Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 164 Grandfather, Great-grandfather, Great-grandfather, Mixed Fight

The Fengtian Hall is tall and wide.

Through special design, speaking from above is not only loud but also echoes.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting high up, with two emperors sitting on both sides.

Zhu Yunfeng, Xiao Zhu Di and Ji He stood on the left and right.

When the time was almost up, Zhu Yunfeng put on a backpack and took out a headset from the bag and put it on Zhu Yuanzhang.

Then he took out a small speaker from his bag and placed it in front of his feet, aiming it at the ministers below.

This is a wireless Bluetooth speaker with amplification function, and the effect is very good.

"I was born a commoner, rising from the grass, but I was able to eradicate the Hu Yuan, pacify the heroes, and establish this foundation."

Zhu Yuanzhang spoke calmly, and his voice quickly spread to the entire Fengtian Hall and could be heard dozens of meters away, shocking the ministers below.

"After I passed away, I had the opportunity to ascend to heaven. I thought I could bring peace to my descendants, so I broke through the long river of time and came to the mortal world. Unexpectedly, what I saw was my brothers and relatives killing each other."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "I was away for four years during the Jianwen reign, and I saw my fourth son Di raising an army to usurp the throne. I was away for twenty-two years during the Yongle reign, and I saw the Crown Prince Gao Chi and his grandson Gao Xu fighting each other. I was away for nine years during the Xuande reign, and I saw my nephew roasting his uncle to death."

When he said this, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji both lowered their heads guiltily.

But then Zhu Yuanzhang was heard saying, "However, the crown prince Yunwen and Sun Gaoxu deserved their punishment after all. Moreover, Yunwen did not surrender even when the enemy was at the gates of the city. Gaoxu did not yield either. He even tripped Zhanji with his legs while carrying a jar weighing hundreds of pounds. He died a tragic death. When I heard this, I could only sigh that it was fate."

"But today, I have seen the most shameless and shameless people among my descendants."

"He favored eunuchs, causing chaos in the government. The Tumu Incident killed the best of our Ming army. He was captured in Xuanfu, and he ordered the garrison commander to sell out the country. He was incompetent and yet he had the nerve to restore the monarchy."

"Zhu Qizhen!"

Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed his anger and shouted: "Look up and look at me!"

Zhu Qizhen trembled all over and dared not look up.

But the guard pulled his head up.

At this time, his face was covered with snot and tears, and he looked very embarrassed, which made some officials unable to bear the sight of him.

However, there must be something hateful about pitiful people.

It is not his fault that he is incompetent, but it is his problem that he still has to operate despite being incompetent.

"Grandpa Grandpa"

Zhu Qizhen knew that the situation was hopeless and could only shed tears and say: "My grandson knows that I was wrong, my grandson knows that I was wrong."

"You still know it's wrong?"

Zhu Zhanji could no longer suppress his anger, so he stepped down from the stage and slapped him hard again, angrily saying, "How many elite troops did I leave behind when I left? You just defeated them all like this?"

Zhu Qizhen hurriedly said, "That was all Wang Zhen's fault. They were the ones who instigated the child. Father, it has nothing to do with the child. It's all their fault."

Zhu Zhanji was so angry that his teeth itched. He kicked him hard and said, "That's because you are stupid and ignorant."

"I raised an army to quell the rebellion, and then I fought against the Mongols in the north. I fought for many years and wiped out many Tatars. But you made me lose face in the battle of Tumuyi. Do you know that?"

Zhu Di was also angry. He stepped down from the stage, put his hands on his waist, leaned over and said to Zhu Qizhen: "Do you know that the war destroyed our Ming Dynasty for decades, the accumulation of four or five generations. Do you know what you have done?"

"Grandpa Taizong."

Zhu Qizhen cried and wailed, "My grandson was captured and suffered a lot. I know I was wrong and I have repented. I hope Grandpa Taizong will forgive me."

"Repent? What have you repented for, you evil creature? Outside the Xuanfu Gate, you asked the soldiers guarding the city to open the gate and sell out the country! Yu Qian defended the capital, he was a meritorious official of the Ming Dynasty, and yet you want to put him in jail?"

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and thought about the restoration of Zhu Qizhen, including the establishment of a temple for the Oirat Mongols. He felt his head buzzing, his blood pressure rising, and his anger level reaching its peak.

Zhu Yunfeng took out an electric baton from his bag and said, "Grandpa, electric baton!"

Zhu Yuanzhang walked down with an electric baton.

As Little Zhu Di followed behind them, he whispered to Zhu Yunfeng curiously, "Why does your bag look like a small warehouse?"

"Are you stupid? Why don't you find something?"

Seeing Zhu Yunfeng so clever, Ji He quickly looked around and saw the golden hammer in the hand of the guard next to him. He walked over and snatched it away, then approached Zhu Di and said, "Emperor Yongle, hammer!"

"I"

Zhu Di took it, but when he looked at it in his hand, he was a little confused.

I wanted to teach my descendants a lesson, but I didn't want his life. This is a bit too much.

You should know that the golden melon hammer is not the kind of hammer as big as a head as shown in TV dramas. It is actually the size of a fist and weighs about five or six pounds.

It doesn't look big or heavy, but if you swing it hard, one hit from it can make a person's head burst.

Zhu Yunfeng rolled his eyes at Ji He and said, "How much do you hate Bao Zong?"

As he spoke, he took out a clothes hanger from his bag and handed the Seven Wolves belts to Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji respectively.

This was his experience as a child when he was played in mixed doubles.

As a poor student, it was common for me to get the lowest scores in exams, and naturally I also skipped classes to surf the Internet.

Every time something happened, my mother would beat me with a clothes hanger.

His father Zhu Changqing actually doesn't hit people very often.

But during the few years when he went to his dad's house during the holidays, Zhu Yunfeng's mother would beat him with a clothes hanger because of poor grades or other troubles.

Dad was watching from the side.

As a result, his mother got angry and instigated his father to beat him up together.

Because of Mom's concern, Dad had no choice but to take action.

As a result, Zhu Yunfeng had several experiences of being hit by a clothes hanger and a belt.

I am in tears just thinking about it.

"Let's start the fight."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to say any more nonsense and poked Zhu Qizhen's waist with an electric baton, causing him to scream in pain.

The power of this electric baton is not very high, it is similar to the stun gun in a lighter, and it cannot kill people.

But it hurts.

Zhu Qizhen's tears, which he had just held back, began to fall again, his nose ran wildly, and he shouted, "Grandpa Taizu, please forgive me, please forgive me."

"Bastard thing."

Zhu Zhanji picked up a clothes hanger, hit him on the leg, and angrily said: "You didn't even recognize your father before, I will beat you to death, you unfilial son!"

Zhu Di also swung a whip at his back and said angrily: "I will beat you to death, you beast, for destroying the foundation I have worked so hard to build. I have never allowed a Tatar to approach Peking, and you have set a precedent for me."

"Ahhhhh. Spare me, spare me."

Zhu Qizhen struggled desperately, like a pig at New Year's Eve, but was held down by several big men and was brutally beaten by his father, his great-grandfather and his great-great-grandfather.

They kicked me, beat me with belts and clothes hangers, and poked me with electric batons.

Except for Zhu Gaochi who was kind by nature, had never hit anyone and did not want to beat him, the three emperors forced him to beat them.

This is still Zhu Yunfeng being merciful.

There's still pepper spray in my pocket.

Otherwise, if the chili water was used, Zhu Qizhen would be killed on the spot.

All the civil and military officials on the scene were trembling with fear, especially the party that wanted to seize the door. When they saw this brutal scene, they felt their eyes go dark and thought to themselves that something was wrong.

But no one spoke up to defend Zhu Qizhen or stop Zhu Yuanzhang and his men from beating him.

In just a moment, the scene looked like a scene from northern Myanmar.

Zhu Qizhen's body was covered in bruises and red and blue belt and clothes hanger marks. Tears, snot and saliva were flying everywhere. His hair was disheveled and some parts of his body were broken and bleeding.

She lay on the ground, tired of crying, with only whimpering sounds left, looking extremely embarrassed.

Logically speaking, beating an emperor like this would be a trampling and humiliation of imperial power, and would inevitably lead to a decline in the emperor's authority.

But if the people who beat this emperor were three other emperors, who were also his father, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, that would be a different matter.

This is the enforcement of family rules and has nothing to do with the court.

This will not only not cause the emperor's authority to decline, but will even make his authority increase infinitely.

After all, the ministers have begun to believe that there are gods above their heads. If they don't do a good job, Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizong, Emperor Renzong and the late emperor are all watching.

"Whirring whirring!"

After beating for more than ten minutes, Zhu Zhanji could not bear it anymore. He was weak and almost died. He went to the hospital to save his life. Now he was exercising vigorously and was out of breath. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "How could I give birth to such an evil creature like you?" At this moment, someone shouted at the gate, "The Queen Mother is here."

Then a woman in her fifties appeared outside the hall.

All the ministers were still kneeling on the ground.

Zhu Zhanji looked over and was slightly startled.

When the woman outside the door saw Zhu Zhanji, she also stood there in a daze, her mouth open, in disbelief.

"Are you Sun?"

Da Zhu Di frowned and asked.

Empress Dowager Sun finally came to her senses and could not help but say, "Your Majesty Taizong."

She entered the palace in the eighth year of Yongle, when she was only ten years old, so she naturally met Zhu Di.

"I heard that you agreed to Zhu Qizhen's restoration. Now that you are here, let's kneel together."

Zhu Di pointed at the door and said, "Kneel there for me!"

Empress Dowager Sun was stunned for a moment, then looked at Zhu Zhanji, tears flashing in her eyes, and said: "Your Majesty, your concubine..."

"If Grandpa Huang tells you to kneel, then kneel."

Zhu Zhanji showed a struggling expression on his face, but it only lasted for a moment.

He doted on Sun, but Sun was now old and had changed a lot.

Secondly, how could he dare not listen to the words of the great Zhu Di?

"Yes"

Sun had no choice but to kneel down obediently.

She had originally heard that something had happened in the Fengtian Hall and that Taizu and Taizong had arrived. At the time, she thought that some lunatic dared to impersonate Taizu and Taizong, so she came over angrily to support her son.

When she arrived at the place, she saw that it was really Taizu and Taizong. Even her father-in-law and husband were there. They were exactly the same as she remembered. Her imposing manner was gone in an instant.

Besides, the current situation is obviously no longer something she can control.

Not only the civil and military officials in the court, but even the guards outside obeyed the orders of the emperor inside, so she couldn't cause any trouble at all.

"Humph!"

Zhu Yuanzhang had almost finished beating Zhu Yunfeng, so he threw the electric baton in his hand to Zhu Yunfeng, and sat back in his seat, looking down and saying, "I have come to the mortal world this time to restore order. Who will be the chief minister of the cabinet?"

Chen Xun hurriedly stood up, walked to the center of the hall, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I, Chen Xun, am now appointed as the chief minister of the cabinet."

"Draft an imperial edict for me to depose Zhu Qizhen!"

"Yes."

"Your Majesty."

Until this time, Xu Youzhen finally mustered up the courage to stand up and said: "I want to ask, if the Zhengtong Emperor is deposed, who can inherit the throne? The Jingtai Emperor is seriously ill and has no heir, and His Royal Highness Prince Yi is still young."

"Who are you?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked, narrowing his eyes.

"I am Xu Youzhen, the Left Vice-Minister of the Imperial Censorate."

"Take him out and behead him."

"Your Majesty."

Xu Youzhen's face turned pale with horror.

He never expected that he would start killing right away?
Zhu Yuanzhang was too lazy to pay attention. He waved his hand and the guards immediately pulled Xu Youzhen out.

Xu Youzhen was still shouting, and after a while, screams were heard.

For a time, the seizing party was trembling with fear.

"All those who supported Zhu Qizhen should be killed by me. What is the point of having such a stupid emperor?"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand.

He actually understood that Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill and his offspring died young. It was normal for power to return to Zhu Qizhen after Zhu Qiyu's death.

However, before the 21st Incident, Yu Qian and others had already prepared to write a letter asking Zhu Qiyu to appoint Zhu Jianshen as the crown prince again.

In this way, once Zhu Qiyu died, Zhu Jianshen would become the emperor.

Even though he was only a ten-year-old emperor, orthodoxy and law were in the hands of Zhu Jianshen. With the assistance of Yu Qian and others, he would not allow Zhu Qizhen to interfere in power. Even if Zhu Qizhen intervened, his influence would be much smaller.

Under such a normal trajectory, Zhu Qizhen would not have done a series of outrageous things such as building a temple for the Oirat, sending the wives and daughters of the heroes who fought against Mongolia to the enemy, and wantonly killing the heroes of the Battle of the Defense of Beijing.

As a result, Shi Heng and others were blinded by greed and wanted to support Zhu Qizhen again to gain the credit of following the dragon. So they took advantage of Zhu Qiyu's serious illness to launch a coup, which caused a chain reaction later.

It can be said that the selfishness of Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen and others led to the wrong and stupid things that Zhu Qizhen did later!
Zhu Yuanzhang hated him so much that he naturally wanted to kill him as soon as possible.

He is not Zhu Gaochi.

He has strength and means.

Upon learning that they were going to die, Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others were horrified and immediately knelt down and cried for mercy.

But unfortunately, the situation was hopeless. Although they brought a lot of guards, more than a hundred of them, they were either controlled or rebelled early on. No one supported them at all.

So they died quickly and without much pain, which was much more comfortable than Zhu Qizhen's frequent executions of those ministers who advised him or impeached his favorites.

Soon Zhu Qizhen's followers were wiped out.

But the problem is still not solved.

Yu Qian had been released at this time. He had just watched a series of events coldly and was disheartened towards many of his colleagues and Zhu Qizhen.

But he was just like that, a loyal and upright official. After Zhu Yuanzhang killed a group of people who were involved in the seizure of the gate, he stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, I also want to ask, who can inherit the throne? Should His Royal Highness Prince Yi be appointed?"

"hehe."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, shook his head and said, "Zhu Jianshen will be the emperor in the future, but not now. The Ming Dynasty is in turmoil with internal and external troubles, and we need a wise monarch."

"This"

Everyone was surprised.

Someone suddenly had an idea and knelt down and shouted, "Your Majesty, please come to the court!"

Everyone around was dumbfounded and unconsciously kept a distance from that idiot.

It's too ridiculous.

This is not the way you flatter someone.

His Majesty Taizu is in power?

I bet you can figure it out.

Do you really not care how many court officials were killed during the reign of Emperor Taizu?
What in your fucking brain made you make this decision?
"I have a lot of things to do and have no interest in coming here, but I can go to the first year of Hongxi."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Gaochi and said, "Gaochi, would you mind lending me your son?"

Zhu Gaochi smiled and said, "Zhanji has grown up and is now sensible. It is good for him to come here."

"Ah."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

Zhu Zhanji beside him was confused and couldn't help asking, "Father, what is this?"

"It was Grandfather the Emperor who brought you from the first year of Hongxi from the long river of time. History has already happened, but Grandfather the Emperor can change history at will in the long river of time."

Zhu Gaochi explained: "However, history that has already happened cannot be changed, so the follow-up will not affect the future. In this way, there will be two you, or even countless you. As long as Grandpa Huang is willing, he can bring you from the last second."

Zhu Zhanji was dumbfounded. Although he had been to modern times for medical treatment, due to the short time of contact, he had no idea what Zhu Yuanzhang was like. He only knew that young Zhu Di made up a story about the world of cultivation and the world of immortals for him.

So when they heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was so powerful, their eyes were full of shock.

Needless to say, the ministers around him all looked at Zhu Yuanzhang as if he were a god. Or, in their minds, Zhu Yuanzhang at this time was no different from a god.

Only Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said nothing.

No explanation.

Some things, as long as you don’t explain them, will be covered with a layer of mystery. In the eyes of outsiders, you will be high above and unattainable!
This is also what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted. Only by deifying himself can he control everything about the Ming Dynasty, including the Ming Dynasty of any future dynasty. Even if dynasties and monarchs change and historical changes occur in the future, it will no longer be the history he is familiar with.

But that Ming Dynasty is still his Ming Dynasty, and nothing will ever be out of his control!
(End of this chapter)