Chapter 167 Zhu Gaoyu’s eloquent tongue
Zhu Gaoyu really admired these brothers.

Can you please stop being so clingy?
He turned around, glanced at the second brother, and said unhappily:

“I’m just catching up with my mother. You can talk later if you have anything to say.”

Between the eldest and the second son, Zhu Gaoyu chose the mother…

Zhu Gaoxu was silent.

He couldn’t stand up in front of Xu Miaoyun.

Zhu Gaochi, on the other hand, laughed out loud, showing a rare expression of obvious ridicule.

Zhu Gaosui looked at this and then that, and felt that it was not easy to be a fence-sitter. If he was not careful, he would go from being a fence-sitter to an unlucky person who was affected by the disaster.

After thinking it over, Zhu Gaosui carefully changed the topic:

“Uh… Ping An, Qu Neng and other generals have been captured. Should we go take a look?”

Speaking of Ping An and Qu Neng, there is also a captured general that no one has mentioned.

This person is Li Jinglong.

However, Li Jinglong was probably talking to Zhu Di right now. We brothers took a few glances and were extremely curious about these rare brave generals in the Southern Army.

They looked at each other, reaching a consensus on their goal, and the atmosphere eased again.

……

“Are you peace?”

When Ping An heard the voice from Zhu Gaoxu, he didn’t want to open his eyes.

But soon, he heard the nagging voice coming from Zhu Gaoyu.

“So this is Ping An. Second brother, did you see that? I was the one who shot the arrow in his shoulder…”

When Ping’an heard this, his tightly closed eyes suddenly opened.

His eyes moved among the crowd and finally fixed on Zhu Gaoyu, who was talking incessantly. His gaze was sharp and full of spirit.

Although Ping An knew that Zhu Gaoyu was very young from a few glimpses on the battlefield.

However, this was Ping An’s first time to come into such close contact with Zhu Gaoyu.

Zhu Gaoyu’s young age was far beyond Ping An’s expectations.

If Ping An had not seen it with his own eyes, he would have found it hard to believe that such a cheerful and talkative little fat boy could be shooting arrows on the battlefield. The most important thing is… Ping An himself really suffered a setback!

Don’t even mention that Ping An suffered a setback at the hands of Zhu Gaoyu.

Even Qu Neng next to him was the same.

It can even be said that during the battle of the vanguard army, Zhu Gaoyu shot the military flag several times, which was an extremely fatal blow to the morale of the Southern Army.

Ping An was filled with anger, but when he saw Zhu Gaoyu’s expression, the words came to his lips but he couldn’t say them.

On the contrary, Zhu Gaoyu, as a child, did not have so many scruples and spoke directly:

“Ping An, you are so awesome. Just now on the battlefield, if my second brother and I hadn’t fought you together, my second brother might have been injured!”

The corners of Zhu Gaoxu’s mouth twitched.

Even if you want to say something nice and win over Ping An, there’s no need to pull him down…

How talented is Zhu Gaoxu!
After a few more years of training, a little peace would be nothing but a defeat to him and not worth mentioning!
Ping An glanced at Zhu Gaoyu. Although he felt a little better, the corners of his mouth were still tense.

Qu Neng even said:
“If you want to kill or behead me, please do as you please.”

As the prince of Yan, Zhu Gaochi did not show any annoyance when facing Qu Neng and Ping An, who had a cold attitude. Instead, he asked the soldiers to prepare hot soup and hot meals.

Soon, the food was placed in front of Ping’an and Qu Neng.

Zhu Gaochi has always been very thoughtful in doing things.

Since he wanted to show kindness, he simply treated the captured Confederate soldiers to a hot meal.

The imperial army felt hopeless after the battle in Peking.

Even with such a huge disparity in the number of soldiers, they were able to turn the tide.

Moreover, the Southern Army commander Li Jinglong defected on the spot.

Although he was going to meet the King of Yan, everyone knew that this was equivalent to half a step in rebelling against the court.

As a traitor who has been jumping back and forth many times, Li Jinglong does not have such high moral integrity and loyalty to the emperor.

The meal was finished in the blink of an eye.

Ping An and Qu Neng were also stubborn. They ate the meal as if it was their last meal before execution and gobbled it up ravenously.

Zhu Gaoyu squatted on the side, watching them eat, and finally couldn’t help but ask a question from the bottom of his heart:

“You two, do you want to at least be full before you die?”

“Cough cough cough…”

Qu Neng and Ping An both started to quarrel at the same time because of Zhu Gaoyu’s words.

This child speaks very frankly.

After Ping An had choked, he picked up the rice grains on his collar and ate them one by one. After he had swallowed all the rice, he said only one sentence:

“Report your favor on the golden stage, support the Jade Dragon and die for you.”

The meaning of this is to refuse surrender and rather die.

Zhu Gaoxu and others were very surprised.

Since the Jingnan Campaign, they have encountered a lot of stubborn people. But if you ask how much these people admire Zhu Yunwen, the monarch himself… it seems that not many of them do.

Zhu Gaoyu now understood a little why it has always been so difficult to rebel throughout history.

In addition to the saying that a broken boat can hold three pounds of nails, that is the so-called orthodox thinking.

Zhu Gaoyu held his cheek and continued to “make trouble” seriously:
“Don’t bully me, Zhu Gaoyu, for my lack of education. I know what this means.”

“The Golden Terrace is a place for recruiting talented people. I am here to express my gratitude to the king for his wisdom in identifying a good talent. That is why I am willing to fight for him until death.”

As he spoke, Zhu Gaoyu changed the subject:
“But to be honest, you didn’t work under Zhu Yunwen in the beginning, and it wasn’t Zhu Yunwen who recognized your talent and promoted you. It was my father who valued you and promoted you in the beginning!”

Um? ? !
Not only Ping An, but even Qu Neng was shocked.

You know, Ping An originally worked under Zhu Di, but he really started to take on important responsibilities during Emperor Jianwen’s northern expedition against the Yan bandits, when he came to the fore.

But Qu Neng is different!

He is a military general left over from the Hongwu Dynasty.

He once followed Lan Yu to fight in the Western Barbarian Rebellion.

He also fought against Yulu Timur, and during this process, Qu Neng also suggested opening up local land for military cultivation, building canals to drain water, organizing the masses to mine salt wells, and building cities and garrisons.

To be honest, even if Qu Neng wanted to help Yulong die for the emperor, he would die for Taizu, not for Emperor Jianwen…

Eh?
This logic sounds like a fallacy.

But why does it sound somewhat reasonable?

Qu Neng remained silent.

But the flickering look in his eyes showed his inner unrest.

Not only Qu Neng and Ping An, in fact, all the surrounding Southern Army generals were thinking about Zhu Gaoyu’s words.

They say that children speak without restraint. Children speak without restraint.

But more often than not, it is because they are children that they say the simplest words, but also the words that point directly to the truth.

Seeing that everyone was lost in thought, the atmosphere quieted down for a moment, and Zhu Gaoyu continued his chatter.

Zhu Gaochi’s three brothers also figured out something.

Zhu Gaochi in particular had seen Zhu Gaoyu persuade him to surrender no more times than Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui. To be honest, this was his first time seeing it.

Zhu Gaochi couldn’t help but look at Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui with a look of doubt and uncertainty. His meaning was clear and he was almost about to say it out loud.

When did this kid Zhu Gaoyu become so good at deceiving people?

Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui felt helpless and proud when they saw this.

Zhu Gaoyu was still muttering over there.

“The world belongs to all the people in the world, not Zhu Yunwen. You, the subjects, are also not Zhu Yunwen’s slaves, but the public servants of all the people in the world.”

“You lead the troops to fight in peace, but are you just going to watch the people of the Ming Dynasty kill each other? Aren’t the Southern Army and the Yan Army both military households and people of the Ming Dynasty? Aren’t they also flesh and blood?”

Ping An listened attentively for a moment, and felt that Zhu Gaoyu’s words were quite bold, but at the same time, extremely novel, as he had never come across similar remarks before.

But he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and couldn’t help but argue:
“Since you don’t want the Southern Army and the Yan Army, or what you call the people of the Ming Dynasty, to kill each other, then fundamentally speaking, the King of Yan should not have initiated the so-called ‘Jingnan’!”

Zhu Gaoyu began to ramble again:
“These are just temporary pains. The purpose of my father’s existence is to make the people of the Ming Dynasty live a better life, to bring peace to the country, to make the borders stable, and to let the people live and work in peace…”

Ping’an’s face twitched, and he wanted to ask, is the Prince of Yan really that good, or is it because Zhu Gaoyu is his son that he praises the Prince of Yan so much.

This was a lot of praise, as if the King of Yan was some kind of god descending from heaven, the reincarnation of the founders of the Tang and Song dynasties, or the nirvana of a compassionate bodhisattva…

However, it is undeniable that Ping An’s originally impeccable defenses were slightly weakened because of Zhu Gaoyu’s actions.

It was at this time that footsteps were heard from the other side.

Li Jinglong appeared.

The moment he appeared, everyone’s attention instantly shifted to Li Jinglong.

When Li Jinglong felt the gazes that seemed to want to devour him, he paused for a moment, then returned to normal.

In addition to Li Jinglong, there is another person who is also extremely difficult to ignore.

There is no doubt that this person is Zhu Di.

Zhu Di didn’t know how long he had been standing in the corner, listening, or how many words he had heard.

But it is undeniable that judging from his expression at this moment, Zhu Di was obviously in a good mood.

The corners of his lips curled up slightly, and he patted Zhu Gaoyu on the shoulder:

“Okay, go play, dad is here.”

Zhu Gaoyu didn’t think this was a good thing.

He was swinging the hoe happily when his father came out to disturb him.

Now, when the wall was halfway built, my dad came to take over.

It’s useless to say good things to him.

Zhu Di could tell at a glance what this boy was thinking.

He slapped Zhu Gaoyu on the head in anger:
“Okay, you’re just a kid, but you’re already thinking about forming your own team. You may be a small guy, but you have a lot of ideas.”

Hahaha.

Zhu Di, you will pay the price for your words and actions!

When you get old, I, Zhu Gaoyu, will pull out your oxygen tank sooner or later!
(End of this chapter)