Daming: I became Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son

After hearing Zhu Tao's words, Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally overwhelmed. After all, he is a generation of iron-fisted emperors with great talents, so he can naturally understand the tricks in it.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, in order to prevent eunuchs from interfering in politics, he suppressed all eunuchs' offices and made an iron oath.

What Zhu Tao said is naturally reasonable. Jinyiwei belongs to the outer court, and the eunuch system belongs to the palace. Moreover, the eunuchs are humble and can only rely on the emperor, and their rank is low, but no one dares to provoke them.

"Tao'er can solve any difficult problems in the court with just a few words. If our son doesn't come out to be an official, it will be really wronged."

Zhu Tao stretched himself, looked helplessly at his father Zhu Yuanzhang, and thought to himself, why did this commonplace topic come up again.

"Father, I just want to be a dude, just eat, drink and have fun, but I don't want to be an official. Otherwise, don't talk about being rich in the country or rich in the people. I can earn him a few titles by presenting a few inventions. Really! If you become an official, you won't be able to eat the red willow barbecue I made, and at that time, you will get up in the middle of the night and see you at the fifth watch, so you won't have time to think about eating and drinking."

Seeing Zhu Tao's appearance, although Zhu Yuanzhang had an expression of hating iron but not steel, he understood it very well.

Not to mention being an official, being an emperor is a hard job. If you can’t do it, you don’t do it.

This emperor is really not as comfortable as a small proprietor who only thinks about eating, drinking, having fun and making inventions every day.

Zhu Di, who was standing next to him, still didn't understand, so he asked, "If the Adept Factory is set up, and the Jinyiwei's power declines, wouldn't it also allow the Adept Factory to gain power? It's still going to ebb and flow, and it's hard to control."

After hearing Zhu Di's words, Zhu Tao laughed and replied: "Cousin, if you were the commander of Jinyiwei, would you be willing to have your power taken away by the admiral of the expert field? So they will supervise each other, and in the end The decision-making power and judgment power are in the hands of the emperor alone, and I said that the fate of the commander of Jinyiwei and the admiral and eunuch of the expert factory is also in the hands of the emperor, so there is no such thing as a big deal."

Just when Zhu Di was about to say something, Zhu Tao continued: "The Adept Factory does not set up a separate prison for punishment. There is no power of torture, only the power of investigation, and the threat they may bring is greatly reduced."

When we got here, Zhu Tao solved all the problems that might arise, so Zhu Di naturally had nothing to say.

After returning, Zhu Biao took the lead, and the three cabinet members worked out a decree on setting up an expert field, and appointed Li Dongmei as the admiral eunuch.

Not long after, Zhao Jitao, the magistrate of Guizhou, sent an urgent memorial and went directly to the imperial court.

The content in it is ambiguous, saying that Lan Baoyu, the slave of Lan Yu, the Duke of Liang, haunted Guizhou, and violated the imperial court's ban on tea and horse trade, smuggled to the border of Yunnan, and made a profit of more than 200 million taels of silver at one time, and There was a conflict in the Guizhou inspection department and an official under the inspection department was injured.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately felt that something was wrong. Lan Yu's slave, Lan Baoyu, seemed to have heard of this name somewhere.

He soon remembered that Zhu Tao had mentioned this name not long ago, and he used him as an example to show that it is difficult for Xungui to restrain him.

This person was just an ordinary slave of Lan Yu, who was able to scold Shi Zhengwen, the county magistrate of Qingtian, on the street, and even broke the arm of the county magistrate.

And this county magistrate has no place to appeal for grievances, which shows how insane the nobles have become.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately recruited Ma Yuanzhi, the commander of Jinyiwei, who seemed to have known the situation long ago, so he replied.

"Your Majesty, this is just a one-sided statement from the prefect of Guizhou. I'm afraid I can't believe it. I have sent Jin Yiwei to Guizhou to inquire about the news. I will report back in a few days. I personally think that this matter is just a false report by the local government. The Duke of Liang, Lan Yu, is an honorable minister of the court. , how could you allow your slaves to do such things, I would never believe it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, how would he want to believe that Lan Yu was indeed used to being domineering and domineering, relying on being Zhu Biao's in-laws and having military exploits by her side, she walked sideways.

However, if we don’t restrain ourselves in normal times, we will just turn a blind eye and close our eyes. If we violate the court’s tea horse trade ban and publicly injure inspections, this is a serious crime.

Seeing Ma Yuanzhi's meaning, I am afraid that if Jin Yiwei went to investigate, almost nothing could be found, so Zhu Yuanzhang waved Ma Yuanzhi to leave.

After he left, Zhu Yuanzhang called Liu Tieming, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Zhang Bizheng, Minister of Dali Temple, and told them to investigate the case and give himself an explanation.

The two chattered repeatedly, promising that they would handle the case well and not disappoint the grace, and then they withdrew.

Three days later, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned these people in the cabinet on duty, and they brought the final investigation report.

"I have already found out about this matter. It is just that Lan Baoyu used the name of Lan Yu to carry out smuggling trade. Liang Guogong Lan Yu didn't know about it. The officials under the Yunnan Inspection Department are not clean and honest. It is necessary to take the opportunity to blackmail before arguing, and it is suggested that Lan Baoyu should be arrested and dealt with severely, and that Lan Yu should be convicted of negligence and punished for half a year."

After the investigation report came up, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a long time. He couldn't believe that a house slave had such great ability and courage.

However, he didn't say anything about it, nor did he lose any temper. He just temporarily suppressed the case, and then told several officials what he should do.

After returning to the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more angry when he thought about it, and suddenly lost his appetite after eating, and threw the bowl on the ground.

Seeing his father like this, Zhu Biao suddenly thought of an idea and said it immediately.

"Father, have you forgotten that the Adept Factory was set up just a few days ago according to Brother Tao's suggestion, isn't this just a good time for the Adept Factory to test its skills and see what they can do?"

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly showed a smile on his face.

Our Tao'er is a good guy, and our Biao'er can also judge the situation and share his father's worries. They are both good sons of ours.

Thinking of this, he immediately called Li Dongmei over.

Li Dongmei used to be the eunuch of the Royal Horse Supervisor, but now he has become the admiral eunuch of the expert factory, and he can be regarded as a fourth-rank official. His identity is very clear, and he still regards himself as a servant of the royal family.

After kneeling and kowtowing to Zhu Yuanzhang, he stood up, bowed his head and waited for Zhu Yuanzhang's order.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally appreciated his attitude and said.

"There are three fires when a new official takes office, and there is really one fire waiting for you to burn, it depends on whether you can burn it well."