"I also know that you also took the martial arts exam back then, but unfortunately you didn't succeed, which shows that you are quite concerned about martial arts. And you are older than Yang Hong and Shi Biao, in the army, you are also outstanding in battle, and you have made a lot of meritorious achievements in southern Xinjiang, and now you are the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, at least in terms of official position, you are still higher than Yang Hong and Shi Biao, but you can humbly ask for advice, and you can also lead by heart and mind, which is very good, but much stronger than many martial artists. Zhu Qizhen's words made Cao Jixiang have an impulse to tears, as a eunuch, this is to distinguish between distant and close relatives, and the most enjoyable are naturally those eunuchs who grew up with the emperor since childhood.

Such compliments did not seem to have been heard after he Cao Jixiang entered the palace, and he, after entering the palace with his own ability, finally won the trust of Wang Zhen, the ruler of the Ming Dynasty.

led the army to the south, made great achievements, and in the end, became the palm seal eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, and as soon as Wang Zhen died, he had no backer, even if it was the position of the eunuch of the palm seal of his own imperial horse supervisor, he relied on his own ability and military exploits, and climbed up, it was still useless, and he was kicked far away.

If it weren't for Zhu Qizhen's return, if it wasn't for the Queen Mother looking for her, if it wasn't for her timely decision at that time. Maybe now I have to continue to be in the camp of the Beijing Division, and continue to mess around.

But even so, he regained control of the imperial horse prison, but he still wondered in his heart, after all, Zhu Qizhen is not Zhu Qiyu, just looking at his current performance, although he is not as murderous as Taizong Zhu Di, but he is also resolute and resolute, with the posture of a hero, and since Zhu Qizhen entered the palace, he has a lukewarm attitude towards eunuchs, which makes many eunuchs in the palace forbidden faintly reveal a sense of unease in their hearts.

It's not clear what Zhu Qizhen is going to do, not to mention that the butcher's knife raised by Zhu Qizhen in Xuanfu is aimed at the eunuchs, so although the eunuchs in the palace are now in danger, they are all worried in their hearts.

And today, Zhu Qizhen scolded himself with such a smile, and made such an evaluation of himself, how not to flatter Cao Jixiang?

"To be praised by the Lord of Long Live Lord, even if the old slave dies at this time, he is willing." Cao Jixiang once again touched the ground with his forehead and said.

"Hehe, get better, you are in the prime of life now, I still have important things to entrust to you, don't say those unlucky words." Zhu Qizhen smiled and waved his hand, then turned his head and commanded the guards beside him. The guard immediately turned to the apse, and after a while, he brought a wooden box about a foot thick, and turned it back to Zhu Qizhen and placed it.

-------------------- "Long live Lord, what do you command, the old slave is also full of liver and brains, and he will not give up." Hearing this, Cao Jixiang was overjoyed and hurriedly spoke. This shows that Zhu Qizhen still trusts himself quite a lot. If he can do the things he gave him, then in the future, he will definitely be able to have more benefits for himself.

"You don't have to rush to promise me first, you can take a look at these things first." Under Zhu Qizhen's instructions, someone put the wooden box about a foot thick in front of Cao Jixiang, and Cao Jixiang, who had a puzzled face, opened the box, picked up the books in the box that seemed to be very new, and looked at them seriously.

When Cao Jixiang saw the words on the cover of one book after another, Cao Jixiang's face couldn't help but feel a little more admiration, but there were more doubts. "Long live the lord, you are ......"

"You should know all the words on the covers of these books, right?" Zhu Qizhen smiled and asked directly.

Cao Jixiang "If you go back to the Long Live Lord, these books, the old slave has only read "Journey to the Western Ocean", and the rest such as Gong Zhen's "Western Fanguo Chronicles", Fei Xin's "Xingcha Shenglan" and Yuanren Wang Dayuan's "Daoyi Chronicles", etc., the old slave has never read them. ”

"Have you read Wang Jinghong's "Journey to the West"?" When Zhu Qizhen heard Cao Jixiang's words, he couldn't help but ask in surprise. Although this book has been out for about fifteen years, the people who can name this book are afraid that less than one percent of the people who can name this book are said to have read this book, and if they have read this book, they are afraid that one out of a thousand people can be considered amazing.

Zhu Qizhen really didn't expect that this Cao Jixiang had actually studied this book, which really made Zhu Qizhen feel a little unexpected, and Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but be curious.

"Back to Long Live Lord, the old slave did read Wang Gonggong's "Journey to the West", it was a few years ago, speaking of which, characters like Sanbao Gong and Jing Honggong are the ...... in the hearts of our eunuchs" Speaking of this, Cao Jixiang, who seemed to be rough, smiled a little embarrassedly.

"Do you also want to be like the Three Treasures Eunuch and Wang Jinghong, and go down in history?" Zhu Qizhen changed his posture comfortably, and his fingers tapped rhythmically on the desk, and it seemed that he really didn't choose the wrong person.

Cao Jixiang heard Zhu Qizhen's words, and his originally red and black face couldn't help but turn a little red, and he was silent for a long time, and then he fell to the ground and said: "The old slave is delusional, and I ask Long Live Lord to forgive me." ”

"I am so happy that you have such ambitions, and I am to blame you?" Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but shake his head and took a deep breath. "Emperor Taizong is a generation of heroes, in order to subdue the four yi, in order to show my Chinese majesty, with the three treasures of eunuchs, leading tens of thousands of people, more than 100 giants, across the ocean, so that all countries come to the dynasty, the prosperous era traces the Han and Tang dynasties. It also shows the world that I am the state of Chinese etiquette and the power of the central country. It also solved the policy of forbidding the sea during the time of Taizu, opened up overseas trade, brought rich benefits to my Ming Dynasty, made my Ming Dynasty's products more abundant, and the people could also profit from it......"

“…… It's a pity that at the beginning of my reign, I was still young and didn't know the ambition of my ancestor Emperor Taizong, so I stopped this feat and stopped making foreign moves. It's a pity......"

Zhu Qizhen really regretted that the Chinese had already embarked on an unprecedented voyage more than a hundred years before the advent of the Western Age of Discovery, but they did not stick to it, or in other words, completely regarded it as a political act.

If you don't take into account the interests of the country and don't get the benefits, it will naturally cost a lot of money and not lose money, so you will eventually stop. But fortunately, I came to this era, and it was less than ten years since the last voyage. You can still catch up and catch the wind.

Zhu Qizhen finally came back to his senses from his emotion, and his eyes fell back on Cao Jixiang's face: "Do you know these books, why do I want to collect them and give them to you?" ”

"Back to Long Live Lord, the old slave doesn't know ......" Although he didn't know the answer, in fact, Cao Jixiang's careful liver had already begun to jump wildly, thinking about what Zhu Qizhen said, and then contacting these books, faintly, Cao Jixiang already felt that it seemed that the great tomorrow in front of him really wanted to let himself do a great thing.

(To be continued)