Regardless of whether the little baby in front of him is the famous Sanbao eunuch, but it can be seen that he is a rare good seedling, he has eyes at a young age, understands the rules and can endure hardships, and is more than a star and a half stronger than the little eunuch who only knows how to eat, drink and play.

If he is the eunuch of Sanbao, it can only be said that the cycle of karma is unhappy, and it is clear in history that Mu Ying cut off the little finch, and now he has become his righteous son to collect debts.

Xiao Biao probed his brain at the door of the study, "Dad, are we a guest?" ”

"Well, your Uncle Mu is here, why don't you hurry up and come over to see you!"

Xiao Biao entered the study and saluted obediently, "I have seen Uncle Mu, my nephew has lost his welcome and ask Uncle for forgiveness, Uncle came back from Yunnan all the way, but did he bring any gifts to his nephew." ”

Mu Ying laughed and said: "If it is true that the father and son want to be good when they open their mouths, there is nothing to get you in that remote place in Yunnan, so I brought a friend, this is my righteous son Sanbao, how close you two are!" ”

"Xiao Biao, you let the cook make some good dishes, take the three treasures to the hall to eat, I have something to say to your Uncle Mu!" Seeing that the two small ones were hooking shoulders and walking away, Ma Du asked Mu Ying, "You came all the way back, shouldn't you really come to worship your ancestors?" ”

"I wanted to worship my ancestors, but my mother's bones were gone, and the people in a village in the troubled times fled to death, and they couldn't even touch my father's grave when they went back. There is a tablet at home, and I am thinking about the incense stick at four o'clock and eight festivals. You said that you, net mention these sad and sad, hurry up and let people drink. ”

When the wine and food were served, Mu Ying made two bowls of yellow soup with a dry face, grabbed a few broad beans and chewed them rattling, "I came to Beijing this time mainly to return to Beijing to report on work, and I also want to leave Sanbao in Yingtian for you to take care of." ”

"What's going on, I see that your relationship is very good, are you willing to put him here?"

Mu Ying said distressedly: "It's not my mother-in-law, I have to say that it is my illegitimate son, and the two of us have a lot of quarrels about staying in Yunnan." ”

"My nephew and daughter-in-law are from a scholarly family, not a person who doesn't know etiquette, you are also a marquis, what are three wives and four concubines, you must have lost your temper at others, and you can't say anything well."

"She doesn't object to me taking a concubine, she just wants to tell her in advance, and now she believes that Sanbao is my illegitimate child, I can't make sense, of course, my temper is also a little stinky, and it is inevitable to say something that I don't like."

"Hehe......" Ma Du said secretly in his heart, Sanbao, this kid really came to Mu Ying to collect debts.

"What are you laughing at, you learned it from your mother-in-law, she compares you with me in everything in Yunnan, and I am so angry that I can't wait to grow wings and fly back to the sky to strangle you!"

I didn't expect that I could also become "someone else's husband", Ma Du smiled: "Haha...... No wonder I punched so hard when I saw you just now, it turned out to be a hateful shot, and my chest still hurts. I don't dare to say anything else, the relationship between men and women is absolutely decent, and there is no such thing as an illegitimate child. ”

In fact, Ma Du didn't know that he also had illegitimate children, but he was far away in the other hemisphere, and if it was in Ying Tianma's house, it would definitely be much more lively than the Mu family.

"By the way, I have another important thing to do when I came to Yingtian this time, before you went to Yunnan last time, you asked me to try to plant Panax notoginseng has been successful, and I have saved more than 30,000 catties in the past two years, you have to help me deal with it."

Ma Du patted his chest and said: "Don't worry about it, Sanqi is also called gold is not exchanged, even if it can't be sold at the price of gold, I have to give you the price of selling silver!" ”

"If it can be done, it will help me a lot, it is really not easy to feed an army of 100,000 in the remote place of Yunnan Miasma, I am not afraid of you laughing at me for not fighting in the past two years, patronizing the tuntian farming, if I can exchange Sanqi for some silver, I will be much easier."

Ma Du added some wine to him, "Don't just think about planting Panax notoginseng, the high altitude and rain in Yunnan are the most suitable for planting medicinal materials, bring more medicinal seeds back, try them one by one, maybe the medicinal materials of the Ming Dynasty will come from Yunnan in the future." ”

"Haha...... Good idea, I'm afraid that Yunnan is remote and the transportation is inconvenient, and I'm afraid that the medicinal herb merchants will not go. ”

Ma Du said with a sneer: "Actually, I think you can borrow Annan to go to sea, isn't it convenient to sell it in a coastal city?" ”

"Speaking of Annam, I am very angry, barbarian and small country ministers are not satisfied, and people often commit border Yunnan to kill my people, if I don't lack military resources, I will lead the troops to kill and cut off the head of the king of Annam."

Ma Du teased: "As a prince, my temper is getting bigger and bigger, and I often have maritime business to and from Annam, and I still have a little understanding of the situation over there." There are many powerful ministers in Annan, and the king's power is weak and barely protects himself, so he is afraid that he has no intention of provoking a border provocation. ”

"The emperor also said the same, and also vetoed my proposal to conquer Annam, saying that the current expedition to Liaodong is urgent."

"The emperor is right, if you don't put a lot of effort into that place, it's not easy to take it down, and it's not easy to govern, it's a loss-making business. You might as well show them their favor to open up trade routes, increase your influence over there, and when they are in turmoil, you can take advantage of the situation to send troops, give preferential treatment to the Han people to expel the barbarians, and then ask the imperial court to set up a state capital to move the people of Liangguang to fill in, and Annan will return to governance, that is the work of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, maybe you can still be crowned a prince in this life. ”

"Che, you're really calculating, as if you know that Annan will have civil strife."

"I guess, as far as I know, there is a very ambitious person surnamed Hu over there, you can get closer to him, and if you have something to do, provoke the relationship between Annan and Champa, if you don't understand, I can find a few students with bad stomachs to help you.

You have to have the ability to take the city together, there is a fertile plain, rice grows in the ground like a weed, three crops a year, the navy has to go there several times a year to plunder, not only do not want the imperial court's military rations, but also sell them to those merchants in Penghu, and make a lot of ......money."

Mu Ying's eyes widened, and she seemed to be very envious, licked her tongue and said, "Hearing you say that, I don't want to stay in Yunnan anymore." ”

After preparing for a long time, Zhu Biao finally set off before the college holiday, the weather was already hot, this was not a good time, the prince and the kings had a car that could shade the sun, but the accompanying courtiers did not, riding a horse can take a sedan chair, a big board car is already Lao Zhu's greatest favor, and the soldiers who walk on two legs still account for the majority.

After asking Zhu Biao for instructions, Ma Du didn't have to follow the large army to suffer, and followed far behind with the Hou Mansion honor guard. Began to cross the river in the early morning, and waited until noon before the car of the Hou Mansion went ashore, and the car of Zhu Biao in front of him was no longer visible, which showed the pomp and circumstance.

In addition to the deliberate display of the ingredients, we must also take care of the safety of Zhu Biao and the kings, if anyone takes the opportunity to make trouble and end the team, Lao Zhu's day and night hard work and countless essence and blood will be in vain.

Zhu Xiaowu is obviously not afraid of death, he has been staying in the car of the Hou Mansion, just to be quiet and not to let anyone disturb him to read, and he doesn't know how to ask Ma Du for advice by the way, because the medical book was written by Ma Du.

From a lively and cute child to a nerd, Mu Ying was a little distressed about this, and kept chatting and drinking with Zhu Xiaowu along the way, who knew that Zhu Xiaowu didn't appreciate it, but made Mu Ying suffer a lot of eyes.

Song Shuang's interest was very high at first, and after camping every day, he took Xiao Biao, Sanbao and Mu Chun to wander around, but after a few days, he didn't go, and he told Ma Du that there was no more interesting place than Fang Mountain.

There is really nothing to see on the road from Yingtian to Zhongdu, famine, plague, and military disasters have been rampant here, and it is only more than ten years to say, and the villages and towns that pass through can vaguely see the traces of the war of the year, and you can accidentally dig up the white bones of the forest when burying the pot on the side of the road.

This area can be regarded as Lao Zhu's base area, before he did not cross the river, his team of bandits had a very heavy style, and many of them were created by him.

Yingtian and here are only separated by a river, but it is like two worlds, only the seedlings planted between the fields and the sweaty farmers, it seems that this is a world full of vitality.

The team walked very slowly, no more than 30 miles a day, Zhu Biao in addition to receiving officials along the way, but also to take his younger brothers to the countryside to visit the poor and ask about the hardships, if to the place where Lao Zhu had fought or was stationed, but also to talk about the hardships of his father's entrepreneurship, which is a bit of a re-walking of the Long March.

Ma Du felt that this was simply a waste of lips and tongues, these cute little babies, but they were all dragon breeds destined to drink human blood, at least 10,000 stone of Yulu every year, I don't know how much blood and sweat the peasants have to shed.

Of course, there are also Lao Zhu's sons, who are also fresh and refined, and Zhu Tan, the king of Lu of the Ming Dynasty, deserted when his eldest brother re-educated them in the poor middle peasants, and secretly ran to Ma Du's side, tugging on Ma Du's sleeve with his little hand and whispering: "May I ask if you are the Marquis of Jiang Ning?" ”

"Exactly, Weichen has seen His Royal Highness King Lu!" Ma Du hurriedly bowed his hand.

"I heard the name of Jiangning Hou early, and today I finally saw the real person!" Zhu Tan's face was full of joy, and her little face was a little red with excitement.

Ma Du was a little unsurprised, because the biological mother of His Royal Highness King Lu was Concubine Guo, and Ma Dajia had always regarded Ma Dajia as the one who was a thorn in his eye. Could it be that his mother can't fight in the harem, is this relying on the identity of the prince to make herself stink in the public?

It turns out that Ma Du is the belly of a villain and a gentleman, Zhu Tan smiled and said: "This king wants to study in the academy, does Jiang Ninghou think it's okay?" ”

"Your Highness asked the wrong person, Weichen is just a lecturer in the academy, and the academy is not mine, it is royal, as long as the emperor and Concubine Guo agree, His Royal Highness can go at any time."

"What this king means is that he wants to be a disciple of Jiang Ninghou, and he can't learn from others." Zhu Tan looked up with a little face full of anticipation.

"Disciple in the room? This one...... It's really unnecessary, Wechen treats the students of the academy equally, and there is no hiding in the same way as the academics. ”

Zhu Tan said happily: "That's great, when this king arrives at the academy, I will ask Jiang Ninghou to pass on the method of cultivating immortals and imperial sky to me." ”

The method of cultivating immortals and the sky? Ma Du only thought that he had heard it wrong, could it be that he had been wrong all along, this was actually the Xianxia version of Daming?

"A few days ago, I read the "Legend of Liuru Immortals" written by my father, and his old man's various magical methods made Xiao Wang yearn for it, Jiang Ninghou is the only personal descendant of Liuru Zhenren, presumably his means will also, and this king is not greedy, as long as he learns one or two, he will be satisfied......"

"Jiang Ninghou, are you listening to this king, aren't you unwilling to teach me because of my mother's concubine? The king can't control the affairs of the mother's concubine, but I have always respected the queen mother, and the queen mother loves me very much, and the king should also call Jiang Ninghou an uncle......"

The little Zhu Tan chattered endlessly, until Zhu Biao's idea was aroused, and when the eunuch pulled him away, he waved his arms and shouted, "The Marquis of Jiangning, the king, will definitely come to you again!" ”

Ma Du was made to cry and laugh inexplicably, and later thought of the Zhu family's descendants of alchemy and drug hobbies, it seems that it started from this King Lu, because he ate too much lead and mercury and blinded his eyes, and after he died, Lao Zhu also gave him the nickname of King Luhuang.

King Lu's quest for immortals is just an interesting episode in the journey. It is actually not too far from Yingtian to Zhongdu, and the sacrificial procession has walked for more than half a month before it can be regarded as arriving in Zhongdu.

Zhongdu is really a real capital city, not just a title, but a large city with a circumference of sixty miles, an area of nearly 120 hectares, and nine city gates.

Here there are not only the Imperial Palace, the mound, the square mound, the mountain and river Sheji Altar, the Taimiao, in addition to the Zhongshu Province, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the Imperial History Tower, the Stargazing Platform, the Bell and Drum Tower, there are six dukes in the imperial city, the mansion of the twenty-eight candidates, the outer city has twenty-four streets, one hundred and four squares, and it is more regular than the day.

"Say Fengyang, Dao Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place, since Emperor Zhu, there have been nine years of famine in ten years, large families have changed their industries, small families sell children, slaves have no children to sell, and they carry flower drums to other places......"

The lyrics of this Fengyang flower drum and the beggars of Fengyang are spread all over the world, and the beggars of Fengyang are also famous all over the country, but at the moment Limadu has not seen an unkempt beggar, and the people on both sides of the street who are bustling with excitement, whether they are dressed or spiritual, are better than the people of Yingtian.

After all, the rich families who moved to Zhongdu have not spent all the money in their hands, and they have not been reduced to the point of asking for food, and this place looks more like a capital city than Yingtian.

Some people say that Lao Zhu is a utopian, and the Zhongdu Fengyang in front of him is the biggest proof, this is the perfect world in his imagination. But the fake is the fake, the rich family in Fengyang is homesick and pretends to be a beggar to return to their hometown to worship their ancestors and visit relatives is just the beginning, when the little Fengyang can't raise so many people so that the Huai River floods and the land is barren, and the fake beggar becomes a real beggar, how ironic it will be.

Anyway, Lao Zhu couldn't see it when he was alive that day, and now he can still snicker in his sleep about the perfect world he created for himself.

Ma Du poked his head out of the car window, stretched his neck to look at the palace as brilliant and majestic as Yingtian, and couldn't help but say proudly: "Lao Zhu, do you really have no money?" ”