First Minister of Ming Dynasty

First Minister Section 435

Unfortunately, Zhang Ximeng couldn't wait for Lao Zhu's reply, so he could only stay in Yangzhou, anxious and restless, Zhu Chongba, what the hell are you doing?

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Yingtian Imperial Palace, in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, lined up with three little boys.

Zhu Biao went to Peiping. In front of Lao Zhu, only the second, third, and fourth sons were left. The rest of the princes were still young, and they all wore crotch pants, and Lao Zhu had no time to fiddle with them.

Even Zhu Di has just put on pants that don't leak out for a few days, let alone others.

Staring at his three sons, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly took out a newspaper and asked them to read it.

The article in the newspaper was about Zhu Yuanzhang's recent punishment of corrupt officials.

The second child took it and didn't read a few words. When it came time to crush Fan Guang and execute dozens of Yandao officials, his tone was obviously panicked, with a trembling voice...

"Why, are you afraid?" Old Zhu said calmly.

The second child trembled and said: "Heaven, the heart of heaven is kind. Heaven has the virtue of loving life. Father is the father of the world. Even if the child is not filial, it should be done in moderation."

After speaking, he knelt down and buried his head on the ground.

The third child rolled his eyes, and knelt down as well, muttering, "I beg your father to be merciful and forgive me."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at these two guys, and Shang Jia's mood fell to the bottom in an instant. He was about to reprimand him, when he suddenly found that the fourth brother Zhu was looking like a ghost, and he was pointing at the belt of the second brother Zhu.

Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled, Zhu Di suddenly took two steps forward, stretched out his hand, pulled out a roll of paper from the second brother's back waist, and rushed in front of Lao Zhu.

"Give!"

Zhu Di was full of complacency, and ignored the second brother behind him.

Zhu Yuanzhang took it in his hand, and after a few glances, he understood what was going on.

It turned out that the second child and the third child also had a master, and they were both Confucians of the Imperial Academy. The two of them did not have the courage of Zhu Biao. They dared to fight with the old Zhu when something happened.

On the contrary, in order to please Zhu Yuanzhang, these two guys had to think about how to answer to make their father happy.

Then there was the classic passage where the gentlemen drafted the words and asked them to memorize them to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang's questioning.

As Lao Zhu held the cheat sheet, he became angry instantly.

He seems to remember that there are quite a lot of such bad things in the royal family. It seems that several sons of Cao Cao have similar situations.

Can Zhu Yuanzhang not be angry?

He suddenly stood up, pointed at the second and third child, and cursed at them.

"We are your father, and you are our sons! Father and son are the closest relatives in the world! We ask you questions and let you do things. It depends on your knowledge, conduct, and what is wrong. We need to fill in the gaps. I also need to hire another famous teacher for you, so that you can give me guidance."

"Between father and son, we must be honest!"

"You two bastards, are you actually perfunctory us with the words of outsiders? Then are we your father? Or are those sour scholars your father? Are you listening to us or those sour scholars? You can't tell the difference. Can you distinguish between close and distant? You two bastards!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang got angry, if he really raised his hand, he would hit someone.

Zhu Laoer and Zhu Laosan were trembling with fright, sweating profusely.

At this time, Zhu Laosi got a bamboo board from nowhere, and thoughtfully handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Hit it, hit it hard!

It would be better if the skin was torn apart!

Zhu Yuanzhang took the bamboo board and wanted to do it, but after thinking about it, Lao Zhu gave Zhu Laosi another hard look.

"The two of them are your elder brothers, how can you encourage father and beat them hard?"

Zhu Di rolled his eyelids, gritted his teeth and said, "They, they beat me too!"

"Hit you?"

Old Zhu became even more angry. He turned around and glared at Zhu Lao Er and Zhu Lao San, "Why, you are still bullying my younger brother? You have let us down so much!"

As he said that, Zhu Yuanzhang swung the bamboo board and hit Zhu Laoer hard.

Snapped!

With a crisp sound, Zhu Er Er almost cried out.

"Father, the fourth brother is a liar, he robbed us of our clothes!"

Zhu Di immediately retorted: "I don't have it, don't talk nonsense! Obviously all princes have it, why don't I have it?"

"You didn't and shouldn't take both of us!"

"Don't rob you two, could it be robbing my younger brother?" Zhu Di plausibly said, "Also, I will grab two copies, and they are also for Zhang Shuning, he also has a share!"

Zhu Lao San was angry, "His surname is Zhang and not Zhu, what does he have!"

Snapped!

This time the board finally fell on him, and it was three points heavier than the second child!

"asshole!"

Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more angry, these two bastards are almost hopeless, let's see if we don't beat you to death!

At this moment, Empress Ma finally came from outside, and when she saw this scene, her face immediately darkened.

"Why are you flirting with the children when you're fine?" After speaking, he said to the second and third children, "What are you still doing here? Waiting to be beaten?"

In a word, the two boys got up from the ground and ran away as if they had met Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Lao Zhu wanted to chase him, but Ma Shi stopped him, but there was nothing he could do.

Zhu Yuanzhang stomped his feet angrily, "You know how to protect them, but you don't know how annoying these two bastards are!"

Saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang threw the note in front of Ma Shi.

Empress Ma took it in her hand, and after unfolding it, she looked at it and said, "It's too much for them to do this!"

"It's more than that? It's really unpredictable!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "You must have heard Mr. Zhang say that children are the easiest to imitate adults. They teach children how to speak and how to do things. After a long time, they will listen to them. Although they are only vassal kings, they will not inherit the country. But they are our sons after all, so they can’t be puppets at the mercy of others, right? Also, if they dare to write to these two, is there any Biao’er?”

Empress Ma's face was very ugly, "I will take care of Biao'er in the morning and evening, and now he is in front of Mr. Zhang, and he will not indulge them. It's just that I put all my energy on Biao'er, which delayed the second and third children. It shouldn't be."

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "No matter what, they manipulate the prince with ulterior motives, we should really kill them all!"

Empress Ma took a deep breath, shook her head and said: "There are already a lot of killings at the moment, and these people are all well-educated people, let's send them to Peiping!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and didn't say much.But he thought of another thing, "Sister, when Zhu Di said just now that he didn't have his clothes, what happened? Could it be that someone in the palace pretended to be smart and alienated the prince?"

Empress Ma said in a deep voice: "I've already checked, it turns out that it's the eunuch next to Biao'er, who thinks he's smart...I've given the order to beat him to death!"

Empress Ma has always been unwilling to kill people, and she just executed a few profiteers who were messing around with military supplies.This time, he took the initiative to kill the eunuch, which shows the anger in his heart.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a dark face: "It seems that it is right to send Biao'er out. If there are all these eunuchs around you, they will be taught badly sooner or later."

Empress Ma said: "It is true that we should discuss a solution and set rules for them."

The couple wanted to discuss something important, so they looked around, only to find that Zhu Di was listening very carefully with his eyes wide open.Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help being funny.

"What are you listening to? Hurry up and play!"

Zhu Di shook his head, "I can't go, the second brother and the third brother are leading people to ambush!"

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "What do you mean? They still dare to bully you?"

"They often bully me."

Zhu Di looked around, and then said: "I go out through the back door, they must be ambushing in the corridor, and there are more than ten eunuchs around me! If there is less, they can't beat me!"

Zhu Yuanzhang tilted his son, and said in a low voice: "Since you said so, you will be in front, and the father will follow you."

Zhu Di nodded, and he jumped out, followed by Zhu Yuanzhang. When he reached the door, Zhu Di grabbed a short doorbolt, a hardwood more than a foot long, and held it in his hand.

The corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth twitched slightly, this fourth child is really cruel!

Even Queen Ma frowned, and the couple followed, and as expected, when they reached the corridor, Zhu Laoer and Zhu Laosan led a dozen, almost twenty eunuchs, blocking the way.

Seeing this, Zhu Di was not afraid to say anything, but instead became interested.

"Father, mother, look after me, they are the ones who provoked me first!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Di excitedly raised the wood, like a vanguard, rushed forward!

He still yelled, "Kill!"

On the side of the second child and the third child, everyone turned their backs on their backs and became a mess...

Chapter 6: Zhang Xiang Returns to the Loyal Yingtian

Zhu Di was younger than those two, but this guy was born strong and could ride a pony in crotch pants.

Otherwise, Zhu Lao Er and Zhu Lao San would not call helpers.

Although the little eunuchs didn't dare to hurt the prince, they could surround Zhu Di, restrict his fists, and then let the two princes do it to teach this stinky brother a lesson.

The first few times Zhu Di really suffered, and was beaten quite badly.

But Zhu Di has a strong personality, he doesn't ask for help, he just finds a way by himself, he doesn't know where he got a rolling pin, hides it on his body, and when the second and third are not paying attention, he chases the two of them. start.He hit once, the second and third made people double the revenge, and then Zhu Di made another super double...

Anyway, they come and go, making a fuss.

From the outsiders' point of view, it was nothing more than children's fights, and they didn't dare to disturb Zhu Yuanzhang, so they suppressed it like this.

It has to be said that due to his young age and loneliness, Zhu Di still suffered a lot overall.

But today is different.

Lao Zhu and Empress Ma were in the rear, and he yelled and stopped the second and third children. They did not dare to make a move, but Zhu Di seized the opportunity.

He started with those little eunuchs.

"Let you work for tigers, let you bully me! See if I don't beat you to death!"

Zhu Di gritted his teeth, "I hate what I can't understand the most. If you didn't push me, those two bastards would dare to fight with me?"

Zhu Di scolded and beat at the same time, the little eunuchs didn't dare to fight back, they could only dodge, but the place was very narrow, and they were beaten until they cried like ghosts and wolves.

Zhu Di was still angry, and pointed to a eunuch, and cursed fiercely: "And you, what are you saying to help the prince, don't let me take the position of the East Palace! I'll beat you to death!"

Zhu Di swung the door latch and hit it on the head, causing blood to splash, and the little eunuch almost fell down.

"Your Highness, help!"

Zhu Lao Er felt very guilty when he saw his father and mother, but he also said in a low voice: "Fourth, don't cause trouble, and make father, mother and queen angry!"

As soon as his words fell, Zhu Yuanzhang actually came in front of him.

"Let the fourth child beat him, and give us a hard beat!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was angry, "Zhu Xi, tell us the truth, is someone instigating your brotherhood?"

Zhu Xun panicked and desperately looked at Empress Ma, but Empress Ma yelled in a low voice, "Beast, don't kneel down yet!"

Now it's fun, Zhu Xing and Zhu Xing all knelt upright, bowed their heads, as if they had made a big mistake.Zhu Laosi still refused to give up, chasing and beating, still cursing, but Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand, grabbed his collar, and raised it directly in front of his eyes.

"Okay, it's not enough to be ashamed!"

Zhu Di was even more unconvinced: "Shame? I'm not afraid. Anyway, if they bully me, I will beat them back!"

"okay!"

Zhu Yuanzhang yelled angrily again, Zhu Di didn't dare to say anything, he could only flatten his mouth and mutter silently.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the two sons kneeling on the ground again, and suddenly said, "How many eunuchs are there around you?"

Zhu Xi thought for a while and said, "Yes, there are more than a dozen!"

"All of them have been laid off! Only a few old and rough eunuchs are left to sweep!" Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhu Bian again, and said in a deep voice: "The same is true for the third son, and all the little eunuchs around the other princes will be abolished!"

Zhu Yuanzhang glared at the group of young eunuchs, and said coldly: "You instigate the prince, tell stories, turn brothers against each other, and father and son become enemies. Ordinarily we must kill you. But firstly, you are too young, and secondly, you have suffered. I got stabbed. We think you will not chop you again for the sake of suffering, but this palace will definitely not allow you to be such a treacherous person! Pack up your things now and go!"

"All expelled from the palace, sent to Haozhou, leave immediately!"

These little eunuchs were not only beaten badly by Zhu Di, but also expelled from the palace, and several of them cried in fright.

Zhu Xing and Zhu Bing also feel distressed, they are playmates, if they are gone, what will I do?

The two of them still wanted to talk, but Zhu Yuanzhang took all his anger on them.

"Two bastards! You messed with your father and bullied your brother again... How dare you get together and help the eldest bully the fourth? When your prince brother comes back, let him take your skin off!"

Old Zhu was so angry that after scolding him, he slapped his two sons a few times, but this time Empress Ma didn't stop him.

But Zhu Di was so happy that his small eyes were wide open.