King Yan said: "Zhang Fu has several daughters, among which the eldest daughter Zhang Yan is thirteen years old, I have met your mother and concubine, she is beautiful and generous, and she is knowledgeable, I want her to marry you, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu's face turned red, and he said excitedly: "You should follow your father's orders." ”

"Hahaha, okay, after a while, they will come from Beiping, and I will arrange for them to meet." King Yan laughed and patted Zhu Gaoxu's shoulder: "Zhang Fu is my confidant, you can treat Zhang Yan well." ”

"Father, rest assured." Zhu Gaoxu said excitedly.

Coming out of the Wuying Palace, Ji Gang saw Zhu Gaoxu's face flushed, his expression was excited, and he couldn't help but step forward and laugh: "King Gaoyang." ”

Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "My father wants to marry Zhang Fu's eldest daughter to me, General Ji, and I want to come and have a cup of happy wine then." ”

"Ah, congratulations, congratulations to King Gaoyang, this is a must." Ji Gang was also overjoyed.

The two chatted without saying a word, and Ji Gang sent it all the way to the vicinity of his Shang Shan Prison.

Shangshanjian is behind the Wuying Palace, north of the Xihua Gate.

This will have already seen Xihuamen, and Ji Gang reached out and returned Zhu Gaoxu's waist knife to him.

Zhu Gaoxu asked casually while tying his waist knife: "Who has come to find my father recently?" ”

Ji Gang immediately said: "Yuan Yi, Yuan Yi has come several times. ”

Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: "This guy may be the commander of the Jinyi Guard." ”

Ji Gang's face changed slightly, and he smiled dryly: "Yes, the last general also heard about it." ”

"But his ability is far from General Ji." Zhu Gaoxu immediately said.

"Hey, hey." Ji Gang laughed a few times.

"General Ji, thank you, I'll go first."

"King Gaoyang walks slowly."

Zhu Gaoxu walked out of Xihua Gate, and his face suddenly turned pale.

King Yan suddenly wanted to marry Zhang Yan to him, and Zhu Gaoxu obviously felt that something was wrong.

——

There are fewer and fewer guests at Qingliang Temple.

Recently, only Huang Ying and Chunxiao are still living here, and the other guests have gone down the mountain one after another.

The two also wanted to go down the mountain a few days ago, but were blocked by two sturdy men at the door, and they have been under house arrest ever since.

That's when they know their identities may have been exposed.

Fortunately, the other party has always regarded Chunxiao as Huang Ying, and Chunxiao's personality is indeed more like the eldest lady.

Today, the two women were discussing countermeasures in the room, when suddenly there was a squeak, and the door was pushed open.

Yuan Yi walked in with the two of them.

The two women stood nervously and glared at them.

"That's Miss Huang Ying?" Yuan Yi asked with a smile.

The two women looked at each other, and after a while, Huang Ying said nervously: "I, I'm Huang Ying, this is my girl Chunxiao, you guys, don't embarrass her." ”

Chunxiao nodded, yes, yes, she is Huang Ying.

"Your Huang family, the clothes worn by the eldest lady are not as good as the girls?" Yuan Yi said with a smile.

Do you want to hide this little trick from me?

brush, Huang Ying was recognized, her face was red and white, and she was extremely embarrassed.

"Take the two young ladies down the mountain." Yuan Yi waved his hand, and two big sweats stepped forward and pulled up the two women.

Push them out of Qingliang Temple first, there are still two big men waiting outside.

Yuan Yi and the five escorted the two girls down the mountain.

"Where are you taking us?" Chunxiao asked nervously.

"The King of Gaoyang County is looking for you everywhere in the city, and I will take you to see the King of Gaoyang County." Yuan Yi said with a smile.

"Really?" Chunxiao said excitedly.

But Huang Ying's face was ugly, and it was fake when she heard it.

At this time, it is not far to walk out of Qingliang Temple, and there are two roads down the mountain of Qingliang Temple, one is the main road and the other is the small road.

But the men escorted them down the path.

Huang Ying immediately felt that something was wrong.

Chunxiao in front of her also slowly turned her head to look at her at this time, with the same look of horror on her face.

"Let's go." A big man in the back pushed them roughly.

The two stumbled forward.

It is getting farther and farther away from Qingliang Temple, and soon the temple gate will not be visible.

By this time they had reached the southwest.

The southwest of Qingliang Mountain is close to the Yangtze River, and the river water beats and impacts, forming a cliff on the southwest side, and on the south side of the mountain, you can also see the water transport wharf.

This is a section of road where you can see the Yangtze River, and if you go further, you won't be able to see the Yangtze River.

Chunxiao looked back at Huang Ying again, her eyes were extremely determined.

As if telling Huang Ying that this is the last chance.

"Chunxiao, run away." Chunxiao shouted violently, and then ran forward.

Yuan Yi and the others watched it early, and a few people shouted loudly, and chased after them.

Huang Ying turned around and ran southwest.

Several big men were concerned about chasing Chunxiao, only Yuan Yi was stunned for a moment, and then turned to chase Huang Ying.

The southwest is the Yangtze River cliff, she almost did not hesitate, a few steps to a cliff, swish, jumped, jumped into the long river.

Yuan Yi chased Huang Ying over, and at the same time as Huang Ying jumped up, he stretched out his hand to copy it, and grabbed a piece of Huang Ying's skirt, which was torn on the spot, and watched Huang Ying sink into the Yangtze River.

On the other side, after Chunxiao led everyone away, he wanted to jump into the Yangtze River again, but it was too late, and he was quickly thrown to the ground by a big man.

"Lord Yuan?" Someone turned around and asked Yuan Yi.

Yuan Yi looked left and right, and there were no outsiders, and he was far away from Qingliang Temple, so he couldn't see the temple gate, of course, he nodded.

"Woo" smeared Chunxiao's neck with a knife.

Chunxiao stared at them, her body twitched a few times, and then she didn't move.

"Don't throw it in the river, take it down, find a place to bury it." Yuan Yi said at this time.

"No."

Several people carried Chunxiao's body down for a while, and soon came to a deserted mountain forest and buried Chunxiao here.

Yuan Yi finally took a bead hairpin from Chunxiao's head and left.

He took the pearl hairpin to find the wife of Huang Zicheng of the teaching workshop Xu, and Xu's crying Xili was in an uproar, saying that it was his daughter's pearl hairpin.

Yuan Yidao, they were found in an uninhabited alley, they should have been killed by the rebels, and their bodies were also burned.

After coming out of the Teaching Workshop Division, Yuan Yi reported to Zhu Di and said that it had been disposed of.

But he didn't dare to say that a girl jumped the Yangtze River, so he only said that he killed them all.

A few days later, Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to Kaiping, and did not even participate in Zhu Di's enthronement ceremony.

At the end of June, King Yan ascended the throne a few days earlier than the original history, sacrificed to heaven and earth, announced the abolition of the Jianwen era, changed the year to the 35th year of Hongwu, and the following year was the first year of Yongle (1403).

After ascending the throne, Zhu Di immediately began a massacre, Fang Xiaoru was sentenced to ten clans, Qi Tai was Ling Chi, exterminated the clan, and his wife and daughter were used as official skills.

Lian Zining was Ling Chi and exterminated.

In addition, Yang Ren, Zhou Xuan, Mao Dafang, Guo Ren, Lu Zhen, Chen Di, etc., were either destroyed or exterminated.

Zhuo Jingyin had some festivals with Yao Guangxiao, and Yao Guangxiao said: "Respectful words are sincere, and Shangning has today." "It is to cut it and punish its three tribes.

The most unlucky one is the surname Gao.

Historical records "Gao Xiang's mourning clothes are not inferior." The clan, send its ancestral grave, and the pro-party is on the side. All the people who gave the Gao family increased taxes, saying: "Let the world scold Xiangye." ””

Zhu Di simply became too much, because he was angry with Gao Xiang and raised taxes on the people surnamed Gao in the whole Ming Dynasty, so that all the people with the surname Gao scolded Gao Xiang.

Zhu Di slaughtered Jianwen's former ministers, and on the other hand, he sent troops to Jinan to conquer Tie Xuan.

Back then, the Yan army fought Jinan several times and didn't take it, but now the situation is different, the whole Ming Dynasty has fallen, Jinan has become an isolated city, and there is no morale in the city.

Zhu Di fought and Tie Xuan was captured.

Because of the old attack on Jinan, Zhu Di thought that it was the people and counties near Hebei who were supporting Jinan, and after breaking Jinan, the Yan army swept the north again, taking the opportunity to slaughter some counties in Hebei as a pretense of supporting Jinan.

When Tie Xuan was brought to Beijing to see Zhu Di, he scolded endlessly, standing up and not kneeling. Zhu Di made him look north, but he couldn't get it. The angry Zhu Di asked Tie Xuan's ears and nose to be cut off, cooked and stuffed into his mouth, and asked him how it tasted. Tie Xuan said sharply, what is not delicious about the meat of loyal ministers and filial sons? He was then tortured and died.

Zhu Di opened a killing ring in Beijing, and when the Ming Dynasty slaughtered the people, Zhu Gaoxu was bored in Kaiping.

After he arrived in Kaiping, he obviously felt that the generals also seemed to have something on their minds.

King Yan defeated the Jingshi as the emperor, and the prince was rushing from Beiping to the Jingshi, and the king of Gaoyang County, who had made great contributions, was sent to Kaiping, which was extremely unreasonable in the eyes of many people.

The generals in the army were indignant, and they all felt that King Yan was unfair in private.

But so what, King Yan is already the emperor, no matter how unfair he is, who dares to speak nonsense.

On this day, a fast horse came from Jingshi, handed Zhu Gaoxu something, and said a few words.

After the messenger is gone.

Boom, Zhu Gaoxu overturned the table in front of him at once, and then, with a bang, kicked a chair not far away, his whole face turned red, and then the room crackled, and Zhu Gaoxu smashed it.

The guards outside the door were shocked and couldn't believe it.

Zhu Gaoxu has always been approachable, and he rarely gets angry in front of his subordinates, and no one has ever seen Zhu Gaoxu angry.

After a while, generals Li Yuan, Xu Xiang, Chen Wen, Wang Bin, Wei Da and others came to the gate one after another.

It was the first time for everyone to see Zhu Gaoxu getting angry like this, and everyone didn't dare to come in alone, and when the generals were almost assembled, Li Yuan shouted outside the door: "King Gaoyang? ”

There was silence inside for a moment before Zhu Gaoxu's voice sounded: "What's the matter with General Li?" ”

Li Yuan hurriedly led everyone into the house.

As soon as I entered, I was dumbfounded, almost all the things in the room were smashed, and Zhu Gaoxu's hands were bleeding, so he should have smashed something.

His whole person was like a raging beast, and his face was full of murderous intent and ferocity.

Everyone's first feeling was that Zhu Gaoxu had encountered something extremely important.

Xu Xiang looked left and right, and hurriedly said, "Xu An." ”

His son Xu An answered, hurriedly walked to the door, closed the door, and guarded the door.

At this time, the room was full of Zhu Gaoxu's cronies.

There are seven people: Li Yuan, Chen Wen, Xu Xiang, Wei Da, Wang Bin, Zhou Hu, and Song Meng.

Other close generals, such as Sheng Jian, Zheng Xing, Zhang Jie, Wang Zhong, etc., were stationed in various places in Kaiping.

These seven people can be regarded as Zhu Gaoxu's most trusted seven generals.

Everyone looked at Zhu Gaoxu nervously, and Zhu Gaoxu stood in place without saying a word.

After being silent for a while, Zhu Gaoxu raised his right hand, and the generals saw that he was holding a pearl hairpin in his right hand.

Zhu Gaoxu said slowly: "Someone from Jingshi came and said that Huang Ying was killed by the rebels in the streets and alleys. ”

The generals' faces changed slightly.

(End of chapter)