Different from the high-profile who came, Zhu Yuanzhang's army who returned to his journey was extremely quiet and low-key. The soldiers quietly slipped to the west along the ravines and deep forests of Nakajo Mountain, not daring to show the slightest trace. When they came, they "collected taxes" from wealthy families in several county towns along the way, so they had a lot of grain, and even if they didn't go out for a long time after entering Zhongtiao Mountain, the grain was barely enough.

In later generations, there were always towns in the mountains in the east and west, and even in an uninhabited place, an observatory or a biological observatory would suddenly emerge. But this era is different, once you enter the deep mountains, you really can't meet a person no matter how you walk, and you can do almost complete stealth.

Zhu Yuanzhang's army spent dozens of days trekking hard in Zhongtiao Mountain, until late autumn, and finally returned to Zhongtiao Mountain in the south of Puzhou City.

The army was temporarily stationed here, and then sent a small team, went down the mountain in the night, and traveled westward for a while, crossing the Yellow River to contact Desperate Saburo, and telling him to prepare a ferry on the side of the Yellow River. Then the army took advantage of the night to descend the mountain and rushed to the bank of the Yellow River.

Zhu Yuanzhang was originally mentally prepared to be discovered, and he also thought of countermeasures, if he was discovered, he had no choice but to arrest the person who found him and go to Baishui together.

Fortunately, from the southwest foot of Zhongtiao Mountain to the Yellow River, there is not a single family! There was originally a town called Hanyang Town in the middle of the road, but it was burned to ruins by the 36th Battalion as early as last year. No one knew that the Baishui Zhu Eighth Army, which had attacked Phoenix City, persuaded Bai Yuzhu, and appeared on the edge of Zezhou City with the 36th Battalion, actually miraculously returned to Shaanxi again.

Everyone in the world thought that Zhu Yuanzhang's army had entered the Taihang Mountains!

When Zhu Yuanzhang and others set foot on the land of western Shaanxi again, the first thing they saw was the simple smiling face of the desperate San Lang behind him, Yang Hong, a city, and a cloud were also here, and everyone laughed: "Brother Zhu, Second Brother Wang, Brother Miao Mei, Brother Generalissimo, Sister Xue Hongqi...... Everyone, don't come unharmed? ”

"Ha, of course it's very good!" Wang Er gave a punch to the desperate Saburo: "Is our situation here good?" ”

"It's okay, a few months ago, a patrol came to the imperial history, and it was all thanks to Brother Leng Feng's clever plan, so we fooled the past." A city reported to Xue Hongqi what happened, he was not knowledgeable, told a story complicated, and didn't explain things clearly for a long time, and finally Xue Hongqi had to kick a city away and came to listen to Yang Hongfu's story, and then he figured out what was going on here.

Everyone wiped a handful of sweat, so dangerous! Hong Chengchou is really a difficult guy, fortunately, he has no skills, so he can only leave this kind of thing to his subordinates to do, but in the case of the overall collapse of the quality of court officials, it is really useless to send his subordinates to do this thing.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart, the country is dying, and there are many demons, even if there are a few capable people above, such as Hong Chengchou, Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng and other talents, but they are not three-headed and six-armed, they do not have clairvoyance, they can't take care of many things, and they have to rely on others to do it after all, and the bad is bad on "others", and good intentions can also do bad things...... This is the fundamental reason why the Ming Dynasty was terminally ill and blind and had no cure...... It must be broken first! The best way to save the Ming Dynasty is to completely smash the complete bureaucratic system and rebuild it on the ruins, but it is a pity that it is ...... This is something that cannot be done by the imperial court! Either someone has to rebel, or someone has to make a coup d'état, and it's just a dream to rely on the power of the court itself to turn things around!

This is also the fundamental reason why the state is always reincarnated one after another...... The more behemoths are, the easier it is to accumulate contradictions, after accumulating for hundreds of years, all the contradictions are entangled together, so that the people in power lose the ability to self-regulate, at this time they must rely on external forces to break everything, the result is the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, round after round of political power alternation, a court falls, and a new court stands up! The fate of infinite loops, everyone thinks that they can live for thousands of years, but everyone can only live for so many hundred years, and then they lose their vitality and die of decay.

This problem is difficult to solve, and all mankind has a headache for it, but Western countries later found a compromise plan, that is, the so-called two-party system, one court can not adjust its own internal contradictions, then use two courts to rotate each other, on the one hand, they can help supervise the other court to regulate, on the other hand, because of the existence of hostile courts, they are forced to desperately adjust themselves.

Although this cannot completely solve the problem, it can improve the adjustment ability of the imperial court and prolong the vitality of the imperial court, which is an indisputable fact. Zhu Yuanzhang has not yet decided which path he will take in the future, but the trends of thought in the East and the West are within the scope of his consideration and reference.

"Alright, let's go home!" Xu Renjie said with a hippie smile: "It's been a long time since you left home, are you homesick?" I'm kind of homesick. ”

"Cut! Good men are ambitious! Wang Er smiled and said, "What kind of man is homesick?" ”

"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed: "Generalissimo, it seems that you are not a gentleman......"

Xue Hongqi also smiled: "This guy is clearly not a gentleman, which gentleman has a hippie smile like him and has no shape?" You better go home and pick up your wife and children! ”

"Cut! You think I'm thinking about my wife at home? What do those yellow-faced women have to think? Xu Renjie snorted: "I underestimate my generalissimo, I think of the sixteen Puzhou Furlong cannons that we transported home first...... And those stepping crossbows, there should have been a lot of them made by now, right? Hahahaha, I can finally command artillery and crossbowmen...... Hahahaha......"

The crowd was speechless for a while! After doing it for a long time, this guy didn't think about home...... Miao Mei smiled bitterly: "Generalissimo, I really lost to you, but you are more pure than me, I miss Huanglong Cottage a little, not because of cannons, I don't want crossbow machines, I just think about the peaceful life in the village...... I think that one day the whole world will be like that. ”

Xue Hongqi heard Xu Renjie say that there were several yellow-faced women in the family, and his heart suddenly chuckled, and an indescribable emotion spread in his heart...... It turns out that this guy already has a daughter-in-law! When she hadn't heard this before, she didn't care at all, she hadn't even thought about it, but when she really heard it, she felt strange in her heart, as if she was a little disappointed, and seemed to be relieved...... It turns out that this kind of hippie smiling guy, do I care too? She felt a little uncomfortable! His eyes swept over Zhu Yuanzhang and thought: This one already has a wife and a concubine. Look at Wang Er again: This has Sister Yingshanhong. Look at Xu Renjie again: This guy also has a few yellow-faced wives at home. Looking at the cold wind again, there was a Li Sanmei behind him.

Xue Hongqi's eyes fell helplessly on Desperate San Lang and Miao Mei, and he thought faintly: Can I only choose one of these two guys?

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly said, "Huh? San Lang, what's the situation with this little girl behind you? ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at it fixedly, and only then did they notice that there was a little girl behind the ass of Desperate Saburo. The girl is less than ten years old, skinny, because her face is too thin, so her eyes appear unusually big, she shrunk behind Desperate Saburo, and her small body was covered by Desperate Saburo's big head, so everyone has not noticed her existence.

"Your daughter?" Xue Hongqi asked, and screamed miserably in his heart: There is one less object I chose, I didn't expect that this desperate San Lang didn't open his mouth or speak, and his daughter was so big. It's really strange, why do these ugly and stupid men find a daughter-in-law? I, a beautiful heroine with a good figure, can't marry a wishful husband? Where is the way of heaven? Her heart was sour, and her mouth was naturally polite: "Brother San Lang, I thought you were a character, but I didn't expect you to raise your daughter so thin, has she ever eaten a ton of full food?" No one abuses their own daughter like you. ”

"No...... Not his daughter. Xu Renjie smiled: "It's the street child he kindly picked up...... I happened to be at his house the day I picked it up, and the boy was even thinner at that time, but now he has grown a few taels of meat. ”

I see, everyone suddenly realized that it was a child who was picked up.

Xue Hongqi's pretty face turned red as soon as he brushed the ground, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, whew, fortunately, it seems that there are still two more to pick, and it almost became only Miao Mei, she said expectantly: "Uh...... The little sister spoke abruptly just now, and I ask Brother San Lang not to blame it. ”

"How can I blame you for this!" Desperate Saburo shook his head with a smile, reached out and stroked the little girl's head and said: "This child is so pitiful, I want her to live a human-like life, but it is very inconvenient for me to raise her as a man, if Sister Xue Hongqi is ......"

"Don't!" The little girl suddenly screamed and interrupted Saburo's words: "Don't give me to someone else...... I'm going to follow Brother Saburo...... When I grow up, I will be my daughter-in-law to Brother Saburo. ”

Xue Hongqi: "......"

Leaders: "......"

I'm a thief of you! Xue Hongqi scolded in his heart: Oh my God, this little girl is actually a fierce rival! A good man is robbed of one and one is missing, you are still young, don't come to rob your sister who is not married at the age of twenty, right?

"Little sister, it's not okay to talk like this, girls should be reserved, you have to wait for a man to tell you about marriage, you can't take the initiative to say it to a man." Xue Hongqi reprimanded her with a smile.

"I'm going to say......" The little girl hugged the waist of the desperate Saburo from behind, she was only a little tall, and she could only hold the position of the waist, but she hugged it very tightly, and her voice was very resolute: "My mother said to me before she died, you have to say what you want, and no one wants a woman who is too reserved...... Well...... Just like you, sister...... At such an old age, her hair is still scattered over her shoulders, and she has not yet tied it into a woman's bun...... You can't get married, can you? ”

"Flutter!" Xue Hongqi fell backwards.

(To be continued)