The two guards carefully packed up the memorials and turned around to the Secretariat.

After Zhu Yuanzhang moved his waist, he picked up the teacup, took a big sip of strong tea, walked to the bookshelf, glanced at him, took a book called "Han Feizi" from the bookshelf and arrived behind the screen. He asked him to

People set up a small private room with a chair in it. When dealing with the government affairs, they can lie on it and read books or take a nap when they are tired.

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang lay down, he heard footsteps outside the screen, and then he heard someone screaming: "Your Majesty—?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the voice, he knew that it was Jiang Qi who had come. He stood up and walked out with "Han Feizi", sat upright on the dragon throne, and said condescendingly: "What's the matter?"

Jiang Qi said: "Censor Yuan Kai is crazy!"

"What? Crazy?" Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly stunned, frowned, and whispered: "Are you really crazy?"

Yuan Kai originally worked as a small official for the Tartar court, and was knowledgeable and talented, and wrote a good poem. Once, on the seat of Yang Weizhen, a famous scholar in southern Zhejiang, someone showed a poem "White Yan" in Yang's poem "

The twelve pearl curtains, "a pair of jade cuts" and other sentences are very appreciated, but Yuan Kai said, "Although the poem is good, it has not fully understood the beauty of things", and then presented his own poem "White Swallow". He read "The moon is bright in the Han Dynasty"

The water has no shadow at the beginning, and the Liangyuan has not returned yet," said sentences such as "Weizhen is very surprised and shows the guests." From then on, the beautiful title of "Yuan Baiyan".

After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Yuan Kai was recommended to be the censor by someone. Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was smart and capable, wrote good poems and had good handwriting, and trusted him very much, so he asked him to go back and forth with himself and the crown prince Zhu Biao.

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A few days ago, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to execute some prisoners and ordered Yuan Kai to take the case file to the crown prince for review. The crown prince has always advocated tranquility and benevolent politics. This time he opposed Zhu Yuanzhang's attempt to kill so many people. Yuan Kai replied to Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a fatal problem: "Who is right and who is wrong with me or the prince?" Yuan Kai was so brave that he dared not say who is right and who is wrong, so he had to answer: "Your Majesty is just to enforce the law."

Need, and the prince advocated that it was a lenient government to not kill him." After hearing this answer, Zhu Yuanzhang scolded him for being "crawling with both ends."

Unexpectedly, Yuan Kai was extremely brave and was afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang's methods. He also felt that when he was sandwiched between the emperor and the crown prince, something big would happen sooner or later. If he continued like this for a long time as scheduled, it would be better to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.

But the emperor is not so easy to fool. If there is no suitable reason and wants to withdraw, relying on the emperor's killing methods, it will not only kill his own life, but also implicate his family. This is exactly what he is most worried about. Silai

I wanted to go, but I didn't know what to do. At this moment, his wife told him that there was an emperor named Gao Yang in Northern Qi who once pretended to be crazy and foolish to hide his eyes, avoided his brother's fight, and finally became the emperor!"

The unintentional words of his wife immediately made Yuan Kai’s heart lit up, “Yes, you can’t be wrong to pretend to be crazy. The emperor’s talented and wise will never be suspicious with a crazy person, right?”

After making up his mind, he pretended to be crazy the next day.

Hearing the emperor's question, Jiang Qi said, "It's not like you. Bei Zhi personally inquired about it. Bei Zhi's subordinates were ordered to stab him with a cap. He didn't know the pain. Bei Zhi still saw that his family members tied him with iron chains.

We are also talking crazy!”

"Are you really crazy?" Zhu Yuanzhang said to himself. The two eyes that had been restrained just now relaxed a lot. After a while, he said: "Continue to monitor. If you really crazy, forget it. If you pretend to be crazy, hum, you know what

Did it!"

"I understand!" Jiang Qi clasped his fists and responded, quickly leaving the palace gate.

As soon as Jiang Qi left, an eunuch hurriedly walked in and shouted to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Emperor, Prime Minister, please see me!"

"Here you come!" Zhu Yuanzhang muttered, and a sneer that was not easy to detect quickly flashed across the corner of his mouth.

"I have to review the memorials, but I don't have time to see him!" Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a moment and waved his hand and said, "If there is anything, I will say it tomorrow morning?"

The eunuch responded, turned around and ran away.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and suddenly said, "Come back!"

The eunuch was shocked and said, "Emperor!"

"Has he ever said to you?" Zhu Yuanzhang sat back on the dragon throne with "Han Feizi" and returned to his usual majesty, and asked coldly.

The eunuch said, "No!"

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows, pondered for a moment, and said, "How many people have come?"

"Only the Prime Minister!"

"One person?" Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly sighed, saying, "See you!"

"Yes!" The eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and ran away quickly.

Outside the Huagai Hall, Li Shanchang stood outside the door in court clothes and waited. After thinking carefully for many days, he felt more and more uneasy. He didn't know if Zhu Yuanzhang did this to make him retire, but he didn't.

I dared to ask directly, but I could only keep testing. I had already tested it for more than ten days. The result of the test gradually became clear. The emperor did have the intention to let him retreat.

He took retreat as his advancement in this move. He thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would consider his years of follow-up and made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. When he was sick, he would come back to express his condolences and try to keep him. Unexpectedly, he

The expected results did not appear, and various phenomena showed that the emperor completely wanted him to retire!

Along the way, I followed Taifu through the corridor, bypassed the garden, pool, rockery, and screen walls, and entered the Huagai Hall.

In front of the door, Li Shanchang sorted out his clothes, walked in, came to the hall, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang who was high above the throne, and hurriedly bowed down to worship: "My minister Li Shanchang pays homage to the emperor, long live the Emperor Wu.

!”

Zhu Yuanzhang's face looked unpretentious, but he said lightly: "The Prime Minister does not need to be too polite. Please come up quickly. Although you and I are kings and ministers, they are also confidants. The Prime Minister does not need to be such a great tribute. Besides, it is already night.

The Prime Minister is still sick, so let’s forget about such red tape?”

Li Shanchang paused and said, "Thank you for your kindness!"

After saying this, Li Shanchang did not get up, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not speak, and sat on the throne again.

The huge Huagai Palace was terrifyingly quiet, and Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Shanchang high and said nothing.

Li Shanchang knelt down and said nothing.

After a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, as if he had thought of something. The light in his eyes became much softer and he asked slowly: "Is the Prime Minister's condition cured?"

Li Shanchang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, the emperor, Hong Fu, the old minister's illness has been much better!"

"I have been busy with state affairs these days. Even the Prime Minister is sick and has never visited him. I feel very sad. I wanted to wait a few more days before the state affairs in my hand are handled, so I can go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to visit him. I don't want to, the Prime Minister's Mansion

Is it really gratifying to me that my condition has improved a lot? "Zhu Yuanzhang's voice is indeed a kind of thoughtful words that the Lord cares about his subordinates.

But Li Shanchang followed Zhu Yuanzhang for the longest time, how could he not understand the emperor's methods? He was nervous and did not let go of any more.

"Your Majesty is busy with national affairs, so how dare you disturb Your Majesty's distracting me!"

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