"It's here, let's stop......"

In the dark alley, when the old man's voice sounded, a moving ordinary carriage stopped in front of a courtyard guarded by two soldiers.

It was a sturdy man who drove the carriage, and without waiting for the soldier at the door to ask questions, he stepped out of the driver's place and showed a waist card.

"This, this, this...... See the commander for the lowly position! ”

The two soldiers were startled by the official position written on the waist plate, and although they did not know which guard was in command, it was enough to overwhelm them.

They bowed, but the military attache ignored them, turned around and laid his stool on the ground, knocking twice on the door.

In the middle of breathing, the car door was opened, and the first to get out of the car was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old weak-crowned young man.

He has a round face and thick and slender eyebrows, which is not handsome, but he is also a little delicate.

After getting out of the car, his cyan round-necked robe was very conspicuous, and the gold-inlaid jade hairpin inserted in the bun was also very eye-catching.

Such a noble young man did not walk directly into the courtyard after getting off the car, but stood beside the carriage and stretched out his hand to the car, as if he wanted to help someone.

In an instant, a round-faced charity old man with a white beard, dressed in a plain green round-necked robe, got out of the carriage with the support of the young man, and looked up at the lintel of the courtyard, even though there was no plaque hanging there.

Seeing that a powerful old man was about to enter the hospital, two soldiers actually stood in front of him.

"Bastard!" The military attache subconsciously scolded, and the old man and the young man were also stunned for a moment.

Stubbornly, a soldier in his twenties lowered his head and asked angrily, "My lord, do you have Your Majesty's permission?" ”

"Hehe......" The old man smiled, and then took out a waist card: "Does this count?" ”

The soldier couldn't tell what the waist card was made of, but he wasn't a fool, and the person who was commanded to open the way was obviously not something he could afford to provoke.

If it weren't for the fact that it was His Royal Highness who lived in the courtyard, he wouldn't dare to stop and ask.

Seeing that the other party was about to play a riddle, the helpless soldier could only get out of the way and say, "Please ......"

"It's quite dutiful," the old man boasted, and then pushed the door open under the opening of the military attache and entered the courtyard.

As soon as the door of the courtyard opened, the old man's ears came with the sound of a lute and a song.

"Azure is waiting for the smoke and rain, and I'm waiting for you......"

"Huh?" Listening to the song sung by the familiar voice, the old man was stunned: "This kid knows I'm coming?" ”

"Grandpa?" Seeing that the old man didn't leave, the young man next to him thought something was wrong with him.

"It's okay......" Hearing the voice of his grandson next to him, the old man came back to his senses and walked to the main house with the young man and the military attache with a strange face.

It was only a few paces away that they entered the main house, and walked towards the study, where the singing sounded from it.

"The white and green koi jumped at the bottom of the bowl, but I was ......thinking about it when I copied the Song style."

When the door of the study was pushed open, the singing stopped abruptly, and Zhu Gaoxu, who was lying on the chair with Erlang's legs crossed, looked at the face of the military attache with a confused expression, and was about to ask who he was, but he didn't want to see the young man and the old man behind him.

If you talk about that young man, Zhu Gaoxu still feels a little familiar, but he can't remember who it is for a while, but looking at the old man, he is too familiar.

"Yan's second son, Zhu Gaoxu, see grandpa!"

Zhu Gaoxu slipped from the chair like a loach and knelt on the ground, skillfully bowing five times and knocking three times.

Looking at his appearance, Zhu Yuanzhang showed a smile, which made the young man next to him stunned, he hadn't seen his grandfather smile so happily for a long time.

"Get up, change into thicker clothes, and go out with me."

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand to Zhu Gaoxu in the air, as if to let him get up.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also hurriedly got up, put the pipa on the table next to him, and put on the robe hanging on the hanger.

When he turned around, Zhu Yuanzhang and the other two were walking out, and he hurriedly followed.

"Your Highness......"

Zhu Gaoxu walked out of the main room when he saw Wu Zhangyi and the others in the ear room all running out, and his face was a little surprised.

"I'm going out with my grandfather."

Zhu Gaoxu threw out a sentence and chased after Zhu Yuanzhang and the three who were about to walk out of the courtyard.

"Grandpa?"

Wu Zhangyi and the others looked at each other, and only after a long time did their eyes widen.

Isn't His Royal Highness's grandfather the current Emperor Hongwu?

"Your Majesty is blessed with good health!"

Wu Zhangyi hurriedly knelt on the ground, and sang to Zhu Yuanzhang and the three of them, who had almost disappeared at the gate of the courtyard, and the sound alarmed the people in the surrounding courtyards, but due to the curfew, they didn't dare to go out to watch.

However, the two soldiers guarding at the door widened their eyes, and watched Zhu Yuanzhang come out and glance at them, and then hurriedly knelt down: "Your Majesty is blessed and healthy!" ”

"Get up, it's freezing ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was getting into the carriage, explained, and got into the carriage with the young man, and Zhu Gaoxu also ran out of the courtyard.

He looked at the two soldiers at the door, and scolded with a smile: "What are you kneeling in, didn't you listen to what my grandfather said?" It's cold, go to the courtyard to drink wine and warm up. ”

"Huh?" The two soldiers were stunned, and Zhu Yuanzhang in the carriage also heard Zhu Gaoxu's words when he sat down, and the expression on his face stiffened a little.

He obviously just said that he didn't need to kneel, but when it came to Zhu Gaoxu's kid's mouth, he asked the two soldiers to go to the courtyard to drink.

"That's it, there's no need to guard him anyway......"

Shaking his head slightly, Zhu Yuanzhang was no longer entangled, and after the two soldiers reacted, they hurriedly sang long live to the carriage.

After Zhu Gaoxu got into the carriage and the carriage drove away from the courtyard gate, the two soldiers entered the courtyard with their shoulders on their backs and closed the courtyard gate.

On the carriage, Zhu Yuanzhang sat in the main seat, the young man sat on the right, Zhu Gaoxu tilted his head, and sat on the left.

Looking at his appearance with his head down, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but say: "I've grown taller." ”

"It's high." Zhu Gaoxu reacted quickly, without the slightest consciousness of being grounded for a few months, and said: "I measured it yesterday, and it was five feet eight inches and two minutes." ”

Fifteen or sixteen years old is the age when his height has skyrocketed, in this era when men are five feet two or three inches per capita, Zhu Gaoxu is a whole head taller than ordinary people, and judging from his fifteen-year-old age, I am afraid that he can grow to more than six feet.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect that their old Zhu family could raise such a tall and burly descendant.

"How many pounds can you play with a gun now? What about opening the bow? ”

As a spear fanatic, Lao Zhu asked about Zhu Gaoxu's martial arts, but fortunately, Zhu Gaochu has not abandoned his martial arts these days, so he said confidently:

"You can open a full moon with a 140-pound tiger power bow, play 10 catties of iron spears in your hands, and use a 150-pound stone table for practice."

The things reported in Zhu Gaoxu's mouth have improved a lot compared to the time when he was in the Great Church Ten months ago, even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but bow his head.

"Grandpa Huang, where are we going?"

The young man on the right spoke, which immediately attracted Zhu Gaoxu's attention: "Grandpa? ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the young man suspiciously, but he couldn't remember this person, as if he had never met him when he was in the main hall.

When he was suspicious, Zhu Yuanzhang also responded to the young man: "I'll be there soon." ”

During the conversation, the carriage drove unimpeded on the curfew-free roads of the Imperial City, and because the road was wide and there were no pedestrians, the carriage did not slow down, but stopped in one place in a few moments.

"You go down with me, and you can stay."

Zhu Yuanzhang greeted Zhu Gaoxu, and calmed the young man next to him when he got up.

The title he blurted out made Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but look at the young man.

"Zhu Yunxi ......"

Looking at Zhu Yunxi, who was one or two years younger than Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know how to describe him.

If you want to be more appropriate, I'm afraid it would be enough to call him the first unlucky guy in the early Ming Dynasty.

is obviously the second son, but the early death of his mother Chang gave him a new mother-in-law.

Even so, he also has his eldest brother Zhu Xiongying, the real eldest son of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that his eldest brother also died early due to illness, and the throne that should have been inherited by him was changed from the second son to the third son because his father corrected the Lu family and straightened Zhu Yunwen together.

In such a situation, if Zhu Biao chooses him as the heir, Lao Zhu will also choose him as the grandson, but in the face of Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Biao's approach is to canonize the ten-year-old Zhu Yunxi as the king of the county in the year when Lan Yu broke the Northern Yuan in the fishing sea, and announced him out in advance.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't know why Zhu Biao did this, and he didn't know what happened that year, he only knew that in the following years, Lan Yu was often proud of his achievements, and finally was liquidated after Zhu Biaoxu's death.

As for Zhu Yunxi, after Zhu Biao and Lan Yu passed away one after another, he was the only 'outsider' left in the entire East Palace.

After that, Zhu Yunxi succeeded to the throne after the death of Lao Zhu, named Zhu Yunxi as the king of Wu, and established Hangzhou.

It's just that before he could be vassaled, the Battle of Jingyan broke out, and Zhu Yunxi was trapped in Nanjing for four years.

Four years later, Zhu Di entered Nanjing and succeeded to the throne under the recommendation of Jianwen's ministers, and Zhu Yunxi was demoted to the title of King of Guangze.

When Zhu Di's throne was stabilized, Zhu Yunxi was deposed as a concubine by Zhu Di on the charge of not being able to assist his brother and imprisoned in Fengyang.

Fifteen years later, Zhu Xi, the king of the valley who opened the gate of Nanjing, falsely claimed that Zhu Yuexian, the king of Chongyang in Shufu, was Jianwenjun and intended to rebel, and Zhu Yunxi, who was imprisoned in Fengyang in the same year, died violently at the age of 39.

It can be said that compared with Zhu Gaoxu himself, Zhu Yunxi's experience can be said to be a mortal situation no matter how you look at it.

Zhu Yunxi is on the throne, even if there is no act of cutting the feudal domain, there is no battle of appeasement, with Zhu Yunxi's sensitive identity, I am afraid it will be difficult to die well.

Zhu Di ascended the throne, and in order to stabilize the throne, it was difficult for Zhu Yunxi to die well.

Looking at it this way, Zhu Gaoxu felt very sorry for him......

"Huh?" Feeling Zhu Gaoxu's compassionate gaze, Zhu Yunxi frowned slightly, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was getting out of the car, also looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

Sensing Zhu Yunxi's gaze, Zhu Gaoxu turned his head sideways to dodge and got out of the carriage with Zhu Yuanzhang.

This is the first time Zhu Gaoxu has left the avant-garde courtyard in more than two months, and unlike the scenery before he was grounded, this dim alley is covered with snow on both sides, and only a blue brick and stone road is one zhang wide in the middle.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked forward, and Zhu Gaoxu followed behind him.

The grandfather and grandson walked for an unknown distance, and they didn't speak until they walked out of the alley and turned into another alley, and Zhu Yuanzhang spoke:

"Recently, in the city of Nanjing, many people are talking for you, do you know who there is?"

"Grandson doesn't know......" Zhu Gaoxu really didn't know who was speaking for him, and all he could think of was his eldest brother Zhu Gaochi and some old people from Yanfu who knew Zhu Di.

As for Xu Huizu, Li Jinglong and others, the latter does not need to say much, although the former is his uncle, he is now in Yunnan, and his influence in the DPRK is not very large, even if he wants to speak out, few people respond.

"Huaixi, Zhedong, Jiangyou and Jiangdong ......" Zhu Yuanzhang said, pausing suddenly: "You have involved a lot of people." ”

"My grandson has nothing to do with them, and I haven't even met them a few times." Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect that he could involve so many people, you must know that he has never seen a few civil and military attachés from these places.

"I know......" Zhu Yuanzhang bowed his head, walked in front of him with his hands behind his back, and was silent for a few breaths before he added:

"You know everything about Yunnan, I won't talk about it, his ability to see mountains and mines, I don't care if it's true or not, in short, as long as you are sure, you have to draw and tell grandpa."

"That's nature." Zhu Gaoxu nodded without thinking, but his heart was inexplicably empty.

When his heart was weak, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him sideways, quickly retracted his gaze, and said in a deep voice:

"Someone wants to send you out, but the people in the temple want you to stay, what do you think?"

When he said this, Zhu Gaoxu was stunned.

Combining what Lao Zhu said about the gold and silver mines and the idea that the officials of the various factions did not want him to leave, it was not difficult for Zhu Gaoxu to guess that the officials of the various factions probably wanted to gain some benefits from the mines he pointed out.

Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties......

No matter which dynasty the scholars and doctors were, they were all masters who ate people and did not spit out bones, although Zhu Gaoxu didn't know what method they wanted to use to get benefits from himself, he instinctively didn't want to greet these people.

If it weren't for the fact that he hadn't determined the life and death of Fu Youde and Feng Sheng at the moment, he would have left Nanjing in a hurry as before.

As for the people who wanted to let him leave in Lao Zhu's words, Zhu Gaoxu could only think of Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Jixi and Zhu Shangbing.

In the current situation, I am afraid that only the three of them will want to leave Nanjing.

"Are you going back to Beiping?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhu Yuanzhang after thinking about it, but did not give his own answer directly.

"Go to the north of Liaodong......" Zhu Yuanzhang paused, and then continued: "Jilin Shipyard." ”

"Jilin Shipyard ......" Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, he didn't expect Zhu Yunwen and them to want him to go to Jilin Shipyard.

Zhu Gaoxu's memory cannot be said to be unforgettable, but after reading it two or three times, he will remember it for a long time, so he knows the situation of Jilin Shipyard better than anyone else.

1,377 families of military craftsmen, a total of 6,847 people, 276 military horses, and 2,876 acres and quarters of cultivated fields, were responsible for building and maintaining the warships of the Jilin Boat Division, and at the same time assumed the responsibility of contacting the Jurchen tribes.

The strength of such a place is only about the same as that of a thousand households in the interior, and because of the large area under its jurisdiction and its proximity to the Jurchens of the Haixi and Donghai regions, it is often plundered by the Jurchens who do not obey discipline.

In addition, the temperature in the northeast plummeted in the early Ming Dynasty, and the warmth of the Sui and Tang dynasties was no longer restored, so the only crops that could be cultivated in that land were crops such as millet (sorghum), wheat, and soybeans.

Not only that, due to the long cold period in the Northeast at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the harvest time of the crops planted locally was half a month or even a month earlier than that of later generations, and the early harvest had to face the problem of insufficient yield per mu.

According to Yishiha's statement, the grain grown in the north of Kaiyuan can only harvest seventy or eighty catties of real grain per mu, and it takes at least 500 catties of staple grain to feed one person without enough non-staple food.

In this way, the Jilin Shipyard, which has less than 3,000 acres of land, can support four or five hundred people, and the remaining 6,000 people have to rely on Liaodong for blood transfusion.

Just for the food, Zhu Gaoxu has to face the situation of being stuck.

Zhu Gaoxu knew that the Jilin Shipyard had insufficient water conservancy facilities, which caused the grain output to not keep up, but even if he built water conservancy facilities, according to the knowledge he had learned in his previous life, the grain output of the Jilin Shipyard could only increase by two or three percent at most, and he had to have at least six acres of land to feed a person.

More than 6,000 mouths are in the Jilin Shipyard, and even if Zhu Gaoxu wants to be simple and self-sufficient, he needs to reclaim nearly 40,000 mu of land, which is more than ten times the amount of cultivated land in the current Jilin Shipyard.

In such a place, once the operation is not done well, Zhu Gaoxu's idea of making contributions in the Battle of Jingyan may be declared bankrupt.

It's just that...... Can he not go?

There is only one opportunity, and it is difficult to say if you miss it......

Zhu Gaoxu was struggling, although he thought a lot, the outside world was only a few breaths away.

"Grandson ......" Zhu Gaoxu didn't know how to say, but Zhu Yuanzhang didn't let him think about it for too long, but saw his thoughts from his expression.

"If you don't want to go, grandpa won't force you."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his back to Zhu Gaochu and said as he walked, Zhu Gaochu was silent after hearing this, he didn't want to give up this opportunity, but really let him go to Jilin Shipyard, if he was not prepared, then he was likely to repeat the mistakes of his predecessor in the Battle of Jingjing.

He wanted to join Jingnan as a primordial unit, and it was because of this that he never asked for anyone from Yanfu.

Jing Nan must be carried out in the situation of Yan Fu and his two teams, Zhu Gaoxu, otherwise for him, there is no difference between success and failure of Jing Nan.

With a lot of thoughts, Zhu Gaoxu stopped.

Listening to the footsteps behind him disappear, Zhu Yuanzhang also stopped, turned sideways and looked back at Zhu Gaoxu, waiting for his answer.

"If the grandson goes, will Ying Guogong and Song Guogong survive......

Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and asked Zhu Yuanzhang, but in the face of this question, he was silent.

The Hongwu Emperor, who had the absolute right to speak in the eyes of later generations, could not make a decision that met his heart in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

Without any words, Zhu Gaoxu stood in the dark alley, waiting for Lao Zhu's answer.

Time passed bit by bit, Zhu Gaoxu waited very hard, but fortunately, Lao Zhu finally opened his mouth: "You can not go ......"

He didn't answer directly, but the meaning of his words made Zhu Gaoxu's mind blank.

"Do you really have to die......" he muttered to himself in his heart, but Lao Zhu turned around and continued to walk forward.

Zhu Gaoxu's face was like ashes, but he still kept up with Lao Zhu's pace.

It's just that in the long road that followed, the grandfather and grandson didn't talk anymore, until they came to a place where lanterns were hung, and Zhu Yuanzhang stopped with Zhu Gaoxu.

Under the lantern, a small flag and ten people stood in two rows, wearing the armor familiar to Zhu Gaoxu.

"Temple... Your Highness ......"

A familiar voice came, with a hint of astonishment in his tone.

Zhu Gaoxu, whose heart was like ashes, looked up, but saw Wang Jian's surprised face.

Wang Jian's appearance shocked Zhu Gaoxu's heart, he looked left and right, not only saw the same surprised hundred brothers, but also saw the tall lintel, and the plaque hanging high.

【Yingguo Mansion】

Looking at those four words, Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Open the door......"

Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth to Wang Jian calmly, although Wang Jian didn't know who Zhu Yuanzhang was, but judging from the positions of Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Yuanzhang, he thought that this person was a high-powered person, so he ordered someone to open the door.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked in, and Zhu Gaoxu also followed his entourage.

Faced with Wang Jian's puzzled look when he was wrong, Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much, now he just wanted to know why Lao Zhu brought him to Yingguo Mansion for.

Walking in the familiar Yingguo Mansion, Zhu Gaoxu was apprehensive.

At this moment, he thought of many things, among which the time of Fu Youde's death was the main one.

Fu Youde died on the 29th day of the winter month, and now it is the fifth day of the lunar month.

But now it seems that Lao Zhu suddenly brought himself to the Yingguo Mansion, I'm afraid there won't be anything good.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't dare to think about it, even though he had already thought of it in hindsight, but he tried his best to avoid it.

On the way forward, many servants of the Yingguo Mansion that Zhu Gaoxu had seen or had never seen were saluting the two of them, but this time the object of their salute was no longer Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhu Yuanzhang who was walking in front of him.

Perhaps it was at this moment that Zhu Gaoxu could deeply understand the horror of Jinyiwei.

His face was pale, and he only felt chills all over his body.

Led by a brocade guard, they came to a courtyard.

There were many people standing in the courtyard house, some of them were sobbing, some were bowing their heads and sad, and some were quietly waiting for something.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked in with Zhu Gaoxu, at first the group of female dependents were still thinking about who they were, but before they could react, the two five or six-year-old dolls sitting on the side pounced on them and hugged Zhu Yuanzhang's legs.

"Grandpa! Grandfather! ”

The voices of the two dolls broke the atmosphere in the room, and the sound of hurried footsteps sounded from the bedroom, and Fu Zhong and Fu Rang walked out one after another.

The moment they saw Zhu Yuanzhang, they subconsciously knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Majesty is blessed and healthy......

"Your Majesty?" The stunned ladies finally reacted, and knelt on the ground five times and bowed three times: "Your Majesty is blessed and healthy......

For a while, only Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Gaoxu were left standing in this room, as well as the two dolls holding Zhu Yuanzhang's legs.

Zhu Gaoxu saw the two dolls for the first time, but he knew their identities from their names for Zhu Yuanzhang.

These two dolls may be the two children born to Fu Zhong and Princess Shouchun.

"Get up......"

Zhu Yuanzhang touched the heads of the two dolls with both hands, and at the same time, his face showed a touch of kindness, and at the same time, he also let Fu Zhong and the others get up.

After they got up, Fu Zhong and Fu Rang found Zhu Gaoxu who was following Zhu Yuanzhang, and their eyes revealed a kind of joy, followed by relief.

Looking at their eyes, a bad premonition rose in Zhu Gaoxu's heart.

"I'll go in and see your father, and you'll be waiting outside."

Zhu Yuanzhang patted the two dolls, motioned for them to let go of their hands, and explained to Fu Zhong and Fu Rang.

Facing Zhu Yuanzhang standing in front of them, no matter what they said about him behind their backs before, when he really appeared, Fu Zhong and Fu Rang instinctively did everything he said.

They stepped forward and took the two dolls and made way for Zhu Yuanzhang to enter the bedroom.

In front of all of them, Zhu Yuanzhang walked in.

Zhu Gaoxu also wanted to follow, but stopped when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang covering the door.

He was standing at the door of the bedroom, just a door away from Fu Youde at the moment, but he couldn't walk in.

Even so, he didn't leave, but kept standing at the door, waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to call him in......

(End of chapter)