"Haha...haha...haha..."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon throne and laughed loudly as he looked at the memorial handed over by Li Qi. The laughter was very cunning. At least Liu Bowen, who was standing below, felt the strong murderous intent in Zhu Yuanzhang's laughter.

So Liu Bowen also looked at Li Shanchang and others. It was obvious that Li Shanchang and others also felt a strong sense of uneasiness.

The laughter finally ended, and Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon throne and showed a serious expression: "Dear ministers, why did we conquer the Yuan Dynasty together?"

No one spoke, but Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "After Emperor Wuzong of Yuan Dynasty, as long as he could be favored by the emperor, he could become an official. Most of the officials were mediocre and only flattered the monarch, including the Secretariat, Zuo Cheng, Ping Zhang, Duke of Guo, Situ, Prime Minister, etc.

The royal nobles may not act according to the criminal law and kill people at will according to their own preferences, and their lives will be like grass.

Corrupt officials in various places are even more numb. Many government offices sell official positions and titles. As long as the rich give enough money, they can obtain positions and exercise corresponding power. In this way, powerful officials obtain money, and powerless merchants obtain power. The exercise of power and a happy life based on money are suppression and exploitation of the general public.

Corrupt officials will plunder the people's money during various festivals or activities, and plunder the people's wealth through nominal "human favor money", "welfare money", "business money", and "salvary money".

The exploitation and plunder of the people by corrupt officials has reached a crazy level. Facing the continuous oppression and exploitation of government officials, many people are unable to move forward, and their lives are extremely difficult in the end. In the end, the people can only survive through uprisings. We have also suffered such exploitation and oppression.

So we pity the people and strictly control officials. Who knows...hehe...who knows...!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed again, then shook his head and said, "What we never dreamed of is that even if we were like this, there would be people who would continue to do things under our noses to exploit the people by the Yuan Dynasty officials."

Then Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly stood up and threw down Li Qi's memorial in his hand and shouted: "Dangtu County Magistrate Deng Jie, who plundered the people's wealth and cream day and night, actually set up a donation.

He wants to donate when he walks, drinks water, and eats food... This is simply more vicious than the officials of the Yuan Dynasty. In less than two months, Deng Jie made our Dangtu a mess. He stayed in the fireworks every day, hugging women and spending money, but our people, because of his forced donations, were self-immolation in Dangtu, suicide, and sold women, and sold women... This was slapping us in the face, and it was also slapping you Ming officials in the face.

Come here... I will arrest Deng Jie immediately. Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong will be tried together. Two days later, we need to know what kind of crime Deng Jie is. We will tell Deng Jie's crimes to the world and will never tolerate it."

"Abide by the order..." Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong knelt down together.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his sleeves and left angrily. Zhu Biao hurriedly followed his father out of Fengtian Palace.

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"Wow...this is the Narcissus Village..."

After leaving the palace, I walked about five miles away. After passing the Temple of Heaven, it was Shui Narcissus Village, which was also under the jurisdiction of Jiangning County. Shui Narcissus Village was near the Qinhuai River. There were about two thousand people in the village. Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to grant the village to Aunt Wang, but Aunt Wang didn't want to say anything and wanted ten acres of land. He originally had to build a house by himself, but it was too slow to build a house, so Zhu Yuanzhang gave it to him directly.

Looking at the Narcissus Village in front of me, Zhu Lang was a little surprised because it was different from the village in Dangtu County. This Narcissus Village is a typical Hui-style ancient village. The entire village has small bridges and flowing waters as its main features, especially the carved beams and painted buildings of some buildings, which are the finest products.

When the entire village was written with the word "king", Zhu Lang felt the artistic conception of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains" written by Tao Yuanming.

When you enter the village, there are five large camphor trees at the entrance of the village, which are spread out and extending in all directions. The largest camphor tree is more than 800 years old. Its roots are seven or eight meters deep in the land. It takes ten people to hug it.

Following a stream, lying across the middle of the village, like a belt floating upstream from the upper reaches of the village. There are more than 30 bridges in the village, and more than half are single-plank bridges made of cypress wood, about 10 cm wide.

Walking on the bridge, the cypress trees often make a "squeaking" sound. The houses on both sides of the stream are like built around the stream, like Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Land.

There are about 200 houses in Shui Narcissus Village, with extremely rich architectural types and many terrain styles, all of which are two-story buildings. They are of southern Anhui micro-architecture style, and there are water pavilions, pavilions, and fish ponds that are rare in other houses.

Due to limitations, the width of the surface is generally narrow, mostly three or four, about 10 meters away.

Each house has a deeper entry and many rooms, so it gives people the overall feeling of being narrow and long.

Most of the doors of the house are stone warehouse doors, with large bluestone veneers and a decorative gatehouse is built. There are steps in front of the hall and plain guardrails are used on both sides of the steps.

Just when Aunt Wang, Zhu Erbao and Zhu Lang didn't know where their home was, Deng Shou and Zhao Ling appeared. After seeing Aunt Wang, Deng Shou immediately walked a few steps to Aunt Wang and smiled and said, "Old Madam, Deng Shou has been waiting here for a long time. I just received a notice from the palace that you are back, so I rushed over immediately. From now on, Zhao Ling and I are the ones responsible for protecting the old lady, Mr. Zhu and Mr. Zhu. If you have any matters in the future, you can talk to me. I will do my best to help the old lady. The master and the master will do it properly."

Deng Shou is now a thousand households in the personal army's lieutenant's mansion, haha... This is Gao Sheng, who was directly sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to protect Zhu Lang's family. He is now holding the Zhu family's thighs tightly. Deng Shou knows very well that this thigh will not sink. As long as he follows Zhu Lang's family well, he will definitely be safe and worry-free.

Because Deng Shou followed along the way, he had carefully seen that Zhu Yuanzhang's respect for Aunt Wang, his love for Zhu Erbao, and his joy for Zhu Lang. More importantly, the prince Zhu Biao was close to Zhu Lang, all of which were in Deng Shou's eyes.

So when Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to make Deng Shou the janitor of the Zhu family, Deng Shou was very excited. Here we can see that Deng Shou is very far-sighted. Maybe you will feel that Deng Shou is a little unrighteous. After all, he is the adopted son of the Deng family, but this is the key. Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son has restored his surname. Do you think the adopted son can continue to exist?

Deng Shou saw far and clearly, so he made the right choice.

"That's great..." Zhu Lang laughed: "Some Deng Qianhu and Zhao Baihu will not be bullied in the future, so Deng Qianhu and Zhao Baihu are also considered members of my Zhu family."

"Of course...Deng Shou...!"

"My minister Zhao Ling..."

Deng Shou and Zhao Ling quickly knelt down and said in unison: "I hope to serve the Zhu family."

"Okay..." Zhu Lang showed a faint smile.
Chapter completed!