When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this "Dad", he finally stopped.
He looked at Zhu Di in front of him with complicated emotions. He really wanted to kill this treacherous and rebellious son, but after hearing this "Dad", Zhu Yuanzhang's heart calmed down again.
Zhu Di was confused, and his mood was equally complicated.
What the hell am I doing?
Am I calling my son daddy?
How could I speak out what was on my mind?
The "father and son" fell into silence at the same time, and the atmosphere was extremely awkward.
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Tang Cheng rubbed his eyes and murmured faintly: "I really deserve to die."
From beginning to end, he was watching all this. He was Zhu Di's personal eunuch, so naturally he had to follow the emperor at all times, and today was no exception.
Tang Cheng, who was just peeking at everything from the corner, now wanted to dig out his own eyes, pierce his eardrums with iron sticks, and pretend that nothing happened.
He actually heard His Majesty the Emperor calling the Prince Dad?
Is this what he should hear and see?
Tang Cheng hid in a corner, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.
"I don't exist. I don't exist. No one can see me. No one can see me."
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In the shadows, the King of Shadow Warriors was stunned as he watched this strange scene happen.
"this?"
"What's happening here?"
"Should I step in and stop it..."
"Forget it, if I come forward now, the emperor will probably kill me."
"But... I really want to laugh, hahahahahaha..."
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Zhu Yuanzhang was a very complicated person.
In his life, from south to north, from scratch, he built a great empire with his own hands!
He made the Han people raise their heads and turned the Northern Yuan people from Mongolian cavalry into desert guerrillas. He spent all his efforts to formulate national policies for future generations for hundreds of years. He was full of confidence. As long as future generations are not stupid donkeys, they can follow his own example.
With the proper deployment, Ming Dynasty will be able to last forever!
But he is also a cruel person, and he can kill anyone for the sake of his empire.
The blood debts in his hands are heavy one after another. Under the glory of the majesty, there is a rolling river of blood, but he has no regrets.
A lonely old man devoted everything he had to protecting a great empire.
He is cruel to his enemies, but he is a loving old man to his relatives. He is willing to hand over all the good things in the world to his descendants, bear all the sins by himself, and let his descendants live in the warmth of spring.
There are three things he absolutely cannot tolerate:
First, people must not be oppressed.
Second, no one can harm the Ming Dynasty.
Third, the Zhu family must not kill each other.
Zhu Di did not disappoint him. His fourth son killed his nephew, and his descendants also imitated their father's killing spree. The blood debt was passed down from generation to generation, and generations of the Zhu family carried bad fate.
He really wanted to kill Zhu Di, but...but this was his biological son.
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His Majesty Zhu Di thought for a long time and felt that calling him dad was too insulting to his reputation. If he wanted to keep this matter hidden, the only way...
His Majesty the Emperor said happily: "Ah hahaha, the weather is nice today, nothing happened just now, I can't remember what I said, hahaha, I seem to have lost my memory, what a coincidence."
Zhu Di's acting skills are really hard to describe. Tang Cheng and Ying Ying, who were peeking at this scene, almost laughed out loud.
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, threw the sword to the ground, and left with a puff of sleeves.
Zhu Di gave the steps so that he could get down by himself, so that Zhu Yuanzhang could get down.
The current Zhu Yuanzhang is not the Hongwu Emperor back then. His current identity is...the son of his own son.
This family is really chaotic.
When Zhu Di saw the figure of "Zhu Gaojie" disappearing away, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to curse: "What a treacherous son! A treacherous son! Lawless! If it weren't for the fact that he is my biological son, I would not care about him. Otherwise, I would not care about him."
I just asked the guards to kill him on the spot!"
"The traitor!"
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In the world in his mind, Zhu Gaojie finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked tentatively: "Grandpa, have you calmed down?"
Zhu Yuanzhang cursed: "What a treasonous son! A treasonous son! Lawless! If it weren't for the fact that he is our biological son, we wouldn't care about him, otherwise we would have just slashed him to death on the spot!"
Zhu Gaojie smiled bitterly and said, "You scared my dad so much that you called me dad. Isn't that enough?"
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows: "Isn't it natural for a son to call him daddy?"
Zhu Gaojie muttered: "Don't look back. My father got angry and called me over to chop me with a knife."
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious: "How dare he! Even if I lend him 800 courages, he wouldn't dare to jump in front of me!"
Zhu Gaojie sighed: "I hope so."
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Zhu Di calmed down, his face as dark as water.
"get out!"
Tang Cheng was startled, thinking that the emperor was calling him, and he hesitated a little as to whether he should go out. The words he just heard were really shocking.
From the shadows, the mysterious man with the same color as the darkness stepped out.
The man seemed to be enveloped in black mist, wearing black clothes, black hair, a black iron mask, and a black knife on his waist.
When Tang Cheng saw this person, his pupils shrank slightly and he immediately lowered his head, not daring to look directly.
As the emperor's most trusted eunuch, he naturally knew who this mysterious man was.
The leader of the shadow warriors, the uncrowned king, the nightmare in the dark...
Zhu Di asked coldly: "Did you see clearly just now?"
The mysterious man calmly replied: "You can see clearly. What do you want to ask?"
Zhu Di hesitated for a moment and asked sharply: "Let me ask you, do you think he... looks like him?"
The mysterious man said: "If you mean appearance, it doesn't look like it."
Zhu Di's face darkened: "I'm not asking you to talk nonsense, I'm asking about the look! The look! Do Zhu Gaojie and my father look alike!"
The mysterious man thought for a moment and said: "I have served Emperor Taizu Gao for more than ten years. I dare to put my head on it. If it weren't for his different appearance, I almost thought he was Emperor Taizu Gao who came back just now."
When Zhu Di heard this, he felt a little complicated: "How could this happen? It doesn't make sense."
The mysterious man asked doubtfully: "Is it... that Emperor Taizu Gao has possessed his descendants and is looking for you to settle the matter?"
"Find your uncle!"
Zhu Di was shocked and angry, "You can actually say such a ridiculous thing. Do you want to hear this?"
The mysterious man shrugged: "Other than that, I can't find any other reason. The prince just now seemed to be possessed by Taizu Emperor Gao. Even his words were not different, and his tone of voice was even more similar.
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Zhu Di frowned and said: "Of course I know, otherwise I wouldn't call him... This matter is not allowed to spread!"
The mysterious man suppressed a smile and asked: "What are you going to do with the prince? This matter is so ridiculous that it's ridiculous."
Zhu Di said with a dark face: "He is a very smart person. He naturally knows when to lose his memory. I won't care about it because it has never happened!"
In fact, not only Zhu Gaojie was unwilling to struggle with this matter, but Zhu Di was also unwilling.
Of course, what Zhu Di was afraid of was not just the shame of shouting "Dad". His Majesty the Emperor is well versed in the secrets of thick-skinned, and his skin is as thick as the Great Wall. Just calling others "Dad" would not be able to break the emperor's defense at all. If he had only been able to do so during the Jingnan crisis.
If you need to call Emperor Jianwen "Dad", Emperor Jianwen will be willing to obediently abdicate the throne to him. So why not call him once? Don't call him once, you can call him a hundred times!
What the emperor was really afraid of was that Zhu Gaojie would be "possessed by Taizu" again. If that were the case, it would be too scary.
In front of Zhu Gaojie, who was possessed by Taizu, Zhu Di didn't have the courage to resist at all, and was frightened out of his wits.
He had done too many shameful things. In front of others, he could rely on his thick skin and not care about anything, but in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di simply didn't have the courage to resist.
"Yes, Tang Cheng."
Zhu Di looked at the corner of the palace with an unkind expression, his eyes sharp.
He had noticed Tang Cheng for a long time, but he never made a sound.
The mysterious man drew out the black knife. As long as the emperor gave the order, he would immediately make the old eunuch disappear from the world.
Tang Cheng came out and bowed: "I took a nap just now. I wonder what happened just now. I wonder what your Majesty's instructions are when you call your servant?"
"No orders, get out."
"promise."
Zhu Di had a toothache. Why did he call Zhu Gaojie over when he had nothing to do? Was he causing trouble for himself?
What a sin!
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Zhu Gaojie wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought about his follow-up plan.
This matter was somewhat out of his control.
The aura is something that can be said to be real or not, it cannot be touched or seen, and it can be said to be imaginary but not imaginary.
In Zhu Gaojie's memory, only four people could match the pressure of Lao Zhu's aura.
The first one on the list is of course the First Emperor Ying Zheng, the first emperor in history, and the emperor who pioneered the unification. He ended the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the suppressive power it brought is naturally self-evident.
The second person is Tang Taizong Li Shimin. Although Li Er Li Er is called Li Er, this man also created the prosperous age of Zhenguan and supported the Tang Dynasty with one hand. He became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty through the ages.
The third person was Bai Qi, who was massacred by the people of the Warring States Period, and hundreds of thousands of people were buried in the dust with his hands raised. He was also the only person Zhu Gaojie had ever seen who was not an emperor, but had an aura that was more stressful than the emperor.
As for Boss Cao and Xiao Huo, they are still slightly inferior to these three. Although Boss Cao is also a tycoon of the generation, he is still far behind, while Huo Qubing doesn't care about this at all.
Apart from Ying Zheng, Li Shimin, and Bai Qi, the only person who wants to compete with Lao Zhu in terms of aura is Zhu Di.
In his later years, Emperor Yongle was not decadent, but instead became more and more unfathomable.
It's just that he was suppressed by his bloodline in front of Lao Zhu, and he felt guilty for having done something wrong. How could he show off in front of Lao Zhu.
"Based on what I know about the old man, he should... pretend that nothing happened."
Zhu Gaojie secretly guessed, "If he digs deeper, not only will he not want to meet Lao Zhu anymore, he will also be unwilling to fall out with me. Although it is a bit strange, the current old man seems to know that he has only a few years to live.
At this time, he no longer has the ability to suppress me."
This is not because Zhu Gaojie has drifted away, but that he now indeed has the power to compete with the old man.
After supervising the country, the old man was determined to delegate power, and Zhu Gaojie also took the opportunity to inherit the power from the old man.
Especially after moving the capital, Zhu Gaojie truly stood on the commanding heights of the empire.
When he was in Nanjing, he had nothing to do with the old man. As long as the old man turned against him, he would die suddenly on the spot, without the ability to resist.
But after the capital was moved, the old man no longer had such crushing strength.
After the capital was moved, the one whose strength suffered the most was the emperor. After operating in Nanjing for many years, the old man had built the southern Zhili area into an impregnable territory. As long as he was in Nanjing, the old man could easily crush all enemies.
But after the capital was moved, the emperor's control in Beizhili was not that strong. Although Shuntian Mansion was the old man's land of Longxing, it was not easy for the old man to recapture this place in the past few years when he was in the south. What's more,
What's more, he doesn't seem to have any intention of arresting the imperial power.
After all, this is an old man who is nearly sixty years old. What he should consider is not how to maintain his control, but how to make the empire run smoothly after his death.
In the previous turmoil, Zhu Gaojie, who had taken away the wings that King Zhao had worked hard to manage in Shuntian Mansion for many years, had the strength to compete with the old man.
Zhu Gaojie thought thoughtfully: "Although it is impossible for me to overpower the old man just by taking away King Zhao's party members and my own power in the court, but at least it can guarantee that I will not be crushed by the old man. As long as I can deal with it.
I want to escape from Shuntian Mansion and head to the Northeast. Once I reach the Northeast, it will be my home field, and the old man can’t do anything to me."
"As long as I can leave Shuntian Prefecture, cross Shanhaiguan, and return to the Northeast, my family in the three eastern provinces will not be able to defeat the old man, but it will definitely be no problem to hold it back. The troops in Liaodong are migrating to the northwest, and I can definitely
If the Northeast is wasted, it can take as long as a few years, and the old man will be wasted to death, and everything will be fine."
"Although the possibility of the old man doing something to me is very slim, I still have to be careful. The old man has a habit of having convulsions every day or two. Maybe he suddenly has a convulsion and will fight me to the death at all costs. That's not
Is this the end of it?"
Zhu Gaojie is not a person who likes taking risks. Only after Lao Zhu and the old man had such a quarrel did he realize the most important issue.
——Before, he never prevented the old man from attacking him.
The old man's delegation of power to him made Zhu Gaojie relax his vigilance. He actually forgot that once a person became the emperor, his scheming would become more and more profound. Maybe one day the old man felt that the throne under his butt was not stable, and suddenly he started to attack him.
So murderous.
Zhu Gaojie felt that it was better to prepare himself. Although it was generally not needed, it was still better to be cautious.
Even if he can't use it, he won't be at a loss. When the old man dies accidentally one day, he can use this method to stabilize the situation, help him secure the throne, and eliminate dissidents.
Zhu Gaojie, who had everything planned in his mind, his pure black eyes became deeper and deeper, and he quickly returned to the study room in the East Palace to pave the way for himself.
Zhu Di, who was in Qianqing Palace, did not expect to be beaten to death. He had no intention of taking action against Zhu Gaojie, but Zhu Gaojie was already preparing for a mutiny.