"Brother?" Li Cunyi became anxious upon hearing this. "Don't you think our family has not been arrested enough? You have to let others take the pot to be happy?"
"You know nothing!" Li Shanchang couldn't care less about his brothers and sisters, and yelled: "How long has this been, and they can't even understand it!"
"The superior is the one emperor of the ages who was defeated by Shunchang! As long as we don't show any mistakes, if we show any mistakes, then we should be honest and frank and be lenient!
"If the superior wants to investigate, let him investigate. Being secretive will only make the superior angry. He will overturn the table and we won't have to eat!"
"But Li Qi, Li You, and Ding Bin..." Li Cunyi still looked bitter.
"They deserve it, they deserve it!" Li Shanchang roared: "How many times have I told you, before moving the capital, you must restrain yourself, exercise restraint, and behave with your tail between your legs! But as for you, all of you turn a deaf ear to it, follow the rules and do whatever you want! I have become so accustomed to being a local emperor in Fengyang that I have forgotten who the real emperor is!"
"But..." Li Cunyi wanted to persuade him again.
"But what the heck! Do you still want to rebel? Tell you, Tang He has miraculously recovered, and we can't mobilize any of Fengyang's troops!" Li Shanchang roared: "Get out of here, I have to write a confession." !”
"Oh, yes." Li Cunyi lowered his head and went out.
"Dad..." Li Qi's eyes were full of tears but he refused to leave. He heard that the prison was very scary, especially for a handsome young man like him...
"Alas..." Li Shanchang still had to say a few more words to his eldest son, who had high hopes for him. "Don't be afraid, your cousin will help you if anything happens. Besides, you are my eldest son, Li Shanchang, and Korea in the future will My lord, the emperor will give you face, at most a small punishment or a big warning, but it is not a blessing."
After a pause, he continued: "But the more this happens, the more you have to correct your attitude. If the emperor feels that you are confident, it will be a bad thing."
"I understand, Dad." Li Qi finally accepted the lesson humbly, but was a little worried about his old father and said, "Dad, will that implicate you?"
"No, as a father, I am not afraid of slanting shadows and can withstand investigation." Li Shanchang said calmly: "Besides, the move is imminent. The emperor can't change the commander at this juncture, can he?"
"That's good, that's good..." Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief, kowtowed to his father and went out.
~~
The words were divided into two parts, but it was said that the five highnesses returned to Xingfu Palace with a full load.
The brothers worked together and handed Li You and Ding Bin to Lan Yu for custody. Anyway, the identities of these two people were not afraid of being silenced.
He quickly asked the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat Shen Liuniang.
Fortunately, after the imperial doctor looked at her, he said that the girl was not seriously ill, except that her hair was burnt and she could not be saved.
"Hey, that's really a braised egg." King Jin was delighted when he heard this.
"It can grow longer." Old Wu said helplessly. The third brother can never change his habit of taking pleasure in misfortune.
"His Royal Highness King Wu is right." The imperial doctor nodded and said, "In addition, her face was slightly burned, but she used the secret burn medicine from the Taiyuan Hospital. Not only will her face not be disfigured, but her skin will be smoother."
"Yes, then she has really earned it." The third child was very happy when he heard this. He had always been troubled by the fact that his partner was not worthy of his beauty.
"The Emperor has arrived." At this moment, a loud voice sounded at the door.
Everyone hurried to greet the holy driver. Although Zhu Ping and the other five bowed politely, they did not make eye contact with their father.
Zhu Yuanzhang walked in with the prince. Seeing that his sons were still ignoring him, he snorted depressedly and said: "We are not here to see you, we are here to see the suffering master."
Shen Liu Niang opened her eyes in response. Her face was now red and black, her hair was like burnt weeds, and she looked as miserable as possible.
"This girl, the Emperor has come to see you." Eunuch Wu introduced her.
"Your Majesty..." Shen Liuniang struggled to get up.
"That's it, no need." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, and Eunuch Wu moved a chair for her, sat down beside the bed and said, "Did you file the imperial edict the day before yesterday?"
"Yes." Shen Liuniang said in a weak voice.
"We are right here. If you have any grievances, just come to us." Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice.
Shen Liu Niang then told the emperor the details of the case that she had told her brothers before...
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When Zhu Yuanzhang heard that she was Shen Wansan's granddaughter, he was a little unhappy at first. Damn it, Shen Wansan died in the Ming and Yuan Dynasties, but he was accused of persecuting wealthy people.
But he was soon shocked by the tragic experience of the Shen family.
"You said that the big bronze bell and the city walls of Zhongdu were not voluntarily donated by the people?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked subconsciously, and he felt ridiculous after saying it.
"We were forced to sell off our property and leave our homes. When we came to Fengyang, we were still exploited. Many of us went bankrupt. Even those who had a strong family were almost unable to support themselves. If we want to donate our property willingly, we really can't do it. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Shen Liu Niang has nothing, so naturally she has nothing to fear. Today, she is going to confine her heart and spit it out in front of the most suitable person.
"Alas..." Zhu Yuanzhang blushed and asked hurriedly: "Then if you don't agree..."
"If we don't agree, someone will suddenly jump out and falsely accuse us of having funded Zhang Shicheng." Shen Liuniang said: "Then the government will arrest the person and torture him. Either he will spit out double the money, or he will be convicted and sent to Xiu Zhongdu!"
"That's okay..." Zhu Yuanzhang said with some difficulty: "We have made a decree that all prisoners serving hard labor can be released without charge when the Zhongdu City is completed."
"Who can survive until that day?!" Shen Liu Niang chuckled, looked at Zhu Xi and Zhu Di and said: "Both of them have experienced the true face of the Zhongdu construction site. The emperor might as well ask his son whether he would have the confidence to replace them. Live until completion?”
While his brothers went to save people, Zhu Biao had already reported what his brothers had seen and heard to his father.
That's why Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't sit still and immediately came to see Shen Liuniang.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the second and fourth children. "What do you think?"
"No, no." The second child shook his head. His stuttering problem would get worse when he saw his father, so he could only count on the fourth child.
"Father, Shen Liu Niang is not exaggerating. The entire Zhongdu construction site is a human hell. All the civilians are tortured by hunger, fatigue, and diseases to the point of death. Civilians fall to the ground at any time, and no one has collected their bodies for a long time. We are only in the city
After wandering around for a long time, I saw at least dozens of corpses."
Zhu Di had long wanted to report these situations to his father, and said with sadness and anger: "Even if you are strong and survive all this, you may not survive until the completion of the project. Because the civil and military officials who supervise the construction only pursue fast and good results.
Once you fail to meet the standards even slightly, you will be severely punished!
"My second brother and I saw with our own eyes that just because a project was not up to standard, the entire team of civilians were beaten up and then dragged to the street to be executed! By the way, the one who ordered the killing was the Ding Bin we brought back!"
"How can we still use the manpower if we treat civilians as human beings?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked inexplicably: "We see that the Forbidden City has been basically completed, and a lot of work has been done in the outer city."
"Because they are crazy about catching young men!" Zhu Di said: "And my second brother and I were arrested on charges of spies just because we were taller!
"A lot of people in prison are in the same situation as us. They are arrested without warning, charged with random charges, and then sent to the construction site to be wasted!"
