Chapter 156 Who of us is not the blood of the Zhu family?
"Grandpa Huang, what is this emperor doing?" In an empty, luxurious palace, Emperor Jiajing, wearing a Taoist robe, was walking around in a monastery.
He stepped on the Bagua steps, kept mumbling words, and his face was solemn, as if he was performing some great and important ceremony.
Seeing this scene, the emperor's grandson Zhu Xiongying, who came with Zhu Yuanzhang and happened to see this scene, suddenly became confused.
"He!"
"It's fortune-telling!"
"Isn't he the emperor?"
"What do you do with fortune telling?" Zhu Xiongying asked in confusion.
"Haha, it must be some kind of special hobby!"
Having said this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Zhu Xiongying.
"Do you feel that this emperor is being ridiculous?"
Seeing Zhu Xiongying nod, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "How about we teach him how to be an emperor?"
"Okay!" Zhu Xiongying said with excitement.
He is twenty-two years old this year. He has been studying martial arts and literature in the Prince's Mansion and learning how to be a king.
But it was just theory before, and now he finally has the opportunity to practice it with Grandpa Huang. How could he not be happy?
At this time, Emperor Jiajing had already made a decision.
According to the hexagram, God asked him to open the memorial presented by Hai Rui in front of him.
This memorial tells the story of the Xin'anjiang embankment bursting case, the biggest case in Zhejiang this year.
In fact, the case in Zhejiang had been submitted once before, but the confession that time did not meet the wishes of Emperor Jiajing, so he was sent back by the Supervisor of Ceremonies for re-examination.
Before me is the memorial after the retrial.
This case is actually not complicated.
Emperor Jiajing had long ago sent Jin Yiwei to secretly find out the whole story.
The mastermind behind the destruction of embankments and flooding of fields was Yan Shifan.
The purpose is to buy land at a low price, annex fertile land and plant mulberry trees instead.
According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, such serious crimes as confiscating the family and exterminating the clan are minor.
But the complexity is complicated because Yan Shifan also did this to change the national policy of rice into mulberry.
If a thorough investigation were to be carried out, not only would the political situation be immediately destabilized, but the national policy of converting rice into mulberry would not be implemented.
And if it is impossible to convert rice into mulberry, the imperial court will be completely starved of food. Now the national treasury is empty. If it is no longer possible to convert rice into mulberry, raise silkworms and reel silk to make money, then it will not be able to support the war in all directions. Then the entire Ming Dynasty will immediately collapse.
It will be unstable.
This is a dilemma.
This is also the reason why Jiajing was hesitant and wanted to ask God to make a decision.
He sent the memorial back for a retrial, hoping that the officials in Zhejiang would stop talking about it, confine the case to Zhejiang, and not involve more.
"These people used to understand his thoughts very well, why are there such no tacit understandings this time!" Jiajing murmured to himself, opened the memorial, and started reading.
Soon his face turned ugly.
"Nonsense!"
"This Hai Rui is just nonsense!"
"Can't you even understand the general trend of the imperial court?" Emperor Jiajing was already furious at this moment.
This memorial not only rewrites the whole story according to the previous memorial, but also writes it in more detail. It not only states the evidence of Yan Shifan's crime, but also leads to the eunuch of the manufacturing bureau.
You must know that those eunuchs are all his people.
Although he knows that this is indeed the truth of the case, he doesn't need it!
Because he wants to employ people, and all officials in the world are corrupt, he can't possibly kill all the corrupt officials, right?
Emperor Jiajing stretched out his hand to throw away the memorial in his hand, but at this moment a hand blocked him and easily took the memorial from his hand.
Emperor Jiajing was stunned, his face darkened and he was about to reprimand, but the next moment a huge fist hit him directly, covering his eyes with a bang, knocking him unconscious.
"Grandpa Huang, here you go!" Zhu Xiongying handed the memorial to Zhu Yuanzhang as if he wanted to take credit.
Zhu Yuanzhang took the memorial and glanced at Emperor Jiajing. He was not surprised at the weakness of this so-called son of the plane.
It has been half a month since he came to Jiajing Dynasty. During this half month, he has been secretly learning about the world.
The basis of the extraordinary system of this world is Confucianism and Taoism, and the core of Confucianism and Taoism is a widely circulated Confucian saying.
Cultivate oneself, manage one's family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world.
This sentence previously referred to a person's ambition, but in this world it also represents the four realms of Confucianism and Taoism.
But it is a pity, because Jiajing is the emperor of this world and is not favored by his talents. Although he is a son of the plane, and as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he has the imperial dragon energy to protect his body, and he also has the means to check and balance the great scholars in this world.
But in terms of combat power, his strength is indeed inferior to that of an ordinary fighter.
Any warrior of advanced level can easily defeat him.
When Emperor Jiajing woke up, what caught his eyes was a portrait and a person who looked very familiar.
This portrait is very familiar to him. How could he not be familiar with Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty?
"Then who is this person?" Jiajing suddenly felt that his mind was not thinking enough.
"Does it look like it?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked while comparing his portrait in Jiajing Palace with himself.
"Emperor Taizu?" Emperor Jiajing stammered.
"Yes, I am Zhu Yuanzhang!"
Zhu Yuanzhang sat directly opposite Emperor Jiajing and looked indifferently at the great-grandson in front of him who had been passed down for more than ten generations.
If he had traveled through time more than 20 years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely beat the Jiajing Emperor to death just like he beat Chongzhen.
Because this Emperor Jiajing was one of the few extremely intelligent emperors among the Ming emperors.
But he wasted his wisdom.
He was not like Emperor Chongzhen, who was really stupid, but Emperor Chongzhen at least had a heart to govern the Ming Dynasty well.
And he worked hard.
But the Emperor Jiajing in front of him was different.
He is as smart as Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.
And he has been in office for a long time.
For forty-five years, he had many opportunities to reform the Ming Dynasty, and he had enough famous officials at his disposal.
But the Jiajing Emperor did nothing. The first twenty years were used by him to stabilize the throne. When the throne was finally stabilized, he began to let his ministers fight among themselves, and he began to pursue his great cause of immortality.
It can be said that the beginning of the Ming Dynasty's party struggle was the Jiajing Dynasty.
There is a saying in later generations that the Ming Dynasty died in Jiajing. Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this sentence was very appropriate.
But after all, this is no longer the time when we just traveled through the late Ming Dynasty.
The anger in his heart towards the subsequent generations of Ming emperors who hated iron but failed to become steel has become much calmer as time goes by.
To Zhu Yuanzhang, the current Emperor Jiajing was more like his opponent than a descendant.
After all, this is a hostile plane!
"You don't have many years to live!" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly said.
"Ah?" Before Emperor Jiajing could even turn his head, his heart suddenly shook violently when he heard these words.
He wants to cultivate immortality, and his fear of death is stronger than anyone else.
"Let's take a look!" Zhu Yuanzhang handed him the records in his hand about the history of the Ming Dynasty since Jiajing.
Although strictly speaking, this world is no longer the original Jiajing Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that the emergence of talents has very little change in the history of this world, especially the impact on Shouyuan is almost negligible.
So there is no problem in showing him the history of the Ming Dynasty from another dimension.
Soon Emperor Jiajing came back to his own history.
"Died in the forty-fifth year of Jiajing!"
"It is now the forty-third year of Jiajing. Does that mean I only have two years to live?"
Seeing this truth, although Emperor Jiajing no longer had much confidence in cultivating immortals, he still felt a little disappointed.
"He has been practicing immortality for twenty years, so how can he want to die?"
"Do you want to live?" Zhu Yuanzhang never said any nonsense, and every word he said went straight to the heart of Emperor Jiajing.
"Are you really Taizu Emperor Gao?"
"I... no, can I ask, why are you here?" Emperor Jiajing asked cautiously.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he waved his hand, and a whirlpool suddenly appeared. What appeared behind the whirlpool was the scene of the early Ming Dynasty.
"You don't care about my purpose. Transfer the Imperial Body Protecting Dragon Qi from your body to me, and I'll let you go to the Immortal Ming. Not to mention eternal life, but it's easy to extend your life for thirty years. How about that?"
"This...!" Emperor Jiajing's eyes first flashed with hope, but at the same time he couldn't help but hesitate.
He possesses the imperial protective dragon energy, and any Confucian methods are of no use to him, so he is very sure that the scene in front of him is true.
However, after the emergence of Confucianism and Taoism, the Emperor's body-protecting Dragon Qi was the key to him still being able to securely sit on the throne and control the imperial power. If given to Zhu Yuanzhang, he would have become a mortal.
By then he will have nothing.
"Don't agree?"
"All right!"
"Hero, kill him!"
"It's not like we can't control the Ming Dynasty if we can't get the Emperor's Protective Dragon Qi. It's just a little more effort. It's no big deal!" Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly.
Emperor Jiajing's pupils couldn't help but shrink when he heard this.
"Taizu, it's not that I'm unwilling, but my imperial body-protecting dragon energy is incompatible with the blood of the Zhu family. I'm afraid...!"
"Are you afraid that I am not of Zhu family blood?"
"Or are you not of the Zhu family?" Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly and asked.
"This...!" Emperor Jiajing was dumbfounded.
Although he was extremely reluctant, the handle of Zhu Xiongying's knife was lying across his neck. He had never encountered such a situation in his forty years as emperor!
When it comes to political intrigue, he is naturally the most powerful one, but he is also afraid of death!
He could see that if he dared to say no again, the old man and the young man who mysteriously appeared in his bedroom would really kill him.
In the end Emperor Jiajing compromised.
Regardless of whether the person in front of him who looks exactly like Emperor Taizu is Taizu or not, he can pass through the heavy guards of Xiyuan and enter his room quietly without attracting anyone's attention. Only with this vast magical power, can he enter his room quietly without anyone noticing.
There is no chance for you to bargain.
In this current situation, he could only regard Zhu Yuanzhang in front of him as the true ancestor.