At noon, Zhu Gaochu was left by Princess Xu to eat, and King Yan also came to the dining room.

However, the dining room of the prince's palace is really luxurious, with valuable antique calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, fine mahogany furniture in the room, and fine tableware for serving dishes is also a fine Jingdezhen official kiln. The dishes are also very rich, and they are not the same thing as what Zhu Gaoxu enjoyed in the Junwang Mansion!

Eating here, and comparing the low houses outside the Yanwang Mansion, Zhu Gaoxu felt that he had crossed again, and inside and outside were two worlds with different degrees of civilization.

Princess Xu sandwiched a piece of fried haggis for Zhu Gaoxu, and sighed softly: "Gaoxu has reached the age of marriage, and her mother has this matter in her heart after all." ”

Zhu Gaoxu pretended to be relaxed and said: "Don't worry, mother, it's not time yet, when my father and Wang soldiers arrive in Beijing and clean up the traitorous ministers, the sons and daughters can start a family." The right way is, the traitor has not been destroyed, why should he be at home? ”

Princess Xu wanted to speak and stopped, opened her mouth, and finally didn't say it.

Zhu Gaoxu guessed that she was worried that if Jing Nan did not succeed, her son would not even have a chance to get married. But in front of King Yan, it was not good to say this, so she didn't speak.

When he looked at King Yan again, his expression really became more and more solemn, but he said lightly, "Why does the eldest husband have no wife, what is the difficulty of Gao Xu marrying a wife?" Don't worry too much, princess. ”

Princess Xu said: "When Gao Xu arrives in Yongping, he wants to help your father with all his heart." I took the time to say hello to Wei Baihu's family, my daughter's family can't afford to delay, I'll show you another one in the future. ”

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he said in his heart: The news that Professor Hou Hai secretly told that the daughter of the Wei Da family originally had a marriage contract. That's fine, it saves some trouble.

He nodded yes, very filial.

Besides, Zhu Gaoxu never looked forward to Weida's daughter...... He believed very much that Princess Xu, as a mother, could not find a too beautiful daughter-in-law for herself!

At this time, the marriage was also wonderful, and the men and women never even met each other, so they got married directly. But Zhu Gaoxu doesn't care, he doesn't want to challenge his parents' power in this regard for this kind of thing.

After all, in his previous life, he had the right to choose, but he had to have the strength to choose, and in the end, he would not choose a few hands of Tu Feiyuan that was most suitable for him...... It's like his ex-girlfriend is a little beautiful, why don't you pick the rich one when you encounter something, you have to pick him?

After lunch, King Yan went straight to the front hall. Zhu Gaoxu waited for Princess Xu's advice, and also said goodbye and went home, preparing for the trip.

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The Northern Army was short of soldiers, and King Yan said that he would give Zhu Gaoxu the remaining horse team of the left guard, but when Zhu Gaochu took over, it was less than 800 horsemen. King Yan guarded the generals and took away half of the soldiers under various names.

Anyway, there weren't many people in total, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about it, and after three days, he gathered people and horses to go to Yongpingwei.

Starting from Beiping, according to the direction and distance estimates, Zhu Gaoxu guessed that Yongping Mansion was probably near Qinhuangdao. In later generations, Qinhuangdao was considered a developed area, but it is not yet.

This place was originally called Lulong Town, since ancient times, it is the soldiers to rush, the north controls the Great Wall, the east chokes the Liaoxi Corridor, it is simply a place of four wars. When there is a war on the Hebei side, it is basically indispensable to smash the ground of Yongping Mansion.

After Zhu Gaoxu entered the city, he looked at the low and dilapidated houses and dusty streets, and he knew that this place was not engaged in economy, but only cared about the military. The most luxurious buildings in the city are the four towers.

Yongping City is both a government city and an acropolis, and the government and guard commanders are built in the city. Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Gaoxu arrived in Yongping City, the officials of the government held a banquet for him to receive the wind and wash the dust.

Zhu Gaoxu took Wei Da and others to the banquet, and confirmed his authority to monopolize the military and politics at the wine table. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the status of the military attache was higher than that of the civil official, and Zhu Gaoxu was the son of King Yan, so there was almost no suspense about who was the boss here.

More than 1,000 horsemen accompanying him that night were stationed near the Wei Command Office, including the honor guard of the county king's mansion and the 800 horsemen given to him by the king of Yan. Early the next morning, Zhu Gaoxu got up and gathered his generals and began to work.

Zhu Gaoxu first reorganized the men and horses in his hands, and the method was very simple: the cavalry generals suffered many losses in the battle under Zhending City, and some were transferred, and the generals were vacant; He then asked the remaining 100 households to be promoted to 1000 households, 100 households to be promoted to 100 households, and the general flag to be promoted to 100 households, and so on to fill the vacancy. Each small flag and the chief of the army are selected by the hundred households and the general flag themselves and report.

Wang Bin served as a cavalry thousand, commanding two chong and eight hundred cavalry. Chen Dazhui was directly promoted to the honor guard of 100 households, and temporarily commanded Zhu Gaoxu's guard of more than 200 cavalry, anyway, the personal guards only need to follow the main general, and they don't need much talent, loyalty is the most important.

After Zhu Gaoxu deployed, Professor Hou Haiden made a register and reviewed the generals. After being busy, the day has passed, and the hour has come to the unitary time. So he ordered the gang to disperse and rest.

That night, Zhu Gaoxu stayed in the Wei Command Office.

This yamen is so broken that I don't know if it has not been renovated for more than ten or twenty years, and even the red paint on the wooden pillars has long been no longer red, and it is falling off mottled.

There was a peculiar and complex smell throughout the courtyard, including the smell of fermented sweat, musty, soot, and horse manure...... The smell is very rich.

In the inner house where Zhu Gaoxu lived, the bed was as hard as stone, and in the dim light, the black dirt everywhere in the room was not clear. He didn't fall asleep, turned over a few times, and then got up in his clothes.

He wandered around the courtyard for a while, and then wanted to go to the second hall, but when he reached the gatehouse, he suddenly heard someone talking outside.

A man's voice said, "Sledgehammer...... Yo, now you have to be called Chen Baihu, you can rise fast, how did you become a hundred households all of a sudden!? ”

Chen Dazhu's voice said: "When Lao Tzu didn't want to be beaten, you didn't see it, and you drooled when you ate meat?" ”

Then came a burst of laughter that was muffled for unknown reasons.

Chen Dazhui's voice continued: "For the sake of the old brother, don't blame me for not teaching you. We are pro-soldiers under the county king, and we have long taken the lead, and there are many opportunities for meritorious service and promotion in this war, so I am afraid that we will not fight! If you fight, you will die, if you die, there will be nothing, and if you are afraid of death, you can only stare dryly and watch your fate! ”

He paused for a while, muttering something next to him, and then said: "When King Yan arrives in Beijing, a large number of people above will get out, not to mention the marquis and worship the prime minister, a lot of good positions in glory and wealth will be vacated, it depends on who has the ability, hehe......"

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he felt that what Chen Dazhui said made special sense! There are so many soldiers, why did he rush to send him at the critical moment? This is not an accident, and it is in line with the saying: opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.

Chen Dazhui looks simple, and his mind is indeed more flexible and eye-catching than other pawns.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't plan to go out, so he turned around and went back to the bedroom. He sat on the edge of the bed for a while, and thought of Chen Dazhui's words just now, and Zhu Gaoxu thought more: This civil war, not everyone is unwilling, there is one kind of people who are very happy, that is, those who have not yet achieved their aspirations; If you don't fight a civil war, you can't vacate a position, can you survive just by boiling up your qualifications?

As long as King Yan succeeds, Zhu Gaoxu himself will be able to become a prince...... The prince and the prince are both kings, and at first glance the difference is only one word for the king and two for the king, but in fact there is a world of difference! Look at the scale of Yanwang's Mansion now, how rich and rich it is, and how many people; Looking at Zhu Gaoxu's own county palace, the difference is very obvious.

In his previous life, Zhu Gaoxu was just a small citizen, and he still owed a fart of stocks and debts; But if you are a prince, you are above tens of thousands of people under one person, you are glorious and rich, respected and worshipped, and you enjoy the full-time service of countless people, and you can enjoy the delicacies of the mountains and seas like jade......

If he can be the prince of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu can already be very satisfied!

But is it really safe to enjoy? A shadow that didn't even remember what he looked like, like a nightmare, and like a poisonous snake in his heart, it wrapped around his bone marrow.

"A few karma and a few ......" The bed board made a sore sound, and after Zhu Gaoxu lay down, he turned over several times in a row.

A ray of moonlight flashed on his face, the color was pale and white, like a grimace. At this time, the window was very high and small, and the dim light in the room came in through it.

Zhu Gaoxu weighed it repeatedly: If King Yan succeeds here, King Yan himself will not be righteous, and he said that he would replace his eldest son and let me be the heir for free, Lao Tzu didn't believe it at all!

As long as you are at ease and be a prince, is it okay?

"A few ......" He turned over again, and suddenly pondered: In history, Zhu Gaoxu rebelled with King Yan, how to raise troops and see the routines, right? Why was it that when he rebelled later, he was easily crushed to death by a kid who had just ascended the throne, and he didn't set off a prodigal son at all? The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty rebelled several times, only Zhu Di set off a big wave, and there was really no battle for the rebellion of the second son of King Yan.

Zhu Gaochu had to think of a question: Did Zhu Gaochu in history turn around?

The more he thinks about it, the colder his heart becomes, if he doesn't rebel, he will most likely be rebelled!

The more Zhu Gaoxu thought about this, the more he couldn't sleep, and he almost didn't close his eyes all night. By the next morning, my eyes felt as if they had entered the sand, and I felt uncomfortable left and right.

He was in no mood at all, so he went to the bucket and took a willow branch, put it in his mouth and chewed it, as if it were a matter of brushing his teeth. In fact, there is already a toothbrush at this time, dip it in green salt to brush your teeth.

The generals arrived in the lobby one after another, and Zhu Gaoxu sat in the public seat, looking at them, as if inspecting his own strength.

No matter what kind of routine you want to use to protect yourself, you must first have strength. Zhu Gaoxu scolded in his heart, good nephew, if you want to kill Lao Tzu, can you be so relaxed and happy? Let's peel off the skin first!