Chapter 237

"If a mediocre ruler happens to be on the throne in the Central Plains."

"Breaking through the passes and entering, would that not be as easy as picking something up?"

The moment the words fell.

The gaze of everyone in the chat group inevitably focused on Zhu Qizhen.

Isn't this describing Esen?

When Zhu Di was alive, what was the scene on the grasslands?

Although the Ming army had already abandoned frontier strongholds such as Ningcheng and Dongsheng Wei.

Yet under Zhu Di and the Three Yang Cabinet's Balance tactics,

the grasslands were nothing but scattered sand, scattered beyond all measure.

It had been merely over a decade since Zhu Di passed away.

And yet a Grand Preceptor Huai Wang suddenly sprang forth, not only leading his own people to invade the Central Plains,

but even possessing the ability to mobilize the Jurchens of Liaodong to strike the Great Ming in conjunction with the grasslands!

Zhu Qizhen: Are you cursing again?

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's words, Zhu Di glared with his tiger eyes and said,

"Am I wronging you?!"

"No... no."

Zhu Yuanzhang stared at Su Qiao, snorted coldly, and asked,

"What do you mean by these words?"

"Do you intend for our Great Ming to learn the beastly ways of the former Yuan, where sons kill fathers and brothers slay brothers, just so that our future monarchs of the Great Ming may become capable?"

Su Qiao said,

"The system of primogeniture can indeed bring stability, but has Your Majesty considered that under this system of primogeniture,"

"not every eldest legitimate son is fit to be Emperor."

"In this manner, the emergence of a mediocre ruler is almost inevitable."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but speak sternly,

"Then he is destined by Heaven! He is the eldest legitimate son, so from the moment he is born, he is Emperor!"

Su Qiao blurted out almost without thinking,

"Foolish!"

Zhu Yuanzhang also opened his mouth to defend himself,

"Which family does not have a few unpromising children? Can you go and strangle him to death?"

Su Qiao countered directly,

"But the Zhu family is not just any family! The Zhu family is the Imperial Family! Every time a mediocre ruler appears, it means an entire generation is ruined! If a mediocre ruler lives long, two generations will be ruined!"

"Every family in the world can have unpromising children, but only the Imperial Family cannot have unpromising children!"

"If one cannot guarantee a brilliant ruler in every generation, the Imperial Family might as well hand power over to the Cabinet."

"At the very least, the Cabinet has no incompetent people!"

Su Qiao's words.

Every single character was like a loud slap across the face of Zhu Qizhen.

Scolding Zhu Qizhen until tears were nearly streaming from his eyes.

"Great Grandfather, Yu Qian has never scolded me like this!"

Zhu Di:...

There may be good people in the Cabinet, and there may be bad people.

But these scholars, as long as they can climb into the Cabinet, absolutely cannot be incompetent.

Even someone like Yan Song.

Among his peers, he was absolutely an outstanding existence!

Zhu Yuanzhang stared fiercely at Su Qiao and roared,

"Enough!"

"We shouldn't have bothered asking you!"

Su Qiao did not care either way.

"Your Majesty, wake up. It is normal for you to care for your children and grandchildren, but in the Imperial Family, which one has been able to live happily for a lifetime?"

Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and growled low,

"So what? The Son of Heaven is, from birth, meant to bear this responsibility!"

"Even if it forces illness upon them, or causes kin to kill kin, does Your Majesty not care?"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly,

"Nonsense. Kin killing kin, that is nothing but the Fourth Brother. But now we have changed our mind; we are preparing to establish the Fourth Brother, so there will be no kin killing kin."

"We have not yet heard of any Emperor being forced into illness!"

Having said this, Zhu Yuanzhang swept his sleeve and left.

Just as Old Zhu sat in the carriage, he could not help but mutter angrily in the chat group,

"Did you all hear what this Su Qiao said?"

"Forced into illness? He might as well say there is not a single normal person in our Zhu family!"

"If we did not have this chat group, we would truly have believed his nonsense!"

Zhu Di and the assembly of Emperors also nodded repeatedly and said,

"Exactly, exactly!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Di and said.

"He cursed the fourth son with 'rebellious subject and traitor,' and we just endured it."

The corner of Zhu Di's mouth twitched slightly.

"Father, this... your son suggests we should not endure it."

"Shut up!"

Having spoken, Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze fell upon Zhu Gaochi.

"Look, Gaochi, isn't it just that you are a bit fat? Apart from that, what is abnormal?"

Zhu Gaochi nodded repeatedly.

"Exactly, exactly."

Having spoken, Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze fell upon Zhu Qizhen.

A bit of luster gradually bloomed in Zhu Qizhen's eyes.

Great-grandfather is finally going to praise me!

"It is just you, young man..."

Zhu Yuanzhang instinctively skipped over Zhu Qizhen.

He immediately turned his gaze to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao also blurted out.

"I am just a bit playful; where is anything abnormal? Isn't it just that I climbed over the wall a few times at midnight?"

Hearing this, the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth twitched slightly involuntarily.

Jiajing also deeply agreed with Zhu Houzhao's words.

"I need say even less; in my reign, it is called a wise emperor on the throne and fierce ministers filling the court; isn't it just cultivating immortality for a few years?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at this crowd of sons and grandsons.

Unable to help but grit his teeth and say.

"Yes! Doesn't this all count as barely normal?"

"Nonsense, it even forced illness out."

"From ancient times to the present, how many Emperors have been forced into illness?"

Before Old Zhu finished speaking.

A dialogue box popped up in the chat group.

Then, in the scene, a young man wearing a dragon robe suddenly appeared.

Zhu Qizhen looked at this person's Ma Jia.