Ming Dynasty: The Crocodile King of Han Prince Zhu Gaoxu's Family

Chapter 517 Sun persuades his son 2
"As long as Princess Yuming and her offspring are still in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will still have a basis for negotiating with the Dragon Kingdom."

This is Yu Qian leaving the Ming Dynasty with its last hope!

"Don't you understand?!" Empress Dowager Sun earnestly advised her son, hoping that even if he didn't consider that the other party was a descendant of the Zhu family, he should still consider Princess Yuming and her offspring's political role in the Ming Dynasty. She hoped that through this, her son would treat Yu Qian's wife and children well!

But seeing the disdainful look on her son's face, Empress Dowager Sun knew that her words had been in vain. Immediately, she tried to persuade him from a different angle.

“Zhen’er, your father, Emperor Xuanzong, because of his willful and reckless behavior, has made Emperor Taizong’s edict, which could originally be reused, only usable once.”

Now, that imperial edict has been used up because of you!

Now, Yu Qian has left his wife, daughters, and children in the Ming Dynasty as the only hope to save the Ming Dynasty again in the future.

"Are you really going to waste this opportunity?!" Empress Dowager Sun shouted at her son, even scolding him, as he remained stubbornly obstinate.

"I am the Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty! Only I can save the Great Ming Dynasty!"

"My Great Ming Dynasty doesn't need an outsider like him to save it!" Empress Dowager Sun's words seemed to have stepped on Emperor Tianshun's tail. Immediately, Emperor Tianshun jumped up and roared angrily.

"Zhen'er, what has become of you?!" Empress Dowager Sun looked at her son with heartache, her eyes filled with tears. At this moment, seeing her son still stubbornly refusing to understand, Empress Dowager Sun felt her heart bleeding!

"What do you mean, 'How did I become like this?'"
What have I become now?!

Haven't I always been like this? I haven't changed?! I've always been this way?!
"I am like this now, it's all your fault! You forced me into this situation!" Emperor Tianshun roared angrily as he looked at his weeping mother, as if he had been provoked.

Then, as if he was still not satisfied, Emperor Tianshun continued to roar.

"Why should I?!"

What right does a former prince have to bestow the title of Emperor upon my Great Ming Dynasty?!

Why should he make the Prince of Cheng emperor?! I am the true emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

Why should he allow the Prince of Cheng to ascend the body of that true dragon?! Why wasn't this person born to be me?!

Why didn't he tell me the secrets passed down through generations of my Ming Dynasty?! He only told Prince Chengli! Isn't that something I should have known all along?!
Furthermore, what right does he have to steal my Qiqige? She was originally my woman!

"Do you know what kind of humiliation I suffered in those Oirats?!" Emperor Tianshun roared angrily, as if he were in a frenzy, venting and releasing all his grievances! Even after so many years, Emperor Tianshun still couldn't forget what had happened, still held a grudge, and even had nightmares about it!

At this moment, Empress Dowager Sun also realized her son's frustration. However, even so, in Empress Dowager Sun's view, this was not a reason for Emperor Tianshun to act recklessly!

"What secret?!" Suddenly, Empress Dowager Sun realized that her son had mentioned a secret passed down through generations of the Ming Dynasty, and immediately asked.

"What secret?" Upon hearing his mother's question, Emperor Tianshun looked at Empress Dowager Sun with a mocking expression, as if he had heard a huge joke.

"Does the Empress Dowager not know?"

"Back then, he humiliated the Empress Dowager right here in this palace. Didn't he tell her that secret back then?" Emperor Tianshun retorted with a disdainful look in response to Empress Dowager Sun's question.

In Emperor Tianshun's view, back then, Emperor Longwu, that scoundrel, took the opportunity to bully his mother, Empress Sun, during the defense of Beijing. Therefore, he must have told his mother this secret back then!

This was also one of the reasons why Emperor Tianshun and his mother, Empress Dowager Sun, were at odds! Because Emperor Tianshun felt that Empress Dowager Sun had deceived him and concealed some very important things from him!

Upon hearing her son's words, Empress Dowager Sun felt as if she had been struck by lightning!

Because, at this moment, Empress Dowager Sun realized that her son had learned of the sacrifice she had made to save him! However, what Empress Dowager Sun couldn't understand was why her son couldn't comprehend her now that he knew of her tragic sacrifice!
"Zhen'er~!" Empress Dowager Sun cried out in a shrill voice, as mournful as a mother beast that had lost her cubs! However, seeing Empress Dowager Sun's mournful appearance, Emperor Tianshun gritted his teeth and spoke again.

"Before the Prince of Chengli died, I met with him once! He gave me something!"

This is it, this book has been torn to shreds and only this little bit is left! There's no content inside anymore!

The Prince of Chengli told me that this contains the greatest secret of the Ming Dynasty, a secret passed down since the time of Emperor Taizong, Emperor Renzong, and the previous emperor, a great secret that enabled the Ming Dynasty to be saved from all difficulties through diligent governance!

But, Mother, do you know?

Prince Chengli also told me that the late emperor, my father, Emperor Xuanzong, did not pass on this secret, but hid it away!

It was burned down by that villain Long Wu during the Battle of Beijing! He even said, "Mother, you saw it burned down with your own eyes!"

I just can't understand why the late Emperor didn't pass this secret on to me! Nor did the wicked Longwu pass it on to me!

They didn't just refuse to pass it on to me!

Did you know that?!

Right after the Prince of Cheng usurped the throne, that villain Longwu wrote it again by hand and showed it to the Prince of Cheng!

After the Prince of Cheng finished reading it, he burned it down to just this little bit!

Before his death, King Chengli told me: That villain Longwu said that if the emperors of the future are virtuous, the throne should be passed down; if the emperors of the future are not virtuous, the throne should be lost.

Until the very last moment of King Chengli's deathbed, I begged him to tell me! But King Chengli didn't say a word!

"You even left this thing behind to mock me!" Emperor Tianshun roared angrily at Empress Dowager Sun, holding a book that was only about two inches long and bound with thread, or rather, a bunch of bound sheets of paper that could no longer be called a book.

That desperate and helpless expression was as if he had been greatly insulted!

"What he burned in the Hall of Supreme Harmony was actually a secret passed down through generations of our Great Ming Dynasty?!" Upon hearing Emperor Tianshun's words, Empress Dowager Sun was also filled with disbelief. She couldn't help but recall the things that Emperor Longwu had burned in the Hall of Supreme Harmony! Her face was filled with realization and disbelief!
"Your Majesty, do you really not know?!" Clutching the thick stack of bound papers tightly in his hand, Emperor Tianshun questioned Empress Dowager Sun with a ferocious expression. He simply couldn't believe that his mother, Empress Dowager Sun, was unaware of the book's contents!

"Zhen'er, your mother really doesn't know!" Empress Dowager Sun could tell from her son's eyes that he didn't trust her. But even so, Empress Dowager Sun still spoke firmly to her son.

"Since the Empress Dowager doesn't know, then so be it!" Emperor Tianshun flicked his sleeves and turned back to sit on the dragon throne.

At this moment, Empress Dowager Sun knew that an insurmountable chasm had formed between her and her son!
"Mother, do you know?"

Before King Chengli died, he wanted to swallow the two rings, but I stopped him!
To prevent him from causing further trouble, I personally smothered him to death!

Finally, the two rings were taken from his hand! As he spoke, Emperor Tianshun showed off the two brass dragon-shaped rings on his hand.

“I am not stupid. I know very well that one of these two rings is the one that King Chengli fed the true dragon and rode on its back!”
As for the other one, it must be Yu Qian's!

"With these two things, I still have leverage to negotiate with the Dragon Kingdom!" Emperor Tianshun said softly to his mother, Madam Sun, while confidently displaying the ring on his hand.

"Are you crazy?!" Empress Dowager Sun looked at her son in disbelief, her eyes filled with shock.

(End of this chapter)