"Tuk Tuk!"

The knock on the courtyard door interrupted Zhu Gaoxu's thoughts, and at the same time attracted the attention of the three of them.

"It's coming!"

After hearing the knock on the door, he immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks, walked quickly to the courtyard door, and opened the door.

However, when the courtyard door opened, Wang Xuan was greeted by a middle-aged man dressed in a white robe and a white otter, and he was followed by a eunuch and more than a dozen soldiers.

"Boy, see Guogong!"

Seeing that the people who came were wearing the clothes that only Guogong could wear, Wang Xuan hurriedly bowed down, and Zhu Gaoxu and others in the courtyard also heard the word "Guogong".

"Uncle is back?" Hearing Wang Xuan shouting out to the father, Zhu Gaoxu thought that Xu Huizu, who had gone to Zhejiang to train his troops, had returned, so he put down the dishes and chopsticks and walked towards the courtyard gate with Yang Zhan.

However, before he could reach the courtyard gate, the unfamiliar face at the door stopped him.

"Who is this man?" As soon as this thought arose in Zhu Gaoxu's mind, the eunuch who followed the man said to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Highness, this is Cao Guogong, who came to the school at the behest of His Majesty."

"Cao Guogong?" Hearing these three words, Zhu Gaoxu immediately reacted, he took a few steps forward, and waved at the man:

"The kid has seen Cao Guogong here."

"Your Highness not!" Seeing Zhu Gaoxu doing something to himself, Li Jinglong hurriedly stepped forward to interrupt him, and said with a smile:

"I came to the school to take the exam on the instructions of His Majesty, and I will leave after the exam, Your Highness doesn't have to care too much about me."

"Can I care about you...... You've almost killed me and my dad several times......"

Listening to Li Jinglong's words, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but complain in his heart, and at the same time, he didn't forget to raise his head and look at Li Jinglong carefully.

His dress is the standard of Guogong's daily life, and compared with Xu Huizu's tall figure and jade-like appearance, Li Jinglong's appearance is not bad.

His eyebrows are sparse, he looks forward to Weiran, and he has the temperament of a Confucian general in his gestures, and even his figure is relatively tall, I am afraid that it is close to six feet.

As a future opponent, as far as Zhu Gaoxu's inquiries in the big teaching field these days are concerned, many generals did not criticize Li Jinglong, but admired them a lot.

As for Li Jinglong's resume, Zhu Gaoxu is almost clear.

In the twentieth year of Hongwu, he followed the Northern Expeditionary Force of the captured general Feng Sheng to crusade against Nahachu.

In the twenty-second year of Hongwu, he trained troops with Xu Huizu in Huguang, Xu Huizu was stationed in Changde, and Li Jinglong was stationed in Anlu.

In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, he and Xu Huizu went to Shaanxi and other places to prepare for the border.

In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, he followed Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu and others to Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan to inspect the soldiers and horses.

During this period, because Li Jinglong was also appointed by Feng Sheng and Fu Youde to rectify five guard posts such as Taozhou and Hezhou, and pacify the Qinghai Fanren and Hezhou Qiang people who tried to rebel.

Even Xu Huizu, who could be praised by the soldiers of the Great Sect with him, was far inferior to him in terms of resume.

And judging from the resumes of the two of them during the Hongwu period, Zhu Gaoxu can clearly feel that Zhu Yuanzhang values Li Jinglong more, so he has sent him to local training many times, preparing for the border, exercising his personal ability, and enhancing his prestige in the local area.

Such an arrangement shows how high Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations are for his personal ability, and Li Jinglong has completed so many appointments well, and he has never made any mistakes.

Judging from these circumstances, Zhu Gaoxu did not despise Li Jinglong's qualifications.

Although some people in later generations ridiculed him as an undercover agent and ridiculed him for his inability, in the Battle of Jingjing, Li Jinglong did command properly and did not make any major mistakes.

As for the record that the Changyi Gate in Beiping was almost broken and then stopped by Li Jinglong's jealousy, Zhu Gaoxu also remembered that it was a fake news.

The real situation was that Li Jinglong was about to break through the inner city gate at that time, so he ordered Qu Neng to abandon the outer city gate and instead lead a large army to jointly attack the inner city gate.

During this period, Li Jinglong was not jealous of Qu Neng, but when Zhu Di led his troops to appear in the direction of Yongping, he handed over the siege task to Qu Neng in time, and led his troops to intercept Zhu Di.

In addition, if Zhu Gaoxu is not mistaken, after Li Jinglong was defeated by Zhu Di in Beiping, the defeated army of hundreds of thousands of troops was quickly collected by him, and then retreated to Dezhou to rest and wait for the battle of Baihegou in the coming year.

Zhu Di also tried to pursue Li Jinglong, but did not gain much, which means that Li Jinglong reorganized and retreated the defeated army in a short time.

With the existence of this piece of information alone, Li Jinglong can defeat ninety percent of the generals in history.

After the failure of the encirclement and reinforcement, it was able to gather hundreds of thousands of troops, and did not let the defeated army become a rout and be harvested by the enemy, which is also relatively rare in the entire history.

In the subsequent battle of Baigou River, Li Jinglong commanded properly, and almost let his cheap father receive a boxed lunch several times.

If it weren't for the historical Zhu Gaoxu who fought chicken blood, wore a ninety-pound double armor, rushed into battle with a lone army with his headquarters, and at the same time beheaded Qu Neng, a fierce general of the Ming Dynasty at that time, it is estimated that the Battle of Jingyan would have been settled.

Because of this, Zhu Gaoxu has always been worried that his ability is not as good as his predecessor.

If he can't be like Zhu Gaoxu in history, wearing ninety pounds of double armor, leading his headquarters to chisel through hundreds of thousands of southern troops and rescue Zhu Di, then the battle of Jingyan may become Jianwen's rebellion.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Li Jinglong's eyes with a hint of sympathy.

In the situation that the six founding princes of the country were dead and Song Sheng, who was the most capable of fighting, could not play, Li Jinglong actually went to fight against Zhu Di, who was the most capable of fighting in the Ming Dynasty at that time, but he did not win and was described by the civil officials as a straw bag and a man with a back pot, this Cao Guogong......

"Huh?" Li Jinglong looked at Zhu Gaoxu's eyes in front of him, and always felt that something was wrong.

"Dare to ask Guogong, are you going to take the school exam now?"

Sensing the change in Li Jinglong's eyes, Zhu Gaoxu immediately withdrew the sympathy in his eyes, and respectfully asked Li Jinglong about the school examination process.

In this regard, Li Jinglong did not hide it, but directly took out an exam paper:

"This is the examination paper issued by His Majesty for Your Highness, after answering, please ask Your Highness to answer me another question."

After that, Li Jinglong handed over the exam paper, and Zhu Gaoxu also took it with both hands, opened it and looked at it briefly.

Lao Zhu's examination paper has about 30 questions, ranging from military food reserves to marching consumption, to the use of pond cavalry and foot ponds on the marching road, the layout of the barracks, and how the two armies face each other against the enemy, how to attack and ride with infantry, how to appease the soldiers, and so on.

It can be said that Lao Zhu's thirty or so questions are specifically used to deal with middle and lower-level generals.

But if you can answer these 30 questions and use them all in actual combat, the answerer can at least lead a guard and horse.

"In this way, my imperial grandfather has a high estimate of my starting point......

Looking at this exam paper, Zhu Gaoxu had a little bottom in his heart.

A person like Zhu Yuanzhang will not be targeted for no reason, since he has such a question, it seems that he already thinks that he has the potential to defend one side.

If you can answer this exam paper well, you may be able to return to the north before the end of the year and guard the border with your cheap father.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu turned sideways, stretched out his hand and asked, "Cao Guo's Justice Hall will sit for a while, and I will come out after answering in the study." ”

"Okay" Li Jinglong bowed slightly, walked towards the main hall, and sat down with it.

Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan hurriedly boiled water to prepare tea, while Zhu Gaoxu went to the study, grinding unhurriedly inside, and at the same time prepared blank papers as answer sheets.

Time passed bit by bit, Zhu Gaoxu quickly immersed himself in the world of answering questions, and at the same time, in order not to leave Zhu Yuanzhang with the rude thoughts of Zhu Gaoxu, he thought carefully before each pen, and tried not to leave a little dirt on the surface of the volume.

In addition, because he wrote a good hand in his previous life, he came to this world for more than four months and picked up the brush to practice, although I dare not say that it can be compared with the dance and ink lifting, but the font is also considered Zhouzheng.

Zhu Yuanzhang's exam questions were answered by him one by one, and after he completely answered the thirty-two questions, he breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time twisted his sore right wrist.

"Hoo ......"

Blowing the ink for the answer to the last question, Zhu Gaoxu waited for a moment to sort them out, got up and walked out of the study.

He glanced outside the room, and compared to the sun before he entered the study, the sun was close to direct, and it seemed to be noon.

"Cao Guogong, the kid has finished answering, please read the paper."

Zhu Gaoxu's walk did not surprise everyone, but his calmness made Li Jinglong look at him a little impressed.

"Huh...... His Majesty said that he would read the file in person. Li Jinglong got up and took all the scrolls without looking at them more.

He handed the scroll to the eunuch in the palace, and then said:

"Your Highness, Your Majesty still has one last question, this question does not need to be written, as long as His Highness says it, let the father-in-law in the palace write it."

Li Jinglong said, and the eunuch who took the scroll also sat back in his place, and a table had been set up in front of him by Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan, on which paper, pen, ink, and ink were prepared.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at it, and then raised his hand unhurriedly: "Dare to ask Cao Guogong, what ......is the question of the emperor's grandfather?"

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's calm and unhurried appearance, Li Jinglong admired him even more, and also told Zhu Gaoxu the topic of the question:

"Your Majesty's advice is...... Cutting the domain. ”