As soon as he returned to Wuying Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Eunuch Wu to bring snacks for his third son to eat.
While King Jin was eating, he slapped Lao San on the back with his fan-like palm and said with a face filled with joy:
"Good boy, you have grown up so much that you can help your father and brother!"
"Dad, please be gentle, the third child is almost choking to death." Zhu Biao reluctantly reminded Lao Zhu that this way of expressing fatherly love was too intense.
"Brother, it's okay..." King Jin enjoyed it very much. He swallowed the food in his mouth and said with a smile: "You may not think I'm handsome, but I have a strong body."
"Hahaha, what a good boy." Zhu Yuanzhang hugged Lao San's shoulders lovingly and said to the prince: "Boss, his tongue is so powerful! At last year's New Year's Day banquet, he rebutted Liao Yongzhong. Let's just listen.
It’s very enjoyable. I didn’t expect that being one year older would make me ten times more powerful. Today is a hundred times more enjoyable than a year ago!”
"Yes, the third child's eloquence is really unparalleled." Zhu Biao also praised: "If he hadn't stood up today, refuted with righteous words and suppressed the arrogance of the officials, it would have been really difficult for my father.
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"Difficult to do it? That's impossible." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "Fuck him, at worst, I'll turn over the table and kill them all!"
Then he smiled at his two sons and said, "Of course, that doesn't look good. If you can't stand the truth, just kill them all. Damn, the history books were written by their civil servants. I don't know how to arrange them in the future."
"
"I guess in the history books, we are just a lunatic who kills people at every turn." Zhu Yuanzhang said depressedly after thinking about it: "You also saw it today, they are so good at talking. They can win three points even if they don't understand, and they even got us involved at one time.
I feel like I should let them go.
"But I feel that this is wrong. If I let them off with a small punishment but a big warning this time, these stubborn people will definitely continue to do whatever they want. So the long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain, so we must kill people. Even if not
Even if you kill all the prisoners, you can't kill chickens to scare monkeys. You have to kill monkeys to scare chickens to be effective."
As Boss Zhu spoke, he patted the third child on the shoulder and said: "But your sentence 'forbidden without authorization by law' suddenly woke me up. You cannot punish without teaching. It is for the common people, not for the government."
We have to hold the government to higher standards!"
"There is also the sentence to the people, 'Just do whatever the law prohibits.' Together, these two sentences express the spirit of the national law." The prince also praised: "Lao San, this is what you read in the book.
Or did you figure it out on your own?"
"None of them." Zhu shook his head and said, "It was Lao Liu who taught me."
"What, the sixth child?" Boss Zhu and the prince's jaws dropped.
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"A sneeze!" A loud sneeze passed through the study and resounded throughout Uncle Chengyi's house.
"Keep your voice down, you're scaring me to death." Liu Bowen's heart was already weak, so when Liu Bowen sneezed, he almost had a heart attack.
"Hey Master, who can control this?" Zhu Zhen blew his nose. It cannot be said that he was not embarrassed at all. In fact, he was not embarrassed at all.
In order to prevent Master from nagging anymore, His Highness King Chu quickly changed the subject and said: "Is the court dismissed now?"
"You have been absent-minded this morning, and your lectures have been messy. I still haven't understood, why did the apple fall on Niuzi's head?" Liu Bowen said depressedly: "You are so concerned about the results over there, why don't you just go to court?
That’s it.”
"I'm still young, so I don't want to get involved in adults' affairs." Zhu Zhen said with a smile, "I'd better tell Master what I'm talking about."
"Stop lying." Liu Bowen rolled his eyes and said, "It's not that you don't want to be in the limelight, you don't want to make people hate you."
"Hey, hey." Lao Liu was exposed, but he still said without shame: "Teacher, you are making an enemy of the officials. My arms and legs are too thin, I don't have that ability."
"You want your third brother to take the blame?" Lao Liu said scornfully.
"My third brother loves to be in the limelight, he is not afraid of it." Lao Liu smiled shamelessly: "What he likes to say most is that if you don't make people hate you, you are a mediocre person. Only if you make people hate you, it means you are a genius."
"You double-standard puppy." Liu Bowen spat: "This shameless attitude is so similar to your father."
"I thought I was following Master." Lao Liu chuckled.
"I wasn't like this before!" Liu Bowen said depressedly.
"I know..." Lao Liu showed a clear expression.
"Stop!" Liu Bowen glared at him.
"Hey, Master, do you really think that my third brother has a chance to shine?" King Chu then put away his smile and asked with concern.
"There must be a chance." Liu Bowen took a sip of tea and said: "The most powerful trick of civil servants is to confuse right and wrong. At any time, you can make yourself like a pure and flawless white lotus. You are always right.
, it is always others who are at fault, those who do not listen to them are fools, and those who dare to deal with them are tyrants. Together, they are the king of subjugation.
"This is what it means to have the right to speak." Zhu Zhen nodded.
"So they will definitely try their best to make excuses. How can your father fight with a hundred sharp-tongued people with just one mouth?" Liu Bowen paused and said:
"And this time, I guess Hu Weiyong will stand up for them."
"Can't you?" Zhu Zhen said in disbelief: "If he hadn't reported it, where would the empty seal case have come from? He had the nerve to lick Boyi's face and then turn around and pretend to be a good person?"
"He must do this. This is the bounden duty of the prime minister. At this time, he cannot stand up for the officials and withstand the pressure from the emperor. Who is he? He has no shame to be the prime minister anymore." Liu Bowen said lightly:
"Besides, the favor this time is too great. If he can save all the criminals, the hearts of all the officials in the world will belong to him. He will immediately become a true leader of all officials!"
"I understand, he has done what Li Shanchang failed to do. His prestige naturally exceeds that of Li Shanchang, and he will no longer have to be Li Shanchang's grandson." Lao Liu nodded suddenly.
"And this empty seal case was caused by Li Shanchang. If he hadn't wanted to compete with the emperor, how could these bad things have happened? Those local officials could still continue to dominate, how could they be like now?
, I can’t even save my life.” Liu Bowen taught his disciples: “They must all hate Mr. Han to death.”
"So Hu Weiyong is wiping Li Shanchang's butt. If he succeeds, it means that Lao Li can no longer take care of himself and will only cause trouble for everyone." Zhu Zhen continued: "And since Hu Weiyong is wiping the Korean father's butt, he will naturally
If he has the ability to wipe everyone's butts, of course everyone will recognize him as the boss."
"Well, that's the truth." Liu Bowen smacked his lips and said, "But when these words come out of your mouth, why do they taste so bad?"
"I am a prince who likes to swear." Lao Liu said confidently, and then asked: "Then can my third brother be able to scold Hu Weiyong?"
"It's enough for you to teach him those words." Liu Bowen said with a smile: "Actually, it doesn't matter if you say it or not? The emperor has already made up his mind to kill people, and it will be useless even if the Buddha comes."
