Chapter 1602 Abdication, the Three Emperors, Departure
Liu Bingzhong was shocked when he received Su Mingzhe's handwritten edict.

Zen position?

Are you kidding me?

Su Mingzhe is only in his thirties this year and is in the prime of his life. How could he abdicate at this time?

After being shocked, Liu Bingzhong did not dare to think too much, nor did he dare to tell anyone the imperial edict. He hurriedly said goodbye to the prince and rode to the Chengde Palace on horseback to find out the truth.

"Liu Bingzhong, when did you become so timid?"

Su Mingzhe looked at Liu Bingzhong who was kneeling in front of him and couldn't help but look down on him.

"Your Majesty, please withdraw the edict!"

Liu Bingzhong continued to kneel, holding the imperial edict in both hands and raising it above his head, as if he would kneel and die in the Guangming Hall if Su Mingzhe did not take back the edict.

"Your Majesty, I am not kidding. The imperial edict cannot be taken back!"

Su Mingzhe directly rejected Liu Bingzhong's advice, then waved his hand, signaling him to stand up and sit down.

After Liu Bingzhong sat down, he carefully drank a sip of tea to ease his emotions. Finally, he couldn't help asking:
"Your Majesty is in the prime of life, right now when you are ready to achieve great things. Why do you want to abdicate?"

"Let's not talk about my abdication first. The Prime Minister is also familiar with history books. Can you tell me, throughout history, how many founding princes have had a good end? How many princes of ancient sage kings have had a good end?"

The question raised by Su Mingzhe caught Liu Bingzhong off guard.

Even though he was extremely smart, he did not dare to answer Su Mingzhe's tricky question.

The reason is simple. Since the First Emperor ascended the throne and Prince Fusu (orthodox history holds that Prince Fusu was the First Emperor's successor), few founding princes had a good ending. As for the princes of the Holy King, they were all similar and basically could not escape their bad fate.

"Forget it. If you don't dare to answer, then you don't have to answer. You just need to remember one thing: to me, that position is not as important as you think!"

In the dimension of "Joy of Life", when Su Mingzhe became emperor for the first time, he was forced to abdicate by the prince with the words "There has never been a prince in the world who has served for more than 30 years".

Later in the "Tianlong" plane, Su Mingzhe, the incarnation of the evil corpse of the Three Pure Ones, was obsessed with wealth and glory in the world. He proclaimed himself emperor for nearly a hundred years, but was eventually abandoned by his children and grandchildren.

From that time on, although Su Mingzhe still had some thoughts about the throne, he no longer had much attachment to it.

Whenever the prince showed disgust, he would take the initiative to abdicate to avoid a feud between father and son and bloodshed among the family.

Now, Su Mingzhe saw that the prince was about to abdicate, so he naturally wanted to leave.

This doesn't mean that Su Mingzhe is cowardly and is afraid of even his own son.

It’s because, as a parent, he doesn’t want to compete with his children for something that he himself doesn’t value.

This is one of the few bright spots in Su Mingzhe's humanity.

If even the father-son relationship was abandoned by Su Mingzhe, there is a high probability that he would turn into an emotionless stone.

Seeing that Su Mingzhe seemed to really want to abdicate, Liu Bingzhong began to think seriously:
"Your Majesty, if you really want to abdicate, you should at least wait until the Crown Prince's wedding, right?"

"Yes, the prince's marriage has been decided. The queen has arranged a marriage for him. It is with the youngest daughter of the Grand Tutor Wang E!"

As soon as Su Mingzhe finished speaking, Liu Bingzhong bowed and said:
"Since Your Majesty has already considered everything, I will not say anything more. However, I would like to ask Your Majesty to suspend the imperial edict and wait until the Crown Prince's wedding to discuss everything!"

According to Zhou Li.

It takes at least one year from the emperor's proposal to the marriage.

The prince's term is half a year.

……

The twelfth year of Hongwu.

Just after the Spring Festival, Su Mingzhe suddenly announced that he would abdicate in favor of Crown Prince Su Hui at the end of this year.

Ministers such as Liu Bingzhong who received the news in advance all submitted reports of praise.

The court officials who did not receive the news were all horrified.

After all, Su Mingzhe is only in his thirties and in the prime of his life, so he can abdicate just like that.

At first, some ministers thought that this was a test from Su Mingzhe and began to frantically submit memorials to advise him.

Some people even use the old story of King Wuling of Zhao abdicating the throne to his son but being trapped to death in Shaqiu Palace by his son as a warning.

Su Mingzhe naturally ignored these people and even left them all to the prince to deal with.

... "Your Majesty, are you really willing to give up being the emperor and take us to settle down in West Lake?"

After Guo Xiang learned of the man's decision, she came to see him despite being four months pregnant, her beautiful big eyes full of curiosity and surprise.

Ever since being forcibly pushed down by Su Mingzhe, Guo Xiang has been disgusted with Su Mingzhe in various ways and has never taken the initiative to look for Su Mingzhe.

Now, she came to me on her own initiative, which showed that she was too curious.

"Why would you be reluctant to give it up?"

Su Mingzhe was quite fond of Guo Xiang, but he bullied her for only a year and made her pregnant.

Guo Fu was bullied for three whole years before she became pregnant with her first child.

"That's the throne!"

Guo Xiang was dissatisfied when she saw Su Mingzhe's calm eyes and expression:
"If you didn't like being the emperor, why did you force the young emperor, Duke Qin, to abdicate?"

He was speechless after being asked by Guo Xiang.

Usually when this happens, Su Mingzhe is too lazy to say anything more.

After all, Guo Xiang was only five months pregnant, so if she was careful, there would be no problems.

……

It was May.

Su Mingzhe set off again and headed for Chengde Palace.

When many ministers saw that Su Mingzhe really entrusted all the power of the court to the prince and acted as if he didn't care at all, they began to panic and hurriedly expressed their loyalty to the prince.

Guo Xiang was about to give birth and could not follow her man to Chengde.

Before the man left, when he came to Qingque Palace for the last time, Guo Xiang's eyes were full of complexity and confusion.

She couldn't quite tell which face of the man was the most authentic.

……

In the blink of an eye it was September.

Su Mingzhe returned from the Chengde Palace, and there were only a hundred days left before the abdication ceremony.

After receiving the notice, tribal chiefs, envoys from various countries, and local gang leaders all came to the capital to watch the ceremony.

At this point, everyone understood that abdication was inevitable and could not be faked.

……

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is an auspicious day.

The abdication ceremony was held at the Temple of Heaven in the south of Dadu.

After the abdication ceremony, the new emperor held a banquet in the Qianqing Palace to entertain the guests.

Su Mingzhe borrowed Guo Jing's Duke of Chu Mansion to entertain guests including Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Lu Youjiao, and Yang Guo.

This time, Su Mingzhe abdicated, and Yang Guo, Lu Youjiao and others also chose to leave together.

One emperor and one courtier.

They followed Su Mingzhe to build the empire out of loyalty.

Now that Su Mingzhe is gone, there is no point in them staying.

……

After abdicating, Su Mingzhe said that he was living in seclusion in West Lake, but in fact, when he was bored, he would travel around.

Decades of time just passed like this.

Thirty years after Su Hui ascended the throne, when he was nearly fifty years old, he followed his father's example and abdicated.

Less than fifty years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a rare prosperous scene of "Three Emperors Coexisting in the World" appeared.

For a time, it was highly praised by literati all over the country.

After hearing this, Su Mingzhe shook his head slightly, and disappeared from the West Lake Palace with the woman who was still alive.