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Chapter 330: Making the Best Use of Talents

Inside the temple, Zhou Yongcheng sat in the pavilion, gazing at the river of time.

With Zhu Yuanzhang's changes, the river of time and space became turbulent, especially the section of the river of time and space in which the Ming Dynasty was located, which seemed to be forming a tributary.

Zhou Yongcheng found this situation very interesting. The formation of tributaries in the river of time and space might mean that the Ming Dynasty would form a parallel world.

Although the Ming Dynasty changed, it does not mean that the whole world will go astray. There is a Heavenly Way in this world. As long as the world's progress goes astray, the Heavenly Way will correct the course of history to prevent the Heavenly Way from changing its general trend.

The reason why the river of time and space is so turbulent is that the way of heaven is correcting the Ming Dynasty.

However, since Zhou Yongcheng was interfering with the Ming Dynasty, Heaven could not correct it. Since it could not be corrected, Heaven would separate the Ming Dynasty and prevent it from interfering with the main timeline.

This is quite interesting. If Zhou Yongcheng interfered with countless historical processes in this world, wouldn't that create countless parallel worlds? We can try it and see.

In that case, wouldn't Zhou Yongcheng's idea of ​​watching modern archaeologists dig up some interesting things from Ming Dynasty tombs be dashed? After all, the Ming Dynasty has formed a parallel world and separated from the main timeline, so it no longer has any impact on the main timeline.

Looking at the river of time and space, Zhou Yongcheng waved his hand to suppress it, preventing it from splitting.

However, when Zhou Yongcheng suppressed the River of Time, he saw that the River of Time seemed to be evaporating.

If the river of time were to evaporate, then worlds equivalent to this river of time would likely be reduced to chaos.

Zhou Yongcheng quickly withdrew the suppression, no longer daring to suppress the river of time and space.

Since the river of time and space is going to split, we can only let it split.

If the river of time were to evaporate, he would be the destroyer of the world, and his sins would be immense.

This supreme place in the world, the place where the strongest beings in this world cultivate, they sensed that the world was about to return to chaos for a moment, which terrified them greatly.

If the world were to descend into chaos, they too would perish along with it the moment it collapsed, for they were not yet capable of defying the Great Dao.

They wanted to see what had just happened, but no matter how hard they tried to deduce it, they couldn't find the reason.

In the Ming Dynasty, after Zhu Yuanzhang finished the morning court session, he summoned his fourth son, Zhu Laosi, to his office.

At this time, Zhu Laosi was still very young, only eight or nine years old.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Laosi (Zhu the Fourth), and he really couldn't believe that this little guy would eventually oust Zhu Yunwen from the throne.

But he didn't blame the fourth prince. The fourth prince couldn't have allowed his nephew to kill him. If Zhu Yunwen hadn't reduced the power of the princes, the fourth prince wouldn't have been able to launch the Jingnan Campaign.

"I have met my father."

Zhu Laosi bowed and greeted Zhu Yuanzhang.

"How have you been studying lately?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Zhu Laosi's head is hard to describe, but his studies weren't very good.

Looking at this kid's appearance, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he was not academically inclined. From the course of history, it was clear that this kid loved fighting, and becoming emperor was no exception. Zhu Yuanzhang basically managed the affairs of state.

"Tell me, do you prefer reading military strategy books or books on governing the country?"

"Father, I don't like reading books on governing the country; I prefer books on military strategy."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, knowing that his fourth son liked military books.

Since the fourth son likes fighting, let him learn how to fight from Xu Da. When he grows up, let him go to the north to fight against foreign tribes.

Moreover, the fourth son married Xu Da's daughter after he grew up. Since that's the case, let's grant their wish and let them develop their relationship now.

Historical records show that Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son's wife was a good daughter-in-law, and he was very satisfied with her.

The fourth prince was a capable general, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to waste his talent. He exchanged a martial arts manual from the imperial seal for the fourth prince, so that he could practice martial arts and study military strategy.

Zhu Yuanzhang arranged the affairs of the Ming Dynasty and then traveled to a fairyland through a portal in time and space.

Inside the temple, Zhou Yongcheng sat in a pavilion, drinking tea and constantly observing the movements of the river of time.

Not long after, he saw Zhu Yuanzhang arrive in his courtyard through the portal of time and space.

Zhu Yuanzhang arrived at the pavilion and bowed to Zhou Yongcheng.

"I have seen the immortal."

"You're welcome, sit down."

After Zhu Yuanzhang sat down, he raised his question: "Immortal, I have seen from the course of history that many of the ministers who fought alongside me to conquer the world have become disloyal. Now that things have not yet happened, I do not know how to deal with them."

In history, Zhu Yuanzhang killed many meritorious officials in order to consolidate his imperial power; almost all those who had fought alongside him to conquer the country were wiped out.

Zhou Yongcheng didn't want to make too many judgments on this matter, saying that it was quite normal for an ancient emperor to kill meritorious officials in order to protect his country.

Throughout history, very few emperors have refrained from executing meritorious officials.

Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile, "Now that you know the course of history, many things can be avoided. Just prevent things from developing in a bad way."

Zhu Yuanzhang knew the course of Ming history and the various major events he himself had created during his reign as emperor. Now, he also had the golden touch of Zhou Yongcheng.

Many things would not have happened under normal circumstances. Zhu Biao would not have died young, Empress Ma would not have died young, and he himself would not have died so young.

If Zhu Biao and Empress Ma hadn't died, Zhu Yuanzhang wouldn't have become so irritable and wouldn't have been so bloodthirsty.

“What the immortal said is absolutely right. I will go back and think about it carefully to see how to prevent those things in history from happening again.”

Zhou Yongcheng smiled and nodded. He changed Zhu Yuanzhang's fate and indirectly changed the fate of many others. In that sense, he saved many people and could be considered to have done immeasurable good deeds.

"What do you plan to do with Zhu Di?" Zhou Yongcheng asked curiously.

Zhu Di raised the slogan of "pacifying the rebellion," pulled his nephew off the throne, and became emperor himself. He wanted to know how Zhu Yuanzhang dealt with Zhu Di—whether he was severely punished or ignored.

Zhu Di was still young at this time. Judging from the timeline, Zhu Di was probably not even ten years old. Presumably, Zhu Yuanzhang wouldn't have disciplined a child so much.

"I saw in history that the fourth prince often led troops to fight against foreign tribes after becoming emperor, so I had him study military strategy under Xu Da, and in the future, I will let him lead troops to the north to deal with the foreign tribes," Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

Zhou Yongcheng did not expect Zhu Yuanzhang to make such an arrangement.

Zhu Laosi was indeed a talented man when it came to military affairs. Sending him to lead troops to fight against foreign tribes was a good way to put talent in the right place, and Zhu Laosi must have liked his father's arrangement very much.

"Your arrangement is not bad. As long as Zhu Biao is alive, none of his brothers will have any disloyal intentions. They will all do their best to help Zhu Biao develop the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yuanzhang stayed with Zhou Yongcheng for a long time, asking many questions about the Ming Dynasty and governance, and only returned home after clarifying everything he wanted to know.