My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 70

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was a workaholic and stipulated that he would attend court meetings every day.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he learned from his father everywhere, and the practice of meeting every day is still preserved.

Today's court meeting was nothing special. Zhu Di mainly discussed with the ministers about moving the capital to Beijing.

As soon as Zhu Di came to the throne, he changed Beiping to Beijing. In the fourth year of Yongle, he began to rebuild Beijing.

All indications indicated that Zhu Di had already made preparations for moving the capital to Beijing, and some ministers knew it well.

But at the court meeting today, the prince Zhu Gaochi suddenly stood up and tried to explain the various disadvantages of moving the capital to Beijing. After being reprimanded by Zhu Di, he still refused to back down.

In the end, Zhu Di was furious, and decreed that Zhu Gaochi's right to participate in politics should be taken away, and he should be imprisoned in the Chunhe Palace for one month, and the government affairs will be temporarily handled by the King of Han!

As soon as this decree came out, it immediately aroused the opposition of all the officials, especially Jin Zhong, Minister of the Ministry of War, who opposed it most fiercely. After all, he was originally a staunch princeling.

But Zhu Di insisted on going his own way this time, no matter who opposed it, it was useless. In the end, even because Jin Zhong objected too fiercely, he was charged with "disrespect in front of the palace" and ordered Jin Yiwei to send Jin Zhong to the imperial prison.

When Jin Zhong was arrested, all the officials were terrified, and no one dared to say anything more.

You must know that Jin Zhong is the long history of the Yan Palace, and Zhu Di is both a monarch and a minister, and also a good friend. Even if he was arrested, who would dare to touch this bad luck?

"Father~! You have finally seen my son's efforts!"

In the Hall of Martial Heroes, Zhu Gaoxu hugged Zhu Di's thigh and wailed loudly. Zhu Di's leg was covered with tears and snot, and Zhu Zhanhe beside him didn't even notice.

"Get up, a dignified prince, what does it look like to cry and cry?"

Zhu Di also disliked him terribly, kicked his son away and said angrily.

Zhu Gaoxu stood up abruptly, wiped his tears with his sleeves, and then laughed through his tears: "What the father taught me is that today, my son is crying with joy, and he will never cry again in the future!"

"Okay, don't you always think I'm partial to your elder brother, this time I'll give you a chance to prove yourself!"

Zhu Di said with a chuckle.

"Father, don't worry, I will definitely not let you down!"

Zhu Gaoxu promised loudly again.

"Don't talk too much, you are temporarily handling official business in Wenhua Palace, if you don't understand anything, you can ask your elder brother."

Seeing his son full of confidence, Zhu Di suddenly softened in his heart, and finally reminded him.

"No, my son will let you know that elder brother is nothing compared to me!"

Zhu Gaoxu once again said confidently.

Zhu Di couldn't listen any longer, and immediately waved his hands and said, "All right, all you have to do is have confidence, go to Wenhua Palace quickly, don't waste time here!"

"My son retire!"

Zhu Gaoxu clasped his fists in both hands, then turned around and took a step, leaving the Hall of Martial Arts in a bold and high-spirited stride.

"Thank you, Grandpa Huang, my grandson will leave!"

Zhu Zhanhe was worried about his stupid father, so he immediately followed after thanking Zhu Di.

In the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji are directing the eunuch to pack things.

"Father, the relocation of the capital was originally decided by the emperor's grandfather a long time ago. Why do you object in front of civil and military officials? Doesn't this make the emperor's grandfather unable to step down?"

Zhu Zhanji complained to Zhu Gaochi while rolling up a calligraphy and painting.

"I also had a brain twitch at the time, and I said whatever I thought of, and everything has already happened, so don't complain!"

Zhu Gaochi put his private seal into the bag, then carefully put it away and replied.

Only Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanhe knew about making Zhu Gaoxu's dream come true, and even Zhu Zhanji was kept in the dark.

"You have a twitch, but my second uncle got a big deal."

Zhu Zhanji still couldn't help saying that although the grandfather of the emperor did not officially abolish his father's position as prince, he took away his father's right to participate in politics, which is equivalent to Zhu Gaochi's prince being in nameless and completely emptied.

On the other hand, Zhu Gaoxu, jumping up and down these years, tried his best to fight for the position, and even sent all the officials of Zhan Shifu to the imperial prison, but he still failed to do so.

As a result, Zhu Gaoxu didn't do anything today, and just won the power of the prince for nothing. It is estimated that the next step is to rectify his name and make him a real prince.

"The second child is willing to pick it up, so I can pick it up. I can also take advantage of this time to rest and recuperate my body."

Zhu Gaochi replied with a smile again.

"Eh? Father, when did you become so generous and not in a hurry?"

Zhu Zhanji finally felt something was wrong. Based on his understanding of his father, the other party should be sighing, or even crying, right?
Zhu Gaochi yelled inwardly, he didn't expect his son to see the flaw, he was about to make up a reason to explain, but suddenly he heard heavy footsteps coming from outside the hall.

Immediately afterwards, the light of the main hall dimmed, and Zhu Gaoxu, who was like a pillar, stepped into the Wenhua Hall.

"Yo, brother hasn't left yet?"

With his hands behind his back, Zhu Gaoxu walked forward with steps that his relatives did not recognize, his face was full of victorious smiles.

After fighting for so many years, Zhu Gaoxu finally got his wish, which made him feel proud when facing Zhu Gaochi.

"Second brother, you came just in time. I stayed here specially to wait for you to come. I need to hand over some unfinished government affairs to you."

Zhu Gaochi said calmly, anyway, it's just a play, with Zhu Gaoxu's mind, he is not afraid that the other party will see the flaws like Zhu Zhanji.

"No, it's just a little government affairs, I can do it myself!"

Unexpectedly, Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and now his self-confidence is almost inflated to the limit.

"Okay, anyway, I have almost dealt with the important things, and you can figure out the rest!"

Zhu Gaochi didn't insist either, and ordered his eunuchs to speed up cleaning up.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu looked around, stretched out his carrot-thick fingers and ordered, "Throw out all the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, as well as the flowers and plants by the window!"

"do not!"

Zhu Gaochi became anxious when he heard the words, and stepped forward two steps to persuade him.

"Second brother, these are all things to cultivate one's sentiments. When you are tired of reviewing memorials, you can enjoy calligraphy and paintings, or trim flowers and plants, and you will quickly recover."

"No, I've grown up so much that I never know what it means to be tired. I can kill all day on the battlefield!"

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand again.

Zhu Zhanhe who was following behind listened to his father bragging, and wished he could find a crack in the ground and get in: Still killing for a whole day?Then shall I give you the title of "Captain Daming"?

"But...but you throw these things out, it doesn't look good if it's empty!"

Zhu Gaochi was sweating anxiously. These calligraphy, paintings, flowers and plants were all his favorite things. He originally thought about leaving for a month, so he didn't plan to take them away, but when Zhu Gaoxu came in, he wanted to throw them all out.

"Who says it's not good-looking, I plan to bring in some collected weapons from home and put them here, so it will be a pleasure to look at!"

Zhu Gaoxu stared, from today onwards, the Wenhua Palace is his, and he can arrange it however he wants.

"correct!"

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly slapped his forehead at this moment, as if thinking of something again, he spoke again.

"I remember that the side halls seem to be full of your torn books, and now people have to move them out quickly. I have a lot of weapons in my collection, and I can't fit them in the main hall!"

"This is called the Wenhua Palace, what's the matter with all your weapons?"

Zhu Gaochi finally said annoyed.

"Our father's place is still called the Hall of Martial Heroes, so there are still a lot of books on display. What if I put some weapons in the Wenhua Hall?"

Zhu Gaoxu said eloquently, Zhu Gaochi really couldn't speak against him for his unreasonable talk.

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Zhu Zhanhe hurried forward to smooth things over and said, "Uncle, Dad, today is a day of great joy..."

"what?"

Zhu Gaochi sounded awkward, he lost power, how could it be a happy day?

"No, slip of the tongue, today is a sad day..."

Zhu Zhanhe hurriedly changed his words, but saw Zhu Gaoxu's stare again, he was so frightened that he hurriedly changed his words again: "Today is a day full of sadness and joy..."

When Zhu Zhanhe said this, he stopped again, feeling that he was almost messed up, no matter what he said, it was wrong!

"Forget it, don't care what day it is, you two don't need to quarrel!"

As Zhu Zhanhe said, he pulled Zhu Gaoxu aside, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Father, you are going to be a prince soon, and you will need to rely on those civil servants to govern the world in the future, so even if you are just acting, you have to be a prince." Let those civil servants know that you can not only govern the army on horseback, but you can also govern the people off the horse!"

"It makes sense!"

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand and scratched his short beard, and then ordered again: "Okay, the things in the palace will be kept for now, at worst, I'll ask people to move less weapons!"

Seeing that his things were finally saved, Zhu Gaochi also heaved a sigh of relief. At this time, he also packed up his things on the table, leaving only a stack of unfinished memorials.

"Second brother, I will leave these to you!"

Zhu Gaochi pointed to the memorial on the table and confessed again.

"Just so much?"

Seeing the dozens of memorials on the table, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but smile contemptuously. How busy he thought being the prince was?

"This is something I didn't finish dealing with yesterday, and today's memorial hasn't been delivered yet!"

Zhu Gaochi smiled coldly when he saw the expression on Zhu Gaoxu's face, and then waved to the outside.

A dozen or so eunuchs came in one file at a time, each holding a thick official document memorial, and then put it on the desk one by one, stuffing the large desk to the brim, Zhu Gaoxu stared straight at it.

　Second more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)