Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Chapter 614 This Lan Yu is such a bastard! (Subscribe please!!)
three days later.

Inside the Taile Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang was eating the delicious food he had brought from the clan house.

"Biao'er, try this. This is my favorite food!" Zhu Yuanzhang handed a duck head to Zhu Biao. "This duck head is spicy and tasty. When you have nothing to do, eating two of these is a great enjoyment in life!"

"Thank you, father!" Zhu Biao happily took the duck head from Zhu Yuanzhang.

At this moment, no one would think that the father and son in front of them were the emperor and retired emperor of the Ming Dynasty. They would only think that they were just normal father and son.

"You two, father and son, stole Ouyang's food and ate it so happily. If Ouyang knew about it, how would you, the emperor and the retired emperor, have any face left?" Queen Ma looked at the father and son in front of her helplessly.

"Biao'er, you've been coming to Taile Palace quite often recently!" Queen Ma continued, "I see that you're not here to discuss state affairs with your father, but to eat and drink for free!"

"Ahem." Zhu Biao was a little embarrassed, but still reluctant to put down the duck head in his hand.

"Sister, we called Biao'er here. He is the emperor, but he is also our eldest son. We have both already lived a retirement life. What's wrong with our own son coming over often? This is called enjoying the old age!" Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "It's true that these things belong to Ouyang Lun, but we are his father-in-law. What's wrong with eating and drinking from him?!"

"Believe it or not, if we ask him for it, he will have to give it to us obediently. We can just take it directly, which will save him some trouble!"

"." When Empress Ma heard Zhu Yuanzhang's sophistry, she was so angry that she didn't want to talk anymore.

"Mother, I actually think that my brother-in-law Ouyang may have already known about the fact that father took things from the clan house, but he just didn't point it out. If father wants to eat, let's eat with him!" Zhu Biao said quickly.

"Nonsense! We did it so secretly, how would Ouyang Lun know?! Biao'er, don't speak for that guy, let's continue eating!" Zhu Yuanzhang immediately objected!
Queen Ma shook her head and was too lazy to say anything else.

Just at this moment, Ji Gang hurried in, looking a little serious.

"Your Majesty, Lan Yu's army is about to return to the capital. This is the information sent back by Jinyiwei's spies in the army!"

As he spoke, Ji Gang handed over a prepared memorial with both hands.

Hearing Ji Gang's words, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. Zhu Yuanzhang knew Ji Gang very well. It was obviously not right to hand over this secret information at this time. It was very likely that something big had happened in Lan Yu's army!

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression immediately became extremely serious.

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression suddenly changed, which made Zhu Biao and Empress Ma also confused.

"Let's take a look!"

Zhu Yuanzhang took the letter and began to read it, but his expression became more and more uglier.

After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang finished reading the contents of the memorial and his face turned ashen!

boom!
Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more angry the more he thought about it, so he smashed the memorial in his hand directly on the table. This action frightened Ji Gang so much that he knelt down.

Seeing his father Zhu Yuanzhang's expression, Zhu Biao became more and more confused.

"This Lan Yu is such a bastard!"

Zhu Yuanzhang growled.

According to the secret letter from the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Lan Yu not only violated military rules and discipline many times during the war against the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but also forced the army to drink wine, eat meat and hold bonfire parties!

Not only that, Lan Yu actually privately distributed the spoils obtained after the army defeated the Northern Yuan army to the soldiers and tampered with the spoils registration. As for the captured Northern Yuan women, he directly rewarded them to his generals and adopted sons!

These are all violations of military regulations.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Lan Yu had some bad habits, but this time he went too far and did not try to hide it at all!

Treat military regulations and discipline as shit!

This made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry.

"Father, what happened?"

Zhu Biao knew very well that Zhu Yuanzhang's expression must be no simple matter, so he quickly stood up and asked.

"Look for yourself, Biao'er."

Zhu Yuanzhang was still angry and threw the letter in his hand directly to Zhu Biao.

"This"

After reading the contents of the memorial, Zhu Biao's mind was already filled with many tragic scenes and the image of Lan Yu trampling on military rules and discipline!

Lan Yu was Zhu Biao's brother-in-law, and Zhu Biao had quite a bit of affection for him. He was very happy that he could make military achievements this time. However, he never expected that Lan Yu would be so indulgent and trample on military rules and discipline.

It seems that Lan Yu has become quite inflated because of this victory!

"Father, perhaps we need to investigate this matter further. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding!"

Although he was very angry with Lan Yu, Zhu Biao decided to calm down first and wait until the matter was investigated thoroughly before making any further decisions.

"Humph! Is the content of this memorial a misunderstanding?!" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice: "Ji Gang, tell me!"

"Your Majesty, the content of this memorial is absolutely true! If it is not a confirmed fact, the Jinyiwei would never dare to report it carelessly!" Ji Gang said hurriedly.

"Listen! These are extremely true facts, there can be no misunderstanding!" Zhu Yuanzhang spoke in a deep voice, the anger on his face deepened!

"Your Majesty, I think maybe Lan Yu wanted to encourage the army, that's why..." Zhu Biao spoke again.

"Humph! He won the battle, so we naturally have to reward him, but he violated military rules and discipline, so we have to deal with him! If all the generals of the Ming Dynasty were like him, then the army of the Ming Dynasty would be in chaos!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "What is Lan Yu thinking about using the public property of the Ming Dynasty to reward the soldiers in his own name?"

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was still angry, Zhu Biao thought for a moment and said, "Father, I don't think we can deal with Lan Yu right now. If we punish Lan Yu severely at this time, I'm afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers!"

"Biaoer, what you said makes sense." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

The army is now returning victoriously. If General Lan Yu is severely punished at this time, not only will the soldiers be unable to accept it, but even the people of the Ming Dynasty will find it difficult to accept it. By then, someone will boast and say that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was jealous of talented people and that Lan Yu was taken down because his achievements were too great. It will be really difficult to explain then.

"But if we don't deal with Lan Yu, it will only make him more daring!"

"Biao'er, how do you think we should deal with this?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"This..." Zhu Biao was a bit confused. Apart from not dealing with Lan Yu for the time being, he really hadn't thought of how to deal with the other things. "Ji Gang, what about you?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Ji Gang.

"Your Majesty, I don't know." Ji Gang shook his head. He was just a spy chief and solving problems was not his forte.

Moreover, he had followed Zhu Yuanzhang for so long, and he knew very well that Zhu Yuanzhang did not ask him this question because he wanted him to solve it.

"Do not know at all!"

"Isn't Ouyang Lun in the clan house? Go! Call him over to us. After all, he is the Prime Minister of the Cabinet and the son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty. He should be the one to handle this kind of thing!" Zhu Yuanzhang said immediately.

"Yes!"

After the eunuch Wang Zhong agreed, he went to the clan house next door.

Not long after, Ouyang Lun came over reluctantly.

"Your Highness has come to see the Emperor. Your Highness has come to see the Emperor! Why don't you ask me to come?"

Ouyang Lun was also speechless. He was staying well at his clan residence, but Wang Zhong ran in and took him away.

"See for yourself!"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say much and directly threw the letter from the Jinyiwei to Ouyang Lun.

"What is this?"

Ouyang Lun opened the memorial and began to read it, his face lit up with a smile, "Our great General Lan Yu is quite extravagant, and he never eats alone. Whatever he has, he also shares with his generals and adopted sons. No wonder he has so many adopted sons, and these adopted sons are willing to work for him. This is the truth!"

Hearing Ouyang Lun's words, Ouyang Lun's mouth twitched, and he said unhappily: "Ouyang Lun, I called you here not to listen to your ridicule, I want to know how to deal with this matter!?"

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, Zhu Biao immediately spoke up, "Brother-in-law Ouyang, what the emperor meant was that Lan Yu's actions had clearly violated the military regulations and discipline of the Ming Dynasty. According to the law, he must be punished. However, our Ming army has just defeated the Northern Yuan army and made great contributions. If we punish Lan Yu at this time, I'm afraid the generals and the people below will not understand!"

"But if we don't deal with Lan Yu, the Ming army will inevitably lose discipline in the future. If everyone follows Lan Yu's example, then the Ming army will be in chaos!"

Zhu Biao said this specifically to remind Ouyang Lun what he should say, so that what Ouyang Lun said would not make Zhu Yuanzhang even more angry.

After reading the memorial from the Embroidered Uniform Guards and listening to the words of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, Ouyang Lun finally understood the whole situation.

"Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor, regarding the reward or punishment for Lan Yu, this is not something that I, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, can decide. However, since there are military rules and disciplines, then we should deal with it according to them. The officers, officials, and people of the Ming Dynasty are not fools and have the ability to distinguish!"

"Before, I might have worried that someone would take advantage of the situation to spread nonsense and mislead public opinion, but now my Ming Dynasty has a series of official media that cover almost 80% of the people in the Ming Dynasty. As long as the whole incident is clearly laid out, where is Lan Yu's contribution? Where is Lan Yu's fault!"

"Please tell us about these things. Even if the court does not deal with Lan Yu, the civil and military officials and the people will probably take the initiative to ask for it!"

"Will there be any problem?"

As soon as Ouyang Lun said this, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were stunned.

The solution is that simple! ?

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang and his son Zhu Biao both felt that this method was too simple and would not be effective.

But when I thought about it carefully, I suddenly felt that what Ouyang Lun said seemed to make some sense!

And the more you think about it, the more useful it becomes!
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were still thinking about Ouyang Lun's suggestion, Ouyang Lun spoke again, "Speaking of rewards, I have something else to ask!"

"This time, the Ming army went to the grassland and seized a lot of supplies! Although the best part of these supplies were taken away by Lan Yu and his men, there are still a lot of supplies. My suggestion is to take out some of these supplies and distribute them to the merchants and people who supported the Ming army!"

"I have recorded all the contributions made by merchants and civilians to this war. It contains detailed information about each person and can be found at any time!"

"If the Emperor, Your Majesty, agrees, I will arrange it immediately!"

kindness! ?

When Ouyang Lun said this, Empress Ma, Ji Gang, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and others who were present were all stunned.

Distribute the army's spoils to merchants and civilians! ?
What new operation is this? How come I have never heard of it!
Zhu Yuanzhang also had a dazed expression at this moment. Although he had been emperor for more than 20 years and had fought in many battles, big and small, this was the first time he heard of distributing supplies to the people and merchants after winning.

What on earth is Ouyang Lun going to do! ?

Although everyone knew that Ouyang Lun was smart, at this moment, no one at the scene really understood what Ouyang Lun meant.

Even Zhu Biao, who had studied with Ouyang Lun for a long time, was confused at this moment.

"Brother-in-law Ouyang, there are quite a lot of merchants and civilians. If it's just a few people, it's fine. But there are more than tens of millions of people transporting food and supplies to the Ming army! If we really give it to everyone, even if it's just one bag of rice per person, it will be an astronomical figure!!"

"I'm afraid this is not appropriate!"

Facing Zhu Biao's question, Ouyang Lun chose to answer directly: "Your Highness, you are right!"

"But I want to ask, what did the Ming Dynasty rely on to defeat the Northern Yuan army this time?" Ouyang Lun's eyes fell on Emperor Zhu Biao.

"Of course it's the powerful logistical supply! Even Lan Yu said that this was the most affluent war he had ever fought in his life! There was no shortage of supplies or military funds!"

Zhu Biao said straightforwardly.

"That's right!"

"It's the logistics that are strong. It's not all my fault, Ouyang Lun, that we can achieve this. It's all thanks to the merchants and people of Ming Dynasty. They actively prepared, responded, and continuously provided materials. In my opinion, they also deserve great credit!"

"Those who have made contributions should be rewarded. Since you are going to reward Lan Yu's army and the nine princes, why not reward these merchants and common people as well?!"

"As for whether the imperial court will suffer losses, don't think about it at this time."

"Please consider this carefully, Your Majesty."

Ouyang Lun's words once again made Zhu Yuanzhang and his son Zhu Biao stop where they are.

This kid, what he said seems to make sense!
Without the help of Ming Dynasty merchants and people, the Ming army’s plan to attack the Northern Yuan Dynasty might not be realized!
It was precisely because merchants and common people took out all their stocks and sent them to the invading army that other projects of the Ming Dynasty did not collapse due to material shortages, and this is how the war was won!
This may not be the only reason to win, but it is definitely one of the most important reasons!

Zhu Biao looked happy and seemed to have agreed, but Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, as if he had some opinions about Ouyang Lun's suggestion!
It’s not that Zhu Yuanzhang is stingy, it’s mainly because this matter seems simple but is actually extremely complicated!

Zhu Yuanzhang had too many things to consider.
(End of this chapter)