Capital

Fengtian Temple

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon chair and looked down at the empty court.

Holding a fold in his hand.

The fold was stained with blood.

Zhu Yuanzhang has always treated this group of officials as monkeys,

but

I can't think of anything,

This time, it was played by officials all over the world.

The empty seal case is really special.

It's so special that it's rare in history.

In the local account books, it is necessary to count the fiscal revenue and expenditure of the year.

and then stamped by the local government,

The local officials brought the account books to the capital household department to approve the school,

As long as you find a little mistake,

and the book of accounts shall be void.

Immediately sent back to the local place for re-approval.

If it's a place around Yingtianfu, it's okay, and if you go back, you will go back.

But if it is a state capital in a remote area,

It would take a month to come and go.

whereas

The key lies in the official seal of the local government.

So

The local official thought of a trick,

simply made out a few empty account books with official seals,

Take the blank book to the capital to fill it out,

In this way, even if there is a mistake, it can be corrected on the spot, saving the effort of going back and forth.

All civil servants,

Whether in Beijing or in the locality,

They deliberately formed such an unspoken rule,

Only the emperor alone did not know all this.

The rest of the military attaches are not involved in major financial matters.

Although they are aware of the existence of the empty seal.

However, I do not know if this matter was acquiesced by His Majesty.

One comes and goes,

This is the situation we are in.

The whole world knows,

Only Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know.

When Zhu Yuanzhang thought of this, he laughed angrily,

There was resentment in his eyes.

"Hehe, dare to play us?

We're going to kill you all!" ”

The outbreak of the empty seal case was only two days away,

Old Zhu Cha doesn't check, as long as there is a name in the account book,

All the officials implicated in it will be cut down when they are brought in,

Two groups of officials before and after,

Killed tens of thousands of people.

This is still the local officials in Tianfu and the surrounding areas,

The officials who were a little further away did not escort them,

That's why the brocade guards were scattered,

They're arresting people all over the world.

Old Zhu was mad.

In the next few days,

More will be killed!

Shadow Seven flashed into the palace,

Only the secret guard can now contact Zhu Yuanzhang.

They are the most loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang,

Will only do it, will not ask why.

"Your Majesty, Niangniang wants to see you."

As soon as he heard Queen Ma's name, Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly stunned,

A little clarity was restored in his eyes,

Then, he immediately changed back to an angry gaze.

"Nope!"

Queen Ma has always been Lao Zhu's scabbard, so that the sharp edge of this sword of the Son of Heaven will not stab too many people.

merely

This

The scabbard could not contain the sword.

Kagechi stood there, a viscous voice under his shoe.

It's full of red and white things.

Now outside the Fengtian Temple, down from the Five Dragons Bridge,

It's all bleeding.

The blood stains soaked the floor tiles, and I couldn't even wipe them off.

Lao Zhu doesn't care anymore,

What was left to the outer palace was a sea of blood.

Shadow Seven has a delusion,

Lao Zhu sat on the dragon chair,

Hideous dragon horns are slowly growing on his forehead.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness has been fasting for a day."

The pain in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes was fleeting,

sneered,

"He's fasting for us?! He still has the face to do that?!

We're so good to him!

But he lied to us with those civil officials?!

Call two people!

Didn't he skip meals?!

Pour it into him! ”

Shadow Seven lowered his head,

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Queen Ma is gone, and the crown prince Zhu Biao is not spared.

No one can stop Your Majesty anymore.

Zhu Yuanzhang clenched his fists,

What he hates most is the betrayal of his family!

He couldn't have imagined that

The boss actually hid the matter of the empty seal case from himself for so long?!!

For the sake of the group of civil servants who flatter him every day,

The boss is standing across from us?!!

If

The prince didn't know about it,

Or tell Lao Zhu about the empty seal earlier.

Lao Zhu won't be angry like this,

The prince knows but doesn't report it,

directly put Zhu Yuanzhang's last trace of reason as a lead,

Burned out.

Zhu Yuanzhang at this moment,

It's a dragon,

Entrenched on a mountain of bones,

Roar to the world!

"Grandpa...."

Zhu Yuanzhang's hand froze suddenly,

Zhu Xiongying's voice sounded outside the hall.

As soon as I heard this voice, I knew that Zhu Xiongying did not change his appearance,

And just stood outside the temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang's hands shook,

Complex in the eyes.

Just struggled for a while, then got up and walked off the dragon chair,

Hurry open the palace door,

Pulled Zhu Xiongying in.

As soon as the palace door of the Fengtian Temple opened, a stream of blood rushed to his face.

Zhu Yuanzhang closed the palace door,

looked at the eldest grandson and blamed,

"Why isn't it easy?"

Zhu Xiongying shook his head,

With a little tiredness on his face,

This kind of exhaustion, Lao Zhu knows,

Not from the body, but from the spirit.

It's like an appendage,

will torment you forever.

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart ached,

What did the eldest grandson experience on this trip?

The more powerful you are, the more you can't do anything,

The greater the backlash.

And even if the eldest grandson has invincible force in the world,

But there are still many, many things that he can't control.

Lao Zhu knows this,

Only then did he warn Zhu Xiongying not to rely on force, but to use more of his brain.

Because the human heart is very naughty,

You can't find it by brute force alone.

The grandfather and grandson stand opposite each other.

Speechless for a moment.

They are now the loneliest two people in the world,

This is the price of the throne.

Alone, widowed.

Zhu Xiongying stepped forward and hugged Zhu Yuanzhang,

The tone is full of grievances,

"Grandpa, we're all tired."

subsequently

The sound of sobbing came from Zhu Yuanzhang's arms,

Zhu Xiongying has never cried.

but

Now he understands how to become an emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, and the ice in his heart melted instantly,

hugged Zhu Xiongying,

Choked up,

"The eldest grandson, there is a grandfather.

Whoever bullied you, grandpa will judge you! ”

Even if the whole world betrays these two men,

fortunately

They don't betray each other.

The man on the throne is lonely,

That's right.

But if they are all born to belong to the throne,

Then they will be able to understand each other.

Zhang Fuming made Zhu Xiongying understand,

The emperor could not decide anything.

Zhu Xiongying has seen this sentence countless times in books.

but

I have never felt it so deeply as I do now.

This feeling is completely indescribable, and others can't understand it.

Only endless solitude devours in.

Shadow Seven stepped back silently.

He still has to fulfill His Majesty's orders,

Homicide.

But

Shadow Seven suddenly felt,

The appearance of the emperor and grandson made everything different.

If it was His Majesty who vented his anger before that,

So now,

Everything is unknown.

After Zhu Xiongying cried, his eyes were red and swollen,

wiped his eyes,

The gray pupils took advantage of the red eye sockets.

It looks extremely pitiful.

Zhu Yuanzhang hugged his eldest grandson again,

I couldn't say anything.

Long

Zhu Xiongying's mood stabilized,

"Grandpa, my grandson will come to see you directly as soon as he enters Beijing."

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned when he heard this, and then his nose was sour,

Nodding his head,

"It's not in vain that grandpa loves you in vain, when will the big grandson stand with us.

Grandpa's heart is happy! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang knew,

Zhu Xiongying must have the information that Zhu Biao was imprisoned in the East Palace.

But Zhu Xiongying did not return to Changfu first,

didn't change his face to see Zhu Biao,

Didn't go anywhere,

As soon as he entered Beijing, he went straight to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Because

In the midst of the chaos,

The first person you choose,

It must be the one you most want to hear from him.

The same thing, in everyone's mouth there will be a strong subjectivity,

Which is heard first,

It is inevitable that I will identify with him in my heart.

Zhu Xiongying chose to be the first to listen to what Zhu Yuanzhang said,

In fact, I agree with Zhu Yuanzhang in my heart that he has done everything.

How could Zhu Yuanzhang not understand this?!

Zhu Xiongying smiled tiredly,

The whole person has matured a lot,

"Grandpa, let's sit down and talk."

The grandfather and grandson sat on the steps under the dragon chair,

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes flashed,

From how to find the empty seal, all the way to imprisoning Zhu Biao in the East Palace,

In just a few days, so much has happened.

Zhu Xiongying listened in his ears,

I can't help but secretly say in my heart,

The empty seal case in Lao Zhu's mouth is really different from what is recorded in history.

Cheap Daddy was imprisoned in the East Palace because of the empty seal case.

It's something that hasn't happened at all.

Or rather,

It has also happened,

It's just that it's not recorded.

In short, the empty seal case recorded in the book is too bizarre,

Even the timing is not right.

If it is true that in a certain year, so many officials were killed because of the empty seal,

How is it possible not to even know what year it happened?

If this was before the Qin and Han dynasties, it was still possible.

But in the Ming Dynasty, where the historical data is extremely detailed,

It's just too weird.

In other words, the empty seal case is far more complicated than it is written!

Because there are too many involved,

In the end, it had to be cut down to the point where even the time was uncertain.