Factory owner is king

Chapter 96

In the gazebo of the imperial garden,
Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting on a stone bench, holding a handful of fish food in his hand, throwing out a few grains from time to time, and feeding them to the koi in the pond.

Zhu Yunwen didn't have Zhu Yuanzhang's leisurely mood. He sat aside and fell into deep thought, "Grandpa is right, if even the vassal king can't be trusted, then who can I trust?"But. . . Zhu Yunwen was a little tangled." Uncle Yan Wang really wants to rebel. Could it be that all dynasties and dynasties are inseparable from the vassal king?There were vassal kings in the Han Dynasty, and there were vassal towns in the Tang Dynasty, and then the Song Dynasty. . . . '

"But grandpa, in the Song Dynasty, there were no feudal towns, so there was nothing to do." Zhu Yunwen asked suddenly.

"It's different." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and explained patiently: "Don't look at the emperor's grandfather who didn't read any books when he was young, but later he put a lot of effort into the rise and fall of the Tang and Song dynasties. Although the Song Dynasty didn't Fanzhen, but they have a prime minister, a huge group of civil servants, and the whole country, the prosperity of civilization and the decline of martial arts, military generals can't turn the sky. There are advantages and disadvantages of doing so."

"Civil officials and military generals are natural enemies, and they don't like each other. If the civil officials have the upper hand, the emperor really doesn't have to worry about the rebellion of the people below, but the world is so big that I am not alone in the Central Plains Dynasty. When foreigners invade, the civil officials can't beat them." However, this group of civil servants are self-sufficient, wanting to interfere in everything, restricting the generals everywhere, and the generals have no blood in their chests, so naturally they have been defeated repeatedly on the battlefield. The great Song Dynasty, that's it. Yes. You can go this way too, but after many years, maybe you, or maybe your descendants, will become the son-in-law of a foreign race sooner or later, so my Ming Dynasty might as well die!"

"Then let the generals have the upper hand..." Zhu Yunwen stopped as he spoke.

"The military general has the upper hand?" Zhu Yuanzhang gave Zhu Yunwen a funny look: "Isn't the problem back to the beginning? Think about Zhao Kuangyin, according to the calligraphy in the history books, he was loyal, but the difference in the end was Chen Qiao's mutiny , wearing a yellow robe?"

"Yunwen." Zhu Yuanzhang threw all the fish food in his hand into the fish, and said in a deep voice: "Grandpa, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. How can the emperor keep the world stable, Grandpa Huang I have been an emperor for 26 years, and I can't give a perfect answer. But I think being an emperor is actually similar to herding cattle."

"Cow herding?"

"Well, cattle herding." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "The Ming Dynasty is a cow. All you have to do to be an emperor is to hold the rein tightly in your hand. If outsiders and robbers come to snatch your cow, you can ride on the cow." Back, take your family to hit him, let your cattle hit him."

"Then what if Niu is dishonest and wants to hit me?" Zhu Yunwen asked again.

"No." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Grandpa Huang will help you cut off the horns of this cow and drain some of the cow's blood. You just need to pull the reins that Grandpa Huang gave you, and the cow will It’s impossible to knock you over.”

"Then what if my family members want to rob my cattle?" Zhu Yunwen asked the most critical question.

"That's like what you said before, reason with him first, and then fight him hard." Zhu Yuanzhang replied.

"I'm afraid I can't beat him." Zhu Yunwen said with a sad face, after all, he still didn't have confidence in himself.

"Even if we lose, this cow belongs to my Zhu family. It's better than giving it to an outsider!" The smile on Zhu Yuanzhang's face gradually faded, and he regained his imperial aura. "Yunwen, I am your grandpa, but I am also the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Normally I always say that the Ming Dynasty belongs to the common people in the world, but in fact, this Ming Dynasty belongs to my old Zhu family! I absolutely love it. We will not allow outsiders to ruin the world of my old Zhu family. The most powerful vassal kings in the world are none other than King Yan and King Ning, but their territory is only a small part of the Ming Dynasty, just a few cities, and the total number of soldiers under their command is It’s less than 20. And what you took over from me is the entire world, with the title of righteousness, and millions of soldiers and horses in the world. If you still lose the world to your uncle in the end, then I will also I have nothing to say except that it is destiny."

"But..."

"No but!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "If you can think of a good way before Grandpa Huang dies, you can tell Grandpa Huang that Grandpa Huang can do it for you. If you have no way, then you will do it in the future." You can only rely on yourself. Before that, you must not show any hostility to the vassal king." Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip from the teacup on the table, moistened his throat, and then said: "Just like what I told you before It’s an example of cutting down a tree. Either don’t move, or hit its vitals. At the court today, Huang Zicheng impeached the king of Shu, was it your idea or Huang Zicheng Qitai’s idea?”

"Yes...it belongs to grandson." Zhu Yunwen lowered his head and said, "Grandson is wrong."

"You are indeed wrong!" Zhu Yuanzhang explained in a deep voice: "Even if you really start to cut the vassal in the future, you should start with the Yanning vassal and defeat them, and the other vassal kings will not be worried. On the contrary, if you Attack the other vassals first, then you are forcing them to unite against you. The Seven Kings Rebellion in the Han Dynasty almost destroyed the world. If all the vassals of the Ming Dynasty turned against you, you would still be alive. Huh?! Today Huang Zicheng blatantly impeached the King of Shu, but everyone knows that he is your teacher and your man, how do you let your uncles think of you?!"

"Then... what should we do now?" Zhu Yunwen was a little panicked.

"What should I do?" Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand to pick his ear, and flicked it casually: "Fortunately, the emperor's grandfather will not die for a while, and I have suppressed the matter for the time being. Later, you will write a letter to me, saying that you impeached Huang Zicheng." The king doesn't know anything about it, and he is very angry at his behavior of alienating the Tian family's family, just shout a few words, that's it."

"Then Huang Qing's family..." Zhu Yunwen was a little scared when he thought about Huang Zicheng's stern look.

"He is a courtier! You are my grandson, the grandson of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, what are you afraid of him doing?!" Zhu Yuanzhang was a little angry when he saw Zhu Yunwen's submissive look: "What I asked you to learn from him is those moral articles , is to let you pretend to fool the common people in the future, not to let you really believe it!"

Seeing that Zhu Yunwen's face remained unchanged, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head helplessly: "Forget it, I will find you a companion to read later, maybe it will be better."

"Reading companion?" Zhu Yunwen wondered.

Huang Zicheng has always taught Zhu Yun literature the way of the emperor (although he taught it extremely badly), but this thing is taboo after all, and others are not qualified to learn it, so Zhu Yunwen has always learned it alone, without any accompanying reading Book boy and the like.

"Yes, read with me." A smile flashed in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes: "A little eunuch who is a bit sinister."

"Ruyi?" Zhu Yunwen called out in surprise.

"What do you think?" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly.

(End of this chapter)