Zhu Gaoxu woke up suddenly in the early hours of the morning, and after a while came back to his senses and realized that he was in Guo Wei's dormitory, and he felt very stuffy.

He got up in his clothes, found half a pot of cold boiling water on the red clay stove, picked up a blue and white teacup, and poured two cold water in a row. Guo Wei also woke up, she looked at Zhu Gaoxu sleepily and asked, "Is it time to get up?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the window curtains, and said, "It's not dawn yet, you can sleep for a while." ”

As he spoke, he sat by the cold red clay stove, slightly distracted.

After a while, Guo Wei pinched the quilt to block her body and sat up on the big bed. Then she found the liner and dressed in the futon. There are no attendants in the palace, only two people, Guo Wei and Zhu Gaoxu have also been together for many years and are very familiar; However, she has always been more reserved, and she will hardly take the initiative to expose her body in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

In the early morning of early spring, it was cold, Guo Wei put on her clothes, found a shearling coat and came up, and covered Zhu Gaoxu.

"You can go back to sleep." Zhu Gaoxu said casually.

Guo Wei looked at him: "Is Gao Xu having a nightmare?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "I probably dreamed of the scene in the battle formation before. ”

Guo Wei hurriedly stroked his back lightly and persuaded softly: "It's all over, you don't have to think about it anymore." ”

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said: "The things in the dream didn't make me uncomfortable, but when I woke up, I was vaguely uneasy, but the status quo. He then added, "I've been in the palace for too long. ”

He glanced at Guo Wei and saw that she was just listening gently. He suddenly understood that his words must sound confusing to others.

Zhu Gaoxu sorted out his thoughts a little, and then paid attention to specific things in order to make his words clearer, "The recent situation in the north, I always feel a little unstable. In addition, he is worried about the war in the South China Sea. ”

Guo Wei said: "I heard yesterday afternoon that Chen Xuan won a complete victory in Zhenla Country, and the good news came. Why is the Holy One worried? ”

Zhu Gaoxu thought about it for a while, although Guo Wei has a gentle temperament, she is also a reliable person. He said, "It's not worrying. The Manchurian state should have the will to submit, but Chen Xuan drove away the envoy and insisted on fighting again, and I was not very satisfied with this matter. I estimated that those small national fronts in the south were certainly not opponents of the official army; But the situation on the battlefield is complicated, there are too many changes, and the climate, epidemics, etc., all depend on luck. If you can achieve your goal without fighting, it is better not to fight; After all, it is impossible to directly rule after fighting. ”

Guo Wei's head tilted slightly, and she thought for a moment and said, "Chen Xuan wants to be greedy for military merit? ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded yes.

Guo Wei asked again: "I heard that in the navy, the words of Wang Jinghong, the master of ceremonies, are the most effective. Maybe Wang Jinghong will stop Chen Xuan. ”

"That's why Chen Xuan drove away the Manchu envoy (the Sultanate of Malacca) without authorization." Zhu Gaoxu said.

Guo Wei was slightly stunned.

Zhu Gaoxu explained: "Chen Xuan can't make decisions in one word, so he tries to do all kinds of things, so that the navy's decision-making tends to quickly attack the south to destroy Manchuria. ”

He paused for a moment, then continued: "Most people tend to passively wait for the outcome before the matter is over. However, I found that Chen Xuan is not such a character...... This person may be a bit in control. He will actively choose an outcome beforehand, at the expense of another possibility, in order to influence the course of things with his own hands. ”

Guo Wei said softly: "I don't know Chen Xuan, but Gao Xu looks at people and thinks really deeply." ”

Chen Xuan and Wang Jinghong have the main naval force of the Ming Dynasty in their hands, and there are currently more than 100 warships and 20,000 elite soldiers, can Zhu Gaoxu not try to understand them?

When everyone criticizes a person, it is very likely that that person has a problem in the first place, and he is not a perfect person anyway. It's just that the ministers dislike Chen Xuan because of his integrity, but Zhu Gaoxu saw something different from another angle.

Zhu Gaoxu returned to the content of his previous feelings, and muttered: "The bloody wind and rain in the past were much more dangerous; But I was rarely uneasy because I was there. And now in this imperial city, everything depends on association and speculation, but it is a little boring. I may have been in the palace, indeed, for too long. ”

The couple talked for a while in the quiet early morning, and Guo Wei suddenly said: "By the way, I think of the Tatars mentioned by the eldest princess (Baoqing) yesterday. After two days, the palace gave a banquet and invited the royal relatives in Beijing, He Kuisi is a concubine, and he will definitely come. ”

It is said that He Kuisi does not do his job, wanders around all day long, and likes to play and sing. But after all, it is the son of Marquis Ning Yuan, and if he asks him to say something, he should always be able to explain it clearly.

Zhu Gaoxu immediately turned his head and responded: "What Wei'er said is extremely true. ”

Speaking of which, Zhu Gaoxu's sleepiness has completely disappeared......

A few days later, the royal family banquet invited the clans and relatives in Beijing, and the concubine He Kuisi really came. The place where the ladies feasted was in the Great Shan Hall, which was presided over by the queen and her concubines. The men were in Xingqing Palace, and Zhu Gaoxu was present to give a banquet.

To the south of the main hall of Xingqing Palace, there is a red wall sandwich road. On both sides of the road, there is a courtyard. After the formal ceremonies of the luncheon, the royal relatives ate and drank wine and danced, during which they could leave the table and take a break in the two courtyards.

Zhu Gaoxu found a corridor house in the courtyard to the west and asked the eunuch to call He Kuisi.

In terms of relatives, Zhu Gaoxu has to be called He Kui's fourth uncle. However, people who are not from the clan and clan, when facing the emperor, are mainly monarchs and ministers, and relatives are secondary. He Kuisi came in and bowed and bowed to the monarch and ministers.

Zhu Gaoxu had never seen He Kuisi up close before, but looking at it today, he really looks white and handsome. Thinking that He Fu fought in the south and the north, he was also a rough man, but the son he gave birth to completely became the appearance of a gentleman. But it's no wonder that Princess Baoqing likes He Kuisi very much, and even he doesn't dislike him for not doing his job. Princess Baoqing is only in her teens, and it is normal for her to like handsome men the most.

Zhu Gaoxu first asked a few words about He Kuisi's family affairs, and then got to the point, asking where the Tatars who gave gifts to He Fu came from.

He Kuisi hurriedly said: "The minister returned to the saint, this matter is a long story." Wude's early saint personally conquered Tatar (Eastern Mongolia), and the Tatar army was defeated one after another and fled. The Great Khan of the Mongols, Benyali Khan, fled westward and encountered the Waspur (Western Mongols), so he asked for help from the leader of the Waspur tribes, Zhuoros Mahamu.

Benjari Khan thought that Maham would listen to his orders. It was because Benyali Khan was the Great Khan of all Mongolia, including the Vaspurs. and because Benyali lost his khan and was able to be promoted as the Great Khan, it was because the Tatar Arutai assassinated the former Great Khan and killed the ghost Lichi; And the ghost power red has always been inseparable from the tile thorns. So Benjari thought that the people of Vaspur had a good opinion of him.

Unexpectedly, after the Varspurs first pretended to be submissive and brought the tribe of Benyali Khan to the west, away from the Tatar tribes, Mahmu suddenly turned his face and killed Benyali Khan. The remnants of Benyali were slaughtered, and only a few of them fled to Hamiwei (Hami).

Hamiwei was loyal to the king of the king, and was a descendant of Genghis Khan along with Ben Yaris. And the former king of Zhongshun, Anke Timur, was poisoned by the Watters and had his wife occupied. King Chungshun had a deep enmity with the Vaspurs, so he took in the surviving family and men of Benjari Khan. ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded frequently when he listened. Those Mongol tribes have long been divided, and the relationship between them is very complicated, and even some ministers can't explain it clearly.

But this white descendant, He Kuisi, talks eloquently, and even complex names can be said clearly. This can't help but make Zhu Gaoxu a little impressed. Zhu Gaoxu verified again that sometimes there may be discrepancies between the rumored people and the appearance after knowing each other personally.

He Kuisi said: "My father did not mention this matter in the letter, and the minister heard what the slave who came back said. The Tatars sent people to make friends with their fathers, but the ministers did not know for the time being. Could it be guessed that the Tatars wanted to borrow a route from the Ming Dynasty in order to avoid the Waspur tribe and return to the east? ”

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment and said, "I also have a bold guess. The Varspurs were in a hurry to attack the Hami Kingdom, or there was someone important to the Watters among the Tartars who had escaped. ”

He Kuisi echoed: "What the Holy Lord said is extremely true. At the same time, the Vaspurs had a grudge against the Hami and Eastern Chaga Khanates; And Hamiwei was at odds with the Eastern Chaga Khanate. In the past, in order to contain the Eastern Chahat Khanate, the Vaspurs rarely attacked the Hami State, but this time it was a bit abnormal. ”

He pondered for a while, and then arched his hand and said, "Could it be that Benjari lost his sweat and had a son, and fell into the hands of the king of Zhongshun?" After killing Benyarshar, the leader of the Nava Thorns, Maham, himself supported a Mongol Great Khan named Tabari. But apart from Mahamu's cronies, almost no one approved of this tabari; If Benyali Khan had escaped with his descendants, I am afraid that Mahamu would no longer have been able to control the entire Mongolian Great Khan. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was slight, and he had to think that He Kuisi was a little reasonable. He suddenly felt that He Kuisi seemed to be a talent, and it would be a waste not to serve the Ming Dynasty.

"Do you want to be an official with a bit of real power?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

He Kuisi hurriedly said: "The minister's qualifications are light and inexperienced, but he can only talk about it." I am afraid that my father's reputation will be ruined, and I am even more afraid of delaying the major events of the saint. ”

Zhu Gaoxu heard that he was reluctant, so he didn't force it for the time being, and said in a different way: "You have to treat the eldest princess well, she was once the pearl of my father's and queen's palms." ”

He Kuisi said: "The minister doesn't dare to say that the eldest princess is infinitely beautiful and famous all over the world, but let her smile every day, plain and simple, and ask herself can do it." ”

"Very good." Zhu Gaoxu approvingly, "Her identity doesn't need to be infinitely beautiful. ”

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he stood up and walked past He Kuisi, "I will remember what the horse said today." ”

He Kuisi's voice came from behind him: "Congratulations to the saint." ”.