Time Travel: After Seizing the Throne, I Lead the Ming Dynasty to Take Off

Seeing my younger brother's slow realization.

Fu Youwen couldn't help but roll his eyes at him and warned him, "Brother! Still calling me a kid? Didn't you listen to what I told you?"

Done.

He even put down the wine glass in his hand.

He looked at Fu Youde seriously, his lower eyelids trembling slightly, and said, "Youde, you must remember this. You can treat anyone else as a child, but you must never treat this real "child" as a child!"

"From now on, you must be careful with what you say and what you think!"

"Otherwise, if you're not careful, you won't even know how you ended up in trouble! He's not just a bit of a scoundrel; his knife is incredibly sharp! Even if you rely on your status as an 'Old Duke,' it won't be of any use if you really mess with him. Just think of what happened to the King of Qin and the King of Jin."

Fu Youwen can be regarded as an old member of the "Zhu Yunhuan Victims Alliance".

Seeing that Fu Youde was still so unrestrained, he couldn't help but give him a few more instructions.

After saying this, his gaze slowly shifted outside the door, settling on the distant scenery. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he spoke with emotion, "Youde... lately, I've often carefully observed the way Your Majesty handles matters. The nobles of Huaixi are already restless, yet he remains calm and composed. So, I've always had a vague premonition..."

"The matter of the Huaixi nobles may seem unsolvable on the surface, but His Majesty may not be so sure. In fact... he is quite confident! His Majesty specially invited you to my house today..."

“That’s what I feel even more in my heart!”

When he said this, Fu Youwen's tone was almost 90% certain. This certainty was based half on intuition and half on many indirect evidences that he had carefully noted.

After a pause, he withdrew his gaze.

He turned and looked at Fu Youde again, his expression filled with complex emotions including sighing, disbelief, respect, admiration...

At the same time, I felt a little shocked and terrified...

He said meaningfully, "Based on this assumption, do you think the new ruler of the Ming Dynasty has any weaknesses?"

"Once he has no weaknesses, the entire Ming Dynasty will essentially be firmly in his hands! He's not dependent on any Huaixi nobles, so he naturally doesn't need to count on you, the 'Old Duke,' to protect him or take care of things for him."

"in this case."

"If he calls you 'Old Duke', you are an old minister and a meritorious official who has followed the late emperor all the way to success. If he is unwilling to call you 'Old Duke'... then you are nothing."

At the end, he spoke almost word by word, as if emphasizing or seriously warning Fu Youde and himself.

Because he still heard Fu Youde call the young emperor a "kid".

How could he not hear that, although his younger brother listened to his advice, on the one hand he was still confused by the young emperor's age, and on the other hand, he was also proud of his status as a "Duke" and had a bit of arrogance and confidence?

So Fu Youwen gave him this vaccination in advance.

Seeing his elder brother's serious expression, Fu Youde couldn't help but feel shocked and astonished. He sighed, "Brother, you weren't this scared of the late emperor, were you?"

Fu Youwen took a deep breath.

He shook his head and laughed at himself, "You're right! He's just like the late emperor, a ruthless and decisive killer. But other than that, the late emperor was far from as scheming and calculating as him!"

"It's actually not that difficult to spend time under the late emperor, understand his temper, be careful with your words and actions, and speak and act well."

"But you can't predict this little ancestor's future if you're living under his thumb! At least I, your brother, can't do that at all. So you can only be more cautious and pay more attention! The same goes for you, understand?"

After all, Fu Youde was not like Fu Youwen, who had to hand over his work to Zhu Yunhuan every now and then, and who might be threatened and scolded by Zhu Yunhuan every now and then, so he just nodded, half-comprehendingly: "Okay! You've read a lot, and you're very smart, so what you say naturally makes sense."