Daming prepares the emperor

Before the start of the second court meeting, Zhu Yuanzhang still pointed at Yuan Kai and cursed him, saying that he was a man with two ends.

Same thing for the third time.

Same for the fourth time.

It wasn't until the fifth time that Yuan Kai was sure that he was rejected by the emperor. In this way, there was no future in staying in the officialdom, so it was better to find a way to get out as soon as possible.The province will lose his life one day without knowing it.

Whether it's being impeached and framed by someone who wants to curry favor with His Majesty, or His Majesty doing it himself, it's not pleasant.Although life is not easy, Yuan Kai admits that he does not want to die.

So he panicked.

Panicked people are the most prone to paranoia. At this time, there is usually only one way to go to black in their heads.

When the pilgrimage team passed the Jinshui Bridge, Yuan Kai looked up at the corner of the sky dyed orange by the rising sun, and the thousands of thoughts in his heart finally turned into actions.

He closed his eyes, and when he stepped forward with his right foot, he paused and deliberately stepped on the air, and the whole person immediately fell down like a winter melon, rolled a few times on the ground, and fell to the bottom of the steps.

The people around were startled, and a few hurried over, trying to help him up.

Before they could meet Yuan Kai, Yuan Kai sat up by himself, slapped away a pair of outstretched hands, without looking at them, hugged the nearest colleague, and cried loudly: "Your Majesty, I am innocent, my servant is innocent!" Not guilty!"

The colleague was taken aback. First, he was almost thrown down by him, and then he was almost scared to death by his words. He shouted: "Master Yuan, do you know what you are talking about! Open your eyes and see, sober, how can I It may be His Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, aren't you Your Majesty?" Yuan Kai wiped his eyes with his hands that were stained with snow on the ground, and said firmly, "No, you are Your Majesty. Your Majesty, why don't you know the old minister?"

"Ah?" The colleague was about to be split into two. He bent down and grabbed Yuan Kai's leg, and said while exerting all his strength, "Master Yuan, I'm afraid you are crazy. Mr. Wang, Mr. Fu, please don't give up!" Just looking at it, come and help me! If this goes on like this, no one will be able to go to court, so how can you explain to the Holy Majesty!"

The two people who were called by him looked at each other, tentatively walked over, but before reaching the front, that Mr. Fu also lost the autonomy of one leg.

Yuan Kai hugged his leg, like a rabbit hugging a radish, a cat licking bacon, tightly like a dog skin plaster, crying: "Prime Minister, please help me, please beg for me like His Majesty, your great favor Dade, I am grateful for the rest of my life!"

Master Fu immediately began to pull his legs, and said anxiously: "I am not the prime minister, the prime minister is walking ahead. Master Yuan, please let go, let's talk about anything."

Yuan Kai hugged a minister with one arm, and would not let go, no matter how much the two tried to persuade him, they remained indifferent, as firm as a rubber band.In the presence of a large audience, the two of them couldn't beat him out of consideration of face, they were so anxious that their heads were sweating.

Before this, no one knew that Yuan Kai, who looked thin and frail, had such great strength.

"Lord Yuan, let go, let go, I'll find the real Prime Minister for you." Master Fu had an idea and made a fuss.

"You go for me?"

"Yes, I will go for you."

"Okay then." Yuan Kai actually let go of his hand, gratefully said, "Eunuch Huang, you must go and come back quickly, and show your majesty my sincere heart."

Mr. Fu, who managed to snatch his leg back, now lost another organ and became a eunuch. His face was gloomy, and he frowned and asked everyone: "Did he kowtow? Is he really crazy? What should I do?" good?"

The crowd in a circle looked at me and looked at you. They all knew that they should report to Zhu Yuanzhang now, and they all knew that they should be called imperial physicians, but they were unwilling to show up.

The team behind did not move for a long time, which made the people who had already crossed the bridge in front a little confused. They looked back and found that the commotion there had not subsided, but it was getting louder and louder, and the noise could be heard so far away. , vaguely someone has been shouting, even accompanied by crying.

Lu Jin'ai stopped in her tracks, and saw that there was no movement from the people with higher official positions around her, so she walked back quickly under the gaze of others, broke through the encirclement and squeezed in, and said loudly: "Everyone, what happened?" ?”

The person who was hugged first saw him, his eyes sparkled: "Lord Lu! You are here, you and Master Yuan are on good terms, come and see him, he seems to be sick."

"Ill?" Lu Jin'ai hurried over, knelt down and touched Yuan Kai's forehead, "Why didn't you help him up when he was sick?"

Yuan Kai's eyes flashed, and he put his arms around Lu Jin'ai: "Your Highness, Your Majesty wants to kill me, please forgive me."

Lu Jin'ai was startled, grabbed Yuan Kai's shoulders and picked him up, looked into his eyes and said, "Brother Yuan? Brother Yuan? Why did Your Majesty kill you? Your Majesty has never said such a thing."

"Really? Didn't His Majesty say that?"

"No." Lu Jinai shook her head.

At this time Yuan Kai looked much more normal, he stopped crying and wiped his tears with his sleeve, it seemed to be healed.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he might have been suffering from hysteria just now, and before he said anything else, they saw Yuan Kai tidying up the hem of his clothes, kneeling down solemnly towards Lu Jin'ai, and loudly said: "Thank you, my lord... ..."

"Brother Yuan, I am not His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Lu Jin'ai hurriedly supported him, walked towards the bottom of the Jinshui Bridge, turned her head while walking, and said, "Please call some people over and inform Your Majesty about the situation here. Accompany Master Yuan to calm down."

"How to say?" That Master Fu looked at Master Wang.

"What else can I say, listen to him and find a doctor!"

Lu Jinai took Yuan Kai to a place far away from the crowd, helped him sit down and rested, squatted down herself, and said in a low voice, "Brother Yuan, there is no one else here, so you don't have to pretend anymore."

Yuan Kai stared at him blankly, as if looking at a straw.Other than that, nothing was heard.

He suddenly threw himself on Lu Jin'ai, and hugged him tightly again: "Your Highness, Your Highness, if I don't want to die, let Zhang Chang's family die. Your Majesty's decision is right, and I know I was wrong."

Lu Jinai frowned: "Brother Yuan, this is the end of the matter, I can't say that your move is bad, but—"

"Your Highness, Your Highness..." Yuan Kai kept calling these two words, and Lu Jinai's words were all interrupted by him.

"Oh." Lu Jin'ai sighed, feeling a little uncertain about whether he was really crazy.

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"Crazy?" Zhu Biao instantly turned his head to look at Zhu Yuanzhang on the dragon chair, only to see a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, just looking at himself.

"How crazy." Zhu Biao took a deep breath, suppressed the thought of beating his father in Fengtian Temple, turned around and asked carefully, "Where is he now?"

"Return to Your Highness." The eunuch said, "He went crazy while walking. He hugged other people's legs and called Your Majesty. He even knelt down and recognized Mr. Lu as you. Now Mr. Lu is with him, together Stay near the Golden Water Bridge."

"Lord Lu? Are you talking about Lu Jin'ai?"

"Back to Your Highness, yes."

"Father, I want to go and have a look."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Go, go."

It was the expression of watching the child treat the salt as sugar again, Zhu Biao was so angry that he went down the white jade steps without saluting, passing the ministers who were kneeling.

From a distance, he saw two figures there, Lu Jinai's face was full of helplessness, and Yuan Kai buried his head in his arms like he was his mother, refusing to lift it out.

"Lu Shengyu." Zhu Biao approached, "They told me Yuan Kai was crazy."

"Your Highness." Lu Jinai moved Yuan Kai away from her body, bowed, and stood up under Zhu Biao's signal, "I'm not a doctor, and I don't know what's going on, but Master Yuan does seem to be sane. Unclear look."

"Yuan Kai." Zhu Biao called, "Look up at me."

Yuan Kai was in a daze, and slowly raised his head, his hair was already messed up due to the previous tumbling, a few strands of hair fell down his face along the front hairnet, his front was covered with muddy water turned from snow, his eyes were bewildered , which is quite different from before.

"..." Zhu Biao looked at Lu Jin'ai, "Did he become like this just now?"

Lu Jinai nodded.

"Where's the imperial physician? Why hasn't the imperial physician arrived yet!" Zhu Biao said to the eunuchs who followed him, "Go to the imperial hospital to urge them."

"Yes."

There were not many people around, so Zhu Biao bent down and held Yuan Kai's wrist, trying to use half a bucket of medical knowledge to see for him, of course, he couldn't see anything, so he had to give up.

After a while, the eunuchs arrived with the imperial doctor on their backs. No matter how much they urged, the old man would not be able to walk fast, so they could only pick him up and run to meet the prince's request.

The imperial physician was overwhelmed, and walked over crookedly to feel Yuan Kai's pulse, and shook his head after the pulse: "There is no problem with the pulse condition, but I really can't tell if there is any problem with the brain, it seems that I was frightened, so I can only open it Some calming medicine, maybe you will get better after drinking it."

Mental problems are difficult to treat in modern times, and the town demon division does not have this technology.Zhu Biao guessed that Yuan Kai was pretending to be crazy, but like Lu Jinai, he had no way to confirm.

All the people around Zhu Biao knelt down suddenly, so that he didn't have to look back and knew who was coming.

"Biao'er, did you find anything?" Zhu Yuanzhang stood behind Zhu Biao, sticking his head out from his shoulder, "Are you really crazy?"

"If you're really crazy, it's your father's fault, if you're fake, it's your father's fault."

When the ministers, imperial physicians and eunuchs on the ground heard such words, they lowered their heads even lower.

"What does this have to do with us?" Zhu Yuanzhang yelled, "If the minister is ill, it should be blamed on the emperor. What's the reason?"

After saying this, he took out the hand that had been behind his back all the time, holding the thorn that Zhu Biao was very familiar with.

"...Father?" Zhu Biao had a bad feeling.

The next second, Zhu Yuanzhang squatted down and stabbed Yuan Kai's arm with a wooden stick.Blood would not bleed through the thick clothes, but the sharp pain was unavoidable. Yuan Kai remained expressionless after being treated like this, as if he had lost consciousness.

"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang poked with another arm, "Is this really crazy? It's bearable."

Zhu Biao had no choice but to say again: "Father!"

"Okay, okay, let's not try." Zhu Yuanzhang was a little aggrieved, threw the wooden stick aside, clapped his hands and stood up, "Okay, things have turned out like this, and we can't argue with a lunatic. Yuan Kai is sent out of the palace, dismissed from office, and asked the Ministry of Officials to recommend another person to replace him."

"Yes." Immediately, two people went to drag Yuan Kai, Yuan Kai was stunned and did not resist.

Zhu Biao couldn't stand it anymore: "Take it easy."

"Yes!" The two burly generals hurriedly changed positions, one lifted Yuan Kai's upper body, the other supported his legs, and ran out of the palace gate.