Chapter 208

Those court ministers actually made such a scene over the matter of "opening the seas"!

The greater the resistance,

the more unyielding the reaction of the ministers.

The more the ministers couldn't even spare a thought for their own face,

the more it proves that opening the seas is already urgently pressing.

Especially during the Jiajing reign.

Those southeastern clans have already risked bearing infamy by guiding the Japanese pirates pirates in to resist Jiajing.

This proves the sea ban is their true fatal weakness!

Right now, Zhu Yuanzhang wishes he could personally rush to the great hall of the Jiajing reign and exchange a few moves with Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Yan Song..........

Panting, Zhu Yuanzhang held the Ming-era register of imperial clansmen who died in battle, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice,

"Jiang Huan!"

"Your servant is here!"

"Summon Su Qiao, summon Su Qiao!"

"Yes!"

Jiang Huan ran out of Fengtian Sect without a second thought.

Does Su Qiao really have a solution?

Old Zhu wasn't sure.

The problem with the Jiajing reign lies in the fact that you are among me, and I am among you.

Truth and falsehood intertwined, in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, Su Qiao may have extraordinary talent, but at best Su Qiao is merely a minister who can save the times.

He really might not necessarily be able to think of a solution.

In Old Zhu's heart, to deal with Jiajing's court full of fierce ministers,

what is needed is an old fox, an old fox even more cunning than Zhu Houcong!

……

……

On Qianmen Street.

Immediately, a burst of urgent hoofbeats rang out.

Before long, Jiang Huan jumped down from his warhorse.

He went straight and pushed open the door of Su Qiao's home.

Su Qiao, sitting in the small courtyard, heard the noisy sounds outside.

He walked out in confusion.

But he saw Jiang Huan with a panicked look on his face.

"Commander Jiang?"

"Is it that Your Majesty wants to behead me?"

Jiang Huan cupped his hands and said,

"Lord Su, Your Majesty has a great matter and summons you into the palace."

Hearing Jiang Huan's words,

Su Qiao was completely dumbfounded.

How did it suddenly become "you" all of a sudden?

You're already using "you" and "you," how can you still behead me!

Su Qiao, baffled by Jiang Huan, asked in confusion,

"What on earth is the matter?"

Jiang Huan took a deep breath and sighed,

"Lord Su, don't ask. Once you enter the palace, you'll know."

Before Su Qiao could even collect his thoughts,

he was pulled by Jiang Huan straight onto the carriage outside.

Although the last time going to Donggong was the same situation,

somehow, Su Qiao still felt that this time seemed very different from the last.

By the time Su Qiao arrived at the gates of Fengtian Sect,

Zhu Yuanzhang's hair bun was already somewhat disheveled.

Seeing Su Qiao,

Zhu Yuanzhang slowly raised his head, looked at Su Qiao before him, and said in a low voice,

"You kid, finally here?"

"Your Majesty."

"I want to ask you, if the later rulers of our Great Ming are constrained by the ancestral system, how should we open the seas!"

Su Qiao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a completely dumbfounded face.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, then he asked,

"Your Majesty, is it possible that if you abolish the ancestral system, then there would be no such thing as the ancestral system?"

Hearing Su Qiao's words,

Zhu Yuanzhang's old face immediately flushed red.

He forced himself to remain calm, looked at Su Qiao, and asked,

"If I could abolish it, would I still need to ask you?!"

"What I'm asking is — in my Jiajing thirty-ninth year, how should the later Son of Heaven of my Great Ming open the seas!"

Su Qiao stared at Zhu Yuanzhang, his face full of doubt.

"Jiajing thir… Jiajing?!"

Su Qiao suddenly raised his head, staring at Zhu Yuanzhang in utter shock.

Jiajing?! 0.3

Is that a term you, Old Zhu, could possibly know?!

Jiajing thirty-ninth year.

Wasn't that the old Daoist Priest's final few years!

So you, Old Zhu, are also a transmigrator?

But very quickly Su Qiao dismissed that thought.

Because Old Zhu clearly didn't look like someone who had crossed over.

Besides, if one were a transmigrator, why bother taking off one's pants to fart — wasting time worrying about how a later Son of Heaven should abolish ancestral rules?

"Your Majesty, where did you learn of this?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Su Qiao and said in a low voice,

"That is something you do not need to know."

"I am only asking you — right now the Son of Heaven of the Jiajing reign wishes to open the seas, but the whole court obstructs him. Do you have a Method to break the deadlock?"

Having said this, Zhu Yuanzhang once again recounted to Su Qiao the problem Jiajing was currently facing.

Listening to Old Zhu's account,

Su Qiao was rooted to the spot, utterly stunned.

Old Zhu really was doing exactly as he himself had said.

A certain type of web novel suddenly flashed through Su Qiao's mind.

— A chat group.

Old Zhu must have established some sort of connection with the later Son of Heaven of Great Ming.

That was also why,

despite all the deaths he himself had courted,

Zhu Yuanzhang still had not killed him — the fundamental reason!

Who could have imagined this!

Just as Su Qiao was still lost in his own shock,

Su Qiao likewise became aware of an even more fatal problem.