"Report to the king! Wu Gao's army retreated to Maoyunba, and the enemy troops were continuing to move eastward. ”

Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting in the lobby of the Yamen of the Guizhou Metropolitan Division, listened and took his eyes off the letter paper in his hand. It took him a moment to shift his thoughts from Yunnan in the letter to Maoyunba in Guizhou. Two words flashed through his mind in an instant: two hundred miles, fortifications.

Zhu Gaoxu looked back at the civil and military forces on the left and right, and said: "The Guizhou army is on the way to Guangxi, and there are a large number of fugitives. I took some people back to Yunnan for a trip, so that I could gather the officers and men of the Guizhou army and let them return to their hometowns to reunite with their families. However, this place must be garrisoned to operate. ”

He looked at Liu Ying, who was standing on the right: "Governor Liu, you are temporarily the commander of the left capital of Guizhou." Gather the remaining soldiers of each guard and garrison the tuntian. ”

Liu Ying took two steps out, hugged her fists and said: "The last general will be determined to manage Guizhou's defense with heart!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly looked at Gu Yong, who had a finger cut off by him, "General Gu is willing to be the commander of the right capital?" ”

The generals looked at Gu Yong in surprise, and Gu Yong was also surprised. He buried his head in a deep groan, and bowed: "The defeated will be courteous to the King of Han, but the family education is very strict, especially the righteousness of loyalty and filial piety, and the defeated general will not dare to disobey his father and disobey his father's earnest teachings, so he can only refuse the kindness of the King of Han." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a moment, and he didn't say anything to sarcastically mock the Marquis of Zhenyuan, he nodded solemnly and said: "People have their own ambitions, and it is inconvenient for this king to force it, so you go to Yunnan with me." ”

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After all, the Han Wangjun did not pursue Wu Gao. Zhu Gaoxu asked the Guizhou Metropolitan Department to order that civil and military officials and Tusi in various parts of Guizhou maintain their original duties. Then he left the city of Guizhou with tens of thousands of horses, and arrived at the Qujing military and civilian government in early March.

When the army arrived in Qujing, the guards in the army divided their troops to the south to collect the officers and soldiers of the Guizhou army who had fled to various places. Zhu Gaoxu took a group of cavalry and went straight to Kunming City.

It has only been a few months since I left Kunming City.

When he returned to Kunming, he seemed to have a feeling of vicissitudes. It may be because the scene outside Kunming has really changed a lot.

The walls were mottled and broken, and the rammed earth in the bricks was exposed to the sun; The eastern tower of the castle has also collapsed, and some craftsmen and handymen are repairing the castle tower and the broken battlements of the city walls.

The bloodstains, remnant flags, and corpses have long since disappeared, and calm has been restored outside the city of Kunming, except for the unhurried "clanging" sound of those craftsmen working together. However, just by looking at those traces, Zhu Gaoxu could imagine the fierce battle here not long ago.

The weeds under the corners of the castle walls and on the edge of the post road have sprouted new leaves, and wild flowers dot the treetops among the white flowers, and the air is filled with the rich fragrance of flowers. Zhu Gaoxu seemed to feel that this land was like a life, slowly healing wounds.

The civil and military forces in Kunming City welcomed out of the city gate and a large group of people came. When they got the news, they seemed to want to go out of the city for miles to meet them; However, Zhu Gaoxu ran very fast with the cavalry, and at this time he had already reached the city gate.

"Lord Wang." Mr. Lee, wearing an iron mask, bowed. Zhu Gaoxu easily found Mr. Li in the middle of the crowd, as well as Sheng Yong and Ping'an who were standing beside Mr. Li to salute together.

Zhu Gaoxu turned over and jumped off the horse, handed the reins to the groom beside him, and strode over.

His expression suddenly stirred, the sweat on his forehead glistened in the sun, and he didn't say anything for a while. Maybe it's because I want to say too much, and I suddenly don't know where to start.

Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward and grabbed Mr. Li's arm and lifted it up, then put it on Sheng Yong's fist next to him, grabbed Ping'an with his other hand, stared at them back and forth, and nodded vigorously.

The four of them put their hands together and looked at each other, and for a long time no one spoke. The surrounding civil and military led the horses and watched them silently.

Sheng Yong spoke first: "Lord Wang, don't hide it, the last general has not received a military order before, at that time, Zhang Fujun's 100,000 troops are about to arrive in Yunnan Mansion, and the last general is preparing to break through and abandon Kunming City!" He said, and took out a crumpled piece of paper from his bosom, "I only received it the day before the breakthrough." ”

Zhu Gaoxu took it and took a look, and the word "peace" was written on it: The prince ordered to defend Kunming City to wait for help.

There was only a short line of words on the note, and Zhu Gaoxu could see it clearly at a glance. After a while, he raised his head and saw that Sheng Yong's expression was a little complicated. Sheng Yong said that he was ready to break through, and in hindsight it must have been a mistake. However, Sheng Yong simply said this matter, and he couldn't hide it.

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a while, but he soon understood that Sheng Yong could not be blamed for this matter.

Before issuing this military order, Zhu Gaoxu also sent a letter to Ping'an. But for some reason, something went wrong, or it was intercepted by enemy troops...... When the communication was not smooth, Sheng Yong's decision to break through was not wrong, he was afraid that he had gone through many hesitations and hesitations.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu gently patted his palm on Sheng Yong's shoulder, not wanting to mention the unpredictability on the battlefield, so he only said, "Fortunately." ”

Then Zhu Gaoxu said loudly: "No matter what, my crime army has won a complete victory in this battle!" The sin army first destroyed the Yang Wuhou Xue Lu Department of the puppet emperor, and captured the entire territory of the Sichuan Political Envoy, which was guarded by the Marquis of Xiping and the Governor of Qudu; Later, he went down to Guizhou City, controlled all parts of Guizhou Prefecture, and left Liu Dudu to operate. Yunnan has also been protected by your bloody battles. After this battle, the three places of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan obeyed the decree of the Han Palace, and the subjects of thousands of miles southwest were all bare! ”

Zhong Wenwu immediately bowed happily and congratulated, "Congratulations to King Han for his successive victories!" "The prince has conquered everything, clarifying that Unai is just around the corner......"

The soldiers above and below the city tower also celebrated, and people raised their swords and guns into the air, and the cheers were endless, "King Han, King Han!" The shouts rose and fell under the blue sky and white clouds.

Zhu Gaoxu turned over and got on his horse again, entered the Yunnan Mansion in front of the hug, and went straight back to the Han Palace.

The family members of the Han Palace, as well as most of the palace maids and eunuchs, have gone to Dali, and now they have not returned to Kunming City, and there are only some slaves and maids who do rough work and are old in the palace. As a result, the huge palace and palace seemed even more empty.

Zhu Gaoxu met with the eunuch Wang Gui, the former slave and maid of the Gaoyang County Palace, Aunt Wang and others. With their help, he took off the armor from his body and instructed Wang Gui to wipe it clean and oil.

He changed into a prince's regular clothes, a black gauze hat and a dragon robe, and sat down in the study of the front hall, flipped through the official documents of Mr. Li during Sheng Yong's defense of the city, and drank tea to take a breath.

After a while, a sergeant came in to report and handed over a gift list, saying that Shen Xu, a wealthy merchant from Yunnan, had come to congratulate him. Zhu Gaoxu looked at the gift list on the one hand, and said to Wang Gui on the other: "You go to greet Mrs. Shen." ”

Wang Gui took the order with the dust in his arms and walked out of the study.

Zhu Gaoxu remembered that he met Shen Xu as soon as he arrived in Yunnan, and they had known each other for several years. But Shen Xu took the initiative to come to the Han Palace, and this was the second time.

The first time was because Zhu Gaoxu was in Shen Xu's pear orchard and met Duan Xuehe, who intended to commit murder, Shen Xu's was very nervous, so he came over to explain. Of course, Zhu Gaoxu finally chose to forgive her, and did a disgraceful thing to her in this study.

But even with a skin-to-skin relationship, Shen Xu still kept a distance from him.

Later, Zhu Gaoxu gradually figured out the reason why she was about to leave. If she throws herself into Zhu Gaoxu, she won't get much practical benefit; The only benefit may be to get a name. In addition to this, as the prince's wife and concubine, she cannot enter and leave the harem at will, and she will definitely no longer be able to control the huge family business of Shen and Xu; Moreover, she was born as a merchant widow, and she did not have any advantage in the prince's mansion of the Ming Dynasty, so it was difficult to win against other women.

Once Shen Xu sighed that "the husband is a man who does things with sex, and he loves relaxation when he is weak, and he loves relaxation and he is gracious", Zhu Gaoxu probably understood her thoughts.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't blame her, in his previous life, he thought that most of the beauties getting close to men were for some kind of benefit. He used to be very angry about this kind of thing, probably because he had too little, and he really didn't have anything to give to those beautiful women. Now Zhu Gaoxu met some women in the Ming Dynasty, which made him start to change his thoughts and become more calm......

Zhu Gaoxu closed the gift list, put it on the table, got up and walked out of the study in the front hall.

After a few moments, he saw three men approaching in the distance on the wide brick floor. Zhu Gaoxu stood casually under the eaves, waiting for them to approach.

The three people who came over, in addition to the eunuchs Wang Gui and Shen Xu, there was also a girl Zhu Gaoxu didn't know, who vaguely felt a little familiar, but he didn't remember who it was for a while.

The girl was very different from Shen Xu's appearance, but she was wearing purple clothes of the same color, and she walked side by side with Shen Xu's side. Zhu Gaoxu suddenly understood: This is Shen Xu's stepdaughter Shen Baoyan! Because he is not born to Shen Xu's family, it is not surprising that he looks very different.

It turned out that Zhu Gaoxu had met Shen Baoyan, he went to visit the Shen Mansion a few years ago, and Shen Xu took her daughter when he greeted him. At that time, Shen Baoyan was still a little girl, but unexpectedly, it seemed that in a blink of an eye, she turned out to be like this.

Shen Baoyan is very beautiful, with a purple dress, her skin is snow-white, delicate and shiny, her black hair, clear eyes, and light red and smooth lips.

On the contrary, Zhu Gaoxu doesn't look like a nobleman, because in recent years, he has gone out to fight repeatedly, and his skin has become dark and rough a lot, and only the dragon robe on his body can see that he is the prince. The red silk was on him, as if the mud legs had just been developed.

What Zhu Gaoxu thinks is strange is that he was originally a person who loves sound and lust, and he never denies it; But when I saw this beautiful big girl, I didn't have many obscene thoughts. And Shen Baoyan's expression does not look arrogant, she is a very quiet girl.

They stepped forward and curtsied. Zhu Gaoxu spoke first: "No need to be polite. Let Mrs. Shen break the bank, and give a large amount of treasure. ”

Shen Xu stood up and said clearly: "The soldiers of the Han Dynasty fought bloodily to defend the city of Kunming, so that everyone avoided the catastrophe. The concubine was a businessman in Kunming City, and she expressed her affection. It's good if King Han doesn't dislike it. ”

She turned her head again and said, "This is the little girl Shen Baoyan." ”

The girl bent down and said, "I've seen His Royal Highness the King of Han." ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly: "I saw it when you weren't so tall." Two please! ”