In the main hall of Qianqing Palace, Lao Liu cried loudly and deafeningly.
"Stop crying, stop wailin'! I'm not dead yet." Zhu Yuanzhang had a headache due to the noise, and said angrily: "If you invite your mother... wolf to me again, I'll beat you twice!"
"Oh..." Lao Liu's cry stopped abruptly.
"Damn it, you are obviously a fool, why are you pretending to be a coward?!" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help scolding: "You are not even afraid of your father, how can there be anyone in this world who can scare you to tears?"
"A man won't shed tears easily, but it's just not the time to feel sad, dad." Lao Liu blew bubbles from his nostrils and cried:
"My son is so aggrieved! Those big Jiangnan families who have killed thousands of people are obviously engaged in sea trade, but they grab their hands and necks and don't even recognize it! There are also those scholars who come from Jiangnan, who are always making noises and banning intercourse, which is not the case at all. In order to prevent Du Kou from causing trouble, we want them to monopolize the benefits of sea trade!"
"The big families in the south of the Yangtze River and the Confucian scholars in the south of the Yangtze River are basically the same group!" Zhu Yuanzhang was bright-eyed and said with a teasing face: "There are also big guys in the court who serve as backers for them. If you think you are a prince, you can do whatever you want. Do you want to control him? Now you know you are still too young, boy?"
After saying that, Boss Zhu laughed happily.
"Those people are colluding together for their own selfish interests. They have no regard for you, the emperor, the country of Ming Dynasty, and the people of the world!" Lao Liu spared no effort to apply eye drops.
"How can we talk without the common people?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked calmly: "The common people still need to be managed by them?"
"Because they keep pleading for the people, but for the sake of their own interests, they deny the imperial court access to market revenue! The imperial court can only seek compensation from the common people, who will suffer the most in the end!" Lao Liu said angrily: "Ordinary common people have the least income. , the heaviest burden, aren’t they the ones who caused it?!
"The most irritating thing is that they are obviously selfish and despicable, but they always turn into moral guardians and dress themselves up as flawless white lotuses! No matter what happens, it is others who are wrong, and they are not at all wrong! As long as others If you violate their interests, they will jump and yell! But instead of directly saying that you have violated their interests, they always attack you with morals!
"They use standards that are 10,000 times stricter than their own to look for your shortcomings, and then magnify them to make you a heinous scumbag. You will be damned, and no one will be able to offend their interests!"
"This is called being full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but full of male thieves and female prostitutes! On the surface, you are righteous, but behind the scenes, you are filthy and dirty!" Lao Liu became more and more excited as he spoke, and even brought out the famous saying of Emperor Diaozong: "So - the scholar in the world Everyone can be killed!"
"You kid, you can't be offended." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed when he heard this and said, "If someone just denounces you a few words, you will kill all his family members."
"I just said you can kill, I didn't say you wanted to kill..." Zhu Zhen didn't want to leave a bad impression on his elder brother, so he corrected: "Just like when people say 'damn', it is an adjective, not a verb."
"No, we will reward and punish those who deserve to be killed. Otherwise, it will be unfair to those who should not be killed." Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly: "Those who deserve to die must die. Keeping them will be a disaster."
"Dad, the sixth child is still young..." The prince smiled bitterly upon hearing this and said, "He can't understand what you are saying."
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At this time, the instruments of torture were brought in. The prince took the vitex stick from Lao Wu's hand and asked tentatively: "Do you still want to beat me? Why don't you forget about it? Lao Liu is really aggrieved by this."
"He has already set his posture, wouldn't it be a waste of emotion if he doesn't fight?" Zhu Yuanzhang grabbed the vitex tree and began to warm up: "Just treat it as an activity and digest food."
"..." The prince was speechless.
Lao Liu even cursed in his heart. Listen to what the old thief said. Is this human language?
"Dad, let's wait first." The prince advised: "Then what happened to Lu Zhonghe, we haven't found out yet..."
Zhu Yuanzhang waved a few times, but was blocked by the prince. He glared and said: "You go out first, which affects my performance."
"father……"
"go out!"
The prince had no choice but to give Lao Liu a "be strong" look, and then reluctantly left.
As soon as the palace door was closed, there was the sound of whips cracking, the screams of the sixth child, and the prince's sighs.
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Inside the Qianqing Hall.
Zhu Yuanzhang whipped him twenty times before leaning down and saying to Lao Liu, who was crying with tears streaming down his face:
"Boy, do you know why dad beat you?"
"Because of me, I want to cook people..." Lao Liu cried.
"Wrong." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, stretched out his hand and gave him a bruised buttocks slap and said:
"Dad is here to teach you a lesson - you put the guy named Lu on the pot to steam it, why did you put him down in the end?"
"Oh, you know...ah?" Lao Liu was immediately confused.
"You should just throw him into the pot, do you understand?" Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly: "Dad beat you because you let him go."
"ah……"
"Remember this. If you don't want to be a bad person, don't pretend to be a bad person. If you pretend to be a bad person, then be a real bad person." Zhu Yuanzhang taught him:
"Because no matter whether you are pretending to be a bad person or you are really a bad person, others will accuse you of being a bad person. Rather than being a fake bad person and being wrongly accused, it is more cost-effective to be a real bad person."
"It makes sense." Lao Liu couldn't help but nodded.
"Like this time. If you were just pretending and threatening, you would only get an enemy and a cruel hat. But if you killed him at that time, you would only get a cruel reputation, but lose an enemy. You can still Which one is more cost-effective to scare a large number of people?"
"It's a good deal to kill him." Lao Liu said honestly.
"That's right. You have completely offended the man named Lu by doing that to him. Then you shouldn't let him go back, otherwise he will definitely take revenge." Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "Don't think that as a prince, you can Don't be afraid of retaliation. Even if a mad dog suddenly comes out of the alley and bites you, it will be enough to make you uncomfortable."
"Yeah, there might be rabies." Lao Liu finally realized his mistake. "Since I offended him, I should beat him to death and not give him a chance to bite back."
"Not just him, but also his whole family..." Zhu Yuanzhang introduced his experience and said: "Everyone who will hate you for this, and everyone who may avenge him, must be killed without giving them a chance to avenge you.
In this way, your enemies in the world will become fewer and fewer, not more and more..."
"Fuck..." Zhu Zhen couldn't help but gasped. "Is it so cruel?"
"It's so cruel." Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly: "Remember, the adult world is so cruel. This is a life-and-death struggle, not a child's play. If you want Ming Dynasty to kill fewer people, you can only kill more people.
Kill everyone who opposes you, and then there will be no more people who dare to oppose you, and there will be no need to kill anyone anymore."
As he said this, he pulled up Lao Liu's pants and covered his buttocks:
"Aren't you going to manage the Shibo Department? What if you don't dare to kill people?"