On the tenth day of August in the fifteenth year of Zhengde (1520), Anlu.

Today is the fourteenth birthday of Zhu Houxi, the son of Xingshi, but there is no trace of joy in the huge Xingwang Mansion.

Inside the transportation hall.

Zhu Houxi, who was wearing fish scale armor, was pacing back and forth, the armor made a clanging sound, and his white little face seemed to be full of anxiety.

In fact, people in the palace don't know that Zhu Houxi, who is now carrying the palace, is no longer Zhu Houxi, who will become Emperor Jiajing next year in history, and his soul comes from the 21st century.

A year ago, Zhu Yinhai, who went to a friend of the opposite sex to help change the electric switch, was caused by his sister-in-law's accident to close the main gate in advance, and his soul traveled through time and space and became Zhu Houxi, who died because of the pain of losing his father.

After Zhu Yinhai learned of his new identity, he made a decision that surprised everyone, choosing to continue to be the emperor's younger brother in the future between the emperor and the emperor's younger brother.

After all, anyone who has been an emperor knows that the emperor's job is not easy to do, he must obey the ancestral system, listen to the government, deal with state affairs, get up earlier than a chicken, sleep later than a dog, be strict with himself and be lenient with others, and if he does a good job, he will not surpass the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and if he does not do well, he will be stinking for 10,000 years.

Moreover, the emperor's job is still a high-risk profession, and the historical Ming Shizong almost died in Renyin Palace, if it weren't for the great life of Emperor Jiajing at that time, he might have been successfully assassinated by those dozen women.

Even if Zhu Yinhai is sure that he will not be as mediocre as Emperor Jiajing in history, he only wants to cultivate the Tao and become an immortal and ignore the government, but what if anyone looks at him unpleasantly and wants to murder him.

Zhu Yinhai knew that his appearance had changed the wheel of fate belonging to Zhu Houxi, he was not sure what kind of danger and future he would face if he became Emperor Jiajing, he really couldn't carry the thousands of miles of the Ming Dynasty.

So, Zhu Yinhai, who became Zhu Houxi, gave up the fate of honestly waiting to become the emperor, and he wanted to fight.

He, Zhu Houxi, wants to continue to be the emperor's brother of the Ming Dynasty, not the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to achieve his goal, Zhu Houxi formulated a series of plans for this, and made full preparations within a year.

One of the most important tasks is to rescue the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao, who will fall into the water in Qingjiangpu next month.

If Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao dies, Zhu Houyu will still inherit the throne according to his brother's ancestral system, and he will not be able to escape the fate of becoming Emperor Jiajing, so in Zhu Houxi's plan, Zhengde cannot die no matter what.

The current Zhu Houxi's mood is anxious, because all the arrangements for rescuing Emperor Zhengde will be implemented today.

The reason why Zhu Houxi set the time for the start of the task today has a lot to do with the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, and the ancestral system established by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, has a stipulation that as the prince of the vassal king, he must not leave the fiefdom of the Xingwang Mansion without authorization.

Only on the day of Xingshizi's birthday, the surveillance of the palace by various forces will decline.

Zhu Houxi had to fight a time gap with the imperial court, and rushed to Qingjiangpu to rescue Emperor Zhengde before the imperial court knew that he had left the fiefdom without permission.

At this time, Huang Jin, who was the companion of the prince, walked quickly into the carrying hall, came to Zhu Houxi, who had stopped, and said in a sharp voice: "Prince, everything has been arranged, the fourth and fifth teams are responsible for escorting the princess and others away, and the second and third teams are waiting for the prince outside the house. ”

After listening to Huang Jin's words, Zhu Houxi's anxious mood disappeared obviously and quickly.

With the protection of the four and five teams that have undergone their own special training, the mother should be very safe.

You can also rest assured to save Zhu Houzhao.

Although he is not the son of Princess Jiang, as an orphan in his previous life, Zhu Yinhai, who now inherits Zhu Houxi's memory, has long regarded Jiang as his mother.

In case his plan went wrong and brought disaster to the Xingwang Mansion, Zhu Houxi deliberately asked Jiang and the others to be sent to a safe place.

Seeing Zhu Houxi's expression return to naturalness, the loyal Huang Jin couldn't help but persuade again: "Shizi, Your Majesty treats you well, why do you want to rebel?" ”

King Ning's rebellion had just passed, and Huang Jinzhen didn't want to see his son follow the old path of King Ning.

Plotting against your sister.

Zhu Houxi, who was in a relaxed mood, raised his leg and gave Huang Jin a kick, and said to Huang Jin, who was kicked to the ground: "How many times has this son told you that this son is going to rescue the driver, this is to save the driver." ”

Zhu Houxi chose to continue to be the emperor's younger brother, in addition to feeling that he was just a small person and could not bear the responsibility of the Ming Emperor, on the other hand, Emperor Zhengde was really good to Xingwangfu, with a lot of favors and constant rewards.

No matter how Zhu Houyu shouted to rescue the driver, but Huang Jin, who was kicked to the ground, just didn't believe it, not to mention that Emperor Zhengde was protected by a large team of people and horses, and there could be no danger.

Seeing Huang Jin's look of disbelief, Zhu Houyu didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, and walked towards the outside of the carrier hall, while Huang Jin on the ground quickly got up and carefully followed behind Zhu Houxi, obviously Zhu Houyu didn't use much force when he kicked him just now.

When Zhu Houxi walked out of Xingwang's Mansion, twelve soldiers in black armor were already lined up in front of the gate of Xingwang's Mansion with one person and two horses.

These people were carefully selected by Zhu Houxi from among the 300 personal soldiers in the palace through the method of survival of the fittest, a total of 30 people, divided into five teams, each team of six people.

Zhu Houxi named the team of thirty people - Special Guard.

As Zhu Houxi appeared in front of the mansion, a servant soon brought his mount, which was a white horse given to him by Emperor Zhengde, with a snow-white body without a trace of miscellaneous hair.

Huang Jin, who was behind Zhu Houxi, looked at the team that already had a murderous aura, and shouted in a sharp voice: "You wait to follow the prince, protect the prince along the way, and if there is a mistake, bring someone to see him." ”

"Yes." The voices of the twelve Guards were as cohesive and unanimous as the voice of one man.

Zhu Houxi grabbed the saddle with both hands, stepped on the stirrup with one foot, turned over on the horse with the help of others, and looked at his first masterpiece in this time and space, Zhu Houxi smiled on his still somewhat immature face and said, "Let's go." ”

When Zhu Houxi urged the horse forward, the twelve special guards immediately turned over and followed closely behind them, leaving only a puff of dust in front of the gate of Xingwangfu.

Huang Jin looked at the team in the distance and sighed silently, turned around and ordered: "Close the door of the mansion immediately, before the prince returns, no one is allowed to open the door, and those who violate it will be killed." ”

Zhu Houxi and others set out from Anlu, passed through Luzhou and Fengyang, and after half a month, finally arrived at Qingjiangpu in Huai'an Prefecture at the end of August.

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Last week, there were just two rains, one for three days and one for four days, which made the air in Qingjiangpu in September a little more chilly, and the autumn sun shone on the water sparkling.

Zhu Houxi was lighting firewood in a makeshift wooden house, trying to make the room warmer.

Why hasn't Zhu Houzhao come yet?

If he doesn't come again, he can't wait any longer.

Just when Zhu Houxi was looking at the fire in front of him and considering whether to change his plan, he suddenly heard someone outside the door say, "Shizi, Your Majesty is here." ”

But the fuck is here.

Zhu Houxi excitedly dropped the firewood in his hand, quickly stood up from the ground, and when he walked to the window, he saw Emperor Zhengde accompanying the brigade on the other side of the river, and slowly boarded the boat that was destined to capsize.

Xiaozhou slowly left the shore, Zhu Houxi's eyes stared at Zhengde's vague figure without moving, and silently prayed in his heart to let Zhengde fall quickly, and not to change anything because of his arrival, otherwise it was just the crime of leaving the fiefdom without permission, which was enough for him to drink a pot.

Half an hour passed, just when Zhu Houxi's feet began to tingle. The heavens seemed to have just received the signal, and Zhengde, who was holding the fishing net, had an unstable center of gravity, and plunged directly into the river, and the boat also capsized on the river, which was beyond the expectations of everyone on the shore.

"Save Your Majesty."

"Save Your Majesty."

"Come on, go and save the emperor."

Just when the ministers were panicked and at a loss, the six brocade guards who were responsible for accompanying and protecting Emperor Zhengde had obviously been prepared for a long time and jumped directly from the boat next to them.

Lu Song tried his best to drag Zhengde, who did not know water, out of the water, and at the same time put a hollow bamboo hidden in his sleeve into Zhengde's mouth, so that he could breathe fresh air and prevent the river from entering his lungs.

It's just that Zhengde, who is in danger, doesn't care about anything else at all, and desperately grabs Lu Song beside him, and his handsome face is already white with fright.

Lu Song drank several mouthfuls of river water under Zhengde's indiscriminate climbing, and finally the six of them dragged Zhengde onto the boat with a lot of effort, and Lu Song immediately ordered the boatman to row the boat to the shore.

"Quick, row that way."

Under Zhu Houxi's gaze, Zhengde's boat quickly rowed towards him.

Zhu Houxi left the window to open the door of the wooden house, and said to the special guard guarding the door, "Prepare to welcome the holy driver." ”

The guards replied neatly, "Yes." ”

As soon as the boat landed, Lu Song immediately jumped off the boat, picked up Zhengde and ran towards the wooden house.

Zhu Houxi is sure that there is only one person in history who can carry the Ming Emperor as a sack.

The courtiers on the other side of the river, after seeing Emperor Zhengde being rescued, just let go of their hanging hearts, but when they found out that Lu Song was carrying Zhengde as a sack, they were so anxious that they jumped to their feet.

Liang Chu, a scholar of Huagai Temple, said hurriedly: "I'll wait to get over quickly." ”

Zhu Houxi, who wanted to salute Emperor Zhengde, saw that Zhengde was soaked all over and his body was shivering from the cold, he immediately dispelled his previous thoughts and hurriedly shouted: "Come into the house, you guys go and get hot water." ”

After instructing the special guard, Zhu Houxi, who followed Lu Song, also ran towards the wooden house.

Zhu Houxi knew that from this moment on, the history of the Ming Dynasty would change because of him, and there would be no more Emperor Xiuxian, no more Emperor Carpenter, and no more King of the Dead Country.