Chapter 157: King Xiang leaves Beijing

Preparations are in full swing for the main hall. And sent the following letters to the vassal kings of various places, so that they could recommend outstanding children of appropriate age to come to Beijing to go to school.

It can also be regarded as one of the emperor's appeasements to the vassal king.

At this time, Wang Wen, who was going out, had already arrived in Taiyuan and began to investigate the Jin Domain.

Naturally, these vassal kings can't help but be poor.

The King of Jin successively sent several letters into the Great Interior, which was to sue Wang Wen.

However, when Zhu Qizhen saw it, he gave an order to comfort him, but he did not say a word to Wang Wen. Wang Wen naturally knows what to do.

also knows how to do it, as well as King Jin.

The king of Jin repeatedly pleaded guilty to Beijing.

He also handed over several black sheep in the Jin king's lineage, and ordered them to enter the high wall of Fengyang.

Zhu Qizhen felt that the time had come, so he ordered Wang Wen, and it was over.

As a result, all the vassal kings in the world knew the attitude of the imperial court, and immediately became restrained, and they all cleaned up the traces left by the previous bad things.

Especially King Shen, King Shen is also sealed in Shanxi, and he is not authentic, before King Shen forcibly demolished the houses and expanded his palace.

When he heard about this, he immediately demolished the palace that had just been built. and rebuild the rooms for the people. Especially after receiving Zhu Qizhen's holy decree, the vassal kings from all over the country sent their sons and sons-in-law to Beijing to go to school, if it weren't for Zhu Qizhen's emphasis on age, I am afraid that there would be as many as one or two hundred disciples in this clan.

But even if they are of the right age, between the ages of ten and twenty, there are dozens of them.

They are all sons-in-law, and they are either hung with a prince or a county king. Dragons and phoenixes.

Of course, there are those who are interested and those who are not.

If you want to come to Wang Wen to inspect all the way, you will never be too peaceful.

There are so many children of the clan, and there are many of the sons of the nobles, even more than the disciples of the clan. After all, the honors awarded by the imperial court for so many years are not a small amount.

However, there are not many people from the civilian side.

Because the children of civil officials who are really capable of doing so all have to take the road of the imperial examination. I don't look down on the future of the main hall. If you are older and can't go through the imperial examination, you can choose this path, but you are stumped by the word appropriate age.

Therefore, there are only twenty or thirty civil servant disciples.

They are coming to the city of Beijing from all directions.

And at this time, King Xiang is also leaving.

It's late autumn.

King Xiang has been in Beijing for more than a month.

For more than a month, King Xiang has not been idle, and has found some people through the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War.

Of course, the top talents naturally don't look down on King Xiang as a vassal king.

But the Ming court has never lacked people who are officials.

Especially in a place like Kyoshi.

Such a thing as North Drift has never been something that only happens today.

Therefore, King Xiang still recruited a lot of people.

Not long ago, Meng Ying had already reported.

After he arrived in Nanjing, he selected elites from all over the world, plus brought 10,000 troops from Beijing, leading a total of 30,000 troops, as the vanguard, from Nanyang to Changde, and then from Changde ashore, into Guiyang. It is expected to arrive in Yunnan in the first month of next year.

This is the first wave.

Wang Ji led the follow-up people and horses to transport the grain and grass, and more than 100,000 people set off at the end of this month, and it is expected to arrive in Yunnan as the second batch in February of the fifth year of orthodoxy.

Of course, Wang Ji's arrival is different from Meng Ying's arrival.

Meng Ying only needs to take the people of the headquarters and rush forward.

The men and horses led by Wang Ji have to maintain the thousands of miles of grain in Guizhou. It is estimated that a considerable part of the men and horses led by Wang Ji will be stationed in Guizhou.

Together with the local officers and soldiers, guard against the toast and transport grain and grass.

Before the end of the Yunnan War, the effort spent on this grain route could not be saved at all.

After all, at this time, the existence of the Ming Dynasty in Guizhou was probably only a few guards, and it seemed that there was not even a serious county seat. A large amount of grain is transported, and it depends on the help of the toast.

Even the most important post road in Guizhou was opened up with the help of Tusi.

It can't be said that these toasts are not trustworthy.

It's just that in such a situation, it is quite foolish to place the hope of the grain road on toast.

Therefore, if King Xiang does not go south, it is estimated that he will not be able to catch up with Nanjing and join Wang Ji's army.

The Empress Dowager wanted to let King Xiang mix a qualification in the army, didn't she want him to develop a little ability so that he could cope with future challenges. Even the title of a prison soldier has been won with a lot of fame.

Therefore, King Xiang didn't want to give up.

The Empress Dowager was reluctant to give up, and she had to let King Xiang leave.

The Empress Dowager knows her body, and she also understands that King Xiang is afraid that the mother and son will never see each other again.

I wanted to just send King Xiang out of the palace, but I was really reluctant in my heart. But the Empress Dowager also knows her identity, and if she goes out of the city to send King Xiang, it will be a little too qualified.

After all, King Xiang is a prince, whether it is the queen mother to send a prince, or the mother to send a young son, it is not too suitable.

It's just that the mother and son nature in the queen mother's heart, how can it be broken.

Zhu Qizhen could only accompany the Empress Dowager to come out and send King Xiang out of the Xuanwu Gate.

At this moment, the outer city of Beijing has not been built, and there are many places outside the Xuanwu Gate, all of which are the streets of the original Yuan Dadu. But these places suffered a lot of damage in this flood.

It seems that the prosperity of the past has not yet been restored.

Hundreds of iron horsemen are under the protection.

Zhu Qizhen was dressed in civilian clothes, supporting the Queen Mother.

King Xiang was dressed in armor, with a helmet on his head, turned over and dismounted, knelt in front of the Empress Dowager in a few steps, held the iron helmet in one hand, supported the place with the other, buckled his head again and again, and said; "Mother, my son is gone."

The Empress Dowager, who has always maintained her solemnity, couldn't hold back at the moment, hugged King Xiang with both hands, held King Xiang's face, looked at King Xiang who was now full of beards, and still seemed to say to a child: "This is the path you chose, don't regret it." Now that you have chosen this path, you will go to the earth. ”

"Although I miss you very much, but in the future, I definitely don't want to see you, because even if Luchuan wins a big victory, it will take a few years to deal with the aftermath, and during this period, only if you are defeated, you will come back."

"But if you are a rich idler in Xiangyang, I won't say anything, but since you have decided to go to Luchuan, then Luchuan is the foundation of your lineage."

"Luchuan is here, you live, Luchuan is lost, you die."

"Remember. Once Luchuan is gone, I want to hear about your death instead of you running back. The Zhu family did not have such unfilial descendants. ”

When King Xiang heard this, he also burst into tears and said: "My son understands that since he has chosen this path, his son would rather die than ruin the reputation of his ancestors." ”

Zhu Qizhen listened, and secretly felt guilty in his heart. In my heart, I thought of the orthodox emperor in history.

If it weren't for his crossing, orthodoxy would be one of the most emperors of the Ming Dynasty. If the Empress Dowager had known, she might have been revived.

Even the emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Hongguang was captured, and he still scolded Qian Qianyi in the main hall. Longwu and Shaowu were killed, and Wanli did not surrender, but he was the only one who led the way for the Tile Thorn army.

It can be described as the extreme of unfilial piety.

Although Zhu Qizhen knew that he was not the orthodox emperor in history. But at the moment, I also feel that my face is not good-looking. It's just that he believes that such a thing will never happen in the future.

The Empress Dowager and the mother and son of the Queen Mother hugged each other and cried.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the sky and felt that it was not early, so he whispered; "Niangniang, third uncle, it's not early, and the third uncle still has to hurry."

Only then did the Empress Dowager let go of King Xiang.

King Xiang kowtowed several more times before turning over and getting on his horse. With Zhu Qizhen sending him three hundred cavalry guards, he ran away in one go.

Don't even dare to turn back.

King Xiang seemed to be worried that as long as he turned around, he would be reluctant to leave.

King Xiang understands very well, why did the Empress Dowager say these years? Because the Empress Dowager felt that she would not live for a few years.

This parting is not only a parting of life, but also a farewell of death.

The Empress Dowager looked at the direction that King Xiang left, and seemed to be much older in an instant. The spirit of the whole person also followed King Xiang a lot.

"Mother, it's time to go." Zhu Qizhen whispered.

At this moment, the sky is already rolling in twilight, and the sun is only a few fingers away from the western mountains.

The Empress Dowager then said, "Let's go." ”

Zhu Qizhen helped the Empress Dowager to get into the carriage and was about to go back. Suddenly, Zhu Qizhen's eyes saw a familiar carriage.