After hesitating for a long time, Bai Xiaoyi finally decided to answer truthfully, he looked up at the old man with an expectant face, and said with some uncertainty:

"Actually, there has always been a rumor in the market that it is Your Majesty...... After you sat on the throne, old man, you began to kill Zhongliang, and the deaths of Xu Da and Liu Bowen were the ...... you single-handedly."

Snorted lightly, Zhu Yuanzhang said with some approval:

"I just like your daring to say and do, I have seen these words in Yan Jin's recital, but none of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty dare to tell me the truth in person, you are the only one. ”

After thinking for a moment, Bai Xiaoyi boldly asked:

"That old man, there are rumors in the market...... Is it true?"

The long-faced old man showed an unfathomable expression, and asked in a playful tone:

"And what do you think is true or false?"

"Is this...... I think it's mostly fake. ”

"Why?"

"You think, these two laid this Ming dynasty for you, and they did their best to die. Not to mention their merits, just the friendship between life and death in the past few decades, you can't kill them when you are old, right? What's more, you are the king of a country, even if you really want them to die, just give an order, how can you need to make those unsightly means. What white horse sweat, goose meat, as soon as I hear it, there are rumors. ”

Nodding with satisfaction, Zhu Yuanzhang approvingly said to Xi Yingzhen, who was there with the old god on the side:

"Xi Zhenren, you have accepted a good apprentice. ”

He stroked the long hair under his chin very proudly, and the old Taoist priest replied in a flat tone:

"Your Majesty is falsely praised. ”

Turning his head to look at Bai Xiaoyi with a cheap smile on his face, Zhu Yuanzhang said to himself:

"But Liu Ji's death does have something to do with me to a greater or lesser extent. Back then, I was bent on abolishing the position of prime minister, so I deliberately provoked the infighting between Liu Ji and Hu Weiyong. Both of them have the ability to be prime ministers, and they must be suspicious of each other and suppress each other. But in the end, Berwyn guessed my intentions, so he told him to return home. Unexpectedly, Hu Weiyong, a minion, took the opportunity to poison him to death, such an unscrupulous traitor villain who did not achieve his goal, how could I keep him!"

With a snap of his mouth, Bai Xiaoyi casually received:

"So there is the Hu Weiyong case after that?"

"Hmph! Hu Weiyong, a dog slave, has been sitting in the position of prime minister for seven years, cultivating friends and suppressing dissidents, if this kind of national moth is not removed, my Ming dynasty will have to change hands sooner or later! So after that, I simply abolished the position of prime minister, Lao Tzu wants to see, who else can sit on a fake emperor who is above 10,000 people under one person!"

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's indignant appearance, Bai Xiaoyi asked puzzledly:

"However, isn't it good to have an auxiliary prime minister to help you make suggestions and share government affairs?"

"What's so good? If it's a prime minister like Zhuge Kongming who does his best for the country, it's fine, but if everyone is like Hu Weiyong, then I don't mean I have a wolf by my side?" The old man turned his head to look at the rankings engraved with names, and said helplessly: "What's more, if you are the emperor, are you willing to share this hard-earned country with another person?"

Shaking his head awkwardly, Bai Xiaoyi didn't know how to answer for a while. And Xi Yingzhen on the side interjected:

"Then how do you feel now that you have the whole world alone?"

After being silent for a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who is the tribute lord of the world, sighed and replied with only one word:

"Tired...... the old man turned around and looked at the Qingyi Taoist with some bitterness: "Originally, I thought that there was a young minister with monopoly above the court, and I could be more relaxed." But what I didn't expect was that when the prime minister was there, I only had to quarrel with one person. It's good now, every time I go to the court, six Jiuqing Wenchen generals, I have to quarrel with a room of people. It's really tiring, tired and exhausted......"

Gently patting the diligent emperor on the shoulder, Xi Yingzhen said earnestly:

"Your Majesty, your age is not too young, if you continue to work hard day and night like this, I'm afraid your body can't bear it......"

Waving his hand indifferently, Zhu Yuanzhang said in a relaxed tone:

"It's okay, I'm half a martial artist anyway. Measure it, and you also have the skills of the four or five grades of the Vajra Realm, which is not in the way. Besides, now that the country has just stabilized, there are still many things that I need to deal with personally, and when the world is really peaceful, it will be too late for me to rest. ”

Shaking his head helplessly, Xi Yingzhen had no choice but to shut up and stop persuading.

And Bai Xiaoyi, who found the opportunity, continued to ask:

"What about Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan?"

Looking at this young man who dared to say anything with playful eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang said without hesitation:

"That incident is even more nonsense, Tiande and I have known each other for decades, they are brothers who were born and died with me, how could I harm him? Besides, his eldest daughter Xu Yihua was married to my fourth son, we are in-laws, how can we turn against each other?"

"It is rumored that when Xu Da was seriously ill, I poisoned him with what white horse sweat and goose meat, which is extremely ridiculous. I, Zhu Yuanzhang, am the emperor, even if I really want to kill people, do I need to do it myself? Is it very difficult for me to send a few masters of the brocade guard to kill two ministers without knowing it? These things are all man-made rumors and slanders with ill intentions, deliberately confusing the people's hearts, and dividing the feelings between me and a group of old brothers. ”

Seeing the sincerity of what Zhu Yuanzhang said, Bai Xiaoyi also helped on the side:

"That's it, that's it, I don't understand how those people can't figure it out, and they really take these things as real rumors. If you want me to see it, you should arrest those who spread rumors and pull out their tongues!"

Looking at this indignant rogue boy, Zhu Yuanzhang scolded angrily and funny:

"You kid knows a fart, if I really do this, wouldn't I tell the world that I'm killing people and killing people?

Helplessly smiled bitterly, the long-faced old man looked at the top two of those tablets, and muttered a little bitterly:

"It's a pity, the two of them have a bad life, and they desperately helped me lay down this country. But finally the world was decided, but the two of them were gone...... Xu Da is okay, at least a few years of Qingfu. However, because he was young and fought all year round, he accumulated a body of illness, and at that time, he had a poisonous sore attack behind him, and the medicine stone was ineffective, and finally he died......"

At this, the old man choked up again. And Xi Yingzhen on the side took over the conversation in time:

"Your Majesty is right, at that time, I personally diagnosed and treated Brother Tiande Xian, and it was completely an old disease, and there was no suitable medicine to treat it. I was going to go to the Medicine King Valley to ask the medical immortal to come out, but in the end it was too late......"

Sighing heavily, Zhu Yuanzhang said in a hoarse voice:

"Forget it, it's all in the past, it's all fate, and I can't blame others...... Among their old guys, I am most sorry for Chang Yuchun. When we were fighting together, he saved me several times. I promised him at the time, and when the world was conquered, I would make him a prince, so that he would never have to fight again in his old age...... I didn't expect it...... After the First Battle of Kaiping, the Yuan people have been completely driven out of the Central Plains, and we are all waiting for him to be crowned in triumph in Beijing...... I didn't expect ...... Why did the man like the black iron tower die of illness in Liuhechuan...... So much so that I didn't even see the last of them......"

As he spoke, the long-faced old man trembled and poured a bowl of wine on the ground:

"Sometimes, I just think. I'd rather they didn't conquer Kaiping and capture Dadu at that time, and it's better than having only my brother left now, and drinking celebratory wine with them in this way......"

Xi Yingzhen, who was standing on the side, also groaned softly, and a tear streaked uncontrollably across the corner of his eye.

Zhu Yuanzhang stared at the block of ranking, as if talking to himself, and seemed to say to Bai Xiaoyi behind him:

"Since I sat on this throne, I have killed almost 100,000 people in the past 20 years. Some of them are corrupt officials, some are traitors, but more are some family members, relatives and friends who have been implicated. It's not that I, Zhu Yuanzhang, have a thirst for killing, I'm just just in case, I cut off some crooked branches for the country that our old brothers fought so hard. I just want to be self-sufficient, this world can be peaceful and peaceful, and there will be no more conquest and killing. ”

"But, I'm tired of killing so many people. The founding ministers of the year are now only a dozen or so. To be honest, I don't want to kill anymore, after all, I'm old, and I want a few old brothers to sit together and talk about the past and gossip......"

Looking at the emperor in front of him, whose figure seemed to be much more decadent, Bai Xiaoyi asked tentatively:

"Old man, if there is an afterlife, are you still willing to be this emperor?"

After a slight hesitation, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and looked firmly at the young man he admired:

"If the next life is a peaceful and prosperous world, then my old Zhu would rather just be an ordinary craftsman and live a stable life to earn money to support his family. But if I am unlucky, and I still catch up with the troubled times, then I still have to pull up a vote of brothers to fight the world, and use my hands to create a peaceful and prosperous world! Even if I leave a notoriety of killing people without blinking, as long as my descendants can keep this world, I can let the people live a good life. Even if it stints for 10,000 years, what's the matter!"

Looking at this radiant founding emperor, Bai Xiaoyi's heart suddenly rose with a touch of indescribable admiration. He is indeed not a wise man, nor is he a good person. But the old man with a long face in front of him is indeed a good emperor and a competent father.

It took a whole stick of incense for the three of them to worship the many heroic spirits enshrined here. With some heavy steps, Bai Xiaoyi and the three of them slowly walked out of the gate of Yinglingfang.

But just when Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to beckon Yan Jin to continue walking, two earthen bags suddenly bulged up on the ground of the temple. Under the frightened gazes of Bai Xiaoyi and Xi Yingzhen, two black-clothed men with steel claws in their hands broke through the ground and rushed towards Zhu Yuanzhang in shock.