Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 871
  After having a drink with his eldest nephew, Boss Zhu took advantage of the opportunity to visit a concubine whose name he couldn't name. Still unsatisfied, he walked back to the imperial cabinet and started working.

Reading and replying to posts would make him happier.

But reading some posts will make him angry.

For example, the report he had in his hand from the Guangdong Provincial Envoy said that the former Southern Army annihilated the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan Party in Guangxi. After the Guangxi Dusi interrogated the prisoners, it was learned that the bandit leader Daoyuan and the county magistrate of Panyu, Guangdong were close relatives of the same clan. Frequent private correspondence.

Daoyuan often sent his subordinates to give money to Daotong in exchange for the latter's spying on the movements of the officers and soldiers. Daoyuan was able to escape the pursuit of the army because Daotong informed him in advance!
  After receiving the transfer from the Guangxi Dusi, the Guangdong Procuratorate immediately sent personnel to Guilin for investigation and verification, and confirmed that the confession was true and correct, and that the Taoist fellow had indeed collaborated with the enemy, causing the bandit leader to escape, which was a heinous crime. In addition, a war is imminent, so we should deal with it severely and quickly, so we ask for a clear and canonical punishment to serve as a warning to others!

"What a stupid fellow, you can really stick a green onion in a pig's nose - pretend to be an elephant!" With a bang, Boss Zhu slapped the memorial on the case hard, making his liver hurt with anger.

He was very impressed by the stubborn magistrate who asked to sit and eat. I always thought that this man was an ethical and principled official even if he was incompetent.

Unexpectedly, they were all pretending, and actually took money from the Mongols to inform their fellow tribesmen!

In this way, the fact that he has been holding on to Zhu Liangzu is also a counter-measure of the Mongols. Fortunately, I had the right idea and didn't listen to him, otherwise I would have destroyed the Great Wall!
  Do you still have the nerve to sit down and eat? It's really dangerous and cunning, and it's so treacherous that it seems like it's loyal!

"In the current war, collaboration with the enemy and treason!" Feeling fooled, Zhu Yuanzhang angrily picked up his ink pen and wrote murderously on the memorial:

‘Kill, kill, kill! ’

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  Boss Zhu always acted vigorously and resolutely, so he rushed [-] miles to send Zhu Pi back to Guangzhou that night.

Unexpectedly, the next morning, shortly after going to court, the prince hurried to Wuying Hall.

"Boss, what's so urgent?" Boss Zhu asked strangely.

"Lao Liu," the prince said after catching his breath, "there is a letter from Lao Liu."

"I know you miss him, so there's no need to be in such a hurry, right?" Boss Zhu said jealously: "They've already arrived in Suzhou, why should they write a letter?"

"No, let's not talk about anything else." The prince asked quickly: "Has your father received the memorial from the Marquis of Yongjia or the magistrate of Panyu County?"

"No." Boss Zhu added after he finished speaking: "But last night I received a memorial from the Guangdong Procuratorate, which impeached that fellow."

"Why didn't I see it this morning?" the prince asked.

"Oh, we directly approved the order and sent it to you, so we didn't send it to you." Boss Zhu explained.

"Dad is in trouble again..." the prince said depressedly.

"You don't know how hateful that fellow is. He colluded with the Tatars, leaked intelligence, let the bandit leader go, and framed my general several times!" Boss Zhu said angrily: "The most hateful thing is that he still pretends to be upright. , jealous of evil, trying to cheat us out of the banquet, you really deserve death!"

"So you want to kill him?" the prince asked hurriedly.

"If you don't kill such a treacherous and evil person, can you still celebrate the New Year?!" Zhu Yuanzhang blew his beard and glared.

"Oh, that's wrong, it's not Daotong who deserves to be damned!" the prince said sadly.

"How did you...uh, how did Lao Liu know?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in confusion.

"We will explain it later," the prince urged anxiously: "Hurry up and send people to work hard to catch up with the messenger."

"It's too late." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "The Eight Hundred Miles Expedited set off last night, and now we are four hundred miles away." "Alas..." The prince sighed, looked at his father speechlessly and said: "Is this some kind of emergency military situation? We need to rush it [-] miles away?"

"Aren't we angry?" Boss Zhu said sarcastically.

"Dad, there is no one like you." The prince said helplessly: "How many times have I tried to persuade you, but no matter how much you think you deserve to die, you still have to give people a chance to speak. You can't kill someone just for hearing one side of the story."

"What kind of one-sided statement? There are official documents from the Guangdong Procuratorate and the Guangxi Dusi..." Zhu Yuanzhang said plausibly, but before he finished speaking, he felt guilty and said: "Let's take a look at Lao Liu's letter first. He has just returned to China, what can he know? "

"My Taoist colleagues knew about your temper. When sending a letter to the capital, they also wrote a letter to Lao Liu." The prince handed the letter to Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "Fortunately, Lao Liu returned to China, otherwise there would be no way to save it. "

"..." Zhu Yuanzhang took the letter and took out the letter paper. In addition to the text message from Lao Liu to the prince, he also attached a letter from Dao Tong to Lao Liu.

After Zhu Yuanzhang read them one by one, he fell into deep thought.

Daotong's letter to Lao Liu has been mentioned before, telling Lao Liu that Zhu Liangzu wanted to kill him and why he wanted to kill him. Then he said that he knew that His Highness was still overseas, and that he should be no longer alive when he read the letter, and begged His Highness to clear his grievances.

Lao Liu's letter said that he was more willing to believe in Daotong than Zhu Liangzu himself, but in any case, the right and wrong must be ascertained before making a conclusion. But it is estimated that the old man's temper can be easily taken advantage of by others. Maybe someone has been sent to kill Daotong by now.

So he didn't go back to Beijing and went directly to Guangzhou to save people. He asked his eldest brother to tell his father to make up for what he needed to make up for.

"Lao Liu actually predicted our reaction..." Boss Zhu was very shocked.

"That's not the point." The prince whispered: "The point is that my father might be taken advantage of by Zhu Liangzu."

"Are you saying that he is the commander of the Guangdong capital, and he can command the Guangdong inspection department and the Guangxi capital department?" Zhu Yuanzhang was a little hard to accept. Wouldn't his decentralization of powers and checks and balances become a joke?

"Zhu Liangzu is not an ordinary commander-in-chief," the prince said solemnly: "He is the Marquis of Yongjia, and he is also the general of the Southern Conquest. He has a hundred thousand troops gathered in Guangxi, and the civil and military forces of both provinces must be at his disposal."

"Then he used the power we gave him to fabricate charges to deceive us?" Boss Zhu felt angry and couldn't help but raise his voice and said, "I'll kill him!"

"Here we go again..." The prince couldn't help but pat his forehead and admonished: "It's better to wait until Lao Liu investigates clearly."

"Hmm..." Boss Zhu nodded reluctantly and said in a muffled voice, "I never realized before that this guy is quite kind-hearted. He can travel three thousand miles to save a seventh-grade official who only met him once."

"This is the kind of person Lao Liu is." The prince said firmly.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "Can he make it in time?"

"He also set out yesterday. He rode a horse in order to rush for time, but the father's order was to be rushed eight hundred miles. The sixth man is tired of traveling eight hundred miles a day..." Prince Xin said, and he even carried the weight of two people. , even horses can’t bear it.

"Hey, what's going on?" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed depressedly. If he had finished drinking and going to bed after finishing his errands last night, nothing would have happened.

"Regardless of whether we can save Daotong or not, please tell Lao Liu not to come back in a hurry and to check on Marquis Yongjia carefully." Boss Zhu calmed down and ordered again.

"Father, are you not worried about the war in Yunnan?" the prince asked softly.

"Without Zhang Butcher, we still can't eat pigs with hair on them?" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered. In the field of warfare, he had absolute confidence.

(End of this chapter)