In the autumn of the fourth year of Jianwen, the Beijing division was broken by the Jingnan army, and more than half a year has passed. In the northwest corner of the palace, Ma Enhui, the empress of the Jianwen Dynasty, was also imprisoned for several months.

It's really easy for people in the world to forget a lot of things, even if it was the queen who was once in the limelight of the world, it will be forgotten by people in an instant. The only people who remember Ma Enhui seem to be Zhu Di and a few of his henchmen, and they want to take out some news about Jianwen's father and son from Ma Enhui's mouth.

At this time, Zhu Di's second son Zhu Gaoxu came. Ma Enhui knew in her heart that Gao Xu had seen her several times, but she was also ordered by her father to let her tell where Jianwen's father and son had gone.

…… In the past, Ma Enhui was a little disgusted with this Gao Xu. Gao Xu has a bad reputation, he is lustful, violent, and cunning, such a person kisses her on the mouth when they meet for the first time...... However, Ma Enhui gradually learned that Gao Xu was not insulting her, but that she was choking to death in the smoke of the fire in Fengtian Temple, and he was saving her life. At that time, Ma Enhui was about to self-immolate, and she was only alive because she was a queen, and she was not grateful to Gao Xu for saving her life; It's just that I know in my heart that he has no bad intentions.

Later, she felt that Gao Xu still respected her, a cousin-in-law she had never seen before. If Ma Enhui was still the queen, there would be too many people who respected her, but she was reduced to Si, and even the palace maids and eunuchs had no respect for her; Only Gao Xu still treats her as an imperial sister-in-law, and this respect is not because of her power and fame. Who wants to be belittled? Ma Enhui couldn't deceive her feelings, and she began to hate this brother no longer in her heart.

Especially after a meeting, Ma Enhui was emotional and said that she said that the prince (Wen Kui) was also her son...... The implication is that she may know where Jianwen's father and son went, but because the palms and backs of her hands are full of meat, she is unwilling to betray the prince Wenkui for Fengyang's Wen Gui. Zhu Gaoxu immediately reminded her that if she didn't decide to confess, she would never admit that she knew the whereabouts of Jianwen's father and son.

From that time on, Ma Enhui actually trusted Gao Xu in her heart!

This concubine of King Yan, in the "Battle of Jingyan" to overturn the Jianwen Imperial Court, was loyal to his father, and he was simply a quick knife of Zhu Di, and he made many military exploits in attacking the city; Ma Enhui was ruined by Yan Wangyi's party, and it became the current situation, it can be said that Gao Xu is at least half responsible.

But things in the world are so subtle and strange, Ma Enhui believes in this person so easily in her heart!

…… And this time they met, Gao Xu said that he was named the king of Han and was going to Yunnan, and he made a special trip to say goodbye. Because last time Ma Enhui asked him to take care of Wengui in Fengyang; So this time, Gao Xu came and brought a strand of Wen Gui's one-year-old hair and put it in his purse.

When Ma Enhui saw Moon Gyu's hair, her mood immediately collapsed. She cried very sadly, desperately smelling her own son's breath, and was very worried about Moon Gyu.

At this moment, Ma Enhui felt that no power or status mattered; She felt very vulnerable, with only endless loneliness, helpless sorrow, and missing her loved ones.

She said that if there was no feudal division and no war, how good it would be that everyone would be in harmony. Maybe as a relative, she can still walk back and forth with Gao Xu.

Is the war and the crazy struggle for power that men indulge in very cruel and useless?

Gao Xu has been very benevolent to Ma Enhui, although he approached her with a mission, he never persecuted her; Ma Enhui even felt a little warmth from Gao Xu in the cold palace.

Ma Enhui is not a heartless person, but she is now a almost worthless person, what can she use to repay Gao Xu? Betraying Jianwen's father and son, that is absolutely impossible, her eldest son Wen Kui is innocent!

Ma Enhui finally thought of something she knew, and now saying it would not hurt Jianwen and Wenkui's lives again. She said, "I want to tell the king of Han a secret."

She whispered: Under the Taizu spiritual seat in the Fengxian Palace, there is a tunnel arranged by the Taizu, which can lead to the inside and outside of the Beijing Division.

It was from there that Emperor Jianwen left the palace, and now except for Emperor Jianwen's closest people, no one knows about that tunnel; After Emperor Jianwen left, he saw that the authentic palace people had been burned to death in the Fengtian Temple.

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In the Fengxian Palace, Zhu Gaoxu kowtowed a few times in front of the Tai Ancestral Spirit Seat, and shouted outside the hall door while pushing away the heavy incense case of the Tai Ancestor Spirit Seat! Miaojin and Wang Yin next to him both looked at him in surprise.

Zhu Gaoxu lay straight on the ground and hit the floor tiles twice with his hand. However, he did not hear the sound of the hollow, as if it had been knocked on solid ground!

He suddenly became a little worried! In case Ma Enhui deceived him back then, or said something a little wrong, such as the tunnel is not in Fengxian Palace...... That Zhu Gaoxu must be cool today.

At such a juncture, he couldn't stop panicking at all, but he finally managed to calm down. He stood up and picked up a copper lampstand for the oil lamp, which Zhu Gaoxu had seen, and then cast it and riveted it. He put the lampstand horizontally on his knees, broke it with force, and broke the riveted place on his head, and then walked back to the place where the ancestral spirit seat was placed with the copper rod.

Zhu Gaoxu began to tinker with the brick on the ground, but the copper rod was not easy to use, so he found a jade incense burner and gently tapped the top of the copper rod.

Miao Jin seemed to see the clue, and she hurriedly took down the lantern hanging in the door, and then took the oil lamp from the lamp stand and lit the wick inside.

At this time, people outside the hall may come in at any time, and time is very tight, Zhu Gaoxu nodded approvingly to Miaojin when he saw this.

Fortunately, there was no cement at this time, and the floor tiles were just patched into the ground. Zhu Gaoxu was busy for a while, and finally pried open the floor tiles. There are no holes underneath! Only dirt.

He thought for a moment, pressed his palm on the dirt below, and immediately felt a subtle elasticity.

"Whew!" Zhu Gaoxu let out a long sigh of relief, stood up, and then shouted at the temple door, and at the same time stepped on the dirt ground with one foot! After a "click" of wood breaking, the earth fell down with a "clatter". Rao is Zhu Gaoxu was prepared, and his body was crooked, and he almost fell.

He cleared the hole, and found that it was small enough to accommodate a man; But if it is a person like the crown prince Gao Chi, he will definitely not be able to go down. The floor tile on top is slightly larger than the hole, and the edge of the floor tile has a point of strength, so the heavy incense case placed on it can't fall down.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and whispered, "You two go down first!" ”

Miaojin took the initiative to walk to the entrance of the cave, first took the lantern to explore, and then put the lantern on the ground. Her hands grasped the edge of the ground, and the man descended cautiously. After a while, Miaojin stood below and raised her head and whispered, "It's not deep down there!" ”

Then Wang Yin also climbed into the cave.

Zhu Gaoxu first cleaned up the ground roughly, and wiped the dirt around the cave entrance with his sleeve. While he was busy, he shouted and answered with Jin Zhong outside the main hall.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu lay on his back on the ground, so that he could reach out and move the incense case to its original position first. When half of his body poked into the hole, he shouted, "You people are plotting to harm me!" ”

Then he jumped down from the hole, reached out and pulled the outside brick over, dragging the brick with his palm to cover the hole. He immediately followed the light in the black hole and rushed up.

This tunnel is very small, people can't stand up at all, they can only lie down, half-squatting forward, at first it was okay, this posture will not take long to feel very tired.

The horizontal surface of the tunnel is square, and the top, bottom, left and right are made of stone slabs, and the ground is very damp. The first part of the road was a downward slope, and the further the three of them went, the deeper they went into the ground.

After walking for a while, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly thought that when Taizu wanted to build the imperial city, it was the foundation that was built by filling in the lake.

In the past, this place was a lake, called Yanque Lake. Liu Bowen, the advisor of Taizu, was a master of feng shui, and believed that this Yanque Lake was located at the head of Zhongshan Mountain, which was the best place for feng shui in Jinling, and if the Zhu royal family lived here, it could maintain the prosperity of at least three hundred generations; It's a pity that this place is a lake, how to build a palace?

This kind of problem can't stop Tai Zu's determination, he established the Ming Dynasty, is prepared to last at least a thousand years, how can the feng shui of the imperial city be bad? So Taizu sent 200,000 craftsmen to the army and began to fill the lake.

During the Taizu period, the foundation of the imperial city was built, and a large number of drainage canals were also built, including yang canals on the ground and yin canals buried in the ground.

The secret passage that Zhu Gaoxu is squatting on now may be one of the underground drainage canals that have been built. But the purpose of this aqueduct is not to drain water, but to lay out a secret passage among many canals. Perhaps Tai Zu thought too much about his descendants, hoping that one day if something happened to the palace, his descendants would be able to run away through the secret passage and go out to recruit the king.

Unexpectedly, Tai Zu's layout was really useful, and just four years after his death, his grandson ran away through this secret path. After a few more years, another grandson, Zhu Gaoxu, also ran away through this secret road.

The three of them walked a downhill road, stepped on stagnant water, and entered a flat and straight canal. The surrounding stones were very damp, and the moist water gathered into water droplets, which dripped into Zhu Gaoxu's neck from time to time, and it was cold and piercing.

The half-squatting legs have begun to be sour and soft, and the breathing is not very smooth, and I feel very stuffy and depressed. In the silent darkness was the sound of their heavy, deep breathing.

I don't know how long I walked, but the flat road came to an end, and the slope in front of me became very steep, and it was an upward slope. However, stone steps were actually built on the slope, and it seems that this secret passage was indeed built for people to walk through, and not for drainage.

Zhu Gaoxu walked uphill and heard the faint sound of running water, but his vision was not clear, and he couldn't see where the stagnant water in the tunnel was flowing. He walked up the stone steps and said, "Miaojin, give me the lantern, I'll walk in the middle, my physical strength is better." ”

Miao Jin handed over the lantern as he said, and Zhu Gaoxu also moved forward a position. Then Miaojin began to climb up the stone steps with her hands and feet, and at this time she should understand what Zhu Gaoxu meant when he said, "His physical strength is better".