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Chapter 1125 The Castration Maniac Zhu Shuang Arrives
Empress Ma finally understood why Emperor Zhu had written "banning the seas" as an ancestral precept.
He's not some rule-obsessed fanatic.
It's because the border markets are just too profitable!
Even though she had personally visited the Dengzhou border market and witnessed firsthand the outrageous prices there, Empress Ma never imagined that the border market would be so profitable.
After a long while, Empress Ma sighed and said, "Fifty thousand li of straight roads, twenty thousand li of railways, twenty thousand libraries—five years, and a new Ming Dynasty will be established?"
Emperor Zhu nodded earnestly, "That's right, five years is all it takes to create a new Ming Dynasty."
"To be honest, girl, we really learned a lot this time, and we also learned a real lesson."
"If it weren't for that bastard, we would never have known that maritime trade was so profitable, let alone how audacious those powerful families, officials, and merchants were."
"Sometimes we wonder if God thought we were too stupid, so He sent this bastard to help us?"
Empress Ma glanced at Emperor Zhu and laughed, "Oh my, so our Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty actually thinks he's stupid? Wasn't this just when you were shouting about writing ancestral precepts?"
Emperor Zhu blushed, grunted twice, and said, "I was just thinking..."
Before Emperor Zhu could finish speaking, Erhu arrived with Mao Xiang, who had been transferred to the position of Assistant Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Erhu first handed Emperor Zhu a memorial, then bowed and said, “Your Majesty, urgent report from Quanzhou: The Second Prince… the Second Prince has… castrated… all the young sons of over a thousand gentry families who kept fire-bringers…”
Mao Xiang kept his head bowed tightly, while Emperor Zhu stared blankly at Empress Ma and asked, "What did he say?"
Empress Ma was almost laughing in anger. She simply ignored Emperor Zhu, took the memorial directly from Mao Xiang's hand, opened it, and glanced at it.
After reviewing the whole story, Empress Ma handed the memorial to Emperor Zhu and then instructed Mao Xiang, "You may leave now."
Mao Xiang felt as if he had been granted a pardon and hurriedly fled. Emperor Zhu, on the other hand, stared blankly at the memorial, then suddenly stood up and roared, "That beast!"
“They went to Quanzhou, and we thought they were going to help Biao’er, so we turned a blind eye.”
"But what they're like," Emperor Zhu said angrily, waving the memorial in his hand, "this good-for-nothing can't help with anything but causing trouble for our Biao'er!"
"Damn it, castrating the young sons of those gentry families, is something that can be done openly and brazenly?"
"He could at least bring the man back to the capital first and then castrate him..."
Emperor Zhu expressed his dissatisfaction with curses and swears, but Empress Ma raised her eyebrows and coldly stared at him, saying, "Zhu Chongba, who are you cursing?!"
Ok?
Emperor Zhu's expression changed drastically. Thinking back on what he had just said, he suddenly felt terrible.
broken!
We were just thinking about cursing that little bastard Zhu Shuang, but we didn't realize we'd cursed our sister too!
Emperor Zhu chuckled twice, then quickly reached out and grabbed Empress Ma's hand, saying with a fawning expression, "Don't be angry, sister. I just misspoke."
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Just as Emperor Zhu was apologizing to Empress Ma with a forced smile, Zhu Shuang, the notorious eunuch in the martial arts world, was also in Quanzhou facing a storm of criticism from his "good brother."
"Tsk, tsk."
"Zhu Lao Er, you've really grown up."
“You can castrate the youngest sons of thousands of gentry families just like that.”
Do you know what people are saying about you now?
"They say you're a castration maniac, that you're tyrannical, that you harm the people, and that you practice some evil art of using young boys and girls to make elixirs of immortality."
Zhu Biao circled Zhu Shuang twice, then suddenly kicked Zhu Shuang in the buttocks and continued to curse: "The key is that the common people are saying that I have not disciplined my younger brother properly, and that our father does not care about the lives of the people at all, but only spoils the princes."
Zhu Shuang was kicked by Zhu Biao and stumbled. After straightening up, he rubbed his buttocks. Zhu Gang, who had accompanied Zhu Lao Er to Quanzhou to be scolded, quickly went to Zhu Biao's side and said with a fawning smile, "Brother, don't be angry. Although it was Second Brother who was wrong, it's not worth getting angry with him, is it?"
Zhu Laosi, who had also accompanied Zhu Lao Er to Quanzhou to be scolded, came over with a big smile and said obsequiously, "If you're really angry, Big Brother, just whip Second Brother a few times to vent your anger. Don't let Second Brother upset you."
Zhu Lao Er looked at Zhu Lao San and Zhu Lao Si with a completely bewildered expression, and a sudden surge of anger welled up inside him.
No wonder they say you should discipline your younger brother early on.
Are these two bastards here to get scolded along with their second brother?
They're here to stir up trouble for the boss!
They're just here to see me, the second brother, make a fool of myself!
Seeing Zhu Lao Er's unfriendly expression, Zhu Biao simply snorted coldly and asked, "What, are you dissatisfied?"
Zhu Lao Er panicked and quickly lowered his head to admit his mistake: "No, I am convinced, but I can't stand Lao San and Lao Si."
"They initially said they were there to accompany their younger brother and get scolded."
"But look at them now, are they here to take the blame along with their little brother?"
The more Zhu Lao Er spoke, the more aggrieved he became, and Zhu Biao's face grew increasingly dark.
How could I have such a stupid younger brother?
Zhu Biao glared fiercely at Zhu Lao Er, Zhu Lao San, and Zhu Lao Si, then snorted coldly and said, "You three are all about to get married and take up your fiefs, and none of you are any of the troublemakers!"
"The matter of castrating the young sons of those gentry families could have been handled in a reasonable and justifiable manner, so that no one could find fault with it. But you just castrated them, and the matter was turned from being reasonable to being unreasonable."
“Even if the Censorate and the Provincial Judicial Commissioner interrogate them overnight, and then publish their confessions and sentences in the newspapers overnight, the people will still think that you, Zhu Shuang, castrated the youngest son of a local gentry family first, and that your father and I are making amends for you later.”
At this point, Zhu Biao couldn't help but sigh again and said, "You're all going to be enfeoffed now, so you'd better be more careful."
“A tarnished reputation for a vassal king is not a good thing for the court.”
"It brings absolutely no benefit to our Great Ming Dynasty and its people."
"You have to understand that ordinary people have no contact with us or the imperial court. Most of the time, they just listen to the nonsense of those gentry and scholars. It's normal for them to just parrot what others say."
“If the gentry and scholars say you are villains, then the common people will also think you are villains.”
"You are all bad guys, so how could I, the Crown Prince, be anything good?"
"There are no good people in our family. How can you expect ordinary people to genuinely identify with their identity as citizens of the Ming Dynasty?"