"Minister Xu Huizu has seen His Royal Highness King Su." Xu Huizu knelt on the ground and said.

"Wei Guogong, hurry up." Su Wang Zhu Ji took a step forward, grabbed Xu Huizu's arm and said. The two of them gave in a few more words, and Xu Huizu stood up.

After Xu Huizu gave birth to a child in Miaojin, he set out from the capital on April 21 and went to Chuzhou Horse Farm halfway to bring 1,000 horses to the guard station in Xi'an. After consulting with Xia Yuanji of the prefect in Xi'an, he decided to go around the Sanqin Capital Division and the Sanqin Xingdu Division before discussing others, so he came to Ganzhou to meet Zhu Ji, the king of Su.

Zhu Ji was one year older than Yun Xi and the same age as Yun Wei, and was sent to Ganzhou as king at the age of sixteen. Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to send him to Suzhou, but at that time, Suzhou was still in some chaos and stayed in Ganzhou temporarily, not wanting this temporary to become permanent.

After the national ceremony, the next thing is the private gift. Zhu Ji has some ability among Zhu Yuanzhang's sons, and the relationship with Xu Huizu is not bad when he is in Beijing, and the three daughters of the Xu family are married to the prince as his wife, and one is married to the emperor as a concubine, Zhu Ji does not dare to offend him, so he does not dare to put the prince on the shelf, not to mention that he still asks Xu Huizu to greet him privately.

After the greetings, the guests sat down, and Xu Huizu said: "Your Highness, the intention of the minister to be sent to the northwest by His Majesty also knows that the minister wants to take a turn in the capital of Sanqin, and His Royal Highness, as the landlord here, will ask His Highness for help." ”

"Lone knows that it is incumbent on Lone to prepare for the war against Timur, and Lone is not as busy as Wu Jie, the commander of the Three Qin Xingdu Division, and he will definitely cooperate with you."

"But there is something I want to ask Brother Yun Gong for." Zhu Ji said.

"If Your Highness has something for the minister to do, the minister is duty-bound, as long as the minister can do it." Xu Huizu said.

"It's not a big deal, can you tell Your Majesty after defeating Timur and let Gu return to Beijing?" Zhu said.

"Huh?" Xu Huizu was a little surprised. Is Zhu Ji so reluctant to stay in the northwest?

"If you don't think it's easy to speak, just tell Your Majesty: Lonely told you in private that you want to go back to Beijing, but if you really can't, you should be sealed in a slightly richer place; I ask Your Majesty to change the seal to the west of Tongguan. Zhu Ji said again.

This place in the Northwest sucks! This is Zhu Ji's biggest feeling after arriving in the northwest. Especially since he still has Ganzhou, not Xi'an, Hanzhong, and these three Qin places are still rich.

He's been here for nine years, and he's never wanted to leave. In his opinion, when it comes to fiefdoms, there is nothing worse than him, although his actual power in the place of Sanqin Xingdu is similar to that of the real fief, and he does not want to stay here.

"Okay, Your Highness, when the war with Timur is over in the future, the minister will definitely ask Your Majesty to allow His Highness to return to Beijing." Xu Huizu didn't dare to refuse, so he could only say.

"Thank you, Brother Yungong." Zhu Ji said.

"How dare the minister accept His Highness's thanks." Xu Huizu said immediately.

"If you say you can afford it, you can afford it." Zhu said.

After saying this, it was getting late today, and Zhu Ji didn't say anything else, he placed Xu Huizu in his palace, and rested after dinner.

Early the next morning, Xu Huizu got up to practice martial arts first, and felt hungry, but he didn't see Zhu Ji send someone to invite him to dinner.

He was very puzzled in his heart, and went to Zhu Shu's study to meet him.

Zhu Ji listened to his words, and said with his hand on his forehead: "I forgot, you just came from the south, and you have to eat three meals a day." Lone immediately let them cook. ”

"Does Your Highness only eat two meals a day now?" Xu Huizu asked. He knew that many places in the north only ate two meals a day, but he had also trained in the north before, and those princes who had been sealed to the local area still ate three meals a day.

"I've been here for a long time, and I'm getting used to it. What's more, there is very little grain here, and almost three or four percent of the grain has to be transported from Hanzhong or Hetao, which is extremely expensive to operate. In order to save food, Lone can also lead by example. In fact, in Lone's view, the reason why they eat two meals a day is because the land is barren and too poor. If you have money, you will eat three meals like the southerners. Zhu said.

Xu Huizu has the same heart as Zhu Ji, but his stomach is indeed a little hungry, and he can't speak. Zhu Ji also saw his embarrassment, and said with a smile: "Sanqin's army also eats three meals a day when it fights, and the people also eat more at night when they are busy with farming, and it is normal for southerners to be unaccustomed to it when they first arrive in the north, you don't have to be the same as Lone." ”

Xu Huizu didn't bother anymore, and bowed down to thank him.

"You don't have to thank me, I'm hungry for what you said, so I'll have three meals with you in the next few days." Zhu Ji smiled again.

The ground food in the northwest is the mainstay, although there is also rice transferred from Bashu and other places, but the quantity is too small, Zhu Ji himself is usually reluctant to eat more, he plans to entertain Xu Huizu to eat rice at noon and evening, and breakfast is pasta.

After a while, the two of them had breakfast together, left the Su Wang's Mansion, and walked around the city.

Ganzhou is the largest city in Sanqin, and it is also a few cities in the entire Sanqin, but in Xu Huizu's view, it is not as prosperous as some counties in the south of the Yangtze River, whether it is restaurants, hotels, grocery stores or other shops, the number is very small.

There are also few people in the city, and Zhu Ji said that there are only a few thousand people in total, not counting the military households, so even if there are not many shops in the city, there are fewer customers in the shops.

Xu Huizu turned around, looked at the people walking on both sides of the road, and suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Your Highness, how many people are in Ganzhou?" ”

"Why not much?" Zhu Ji pointed to the people on the side of the road: "Aren't these all people with colored eyes?" ”

"This, they are Buddhists, how can they be Semu? Xu Huizu said in surprise.

"Buddhists can't be sek-eyed people? You're not right. ”

Zhu Shu said: "At that time, the Mongols were divided into four classes, the Mongols were the first class, the people in the Western Regions, Western Xia, the Far West, Wusizang and other places were all second-class color people, the people in the Jin Kingdom were the third-class Han people, and the people in the Song Kingdom and Dali were the fourth-class southerners. ”

"The land of the three Qin Xingdu Division is Hexi, when it was the Xixia country, the Xixia believed in Buddhism, and built a Buddhist temple on a large scale in the land of Hexi, and the Baojue Temple (Zhangye Buddha Temple) in Ganzhou was built by the Xixia people. Originally, there were no people here who believed in the Heavenly Sect. All the Semu people who believe in the Celestial Sect are not many of them who stayed here after the Mongols returned from their western expeditions. ”

"The Semu people in the Central Plains are all people with eyes of other colors and very different appearances from the Han people, and you may not have understood the criteria for the Mongols to divide the Semu people, so I think that these people in front of you are not Semu people."

"That's true, I always thought that only people with eyes that weren't black were lustful people. However, although these people are Semu people in Mengyuan, they are also easier to manage, unlike the Semu people in the Central Plains. Xu Hui Zu said.

"That's right, as long as the presiding officer of the temple is well connected, these people are very obedient and obedient, and they are more obedient than the Han people who don't believe in Buddhism. But he is not very enterprising, unlike the Han people who work hard. ”

"It's not good to fight, it's too poor to recruit them into the guard, but because there are too few Han people here, they can only be partially appointed as soldiers." Zhu Ji said.

"What about the Returners?" Xu Huizu asked.

"They are not easy to manage, and the rest is fine, but they are just drinking and eating beef all day long, and they always secretly want to spread the Heavenly Sect."

"How can there be so much beef for them to eat? Lone could only give an order, and found that all those who slaughtered the ploughing cattle without permission were to be executed, so that they would not eat beef while shouting. ”

"Let them preach the Heavenly Sect and it won't work, they all believe in the Heavenly Sect, how can Lone manage them? Let the local Buddhist temple keep an eye on it, if there is a Hui Semu person who dares to preach privately, report it to Lone, and Lone will send troops to arrest people. ”

"Your Majesty's promotion of Buddhism is really good, if the people believe in Buddhism, they will no longer believe in the Heavenly Religion." Zhu said.

The two of them talked as they walked, and came to the city gate. Although the city of Ganzhou is desolate, as an important town in the northwest, the city is built very grandly, and it is comparable to the state city of the Central Plains in terms of scale.

Xu Huizu looked up and found some differences from the cities in the Central Plains, and pointed and asked, "Your Highness, what do these things do?" ”

Zhu Ji looked at his hand and said, "Oh, it was built under the guidance of those Hui Semu people, and it was the method of building a city in the west, so I felt that there was still some truth, so I let them build it." ”

Xu Huizu proposed to go up and take a look, but Zhu Wei naturally wouldn't stop him, and took him up for a spin.

When he came down, Xu Huizu said: "I didn't expect that the people in the West are not all barbarians, and this city building is quite unique. ”

"I've heard people who have been to the west say that beyond the desolate places, they actually have some prosperous places, and there are civilizations, not exactly barbarians." Zhu said.

The two continued to stroll, and after a while, they came to the front of Ganzhou Baojue Temple.

Zhu Wei introduced: "When the Ganzhou Baojue Temple was first built, it was a Western Xia Buddhist temple, which was different from Buddhism and Lamaism in the Central Plains; After the Mongols destroyed the Western Xia, in order to win over the Tibetans, they turned this place into a Lamaist temple. ”

"When the Mongols destroyed the Western Xia, because the Tangut killed Temujin, the Mongols were extremely ruthless and almost slaughtered the Tanguts, so there was no obstacle to it becoming a Lamaist temple."

After Song Gongzong was captured by the Mongols, he was also placed here as a lama, and his son Zhao Wanpu later continued to be a lama here, and was killed after Han Shantong raised an army to overthrow the Mongol Yuan. Now there are still some things left by Song Gongzong and his son when they were lamas. ”

"Baojue Temple is the largest temple in the Northwest, and there are few temples in the Central Plains that can compare."

Xu Huizu raised his head and looked at the façade of Baojue Temple, which was indeed very magnificent, worthy of the title of the largest temple in the northwest.

The two of them had a tour inside, and it was already noon when they came out, so Zhu Ji took him back to the palace for dinner, and then turned around in the afternoon after eating.