"What happened to Mu Ying?"

Zhu Yunzhang saw a rare loss of composure and anxiety in Zhu Yuanzhang's body.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang was less like an emperor and more like an old man who cared about his son and nephew.

Mu Ying, is the first child adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying.

Throughout the ages, military generals have had the tradition of adopting righteous sons and entrusting them with important duties. They were entrusted with important duties, such as leading the elite to protect the commander-in-chief, charging into battle, or controlling the soldiers.

But Mu Ying, by no means, was more than that.

He came from a lonely background, the child of a farmer's family in Dingyuan. When he was eight years old, he fled with his mother, who fell ill and died, and Empress Ma, seeing his pity, adopted him by her side.

From then on Mu Ying changed his surname to Zhu and his name to Wen Ying.

At the age of twelve Mu Ying began to follow Zhu Yuanzhang's ass and went into battle. He was not only brave in battle, but also filial, serving Ma Xiuying as if she were his own mother, and treating the children of Zhu's family as if they were his eldest brother.

From the time he became the Zhu family adopted son to now, all the way through the decades, he has long been a part of the Zhu family, in the hearts of Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying, is no less than flesh and blood.

Even those adult princes of Zhu Yuanzhang have to respectfully call Mu Ying a brother when they see him.

He was not Zhu Yuanzhang's only adopted son, but the one Zhu family liked and trusted the most.

Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to the throne as the emperor, for the sake of the royal lineage and inheritance issues, can not let these adopted sons to follow their own surnames, so that they have returned to their original surnames. Only Mu Ying, pleaded with his father and mother not to become an official, not to ask for a title, but only to continue to be the son of the Zhu family.

At that time, Ma Xiuying took Mu Ying's hand and cried, "No matter what your surname is, you are my son!

In order to repay the kindness of the Zhu family, Mu Ying chose to take the surname Mu, bathing in the heavenly grace of Mu.

The founding of the Ming Dynasty, Mu Ying unwilling to be the central magisterial, first of all, the conquest of the Tubo, and then went on a campaign in the Desert North, and made great achievements, and finally took the initiative to guard the border of Yunnan, clearing away the remaining Mongol Yuan, extinguished the Dali Duan clan, and deterred the vassal states for the Ming Dynasty to guard the door of the country.

In addition to his military achievements, Mu Ying also implemented countless benevolent policies in Yunnan, building water conservancy, opening transportation, and setting up schools.

He was a man who was not arrogant, bossy, greedy, cruel or violent.

Zhu Yuanzhang once said, "With Ying's presence in Yunnan, we can rest assured!

Some years ago, when Empress Ma died, Mu Ying, who was far away from Yunnan, cried until he vomited blood and fell ill.

Mu Ying's Mu family, in the next few hundred years, with the blood of countless men in their family, interpretation of the word Mu.

The Mu family has been defending Yunnan for many generations, and the Mu family has not dared to rebel for hundreds of years. Generations of Mu family men at the border, quietly guarding the territory for the Ming Dynasty.

Until the last head of the Mu family, Mu Tianbo, died in Burma.

Now, eight hundred miles of urgency in Yunnan, could it be?

"Bring it!" Zhu Yuanzhang directly snatched the zhengzuo from Huang Dog's hand, and Zhu Yunzhang realized that his hand was shaking.

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Afterwards, the expression on Zhu Yuanzhang's face became hideous, "Pass the decree, have the Imperial Hospital's Dean go to Yunnan immediately, and send all the herbs that are available in the capital, no matter what, as long as they are beneficial to Ying'er!"

"Imperial grandfather!" Zhu Yunzhang stood up and assisted Zhu Yuanzhang, "What's wrong?"

"See for yourself!" Zhu Yuanzhang sat down and let out a long sigh, "Mu Ying, is dying!"

Zhu Yunzhang was shocked in his heart and opened the zhang folders.

"Minister, Mu Chun sobbed blood in his petition!"

Mu Chun is Mu Ying's eldest son, the zhang folding was written by him.

"My father heard about the death of the Crown Prince, howled and cried and vomited three liters of blood, and fell ill. I have invited famous doctors, and they all say that he does not have much time left. Chen Mu family tired of imperial grace, my father had said that after death to be buried outside the East Mausoleum, accompanied by the Queen's mausoleum side ......"

Looking at the zhang folding in his hand, Zhu Yunyun could not help but to recall images of the past in his mind.

In the 20th year of Hongwu, when he was still young, Mu Ying entered the capital. He himself had seen Mu Ying under the leadership of his father, Zhu Biao.

It was a middle-aged man with a stout figure and a gentle smile all over his face.

At that time, Zhu Biao called Mu Ying Ying's brother.

He himself used the rite of a junior and met Mu Ying. The latter smiled lovingly and looked affectionate, and gave himself a clan's curved sword.

When Mu Ying left the capital, Zhu Biao took a few young feudal lords and sent them out far and wide!

They were on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, choking up and saying goodbye.

"First our first-born son is gone, and now it's Mu Ying's turn?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face was full of bitterness, and he said in a sad voice, "What's going on here? Why is it that this old man of ours, with his hair all gray, has to go through the pain of losing his son!"

As he said, he slid down the wine and food on the table, "Every one of them has left us, how can we live?"

"Grandpa!" Zhu Yunzhang obediently knelt beside Zhu Yuanzhang, gently holding each other's back.

People in later generations said that Zhu Yuanzhang was brutal, but in fact, Zhu Yunzhang's memories told him that Zhu Yuanzhang was the one who valued affection the most. The orphans that he and Ma Xiuying adopted were all raised in their own homes and grew up with their own sons.

Ma Xiuying personally taught these children to read and write, and Zhu Yuanzhang taught these children martial arts. Fighting pro-brothers and tiger-brothers, going into battle with their fathers and sons, these righteous sons led by Mu Ying didn't let their righteous father and mother down, and each of them was good.

"Grandfather, don't be anxious! Mu Gong is just sick, he is in his prime, people who practice martial arts all year round, his body is strong, he is looking anxious now, he will be fine after a while." Zhu Yun said softly.

"Ai!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, "When people get old, the thing they can't see the most is this!"

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang, sat there, his white hair and wrinkles showing his old age. Emperors are also human beings, especially emperors like Zhu Yuanzhang who came from a reckless background and valued his family, it is even more difficult to give up the feelings in his heart for his family.

His life killed many ministers, ministers, but did not kill any of the family, even when he betrayed his own nephews, but only confinement, his nephew's descendants, but also sealed the feudal king.

Those nephews are also raised by him, as the same as the biological, each is hereditary Duke, looking at them to start a family, passing on the family.

There are also the righteous sons of those commanding generals, in the past, when Empress Ma was alive, every year and festival were open to give the children of those righteous sons' families, preparing new clothes.

"Grandfather!" Zhu Yun continued, "Sun's son begs you for one thing!"

"We are both grandparents and grandchildren, what is there to beg or not to beg!" Zhu Yuanzhang seemed a bit tired and said softly.

"In a few months it will be your birthday!" Zhu Yunzhang laughed, "If in the folklore, the birthday of the old man is the time for a family reunion. My grandson thought, why don't we just make a big fuss this year!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked up in surprise, and there was delight in his eyes.

"Call all the uncles back, get all those righteous sons of yours as well, let's have fun together as a family for a few days!" Zhu Yunzhang continued, "You also take a look at your grandsons, god grandsons, and god granddaughters, how nice is that?"

The wrinkles on Zhu Yuanzhang's face blossomed in a smile, and his eyes carried an incomparable yearning.

Although the emperor was the supreme lord, he was also a loner.

The usual heavenly pleasures of the people's homes were luxuries in the emperor's case.

Zhu Yunzhang's proposal was right into Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.

The palace is very big, but it is not like a home, there is only himself as the emperor and a group of concubines, the meeting is all kinds of complicated rituals, there is not a home like.

But gradually, Zhu Yuanzhang smile faded into bitterness.

Shaking his hand repeatedly, "No, no, can't let them come!"

Sigh again, continue to say, "the vassal king into the capital is a big event, their family along with the guards to tens of thousands of people, along the way the government can not help but to be hospitality. Nowadays, the government is not rich, they go to the capital to pay birthday is good, but nuisance places, aggravate the people's burden is bad!"

"Although we are the emperor, but we can't let the people suffer for the sake of our pleasure, no no no!"

Zhu Yunyun's heart gave birth to a few moments of admiration.

This is a good emperor for the sake of the people, afraid to enter the capital of the sons, to the local financial burden and deficit.

If it is some kind of later generations of ten full old man, this great emperor that great emperor. They are happy for their own sake, who cares about the death of your people.