Ming Dynasty: The poisonous imperial teacher, Zhu Yuanzhang advised me to be kind

Chapter 81 Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked. Chu Nan used a little trick and Yang Xian's men killed each other?

"Your Majesty? Do you think so?" But Chu Nan laughed when he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

"Your Majesty, you should know that you can't have your cake and eat it too."

"Yang Xian probably wants me dead now. If you think he is a capable minister, please keep him and let me die."

"Huh?" The princes were frightened when they heard this. How could Chu Nan say that?
"Chu Nan, what you said is not nice." Zhu Yuanzhang's face changed when he heard it. Why did he feel that Chu Nan was threatening him?
"Are you threatening me?"

He was a little unhappy. The people in the court were plotting against him. Was Chu Nan going to threaten him too?

"Your Majesty, you misunderstood." But Chu Nan laughed when he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

"I am not threatening you, but helping you. I want to know what you think of Yao Guangxiao's ability."

"Not bad." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. Although he had just met Yao Guangxiao, his ability was indeed very strong, not inferior to Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen.

"Then what about my ability?" Chu Nan asked again.

"You are also very capable." Zhu Yuanzhang did not speak his true feelings because he was afraid that Chu Nan would become proud.

In fact, Chu Nan is more than just powerful. His abilities are unprecedented and extremely terrifying.

"In that case, Your Majesty, what else does you want to do with Yang Xian?" After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Chu Nan bowed.

"Yang Xian is not like Lan Yu, he is replaceable. Since we have Yao Guangxiao and ministers now, what else do we need him for?"

"So please, Your Majesty, get Yang Xian out of Jinling!"

"This is all a matter of your words, so do you want to do it? This is my plan to deal with Yang Xian."

"Ah! Lord Chu!" But after hearing Chu Nan's words, the princes became even more panicked.

"How can you say that? Lord Chu, you can't say that."

Then they pleaded directly with Zhu Yuanzhang: "Father, please don't be angry. Lord Chu didn't mean that."

"I'm not angry." But when Zhu Yuanzhang heard Chu Nan's words, he was not angry at all, but began to think seriously.

Because he felt that what Chu Nan said seemed to make a lot of sense.

Yes.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Yang Xian and Chu Nan are now at loggerheads. Even if he pushes Yao Guangxiao out, it will not work. The estimated result will be Yao Guangxiao's death.

But Yao Guangxiao is also a talented person, and he doesn't want Yao Guangxiao to die, so he must choose between Yang Xian, Chu Nan, and Yao Guangxiao.

And such a choice is very simple. As Chu Nan said, although Yang Xian is very capable, he is not as good as Lan Yu, and his position can be replaced.

At worst, he will lose his position and Yao Guangxiao can take it.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang had long been dissatisfied with Yang Xian, who ignored the corruption of so many of his subordinates. At the same time, he arranged so many people to deal with Chu Nan, which was suspected of forming a clique and stealing secrets, which made him even more dissatisfied.

"Okay!" Then Zhu Yuanzhang made the decision directly.

"Just do as you say. Why do I keep Yang Xian? Just remove him!"

"What?" The princes were all dumbfounded when they heard this.

Yang Xian, an absolutely important figure among the Ming Dynasty's civil officials, who had made so many contributions to the Ming Dynasty, was dismissed just because of a conflict with Chu Nan?
Moreover, in the court, it was obvious that Yang Xian's party had the upper hand. How come they were the ones who failed?
The princes were all shocked. Yang Xian was defeated by Chu Nan?

But Chu Nan was very calm. In fact, he had already expected Zhu Yuanzhang to do this.

The reason is simple. Because Yang Xian is too ambitious and has too many followers, Zhu Yuanzhang has long been dissatisfied with him.

Historically, Yang Xian died in the third year of Hongwu, and now is exactly the third year of Hongwu. Yang Xian certainly did not offend Zhu Yuanzhang all at once and commit a capital crime. It must have happened bit by bit, so Zhu Yuanzhang must be somewhat dissatisfied with Yang Xian now.

So Chu Nan directly put a multiple-choice question in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

That is to choose the dissatisfied Yang Xian, or to choose Chu Nan and Yao Guangxiao who did nothing wrong.

Then everyone would choose the latter, so Yang Xian had already lost when the fight started, which is why Chu Nan has been so calm.

If Yang Xian is defeated, he will never be able to make a comeback, so the threat posed by Yang Xian will no longer exist, and he will only need to focus on dealing with others.

"However." Zhu Yuanzhang frowned again when he looked at Chu Nan.

"Although it only takes one word from me to get Yang Xian out of Nanjing, many people will definitely not accept this. Do you understand?"

"I understand." Chu Nan nodded. The reason he was dissatisfied was very simple.

Chu Nan did not refute the points made by Yang Xian and his party in the court, and then Zhu Yuanzhang asked them to get out of Nanjing. How could he stop the people from talking about it?

As an emperor, sometimes you still have to care about public opinion.

"Yes, what should we do?" The princes also became worried. If they don't obey the ministers, how can they obey the world?

"Your Majesty, there is no need for them to admire you." But after hearing their words, Chu Nan shook his head and smiled.

“All we need to do is make everyone who has spoken up silent.”

"Hmm?" Upon hearing this, all the princes present frowned.

"Master Chu, what do you mean by that? They don't happen..."

"What!" The princes were frightened at once.

"Master Chu, you are not going to kill them all?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was also shocked when he saw it: "Chu Nan, killing them all is too much, isn't it enough to kill a few? After all, most of these people are not corrupt, don't be too cruel."

"What?" Chu Nan was speechless. He didn't even mention murder, but they said murder? And they also said that he, Chu Nan, was poisonous? This is ridiculous. Who was the poisoner?

Then Chu Nan spoke up: "Your Majesty, when I say not to let them speak, I mean not to let them cooperate with Yang Xian in attacking your Majesty's policies, not to kill them all."

"So that's what you mean!" Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless when he heard it.

"You should have said it earlier. I thought you were going to kill them all. After all, you are so cruel."

Chu Nan: "..."

"Then what method are you going to use?" But Zhu Yuanzhang frowned again.

"Chu Nan, it's not easy for you to shut these people up."

"Yes." The princes also became worried.

"These people are all Yang Xian's subordinates. They must obey Yang Xian's orders. How can they listen to you so easily? They are blocked. Will this make them turn against us?"

"Your Majesty, fellow princes, there is no need to rush." ​​But when Chu Nan heard their words, he smiled.

"Your Majesty, you will not forget that you still have the Jinyiwei organization, right? These subordinates of Yang Xian must have been under the surveillance of the Jinyiwei."

"So the Jinyiwei must know everything these people did. Wouldn't it be easy to get their handles and weaknesses?"

"So as long as we can find their weaknesses and threaten them, will they still not obey?"

(End of this chapter)