignored by his father, so he comforted him softly: "Fifth brother, scientific research is lonely. But if you succeed, it will last forever. ”

"You don't have to comfort me, I'm used to it." Lao Wu shook his head and smiled, and said in a low voice: "Go back to me and discuss something with you." ”

"Okay, when I come out of the palace, I'll go find you." Zhu Zhen nodded.

~~

After returning to the palace, the four princes walked side by side to the Qianqing Palace.

"Looking, what are you looking for?" King Qin asked in amazement.

"What else can you do, Xunbei." King Jin is also as big as a fight, and he was happy to come back for the New Year, but his father scolded him several times.

"Didn't you two bring it on yourself? My uncle is gone, my father is sad to be like that, and you still go to the kiln to drink flower wine. "King Yan doesn't have a good airway.

"How many times have I said it, I'm going to inspect the work." King Jin said depressedly: "And I also changed into civilian clothes, why did I let Yushitai find out?" ”

"Chen Ning Tujie's gang has been eyeing us for a long time." King Yan said in a deep voice: "There are still bones in the eggs, not to mention that we took the initiative to make mistakes." ”

"His grandmother's." The third child said angrily: "When I was in Taiyuan, they changed their laws all day long to impeach us!" Lao Tzu returned to Beijing, and he didn't stop, this is going to be a waste of bones! ”

"What, what chicken can drum?" The second child asked puzzled.

"It's three people who become tigers." The third brother explained, and seeing that the second brother still seemed to understand, he had to speak more vernacular. "It's scolding every day, scolding every month, slandering us year after year. Our reputation will be completely ruined, and even my father will not treat us for a long time. ”

"This, so serious?" The second child couldn't help but smack his tongue.

"It's that serious." The elder brothers nodded, and the fourth elder said earnestly: "Father's permission to speak about the official is destined to be this result." ”

"No, that's not right." The second child asked strangely: "Go, last year, the impeachment of your speech officials, don't you let your father plant and plant trees?" ”

"Second brother, what do you mean by planting trees?" The sixth couldn't help but ask.

"You, you don't know?" When he saw that there was still the sixth brother asking for advice from him, the second brother was very happy, and he knew everything:

"It's just to dig a hole, bury the person deep in it, let him, make him unable to move. Then he cut the prisoner's scalp and cut it open with a ten, cross-shaped gap, and poured mercury into it. ”

"Wait, wait a while, and the mercury will slowly separate the prisoner's flesh and skin. Let's let the prisoners be miserable. He, he's going to writhe desperately, and again, he can't break free. Eventually, the body will crawl out of the scalp opening, light, and bare, leaving only one piece of skin in the soil, like a seed sprouting. So, it's called, it's called planting trees. ”

The second brother said intermittently, but the sixth brother listened to it with a creepy feeling, and finally knew why he didn't let himself know before.

Nima, if it had been a few years ago, it would have been a urine kang.

"If you don't make an example of the monkeys like this, the new deal will not be implemented." King Yan sighed and said, "My father was guilty of their family property, and those who had more than 10,000 acres of land in the family were tortured like this. ”

"What about less than 10,000 acres?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"Depending on the situation, those with more fields have made fertilizer, and those with fewer fields are responsible for digging pits and planting trees." Zhu Di said expressionlessly: "Anyway, I think it's fair." ”

"No, it's not fair, why don't you scold me and the third child, too, and plant trees?" The second child said indignantly.

"Alas, there is a reason for this, but the second brother still doesn't know." The third child patted the second child on the shoulder, looked at the Qianqingmen in front of him, and muttered: "It's not the same as before, understand?" ”

"Yes, second brother, it's rare to be confused." The fourth child also smiled bitterly and said: "The sixth child once said that the source of pain lies in knowing too much and doing too little. ”

The sixth man was silent.

In fact, there is nothing difficult to understand, Yanguan is the emperor's minions. When the minions do not go to the enemy, but stand on the opposite side of the imperial power and act against the emperor, of course, they will be punished the most severely. This is the case when the officials oppose the Yellow Book of the Qing Dynasty.

However, the impeachment of the vassal king by the officials is obviously not the case. If Zhu Yuanzhang also severely punished them, the vassal king would make trouble in the future, and no one would report it again.

That would inevitably fuel the ambitions of the vassal kings and pose a great threat to the imperial power. Therefore, the father will let them scold......

They are father and son, but also monarchs and ministers, and the brothers have long understood this.

It's just that the second child is such an iron and simple, and he can't figure it out.

~~

"Oh." Zhu Fan scratched his head, although he didn't understand what his younger brothers meant, he knew what he should do.

Zhu Di patted Zhu Fan on the shoulder and said, "Second brother, when the younger brothers invite them to go overseas in the future, they must give their full support." ”

"Ming, understood." Zhu Fan nodded heavily and said, "Yes, anyway, what are you doing, I, I support it." ”

"Okay, we're not going to cheat you." King Jin withdrew his hand, dressed neatly and said, "Let's go in." ”

(End of chapter)