A news that shocked Quanshun Tianfu quickly spread, and Emperor Hongxi ordered the crown prince to go south to worship his ancestors in Tianfu.

In the eyes of far-sighted people, this was a signal that Emperor Hongxi was trying to wrest power from Wang Xiao.

After all, Wang Xiao still nominally has the power to supervise the country, and at the same time holds military power and Jinyi Guard. No emperor could have tolerated such a thing.

Neither can the crown prince.

In addition, through the meaning revealed by Emperor Hongxi in the past, it can also be judged that he is preparing to move the capital to respond to Tianfu.

Zhu Gaochi has been in Yingtianfu for 20 years, and he has long been accustomed to the environment and climate of Jiangnan.

It's dry and cold here, and it's windy.

Being too close to the north will weaken control over the southern provinces.

On the economic side, in order to transport grain and pay to the north, a large amount of financial resources are spent every year.

These are all inappropriate in Zhu Gaochi's eyes, so he has long intended to move the capital to respond to Tianfu.

Sending Wang Xiao to the south to worship his ancestors is also possible to let Wang Xiao do the preliminary preparations.

In the eyes of those who don't have a good eye, this is a signal that Wang Xiao is losing power and is about to be taken down.

Countless people began to run around and accumulate strength in order to realize their ambitions. Like King Zheng, he doesn't forget to run in front of Emperor Hongxi every day to make a familiar face.

The heroes of the Battle of Jingyan regarded Wang Xiao as Zhu Di's true heir, and their secret conspiracies and actions became more concealed and frequent.

In the midst of this disturbance, Wang Xiao, who had been silent, took his wives on a journey south.

As for Zhu Qizhen, he was left behind by the queen.

In the eyes of outsiders, this is being taken hostage, but in fact, it is just a grandmother who is unwilling to let her young grandson run away.

"Sister, what do you think the prince thinks?"

After a long journey to Jiangnan, Hu Shanxiang, who couldn't bear it anymore, took advantage of Wang Xiao's kung fu to learn the Four Books and Five Classics with the crown prince and Taifu, and took Sun Ruowei's hand to figure out what Wang Xiao wanted.

"He just wants to be a tree."

Sun Ruowei's response made Hu Shanxiang look confused: "Tree? What tree? ”

"A big tree that is winding from east to west, north and south, and I am immovable."

Therefore, Sun Ruowei's political ability and vision are much stronger than her sister.

Although Wang Xiao didn't say anything directly, she could see Wang Xiao's plan.

No matter how the wind and rain outside are shaky, Wang Xiao just has to stand on his foundation. Nothing else is left to chance.

As for Wang Xiao's foundation, it is not his crown prince's name, nor is it an ethereal thing like fame and prestige. It is the orthodox identity left to him by military power, Jinyiwei and Zhu Di's will.

As long as Emperor Hongxi doesn't move this, let alone let Wang Xiao come to Tianfu to worship his ancestors, even if he is asked to go to Qiongzhou to worship Tian, there is no problem.

Moreover, many people in the outside world think that Emperor Hongxi and Wang Xiao turned their faces and distrusted each other because of power. But Sun Ruowei knew that this was impossible.

It's not that the family affection between the two is greater than the throne.

It is because Emperor Hongxi knows very well that Wang Xiao's position cannot be shaken.

He knows that Wang Xiao's personality is very similar to Zhu Di, that is, he is decisive enough when doing things.

If it really comes to the time when it is time to make a move, Wang Xiao will never hesitate to launch a new battle of martyrdom.

Once Wang Xiao chooses to act regardless of his reputation, then Emperor Hongxi's side basically has no power to resist at all.

At the time of the Battle of Jingyan, Emperor Jianwen still had the elite soldiers and horses left to him by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he could still deal with Zhu Di for a few years.

But at this moment, all the elite soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty are in Wang Xiao's hands. Emperor Hongxi was able to mobilize only some of the reserve soldiers, and the reserve soldiers were still nominally controlled by Wang Xiao.

Emperor Hongxi knew that he could move other things, but he couldn't use military power. Because once the military power is moved, Wang Xiao will rebel.

The current situation is that the two of them are holding each other back.

Emperor Hongxi did not dare to force Wang Xiao to break the jar, and Wang Xiao did not want to bear the charge of killing his father and seeking a position.

Wang Xiao is still young enough, so he can wait, and he is willing to wait.

He knew that Emperor Hongxi's time was running out, and there was no need to do anything at all. Just wait.

He is not the kind of prince who has been a prince for 30 years and is about to go crazy as a spare tire.

Look lively from the outside, and watch the doorway from the inside.

Sun Ruowei is this kind of expert.

"Don't think about it all day. What kind of character is he, what kind of great ability does he have, you still don't know if you've been a pillow person for so long? If we really need to worry about his outside affairs one day, that's really the end. ”

Wang Xiao, who is considered by the outside world to be about to lose power and is about to become a deposed prince, is reading leisurely at the moment.

Although he is far away from Jingshi, the latest information will be sent by Jinyiwei every day.

As for military power, almost all the generals in the army were meritorious in the Battle of Jingjing. They are all one-sidedly on the side of Wang Xiao, Zhu Di's heir.

As for Zhu Gaochi, who intended to overturn the case for the Battle of Jingyan and wanted to relocate the Beijing division back to Tianfu, the most important thing was Zhu Gaochi, who clearly showed a tendency to emphasize literature over military force. These powerful generals of the military have a better choice, and they are undoubtedly on Wang Xiao's side.

As long as the military power is in hand, Wang Xiao can enter and enter freely, and it is up to him to decide what posture he wants to use.

Wang Xiao studied with Confucianism in the study.

He did not learn the art of the emperor, but the four books, five classics and eight strands of literature used by the turbans for the imperial examination.

There were two great Confucians who taught him. Don't look at their gray hair and their age. But they are all fierce people who have made brilliant achievements in the imperial examination and are rich in five cars.

One of them once visited the flowers in Yongle early high school, and the other was a well-deserved fierce man, because he once participated in the imperial examination in the distant Hongwu period and won the title of champion in one fell swoop!

Wang Xiao found professionals to teach him the study of the imperial examination, also to prepare for the future.

He knew that it was impossible to arrange his identity well every time he crossed, and there would always be times when it was not satisfactory.

If it was a dynasty before the Song Dynasty, then it was not said, in the era of martial arts, it was directly slashed with the sword.

And after crossing over to the Song Dynasty, there is no suitable identity, so the imperial examination is sometimes very important.

Wang Xiao didn't want to learn these things that gave him a headache when he looked at them, but he had to force himself to learn them seriously.

With one more technology, you may be able to make a difference when.

It's really cool to eat, drink, and eat all day long and wait for death, but if you really encounter something that you have to use your real skills, you will be blind.

Wang Xiao doesn't like to listen to operas, and he has little interest in singing and dancing performances.

In this era of scarcity of entertainment, if he doesn't want to drive around his room all day, he has to find a long-term pastime for himself.

Horseback riding, archery, martial arts, musical instruments, reading, drawing.

Knowledge is the most valuable asset, and that is true.

With the master of the examination room as the teacher, coupled with his outstanding comprehension ability, Wang Xiao's learning process is very fast.

The white-haired champion also said with emotion that if Wang Xiao studied hard for ten years and took the exam, there would be absolutely no problem in high school.

For this kind of topic, Wang Xiao has always smiled and refused.

In addition to reading, there is another important thing, and that is to practice calligraphy.

In ancient times, cultural people attached great importance to writing and believed that words were like their people. So writing is also a very important thing.

Wang Xiao has traveled through many worlds, and he can naturally write calligraphy.

But if you say how well he writes, he's embarrassed to say it.

After knowing Sun Ruowei, he learned to copy the Zhang Menglong Tablet from Sun Ruowei.

Zhang Menglong stele is a regular script inscription that stood in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Because the calligraphy on the stele is natural and smooth, bold and indulgent. It was praised as the first Wei monument in the world by later generations.

People who like calligraphy basically learn by copying. Sun Ruowei wrote a good raptor tablet.

Wang Xiao learned to copy this because Zhang Menglong's stele is in regular script. The regular script can be eaten no matter which dynasty it is in, and the pavilion body used in the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties is actually born from the regular script.

Life in Yingtianfu is very easy, and it is a rare leisure time for Wang Xiao.

But there's no way he's really at ease.

When he came to Yingtianfu, Zheng He was a must-see.

As a navigator, Zheng He's importance was far greater than that of the Manchu dynasty when the Age of Discovery was about to begin.

"What do you think of the performance of the treasure ships used in the fleet?" There was no polite greeting, Wang Xiao asked the question he was most concerned about when he saw Zheng He, "Can you sail on the ocean?" How far can you go at a time? ”

Zheng He's treasure ship is the main force of Zheng He's fleet.

The large treasure ship has more than 2,000 materials and a displacement of more than 1,000 tons. Compare Columbus's small boat of more than 100 tons, and the majestic atmosphere of China jumps out.

The main force of Zheng He's fleet is the treasure ships of 2,000 materials and 1,500 materials, even if they are smaller, they are more than 800 tons.

At its peak, there were two hundred and eight ships, and there was no doubt that this was the invincible armada of this era.

In fact, if you think about the poor and small countries on the Europa continent at the moment, and then compare the glorious and majestic China, the gap between the two sides is also a matter of course.

"If the fleet is well prepared, the furthest can be reached from Guri to Adan." In Zheng He's words, this is almost the equivalent of crossing the Indian Ocean from southern India to the Arabian Peninsula. ”

Zheng He thought for a while, "Those shipbuilding drawings sent by the prince before, the ministers found the craftsmen to see them. They all said that they could build it, and they estimated that it would be faster and more stable. It's just that the loading capacity is not as good as that of the treasure ship. ”

"Is there a problem going from Liujiagang to Fusang?" Wang Xiao finally threw out his thoughts.

"Fuso?"

Zheng He never thought that Wang Xiao would actually think of letting him go to Fusang, this is not going to the West, but to the East.

"Dare to ask the prince, why did you go to Fusang? That's the country that Taizu has designated as not to be conquered. ”

Wang Xiao smiled casually, "Annan is also one of the fifteen countries that do not conquer, so I won't destroy him as well." ”

Annam is the ancient name of Vietnam, and in the Ming Dynasty, the northern part of Vietnam was called Annam, and the southern part was Champang. The famous Champa rice is here.

During the Battle of Jingjing, Annam's minister Lê staged a coup d'état to overthrow the Tran dynasty and massacre the descendants of the royal family.

The descendants of the Chen family, who were killed in a hurry, ran to the Ming Dynasty for help. As early as the Zhu Yuanzhang period, they served Daming's father as the sect master, and now it is natural for them to ask their father for help when something happens.

The Yongle period was the strongest time for the entire Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di, who saluted first and then soldiers, sent troops to send the descendants of the Chen family back to Annan to succeed to the throne, but they were killed by the Li family and the Ming army escorted.

What is it? This is the face of Daming's father, who has his hands stained with unspeakable things and opens his bow left and right.

Where could Zhu Di stand this, he immediately sent 300,000 troops, claiming that 800,000 leveled the entire Annan in one fell swoop.

What Wang Xiao meant in his words was that there was nothing in this world that could not be beaten!