The two of them will return to Beijing in the near future, but there is nothing else wrong, so Zhu Song will be relieved.

Zhu Song handed it to his subordinates, put the letter away, and then said to his two concubines.

"This king will go south to the south of the Yangtze River to collect salt tax in a few days, it will take about half a month to two months, this king is not in Beijing during this time, you take care of your family."

His Royal Highness King Han, the current commander, there must be no danger in going to Jiangnan to receive salt tax, and the two girls just glanced at each other after hearing this, and they didn't worry much.

The two girls are still simpler in the end, in fact, this trip to collect salt tax will not be too dangerous for Zhu Song, and there will not even be any danger to his life.

But the struggle on the battlefield and the undercurrent in the court, both are terrible, although the matter of collecting salt tax with Zhu Song's merits in the Yongle Dynasty is a big crime on his head, as long as he does not rebel, Zhu Song's life will not be in danger, and even if he is a rebel, there will be no danger to his life, at most he will be under house arrest, and the most serious thing is to be demoted to a concubine.

But Zhu Song knew that this trip was very important, if he failed to bring up the tax this time, it would not be himself who would lose, but the face and prestige of the Yongle Dynasty, which was more serious.

Kill!

This is the last road that should not be taken, even if you don't want to go, you can't stop walking, so Zhu Song's mission is heavy, and Zhu Song himself will not be in any danger, but it is related to the face and majesty of the entire court.

Zhu Song stayed at Concubine Zhao's place to stay overnight today, the princess said, the queen has been urging the doctor of the hospital in the past few days, and has prescribed a lot of prescriptions, Concubine Zhao has taken a lot of this medicine, and I don't know if she can get pregnant, but she has lost a lot of weight.

After a night of hard work, there is naturally nothing to say.

A few days later, Zhu Song received the holy decree and left the Jingshi, stopping more than two hundred miles outside the Jingshi, waiting for Zhang Tiezhu and Chen Zheng, the two bastards.

The letter made it clear that these two people went south to Beijing and took this road, so Zhu Song was waiting here, and sooner or later he would be able to meet these two guys.

Count the days, these two guys didn't come yesterday, that is, they should come back today, if they don't come today, then it can only be tomorrow, Zhu Song can only wait here today, and tomorrow he will take a boat south.

Sure enough, after waiting for more than an hour, he saw that there were about eighty people in the north, who were riding horses, Zhu Song watched these eighty people gradually approach, and the guards beside him ordered the whole team to be on guard, and thousands of brocade guards and palace guards instantly lined up in formation.

Of the eighty people, the two people before the fight were Zhang Tiezhu and Chen Zheng.

Zhang Tiezhu, a stupid big black boy, looked at the formation in front of him, and felt nervous for no reason, but after seeing a big Korean character on the avenue, he immediately opened his mouth and became happy.

"Lao Chen! Look at the guy in front of me who is the prince's people, hahaha, I finally saw the prince, I want to kill him! ”

Chen Zheng smiled bitterly after hearing this.

"Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, the two of us have been out for so long, and it took so long to write a letter to His Highness, I'm afraid that His Highness will inevitably be scolded after seeing the two of us!"

Zhang Tiezhu is a nervous person.

"Scold, scold, I want to kill the prince, don't scold, he just saw me give me two big mouths, let me go to the manure tank to soak for a day and a night, and killed me, I didn't complain!"

Chen Zheng laughed after hearing this, and in an instant, the two of them had already come to the front of the team, and with a wave of Han Wang's hand, the guards all withdrew.

King Han was dressed in a python robe, sitting on a chair with Erlang's legs crossed, Chen Zheng and Zhang Tiezhu couldn't hide the smile on their faces, and strode to Zhu Song and knelt down.

"Humble Zhang Tiezhu (Chen Zheng) see His Highness!"

Zhu Song snorted coldly, then stood up and came to the two of them with his hands behind his back.

"You two still know that you will come back, and this king still thinks that you are planning to set up another mountain outside, and you will not come back in this life?"

Zhang Tiezhu licked his face, hehe was happy, he could see that he had revenge, and this character returned to his previous cheerfulness.

"Lord, how can that? Humble duty is to cry during the day and at night, and to dream of returning to the prince's side! ”

Zhu Song hehehe, he kicked Zhang Tiezhu's ass.

"I didn't expect you kid to remember me, I'm thinking that it's been almost a year, and your kid has already forgotten all about this king, and this king is still thinking about whether you Lord Zhang will not recognize this king when he sees it?"

Zhang Tiezhu was startled when he heard this, and quickly turned his mind to face Zhu Song, and then bowed to the ground with five bodies, which frightened Zhu Song.

"What are you doing here? Pretending to be pathetic? ”

Zhang Tiezhu's forehead was pressed against the ground: "Lord, my brother is gone, my mother is gone, I went back this time and found that they didn't even set up a monument to my brother and my mother, and the grave was mistaken, I finally found my brother and my mother's grave and set up a monument again!" ”

"I have no relatives anymore, the prince is my relative, and in the future, my life and death will be decided by the prince! The prince asked me to kill whoever I wanted, and I would kill whoever I wanted, even if it was a god, I would have to slash him if I climbed a ladder. ”

Zhu Song put his hands behind his back and sighed.

"This king doesn't blame you for not returning for a long time, this king blames you for not knowing how to give a letter for so long, this king is very worried about your safety in Beijing, if you don't come back, this king will ask the saint to personally lead a soldier and horse to Shandong to find you."

"This king knows that it is very hard for you to be trapped in the mountains, forget it, get up!"

Zhang Tiezhu and Chen Zheng got up one after another, Zhang Tiezhu's forehead was attached to the ground, and all the sticky face was dirty.

"Now this king is the commander of the Jinyi guard, and the two of you are the king's guard Qianhu and the guard commander, this time the battle of Jingjing, you have merit, you want to be an official in the court, this king can arrange, but now this king needs you."

Zhang Tiezhu didn't think about it, and immediately said: "Prince, I won't go anywhere, I will be wherever the prince is, I will protect the prince closely!" ”

Chen Zheng also said on the side: "Your Highness, I won't leave either!" ”

Zhu Song knew that this worship of the general was the wish of every Ming soldier, who didn't want to build a meritorious career on the battlefield?

"I'll talk about this matter in detail later, this time this king wants to go down to the south of the Yangtze River, he wants to collect salt taxes, the court is short of money now, and those people are holding the money now, they may be able to do anything for money, of course, they don't dare to ask for the king's life, but this king still needs the two of you."

"The matter of fighting wits with them will be handed over to this king, and the matter of fighting courage will be handed over to the two of you, and see if we can collect this silver!"