/p> "Got someone!"

A voice came from outside the door, and Zhu Gaoxu and the others looked sideways. Wang Yu walked into the palace office quickly, knelt down on one knee, and said: "Commander Wang will rush back to report to the prince at the end of the command, and the brothers have arrested four people in Liuba Village!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "Who are they?" ”

Wang Yu said: "Back to the prince's words, in addition to the woman, there is also a man from Liuba Village, and his wife and children. The king commanded the search for evidence and sent people to return all the criminals to the palace. ”

Didn't seem to catch the female assassin? Zhu Gaoxu said, "Divide and decharge." ”

"Order!" Wang Yu said.

When the prisoners arrived at the palace, they were temporarily imprisoned in the house on the east side of the Duanli Gate. Zhu Gaoxu wanted to know who they were, and he couldn't wait.

Zhu Gaoxu soon came to the east side of the Duanli Gate and first went to the door where the woman was being held. The soldier at the door unlocked the door, and Zhu Gaoxu turned back to the guards and said, "You guys are waiting outside." ”

The military general Wang Yu seemed a little uneasy, but he still hugged his fists and said, "Yes." ”

An unarmed woman, Zhu Gaoxu didn't believe what she could do to herself.

When he went into the room, he saw the woman sitting on a chair with her hands and feet tied. She glanced at Zhu Gaoxu who came in, and her face was very calm and not panicked at all.

Zhu Gaoxu was slightly surprised when he saw her expression. He looked at the woman twice, and saw that she was not bad; It's just that the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes and the sagging feeling of skin after the loss of collagen on her face have left her irreversible traces of age.

"I am Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han." He started by saying a word.

The woman said: "The concubine can't move now, it's rude." The concubine and His Royal Highness are not enemies. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was immediately curious when he heard this.

He first told who he was, and he wanted to ask who the woman was, but she did not expect her to respond like this...... He wondered why the woman said they were not enemies.

But Zhu Gaoxu held back his curiosity and did not immediately follow the woman's words and continue. He can't be led by the nose by the woman, the initiative must be in his own hands!

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a while, sat down on a chair next to a table, deliberately picked up his injured left hand, looked at it and said, "Since you are not an enemy, why do you send someone to assassinate you?" ”

There is a trap in this sentence, as long as the woman in front of her does not deny it, the relationship between the female assassin and the woman is confirmed in the first place! Because Zhu Gaoxu does not have any evidence to confirm that they are related, the only way is to blow her up.

The woman really fell for the trick, and the initiative to guide the rhythm returned to Zhu Gaoxu's hands, and she defended: "We didn't want to assassinate His Highness, she was dealing with the Mu family." And I don't agree with this assassination. ”

"Good." Zhu Gaoxu nodded with satisfaction, "Where is the female assassin?" ”

The woman said, "I don't know. Her Highness has captured such a big battle, I'm afraid she won't come back. ”

Only then did Zhu Gaoxu ask: "Just now you said that we are not enemies, why?" ”

The woman looked up at Zhu Gaoxu, and after a while she spoke: "I am from the Bai clan, Duan Yang's family, and I live in Dali. The other people you arrested were originally surnamed Duan, but now they have changed their surnames to Liu. Your men are searching the house, and you should be able to find something that confirms this. ”

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he seemed to understand a little, so he casually asked, "What do you mean by Mrs. Duan, you have a personal enmity with Mu Mansion?" ”

This remark somehow angered Duan Yang's family, she suddenly became very angry, and her face changed: "Your Highness, doesn't you know what Mu Ying has done in Dali?!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment. He probably still knows that it is nothing more than the destruction of the political power of Dali, the change of land and the return of the stream, and Yunnan directly incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty. But what exactly was done, and how did Zhu Gaoxu know?

He asked, "What have you done?" ”

Duan Yangshi glanced at Zhu Gaoxu coldly, "It is said that the Yuan people are cruel and unkind, but Mu Ying is even better than the Yuan people!" As soon as Mu Ying arrived in Dali, she first escorted the head of Dali and his family to Nanjing to invite merit, and then persecuted the Duan clan relatives on charges of crime, and if she resisted a little, she would slaughter and kill! He also burned the classics and documents of the Duan family, dug up the ancestral graves, and forced the people of Dali to speak Chinese and use Chinese characters to ......"

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but defend himself at the moment: "The unification of the world is the trend of the times, and the king of Qianning may have something wrong, and the merits and demerits will be discussed by future generations." It is not a bad thing that the local people are naturalized, the fighting is quelled, and everyone has become a family, and they live in harmony together on the land of China. Mrs. Duan is a woman, why bother about military affairs, and what can you change about it?

The war has passed, and peace has been restored to Dali. The imperial court is adjusting the national policy to appease the people of Bai, and they can live a good life for each other in the future. ”

Duan Yang was trembling with anger, staring at Zhu Gaoxu's gaze, making him feel familiar, those eyes were like an abyss, only unfathomable hatred. She said in a tearing voice: "My late husband did not rebel!" His only fault is because he is the clan brother of the head of Dali! The first husband believed in Buddhism, he only loved to read in his life, he was kind-hearted, benevolent and humble, cherished his reputation and face, and never led troops to fight against the Ming army, what was wrong with him? Why do you want to slaughter our whole family......

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned.

Duan Yang gritted her teeth, but there was not a single tear in her eyes, and her emotions collapsed a little, "Mu Ying asked people to spit and insult him in public in the vernacular, slandered irrelevant incestuous evil things on his head, and burned his face with a red-hot iron!" I risked my life to hide in the crowd and saw everything with my own eyes, and they couldn't deny it! Mu Ying watched in person, still talking and laughing with the generals.

Dare to ask King Han, are these things just official affairs? Mu Ying led the troops to destroy our country and seize my land, that was a big deal, but he insulted and killed my relatives, this deep hatred, I will find the Mu family's blood debt every day I live! Even if you die and become a ghost, you will never stop!

The soldering iron burned on my husband's face, like a burn in my heart! My heart is dead, only hate.

That cruel laughter sounded in my heart every day and night, I must hear Mu Ying crying, screaming, begging for mercy, he is dead, and I want to see his children and grandchildren live better than die. I'm going to give them a taste of that......"

Duan Yang struggled desperately while muttering, and later he was speechless and spoke in the vernacular that Zhu Gaoxu couldn't understand.

Her face gradually distorted and became very terrifying. As she struggled, the rope wore through her sleeves, and the white cotton cloth was stained with blood.

Such a crazy and violent force, Zhu Gaoxu didn't feel that any words could appease her, so he could only wait.

I don't know how long it took, Duan Yang gasped, and finally gradually quieted down. Her hatred and resentment were gone, and only a cold shell remained, as if she were a walking corpse. /p> Her eyes were pale, without any emotion, without any fluctuations, like an abyss of dead silence.

Zhu Gaoxu did not rashly comment on her affairs, but was silent.

He said in his heart: When is the time for retribution? In thousands of years of history, not only a certain ethnic group has blood and tears.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people were definitely worse than the Bai people! The Han people are the lowest class, lower than all the natives, and even the Semu people, and exist like two-legged sheep. After the Ming Dynasty restored the rule of the Han family, perhaps because of indignation at that experience, it was indeed very tough on Tusi and other ethnic groups at first, and it may also have a desire to revenge. Now many natives have begun to resent the Ming people again, and the vendetta will not know when it will end.

But Zhu Gaoxu didn't say this, only the mentality of a weak country and a widow said that he was bullied by the rebel feudal rulers of the Yuan Dynasty; Now it is no longer necessary, because now the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty rulers are trembling on the grassland. And many of the Mongols and the White people are already the people of the Ming Dynasty.

After being silent for a long time, Duan Yang spoke first: "I am not the enemy of the Han King. We have a common adversary, and that is the Mu family! ”

Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to tell the truth, so he immediately defended: "Mu Sheng is the Marquis of Xiping sealed by the Ming court, and I am the Prince of the Ming Dynasty, how can I be an enemy?" ”

Duan Yang said coldly: "Back then, King Liang of the Yuan Dynasty was sealed in Yunnan, and he wanted to annex Dali and dominate Yunnan. The King of Han doesn't want to hold the entire land of Yunnan in his hands? Hum! ”

"Ugh!" Zhu Gaoxu was speechless, he found that although Duan Yang was a woman, he knew a lot.

Of course Zhu Gaoxu wants to swallow Yunnan! Turn Yunnan into his own territory, and then mobilize the army to support his own army...... Thinking too much, the prince of the court and the central prince will take his abacus to his father and make a "pop" sound; His father, Zhu Di, would also be very suspicious of Zhu Gaoxu's intentions.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu did not blatantly raise troops, and it was because of this that he was not hit by the Ming court; Of course, at the same time, he can't do whatever he wants. Even if he wants to expand his strength, he has to hide it and do a good job.

If you want to seize control of Yunnan by annexing Mufu, this matter cannot be done by Zhu Gaoxu!

Duan Yang said: "Now we are weak and weak, and we can't form an alliance with the King of Han?" I have an important piece of news though, which can be used as a deal. ”

"What's the news?" Zhu Gaoxu asked with interest.

Duan Yang said: "I told King Han, and King Han let me go?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu groaned: "I have to see some news." ”

Duan Yang said: "News from Emperor Jianwen. ”

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly showed surprise and looked at her for a while.

"King Han doesn't believe it?" Duan Yang asked.

Zhu Gaoxu was noncommittal.

He wasn't completely unconvinced...... The most likely place for Emperor Jianwen to come is really Yunnan! The world is already the world of the Yan Dynasty, and there are crises on all sides for Emperor Jianwen, and he has to hide after leaving Beijing, and the place where there are acquaintances is the first choice. Just like Zhu Gaoxu went out to work in his previous life, he also wanted to contact relatives and friends in an unfamiliar city first, and then go over, otherwise there would be a lot of insecurity in his heart.

His father, Zhu Di, seemed to have figured out this possibility, so he sent Zhu Gaoxu and Hu Hu to Yunnan together, and clearly ordered them to find Jianwen's whereabouts!

(End of chapter)