Zhu Yunzhen in the previous life once read "The Prince".
It’s just that too much time has passed and the memory is gradually blurred.
However, he remembers one thing clearly.
In The Theory of Princes, it is particularly emphasized that the monarch must be cruel, have his own majesty and make his subjects fear him, in order to establish effective rule.
Once the subjects lose respect for the monarch, the monarch loses the basis for his rule.
Zhu Yunxu returned home by carriage.
As soon as he entered, a servant came to report that Duke Liang Lan Yu had been waiting in the mansion for a long time.
"Meet the grandsons of the Four Emperors."
In a pavilion in the mansion, he met Lan Yu.
Compared with Zuo Ao before, Lan Yu's attitude towards him has indeed changed somewhat and he is much more respectful.
Zhu Yunzhen did not give him a good look. He had a sullen face and said nothing.
Lan Yu's face also changed slightly.
With his status in the court, no one has ever dared to be so rude to him.
Both the kings and ministers were polite to him.
When Zhu Biao was alive, everyone respected him very much.
Although Zhu Yunzhen has given him guidance before, he can't be so arrogant, right?
No matter what, he is the uncle of the other party. Are the basic etiquette of respecting elders gone?
This made Lan Yu's face a little uneasy, but she couldn't bear to have an attack.
"You all should retreat." Lan Yu ordered the maids and eunuchs waiting around.
The maids and eunuchs saluted and wanted to stay.
"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yunxuan shouted.
"Everything must be said to others. Uncle and grandpa, we act openly and openly, so why should we avoid talking to others."
Lan Yu was stunned. Seeing that there was something profound in Zhu Yunzhen's eyes, she nodded and said, "That's fine!"
After thinking for a while, he decided to directly explain his intention.
"Your Majesty asked Jiang Yu to come to my house today and kill the Taoist priest who helped me make elixirs."
"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this?"
He didn't understand that if according to Zhu Yunzhen's previous analysis, Zhu Yuanzhang should be happy to see him refining elixirs, why did he send someone to kill the Taoist priest?
Zhu Yunzhen raised his head and looked at him. He did not answer his question, but asked: "Are you going to decline the guests and practice alchemy behind closed doors, or are you inviting friends to join you?"
Lan Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said after a long while: "I have become accustomed to drinking and eating meat with everyone over the years. When I am refining elixirs, I will naturally have friends over."
"Let's eat, drink and chat together, watch the Taoist master make elixirs and share health tips."
"I can't stand it if I'm forced to refine elixirs behind closed doors. Isn't that the same as going to jail?"
Zhu Yunzhen said "Oh", turned around and left without saying anything.
No medicine can cure the disease, but no medicine can cure the disease.
Lan Yu himself wants to die, but there is nothing he can do.
"You..."
Lan Yu's anger rose little by little.
Ever since Zhu Yunzhen met him, he has been putting on airs. What kind of attitude is this!
In the past, Lan Yu would have left in a hurry.
But this time was different from the past, he suppressed his temper.
"I really don't know anything about the Bu family."
Seeing that Zhu Yunxuan didn't want to talk about the matter, Lan Yu felt that he was a little scrupulous and didn't want to talk about His Majesty's attitude, so he didn't get entangled, but talked about the Bu family's affairs.
"The expenses in the government are very large. I did ask the Bu family to help me with business, but they were all legal businesses."
"I didn't know that the Bu family was going behind my back and using my name to act tyrannically outside, preying on the common people and oppressing good people."
Zhu Yunzhen stopped and did not look back. He replied in a childish voice: "Since my uncle doesn't know about it, there is no need to ask."
"Grandpa Huang has handed over this case to me for trial. I will not wrongly accuse a good person."
"I know." Lan Yu nodded and said: "The Fourth Emperor's grandson hates evil and will definitely enforce the law impartially, but..."
He hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind, saying: "Although the Bu family has done a lot of evil things, except for bumping into His Highness, the rest are not that big of a deal."
"I would like to ask the four emperors and grandsons to please me, not... for the sake of your third brother Yunxi, let them go."
"Hold them high, put them down gently, and charge them with a misdemeanor, then let them go."
"After all, everyone knows that they are my helpers and my people. If I don't protect them and are punished with serious crimes, how can others dare to follow me in the future?"
Zhu Yunxuan turned around little by little, looked back at Lan Yu seriously, and asked: "Do you have many people of your own?"
"There are some!" Lan Yu said: "We who lead troops in war must have a group of our own in order to control the army."
"I have adopted hundreds of adopted sons, and there are many people who work for me and are my people."
"Bu Sibei from the Bu family is also my adopted son. I know that he and his son bumped into you before."
"But as long as you let them go, I can beat them both to death with my family's methods after we come out."
"I don't want to help the two of them escape guilt, I just want to save face."
"Even if my uncle accepts you as a favor for this matter, I will remember it in my heart."
"You think if anything happens, let your third brother Yunxi tell me, and I will do it as long as I can do it."
Lan Yu rarely asks for help.
He has always been arrogant and unwilling to be humble to anyone.
Not to mention bowing to a seven-year-old child.
One story today is that Lao Zhu sent people to beat the Taoist priest to death, causing him to panic.
The two cases of the Bu family were always high in his mind.
These days, his adopted sons have blown a lot of wind into his ears.
It's not that he has deep feelings for the Bu family and his son, but if the Bu family and his son are convicted and ransacked like this, then his Lan Yu's face will be ruined.
Beating a dog depends on the owner!
He had not found a chance to intercede before, so now that he is here, he has to talk about it.
Zhu Yunxuan looked at Lan Yu, his childish, clear and bright eyes filled with strangeness and indifference.
Lan Yu was a little confused and couldn't understand what he meant.
He is obviously a little baby, but sometimes he looks calmer than an adult.
If it weren't for his occasional jumping around, crying and naughty behavior, coupled with his small stature and immature face, people would probably forget that he is a child.
Zhu Yunxuan stretched out his hand, looked at Lan Yu's head, weighed his feet, and made a height gesture in the distance.
This move made Lan Yu even more confused, leaving Monk Zhang Er scratching his head.
From the moment they started talking to now, they haven't sat down and have been standing.
Zhu Yunxuan raised his face, while Lan Yu lowered her head.
Zhu Yunxuan turned his head and said to an eunuch not far away: "Come here and pick me up."
The surrounding palace maids and eunuchs all looked confused, and so did the eunuch.
But he dare not disobey His Royal Highness’s orders.
He walked forward and picked up Zhu Yunxu.
"Hold him higher and hold him in front of him." Zhu Yunxu pointed at Lan Yu and said.
The eunuch walked forward until he reached Lan Yu.
At this time, Zhu Yunxuan was picked up high, and his head was higher than Lan Yu.
Lan Yu doesn’t know why.
What drama is he singing in?
Just as he was about to ask, at this moment, he saw Zhu Yunxi stretched out his fat little hands, breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his little arms, raised them high, and jerked forward.
"Pa!"
Chapter completed!