Daming: After self-explosive time travel, Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed

Chapter 140 Extending Daming's Life for 200 Years?Why continue to live?

early morning.

The chirping of birds and insects weaves a pleasant wake-up song.

Rubbing his slightly sore arms, Chu Ze woke up from his sleep in a daze.

And every day when I opened my eyes, I saw that several maids had prepared the clothes and toiletries for today's replacement.

In the past half a month, he has almost gotten used to the pedantic life of being served.

Standing up brazenly holding a small white flag, he opened his arms and let the maids toss and roll on him.

"Master, Hu Xiangguo once again ordered someone to send an invitation card."

When Chu Ze came to the living room refreshed, another invitation card was directly placed in front of him.

And the inviter is still Hu Weiyong.

The reason for the invitation is still to marry a concubine.

Seeing the invitation card handed over by the servant, Chu Ze could not help but narrow his eyes slightly.

Sending the invitation card for the first time can be said to be a test, but after only one day, the second invitation card was sent impatiently.

This is no longer a test, but a demonstration!
"Order someone to tell him that I have received the invitation and will go there."

Looking at the invitation on the table, Chu Ze smiled slightly, and asked his servants to answer.

As for himself, he stuffed the invitation on the table into his sleeve.

Then he got up and prepared to go to the palace.

The life of two points and one line is stable, but it does not lose a kind of fun.

Especially the proving ground, with the increase of personnel input and the number of experiments.

Gain something almost every day.

The most intuitive thing is that the prototype of the double-barreled shotgun that Chu Ze wants to make has basically been completed.

And not only that, because of the appearance of the spring, he has even made people try to make a multi-shot French shotgun.

He only needs to tell a principle and how it works, and those craftsmen will follow his train of thought and continue to try and explore.

Although the progress is slow, there are many people and many directions to try.

The wisdom of working people cannot be ignored.

Especially, when they are given a steady stream of materials to make, and as long as they succeed once, they can get a bonus that he can't earn in half a year.

In Chu Ze's testing ground, in addition to various weapons or chemicals, he also organized a large number of experienced farmers to divide a space in the testing ground and let them try to make local chemical fertilizers. Work on composting, fermentation, and more.

Agriculture, technology, military.
As long as Chu Ze could think of it, he would arrange for people to try it, sum up lessons and accumulate experience from failure after failure.

Of course, the slower progress is the formation of those alchemists.

The other group's experiment failed, at most, it was a waste of materials and time.

And on their side, some of them will lose their lives if they fail to do well.

Therefore, the cost of failure here is the highest, and it is also the most short of manpower.

When Chu Ze set off towards the palace under the leadership of a group of followers.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the palace, he saw the smiling Zhu Xi waiting for him at the gate of the palace.

"Mr. Chu Ze, you came just in time. It's not good for me to wait for you here. If you are here, I will let you go directly."

"Oh? Your royal father"

Chu Ze looked at Zhu Xi, who had obviously been waiting here for a long time, and after a little thought, he pondered for a while.

Without thinking too much, he nodded and followed Zhu Xi's pace directly.

But when Chu Ze came to Zhu Yuanzhang, he found that today's old Zhu seemed to be extraordinarily leisurely.

Holding small scissors in hand, he is pruning a row of small landscape trees with concentration.

From time to time, he took a few steps back and tilted his head a lot.

It looks very relaxed and at ease.

"Your Majesty is in great spirits today!"

"If you want to say that we are free, just say so, don't flatter those who have nothing. We have hard ears, and we can't listen to soft words."

Chu Ze looked at Zhu Yuanzhang strolling in the courtyard, and he greeted him very naturally.

However, as soon as he spoke, Zhu Yuanzhang's somewhat deep voice directly confronted him.

Then, after Lao Zhu put down the small scissors in his hand, he turned around and looked at Chu Ze with disgust in his eyes.

"Why, have you learned to be polite? If you want to sit, you can sit down, if you want to drink tea, you can pour it yourself. Don't expect me to serve you."

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he sat down and poured himself a cup of tea.

After Chu Ze heard what he said, he smiled and sat in front of Zhu Yuanzhang unceremoniously.

And he directly reached out and took the teapot in front of him, poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it silently.

"I said, are you really not afraid of death, kid, or do you simply not know how to be in awe? You are so open in front of us. Sometimes we really want to kill you kid. I get angry when I see you of."

Looking at Chu Ze who was really not polite at all, Zhu Yuanzhang put down the cup in his hand helplessly.

But Chu Ze didn't take Lao Zhu's complaints seriously at all.

He just silently put down the teacup in his hand, then stared straight at Zhu Yuanzhang, waiting for his next words.

"Boy, we asked you here today mainly to say thank you to you kid. Over there, Biao'er, you bothered me so much."

Under Chu Ze's gaze, although Zhu Yuanzhang was somewhat reluctant, he finally spoke.

"Some things, we people don't know as much as you do. We also let people try your soap and so on. After washing, the clothes and body really feel very comfortable."

"Although we don't know whether these things you did are useful, at least I have to thank you."

"Biao'er is our hope for the rest of our lives. With him around, our Daming will not collapse too soon."

"Boy, you have worked hard during this time. We have seen all the things you did in secret. Although you definitely have your own selfish intentions, at least you have never done anything to offend our Daming until now. Son."

Regarding these words of Zhu Yuanzhang, Chu Ze just listened to them, and did not make any statement.

As always, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, waiting for his next point.

Chu Ze couldn't believe that he specially called himself here today, he just came to say thank you to himself.

This is not Lao Zhu's style of doing things.

"Why do you keep looking at us like this, kid? Why don't you say something?"

"Uh, Your Majesty, why don't we just talk about it? My proving ground is actually very busy. If there is nothing to do, there is no need to say thank you. Let's do something practical, reward some money or something Nah, or the whole good-looking Persian beauty or something."

"Forget it, you better shut up."

Originally, he thought that it would be embarrassing to talk like this by himself, but he thought that Chu Ze would also talk to him.

As a result, as soon as this guy opened his mouth, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately regretted it.

When he opened his mouth, Zhu Yuanzhang even wanted someone to sew his mouth shut.

"I don't want to play around with you anymore. Now that you have said that the removal of the prime minister system is obviously not feasible, we can think about it now. Since we can't make troubles, we won't make troubles."

"At the beginning, we indulged Hu Weiyong in order to abolish the prime minister system. Now that this matter can no longer be done, he should also move out of this position."

In front of Chu Ze, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't hide anything, and put his original plan directly in front of him.

After all, Chu Ze knew all these things logically.

Sometimes Zhu Yuanzhang didn't like talking with Chu Ze, but he had to admit that he relaxed a lot when talking in front of Chu Ze.

After all, in front of this guy, he basically has no secrets.

"Hu Weiyong is indeed not suitable for sitting in this position. He is very capable and very ambitious. It's a pity that it will be like that after all..."

"However, what does this have to do with me? Don't tell me, Your Majesty, you plan to ask me to take his place!"

After Chu Ze heard Zhu Yuanzhang mentioning Hu Weiyong, he also nodded naturally.

Hu Weiyong is a man who will take revenge, and he can't see the situation clearly.

Thinking that he can compete with Lao Zhu, this should be the stupidest self-evaluation he has ever done in his life.

To put it bluntly, this is because I don't have a clue.

"Let you sit on the position of prime minister? You really think highly of yourself... We have been restricting you now, but you kid is still teaching Biao'er some messy things all day long."

"If we put you in the position of prime minister, wouldn't it be a mess?"

"We asked you to come here to hear if you have any suitable prime minister candidates."

"Of course, except yourself."

...

After hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang did not intend to push himself to the position of prime minister, Chu Ze also heaved a sigh of relief.

This is the only one who has gone to court once, and fell asleep in the court hall.

If he had to do this a few more times, he would be afraid that he would directly suffer from a nervous breakdown.

It's just that when I heard that Zhu Yuanzhang actually wanted him to recommend a suitable prime minister candidate.

Chu Ze frowned and looked at Lao Zhu.

"Your Majesty, are you testing me? I want to see if I will push someone I am more optimistic about, and then form a gang like Hu Weiyong?"

"We are not as narrow-minded as you think. It's just that the previous plan was to get rid of Hu Weiyong directly, and then remove the position of prime minister, so we didn't pay attention to the question of who can succeed."

"And now, we have to think about this matter again. You kid should know a lot about celebrities in later generations, right. You can directly recommend a suitable candidate for us."

...

Let me recommend a suitable prime minister candidate for you?
Where can I go to recommend it to you?

During the Hongwu period, almost everyone who should be famous was slaughtered by you.

After adding Hu Weiyong's incident, there is no longer the position of prime minister.

After that, who else can be famous in the position of prime minister?
Uh... It seems that there is one.

Prime Minister in black, Yao Guangxiao!

However, this guy is from Yongle, so he probably won't come to be Zhu Yuanzhang's prime minister.

"What? Is it difficult to see you like this?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Chu Ze, who had a cloudy expression for a while, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Don't tell us that after Hu Weiyong, our Daming doesn't even have a capable person?"

Thinking of this possibility, Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened even more.

After Chu Ze heard his speculation, he quickly waved his hand

"That's not enough. There are still a lot of great people, but... I don't remember many of them."

"Then tell me, who do you remember!"

After hearing that it wasn't Hu Weiyong, and Daming couldn't even come out as a talent, Zhu Yuanzhang's face looked better.

Facing his question, Chu Ze pondered for a while.

"People who are relatively well-known and good at internal affairs... Yongle has a group of people called San Yang, and these three should be top internal affairs personnel."

"After them, there is Yu Shaobao who turned the tide and extended Daming's life for 200 years."

"After that, it's worthless to say it."

"As for the others, to be honest, I don't know too much. After all, the position of prime minister has been cut off from you, and it will not be so easy for talented people to come out later."

"However, my suggestion is that you should choose your own, Your Majesty. After all, there are only a few people I can remember."

"Uh... Don't think about why you look at me like that?"

Originally, after hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's inquiry, Chu Ze just casually mentioned the people he was familiar with.

However, when he finished speaking, he just looked up and found that Zhu Yuanzhang was staring at him with a very strange expression.

At this time, Chu Ze hadn't realized what was going on.

Facing Zhu Yuanzhang's oppressive gaze, he asked subconsciously.

"Extend Ming's life for 200 years..."

Looking at Chu Ze who was still a little dazed, Zhu Yuanzhang repeated what he just said word by word, part of it.

And when Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned this sentence, Chu Ze suddenly realized that he seemed to have said something that should not be said...

"Haha... Then what, Your Majesty, don't take it seriously, this is just a rumor... What did this come from, uh... If there is nothing wrong, why don't I go first?"

Knowing that he had slipped his tongue, Chu Ze stood up and wanted to run away.

However, as soon as he stood up, he found that Zhu Yuanzhang's hand had touched the scissors beside him without a trace.

"You have two choices now. The first one is to explain clearly to us. What is going on to extend Daming's life for 200 years?"

"Didn't you also say that? Our Great Ming has only been handed down for more than 200 years, and 200 of them were continued by others..."

"We think it's more appropriate for you to explain this matter clearly to us."

"As for the second option, you can continue to pretend to be stupid, and then we can let you go now."

"But..."

While Zhu Yuanzhang was speaking, the scissors in his hand opened and closed unconsciously a few times.

But his eyes looked at Chu Ze's lower back with some malicious intentions.

"We heard that you slept soundly at night. You held the maid in your arms all night, but you just hugged her."

"You said you sleep so deeply, if a thief or something accidentally enters the house, it would be bad!"

While Zhu Yuanzhang was speaking, the scissors in his hand slowly cut off a branch that had been pruned earlier.

Looking at the branch that fell on the ground, Chu Ze somehow felt a chill down his body...

(End of this chapter)