Chapter 72: Worship Jiang Xinghuo as national master?
The wind is cool in early autumn and the sweet-scented osmanthus is in full bloom.
"Tuk!"
A wolf-fang arrow nailed the target red heart hanging on the osmanthus tree, and the wings trembled endlessly.
"The Queen's Divine Shot."
Zhu Di, who came back from the dawn court meeting, sat on the stone pier, folded his hands and praised with a smile.
Empress Xu put down her short bow in front of her, her eyebrows also curved.
Queen Xu is tall, wearing a light purple palace dress and a cloak of the same color. Her long, glossy black hair was tied into a gorgeous bun with three or four golden osmanthus hairpins, which made her skin as white as snow even more delicate.
Looking at her eldest son who was boiling water and making tea, and then at her third son who was smashing walnuts with a pumpkin hammer, Queen Xu finally glanced at the pile of memorials on the stone table and asked.
"This is Xu'er's third memorial. Why doesn't His Majesty approve it?"
Zhu Di picked up the memorial and handed it to Queen Xu as a gesture, but Queen Xu turned sideways to avoid it.
Zhu Di had no choice but to throw the memorial back on the stone table and said: "This brat used the information given by Mr. Jiang to claim credit. The map is not as detailed as Li Jinglong's painting. What should I care about him? Besides, wasn't it last night? Have you given him the 'I got it' approval?"
Empress Xu stood still, still looking at Zhu Di. Zhu Di had no choice but to pick up the pen again, marked "I have read it", and handed it to the trusted eunuch beside him.
"Go and send him to prison."
Queen Xu looked at her two sons who were pretending to be stupid and asked the real question.
"Then what is your Majesty's plan to do with Mr. Jiang, who is suspected of being an immortal?"
To Queen Xu's surprise, her husband, who had always had an idea, was now entangled.
"To be honest, I don't know how to deal with it."
"No matter whether Jiang Xinghuo is an immortal or not, I am reluctant to kill him."
"Even if Jiang Xinghuo is now mortal, he may not be able to pose any threat to me and the Ming Dynasty, but the vision and amazing knowledge in his mind is like overlooking the long river of history and seeing through the fog of the future. How can I be willing to give up?"
"If nothing else, let's talk about the 'Silver Banknotes' we will talk about at noon. I have never heard of even this concept, but Jiang Xinghuo is convinced that money can conquer people's hearts and maintain the empire's hegemony for thousands of years."
"Just thinking about it makes me feel extremely novel and excited. What's more, what Jiang Xinghuo talks about is often incredible at first glance, but after listening carefully to the content of his lectures, I feel that they are really full of wisdom. .”
Seeing Zhu Di starting to praise Jiang Xinghuo continuously, Queen Xu winked.
"Even if today is two days until the sentence is due, it's time to behead." Looking at his mother's eyes, Zhu Gaochi reluctantly interrupted, "There must be a decent reason not to kill, otherwise the sentence will be suddenly postponed or the sentence will be unexpectedly commuted or pardoned. Mr. Jiang will definitely realize that there is a problem here."
Zhu Gaosui held the smashed walnuts in his palms and presented them to Queen Xu, and then chimed in.
"Then isn't Jiang Xinghuo aware now? Or has he always known that you and your father were eavesdropping on his lecture to his second brother, and deliberately pretended not to know, but he actually said these words to his father on purpose?"
Seeing that Zhu Di remained silent, Empress Xu couldn't help but add: "Didn't Yuan Gong go to meet him? What was the result?"
"Tell me one by one."
Zhu Di finally spoke. He first looked up at Queen Xu who was standing.
"Yuan Gong told me that he doesn't have enough ethics and can't show off."
"Then let him go to see you for the last time tomorrow."
Queen Xu was crisp and decisive, much like her father, General Xu Da, who was brave and decisive.
Zhu Di nodded. Who knew if the old man Yuan Gong was playing tricks to hide his secrets? Then he looked at Zhu Gaosui who was squatting next to him and smashing walnuts.
"It doesn't matter whether Jiang Xing Huoyi didn't realize that I was eavesdropping on him, whether he told me on purpose or not on purpose, it doesn't matter!"
"The important thing is that Ming Dynasty benefited from this, do you understand?"
Seeing Zhu Gaosui nodded heavily, Zhu Di finally looked at Zhu Gaochi.
"It's easy to find a reason to postpone the sentence. Let the Qin Tian Prison report it, just talk about celestial phenomena. Heavenly people feel that it is not easy to kill, so I decided to postpone the autumn execution. Can't we release Jiang Xinghuo now?"
Zhu Gaochi said: "Father, isn't Jiang Xinghuo very interested in conquering Japan? Why not let him go and do it."
Zhu Di was startled, he had never thought of this.
If Jiang Xinghuo is released from prison, can he really use this banished immortal to do things?
It is not impossible for the Human Emperor to appoint immortals.
The story told in "King Wu's Defeat of Zhou", which is widely available among the people of the Ming Dynasty, is that Jichang, the Marquis of Xibo, who was lucky enough to be the emperor, re-appointed Jiang Ziya, who was demoted to the mortal world, as the grand master.
Following this line of thinking, Zhu Di's thoughts spread.
"Not just the conquest of Japan, if Jiang Xinghuo is released from prison, only he can do many things best. Because he is the lecturer, so it stands to reason that he understands the things he talks about best."
"It doesn't necessarily mean that he will be released tomorrow. I always feel that Jiang Xinghuo still has a lot of extremely precious knowledge that he has not yet told. After all, Jiang Xinghuo's misfortune has to be taken into consideration. If he is released tomorrow, he will be released immediately. Has the earth ascended?"
"Then I still have a lot of knowledge that I haven't heard yet. Wouldn't it be a direct loss?"
"Father has thought carefully. We really can't make wishful thinking." Zhu Gaochi made tea for several people. "At least I feel that the important knowledge Mr. Jiang has mastered is definitely more than what he has said so far."
"For example?" Zhu Gaosui handed Zhu Di the newly smashed walnuts and looked at his elder brother and asked.
"For example, what we talked about today about 'subtropical cyclone', although it was just mentioned in one sentence, third brother, do you know that if Kublai Khan knew this sentence and understood that naval warfare and land warfare are not the same, the surrounding areas of several Japanese islands , autumn is full of torrential hurricanes, so maybe Japan has already become a chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, just like the Dali Kingdom that was conquered by the Yuan Dynasty became part of the chief minister of Yunnan now."
Zhu Gaosui was a little unbelievable. As the head of the secret service responsible for monitoring the clan, vassal kings, and nobles, he certainly knew about the existence of Jiang Xinghuo, but he had not attended the class.
If Jiang Xinghuo's words were heard by Kublai Khan, could they change history?
Destroying a country with just one word, is this the ability to banish an immortal?
Zhu Gaosui was horrified for a moment.
Zhu Di didn't know what his son was thinking, so he chewed walnuts and said vaguely.
"Storms on the sea, countries in the West, silver coins, besides Jiang Xinghuo, who else can guarantee that they know more about these things and can do them better?"
"If Jiang Xinghuo is willing to come out and work for the Ming Dynasty, just like Xibo Hou Jichang worships Jiang Ziya as his grand master, what's the harm in me worshiping Jiang Xinghuo as my grand master?"
As soon as this statement came out, the whole hall was shocked!