In the ninth year of Chongzhen, at the end of July, it was already a hot summer, and the city of Xi'an was exposed to the sun, and the whole city seemed to be white.

Zhu Yuanzhang was dealing with political affairs in the garden pavilion of the Qin Palace, and he felt a hint of coolness through the shade of the trees. At this time, a hundred scholars who were admitted were all sent to various places by Li Qingshui, some were appointed as county commanders, some were appointed as county officials, and some were appointed as wardens...... In short, they are all chasing ducks to the shelves, and when these people arrive at the place, they have their own capable old officials to lead them to the entrance, and then they will decide according to their own ability.

Among these people, there is one person who was not sent to the locality, but was left in Xi'an by Li Qingshui, and studied with Li Qingshui, this person is naturally Ma Xinyu, as the head of the case, he was placed high hopes on Li Qingshui, and he didn't want his talents to be wasted in a small city and county, so he let him follow him at the beginning and practice his ability to grasp the overall situation.

In fact, Li Qingshui himself is also studying, and the two of them happened to be learning and working at the same time, relying on Zhu Yuanzhang's guidance, but there was nothing wrong.

At this time, the situation in the world was relatively calm, because a large number of officers and soldiers were transferred north to deal with the invasion of the Qing army, so the situation of suppressing bandits in the Central Plains was not intense, and the rebels everywhere had a chance to recuperate, only the situation of Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, was more severe, because he called himself the generalissimo of Fengtian and the civil and military forces, and the other rebels called themselves generals, which was a grade lower than him, so Gao Yingxiang became a new thorn in the eyes of the imperial court, a thorn in the flesh. Although Lu Xiangsheng went to the north, there were still many generals of the imperial court chasing Gao Yingxiang. Among them is Sun Chuanting, the newly appointed governor of Shanxi in the Ming court (Note, the governor of Shanxi in history at this time should be Wu Fu. And Sun Chuanting should be the governor of Shaanxi * West, because of the arrival of Zhu Yuanzhang, history has changed, Wu Fu is dead, Shaanxi * West is not in the hands of the imperial court, so Sun Chuanting has become the governor of Shanxi * West, please hurry up and investigate), he worked particularly hard when chasing Gao Yingxiang.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked through the news about Gao Yingxiang's department for a while, and saw that Gao Yingxiang entered Henan in February this year, after making a fuss in Dengfeng, Lushan, and Nanzhao Mountain. and met the two rebel armies of Breaking the Sky and Scorpion Block. Advance into the west of the mountain. I couldn't help but think in my heart: Gao Yingxiang entered the west of the mountain, and it seemed that he wanted to go west from the vicinity of Taiyuan in the west of the mountain and return to northern Shaanxi......

In fact, Gao Yingxiang and others have always wanted to return to the soft land of western Shaanxi, but Zhu Yuanzhang guarded Tongguan and Wuguan. So that the thirty-sixth battalion could not come back. They had no choice but to go through Taiyuan. Intending to advance westward from Taiyuan directly into northern Shaanxi, the mixed 100,000, Hengtianwang and Cupola pillars guarding in northern Shaanxi did not reject the 36th battalion like Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was very likely that they would merge.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled secretly in his heart. Even if these guys go back to northern Shaanxi, they can't do anything, at most they can recruit some more messy shrimp soldiers and crab generals, which will have no impact on the overall situation.

He looked at these military situations with a smile on his face, but saw a slender jade hand stretched out next to him, holding a cup of herbal tea in his hand, which turned out to be handed to him by Zhang Yingxian. Zhu Yuanzhang took the tea, and Zhang Yingxian picked up another pu fan and fanned Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and smiled: "You are a few months pregnant, and your belly is big, don't come to do these jobs, isn't there a little mute to take care of you?" ”

Zhang Yingxian said softly: "When I was in Huanglong Cottage, I was used to doing these jobs, but now I am a little unaccustomed to returning to the days when I was served......"

Zhu Yuanzhang motioned for her to sit down, and said softly: "When Qiu Ye was pregnant, I asked her to stop working and have a good rest, and now that you are pregnant, you should also have a good rest." ”

Zhang Yingxian nodded, no longer insisted, and called the little mute to help fan Zhu Yuanzhang on the side.

At this time, the sun was shining, and Zhu Yuanzhang was dressed seriously, naturally he was sweating profusely, and the little mute took a pu fan and fanned him. Zhu Yuanzhang felt refreshed, so he continued to read the letters.

Looking at it, he suddenly felt that the fan was in the wrong place, and it was no longer slapped on his face, but on the table, blowing the paper leaves on the table. He couldn't help but wonder, the little mute just couldn't speak, but his eyes weren't blind, how could he fan so crookedly? Turning his head to look, he saw the little mute's hand fanning mechanically, but his eyes saw that the pavilion was outside, and when he looked at her, it turned out that she was looking at Ma Xiaotian. There was a touch of tenderness in his eyes, and he didn't move on Ma Xiaotian's body.

Ma Xiaotian's eyes were also stunned, he was looking at the red lady, his eyes were gentle, and he didn't blink. The red lady's eyes are extremely flexible, one will look at the birds in the trees, one moment will look at the insects on the leaves, one moment will look at the bright sky, one moment will look at the grasshoppers in the grass, and she will not stop for a moment......

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled dumbly, leaned over to Zhang Yingxian's side and said, "What do you say is the situation?" ”

Zhang Yingxian said in a low voice: "The little mute has always had affection for Ma Xiaotian, I already knew it, but Ma Xiaotian ...... Hey...... He only knows the red lady, and he doesn't look at other women. Red lady...... This kid is still young, he hasn't woken up for a long time, this is really ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Young man, ......"

Zhang Yingxian smiled: "Xianggong, you are only in your twenties, don't speak in such an old-fashioned tone." Speaking of which, I'm full of strangeness.,I've never seen a husband say anything to a woman.,Although you married me and Akiba as your concubines.,Actually...... Well...... You get the idea. What she wanted to say was that she didn't see that Zhu Yuanzhang married them because she fell in love with them, but this sentence was inconvenient to say after all, so she couldn't help but say it.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, but he didn't explain.

Zhang Yingxian said: "The concubine has a big belly at this time, and she can't serve the princess, and Qiuye has to take the child, and she doesn't have much time to accompany the princess." If Xianggong is an ordinary man, the concubine should take another concubine for Xianggong now, but you are like this, it is inconvenient to speak. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his hand: "Forget about the concubine room or something, I don't have time to spend on women......" After saying this, he felt a little rude to Zhang Yingxian, so he said softly: "It's okay to spend time on you and Qiuye, it's not worth spending on those inexplicable women." ”

Zhang Yingxian's face turned red, she was secretly happy in her heart, and said in a low voice: "Those concubines of King Qin all want to be married, if you fancy which one, you will call them to bed...... Just let them spend the night with them, but it won't delay for any time. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded, and thought to himself: That is the concubine of my grandson for more than ten generations, if I take them to serve in bed, wouldn't it be a mess of more than ten generations of Lun, and this is okay? Even if you find an ugly village girl to sleep with, it is better than looking for the concubines of King Qin. He smiled: "Don't give me Zhang Luo these messes, you are not usually this kind of person, why do you talk about this kind of thing today?" ”

It turned out that Zhang Yingxian heard the discussion of the princesses of Qin last time, so she took it to heart, and after going back and thinking about it, she felt that her husband was the dragon among people, how could there be a reason to marry only one wife and one concubine? In the future, she will definitely marry dozens of hundreds, maybe one day she will get the country, and the three thousand beauties of the harem are not a problem, so she put her position right and decided to be generous, so she has today's words.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have this intention, she was happy in her heart, and she didn't say more, dragged the fan from the little mute's hand, and fanned it herself. The little mute was watching Ma Xiaotian distracted, the fan in his hand was crooked, until he was dragged away by Zhang Yingxian, he didn't know that he had leaked his heart, and he couldn't help blushing.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the pavilion, only to see Ma Xinyu running in quickly, it seemed that there was something urgent to report, running and running, and suddenly saw the red lady outside the pavilion, stumbled under his feet, fell into the flowers, and after several breaths he crawled out of the flowers, his head was full of blades of grass, and he didn't dare to look at the red lady anymore, but hurriedly drilled into the pavilion. first glanced at Zhang Yingxian, the "second aunt", with embarrassed eyes, and then said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Eighth brother Zhu, there is an urgent military situation sent ......."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What urgent military situation do you want to deliver?" Is our Zhu army very short of heralds? ”

Ma Xinyu's face was full of embarrassment, he actually came to deliver this letter to see the red lady, and he forced the errand from the herald. was broken by Zhu Yuanzhang's words, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed, but he was also in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "The matter is big, and I am afraid that the herald soldiers will not be able to speak clearly, so Xiao Sheng has the courage to come to pass the word in person." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Say it." ”

Ma Xinyu hurriedly said: "Gao Yingxiang is dead. ”

"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang was not very surprised, and asked lightly, "How did you die?" ”

Ma Xinyu saw that his face remained unchanged when he heard such a big news, and he couldn't help but admire it, he was so frightened when he heard the news just now, even if his heart was still beating now. So he reported: "Gao Yingxiang turned from He*south to Shanxi*, went to Taiyuan, and met the army of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shanxi*west on the way, and the two armies fought fiercely. Gao Yingxiang's troops won the first battle and defeated the officers and soldiers of the general Li Yuchun. ”

Unexpectedly, Sun Chuanting resorted to a divisive plan and took out the edict issued by Emperor Chongzhen himself, saying that the imperial court was sincerely appeasing the liukou this time, and they could be crowned officials. Zhang Er, a dry rooster in the 36th battalion, and Huang Long, a bucket of Gu Huanglong, were bought off by officers and soldiers...... During the second battle, these two guys took advantage of the fog after the rain to steal Gao Yingxiang's mount, and then led the officers and soldiers to attack Zhang Yingxiang's camp. Gao Yingxiang was defeated and lost, and there was no mount to ride and flee, so he had to take off his armor and hide in the grass, but there were traitors in the rebel army, so what was the use of hiding in the grass? So Gao Yingxiang was captured by officers and soldiers and escorted to Beijing to be beheaded. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang listened quietly and did not express his opinion.

However, the red lady who followed the pavilion to observe said angrily: "Shame on the traitor...... Damn it! ”

Ma Xinyu hurriedly responded: "That's it, the traitor is too shameful...... Brother Zhu, since Gao Yingxiang was defeated and died, I am afraid that the 36th Battalion will be unstable again, and the situation here will also change, so we need to prepare as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )