"Father, are you calling me?" Lao Liu came in with a playful smile and wanted to be cute. But his age didn't allow it, and he looked like he didn't deserve a beating if he acted like this again.
Boss Zhu raised his head, looked at Lao Liu with a half-smile, and was about to speak.
"It's me." Lao Liu said first.
"..." Zhu Yuanzhang almost choked and rolled his eyes: "Do you know what we are going to ask you?"
"My son doesn't know. But my father knows everything. Since my father thinks it was my son who did it, it must be my son."
"You kid, why are you so good at flattering me?" Although Boss Zhu knew that he didn't mean what he said, he was still very comfortable saying such words from the kid's mouth.
"My son has grown up." Zhu Zhen smiled more and more flatteringly: "I know it's not easy for my father."
"Hahaha, why do we not believe it so much?" Boss Zhu laughed loudly, put down the memorial in his hand and said, "You are afraid of being beaten, maybe. Who taught you to be good? Xu Da's daughter or Liu Bowen's granddaughter?"
"Hehe, my father will tell you when he sees through it." Lao Liu said with a shy smile.
"Okay, since you are so honest, I won't talk in circles with you." Zhu Yuanzhang took off his spectacles, rubbed the bridge of his nose and asked:
"What happened to Hu Tianci?"
"As far as my father knows." Lao Liu said sarcastically: "My son, I think they are so bold that they dare to change him from death row. I'm afraid of causing a scandal, and besides, I can't let the court kill innocent people in vain. So again.
Helped me change it back..."
"You're quite a nice person." Boss Zhu said angrily: "I didn't expect it was really you who drove Hu Xiang crazy... You are such a bad boy, you can make Hu Weiyong spin around."
"Father, I must attack him and save him. I calculated with my heart but not with intention. If I still can't do it, it will be a great embarrassment to my master and my father." Lao Liu said humbly.
"Hu Weiyong's tactics are not bad. It's your ability to trick him like this." Everyone carried the sedan chair. Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him a rare compliment.
"It's all good teaching from my father." Lao Liutian said with a face: "My son is also the co-founder of Jinyiwei after all. If you can't do this, won't you embarrass your father?"
"We didn't teach you to act recklessly!" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't buy it and raised his voice.
"But Erchen didn't mess around either. Haven't I always been taking care of the overall situation? It's Hu Weiyong and the others who messed up." Lao Liu called out to Chong Tianqu: "From the beginning, they planned to play tricks, kill white ducks, and get away with it.
…”
"You haven't messed around yet?" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted: "You kid, you haven't thought about it. In fact, quietly sending someone back to prison is the same as secretly fishing him out!"
"How can it be the same?" Lao Liu said with wide eyes: "They are committing a crime, and I am trying to stop the crime."
"If you catch Hu Tianci, you should bring him to us directly instead of sending him back to prison!" Boss Zhu blew his beard and glared.
"At first, I wanted to send it to my father, but then I thought about it. Then the scandal of the prime minister killing the white duck would be exposed. Not only Hu Weiyong, but also the entire Ministry of Punishment, and even Lao Xu, who poured Yexiang
Damn it..."
Although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know why Lao Liu had a soft spot for Lao Xu, who poured night fragrance, he still agreed with his statement:
"You're right, that would be too ugly, and we don't want to touch Hu Weiyong just yet."
As he spoke, the emperor changed the topic and said, "You can tell us secretly, and then we can pretend not to know, right?"
"Is this still possible?" Lao Liu said with a shocked look on his face: "I always thought that my father could not get rid of the sand in his eyes."
"You are still a little young, and you cannot understand the truth that you are not deaf, you are not crazy, and you are not a rich man." Zhu Yuanzhang said, with anger looming on his face:
"You don't know, there are very few civil and military people in the dynasty who don't do bad things. They all wear clothes like a human being, take off their pants, and their buttocks are full of shit! If you really follow us, we can't wait to kill them all.
!”
"Is it so exaggerated?" Lao Liu looked shocked.
"What do you think?" Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the large iron cabinets.
Following his gaze, Lao Liu discovered that the three large iron cabinets that had not been here for a few days had now become four. It can be seen that the father's task of monitoring the officials has not been suspended because the fourth brother is temporarily out of class.
"It's just because there is no substitute for the time being, so we can only hold our noses and continue to use them. So you, the Imperial College, have to speed up their actions. It's been half a year, why haven't you done anything?"
"How can there be half a year? It's only four months..." Lao Liu muttered in a low voice, and quickly said with a smile: "My son, I haven't been idle all day. I built a new school building, compiled new textbooks, hired new teachers, recruited new students, and set new school rules...
…I’m extremely busy every day.”
"Huh, that's pretty much it." Zhu Yuanzhang's expression brightened slightly and he said in a deep voice, "Can schools start before the end of the year?"
"It's unlucky to start school at the end of the year, so it's better to celebrate the new year on February 2nd." The sixth child is counting on a few more days.
"Okay..." Zhu Yuanzhang reluctantly agreed: "We can't delay it any longer, otherwise the day lilies will get cold."
"Yes, I promise to start school as scheduled." Lao Liu said with confidence.
"By the way, where is the white duck that Hu Weiyong didn't kill?" Boss Zhu asked again.
"That child is also pitiful. Just because he looks like Mr. Hu, they arrested him and made him stupid with medicine." Zhu Zhen sighed and said: "He is now imprisoned in Yingtian Mansion. If my father can't bear it, please forgive him.
Send him to the almshouse."
"Okay." Boss Zhu nodded and said, "Remember, just because he is a high-ranking official, his life is not considered valuable. Ordinary people are just ordinary people, so their lives are cheap."
"As Lao Tzu said, the heaven and the earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs. The saints are unkind and regard the common people as stupid dogs." Boss Zhu himself did not realize that he was actually teaching the sixth child like he was teaching the boss.
"At first we thought, isn't this just excusing the thief? But after we became the emperor, we realized that the true morality is to be a grand duke, and the duke has no distinction between relatives, nobles and lowliest. If there is a closeness, there must be a distance;
If there is benefit, there will be harm; if something is noble, there will be something despicable, so the righteous will not do it."
"Working? It's impossible to work part-time in this life." Lao Liu muttered in a low voice. No one can be a real prince.
On the face, he said quickly: "My father's teachings, I will keep them in mind."
"Why did it come to this?" Zhu Yuanzhang let him go and returned to the topic: "Have you ever thought that you forced Hu Weiyong to kill his son twice, and now you two have a deadly feud?"
Lao Liu also knew that when Hu Weiyong calmed down, he would definitely guess that he was being tricked. Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, the only people who could trick him were the emperor and a few highnesses.
In order to attract firepower for his master, Lao Liu also deliberately exposed some flaws - for example, the troops he used to capture Hu Tianci were his troops defending the Bao Shipyard.
The old thief probably guessed it from above.
Since the old thief can guess it, there is no reason why Mr. Hu can’t guess it...
"With my father as my backing, why should I be afraid of him?" Lao Liu, however, acted very calmly. He raised his thick eyebrows and said, "If he wants to fight, I will fight him to the end. I vented my anger on the fourth brother, but I haven't vented my anger on the eldest brother yet.