There was silence for a long time, and no one in the room spoke, and it fell into an awkward silence.

Liu Sanwu narrowed his eyes, looked at Zhan Hui, and asked, "Then do you know...how has His Majesty responded to this matter? They've started doing this again. How can His Majesty just sit back and do nothing?"

Zhan Hui shook his head and frowned in confusion:

"With your Majesty's keen ears and eyes, you must have already heard about this matter, but your Majesty's itinerary is known to everyone in the palace."

"Every day, he'd just deal with memorials, or go to the Imperial Garden to look at the mediocre vines he'd planted, or hang out at the Alchemy Department whenever he had time, worrying about his plans for immortality..."

"Regarding Marquis Heqing, Marquis Huaiyuan, and Marquis Zhulu, let alone ordering them not to commit any illegal acts, even summoning them to an audience with them was unprecedented."

This is what worries Zhan Hui the most - Zhu Yunhuan doesn't care!

Liu Sanwu and Fu Youwen exchanged a secretive look and nodded heavily. Even if they didn't bother to inquire about it, they would occasionally hear a lot of this news.

As for the large sweet potato field in the imperial garden.

Since it was planted with such fanfare, and a lot of manpower was needed to clean up, process, and take care of such a large area, it was of course impossible to keep the nature of the planting secret.

Liu Sanwu pondered for a moment, took a deep breath, and said, "Master Zhan is saying... maybe Your Majesty is powerless? Should we just let it go?"

Zhan Hui folded his hands and clapped them helplessly.

He showed an embarrassment and said, "Master Liu is very knowledgeable. Does he have any solution in mind?"

He sighed softly and lowered his voice, "Who doesn't know that Your Majesty has relied on the Huaixi nobles to reach his current position? Even if the Huaixi nobles hadn't shown any signs of discord with Your Majesty before... the King of Qin and the King of Jin would still be eyeing the chair Your Majesty sits on."

"Your Majesty is not unwilling to touch the nobles of Huaixi, but cannot!"

All three of them knew this very well: To put it bluntly, even if they became emperors, if they did not truly master the "fist", they would eventually be constrained by others.

The "power" held by the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty today is half due to his own status and bloodline, and the other half is due to the "power" of the Huaixi nobles...

Fu Youwen nodded. "Once Your Majesty makes a move, the consequences will be difficult to predict, unless Your Majesty possesses the ability to simultaneously subjugate the Huaixi nobles and the numerous vassal kings. But it is obvious..."

"Your Majesty is indeed not yet ready." Fu Youwen tapped the coffee table several times with the tips of his fingers. "It is actually right for Your Majesty to remain calm and behave as usual."

Zhan Hui naturally understood what he said.

He frowned and said, "But it's not a solution to keep going this way. Whether Your Majesty intervenes or not... it won't work!"

Fu Youwen spread his hands and said in a tone of self-deprecation, "The only people who can suppress them in this world are the late emperor, and the late Crown Prince Yiwen, who is half of them. Given the current situation, we can only do this if the late emperor jumps out of his coffin!"

Fu Youwen wouldn't know.

His casual complaint actually revealed some inside information.

Of course, he said this because he thought Zhu Yuanzhang was already dead - how could a person who had been buried for several months jump out of the coffin?

"The late emperor? How long has it been since the late emperor passed away?" Zhan Hui gave Fu Youwen a cold look.

Fu Youwen rolled his eyes at him: "So, it's a dead end!"

From the perspective of this era, this is indeed a dead end.

Otherwise, in history, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have deliberately fabricated the Lan Yu case in his later years and killed so many people - those who were destined to be unconquered would have to die regardless of whether they had done anything wrong or not.

Although some people in later generations said that Zhu Yuanzhang was wrong to kill so many generals and it was a pity to kill them, which led to Zhu Di's success in the Jingnan Rebellion, even if Zhu Yuanzhang left this group of Huaixi nobles to easily deal with Zhu Di, what would happen to the Jianwen Dynasty afterwards?

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