"Report."
Luo Wen stood at the door and shouted loudly.
Luo Mingyue glanced at Luo Wen: "Come in."
"Director-General, the Water Bandit leader just confessed today that someone hired them to come here, not for robbery, but to attack and burn down the industrial zone."
Luo Mingyue put down the documents in her hand and looked up at Luo Wen: "Did the Water Bandit leader reveal who it was?"
"Chen Youcai from Chen Family Village, Qian Bosheng from Dahe Village, Lin Qi…"
"Chen Youcai?"
Speaking of which, this Chen Youcai was related to her.
Chen Youcai's father and her maternal grandfather, Old scholar of the Chen Family, were brothers, so Chen Youcai was considered Luo Mingyue's paternal cousin.
Of course, the Chen Family prospered by riding on the Luo Family's coattails.
In reality, in Chen Family Village, they were only slightly wealthy.
"Inform the County Magistrate to arrest people according to the list, and at the same time confiscate all property of all participants. For these local Families, all male adults will be sent to the mining area, and the female relatives will be sent to the embroidery workshop and tea plantations."
"Yes, Director-General."
Luo Mingyue didn't have much interaction with the Chen Family. She still remembered that back then, Grandpa had been very critical and dismissive of her.
So she had no affection for the Chen Family whatsoever.
"Where did my father go recently?"
"Grandpa said he went to see Zhu Di off on his last journey." Luo Wen had no reverence for the Zhu Family.
She and all her classmates were rescued by Rosen and Luo Mingyue, who then taught them knowledge and martial arts. Everything she had was given by the Luo Family, including her surname.
Besides Rosen and Luo Mingyue, she respected no one else.
…
At this moment, on the Northern Desert Grasslands, Zhu Di was lying in his tent.
From the moment he set out on the expedition, he had a premonition.
Sure enough, when he arrived on the Grasslands, his body rapidly weakened.
This led to the hasty conclusion of this expedition.
Under the night sky, Zhu Di felt his body growing colder.
Just then, a hand gripped Zhu Di's wrist.
Immediately after, Zhu Di felt a warm current flow into his body. Zhu Di suddenly opened his eyes and saw an incredible sight.
Rosen! Was he dead?
Otherwise, how could he see a ghost?
"Do you want to go for a walk?" Rosen asked.
Zhu Di propped himself up and put on his imperial robe.
When Zhu Di followed Rosen out of the tent, he found that the guards outside seemed to have been cast with a stasis spell, completely unresponsive to his and Rosen's comings and goings.
Rosen and Zhu Di walked out of the army's encampment and arrived at a steep slope.
"Are you here to take my soul?" Zhu Di asked.
"No, I'm here to see you off on your last journey," Rosen said faintly. "Zhu Laosi, you wanted to kill me back then, didn't you?"
"Shouldn't I have killed you?" Zhu Di retorted. "You casually took out twenty million taels, and you still have so many novel manufacturing techniques. As long as you were alive for a day, I couldn't rest easy."
"But I never thought of taking your Zhu Family's Dynasty," Rosen said. "If I wanted to, you wouldn't even have had the chance to launch the Jingnan Campaign. You wouldn't even have had the chance to leave Yingtian Prefecture. The money I had was enough to raise an army."
"I couldn't possibly gamble my Zhu Family's Dynasty on whether you would be tempted. The human heart is the riskiest thing to gamble on." Zhu Di replied.
"Yes, the human heart is the riskiest thing to gamble on." Rosen nodded. "So that year, I faked my death to escape."
Zhu Di's pupils constricted: "You didn't die!?"
"No, I didn't die. And after I returned, I began to plan. I intend to let my daughter become the founder of a new Dynasty. She will become an Empress and establish a foundation for ten thousand generations." Rosen said.
"You… you…"
"Even if you and I had an agreement back then not to leave the capital for thirty years, I still regarded you as a friend, because I could understand your reason for imprisoning me. I could even accept the idea that great kindness leads to great enmity. However, I am not someone who sits idly by. But you shouldn't have, under any circumstances, wanted to kill me. No one can take my life, not even if you are the Emperor."
Zhu Di's chest heaved continuously, his anger and shock mixed with a hint of regret.
He regretted not having acted sooner, allowing Rosen to detect his intentions, rather than regretting his murderous intent towards Rosen.
"The Great Ming Dynasty's national strength is growing stronger day by day. You won't have this opportunity."
"The Great Ming Dynasty's strength is only relative to this World," Rosen said. "Have you ever seen a gun that can fire 50 bullets continuously with one reload and can shoot up to a mile away? I have it. I once thought about whether to give you the manufacturing method for this gun, but your actions ultimately made me give up that idea. The more I gave, the stronger your murderous intent towards me became."
"Are you telling me this now to make me regret?"
"Exactly, I'm here to make you regret." Rosen nodded. "I also have rice seeds that yield two harvests a year, a main grain that can produce a thousand catties per mu. I also have a total of 2 billion taels of silver, and 200 million taels of gold. I have flying mechanical contraptions, and weapons that can level a city with one shot."
"Since you have such powerful means, why didn't you reveal them in the past? You could have even replaced the Great Ming Dynasty yourself much earlier." Zhu Di's gaze was fierce, like a man-eating Beast.
"Because I always felt that the Great Ming Dynasty was the most legitimate Dynasty. From ancient times to the present, the Great Ming Dynasty's ascension to power was the most righteous. Your father expelled the Tartar slaves and restored the Han Chinese attire. This alone is worthy of my respect. Even when you seized the throne from that little brat Zhu Yunwen, it didn't change my opinion. I even thought you were more suitable to be this Emperor than Zhu Yunwen. Moving the capital to Shuntian Prefecture to directly face the Northern Yuan threat particularly impressed me. It wasn't until you wanted to kill me that I finally understood. I was truly too foolish to entrust my life to a ruthless Emperor."
------------------------
I've posted 70+ chapters in advance on Patreon.
Webnovel updates will still be daily, as usual.
It might not seem tempting right nobut who knows what the future holds?
[email protected]/TripleCrown
"And If you're enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!"