On February 25, Yun Xi finished Zhu Xiancai's Najib and other affairs, and asked Luo Yi to exchange marriage letters with her, and then set off to return to the capital in the afternoon of the same day. At this time, there are only thirteen days before the examination, and he will return to the capital by boat, even if it will take more than 20 days at the earliest, and he will not set off until the examination is completed, and the examination papers will not be able to arrive in the capital, so he must hurry.

Before leaving, Yun Xi instructed Li Jian: "Let 8 get on the boat and send him to the capital." I have decided to let him kill himself, but I must not let him be buried in Annam, nor can he be cremated, so I will take him to the capital and give him death and bury him outside the city. ”

"All the people of the Hu family, except for the concubines who have never given birth, are also loaded into ships and moved to the capital. I will not give them all to death, but I will not let them stay in Annan either. ”

He also instructed Hu Yan: "Your decree is to the effect that 8 deceived the king, plotted to usurp the dynasty, and should have exterminated the nine clans, but I gave me a mercy outside the law, pardoned the sins of all the Hu clan except for 8, Hu Hancang's father and son, and moved to the left side of the capital of Daming as a farmer; If you are willing to serve the Ming Dynasty, you can also be designated as a military household. ”

"All the people of the Hu clan are similar to the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they can be recommended to be students of the Guozijian and the Wutang, and there is no discrimination."

He also went to Zhang Wen's mansion to visit Zhang Wen for the last time, and instructed: "Mr. Zhang will recuperate here, and there is no need to worry about everything to be dealt with by Zanyi, Li Jian and others, and when I return to the capital, I will also reward Mr. for his contributions." ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has already rewarded the merits of the ministers, and there is no need to reward them again; And this warlord has not made much merit, and he should not be given by His Majesty again and again. As for the affairs of the army, with the presence of His Royal Highness the King, the ministers can indeed be lighter. Zhang Wen said.

"How can an ordinary general do to lead an army of 500,000 to march safely? This is a great achievement, and there is no need to shirk it. Yun Xi said again.

Zhang Wen was about to say something more, when he suddenly coughed, and the military doctor who had been standing by the side hurriedly came up. Yun Xi stood up and finally said, "Mr. Zhang, take care, I will retire." ”

After all this was arranged, in the afternoon, Shen Shi Chu Yunxi boarded the ship and left Annam under the farewell of 9, Zhu Yang and others. He was accompanied by the first group of more than 50,000 men from the guard post who had retreated from Annam, and under the escort of the sailors, a fleet of hundreds of ships that could cover the sky and the sun set sail from the harbor and sailed eastward.

Looking at the fleets that were going away, 9 breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard Zhu Yang say: "Zanyi, since Your Majesty is gone, I will also go back to my own vassal country." Although there are Zhuo Jing and He Fu in charge of the domain, there is nothing to worry about, but it is not good that I, the lord of the first domain, have not been there. "Most of the vassal kings got on a boat and returned north together, but Zhu Yang's fief was in the northwest of Annam, so he and 9 sent off Yunxi together.

"If the eighteenth uncle wants to go back, the nephew won't keep much." 9 said.

"Then I'll pack up and prepare to go back in the next few days." Zhu Yang said with excitement on his face. He had been away from his fiefdom for more than half a year, and he had long wanted to go back.

But then his face showed an unhappy look again: "The first general under my command who knows firearms was actually poached by the officials, really, hey." ”

"Uncle Eighteen, look at the military equipment of these countries in Siam, where can you use firearms? Moreover, in the next two years, he will have to meet Timur, and it is also a good thing that the general, who is proficient in firearms, will be brought to the court by his uncle. 9 Persuaded.

"That's all I can think about." Zhu Yang said.

The two of them said a few more words, and returned to the city with the rest of the men seeing them off.

9When he returned to his palace, he took out a box from a secret compartment under the Luohan bed in the study, opened it and took out one of the yellowed silks, unfolded it and looked at it, put it back in the box and hid it in the dark compartment again, and muttered to himself: "This thing should not be used, but let's keep it for the time being, and destroy it before I die." ”

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After departing from Nanding Port, the fleet rushed to the mouth of the Pearl River at noon on the second day of March and anchored in the good harbor on Hong Kong Island.

The Sailor Senho, who was stationed on Hong Kong Island, immediately provided the fleet with 2,000 chickens, 500 pigs, and a large amount of vegetables for the army to eat. The Guangdong Dusi already knew when the fleet with the emperor would pass through the mouth of the Pearl River, and Yun Xi sent a letter that he would not go to Guangzhou again, so he urgently bought these chickens and pigs near Guangzhou and sent them to Hong Kong Island.

The Huotou army killed more than 400 pigs and stewed braised pork, and for a while the fragrance wafted everywhere, causing the soldiers to move their index fingers, and they couldn't wait to take the rice bowl to serve the meat immediately.

Yun Xi stood on the deck, looking at the soldiers who were waiting in line to serve meat, and at the same time listened to Li Decheng, the envoy of Guangdong, say: "Your Majesty, more than 20 gentry have been disposed of in the Guangzhou Mansion, and more than a dozen of them will be exiled to Annam. ”

"The number of Hakka households in various places has also been measured, and they can be relocated after the local gentry are involved in this case."

"There is a gentry in the city of Guangzhou, and several of them have asked to go to Annam. Yang Ren was extremely surprised, and found out that this was originally done by his family head Bai Wenyu. Yang Ren had granted their request to move to Annam. ”

"It's kind of an acquaintance." Yun Xi sneered.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing. Before, His Majesty ordered me to interrogate Han Yike, who was a traitor to Annan, according to the Prosecutor's Department, and the interrogation learned that he was demoted to Hainan by His Majesty because of Hongwu in the 31st year, so he held a grudge and voted for Annan. Li Decheng said again.

"Did he go to Hainan back then? No wonder. But even that could not be taken lightly. The order was sent down, and the capital was bound for the heinous crime and sentenced to Ling Chi. Yun Xi said.

After saying these two things, Li Decheng had nothing to report and bowed down. Immediately, Zhang Yanfang of Bao'an City Bosi came forward to report: "Your Majesty, the tariff of Bao'an City Bosi last year has exceeded 3 million yuan, which is 20% more than the year before. ”

"Good. Zhang Aiqing is really an official who is suitable to be in charge of the city, and Aiqing has done very well in Shanghai and Bao'an in recent years. Yun Xi praised.

"Your Majesty has praised it falsely, this is Your Majesty's decree is proper, not the credit of the minister, and the minister does not dare to take credit." Zhang Yanfang said.

"You don't have to say that." Yun Xi said: "A government decree is a government order, and Aiqing's credit is not small. No need to excuse yourself. Yun Xi said.

Zhang Yanfang didn't say anything more about this, but said: "Your Majesty, it's just that in the last two months, because of the slight instability of the people in the Samarkand spy case, the tax revenue has dropped slightly in the past two months. ”

"This is also a helpless thing. If taxes are reduced next year, I won't blame you. Yun Xi said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness." Zhang Yanfang said immediately.

Yun Xi smiled, suddenly thought of something, and asked: "I remember that there was another merchant who was naturalized with Su Dongli, a spy of the Samarkand Kingdom, and this person was verified to be not a spy and had nothing to do with this case, so he was later released." Is he still trading in the city? ”

"Your Majesty, after this person was released, he sold the shop and has already left Bao'an City." Zhang Yanfang said.

"It's a pity." Yun Xi muttered. Although Daming is not short of money, no one will have too much money, and it would be good if he could take the money to settle down in Daming. It's a pity that it didn't work.

After saying this, it was already dark, and Yun Xi said a few more words to Zhang Yanfang and asked him to step down.

Yoon-hee turned around and returned to the cabin. He walked to the cabin where he lived with the two concubines, and happened to see Xue Xiran and Li Jiqian coming out of different cabins one after the other, and saw Yun Xi hurriedly saluted: "The minister Xue Xiran (Li Jiqian) has seen Your Majesty." ”

Yun Xi waved his hand to flatten them, and said with a smile: "Come and see your sister?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The two of them agreed in unison, then subconsciously looked at each other, and hurriedly lowered their heads.

Yun Xi was very happy to see this situation. The elder brother of his two concubines, who were both sailors, happened to visit his sister at the same time, and he felt embarrassed to think about it. He smiled and told the two of them to step back. As if they had been pardoned, the two of them walked past Yun Xi's side, and walked in different directions at the fork in the road.

After Yun Xi smiled, she thought about it, and first went to Li Sha'er's cabin to talk to her for a while, and then came to Xi Yi's cabin.

Xiyi was in a daze at this time, and when she saw Yunxi walking in, she hurriedly stood up and saluted, "Husband." ”

"Sit down, sit down, now there are no outsiders, why be so polite." Yun Hee walked over and pressed her shoulders to sit down, and ordered everyone to quit and sit beside her.

"See Xi Ran? What did they say? Yun Xi asked casually.

"It's always just a matter of the family, and this time he fought at sea; The concubine and her brother talked about what they had seen and heard in Liangguang Annan, which made the elder brother envious, saying that it was better to choose the Lu Division at the beginning, and he could see more scenery after the war. Xiyi smiled.

"And then there's ......," she said in the middle of the last sentence, and she suddenly stopped talking.

"What else?" Yun Xi asked, turned his head sideways to look at Xiang Xiyi, saw her blush, suddenly thought, and said with a smile: "It's probably because Xuan Ran suspects that you have fallen out of favor, right?" Otherwise, why haven't you been pregnant with your husband for more than half a year? ”

"Husband, you're bad!" Hee Yi, who was told to be broken, blushed and slapped Yun Hee's shoulder.

Yun Xi hugged her in his arms and said with a smile: "But it's not your fault." Before, the witch Gu case husband and you were both caught in witchcraft, and it was only later that it was solved, and your body was weak and will be raised for another two months, and there are not so many when we are together. ”

"But now that my husband and you are in good health, I will try to get you pregnant before you return to the capital."

Yun Hee smiled and talked as she picked up Hee Yi and walked to the bed; Xiyi blushed and struggled a few times, and said, "I haven't eaten yet." ”

"I'll eat you first, and then we'll go eat." Yun Hee teased and put her on the bed. After a while, the sound of the bed shaking came from the cabin, and the little palace maid who was guarding outside turned red.

The next morning, before dawn, Yunxi woke up, felt the warm touch coming from beside him, turned his head sideways and kissed Xiyi's face, gently pushed her away and stood up, and let the little palace maid come in and serve him to get dressed and walk out of the cabin.

It was already dawn when he came to the deck. Looking sideways to the north, I saw dozens of ships heading out of the docks.

Yun Xi was about to ask, when he heard a voice from his side: "Guanjia." He looked sideways and saw Zhu Lu, Zhu Di, and Zhu Mo standing aside.

"The three uncles are leaving so early?" Yoon-hee asked.

"Official, we have also been away from the fiefdom for more than half a year, and we don't know how many things have accumulated in the fiefdom, so we have to go back quickly." Zhu Lu said with a smile: "If we hadn't waited to come to Guangzhou to take away the food and salary that the imperial court gave us this year, we would have gone back like Xian Xian." ”

"That's it, my nephew himself is in a hurry to rush back to the capital, and it's normal for you to rush back to the fiefdom in a hurry." Yun Xi said: "Then today's breakfast nephew will be regarded as a banquet for you." ”

"How can a banquet be so shabby?" Zhu Mo said with a smile.

"It's so shabby to feast at my nephew's place."

They joked a few words and had breakfast together, and the three of them were about to say goodbye to him.

Yun Xi was just about to nod, but suddenly thought of something and said, "The fourth uncle stays, and the nineteenth and twenty-first uncles will go first." The nephew has a few words to say to the fourth uncle. ”

The two of them looked at each other with complicated eyes, and bowed back.

Yun Xi immediately asked: "Fourth uncle, this time I came to Daming, my nephew hasn't asked Su Fan how the situation is now?" The fourth uncle told his nephew. ”

"In the second year of Jianye, Gao Xu and I came to Su Fan successively to stabilize prices, deal with local tyrants, and rectify armaments ,......"

At that time, Chen Zuyi was on the edge of Su Fan, unruly. Gao Xu wanted to send troops to destroy him, but because he had many ships in his hands, he was not sure of victory, so I persuaded Gao Xu to stop and went to persuade him to surrender in person. ”

Then Gao Xu sent troops to attack the Mulu country in the west, and had already captured six or seven percent of the Mulu country, capturing tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. This year it should be possible to capture the capital and destroy it. ”

"However, after the destruction of the state of Mulu, it bordered the two countries of Suventana and Sumatra. The strength of these two countries is not weak, and if they deal with it, they must think carefully. Zhu Di briefly introduced the situation of Su Fan.

"The fourth uncle can persuade Chen Zuyi to surrender, and he is really very capable." Yun Xi praised.

"It's just a fluke." Zhu Di said modestly.

The two of them chatted a few more words, and Yun Xi said: "Fourth uncle, after you go back, tell Gao Xu that you don't have to be afraid of the two countries in the west, and you must destroy them as soon as possible." ”

"But......" Before Zhu Di finished speaking, he was snatched up by Yun Xi: "Listen to me, that's right." ”