In the Nuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, two brothers, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaoxu, saluted Zhu Yunxi on the Arhat's bed.
Although they are ministers, they are the emperor's cousins and the blood of the Supreme Emperor. Therefore, they do not bow down but bow down.
Zhu Yunxi, who was sitting on the Luohan bed, did not speak or look at them. Instead, he bowed his head with his pen and approved the memorial.
The hourglass of time passed slowly, and there was no sound in the palace.
The emperor didn't let them get up, so they just kept pouting.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't care and just pouted, he wasn't tired anyway.
Zhu Gaochi couldn't help it. As time went by, his arms became sore, the flesh on his butt trembled, and his waist became heavy.
But Zhu Yunxi just didn't speak, as if they didn't exist.
"You sit there all day long, and you're not afraid of getting bedsores!" Zhu Gaochi cursed in his heart, "Who do you want to do this? Is there anyone in the old Zhu family who can torture people like you? It's absolutely not good, it's absolutely not good. You two cousins are pouting here, why can't you say a human word?"
He said it in his heart, but he never dared to say it with his mouth, but his arms kept shaking.
With a soft popping sound, Zhu Yunxi put down the ink pen in his hand and landed accurately on the blue Ru kiln pen holder.
Then, his eyes slowly turned back and forth on the two brothers.
"You're really promising!" Zhu Yunxi's voice was a little cold. "I just returned to Beijing. Why don't you go back to your hometown? Why don't you go to visit the brothel first? You also brought dozens of soldiers with you, ha! You are well-educated and have good conduct. You are really popular. Palace, I have to wait for you to finish, hey! So brave."
"Your Majesty, forgive me!" Zhu Gaochi said quickly, "My second son... just came off the battlefield, and his brain has not recovered yet..."
"You don't have to excuse him!" Zhu Yunxi interrupted him and looked at Zhu Gaoxu, "Tell me, what do you think?"
"I just thought about it, and I went there after I thought about it!" Zhu Gaoxu snorted, "Is it illegal to visit a brothel? Then don't let him do it? If you think about it, who cares about day and night?"
"Second brother..." Zhu Gaochi was so frightened that his face turned pale.
Zhu Yunxi was immediately laughed out of anger, "Are you talking to me?"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the second child is a tiger!" Zhu Gaochi said hurriedly, "He is so fierce that he can stand up to my father at home. But he is not evil-minded, he just can't turn his head around, he is like a donkey. ..”
After saying that, he kicked Zhu Gaoxu and said angrily, "Hurry up and apologize!"
"Don't!" Zhu Yunxi said, "I can't bear it, and I don't know why Prince Gaoyang's face is full of dissatisfaction. Are you trying to make fun of me, or are you deliberately trying to make me angry?"
To be honest, Zhu Gaoxu's behavior really surprised him.
No matter how stupid Zhu Laoer is, he is not stupid enough not to take his own head seriously, right?
"How dare I be angry with the emperor!" Zhu Gaoxu lowered his head and said.
"Is that because I asked you to enter the palace and disturbed your elegance?" Zhu Yunxi sneered.
Zhu Gaoxu pursed his lips and said nothing, his face full of dissatisfaction.
"Or should I not let you enter the palace?" Zhu Yunxi continued.
"The emperor is the emperor. If you want your ministers to die, they must die!" Zhu Gaoxu said firmly.
"Ha!" Zhu Yunxi laughed angrily again, "Are you quite reasonable?"
"I don't dare!"
"Don't you dare?" With that, Zhu Yunxi threw a memorial in Zhu Gaoxu's face, "Read it yourself?"
Zhu Gaoxu stood still, and Zhu Gaochi could no longer stand still.
"I asked you to go to the Yunnan Army for training, so it's better for you. You didn't listen to orders, secretly joined forces with soldiers, attacked Burma, and massacred the city and burned it. Prince Gaoyang, tell me what else you don't dare to do?"
"Your Majesty, the King of the Imperial Sun, is leading people in broad daylight... Do you still have the Ming Dynasty in your eyes? The Zhu family's face has been completely embarrassed by you!"
"Your Majesty!" Zhu Gaochi knelt down and begged for mercy, "Your Majesty! The second brother is young and ignorant. He has a weak heart. You must not..."
"A loving mother often loses her sons, and so does a loving brother!" Zhu Yunxi said angrily, "His temper is the result of your indulgence!"
"Your Majesty!" Zhu Gaoxu raised his head fiercely and looked at Zhu Yunxi, "Shouldn't Burma be attacked? Shouldn't Lan Shuai's revenge be avenged?" He said with a sneer, "As for burning the city and slaughtering the prisoners, I will do it.
, there’s nothing I dare not admit. There’s nothing shameful about this!”
"Boy, shut up!"
Zhu Yunxi was so angry that he originally wanted to use these things to control the other party, and then send the stupid young man to where he should go to perform meritorious deeds.
But I didn't expect that I was so angry that I didn't even say a few words.
"You are really not afraid!" Zhu Yunxi sneered, "You really don't take me seriously!" He said with a sneer, "Looking at you like that, it seems that I have offended you? Isn't it?"
"Second brother, if you do this again, I'm a master of family law!" Zhu Gaochi also said angrily.
Zhu Gaoxu was holding back a breath of anger in his heart, which he had been holding back since Lan Yu's death. He was so depressed that he was now unconscious and even filled with grief and anger.
This anger was not vented when he was on the battlefield, and it didn't dissipate when he was protecting Lan Yu's ashes on the way back to Beijing. Now, for some reason, he couldn't hold it back any longer.
"I am guilty, the emperor will just deal with it!" Zhu Gaoxu said still firmly.
"You really think I don't dare to deal with you?" Zhu Yunxi was so angry that his head was buzzing, "He Guangyi!"
"I'm here!" He Guangyi came in from outside.
"Take Gaoyang County Prince to the Zhenfu Division!" Zhu Yunxi said sternly, "Lock him up for me!"
"According to the order!" He Guangyi stood up and walked to Zhu Gaoxu expressionlessly, "Your Majesty, please!"
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty!" Zhu Gaoxu cupped his hands and walked away with his neck held high.
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In the hall, Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Gaochi looked at each other.
"Did your second son take the wrong medicine?" Zhu Yunxi was still angry.
"He's a bastard!" Zhu Gaochi said, "Your Majesty, please don't be the same as him, I...I, I, Huotou, will send him back and let dad whip him."
"Where to go back?" Zhu Yunxi sneered.
"Oops!" Zhu Gaochi's heart skipped a beat, "It's over!"
At that moment, he asked tentatively, "Of course he...sent him back to Peking, otherwise he can still go...?"
"Ha! You've made so many mistakes and just walked away with a pat on the back? Is national law a child's play?" Zhu Yunxi sneered, "Or do you think that I, the emperor, is a child's play?"
"I don't dare!" Zhu Gaochi was so anxious that he cried, "Your Majesty, there are only three brothers in my family. For the sake of my father, and for the sake of my always being submissive, give the second brother a way to survive...
"
"I didn't say anything about killing him!" Zhu Yunxi looked at him, "Get up, sit down and talk, you are so fat, you stand up and kneel down, I feel tired just looking at you!"
"Don't kill?" Zhu Gaochi's fear faded a lot.
Ask yourself, if he were the emperor, any of the things Zhu Gaoxu did would be the crime of seizing the title and being imprisoned. Moreover, if he contradicted the emperor in person, it must be a poisonous drink.
"He is at fault, but we are all close brothers, how can I do anything to him?" Zhu Yunxi sighed.
"Don't stop pretending. Zhu Yunwen is still your brother, and King Zhou is still your uncle. Which one of them is better? One is dead, and the other is trapped in Fengyang."
"Hey!" At this time, Zhu Yunxi sighed and said, "I want to say something heartfelt to you!" After saying that, he stood up and moved for a while, looking out the window, "I sometimes envy your family.
, the three brothers fight and fight, and when something really happens they talk in unison. But as for me, there is no one around me to talk to."
"A fence has three stakes. I also want to reuse you and ask you to help me. Take you as an example. Grandpa Huang has praised your ability to handle government affairs. But as for you, there is always a layer of separation between you and me, right?
"
"Who the hell wants to talk to you? Is it because he doesn't want to die quickly enough?"
Zhu Gaochi cursed in his heart, but said, "I don't dare!"
Zhu Yunxi patted the other party's generous shoulder, "Cousin, I really hope that you can be a good king, not just a vassal king. I really hope that you can be by my side and help me!"
"It's over!" Zhu Gaochi thought to himself, "I can't fucking go back!"