Traveling through the heavens from the prequel of the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 812 I am not the emperor, what does the world have to do with me?

He smiled indifferently:

"It doesn't matter if I want to be the prince or not, I'll just be your son."

Zhu Gaochi pointed at Zhu Zhanji who was kneeling on the ground:

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe me, but you have to believe in this child. He has grown up in front of you since he was a child. You have been teaching him and he has been learning from you. If he breaks, can you really bear it?"

"I heard that you want to see Jianwen and use the child's head as a pledge. This is not okay."

"Dad, you have been willful all your life. If you continue to be so willful, son"

Having said this, he took a step forward, no longer as submissive as before, and knelt down to bow:

"My son is about to rebel against you."

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Upon hearing this, Zhu Zhanji used his knees as his feet and came to Zhu Gaochi's side.

Seeing that his father lowered his head and didn't reply, he raised his head and glanced at his grandfather who had a serious face. He suppressed the panic in his heart and put his forehead against the ground, as if he was waiting for him to fall.

Suddenly, a guard in golden clothes came quickly to report that the King of Han was outside the temple and wanted to see him.

Zhu Di ordered without any emotion:

"Let him in."

Not long after, Zhu Gaoxu rushed in and saw his son standing quietly in the pavilion. His face relaxed, and he immediately slowed down, bowed and saluted:

"father."

Zhu Di sneered:

"Haha, look at the appearance of Prince Han. He just led his troops to surround Jiming Temple and kill me, an old man who was getting in the way."

His eyes wandered back and forth between Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaochi:

"You are like this, and your elder brother is also like this. If our father and son are so suspicious of each other in the future, what's the point of this family?"

Zhu Gaoxu spoke quickly:

"Dad, how could it be? My son suddenly received a message from his mother, saying that you summoned Zhan He to Jiming Temple. I was afraid that Zhan He would be cold-tempered and bump into you, so I rushed over without stopping."

Zhu Di didn't comment and looked at Yang Jiao:

"You just heard what your uncle said. Tell me, what do you think?"

Yang Jiao replied calmly:

"Although the idea of ​​using civil servants to rebel is just to make people laugh, but for the love between family and children, they are willing to risk their lives. This is in line with the consistent style of the Zhu family. They love their wives, fear their father, and love their eldest son and grandson."

Zhu Di asked lightly:

"What? Civil officials don't like you so much?"

Yang Jiaoyun is calm and gentle:

"Whether civil servants are of interest to me depends on whether they are of use to me. But for me, the so-called cultural context of the Ming Dynasty is not as important as the happiness of all the people, and it is not as important as the land underfoot, so I will not hesitate to kill them."

Zhu Di asked:

"Aren't you afraid of being criticized by thousands of people and being called a tyrant by the world?"

Yang Jiao replied calmly:

"People of the world? Civil servants are just a drop in the ocean and cannot represent the world. Tyrant? I am a gentry and civil servants who want to eat their flesh, eat their bones, drink their blood, and sleep on their skin. I think they are right to scold them, but I just like to watch it. It’s very interesting to see how these people hate me and grind my teeth, but they can’t kill me.”

"Your Majesty, please stop testing me. I have never had any thoughts of becoming emperor. If my father hadn't been obsessed with you for half his life, he would have been buried with the entire Han Dynasty in all likelihood. , I will still be an outsider sitting back and watching the ebb and flow.”

Zhu Di asked expressionlessly:

"If you don't need civil servants to govern the world, who do you use?"

Yang Jiao was indifferent:

"I am not the emperor, so what does the world have to do with me."

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he hurriedly said:

"Look at the valley."

Zhu Di was extremely angry and laughed:

"Well, I'm not the emperor, so what does the world have to do with me? Do you want to be the heir apparent?"

When the others heard this, their expressions changed, especially Zhu Gaochi who instantly realized in his heart that most of the changes in his second brother came from his son. "I don't care about power or wealth, nor do I mind becoming a commoner and living in a shabby house. Your Majesty, you'd better go and mess with them, and I won't accompany them."

"After that, you may be demoted, imprisoned, or die. Come to the Han Palace with your instructions. I will be waiting."

After Yang Jiao finished speaking, he took a step forward and wanted to leave openly.

"Zhan He, don't be so presumptuous as to apologize to your grandfather." Zhu Gaoxu pulled Yang Jiao anxiously.

"I still have many younger brothers. Now it's the same with or without me, so don't worry." Yang Jiao used a clever move to deflect Zhu Gaoxu and walked out of the courtyard.

"Dad, Zhanhe has been pampered by me since he was a child, so much so that his temper has been spoiled by me. I hope you will ignore the faults of others." Zhu Gaoxu pleaded hurriedly.

Zhu Di didn't expect his grandson to be so angry. He lifted the table and asked with a stern face:

"Honestly, did everything you did in the past few years come from Zhan He?"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded:

"It's all Zhan He who gives me advice. He really doesn't have the slightest ambition. If it weren't for me, I'm afraid."

Zhu Di said with sarcasm:

"You are really good at hiding. He has such a plan, but you just hold it back. Are you thinking of another Jingnan battle?"

He didn't wait for Zhu Gaoxu to answer, with a stern look on his face:

"As a grandson, give me, a grandfather, a show of strength. Okay, it's really good."

Zhu Di suddenly asked Zhu Gaochi:

"Boss, you are the prince. How do you think we should deal with such a young man who does not know the bounds of heaven and earth and offends the royal authority?"

Zhu Gaochi said without any hesitation, extremely sincerely:

"Zhan He is just a young man. He is such a gifted genius. From now on, he can be taught by his second brother. He should not be dealt with harshly. Just kidding, if I were half as smart as him, I would definitely be more arrogant than him. , arrogant.”

Zhu Di asked again:

"Zhanji, what do you think?"

Zhu Zhanji also discovered it belatedly and immediately spoke:

"My father and I have the same idea. My cousin is so clever and clever that we can hardly match him. I hope grandpa will forgive him for once because of his young age."

After Zhu Di heard this, his face showed no fluctuation and he said lightly:

"Second brother, Zhan He should be only one year younger than Zhan Ji."

Zhu Gaoxu immediately replied:

"Yes."

Zhu Di said quietly:

"Fifteen years old, not too young. Doesn't he care about power, wealth, and becoming a commoner? Okay, as a grandfather, I will follow his wishes. From now on, I will no longer be the prince of the Han Dynasty, but will be a prince in Yingtian Mansion. Ordinary people."

"Dad!" Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaochi shouted in unison.

Zhu Di waved his hand to interrupt:

"Second brother, I heard that Miss Cheng, who rescued me earlier, is planning to marry her recently, so I will give her a two-bedroom house as a wedding gift prepared by my grandfather for my grandson."

He paused slightly:

"Before we get married, we can't treat Miss Cheng badly. Let them get married within three months. The boy and Miss Cheng will move into this house the day after their wedding."

"I would like to see how this boy, who has clothes to stretch out his hands and food to open his mouth, who was born into wealth and has stronger hands than women, and who does not know the sufferings of the world, can rely on himself and support his married wife."

He quickly glanced at the three people present with his cold eyes:

"If I find out that you are helping this kid secretly from now on, I will be imprisoned for the rest of your life."

After that, he left angrily without giving anyone a chance to speak.

"Dad!" Zhu Gaoxu looked at his father's back unwillingly.

"Okay, second brother, dad is angry. No matter how much you plead for mercy, it won't help."

Zhu Gaoxu stood up, completely ungrateful:

"Stop this fake mercy, aren't you very proud of yourself? You feel that I have lost sight of you, so you have brought me back to my original shape."

(End of this chapter)