Fengcheng Hou Li Bin and Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng originally led heavy troops to garrison Xuanfu.

When fighting Annan, Zhu Di transferred Li Bin to the deputy general, and most of Li Bin's family was still in Xuanfu at that time.

He had a son, also named Li Xian, who had the same name as Li Xian, a Mongolian general under Zhu Gaoxu.

After Sheng Yong and Ping'an ran away, Zhu Di became suspicious, and many family members who left Beijing late, like He Fu, were left behind.

And Li Bin, who had already left Beijing, recruited his eighteen-year-old son Li Xian back and served as the commander of the Beijing camp Wuxiang Zuowei Qianhu.

This year, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly raised troops, and there was no news from Annan, so Emperor Zhu Di immediately sent Jinyi Guards to guard the families of Li Bin and Zhang Fu, Chen Xu and others, and Li Bin's wife and daughter in Xuanfu were also recruited.

However, they are not considered guilty at this time, so they are usually only monitored and tracked from afar, and do not restrict travel.

Ji Gang came to a teahouse near Li Binmen, someone in the teahouse wanted to talk about King Wu yesterday, and after a while, he was arrested by Jinyiwei, and then found that it was the people near the teahouse, a literate scholar, who failed to pass the imperial examination, and someone paid him to speak.

Ji Gang didn't say much, according to Zhu Di's request, he was directly cut, and among his family, the male was assigned to Beiping and participated in the construction of the Beiping Imperial City. (In the fourth year of Yongle, that is, last year, Zhu Di issued an edict to build an imperial city in Beiping according to the blueprint of the Nanjing Imperial Palace), and the female was sent to the Department of Teaching Workshops.

As soon as Ji Gang arrived upstairs, two young men surrounded him.

"Commander." The two whispered to each other.

"How is Li Bin's family doing?" Ji Gang asked.

"It's pretty much the same as usual. Li Xian goes to be on duty when he has something to do, he will ask people to drink and play when he has nothing to do, and he likes to go to the teaching department. ”

"Li Xian is not married?" Ji Gang stared, he was not young.

"It doesn't seem to be yet."

"Who did he date?"

"Xu An. (Xu Zhong's son, not Xu Xiang's son.) Qiu Song, Tang Rong--" subordinates reported a few names.

Except for Qiu Fu, the rest are not Zhu Di's henchmen.

It seems that the sons' playmates are similar to the fathers'.

"And Sun Heng."

Sun Heng is Zhu Gaoxu's brother-in-law and Sun Yan's son.

In the Jing Dynasty, Sun Yan's father and son helped Zhu Di guard Tongzhou, as stable as an old dog.

After the Jingjing, Sun Yan sat in the governor's mansion of the five armies of the Beijing Division, and was the governor of the left army.

Sun Heng was the commander of the Henan capital.

After Zhu Gaoxu raised his troops, Zhu Di immediately called Sun Heng back to Beijing, both father and son were in Beijing, and there were hostages.

But Ji Gang was very strange, Zhu Gaoxu's subordinates in Jingjing, the commander of the Fujian Metropolitan Commander, and the Guangdong Metropolitan Commander Li Yuan, followed the opposite, why did Sun Heng not react at all at that time, and still honestly came to Beijing?

But there are many such things in the Jingjing, and it is normal for the son-in-law and the father-in-law to belong to different camps.

For example, Zhu Di and Xu Huizu, who are also brothers-in-law, are rivals.

Of course, the imperial court didn't trust Xu Huizu either, but didn't let him take military power.

Therefore, Zhu Di did not punish the Sun father and son, and only recruited them back to Beijing.

"My lord, how can Xu An still come out?" At this time, a subordinate asked.

Xu Zhong has landed in Huguang, can his son Xu An still run out? Shouldn't you be under house arrest?

Ji Gang remained silent: "Your Majesty has no will, we can't do anything, let him go, of course, I have sent someone to keep an eye on him, once the holy decree arrives, he can be arrested immediately." ”

The two nodded.

Ji Gang watched for a while, then left and went to the back door of Xu's mansion.

The back door of the Xu Mansion is also guarded by their people.

Two brocade guards were dressed in civilian clothes and hid in a room opposite the door.

Seeing Ji Gang coming, the two stepped forward to pay their respects.

Ji Gang asked, what's special lately?

The subordinates shook their heads and said that basically no one came to the back door, and Li Xian did not come out of the back door.

It doesn't look like much.

The three of them talked, Ji Gang felt that he had nothing to gain, and was thinking about what excuse to meet Li Xian, when suddenly, he saw a figure coming here from a distance.

"Someone's coming."

Ji Gang looked carefully through the specially dug piercing on the door.

There was a person in the distance who was walking this way, the man seemed to be in a hurry, his head was pressed very low, he looked at his feet, and walked all the way to the back door of Li Bin, almost without a pause, and walked over again.

"It turned out to be passing by." The two subordinates breathed a long sigh of relief.

Ji Gang's expression moved slightly, and after this person walked by, he faintly felt that this person's back was a little familiar.

Yes, Lao Tzu must have seen him.

Like a eunuch.

Ji Gang opened the door violently and quickly chased after him.

The person in front of him had just turned a corner, turned around and saw that there was no one behind him, whoosh, took something out of his sleeve, threw it directly into the courtyard wall of Li Bin's house, and then continued to walk forward.

As soon as he retracted his hand, Ji Gang had already appeared not far behind him.

But Ji Gang didn't watch him throw things, and walked over quickly.

When they got closer, they suddenly leaned to the right.

"Ahh Ji Gang seems to have accidentally bumped into this person.

He wanted to see what this man looked like.

But the man whispered, "It's okay, it's okay." Without raising his head, he kept walking.

Ji Gang will be sure, he is a eunuch.

The smell on his body, as well as his voice, is a eunuch.

He must have seen this eunuch, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Ji Gang didn't say anything, stood still and thought about it, and turned away.

Li Xian is not on duty today, the guard in front said that he is still at home, and Li Xian usually goes out to play during dinner.

Ji Gang originally wanted to enter through the front door, but after thinking about it, he still went to the back door.

The back door is in Fire Alley, and there are few passers-by.

"I'll go in and find out what Li Xian is talking about." He said hello to his men and went to knock on the door.

There was a knock on the back door for a few moments before someone inside could speak.

"Who's coming?"

Ji Gang said: "Is Li Qianhu at home?" ”

Squeak, the back door opened, revealing a man in his fifties, who should be a servant of the Li family.

He looked at Ji Gang, who are you?

"I'm Ji Gang, the commander of Jinyiwei, and it's a little trivial, I want to meet Li Qianhu."

"Master Ji, please wait a moment." The man quickly went back and came out quickly.

"My young master is invited."

Ji Gang looked at it, the backyard was a bit big, but the ground was very clean, and even the fallen leaves had been swept away.

He followed the man forward and said, "How many people are in the family?" ”

The man smiled, in addition to the young master, lady and young lady, there were also a few servants and maids.

Ji Gang said a few words to him kindly, and when he was about to arrive, he took out a few pieces of broken silver from his sleeve: "Thank you, it's a little meaning." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, old servant don't dare." Plopped, the man knelt down and excused himself again and again.

Ji Gang shoved directly into his hand, laughed, and strode into the corridor.

The man had no choice but to catch up and say thank you.

After a while, Li Xian met Ji Gang in the guest hall.

The Jinyi Guard Envoy made a sudden visit, and Li Xian was still very strange.

Li Xian is not yet twenty years old, but because he has been in the army with his father for many years, his appearance is still very mature and temperamental.

Like his father Li Bin, he likes to read and write, so he is also an outlier among the Ming generals.

Seeing Ji Gang, he hurriedly visited him first, and then invited him to sit on the main seat.

Li Bin was not there, and Ji Gang was also arrogant, and decisively sat on the main seat.

After serving tea, the maid withdrew.

Li Xian looked at Ji Gang with a thoughtful expression.

Ji Gang took a sip of tea first, and then said: "Back then, the Marquis of Fengcheng and the Duke of Qi strongly recommended King Han as the crown prince. ”

Li Xian remained silent.

"What a big mistake." Ji Gang said: "Who knew that King Han was a wolf with ambition, and he dared to rebel." ”

Li Xian immediately said: "Yes, if my father knew, he would definitely regret it." ”

"Haven't heard from your father yet?" Ji Gang immediately asked.

Li Xian still didn't have any expression, just shook his head: "No, my father seems to be missing, and I heard that General Zhang Fu and General Chen Xu are the same." ”

Zhang Fu and Chen Xu are both earls, and he didn't call any of them, only generals.

"Hey, I don't know what Cochin is like now, no matter how many secret agents I have spied on the Jinyi Guard, I can't go back." Ji Gang looked at Li Xian as he spoke.

Li Xian still didn't have any expression, but said: "I also ask the princes of the court to help, Li Xian also misses his father very much." ”

"Okay, I'll send more people." Ji Gang said, then clenched his fists and got up.

When he came out, he was already half sure that Li Bin and Zhu Gaoxu were in contact.

Li Xian's father has been missing for so long, and he doesn't have any sad and anxious expression, he is still too young, and Ji Gang can see through it at a glance.

Li Xian's expression was very calm, and it was the same when he said that his father was missing, so he obviously knew that his father was fine.

Li Xian sent him to the door.

When he was about to reach the door, Ji Gang suddenly stopped and whispered: "Recently, the official army has been defeated again, and there are still people in the city who are preaching rebels everywhere, Li Qianhu tries not to talk about it outside, so as not to cause trouble." ”

Li Xian's expression changed slightly this time, and then he made a gesture of gratitude: "Thank you Commander Ji, Li Xian understands." ”

After Ji Gang left, Li Xian stood in place with a thoughtful expression.

Ji Gang: What does this mean?

Looking at the tone of his voice, it seems that he also wants to take refuge in King Han?

As soon as Ji Gang returned to his yamen, Beizhen Fusi came to report, and Lei Ming came back.

When Zhang Fu went to fight Annan, Lei Ming was also recruited, and he was Zhang Fu's henchman, but Zhang Fu's soldiers and horses were very few in Henan, and only Lei Ming brought more than 1,000 subordinates, which was equivalent to borrowing a Lei Ming from the Henan Metropolitan Division.

Lei Ming was the first person to come back.

Huang Fu went to Jiaozhi to serve as the political envoy last year, and it was almost half a year before he came back, and Ji Gang attached great importance to it.

When he saw Lei Ming, he felt that Lei Ming was like a refugee beggar, and he almost didn't recognize him.

After chatting with Lei Ming for a while, he hurriedly took Lei Ming into the imperial city, because he was afraid that Zhu Di would dislike him, so he had to take Lei Ming to take a bath and change his clothes.

Zhu Di was also shocked when he heard that someone had come back from Jiaozhi.

After Zhu Gaoxu raised his troops, Jiaozhi seemed to have disappeared on the map, and no news could be returned, and the 300,000 elites of the Ming Dynasty were silent.

He hurriedly summoned Lei Ming.

"Your Majesty." Lei Ming cried and knelt on the ground, and told his story 1510.

On the same day, Huang Fu and the eunuch Ma Qi went to Qinghua to announce the decree, and the general at the command level and the general level were arranged in the will, and Lei Ming could return to China, Lei Ming was surprised and delighted at that time.

Then when he got on the boat, he found that the people who got on the boat with him were basically Zhang Fu's henchmen, or generals of the Jingnan Northern Army, and most of them were princes or Zhu Di.

Their ship departed from Haiphong Port and went to Lianzhou, Guangdong, saying that there was no fresh water and that they would go to Lianzhou to resupply.

The generals all brought a few personal soldiers, and of course there were no opinions.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived on the shore, he was detained.

And then.

All of them dried salt over there and became Zhu Gaoxu's salt.

Zhu Di's eyes were dark, and he almost didn't lose his breath all of a sudden.

(End of chapter)