"His Royal Highness the King of Han, please!" Jin Zhong made a gesture. Zhu Gaoxu glanced up at the tower of Donghua Gate, and then walked in with his legs raised.

He entered the imperial city from Dong'an Gate, and at that time all his retinue stopped, and not everyone in the imperial city could enter; Then after walking for a while, Zhu Gaoxu and Jin Zhong entered the Donghua Gate together, and inside was the palace.

After entering the Donghua Gate, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt that something was a little strange.

Usually civil and military officials enter the palace, and indeed rarely take the road due south, which is relatively far; It is necessary to pass through Hongwu Gate, Chengtian Gate, and Noon Gate to enter the palace, and the thousand-step corridor street between Hongwu Gate and Chengtian Gate is about a thousand steps away.

However, the civil and military affairs are separated, military attaches generally go to Xihua Gate, and Zhu Gaoxu belongs to the clan, but he also goes to Xihua Gate more often before the palace.

He thought about it for a while, because Jin Zhong brought him in on this trip, and Jin Zhong was a civil official, so it made sense to go to Donghua Gate.

Zhu Gaoxu walked a few more steps, and then suddenly caught a trace of strangeness that flashed in his heart...... Father's decree, why does it have to be so meticulous, so detailed as to stipulate which door Zhu Gaoxu will take to enter the palace?

For a while, Zhu Gaoxu felt a little uneasy. But he didn't say anything, just watched the scene around him, but found nothing.

Maybe he's too nervous, so he can even pay attention to these details.

He said in his heart: It's just a trip to the palace to visit the queen mother. Zhu Gaoxu's father is still in power, in the whole world, except for his emperor father, who dares to do anything to him? And Zhu Di is so powerful, who would dare to risk the great crime of exterminating the nine clans?

Zhu Gaoxu froze his mind, raised his head and walked towards the bridge on the river west of Wenhua Gate.

He laughed at himself in his heart: Entering the palace is the same feeling as going to the battlefield!

This is the case on the battlefield, the battle of crushing strength is fine, if it is a little evenly matched, the people who lead the troops are usually very nervous. All kinds of true and false reports, as well as the opinions of various subordinates and generals, will make people can't help but worry. At this time, if you don't hold your mind, you are very likely to lose the courage to bear the consequences, and it is difficult to make up your mind when you sway from side to side.

Zhu Gaoxu and Jin Zhong crossed the bridge, walked north for a while, and arrived at the Wenlou.

To get out of the palace from this place, there are only two gates, the first is the Donghua Gate where Zhu Gaoxu entered; The second way is to take the left hall gate on the side of the noon gate, and the left hall gate is inside the noon gate. From here, there are only two ways to enter the palace, the first is the Wenlou, and the square outside the Fengtian Temple is entered; The second is to take the small door behind the temple in the north, and enter the Qianqing gate.

However, the clan and ministers generally enter the palace through the Wenlou, and the small gate on the north side is mostly for eunuchs and palace maids.

Jin Zhong went straight to the west, and sure enough, he was going to take Zhu Gaoxu to the Wenlou.

At this moment, a thin eunuch in the distance was coming towards him.

Zhu Gaoxu felt a little strange again, because he was a prince, even the slaves and maids in the palace had to avoid him immediately when they saw him, and the eunuch continued to move forward.

Zhu Gaoxu calmed down and still ignored it, but Jin Zhong next to him frowned. When the eunuch approached, Jin Zhong took the lead and said, "You don't understand the rules? ”

The eunuch was not very old, maybe he was more than ten years old, Zhu Gaoxu felt a little familiar, but he was sure that he didn't know such a eunuch in the palace.

The little eunuch bent down, but didn't answer Jin Zhong's words, looked up at Zhu Gaoxu, and then looked at the five-clawed dragon pattern on his body, and asked, "You are His Royal Highness the King of Han?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Exactly." ”

Jin Zhong said: "This slave doesn't understand the rules, King Han doesn't pay attention to him, let's go to the palace first......"

Zhu Gaoxu stood in place, raised his hand to stop Jin Zhong and said, "He seems to have something, why should he be in such a hurry?" ”

The little eunuch hurriedly said: "Exactly, exactly!" The slave maid has something to say to His Royal Highness the King of Han. ”

Jin Zhong waved his hand impatiently, and said very angrily: "You can talk here?" Get out! ”

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Jin Zhong angrily, and didn't want to say more to him, so he only beckoned: "You come and tell me." ”

The little eunuch bent forward, and Zhu Gaoxu, who was tall, leaned down so that the little eunuch could reach his ears. The little eunuch covered his mouth with his hand, put his mouth close to Zhu Gaoxu's ear and whispered: "Chi Yue Zhenren is my big sister, and the little monk who was saved by Chi Yue Zhenren in Lingquan Temple back then was me." The eldest sister asked me to tell King Han that something might have happened in the palace, so I told you to be more careful! ”

Zhu Gaoxu was shocked when he heard this, and immediately looked at Jin Zhong.

Jin Zhong is also a senior member of the military department and the ministry level, and his expression seems to be a little unstable at this time, and his eyes are flickering with worry. Jin Zhong immediately asked, "What did this slave say to the King of Han?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: "He said that something happened to the old mansion of King Han. ”

Jin Zhong said: "This slave is talking nonsense! You don't have many people in Jingshi's mansion anymore, what can happen? ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "I want to know too!" No, I have something important in my house, so I need to go back and take a look. He said so, and immediately turned and left.

Jin Zhong hurriedly said: "The Holy Decree has asked His Highness to enter the palace, you are resisting the decree!" ”

For a while, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know what was going on in the palace, but as soon as he entered the palace, he felt that something was a little strange, Miaojin suddenly took the risk to ask someone to bring a message, he believed in Miaojin very much, so he immediately made up his mind to leave this place first!

Zhu Gaoxu didn't stop, turned his head and said: "My father said that I must enter the palace at a certain time?" Did I say that I won't enter the palace? ”

As he spoke, he observed Jin Zhong and found that Jin Zhong was very anxious when he saw him leaving. Zhu Gaoxu felt that there was something wrong!

Ren Na Jin Zhong's words are out of the flowers, and he can't stop Zhu Gaochu as a civil official, Zhu Gaochu just turns around and leaves.

At this time, another person came out of the building, and the man said: "His Royal Highness the King of Han, the Holy Lord has told you to go to Kunning Palace to see the queen now!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked back when he heard the voice, and the person who spoke was Guo Zi! Zhu Gaoxu scolded in his heart, he knew too well who this Guo Zi was...... When Zhu Gaoxu was still in Beijing and was not crowned prince, he directed a play that was like a "drama"; wanted to use Guo Zi's unauthorized use of military rations to help the victims of the disaster in Shandong, so as to attack Gao Chi.

Why did Guo Zi do something that could attack the prince? Because this Guo Zi is the prince's person at all. The "Battle of Jingyan" lasted for more than three years, and this guy has been assisting Gao Chi in Beiping, and the relationship between the two is so close that he can't wait to wear a pair of pants.

As soon as Guo Zi's guy came out, Zhu Gaoxu immediately realized: Not only is Guo Zi a member of the prince's party, isn't this Jin Zhong? Although Jin Zhong was the confidant of the old Yan Palace, he had already stood on the side of the prince, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't know it.

Sure enough, as soon as Guo Zi came out, Jin Zhong's face was immediately depressed like ashes, and he glanced at Guo Zi with complaining eyes. Obviously, Jin Zhong thinks that Guo Zi suddenly walked out of the Wenlou just now, which is not the right thing!

Zhu Gaoxu almost began to run, striding quickly south. After all, the two gates out of the palace are all over there!

A Wenhua gate, a left hall door to the east of the noon gate. Zhu Gaoxu was in a hurry, and he was not confused, and soon decided to go back the same way! Because if you go through the left temple gate, you will go out in the noon gate, and you have to pass the noon gate; After the noon gate, it will take a long time to get out of the imperial city, and it is simply a road with long nights and dreams.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu's heart was in a fog, and he said in his heart: What is he|damn|, what is the prince's party going to do?!

Zhu Gaoxu walked briskly for a while, and saw from a distance that a group of people came from the bridge! He couldn't be calm anymore, because it wasn't a group of ordinary people, but stubborn armor soldiers!

This is the palace, the soldiers actually came in, why did they suddenly come in, is this a rebellion or something? Zhu Gaoxu immediately stopped his steps.

A military general on the bridge shouted: "His Royal Highness the King of Han, please come here, there will be something to report at the end!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu heard the voice, looked at it fixedly, and felt that the military general was very familiar. But he didn't hesitate, immediately turned around, put down all the bigs and etiquette, lifted the hem of the red robe, and began to run straight north.

While running desperately, he scolded in his heart: Retribution|you|Mom!

Although Zhu Gaoxu is superior in force, he is now wearing a silk cloth, a black veil on his head, and there is not even a piece of iron on his body; Even more unarmed in his hands, going to fight a group of armored soldiers in full clothes and with bows and arrows?

And he intuitively felt that this time the incident was extremely serious, completely different from the previous one that escaped from Beijing in the Jianwen Dynasty and happened at the Zhuozhou Post Station.

At that time, the people that Jianwen Junchen dealt with were mainly Zhu Di, and the chasing general Qu Liangcai did not dare to hurt the clan casually, and the orders issued by Emperor Jianwen must have lacked determination; And this time, Jin Zhong, Guo Zi and others are all old fritters who made suggestions from the original Yan Wangfu, and the main target of the prince's people is probably Zhu Gaoxu!

So although Zhu Gaoxu didn't think much about it just now, he immediately judged that the other party had a good chance of winning and might not be so weak.

Zhu Gaochu rushed north, and Jin Zhong and Guo Zi seemed to be self-aware, so they didn't come to stop Zhu Gaoxu. The two of them can't be stopped at all!

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu remembered that the military general who had just shouted seemed to be Tan Qing. Zhu Gaoxu was not very familiar with this Tan Qing, so he didn't recognize it immediately at first, but he had seen it before.

Tan Qing was just an ordinary general during the "Battle of Jingyan"; However, his eldest brother who died in battle is more famous, and the way he is famous is that he likes to kill prisoners! If there is a father, there must be a son, Tan Yuan's son is also a reckless man, there is no reason to beat people to death at every turn, and he was almost executed to death, but then somehow he was fine.

When did this Tan Qing become the prince's person? Zhu Gaoxu doesn't know at all now.

But Tan Qing must be the prince's person, because Guo Zi and Jin Zhong who appeared are the prince's people. Moreover, Tan Qing actually wore armor and held a bow and arrow, and led the troops into the palace; If there is no one to support this, he thinks the whole clan will live too long?

Zhu Gaoxu ran as hard as he could, and he quickly ran past the Wenlou and didn't go in at all. Jin Zhong kept asking him to enter the Wenlou just now, there must be some pit in it!

…… Zhu Gaoxu didn't figure out what was going on. His dignified prince and the emperor's son-in-law, these people dare to do it directly! What was the reason why the prince's men were willing to do such a serious thing?

Jin Zhong, Guo Zi and others rely on their mouths, while generals like Tan Qing are unreasonable; So Zhu Gaoxu didn't argue anything, and directly ran with all his might.

The armor and weapons of the armor soldiers chasing after him were at least dozens of catties, of course, they couldn't outrun Zhu Gaoxu.

However, if you can't cross the bridge in the south, and there are no two ways out of the palace, where should Zhu Gaoxu run?