Asking him about the matter of choosing a crown prince, this was the emperor's trust in him!
However, this was not necessarily a test from the Emperor! It was a test to see if he would take sides!
If the Emperor already had someone in his heart, and his answer was contrary to the Emperor's, wouldn't he be courting death?
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and raised his hand to help Liu Sanwu up." What are you doing?”
"We called you over to tell you the truth. Why are you kneeling?”
"I forgive you. Tell me, what do you think of this matter?”
Looking at the Emperor's determined gaze, Liu Sanwu felt bitter in his heart. He knew that if he did not make his stance clear today, he would probably not be able to walk out of the Hall of Heaven's Tribute.
Liu Sanwu gritted his teeth and knelt down in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for being blunt!"
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's strange gaze, Liu Sanwu solemnly kowtowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and said solemnly.
"Your Majesty, please appoint your grandson as the crown prince!”
Make his grandson the crown prince?
Zhu Yuanzhang was about to rebuke Liu Sanwu's words, but before he could say it out loud, he choked. After thinking for a moment, he asked again.
"Why? Although I have heard of this matter of establishing a grand grandson. However, since ancient times, the Crown Prince had been chosen from the Princes. After all, there were very few Grand Grandsons.”
"Moreover, although our Biao Er has left, we still have a lot of sons. Although they are not as good as Biao Er, they are not bad either.”
"As the old saying goes,'The country has a long ruler, and the country is blessed.''The country is in doubt when the master is young, and the ministers are not attached.' Instead of appointing an older prince, he chose to appoint a young imperial grandson as the heir. What kind of logic is this?”
"Why? Do you think that our second, third, and other sons can't be the crown prince?”
Liu Sanwu was still kneeling on the ground. He said solemnly,""Your Majesty, please forgive this lowly subject for overstepping my boundaries!”
"The King of Qin is currently in prison with a guilty body. This lowly subject has never heard of the Crown Prince not cultivating benevolent government and breaking the law with his own body!”
"Moreover, the brother of the Qin Princess Consort is the King of Hejian, a former noble minister, and the Left Prime Minister of the Hall of Governmental Affairs, Wang Baobao. If the King of Qin is appointed as the Crown Prince, how will the Qin Princess Consort be able to be the mother of the world after a hundred years?”
"Although the King of Jin is not as guilty as the King of Qin, everyone knows that the King of Jin whipped the kitchen, tied people up, and cracked the car. His virtue is even worse than the King of Qin!”
"May I ask Your Majesty, how did the Qin and Jin Kings become Crown Princes and Crown Princes?”
Liu Sanwu looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a serious expression.
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows and was speechless.
He knew his own business. No one knew better than him what his two sons were like.
To be honest, he had no intention of making these two sons the crown prince. He actually wanted to make his great-grandson the crown prince.
If it wasn't for his boss taking care of his two younger brothers and giving face to his sister, the thrones of these two fools would have been abolished by him long ago!
But no matter what, these two fools were still his sons. As the emperor and father, there were some words that could not be said by him personally. They had to be said by the ministers.
But now, Liu Sanwu had said it according to his heart, but he felt a little uncomfortable.
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and said unhappily,""What about the King of Yan?"
"The King of Yan is wise and kind, and he is as heroic as me. Our fourth brother shouldn't be bad, right?”
"Your Majesty is right. The King of Yan is indeed famous for his bravery and fortitude!”
Liu Sanwu cupped his hands and acknowledged it calmly. However, just as he confirmed it, he changed the topic.
"Since ancient times, the crown prince has been established as the direct heir. If Your Majesty chooses the King of Yan as the crown prince, where will the two kings of Qin and Jin be placed?”
From the bottom of his heart, Liu Sanwu did not support the King of Yan being the Crown Prince.
This was because the King of Yan was not Empress Ma's legitimate son.
Ever since the Zhou Dynasty, the patriarch clan had established the legitimate son, and the Confucians had advocated the Zhou ceremony. As a great scholar of the dynasty and a model for the scholars, how could he not follow the example!
Of course, he wasn't a stubborn old man who stuck to the rules.
If he was really a pedantic scholar, he wouldn't be able to become a scholar of the Imperial Academy, a strategist for the emperor, a trusted minister of the emperor.
Based on his speculations about the Emperor's heart, he did not think that the Emperor really wanted to make the King of Yan the Crown Prince, and that he was not testing his words.
Because the Emperor and Empress Ma were deeply in love, everyone knew that the son was noble because of his mother. The Emperor's love for his legitimate son was evident throughout the court.
Needless to say, the Emperor valued the Crown Prince. Since ancient times, there had never been a Crown Prince who could be trusted by the Emperor like the current Crown Prince.
Even the emperor loved the crown prince and his grandchildren.
When Zhu Xiongying, the eldest grandson of the Emperor, was still alive, the Emperor and Empress had personally raised him and doted on him!
After the death of the eldest grandson, Zhu Yunwen, the second son of the Crown Prince, was also deeply loved by the Emperor.
Although the two kings of Qin and Jin were not as favored as the prince, they were the most favored among the kings.
If it wasn't for the Emperor's favor and pampering of the Qin and Jin Kings, the Qin and Jin Kings wouldn't have caused so much trouble when they arrived at their fiefs!
With the sins committed by the Qin and Jin kings, they should have been stripped of their titles long ago and deposed as commoners. Why wait until now?
It could be said that Liu Sanwu was not the first person to advocate the importance of the direct line.
The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty beside him was the number one person who advocated for the right way to rule the country!
It was precisely because of this that he proposed to make his grandson the crown prince when the Qin and Jin kings could not become crown princes.
Because he felt that this might be the Emperor's true intention in choosing the Crown Prince.
Of course, he was not completely selfless when he asked for a grandson. He was completely dedicated to the public.
He was a great scholar of the court, and he was still teaching the princes and grandchildren who had yet to leave the vassal realm.
If the emperor set up a grandson, the candidate must be among the sons of the prince.
Whether it was Zhu Yunwen or Zhu Yunyu, they were both his students.
In the future, if one person ascended the throne and inherited the throne, he, Liu Sanwu, would be the teacher of the current emperor and truly become the crown of the scholars!
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang fall into silence again, Liu Sanwu knew that he had guessed the Emperor's thoughts correctly!
He continued," Since ancient times, the reason why there were many princes and few grandsons was because the death of the crown prince was not a funeral, but a death penalty!”
"The Crown Prince has committed a great crime and cut off his ties with the ancestral temple and the state. If he doesn't talk about the imperial grandson, it's already a favor from the heavenly family. How can he be appointed as the grand grandson and inherit the throne?”
"But our dynasty is different! The prince died, and the legal system was still in place! Therefore, the Crown Prince's line was still the direct line!”
"There are precedents for the crown prince to be appointed, and it is in line with the court's rules. If the father dies, the son will inherit it, and follow the cardinal guides of human relations!”
"With the ancient and modern etiquette and the teachings of the saints, this humble subject pleads Your Majesty to appoint the Grand Sun as the crown prince to stabilize the country and the court!”
After saying that, Liu Sanwu bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and knelt on the ground respectfully.
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and said,""However, the sons of the Crown Prince are still young. If the Crown Prince is young and the country is suspicious,"
Liu Sanwu said righteously," The sons of the Crown Prince are adults. They have His Majesty's personal guidance. Who dares to be disrespectful?”
"Moreover, please forgive me for being blunt, Your Majesty!”
"Although the Crown Prince is dead, the legal system still exists. Therefore, the Crown Prince's line is still the direct heir!”
"There are no two suns in the sky, and there are no two direct descendants in the country. If His Majesty chooses another prince as the crown prince, what will happen to the sons of the crown prince?”
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