Ming Dynasty: A hundred-year-old immortal cultivator, Zhu Yuanzhang’s biological father

"Uncle, can you please come in, uncle?"

"He?"

"It should be pretty good. They are very respectful to Anqing. I just went to see them last month."

"I was so busy with military affairs during this period that I didn't have time to visit them."

Zhu Chong said indifferently.

Suddenly Zhu Chong seemed to think of something.

"Xiongying, has your brother-in-law committed a crime?"

"nothing!"

"I just thought that I could go see them when I came to Chang'an last time, and I was scolded by my father for that."

"I want to take this opportunity to visit my aunt and uncle this time."

"That's it!"

After hearing this, Zhu Chong finally felt relieved.

What he was worried about was not Ouyang Lun, but his own sister, Princess Anqing.

If something happened to Ouyang Lun, Princess Anqing would definitely have a hard time.

"Xiongying, the fourth child..."

As Zhu Chong changed the subject, Zhu Xiongying's smile froze.

"Second Uncle, Fourth Uncle's matter was not my intention."

"I don't want to get into this kind of trouble with him."

Zhu Chong nodded and said, "I understand! He brought this upon himself."

"But he is still my brother after all. Seeing him like this, I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable."

"Uncle, are you blaming me?"

Zhu Chong shook his head.

"no!"

"It's not your fault!"

"It is a great blessing that you can leave him a son."

"If you want to blame someone, blame him!"

"You are a good prince, but you have to have such inappropriate thoughts."

Zhu Chong sighed deeply.

"In fact, as long as he sincerely repents, I can ask Grandpa Emperor to release him from confinement."

"But forget about the title!"

"Whether or not the confinement can be lifted depends entirely on him."

"Are you really willing to forgive him?"

Zhu Chong looked at Zhu Xiongying in surprise.

"willing!"

"We are uncle and nephew after all, but just be ordinary people!"

Zhu Xiongying knew very well that as a prince, it was normal for him to have ideas about the throne.

Especially those who have some ability, but ideas are just ideas and cannot be put into action.

Once you take action, the nature of the situation changes!
I can only keep my thoughts in my heart!
"Xiongying, you have such a broad mind. Second uncle admires you."

"Uncle, you are too kind!"

"Uncle! How about you accompany me to visit my aunt?"

"Haven't you been there for a while anyway?"

"It's okay, but what about you?"

"Oh! No hurry!"

"Let's go!"

"Now?"

"Are you so anxious?"

"Hasn't it been a long time since I last saw my aunt?"

"Go meet him!"

"Let's go!"

As he said this, he pulled Zhu Chong out of the palace and went straight to the prince consort's residence.

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Prince Consort’s Mansion!
Ouyang Lun brought Princess Anqing out to greet Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Chong.

"Your Highness Ouyang Lun pays respect to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin."

"Anqing greets His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin!"

"Aunt, uncle, no need to be polite!"

"How can an elder bow to a younger person?"

"Etiquette and laws cannot be abolished!"

Ouyang Lun smiled.

"Go in and talk!"

"This is not the place to talk!"

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In the Prince Consort's Mansion!

"Xiongying, pay your respects to your aunt and uncle!"

Zhu Xiongying bowed to the two of them.

"No gifts, no gifts!"

"Why are you so polite, kid?"

"Come here and let aunt see it!"

Princess Anqing pulled Zhu Xiongying over.

"Yeah! He's grown a lot taller and stronger."

"Okay!"

Princess Anqing looked at Zhu Xiongying with eyes full of love.

"Xiong Ying, are your father, the Queen Mother, and your father all right?"

"all good!"

"I can eat and sleep!"

"That's fine, that's fine!"

Princess Anqing nodded.

"By the way! When did you come?"

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"And last time you came, you didn't even come to see my aunt. You are such a heartless brat. I loved you in vain."

Zhu Xiongying smiled embarrassedly: "Aunt! Weren't you busy last time?"

"Did not have time!"

"I don't believe it! Ask your uncle!"

"Second brother, huh?"

Princess Anqing looked at Zhu Chong.

"Uh……"

"Yes! The last time he came was for the new policy, so he was quite busy."

"OK then!"

"I'll let you go this time, but if it happens again, hmph..."

"Don't dare!"

"Aunt, I won't dare to do that again!"

Zhu Xiongying begged for mercy again and again.

Ouyang Lun and Zhu Chong were laughing secretly on the side.

"Okay! I won't mess with you anymore!"

"This time when you come, your aunt will cook for you a table full of delicious food."

"Hmm? Auntie, can you cook?"

"You underestimated me, your aunt, didn't you?"

"I learned it from my mother!"

"Let's talk!"

Saying that! He stood up and left.

"Xiong Ying, you still have the face."

"I've been here so many times, but this girl Anqing has never cooked a meal for me."

Zhu Chong on the side complained.

"Your Highness, Prince Qin, I have never eaten the food cooked by the princess."

Ouyang Lun on the side said helplessly.

"no way!"

"Who told me that my aunt loves me so much?"

Zhu Xiongying spread his hands, looking very Versailles.

"You kid..."

"Just be proud of it!"

Zhu Chong laughed and scolded.

"Uncle, how are you doing lately?"

"Thanks to your majesty's blessing, we are living well."

"My aunt didn't bully you, did she?"

Ouyang Lun smiled when he heard this: "Her Royal Highness the Princess is very kind, how could she possibly bully me?"

"Don't worry, Your Highness."

"That's good!"

"Then you didn't bully my aunt?"

Ouyang Lun was stunned.

"Your Highness, you are joking. Even if I were given ten times the courage, I would not dare to bully the princess!"

"is it?"

"It's natural!"

Ouyang Lun smiled.

"There is a Qingchang Garden thirty miles east of the city. Does your uncle know about it?"

Hearing this, Ouyang Lun was slightly stunned, and a strange look flashed in his eyes.

"This minister does not know!"

"Really?"

"Uncle, do you know?"

"I don't know this either."

"what happened?"

Zhu Chong looked at Zhu Xiongying in confusion.

"nothing!"

"Uncle, do you know Xie Zhiming?"

"Xie Zhiming?"

"Who is this?"

Ouyang Lun looked at Zhu Xiongying with confusion.

Zhu Xiongying smiled and said, "It seems that my uncle doesn't know him!"

"Then I'll tell you about someone you must know!"

"Zhou Bao!"

"Uncle, do you know this man?" Upon hearing this, a hint of blame flashed in Ouyang Lun's eyes.

His eyes were a little evasive.

"That's my housekeeper. How come Your Highness knows him?"

"We didn't know each other at first, but we got to know each other after we went to Jiangxia."

"Jiang Xia?"

"Why would His Highness go to Jiangxia?"

Ouyang Lun asked doubtfully.

He was a little nervous at this moment, because Zhou Bao was in Jiangxia.

"I was ordered by Grandfather Emperor to investigate a family extermination case and give me a big surprise."

"Uh……"

"What surprise?"

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Ouyang Lun looked a little abnormal.

Zhu Chong, who was standing by, looked at the two of them and felt that something was wrong with them.

"It was something that left me dumbfounded. I was young and didn't understand some things."

"So I want to ask my uncle for advice."

Ouyang Lun smiled awkwardly and said, "Your Highness, you are too polite."

"You are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The only ones who are qualified to answer your questions are His Majesty and the Crown Prince."

"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do!"

"No no no!"

"This person must be my uncle."

Ouyang Lun was stunned. He was now certain that Zhu Xiongying must know something.

"Your Highness, I don't understand what you mean by that."

"don't know?"

"It doesn't matter. I'll let you meet someone and you'll understand instantly."

"Bring it up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Bao was brought up by the bad guys.

"Do you know this person?"

"Isn't this your housekeeper?"

Zhu Chong on the side looked at Ouyang Lun and said.

Ouyang Lun glanced at Zhou Bao and said coldly: "Asshole, did you offend His Highness?"

"My Lord, I..."

"Asshole, what did I tell you normally?"

"I want you to be more restrained. Don't think that you can be so arrogant just because you are the steward of the Prince Consort's Mansion."

"Why don't you apologize to His Highness?"

Zhou Bao kowtowed quickly and kept saying that he was wrong.

"Your Highness, he already knows he was wrong."

"You are so generous, please forgive him this time. Don't worry, I will teach him a lesson in the future."

Zhu Xiongying glanced at Ouyang Lun.

"Uncle, he has offended me."

"It also bumped into me, but these are minor things."

"I'm not that petty, but what he did was very, very petty!"

Hearing this, Ouyang Lun was slightly stunned, and Zhou Bao beside him trembled.

Zhu Chong on the side looked at the scene in confusion.

"What the hell did you do behind my back, you bastard?"

"Say!"

Ouyang Lun grabbed Zhou Bao by the collar and scolded him.

"Prince Consort, I...I..."

At this moment, Zhou Bao felt like a thousand horses were galloping through his heart. All those fucking things you did were at your order.

But now I'm doing it behind your back?
damn thing!
It's really like crossing a river and destroying the bridge!
"Uncle, calm down!"

"Come on, come on..."

"Sit down first!"

Zhu Xiongying immediately pulled Ouyang Lun to sit down.

"Zhou Bao, tell me!"

"Say again what you said in Jiangxia."

"I……"

"Say it!"

"Otherwise I will kill you!"

Zhu Chong on the side scolded.

Although Zhu Chong had reformed his ways, his influence remained and everyone in Chang'an knew Zhu Chong's name.

"me……"

"Where should I begin?"

"It starts with your smuggling!"

Then Zhou Bao began to talk incessantly.

He told out everything he knew.

Zhu Chong, who was standing by, was shocked and stared at Ouyang Lun.

"What nonsense!"

"Your Highnesses, please do not believe what he says."

"I didn't do it. He must have done those things under my name."

Ouyang Lun, who was standing next to him, immediately became furious and started cursing at Zhou Bao.

"Zhou Bao, my uncle doesn't recognize me!"

"How do you explain this?"

What Zhu Xiongying meant was that if you can't prove it, then you have to bear the consequences yourself!
Hearing this, Zhou Bao also became angry.

Thinking about all the shady things I have done for Ouyang Lun over the years, my head is hanging by a thread.

Now he has turned against me and blamed everything on himself.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became.

"Ouyang Lun, since you want to cross the river and destroy the bridge, don't blame me."

"Your Highness, there is an account book in his study, which records the data of every transaction."

"There is also data on how the spoils were divided. I remember exactly who got them."

"It's for the day when the truth comes out, so that I can catch those people and make them plead for me."

"you……"

"Zhou Bao, you bastard!"

Ouyang Lun was immediately furious.

"Tian Kuixing!"

"understand!"

Yuan Tiangang waved his hand, and several bad guys immediately walked towards the study.

"Your Highness! And that Qingchang Garden belongs to him."

"She is his secret concubine. He was afraid that Her Royal Highness the Princess would find out, so he settled her outside the city."

"There are more than a dozen of them in there!"

"what?"

When Zhu Chong, who was standing by, heard this, he immediately became angry.

"Ouyang Lun, you are so brave!"

As he said that, he stood up, pulled out the bad guy's knife, and wanted to kill Ouyang Lun on the spot.

Although Zhu Chong was not a good person, he loved his sister very much.

Now that Ouyang Lun actually did such a thing, how could he not be angry.

If Zhu Xiongying hadn't stopped him, Ouyang Lun would have been killed by Zhu Chong's knife.

"Uncle, calm down!"

"He will be handed over to Grandpa Huang for disposal."

"If you kill him now, it will be hard to explain."

"Humph!"

Zhu Chong snorted coldly and stared at Ouyang Lun.

Ouyang Lun didn't dare to look at Zhu Chong, for fear that Zhu Chong would suddenly rush over and kill him with a knife.

"Uncle, now you still don't plead guilty?"

Ouyang Lun frowned at this moment, and his mood instantly fell to the bottom.

"me……"

Just as he was hesitating, the bad guy brought the account book.

"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it."

"With this account book, I can also find all those people."

Ouyang Lun looked at the account book in Zhu Xiongying's hand, feeling disheartened.

"I said! I said!"

"Can you tell me directly who is involved?"

"Lan Rong, the adopted son of Lan Yu, the Prince of Jin, the Prince of Qi, the Prince of Dai, and the Marquis of Yongchang..."

As Ouyang Lun read out the names one by one, Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Chong were dumbfounded.

The identities of these people were more noble than each other, and almost half of the officials in the court were involved.

Of that half, half were nobles from Huaixi.

"The third, seventh, and thirteenth brothers are all involved."

Zhu Chong said with a serious expression.

Zhu Xiongying flipped through the account book and found that the people in it were exactly the same as what Ouyang Lun had described.

Even the generals guarding Datong received benefits.

What a terrible thing this is.

A shocking case.

It includes most of the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

"Ouyang Lun, you are amazing!"

"You have dragged half of the Ming Dynasty officials into this."

"You are very good!"

Zhu Chong on the side said viciously.

"Uncle, I'm curious!"

"Before you said the salary was too low, and you had reasons to complain about corruption, but now the court is implementing a new policy."

"This is your testing area, why are you still smuggling?"

“And there are so many smuggled goods.”

Ouyang Lun sighed deeply.

"Having said that, the new policy has only been implemented in recent years. We had already done it before the new policy came out."

"This huge profit makes us unable to stop. We are reluctant to stop."

Zhu Xiongying looked at Ouyang Lun and shook his head.

How do you say that?

When the profit reaches 100%, they will take risks. If there is 300% profit, they will dare to trample on all human laws. If there is % profit, they will dare to commit any crime, and they are not even afraid of the risk of being hanged.

This is the greed of human nature!

Human desires will never be satisfied, and people will only want more. (End of this chapter)