pjbooks Chapter 587 Awesome Grandfather and Useless Grandson
Chapter 587 Awesome Grandfather and Useless Grandson
Even though Zhu Yuanzhang had a premonition, hearing the news of Zhu Biao's untimely death was like a bolt from the blue, shattering his last illusions.
Misfortune truly seems to target the unfortunate; he lost his father and mother at a young age…
He is no longer the beggar he once was; he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Yet why can't he even keep his wife, eldest son, and grandson?
This devastating news turned Zhu Yuanzhang's face ashen, and his body trembled slightly. It seemed that only by tightly holding Empress Ma and Zhu Biao's hands and feeling the warmth from their palms could he feel that his wife and eldest son had not left him!
Zhu Biao and Empress Ma were also heartbroken at this time. The pain of a white-haired person burying a black-haired person within a few years was something that no ordinary person could bear. At that time, the emperor (Chongba) was just an old man with graying temples who had lost his father.
The other princes (thinking to themselves): Aren't we supposed to be absent?
Feeling somewhat superfluous, Prince Zhu Shuang of Qin stepped forward to break the somber mood of his elderly father: "Father! Mother! Elder brother! This hasn't happened yet!"
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just been looking grief-stricken, immediately flew into a rage: "You brat! Didn't that beating teach you a lesson?! Your elder brother died young! And you're still grinning like that...@&?!...
Zhu Biao: Thank you, Dad! But he's still alive!
Seeing this, Empress Ma was quite troubled. Her sadness vanished, and she stopped Zhu Yuanzhang from beating him, listening carefully to the follow-up of the live broadcast.
“In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang was hot-tempered and would kill a lot of people. There were still the Crown Prince and the Empress trying to persuade him. Now that the people who could persuade him are gone, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are in a terrible state.”
"Of course, even with the persuasion of the Crown Prince and Empress, officials during the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty would likely have been easily demoted."
"After all, the four major cases during the Hongwu reign implicated nearly 100,000 people. It seems that working under Zhu Yuanzhang meant worrying not only about one's future, but also about the lives of one's entire family and even one's own!"
Zhu Yuanzhang: “…”
Wan Chao's people: Listen, this feels like such a miserable life!
"On the other hand, the Crown Prince died young, leaving the position of heir apparent vacant. But Zhu Yuanzhang skipped his son and directly appointed his grandson Zhu Yunwen as the Crown Prince."
"As for the reasons, there are different opinions. One is that the Prince of Qin and the Prince of Jin were already lawless in their fiefdoms, so how could they possibly control the entire Ming Dynasty? Furthermore, with Judy appointed, what are the other two supposed to do? Those two are not pushovers either!"
"Moreover, Zhu Biao was nearly forty when he passed away. It was quite a coincidence that both the Prince of Qin and the Prince of Jin were around forty years old when they reunited with their elder brother."
"The top-ranking Prince Yan, Judy, and Prince Zhou are now in their thirties. Perhaps they dare not gamble on that one-in-a-lifetime outcome. But to know their exact current situation, we'd have to ask Old Zhu. Who knows what he was thinking back then?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Empress Ma and all the princes of the thirteenth year of the Hongwu reign all turned to look at Zhu Yuanzhang.
That look seemed to say: After all that choosing, you've picked a piece of junk that's a total rip-off!
Zhu Yuanzhang was momentarily embarrassed; could he say he hadn't thought of that?
"As for Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yuanzhang, they can be described as a powerful grandfather and a useless grandson. Throughout history, as emperors, we can understand why you wouldn't trust a powerful prince who held a large army!"
"But that doesn't make sense, why was it slashed so drastically?!"
"Oh, you said to Grandpa that you should [win him over with virtue and regulate him with propriety]... but after listening to Huang Zicheng's advice, you took over and then stripped him of his power. You should have done it sooner!"
A Ming Dynasty prince who was stripped of his power: I… what the hell…? &@…