Huang Yan wiped the sweat on his head when he listened, and he didn't know how it came out on such a cold day.

"King Gaoyang is really bold and careful."

"It's nothing, the most dangerous place is the safest." Zhu Gaoxu said, and picked up a box from the foot of the table.

"There is an old mountain ginseng here, which can be used to nourish qi and blood and nourish the body in winter, your mother is weak and sick, you can make up for it appropriately, but you must ask Lang Zhong first, you must not make it up privately, but it is not beneficial."

Huang Yan knew that Zhu Gaoxu was buying people's hearts, but he was still extremely moved in his heart, and said in a trembling voice: "Thank you King Gaoyang." ”

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand and patted his hand: "Whoever has helped this king, this king will always remember it." ”

Huang Yan thought about it movingly, and said slowly: "The slave actually wants to ask King Gaoyang for help. ”

"You say." Zhu Gaoxu immediately said.

Huang Yan frowned and said: "A few days ago, Beiping City was besieged, and the slave maid was very flustered. ”

Zhu Gaoxu listened quietly.

Huang Yan continued: "The slave is not afraid of herself, the slave is just a crippled body, except for my mother and King Gaoyang, I am afraid that no one will look up to us." ”

"The slave is afraid that the city of Beiping will be broken in the future, and the slave's mother will be affected."

"King Gaoyang." When Huang Yan said this, he plopped and suddenly knelt in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

"The slave and maid are brave, and I want to ask King Gaoyang to think of a way, can I let the slave maid's mother go out of the city to avoid the disaster of the war-the slave maid is such a relative, I just hope that she can be safe for a hundred years, and not die of misfortune--"

Huang Yan originally wanted Zhu Gaoxu to take his mother out, saying that he was afraid that in Beiping City, the city would be destroyed by the official army in the future.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but be moved when he heard this, and glanced at Huang Yan meaningfully.

Huang Yan is sending his mother as a hostage.

It is a show of loyalty to him.

Zhu Gaoxu slapped the table heavily, overjoyed: "Huang Yan, you are filial, how can this king not help, rest assured, hand it over to this king." ”

Just send it to Hanwangzhai.

Huang Yan was overjoyed.

"Still." Zhu Gaoxu's tone changed: "It may be difficult for your mother and son to meet in the future." ”

The place in Hanwangzhai is very important to Zhu Gaoxu, and it is impossible for Huang Yan to know.

"Listen to King Gaoyang." Huang Yan said: "As long as the mother is safe, the slave is willing to defend Beiping with the king and the king of Gaoyang, and it will be difficult to be in the sky." ”

His little eunuch is also calling Fengtian Jingnan, which sounds a little funny, but Zhu Gaoxu knows that this is his expression of his heart.

"Okay." Zhu Gaoxu patted him on the shoulder and helped him up.

Another day later, Zhu Gaoxu came to the vicinity of Guanghua Temple in the morning.

When Zhu Gaoxu first returned to Beiping, in order to settle some of the Han Wang villagers who followed, and also to stock up on goods to make money, he occupied Guanghua Temple.

At that time, Zhu Gaoxu asked Mao Xiong to send money to several monks in Guanghua Temple, and then secretly sent them to follow them and watched them leave Beiping.

Mao Xiong wanted to find someone outside Beiping City and cut down these monks.

But Zhu Gaoxu disagreed, it was not that he was soft-hearted, it was really unnecessary, and he cut down a few monks, in case they were discovered by Yao Guangxiao's people, it would be a bad thing.

After that, two families lived in Hanwangzhai, and the man shaved his head as a monk in the front yard.

The woman and her family do chores in the backyard.

In the name of repair, Zhu Gaoxu encircled a piece of Guanghua Temple, built a wall, and bought a few houses within a hundred zhang nearby.

Such a stronghold is complete.

During this time, Zhu Gaoxu and Mao Xiong bought a number of houses, and the prices were not expensive.

Because a large number of people fled before the Jingjing, after the siege of Beiping City, prices soared, and the people were even more afraid, and now as soon as the war is over, more people are fleeing from Beiping.

Zhu Gaoxu took the opportunity to let Mao Xiong buy it, in addition to housing his brothers and families, he could also hoard goods.

Even if there are too many houses and they are empty, it will be difficult to succeed in the future, and the price will inevitably increase, and you can sell it for a little money.

At this time, he was in a carriage, and he had just arrived on the street where Guanghua Temple was located, accompanied by Dian Sheng and Mao Xin.

It's winter, and both of them are wearing hats, and no one else can tell who it is.

Mao Xin pretended to be a groom, and Dian Sheng rode a horse to the side.

When the carriage arrived at the gate of Guanghua Temple, he found that there were no people, after all, in the winter, there were not many believers who came to incense.

At this time, Dian Sheng bowed his head to the carriage and said, "The rice shop on the south side of the street is ours." ”

"The house with the door closed to the north is ours too."

"More than 100 steps in front of the rice shop, the two-story building is also ours, His Royal Highness wants to get as high as possible, and we give priority to buying high-rise buildings."

Zhu Gaoxu listened to the meeting, and near this Guanghua Temple, there were six different houses or shops.

All of them were stationed, or living like ordinary people, or selling goods as shopkeepers.

And no one knew that there were five other buildings on the street that were their own.

These people came from different places, including Zhu Gaoxu's tenants who entered the city, people from Han Wangzhai, and family members of Zhu Gaoxu's original county royal palace honor guards, as well as soldiers who were recruited later.

"Yes, Dian Sheng, Mao Xin, you did a good job." Zhu Gaoxu praised.

Dian Sheng and Mao Xin were overjoyed: "It is His Highness who teaches well." ”

But Zhu Gaoxu said again: "But last time Zhang Xin told me that our brothers may not have been shopkeepers, shopkeepers, and other walks of life before, and they are not real enough, and they have to study hard." ”

"To let them fully integrate into their profession, if it is a blacksmith shop, they must be able to make iron, if it is a shoe shop, they must be able to make shoes, and they must speak in an attitude that they are philistines and merchants, not unreliable at a glance."

"Let's put it this way, some shops are opened here, and this king may not let him move for several years or even ten years, they want to take root here, completely integrate themselves into the environment here, and treat themselves as such people."

"Xiaguan understands." Dian Sheng listened thoughtfully, and was also shocked by His Highness's words, some shops are open, maybe not for a few years or ten years?

At this time, the carriage had arrived in front of the Guanghua Temple.

Guanghua Temple made a courtyard, the carriage could not enter, Zhu Gaoxu got down from the carriage, looked left and right, there was no obvious person, and then walked in.

Mao Xin and Dian Sheng took a few packages in the carriage and followed up together.

At the same time, a hundred steps away from Zhu Gaoxu, there were also two men walking slowly on the street.

They were a little far away from Zhu Gaoxu, a hundred paces away, and they could barely see Zhu Gaoxu's carriage and figure.

But they didn't mainly look at Zhu Gaoxu, but to see if anyone was following Zhu Gaoxu.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu enter Guanghua Temple, the man whispered: "It seems that no one is following." ”

"Then you have to be careful, I'm here, you go to the other side." Another man said.

The two quickly separated, each going their separate ways.

After Zhu Gaoxu entered the Guanghua Temple, he found that there were a small number of pilgrims inside.

If you come out on such a cold day to offer incense, there may be something at home, and the people will come to ask for peace.

Guanghua Temple was very popular in the Yuan Dynasty because four Bodhisattvas were enshrined at that time.

There are Manjushri Hall (Manjushri Bodhisattva), Fuxian Hall (Fuxian Bodhisattva), Guanyin Palace, Jizo Hall (Jizo Bodhisattva), when Yuan Dadu, the incense in the temple is prevalent, and the pilgrims are endless.

Later, the war was together, to the Ming army to attack Beiping, the Yuan army to defend the city, demolished many houses in the Guanghua Temple, plus the escape of the people and monks, and so on after the Ming army entered the city, the Guanghua Temple declined.

Before Zhu Gaoxu took it, his two palaces of Manjushri and Fuxian had been destroyed, and the beams of the houses were used to defend the city, which was completely useless.

At present, there are still Kannon and Jizo Hall, which still maintain the appearance of seventy or eighty percent.

The people who come to offer incense are either begging for children or worshipping their deceased family members.

After Mao Xiong took it, he renovated it, cut the two halls of Guanyin and Jizo and the two halls behind it, and built a new courtyard wall.

In this way, all the pilgrims will be stopped in the front yard, and they can only see the two halls of Kannon and Jizo, and they can only offer incense here.

There is only one corridor leading to the backyard, and there is a heavy door locked, so people who are not in the courtyard cannot enter.

At this time, it was about eight o'clock in the morning in the future, Zhu Gaoxu went in and turned left, walked along the corridor to the end, and saw a heavy door.

Mao Xin went up and knocked a few times, and someone inside soon asked, "Who is it?" ”

"Mr. Gao is here." Mao channel.

Squeak, the heavy door opened, and a monk Heshi: "Amitabha, meet Mr. Gao." ”

"Okay, okay." Zhu Gaoxu is more satisfied, this guy is very involved in the play, and he is not called King Gaoyang.

After entering, there is no cave inside, the original dilapidated Manjushri and Fuxian have been repaired, but the statues in the main hall have long been gone, Zhu Gaoxu did not ask Mao Xiong how to deal with it, there are dozens of houses in the backyard, hoarding a lot of salt and sugar and grain.

In later generations, there were more than 300 temples in Guanghua Temple, which had not yet been fully developed, and there were only less than 100 temples.

It can be said that among all the shops and warehouses in Maoxiong in Beiping, this side has the most hoarding because of its large location and large area.

Not long after Zhu Gaoxu entered, a team of armor soldiers poured out, who were guarding the place, and they all visited the king of Gaoyang County.

But they don't wear armor now, they only carry weapons, and all of them have families, and their families also live in it, all of them are people from Hanwangzhai, this group of people can live in loneliness, they can live in the mountains, and there is no problem here.

Zhu Gaoxu motioned to Mao Xin and Dian Sheng to hand them the contents of the package, all of which were used for food, as well as some silver and copper coins, and everyone expressed their gratitude.

Zhu Gaoxu took the opportunity to visit the surroundings and chatted with them, wanting to see if they had stayed here for a long time and had any changes in their mentality, but found that these people were very calm and maintained a good mentality.

After chatting for about a quarter of an hour, Zhu Gaoxu himself said that his mouth was dry, but these people were getting more and more excited, as if they liked to chat with the king of Gaoyang County, and they didn't expect that the king of Gaoyang County had no frame at all, and chatted with them for so long.

At this moment, Dian Sheng outside trotted in and said in a low voice: "It seems to be here, there is a little lady." ”

"We'll talk about it later." Zhu Gaoxu laughed and hugged his fists and left.

After arriving in the front yard, Zhu Gaoxu really saw a little lady standing outside the gate of the Guanyin Hall wearing a hat from a distance.

The little lady looked around, as if she was looking for something.

Zhu Gaoxu recognized it as Jing Shu at a glance.

"Go get her." Zhu Gaoxu turned around and returned to the inner courtyard, which happened to be in a small room behind the Guanyin Temple.

(End of chapter)