My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 68 Borrow a "Prince" to Play

The Publishing House is located on the edge of the east wall of the Imperial City, not too far from the previously burned Wenyuan Pavilion.

In the past, the printing office was just an inconspicuous small yamen, and almost no one would notice it.

But since grandson Zhu Zhanji took over the printing office and wanted to print the Yongle Canon here, the printing office has attracted the attention of many people, and today Zhu Di came to visit the printing office in person.

"Grandpa, please look, this is movable type. After the typesetter selects the required movable type, he arranges it on this type tray. After fixing it, it can be printed."

Zhu Zhanhe pointed to the movable type in the rotary typesetting tray, and then introduced the work of typesetting workers.

Although this is Zhu Zhanji's territory, Zhu Zhanhe made the copper movable type, so he was also called to explain it to Zhu Di himself.

Even these copper movable types were temporarily lent by Zhu Zhanhe to Zhu Zhanji, because he had made a few more sets of copper movable type before, and planned to store them in the workshop for backup, and now the printing and publishing bureau needed them urgently, so he lent them a set first. Zhou Qi of the Baoquan Bureau is also casting urgently.

Zhu Di was also very interested in this small movable type. He stretched out his hand to hold one and looked it over carefully. Then he nodded and said: "Not bad, not bad. Although this movable type is small, it has a clever mind. I am really amazed!"

"Zhanji, this time we will print [-] copies first. Is there any problem with you?"

Zhu Di turned his head and asked Zhu Zhanji next to him.

Zhu Zhanhe proposed to print [-] copies before, but Zhu Di's ambition is even bigger, so he doubled it directly.

"Grandfather, it's no problem to print two hundred copies, that's the cost..."

Zhu Zhanji was in a bit of a dilemma. Although movable type printing saves labor, paper and ink also cost money. With two hundred Yongle Canon, it is estimated that the price of paper in the capital will increase a lot.

"You don't have to worry about the cost. Everything comes from my internal funds. Anyway, Zheng He is coming back. This amount of money is nothing at all!"

Zhu Di waved his hand very boldly.

Zhu Di had two major sources of income, one was super-issued banknotes, and the other was Zheng He's voyages to the west, which also provided strong financial support for his several northern expeditions.

"If the cost is okay, then of course there is no problem with my grandson!"

Zhu Zhanji immediately assured that for movable type printing, the more you print, the more money you save.

"Okay, you brothers are united, and your benefits can cut through gold. My Yongle Code will definitely be passed down to future generations, and countless people will remember my achievements!"

Zhu Di felt very relieved and praised again.

Then Zhu Di looked at the printing process with great interest, as well as the cutting and binding of books, and finally left the printing office.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't leave, so Zhu Zhanhe sent Zhu Di back to Wuying Hall.

Helping Zhu Di to sit down, Zhu Zhanhe took the tea from the eunuch, and asked the others to retreat, and then personally brought it to him and said courteously: "Grandfather, please drink tea!"

"Zhan He, this movable type printer has made great achievements again, I don't even know what to reward you?"

Zhu Di took the tea, and then said with a headache.

"Grandpa Huang is serious. It's his job to share your worries with grandson. It doesn't matter whether you reward him or not."

Zhu Zhanhe said very modestly.

"That can't be done. If you make mistakes, you must be punished, and if you do meritorious service, you must be rewarded. I rely on these two things to lead my troops, so this time I must reward you heavily, otherwise I will feel bad!"

The more modest Zhu Zhanhe was, the more Zhu Di wanted to reward him, and he even wanted a big reward.

"If you feel sorry, my grandson really wants to ask you something!"

Zhu Zhanhe suddenly smiled embarrassedly.

"You don't want pocket money again, do you?"

Zhu Di felt that the scene in front of him seemed familiar, so he immediately asked with a smile.

"No, my mother returned the money to me, and now I don't need money to spend."

Zhu Zhanhe answered honestly.

"Then just open your mouth. As long as Grandpa Huang doesn't give up the throne to you, I will agree to any other requests!"

Zhu Di was in a particularly comfortable mood, and even joked with his grandson.

"Grandpa Huang was joking, even if you gave me the throne, I wouldn't dare to take it!"

Zhu Zhanhe waved his hands again and again, and continued with a smile as he spoke, "But can you lend the crown prince to my father temporarily?"

Zhu Di sprayed out a sip of tea for more than a foot, and his beard and chest were all wet.

Then Zhu Di raised his head suddenly, looked at Zhu Zhanhe with an incredulous expression and shouted loudly: "What did you say?"

"Grandpa, don't get excited. I'm not asking for the position of crown prince for my father, but borrowing it, just for a month!"

Zhu Zhanhe hastily explained.

"Borrow? Is it something for you to be the crown prince, and you can just borrow it and play for two days?"

Zhu Di's dark face showed faint signs of anger. Even if Zhu Zhanhe made great achievements repeatedly, this request was too nonsense.

"Grandfather, please listen to me first, I did this for my mother, and for the peace of the entire Han Palace..."

"Why, did your mother tell you to say that? Or without the position of crown prince, your Han Palace will have no peace?"

Before Zhu Zhanhe could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Di with a sneer.

"Grandfather, you have misunderstood. You must know my father's thoughts, but my mother does not agree with him. Even a few days ago, because of this matter, the two quarreled in the middle of the night. Up to now, they still ignore each other. .”

Zhu Zhanhe hesitated for a while, then said again.

"After the quarrel between my mother and my father that day, she cried and told me about Jing Nan. She said that her grandma climbed the city wall to supervise the battle. My aunt and other female relatives have prepared poison in advance and are always ready to die, my grandson is very upset to hear that!"

Hearing his grandson mention his dead wife, Zhu Di was also shocked. Of course he knew all these things, which is why he was extra generous to his wife and children, so he always felt that he owed too much to his family.

"What did your mother tell you about this?"

Zhu Di took a deep breath, calmed down his excitement, and then asked.

"I'm telling the truth, Grandpa Huang, don't be angry."

Zhu Zhanhe said with a worried expression.

That night, after chatting with his mother, he thought hard for a long time, and felt that instead of letting Zhu Gaoxu go on messing around like this, it would be better to solve this hidden danger as soon as possible and dispel his obsession with the position of prince, so he came up with the idea of ​​"borrowing the position of prince". idea.

"Say it, I'm not angry!"

Zhu Di said calmly again.

"Yes! My mother said that she has been having nightmares recently, and she is worried... worried that my father will learn from you."

Zhu Zhanhe's heart skipped a beat, he hesitated and told the truth.

It's not that he didn't think of clever ways, or some tactful words, but after much deliberation, he still felt that the truth was more effective. Anyway, he was young and made so many contributions. At worst, he would be scolded or beaten by Zhu Di He also admitted.

"Bang! This unworthy son, he really intends to rebel!"

Zhu Di was really furious when he heard the words, he slapped the table hard, his broom eyebrows almost stood up.

At this time Zhu Zhanhe was also willing to go all out, and immediately leaned forward and said in a low voice: "You are definitely not here with my father, but to put it bluntly, if you are not here, I'm afraid..."

Zhu Zhanhe's words immediately calmed down Zhu Di.

Don't look at him usually picking his nose and eyes at Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhu Di remembers Zhu Gaoxu's previous achievements clearly.

On the battlefield of Jingnan back then, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu were real father-son soldiers. He could doubt anyone, but he would never doubt his own son.

And Zhu Gaoxu never let him down. He personally led the iron cavalry to turn the tide of the battle many times, and saved Zhu Di's life several times.

Without a father, there would be no son, but without Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Di would have died on the battlefield of Jingnan long ago.

Therefore, Zhu Di was extremely tolerant towards Zhu Gaoxu, even though he knew that Zhu Gaoxu had been arrogant and domineering and had done a lot of wrong things these years, but he pretended not to see it.

"Grandfather, my father and uncle are both your own sons. The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. You will feel uncomfortable if you hurt anyone. Instead of hiding this hidden danger and pretending that you can't see it, it's better to take it out and get rid of it." , which is good for everyone."

Zhu Zhanhe spread his hands, and spoke again very calmly.

"Solve it? How to solve it? There is only one crown prince. You can't lend it to your father for two days and then return it, as you said?"

Zhu Di snorted coldly.

Why didn't he want to solve it, but there was really no way, so he could only pretend that he couldn't see it.

"The grandson was on the street the day before yesterday and saw a father with two sons. There was a candy seller on the street, so the father bought a piece of candy for the two sons."

Zhu Zhanhe didn't answer directly, but suddenly told a story.

"The elder son was very satisfied with the candy, but the younger son felt that his own candy was not as sweet as the elder son's, so he clamored for the candy from his elder brother. In the end, the father was so quarreled that he couldn't help it, so he exchanged the candies from the two sons. Changed it, and guess what?"

When Zhu Zhanhe said this, he looked at Zhu Di with a smile.

"Say something!"

Zhu Di was not in the mood to play charades with him.

"Hehe, after the youngest son got his brother's candy, he licked it happily at first, but soon felt that his original candy was sweeter, so he threw away the candy that he had finally snatched back, and sat on the ground wowing cry."

"Your father is not young..."

Zhu Di spoke halfway through, but took it back. Knowing a son is like a father. Thinking about it carefully, Zhu Gaoxu's willful and reckless character is actually no different from that of a child.

"You know my father's character best. He is not suitable for being a prince, but the more you don't give it to him, the more he wants it. Now it has almost become an obsession in his heart. When he really gets it, I'm afraid he is not rare anymore."

Zhu Zhanhe stepped up again.

The reason why Zhu Gaoxu wanted to be the prince lies in the fact that Zhu Di, in order to encourage Zhu Gaoxu, said the words "the son is very sick", which made Zhu Gaoxu mistakenly think that Zhu Di promised him the crown prince, but Zhu Di didn't fulfill it afterwards, which was even more serious The resentment in Zhu Gaoxu's heart.

In history, Zhu Gaoxu's rebellion was like a child's play. First, he established the Five Armies, and then appointed his subordinates as grand masters, governors, and ministers.

But as soon as the imperial army arrived, Zhu Gaoxu, the invincible warrior on the battlefield, surrendered without even fighting, as if he was just for the addiction of being an emperor.

If Zhu Di or Zhu Gaochi were in power at that time, he would have regarded Zhu Gaoxu's rebellion as nonsense, but unfortunately he met Zhu Zhanji and played himself to death.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanhe always believed that what Zhu Gaoxu was fighting for was not the crown prince, but his bad breath.

"That doesn't work either, the prince of a country, is it possible to abolish it if you say it is abolished, and to establish it if you say it?"

Zhu Di shook his head and said, but he could feel that his attitude had relaxed a bit.

"You don't really need to make my father the crown prince, as long as you find uncle's fault, temporarily take away his power as prince, and then leave all the usual government affairs of uncle to my father, with his temperament, if he can sit Stop, grandson write his name upside down!"

Zhu Zhanhe said again with a final vow.

After hearing this, Zhu Di finally showed a pensive look. To be honest, although this plan is absurd, it still makes sense. If the conflict between the two sons is really resolved, he will also be able to save a lot of heart trouble.

"But your uncle is not big-minded. I'm worried that he won't think about taking away his power as the crown prince for no reason."

Zhu Di's attitude finally changed.

"You don't have to worry about this, I'll convince uncle later!"

Zhu Zhanhe patted his chest and assured.

"Okay, if you can convince your uncle, then I'll play around with you for a while!"

Zhu Di finally nodded.

(End of this chapter)