Twenty-five years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the first day of the first month. Originally, it was a festive day for the New Year, but whether it was the palace, the palace or the dignitaries, they did not dare to show the slightest joyful atmosphere, and the New Year's arrangements were also very simple. Children occasionally sing two cheerful nursery rhymes, and they are immediately reprimanded by adults. After the adults reprimanded, they would look cautiously, as if they were thieves and afraid of being seen.

On Hongwu Street in Nanjing, in a villa that is not luxurious, the atmosphere is particularly tense, as if the atmosphere of the New Year is not the same as they have nothing to do with it.

"Niangniang, the prince is awake." A fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl rushed into a simple but spotless Buddhist hall and shouted excitedly.

This little girl has a delicate appearance, fair skin, wearing a light-colored skirt and a simple but delicate silver hairpin, which seems to be the owner's favorite maid.

When a kneeling woman in the Buddha hall heard her words, she let out a long sigh of joy, and said, "Dai Nu, do you mean that the child has woken up?" ”

The maid named Dainu was actually the woman's personal maid, and said, "Yes, Niangniang. The prince woke up and is now eating. ”

"Thank God, Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless." The woman thanked a large number of immortals incoherently, stood up and said, "Go, take me to see Ao'er." Although she was wearing court clothes, she could still reveal a trace of luxury. In fact, she is the mother of Zhu Ao, the fourteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty (at this time, he was still the King of Han, and he is hereinafter referred to as King Su) (for the convenience of the following). The record of her in history is also very simple, so simple that there are only two words - Gao's.

Zhu Yuanzhang has countless women in his life, but Gao gave birth to a son for him and did not even mix the name of a concubine until his death, it is estimated that Gao is an ordinary palace maid, one day Zhu Yuanzhang was temporarily pregnant with a heart, and then Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of anyone else, and it was similar to the mother of Emperor Wanli Zhu Changluo.

However, Lao Zhu's luck is much better than that of his descendants, and he doesn't have to face the battle for the country, and he can forget about the Gao family and his mother in a grand manner. Over the years, the Gao family has been used to it, she has long been not extravagant to expect the emperor's favor, her biggest concern in this life is her son Su Wang, but God wants to make a joke with her, five days ago let her baby son have a serious illness, continuous high fever does not go away, unconscious, the doctor is helpless.

Gao's heart is mentioned in her throat, the lonely palace is as deep as the sea, her heart has long been like a dry well, she has no power or intention to compete with those little girls who are jealous, the emperor loves to favor whoever he likes, to say that he is just a passerby in his life, and he is forced to pass by. However, she is not hard-hearted without any concerns, she can care about nothing in this world, but her son Su Wang's every move can affect all her emotions.

Now that he heard that his son, who had been in a coma for five days, had finally woken up, how could Gao sit still, hurriedly cleaned up, and rushed to King Su's bedroom.

Li Shaofan is trying to accept all this, he has returned to the Ming Dynasty, and he has become a prince. In later generations, he was an ordinary middle school geography teacher, majoring in geography in college, and originally wanted to stay in school to teach with his excellent grades, but failed to do so for various reasons, and after several career setbacks, he finally chose to teach geography in an ordinary middle school. In the glorious and poor profession of teacher, Li Shaofan has been working for seven years, and his life is very unsatisfactory, and he is not even a wife in his early thirties.

After another failed blind date, Li Shaofan ran to the river to relax, and happened to meet a woman who was about to commit suicide, and the only remaining sense of justice that was worn out by life prompted him to jump, but the woman was rescued, but he sank. I woke up and lay down here.

After several confirmations, Li Shaofan finally believed that he had crossed over, traveled to the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and became Zhu Ao, the king of Su who was less than sixteen years old.

Due to the fact that the history and places of later generations are not separated, coupled with the Ming history fever that was blown by the bright moon that year, Li Shaofan is also quite involved in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

He knew that this Zhu Ao was the fourteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was originally named the King of Han, and later changed to King Su, becoming one of the famous nine kings of the Ming Dynasty. For this prince, Li Shaofan has two feelings, the first is mediocrity, because there are only a few records of him in history, and there is no major event. The second is timid, the place where King Su guarded was the area of the Hexi Corridor in today's Gansu Province, where it was the border in the Ming Dynasty, and it was an enemy on three sides, only the east was connected with friendly forces, and it was estimated that there was a daily war. History records that this Su King was in the 28th year of Hongwu to the fiefdom of Ganzhou (today's Zhangye City, Gansu Province), Lao Tzu just died, the first year of Jianwen on the table to request internal transfer, ran to Lanxian (today's Lanzhou), his reason is: Gansu and Su mutinies are not frequent and the officers and soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River are not adapted to the northwest climate. In fact, from his reasons, we can see that the second article is completely a pretext, because Lanzhou is also in the northwest, and the officers and soldiers in Jiangnan are also not suitable. It can be seen that King Su is not very nourishing in the Hexi Corridor, otherwise it would not be like this.

In addition, it is estimated that His Royal Highness King Su is not favored by Zhu Yuanzhang, otherwise why did his mother not even get the name of a concubine, in ancient times, the son was more expensive than the mother, and the mother was more expensive than the son, and the two were inseparable. In fact, this is exactly the case, just like when Su Wang Zhu Ao was in his forties, he wrote on an inscription in Jin Tianguan: "Yu Chang from the deep palace, traveled around the martial arts, founded the country and built the feud, and the past was difficult. It can be seen that his life was not particularly smooth - of course, compared to other vassal kings.

For another example, the other vassal kings often had tens of thousands of stones, which were later changed to 10,000 stones, while the years of King Su Zhu Ao were only 500 stones. It is clearly recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty": Zhu Zhanyan, the son of Zhu Ao, asked for an increase in the number of years. As a result, Emperor Xuanzong directly said: "Between Hongwu and Yongle, the age is only 500 stones, and the king of Zhuang (Zhu Ao's name) does not speak, and it is difficult to transfer it to the court with the imperial court." Ren Kao ascended the throne and added 500 stones. I dare not disobey the ancestral system. "Whether it's because I can't bear to say about the difficulties of the imperial court, or I don't dare to say it, we have no way of knowing, in short, it is speculated from simple historical materials that this Su King Zhu Ao is quite aggrieved compared to other vassal kings.

If you are aggrieved, you will be aggrieved, everyone is also a king, and he is much better than himself in later generations, Li Shaofan took a deep breath and completely accepted the character of King Su. From today on, Lao Tzu is Su Wang Zhu Ao.

After Zhu Ao drank the last mouthful of porridge, he just wanted to shout majestically: "Give this king another bowl!" But I heard someone singing outside the door: "Niang Niang has arrived!" ”

A noblewoman, dressed simply, entered the house, supported by Dainu and a few maids. Li Shaofan carried Zhu Ao's memory, knowing that this woman was Zhu Ao, that is, his current mother, and hurriedly stood up, but the two words of his mother came to his mouth but he couldn't say it anyway.

Gao Shi saw his son standing dumbfounded, so he hurriedly went over to support him and said, "My son, how can you stand when you are sick?" Sit down. ”

Mother's love awakened Zhu Ao's sleeping genes, and he finally shouted: "Mother, the child is fine. Mother Lao is worried. ”

The Gao family was not named a concubine, and Zhu Ao did not dare to call her a concubine. Gao Shi helped Zhu Ao sit down and said, "You have just recovered from a serious illness, and you must not be reckless." Let's get some rest. Have you eaten enough? You haven't eaten water and rice for the past few days, and you're starving. ”

Well, I'm a little hungry. Zhu Ao touched his stomach angrily and nodded. Gao Shi said: "Dai Nu, go and give King Su a bowl of porridge again, he is just in good health, so he can only drink the porridge cushion first." Ao'er, go to bed after eating, don't go anywhere these days. ”

Dai Nu took a step forward and said, "Niangniang, now that the prince's health is better, shouldn't I go to the palace to visit........

Only then did Zhu Ao remember that it was not only himself who was sick during this time, but also his eldest brother who fell ill a few days before him - Zhu Biao, the crown prince of the dynasty. The atmosphere of the New Year is so tense that this master is sick, if it is only his Su King Zhu Ao is sick, everyone will still celebrate the New Year with joy, after all, not many people care about an unpopular prince, one more is not more, one less is not a lot.

There is a saying that "people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away compared to goods." "It's not an exaggeration to say this to Zhu Biao, after the eldest brother Zhu Biao fell ill, there was an endless stream of people visiting the patient, and many people were blocked out for fear of affecting Zhu Biao's rest. Zhu Yuanzhang went there several times a day, and every time he inquired about the prince's condition in every detail, which made the imperial doctors who diagnosed the prince very stressed.

And after he fell ill, there were very few people who came to visit, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't come once, but only sent a few imperial doctors on duty.

Lao Zhu is really eccentric!

However, what worries Zhu Ao is not this problem, in later generations, he likes to study the history of the Ming Dynasty very much, and knows that Zhu Yuanzhang is very protective of the patriarchal system, and he is jealous of Zhu Biao because he has nothing to do. After coming to this world, he didn't think that like some protagonists in time-traveling novels, he stepped on one competitor after another with his later insights, and finally the concubine counterattacked and successfully ascended to the throne. Because he knew very well in his heart that even if the crown fell like raindrops, it would not hit him on the head.

His concern was time. From the mouth of the imperial doctor who treated him just now, I learned that Brother Zhu Biao's body has gradually not healed, and he will soon hang up. In his memory, Zhu Biao died in April and May of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, and it was only the first day of the first lunar month, was he going to die?

If he really died, then the history he was experiencing now would be earlier than the Ming history he knew, and it was really hard to say how much earlier.

The reason why Zhu Ao was worried was because he knew that there was also a bombardment of the Timurid Empire in this era, which defeated the invincible opponents in Central Asia and destroyed the Ottoman Turkish Empire that almost destroyed Europe. Timur, the ruler of the Timurid Empire, organized an Eastern Crusade in the second year of Yongle to destroy China, but he died the following year, and the Eastern Crusade plan was aborted. The collision between the two most powerful empires in the world at that time was resolved. This incident made later generations of military fans very regretful, and they discussed in various post bars and forums how history would be rewritten if the invincible Timur met the equally invincible Zhu Di.

Later generations of Zhu Ao also participated in the discussion of this issue, and as the discussion deepened, he gradually understood the combat effectiveness of Timur's army, and expressed great admiration for it.

If this event had been a few years in advance, then Timur would have been able to fight with China for a few years in his lifetime, and by that time the Gansu region he was guarding would have borne the brunt (the actual control area of the Ming Dynasty was east of Jiayuguan, and the vassal state guarded by Zhu Ao, the king of Su, was in the northwesternmost part of the Ming frontier, controlling the Hexi Corridor, and was the only place for Timur's eastward expedition to China); If Timur's Eastern Crusade happened during the Battle of Jingjing, then neither Zhu Di nor Zhu Yunwen would have had the time to help him, and then at that time, his small Su country would have to face the hundreds of thousands of elites of the Timurid Empire that swept across the Asian continent alone. It's a chill to think about.

Thinking of this, Zhu Ao had a cold war, he had already carried the memory of this King Su, and knew that this prince was not a flower raised in the deep palace, but a young talent who was good at riding archery and calligraphy. It's just that the previous King Su learned these things not to enrich himself, but to make up for the lack of his background with his own ability and gain Zhu Yuanzhang's attention. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that his son was so capable, so he let him go from the Han State in the hinterland of the Central Plains to the Su State in the northwest frontier (it has not been changed yet, it is soon).

Zhu Ao knew Lao Zhu's temper, and he couldn't pull back ten cows for what he decided, and it was in vain to think about making him change his mind. What I have to do now is to behave a few more in front of Lao Zhu, and strive for more resources, so that in the future, I can build the wild land I am guarding (this is indeed the case in the Hexi Corridor in the early Ming Dynasty, which will be described in detail below) a little stronger, hoping to block that person from killing people, and Buddha blocking Timur who kills Buddha.