A circle of white cloth had been hung on the noon gate, and a faint sound of mourning came from the palace. Zhu Gaoxu stood on the thousand-step corridor and heard Wang Bin say that the emperor had set himself on fire in the Fengtian Hall and died.

Zhu Gaoxu looked back at the north and said in his heart: When the Fengtian Temple caught fire, I went in personally, and I didn't see the emperor inside.

He was noncommittal, so he handed the reins to Wang Bin and said, "She is Yao Ji, you take care of it, and I will go to see my father first." ”

Wang Bin said: "The last general will obey the order." ”

Yao Ji's bright eyes stayed on Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaoxu saw it in his eyes, knowing that Yao Ji didn't know anyone here except him, so he said kindly: "Don't worry, I'll be back in a while." ”

Wang Bin pointed to a mansion on the thousand-step corridor, and Zhu Gaoxu walked there alone.

On the way, he was still thinking about one thing: before going on the expedition, he told Wang Gui that once he heard the news that the Jingnan army had attacked Beijing, he could quietly release Xu Miaojin; In a few days, Wang Gui should be able to handle this matter?

And Qu Neng and his son, now they can try to save them. But doing this under the nose of King Yan requires a lot of adventure, and Zhu Gaoxu hasn't found an opportunity for a while.

At present, all the civil and military personnel of the Yan King family are secretly happy, thinking about what huge rewards they can get. Only Zhu Gaoxu felt more and more nervous...... If you don't do some things now, you will most likely sit back and wait for death in the future. If you do, you may be stuck right away!

He didn't expect any reward at all, King Yan entered the capital through the war, and he would definitely ascend the throne and become the emperor! As the emperor's son-in-law, Zhu Gaoxu started as a prince, and there was no suspense. As for the crown prince, Zhu Gaoxu felt that the possibility of being directly named the crown prince was almost zero, and there were many factors for choosing who to choose for that position, but the military exploits did not work.

It turned out that King Gaoyang just couldn't see through this.

Zhu Gaoxu walked outside the door of the mansion and glanced up at the plaque, the two biggest words on it: Ministry of Rites. He walked inside, and the soldiers at the door clasped their fists and said, "Meet King Gaoyang!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and strode into the threshold.

Outside the hall of the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Gaoxu consciously untied the Yanling knife hanging on his body and handed it to the sergeant guarding the door, and the sergeant hung it outside the door.

"My son's visit to my father." Zhu Gaoxu walked in and saluted to the public seat. He glanced at the people standing in the hall, including him and King Yan, a total of seven people.

King Yan raised his head and glanced at Zhu Gaoxu, nodded his head, and continued to write something. Zhu Gaoxu walked over to Qiu Fu, and the three generals saluted one after another.

Qiu Fu said: "Emperor Jianwen is gone. ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "I know, only the queen wanted to burn herself, so I dragged her out." ”

King Yan stopped his pen and said, "The queen is in the courtyard next to her, she may know the whereabouts of my emperor's nephew." Gao Xu saved her, you can see if you can ask for some clues. Don't go outside and talk about it! ”

King Yan paused and said, "Our family is in the mansion of the Jingshi, which is far away from the imperial city. Gao Xu first went to Lianying's mansion to live temporarily, and his family was arrested, and the mansion was empty. ”

Zhu Gaoxu bowed and said: "Erchen takes the order." ”

At this time, Yao Guangxiao said: "Fang Xiaoru is the descendant of the great Confucian Song Lian, the head of Shilin, and the prince must not kill him." ”

King Yan said: "Dao Yan went to the edict to persuade Fang Xiaoru, if he is willing to serve me, I will not be guilty of the past." There is also a traitor, Qi Tai, who has run away, and you should also go and find out where he has fled. Let's disperse first, I'm going to Xu Zengshou's house now. ”

The army had just entered the city, and King Yan was very busy.

Zhu Gaoxu came out of the hall of the Ministry of Rites, took the saber from the soldiers, asked where the queen was held, and walked out of the yamen of the Ministry of Rites first. He saw that Wang Bin and the others were still waiting outside, so he said: "My father told us to go to Lianying's mansion to live temporarily, you go and ask where it is, and first requisition the place to station the army nearby." ”

He pointed at Chen Da Hammer again: "You bring a few people with me, and I will go to see the queen first." ”

Several people clasped their fists together and said: "The last general will wait for the order!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu saw that Yao Ji's eyes were bright, his lips were slightly open, and he wanted to stop talking, he glanced at it and didn't speak, and then took Chen Dazhui and the others to leave first.

Most of the soldiers in the Jingnan army knew Zhu Gaoxu, and he was not stopped, so he told his entourage to stay outside the courtyard gate and walked in by himself. It's a small courtyard with only a patio in it. Zhu Gaoxu walked in and soon saw that in the open upper room, Queen Ma Enhui was sitting in the room, being watched by two eunuchs in armor.

Ma Enhui also saw him, staring at him and slowly approaching.

Zhu Gaoxu pondered as he walked, and already had a routine in his heart: Queen Ma is not afraid of death, but she has a son in the hands of King Yan.

He walked into the upper room, hugged his fists and said, "Gao Xu has seen his sister-in-law." ”

Ma Enhui stared at him coldly and said nothing.

Zhu Gaoxu straightened up, turned his head to the eunuch and said, "In any case, the queen is a member of our Zhu family, you are so good to wait, you must not be rude." ”

The two eunuchs hurriedly said: "Slaves and maids obey orders." ”

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and they hurriedly left the upper room.

Sure enough, Ma Enhui's eyes changed a little when he looked at Zhu Gaoxu, and finally spoke: "King Gaoyang knows that your reputation in Beijing is very bad, and the government and the opposition know what kind of person you are, so there is no need to be coy." ”

Zhu Gaoxu took the opportunity to almost say: "The surname of the great tomorrow is Zhu, if we don't take our own people seriously, how can we make the people of the world fear our identity?" ”

He whispered again: "My cousin is not yet a year old, and now, my cousin-in-law doesn't care about herself, but I have to think about what Wen Gui should do in the future!" ”

Ma Enhui sneered: "King Gaoyang doesn't have to bother talking, I don't know where the Holy Lord is. ”

Zhu Gaoxu sighed: "The emperor didn't take his cousin-in-law away, alas! He must have gone in a hurry, with whom and when? ”

Ma Enhui didn't answer, and asked after a moment of silence: "Yao Ji is dead?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head: "Fortunately, I went in time." ”

Ma Enhui suddenly showed a look of remorse, she raised her eyebrows lightly, and asked, "How did that slut hook up with King Gaoyang?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said truthfully: "Last year, the imperial court arrested me everywhere, and I was indeed in Beijing at that time. Yao Ji saved me. ”

Ma Enhui's eyes were complicated, his gaze went back and forth on Zhu Gaoxu's face several times, and he sneered: "King Gaoyang has to be careful of that little slut." There are so many concubines and palace maids in the palace, but I can't get along with her alone with a little palace maid, there is always my reason. ”

"Hmm......" Zhu Gaoxu said in a noncommittal voice.

Ma Enhui said again: "That slut is scheming at a young age, full of resentment and viciousness, narrow-minded, and shameless, just like a fox spirit. She first seduced the Holy Lord, and now she has come to seduce King Gaoyang, all of them are calculated! ”

Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: "Yao Ji does have a sense of revenge, but whoever is bullied for a long time will not be kind to others." ”

"Loyal to the ear, King Gaoyang is good for himself!" Ma Enhui said.

Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his forehead and said in his heart: The queen herself is difficult to protect, the situation is like this, and she still has the heart to care about Yao Ji's affairs? She must be afraid of Yao Ji's revenge.

He deliberately provoked Ma Enhui: "Yao Ji is easy to attract envy because she is too beautiful, I think she is very good." ”

Ma Enhui snorted, her face pale.

Zhu Gaoxu saw that she refused to say anything for a while, so he said: "I won't bother much, if my sister-in-law wants to see me, tell the eunuch to pass on the word." I'll come back in a while to pay my respects and take my leave. ”

Ma Enhui nodded in response, took out a silk scarf from the sleeve of her cyan robe, and gently wiped her vermilion lips.

Zhu Gaoxu saw that she had a lot of rouge on her mouth, so he wiped his lips and brought it to him. Ma Enhui was stunned, her face turned red, and her eyes showed a look of shame.

Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to turn around and flash. Damn, he didn't think much about it just now, and for a while he thought that Ma Enhui was implying that he had rouge on his mouth.

Where did Emperor Jianwen go? The person who cared most about this matter was King Yan. Zhu Gaoxu didn't care too much, he just came to go through the motions and try it...... Because for the time being, I can't see how useful Jianwen is to himself.

When he walked out of the courtyard gate, Zhao Ping bowed down and handed over the reins. Zhu Gaoxu took it, turned over and got on the horse, he suddenly turned his head and said, "Chen Dazhui, you go and inquire where Yushi Jingqing lives, and then see what the situation is in Jingfu." ”

Chen Dazhui clenched his fists and said: "Order!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said to Zhao Ping again: "I see that you are stable and clever, and today you will be a pro-soldier to try 100 households, and when Chen Dazhui is not there, you will act on behalf of 100 households and deploy pro-military horses." ”

Zhao Ping was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Lord Wang!" Thank you for your kindness! ”

The group walked south along the thousand-step corridor, and after a while, a team of personal soldiers came, and they took Zhu Gaoxu to Lianying's mansion. Everyone came to the west of the imperial city, and Nalian Mansion was located on the north bank of the Qinhuai River, which was really close to the imperial city.

Zhu Gaoxu dismounted at the gate, and saw several soldiers carrying buckets washing the stone slabs at the door. He glanced at it, and could see dark red blood stains in the cracks in the stone.

So when he walked through the door, he faintly felt that the wind was miserable.

Lianfu should be the first minister's mansion to be wiped out after the Jingnan army entered the city. Zhu Gaoxu really doesn't understand these people, even if he doesn't surrender, as long as he doesn't fight for the limelight and rides alone to assassinate and kill King Yan, at least his family won't be so miserable? After all, Lian Ying is not Huang Zicheng and others, and he is not on the list of traitors on the Jing Nan Wen.

At this moment, Wei Da came up, glanced at the soldiers who were scrubbing the ground, and said in a deep voice: "The fourth uncle of the prince, General Xu, was impeached and sued by Lian Ying, and was killed by the emperor!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu listened to it and suddenly realized.

However, Xu Zengshou should not have died unjustly, long before the "Battle of Jingyan", Zhu Gaoxu suspected that Xu Zengshou was a spy in Yanwangfu.

He suddenly asked casually, "How is my uncle Wei Guogong?" ”

Veda hurriedly said: "The last general will send someone to investigate immediately." ”

Rao is Zhu Gaoxu has killed countless people on the battlefield, but all of a sudden he lived in the mansion of an unknown number of people who died just now, and he also felt a little uncomfortable, or the faint smell of blood in the air was really unpleasant.

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