Looking at Lan Yue's painful expression and listening to his howl like a beast, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled with satisfaction. He knew that Blue Moon had completely collapsed, and he had defeated him.

Zhu Yuanzhang has not enjoyed this feeling of defeating a strong man for a long time. Since receiving the secret report that Lan Yue planned to rob the prison, Zhu Yuanzhang became excited, made his own plan, personally commanded the battle, and the long-lost feeling returned to him, his mind was flexible, energetic, his desire was strong, and he was full of confidence, not at all like an old man who was already sixty-six years old. Although there are one or two fish that have slipped through the net in this battle, those are not important, they are nothing more than some remnants of Momen who only dare to hide in the shadows, and I will have to kill them all sooner or later.

Over the years, I have met Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, Wang Baobao, and Emperor Yuan Shun, all of whom are overlords of one side, and they are all heroes of the world, and they have not all been defeated by me. Liu Bowen, who is extremely smart, Li Shanchang, who is scheming, and Hu Weiyong, who is cunning and cunning like a fox, who is not a person with superior intelligence and long sleeves and good dancing, what is the result?

The rest are Lan Yu and Fu Youde, who are arrogant and suspicious. This year it's Lan Yu, and next year it's Fu Youde's turn. After pulling out these stingers, I will choose the son of benevolence as the king, and the son of mighty will guard the border, even if I am a hundred years later, the country will be forever, and the children and grandchildren of my Zhu family will not have to worry about it!

Thinking of this, he smiled proudly, and in the swaying, Zhu Yuanzhang slowly fell asleep on the dragon chair••••••

At this time, the eunuch who was waiting on the side gently woke up the emperor: "Your Majesty, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, has entered the capital to face the saint, and is now waiting for the edict outside the noon gate." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned the handkerchief handed over by the eunuch, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and sighed: "People are old, and they actually fall asleep." Just let him come here and face the saint, I just happened to have something to ask him. The little eunuch took the order and left.

Zhu Yuanzhang woke up from his drowsiness at this time, and looked at the blue moon hanging on the chain, at this time, the blue moon had stopped wailing, and there was a look of sadness in his eyes, like a walking corpse.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with his methods, and thought to himself that he could make more "specimens" and hang them in the court, but who else would dare to bend the law in a lawless manner and for personal gain? Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with his innovative moves.

Inspecting the cell environment again, it is not only clean and tidy, but also wafting with the fragrance of flowers from time to time, which is really a quiet and good place. Recently, the hustle and bustle of the court and the palace has been annoying, and you can come here often in the future to enjoy the rare quiet. If it weren't for the fact that the country still has rebellious ministers and thieves like Lan Yue, he would have abdicated a long time ago.

After a burst of cranky thoughts, the eunuch outside reported to him, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, came to see him.

Zhu Yuanzhang helped Zhu Di, who was bowing to the ground, up and looked at this son carefully. Zhu Di is in his thirties, with a broad figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a protruding chin, a high forehead, calm without losing majesty, strong and shrewd, quite like Zhu Yuanzhang when he was young.

Regarding Zhu Yuanzhang's reception of him in the prison, Zhu Di did not feel uneasy at all, and he had the style of a general. Zhu Di was born to Queen Ma and is the fourth in line. and the late crown prince Zhu Biao is the same brother.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to give Zhu Di a seat. He asked: "What happened to the face saint entering Beijing this time? Is there still peace in northern Xinjiang?"

As soon as he saw Zhu Yuanzhang asking, Zhu Di immediately stood up, bowed down and replied: "In the next month, it will be my father's birthday, and my son's son is hereby going to Beijing to celebrate his birthday." As for the northern Xinjiang region, Erchen had already cleaned up before he came, and everything was safe. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "It's rare for you to have filial piety." What rare things did you bring with you this time?"

Zhu Di replied: "Head!"

Zhu Yuanzhang listened, his eyes widened, and he said with a murderous aura: "Oh? That's interesting, whose head is it?"

Zhu Di replied respectfully: "A total of one thousand and six heads were picked up, and the heads of the horse thieves outside the plug were on the neck." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Okay! You know me best, you know what I like, and you know what I need, no wonder everyone says that you are the most like me, and sure enough." ”

When Zhu Di heard Zhu Yuanzhang's comment, he was overjoyed, but his face was silent, he just stood up and said with sincere fear: "Erchen doesn't dare! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction and said, "Guess why I received you in such a place?"

Zhu Di replied: "Erchen doesn't dare to guess the holy will. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "You go over and see who that person is?"

Zhu Di stepped forward, looked at it carefully, turned around and replied, "It's vaguely the rebel Lanyue." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "It is this thief." He also has some skills, and he has escaped from Jinyiwei's men many times. If it weren't for my own action, I might still be at large at this moment!"

Zhu Di praised: "Father is mighty!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "This son is the most stubborn, all the meridians and muscles of the whole body were interrupted by me, and he didn't say a word." Later, when I showed him my brother's human skin, he broke down and cried, now he is already a walking corpse. Alas, it seems that everyone is the same, even if the heinous sins still have family affection. I know that his brothers and you are old friends, so what should you do with him?"

Hearing this, Zhu Di's heart tightened, and Zhu Di never dared to take his father lightly. Zhu Di knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's question was the most difficult to answer, and it was only at this moment that he understood the real purpose of Zhu Yuanzhang to let him come here to see the driver, and wanted to see his performance in dealing with the Blue Moon incident, and at the same time secretly investigated whether he usually colluded with Lan Yu.

This question is not easy to answer, if it is handled too lightly, it will give people a handle, if you advocate killing Lan Yue immediately, you are suspected of deliberately clearing the relationship, a little bit of the meaning of three hundred taels of silver here, but completely shirking and appearing incompetent, how to answer it?

Suddenly, Zhu Di replied: "Erchen has been waiting in the bitter cold land of the frontier all the year round, and he knows that everything in the world is not easy to come by, so he never dares to waste a stitch or thread. At this moment, although this traitor Blue Moon is already a living dead, it would be a pity if he killed him easily. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he became interested and said, "It seems that you already have a deal in your heart, you might as well talk about it." ”

Zhu Di said respectfully: "Erchen just heard from his father that the Blue Moon traitor escaped the pursuit of the imperial court many times, I think someone or some forces secretly helped, and as soon as Blue Moon died, there were no clues." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang spread his hands, made a helpless gesture, seemed to become very easy-going, and said: "You also see him like this, it's just a corpse, it's just a few more breaths, besides, even if he is still conscious, he won't explain anything." ”

Zhu Di said: "Father Emperor Shengming, then Lan Yue can't explain anything, Erchen thought, those comrades behind Blue Moon don't know that Lan Yue is already a waste person, as long as it is possible, they will still take the risk to rescue him, it is better to give them a chance, let them come forward, and the court can also see those enemies hiding in the dark." ”

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't mean to let him stop, Zhu Di continued: "If the bait of the blue moon is placed in the Beijing Division, the hidden enemy may feel that the Beijing Division is heavily guarded and has no chance, but will not come to the rescue." Erchen suggested that this matter be handed over to the Loyalty Alliance of Baidao Martial Arts to deal with, so that they could spread the word that the rivers and lakes would hold a martial arts conference on a certain day in a certain month and publicly execute Blue Moon. The imperial court did not interfere at all, but just observed secretly. In this way, there will inevitably be a fierce fight between the forces of the two sides, regardless of victory or defeat, the imperial court has no loss, and the weakening of the power of martial arts is a good thing for the imperial court. The Loyalty Alliance won, and as a matter of course, they killed Blue Moon. If it is defeated, resulting in Lan Yue being rescued, the imperial court can also treat him as a crime, take the opportunity to weaken the power of martial arts, and it is meaningless to save Lan Yu, in the end, it will be found that after wasting the power of nine cows and two tigers, and sacrificing so many people, all they saved was a living dead. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed when he heard this: "Okay! Okay! Okay! I didn't see the wrong person, among my sons, you are really the only one who is most like me, brave and strategic." Do you know what Zhu Biao would have suggested if he were still alive? He would have suggested that I kill Blue Moon because he couldn't bear to see his old acquaintance end up like this. ”

Said Zhu Biao. Zhu Yuanzhang showed a rare sad look on his face, and immediately disappeared, his eyes looked directly at Zhu Di like electricity, and he seemed to have made up his mind for a while: "Do you know why I didn't choose you to be the prince like me, but chose Zhu Biao, who is different from me everywhere, to be the prince?"

Zhu Di didn't dare to answer when he heard it, Zhu Yuanzhang said slowly: "That's because the world has changed! Fighting the world needs ruthless and ruthless people like me and you, otherwise, you won't be able to live long in that era." However, sitting in the world is different, sitting in the world requires a benevolent heart to govern the world, and Zhu Biao is just such a generous and benevolent person.

Zhu Yuanzhang finished sighing, and looked at Zhu Di with blazing eyes and said: "Although Zhu Biao is dead, his son Yunwen has the style of a father, and he is also loyal, filial piety, and generosity, so I am the emperor's grandson to be the prince." You must not have any disagreement about this. Today, I want you to swear an oath of eternal allegiance to him here!"

When Zhu Di heard this, he immediately knelt on the ground and swore a poisonous oath that he would be loyal to the prince like the current emperor in the future.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction.

Zhu Di was scared into a cold sweat, knowing that he had been closed from the ghost gate. Before this, the more Zhu Yuanzhang took a fancy to him and praised him for his resemblance to Zhu Yuanzhang, the more dangerous he became. Now that this danger has finally passed, everything must be handled in a low-key manner after returning to the north, and Zhu Yuanzhang must not be given any vigilance, otherwise, the consequences will be unpredictable.

Everything is over, Zhu Yuanzhang drove back to the palace, Zhu Di followed, before leaving, Zhu Di secretly looked at the blue moon that was still alive, and said secretly in his heart: "Brother, you and I have a relationship, and I can do it here, and the rest depends on whether your friends are really righteous to you." ”

Shen Chaixing and Linglong'er jumped on the riverbank, at this time the sky had just brightened, the forest was full of fog, the two walked in the bushes, one foot deep and one foot shallow step forward, several times, Linglong'er accidentally walked into the swamp. Fortunately, with the "Silver Wing Flying Claw" in hand, the two of them were able to turn the tide many times, but they were already covered in mud, looking at themselves and Shen Chaixing's embarrassed appearance, Linglong'er said: "There is an old saying in Middle Earth: 'If you want to hurry, you can't reach it', which is probably our current situation." ”