Xu Zengshou was sent back to the room by the housekeeper, and the housekeeper apologized one by one: "Fourth master, Lord Guogong has instructions, please don't make it difficult for the little one, if there is anything you need, just talk to the little one." As soon as he was about to leave, he was pulled back by Xu Zengshou: "Housekeeper, my eldest brother won't let me go out of the house, okay, I won't go out, then you go and call my guard Zhang Kai over, I have something." ”

"Okay, let's do it for the little one, you can rest well."

After a while, Zhang Kai arrived, this was given to him by his brother-in-law Yan Wang, there were four people, Zhang Kai was the one he liked more, Xu Zengshou beckoned to Zhang Kai: "You come here, Lao Tzu asked you, how long does it take for you to ride a horse from Jingshi to Beiping." ”

Zhang Kai pondered for a moment: "If you change horses halfway, it will take about 7 or 8 days to arrive, and it will be about this time to come back." ”

Xu Zengshou clapped his hands and said: "Okay, I'll ask you to send a letter to my brother-in-law, as soon as the city gate opens tomorrow morning, you will go out, send it to Beiping as soon as possible, and use the token of my Wei Mansion along the way, enter the boundary of Beiping, and use the token of Yanwangfu." You wait for me, I'll give it to you later. ”

"Okay."

Xu Zengshou immediately spread out the letter paper and wrote down the recent experiences of the Jingshi, including the affairs of the Great Ming Law and martial arts, as well as some rumors in the capital, and even some words of the eldest brother Xu Huizu.

Half an hour later, Zhang Kai came out of the side hall, carrying Xu Zengshou's letter, and returned to his residence. After thinking about it for a while, he called the other 3 guards over, all of whom were the guards given to Xu Zengshou by King Yan.

"Brother Zhang, it's so late, why did you call us over?"

"The fourth master asked me to send a letter to King Yan, I will leave tomorrow morning, it may take half a month to come back, you pay more attention to the situation in the capital, especially the news of martial arts, usually it is close to the uncle's guard, the eldest brother feels that these news are very important to King Yan."

"Big brother, no problem, don't worry about sending a letter to King Yan, we will pay attention. After staying in Beijing for a few years, my body was moldy, and I really wanted to return to King Yan, and that day was a pleasure, alas, now, I am cautious every day, and I am bored. ”

"Okay, don't complain, it's not once or twice that we have sent letters to the fourth master and King Yan, if it weren't for Lu Tong and them returning to Beiping, I wouldn't have to make this trip. When I go back, I will suggest that the prince send Lu Tong back, otherwise it will delay things too much. ”

.......

After Zhang Kai finished explaining, he asked them to go back, put the letter under the pillow, and was about to go back to Beiping, he was even a little excited, and he fell asleep slowly for a long time.

The next day, as soon as the city gate opened, a knight rode out of the Jinchuan Gate and headed north......

Zhu Yunwen's life entered a tense and busy situation again, Geng Xuan and others stayed in the training ground of the avant-garde of the government army every day according to his training syllabus, and Zhu Yunwen himself had to discuss the teaching curriculum with the people of the Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of Rites of the Five Armies every day, and also discussed the construction of martial arts with the people of the Ministry of Industry, and also designed the training subjects by himself, and occasionally went to the Qianqing Palace to report to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang strongly supports martial arts, without too many restrictions, and Zhu Yunwen tosses it, but occasionally calls Qi De and Huang Zicheng to ask questions.

The companion was busy with his own affairs, and Zhu Yunwen suddenly felt that he didn't feel very comfortable, so he turned around the regiments summoned by his four guards Zhang Tie, Wan Zicheng, Ma Lu and Niu Dehai, and let these four boys run around between the Governor's Mansion, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War and the Zhan Mansion of the Five Armies.

Zhu Yunwen planned to start a full range of wargames in martial arts, but there was still a lack of instructors, so he went to the Qianqing Palace to find Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was reviewing the chapters, and found that Zhu Yunwen ran in in a hurry, and couldn't help laughing, feeling that this grandson has been full of energy recently, not as dull as before, whether as an emperor or a grandfather, he feels very happy.

"Grandpa Huang, I'm asking you for help?"

"Oh? What do you need from Grandpa Huang? ”

"That's it, the martial arts students are already being selected, but there are no instructors or the like, I plan to borrow a few people from you."

"Oh, who do you want?"

"I plan to ask the Ministry of Rites to send Tie Xuan to the martial arts school to serve as the chief bookkeeper, responsible for the management of military appearance and discipline, and there are no suitable instructors for other infantry, cavalry, and firearms, so I asked the imperial grandfather to help."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Tie Xuan is no problem, as for the instructor Grandpa Huang is also thinking about this problem, he has already asked the Ministry of War to draw up a list, the cavalry is commanded by the Sichuan Xingdu Division to make Qu Neng in charge, the infantry is in charge of the Pingqiang General He Fu, firearms, let Mu Sheng, the second son of the Marquis of Xiping, be in charge, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Yun was stunned: "These are all border generals, is it appropriate?" ”

"Hehe, don't you want to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Beijing army? Of course, there will be generals on the border. ”

Zhu Yunwen suddenly realized, jumped up and said, "Grandpa Huang, you are so good." ”

......

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yunwen's distant figure, Yunwen, grandpa can only help you get to this point, you have to grow up quickly, grandpa has little time.

The order of martial arts was sent to all parts of the country, basically hundreds of households, occasionally thousands, but basically they were all very good talents. Qu Neng, He Fu and Mu Sheng also issued orders, in which Qu Neng asked to bring 200 cavalry, Mu Sheng to bring 200 musketeers, and He Fu to bring 200 infantry.

Beiping, Yanwangfu.

When Zhang Kai sent the letter sent by Xu Zengshou to Beiping day and night, King Yan was discussing with Master Daoyan, after Gecheng received the letter, he hurriedly sent it to the side hall, Zhu Di saw that it was Xu Zengshou's letter, so he called the messenger to come in, and after a while, Zhang Kai walked in quickly, knelt on the ground, and said a little choked: "Lord, my subordinates have finally seen you, I haven't seen you for many years, and the prince is more heroic." ”

"Hehe, Zhang Kai, you have been the king's personal soldier for 3 years, let you be a guard for Zengshou, it is a little wronged by you, but your task is very important, you have to do it well, as for your family, everything is fine, this king regularly sends rice noodles, you don't have to worry, after two years, when your child is old and can go to school, this king will let him enter the palace and be Gao Sui's companion."

"Lord Wang," Zhang Kai was very moved, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said with a cry: "The prince treats his subordinates with the grace of heaven and earth, and the little one must be loyal to his duties and smear the ground for the prince." ”

"Zhang Kai, don't talk about life and death, this king still has a lot of things for you to do," as he spoke, Zhu Di personally helped Zhang Kai up and let people serve tea. Zhu Di returned to his seat and sat down, picked up Xu Zengshou's letter and read it for a while, handed it to Dao Yan, and then asked, "What news is there about Zengshou this time?" How's the situation in Kyozato? ”

"Lord Wang, the younger one is the fourth master's guard, and he usually consciously goes to make friends with the guard of the uncle Wei Guogong, so I know some news, I don't know what the prince wants to ask?"

"Just say everything you know, this king has time."

"Okay, since the last time the prince entered Beijing, the imperial grandson has repeatedly made big moves, first convened hundreds of officials to revise the "Da Ming Law", and removed many heavy punishments, which seems to have a great repercussion. I felt that not only the people of the capital, but even the people in the Wei State Mansion, and even the Lord Guogong, were a little excited. In addition, in the past two days, the imperial court wants to create martial arts, the imperial court's newspaper said that the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies assisted the imperial grandson to create martial arts, according to small observations, the governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies are very supportive, and Wei Guogong even wants to send the second and fourth masters to Wuxue, but the fourth master refused, and was grounded by the Lord Guogong for a month, and I heard that he quarreled with the Lord Guogong. The fourth master wrote a letter in the evening and asked me to send it over. ”

Zhu Di immediately turned his head and asked Gecheng: "You go and take a look at the imperial court newspaper in the past few days." ”

After a while, the Di newspaper was brought over, Zhu Di took the Di newspaper about martial arts and looked at it, and found that the content was not much, only a few lines, thought for a while, and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Back to the prince, there is nothing else, that's basically it, by the way, Cao Guogong and the imperial grandson have also been very close recently."

"Oh, then go down." All the people went out, and Master Daoyan was left.

"Master, what do you think my father is going to do?"

"Lord, I'm afraid the emperor is wary of you."

"How do you know?" Zhu Diteng stood up suddenly, and under the accumulation of power, his father was very jealous and fearful.

"The last time the prince went to Beijing, he got that trick with the emperor's grandson, and the emperor should have seen through it." Dao Yan looked down on Zhu Di's tricks, in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, it was child's play, so he spoke very politely.

"Well, Master, you've already said it, don't mention it." Zhu Di was very embarrassed, after coming back from the capital, he talked to Daoyan about this matter, and thought he had a plan, but Daoyan said on the spot that he had done it, and it was self-defeating, although Zhu Di didn't say it, he also regretted it a little in his heart.

"Lord Wang, what we are doing now is to kill the head and destroy the door, of course the prince may be fine, but we can't."

"Alright, master, you can help me analyze the current situation."

Dao Yan picked up the tea and drank a cup, in fact, he also has difficulties, Zhu Di also has shortcomings, he is bold, has a good face, and is a good hand at fighting, but he is not meticulous enough to do things, and there are tyrannical elements in his character, but at present, it is not bad to cover it up.

"Lord Wang, the poor monk thinks that it is time for life and death now."

"How?"

"The imperial grandson is at the beginning of the year, we all think that the imperial grandson is weak, and you are a better choice, but the courtiers obviously don't think so, and judging from your entry into Beijing this time, the emperor is obviously going to support his ascendancy, and redefining the etiquette of the prince to see the imperial grandson, in fact, it is to warn the kings not to have any illusions about that position. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the emperor will eradicate some obstacles for the sake of the emperor's grandson, such as the prince. ”

"What? Will my father do something to me? ”

Dao Yan smiled: "It's not yet, the emperor will almost kill all the meritorious generals, and treat his subordinates harshly, and kill important ministers with small mistakes." Speaking of this, Dao Yan's triangular eyes couldn't help but show a cold light: "So most of the courtiers and Chinese officials are Jinshi or Guozi Jian supervisors, they have no practical experience, they are all scholars, doing things for the emperor, there is no problem, but let them do their own practice, it is too bad, so the court is basically incompetent officials who follow the rules and can only read the books of the sages." Since the Lanyu case, the morale of the military has been low, and there are very few generals who can fight habitually. The emperor did not have the talents to guard the northern frontier, and because of the Hu Lan case, he did not dare to hand over too much military power to the generals who lived under his knife for the rest of his life, so he could only hand it over to his sons. ”

"Therefore, the emperor will not do it easily, because this is a dead knot, if you deal with the prince for no reason, then the nine kings of Biansai will be cold, and they will form a group to protect themselves and even raise their own respect, so the Ming Dynasty is worried about losing the country at every turn."

"Oh, it seems that this is the reason, the master made this king suddenly open." King Yan let out a sigh of relief.

"But don't be too careless, what will the emperor do, it's hard to guess, this time to support the emperor grandson to create martial arts, it should be to ask the emperor grandson to form his own team, these people will go through martial arts, most of them will become the emperor grandson's team, and then expand the army for them, then they will immediately form a large army."

"Haha, this king has led the army for many years, and the soldiers who have not been on the battlefield are all a group of wimps, and the king's iron cavalry can deal with such an enemy." King Yan smiled disdainfully.

"This is true, the emperor's grandson is still young, his literary talent should not be bad, and martial arts should be all on paper."

"Master, do you think my father will break the kettle and deal with this king? If that's the case, the king can only wait to be killed. ”

"Poor monk, think about it, wait a minute......" The beads of sweat on Daoyan's forehead came out, how to answer this? Who knows what Zhu Yuanzhang will do? In Daoyan's opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang is a madman, how can you speculate about his behavior?

After a long time, Zhu Di was also restless: "Master, you speak, you can say anything." ”

"Prince, this matter is difficult to judge, we can only prevent it, the poor monk intends to do it in three steps: the first is to let the emperor know the importance of the prince, that is, the often said self-respect, the prince should go out of the plug more, and hit the Mongols hard, it is best to defeat, rather than eliminate, so that if there is something in the north, the emperor will not dare to do it, and the prince is often in the army, and it is safer."

"The second step is to befriend the kings of Biansai, King Ning of Daning, King Liao of Liaodong, King Jin of Shanxi, and even King Qin of Shaanxi, but King Qin and King Jin are of little use, they are older than the prince, it is not easy to make friends, mainly King Ning and King Liao, both of them are young, just after the domain, there is still some worship of the prince, in addition to King Ning has three guards in his hands, he is a Mongolian, extremely brave, the King of Liao has a Jurchen guard in his hand, and there are many generals, these two kings are helping, if they can help, you can sit back and relax."

"But will they fight against their father for the sake of this king?"

"There is no need for this, Lord Wang, we can send spies everywhere to publicize the great achievements of the Lord in Beiping, Daning, Liaodong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and even the Beijing Division must send people to let everyone in the world know the merits of the Lord Wang, so that if the Lord is punished for no reason, then the world will inevitably shake and affect the military morale of the soldiers of the Border Fortress. The emperor will definitely consider this issue. ”

"Well, very good, this needs the help of the master, organize a group of monks or Taoist priests, and preach it everywhere."

"There is another thing to do, but you have to be very cautious," Dao Yan lowered his voice and approached Zhu Di, Zhu Di couldn't help but lean his ears over: "I also want to publicize that His Highness is the Lord of the Mandate of Heaven, so that we can invisibly win the hearts and minds of the people and fools and fools." ”

"Hiss-------" Zhu Di let out a cool breath: "I'm afraid this won't work, if you let your father know, it's amazing, I don't know if my father will do it directly." ”

"So, this thing has to be done secretly, and don't let people know that the prince did it."

Zhu Di was silent for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, but you must be careful." ”

"The third is to form the prince's own brocade guard,"

"What? This one doesn't work, it definitely doesn't work. ”

"It doesn't matter, we don't use this name, but we can set up an espionage organization in Beijing, responsible for collecting intelligence, winning over officials and spreading rumors, and it is already on the verge of arrows, and it has to be sent, and it was a last resort to withdraw last time, and now it has to be rebuilt."

Zhu Di stood up, paced, couldn't make up his mind, last time he withdrew Lu Tong and the others, without consulting Dao Yan, and later Dao Yan found out and tried his best to persuade him to take back his life, but he did not agree. At that time, what he was thinking about was not to provoke his father's attention, and to be a vassal king who kept to himself, but today, his father may have to deal with him, or connived at Yun Wei to deal with himself, etc., did he let Dao Yan take the ditch, and gave up his military power, can his father still not let himself be a rich prince?

"Master, if I don't do anything, can't my father make me a rich prince?"

Dao Yan was stunned, this Yan King, what's the matter, he retreated again.

"Lord Wang, are you really willing to give up your military power? The emperor is on the throne, you can still be safe, if the emperor's grandson succeeds to the throne, then can you still be safe and sound? Will he forget what you did last time you went to Beijing? ”

"Also, you are blessed, eloquent, and wise, are you willing to waste your life, and even your children and grandchildren will be unknown? has reached this juncture, if the prince does not enter, he will die, let's say that these people in Gecheng, including Zhang Kai and even Xu Zengshou, they all know the mind of the prince, if the prince loses power, they will not have a bright future, will they use the prince as a stepping stone at that time? Once they come out to inform, won't the prince be slaughtered? ”

This ------, yes, I have already started to do it, many people know that they are now their best friends, but if they give up, they may become their enemies, because they are afraid that they will be late to tell the whistle and be sued, and they will inevitably rush to be the first to do it, and then they will ...... Zhu Di couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. This kind of thing, even if it is the father, it is necessary to remove the military power and confine, if it is Zhu Yunwen, I am afraid that he will die without a place to be buried, and his own branch will definitely be killed.

Zhu Di couldn't help but take a closer look at Dao Yan, this great monk with triangular eyes, broom eyebrows, and fierce eyes, from the moment he came to his side, he intentionally or unintentionally provoked himself to rebel, and he slowly became moved...... Dao Yan saw Zhu Di's thoughts, but he seemed to turn a blind eye to the murderous intent in his eyes, and looked at Zhu Di with a smile, he believed that Zhu Di would make the best choice, if he killed himself, it would be nothing, it means that he saw the wrong person, he is nearly sixty years old, and it is not early to die if he dies now, hehe.

After a long time, Zhu Di slammed his fist on the table, and the guards outside the door hurriedly knocked on the door: "Lord Wang, is something wrong?" Zhu Di looked at the blood stains on his fist and shouted: "Get out, no one is allowed within a radius of ten meters, and there will be no forgiveness for violators." Zhu Di enforced the law very strictly, and the guards immediately obeyed the order and left ten meters away to set up defenses.

Zhu Di sat down slowly and said, "Master, Zhu Di is like an initiation today, determined to compete for the throne, please master wish me." ”

Dao Yan stood up and stood on the ground: "Lord Wang, making such a decision is really a blessing for the people of the world, and the poor monk thanks the prince for the people of the world." ”

Zhu Di smiled bitterly: "Don't come to these vains, master, you continue to say what should we do?" ”

Dao Yan said: "To sum up, it is to form a vassal king outside, hand over the powerful ministers inside, spread prophecies, and watch the hearts of the court and the people. ”

After a long time, Zhu Di popped out a word from between his teeth: "Okay." ”

......

When the two discussed the lantern, it was over, and Zhu Di and Dao Yan both left excitedly. Zhu Di asked Zhang Kai to be called over, and told him a few words to rest for a night and return to Beijing tomorrow morning. Zhang Kai nodded yes and set off for the south the next day.