Jing'anjun Li Fangyuan returned to his house and told his cronie Jin Hanlao about today's affairs in the palace. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Jin Han Lao also asked suspiciously: "Why did your lord go to the capital of the Ming Kingdom at this time?" Aren't you afraid of changes in the country? ”

Li Fangyuan said with a smile: "It is at such a time that I want to go out and avoid it." Do you think that even if I stay in the country, can I prevent my father from canonizing Li Fangshuo as the son? ”

Jin Hanlao shook his head.

Li Fangyuan said again: "Since I can't stop me from staying in the country, what's the use of staying in the country? The more times like these, the more you should avoid them. My father will definitely crack down on the forces of those who oppose this matter before and after the canonization of Lee Fang-seok as the son, and if I am not in Seoul, I can avoid the blow and let my father deal with Li Fangzhi and them. This is the reason why the ancients of the Ming Kingdom said: 'Heavy ears are safe on the outside, and Shen Sheng is dead on the inside'. ”

"And I heard that Zhu Yunxi, the imperial grandson of the country, has many whimsical ideas, is a man and a good martial artist, and wants to be compatible with me; And now that Zhu Yunxi has been canonized as the emperor's grandson as a son-in-law, he will inevitably support a son-in-law like me to inherit the Joseon throne, and I can just go to win his support. ”

Jin Hanlao said: "Ming Kingdom may not care about my North Korean affairs. At that time, the king abolished the former King Gongrang of Goryeo and established himself as the king, and then asked the emperor of the Ming State to be canonized. The emperor of the Ming Kingdom was very unhappy, and felt that the king was not in the right position, but he was too lazy to care about the affairs of North Korea before acquiescing. ”

"Will this imperial grandson Zhu Yunxi take care of my North Korean affairs?"

Li Fangyuan said: "There is no need for him to actually do anything. Now my father is old, and I have always had a private soldier system in North Korea. Huai'anjun and Li Fanggan and I both contributed a lot to the process of my father's kingship, and both have strong strength. When the time is right, they can join forces to get rid of Li Fangshuo and the supporting Zheng Daochuan, Shen Xiaosheng and others. ”

"Then it was time for me and Li Fanggan to fight for the victory. I only need to get along with the grandson of the emperor of the Ming Kingdom in advance, and then send an envoy to the capital of the Ming Kingdom to ask for the title at this time; The people of the Ming Kingdom did not know the inside story, thinking that my father had passed the throne to me, and if His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun interceded, he would inevitably canonize me as the king of Joseon. ”

"But as soon as this canonized edict arrives in Seoul, it will inevitably make all the ministers of Korea think that the Ming Kingdom recognizes me as the king of Korea, and everyone else will be inclined to me except Li Fanggan and his cronies, so I can calmly get rid of Li Fanggan and finally benefit."

Jin Han Lao said with admiration: "Lord Jun's clever plan, the villain is ashamed of himself." ”

Li Fangyuan is also quite complacent. At this time, Li Fangyuan's wife, Mrs. Jing Anjun and Jingning Weng Lord Min knocked on the door and walked in, first blessed Jin Han, and Jin Han returned the salute and retreated with interest. Then she said to Li Fangyuan: "The concubine's father is here, do you want to see it." ”

Li Fangyuan immediately got up and said, "If you want to see it, how can you not see it." Immediately put on his shoes and ran out of the house. Min instructed the maid to clean up the house, and then went back to the dormitory herself.

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In the DPRK, the DPRK said that Li Chenggui was unwell and could not travel, and that the pilgrimage of Jing Anjun and Li Fangyuan coming to worship on the first day of next year was delivered to the capital on 29 June. Yun Xi naturally saw it, but of course he didn't know that there were already people in North Korea who were going to use him, and when he was already mentally prepared not to see Li Chenggui, he would pass after seeing it, and he didn't care much about it for the time being.

On the morning of the 29th, Yun Xi watched the recital, and in the afternoon, he came to the Liangguo Mansion again. He had a good conversation with Lan Zhen, and it had been decided that Lan Zhen would be the commander-in-chief of Yun Xi's escort troops patrolling in the north, so Yun Xi would come to Lan Mansion to talk to Lan Zhen about things when he was free this month.

On this day they talked about Mongolia. Lan Zhen said: "Your Highness, the Mongolian people are different from the people of my Ming Dynasty, and they are not the same as the people of the Southwest Zhuyi. I, the people of the Ming Dynasty, if the state officials are clean and clear, and the wind and rain are smooth, they will not engage in bad karma and live and work in peace and contentment; Although the customs of the Southwest Zhuyi are very different from those of the people of the Ming Dynasty, they do not worship Confucianism and are not respectful, but as long as the local government does things reasonably, it will not cause trouble. ”

This is not the case with the Mongols. Mongolian people do not produce, specialize in robbery, rudeness, righteousness and shame. Therefore, when dealing with Mongolian people, we must make them fearful of power in order to be virtuous. ”

Yun Xi nodded. Yun Xi generally agrees with Lan Zhen's words, but he thinks that the reason why the Mongolian people do not produce and specialize in robbery is because the cost of robbery is too low for them, not in nature, of course, it can also be said that everyone likes to get something for nothing, but the cost of robbery is too high for the farming people to be cost-effective.

And the garrison army in the north is ready to attack the Mongols at any time, which increases the cost of their robbery, so they will 'fear the power of Huaide'.

After talking about it for a long time, it was already late in the evening. Yun Xi said goodbye, and politely refused Lan Zhen's request to stay for dinner, and resolutely returned to the palace.

Lan Zhen naturally had to be delivered to the gate. In the process of sending it to the door, Yun Xi met the little girl surnamed Lin again. This time, she was with Lan Zhen's wife, and hurriedly saluted after seeing Yun Xi.

Yun Xi looked at this little girl this time and looked more like Lin Daiyu. However, since he has no intention of marrying the little girl back to the palace now, he can't say anything to her, just let them 'flat' and leave.

Yun Xi returned to the Wenhua Palace, and a huge piece of good news surrounded him: his concubine Xue Xiyao was pregnant.

Yun Xi sat on the Luohan bed in the Wenyuan Pavilion's dormitory, and Xi Yi said excitedly next to him: "I had lunch at noon today, and soon after your Royal Highness, your sister was unwell; I called the doctor over and said that my sister was pregnant, and it had been a month. I was afraid of misdiagnosis, so I called five or six imperial doctors from the Tai Hospital, and they all said that they were happy pulses, so we confirmed and sent someone to inform His Majesty and Concubine Ning. ”

Yoon-hee didn't know how to deal with this. He had never had the experience of being a father, and he didn't know how to be a father, and all his feelings were at a loss.

He turned his head sideways to look at Xi Yao, who was sitting on the side, who was sitting on the side with a satisfied expression. How could she not be satisfied? Entering the palace is the concubine, the imperial grandson is good to her, her father has also risen to a hereditary future, she herself is in charge of the palace affairs of the Wenhua Palace, and now she is the first to be pregnant, and it is likely to give birth to the eldest son of His Royal Highness, and the eldest son of the emperor, the natural heir to the throne, how is she dissatisfied.

Yun Xi had dinner with Xi Yao and Xi Yi in a daze. Not long after eating, maybe there was not a stick of incense, Lao Zhu sent someone to call him over.

Lao Zhu called him naturally related to Xiyao's pregnancy. The eldest of all the grandchildren of Lao Zhu who is still alive is the prince of Jin, Jixi, who was born in the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), is twenty-one years old this year, and already has a daughter, but no son; The second Yun Wei was born in Hongwu ten years, nineteen years old this year, held a wedding last year, and has no children.

Therefore, Lao Zhu attaches great importance to the concubine of every pregnant grandson. In addition, if Yunxi's concubine has a child, she is the eldest son, and Lao Zhu attaches great importance to it.

Lao Zhu called Yun Xi over and instructed: "Yun Xi, you have to pay attention to ......" After Rory chattered a lot, Yun Xi saw Lao Zhu for the first time.

After saying all this, Lao Zhu reacted and said, "You probably won't need it for a while, you are about to go to the north to inspect." ”

Yun Xi himself also reacted, according to the earlier arrangement, he was going to go to the north to inspect after Xi Yao or Xi Yi became pregnant. At that time, Yunxi had not yet married and had no children, so he didn't feel anything about it; But now that I am really married and about to have a child, I realize that it is not good to go out and not be at home with my wife during her pregnancy. Yoon-hee is deeply annoyed.

But Lao Zhu obviously doesn't have these thoughts, he has more than 20 sons, the first few sons were born in the midst of war, and there is a day when there is no tomorrow, and he may die at any time, how can he have the heart to think about the children?

After stabilizing and having more sons, although he loves the child very much, the deep-rooted imperial thinking makes him not care about the idea of his pregnant wife, and tells his subordinates to take good care of it.

Lao Zhu said: "Grandpa has already asked Qin Tianjian to divinate the days suitable for travel, and grandpa has also agreed to be commanded by Lan Zhen as the escort army. Grandpa plans to find two thousand households from the Jingwei, plus your forty-eight guards, and the students of the Jiangwutang who stayed in the capital, a total of about 2,300 people as your guards, how about it? ”

Yun Xi recovered from his frustration, the things of the Northern Tour have been prepared, and it is impossible to stop now, even Xi Yao herself is prepared, and it will not help to continue to be annoyed, it is better to leave as soon as possible and come back early.

So Yun Xi thought seriously about Lao Zhu's words and said, "Why do you have to bring so many guards? 1,000 men are sufficient, but less than 1,000 households (Note 1). And there is no need to prepare any carriage, the grandson can ride a horse. ”

Lao Zhu said: "It's better to bring more soldiers, more than 2,000 people are not too much, even if they are all cavalry, they will not be poor in a certain county of the Ming Dynasty." As for the carriage, you haven't ridden it for a long time now, you'll know when you've been on the horse all day. So you have to bring a carriage. ”

Yun Xi didn't have the experience of spending a whole day on horseback, so he agreed to take the carriage with him.

Lao Zhu said again: "Zhu Lu will also walk with you." Although he is your uncle, he is younger than you and has not traveled before, so you take care of him along the way. "Yun Xi promised.

Then Lao Zhu said: "I don't have anything to do here for the time being, you can go back." Yun Xi immediately retired.

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Note 1: In the Ming Dynasty, a thousand households were actually 1,120 soldiers.