People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 707: What the old man lacks is this kind of human warmth

Seeing how cute his son was and how well he interacted with his mother, Chen Han finally understood how he could make the old man feel better.

After all, the old man now actually always hopes that he can enjoy the happiness of family.

Zhu Yuanzhang was an emperor who attached great importance to family ties.

He has always had the mindset of an old farmer. The old man hopes that his children and grandchildren can always be by his side, that they can achieve good results, and that all of his children can achieve outstanding results.

And now Chen Han just meets all the hopes that the old man had for his children.

Because now Chen Han not only makes the old man very happy to recommend him to others, "Look, this is my grandson-in-law," but the reforms he has brought about have made our Ming Dynasty like this.

Now we have entered a stage of very rapid development. All of you have created so many good things now, in fact, it is all thanks to the system created by my grandson-in-law, which gives you the opportunity to enjoy life like now.

In fact, the old man has always been very proud of Chen Han's achievements. He has always felt that Chen Han is a life-saving Bodhisattva to him and a good way to get rid of the tyrant. Many people have mentioned this to him before.

If you continue to do things in this way, while you are alive now you can certainly use your own authority to suppress all those bad opinions about you, but you will eventually die.

After you pass away, how your descendants will evaluate you may not be what you want to hear. Even if you can't hear it, your descendants can still hear it. How disheartening it is to hear such evaluations from ancestors.

But you have to face these comments, so the old man is actually thinking in his heart how to avoid such an outcome. He actually sees that under his high-pressure rule, many officials appear to be very docile on the surface, but secretly have accumulated a lot of anger and dissatisfaction.

He actually knew these things very well, but as an emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang had no way to change all this with his existing abilities.

Even though the old man was a very great emperor, and even though he was very strong in the ranking of emperors throughout history, there was one thing he still had to be convinced of, and that was Chen Han.

That was what Chen Han had said to him. No matter how powerful you are when you are emperor, you will eventually return to the earth, and at that time all your experiences may be arbitrarily smeared by future generations.

If you want to leave your name in history, historians may write you in a very flattering way in formal history books, but among the people, your image will inevitably be full of negative effects.

So now when Chen Han arrived, it was like a meteor across the dark night sky, giving the old man a ray of light.

Precisely because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang actually always hoped that Chen Han would be able to hang around in front of him more often in the future, because he hoped that Chen Han could bring more changes to him so that he would no longer have to worry about his reputation after his death.

So when his wife Zhu Youwei was talking about what he should do now, Chen Han suddenly remembered this thing, "Oh, when the old man was in the palace, he said he wanted to see this little guy. Now that the little guy is awake and jumping around, let's go to the palace quickly.

"You don't know that the old man has already opened up a field in the back garden and is ready to be a quiet farmer."

When Zhu Youwei heard this, she was quite surprised. You know, she had asked others to say that she was of ordinary origin, but in fact, there was a surprising trajectory that many people had not discovered.

That is, your grandfather had never actually farmed the land, because your grandfather's family did not have their own land, and even your parents were tenants of the landlords, so there was no land of your own for you to farm. So the old man had never really farmed the land in his life.

When the old man grew up a little, a flood occurred. Some of the old family starved to death, some died of disease, and they had to wander around without any land to farm.

There might be some land to farm at Huangjue Temple, but that was just helping out. The ones who were really involved in managing the fields must be the powerful monks in the temple.

So after the old man had stayed in the temple for a few years, he was driven out to beg for food because there was not enough food in the temple.

During this process, the old man must have experienced all kinds of life, so after seeing that the Yuan Dynasty was beyond salvation, he resolutely joined the rebel army and from then on, he was out of control.

In other words, the old man has actually done all kinds of jobs in his life, but he has never been a farmer, which is his original background.

So when Zhu Youwei heard that the old man actually carried a hoe and opened up a vegetable patch in the back garden, she was still very surprised.

"Who gave this idea to the old man?" Zhu Youwei asked. In fact, she had already guessed it.

Because who else but her husband could come up with such an idea? But she saw that her husband actually wanted to show off, so she asked this deliberately.

Chen Han laughed out loud: "Of course it was your husband who came up with this idea."

After laughing, Chen Han said, "In fact, I found that since the old man handed over the power to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, his body has been a little bit exhausted after he has been idle.

“People are like this. They are busy all year round, and when they have some free time, they feel uncomfortable all over.

"This is because after a lifetime of busy work, stopping will cause your body's functions to fall into a disordered state, causing you to get sick quickly."

Zhu Youwei agreed with Chen Han's statement, so she said she had never studied medical books. But she had heard of this statement a lot, and many people were indeed like what her husband said, that is, they were busy all their lives, and when they suddenly had some free time one day, they were sick all over, but when they picked up the hoe to work again, they were well-informed, and lived a carefree life without any problems.

So Zhu Youwei asked, "My husband, since you came from the future hundreds of years later, what will the future say about this?"

Chen Han thought about it: "I am indeed a little careless about medical knowledge. But according to my own guess, it may be related to human blood flow, just like meridians.

"When you keep using your brain, writing, and walking, your meridians and blood are flowing throughout your body, which can not only help you expel impurities produced in your body, but also make your blood circulation more active, thus maintaining physical and mental health.

"But once it stops, it seems like it is. When people stop, they are like dead water. Without fresh water injected into it, the dead water will turn black and stink sooner or later, just like the human body. It will enter a process of hardening.

"That's why, after the old man stopped working, he no longer had to deal with busy, stressful issues, and he no longer had to use his brain to think about problems every day. His body couldn't take it anymore.

"Now I propose this idea. Let the old man pick up his hoe and go to the back garden to plant vegetables and crops. Although it won't give him a sense of accomplishment, once he gets moving, his meridians and blood vessels will circulate again, which is good for his health."

After listening to Chen Han's explanation, Zhu Youwei nodded, thinking it made sense. "Okay, let's go to the palace now and bring our son with us to give grandfather a surprise. Grandfather likes to play with our son very much. It's better for the old man's health to have a child hanging around and playing around."

The two of them took action immediately and came to the palace, just as Chen Han and Zhu Youwei had imagined.

When he heard that Chen Han and Zhu Youwei came with their little son, he was immediately overjoyed.

He has been thinking about one thing these days, which is what his regrets are. In fact, just as Chen Han thought, his regret is that his children and grandchildren cannot be by his side.

Because if his son was by his side, as an emperor, it might cause some speculations from others. After all, these children and grandchildren represent not only themselves, but also a political direction. If any grandson is treated specially by the emperor, then there will probably be a lot of speculators flocking to that grandson.

Because of this, even though Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have great potential in this link, he was actually the biggest caged bird in the world.

Because you have so much power, you dare not say anything to outsiders, because once you say something, it may be infinitely magnified and eventually form the kind of result that you don’t even want to see. This is why those in high positions must be careful in what they say and do, because every word they say may change the course of history.

That is why many people say that emperors are not comfortable at all.

Zhu Yuanzhang always felt that after becoming emperor, he should be a very free person, and no one would be able to perceive him. However, he did not expect that even so, he was like a bird that had lost its freedom and was trapped in the cage of power.

So now, he felt that what Chen Han said to him was actually very reasonable, that is, if you really want to be free, you can only hand over power first, just like now after handing over power to his son, he found that he was a little bit freer.

As long as you hand over your power, other people will no longer keep their eyes on you.

So sometimes, even if he speaks without thinking, it has no impact once his words are spread out, because your rights are no longer there. This is true freedom.

What is true freedom? True freedom is letting go, because once you have it, you will care more about it, and others will also care about it. So whether it is you or others, you will be restrained by others because of caring about rights.

But once you strip away this right, you will be a pure individual when you go out. No matter what you say, it will not affect too many things. Only then can you truly express yourself.

The business is like this now. The old man has been careful in his words and deeds all his life. Qing has never had a good life since he was a child. He was bullied by the monks in the temple. Even if he slowly emerged among the rebels, some people around him have already begun to envy him. As many people say, those in high positions, even if they have not taken any measures.

But there are people who treat you as a competitor for no reason and want to pull you down so they can climb up.

Now, under Chen Han's advice, Zhu Yuanzhang has escaped from the cage of power. When he saw his great-grandson running towards him so cutely, the old man finally showed a rare smile. "?
"Hey, hey, hey, my dear great-grandson, slow down, slow down, and be careful with your step."

The old man is no longer the majestic emperor who could make everyone run around in fear with just a glare, but a real ordinary citizen.

Just like now, even though his son is so young, he is not afraid at all in front of his eldest son, because the old man's aura is gone. After he gave up power, he felt relaxed.

Chen Han and Zhu Youwei saw their son throw the hoe aside, then they ran quickly to their son, squatted down and hugged their son in their arms, and pricked the little guy with their beards, making the little guy giggle. At that moment, they finally felt that the scene in front of them was very heartwarming.

In fact, this is probably what the old man has always been pursuing, but the cage of power has shaped the old man into a serious and cruel emperor.

Only at this moment, when the old man has taken off all his disguises, all his burdens, and all his shackles, can he truly be an ordinary old man, pure and innocent.

Only at this moment can I truly relax, listening to the little guy giggling at the laughter of his great-grandfather and the two of them getting along very harmoniously.

Seeing the rare smile on the old man's face, and the relaxed state of the palace maids and eunuchs beside him after seeing the interaction between the old and the young, Chen Han and Zhu Youwei immediately understood what the old man was missing, which was this warmth...

(End of this chapter)