Da Ming Tai Shi

Returning home again after three years, standing outside the palace gate of King Yu's Palace, Chen Jinghe hesitated for a while.

I can't tell whether it's timidity or fear.

An old man came out from the palace gate, and was very pleasantly surprised when he saw Chen Jinghe.

"The prince is back."

Chen Jinghe recognized the person.

Wei San.

The coachman who drove for his father for decades.

"Wei, Uncle Wei."

Wei San was very excited and happy, took Chen Jinghe's hand and walked into the palace gate.

"Prince, you are back. I don't know how to go home for a new year in the past few years. The king and queen don't know how much they miss it."

The palace has not changed much, it is still as in the impression, it occupies a small area and is deserted.

The predecessor of King Yu's Palace was the extension of several houses on West Chang'an Street, and there were no domestic servants, just a few cooks and cleaning servants.

The most outsiders here are just two shifts of Jin Yiwei.

In Chen Jinghe's memory, his home has been like this in recent years, not even as lively as when he was a child.

Because it was still Hongwu and Yongle dynasties at that time, my father was a minister in the court, and many people in the officialdom would come to visit, and I had a good talk with my father, but as time went by, there were very few outsiders in the family. .

Official business will go to the palace aside, private matters.

Chen Yunfu rarely had any personal affairs.

Wei San is already very old, but he walked more briskly than Chen Jinghe. He happily rushed through the front hall, passed through the other garden, and shouted in the direction of the back house.

"The prince is back."

There was no warm picture of a whole family rushing out as imagined, only a middle-aged man with gray temples and hale and hearty came out.

The man's spine was slightly bent, but it looked as thick as a mountain.

Those deep eyes are like a deep and silent valley, making it difficult to look directly at them.

Chen Jinghe knelt down with a plop, and pressed his head to the ground.

"My son, please see my father."

"Wei San, go and order the cook to add some dishes tonight, and by the way, go to Shaoge's old mansion to talk to the queen, and say that Jinghe is back, and invite Shaoge's old family to come home for dinner."

"Eh, eh."

After Wei San left, Chen Yunfu also stepped down the steps to Chen Jinghe and held out his hand.

"Get up."

"My son is guilty and dare not get up."

Chen Yunfu smiled slightly: "There is no crime between the son and the father, I will let you get up and get up."

Chen Jinghe raised his head, and with tears on his face, he said in regret: "My son is so arrogant that he wants to split the country. It's really treasonous. I beg my father to deal with it."

"Did Pu Xiangdong's head scare you, or did my father scare you?"

"Neither of them, the son really realized his mistake and apologized to his father."

Chen Yunfu squatted down, and patted his son's shoulder with emotion: "You're lying now, and even Gu can't tell the truth from it, not bad, not bad."

The latter just wanted to defend himself, but was pulled up by Chen Yunfu.

"Gu is not Emperor Taizu, and you are not Zhu Di. He likes to scare his son to play, but Gu has no such interest. But you are doing well and growing up quickly, Gu is very pleased."

Chen Jinghe didn't dare to answer, but just muttered the words of apology.

Chen Yunfu dragged him all the way into the study, and made a pot of tea for his son who was in shock.

"Gu can see that you are very scared."

"Yang Pu scares you, don't blame him, he is Gu's subordinate, you bully me as a father like this, he said two harsh words to protect Gu.

Gu asked him to give you Pu Xiangdong's head, not to frighten you, let alone to show off the military power of the imperial court to you, but to let you know who our enemy is, I guess Yangpu made up his own mind and said something to you before sending it to you. You are so scared. "

Chen Yunfu's tone was very calm, soothing Chen Jinghe's terrified heart.

"You don't have to worry about being placed under house arrest when you return to Beijing. At least the letter Gu asked Yang Pu to you is true. Gu is indeed planning to abdicate, and he has indeed agreed to your request. The formation of a new coalition cabinet is entirely up to you. "

Chen Jinghe raised his head, still making the final test.

"A country cannot be without a king for a day. If the ministers are young and frivolous, the father should not take it to heart, and punish the ministers for ignorance."

"You see, we father and son can't be honest with each other, and this is where the biggest contradiction lies." Chen Yunfu interrupted Chen Jinghe's words with his hand, and continued: "It's also strange that Gu never told you the truth. I told you everything.

Everything you do in Guangdong is actually what I want you to do. This is not a test, because even if you don’t do it, many people will force you to do it. Everything is pushed by you. How can it be Blame it on you. "

Chen Jinghe's eyes widened immediately, as if he had heard the most unbelievable Arabian Nights in the world.

"After the palace coup in the second year of Jianwen, people in the world said that Gu was a thief who stole the country, and many people praised him as a hero for a lifetime, but they didn't know that the coup in the second year of Jianwen was just the beginning of Gu's life plan."

Chen Yunfu's words revealed a magnificent situation of deceiving the world.

"Since the day Gu heard about your mother's happiness, Gu has already thought about how to end his life. Stealing the supreme power of this country is just the beginning, because without supreme power, many things are doomed to fail. "

"The so-called great cause of Kyushu is just a cover. What do you think you want alone is a great achievement that has never been done before?"

"There are many reasons for creating the great cause of Kyushu alone."

"First of all, it is the smooth change of regime. Gu is a rebel who seeks power. Without Kyushu, those military officials, ministers, and clan members will all rebel against Gu. Just like Gu said to you before, Gu must first feed them, no If they are fed enough, they will share their food like hungry wolves, so a illusory Kyushu appears, bringing these internal contradictions to the outside."

"When the first step is to go out, once it is successful, and the illusory Kyushu is really realized, then many things will follow naturally."

"The successive births of Mengzhou, Liaozhou, Zangzhou, and Yuezhou have made our country extremely powerful. This kind of strength has brought all nations to Korea, but this kind of strength also requires massive wealth to support it."

"The army needs funds, education needs funds, construction needs funds, and official salaries need funds. The country continues to expand, and the demand for wealth is endless. In this case, the status of businessmen will be infinitely raised. high."

"Many people know that the imperial court needs money. This kind of thinking has created a subconscious mind, and then evolved into an unspoken tacit understanding, which is to encourage the development of industry and commerce and condone the expansion of capital."

"From the time when Gu Niannian and Pu Xiangdong made the first slave trade, and from the time when our son from Zhongzhou first launched a war against a country for money, a new era has begun."

"You may not understand, but let me tell you, this kind of capitalism is called capitalism, and the foreign wars derived from it are called colonial wars. You can also call them aggressive wars. Of course, this is not important. At least in our country, these are Justice."

"And what Gu does is to encourage the popularization of this kind of thinking, shortening the path that would have taken 50 or 100 years to complete and improve to 20 or 30 years."

"Let it ripen quickly until it bears evil fruit."

"Finally, it's today's step."

Chen Jinghe could understand every word that Chen Yunfu said, but it was unclear when they were connected together. He only knew that he had become a pawn in Chen Yunfu's hands.

"I indulged the state-run discussion to be injected with capital, acquiesced in the railway rights falling into Pu Xiangdong's hands, carried out currency reforms according to the capitalists' attempt, and let them obtain the price control rights naturally. This is the day I'm waiting for."

"From the moment when a catty of rice is a hundred renminbi, everyone will move forward with the general trend of the times."

"Riots are inevitable, and I even made preparations to fight against the people everywhere, but I am gratified that I taught you, you know how to divert conflicts, and transfer the anger and all anger of the people to those foreigners , bought time for the imperial court."

"You have won the support and support of the people, the infinite wealth and materials left by Arabs and foreign businessmen in Guangdong, and the countless factories in Guangdong. More importantly, you have resentment towards Gu. !"

"Since you went to Guangdong for the first time, Gu let you see the illegal situation in Guangdong, but suppressed you and let people like Wu Shigao humiliate you. When you go to Guangdong this time, Gu let Yaxi continue to treat you Suppression, let you know that Yaxi has committed so many wrong things but can't do anything, because you protect her alone, and continue to suppress you with power, just to make you resent her alone!"

"When the riots are over, you have soldiers, money, factories, and people's hearts in your hands. The right time, place, and people are all yours. If you think about it, you should be anti-isolated."

"After the provinces surrendered, the joint self-government became your confidence to integrate all forces and Nanjing to fight against the court. The crisis of the split of the country and the civil war between the North and the South seemed to emerge."

Every word of Chen Yunfu hit Chen Jinghe's heart like a heavy hammer.

"In this case, if you can't blame yourself and don't abdicate, why are the people angry?"