On the first day of the fourth year of Jianwen, it is rare for King Yan to celebrate the New Year in Beiping, at this time in the first three years, King Yan is fighting hard outside, so the palace people almost forgot to send Fu Tangerine to King Yan's heart palace, but when the Fu Tang was delivered, King Yan waved them down again, and Fu Tang also sent them to them.

His Royal Highness said, "The news of the palace people always spreads quickly: "Fu Tangerine can be used at will, and each person will also be given two auspicious boxes, and the monthly income will be doubled!"

"Why?" a clever and clever man suddenly understood, "Oh, I must have won the battle!"

Their guess was right, half a month ago, King Yan did not relax his guard because the New Year was approaching, and sent Li Yuan to lead 800 cavalry to reconnoiter the movements of the officers and troops to clear the road. When Li Yuan came to Gaocheng, he met Ge Jin, the commander of the capital stationed in Dezhou, who led more than 10,000 people to cross the river to the north. Li Yuan had few soldiers and could not fight hard, so he seized the fighter plane, crossed the river with the official army, and sent troops to attack him. In this battle, more than 4,000 officers and soldiers were beheaded, and many horses fell into the hands of the Yan army, and Ge Jin was only spared.

After King Yan found out, he was extremely happy, and wrote a seal book to comfort Li Yuan, saying: "The general has 800 light horses, broken tens of thousands of enemies, and is surprisingly adaptable, although the ancient famous generals are not enough." ”

After he finished writing, he said to Dao Yan on the side: "Since the Zhang family came back from Peixian, he has been praising Li Yuan's ability to me, I naturally know it, this time I sent him as a striker, and it really lived up to my expectations!"

Two months ago, Zhang and Li Yuan jointly plundered Pei County, burned 10,000 ships of grain and grass, and made King Yan happy, although the losses of the Yan army were also a bit heavy, but it was very worthwhile to be able to destroy the base camp of the official army that needed grain and grass. King Yan didn't seal him last time, because Li Yuan was already in command of affairs, which was the limit of King Yan, as a vassal king, to be promoted to an officer - although Lu Zhen and Guo Zi repeatedly persuaded him to be emperor, but King Yan's mind was still very sober, knowing that before winning this battle, he still had a little righteousness, which was to play the banner of "cutting off traitorous ministers", so not only did he not claim the title of emperor, but also the officers he ordered did not exceed the command of the officer, and he drove his subordinates to fight to the death in order to plan for the future.

Therefore, King Yan secretly recorded Li Yuan's exploits and ordered Li Yuan's officers and soldiers to be commended, and the forward battles were all under the command of the military academy, all of which were promoted to one level.

King Yan actually gradually had a vague battle plan in his heart, he heard Li Yuan and Zhang say that the Xuzhou garrison actually had a lot of loopholes, and they went all the way south, bypassing Shandong, and penetrating Pei County, and almost did not encounter the official army on the road. Yan Wang felt that this broke his inherent thinking, he used to think that he had to capture Dezhou, Jinan, and Shandong, in order to pass through Huaibei, and he suffered a great defeat on the battlefield in Shandong, and he had no choice but to go through Shandong--but now he suddenly felt that why he had to occupy Shandong, why couldn't he bypass Shandong, just like Zhang and Li Yuan did, go straight into Jianghuai, and drive straight into Xuzhou and Suzhou?

King Yan was actually very hesitant, he did not have the determination to make a desperate bet, because he was worried about the officials and troops in Shandong and Liaodong at the same time, if he encountered a sniper in Huaibei, and there were officers and soldiers chasing after him, he could not advance or retreat, but would be surrounded.

Dao Yan, who was silent, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "I heard that a few days ago, a eunuch from the Ouchi came to His Highness, how is this person, has His Highness ever seen him?"

King Yan pondered for a while, and said: "There is a person named Li Fu who came to join me, where can I take care of him, I only asked the mansion to arrange it for him, you old monk, why did you mention him - do you still want to accept an apprentice?"

Daoyan's mouth couldn't help but twitch, he accepted Ma and became an outer disciple, and his Dharma name was auspicious, but the outer disciple was an outer disciple, just a name, and he didn't accept the disciple's business, and Ma He believed in everything, he was a Hui person, believed in Islam, and said that he must go to Mecca for a pilgrimage, and he also worshiped Sanqing and Buddha when he saw it, and he simply did not refuse to come.

"Haha," King Yan couldn't help but feel comfortable when he saw Dao Yan's expression, "Call someone!"

Li Fu was taken to the heart hall by Ma Yun, he was trembling, and the scars on his body were not yet healed, and he was limping when he walked.

"Slave maid, slave maid knock to see His Royal Highness King Yan!" he saw the figure on the throne, and immediately threw himself to the ground and made a big salute.

"Get up," said King Yan, "and raise your head." ”

Li Fuzhan raised his head tremblingly, he still didn't dare to look directly at King Yan, but he glanced at it a little with a little bit of his eyes, when almost all eunuchs have this ability, otherwise when he is serving people all day long, how can he look at his will and serve the color? But when he swept over King Yan's face like this, he suddenly shook his whole body, and immediately looked straight at King Yan.

King Yan was unhappy in his heart, but he didn't show it, because he knew that this eunuch was condemned by Emperor Jianwen and defected to him, he wanted to show his tolerance and show that he was different from Jianwen, so naturally it was not good to blame him for this rude behavior.

"You look at me like this," King Yan smiled and said, "Is there anything different about me?"

"Your Highness, Your Highness forgive your sins!" Li Fu suddenly lay down and said: "The slave maid does not mean to look down on His Highness's appearance! Just because, only because His Royal Highness is majestic, very similar to Emperor Taizu Gao, the slave and maid can't help but lose their sense of proportion at first glance, please forgive Your Highness!"

King Yan originally thought that he was a servant in the court, but he didn't expect that he had also served Emperor Gao, so he couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, and said, "You are my emperor's old man, why have I never seen you?"

"Returning to His Highness," Li Fu said: "The slave maid was transferred to the Fengtian Hall in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, and I have not seen His Highness before. ”

King Yan nodded, before the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, the vassal kings from all over the country entered Beijing frequently, but after the death of Prince Yiwen, Emperor Gao changed the practice of frequently summoning his sons into Beijing, but did not allow the vassal kings to enter Beijing, so King Yan has never been edicted to return to Beijing since the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, so he has never seen him.

"I serve the sick old palace people in the imperial examination palace and the internal officials who follow the palace for a long time," King Yan asked, "Are they all right?"

"Your Royal Highness," Li Fu cried: "As soon as Jianwen ascends the throne, he will send them out of the palace! Huang Zicheng wrote that they had done a lot of illegal things, not only sending out the old men who were serving around Emperor Gao, but also recalling the eunuchs who were ordered to send envoys from other places, and condemning them with the rod!"

If it is said that in the early years of Hongwu, Emperor Gao took strict precautions against eunuchs, eunuchs mainly served in court life, and it was difficult for their activities to go beyond the strict palace walls, Hongwu in his later years, eunuchs re-entered the political arena, Emperor Gao asked the internal official Zhao Cheng to bring Luo Qi silk and Sichuan tea to Hezhou to change horses, and sent them to the Tianxia Tax Bureau to verify the tax and establish the quota, and even the internal officials were ordered to go to Ryukyu to buy more than 900 horses.

Jianwen Junchen advocated Confucian doctrine to govern the country, and the imperial eunuchs were very strict. Although the eunuchs were ordered to send envoys and summon them to be left by Emperor Gao, since Jianwen ascended the throne, Huang Zicheng immediately wrote a letter, and counted the eunuchs to envoy the Quartet, and invaded the mob according to the situation.

As for Li Fu, he escaped this catastrophe because he had been in the inner court, had never been on an envoy, could not find bad deeds, and because he was still literate - however, Fang Xiaoru had always looked at him unpleasantly.

"Jianwen Day talks about Zhou Guan," Li Fu cried: "Send the old slave to and from Wenyuan Pavilion dozens of times, each time to get a number of books, Wenyuan Pavilion has a vast collection of books, and the old slave and four or five revisionists worked hard to check it, so that they could barely find the classics that Fang Xiaoru wanted - every time he went back slowly, he had to be punished, and the old slave's ass was not good!"