"Brother Hu, why haven't you slept yet?"

Bao Butong was woken up by the "click" of the next window, and he rubbed his sleepy eyes and walked to Bao Yuanqian's room. When he looked closely, he saw that his brother was dressed in goose yellow cloth, dressed neatly and closing the window.

"I don't want to lie down when I can't sleep in the middle of the night." Bao Yuanqian coped with it and said, "You can rest quickly, I'm going to sleep too." ”

After a few words, Bao Butong was sent away, Bao Yuanqian looked around, no one jumped on the bed again, gently pushed open the window and looked at Jiang Wei's room for a long time. Seeing him close the window, Bao Yuanqian stared for a moment before closing it thoughtfully.

Although what they did tonight was earth-shattering, it could be regarded as eliminating harm for the people. Not long ago, he was so angry that he shot the son of the prince to death in order to relieve his predicament. At that time, he was clear and clear, and his whole body was condensed at one point, and his energy was inexhaustible, and the power of a shot was very satisfying. But now that I have calmed down afterwards, I feel a little scared when the adrenaline recedes.

This Qi Guogong Qiu Fu is the first hero of Jingnan, and he is deeply favored by Zhu Di. Since Zhang Yu's death, this Qiu Fu has been one of the leaders of the well-deserved Jingnan generals.

This also explains why this Qiu Yue dares to be powerful in Yingtianfu, and regards the king's law as nothing. But now that Qiu Yue died suddenly, I am afraid that the chain reaction will not be small, and he feels that he and Jiang Wei have not left any horses.

They had just turned the two blood-stained night clothes into ashes, and then took Xiaolan to Lu Gangfeng's residence to settle down, and then tiptoed back to the roof of the restaurant.

But what puzzled him was, who was the other group of men in black? Are they also relatives of these plundered women? Or is it a chivalrous man?

He shook his head at the thought of this, and they had just fled, and although they had been together for a short time, they were also exhausted and did not communicate. When they reached the intersection, they ran east and west, Bao Yuanqian's eyes were extremely sharp, and he saw the flying claws and hooks on their waists at a glance.

These black-clothed men easily climbed onto the wall with these tools, and these flying claws and hooks were exquisitely crafted like shoddy folk things, but like military things, which he had seen in Suzhou. However, Suzhou Wei's flying claws are still much inferior to these people's flying claws.

From this, he concluded that these people should have nothing to do with the Beijing camp or the pro-military guard, but he didn't think that these good hands of the Beijing camp and the pro-military guard were his conscience and acted righteously. If not, then by whom?

"I don't know how many lives this guy has harmed in the past, but dying at my hands is evil and evil!" Bao Yuanqian muttered to himself, but comforted his surging heart a little.

Sure enough, it was exactly what he expected. The waterfront courtyard had already been in flames, and the officers and soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division had already rushed there. However, I learned a shocking news in a moment, this young son of Qi Guogong was killed by a group of men in black!

This is worth it, that Qiu Fu is the favored minister of the new Son of Heaven, who dares to offend the soldiers and horses of the Soldiers and Horses Division and Ying Tianfu Yin began to search the whole city overnight, but how can Ying Tianfu, which has a population of more than one million, be searched in one or two days?

In addition, the people were deeply poisoned by these evil young magnates, and when they heard that Qiu Yue was suddenly killed, they were all passive and uncooperative, which made the progress extremely slow. The people all scolded the assassin of Qiu Yue on the surface, but secretly they all secretly said that this guy should be killed, and it was good to die! I really don't know which chivalrous man for the country and the people dares to sacrifice his life and take risks!

For two days in a row, the whole city was under martial law.

The brothers listened to a lot of lace news and talked about it in the guest room. Bao Yuanqian and Jiang Wei treated it as if nothing had happened, and they talked and laughed freely. _o_m

They were originally an official sprinkler here, and anyone who moved in was related to the imperial court, and money alone could not come in. But Qiu Yue's death is a matter of great importance. Rao is the official restaurant here, and since that night, three or four groups of officers and soldiers from the Soldiers and Horses Division have also come to investigate.

However, Bao Yuanqian and the others were all people who listened to the call, and after being interrogated several times in the case, there was no big problem. The brothers learned that Xiaolan had been found on the second day, and they said that this Xiao She person had great powers.

It's just that later, I suddenly heard that the son of Guogong was killed, and some of the second monks were confused. It stands to reason that these two things are not close, and they are not far away. It's just that it's hard for them to imagine that any of them can escape the guards to assassinate the sons of the powerful, and they really don't think about it.

On the third day, the tense wind was blowing.

However, the officers and soldiers searching for the Assassins did not run through the streets anymore.

Bao Yuanqian and the others were still curious, didn't they bend into a trick and pull a few people to settle the case for the dead ghosts, right? Why did it end hastily after only two days of searching?

Early in the morning, Bao Yuanqian waited for someone at the inn, Xiao Yi, a scholar from the middle school.

Xiao Yi walked in with a red face, and said with a smile in the room: "Congratulations, congratulations." The Son of Heaven has already crossed the river to make it easy to return to the palace today. I think you will be summoned in about a day or two. ”

Bao Yuanqian returned the salute and said: "This is good news at the beginning of the new year, I am really grateful to have Lord Lao Xiao running back and forth these days, and I have worked too hard for our affairs." ”

He was polite on the surface, but in his heart he understood why the search for the Assassin had stopped. In the end, he Qiu Yue is no bigger than Zhu Di, the son of heaven, Zhu Di returned to Beijing from Fengyang, not to mention that Qiu Yue wants to give in. Even if his son Qiu Fu was killed, he had to give the Son of Heaven a concession to return to Beijing.

Xiao Yi smiled: "Where, where is it, you are really polite." In the future, they will all be colleagues in the government, and they will not see each other when they look up. Call me sir, Xiao really doesn't dare to be. ”

Xiao Yi handled things tactfully, and Bao Yuanqian and the others had already become close to each other as colleagues before they were rewarded, so they naturally knew that no matter how low the official status of these people was, they would probably be higher than their own seven-grade ranks, so they naturally wanted to tie up a few people.

Jiang Wei said: "Lord Xiao is here, isn't it just to say goodbye?" ”

Jiang Wei's mind is active, if Daoxi can wait for the Son of Heaven to return to the palace and then come to Daoxi, he is now in a hurry, and naturally he has other things.

Xiao Yi said: "Yes, the Son of Heaven is about to return to the palace from Zhengyangmen." According to the regulations, those who listen to the announcement need to greet the holy car outside the Zhengyang Gate with the hundred officials and the Zhengyang Gate, and I am here to lead you to the Zhengyang Gate. ”

"How many of us are going?"

Xiao Yi shook his head and smiled: "Then Wu Hou can mention the two of them in the book, and there is no need to go to them all." ”

Bao Yuanqian nodded, it seems that this trip is a must-go. This is the first time he has met with the famous Yongle Emperor in history, to be honest, although he is already familiar with Zhu Di in the history books, but when he really meets the deity, the sentence that accompanies the king like a tiger still haunts his heart.

Any historical figure is by no means as flat as in the history books, a living person is always multifaceted, and it is difficult to summarize it in a few sentences.

In his impression, Zhu Di is almost a super combination of Li Shimin and Yang Guang. Zhu Di ascended to the throne because of the usurpation, and was eager to make a great cause to shape himself into the first emperor of the ages, so as to wash away his identity as an anti-thief.

Therefore, he is very anxious in everything, and he spares no effort in everything, and everything must be magnificent and magnificent. Whether it is the construction of Beijing City, or the excavation of the northern section of the canal, or the construction of the Yongle Grand Ceremony Mobei...

Which of these is earth-shattering, enough to go down in history. But behind everything is the blood and tears of tens of millions of Li Shu, and it is the great cause of Yongle that countless Li people stacked up with their lives and wives to separate.

This is exactly the same as Yang Guang's three expeditions to Goryeo, the construction of the eastern capital and the excavation of canals, and the two of them have a divine similarity in this regard. Both are good and happy, any engineering things must run through the ancient and modern, only a big character can reflect their magnificent cause of the emperor through the ages. @·error-free start~~

Therefore, when the people of Shandong and Hebei suffered from the Jingjing War, they immediately undertook the drudgery of digging the Grand Canal. After years of suffering, it is unspeakably miserable. This is the brewing of the White Lotus Sect Tang Sai'er uprising, if the Ming Dynasty is really prosperous everywhere, why are these Shandong uprisings so frequent in the Yongle years?

Naxia Yuanji repeatedly dissuaded Zhu Di from stopping the Northern Expedition, because the reckless Northern Expedition had already cost the people and money, and the entire country was stretched to the limit, which was the fundamental reason why Renxuan's rule needed to recuperate with the people.

But there is a fundamental difference between Zhu Di and Yang Guang, Zhu Di is good but not conceited, cruel and indiscriminate killing is not like Yang Guang being punished for innocence, and being able to listen to the advice of others is not like Yang Guang being stubborn and insisting on going his own way. Shengsheng tied the country to him personally and fell into the abyss.

Moreover, Zhu Di's military talent is very similar to Taizong Li Shimin. This is also because he avoided the country from falling into the flames of peasant uprisings like in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, and he diverted domestic contradictions and repeatedly won foreign wars. This point is that he took the bottom of his own great achievements, and avoided the Ming Dynasty from falling into a foreign military defeat and the internal exploitation of the people's power into a dilemma.

The dilemma. @*~~

But whether Zhu Di is cruel and murderous, or wise and martial. Is it an emperor through the ages, or is it like Yang Guang who spares no effort to make great achievements? All this is about to be revealed in his own eyes, and he can't help but feel excited when he thinks about it.

In his thoughts, he and Jiang Wei followed Xiao Yi to the Zhengyang Gate, and when the three of them arrived outside the Zhengyang Gate, there were already dense human heads on both sides of the city gate, and the clan relatives and nobles stood on both sides of the head, followed by the well-dressed civil and military officials. Countless pro-army guards lined up on both sides of the inner and outer sides, and martial law was imposed outside the entire Zhengyang Gate.

And more people of Ying Tianfu were blocked hundreds of steps away, standing on their feet from afar, crowded like ants, pulling their necks to see the Son of Heaven's honor guard.

This Zhengyang Gate is extremely luxurious, about seven or eight zhang high, and its upper city tower is the top of the heavy eaves palace with the highest regulation. The cornices are magnificent, sticking out of the city walls as if to cover the sky. On it is gilded arch tiles, and a pair of mantis beasts are raised high. The city wall of Zhu lacquer Danmo, during which the dragon is carved and the phoenix is painted, and the auspicious clouds are rolling.

In the meantime is the royal road about dozens of zhang wide, only for the Son of Heaven one person to walk the guard, the two columns of people and horses are more than 100 meters apart, almost unable to see each other.

Bao Yuanqian and the others followed behind Xiao Yi and stood with the hundred officials. It was a little funny that the two of them were out of place with the officials in brocade clothes around them, but everyone also knew that the cloth clothes that could stand here were no longer ordinary cloth clothes.

However, they arrived early, but this Zhu Di Holy Driver has not arrived for a long time. I saw that there was nothing on the Zhonghe Bridge, and they were left to dry in the cold winter, shivering.

Bao Yuanqian rolled his sleeves and looked left and right. He already has excellent eyesight, and after Yi Bone Cutting Marrow, he is even more powerful, for him, he can see the faces of the clan lords in the distance and the civil and military officials on the other side.

"Huh?"

He looked at a woman wearing a red brocade jacket and a pleated skirt with a lake blue horse face standing in the queue of clansmen, exhaling hot air and rubbing her jade hands. This woman applied powder slightly, and two clusters of red were frozen on her little face.

He saw at a glance that this woman was the county lord of that day, although this woman was the county lord, she stood in front of a cadre of clan relatives and ministers, almost in the first position, and it seemed that her status was quite respectable.

"The emperor is here!!"

Just as he was looking at the county lord, he didn't know who shouted, and suddenly the people not far behind him suddenly began to be full of voices, and they all started talking about the Zhonghe Bridge.

Bao Yuanqian raised his eyes and looked, before he saw the people and horses, he had already seen the banner waving, covering the sky and the sun from the other side of the bridge!

Even at the forefront of the phalanx composed of bright helmets and bright armor, they held the banner of Zhangyu to face the cold wind, the cold light of the silver armor, majestic and majestic. The soldiers marched slowly with halberds and lined up on both sides, with solemn expressions.

"This is the leading Leopard Taowei, all of whom are the elite of field warfare!" Xiao Yi quietly covered her mouth and introduced.

As Leopard Taowei opened the way, the noise of gongs and drums followed, drowning out the noise of the people's discussions. Immediately followed, there was a cavalry phalanx of different armor colors on the left and right, one color of vermilion lacquer fish scale armor on the left, and one color of black lacquer fish scale armor on the right side.

Two cavalry phalanxes guarded the central phalanx, a mixed array of foot riders, a one-colored mountain pattern armor, and a phoenix-winged helmet. The armor was holding a long-handled golden gourd, all of them were seven or eight feet tall, and their bodies were sturdy. Mighty and majestic, striding here!

The left column holds a halogen book and an umbrella cover. The right is listed with golden drums and flags. Bao Yuanqian looked at the posture and said in his heart This should be the Jinyi guard who is driving, and it is really different from Ying Hao and their long-term border passes, they are really majestic, the façade of the Son of Heaven.

"On the left is the left guard of the feather forest, on the right is the right guard of the feather forest, and in the center is the Jinyi guard!" Xiao Yi introduced them one by one like a jack of all trades.

It's just that as soon as his voice fell, he only heard a tsunami like a tsunami, "Long live my emperor, long live!" "The voices come and go, and the ears are endless. I saw that the hundreds of officials and clansmen around him had already knelt on the ground to greet him.

Xiao Yi was startled and hurriedly knelt down, signaling the two of them to kneel together and keep their heads down and don't open their heads to look around.

Bao Yuanqian and Jiang Wei are like a dirt bun, where have they seen this kind of big scene, in the past, he was already in a big show with Lin Jianmamu, but compared with this Zhu Di, that is the frog at the bottom of the well.

The number of men and horses that came alone exceeded three thousand. This is only used as a guard of honor, if the four guards are exhausted, I am afraid that there will be 20,000 or 30,000 horses.

It's really a big husband, so pompous, who doesn't like the pomp and circumstance of the Son of Heaven.

It doesn't matter, the ancients took nine as the pole, but he really took the number of nine poles.

It's just that he didn't have time to sigh too much, and then he saw the man driving the horse on the frame, and he couldn't help laughing. If it weren't for the solemnity of this place, he would have laughed out loud at once.

Because the person who drove the horse on the golden chariot was Ji Gang!

This Ji Gang looked solemn, didn't dare to look left and right, and drove the nine white horses in front of him, for fear that there would be the slightest mistake.

Think about how respectful Ji Gang is, the second-in-command of Jinyi Wei, wherever he goes, he is a prominent existence, who does not give three points of thin noodles? Unexpectedly, in front of Zhu Di, this guy turned out to be a cautious and humble Bi Ma Wen!

On either side of the car, there were two men dressed in princely attire. The man on the left rode a red-maned horse with a bearded face and a crown of wings, while the man on the right rode a blue-gray horse with a white face like jade. I don't know which of Zhu Di's two sons these two people are.

Zhu Di's car drove from Zhengyangmen, leaving only the back of the guard. The ministers and officials got up to send them off, and Xiao Yi slowly got up and rubbed her knees, pointed to the guard and said, "This is the guard..."

"Flying Bear." Bao Yuanqian stared ahead and said lightly.

"How do you know?" Xiao Yi was puzzled.

Bao Yuanqian pointed to the pattern on the Flying Bear Wei banner and said, "With such an imposing Flying Bear posture, who else can it be besides the famous Flying Bear Guard?" ”

Jiang Wei stared at the negative hand and said, "Nine horse-drawn carts follow." Respect, what you say is true. ”

Bao Yuanqian said in his heart, this old ginger is the head of the way, and the truth of this statue was figured out by him in an instant. was about to speak, but he always felt a look at his side.

He didn't know if this feeling was his sixth sense, or if he was keenly aware of his surroundings after practicing martial arts. He looked diagonally ahead, and saw that in the clan team that was not too far away from him, the county lord was looking at his side with curious eyes.

It seems that how a grass farmer like himself can appear in the team of hundreds of officials, quite curious.

Only a hundred officials are on the ground, and the clan relatives are no exception. But it is really strange that this woman only performs a half-squat blessing ceremony. Seeing that Zhu Di didn't have to kneel, it was really unbelievable.

It was precisely because everyone was on the ground that she found that there were still two people in cloth among the officials, and she kept an eye on Bao Yuanqian and the two of them after they got up, and it seemed that they were the ones who led away the tribute elephant that day.