Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, covered his nose with his hand, and scolded loudly: "Is it the smell of this thing?" ”

He didn't dare to say that what they were waiting for with great interest was a stinky fruit, and he couldn't believe that the little country of Java would dare to take this kind of thing as a tribute and tease the Ming Dynasty.

The eunuch's face was embarrassed, and he said timidly: "Back to the emperor, this fruit has a strange taste...... I don't know if the smell that the emperor said is this smell.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the wooden plate in the eunuch's hand.

The gambling's shell was golden, and the shell was covered with hard thorns. Two or three one-foot-wide cracks were like chicks breaking their shells, but there were no live chicks popping out of the cracks, but unidentified objects that made people smell and change color.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say a word, and kicked towards the bottom of the wooden plate.

Gambling rose into the air, and due to its heavy body, it only turned around once, and fell to the ground with a thud.

The crack disappeared, and the gamble turned into four petals.

As the yellow flesh was exposed, the stench penetrated more unscrupulously into every crack in the wall, in every court dress, and in every nostril.

It's like rotting beef, the scraps of Hanako, the mud in the gutter.

Because it was unbearable, the ministers had to take the risk of covering their noses with their sleeves in front of the emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang was still angry, and flew up again, ready to kick at this guy who was spreading wild in the Fengtian Temple.

Gambling on the stench that no one dared to approach and the well-defined spikes on the shell, arrogantly ignoring the anger of the Son of Heaven.

The eunuch rushed forward to hug Zhu Yuanzhang's legs, knelt on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, don't, be careful of hurting your feet!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, and then he noticed the sharp stab that raised his eyebrows.

"Let go!" He twisted his legs. He's a wise man and won't confront a dead thing that can't speak.

In fact, what he minded was the humiliation of the state of Java.

The eunuch did not let go.

"Are you looking for death? Gambling makes me angry, and you want to make me angry too? ”

"The emperor is angry! The emperor is angry! The eunuch said in a muffled voice, "The slave is afraid that the emperor will hurt his foot." ”

"I'm not going to kick it!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

The eunuch slowly let go of his hand, still kneeling beside Zhu Yuanzhang, making a ring with his hand, in order to stop Zhu Yuanzhang from hurting his feet as quickly as possible.

He said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the servant heard from the Ministry of Rites that the envoy of Java said that this thing smells stinky, but it tastes very sweet, I wonder if this is really the case?" ”

"Is that so?" Zhu Yuanzhang sat back in the dragon chair and quietly examined the gamble.

He was already wondering in his heart, why did the country of Java have such great audacity to despise the Ming Dynasty? Isn't this self-digging grave?

Not to mention that they are a place with a big palm, Da Ming often helps them drive away foreign invasions, no matter how they say it, they shouldn't do such a ridiculous thing.

"You go eat and see!" Zhu Yuanzhang said to the eunuch.

The ministers' eyes all shifted from gambling to the eunuch's face.

The eunuch's body trembled slightly, thinking of the noble feelings of being a pioneer, and slowly walked to the side of Gambling Eryan.

He took a deep breath and squatted down, took out a small clove of meat, and immediately put it in his mouth and took a bite.

Hesitation will make him timid.

The situation was much better than he had imagined, and he did not feel a strong stimulus.

Slowly, slowly, he gently inhaled a little air into his nose.

The stubborn stench of Gambling returned to his sense of smell, but he was more attracted by the sweetness of his own taste.

"Your Majesty, it's so sweet!" The eunuch's spirits were radiant, and the joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe lifted him.

"The slave has never eaten such a sweet fruit, it is as soft as tofu, and the water is not too much and not too much. Your Majesty, it is really as the messenger said, it is very delicious. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the eunuch suspiciously.

Although he likes to eat stinky tofu very much, when the rebel army won the battle, there was no big fish and meat, so he used stinky tofu to celebrate.

But stinky tofu is made in an ingenious way to give it a peculiar taste.

He had never heard of this fruit, which was born with a strange smell.

The eunuch put the gambler back on the wooden plate and brought it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned again, and the stench of gambling made the pores of his whole body instinctively reject it.

But he is also an extraordinary monarch, and it is also his instinct to try and challenge.

At this moment, his two contradictory instincts are fiercely fighting.

In the end, the latter triumphed over the former.

He grabbed a piece of pulp, took a bite, and swallowed it before he could chew it.

The ministers looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in horror, as if their emperor was undergoing the most cruel test.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't speak, so he slapped his mouth a few times. He felt that the aftertaste in his mouth was somewhat unexpected.

The smell is still there, but it doesn't taste as unbearable on the tongue as it does when the nose smells.

On the contrary, the strange smell mixed with a little sweetness made him want to take another bite.

Zhu Yuanzhang took another bite of the flesh, this time he did not swallow it in a hurry, but began to chew it slowly.

After chewing carefully, he found that the gambling was sweet but not greasy, the taste was dense and smooth, and the strange taste turned into a rich fragrance in his mouth.

"Delicious!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and nodded in praise.

The eunuchs and ministers, who didn't dare to take a breath of air, were covered in sweat, and only then did they breathe a sigh of relief.

"Father, this is really a strange thing!" Mu Ying said.

"It's not strange in the first place, it's just because there aren't many people who know it. Come, all of you, taste it. Zhu Yuanzhang wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and picked up Zhu's fold.

An hour ago, he had already read Zhu Yi's excerpts.

He has always refused Zhu to go to the battlefield because he desperately hopes to stabilize the frontier and does not want to waste money and labor.

In fact, he also hoped that his sons would be trained, after all, the inheritance would be handed over to them in the future. He sealed the princes in various places in order to control all the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the hands of the Zhu family, and gradually recover the military power and land of the ministers.

The ministers are outsiders, and the sons are their own people.

"It's the same as this gamble, if you don't give him a chance to show it, you don't know how capable he is. The troubles of mortals are hidden in a song and hidden in Dali, and if I am still like this to my son, how can I govern the country? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly, picked up the brush on the desk, and wrote two edicts with a big stroke.

In this way, Zhu waited for the opportunity to prove his extraordinary ability to everyone, but at the same time, his fourth brother Zhu Di also got this opportunity.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Zhu and Zhu Di to lead troops to the border to exterminate Na'er Buhua's army, and he wanted to see whether the two sons were embroidered pillows or real materials.

At the beginning of autumn, two geese whistling through the blue sky, they are prepared for danger, leaving their lazy companions behind and starting their journey to the south early.

Yingtian's winter is not warm enough, and they intend to continue flying south.

A dazzling yellow glazed tile caught their attention, and the plan was temporarily changed. They cheered, as if they knew they were standing above the head of the Son of Heaven.

A green caterpillar poked its head out from between the yellow tiles.

The geese raised their paws and spun gracefully around them. What a pleasure to dine in the midst of this unbeatable view.

A wild goose was the first to attack and deal with the caterpillar, and it never missed.

The caterpillar sensed the danger emanating from the air, and not only retracted its head in alarm, but also changed to a yellow tile for shelter.

The wild goose found nothing, and it was frustrated, believing that it was not that it had overestimated its own abilities, but that it was bad luck.

Unable to fight against fate, it silently returned to its companion.

Its companions stood on the same tile from beginning to end, closing their eyes and recuperating.

The green caterpillar poked its head out again, and it watched for a long time to make sure that the danger was gone.

It doesn't have to care about a guy who is defeated by it and a guy who doesn't care about it.

The hibernating nest and food were ready, and it bared its entire body, enjoying the last remnants of the autumn sun in peace.

The finch suddenly attacked the caterpillar, swallowing the nutrients that would keep it moving when its companion was lost.

Three days after receiving the holy decree, Zhu led the Shanxi soldiers to set out from Taiyuan together with the deputy general Zhao Yong, Marquis of Nanxiong, and Wang Bi, Marquis of Dingyuan, a staff general.

Zhu Di led the Beiping soldiers to set out from Beiping together with the deputy general Huaiyuan Hou Cao Xing and the general Quanning Hou Sun Ke.

They divided into two routes, wearing stars and moons, and rushed all the way to the ancient Great Wall.

After arriving at the ancient Great Wall, Zhu Di, the king of Jin, led a large army out of the ancient west entrance of the Great Wall, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, led a large army out of the ancient north entrance of the Great Wall.

At this time, Mobei Saiwai has entered a severe winter, with howling winds and heavy snowfall.

Under such weather conditions, going deep into the vast Mobei grassland to find a force is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Zhu Di and Zhu Di's army had no choice but to camp in the same place and wait for the right time before setting off.

The snow in the Mobei grassland has never been tireless, perhaps it is competing with the bitter cold wind to dominate the grassland.

Snowflakes sway freely in the air, whether anyone appreciates its graceful dancing or not, this is its kingdom, and it can only be its kingdom.

After waiting for more than half a month, the spies sent by Zhu and Zhu Di could not find out where Na'er Buhua's army was, and they fell from the sky like those snowflakes, soaked into the soil, and disappeared without a trace.

Zhu stood outside the tent, looking up at the white snowflakes floating endlessly to the earth.

Surrounded by mist and snow, and not a single figure or even a beast in sight, he was anxious, and this was not the scene he had imagined before he set out on the expedition.

With countless tricks and eighteen kinds of martial arts that he has practiced for a long time, he led his troops to the north for the first time.

He gave too much meaning to this northern expedition, hoping to squander his blood on the battlefield, hoping to be recognized by his father, and hoping that the ministers of the court would look up to him.

However, the wind and snow and the vast grasslands nearly dashed his hopes.