Since there are several mountains to the north of the central capital, the crown prince's guard of honor needs to enter from the main gate, so the guard of honor detours to the south gate.

The guard of honor starts from the Fengyang Bridge in front of the Hongwu Gate in the south, enters the Zhongdu City through the Hongwu Gate, enters the forbidden wall through the Hongwu Street, Daming Gate and Chengtian Gate, and then enters the Imperial City through the Waijinshui Bridge (Outer Wulong Bridge) and the Noon Gate, and enters the Fengtian Gate to the Fengtian Palace.

Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, first welcomed Zhu Cihong to the palace of the imperial city, which is equivalent to the Forbidden City in the middle capital, and there are forbidden walls outside the imperial city, but now most of them have just been rebuilt.

Subsequently, Zhu Dadian held a banquet to entertain the officials, which could be regarded as allowing the officials to meet with some of the crown prince's entourage and get to know each other.

After the generals arrived, Zhu Dadian introduced them to both sides one by one, and there were three generals with Zhang Guowei and Shi Kefa, the general Xu Ziqiang, the deputy general Cheng Long, the general Pan Keda, and the local generals such as Yang Yufan, the general of Fengyang.

As soon as Xu Sheng saw Yang Yufan, the chief soldier of Fengyang, he shouted: "Brother Yang, long time no see!" ”

Yang Yufan smiled and hugged Xu Sheng, and said, "Brother Xian, our brother hasn't seen each other for six years!" ”

Zhu Dadian was surprised: "The two of you know each other? ”

Yang Yufan said with a smile: "Don't just know each other, our two families are world friends, my ancestor fought side by side with Governor Xu for many years, and in the second year of the Apocalypse, Xu Hongru's White Lotus Sect rebellion was put down by the two old men." ”

Yang Yufan's father, Yang Zhaoji, was recommended by Xu Sheng's father, Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, and was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Shandong.

Yang Zhaoji once in the second year of Chongzhen plum blossom array to break the Houjin army, Huang Taiji was shocked, retreated more than 20 miles, and then defeated the Houjin Erbeile Amin, recovered Yongping, Chongzhen four years, Yang Zhaoji died of illness in the army, Chongzhen cried, posthumously presented him as Taifu Taishi, nicknamed "Wuxiang".

Yang Yufan served as the chief soldier of Fengyang at the age of thirty, and his ability can also be seen, at this time to see the old man, Yang Yufan was overjoyed, the two ignored everyone, and went to the side to reminisce.

Everyone laughed, disapproving, Zhu Dadian continued to introduce the two sides, when introducing Huang Degong to the generals, the chief soldier Xu Ziqiang gave a bow quite politely, and said: "Huang Zongbing, welcome the name for a long time!" ”

"Long admiration!" Huang Degong also replied with a smile, even if he didn't know that there was still a person in the world.

Deputy General Cheng Long looked at Huang Degong, and said with a smile: "I heard that General Huang broke the army of slaves and thieves in Leng Kou, and also beheaded Baylor, and buried the imperial history alive in Beijing, which is really promising!" ”

General Pan Keda also said: "General Huang is now waving his army south to quell the thieves, it will definitely be a victory, and it will be successful, we should wait and see, just see that General Huang is done." ”

Huang Degong grinned and said, "Why do you think you two are so uncomfortable to listen to?" Well? ”

Cheng Long and Pan Keda were indeed a little jealous of Huang Degong, who was promoted from a general to a general within a year, and was also awarded the rank of hussar general, but fortunately he was picked up again, but what he did was too eye-catching.

Seeing that the two sides were a little unfriendly, Zhu Dadian mediated: "The great plan to counter-insurgency is related to the overall situation of the country. ”

Huang Degong smiled heartily: "What the Governor said is reasonable, my old Huang likes it!" ”

Zhang Guowei, Shi Kefa, Yang Tinglin and others, who were in the circle of civil officials, also smiled when they heard this, and the governor was a person who understood, so they were much more relieved.

Cheng Long and Pan Keda didn't say much, other people's grades were higher than their own, and they would only be detrimental to themselves if they just went down, so the two were quite polite to Huang Degong at least on the surface and maintained enough courtesy.

Huang Degong doesn't mind at all, he has always been that you respect me, I will respect you in return, you are polite and humble, if you hide a knife in your smile, then Lao Tzu will not be polite to you.

After Zhu Dadian's introduction, everyone sat down and sat down according to their respective official tastes, and then Zhu Dadian ordered the banquet to be held, so all kinds of wine were served one after another, and everyone was staggered and drunk.

These generals are all big and coarse, although some of them have read books for a few days, but unfortunately they haven't even mixed up with a show, and it's okay to say a few words of yin and yang, but it's too difficult for them to play the literati's insinuations, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai.

A table of coarse people began to draw fists and shouted 666, and the banquet was also dispersed.

After the banquet, Zhu Cihong summoned some important civil and military officials in the imperial palace to discuss the issue of liukou.

Zhang Guowei and Shi Kefa have often fought against the Liukou in recent years, and their understanding of the Liukou should be more profound, and Zhu Cihong would like to hear their opinions.

Zhang Guowei sat on the round bench with half of his body on one side, and said slowly: "Now the ranks of thieves are becoming more and more regularized, and they have begun to learn the division of officers and soldiers into military positions, with the commander of the army, the chief of the sentry, the general of the department, the commander of the flag, and the captain as the order, and when fighting, the hungry people and hungry soldiers are the vanguard, if there is no enemy, the horse army and the old battalion behind will immediately escape, they will not lose their elite, turn to fight elsewhere, and gather tens of thousands of troops in a moment. ”

Shi Kefa also said: "The thieves are not defeated by our officers and soldiers, and they began to flee to the mountains, the officers and soldiers are only three steps and seven steps, and the old battalion of thieves has horses, and it is extremely difficult to chase, and the mountain roads are difficult to travel, and there is more cover, and the officers and soldiers are really difficult to exterminate." ”

Huang Degong was puzzled: "The Tang newspaper said that there are more than 200,000 thieves and other rogues, so many people, where are they usually stationed?" Do you keep wandering? ”

Zhang Guowei replied: "Now the thieves in the Jiangnan area are divided into two parts, the fifth battalion of Gezuo led by Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying is currently in the Huoshan area, and often operates in the Qianshan and Taihu areas, and the thieves and Cao thieves echo them from afar, often attacking the area from Wuchang to Anqing. ”

"Huo Shan?" Zhu Cihong walked to the map, looked at the location of Huo Mountain, and then exclaimed: "There are many talents among the thieves, the location of Huo Mountain is really good, the terrain in that area is dangerous, and it occupies an important position in strategy: Luzhou can be attacked in the east, the northeast can go straight to the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, Anqing can be hit along the south of the river, and even Nanjing, and the west can also enter Wuchang. ”

"Your Highness is wise!" Zhang Guowei said sincerely, he didn't expect the crown prince to be a prodigy as rumored, and he could see such a way at a young age, which was a hundred times stronger than those pretentious prodigies in Jiangnan.

There are a lot of "prodigies" in Jiangnan, many of whom show amazing talents at the age of seven or eight, but as soon as they arrive at the imperial examination, they fail the examination, and these "prodigies" are not born, but artificial.

In the Jiangnan area, some famous teachers choose children who look smart, and then only teach calligraphy, painting and memorization poems for a few years, and train the children to look a little like that, so they take the children out to perform, especially to the government to show off, as long as the children rely on solid poetry, calligraphy and painting, won the applause of the government, a prodigy was born.

The birth of a prodigy marks the skyrocketing in value, fame and fortune, and the teacher who cultivated the prodigy also quickly became popular, and Zhang Guowei, who knows the inside story, has always scoffed at this situation and disdains it.