Chapter 644: Father and Son

The first snow since the beginning of winter in Shandong came unexpectedly, sweeping all over Jinan and Qingzhou from south to north. When they went out in the morning, people found that there was already a thick layer on the ground, on the branches on the roof, on the railing, on the well platform, the heaven and the earth were shrouded in a snow-white, and under the eaves there were countless ice prisms, which looked crystal clear.

It's just that snow is certainly a gratifying thing for people who have leisure and elegance, but it is a first-class drudgery for those who have to do work, those who have to go out, and even the subordinates of rich and noble families. Many of the handymen of the Le'an Han Palace's servants were called up before they were ready, and they carried big brooms in the still gray sky to sweep the snow desperately, and finally swept out the bluestone roads before dawn. Even if you are tired and your waist and legs are sore, no one dares to cry out for bitterness.

You know, their Chitose Lord's temperament is not very good now!

The snow in other places has been cleared, and the outside of the Thunder Residence where Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty, lived, was naturally swept clean, and even in order to prevent freezing, salt particles were sprinkled on the avenue - in the case that the poor people can't even afford to eat salt today, this is naturally an extremely extravagant move, but these expenses of the dignified palace will naturally not be stingy, and it is not possible to sell salt from those salt farms in the back, but let them pay some filial piety for the palace's own use, but no one dares not to give it.

At this time, the thunder is in the center, and it is as warm as spring, and all the girls waiting in it are wearing thin spring shirts, and they are becoming more and more sultry. It's just that Zhu Gaoxu didn't have time to look at these enchanting maids at all, his eyes were just staring at "Feng Yuanming" who was taking his pulse, and his eyes almost burst into flames.

"In about another month, with medicine and needles, His Highness's illness will be cured."

Hearing such a concise sentence, Zhu Gaoxu's stiff face couldn't help but show a smile. Although the famous doctors in Qingzhou City were almost swept away this time, they were all rice buckets, and some people couldn't even see the cause of the disease after watching it for a long time. Such an inconspicuous old man really has the ability, and he has applied medicine and needles several times, which is a small means in the eyes of others, but it works. After a little thought, he nodded lightly: "That domain will wait for a month." Come on, send people back. ”

Tang Sai'er quietly packed up the medical box, just like Feng Yuanming's indifferent posture before. However, as soon as he walked to the curtain of the silver-red flower, a little eunuch quickly broke through the curtain and rushed in from outside. Without looking back, she could detect that the man had hurried to Zhu Gaoxu's couch and whispered something in the ear of the Han King.

"Chitose Lord, the news just came that the emperor led the army to a great victory in Kuanhe, killing countless enemies, and now the good news has reached the Jingshi. However, Dezhou, Cangzhou, Jinghai, and Tianjinwei all strengthened their defenses. In addition, there seems to be some changes in the Shandong Metropolitan Division, the various health offices and the Thousand Households. As for the Kyoshi...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent a large army into the city, and I heard that the entire Jingshi was under martial law! When the messenger came to Le'an, he met a messenger sent back to Beijing by the army......"

"Damn it!"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't care that there were outsiders present, and slammed his fist on the edge of the pear blossom couch, and then angrily overturned all the bedding on the couch to the ground. At that moment, all the people in the room felt the anger that surged over their faces, and they suddenly didn't dare to say anything. Several eunuchs who were sent by the emperor to serve at the beginning all really realized that the biggest point of Zhu Gaoxu's inheritance of Zhu Di was the thunderous anger that the Son of Heaven smashed down from time to time, no wonder even the place where he lived was changed to the Thunder House.

Tang Sai'er was not interested in being Zhu Gaoxu's punching bag there, and quietly lifted the door curtain to the outside. Before she could get out of the main door, she heard a rolling sound behind her, but it didn't stop her in the slightest.

"If it weren't for the fact that my father only brought tens of thousands of people with him this time, how could there be a large army for him to mobilize! Send someone to check it on me, he, the prince, dares to transfer troops without authorization, it's just bold! Hasn't he always pretended to be honest in front of his father? It's time to peel off his skin this time, and I'm going to see what he can say...... Wait, you just said that the Broad River Victory? Wide River ...... Wide River ...... Damn, isn't that Daning on the edge? ”

Zhu Gaoxu jumped off the ground in a rage, his brows furrowed. When he was the second son of King Yan, he once led the troops against Meng Yuan in the north, and he also had a good understanding of the situation in Daning.

"Near that side is the Wuliang Ha Duoyan Sanwei...... At that time, there was also Quanning Weihui Zhou Weixin Chengwei, and Tatar naturally did not dare to go south, but now, although Daning is rebuilt, after all, it will no longer be like the scene of the northern parallel capital! If it were the collusion between the Tatar Arutai and the Uliangha, and the father and emperor led his troops north to attack the enemy, he would never have achieved any great victory by light and skill, and nothing would have happened...... That's right, if it weren't for that, how could that coward suddenly order the Jingshi to be under martial law and garrison everywhere! ”

Suddenly realizing this most critical point, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly became even more angry, and he actually went to the ground barefoot for a while. It wasn't until Mei Qing and Wang Bin arrived together that he temporarily relieved a little anger, but he still said hatefully: "If this is a northern tour instead of a northern expedition, taking advantage of the emptiness of the capital division, this domain can immediately go north, and that coward can't compete with this domain!" ”

"Your Highness, I have left some people in Jingshi, and they have been instructed by me to send letters to the nobles' mansions if there is a change, as long as there are many people who are separated, the situation in Jingshi will be unstable." Mei Qing is not in Jingshi now, and he can't tell what happened there, so he had to persuade in a low voice, "Your Highness relaxes for the time being, you must know that Emperor Taizu Yan drove at the beginning, and the emperor didn't get the news in time, and it wasn't a success after that?" His Royal Highness is invincible in the world, and the emperor has personally praised it, if the emperor is really not there, the world is not in your hands? ”

This is naturally a naked compliment, and Wang Bin, who disdains this next to him, naturally frowned when he heard it. However, seeing that Zhu Gaoxu's face was a little pale, he would not be interested in bad people at such a time, so he only kept silent. When Zhu Gaoxu asked him about the situation of the guards under his command, he reported it as it was, and then whispered: "I think that His Royal Highness should indeed wait, and he must not act rashly if he does not have accurate information." In addition, everything else is not to worry about, only the pervasive means of Jinyiwei have to be guarded against. ”

"Of course this clan knows that he can't act rashly, he has endured it for so long, and he doesn't care about a day or two!"

Zhu Gaochu said this, but in his heart he planned to lead the army to kill the generals as soon as there was accurate news, as long as Zhu Gaochi was labeled as disobedient by 3721, with such a distance from Shandong to Beijing, the possibility of success in one fell swoop was not small. When he heard the last sentence, he couldn't help but think about the possibility that Zhu Di was not dead, and then thought about Yuan Fang, so he laughed proudly.

"Once the son of heaven and a courtier, if his father really goes, that Yuan Fang should also be sent to retire, this is already his best ending. If someone else is replaced, it's good that Jinyiwei doesn't mess up for a year and a half, where can I take care of this domain? Anyway, that dead fat man is not afraid of the situation in the capital division and the domain, he will not live long, but if he has the slightest mistake, the domain will immediately replace him! ”

Because Yang Rong also brought the edict of the Son of Heaven on this trip, he took it out after the funeral. With such a thing, all the officials who stayed in Beijing to assist the crown prince couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Zhu Gaochi immediately made a decision, ordered Zhu Zhanji to select 5,000 guards of the government army to rush to Daning immediately to mourn, and issued orders to mobilize the military guards of Shuntian Mansion, which was twice as strict as before. And Zhu Gaochi is most satisfied with the attitude of the nobles without hesitation, not only the Chengguo Duke Zhu Yong is unambiguous in dispatching troops, even other people are also obedient, when Zhu Zhanji set off that day, the entire territory of Gyeonggi is already impregnable.

Within a day, all the preparations had been taken care of, but the news of the death of the Son of Heaven was still covered - all those who knew the news were now staying in the palace, and the nobles who led the troops were each accompanied by two eunuchs from the East Palace.

Yang Rong, who rushed back from the starry night, stayed in Jingshi justifiably, while Zhang Yue, who had also been sleepless for nearly three days, still needed to accompany Zhu Zhanji to Daning. Although he had trained his muscles and bones, when he arrived at Songting Pass, he felt as if his head had exploded, and his whole body was also weak. Chen Wu, who accompanied him, saw that he was inappropriate, and found that Zhu Zhanji also had chapped lips and a haggard face, so he persuaded him to stay in Songting Pass for one night on the grounds that it was past the Xin Shi at this time, and that he would have to rush to the night after leaving Songting Pass, which was extremely unsafe. The Songting guard was also worried that the Mongolian people would get the news, so he had to help him, so Zhu Zhanji had to reluctantly agree.

When Zhang Yue passed through Songting Pass for the first time, the grassland was still green, but when he returned, it was already suddenly cold. When I came here now, I saw that the bright green outside the gate had lost its bright greenery, and the sky was full of haze, and the stars were falling with snow droplets. Seeing this kind of weather, he suggested that the guards should let people report to Daning, and when the time came, he would send a group of soldiers and horses to meet him, and he would go to the house to talk to Zhu Zhanji, but his eyelids were straight to fight.

"It turns out that the emperor's grandfather still read my family letter at that time...... Speaking of which, I still learned from you, and when the British public was seriously ill, you reported everything to Nanjing, and I felt that this was much more earnest than writing some respectful words. Later, when I fell ill in Texas, you also wrote a letter to the emperor's grandfather for me. Now I habitually remember these things every day, and this time I simply sandwiched them in the excerpt of greetings and sent them over. ”

"Your Highness actually remembers it so clearly, the minister just felt that since he was a close relative, he needed to think about it more than just etiquette, and he didn't think much else."

"Affection...... Yes, being a man is something that should be loved. Since I was a child, I have been an imperial grandfather who has been asking for homework and teaching riding and archery, and I don't know how many times I have been back to the army. Now that I think about it, Grandpa Huang really likes the military camp, even if I have been practicing with the avant-garde of the government army since I was a child, but I am not as obsessed with it as he is...... The imperial grandfather is the imperial grandfather, and the people who want to learn from him are just Dong Shi Xiaofeng. ”

"Some things can be imitated, some things can't be imitated, and the Yongle Emperor has only one ......"

Zhu Zhanji raised his eyebrows, and then said thoughtfully: "Emperor? I remember that the master mentioned it in the past, as if only Sun Quan and Tang Gaozong had used this name in the past, which was quite complacent, which is not a good word. If you let those old ministers hear this, I'm afraid you'll have to arrange you again! ”

After saying this, he heard a slight snoring, and looked sideways, but saw that Zhang Yue didn't know when he was on the kang table with one hand, and he was already asleep. Seeing this, Chen Wu next to him hurriedly stepped forward, and was about to wake up Zhang Yue, but Zhu Zhanji stood up, waved his hand lightly and said: "He hasn't closed his eyes on the road for a few days, he must be extremely sleepy, let him go to sleep." Go get a cloak and go out with me, I won't be able to sleep tonight!" ”

Since the Northern Parallel Capital Division has been abandoned for many years, even if Daning is retaken, the Songting Pass is still heavily guarded. It's just that, compared to the previous focus on the south, now the focus is on the north, so even at night, you can still see the blazing torches burning everywhere, and you can still see groups of patrolling sergeants. When Zhu Zhanji walked to the city, several officers rushed over when they heard the news, but Chen Wu stepped forward to stop them.

"His Royal Highness Taisun is in a bad mood right now, don't bother him."

The officers couldn't see the sackcloth under Zhu Zhanji's robe, and they didn't know why he suddenly led his troops to Daning, so when they heard Chen Wu say this, everyone suddenly died down. It's a pity that he doesn't have the opportunity to get close to the emperor's grandson, but if he makes this master angry, it won't be worth it. As a result, several officers had to retreat far away, but they did not dare to leave without permission.

It was getting late at this moment, the moon and the stars were obscured by dark clouds, and it was pitch black outside the city, and there was hardly any light to be seen. The snow was still falling sparsely, but the wind was gradually getting stronger, and the sand and soil on the grassland struck people on their faces, and they couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation. However, Zhu Zhanji, who was standing in the gale, did not move a step for a long time, and looked as if he had turned into a clay sculpture from behind. In the end, Chen Wu saw that it was really wrong, and hurriedly stepped forward quietly.

Putting another thick white fox fur cloak in his hand on Zhu Zhanji's shoulder, he had the courage to gently shake the hand of the imperial grandson who was exposed, and seeing that it was already frozen, he couldn't help but secretly complain, and hurriedly glanced at the other two eunuchs who were accompanying him, took the mink gloves in their hands, and put them on Zhu Zhanji without saying anything.

Seeing that there was no reaction at all, he had to open his mouth to persuade: "Your Highness, even if you can't sleep, and the wind is strong at night, you should go into the house and squint for a while." I have to hurry tomorrow, and I have to ...... when I get to the army. Your Highness, you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the emperor's expectations of you, how can this be frozen? ”

Chen Wu has been serving Zhu Zhanji for many years, and if he persuades him like this on weekdays, it will definitely be effective, but at this moment, Zhu Zhanji didn't pay attention to these words at all. Chen Wu, who was afraid and anxious, saw that it was useless, so he had to persuade him a lot, and finally invited people back to the house. He didn't care that Zhang Yue was still asleep on the kang table, so he hurriedly ordered someone Zhang Luo to send hot water, and when Zhu Zhanji sat down, he personally pulled off his shoes and socks and waited to wash his feet.

The unconscious feet didn't know how long they had been rubbed before Zhu Zhanji let out an inaudible moan. His father had been the crown prince for twenty-one years, and after twenty-one years of fear, he finally got his wish. The most difficult thing in the world is the father and son, and he will do the same in the future?