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Chapter 657 "Unyielding Spirit" Fang Xiaoru

During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang overheard the lively conversation at the Zhu family's residence and couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Oh my, which emperor has been made to look so respectable by later generations of scholars!"

"Old Fourth Zhu is really something! He dragged his father, who had been dead for several years, out of the picture and passed the throne to him. How did he come up with that?! Oh my god, I'm dying of laughter!"

Lü Zhi rolled her eyes. "Laughing so loudly, it's not like no one's writing about the Liu family."

Xiao He was quite helpless. Well, it's really hard to see this kind of thing here. Scholars would fabricate stories for the emperor to make civil officials proud and upright!

During the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di was so angry that he cursed: "Who wrote this thing? Everyone says that these few are treacherous officials, but I still insist that they write the edict?"

"Even if I had my head caught in a door, I wouldn't have done such a thing!"

Zhu Gaochi coughed: "Scholars have always written like this, Father, why bother arguing with them?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu disagreed. He hadn't forgotten his nephew, having cut most of his heroic image, and angrily said:

"Brother, it turns out you weren't the one being criticized. Put yourself in his shoes, aren't you angry at that kid who removed you from the Imperial Ancestral Temple?"

Zhu Gaochi was speechless. He was angry, of course he was angry! Instead of just dragging him out and beating him up, he was just making himself angry. It wasn't worth it!

But his father's work was written by more than one or two scholars, and besides, it wasn't at this time, so there weren't enough people to catch.

Zhu Di listened to his son's words, but that didn't stop him from getting angry with his eldest son. He didn't stay a few more years before leaving, and then he angered his second son, leading to a war between him and Zhanji.

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"Besides that, in the biographies of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Xiaoru was actually hiding at home or in the city when he was captured alive by the Yan army. There is no story that Judy forced him to write an edict, or else his entire clan would be executed."

"The most widespread period of transmission began during the Ming Dynasty's Chenghua era and continued until the mid-Qing Dynasty, where we can still see:"

“Yao Guangxiao admires Fang Xiaoru and must recommend him to Judy. We can’t get rid of Fang Xiaoru, because if he’s gone, the seeds of scholars in the world will be extinguished!”

Scholars after Fang Xiaoru: Ah!? Then what are we??

There are countless scholars in the world, and those from other timelines were greatly shocked upon hearing this.

Even the most shameless person cannot arbitrarily compare one person to the seeds of all scholars in the world!

How much ability did he have? As his descendants said, he neither guarded the emperor nor was he loyal to the monarch, nor did he have the integrity to sacrifice himself for the country. How could he be called "the spark of learning for all scholars in the world"?

"The key question is, among the treacherous officials that Zhu Di repeatedly ordered Jianwen to execute, those he claimed were the three fools of Jianwen, right?"

"Isn't this equivalent to me going through all sorts of hardships, fighting my way from Beiping to Yingtian, clearly intending to kill those guys, only to have the scene suddenly change, and I don't arrest them anymore, but instead respect them and even write an imperial edict for them, isn't that great?!"

General Judy, the Northern Expeditionary Army: I…&@? …This temper…@&? …

“Judy isn’t stupid, and he had already compiled a list of treacherous officials. A portion of the Jianwen Emperor’s court officials on the list, the main criminals, would receive a boxed lunch from the Yongle Group of the Ming Dynasty.”

Jianwen court officials: "..."

"For example, prominent officials of the Jianwen Emperor's court such as Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, as well as their relatives or students who were implicated, could not escape punishment."

"Generally speaking, the main punishments were confiscation of property, exile, or being sent to see the founding emperor, Zhu Gaochi. But don't worry, most people would be pardoned when Emperor Renzong of Ming, Zhu Gaochi, took office."

Jianwen court officials: ??? …