People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 698 Everyone is mortal! But Chen Han is a little depressed
Seeing her husband suddenly look unhappy, Zhu Youwei knew that he must have encountered something in the palace again, and asked immediately: "What happened? He was fine just now, but suddenly he has such an expression?"

In fact, Chen Han didn't know what to say at this time, but there was always an indescribable feeling in his heart, because he didn't know how to express the complicated emotions at the moment.

Logically speaking, the old man's closest relatives like Zhu Youwei and the Crown Prince would be as sentimental as he is, and would feel that the old man is getting older and a little bit dissatisfied. But for some reason, Zhu Biao and the others seem to be more open-minded.

But I don't know why, I am always in this situation. I don't know how to explain my emotions, and I don't know how to make everyone see it.

In fact, I am not a sentimental person. I just feel a little unhappy when I see an old man who is slowly getting old.

I don't know how to express this feeling. It's like seeing this old man walking around in front of me every day, and then one day I suddenly heard the news that the old man had passed away. In fact, the bad feeling in my heart rushed out all at once.

After all, I always thought that this was just a daily routine, and it was just a feeling that I could see at any time.

Especially when Chen Han recalled the moment when he just opened his eyes and saw an emperor like the old man standing in front of him supporting him, he felt such a strong shock in his heart. It is not something that Zhu Youwei and others who lived in the Ming Dynasty could feel.

Especially for Chen Han, who has been reading history books and is very interested in the history of the Ming Dynasty, when he saw Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang standing in front of him alive, I wonder how many people can feel his emotions.

But Chen Han should feel that what he can feel at this moment is definitely not something that ordinary people can feel.

Even his wife Zhu Youwei, who is as close to him, sometimes cannot sense what he is thinking in his heart. Especially now, even though he has expressed all his emotions, his wife still cannot understand.

It’s not because he and his wife have nothing in common, it’s not because his wife is a woman, and it’s not because his wife is not close enough to him.

It was simply because his wife's perspective was completely different from his own. And because of this difference, whenever he thought of these things, he didn't know what he should do.

After all, after I came to the Ming Dynasty, the biggest support was actually being able to see Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. I could feel that Zhu Yuanzhang as the emperor was always supporting me behind my back, because the founding emperor was supporting me.

However, when he saw that the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was slowly getting old, slowly turning into a shadow, slowly turning into a memory in everyone's hearts, Chen Han felt a little panicked.

You have to know that in ancient times there was no photography technology that could preserve the images of everyone. Even the mobile phone and tablet computer he brought with him had long been scrapped by now.

Therefore, no one could record the image of the old man all at once. Many times, Chen Han wanted to tell the world that the image of the old man was not like the shoe-horn face or the face full of pockmarks as rumored by later generations.

So he doesn't live up to the image of a handsome man as described in the book, who is extraordinary and heroic, but he still has a normal and dignified face.

Originally, these things should be remembered by everyone, and originally, these things should be able to be passed down at any time, because as a hero among the Han emperors, so many people should pay attention to him.

But now Chen Han suddenly found that he was not qualified to think about these things at all. No one would remember the things he was describing. Now everyone thought that Zhu Yuanzhang was a tyrant emperor.

Only after Chen Han came to the Ming Dynasty did he reveal that all of this was a scam. No matter how many people said that Zhu Yuanzhang was a tyrant emperor, in his own mind, he was a very good and majestic emperor, even though he was sometimes very harsh in doing things.

But as an emperor, he has done really well enough. There are already countless people sitting on his throne. It is impossible for them to have arranged as much as he has. There is no way they can work as hard as he has to complete the process of becoming an emperor from a commoner.

It is precisely because of this that he feels particularly painful when he thinks about the fact that he is about to witness the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty die in front of him.

So when Zhu Youwei asked something, Chen Han raised his head and for some reason there were tears in his eyes.

When Zhu Youwei saw tears in her husband's eyes, she panicked. At first she thought her husband might be joking, and that his sudden expression was not right because he thought of something. But now after seeing the tears, she realized that the matter was serious.

Because Chen Han has never been a casual person, everything Chen Han does is very serious. And because of this, no matter what the time, Chen Han always appears to be terrifyingly calm.

But now her husband was so flustered, so something big must have happened. The thought of this made her feel a little helpless. "Husband, don't scare me. Just tell me what happened. I will definitely stand by you and share the burden with you."

In fact, after so many years of marriage, she and her husband have always been able to live in harmony because there are not too many secrets between them. The two of them can influence each other a lot. Even the life of Chen Han in modern times, Zhu Youwei is very clear at this time.

So when she saw her husband suddenly becoming so sentimental, Zhu Youwei knew that something big must have happened.

However, Zhu Youwei was very puzzled. Logically speaking, it was impossible for someone of her husband's level to be very confused about certain things. The power in his hands was so great that it was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Her royal grandfather and her father both supported her husband very much and made him go further and further on the road of reform and change. But why did he show such sentimentality now?

The more Zhu Youwei saw the sentimentality on Chen Han's face, the more she felt a bad premonition in her heart.

Then I heard Chen Han say: “In fact, it’s not something particularly difficult to understand. It’s because I personally suddenly saw the scene of him in the old cage in the old man.

"Suddenly I thought that one day the old man might leave us, and suddenly I thought that one day such a founding emperor might also become a pile of earth. At that moment, I don't know why, I felt like the sky was falling." For some reason, after hearing her husband say this, Zhu Youwei breathed a sigh of relief. She finally realized that her worries were unnecessary. Her husband didn't think it was a big deal at all, but it was because she herself felt that her royal grandfather was slowly getting older.

Zhu Youwei breathed a sigh of relief and at the same time felt a surge of emotion. Just as Chen Han had thought, her royal grandfather was such a great man.

Even Chen Han often said in modern society that his royal grandfather was a very respected emperor in modern times. This emperor was the emperor with the lowest status since ancient times.

Even as the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang's status was already very low, but not as low as that of his royal grandfather.

He paid the down payment of his own money and was able to rule the world as a beggar. What a genius he was. What an unattainable dream he had. What a powerful person he was.

It is precisely because of this that even in modern society more than 600 years later, everyone expresses great admiration when they mention their royal grandfather.

But now, thinking that her royal grandfather was indeed just as her husband had said, and was about to become an old man, she didn't know why she suddenly felt as sad as her husband.

When I think of how my royal grandfather worked so hard to unify the Ming Dynasty, I realize that my royal grandfather worked tirelessly for the cause of the Ming Dynasty. As my royal grandfather and my husband said, he was both a very strict emperor and one of the most diligent emperors in history.

This level of administration basically makes all other emperors pale in comparison.

Only Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty in later generations could be comparable to his royal grandfather, but Emperor Yongzheng only reigned for thirteen years, while his royal grandfather was emperor for thirty-one years. During these thirty-one years, his royal grandfather was so diligent almost every day, so in the end, his royal grandfather was more powerful.

Besides, his royal grandfather was not only good at administration when dealing with state affairs, but he also founded the Ming Dynasty. It is unimaginable that a founding emperor could be so diligent.

And this was not just about diligence, it also directly pushed the Ming Dynasty into a prosperous Hongwu era.

So Zhu Youwei was very emotional and proud when she thought about these things, but she was also very proud when she thought that her royal grandfather would pass away in the near future.

Maybe it was just within the past one or two years that Zhu Youwei couldn't help but feel very sad.

No wonder her husband has been in a very low mood since he came back from the palace, but he still hasn't forgotten to enlighten her and give her advice when she naively wanted to promote the knowledge in the women's college.

Thinking of this etiquette, Zhu Youwei suddenly felt ashamed of her husband. When she was extremely upset, she did not think about comforting her husband directly, but instead brought out some of her own things.

When I thought of this, I suddenly felt that my husband was actually greater, more patient, more unconventional, and more open-minded.

So at this time, Zhu Youwei comforted her husband instead. She reached out and held her husband's hand, and felt that her husband's hand was shaking and even a little cold.

I suddenly felt extremely guilty and heartbroken.

An outsider has such deep feelings for his royal grandfather, but as his granddaughter, he does not have such feelings. For a moment, he felt guilty, distressed, and a little ashamed.

But after thinking about it, she could only comfort him first, "Husband, everyone has to die. Even though the royal grandfather is so great, he is still an ordinary person, he is still an ordinary old man.

"Just like you said, at least my royal grandfather didn't go looking for immortality like those emperors in ancient times.

"At least he was not as obsessed with his own destiny as Qin Shi Huang was. He never pursued the so-called immortality. Isn't this a free and easy behavior as you said?
“It is precisely because of his carefree nature that he lived such a long life. Compared to other emperors, some died in their twenties or thirties, some died of illness in their thirties or forties, and some rarely lived to their fifties. Now, my grandfather is already in his seventies.

"Among emperors, he should be considered unique. Even if he is not the longest-lived, but looking at the emperors over the past thousand years, my grandfather is already very old."

After hearing what Zhu Youwei said, Chen Han shook his head and said, "I don't think the old man is unhappy now, nor do I think that people like the old man should not die.

"I have never thought that anyone is a god who can live for 100 or 200 years. I have never thought about it that way.

“I just suddenly felt that a historical figure existed so vividly in front of me, but I had to watch it slowly disappear.

"I couldn't do the things I should have done, I couldn't make him live longer.

"I originally thought that after the establishment of the cabinet, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and I shared so many of his government affairs, he would be able to live longer. But today I found that I was a little naive. The old man's body is still aging."

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(End of this chapter)