Before dark, the team arrived in Cangzhou, 350 miles away.

The leading ice truck drove to the side of the river and raised a red flag. When the ice carts behind saw it, they also docked. The drivers took down their tents and firewood from their cars and prepared to set up their tents and light a fire for cooking.

"I feel like I've traveled more than three hundred and fifty miles today." Zhu Di got out of the car and moved his body, ready to inspect the condition of the team.

"Not really." Zhu Zhen also got out of the car, and he was going to go around with the fourth brother. Even if it is him, after eating twenty plates of mutton, he still needs to digest and digest the food. "The river is not straight, from Tongzhou, we first went southeast, and only went south when we reached the Xianghe. So today I actually ran four hundred miles. ”

"It's exactly what you expected." The fourth brother couldn't help but admire.

"It's all the old handlebar style that can run this result." Zhu Zhen said softly: "Those rookies can run two hundred miles, thank God." ”

"Once raw and twice ripe, it will become an old bird in three days." Zhu Di smiled and patted Lao Liudao: "It's good to be cautious, it's too tiring to be too cautious." ”

"Really?" Zhu Zhen was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "It seems like this." I am always afraid of poor planning, poor execution, and variables. ”

"The responsibility that your father has placed on your shoulders is too heavy." Zhu Di looked at his sixth brother who was taller than him with some distress.

Although Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen had eaten a lot, the coachmen were enthusiastic, and he still happily tasted a big bowl.

"Okay, let this king think about it." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "Guangdong boatmen have boat porridge, and our Beiping's self-created porridge is called ice porridge!" ”

"Check your limbs and ears for frostbite before you go to bed, and if you have one, go to a military doctor for treatment immediately, don't delay." Zhu Di instructed again.

"Blindly cooked, what's the name?" Everyone laughed and said, "Why don't you give one to the prince?" ”

The two laughed and came to the coachman and saw that they were cooking porridge and eating. Time was in a hurry, and the government only provided rice noodles and salt, but during the Chinese New Year, the coachmen brought some roast chicken and duck, chopped and put it in the porridge to cook together, and finally added some vegetable leaves, which tasted very fragrant.

"So the fourth brother has to help me." Zhu Zhen smiled: "The most comfortable thing for me is the time when I messed with you and the third brother. ”

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Early the next morning, Zhang Jicai, the prefect of Hejian, personally arrived with 2,000 ice carts full of firewood.

"After eating porridge, let's rest quickly, and we will continue to travel tomorrow." Zhu Zhen told them a few more words, let them pay attention to keeping warm, make the fire prosperous, and don't be afraid of running out of firewood. Because the states and counties along the way have already received orders to support them, at least the firewood does not have to worry.

This is the ice truck and supplies urgently dispatched from various counties after receiving the order.

"Haha, it's because someone is behind you." Zhu Di couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, yes, yes!" No matter what others thought, at least the drivers were overjoyed. There is a porridge named after itself, which is enough to blow for a lifetime.

"Okay." The coachmen responded happily, although it was cold, but the fire was not much warm, but the two princes could care about it, and everyone's hearts were still warm.

"Well, it's delicious." After drinking the two rice buckets, Zhu Zhen asked, "Does this porridge have a name?" ”

And not only will the coachman join the team and go south together, but even Governor Zhang will take the initiative to ask Ying to go south together.

"Hejian is a big house, and the states and counties are too far away to transport all the materials to Cangzhou, so the lower officials let the states and counties in the south transport them to Jingzhou." Zhang Jicai said to the two princes: "So the lower officials should go south together, so that it is easy to coordinate the handover." ”

"Well, that makes sense." Zhu Di looked at him suspiciously and said, "Then what do you want to do with Shandong?" ”

"Let's do something." Zhang Jicai smiled and said: "Besides, these two heads add up to 4,000 coachmen, someone has to take care of them, right?" ”

"Are you northern officials so conscious?" Zhu Zhen couldn't help but admire: "Southern officials are not so proactive. ”

"Surely you have something else in mind? Tell this king honestly, otherwise go back to Lao Tzu. "Zhu Di didn't have a good airway.

"I don't mean anything else." Zhang Jicai hurriedly knelt down and said: "I just want to make a contribution to the princes." ”

"You want us to recommend you to the court?" Zhu Di looked at him.

"No, no, absolutely not." Zhang Jicai waved his hand and said: "Xiaguan is nothing more than thinking, but when I heard some rumors, I was scared and asked the two princes for protection." ”

"I'll just say something's wrong, right? What rumors? Zhu Di said in a deep voice: "Give me a clear explanation, don't fucking say half and half!" ”

"Yes, yes." Zhang Jicai hurriedly nodded and said truthfully: "It was the lower officials who heard that the emperor had decreed that they would arrest all the officials of the Household Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Household Division, and also check the official warehouses of all provinces and provinces!" ”

"Oh? When was this? When Zhu Zhen heard this, three words immediately popped up in his mind - Guo Huan's case!

"The first day of the first month." Zhang Jicai whispered.

"You're the Yuan Shizu—huh?" Zhu Di said unbelievably: "What we don't know, you know it first?" ”

"Normal." Zhu Zhen didn't feel strange and said: "First, we are in a hurry now, and besides, it has nothing to do with us, so we didn't receive an urgent report." Second, everyone has a Beijing office, and if there is news, it will definitely come back as soon as possible. ”

"What Beijing Office?" Zhu Di was stunned.

Zhang Jicai understood: "The prince is saying that the political secretary is stationed in the capital according to the judges, and he specially contacts the experience of various ministries, right?" ”

"That's what it means." Zhu Zhen nodded. "Aren't you going to arrange it in your house?"

"The lower officials only sent people to contact in Beiping, and they couldn't contact the Jingli level." Zhang Jicai hesitated, but replied honestly: "However, Xiaguan has some friendship with the two experiences of the province in Beijing, so when he passes by Hejian Mansion, he will also have some explanations with Xiaguan." ”

"Just last night, according to the judge's experience, Hou rushed back from the capital like crazy, and the horses were exhausted to death." Zhang Jicai nodded and said: "I went to the prefect's yamen to ask the officials for horses, saying that there was a very urgent matter, and I wanted to report to my own Zhao Zhentai and Li Fantai." ”

"The lower officials told them that there was no need to worry, because they had already been put in prison." Zhang Jicai continued: "Hou experienced this time to tell me what happened in Beijing, saying that this time is not a joke, especially in Beiping, everyone must be tried and everyone will pass." ”

Saying that, he looked at the two princes pitifully and said: "So ask the two princes for protection, let the lower officials avoid this catastrophe, and the lower officials will definitely repay them wholeheartedly." ”

Zhu Zhen and Zhu Di glanced at each other, and the latter asked coldly, "Are you also involved in embezzling military rations?" ”

"That's a categorical no!" Zhang Jicai hurriedly swore to the sky: "If the lower official embezzles a grain of military rations, my whole family will die!" ”

"And you're afraid of a ball?" Zhu Di asked puzzled.

(End of chapter)