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There was a shady street on the west side of Mufu, and Zhu Gaoxu came in in a carriage and felt that the light suddenly dimmed; The shade of the trees shaded the sun, leaving a flood of light and shadow on the masonry floor.

Zhu Gaoxu gently lifted the curtain, feeling that the breeze in the air was much cooler than outside. He looked at the street in front of him, and it was as if he saw the exit of the tunnel, and the light was dazzling.

The smell of plant ash and tempeh wafted through the air. Only then did Zhu Gaoxu remember that it was almost noon, and the people around him should be cooking, and the home-cooked dishes of the Han people in Yunnan like to put tempeh the most, and almost everything has to be put on that thing, no wonder there is such a smell.

The large trees on both sides are almost all banyan trees, most of which grow in the courtyard of the mansion, and occasionally on the side of the street. Not far away, there is a large banyan tree, many rhizomes intertwined, forming a trunk that two people cannot hug, and it seems to be very old. What's even more amazing is that there are incense candles lit in front of the trunk, and there are also a lot of incense ashes on the ground.

Zhu Gaoxu observed for a while and found that there were private houses on both sides, and the houses on the east side were not the buildings of Mufu...... Generally, large households have walls, and trees will not be planted against the walls, mainly to prevent assassins from burglary, to prevent assassins from climbing along the trees, or hiding; It is impossible for the houses in Mufu to be built like this.

"Why don't you come closer?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Wei Da understood why he didn't get close to Mu Mansion, so he leaned down and looked at Zhu Gaoxu in the carriage and said, "Back to Gongzi, there is still a street behind this row of houses in the east; But the gate at the entrance of the street was guarded, and passers-by were not allowed to walk that street. ”

"Oh." Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

…… Back at the Han Palace, Zhu Gaoxu first accompanied Guo Wei to lunch, and then came to the study in the front hall. He immediately summoned Wang Bin, Liu Ying, Hou Hai, Chen Dazhui, and Zhao Ping to meet.

"Guarding the Hundred Households" and the guard of honor guards, there are almost no talents who specialize in treachery and spies, Zhu Gaoxu is ready to do it himself first, let these people follow the routine, and then hand over the matter to them later.

Opening a wooden door in the study, everyone followed Zhu Gaoxu in, and the wooden shelves inside were full of books. Zhu Gaoxu instructed Cao Fu to remove a pair of bookshelves and hang a few pieces of white paper together.

While Cao Fu was grinding ink, Zhu Gaoxu looked back and said: "The situation has changed, don't wait for Mu Sheng, we must immediately deploy manpower." Let Qian Xun do the literacy of the soldiers, and Wang Bin, Liu Ying, and Hou Hai will be at my side in the future. ”

The two clasped their fists and said, "The next official will obey the order." ”

Zhu Gaoxu lifted the brush and dipped it in the inkstone, then wrote on the white paper on the wall, and a few powerful cursive fonts fell on the pen, which was quite beautiful. His calligraphy was originally practiced by Zhu Gaoxu.

Mu, Geng, Shen, and unknown forces, a few words were written down, and Zhu Gaoxu drew a circle respectively; He first explained the relationship between the Mu Mansion and the Geng family, and then deduced the existence of unknown forces. It was the words that I said to Veda by the Dianchi Lake.

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he said: "Mu Mansion and Shen Xu are both forces on the bright side, and everyone knows it; Some family members of the Geng family fled to Yunnan, and it didn't take much effort to guess, after all, Mrs. Geng was the sister of Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing.

This is what we're mainly looking at at the moment...... Unknown forces, who are they; And what illness did Mu Sheng have, or where was he? There are two secondary goals, one is to find out where and who the Geng family are harboring; Second, what is the relationship between Mu Fu and Shen Xu's family. "There is another person Zhu Gaoxu who is hard to say, and that is Hu Hui. Hu Hu was sent by the emperor, and it was inconvenient for Zhu Gaoxu to put him on the table to monitor.

Everyone stared at the words on the wall, Hou Hai asked for a pen and paper, and walked to the table to write hard.

Zhu Gaoxu waited for a while, and then asked, "Do you understand?" ”

Everyone replied one after another: "Back to the prince, I understand." ”

So Zhu Gaoxu began to make specific arrangements.

He first ordered Chen Da Hammer to pawn a shop in the city to sell jewelry gold and jade, which was exactly what Chen Da Hammer had done in Beijing.

The difference is that now Zhu Gaoxu is even more blatant, just because he is carrying out espionage activities in Yunnan and targeting local forces in Yunnan, even if he is discovered, there will be no too serious consequences. Moreover, the shops in Yunnan are still in the "Shouyu" for the record: Jinpu Branch.

The "Imperial Guard" of the royal palace also used sergeants to form a team of brave men, and at any time to reinforce the various strongholds when needed.

Zhao Ping, who guards hundreds of households, and also leads the gold shop branch to guard, and the identity on the surface is the shopkeeper. The personnel inside are all spies, including the royal slave Chen from Shandong.

These spies went in and out of the gold shops, rented or purchased mansions in the city, and the soldiers brought their families to live as a stronghold for casting their nets. They are in the shady street on the west side of Mufu and the gates of Mufu, near Shenfu, and near Liyuan.

The news obtained was reported to the Jinpu Branch, and then reported to the "Imperial Guard" of the palace, which was summarized and sorted out by Liu Ying and Hou Hai. To find out how things are going, Zhu Gaoxu only needs to summon these two people.

A few days later, the sub-divisions and strongholds were properly arranged, and Zhu Gaoxu also drew a schematic map of the traitors and spies in Yunnan Prefecture, marked the location of each stronghold, and hid it in the study in the front hall.

…… The people of the Han Wangfu arrived in Yunnan Mansion in early April, and Mu Sheng finally came on the third day of May.

Hou Hai reported that Mu Sheng and his wife Chen visited him, and they were welcomed into the front hall of the palace to wait, and then Hou Hai presented the gift list of Mu Mansion.

Zhu Gaoxu heard that Mu Sheng actually brought his family, obviously intimacy. He immediately turned his head and said, "Cao Fu, go to the inner hall to ask the princess to change her clothes, and I will see Mu Sheng later." ”

Cao Fu said: "The slave obeys. ”

Zhu Gaoxu also changed into a red leather suit, Guo Wei wore Zhai clothes to the front hall, and the two went to the front hall to see Mu Sheng together.

As soon as he walked into the front hall, Zhu Gaoxu said loudly: "Brother Yi's illness is cured?" ”

Mu Sheng turned around and heard the two "righteous brothers" stunned for a moment.

I saw that Mu Sheng was a sturdy, estimated to be in his thirties, wearing a red embroidered lion complement round neck, wearing a black veil, his face was a little tanned, but the skin was very flat and the color was also very uniform, just like he was deliberately tanned on a seaside vacation, plus that calm and decent posture, quite aristocratic style. Mu Sheng is already the third Marquis of Xiping, inheriting the title from his elder brother, and it seems that he has lost the fierce martial arts spirit of some of the ancestors of the entrepreneurs.

The woman next to her was wearing a life woman official uniform, and she seemed to be in her early thirties, with fair skin, beautiful face, a slightly pointed chin, and a smile in her eyes.

Mu Sheng and Chen saluted and saluted Zhu Gaoxu and his wife together.

Mu Sheng said: "Meet His Royal Highness the King of Han!" I was infected with illness before, and I was unable to welcome His Highness into Yunnan, so I came to make amends today. Chen also said, "I have seen His Royal Highness the King of Han and the princess Niangniang", and Zhu Gaoxu and Guo Wei returned the salute.

"I heard that my brother-in-law is sick, and there is nothing he can do. As long as you come, it's okay to be late. Zhu Gaoxu said, "Please sit down, let's sit down and talk." ”

When he said this, Chen glanced at Zhu Gaoxu meaningfully.

Zhu Gaoxu did not go to the public seat above, but accompanied Mu Sheng and others to sit down on the Taishi chair next to the mahogany case on the west side. The two men sat down on a few cases, and the two women sat together.

Soon a team of maids came in and changed the tea on the table.

"Your Highness, has the princess been cured of her illness?" Mu Sheng asked kindly.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Okay, it's been a while, Lang Zhong said that it was caused by the fatigue of the journey, and he prescribed a recipe for a thousand years of Korean ginseng, so that I could find it." Later, I don't know if it was the thousand-year-old ginseng that played a role, but it was finally good. ”

Mu Sheng looked relieved and said, "As long as the princess is fine, then we can rest assured." The person who came back from the Han Wangfu said that His Royal Highness got the thousand-year-old ginseng from the Shen Xu clan? ”

"Exactly." Zhu Gaoxu owed, and laughed in a mocking voice, "I heard that she has a bit to do with her brother-in-law?" ”

Mu Sheng turned his head to the Chen family next to the cases below, and said with a straight face: "Your Highness said that you are laughing, there is a little personal relationship, that's all." However, her father-in-law, Shen Mao, had a good relationship with her late father. ”

"I see, I see." Zhu Gaoxu also glanced up at Mrs. Mu and said with a smile.

At this moment, Mrs. Mu, who was sitting at the bottom and facing Zhu Gaoxu, also looked over, and actually showed a little coquettish and angry look, Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about her." ”

Zhu Gaoxu and Mu Sheng met for the first time, and they could only talk about some Yunnan customs and anecdotes. On the contrary, it is an important business, and neither of them deliberately mentions it. I really can't put it on the table...... Could it be that Zhu Gaoxu wants to say, I got a secret decree from my father, and I came to Yunnan to observe whether you have malicious intentions? Did you hide Emperor Jianwen?

So they had to talk to each other happily and talk a lot, but most of them were insignificant. However, Zhu Gaoxu still asked about some Yunnan toast, which was a bit useful.

Since Mu Sheng brought his wife here, when it was almost noon, Zhu Gaoxu left the couple for dinner. After lunch, a cup of tea was drunk, and the palace officials sent Mu Sheng away.

As Zhu Gaoxu expected, since Mu Sheng brought his wife and had a meal, it was with good intentions. Mu Sheng didn't seem to want to grudge with the Han Palace. As for the deep grudge between King Min and Mu Sheng in Yunnan back then, after Zhu Gaoxu saw Mu Sheng himself, he tended to think that King Min was arrogant and arrogant, and he was messing around as soon as he came to Yunnan, so he had a conflict with Mu Fu.

Zhu Gaoxu accompanied Guo Wei to the inner hall and met Yao Ji calling cats in the corridor. Yao Ji avoided the salute, and the three of them did not speak.

After sending Guo Wei back to the room, Zhu Gaoxu came out and saw Yao Ji holding the yellow cat he bought in Jingshi in his arms, and said, "The cat has been found?" ”

Yao Ji touched the fur of the yellow cat that had grown up, and said softly: "Cats just love to run around, and the concubine can't bear to be tied up." ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, looking thoughtful, and suddenly asked in a deep voice: "Hu Hu, is there someone who wants to contact you?" ”

Yao Ji looked up at Zhu Gaoxu, without saying a word, her eyes were very bright.

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