The lama pulled me aside and said to me, "Your Majesty, half a year ago, Prince Dorje came to Dokhammu and asked me to go to the palace to pray for him. So I told the emperor about it. ”

Since this lama is not fluent in Chinese, he can only speak a rough idea.

Even so, I could guess what he was trying to say, but I wasn't shocked.

Because in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the tribal leaders in Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Gansu did have a strong heart for the imperial court, and many of them had become independent kings.

If I'm not mistaken, the people of the Western Regions should be the leader of a tribe in Xinjiang; The Mongols, on the other hand, are most likely the remnants of the Mongol Yuan forces entrenched in northern Qinghai and western Inner Mongolia - the Heshute tribe.

The reason why they went to Duomukang to find Tsering. Dorje, most likely, wanted to unite with Tsering. Dorje marched eastward together.

But now Tsering. Dorje has already been suppressed by me, and it is impossible for these leaders of the Western Regions to enter the land of the Han people in the east, because they have limited forces and are not united, so there is nothing to fear.

However, to solve the problem of the Western Regions, I actually made a plan as early as when I was in Kunming.

It's just that the waiting time is a bit long, because the top priority now is to go on the Northern Expedition to Li Zicheng and recover a large area of lost territory in the Central Plains.

After listening to him, I took his hand and said, "Master, thank you for telling me the news, I already know what to do!" ”

The lama smiled at me, said nothing, and left.

After the lama left, I returned to the campfire and continued to dance with Muxia.

Mu Xia took the initiative to put her arms around me and kissed me again.

But by this time my wine had already woken up, and I couldn't help but push her arm away.

The reason why I rejected her was not because I didn't like her, but because my generals were there, and I was afraid that they would see it, and when I went back to Nanjing and told Shuang'er about it, then I would die.

Seeing that I had rejected her, Mu Xia's face turned red with shame, so she asked me, "Brother Emperor, don't you like me?" ”

"Huh! No! I ......"

I didn't know how to answer her, so I made an excuse and left the feast.

……

Tsering. Although Dorje has been killed, it is impossible for Tibet to be able to maintain peace for a long time with such a battle.

So the day after the feast, I sent someone with Tsering. Dorje's head and letter of state went to Lhasa to negotiate with the living Buddha who was in charge at the time, telling them that the reason why the imperial court beheaded Dorje was not because it had an opinion about the Tibetan compatriots, but because it did not want anyone to split the country. At the same time, he also told them that Tibet would be attached to the imperial court, and the imperial court would not collect any taxes, hoping that he would maintain the stability of the frontier.

Although I sent an envoy to Lhasa, I was still not at ease, so I set up a military name house in Duokangmu, and left behind 3,000 Ming troops, so that they could go out to fight in wartime and reclaim land in their spare time, and at the same time educate the Tibetan people and let the Tibetan people learn our Han culture.

After dealing with these things, I cooperated with Sun Kewang and returned to Kunming with the army first.

There is an important reason why I went to Kunming, that is, to deal with Zhu Youlang.

Since the recovery of Kunming, Zhu Youlang's little white face returned to Kunming from Guilin, and continued to regard himself as the emperor.

Before I couldn't deal with him conveniently, because I suffered a defeat, and now Tsering. Dorje was killed by me, and I had no worries.

After returning to Kunming, I took Sun Kewang to Muwangfu to find Zhu Youlang, and then gave him two choices.

The first one, go back to Guangxi and continue to be your own King Gui; Second, if you want to continue to be the emperor, there is only a dead end.

Zhu Youlang was still fierce with me at the beginning, saying that he would not be killed in Guangxi, and finally Lao Tzu was directly angry, and he pointed his knife at him, he was a weak scholar, and when he saw me so rough, he was scared to talk to me about brotherly feelings.

Lao Tzu was not Chongzhen in the first place, he had no feelings for him at all, and he didn't want to tell him any big truths, so he had a showdown with him directly.

Zhu Youlang is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and in the end he can only agree to go back to Guangxi to be the king of Gui.

In this way, I didn't see the bloody blade to settle Zhu Youlang, and the entire southwest was completely controlled by me.

At the same time, Sun Kewang has also been attached to my account, and everything is a great benefit to me.

……

After dealing with Zhu Youlang, he was ready to return to Fuzhou with Mu Xia and Sun Kewang, and then start the Northern Expedition.

What I didn't expect was that Mu Xia, who had been with me before, no longer paid attention to me since he returned to Kunming, as if he wanted to deliberately keep a distance from me.

When I asked her to go back to Fuzhou with me, she refused on the spot.

I thought she was deliberately playing tricks on me, so I went to her boudoir to persuade her.

I didn't know that after talking about it for a long time, she still ignored me, and finally I asked her what I had done wrong.

She was stunned for a long time, biting her lip and saying to me: "Brother Emperor, I can only accompany you for a while, not for a lifetime." If I go to Fuzhou again, Sister Shuang'er will definitely have an opinion! ”

After hearing this, I suddenly realized that the reason why she deliberately kept her distance from me was because I rejected her that night in Dokangmu.

To be honest, since the last repentance incident, my feelings for her have become stronger and stronger, and I don't even want to leave her for a moment.

But with the frost here, I really didn't know what to do, and finally I could only sigh and say: "Since this is the case, then you can stay in Kunming, if you want to me, you can come to Fuzhou at any time to find me to play!" ”

"Good!"

After saying this, I walked out of the room in a daze, my heart was extremely depressed, but I couldn't confide in her, so I had to leave.

……

In this way, I returned to Fuzhou with Sun Kewang.

After returning to Fuzhou, the officials of the court and the central government had great admiration for me, because they already knew that I had recovered Yunnan and Sichuan, and had beheaded Tsering. Dorje.

But instead of basking in joy, I set out how to repel the troops of Wu Sangui and Liu Zongmin, who were entrenched on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

For now, it is not difficult to defeat Wu Sangui and Liu Zongmin.

On the one hand, Sun Kewang has already been attached to my account, and has brought with him an army of 40,000 men; On the other hand, I have cracked the Xuanhua Sutra and obtained the tips for using several of the formations.

So I was thinking that when the time came to fight Wu Sangui, I could completely use these formations to annihilate him in one fell swoop.

But because he was in a hurry to repel Tsering before. Dorje, that led me to not study those formations too much.

So after returning to Fuzhou, I didn't go to Nanjing immediately, but studied the four sets of formations, and after preparing to study them thoroughly, I won Wu Sangui and Liu Zongmin in one fell swoop.

……

That night, Shuang'er held her stomach and accompanied me in the study to study "Tiangang and Earth Evil Array".

Suddenly, there was a noise on the roof, and I couldn't help but look up and hear a cat meow.

After the sound of the cat's meow had passed, I continued to follow the method described in the scriptures and simulated the formation on paper.

Just as I was concentrating on the simulated formation, a sudden gust of wind blew, and the candles in the room were extinguished.

Immediately, a dark figure jumped from the roof, reached out and grabbed the scriptures on the desk.

Seeing this, before I could make a move, Frost pounced on the black shadow alone.

And I slapped the black shadow on the body.

Maybe it's because the black shadow's martial arts are not high, or maybe it's because he's worried that he's too warlike and will be captured by the forbidden army. He grabbed a book and ran out of the window.

Seeing that he had robbed the scriptures, I was about to chase them, but as soon as I jumped out of the window, I heard the sound of pain in the room.

When I heard this, I shouted, "Frost, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Your Majesty, leave me alone, chase that assassin!"

Although the scriptures were important to me, I could not ignore the frost, so I shouted loudly, "There are assassins, there are assassins!" ”

After shouting, I jumped back into the study and lit the candle to find that Frost had fallen to the ground, and a pool of blood oozed from beneath her.

"How so? How so? I hugged her, my hands wet with blood, and I shouted, "Tell the Imperial Doctor!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Frost fainted.

The imperial doctor did not come for a long time, and I looked at her pale cheeks, and my heart was extremely anxious.

The reason why I was anxious was not because I was worried about the child in her womb, but because I didn't want to lose this woman who had been with me all the time.