Zhu Biao knocked on the door twice, and Zhu Yuanzhang's voice came from inside the house: "Come in!"
After Zhu Biao came in, he walked to Zhu Yuanzhang's desk and knelt down and said: "Father, my son has returned from worshiping his ancestors!"
Zhu Yuanzhang happily walked to Zhu Biao and pulled him up: "Okay, Biao'er, thank you for your hard work! How was the journey, what did you see?
Zhu Biao stood up and returned: "My son saw along the way that the country is in ruins and the people are struggling to survive."
Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his desk: "After seeing this, you didn't go out in vain. If you read books and newspapers in the palace, you can't imagine what it is like for the people to live in poverty."
"How do you get along with the elders in your hometown?"
Zhu Biao didn’t believe that Lao Zhu didn’t know what he was going through along the way, but he still had to answer honestly!
He slowly told about everything he had done when worshiping his ancestors, and conveyed their admiration to Zhu Yuanzhang to the elders in his hometown.
Zhu Yuanzhang was reviewing the documents, and after a while he asked: "What do you think of Lan Yu?"
Zhu Biao did not answer immediately. He was thinking about the best answer in his mind. Zhu Yuanzhang did not urge him while reading the book.
"My son thinks Lan Yu is a little arrogant!"
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "If you're not afraid of his arrogance, I'm afraid that he's incompetent. Biao'er. A capable person will inevitably have a temper. This is nothing!"
Zhu Biao understood it as soon as he heard it and silently nodded in agreement.
After waiting so honestly for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and stretched after finishing the government affairs: "Biao'er, you and dad go for a walk. We have been busy all morning and our waists are sore."
Zhu Biao obediently stepped forward to give him a hand. After the father and son walked out of the study, Zhu Yuanzhang took his son's hand and walked around, followed by some maids from a distance.
Zhu Yuanzhang took Zhu Biao to the high platform and looked down: "Biao'er, all the civil servants and generals are urging us to come in and quickly become emperor! Those who don't know think they are going to be emperor!"
Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, who looked calm but exuded a terrifying aura, and thought to himself that no wonder Zhu Biao died young!
Even before he became emperor, Lao Zhu's majesty became stronger day by day. Even though he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang would never harm his son, he was still frightened.
Zhu Biao took a breath and said: "Your destiny has been fulfilled. Now most of the world is under your control. Uncle Xu has also begun the Northern Expedition. Yuanting's will to resist has long since collapsed. I think there will be something soon."
Good news is coming!"
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang did not speak, Zhu Biao continued: "The generals have been fighting for many years, and now they are looking forward to your founding of the country. They can also enjoy wealth and honor. Human nature is not incomprehensible!"
Zhu Yuanzhang patted his son on the shoulder and said, "Yes, Biao'er has grown up, but have you ever thought about how to confer a knighthood?"
Zhu Biao quickly handed over his hand: "This is not something that a son should consider. My son is young, and even the general can't fully recognize it. How can we know the merits and demerits of so many of them!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "We have records of their merits and demerits, but we will award titles based on merit. Do you think they will be satisfied?"
Zhu Biao thought for a while and said: "I guess he won't be satisfied. How can people be satisfied!"
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Okay, Song Lian has taught us a good son!"
"Biao'er is right, they will not be satisfied! They only remember how much credit they have made but never the mistakes they have made! Now my father is not in a hurry to found the country because he is afraid that they will cause trouble and disrupt the Northern Expedition!"
"But seeing that my father is so worried, I guess I can't wait any longer?"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and sighed: "There are a lot of troublemakers! And they are all from Huaixi! They are all my old brothers who have been with me through life and death, so I am embarrassed to kill them all like this!"
Zhu Biao almost laughed, I bet you were too embarrassed to kill them.
"In this case, why don't my father proclaim himself emperor in the Yuan Dynasty first, and then announce the canonization of nobles to the outside world? He will wait for Uncle Xu and Chang Shuai to come back and then unify the canonization!"
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "If Yuanting relies on natural dangers to defend Dadu, I'm afraid it won't be captured in two or three years. This matter can be delayed for a few months, but it will never be delayed for a year. We can't become the emperor and only have a few years.
No rewards will be given to soldiers every year!”
Zhu Biao couldn't say that Yuanting had lost his fighting spirit a long time ago and would abandon Dadu and run away in July next year.
Zhu Biao asked: "What do you think, father?"
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, "Then let Kaiyuan proclaim himself emperor! I'll give them what they want. If they don't accept it and dare to cause trouble, don't blame me for being cruel!"
Zhu Biao was worried about that group of people, but there was nothing he could do about it. As he said before, these soldiers had been fighting for many years and now they had become proud and powerful generals. Even Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pay much attention to them!
"He opened his mouth and kept talking about what they were doing, and when he drank, he even claimed that without them, there would be no Emperor Zhu!
According to their opinion, they should all be crowned kings, not to mention mere princes and princes.
Do these people have merit? Yes, they are all veterans who have climbed out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. How could they not have merit?
But they are not wrong. Are they all heroes? On the contrary, they are all faulty, let alone heroes. Each of them has dozens or hundreds of innocent souls in his hands!
Even Zhu Biao has heard about their moral standards. They are all people who forget their loyalty to their wealth and want nothing to do with robbing women. They often condone their subordinates to kill good people and take credit for their merits!
Either he killed innocent travelers and merchants, took their money, and then cut off their heads and used them as spies of the Yuan Dynasty to claim military merit.
Either the troops with poor military discipline slaughtered the people when they marched through the villages, raped the women, burned down the villages, cut off the people's heads and cut their hair to pretend to be soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty!
This is the case in this era. Such things are common in troubled times. Zhu Yuanzhang has killed countless such generals.
But there are always some people whose character is not very good, but they have many brothers. They stick together and kill them all, even Zhu Yuanzhang. He can only make them guilty and meritorious service!
Now some have gone to the Northern Expedition, and some are still here waiting to be awarded honors by the founding of the People's Republic of China!
It is they who are urging people to join every day, and they can't wait to hold the founding ceremony tomorrow. After all, civil servants want to be ashamed. It is too ugly and out of style to eat, and no one has been so hasty.
