Chapter 23: The Gatekeeper

"Welcome to the city!"

"The Heavenly Army is mighty!"

Zhu Di, who had just entered the city, was almost frightened by the roar of the people in Zhenjiang, and subconsciously held the treasure knife on his waist.

"His Royal Highness King Yan is a thousand years old! His Royal Highness King Qi is a thousand years old! ”

"His Royal Highness King Yan is a thousand years old! His Royal Highness King Qi is a thousand years old! ”

"His Royal Highness King Yan is a thousand years old! His Royal Highness King Qi is a thousand years old! ”

The people along the road raised their arms and shouted, and Zhu Di breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, he wondered in his heart, why did the people look so happy?

In the past, after Zhu Di broke the city, the people in the city were eager to pick his skin and drink wine with his heart, liver, spleen, stomach and kidneys.

What he didn't know was that the people in the city, under Zhu Huan's flickering, really thought that Jingnan's army was the "Heavenly Army".

Zhenjiang people: Oh mom, this is an army sent by God, don't you have to be respectful!

"Fourth brother!" Zhu Huan walked over with a smile.

Zhu Di heard this familiar voice that he hadn't seen for a long time, and couldn't help but feel a little sour at the tip of his nose: "You stinky boy." ”

"I haven't seen you for a long time, but the fourth brother hasn't changed at all." Zhu Huan said with emotion: "The last time we met, it was more than ten years. ”

"Yes, I remember that in the twenty-second year of Hongwu, the first emperor changed the main courtyard of the great sect to the Zongren Mansion and ordered me to serve as the right Zongzheng." Zhu Di recalled: "That year, you were just seventeen years old, and the twelfth brother was still there at that time. ”

Zhu Di's twelfth brother, Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang.

Among the many vassal kings, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, and Zhu Huan, the king of Qi, have the best relationship. And Jianwen cut the domain, and the most feared was Zhu Di, so he first cut the vassal king who had a good relationship with Zhu Di.

Zhu Huan was confined in the palace, and even the king of Zhou, who was cut into a concubine, was miserable.

Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, was the most miserable one, accused of intent to rebel, forgery of treasure money and unauthorized murder and other crimes, Emperor Jianwen issued an edict to order Zhu Bai to enter Beijing for interrogation, the ministers of the court and China decided to send troops to hide weapons in cars filled with piles of wood and disguised as caravans, until they arrived in Jingzhou, the soldiers who were ready to arrest Zhu Bai unexpectedly surrounded Zhu Bai's mansion.

When Zhu Bai learned about it, he was shocked and angry, and sighed to the sky: "Alas! I look at the ministers of the previous generation, who were imprisoned when they encountered a violent dynasty, and often committed suicide. As the son of Taizu, my father passed away, I can neither visit the illness nor participate in the funeral, I regret and grieve, what joy is there in this world! Will you be humiliated again today to the slaves? How can I survive like this! ”

After saying goodbye to his family, Zhu Bai immediately set fire to his palace concubines, and put on the prince's clothes, jumped into the fire with a bow and arrow, and killed himself in the palace from Zhu Bai.

Zhu Bai had no children, and after his death, the feudal country was removed, and he was vicious.

"Brother Twelve has a fierce temperament, and would rather self-immolate than be humiliated." Zhu Huan sighed.

"I hate that Jianwen, after the death of the twelfth brother, he actually gave a bad name!" As soon as Zhu Di mentioned this, his chest was sullen: "The twelfth brother was originally charged with a trumped-up crime, why did he not live in peace after his death!" ”

"If that's not the case, why do you and I have to be in the heavens?" Zhu Huan whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Fourth brother, there are many people here, and it is not easy to talk about things......

Zhu Di understood in seconds, and said loudly to the army: "Today's banquet, except for the defense troops, everyone else is let go of eating and drinking!" ”

There was an uproar of cheers from the army: "Good! ”

"His Royal Highness King Yan is a thousand years old!"

"I can relax a bit, His Royal Highness King Xie Yan!"

Zhu Di stretched out his hand to Zhu Huan and signaled: "Find a place with fewer people, let's get drunk and rest!" ”

"Get drunk!" Zhu Huan said with a smile.

Yao Guangxiao looked at the figures of the two leaving thoughtfully.

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In a study, there is a copper pot on the sandalwood table, Zhu Di adds the burning charcoal to the stove, and the boiling mutton soup is boiled into a milky white color, and the side dishes include thinly sliced fresh mutton, frozen tofu with white frost, crispy cabbage, soaked and refreshing vermicelli, shiitake mushrooms and spinach.

"In winter, you have to hot pot, eat a bite of mutton slices to warm up, and I can't wait to run two laps in the snow bare-chested." Zhu Di adjusted the sesame sauce and said happily: "I like this Beiping hot pot in Beiping, tsk, it's really a must." ”

Zhu Di put the prepared small bowl of sesame sauce in front of Zhu Huan: "The small dishes in Beiping are more complicated, sesame sauce, sesame oil, braised shrimp oil, soy sauce, chili oil, leek flowers, coriander, cooking wine, sauce tofu, all of them are indispensable, but fortunately, they are fragrant." The blanched lamb slices are wrapped in a thick sesame paste, tsk, one word, fragrant! ”

Zhu Huan took the small bowl and said with a smile: "No wonder I looked at the fourth brother and was a little blessed, it turned out that the food was good!" ”

"Hey, nothing." Zhu Di waved his hand and said: "I have been patronizing the war all these years, in the early years, I went to Mobei with General Fu Youde, braved the heavy snow, and marched hard, where to eat any hot pot at that time, I stuffed the frozen dough into my mouth with snow!" ”

"In that battle, I knew that the Northern Yuan Taiwei Naier took the tribe and horses, camels, cattle and sheep to surrender to the Ming Dynasty together." Zhu Huan said: "At that time, my father said happily, 'Those who clear the desert, King Yan also!'" ’”

Zhu Di smiled bitterly: "So what, in his heart, only the eldest brother is a family with him." And we, at best, are guarding the gate for his precious grandson. ”

"Fourth brother, you are very wrong to think so." Zhu Huan chuckled and said: "When the eldest brother was here, we were willing to guard the gate for him, for no other reason, just because he was our eldest brother, but unfortunately I didn't even have the qualifications to guard the gate for him at that time." But now it's different, there is only one eldest brother, and that is you, the fourth brother. ”

Zhu Di smiled, but suddenly realized that something was wrong, he looked at Zhu Huan, Zhu Huan smiled, but the peach blossom eyes were extraordinarily deep.

"Brother Huan, what do you mean by that?" Zhu Di's face was serious.

Zhu Huan sighed and said, "Fourth brother, fulfill me, I just want to be a gatekeeper, and I have no two hearts!" ”

Guarding the door, guarding the country!

For whom? Naturally, it is guarded by the emperor!

The emperor is Jianwen, Jianwen is not worthy of Zhu Huan guarding the door for him, there is only one person who is qualified, and that is Zhu Di!

Zhu Di took a deep breath: "Brother Huan, do you know what you're talking about?" ”

"Fourth brother, my brother is just thinking about it." Zhu Huan said calmly: "I won't let you down." ”

He took Jinling, this credit is too great, a normal emperor will not allow such a powerful person to exist under his hands, the best solution is to unload the mill and kill the donkey, no matter how bad it is, he has to cut Zhu Huan's military power, let him be a prince of Taiping who has no threat.

But Zhu Di is not a normal person, the most unique emperor in his thousands of years of history.

He was the only emperor to die on a horse, and the only emperor to be a wolf.

"Brother Huan, how can you let the fourth brother reject you." Zhu Di smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I can't say a 'no' to you in my life." ”

Zhu Huan smiled, he knew that Zhu Di had agreed to his request.

Zhu Di at this moment is not King Yan, but the most controversial emperor in history - Yongle Emperor!