Ming Dynasty: Abandoned baby at the beginning, Zhu let me be the emperor

"I don't know tomorrow."

Zhu Ming glanced at Zhu Yunwen standing beside him, and saw that the boy also had a look of panic on his face, and he began to feel confused.

Faced with Zhu Yuanzhang's questioning, Zhu Ming still shook his head innocently.

After receiving such an answer, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned in obvious dissatisfaction, but in front of his two grandsons, he still suppressed his anger.

"My dear grandson, you have worked hard these past few days."

He slowly put Zhu Ming down, softened his tone, and forced a smile.

"Go back and rest first, Grandpa Huang will figure out the rest."

As he spoke, he pushed Zhu Ming out of the Daming Palace.

"Grandpa Huang..."

Zhu Ming looked at Lao Zhu with some concern, but he couldn't overcome his temper and was pushed out helplessly.

"Grandpa Emperor, don't be angry. Be careful not to hurt the dragon's body."

Zhu Yunwen, who was standing by, hurried over and tried to persuade him carefully, trying to calm Zhu Yuanzhang's anger.

Zhu Yuanzhang just glared at him, which scared Zhu Yunwen.

Seeing Zhu Yunwen's frightened look, Zhu Yuanzhang calmed down a little, sighed helplessly, and waved at him: "You should go back first."

Zhu Yunwen was already frightened after being frightened. At this moment, he did not dare to go against Zhu Yuanzhang's wishes and retreated obediently.

"These traitors!"

It was not until Zhu Ming and Zhu Yunwen were persuaded to leave the Daming Palace that Zhu Yuanzhang could no longer suppress his anger and started to roar.

He hated corrupt officials the most in his life. Anyone who embezzled fifty taels of silver would be punished by death.

It is outrageous that these people dared to engage in corruption and abuse of power so blatantly under their noses and even attempted to change the national policy!

"Your Majesty, calm down."

Seeing this, Yun Qi had no choice but to approach him cautiously and hand him a cup of tea.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the teacup and was about to take a sip when he thought of this matter again and threw the teacup out, smashing it to pieces.

Yun Qi could only calm Zhu Yuanzhang's temper while signaling his servants to clean up the cup of tea as soon as possible.

He had served Zhu Yuanzhang for many years, but it was rare to see him so angry.

"Little grandson, how are you?"

Liu Jin stood in front of the gate of the side courtyard, watched Zhu Ming coming back from the Daming Palace, immediately went to greet him and asked with concern.

"This is the first time I've seen Grandpa Huang get so angry."

Zhu Ming returned to the room, shook his head helplessly, and threw the account book from his arms onto the table.

Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed an emperor who came to power through violence. Even if he suppressed his anger in front of himself, it still made people shudder and they could not muster the slightest thought of resisting.

"Why didn't the little grandson hand over this account book to His Majesty?"

Liu Jin looked at the account book brought back with some confusion and couldn't help but ask.

If we keep this account book, won't it be easy for people to gossip about it?

"You don't know how angry Grandpa Emperor is today. If you hand it over, the Imperial City will be flooded with blood today."

Zhu Ming still looked at the account book with lingering fear. If Zhu Yuanzhang knew the contents inside today, he would probably send all the people in the account book, including all nine generations of their clan, to the imperial prison.

Old Zhu won't care about your nonsense about not holding everyone responsible.

"Liu Jin, you can't tell anyone about this account book, understand?"

After knowing the danger of this account book, Zhu Ming looked at Liu Jin seriously again and reminded him in a threatening tone.

"The slave understands."

Liu Jin nodded affirmatively. As a person in the deep palace, he did have this self-awareness.

"Little grandson, little grandson!"

Just as Zhu Ming finished his explanation, Fang Xiaoru's voice was heard outside the side courtyard, which scared Zhu Ming.

At Zhu Ming's glance, Liu Jin immediately put the account book away.

"Sir, it's so late, why don't you go back and rest?"

After Liu Jin had hidden everything, Zhu Ming walked over and opened the door.

Seeing Fang Xiaoru walking in with a serious face and meticulous look, Zhu Ming also became nervous.

"Thank you, sir, and Duke Wei for delaying time for me yesterday."

Seeing that Fang Xiaoru didn't say anything, Zhu Ming had to speak first and shift the topic to what happened yesterday.

"You did a good job on this matter."

Talking about what happened yesterday, Fang Xiaoru nodded affirmatively. It seemed that the outcome of the matter was indeed worthy of his choice.

Judging from Zhu Ming's intelligence, he cannot be simply trained as a child.

"but……"

Just after he finished praising, before Zhu Ming could feel proud, Fang Xiaoru's face darkened again, and even the air around him seemed to become a little colder.

The purpose of his coming today was not just because of what happened yesterday.

"Teacher, is there anything else?"

Zhu Ming looked at Fang Xiaoru's stern expression and asked timidly.

It seems like I haven’t done anything else recently?

"I heard that when you searched for the land deeds, you found the burned account books that recorded the bribes received from officials?"

Fang Xiaoru stared at Zhu Ming and asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, but when the students saw it, the account book had already been burned, and only the handwriting could be vaguely recognized."

Zhu Ming took a step back and responded with some guilt.

How could a man as upright as Fang Xiaoru care about this?

Could it be that the teacher’s name would be on this account book?

But if the teacher's name was included, I shouldn't have been able to invite him yesterday.

"Alas, you know His Majesty's temper."

Hearing Zhu Ming say that the account book had been burned to ashes, Fang Xiaoru sighed helplessly and looked at Zhu Ming again.

"If he knew where the account book was, I'm afraid there would be another bloody storm."

"What do you mean, teacher?"

Zhu Ming heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that Fang Xiaoru was worried that this account book would lead to another killing and another tragedy.

Fortunately, the teacher is still the same teacher.

"Now that His Majesty knows about it, I'm afraid there will be another disaster tomorrow."

Fang Xiaoru said this, thought for a while, subconsciously looked around for a while, and then locked his gaze on Zhu Ming again.

At this point, there is probably only one way.

"Ming'er, do you know about the Battle of Guandu and Cao Cao's burning of letters?"

He calmed down, stared into Zhu Ming's eyes, and spoke in a deep voice.

"I know. During the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao was very powerful, and many of Cao Cao's officials secretly communicated with Yuan Shao to plan a way out."

Zhu Ming nodded. He knew this famous allusion. There were few modern people who did not read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

"and then?"

Seeing Zhu Ming nodded, Fang Xiaoru seemed to see a glimmer of hope and asked again.

"Later, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao with his weak strength and found the correspondence between Baiguan and Yuan Shao."