Daming: At the beginning, recognize Zhu Yuanzhang as grandfather!

Chapter 142 The Emperor's Wisdom!
Back in the East Palace, Zhu Xiongying found that the old man was already waiting for him there.

Food and drink are already prepared in the room.

There are so many dishes, Zhu Xiongying was about to speak, but Zhu Yuanzhang beckoned: "Sit!"

Zhu Xiongying sat down as promised, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, just the two of us, can we eat so many dishes?"

Zhu Yuanzhang answered irrelevantly, "Are you tired today?"

"Ah."

Zhu Xiongying nodded.

He has been busy all day today, and his spirit is also in a state of high tension. Now that he relaxes, he feels tired.

"Just be tired!"

Zhu Yuanzhang grinned: "Now you know that being the grandson of the emperor is not easy? Let me tell you, being the emperor is even more tiring!"

"hey-hey!"

Zhu Xiongying scratched his head and smiled, "Grandson is not afraid of being tired!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said meaningfully: "We know, but... you must take care of your health, don't be like your father, who doesn't know how to tell us when he's tired or sick, hey——"

Speaking of the painful past, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Prince Zhu Biao is the pride of Zhu Yuanzhang's life.

Every time Zhu Yuanzhang thinks about it, besides the pain like a thousand arrows piercing his heart, he also has deep self-blame for demanding too much from the prince.

He knew that the prince was capable, but at the same time he hoped that the prince would be as decisive as himself.

Thinking about it now, he dotes on the prince so much, so why not put so much pressure on him?

The prince has been working hard all his life, like walking on thin ice. He has to face his demanding emperor, and his subjects face endless problems. It is difficult, the prince is really difficult!

Even if the prince has done well enough, why didn't he put in [-]% of his effort?
The premature death of the prince is not unrelated to his long-term hard work and silently bearing the huge pressure from all parties, and it can even be said to have a significant relationship.

So after quarreling with Zhu Xiongying a few days ago, Zhu Yuanzhang has been thinking about it.

Did I make the same mistake again?

Even if I don't agree with Dasun's opinion, can I be gentler and teach Dasun patiently? After all, Dasun has been living among the people for many years, and it is already a miracle that Dasun can grow into what he is now.

I'm already this age, why can't I suppress the fire!

Zhu Yuanzhang has been tough all his life, and he has never said anything else. Except for Ma Xiuying, he has never shown his soft side in front of others.

After Queen Ma left, no one dared to contradict him again.

Until his grandson Zhu Xiongying appeared, he unconsciously found the softness in his heart again...

Looking at the lonely old man, Zhu Xiongying couldn't help feeling a pain in his heart, and said softly, "Grandpa, grandson will definitely protect his body, and grandson will always be with grandpa."

"Silly boy!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled calmly, and said: "We are old, and it is estimated that we can accompany you for a few years. In the future, you have to go on your own."

"grandfather……"

Zhu Xiongying was about to speak, but was interrupted by Zhu Yuanzhang raising his hand: "Listen to us."

Zhu Xiongying nodded.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of his wine and continued: "Da Sun, do you know what kind of person you are in our eyes?"

Zhu Xiongying shook his head.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Xiongying with a pair of tiger eyes, and said slowly: "In our eyes... you are a genius, a genius that we have only seen in our life, we have seen too many people in our life, good, bad, wise, Stupid... But, you are the first one to make us feel that our thinking can't keep up with you!"

"We have never seen or heard of many of your ideas and practices. Sometimes we often think that maybe God really took away our bid and sent you back to make up for our old Zhu's family. "

"You may not know what you mean to us."

"When the girl and Biao'er were leaving, we already thought about whether we should go with them. If we still have Daming's country to worry about, maybe we have really left, but since you came back, We started to hope extremely, if we could really live to be a hundred years old, how wonderful it would be!"

The old man chattered a lot, his eyes full of affection.

"grandfather."

Zhu Xiongying yelled softly, tears almost streaming down his face.

Why doesn't he want the old man to live another 100 years?
He wanted to take the old man to see the prosperity in his mind, to see how Daming stood at the pinnacle of the world under his hands, and to see how the people that the old man cared about lived a prosperous life.

But according to the trajectory of history, the old man will die in five years.

He didn't know whether the old man could live a few more years with his arrival. This was something he couldn't control. What he could control was to accelerate the development of Daming.

It will take a few years to push Daming to the top, and even if the old man leaves by then, he will still be able to leave with a smile on his face.

Instead of worrying about Zhu Yunqi when the old man left, as in history, he would not let the princes of all walks of life return to Beijing to mourn.

That is to say, the old man didn't even dare to meet his sons before he died, and he didn't dare to let them see him after he died. All this was because Zhu Yunqi was not capable, and the old man was protecting him until his death.

In this life, Zhu Xiongying will protect the old man.

Then Zhu Xiongying just clenched his fist secretly, and didn't say anything, because actions are always much more powerful than words.

Just thinking about it, I saw Zhu Yuanzhang wiped the corner of his eyes and said with a smile: "It seems that we are really old, and we only like to talk about sad things. Let's not talk about it, let's talk about happy things!"

"The tea-horse trade market you opened in Annan, news came today."

Hearing this, Zhu Xiongying's eyes lit up, and he asked, "How is it?"

"it is good!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang spit out a good word, he added: "Very good! It completely exceeded our expectations. Grandpa was wrong. Grandpa really underestimated the profits of border trade. As you said, our Ming Dynasty's tea, salt and iron And so on, you can really get a lot of silver and food from the surrounding small countries.”

Zhu Xiongying smiled and said, "Grandpa, it's not that you don't understand, but that you don't want to. Is your grandson right?"

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows: "Then do you know why?"

Zhu Xiongying thought for a while: "The grandson is bold, let's try to figure out the holy will."

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "Yes!"

Zhu Xiongying said with a smile: "I guess Grandpa thinks that our Great Ming has a vast land, rich resources and a large population, so we can be self-sufficient, and those foreign and small countries are full of barbarians. My great Ming doesn't need to exchange things from them, and we can also be self-sufficient." Don't bother to exchange things with them, is your grandson right?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Not bad, but only partly right."

"Oh?"

Zhu Xiongying was taken aback for a moment, and said, "I would like to hear the details!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said slowly: "We don't want to open too many tea-horse exchanges. Firstly, we really look down on their things. Second, once the tea-horse exchange is opened, these foreign countries will start to covet my Ming Dynasty and harass me. Thirdly, those merchants will also flock to the border, so the border will easily cause riots."

"So for the small countries in the foreign countries, what we want is their surrender. If all of them open the tea-horse trade market, it will send a message that they are equal to us and can trade on an equal footing. This will invisibly improve their status. "

"In this way, they want to get ahead. If you want to make money from them, they will also want to make money from you. Once they are rich, they will no longer think about submitting to Daming, which will directly affect When it comes to the stability of the border, the imperial court will need to use more manpower and material resources to suppress them, think about it, grandson, will the gains outweigh the losses?"

Hearing this, Zhu Xiongying revealed a thoughtful expression.

The old man is really not simple. This move to suppress the small country of Fanbang is indeed full of emperor's wisdom.

As the old man said, the opening of the tea-horse exchange market will bring great benefits to the small countries of Fanbang, thereby speeding up their domestic development.

Once they develop, it is possible to backlash against the suzerain.

So at this point, Zhu Xiongying had to be on guard. In fact, the best way, later generations have already given the answer.

That is colonization!

(End of this chapter)