And it is precisely because of this lesson that Zhu Di drove Zhu Gaoxu out of the capital very early and let him go to the small place of Le'an, which is very close to the capital, which is convenient for the court to monitor, and does not have a tall and strong city wall, which is really the tomb of the rebels. Zhu Gaoxu raised troops at this time, purely because he wanted to be the emperor and wanted to go crazy, and he was completely reckless.

In just a few breaths, Zhu Ao's brain was running rapidly, going through all the historical materials he knew, coupled with the performance of this Li Jinglong in front of him, he could almost conclude that this Li Jinglong was definitely not so stupid.

It's normal for a person to be stupid, but it's very abnormal to be stupid to the point where it's recorded in the history books. If something is abnormal, there must be a demon.

Li Jinglong looked at Zhu Ao's brows, with a contemplative and hesitant look, knowing that he asked Zhu Ao's difficulties, to be honest, he didn't want to take this errand, it was all the internal struggle of their old Zhu family, what did he do when a person with a foreign surname got involved? Anyway, he is already a very popular minister, and the title can't be higher, even if he does a good job, what's the use? Can you still be crowned king? Cautiously probed: "Your Highness, is it not too convenient, if so......"

"Hey, what did Cao Guogong say? How can it be inconvenient? Before Zhu Ao could finish speaking, he waved his hand to interrupt him and said with a smile: "That's it, Cao Guogong has just arrived, take a good rest first, and let's go to the Shandan Military Horse Farm in three days." ”

Li Jinglong glanced at Zhu Ao cautiously, and complimented him very politely: "So good, so good." "Didn't he know Zhu Ao's intentions, he must have taken advantage of the three days to make some preparations. As a person who has been in the officialdom for a long time, he can't do such a stupid thing as a righteous and awe-inspiring action to stop Zhu Ao, anyway, it is the housework of his old Zhu family, just turn a blind eye to it, and when the time comes, he only needs to report what he sees to the king. After all, this is King Su's territory, forcing him to be anxious, if he makes some moths, then won't he have to sacrifice here in vain? How can this be, there are still a lot of glory and wealth waiting for my brother to enjoy, especially the Western Regions Women's Dance Troupe, I really can't stand it when I think about it.

What's more, although the grandson Zhu Yunwen is very wary of his uncles, Zhu Yuanzhang is a well-known calf protector, if he pushes King Su too tightly, then it will reach the ears of his old man, but he will bully the children of his old Zhu family, if he leaves such an impression on Lao Zhu, who is in deep love with his master and apprentice, no matter how great his military exploits are, he will not be able to save himself.

Therefore, Li Jinglong decided to protect himself, and King Su could raise as many horses as he liked, which had nothing to do with him, and he only needed to see a number to cross.

Zhu Ao saw Li Jinglong on the road, and he was very happy, to be honest, he didn't like Li Jinglong, this person was lustful, and he was a little slippery, but a person who played cards according to the routine, such a person was easy to deal with even if he was bad, as long as he understood the situation, if the court sent a person like Fang Xiaoru today, it would definitely be oil and salt, soft and hard, and he would have to investigate now.

When encountering such a person, Zhu Ao really has no way to deal with it now, he can't buy and buy, and he doesn't dare to kill him, which is really a headache.

"Cao Guogong is a family of military generals, and he must have a lot of experience with horses, so he will have to give some guidance to the widow's military horse farm when the time comes." Zhu Ao had a bright smile on his face and kept complimenting. His principle of life is very simple, that is, the principle of high hats, no one will admit that they are worse than others, so it can be said that everyone likes high hats, as long as the mouth is sweet, send a few more high hats to each other, many things will be much easier. Anyway, it doesn't cost anything to get a high hat, so why not send a few more?

Li Jinglong really got into the trap, and was praised by Zhu Ao's eyebrows and smiled, gave Zhu Ao a salute, and said politely: "Where, where." His Royal Highness King Su has won the award, and the minister only knows a little bit about it, and I hope that it will be an eye-opener in three days. After that, he still couldn't get enough of his father Li Wenzhong's experience and his past military exploits, and he bragged about it.

Zhu Ao just smiled and agreed, and did not refute his face in public.

As soon as he left, Zhu Ao sent someone to call Qu Neng over and said: "Within three days, most of the war horses in the Shandan Military Horse Farm will be transferred to other places, and only more than 30,000 war horses will be left in the Shandan Military Horse Farm, and the widow will take Cao Guogong to review." ”

How can the old and sophisticated Qu Neng not know Zhu Ao's intentions, there are more than 70,000 war horses in the current Shandan Military Horse Farm, and anyone who sees it will be red-eyed, if the imperial court knows, it will definitely think that King Su only contributed 5,000 horses is too stingy, so most of them must be transferred, but it can't leave too little, too little left, it will inevitably make people think that Su Guo's national strength is poor and weak, and he will despise him, and deliberately make things difficult in some things in the future.

More than 30,000 horses is the most appropriate number.

Qu Neng glanced at Zhu Ao with a look that I understood, clasped his fists and saluted, and said, "The minister obeys the order, and the minister will do it immediately." ”

Zhu Ao waved at him and motioned for him to step back. Qu Neng gave Zhu Ao another look, then bowed and withdrew, and immediately set about to do the matters that Zhu Ao had explained.

In the evening, Zhu Ao called all his wives to the queen's bedroom, set a table of wine, sat on the main seat, and said: "The widow has agreed with Li Jinglong, and after Yuzhu gives birth, he will follow her into Beijing to face the saint." The queen and the concubine's bodies are not convenient, so stay here to recuperate, and Youcheng will also stay, and the widow will take the concubine this time. ”

Zhu Ao's arrangement is very reasonable, not to mention the queen and concubine, Lan Youcheng is the descendant of Lan Yu, and it is too embarrassing to go to see Zhu Yuanzhang, so don't go at all. Queen Sun Yunqi's body had recovered for the most part, and she could get out of bed and walk around, sitting beside Zhu Ao, and said with a little weakness: "The concubines will definitely take good care of the prince in the palace and wait for the king to come back." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the concubines will definitely take care of the two sisters." Concubine Lan Youcheng hurriedly said that among the few people who stayed, she was not pregnant, so she naturally had to take care of the pregnant woman.

"Please rest assured, sisters, I will definitely take care of the king's life." Duanfei Di Linaza also puffed up her chest and said in front of the queen and several concubines.

The family is so harmonious, Zhu Ao can't help but be unhappy, and today he drank a few more glasses, and stayed in Sun Yunqi's room. The queen just gave birth and couldn't do bad things, this kind of thing was naturally done by her two personal maids, but fortunately, Zhu Ao was young and strong, and it was more than enough to deal with these two little maids.

Three days later, Zhu took Li Jinglong to the Shandan Military Horse Farm, which is a construction project that he has always focused on, and his investment in it is no worse than agriculture. If this military horse farm in Asia, the first and second in the world, is wasted, it will be a matter of lightning.

After three years of dismal operation, Shandan Military Horse Farm has more than 70,000 war horses so far, all of which are fat and healthy, which can be of great use.

However, Zhu Ao knew the truth that wealth was not exposed, and he never announced the actual number of horses here, and this area was also listed as a forbidden place by him, and he was not allowed to approach it without permission, otherwise he would be punished for espionage.

Therefore, the number of horses here has always been a topic of discussion in the outside world, and this time Zhu Ao presented 5,000 war horses to the imperial court at one time, which suddenly caused the imperial court to reassess his strength, so he sent Li Jinglong to actually inspect the Shandan Military Horse Farm in the name of visiting.

Zhu Ao and Li Jinglong came to the gate of the Shandan Military Horse Farm, where the general office Chu Lixin had already waited outside the door with a cadre of clerks, and after seeing Zhu Ao, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "The villain knocks on the king, the king is a thousand years old, a thousand years old." ”

Zhu Ao squinted at the general office recommended by Lan Youcheng's uncle, and was still very satisfied, after all, his work performance was not bad, and said with a smile: "Get up, lead the way ahead." ”

Chu Lixin kowtowed to Zhu Ao again and said, "The villain thanked the king." Then he slowly stood up, then arched his hand at Li Jinglong, and said, "I've seen Cao Guogong." "It's kind of a hello.

Li Jinglong is not the master here, so he can only say politely: "Hmm." Lead the way. ”

Chu Lixin immediately welcomed Zhu Ao and Li Jinglong into the Shandan Military Horse Farm. Li Jinglong was stunned when he looked at the scene in this military horse farm, the natural conditions here are really good, the water and grass are abundant, the land is vast, and thousands of war horses are galloping on the grassland like this, the scene is very spectacular, enough to inspire the dream of conquest in the hearts of every man.

"Yes, yes. It is really worthy of being the first military horse farm in the world, I can't imagine that in just three years, His Royal Highness King Su can gather so many war horses, and the minister really admires it. Li Jinglong was unconsciously intoxicated by the scene in front of him, he was also a military general, he had a natural love for horses, and he had no resistance to the majestic scene of thousands of horses galloping, so he immediately sat on the horse with his hands dancing and laughed.

Zhu Ao was also open-minded, regardless of Li Jinglong being sent by the imperial court to test the truth, he patted him on the shoulder with his hand, and said proudly: "Cao Guogong has won the award, don't dare to say anything else, with these war horses, the widow will have more confidence to guard the frontier for his father, no matter who dares to violate my Ming territory, the widow must call him to come and go!" ”

The two of them seemed to be old friends for many years at this moment.

Li Jinglong was still very excited, although he was a military general, he had never seen so many war horses running together, laughed and said to Zhu Ao: "Your Highness is really ambitious, dare to ask Your Highness, how many war horses are there in this Shandan Military Horse Farm?" ”

Finally asked about the actual one. An imperceptible glimmer flashed in Zhu Ao's eyes, and he glanced at Chu Lixin, the person in charge of the Shandan Military Horse Farm, and said, "You come to tell Cao Guogong, you must tell the truth." ”

As early as three days ago, Qu Neng told Chu Lixin all the ways to deal with it, Chu Lixin was the person who ate under Zhu Ao's subordinates, and he would definitely not speak to Li Jinglong, so he immediately puffed up his chest and said with a confident look: "If you go back to Cao Guogong, there are a total of 33,672 war horses in this Shandan Military Horse Farm. ”

There are bits and pieces, and it's really like that. Zhu Ao was slightly happy in his heart, it seemed that the people under him were quite clever in doing things, and they did not live up to the trust of the widow in vain.

After Li Jinglong listened, the corners of his mouth smiled slightly, it seemed that he understood what was going on, but since he promised to wait three days to inspect again, he had no intention of embarrassing King Su, and immediately made a very surprised expression, and said: "My good man, it turns out that there are so many war horses, amazing, amazing." ”

Zhu Ao laughed and said, "Cao Guogong has won the award." Then he said to Chu Lixin, the general office of the Shandan Military Horse Farm: "Have you done what the widow told you?" ”

Chu Lixin immediately gave Zhu Ao a look, and said confidently: "It's all done." Please come here from the king and Cao Guogong. With that, he led Zhu Ao and Li Jinglong to a clearing.

There were three sergeants in this clearing, each leading three fat and healthy horses. The horse field was open and the wind was strong, and the clothes of the three sergeants and the manes of the three horses were not stopped.

Zhu Ao looked at the three war horses, he was very satisfied, he gave people a lot of face, he didn't fold his identity, and walked to the war horse with Li Jinglong, and said, "Cao Guogong, what do you think of these three war horses?" ”

A greedy look flashed in Li Jinglong's eyes, presumably he had already seen Zhu Ao's intentions, but he still wouldn't say this kind of thing personally, and said, "It's really a good horse, a good horse." ”

Zhu Ao smiled slightly and said: "Since Cao Guogong likes it, the widow will give all these three war horses to Cao Guogong." ”

Li Jinglong's heart is naturally happy, the generals are all crazy about horses, although he has raised a lot of good horses, but this good horse in the Western Regions is really rare, most of his horses can't compare, not to mention that Zhu Ao gave him three horses at a time, how does this make him unhappy, but the things on the scene still have to be done, otherwise people will laugh at themselves for being ignorant, and he made a very embarrassed expression on his face, and said: "How embarrassing is this, King Su has already sent the minister a dancing girl troupe, how can the minister be embarrassed to ask for something else?" ”

Zhu Ao despised this hypocritical Li Jinglong in his heart, and pretended to be unhappy and said, "Isn't it good that Cao Guogong dislikes the horse that the widow gave you?" ”

"This ......" Li Jinglong was taken aback at first, and then changed to a very frightened expression, and said with a smile: "The minister doesn't dare." Since His Royal Highness looks down on the minister, the minister is better than obeying his orders if he is respectful. In the future, if His Highness has a place to gain the minister, even if he commands, the minister's definition cannot be shirked. ”

"Hey." Zhu Ao grabbed Li Jinglong's hand, pretended to have a complaining expression, and said: "Cao Guogong's words are not right, the widow sent you a horse because he felt that he fell in love with you and wanted to be friends with you sincerely." It's not about you. ”

"That's, that's." Li Jinglong laughed, followed Zhu Ao's words, and replied resignedly.

Subsequently, Zhu Ao and Li Jinglong casually walked around the Shandan Military Horse Farm, and then set off back to Dunhuang. Concubine Dai Yuzhu also gave birth smoothly soon after, this time it was a princess, although Dai Yuzhu, who was bent on giving birth to a prince for Zhu Yuzhu, was a little unhappy, but Zhu Yu was still very happy, this time, he had both children and daughters.

Zhu Ao comforted Dai Yuzhu for a long time, saying that sons and daughters are the same, they are all widows' blood and bones, and now they are daughters who will be sons in the future, anyway, widows spoil you so much, are you still worried that you can't be reborn?

Dai Yuzhu was coaxed very happy by Zhu Ao in the end, and she recuperated her body for a few days with peace of mind in the company of Zhu Ao. Zhu Ao saw that she was fine, so he left her, the queen and the virtuous concubine in Dunhuang in accordance with the established policy, and he took the concubine Di Linaza to prepare to return to Beijing with Li Jinglong.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang's holy decree clearly stated that he should return to Beijing within the year and accompany him and the Gao family in the capital for the New Year, if it is too late, I am afraid that it will be delayed, after all, after returning to the capital, there are still a lot of entertainment waiting for him.

Before leaving, Zhu Ao sent someone to inform a sound of Qu Zhongxin, the silk shop, tea shop and porcelain shop they jointly opened were almost sold, and this time they took him to the Jiangnan area to buy goods, believing that there were signs of King Su and Li Jinglong, and the officials along the way did not dare to make things difficult.

In addition, Zhu Ao also brought some technical talents in the roast duck restaurant, hot pot restaurant, and entertainment industry, and planned to promote his industry to the entire Ming Dynasty while Lao Zhu was still alive, make money from the whole Ming Dynasty, and accumulate capital for him to recruit troops and horses.

A group of people set off in a majestic manner, plus the guards and the like, a total of several thousand people, or from the Jialing River to the Yangtze River to take the waterway back to the capital, because this route is both time-saving and labor-saving, in ancient traffic conditions, if it is a long-distance migration, put the waterway not to go only by land, it is purely the brain is caught by the door.

Just looking at the momentum of this honor guard, it is estimated that no pirate gang dared to rob, Zhu Ao, Li Jinglong and others successfully returned to the capital of the Ming Empire - Yingtianfu.

"The capital is still so prosperous!" Zhu Ao glanced at the long-awaited Jinling city wall, remembered the manpower and material resources that Zhu Yuanzhang spent in order to build this fundamental place, and said with infinite emotion in his heart.

Li Jinglong stood at the bow of the boat, his body took a step back slightly from Zhu Ao, and he also smiled with a high-spirited smile: "Yes, after so many years of governance by Your Majesty, the prosperity of the capital is no less than that of all dynasties. However, the prosperity of the capital has returned to prosperity, but it has not changed much in the past three years, unlike the Su country guarded by His Royal Highness, in just three years, it has jumped from a barren place to a rich land no less than the south of the Yangtze River. ”

This sycophant is really comfortable, Zhu Ao is also a person, everyone likes high hats, but some people feel refreshed after being put on a high hat, smile faintly, the clouds are light and light, and some people believe it and forget it.

Zhu Ao is obviously the former kind of person, and he just smiled faintly at Li Jinglong, a sycophant who cost nothing at all, and said: "Cao Guogong has won the award, this is all the blessing of his father, if it weren't for the fact that his old man gave Su Guo so much support, the widow would not be able to make today's scene." ”

In such a word-by-word conversation between the two, the group had arrived at the Jinchuan Gate in the capital, which was the gate for Zhu Di, the later Ming Chengzu, to enter the city. After checking that the talisman was correct, the soldiers guarding the door saluted Zhu Ao and Li Jinglong with their fists and said: "The villain greets His Royal Highness King Su, His Royal Highness is a thousand years old, a thousand years old." I have seen Cao Guogong. ”

"Excuse me, get out of the way. We're going into town. Zhu Ao said casually, these soldiers guarding the gate are like fierce gods in the eyes of the people and even ordinary officials, if you make them unhappy, you can make things difficult for you, and ensure that you will not be able to enter the capital for half a day, but in Zhu Ao's opinion, this is their Zhu family's salaryman, eating their Zhu family's food, and wearing their Zhu family's clothes, so there is no need to be polite to them.

The little colonel guarding the city gate immediately gave a salute, then bowed out of the way, flashed a way, and respectfully waited for the prince and the prince to enter the city.

Zhu Ao and Li Jinglong didn't look at him much, rode their horses, and walked into the city gate with their heads held high, this is Jinling, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the heart of the entire empire.

On the whole Hongwu Street, people come and go, bustling, all kinds of shops are lined up, there are everything that sells, everything is available, most of the pedestrians on the street are full of energy, the demeanor is high, at a glance it is to nourish the stable and prosperous life. There are also a lot of beauties on the street, and they are also very particular about dressing, and it seems that the more developed the place, the more beautiful women there are, this truth is unchanged from ancient to modern, and beauty is sometimes piled up by money.

According to the system of the imperial court, the first thing the vassal king did when he entered Beijing was to meet the emperor, otherwise it would be disrespectful, and Zhu Ao did not have the courage to challenge Lao Zhu's authority and honestly walked towards the Forbidden City.

Came to the gate of the Forbidden City, after the report, under the leadership of the eunuch, Zhu Ao cautiously walked into the palace, went to the palace where Zhu Yuanzhang was located, and went to meet his father.

After entering the main hall, I saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was still tirelessly reviewing the recitals, and I couldn't bear it for a while, counting Lao Zhu is almost seventy years old.

Zhu Ao walked to the main hall, bowed his head, and said: "Erchen to see his father, long live his father, long live." ”

Hearing this long-awaited familiar voice, Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head slightly, changed the serious expression on his face when he criticized the fold just now, and said with a kind face: "King Su is back?" ”

Zhu Ao raised his head, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang carefully, and the unbearable in his heart aggravated a little, Zhu Yuanzhang is old, although it is only three years, but the traces left by the years on his body are too obvious, the last time he returned to the capital, his hair was still black and white, but mostly white, and now it is all white, the most important thing is that his spirit has obviously become sluggish, and the previous pair of bright eyes are now a lot darker.

Time is really the most ruthless thing, no matter whether you are a true son of destiny or a pawn of a peddler, you can't escape its grasp. The expression on Zhu Ao's face twitched a few times, although he crossed over, but Lao Zhu also fulfilled his father's responsibilities to him, not only gave him a large piece of fiefdom, but also gave him a lot of support, it can be said that without Lao Zhu, there would definitely be no him Zhu Ao today, thinking of this, his heart was touched again, and his voice changed tone, and said: "Father, don't work all day for state affairs, you should rest when you should rest." There are some chores that can be left to the next people, and you don't have to do it yourself. ”

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