Ming Dynasty: Ask Zhu Yuanzhang to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 76 Your Majesty, the Heavenly Family is Always Different!

The ninth month of the lunar calendar is already late autumn.

Although Jinling City is located in the south, it has gradually become a bit cold.

A breeze started to blow in the pavilion at some point.

The wind blew the leaves beside it, making them sway gently and make a slight sound.

It brought a bit of chilly vitality to the solemn and indifferent atmosphere.

The murderous intent that was originally so strong that it could not be dissolved disappeared in the invisible wind in an instant.

As quickly as it comes, it goes as quickly as it comes.

Old Zhu's expression returned to normal, no longer showing any joy or anger.

Yang Shiqi remained motionless, his eyes fixed, his face expressionless, and his head slightly lowered, as if he was unaware of the murderous intent that had just erupted.

Old Zhu asked calmly, "Did Huer find anything?"

"No!" Yang Shiqi shook his head and said, "Your Highness is unwilling to investigate further, nor does he want to find anything."

"It is your highness's wish to stop here."

Old Zhu looked at him and suddenly said angrily: "Our most beloved grandson was assassinated."

"Are you just going to ignore it and not investigate it?"

"Then are we still the emperor?"

"Is he still the Supreme Emperor?"

Yang Shiqi just lowered his head, staring at the floor, without moving his eyes, and did not say a word.

Old Zhu was still angry and roared loudly.

"If even the great grandson of the emperor, the King of Wu whom we personally appointed, was assassinated, it would be left unresolved like this."

"If the people of this world have grievances, who can help them?"

"The Ming Dynasty can't even help King Wu track down the real culprit, so what else can it do to help the people?"

"Huan'er is still young and doesn't know the seriousness of this matter."

"You have read a lot of books by sages since you were young, and you are good at writing beautiful articles and explaining the truth clearly. Don't you even understand this?"

Yang Shiqi didn't dare sit down anymore.

He quickly moved his body away from the chair, knelt down, kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, I think this matter may be the result of the Park family's crazy revenge on His Royal Highness the King of Wu."

"After all, the entire Park family, both men and women, old and young, were killed. If there are any remnants left outside, it is reasonable that they hate Your Highness so much that they would kill Him regardless of their own lives."

"Now that the remnants of the Park family have been killed, searching the entire city at this time will not only cause panic among the people, but is also completely unnecessary."

"It may not be a bad idea to stop here."

It is clearly late autumn.

Beads of sweat were already oozing out of Yang Shiqi's forehead.

Although he remained very calm from beginning to end.

Even the expression on his face and the look in his eyes were well controlled and performed just right.

However, at this moment, Yang Shiqi was still just a young man in his twenties.

It was also the first time in his life that he faced the current Emperor directly.

He also had to implement a plan that he had been planning for a long time, without letting the Emperor see anything wrong with it.

It would be a lie to say I wasn't nervous at all.

Fortunately, everyone will be nervous when meeting the emperor for the first time.

This is especially true when the emperor loses his temper.

This is normal.

This will not arouse Lao Zhu's suspicion.

Old Zhu did not respond; he fell into deep thought.

Looking at the clouds floating across the sky, it seems that my mind is also floating away into the sky.

after awhile.

Old Zhu stood up, walked around, and paced back and forth.

After a while, Fang stopped.

The dragon lowered his eyes and looked at Yang Shiqi who was kneeling on the ground, and said: "Is this your opinion?"

"Yes!" Yang Shiqi said, "Your Majesty, this is my humble opinion."

Old Zhu bent down, looked at him with his head down, and said, "Raise your head and look at me."

Yang Shiqi had no choice but to slowly raise his head and look at Lao Zhu.

Old Zhu straightened his bent back and asked again, "Don't you have any doubts at all? Don't you suspect that there is someone behind the Park family?"

Yang Shiqi remained calm and said, "I think there is no need to doubt everything in this world."

Old Zhu raised his hand, then quickly put it down, as if he had countless complicated and inexplicable emotions in his heart, with nowhere to vent, and said in a loud voice:
"But he is our grandson, the King of Wu of the Ming Dynasty. He was assassinated in Jinling City. How can we not investigate it to the end?"

"If anything happens to Hu'er, we can kill 100,000 people or even bury 1 million people with him, but it won't vent our hatred."

"Life and death are determined by fate!" Yang Shiqi looked at Old Zhu and said in a steady tone: "Your Majesty had a good grandson before, but he also had an accident, didn't he?" "And your Majesty's son, the former crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, has always been in good health, but this year he caught a cold and fell ill and eventually passed away!"

"And your Highness's mother, the late Crown Prince's princess, unfortunately died a few days after giving birth to your Highness."

"They are all your Majesty's closest relatives. Does your Majesty want to kill a million people to bury them with him?"

After he finished speaking, he kowtowed once more, his forehead pressed firmly against the ground, and the expression on his face could no longer be seen.

Old Zhu just stood there, his whole body seemed to be electrocuted, he fell into numbness and didn't move at all.

After a long while, he raised his hand tremblingly, pointed at Yang Shiqi, and said slowly in a very slow tone: "Are you trying to say that there are doubts about their deaths, and you want us to investigate?"

"Your Majesty, I have no such intention!" Yang Shiqi said hurriedly, "I just want to say that life is unpredictable and accidents always happen."

"There are unexpected changes in the weather, and people are subject to misfortunes and blessings at any time!"

"What happened to the emperor's eldest grandson in the past was an accident!"

"What happened to the former prince was an accident!"

"What happened to Concubine Chang was also an accident!"

"Yesterday, His Royal Highness the King of Wu was assassinated. It was an accident!"

"Your Majesty, there are many things in this world that cannot be found out."

"How is it possible that someone witnessed everything and there is evidence for everything?"

"Many things are hard to explain."

"You can never tell."

“Maybe only God knows.”

"If every time an accident happens, we keep a close eye on it and investigate the so-called truth."

"Then people's hearts will be unstable and the country will be in turmoil."

"Your Majesty, everything should be done in moderation. Let's leave it at that!"

After Yang Shiqi finished speaking, Old Zhu was still standing there, his raised hand falling down weakly.

The anger on his face had long disappeared, but the complexity in his expression could no longer be concealed.

The look in the dragon's eyes was the same.

It was like a wild beast that had suffered the worst betrayal.

There is a voice in my heart shouting.

But he just lay there quietly, not moving at all.

Let the sadness flow through your heart and spread throughout your body.

The wind blew through his hair, and some strands of hair, some black and some white, danced in the wind.

Silently expressing emotions that I don’t know whether it is sadness, anger, sadness or hatred.

The tiger that was accidentally bitten and injured was quietly licking its wound. Could it forget the hatred of being bitten?

How would it treat the fox that bit it?

"Yang Shiqi, how did you come up with these ideas? Tell us!"

Lao Zhu's voice was very soft, and compared to his previous anger, his tone this time was much calmer.

It was as if there was no anger anymore.

But behind this seemingly calm situation, there is a volcano quietly brewing, waiting to erupt at any time!

"I have loved reading history books since I was young, and there are many such things recorded in history books."

Yang Shiqi's voice was also very flat, but compared to Zhu's gentle tone with complex emotions, his tone was very stable, just like usual.

"Since ancient times, people from the Heavenly Family have always been prone to various accidents."

"Looking through all the history books, this is the only way to find it."

“As the saying goes, ‘There is no selfishness in heaven.’”

"I know that Your Majesty came from humble beginnings and is a man of great compassion and kindness."

"But Your Majesty is now the Son of Heaven, the Supreme Being, and you can no longer be the same as before."

"Please forgive me for daring to say this."

"Heavenly home is always different!"

Old Zhu listened to him quietly, the expression on his face becoming even more complicated and incomprehensible.

He murmured in a very low, weak voice that only he could hear:

"Are there many such records in history books? Are they bullying me because I was born into a peasant family, have no education, and have not read many books?"

"The Heavenly Family has no selfish feelings..."

"The Heavenly Family is always different..."

A smile appeared on Lao Zhu's face.

It seemed like a smile of self-mockery, sadness, and deep hatred.

That smile was like a flower in late autumn, not warm but chillingly cold.

(End of this chapter)