Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 65
"Returning to the emperor, the old minister has never conspired with Wen, and never agrees with Liao Yongzhong's actions." Liu Bowen met Zhu Yuanzhang's frightening gaze, and replied seriously: "If the old minister knew in advance, he would definitely stop them with all his strength!"

"Oh." Zhu Yuanzhang held the jade belt around his waist noncommittally. "Naturally, we believe in Mister, but we clearly remember that Mister has always opposed the acceptance of King Xiaoming to Yingtian, and he also strongly opposed the Zen throne ceremony."

Liu Bowen knew that when Boss Zhu was making murderous intentions, he always did it subconsciously.

"Yes, what the emperor said is the truth." He nodded, and said calmly: "From the beginning to the end, I opposed inheriting the legal system of King Xiao Ming and advocated inheriting the legal system of the Yuan Dynasty, but it was definitely not for my own consideration, nor for the so-called Zhejiang Province. Dong Dang. It’s for the Emperor’s Daming, and for the people of China! This heart is clear, and the sun can learn from it!”

"How do you say it?" Zhu Yuanzhang sounded a little uncomfortable, and Liu Ji set the tone too high.Emotionally, when I wanted to inherit the Song Dynasty, it was not for Daming, not for the people of China?

"Your Majesty, because the Song Dynasty is incomplete. Needless to say, the Southern Song Dynasty is a rotten coward. Even the Northern Song Dynasty has never really unified China." Liu Bowen said earnestly:
"From Yelu Deguang, Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun fell into the hands of the Hulu for a full 300 years! From the time when the Jin destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, the entire north was ruled by foreigners for 240 years! Until the emperor expelled the Tartars and restored China , regaining Youyan, and uniting the north and the south, ended this long history of humiliation!"

"You also know that it is a history of humiliation..." Zhu Yuanzhang said bitterly.

"That's right, but has your majesty thought about it? If I, Ming Dynasty, inherited the legal system of the Song Dynasty, what should I do with the history of these hundreds of years? My history in China cannot be broken, otherwise there will be endless troubles!"

Liu Bowen raised his voice:

"Furthermore, the north has been ruled by the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties for a long time. Now, is it occupied or recovered by the Ming Dynasty?"

"If the former is counted, will the Mongols, the Jurchens, and even the descendants of the Khitan that may appear in the future, naturally obtain the justice of recovering their homeland?"

"Hiss..." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with a stern expression, which he had ignored before.

Before, he only wanted to rely on his invincible teacher to completely wipe out the cubs like Meng Yuan and Jurchen, so that there would be no future troubles.

But now it has been seven years since Hongwu.Although he didn't say anything, he gradually understood in his heart that the grasslands and deserts are boundless, and the Mongols who have been beaten back to the horseback nation can hardly be completely wiped out...

If these problems are not properly dealt with, if future generations are unscrupulous, the troubles of evil may come back again.

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"Also, will the Han people who have lived in the north for hundreds of years, their imprints, achievements, brilliance, and inheritance for generations, be all denied?"

"If that's the case, won't my compatriots in the north be inferior to those in the south forever?"

"Southern, Northerner." Hearing these two familiar terms, Zhu Yuanzhang fully understood what Liu Bowen meant.

"During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, our Chinese people were forcibly divided into Han people, southerners, or northerners and southerners. Although they were all inferior people, the southerners were still discriminated against by the northerners. This is the artificial division of three Sixty-nine results!"

"We Daming wouldn't do this!" Zhu Yuanzhang said loudly, "We treat people from the south and people from the north equally!"

"Your Majesty's ideal is very beautiful, but the reality is that there is a tendency to do so now. Look at the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and local officials, except for Huaixi people, most of them are southerners. How many northerners are there?"

"There are still some," Zhu Yuanzhang said without confidence, "although not many."

"You are also a surrendered minister of the former Yuan Dynasty. He is trembling, has power but has no power, and has been disrespected by his subordinates." Liu Bowen said in a deep voice:
"So when your Majesty inherits the Song Dynasty, the situation of the northerners will be worsened, and they will have no future. They have been ruled by the Hulu for hundreds of years. Although the scholar-bureaucrats have passed down their poems and books, they still maintain the Han customs. But the common people use the Hulu The surname speaks Hu language, wears Hu clothes and performs Hu salutes, which is already very serious!"

"That's why the top priority of my Ming Dynasty and His Majesty's is to set up guidelines and disciplines, straighten their clothes and hats, sweep away the smell, and abolish the customs! Let the northern Han people go to Hu Fuxia completely as soon as possible, this is the complete 'restoration of China'!"

Liu Ji was still ill, so talking so much had consumed him too much, but he still became more and more excited as he talked, and he cupped his hands and said to Zhu Yuanzhang:
"And to 'go to Hu Fuxia', the first thing to bear the brunt is to win their hearts! Your Majesty relies on people's hearts to win the world, and no one understands the importance of people's hearts better than Your Majesty! So we must treat the northerners preferentially, Your Majesty, and we must not let them chill anymore!"

"Understood." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded involuntarily and said, "To put it bluntly, do we want to be the emperor of half of China, or the emperor of the whole of China?"

"Your Majesty has no faults." Liu Bowen flattered him very rarely.

"Hey, hey..." Zhu Yuanzhang grinned and said: "Actually, we all understand these principles, otherwise we wouldn't have admitted the Yuan Dynasty by pinching our noses, but we just don't want to be reconciled, we hate..."

"Your Majesty, I have a saying that if you receive the filth of the country, you are the ruler of the country; if you receive the country's misfortune, you are the king of the world. It is contrary to what you say." Liu Bowen added a higher level of flattery.

"Oh, I feel much more at ease when you say that..." This made Lao Zhu completely happy, and then he patted Liu Bowen on the shoulder vigorously and said, "You old Liu, how much better you have spoken like this earlier? "

"The old minister also regrets it." Liu Bowen, who was full of desire to survive, simply said three times: "It's not all a bad thing to be far away from your majesty these years. At least the old minister can see more clearly the sageness and difficulty of your majesty. Also I understand that if I leave His Majesty, I, Liu Ji, are nothing."

"Hahaha, hahaha! You can't say that..." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed happily, and the dissatisfaction and resentment towards Liu Bowen disappeared with the laughter...

In fact, the reason why he had such deep resentment towards Liu Bowen before was that he felt that Old Liu was not with him and always had his own little thoughts.

Hu Weiyong took advantage of the emperor's mentality and unnecessarily involved Liu Bowen in the "melon step sinking case", successfully guiding and amplifying Zhu Yuanzhang's resentment towards Liu Bowen.

It made Zhu Yuanzhang feel that Liu Bowen kept saying that he was utterly loyal, but in fact he was harboring evil intentions, and even used his own banner to deceive himself!Only then did Liu Bowen become murderous.

This is very unfavorable to Liu Bowen, because time has passed and his words are unfounded, he has been unable to prove that the melon-step sinking has nothing to do with him.

And Liu Bowen is Liu Bowen, he didn't get entangled in the superficial case, but pointed to the source - told Zhu Yuanzhang that it was right not to obey the Song Dynasty!Let Zhu Yuanzhang understand that his insistence on inheriting the Yuan Dynasty is entirely for the sake of Daming, the people, and him.

In this way, the thorn in the emperor's heart was pulled out.As for the truth of the case itself, it doesn't matter...

ps.Chapter 2, the following chapters have not been checked and named, so it will be slower.Try to post it before two o'clock...

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