It's just that Zhu Bai is the age of fantasy.

He couldn't bear the shattering of the dream of the divine beast, and asked unwillingly: "Sir, since you have calculated the birth of the divine beast, why do you say that it does not exist?" ”

"Could it be that the Duke of Xinguo, together with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and those Fanbang barbarians, deceived me together?"

Lin Che stretched out his hand and pressed Zhu Bai, who was about to jump up, back on the stool.

Shook his head: "Although the Qilin is fake, but my officials of the Ming Dynasty did not take the initiative to deceive Your Majesty. ”

"It's the treacherous Fanbang barbarians, using their local endemic animals to pretend to be my Chinese unicorn. I just want to deceive me into the reward of the Ming court. ”

Looking at the two of their own students, they will be suspicious.

As he spoke, he took out a pen and paper, and on the white paper handed by Zhu Zhang, he drew a strange beast with a deer head, a long neck, and a blocky texture on its body.

Then he pointed to it and said, "It's called a giraffe, and it grows in Africa and Europa." ”

"The markings on its body are golden and white, which is somewhat similar to the many unicorns in my Chinese legends."

"But it's not an auspicious beast at all, it's no different from the cattle and sheep on the grassland, it's just a little weird."

faced Lin Che's words were conclusive, and he explained with pictures.

Zhu Fan and the others' faces became extremely ugly for a while.

You must know that the Qilin came to the world directly, but it has spread throughout Yingtianfu.

If the people come to worship this auspicious beast, it is not auspicious, but an ordinary beast.

The majesty and face that the court has accumulated for a long time will be completely lost.

……

"Damn it."

In the secret room next door, Zhu Yuanzhang slammed the teacup in his hand on the wall.

Even if he hadn't seen what the giraffe that Lin Che painted looked like.

However, given that Lin Che had never lost his words before.

Zhu Yuanzhang has determined that this so-called unicorn must be a strange beast of Fanbang.

Fortunately, he didn't have a brain fever today, so he should take the unicorn to Mount Tai to seal Zen.

Otherwise, he will be reduced to a laughing stock for the ages, which is worse than Song Zhenzong.

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at Zhu Biao with trembling fingers and said: "Boss, send us a captain now, and sink the envoy of that state, along with his bullshit auspicious beast, into the sea for us." ”

As if that weren't enough of a relief.

Zhu Yuanzhang added: "The official of the Ministry of Rites who judged that the strange beast was a unicorn was also thrown into the sea with us." ”

"Eating the imperial court, even my Chinese Rui Beast can admit his mistake, what use do we want him to do."

Although Zhu Biao was shocked that Fanbang dared to use a strange beast to deceive the Qilin, he came to the Ming Dynasty to deceive.

However, since ancient times, there has never been a precedent for killing foreign envoys in anger, and he hurriedly dissuaded Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "Father, don't be impulsive, that barbarian should be killed." ”

"But if you kill them regardless of it, it will inevitably attract unwitting vassal states to become wary of my Daming."

"The losses caused by this are not something that their pariahs can make up for."

As Zhu Biao said, the Ming Dynasty, where the sun is rising in the east, is the era of subduing vassal states everywhere.

In Southeast Asia alone, there were more than a dozen vassal states.

Great convenience, Daming to the ocean exploration action.

If you kill the barbarians who tried to deceive the Ming Dynasty in anger, and let these vassal states deviate from morality.

In the future, the fleet of the Ming Dynasty to the Western Ocean will become a problem to replenish along the way.

It was Liu Sanwu's turn to listen to the lecture today, and he immediately persuaded: "Your Majesty, just killing such a small person will not only attract misunderstanding among those who don't know, but also make them too cheap. ”

"Why don't you listen to what Mr. Lin has to say first, maybe he has a way to punish them, and it won't affect my reputation as a Ming."

Liu Sanwu's coke oven to see the problem is different from Zhu Biao, who coordinates the overall situation.

He was even more worried that in that fake unicorn was about to come to Yingtian, if it suddenly fell into the water and died, there would inevitably be wild people, who would associate it with the natural disaster that had explored the bottom.

Then he trumpeted the immorality of the imperial court and fooled the common people into doing those rebellious things.

Zhu Yuanzhang heard the exhortation of the two, and the boiling killing intent finally calmed down a little.

He sat back in his chair, but said coldly: "This matter is related to the reputation of us and Daming, if Mr. Lin's method is not appropriate, even if we are scolded for being a tyrant of immorality, we will still cut down those barbarians." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang can't be allowed not to be angry, but this incident has hit him too hard.

In the morning, he was still fantasizing about the wonderful picture of taking the unicorn Taishan to seal the Zen.

But it didn't take long for Zhu Yuanzhang to learn from Lin Che that this so-called Rui Beast was just a Fanbang beast.

He almost became a fool of the emperor by the envoys of Fanbang.

The gap between the two made Zhu Yuanzhang have the idea of ending those daring barbarians with his own hands.

……

The mansion next door.

Zhu Fan reluctantly accepted the fact that the unicorn was a giraffe.

Anxiously asked Lin Che, "Sir, those Fanbang envoys will arrive at Yingtianfu tomorrow." ”

"I don't know if you have any way to punish those barbarians, and at the same time minimize the impact of this Jia Qilin incident?"

Lin Che finished eating a tender chicken thigh.

Looking at Zhu Fan in surprise and asked, "You kid won't be a hero who wants to be and expose the emperor's new clothes, right?" ”

"What new clothes?"

Zhu Fan hadn't heard the allusion that Lin Che said, so he couldn't help but subconsciously ask a rhetorical question.

Lin Che smiled and told the story of the emperor's new clothes.

Then dissuaded Zhu Fan and said: "Now people in the world think that the giraffe is a unicorn." ”

"If you reveal its true identity, you're likely to be considered a babbling madman."

"Even if it is the emperor today, if your father believes in your words, it will make a large number of people who want to follow the Qilin promotion and make a fortune hate you."

Hear the words.

Zhu Fan hurriedly said: "Sir, you are joking, how dare I be, I just want to know how to deal with this matter, and if I encounter a similar situation in the future, I will have a response." ”

Everything that should be said was said, Lin Che saw that Zhu Fan had an attitude of asking to the end, and he didn't sell it anymore, and directly satisfied him and Zhu Bai's broken child.

"If you want to eliminate the impact of the fake unicorn on Daming, the easiest way is to open a zoo and give this giraffe sent by Fanbang for free for the world to visit."

"The people have seen it more often, and they have lost their sense of mystery about this thing, and if they want to deal with this strange beast and the envoy of Fanbang, no one will care."

Just like many eunuchs who leaned towards the government and the opposition, they had been in contact with the emperor for a long time.

They figured out that the royal boast of the Son of Heaven's various uncommon sacredness is a lie to deceive and fool the world.

(End of chapter)