A trace of contempt flashed in Zhu Ao's heart, as for it, as if he had never seen a woman, he raised his voice and said, "Cao Guogong, the widow respects you a cup." ”

"Huh?" Li Jinglong came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly picked up his wine glass with both hands, touched it with Zhu Ao's wine glass, and said, "A glass to Your Highness." But his eyes still glanced at the dancing girls below.

Zhu Ao drank half of the wine in the cup, kept half of it, and treated his subordinates with no need to be so realistic, drinking half of it was already a great way to give Li Jinglong face, put down the wine glass, and said with a smile: "Is Cao Guogong satisfied?" ”

"Satisfied, satisfied. It's an exotic style, I've never seen it before. Li Jinglong hurriedly nodded and said, the look he likes is not pretending.

Zhu Ao smiled slightly, leaned lazily on the big throne, and said very generously: "Since Cao Guogong likes it, the widow will give you all these dancing girls, and I hope that Cao Guogong will train them well." ”

Li Jinglong obviously had a happy expression on his face, and his chin was almost crooked, but he was not a three-year-old child, and he would still be able to say the necessary kind words, and he pretended to be embarrassed at Zhu Ao and said, "How can this be embarrassing?" How can a minister win the love of His Highness? ”

Your expression has betrayed you, Zhu Ao smiled at him, smiled very kindly, and said, "Hey, why are you and I so polite?" Cao Guogong is a pillar of the country, and he has been praised by his father many times, and the widow also has the heart to ask Cao Guogong for a lesson or two, and he also hopes that Cao Guogong will appreciate his face. ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Li Jinglong secretly raised his eyes to look at this King Su, he really couldn't understand why he was so old and sophisticated when he was only nineteen years old, and his evaluation of this prince in his heart was a little longer, although before he came, the grandson asked him to touch the bottom of King Su, it can be seen that the grandson is still wary of King Su, but this is the family matter of the old Zhu family, what does it matter to us, we are just a courtier, these princes and grandsons are tougher than us when they come out, why bother to set up enemies for themselves for other people's family affairs, and make a very grateful expression on his face, said: "Then the minister will thank Your Highness, Your Highness is too caring for the minister, and if there is a place for the minister in the future, Your Highness just speaks, and the minister will do his best." ”

"You're welcome, you're welcome, please drink this cup to the fullest of Cao Guogong." Zhu Ao toasted Li Jinglong with another glass of wine.

The big and small officials of the Su State naturally understood the intention of the leader, and took turns to toast Li Jinglong, and it didn't take long for this Cao Guogong to be poured up.

Li Jinglong's alcohol consumption is good, and he can still maintain a sober consciousness at this time, and stammered at Zhu Ao: "Your Highness, minister, minister is actually here for two things, the first is to congratulate His Highness on his son, and there is a successor to Su Guo, and the second is to pass on His Majesty's will, so that His Highness can return to Beijing on a certain day within the year and talk about the family together." The holy purpose is here, the minister will not read it, and His Highness will take it and see it himself. Then, he took out a holy decree from his bosom and handed it to Zhu Ao.

It seems that it is really drunk, and the holy decree is directly taken out, and even the shelf for the proclamator is exempted, brother is interesting.

Zhu Ao took the holy decree, handed it to Huai En, who was standing behind him, and smiled at Li Jinglong: "Thank you Cao Guogong, Cao Guogong has worked hard all the way, let's stop here today." Then he said to the dancing girls below: "You guys, why don't you hurry up and help Cao Guogong to rest inside?" In the future, we must serve Cao Guogong well. ”

"Yes, slave and maid obey." These beauties bowed deeply to Zhu Ao, then hugged up, picked up Cao Guogong and walked towards his residence.

Although these beauties are beautiful, they are not distressed at all when they are given away, to put it mildly, these people are just his money-making machines, he has a lot of such people, why should he feel distressed?

After sending Li Jinglong away, the banquet was dispersed, and Zhu Ao returned to the harem with the support of Huai'en and walked to Concubine Duan's bedroom.

Seeing that Zhu Ao had drunk a lot of wine, Di Lina saw that Zhu Ao had drunk a lot of wine, and hurriedly asked someone to cook the sobering soup, and then helped Zhu Ao to put it on, knelt down and took off his shoes for him, and said, "King, why did you drink so much wine?" ”

Zhu Ao didn't drink as much as Li Jinglong, just a little drunk, waved his hand, motioned for everyone to stand back, and said to Di Linazha: "Don't cook any decanting soup, you are the widow's decanting soup." ”

Then, taking advantage of the strength of the wine, he turned Di Linaza over, pressed it under him, and said, "Concubine Ai don't worry, the widow is just socializing, and she won't drink too much." ”

Di Linaza touched Zhu Ao's head, raised her head and kissed him again, and said, "Is that imperial envoy difficult to entangle?" I heard that my father still admires him. ”

Zhu Ao sneered in his heart, if he was difficult, there would be no one to be entangled with in this world, and said: "Don't worry, the widow has already taken him out, concubine, do you want to go to the capital with the widow to have a look?" ”

Di Linaza was overjoyed, she has always admired the culture of the Central Plains, and naturally knows the charm of the ancient city of Jinling, when she heard that Zhu Ao was going to take her to the capital, her heart blossomed, and she smiled: "Really? Your Majesty wants to take your concubines to the capital? ”

Zhu Ao burped, and the wine sprayed Di Linazha's face, and said with a smile: "What are you doing with the widow?" The father and the emperor have come to the will, and they want the widow to return to Beijing to face the saint, the queen has just given birth, and the concubine is about to give birth, so they naturally can't go, and the situation of the virtuous concubine is a bit special, and she can't go. Are you not going with the widow, you want the widow to be lonely and cold at night? ”

Di Linaza smiled sweetly and said, "Your Majesty is really joking, even if the concubines don't go, Your Majesty will not be lonely and lonely, Your Majesty has so many women, you can take your women's group with you." ”

"You have grown up, and you dare to ridicule the widow." Zhu Ao's hands cleaned up on Di Linazha's body for a while.

"Your Majesty spares your life, Your Majesty spares your life." The harmonious voices of the two echoed in the room.

The next day, after Li Jinglong woke up, he came to see Zhu Ao again, and after the ceremony, he said: "Thank you Your Highness for your hospitality yesterday, the minister drank too much and lost his temper, and I ask Your Highness to forgive me." ”

Zhu Ao laughed and said, "It's an honor for Cao Guogong to be able to enjoy himself here with the widow, how did Cao Guogong have a good time last night?" The tone and expression were full of silver.

A slight embarrassment appeared on Li Jinglong's face, and he smiled wryly: "Thank you Your Highness for your kindness, dare to ask Your Highness when he plans to leave for Beijing?" ”

"This ......" Zhu Ao pondered slightly, thought for a while, and said: "The widow's concubine is about to give birth, and the widow wants to wait until this time is over." ”

Li Jinglong's eyes rolled, smiled slightly, and said: "This is all up to His Highness, the minister has a reluctant request, I don't know if I should talk about it?" ”

Zhu Ao smiled and said very freely: "Why is Cao Guogong so polite? Just say anything, as long as the widow can become big, he will never shirk! ”

Li Jinglong raised his eyes and glanced at Zhu Ao, like a thief, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty and the crown prince are very appreciative of His Highness's initiative to sacrifice horses, and they all say that His Highness is a filial and loyal person. His Royal Highness was able to take out 5,000 war horses at a time, which also surprised the ministers, and presumably the horse administration of the Su State has made great progress under the governance of His Royal Highness. It has been heard for a long time that the Shandan Military Horse Farm has been the main horse-producing place in the Central Plains since the Western Han Dynasty, and I wonder if the minister is lucky enough to visit it? ”

Zhu Ao originally listened to Li Jinglong's speech with a smile on his face, but the more he listened to it, the more stiff his smile became, which was obviously trying to test the reality of the widow. At present, there are more than 70,000 war horses in the Shandan Military Horse Farm, if Lao Zhu knows that he has so many horses, but only 5,000 are sacrificed, he really doesn't know what he will think in his heart.

Zhu Ao took a closer look at this Li Jinglong, and saw that he was indeed beautiful and heroic, but if you just look at his eyes, there is a hint of cunning in them. A thought suddenly flashed through Zhu Hao's head.

Is he really stupid?

Later generations of Zhu Ao like to read history, he has two principles for reading history, the first is that mortals are not sages, but mortals have desires, so they want to get ahead, think about being a master, no one should pretend to be forced, no one should want to be blind. It is true that the meritorious service is made, and it is also true that the people of the world are safe, but the fruits of victory must be enjoyed by Lao Tzu, and the throne and power must be mastered by Lao Tzu.

The second principle is that no one is a fool, anyone who can leave a name in the history books, all of them are dragons and phoenixes among people, even if they fail Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and others are also rare heroes, definitely much smarter than ordinary people, if you are not convinced, you go to the troubled times to try, and you are guaranteed to survive no more than two chapters.

China's history has always had such a characteristic, that is, those who succeed are infinitely touted, as if they are omniscient and omnipotent, like the protagonist of the online article, the aura is very strong, and the tiger body is shaken, and the little brother comes to defect, and willingly throws his head for him and spills blood.

And those who fail are all described as idiots, either cruel to loyalty, or stubborn and self-serving, or arrogant and only know how to play with women. Anyway, there are just a few mistakes, and I don't know how many times have the faint monarchs in China made them back and forth since ancient times?

So much so that many people feel that history is very boring, because in their opinion, the rise and fall of each dynasty are similar, and the reason for the rise is that the ruler loves the people like sons, knows people well, attaches importance to talents, etc., etc., as if as long as you do these aspects, you can create a prosperous era through the ages.

Isn't that a prosperous era too easy to create? Isn't the emperor too good to do? Everyone knows these truths, so why can't anyone be the emperor?

Those faint monarchs make the same mistakes, they all play with women, ignore the government, reuse villains, don't listen to advice, etc.

Don't those faint gentlemen read? Knowing that the faint kings in history are all countries that died because of this, why don't you change your life? Is it hard to fix these mistakes that everyone knows? You and I both know things we can't do, don't they know? Why do you want to do it again and again?

In Zhu Hao's view, China's 25th history is also a little more credible than the "Historical Records", at least it does not write about the omnipotence of Liu Bang and others, and does not write the opponent of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu, as an idiot.

The credibility of other books is getting worse and worse, especially after the Tang Dynasty, due to Li Shimin's indiscriminate alteration of historical books, China's historical books have completely become, and it can be said that except for the name is true, everything else is fake.

If nothing else, let's take Zhu Yuanzhang's family history, what are the faces of Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and Emperor Yuan Shun? One is brainless and violent, one is not enterprising, and the other is a complete faint gentleman, who knows how to play with women and use villains.

And how great Zhu Yuanzhang is.

It's all about penmanship. In Zhu's view, China's historians have always made a mistake, that is, idealism, emphasizing heroes to create the situation, as if the protagonist is destined to become an emperor as soon as he comes out, and everyone has to make way for him. The career has been smooth sailing, and there are not many obstacles.

However, Zhu Ao is a materialist view of history, believing that the times create heroes, they are all two shoulders and one head, no one is much more stupid than the other, and those who can leave their names in the history books are all top people, all masters, and the masters and masters are fighting for resources, that is, luck, whoever has more resources can win, and whoever has good luck can win.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang is very smart and knows how to concentrate the resources of the territory he occupies to the greatest extent during the war to fight against foreign enemies, unlike Zhang Shicheng, who pretends to be forced and only collects very low taxes from the common people, and finally his strength is not good and is destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang, the people he desperately treats are not all obedient to Zhu Yuanzhang in the end? Because if he doesn't submit, he will die, and there is no other choice, and all he gets is that the people in those places secretly burn incense for him during the New Year's holidays, what is the use of this?

However, there were too many smart people in that era, without Liu Futong giving him the blood resistance in front, without the civil strife of the Yuan Dynasty and the division of the Tianwan regime, without the arrow that accidentally shot Chen Youliang, it is really hard to say how much chance Zhu Yuanzhang can have to win the world.

Therefore, when reading history, Zhu Ao of later generations never blindly admired someone, nor did he blindly belittle someone, but examined various historical materials in detail, studied from the perspective of a normal person, and experienced what a certain historical figure was thinking in his heart under the conditions at that time.

Therefore, he never looked at every historical figure with a mentally retarded eye, because he knew that the reason why these famous figures who could leave a name in history did these seemingly mentally retarded behaviors was either because there were other unavoidable reasons, or someone deliberately splashed dirty water.

Except for Li Jinglong. This benevolent brother is too prominent in the historical materials, and the historical records are clear-eyed and conclusive, you can't help but believe it, Zhu Ao has always thought that he is an exception, a fool who can leave a name in history.

But now looking at Li Jinglong's performance, it's very good, although he is a little lustful, but he still speaks and does things in a measured manner, and he can also hit the nail on the head.

Zhu Ao raised a trace of vigilance in his heart, he was careful with the world, careless Jingzhou, he was almost misled by the records in history, thinking that Li Jinglong was an idiot who didn't know anything, and he didn't even have the basic ability to act, and he relaxed in his heart, almost causing a big disaster, and let him do something.

Zhu Ao's eyes flashed with a hint of essence, and he carefully re-examined this Li Jinglong, he was handsome and his appearance was relatively honest, but in the depths of his eyes, there was still a little bit of essence, although it was not much, but Zhu Ao still caught it.

Zhu Ao began to pay attention to this opponent, and even took out the attitude of dealing with Geng Bingwen to deal with him, you must know that Li Jinglong is a person who Zhu Yuanzhang has personally praised many times, what kind of person Lao Zhu is naturally I don't need to say more, back then, he was poor and white, and took a few brothers to cut people from Bozhou all the way to Nanjing, and later cut all over China, after becoming the emperor, he cleaned up the group of heroes under him one by one, no, it was a piece of clean up, people who can have this experience, their eyes are naturally sophisticated and vicious, Otherwise, if you look at the wrong move, you will see the wrong person, and you will die without a place to be buried.

The person who can be praised by him repeatedly will be the biggest fool in history? If Zhu Yuanzhang only had this bit of eyesight, he wouldn't know how many times he had died now.

Based on the above historical materials, it can be analyzed that Li Jinglong should be a middle-class talent, but why did he make a mess in the Battle of Jingjing, and then became synonymous with idiocy? Even if his opponent Zhu Di is a genius, his military ability is stronger than that of a middle-class person like him, and he will not be so bad.

Zhu Aoshen flew out of the sky, the consciousness in his brain was running rapidly, thinking about it, I am afraid that there is only one possibility - Li Jinglong is a traitor, at least he released the water.

Zhu believes that the latter should be more likely. Looking at Li Jinglong's resume, you know that he and Zhu Di were playmates when they were children, and it is impossible to play from childhood to adulthood without an emotional foundation. In other words, when you face the hair that you grew up with since childhood, you will be a little unable to do it.

In addition, the battles that Li Jinglong lost were too weird, and they all suddenly didn't work when he was about to win, either that he was jealous of Qu Neng's merits, or that the banner was blown off by the wind.

The first is pure nonsense, Li Jinglong is a general, Qu Neng is just a subordinate general under him, even if Qu Neng captures Zhu Di alive, the biggest credit must still be his leader, Qu Neng is at most a little more than others' credit, no matter when, the success of a thing is the first place in the leadership and command, which is not easy to do.

There are examples of flags being blown off by the wind, but it is difficult to explain them by coincidence and shit luck when they happen to one person one after another.

We all know that Zhu Di is not in the right position, after coming to power, there should be a lot of historical materials, the actual records of Ming Taizu have been repeatedly revised three times, his own mother should be gone, what else can't be made up? It can be said with certainty that Zhu Di's historical materials do not have to be much less than those of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The secret agreement between him and Li Jinglong must not appear in the regular historical materials, otherwise the image of the wise and martial Ming Chengzu will be greatly reduced, isn't this a clear bully? The two hooligans worked together to destroy the country of Emperor Jianwen, who trusted Li Jinglong so much, so that people would be more sympathetic to Emperor Jianwen and even more disdainful of Zhu Di's behavior.

Therefore, in order to bring out Zhu Di's wisdom and martial arts, as well as the helplessness of being forced during the rebellion, coupled with the hardships and hardships in the process of rebellion, Li Jinglong had no choice but to be an idiot, because only an idiot can round up the previous historical materials.

There are two things to support this inference, the first thing is that when Zhu Di's troops sent to Nanjing, Li Jinglong took the lead in opening the Jinchuan Gate and surrendered, just like welcoming the new era, he was very attentive, and after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he also entrusted him with important tasks. Until he was impeached and brought down by a bunch of people, including King Zhou. The ambiguity is really suspicious.

The second thing is that after Zhu Di's grandson Ming Xuanzong ascended the throne, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han who had coveted the throne for a long time, openly rebelled.

If Li Jinglong is just stupid, Ming Xuanzong only needs to send a talented general, this Xue Lu's ability is very good, from Zhu Di to fight with him when he raised troops to capture the Nine Gates of Beiping, accumulate merit and seal the marquis, military talent is definitely not to say.

In addition, there was Zhang Yu's son Zhang Fu at that time, who was also a famous general in history, but Ming Xuanzong rejected his request to take the initiative to ask Ying, and said: "You can indeed quell the rebellion, but I have just ascended the throne, and there may be villains with two hearts, if you don't recruit in person, you can't stabilize the villain's rebellion." ”

It can be seen that Ming Xuanzong's precautionary psychology against their group of generals is still very serious, and this is not a matter for no reason, so during the Battle of Jingjing, Ming Renzong was like Li Jiancheng in Beiping, and his achievements were not significant, and Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, led the army to fight with his father Zhu Di, and made great contributions, and the most important thing is that Zhu Gaochu has a good relationship with the military generals group, and on the issue of Zhu Di establishing the prince, most of the generals of the Yongle Dynasty also stood on Zhu Gaoxu, which also made Zhu Gaochu boast of Li Shimin.

This is somewhat similar to Li Jinglong's matter, Li Jinglong has a very good relationship with Zhu Di, even if he did not cooperate with the enemy during the counterinsurgency, at least he released water, which made Zhu Di escape from death several times. It was precisely after learning this lesson that Ming Xuanzong drove the expedition in person and suppressed those generals who were close to Zhu Gaoxu, so that they did not dare to engage in greasy behavior under the emperor's nose, so that he quickly quelled the rebellion.

Zhu Gaoxu compares himself to Li Shimin, indeed, he and Li Shimin have a lot of similarities, they are both the second, both of them made meritorious contributions in their father's campaign to pacify the world, and they both have a good relationship with the generals, and the boss's contributions are not very significant, but he doesn't know that Li Shimin is also a personal saint, because his foundation is too bad - killing his brother, killing his brother, slaughtering his nephew, and imprisoning his father, and also including his brother's wife in the harem, basically he did everything that was not done by people, if he didn't change the historical data, he really couldn't face history, Face the world. Li Shimin's success in seizing power is also a fluke factor, first of all, he is in the capital and can contact the emperor and the crown prince, and secondly, he has his own team, although he has been almost dismembered, but they are all loyal to him, and finally he took advantage of Li Jiancheng's defenseless mentality and killed his brother by surprise. It is worth mentioning that Li Shimin is still very desirable, he cares a lot about the evaluation of him by later generations, and to put it bluntly, he is a face-saving person, so he is very dedicated and does a good job after coming up, which is also the most important reason why he has a different ending from Yang Guang.