If not abolished

Chapter 364: Postponement of the Expedition

Zhu Di shook his head and said, "It has already happened. What is coming will come sooner or later. Let them in."

After a while, the message came, "Your Majesty invites all the adults to come in."

The eunuchs who were originally trying to stop them all stepped aside at once.

The ministers immediately stood in two rows, tidied up their clothes that had been messed up by the crowd, and walked in one by one.

They all looked like dignified gentlemen, completely different from the noisy look they had just had.

When they arrived, Zhu Di and others were already waiting there, with the crown prince and the crown prince's grandson standing on the left and right respectively.

"See Your Majesty."

"Be flat."

After he stood up, a minister immediately came out from the team and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

"Go ahead."

"Your Majesty has just moved the capital, and the political situation is still unstable, yet Your Majesty is about to start a war and launch an expedition to the northern desert. Provoking a war like this is against the harmony of nature. We can see from the sudden fire in the three main halls last night that this is a warning from heaven to Your Majesty. I once again implore Your Majesty to postpone the expedition and other matters." After saying this, the minister knelt down.

"We second the motion." A group of ministers followed suit.

Zhu Di looked at them and was silent for a long time. Under normal circumstances, these people would be dragged down and beaten one by one. But today, Zhu Di, who had always been confident in himself, could not help but begin to doubt whether this was a sign from heaven. He also felt that his move to start a war was against the will of heaven.

"I know that if I don't agree with your opinions today, some people will be ready to be killed on the spot. At that time, you will still have a good reputation and your integrity will be intact. I am afraid that I will be cursed again. Although I don't care." When Zhu Di said this, the ministers felt relieved. It sounded like he was ready to compromise, but without a definite statement, they were still worried.

Sure enough, Zhu Di continued: "But this war has to be fought. Do you think I fight for my own selfish desires, or for the Ming Dynasty, so that our descendants can enjoy generations of peace?" The ministers felt a pang in their hearts. This was going to risk the wrath of the world, and it was not impossible. After all, there was nothing His Majesty would not dare to do, and everyone knew how he got the throne, right?

"Your Majesty has great ambitions, and we, the ministers, will naturally support you wholeheartedly. However, when something like this happens, you really have to consider the opinions of the public. Your Majesty, please think twice."

Zhu Zhan basically thought that the debate in the court would be extremely fierce, but he did not expect that neither the ministers nor the emperor would use any fierce words. In the end, the matter came to an end with the emperor agreeing to delay the departure time.

After the court session, Zhu Di kept the prince and his son.

"Is it rare that the Crown Prince didn't speak today?" Zhu Di said to Zhu Gaochi, who had been silent all day. Among his three sons, this son was the one who hated fighting the most. Every time he wanted to march north, he would be the first to jump out and oppose it. It was indeed a rare silence just now.

"I just heard what you said. It seems that Grandpa Taizu also said it many years ago." Zhu Gaochi was definitely against Zhu Di's war in his heart, but when it came to today's matter, what he thought at the beginning was that if he didn't stand on his father's side, then his father would be too lonely.

But when his father said that war was for the sake of future generations and peace for generations to come, these words suddenly sounded very familiar. Many years ago, his grandfather Huang also said something similar.

"Really? Didn't Taizu say that back then?" Zhu Di felt much better. He had always tried hard to be a good emperor. The lighthouse in his heart was his father. This way, when he met them in the future, he could say with a clear conscience that he had done better than the people chosen by Taizu.

"Well, that's what Taizu said when he asked us to review the army early in the morning in the middle of winter." Zhu Gaochi lived with Zhu Yuanzhang for a period of time, and Zhu Yuanzhang loved this grandson very much.

It was the first time that Zhu Zhanji heard of these old stories.