Gong Bu Shijie's wedding was festive and lively. Everyone was immersed in joy. Mrs. Li is not only beautiful, but also benevolent, filial and filial, she is cautious and careful, careful and thoughtful to take care of Mrs. Ma, considerate and caring for Gong Bu Shijie, and welcomes every family member with a smile, which has won the hearts of the family.

Once, when Mrs. Li returned to her parents' house, her mother told her one thing, her mother's relative, Xining Weitu official Qianhu Qizi Sun, wanted to raise an army and rebel, and sent people to lure her into conspiring together, but her mother categorically refused and reprimanded the rebels: "If you turn your back on the rebellion, you will definitely not end well!" My husband is in charge of the state, and I am entrusted by my husband to die and not go with you! "Her mother taught her to always abide by the way of the minister, to have a clear mind in major matters, to have her own correct opinions, and not to be confused. Mrs. Li understood her mother's teachings and nodded in agreement.

In the first year of Jianwen (1399), King Su went to Lanzhou. Mrs. Ma brought Gong Bu Shijie to discuss congratulations.

After the death of Ming Taizu, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne and wrote to Emperor Jianwen in Ganzhou to ask Emperor Jianwen to agree to his move to Lanzhou. Su Wang Zhu Ao was the fourteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the nine great kings of the Ming Dynasty. In the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378), Zhu Ao was named the king of Han, and in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392), Taizu felt that Zhu Ao was quite talented as a general, so he was renamed the king of Su, and in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), he ordered Zhu Ao to go to the fiefdom of Pingliang Mansion to take up the domain. After 5 years, Zhu Yuanzhang changed his title to Ganzhou. Ganzhou is the hinterland of the Hexi Corridor and the frontier of the defense against the invasion of the old Yuan forces in Mobei, which shows the importance that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches to him. King Su once went to Lanzhou to inspect, and saw that Lanzhou is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially the Gaolan Mountain outside Lanzhou City is like a long dragon, lying in the south of Lanzhou City, the Yellow River is rolling through, it is indeed a good place to hide the dragon and crouching tiger. Therefore, King Su had the idea of moving the land from Zhangye to Lanzhou. He wrote to Emperor Jianwen and asked Zhu Yunwen for his permission to move to Lanzhou to become a vassal. Emperor Jianwen agreed to the request. In this way, the family of Suwang Zhu Ao officially moved to Lanzhou.

Gong Bu Shijie said that he was going to visit King Su, and Mrs. Ma asked him what was the greeting gift?

"I haven't thought about it yet."

"King Su has just arrived in Lanzhou, and he needs to build a large number of buildings and build a palace. What does it take to build a royal palace? Timber, earth and stone. We sent people to cut down 1,000 good pine trees from Tulu Ditch and give them to King Su, who will definitely like it. ”

"How do you get so much wood?"

"There are rafters on the Datong River, please ask a few rafters to drift the wood through the Datong River into the Yellow River, and go to Lanzhou to catch it!"

"That's a good idea!"

"That's it." Mrs. Ma then asked Gong Bu Shijie, "How will we associate with King Su in the future?" ”

"At the beginning of the year, I often move around; Big and small things, please report! ”

"Is that good?"

"Isn't it good?" Seeing his mother shaking his head, Gong Bu Shijie asked puzzled.

"Son, the court requires the vassal king not to enter the palace without a special purpose. Usually, you can only move in the fiefdom city, and you must report to the magistrate when you go out of the city, and you can't stay out overnight, and you must return to the city before sunset. Vassals were not allowed to interact with each other, etc. Why is that? I'm afraid that the vassal king will plot against him. The court was most taboo for local officials to have close ties with vassal kings. We are too close to King Su, what will the court think?! ”

"Oh, the boy understands!"

"Remember it in the future!" Gong Bu Shijie nodded yes.

After King Su arrived in Lanzhou, he recruited skilled craftsmen from all walks of life, mainly in the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, and expanded the location of the office, and overhauled the palace and other facilities. Gan, Liang, Lan, Xining, Zhuang Lang and other important members of Wei have donated money and materials to support. King Su was very happy, especially the thousands of coarse and fine timbers donated by Zhuang Lang and Gong Bu Shijie, which were even more like charcoal in the snow. King Su sent someone to count and check it, and gave Gong Bu Shijie gold and silver cloth to show his gratitude.

It took three years for the luxurious and magnificent Suwang Mansion to be completed. The wall around the whole Suwang Mansion is about 1000 meters long, and there is a door on the east, west and south sides, of which the south gate is the main gate of the palace, there are three in total, namely: Lingxing Gate, Duanli Gate, and Carrier Gate. After entering the carrier gate, it is the carrier hall and the heart hall, and then go back to the east and west palaces. The northeast side of the palace is a garden, collectively known as Ningxi Garden. Ningxi Garden is commonly known as Shanzi Stone, Fang Yili Xu, the garden is impounded into a lake, the base stone piles up the mountain, the rockery is called Shanzi in the Lanzhou dialect, so this area has also become the Shanzi Stone. There are not only stone mountains here, but also built buildings such as the Lei Zu Palace, the Jade Emperor Pavilion, the Doumu Palace, and the Qiyun Bridge, which are very luxurious.

In the fourth year of Emperor Jianwen of Ming Hui (1402), Bu Yan of Wuwei and Mongolia rebelled, and Gong Bu Shijie led more than 100 people to quell the rebellion, broke it, and captured 72 people.

When I came back from the battle, it was winter. Gong Bu Shijie was in the Acropolis of Zhuanglang and saw an old man begging, unkempt and covered, with gray hair, barefoot, wearing kudzu clothes, looking extremely bitter and cold. Gong Bu Shijie's compassion came spontaneously, and he jumped off his horse, wanting to give the old man a short sheepskin jacket that he had spare.

"Old man—"

When the old man in Ge Yi raised his head and looked at each other, Gong Bu Shijie suddenly felt that this look was so familiar?

The old man in the kudzu robe also seemed taken aback.

"Oh, you're—"

The old man in the kudzu robe shook his head and motioned for him not to speak.

Gong Bu Shijie nodded knowingly. Then he said, "Old man, seeing that you are helpless and alone, come to my house to do something, such as herding sheep, will you go?" ”

The old man in the kudzu robe didn't say anything, just nodded.

So Gong Bu Shijie and his entourage took the old man Ge Yi to Liancheng's house.

That night, in the dead of night, Gong Bu Shijie quietly came to find the old man in Ge Yi, and when they met, Gong Bu Shijie stepped forward to worship: "Lord Zhao, you have suffered!" ”

"Qianhu, don't call me Lord Zhao in the future, Zhao Tiantai is dead, you can call me Ge Yiweng."

It turned out that the old man in Ge Yi was Zhao Tiantai of Hanlin Academy, a native of Sanyuan, Shaanxi. At the beginning of the establishment of the text, it was edited by the Ming scriptures. In the fourth year of Emperor Jianwen (1402), Renwu (June,) Yichou (13th), Emperor Jianwen knew that Jinchuan Gate was lost, and wanted to commit suicide. Cheng Ji, editor of the Hanlin Academy, said that it is better to die. The young eunuch Wang Yue knelt and said that when Emperor Gao ascended to heaven in the past, he left a relic, and there was a great difficulty, so he should open it and take a look, and the box was placed on the left side of the Fengxian Palace. The ministers all said, hurry up and bring it out. Soon a red basket was lifted in front of him, wrapped in iron sheets around it, and two chains were filled with molten iron. Everyone pried open it and took a look, there were three degrees: one Ying Wen, two Ying Neng, three Ying Xian (respectively Zhao Ying should be Emperor Jianwen, Wu Wang Professor Yang Yingneng, and supervise the imperial history Ye Xixian), as well as robes, hats and shoes, razors, and ten platinum ingots. The red letters on the paper in the Zheng are written, "Ying Wen went out of the ghost gate, Yu walked from the water gate and the ditch, and Yu Shen was optimistic in the evening." Cheng Ji immediately cut the hair of the three of them and changed their clothes. There were fifty or sixty people vying for it. Emperor Jianwen said: There are many people who are inconvenient to leave, so you should wait for your own convenience. Emperor Jianwen only selected twenty-two followers, and there were nine people who came out of the ghost gate, including Zhao Tiantai, who called himself Ge Yiweng. After leaving, he was separated from Emperor Jianwen in a panic, and pursued Emperor Jianwen all the way to Lanzhou and exiled to Zhuanglang.

Hearing this, Gong Bu Shijie couldn't help but sigh with emotion, he persuaded Zhao Tiantai to live in his home in Liancheng in the future, and slowly inquire about the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen. Since then, Zhao Tiantai has lived in Gongbu Shijie.

Zhao Tiantai put the sheepskin jacket that Gong Bu Shijie gave him underneath, and put on top a kudzu robe that was almost worn as a broken rope - this kudzu robe was given to him by Emperor Jianwen. He was often heard muttering to himself, chanting poetry, or wailing at night, unable to express the sorrow and misery in his heart.

In October of the seventh year of Yongle (1409) of Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, the holy decree arrived, ordering Gongbu Shijie to strictly train his subordinates, and go to Mobei with Chengzu in the first month of next year. The eldest brother Li Ying received an edict at the same time and wanted to go together.

It was General Song who came to deliver the holy decree. After explaining the relevant matters, General Song wanted to go back, and he met Zhao Tiantai unexpectedly. After so many years, General Song actually knew Zhao Tiantai and wanted to talk to him, Zhao Tiantai turned around and went out and ran to Nanshan to hide in one go. The entourage asked General Song: "Who is this Ge Yiweng?" What's the origin? General Song didn't answer either. Gong Bu Shijie also pretended not to know anything. When General Song left, Zhao Tiantai returned from Nanshan. It didn't take long for him to fall ill, and he thanked Gong Bu Shijie's family for taking him in, saying, "If I die, a northwest wind will blow, please burn my body, and the ashes will be lifted into the wind, please don't bury my bones." Zhao Tiantai is really dead, and Gong Bu Shijie arranged for his subordinates to follow his last words.

After Zhao Tiantai's death, people slowly learned the truth of the matter. People are grateful for Zhao Tiantai's loyalty and always commemorate. In the forty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Zhuang Lang Sima Jinrenwang of the Hexi Supervision Department built an ancestral hall for him in the Zhaoxing Academy on the East Street of Pingfan County, and enshrined it with the original superintendent of the imperial history Bao Gong (Bao Jie, the word Mengquan), and the name was "Erxian Temple". Later, Wu Zhen of the Qing Dynasty made "The Shrine of Mr. Ge Yi" to commemorate this event:

Du Yuying in the south of the Yangtze River is glimpsing, and thousands of miles of Yunnan and Shu are crying.

The flock of birds broke from their feathers, and the mouth bled at night.

Ge Yi Lao Tzu Er, ten years full of pine mountain snow.

If you don't answer your surname and name, you will look up to the sky and roar like a knot.

Begging to and fro in Jincheng, mending the pot saw the hand cracked.

When he met the Zhu family in Hexi, he was cordial.

- That's an afterword.

Besides, Gong Bu Shijie was ordered to train his soldiers and prepare to accompany him to the northern expedition next spring, so he was very serious about his preparations and did not dare to be careless. It turned out that in 1368 (the first year of Hongwu), Zhu Yuanzhang sent Xu Da to lead an army to invade the capital of Yuan, and Yuan Huizong fled to Mobei to continue the rule of the Yuan Empire, which was known as "Northern Yuan". Later, the "Northern Yuan" Degusi Timur was defeated by the Ming general Lanyu and defeated Kara and Lin. When they arrived on the banks of the Tula River, Timur was killed by his eldest son, Yesudier, and the people were not satisfied, and each led his subordinates to disperse.

After the usurpation of the throne, the killing in the country continued, and it was passed to Kun Timur, and it was killed by the subordinate ghost Lichi. Guilichi canceled the title of Mongolia and proclaimed himself Tatar Khan. Since then, the Yuan Room has been renamed Tatar. The people believed that Gui Lichi was not a descendant of the Great Yuan, and most of them did not obey his orders. Yuan Taizu's younger brother traced only the descendant Arutai took the opportunity to kill the ghost Lichi, and welcomed the brother of Likun Timur Benya as the Khan, and became the Taishi, calling on the Quartet to gradually become stronger.

To the west of Tatar there is the Warat tribe, which is a descendant of the Yuan minister Mengke Timur, and has a long feud with the Tatars, and the chieftain is called Maham. When Chengzu raised troops in Beiping, he strictly prevented Mahamu from attacking internally and made peace with him. and entered Beijing to proclaim the emperor, and named Mahamu as the king of Shunning. Maham relied on internal help, so he often struggled with the Tatars. Arutai attacked Warat several times, but was defeated. Seeing that they were killing each other, Chengzu decided to go on a northern expedition and make the Tatars and Warats on the steppe submit to the Ming Dynasty in order to achieve the goal of once and for all.

In the sixth year of Yongle, Chengzu sent his minister Liu Tiemur to take the edict of the jade seal and weave brocade Wenqi and other things to appease the Tatar Khan Benyasuri, but Benyasuri did not accept it. A year later, Chengzu sent Guo Ji to surrender in the matter, but he was killed by Benjamin. Chengzu was very angry, and immediately selected Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qi, as the general of the expedition, and led Wang Cong, Huo Zhen, Wang Zhong, Li Yuan, etc., to command 100,000 troops and conquer Tatar in the north. At the same time, he sent a letter to the Warat Department and sent troops to attack. Maham, the chief of the Warat tribe, did not wait for Qiu Fu's troops to arrive, and had attacked the Tatar capital. Benjamin and Arutai fled to the Juluqu River.

Qiu Fu commanded the troops and learned that the Tatars had been defeated, believing that the Tatars were exhausted and could be wiped out without the help of blowing ashes. Then he led a thousand light horsemen to go first, and met the Tatar guerrillas on the way, and broke head-on. Chase across the river, capture a ringleader, and interrogate Benjamin about his whereabouts. The captive replied that upon hearing of the arrival of the army, Benjamin was terrified and hurried north, not more than thirty miles from here. Qiu Fu was overjoyed and said: "Capture the thief and capture the king first." This sortie must have been successful, and it was a complete victory. General Li Yuan admonished: "It's better for the general to be careful." The enemy's main force has not been seen, so I am afraid that there will be fraud. It is necessary to carefully reconnoiter the reality of the enemy's army, and then it is not too late to enter the army. Besides, the army behind me has not yet arrived, and it is not too late to march again when the army gathers together! Qiu Fu was angry: "How dare you scratch the heart of our army? The soldiers are fast, the enemy chief is in front, what are you waiting for if you don't go to capture it immediately!? ”

Li Yuan said again: "When the general resigned, the emperor also repeatedly warned that the use of troops should be cautious, and not to fall for the enemy, has the general forgotten?" ”

Qiu Fu became angry: "The general is outside, and the king's order is not affected." Do you vain trust the Son of Heaven Wei Ling, dare to come and talk too much? Military law is there, no wonder is ruthless! ”

Li Yuan didn't dare to say anything more. Wang Zhong tried his best again, but Qiu Fu still didn't listen, and commanded the army to rush forward. When the Mongolian soldiers saw the Ming army coming, they ran away before they could turn back from the battle. Lured the Ming army into the deep forest, blew whistles, ambushed troops in all directions, trapped Qiu Fu and other regiments, and surrounded them layer by layer. Qiu Fu, Huo Zhen, Wang Zhong and others did not come out of the conflict and died in battle. Li Yuan and Wang Cong led 500 cavalry to break out of the encirclement, but they were tightly bitten by the enemy soldiers, unable to get out, and fought for several hours, but they were all killed. The Ming army behind heard that the police were coming, and they were killed by the Meng soldiers for a while, and most of them were wounded, and the rest escaped. It was August 15th.

Hearing the war report, Chengzu was furious and wrote an edict to warn the crown prince: "Than send Qiu Fu to the north, with his long time in the soldiers, he will be able to do anything, He Yifu disobeyed my words, the lone army marched lightly, and the Marquis of Anping and others wept and did not obey, so they all fell." If you don't destroy it early, the border trouble will not be extinguished, and the troops will be trained today, and I will be determined to fight in person in the spring. ”

Intense combat preparations began immediately. Gong Bu Shijie, Li Ying and others all received the holy decree and drove to the north!