Ming Dynasty: Traveling through the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded

Chapter 71: Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang
The heartwarming conversation he had just had with Empress Ma made Zhu Yuanzhang realize that family affection was what he desired most.

Power will never be as important as his sister.

When he was young, Zhu Yuanzhang lost his parents, brothers and sisters.

He hated the injustice of the world. The people just wanted to live a good life, but the world forced them to revolt in order to have food to eat.

In order to survive, he wandered for many years and worked as a beggar, a monk, and a soldier.

He once competed with wild dogs for food and fought bravely for his own life.

The shadow of these years has always been overshadowing him, especially after he became emperor, making him believe that there are always people in this world who want to snatch the world from him.

Many of the original rebels have now fled overseas.

There were also many officials in the court who were still greedy for the power in his hands, at least that was what he thought.

He once thought that he was different from others and that by becoming the emperor of China, he could get everything he wanted.

However, these days, Yang Chen's appearance completely shattered his cognition.

He realized that he was still a human being, still a man, with a wife, a son, and a grandson at home.

He wants to protect everyone in the family.

However, the series of bad news in recent days gradually made him collapse, especially the matter of Queen Ma, which he was even unwilling to face.

It's because of the fear of not being able to accept the facts.

Now, he took the initiative to ask Yang Chen, just wanting to know what exactly happened here.

He doesn't want to be the one who tries to mend the fold after the horse has bolted, he wants to make his sister live longer!

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's question, Yang Chen sat on the chair, his arms drooping and sighing:

"I guessed right. Your Majesty, you will ask about the Queen after all."

Yang Chen said this with a regretful tone.

"The Empress Dowager is highly regarded in history and has even become the idol of every Empress of the Ming Dynasty. They all hope to become a wise empress like Empress Ma.

She truly was the mother of the country, and both her subjects and common people had only one opinion of her.

No one would disrespect her.

However, in the days that followed, if I had not appeared, I think Your Majesty would have committed a crazy killing spree. Just the process of abolishing the Prime Minister alone would have resulted in the death of tens of thousands of people.

Your Majesty, you must know that the Queen cannot bear to see innocent people implicated by you, and for this reason she has pleaded with you more than once to kill fewer people.

If he hadn't taken action, more people would have died and the incident would have lasted longer.

Your Majesty, how do you think you will treat Queen Ma during this process?"

Facing Yang Chen's question, Zhu Yuanzhang remained silent. He had already anticipated the idea of ​​killing someone.

Hu Weiyong would show no mercy to anyone who had anything to do with him unless the other person could be of great use.

Seeing that Lao Zhu remained silent, Yang Chen continued:

"Yes, you argued with the Queen more than once while she was trying to dissuade you. Each time, the Queen was exhausted because you killed too many people, from 80-year-old men to babbling children.

You believe that if you don't cut the grass at its roots, it will grow again when the spring breeze blows, so once an official is implicated, basically all of his immediate family members will end up beheaded.

Your Majesty, your murderous intention directly affects the people around you.

Your Majesty, do you still remember what I said about how the prince died? "How did Zhu Biao die?

Zhu Yuanzhang recalled that Empress Ma pointed at his nose and scolded him two days ago. The scene was still fresh in his memory.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, Zhu Biao was being trained to be a benevolent monarch, but he unknowingly became very dissatisfied with such a son.

The reason is that he thinks Biaoer is not cruel enough.

But is Zhu Biao really as incompetently kind as Prince Fusu of Qin?

No, as the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao also inherited the character of being cruel to others.

Zhu Biao knew well that some of his uncles had become arrogant and lawless since they had assumed high positions of power.

Even in their eyes, their own father was still not the emperor, but a good brother who sat on the land with them, drinking, eating meat and talking about dirty women.

In order to maintain his own position, many people have been secretly dealt with by Zhu Yuanzhang so far.

Zhu Biao tried many times to dissuade Zhuge Liang from doing this, but Zhuge Liang was already showing signs of being mad with anger and he simply ignored what his son said.

Instead, he killed more and more, and gradually, looking back, he realized that he had become a butcher emperor.

"You go on."

On the surface, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have no emotional fluctuations.

“The prince is benevolent and loves the people, and his civil and military officials are loyal to him. This is beyond doubt. He has participated in government affairs before he was 25 years old, and he has your absolute trust.

But in his eyes, those people killed by His Majesty were all uncles who took care of him in the military camp when he was young.

They are facing your butcher knife and want to beg for mercy, but the prince is powerless and can only watch them die. The feeling of powerlessness takes over his whole body, making him live in guilt.

Your Majesty, you have ignored the Crown Prince and the Queen at the same time.

When the prince is sad, he will go to the Empress to complain. When the Empress knows the whole story, she will come to you, but you will not listen to her advice and still insist on doing what you want.

In the end, the two people closest to them suffered the most severe harm. This heart-wrenching pain was inflicted by your Majesty yourself, one cut at a time, on the bodies of the Crown Prince and the Empress.

Your Majesty, the technology of later generations is far beyond your imagination. People not only suffer physical injuries, but also mental injuries.

The Queen has lived under your denial and unfamiliarity for a long time, and her health is not good. What do you think will happen to her in the end?"

"We don't have any!"

Zhu Yuanzhang finally raised his head, but his eyes were full of denial.

He didn't think he was the one who hurt Queen Ma.

"You're talking nonsense! My sister is my most beloved relative. We will never hurt her no matter who we hurt. Are you lying to me?"

Old Zhu was no fool. He knew from Yang Chen's words and actions that the other party was blaming him for Queen Ma's death intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he even wanted to pull out the sword hanging on the wall and chop Yang Chen. His clenched fist on the armrest was enough to prove it.

Yang Chen remained calm about this, as if he had anticipated Zhu Yuanzhang's reaction.

"Your Majesty, look at yourself now. Do you think I made these things up?"

After these words were spoken, Zhu Yuanzhang became like a deflated balloon, and his entire body wilted.

"Do you think we want to kill innocent people? Do you think we want to kill our brothers?
Ridiculous, really ridiculous!
Our Zhu Yuanzhang started out as a beggar. To put it nicely, he started from scratch. To put it bluntly, he was just a peasant who survived in troubled times.

(End of this chapter)