A few days later, the Jinghai fleet returned triumphantly and anchored on the Yangtze River, and the main members of the Zheng clan were escorted into the city of Nanjing.

Zheng Zhilong, who was wearing a prison number, entered the Forbidden City nervously, his palms were full of sweat, he had thought about all kinds of scenes of meeting the great emperor or the prince, but he never thought that one day he would walk in here in prison clothes.

I don't know who deliberately made it difficult for him, Zheng Zhilong was wearing a very large and loose uniform, as if it was stolen from the big opera.

On the contrary, Zheng Fusong's uniform is very small and looks tight, but fortunately, he has a strong figure and does not feel funny at first glance.

The father and son, one older and one younger, walked into the platform in front of Qianqingmen Square under the escort of a team of brocade guards.

The Qianqing Palace is the emperor's dormitory and the place to deal with the notebook, Zhu Cihong only used him to summon important ministers, and ordinary officials even advanced to the gate outside the Qianqing Palace, and only summoned them on the platform.

Platform meeting or platform summoning, is the Ming filial piety Emperor Hongzhi thirteen years from the beginning of the middle of the Wanli, as well as the Chongzhen period of a special way to participate in the court, to put it bluntly, on the north side of the temple on the pedestal to summon the minister to talk.

Because the base further north from here is the square in front of the Qianqing Gate, which is relatively close to the Qianqing Palace, so the Ming emperor often summoned ministers on the platform (the layout of the Forbidden City in Nanjing and Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was almost the same, and most of the main palace names were the same).

The father and son were wearing thin prison uniforms, and after being dried in the cold for half an hour, Zhu Cihong slowly sat over in the dragon chariot.

Zheng Fusong's face was frozen white, and he saw a young man about fourteen or fifteen years old wearing a dragon black-patterned brocade robe and walking off the car.

Just as he was looking carefully, the person on the other side also looked at him, the young man's two sword eyebrows were as clear as heaven, and a pair of bright eyes shot cold stars, quite powerful, thinking that this person was the crown prince Zhu Cihong!

Zheng Zhilong was the first to react, and hurriedly bowed to the ground, very respectful, he faintly felt that since the prince summoned his father and son, he thought that he would give him a way to live, but he couldn't pretend to be too big.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong even regretted his intestines, and he knew that when he was named Dongfanbo, he should have withstood the dissatisfaction of his own brothers, and righteously dedicated most of the interests of the Zheng Group, why did he end up in today's field.

Zheng Zhilong's loose robe is convenient for saluting, Zheng Fusong is not good, he just knelt down to salute, stabbed, and the tight uniform on his body was squeezed and torn open a big gap, and the dew point.

Zhu Cihong ignored the ugly Zheng Fusong, but took a serious look at Zheng Zhilong, the person in front of him looked very young, less than forty years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, big ears, and very stylish.

"Let's talk about it, what should I do with your Zheng family?"

Zhu Cihong was also entangled in how to deal with the Zheng family, he originally wanted to destroy the Zheng family, but he also thought that if the Zheng family fell, all the pirates who were attached to the Zheng family would flee along the coast, which would increase the difficulty of cleaning up the sea in the future, and it was difficult to guarantee that in the next few years, the southeast coast would not repeat the tragedy of the Jiajing Dynasty.

In addition to the problem of piracy, there are also the Spaniards and Dutch who occupied Taiwan, without Zheng Zhilong's suppression, when the Ming Royal Navy was not strong, whether the foreign devils could be honest or not, this is also a problem.

If you leave the Zheng family, it is not in line with your own style......

Zheng Zhilong humbly made a big salute, and at the same time looked at Zhu Cihong secretly, but the prince's face was flat, neither happy nor sad, which was unpredictable.

He didn't expect the crown prince to ask this question as soon as he opened his mouth, and he was very puzzled and depressed, now you are a knife and I am a fish and meat, why do you ask me in turn how to deal with the Zheng family?

Zheng Zhilong howled: "His Royal Highness the Prince, it is the criminal minister who does not know the depths and seeks his own death to fight against the imperial court, against the crown prince, and the criminal is full of regrets!" ”

"Do you regret it? Isn't it a lot of fun? Zhu Cihong glanced at Zheng Fusong and said, "You said yes, right?" ”

It was Zheng Fusong who led the Iron Man Army to take the initiative to fight against the Jingwu Army, and at this time, hearing the prince pointing to this matter, Zheng Fusong's head was as big as a fight, and he said nervously: "The criminal minister is young, and he doesn't know the depths ......."

Zheng Zhilong's father and son thought very clearly along the way, in the face of this type of killer, they must learn to lower their posture, admit their mistakes without losing their identity, and show their abilities, maybe they can have a chance to live.

Zhu Cihong looked at their father and son meaningfully, and said: "This palace plans to destroy your entire Zheng family, but for the sake of your Zheng family's fight against Westerners a few times and your merit in protecting the sea, pardon one person without dying, who do you think should be pardoned?" ”

After speaking, Zhu Cihong tightened his robe, got into the car again, sat down and sipped tea, and quietly watched their survival performance.

Hearing this, the two of them changed their faces, looked at each other, and did not speak for a long time.

Zheng Zhilong is really afraid of death, although Zheng Fusong is young and bloody, he just learned not long ago that his new wife Dong You is pregnant, and he is going to be a father, and it is not convenient to die now......

After being silent for a while, Zheng Zhilong finally took the lead and said, "Song'er, you have studied Confucianism, you should have heard the phrase 'father is the son'......"

Hearing this, Zheng Fusong was stunned, stared at his eyes tightly and asked, "I've heard, what does my father mean?" ”

Zheng Zhilong leaned over to him and said in a negotiating tone: "What about you, you lived in Japan with your mother before the age of six, although you are not happy under your father's knees, but your father knows that you are very filial......

Zheng Fusong interrupted him and asked, "Father wants his child to die?" ”

Zheng Zhilong: "Don't say that, my father knows that you are filial......"

"Does the father want his child to die?"

"Filial piety to children, you ......"

"Does the father want his child to die?"

Faced with the murderous eyes of the eldest son, and repeated questions, Zheng Zhilong finally got angry and said in a deep voice: "Exactly! ”

Zheng Fusong laughed miserably and said: "You also know the Three Outlines and Five Constants, have you ever heard that your father is a minister, and what you have done in Fujian has you complied with these three Outlines and Five Constants?" ”

"Rebel son, dare to teach the father!" Zheng Zhilong's old face couldn't hold up, so he slapped Zheng Fusong when he went up.

This slap is extremely heavy, like a New Year's firecracker, very loud!

Zheng Fusong, who was originally frozen and trembling, was hit by this sturdy slap and was hot, he touched his hot face, and said: "In this case, I will cut off the father-son relationship with you, and then go to death, which can be regarded as repaying your nurturing kindness!" ”

Hearing that the father-son relationship was severed, Zheng Zhilong was angry again, but the next sentence was that he was completely relieved.

Zheng Zhilong comforted: "Song'er, your newlywed daughter-in-law, I will take care of it, you can rest assured, you are really a good son of your father!" ”

Seeing him behaving like this, Zheng Fusong's heart was already cold, and he was extremely disappointed in the father in front of him who didn't look like his own father.