Yongle Emperor's grandson: Zhu Yuanzhang with cheats, Zhu Di went crazy

Chapter 337 Li Shimin cannot resist the temptation
Li Shimin attached great importance to his enthronement ceremony.

Although time was a bit tight, he had prepared everything he needed.

Except for the envoys from various countries who could not arrive due to time constraints, all those in the Tang Dynasty were invited.

Zhu Zhanjun and others were also invited.

"I thought it was going to be a grand ceremony, but it's just average, not as grand as my second uncle's coronation ceremony."

Zhu Qizhen, standing among the crowd watching the ceremony, looked at Li Shimin with a solemn face, took the seal representing his position from his father's gnashing teeth, and muttered something in a low voice.

When the people around heard this, they looked at him suspiciously.

"Cough cough..."

Zhu Zhanjun cleared his cough, and Zhu Zhanji reached out and grabbed Zhu Qizhen's ear.

"Don't talk so much nonsense, just watch."

After sitting on the throne, Li Shimin then appointed a queen and many children. As expected, Li Chengqian became the crown prince.

Then, he conferred titles on meritorious officials, including Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gonghou Jun Ji and others, who were given the titles they deserved.

The atmosphere at the scene was jubilant, but Li Yuan's old ministers had unhappy expressions. Li Jiancheng's ministers were all in grief and had already made temporary preparations.

A new emperor appoints his own ministers. No one knows how the new emperor will settle accounts with the old emperor's ministers.

However, Li Shimin did not touch them, and even invited them to attend the new emperor's banquet in the evening.

The banquet was very lively and did not end until midnight.

The people from Tiance Mansion, who had lost the last game, were unwilling to be outdone and competed with the Daming Group again, but they still ended up in a miserable defeat.

Zhu Houzhao performed exceptionally well today. He not only dealt with Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gonghou and Jun Ji, but also dealt with Li Xiaogong.

After the lively banquet ended and the drunk man was carried away, Li Shimin, dressed in a crown and robes, walked over to Zhu Zhanjun, who was sitting alone at the table, drinking quietly and watching the dance.

"I have ascended the throne, you can tell me everything."

Zhu Zhanjun nodded and said, "Let's find a quiet place and have a few more drinks."

Li Shimin agreed with a smile, and then ordered his personal guards to prepare a table of wine and food in the side hall.

The two walked side by side and entered the side hall.

Li Shimin drove away the servants and the two sat opposite each other.

Li Shimin raised his hand and poured a glass of wine for Zhu Zhanjun. He picked up the glass and said, "Thank you again for your help, brother. Please!"

The two men clinked glasses and after drinking the wine, Li Shimin stopped talking and waited quietly for what Zhu Zhanjun had to say.

He has made many speculations in the past two days, especially the four words Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming, which gave him endless imagination.

These are obviously the names of dynasties, and his Tang Dynasty is ranked first, which means that his Tang Dynasty will be destroyed in the future.

Li Shimin felt uncomfortable when he thought about the destruction of his Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty had just been established not long ago, but it had already been warned of the possibility of its destruction in the future. Everyone would feel uncomfortable.

It's just like a family.

You spend countless money to find a matchmaker to marry a wife, and just as you are preparing to enter the bridal chamber, someone pops up and says that your family will be broken up and you will have no descendants in the future.

No one would be happy about this kind of thing, except that Zhu Zhanjun helped him, otherwise he would have cut this guy who cursed his country's demise into pieces.

After taking a sip of wine, Zhu Zhanjun slowly said, "My country is called Daming, a country that will be a thousand years from now. I am the emperor of Daming."

"The others are my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my brothers and my descendants."

Li Shimin, who was about to put a mouthful of food into his mouth, looked up in surprise.

"How can this be?"

He had seen many ancestors and descendants together, but that was only a few generations. However, based on what he had inquired about in the past few days, these people were not just calling great-grandfather, but also grandfather, grandpa Yun, and great-great-grandfather.

My goodness, with just this group of people, all eighteen generations of ancestors gathered together, this kind of thing is simply impossible.

Zhu Zhanjun did not answer, but looked at Li Shimin with a smile.

Li Shimin was stunned for a long time before he laughed at himself.

"If you can bring them here, it shouldn't be difficult to gather so many people together."

Zhu Zhanjun smiled and nodded, looking at Li Shimin and lowering his voice, he said: "Do you want to live forever? Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to pursue an immortal future?"

Zhu Zhanjun asked three questions, and Li Shimin's body became stiffer with each question. In the end, the chopsticks in his hand fell on the table and he stared at Zhu Zhanjun in a daze.

His breathing was a little rapid and his eyes were full of heat.

Everyone pursues immortality, especially an emperor like him who has ascended to the highest position and controls the world.

From ancient times to the present, how many emperors have pursued the way to immortality, just because they did not want to give up the power in their hands.

Even a wise man like Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu with 3000 boys and girls to search for the object of immortality.

The experience of being an emperor for a day made Li Shimin completely addicted to it. He didn't want to face a situation in the future where he would have to let go even though he didn't want to.

And more importantly, if the Tang Dynasty is going to be destroyed as Zhu Zhanjun said, then he must hold this immortality in his hands.

He didn't want his country, the power that cost him everything, to completely disappear in the long river of history. "What do I need to pay, or what do you want?"

Zhu Zhanjun did not answer, but took out the scroll and placed it in front of Li Shimin.

"Sign your name to it, and you will have everything and understand everything."

Li Shimin did not take the scroll immediately, but stared at Zhu Zhanjun for a long time.

There was doubt, vigilance, and a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

But it only lasted for a moment before he disappeared and stretched out his hand to unfold the scroll.

He wanted to see what tricks this emperor who claimed to be from later generations was playing.

However, as the scroll unfolded, he looked bewildered.

He didn't recognize the words on it. The strange symbols were very complicated, but looking at them made people feel awe and a sense of mystery.

"In this world, if you want to get something, you need to pay something."

"It's like you have become an emperor, respected and worshipped by everyone, but everyone, including your wife, is afraid of you and is no longer as close to you as before."

"The emperor is lonely. No one can gain your trust except yourself."

"The same is true for immortality. It is difficult for an emperor to achieve immortality. If you want to achieve this, you must pay something."

"What is it?" Li Shimin asked in a low voice.

Zhu Zhanjun shook his head and said, "I can't tell you. Only those who sign the contract are qualified to know. If you choose to refuse, we will leave immediately and never come to the Tang Dynasty again. You will also lose the chance to live forever and conquer the world."

"The whole world..."

Li Shimin was moved for a moment, then smiled and said: "My Tang Dynasty controls all nations, is there anything we don't know?"

Zhu Zhanjun seemed to be prepared. He took out a map and handed it to Li Shimin.

"This is the world map we explored. It marks the location of your Tang Dynasty. Of course, it's okay if you don't believe it. It's hard to believe that the world is so big if you don't see it with your own eyes."

Li Shimin slowly unfolded it, and a world map appeared before his eyes.

He saw the location of the Tang Dynasty at a glance. It was so small that it was not even as big as the palm of a hand.

In his mind before, the Tang Dynasty was the Celestial Empire and the center of the world.

If the map in front of him is real, then his Tang Dynasty seems to be like that.

There is vast land to the west, and a separate territory to the south that is larger than his Tang Dynasty.

Located in the southwest, there is a vast land connected to the western continent.

Looking at the entire region, his Tang Dynasty did not seem as big as he had imagined.

Unfortunately, Li Shimin didn't know that the vast territories he saw were still barren, and some people were still eating raw meat and drinking blood. Compared with the rich and civilized Tang Dynasty, it could not be called civilized at all.

"If I choose to join you, can I get your weapons? I mean the weapons you used at the city gate that day."

Putting the map aside, Li Shimin pondered for a moment and asked some questions in his mind.

He understood that in order to get something, you have to give something.

Although he didn't know what he paid for, considering what he got in return, it was definitely not an easy price to pay.

Therefore, he needs to get everything he needs before signing the contract.

"We'll sell it to you at the original price. Whatever price our military buys it for, that's the price you'll pay."

Zhu Zhanjun did not hide anything about this. After all, they were all his own people, so as long as he didn't give them away for free and kept the cost price, it would be fine.

Li Shimin nodded: "We need food. You know, although the court inherited things from the Sui Dynasty, food cannot be kept for long."

Zhu Zhanjun took out three things and put them on the table.

He introduced to Li Shimin: "Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, except for corn, the yield per mu of the first two can reach several thousand kilograms, and corn can reach 1,400 to 1,500 kilograms."

"I have two kinds of seeds. One kind can be planted repeatedly, but it can only last for 3 to 5 generations, and the yield decreases after each generation."

"The other type is one-time, which guarantees high yields on the land, but the seeds cannot be planted again next year and people need to buy them again."

"At present, we in Daming all use the second type, and we are still researching and cultivating newer products of the first type."

"The reason for choosing the second option is not only to control the people in various places, but also to increase overall production and food storage."

"The most important thing is to feed the people first. We can study other things slowly. Anyway, we have plenty of time."

Li Shimin picked up the three things in front of him and looked at them one by one. He asked about their usage and personally asked someone to bring a stove to cook them. After tasting them, he nodded heavily.

The weapons, equipment and food had already met his requirements. If he wanted to gain merit as emperor, these were also what he needed.

Since his throne will not be lost, he only needs to pay some things that will not have much impact on him to get these, and he can also live forever, so why not do it?

As Li Shimin signed his name on the contract, the contract emitted light and turned into two special symbols, which merged into the center of the two people's eyebrows.

As the light faded, Li Shimin's expression flashed with astonishment, and he said with a look of sudden realization: "So that's it!"

(End of this chapter)