Kaifeng City is in sight, the official road has become lively, pedestrians and convoys come and go, there are many boats on the river, green fields, busy farmers can be seen everywhere, it looks a little similar to the scene outside Jinling City.

Li Jie looked at the Kaifeng city wall in the distance and was also very excited, in fact, the original Beijing of the Ming Dynasty refers to Kaifeng, that is when Lao Zhu just called the emperor, he laid Kaifeng and personally came to inspect, at that time many people persuaded him to set Kaifeng as the national capital, but Lao Zhu only set Kaifeng as Beijing after inspecting it.

Later, in the eleventh year of Hongwu, Lao Zhu abolished the title of Beijing, mainly because he named his son Zhu Hu as the king of Zhou, and the domain was in Kaifeng.

Zhu Biao also looked at Kaifeng City with excitement at this time, he was also the first time to Kaifeng, for the capital of the former Song Dynasty, he only learned from the book, for the book described in the "Eight Wilderness Struggle, Wanguo Xiantong" Kaifeng City, he was also very yearning, and even he collected a "Qingming Riverside Map", but unfortunately it was only a work copied by predecessors, as for the real he had not seen.

However, after the team came to Kaifeng City, Li Jie and Zhu Biao were disappointed to find that Kaifeng City actually looked a little dilapidated, and even there were traces of repair on the city wall.

Seeing those dilapidated city walls, Li Jie and Zhu Biao couldn't help but glance at each other, and both of them thought of the information they had collected before about Kaifeng.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Kaifeng was greatly damaged, and later the Jin Dynasty also once took Kaifeng as the accompanying capital, but the Mongols destroyed the Jin, and later the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Red Turban Army led by Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, also once took Kaifeng as the national capital, and launched a fierce battle with the Mongols.

It can be said that Kaifeng City has been destroyed in the war several times, and the current Kaifeng is no longer the prosperous Tokyo Bianliang of the year, and even the population of the entire Kaifeng is only more than 200,000, which is already the total population of the villages in Kaifeng and outside the city.

"Before he came, his father said that Kaifeng was the city he was most optimistic about, because when he came to Kaifeng to inspect, he found that Kaifeng had long been destroyed in the war, even if it was established as the national capital, I am afraid it would be difficult to restore the prosperity of the year." At this time, Zhu Biao also suddenly sighed and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty also said that the terrain of Kaifeng is too low, and the water surface of the Yellow River next to it is higher than the ground, and it is easy for people to dig up the Yellow River to divert water and flood the city. Li Jie also sighed at this time.

When Lao Zhu came to Kaifeng to inspect, so many people persuaded him to establish Kaifeng as the capital, after all, Kaifeng's fame is too great, but Lao Zhu, who is a master of strategy, saw the defects of Kaifeng in the terrain at a glance, so he gave up this idea, which is also the main reason why Li Jie and Zhu Biao came before Lao Zhu told them that he was not optimistic about Kaifeng.

When the team came to Kaifeng City, there were also many officials in front of the city gate to greet him, but the leader was a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, who looked about the same age as Zhu Yunxi, but his face was serious, and after seeing Zhu Biao get out of the car, he immediately stepped forward and saluted: "Minister Zhu Youstew to meet His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

This Zhu Youzhu is the son of Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, the year before last, Zhu Hu left Kaifeng without authorization and went to Fengyang, which made the old Zhu angry, and he was going to demote him to Yunnan, but then he was still reluctant, so he summoned Zhu Hu to the capital under house arrest, leaving Zhu Youzhu to guard Kaifeng for Zhu Hu.

Zhu Biao was also very happy to see his nephew, and immediately stepped forward to support Zhu Youstew and said with a smile: "Nephew doesn't have to be polite, your father is in the capital, but it is estimated that he will be able to come back this year, and you have worked hard in the past two years!" ”

"My father also wrote a letter recently saying that he was coming back, and my father also said in the letter that thanks to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's intercession for him, otherwise he didn't know when he would be able to come back." When Zhu Youstew said this, he also saluted Zhu Biao again.

However, Zhu Biao pulled him up and said with a smile: "You kid, don't always call Your Highness, Your Highness, call me uncle, when did you become so angry with me, when you were just born, I still hugged you!" ”

Hearing Zhu Biao say this, Zhu Youstew smiled embarrassedly, and then changed his words: "What the uncle taught is that the nephew is too raw, and the uncle is in Kaifeng during this time, and the nephew can just listen to the uncle's teachings!" ”

Seeing Zhu You's stew so polite and courteous, Zhu Biao was also overjoyed, and immediately pulled Li Jie over and said to him with a smile: "See, if Yun Xi and Yun Xi are like stew, I will have a lot of peace of mind!" ”

"This is Jing Haibo, right?" Unexpectedly, Zhu Youstew glanced at Li Jie a few times, and then immediately revealed his identity.

"On the Xia Li Festival, meet the prince of Zhou!" Li Jie was also surprised by Zhu Youstew's intelligence, and immediately saluted him with a smile.

"My brother-in-law is so polite, I can often hear my brother-in-law's name in Kaifeng, and I also admire my brother-in-law in my heart. Zhu Youstew also saluted Li Jie at this time.

Li Jie was also very happy when he heard this, the other party had much more eyesight than Zhu Yunxi, so he directly changed his name to call himself brother-in-law, which made him have a good impression of Zhu Youstew all of a sudden.

After a few words of greeting, Zhu Youstew also invited Zhu Biao and them to enter the city, the city had already prepared a place to live, and Zhu Biao and Li Jie lived directly in the Zhou Palace, Zhu Youstew even wanted to give his bedroom to Zhu Biao to live in, but Zhu Biao refused, after all, it was not convenient for him to enter the inner house of the Zhou Palace, so he lived in the front hall of the palace.

Zhu Youstew also let people prepare a reception banquet for a long time, and then personally entertained Zhu Biao and his party, Zhu Youstew also performed quite well at the banquet, although he was young, but he was very talkative, and he was also very knowledgeable, and even when Zhu Biao asked about the situation in Kaifeng City, Zhu Youstew was also a fluent answer, showing a talent far beyond his age.

In the end, Zhu Biao couldn't help but sigh again, his two sons were really much worse than Zhu Youstew, and even Li Jie had to admit that if Zhu Yunxi was as smart as Zhu Youstew, I am afraid that he would have already coaxed Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao to please, and Zhu Yunwen would not have any chance at all.

In fact, Zhu Youstew in history is famous for his erudition and talent, especially for miscellaneous opera, and has a certain status in the history of Chinese opera.

In addition, Zhu Youstew is also quite emotional, when the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty died, he would let the concubine be buried with him, but Zhu Youstew wrote to ask Ming Yingzong at that time to not let his princess and others accompany the funeral, and Ming Yingzong also agreed at that time, but when the holy decree was issued, Zhu Youstew's princess and others had already hanged themselves, which made Ming Yingzong helpless to give the princess and others the name of chastity and chastity.

Zhu Biao was also very happy to meet such an excellent nephew, and he couldn't help but drink a few more glasses at the banquet, and when it was over, he was already seven or eight points drunk, Li Jie and Zhu Youstew also personally helped him to the bedroom, but Zhu Biao fell asleep on the bed, and Zhu Youstew covered the quilt for Zhu Biao even more intimately.

Then Zhu Youstew personally sent Li Jie to his residence, and on the way, Zhu Youstew also asked Li Jie for some things, such as hot air balloons, Japanese robberies and other news that had long been circulated, Li Jie also answered one by one, and when Zhu Youstew encountered something he was interested in, he would also take the initiative to ask, and the answer to Li Jie was also one to another, which made Li Jie also secretly call out evil, this prince of Zhou is too smart, right?

"Brother-in-law, you have worked hard all the way, I won't disturb your rest!" In the end, Zhu Youstew sent Li Jie back to his residence, so he said goodbye to him.

"Shizi stays, I have a letter here that you need to hand over!" At this time, Li Jie suddenly stopped Zhu Youstew.

"Letter?" Zhu Youwei was also stunned when he heard this, and he really couldn't understand what letter Li Jie would have to make himself better?

I saw Li Jie reach out and take out a letter from his sleeve, and then handed it to Zhu Youstew: "Song Guogong knew that I was coming to Kaifeng, so he privately asked me to hand over this letter to Princess Zhou, because it was a private letter, so it was inconvenient for me to take it out at the banquet just now." ”

Zhu Youstew's mother's surname is Feng, which is the daughter of Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, that is to say, Zhu Youstew is actually Feng Sheng's grandson.

"Brother-in-law, do you still know your grandfather?" Zhu Youwei heard that it was his grandfather's letter and immediately took it excitedly, he didn't expect Li Jie to hide such a surprise.

"Hehe, Song Guogong and I both served in the newly established martial arts, and I had been discussing martial arts with Song Guogong for a few months before I came, and I am also a junior of Song Guogong, so Song Guogong asked me to bring a letter." Li Jie replied with a smile.

"I see, thank you brother-in-law! When my mother saw my grandfather's letter, she was overjoyed! "Zhu You's stew is also happy immediately.

After Zhu Youstew finished speaking, he immediately said goodbye to Li Jie, and then walked to the inner house with the letter, Li Jie looked at Zhu Youstew's back and smiled slightly.

There is no problem with Zhu You's stew, but his father Zhu Hu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, after Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Hu is not very honest, and even after Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, Zhu Hu wanted to rebel, his long history Wang Han noticed that he had been persuaded many times, but Zhu Hu just didn't listen, and finally forced Wang Han to pretend to be crazy and run away.

However, before Zhu Hu rebelled, he was reported by his second son, and as a result, the imperial court sent Li Jinglong to raid Kaifeng, arrested Zhu Hu and demoted him to a concubine, and later after Zhu Di seized the throne, he immediately restored the title of Zhu Hu's younger brother, and added 5,000 stones.

But Zhu Hu was only grateful to Zhu Di on the surface, but secretly began to accumulate strength to rebel again, but was summoned to the capital to ask for guilt after Zhu Di noticed it, and finally Zhu Hu cried and confessed, Zhu Di was his brother after all, and he was reluctant to kill him in the end, and Zhu Hu was also very interested in handing over his three guards to the court, which finally escaped.