"yes, Redstone. You're not here, the master tortures me every day, and always asks me to do some magic tricks for him. ”

Zhu Di's face was full of smiles, and Hongshi believed that what he said was at least partly true.

"Hehe, so distance produces beauty. When I was there, I had to show the master magic tricks, and the master always annoyed me. I now know that he misses me so much. Redstone laughed.

"Of course it's annoying to watch it every day, but in the future, let's set a rule and perform once a month." Dao Yan flattered Redstone with a cup of tea.

"Your Highness, is anything going on in the court these days?" Redstone is down to business.

"Well, Lan Yu is getting more and more rampant, I think my father has a headache." Zhu Di shook his head, feeling helpless that he didn't dare to act rashly.

His father is still patient with Lan Yu, what qualifications does he have to be like thunder?

"Blue jade is not like words! Ever since he attacked the assassin on the day of the prince's funeral, he has regarded himself as the emperor's savior. At that time, the little eunuch blocked a sword for the emperor, and the pro-army guards were also present, why did he take the credit alone? Dao Yan was angry.

"The military generals of the older generation in the court, Chang Yuchun, Deng Yu, Li Wenzhong, Xu Da, etc., have passed away one after another, and his father gradually relied on blue jade, which grew his arrogance. His father wanted to make him the Duke of Liang, but because of his reckless behavior, his father deliberately replaced 'Liang' with 'Liang' to warn him to restrain his arrogance and be a low-key person. ”

However, Lan Yu didn't seem to have grasped the message that his father had sent to him at all, and still went his own way. In doing so, he is following in the footsteps of Hu Weiyong. ”

Zhu Di blew a bubble in the tea.

"However, the emperor will not do it yet." Hongshi said, "Lan Yu is the dominant among the generals, and the northern frontier is not peaceful, and the emperor will not kill Lan Yu." ”

"It's not that there are no generals in the court, but the father doesn't use them." Zhu Di frowned, "Song Sheng, the governor of the right army, is both civil and military, and he has built the country with his father, and he has rich experience, so he can take the lead alone." ”

When Song Sheng was a teenager, he defected to the Red Turban Army with his father Song Chaokai and brother Song Guoxing. He is extremely smart, brave and resolute, and he is very popular with Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Song Sheng made great achievements in the campaign against Xifan, and was promoted to the governor of the right army to guard Liangzhou.

In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Song Sheng served as the chief military officer and led the army to attack Hami. He ordered his men to hurry in the middle of the night, surround the city of Hami before dawn, and beat drums loudly. The people of the city were frightened by the sound of drums and surrendered without a fight.

Since then, Song Sheng has been given the title of "Demon King" in the Western Regions. Foreigners were especially afraid of Song Sheng's attack, and hearing Song Sheng's name was like seeing death.

Zhu Di specifically mentioned Song Sheng because he had a close, unknown relationship with Song Sheng.

Even Daoyan and Redstone didn't know about it until then.

This has to start with Song Sheng's father, Song Chaokai.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Song Dynasty followed Zhu Yuanzhang's Red Turban Army to conquer the south and the north, and made great achievements. By the Hongwu period, Song Chaokai was promoted to the commander of Tongzhi and guarded Anhui.

In the tenth year of Hongwu, due to the robbery of the Wusizang tribute envoy by the remnants of Tubo, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to send an army to exterminate Tubo. He sent Deng Yu as the general of the expedition to the west, and Mu Ying as the deputy general to conquer the Tibetan rebels. Song Chaokai also participated in this campaign.

When the troops reached the boundary between Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet, Deng Yu and Mu Ying decided to advance in three ways, deep into the hinterland of Tibet, and meet at the Kunlun Mountains after the war.

Deng Yu and Mu Ying each led the first line of soldiers and horses, and the third way of soldiers and horses was led by Hu Tao, the commander of the capital. Song Chaokai was assigned to fight under Hu Tao.

Ten days later, Deng Yu and Mu Ying's soldiers and horses were the first to arrive at Kunlun Mountain. The army they led was a great victory, capturing tens of thousands of enemy troops and 200,000 livestock.

Hu Tao came late, extremely embarrassed, more than 10,000 people were left, and the Song Dynasty disappeared.

Deng Yu, as the general of this expedition, held Hu Tao accountable. Hu Tao put all the blame on Song Chaokai.

He said that Song Chaokai had betrayed the Ming army, coveted the bribes of the Tibetans, and leaked all the military secrets of the Ming army to the Tibetans, causing them to be raided by the Tibetans, suffering heavy losses, and suffering countless casualties.

Deng Yu was skeptical, he also had some understanding of Song Chaokai's personality, and he couldn't believe that the Ming Dynasty was so kind to the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty did such an unbearable thing at the meeting.

Deng Yu asked the remaining dozens of people, and they all spoke in unison, saying that the Song Dynasty had rebelled.

Deng Yu did not report the matter to the imperial court and prepared to continue the investigation. Unexpectedly, Deng Yu suddenly contracted a vicious illness on the way back to the court. When the Ming army arrived in Shouchun, Deng Yu passed away, and the matter had to be settled.

After Hu Tao reported the rebellion of the Song Dynasty to the imperial court, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and threw the entire Song family into prison.

At that time, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was seventeen years old, and he and his brothers exercised in their hometown of Fengyang, Anhui Province, to understand the people's suffering. He met Song Sheng, who was guarding Anhui with his father Song Chaokai. He and Song Sheng hit it off at first sight and had a very happy conversation.

When Zhu Di learned that the Song Dynasty had rebelled and the Song family had been thrown into prison, he did not believe that this was the truth.

Although Zhu Di is still young, he is determined to investigate the truth, rehabilitate the Song Dynasty, and rescue the Song family.

He successively found the dozens of surviving people of the army led by Hu Tao, separated them, and interrogated them one by one in detail, and found that these people described the events exactly the same with each other, and every sentence, and even every word, was exactly the same.

People look at things from different angles, and there will always be differences. How could the narrative of dozens of them be the same, as if it were coming from the mouth of the same person?

Zhu Di felt that there was something strange about this, and he decided to expose the conspiracy behind it.

He asked Zhu Yuanzhang's consent to release Song Sheng from prison for three days. Zhu Di promised Zhu Yuanzhang that within three days, he would definitely investigate the case clearly and catch the real criminal, otherwise he would be guilty and accept punishment.

Because Song Sheng looks a little similar to his father Song Chaokai, and his figure is also extremely similar. Zhu Di asked Song Sheng to disguise himself as Song Chaokai and raid the barracks of these soldiers in the middle of the night.

These soldiers were awakened in their sleep, and suddenly saw Song Chaokai, thinking that they were asking for their lives. When they were panicked, the soldiers confessed the fact that they were forced by Hu Tao and wronged Song Chaokai.

It turned out that after Deng Yu, Mu Ying and Hu Tao's soldiers divided into three routes, Hu Tao led the army to march for a day and camped on a stone mountain at night.

There was no water source on this mountain, so the Song Dynasty proposed to set up camp in other places. Hu Tao firmly disagreed, believing that camping on the top of the mountain, condescending, was the highest observation point.

If the enemy attacks at night, they will be able to detect it in time. Moreover, the advantages of fighting in high places are self-evident, easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are many rocks on the mountain, which can be used as weapons to roll from the mountain to the mountain, and it is difficult for the enemy to attack the sky.

As for the water source, he believed that the army carried enough water to use it for ten days and eight days. And in ten days and eight days, how can the enemy not be annihilated by them?

But they never expected that the stones they thought could be used as weapons had been weathered, and their arrows could not reach such a distance down the mountain. The enemy seems to know that they have no water supply, so they stand still and wait for the rabbits.

After staying in the mountains for a few days, when the water source was about to run out, the Song Dynasty took the lead in rushing down the mountain to fight against Tubo and died heroically. The other soldiers were severely weakened by hunger and thirst, and their combat effectiveness was seriously weakened, and they were annihilated by the Tibetans.

Fearing severe punishment from the imperial court, Hu Tao put all the blame on the dead Song Chaokai, and instructed the remaining soldiers to keep their mouths shut, otherwise their lives would not be saved.

The Song Dynasty finally got revenge, and the Song family was not only spared from prison, but also received a bereavement from the imperial court.

Song Sheng was very grateful to Zhu Di and worshiped Zhu Di from then on. Zhu Di did not announce the relationship between the two to the public, but placed Song Sheng in the court as his eyeliner.

"Song Sheng?" Redstone whispered, his fingers tapping lightly across the table.

Suddenly, he stopped, stared at Zhu Di and Dao Yan and asked, "Do you think the emperor wants to get rid of Lan Yu?" ”

"Of course!" Zhu Di and Dao Yan spoke in unison.

"My father wanted to kill Lan Yu, not just because of his arrogance. The Prince's Warrior Group has a heavy army and is a huge threat to the Emperor's grandson. His father is very old, and he will pave the way for Yun Wei to remove obstacles as soon as possible. Zhu Di said.

"Well, Your Highness is right. Sooner or later, the emperor will make a move on Lan Yu. Redstone, do you have any ideas? Say it! Dao Yan couldn't wait, as if he didn't want Lan Yu to live for a moment.

"Who are our obstacles?" Redstone asked again.

"Of course, it's the King of Qin and the King of Jin." Dao Yan said without thinking.

Zhu Di blinked, and his eyes fell on the table.

There are things that don't come out of his mouth easily, no matter how obvious.

"There are also military generals in the court." Redstone's big nose wrinkled playfully, "The emperor thinks they are a thorn in the throat, and we think they are a roadblock." We also want to get rid of the people that the emperor wants to get rid of. We must cooperate with the Emperor. ”

"Cooperation?" Dao Yan's wig set shifted in horror.

"The emperor is waiting for the opportunity to make a move, and we will create an opportunity for him. First of all, sapphire! Redstone grinned as if a boiled duck was right in front of him.

"How?" Dao Yan helped the wig set he thought was crooked.

"Song Sheng and the crown princess." Redstone Road.

The three people seated around the round table all leaned forward slightly, drawing their hearts closer and twisting them into a rope, each with the same prey at the other end, regardless of their very different purposes.

In the Fengtian Palace, the ministers stood with their heads bowed, respectfully listening to Zhu Yuanzhang counting one trivial matter after another that happened in all corners of the Ming Dynasty.

These trifles surround them every day like the buzzing of bees.

Although most of them have little to do with them, they still know it.

Who knows if these trifles will turn out to be big things? If it becomes a big event, will it lose the country? After the death of the country, do they still have the opportunity to stand here and listen to trivia?