"Livestock." Xu Miaojin was ashamed and angry.

"How dare you scold me?" Zhu Gaoxu was about to go up again, scaring Xu Miaojin half to death.

"Bang bang bang" At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

"Miss." It turned out that Xiao Tao was back.

Xu Miaojin was overjoyed.

Zhu Gaoxu's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly looked left and right.

Xu Miaojin saw his ghostly appearance, he was righteous and awe-inspiring just now, but now he was scared like this, and he almost laughed.

But when he thought about what he had just done to him, he was angry.

"Don't move, I'll send her to Yuqingguan in a while, and you will leave immediately." Xu Miaojin whispered, and walked out quickly.

When he walked to Zhu Gaoxu's side, Zhu Gaochu put his arm around her little waist.

"You?" Xu Miaojin was frightened and frightened, and she didn't dare to make a noise, and there was a knock on the door outside: "Miss, I'm back." ”

"Let go, you're crazy." Xu Miaojin said urgently.

"Will my aunt miss me?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Xu Miaojin's face was flushed, and he gritted his teeth without saying a word.

"If I die in Jingshi, will my little aunt miss me?" Zhu Gaoxu said again.

"Miss, I'm back." Bang bang, there was another knock on the door outside.

Xu Miaojin knew that he couldn't drag it out any longer, so he could only say: "You let go first, you will, you will, okay." ”

Only then did Zhu Gaoxu let go.

Xu Miaojin ran out to open the door, Xiao Tao seemed to go out to buy something, she took it casually, and then said a few words, Xiao Tao turned around and went to Yuqingguan again.

After waiting for the gate of Yuqingguan to open and let Xiao Tao in, Xu Miaojin hurriedly turned around.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at her as he walked.

She didn't dare to look at Zhu Gaochu at first, but when Zhu Gaochu walked to the door and was about to disappear, she finally raised her head, hesitated for a moment, and Zhu Gaochu was about to walk out of the door, so she said, "Be careful all the way." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was happy in his heart, waved his hand to her, turned around and walked away quickly.

Bang, Xu Miaojin slammed the door, turned around and leaned her body against the door, her mind flashed wildly about what Zhu Gaoxu had done to her just now, only to feel that her whole body was getting hotter and hotter, and her legs were getting weaker and weaker.

And she knew in her heart that she shouldn't be like Zhu Gaoxu, but her body's reaction was so honest.

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At the beginning of November, Zhu Gaoxu, Mao Xin, Song Changlin, and Zhou Hu came to Huai'an.

King Yan sent Yuan Yi to accompany them, but Zhu Gaoxu left separately with the requirement that there were too many people and too big a goal, so Yuan Yi and they left Beiping one after another.

As mentioned earlier, Huai'an is a strategic location of the Jiangnan waterway, and Emperor Jianwen has let the concubine Meiyin guard Huai'an, where he recruits troops and raises food, and at the same time guards important water routes.

In the later period of Jingnan, King Yan could not take advantage of the road, and he was unwilling to attack here, so he could only take a detour to Nanjing.

This will be the most Yanwang soldiers will reach Xuzhou and Pei County, and leave after the fight, so this side is not as chaotic as the north, but Mei Yin is recruiting troops and raising food in Huai'an, and the local area is now also full of officials and soldiers, and both land and water are very busy.

In the name of merchants, the four of them took a large amount of cloth and rented a large ship along the waterway, all the way from Jining to Huai'an, and when they arrived, they found that it was full of recruits recruited by Mei Yin, and they were gathering and training to reinforce the front at any time.

Moreover, the north can now come by waterway, but the merchants of the south cannot go to the north by waterway, thus restricting the southern merchants from smuggling and financing the northern Yan army for huge profits.

After the four of them disembarked with four horses, they were stopped by the local garrison for questioning.

Mao Xin said that they were merchants in the north, who were engaged in the cloth business, and because of the war in the north, they could not sell it, so they shipped it to the south and sold it cheaply.

Then he stuffed some money privately.

Although this will not be as bad as the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the soldiers also collect money, and after collecting the money, they look at it casually, there are no strategic materials, not to mention that they come from the north to the south, so they will naturally be released.

This time, Zhu Gaoxu didn't bring his own thousand miles of horses, and he came by boat, he was completely relaxed, and he was not in a hurry to come.

Early the next morning, Zhu Gaoxu did not leave, but took everyone to wander around the streets, and finally picked a place, spent twice the price, bought a row of shops, and moved in all the leather cloth he brought.

Zhu Gaoxu privately talked to Mao Xin, and when they returned to Beiping, Mao Xin would bring people over in the future and establish a stronghold here.

The surface of the cloth fur wool shop.

As for what this stronghold will be used for in the future, we will talk about it later.

Before Zhu Gaoxu couldn't use it, he had been a serious businessman here.

Mao Xin wrote them down one by one.

Zhou Hu saw that there were many soldiers and horses in Huai'an, and he couldn't help sighing, the soldiers and horses of the southern army couldn't finish fighting.

Li Jinglong's 500,000 army and 600,000 army were successively defeated by the Yan army, and Sheng Yong's 300,000 army was defeated again, but it seems that there are still endless southern armies going to the north.

"There are a lot of recruits here." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "Mei Yin doesn't understand military affairs, he can only defend, not fight, and no matter how many soldiers and horses there are here, it is useless." ”

In the end, Mei Yin had an army of 400,000, and he had no choice but to take Zhu Di, so he didn't dare to move in Huai'an.

From a strategic point of view, Emperor Jianwen's idea is good, but if it is a good general like Xu Huizu or Sheng Yong who is in charge here, they can recruit troops and train at the same time, and after a year and a half, they can go to the front line to fight the Yan army.

On the third day of November, Zhu Gaoxu's four men and four horsemen finally came to the vicinity of Beijing.

Four people and four people crossed the river by boat, and on the other side of the river was the Jiangdong Division, but the Jiangdong Division was mainly checked from Jiangdong to the west, and they crossed the Jiangdong from the west and were checked by the Puzikou Division, so naturally no one paid attention to them.

In fact, if it weren't for the war, the people of the inspection department would not have casually checked ordinary people.

Not long after passing through the territory of the Koto Division, I saw the outer wall of Nanjing City.

When they arrived at the door and were interrogated again, Zhu Gaoxu and the others had already prepared, divided into groups of two, entered the city at intervals, and each reported an address in Nanjing, saying that they went out of the city yesterday and went back today, and it was easy to pass.

After all, this will Yan Wang Bingfeng did not come here, and the inspection at the door is relatively loose.

The key is that Zhu Gaoxu studied in Nanjing City and went to school for several years, so he can speak the local official dialect.

It's like the most commonly used saying for scolding people in Nanjing: dumb ratio, as long as a person has heard it, he will say it.

After entering Jiangdong City, it is considered to enter the outer city of Nanjing.

Facing Mochou Lake, on the edge of Mochou Lake is the cool gate of the inner city.

The people who would enter the city were dividing themselves and going everywhere, and they followed part of the crowd into the inner city through the Qingliang Gate.

This side is Qingliang Mountain, and there is the famous Qingliang Temple on the east mountain.

This Qingliang Temple has not been renamed, it is still the name of the Northern Song Dynasty, called Qingliang Guanghui Temple, it will be until the fourth year of Jianwen, after the success of Jingnan, Zhou King Zhu Hu (sù) rebuilt the mountain temple, Chengzu Zhu Di inscribed "Qingliang Temple", and then changed its name to Qingliang Temple.

The Qingliang Guanghui Temple that has not yet been rebuilt covers an area of about ten acres, and Zhu Hu doubled its expansion when it was rebuilt, reaching twenty acres.

Zhu Gaoxu and his party went directly up the mountain, and many pilgrims could still be seen along the road.

After going up the mountain, he went around to the back of Qingliang Temple, Zhu Gaoxu asked Song Changlin and Mao Xin to wait in the distance, he took Zhou Hu over and knocked on the door gently.

Not long after, a small novice opened the temple door, and the other party looked at them in surprise, after all, ordinary pilgrims do not go through the back door.

"Two donors?"

"We are from Hangzhou, looking for Master Guanyuan, and please pass it on your behalf." Zhu Gaoxu said politely.

"Wait a minute, two donors." Not long after the little novice entered, a young monk came out and shaved his head.

Special mother, as soon as Zhu Gaoxu saw this young monk, he felt a little similar to Yuan Yi and Yuan Hui.

He really guessed correctly, this is Yuan Hui's other son, Yuan Guang.

Yuan Hui had four sons, except for one who died young, the other three were doing their best to help King Yan.

Yuan Guang shaved his head five years ago, and under the operation of Yao Guangxiao, he went to Qingliang Temple to become a monk, known as Guanyuan.

When he saw Guan Yuan, Zhu Gaoxu had to admire Yao Guangxiao, in terms of ancient use and fine work, Yao Guangxiao was still relatively good.

When he saw Guan Yuan, Zhu Gaoxu was glad that he didn't call Mao Xin and Song Changlin over.

He separated from Yuan Yi before, just because he didn't want Yuan Yi to recognize Song Changlin and Mao Xin, because the two of them led troops to attack Yuan Yi and Tan Hai and killed Yuan Zhongche.

Although Song Changlin and Mao Xin said that they were far away from Yuan Yi at that time, after Yuan Yi saw them rushing out, except for Tan Hai leading troops to meet them, Yuan Yi immediately turned his horse's head and prepared to escape, and it was difficult to see their appearances clearly.

But Zhu Gaoxu decided to go separately just in case.

After going up the mountain, Zhu Gaoxu didn't call the two of them over in case Yuan Yi was here.

Unexpectedly, I saw Guanyuan here today.

Sure enough, it's good to be careful in everything you do, Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself.

Just when Zhu Gaoxu was thinking wildly, Guan Yuan was already asking, where is the donor uncomfortable?

Zhu Gaoxu came back to his senses and said something that he had prepared in Beiping.

Guan Yuan checked the pulse with his hand, helped Zhu Gaoxu take the pulse, and then said that the problem is not very big, the poor monk will help you prepare some herbs, you go back to cook and take it, and you can take it for seven days.

After that, he wrote a list of herbs and handed it to Zhu Gaoxu, and a small novice on the side said, please follow me.

Zhu Gaoxu thanked him and motioned for Zhou Hu to go with him.

Zhou Hu and Xiao Shami went to the front, Xiao Shami helped Zhou Hu light a pair of incense, Zhou Hu humbly worshiped the Buddha, and then lost the incense money of ten treasure notes.

And Zhu Gaoxu stayed in the back for a few more moments, and Guan Yuan saw that Xiao Shami was gone, and quickly took out a copper key from somewhere.

He said in a low voice: "One hundred steps south of the North Gate Bridge, down the street Chen's rice shop." ”

Zhu Gaoxu took the key, turned around and walked out quickly, just as Zhou Hu came back after burning incense.

"Thank you, Master Guanyuan." Zhu Gaoxu and Zhou Hu thanked again and turned away.

After Zhu Gaoxu came out, he immediately found Mao Xin and Song Changlin.

"You two hurry down the hill first, and go a hundred steps south to the North Gate Bridge, there is a street called Xiajie."

"You look along the street, there are no shops or houses for sale, maybe you can find a tooth shop to help, let's buy or rent a shop on this street, remember, it's best to be near Chen's rice shop."

"No." The two turned to leave.

"Wait a minute, you guys buy a hat when you go to the street to prevent Yuan Yi from seeing your face."

"No." The two of them hurried down the mountain.

Zhu Gaoxu took Zhou Hu to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Qingliang Mountain while slowly descending the mountain.

(End of chapter)