After the announcement of the awards was over, Zhu Yuanzhang stepped down from the throne and personally awarded the iron scroll of the Alchemy Book to the ministers.

"You are all the founding fathers of our Ming Dynasty!"

"This elixir book records your great achievements, which can be passed down to future generations."

"This iron scroll is embedded with our grace. From now on, no matter what sins you commit."

"A duke can avoid death three times, and his descendants can avoid death twice."

"A marquis can avoid death twice, and his descendants can avoid death once."

"But we hope that you will never need the grace of avoiding death on this iron scroll!"

The civil and military ministers who were awarded the title happily received the iron scroll of the Alchemy Book.

"According to the order!"

"Hahaha...hahahahaha, okay, okay, there is a banquet in the palace today, let's all have a drink together."

…

The award banquet lasted until late at night, and the civil and military officials and ministers left with joy and drunkenness.

The palace became deserted.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked into the imperial study alone.

Then he ordered Erhu, the commander of the guards behind him:

"Erhu, go and call the prince to the study room. Also, after the prince comes in, retreat within a hundred meters and don't let anyone get close."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

A moment later, in the imperial study room, Zhu Yuanzhang sat with a cold expression, looking at Prince Zhu Biao who was kneeling in front of the stage.

"Biao'er, now that the conferment ceremony is over, we have something to worry about and I just have time to ask you."

"Tell dad, we asked your fourth brother to drive Xu Da's chariot that day, why did you come out to replace him?"

"Tell me, which eunuch or civil servant taught you?"

Zhu Biao lowered his head and answered in a muffled voice.

"Returning to my father, no one taught me. I just wanted to do it myself."

"Why?"

"Father, you asked your fourth brother to build a car for Xu Da because you wanted your fourth brother to marry Xu Da's daughter, right?"

"Yes...meaning, how did you guess it?"

"Yes, it was your mother who suggested this matter. We think that becoming a royal relative with Xu Da will also be conducive to the stability of the Ming Dynasty."

"What? Are you opposed to this? Why do you want to get involved in your fourth brother's marriage?"

"Could it be that you have fallen in love with Xu Da's little daughter?"

"No, my father, my son, my son, and the youngest daughter of Uncle Xu's family have never been masked."

"My son, let me speak frankly. My son is the prince, and my fourth brother is just the prince!"

"As a prince, the fourth brother should not marry Xu Da, no, even any military general!"

"My son is the crown prince! My fourth brother is not! If my father insists on my fourth brother marrying the Xu Da family, why not remove my title of crown prince now and let my son become an idle prince?"

"Perhaps, this is the best choice. I may not be destined to have that blessing..."

"Biao'er, you! You! You! Why do you miss your fourth brother so much, you, you!..."

Zhu Yuanzhang's body shook in surprise. He never expected that his eldest son Zhu Biao, who had always been loyal and simple, would have such an idea of ​​brotherly hostility.

At this time, Zhu Biao raised his head.

"Father!"

"After today's investiture ceremony, my father should also be able to ennoble his younger brothers as kings."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and looked at a red booklet in front of the table. It had obviously been read by someone.

"Have you seen the list of kings we have drawn up for your brothers?"

"Yes, Father, please forgive me for overstepping my bounds..."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao with a look of pain on his face, his face twisted into a ball.

"Biao'er, Biao'er, we didn't expect that you would actually start to be afraid of your brothers..."

"You, you... Hey, it's also our fault. You are still too young. You became the prince at such a young age. You are under too much pressure, so you have random thoughts and are afraid of your brothers."

"We can tell you, Biao'er, you will always be our only prince. Not to mention your fourth brother, your second brother, third brother, fifth brother... twelfth brother, no, none of them will do!"

"As long as we don't die, you will always be our prince!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he felt something was wrong and said hurriedly:

"What we are saying is that your younger brothers can never replace you as the crown prince. Even if we wanted to replace you as the crown prince, your mother would be the first to refuse. All the civil and military officials, including

Li Shanchang, your uncle Xu Da and others are coming to persuade us not to agree..."

"Your position as Crown Prince is as stable as Mount Tai! It is as stable as our throne... and as stable as ours!"

"No! Father, I am not just thinking wildly, I have basis."

"Based? What basis can you have? Could it be said that you also have the basis for your fourth brother to rebel against you?"

"My son is here!"

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! How could your fourth brother..."

"I got the basis from Uncle Wang."

"Uncle Wang? Your uncle Wang? King Ming? Him!

!..."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes flashed with an extremely cold light! He suddenly stood up and slammed the table!

He shouted angrily: "Wang Ming has gone too far, gone too far!"

"How dare you! If he wants to be crowned king, we will grant him a title of king! If he wants to be granted a land, we will also grant him a land!"

"Yes! It's true that the fiefdom is on an overseas Japanese island, but that was what he asked for, not what we forced him to choose... How could he! How could he interfere in the inheritance of the throne of our Zhu family!

You’re going to harm our Biao’er and Di’er too!”

"Biao'er! Show us his so-called evidence, we want to see what he can fabricate to harm you!

"

"Father, please calm down. I feel that Uncle Wang would not target my fourth brother like this, but... after I read the history book given by Uncle Wang, I had to believe it... because it is too true."

As Zhu Biao spoke, he handed the history textbook in his arms to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed the endless anger in his heart and took it angrily to take a look.

It can be seen that this so-called history textbook has been read by Zhu Biao countless times. The corners of the pages are slightly curled up. The pages are covered with thick stains of hand sweat and even scratches from scratching with fingers.

All these details can be seen in Zhu Biao's restless mood when he was reading this history textbook.

Zhu Yuanzhang read the key content in ten lines at a glance. That page was also the place that Zhu Biao read the most, because that page was the most curled and stained with hand sweat!

"After our death, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty will be succeeded by our grandson, Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen? Not you, Biao'er, but your son, Biao'er? Our grandson?"

"Ming? Cheng? Ancestor?! Yan! King! Zhu! Di?!

!

!」

"If there really is Emperor Jianwen and Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty in the future, what about you, Biao'er, and you, Biao'er???"

Zhu Biao sighed and sat down, lowering his head, with tears in his eyes.

"Father, do you still remember that Uncle Wang once said that my son may die young..."

"... I deduced based on the content in this history book that I died early at that time, and my father, in grief, chose his future son to be his grandson. After my father left, my grandson succeeded him, but because of

The emperor's younger brothers gradually became more powerful as the vassal king, and the grandson felt uneasy, and then he started to cut down the vassal state. In the process, he may have forced the fourth brother in every possible way... The fourth brother had no choice but to rebel, and the final result was that the fourth brother robbed the vassal.

My nephew’s throne eventually became the founder of the Ming Dynasty..."

"My son didn't believe the contents of this book at first."

"But it predicted that my father would confer royal titles on his younger brothers. I wanted to confirm this, so I kept it a secret."
Chapter completed!