Seeing that Saihazhi was in the lead, running fast, but the road was not a shortcut, Xia Xun hurriedly called him: "Lao Sai, you are on the wrong path, you have to go around my house from this road!" ”

Saihazhi laughed, reined in the horse, waited for him to rush to his side, and said mysteriously: "Dao'er is not wrong, Guogong just follow me, don't say more." ”

As soon as Xia Xun heard it, he knew that there must be a reason, and with a slight bow of his head at the moment, he followed Saihazhi's side, just spurred the horse, and didn't say a word.

Xia Xun secretly looked at Saihazhi, and saw that he had a rough face, and a shrewd look appeared in his eyes from time to time, which was very different from the recklessness and roughness he had shown before, and his heart couldn't help but move, and said secretly: "When I went to Daning City with him to say King Jianning, I knew that this old man had always been a rough and fine character.

Now that he has been in Jinyiwei for so long, the entire Jinyiwei is under the control of Ji Gang, but Ji Gang has nothing to do with him, and he only treats him as a harmless person, and never cares about him. ”

The two of them were just in a hurry, and after a while they rushed to the Chaoyang Gate in the east of the palace, because this was already the range of the palace, and the civilians did not dare to pass here, so there was no one on the road, but under the shade of the willows on the west side of the Chaoyang Gate, there were dozens of horses parked at this moment, and the saddles were all ready, all tied to the big trees by the roadside.

There were some knights standing next to them, all dressed in military uniforms, looking like the samurai entourage of some princely family. Saihazhi and Xia Xun rushed to Chaoyangmen to stop, Saihazhi turned over and dismounted, and said to Xia Xun: "This is it, Guogong, please come with me!" ”

Xia Xun didn't speak, got off the horse and Saihazhi walked forward, the warriors standing under the tree saw the two of them arrive, and they got out of the way, Xia Xun and Saihazhi went to the small river under the tree, only to see a stone platform, there was a cup of tea on the platform, and a person sat next to him, wearing a cyan arrow suit with an indigo forehead tied to his forehead, although he only sat at will, he had a domineering atmosphere.

When Xia Xun saw that person, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised, hurriedly stepped forward, and said with a long salute: "Minister Yang Xu, I have seen the emperor!" ”

The big man with cyan arrow sleeves was Zhu Di, and Zhu Di smiled: "It's not that there is no formality in the palace, sit!" ”

"Emperor Xie!" Xia Xun gave another salute and stepped forward to sit on Zhu Di's side.

Zhu Di lifted a small purple sand teapot, filled a cup in front of Xia Xun with tea, and asked lightly: "After squatting in the edict prison for a few days, do you feel wronged?" ”

Xia Xun chuckled: "There are ** ministers in the court fighting with them, racking their brains, and it is protracted, but they still can't hurt their roots." The emperor strategized and got rid of it in one fell swoop, and the minister was in prison, only limited his freedom for a few days, and he was able to cooperate with the emperor to achieve great things. ”

Zhu Di laughed: "I know if I can't hide it from you, I can't hide it from you." ”

As soon as the laughter stopped, Zhu Di's expression suddenly became solemn, and he asked in a deep voice: "Wenxuan is not only fighting with **, but also has his own party?" ”

Xia Xun was taken aback, thought for a while, and replied solemnly: "The ministers have no comrades, only comrades!" ”

Zhu Di glanced at him and said, "Oh? What is the difference between a comrade and a comrade? Xia Xun said: "The ancients said: If you are with virtue, you are concentric, and if you are with one heart, you are comrade." The same party is a combination of the same interests, and it is called a partner. There are traitorous ministers in the court, and naturally there are loyal ministers, loyal ministers with one heart and one mind, loyal to the emperor, dedicated to the people of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Society, bow to the best, and die. This is a moral friendship, if you agree, you will come, if you don't, you will go, it is not a combination of private interests, so this is a comrade, not a party. If the emperor thinks that this is also a party, then ...... The minister is a royalist! ”…

Zhu Di was silent for a moment, smiled again, and said: "Come, drink tea, this is Junshan Silver Needle, the best tribute tea, quench your thirst first, I went out of the palace today, I was quite interested, after drinking tea, let's go to the eastern suburbs for horse racing!" ”

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Out of Chaoyangmen, on the Purple Mountain, is the mausoleum of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the queen of the big foot Ma Niangniang, and the foot of the Purple Mountain, Dulongfu, play Mount Everest under a large grassland, this is the royal racecourse of the Ming royal family.

Zhu Di rode on a horse, looking into the distance, the grassland was vast, and there was no end to it. After looking at it for a long time, Zhu Di suddenly pointed forward with his horsewhip and said, "Your horse is a good horse specially selected for you by Saihazhi, and its foot strength is not under my imperial horse." Come, you and I, and see who gets to the hillside first!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Di's horsewhip fell, and he shouted: "Drive!" ”

The red-maned horse galloped away like an arrow from a string.

Xia Xun rode a black horse with four hooves stepping on the snow, immediately raised the whip, and followed Zhu Di at a gallop, and the warriors immediately followed closely in all directions.

People are like tigers, horses are like dragons, Zhu Di is one man and horse, the action of crossing the saddle and hitting the waves is very coordinated, galloping all the way to the top of the hillside, slamming the reins of the horse, the horse people stand up, Xi Yu Lu long neighing, its situation, majestic and unstoppable. Xia Xun did use all his strength, but his horse kung fu was indeed more than a step worse than Zhu Di's, Zhu Di's two bowl-sized front hooves of the war horse under his crotch suddenly landed, making a muffled sound of "tom", and Xia Xun's horse rushed to Zhu Di's side.

Zhu Di laughed, looked around, and saw dozens of fast horses galloping, four hooves in the air, the horse's belly straight to the tip of the grass, and then look into the distance, the mountains and rivers are continuous, magnificent and boundless.

"Boom!" With a sound on the ground, Zhu Di's long sword came out of the sheath and pierced the sky, he looked up at the sky, and shouted: "I am the right cloth of Huai, and the world is in my place!" That's enough! This life is enough! ”

Zhu Di stood quiet for a long time, like a bronze statue, after a long time, he returned the sword into the sheath with a sonorous sound, turned around the horse, and said slowly to Xia Xun: "Before the death of the imperial examination, it seems that he already had a feeling, one day, he came here with a sickness, rode a horse and galloped, it is here, it is where you and I stand, the emperor strangled the war horse, drew his sword and asked the sky, and shouted out the words of Fang Cai!" ”

Xia Xun listened quietly, Zhu Di was silent for a moment, and then said: "At that time, I was still the king of Yan in Beiping, after hearing this, I always wanted to know what he was thinking when the imperial examination said this when he knew that ・・・・・・the deadline was approaching, but I couldn't figure it out." Just now, I shouted this sentence, and I also have some feelings, my feelings, do you know? ”