After criticizing Zhu Yunying, Zhu the Elder continued, "I'm too lazy to give you any more pointers. If I keep going, you'll probably lose face. You're such a grown man now, an emperor and a father."

“You can’t say that. No matter what, in front of Grandfather, I’m just his grandson!” Zhu Yunying laughed, not minding his 'coquettishness'. “Grandfather can say what he needs to say and scold him as he needs to scold him. This is my blessing.”

Old Zhu chuckled and pointed at Zhu Yunying, saying, "You weren't so rascal when you were little, but you've grown closer to us as you've grown up."

At this moment, Old Zhu stopped chatting and said seriously to Zhu Yunying, "The reason we came here is to talk to you about the tree oil from Southeast Asia. It seems that the tree oil should be arriving in the capital soon, and the King of Zhongshan should also be arriving in the capital soon."

Old Zhu didn't care about the Minister of Revenue or anything like that; he believed Zhu Yunying could handle these matters well.

For Lao Zhu, what he cared about more was tree oil, which was a matter of benefiting the country and its people, and naturally deserved attention.

Furthermore, matters such as promoting national prestige were naturally of concern to Emperor Zhu. The monarchs of feudal dynasties placed immense importance on the prestige of their celestial empire, even considering it a major headache, and had to treat it with utmost care.

Zhu Yunying was well aware of these matters, and naturally he would not be careless in the slightest. This was not just his own affair, but also a matter concerning the entire Ming Dynasty, so it had to be treated with utmost care.

“We think we need to be cautious about this matter,” Zhu Yunying said seriously, looking at Old Zhu. “Tree sap is certainly good, but it’s not realistic to expect the people to accept it all at once.”

Old Zhu nodded slightly. Many people's ideas were already fixed, so they were naturally quite unfamiliar with and resistant to new things.

If we force things forward at this point, it might backfire and cause a lot of trouble.

Good things naturally need to be treated and arranged better, rather than having good intentions lead to bad outcomes!

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