Ming Dynasty: Ask Zhu Yuanzhang to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 278 Excellent acting skills, not much reading!
There is a saying that goes, life is like a play, it all depends on your acting skills.

Being able to "act" is not a fault, but a great skill.

Even in front of your parents, if you can act cute and sensible, you can please them more.

In front of lovers, sweet words can make people feel like spring breeze and make their hearts blossom.

If he doesn't act at all and just tells his girlfriend directly that her makeup looks ugly today and the clothes she wears are ugly... then unless he wants to find an excuse to break up, otherwise, it can only be attributed to his low IQ and EQ!

Life is full of drama!
Being able to act is a good thing, but the key lies in how you act.

After the performance, what other aspects will it be used for?

Just like a sharp sword, it can be used to burn, kill and loot, but it can also be used to uphold justice.

Gu Panjun is like the best actor in the world, interpreting every expression and movement of people to the extreme and in a gripping way.

No matter which expression it is, it is so beautiful and captures the essence and charm of that expression.

It seems that only this is the ultimate beauty in the world.

A little more or a little less and it will lose its essence and charm.

With this kind of acting skills, in future generations, winning an Oscar would be a piece of cake.

This may be because she was born with unparalleled acting skills and talent.

Perhaps it was because she was so beautiful, possessing the essence of heaven and earth, that no matter what she did or what expression she had, she was still absolutely beautiful, and could still make people intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves.

Or maybe both.

But no matter what the situation is, it has to be amazing.

Yang Rong, who was standing next to him, was immediately delighted when he heard Zhu Yunhuan's words.

This time, all of us were severely punished, and the price we paid was very heavy.

But as long as it can help His Royal Highness find a good marriage and resolve the worries of others, it won't be a wasted effort.

He then quickly added: "We have already investigated Miss Gu's background thoroughly. Her ancestor was a scholar in the Song Dynasty and had served as a county magistrate."

"After that, he retired and bought more than 100 acres of thin land in a remote village in Yingtian Prefecture for his descendants to farm and study and pass on to the family."

"Later, when the Northern Yuan invaded, the Gu family settled in remote villages."

"Until the founding of this dynasty, the Gu family was still farming in the countryside."

"No matter how dynasties rise and fall in the outside world, the Gu family is like a paradise in the countryside."

"Because the disciples of all generations have strictly followed the family rules and ancestral teachings and have managed the business well, the Gu family's business has gradually grown, and the farmland has reached thousands of acres."

"The Gu family set up a public school in the village ancestral hall for their disciples to study."

"Although Miss Gu is a girl, she went to school for a few years when she was young and is literate."

"She has been very smart and knowledgeable since she was young."

"The Gu family has very little contact with the outside world, and has no connection with officials in the court."

"It was not until we found them that we took Miss Gu and her family from the remote village of Yingtian Prefecture to the suburbs of Jinling City."

"Later, the land of the Daming Manufacturing Bureau factory was expropriated and demolished, and the Gu family went from being farmers to citizens."

"Miss Gu's parents died of illness one after another. Now only her brother and sister-in-law are in charge of the family. This is also a fact."

"Your Highness, you already know what happened afterwards."

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Yang Rong recounted Gu Panjun's life story in detail.

Since this matter was jointly done by Yao Guangxiao, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Xia Yuanji and other four people, with their intelligence, they will certainly investigate everything about Gu Panjun.

The reason why Zhu Yunhuan was able to see through this plan was that it was actually an "open plan".

Zhu Yunhuan was angry because they did not report to him and secretly conspired to stage a drama.

Instead of presenting the matter of Gu Panjun to him.

As for the arrangement of Gu Panjun, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi, Xia Yuanji and others did not participate, but Yao Guangxiao planned it alone.

Even if Zhu Yunhuan knew about it, he would just laugh it off and would not give him much punishment.

After all, he is also a man and has man's needs.

Sometimes, when ministers took the initiative to do things to curry favor with him, Zhu Yunhuan would be happy to "accept them with a smile" as long as they were not too excessive.

But if they joined forces and acted together without telling him, they would touch Zhu Yunhuan's sore spot.

Therefore, Zhu Yunhuan gave such severe punishments and warnings to several people.

After understanding the whole story, Zhu Yunhuan did not act coyly. He directly took Gu Panjun's soft and boneless hand and said, "From now on, you and I will walk hand in hand in the world. Are you willing?"

Of course he knew that this girl was not as "innocent" as she appeared to be.

On the contrary, behind her innocent face like the white moonlight of first love, she has extremely high dreams and ambitions.

The true thoughts in my heart will never be easily revealed to others.

But Zhu Yunhuan didn't care about these.

Zhu Yunhuan was also a man, a young man with strong desires.

He was unwilling to let go of such a stunning beauty.

Of course, enjoying beauty is one thing, but being seduced by beauty and being led by the nose is another.

The former is enjoyable, the latter is stupid.

Considering the shrewdness of Yao Guangxiao, Yang Shiqi and others, there must be no problem with Gu Panjun's identity and background.

She should be a "beautiful woman" with dreams, ambitions, and a smart mind.

In fact, women are not as simple as men. They are born to be good at "acting" and will make various temptations on men.

This is a woman's nature.

Even "innocent girls" who have never been in love or had any contact with men have this innate talent.

Beautiful women can deceive people, but it doesn’t mean that they have to go through something to learn this skill of deceiving people.

The reality is that children who are only a few years old have already learned to lie and deceive others.

Compared with men, women are much better at this.

It's genetically driven.

Women have to bear the risks of carrying a baby for ten months.

This also means that they must be careful and cautious when choosing a "mating" partner from the very beginning.

Even women who have never had any experience in love have "natural skills in love" (that is, how to choose better men) in their bones.

Women who do not possess this innate skill have been eliminated in the long evolutionary process because they are unable to raise children on their own.

Women who can survive and reproduce must have this ability.

Therefore, even if a woman has no experience, she is no weaker than the strong "Sea King" men in choosing a partner of the opposite sex just based on the innate skills brought by her genes.

The opposite is true for men.

The instinct of male animals is impulse, which is to mate and reproduce constantly.

They don't need to be very careful in choosing their partners.

Therefore, when men see young and beautiful women, they tend to imagine them as angels as pure as white lotuses, which greatly increases their desire to interact with them and spread their own "seeds". This is also a genetic choice.

In other words, at least in the initial stages, men are far more impulsive and more "love-brained" than women.

In contrast, women are much calmer because of the selective genes in their talents.

Women's "love brain" usually appears after being in a relationship with a man for a long time, especially after pregnancy.

Because the genetic selection at this stage is that female animals must "bind" males to help them raise their children and offspring together.

At this time, genes will drive women to bind tightly to men, thus making women show the characteristics of "love brain". This is different from men's impulse to reproduce, and they imagine women to be extremely beautiful in their minds.

In the early stages of a relationship, the easiest mistake men make is to imagine women to be extremely beautiful and innocent.

It is also a genetic instinct engraved in the bones of male animals.

In fact, even if they are the same age, fourteen or fifteen, and have never been in a relationship, girls of fourteen or fifteen are much more mature, sensible, and complex than boys of fourteen or fifteen.

Boys are the truly innocent ones. Unless girls are very stupid and have low IQ, no one is truly innocent.

The innocent age of boys can last until around the age of 25.

Men in their early twenties are still generally simpler, more naive, and more love-minded than women of the same age.

Men grow very slowly.

It is also because of this that young men are easily deceived by young women.

Many men will have the experience of being a "dog slicker" when they are young. No matter how others persuade him, he thinks that the woman he loves is a fairy, a pure and flawless white lotus... Only then will he slowly wake up.

Zhu Yunhuan was not a simple, naive and ignorant little man in his two lives, so he knew this very well.

Gu Panjun has her own little thoughts and a high aspirations as a woman, but that doesn’t matter.

Being able to act and act well is an advantage, just like her beautiful face, not a disadvantage.

Yao Guangxiao and Yang Shiqi were such smart people. Even Yang Rong, who was beside them, had the talent to be a prime minister. It was impossible that he could not see through Gu Panjun's thoughts.

They just think it is not worth mentioning and ignore it.

On the contrary, if the person selected is really an ignorant girl who does not have a smart mind, I am afraid that several people will exclude her.

Any smart person must be complex.

And how can a stupid person be worthy of being the king’s woman?
As for whether she is a figure similar to Wu Zetian, it doesn’t actually matter.

The reason why Wu Zetian became Wu Zetian was that she was cruel enough to even kill her own son in order to gain power.

This cannot be achieved with determination and wisdom alone.

Second, Li Zhi asked Wu Zetian to review memorials, giving her the opportunity to handle state affairs.

Zhu Yunhuan would never give the harem a chance to interfere in politics.

He wanted a smart woman just to help him deal with harem affairs.

If anyone tried to interfere in matters outside the harem, Zhu Yunhuan would cut them off without mercy and would not give them any chance.

Men should be "lustful but not promiscuous".

What's more, if she really wants to become the second "Wu Zetian", it will take at least twenty years.

She wants to become "Wu Zetian", but now she has to be absolutely loyal to herself.

Because for at least a dozen years, she has not had any capital to betray herself.

As for the future.

If Yao Guangxiao, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and others were given absolute power, their loyalty would also be unreliable.

But at least now, as Zhu Yunhuan's confidants in the court, these people are completely loyal to him.

No one can withstand the test of imperial power, it's simply because they don't have the opportunity.

The same is true for Gu Panjun. She is ambitious and smart, so she is unlikely to be used by others. Instead, she will be loyal to Zhu Yunhuan for the next ten years.

More than ten years later, he will be the same as other important officials in the court. The key lies in whether Zhu Yunhuan gives him a chance.

There is no chance. The important officials in the court are loyal ministers, and the queen is always a reliable wife and will be extremely loyal.

If there is an opportunity to entrust all the power of the court to one person, who can be trusted?

Who really doesn’t want to be emperor?

It’s just human nature!

When Gu Panjun heard this, her face flushed like flying clouds, and she was so shy that she seemed to want to grow wings and fly away. However, a smile slowly emerged on her face and gradually covered her face as white as agar jade.

The black beads in her eyes turned, and she suddenly raised her head and looked at Zhu Yunhuan. Her eyes were as bright as the bright moon and twinkling like stars, but she looked directly at Zhu Yunhuan, smiled sweetly, and in an instant, a spring breeze filled the world. She said: "I wish to find a person who loves me and will never leave me until we grow old."

The sound was like running water, and there was no other sound in the ears.

Zhu Yunhuan also laughed, and then kissed her lightly on the forehead.

Inside the car, Yang Rong quickly turned his head away, not daring to look again.

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"How many books have you read in the past? What do you usually do?" Zhu Yunheng asked curiously while holding Gu Panjun.

Gu Panjun's knowledge, conversation and behavior are not like those of an ordinary woman. She does not have the boldness and roughness of an ordinary country girl, but she is still lively and smart.

This kind of personality makes sense if he was born in a noble family where his parents dote on him.

But it is still surprising that it happened to a girl in a remote rural area, even if she grew up in a wealthy family.

The only possibility is that she has read a lot of books since she was young.

As the saying goes, "A man of culture is naturally elegant."

A person who has been studying in a rural village since childhood can still have superior thoughts and insights.

Especially after entering the city, they were able to adapt quickly and achieved considerable success.

Many prime ministers in history were like this.

Farming and studying are the family tradition and are highly respected by many aristocratic families.

But since you want to "cultivate the land", even if you rent it to others for cultivation and just manage it yourself, it means living in the countryside for a long time.

"Not much." Gu Panjun smiled and said, "I am a girl. I studied in a private school for three years when I was young. I memorized some of the Four Books and Five Classics and learned some of the words of the saints."

"My parents loved me so much that they never let me do any heavy work."

"Since I can recognize a few words, I usually go to the clan's library to borrow books when I have nothing to do."

"Most of them are miscellaneous books. I rarely read serious moral articles or sages' opinions."

"The books I like to read are all historical books such as "Records of the Grand Historian", "Book of Han", "Book of the Later Han", "New Book of Tang", or "Zizhi Tongjian", etc. I can remember the interesting contents by heart."

"I also love Tang and Song poetry, and I can barely memorize a few thousand of them."

"There are also some folk miscellanies, stories and legends, ghost stories, etc. I also like to read them."

"In short, these are not serious books."

"I always read the Ming Daily, which is sponsored by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, every day. I especially like the serialized Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

"In the past, when I was in the countryside, I could only read the Da Ming Daily half a month ago. Later, when I came to Jinling City, I could read it first."

"I also like the journal Science, especially the pharmaceutical knowledge in it, which is very interesting and can cure diseases and save lives."

"Unfortunately, although I learned a little bit, I only got the basics. I couldn't even save my own parents."

She seemed a little sad when she said this.

He added: "However, I don't quite understand the three laws written by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

“Science is a broad and profound subject.”

"After all, I am a girl, and I cannot pass the imperial examinations."

"Reading is for one thing, to broaden your horizons, and two, to kill time."

"I sometimes write some poems, but I don't have a good pen, so the ones I write are a bit ugly."

"Compared with His Royal Highness's talent and knowledge, Pan Jun's little knowledge can only be regarded as a blind man who has barely opened his eyes. I'm sorry to make you laugh, His Royal Highness!"

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(End of this chapter)