"Gan Yue!"

At the city gate, Gan Yue said his name in unskilled Chinese, and Zhu Di also bowed his head with a dark face: "I know!" ”

After the words fell, he turned around and returned to the city with Yao Guangxiao, making a gesture to find Zhu Gaoxu.

Seeing his intentions, Yao Guangxiao grabbed him and said as calmly as possible: "Your Highness doesn't need to go to the Second Highness, the Second Highness may not meet you." ”

"He dares!" Zhu Di's eyes widened angrily, but Yao Guangxiao sighed: "Unless you want to make a fuss." ”

As soon as he said this, Zhu Di was stunned, he didn't expect that Zhu Gaoxu, a kid, would actually use this kind of thing to blackmail him.

"Your Royal Highness deliberately told you about that, and he also deliberately let people not let you out of the city."

"If others don't let you go out of the city, you can go out of the city by looking for the Second Highness to find a token, but I'm afraid you can't."

"If others know that you can't go out of the city, then they will inevitably think about it."

"Second Highness, I just expected that you would not make the matter known to everyone, so you dared to do this......"

Yao Guangxiao's words pierced Zhu Di's chest word by word.

He didn't expect that he would also be calculated by his second child one day.

It's just that he was more worried about one thing than his heartache, so he turned his head and signaled the guards behind him not to follow first, and pulled Yao Guangxiao forward a few steps by himself.

At dusk, he asked Yao Guangxiao with a gloomy face: "Old monk, tell me, will the second child force me to rebel." ”

"I won't ......" Yao Guangxiao said very firmly: "Although His Royal Highness has a military strategy, his prestige is not as good as His Highness, if His Royal Highness is unwilling, it will be difficult for the soldiers and horses of the Sandu Division to be controlled by His Royal Highness, and it will be difficult to succeed." ”

"Then what does he mean by not letting me out!" Zhu Di was angry, he was too lazy to analyze, and simply asked Yao Guangxiao.

Regarding this, Yao Guangxiao also thought about it carefully, so he hesitated: "Perhaps, I am waiting for the news from the south, and I want to see if His Highness knows the news from the south, whether he will be so tough." ”

"Wait for the news from the south......" Zhu Di's face became ugly, after all, Zhu Gaoxu said that his father's health is no longer good, and Zhu Yunwen is afraid that he will succeed to the throne soon.

It's just that Zhu Di doesn't believe it, he knows his father's physical condition very well.

"Your Highness, have you forgotten Your Majesty's letter?"

Yao Guangxiao woke up the dreamer with a word, and Zhu Di recalled Zhu Yuanzhang's family letter.

From some points of view, that letter to the family does look like Zhu Yuanzhang's deathbed entrustment.

"This ...... Probably not......"

Zhu Di refused to believe Zhu Gaoxu and Yao Guangxiao's words, so without waiting for Yao Guangxiao to speak again, he simply waved his hand: "Let's rest early." ”

He didn't go to Zhu Gaoxu anymore, because he was also very worried in his heart.

Seeing this, Yao Guangxiao let him go, but after he walked away, Yao Guangxiao walked back to the city gate.

"Master, please take ......"

"Please take the poor monk to meet His Royal Highness the King of Bohai."

At the gate of the city, Gan Yue saw Yao Guangxiao coming with two guards, and he immediately tried to stop Yao Guangxiao as he did just now.

It's just that before he could speak, Yao Guangxiao said his purpose.

His purpose was beyond Gan Yue's expectations, after all, his Royal Highness had not explained, so he could only ask carefully: "Master and my Royal Highness ...... it?"

"Sort of a friend." Yao Guangxiao's image of kindness came in handy at this time, but as a hundred households in the pond, Gan Yue would not let people go to see His Highness so easily, so he said: "Please give a name to the master, and I will send someone to ask His Highness if he wants to see you." ”

"It's okay......" Yao Guangxiao bowed his head, and then reported his name: "Dao Yan." ”

"Master Daoyan, please wait." Gan Yue returned the salute, and then sent someone to ask Zhu Gaoxu.

About a word, Zhu Gaoxu met the people sent by Gan Yue.

"Dao Yan ......" Hearing Yao Guangxiao's name, Zhu Gaoxu thought of the memory of his predecessor.

In the memory of his predecessor, Yao Guangxiao was only close to Zhu Di, and he was not close to the three sons of Yanfu.

It's not surprising if you think about it carefully, after all, Yao Guangxiao was forty-seven years old when he entered the Yan Mansion, and Zhu Di was only twenty-two at that time.

For a monk like Yao Guangxiao, who is older than Zhu Di and has no heirs left in the world, there is no need for him to choose a prince.

After all, with his age, he is likely to walk ahead of Zhu Di, and he can give him all the Zhu Di he wants, so there is no need to find three princes.

"Li Chu, go and invite him over."

Zhu Gaoxu replied to the soldier, and the soldier didn't expect His Royal Highness to remember the name of his little flag officer, so he grinned happily: "Yes!" Mark this and invite the master over! ”

As soon as the words fell, he withdrew from the wooden house and went to invite Yao Guangxiao.

Seeing him leave, Zhu Gaoxu also smiled at Lin Su, Yang Zhan and the others in the wooden house: "Let's catch up tomorrow, and leave time to that master at this moment." ”

"Good!" Yang Zhan and the others also knew that Zhu Gaoxu had something to talk to about with the monk named Daoyan, so they got up and saluted with interest, and then left the wooden house.

Wang Yi took another soldier to clean the wooden house, and then walked to the door to take a look at Zhu Gaoxu.

"You personally lead people to patrol and don't let people get twenty steps closer to this wooden house."

Zhu Gaoxu confessed, and Wang Yi also walked out of the wooden house with his head bowed.

Not long after, Li Chu, who had left earlier, walked to the door of the wooden house with a monk in a black robe.

"Your Highness......" Li Chu asked cautiously, but Zhu Gaoxu chuckled: "Thank you, you can step down, I'll talk to the master about something." ”

"Yes!" Li Chu straightened his waist, then bowed in return, and then left happily.

The conversation between them surprised Yao Guangxiao, who was standing at the door.

He didn't expect that Zhu Gaoxu's relationship with the low-level soldiers was so good, after all, even Zhu Di could only have a good relationship with middle- and lower-level military attachés such as the Hundred Household Officials and the Chief Flag Officer.

"Master, please come in."

Zhu Gaoxu's voice came out, and Yao Guangxiao didn't hesitate, both of them knew that they had a big deal to talk about, and it was best to make a quick decision without delay.

Walking into the wooden house, Yao Guangxiao gave a salute first: "Second Highness, don't come unharmed......

"Master sit down first, I think you know I'm pressed for time."

Zhu Gaochu got straight to the point, and Yao Guangxiao also took the opportunity to sit on the chair that was specially placed in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

The distance between the two is only one step, and it can be said that it is enough to talk.

Yao Guangxiao is kind and kind-eyed, if it weren't for the fact that he was more eye-catching in a black robe, I'm afraid it would be difficult for Zhu Gaoxu to associate him with the Daoyan monk who was known as the 'Demon Monk of the Disaster Country' in history.

"Why is the Second Highness sure that the ......one is about to leave?"

Yao Guangxiao's straightforwardness was brighter than Zhu Gaoxu's, and Zhu Gaochu said frankly: "I know the situation of that person, after the Taiyuan one left, he was already exhausted." ”

"Right now, he's probably busy preparing for my big brother's debut."

"Why does Your Highness think that that person will target you and His Highness after he takes the stage?" Yao Guangxiao asked his question, after all, he didn't think that Zhu Yunwen would leave a good answer and not write, and go to find another way.

"If you have been depressed for too long, you will want to be released." Zhu Gaoxu said calmly: "If you can't be released, then you will become ill from hard work, I don't need to repeat this too much, right?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said that Zhu Biao's death was a disease caused by hard work, although this is not appropriate, but there is also a certain amount of truth, after all, Zhu Biao did die suddenly due to qi and blood deficiency.

"The ancients said that when the father dies, the son will not change the patriarchal system for three years......"

Yao Guangxiao first borrowed the words of the ancients, and then persuaded Zhu Gaoxu: "Even if the grandson ascends to the throne, it will take three years to keep the old system, why are you in a hurry, Your Highness?" ”

"The ancients also said that people take tea and cool down." Zhu Gaoxu looked directly at Yao Guangxiao's eyes: "If Xiao Gui Cao Sui is the norm, then this idiom will not be so famous." ”

"Even so, His Royal Highness doesn't need to be like that to His Royal Highness King Yan." Yao Guangxiao saw that he couldn't convince Zhu Gaoxu, so he began to use the righteousness of father and son to suppress him.

It's a pity that his remarks didn't have an effect on Zhu Gaoxu.

"I'm doing this to protect my father, not to keep me in captivity."

He spoke openly and honestly about his thoughts, although this idea seemed very far-fetched to Yao Guangxiao, but Zhu Gaoxu had his own reasons.

In history, why did Zhu Yunwen not follow Qi Tai's advice and take Zhu Di as soon as possible, but chose Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou in Henan?

In the final analysis, it was because Zhu Di controlled more than 200,000 soldiers and horses in Sandu Division at that time, and most of the officials in Beiping also had an old relationship with Zhu Di and Xu Da.

After taking Zhu Hu, Zhu Yunwen also watched Zhu Di's reaction, and at the same time continued to increase the punishment of Zhu Hu.

From the beginning of the escort to Nanjing, and then Zhu Di was indifferent, further abolished Zhu Hu and Zhu Youlian as concubines, and then exiled to Yunnan......

This step by step is testing Zhu Di's bottom line.

After determining that Zhu Di would not rebel, he began to withdraw the military power in Zhu Di's hands.

After the military power was recovered in Zhu Di's hands, Zhu Yunwen stopped pretending, and many ministers who openly suggested cutting the feudal domain appeared in the temple.

At this point, Zhu Yunwen stopped pretending, and announced many policies against the vassal kings in one breath, and at the same time cut off the kings of Xiang, Qi, Dai, and Min, who were dangerous to Nanjing, and increased the surveillance of the kings of Chu, Shu, and Ning.

In this way, if Zhu Di still has bad intentions, Nanjing can squeeze the living range of Yanfu through the canal and Shanxi, Liaodong, and Daning under the condition of ensuring its own safety.

It can be said that Zhu Di was able to survive the first wave of Zhu Yunwen's reduction of the feudal domain because he had military power in his hands, and the second wave was the second move taken by Zhu Yunwen in order to target him, the head of the feudal domains.

It was precisely because the second step was completed that Zhu Yunwen thought that Zhu Di had no possibility of rebellion, so he asked Zhang Yu and Xie Gui to do something to Zhu Di.

It's just that he didn't expect that the two of them would overturn because of intelligence leakage, and Zhu Di's prestige in Hebei made it easy for him to win Beiping.

In this process, the military power in Zhu Di's hands is the best talisman.

Zhu Gaoxu controlled Zhu Di, but he was worried that something would go wrong, causing Zhu Di to loosen his military power in advance.

Anyway, at this moment, the army is in Modong, as long as the military power is in hand, when the news of Lao Zhu's death comes, the time will be almost late May.

Not surprisingly, at that time, there would be a lot of talk about cutting feudal domains in Nanjing.

At that time, Zhu Gaoxu returned the military power to Zhu Di and asked him to slowly return to Beiping with the army.

Jianwen has to follow the script that Zhu Gaoxu knows, and all he has to do is maintain this script.

So in Zhu Gaoxu's view, he is not imprisoning Zhu Di, but protecting him.

Of course, only he knows these things, so in Yao Guangxiao's opinion, Zhu Gaoxu's words are somewhat strong.

"Does King Yan still need protection?"

Yao Guangxiao looked at the calm Zhu Gaoxu, and his impression of Zhu Gaochu declined rapidly.

"How does the master think my eldest brother will cut the domain?" Zhu Gaoxu did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

It's just that without waiting for Yao Guangxiao to speak, Zhu Gaoxu took the lead in speaking: "Cut the military power, concentrate it in the capital, and then give it wealth and raise it in captivity?" ”

What he said was a means used by previous dynasties to cut down the feudal domain, so Yao Guangxiao couldn't refute it, so he could only nod his head.

"Hehe......" Zhu Gaoxu chuckled: "I'm afraid his methods will open the eyes of the master and my father." ”

His determination made Yao Guangxiao hesitate, after all, he really couldn't imagine that Zhu Yunwen would create any other means of cutting the domain.

"I know him, even more than he knows himself......"

Zhu Gaoxu continued to speak: "He will not follow my "Theory of Cutting Domains", nor will he follow the path set for him by my grandfather. ”

"He's been suppressed for too long, and once released, he'll be in a hurry to prove himself."

"In short, according to what I said, the master will not be hindered from entering and exiting the city gate during this time, except for my father, who cannot leave the city of Uliangha."

When the sky darkened, Zhu Gaoxu picked up a candle and lit it and placed it on the table next to him and Yao Guangxiao.

The floating firelight made Yao Guangxiao unable to see Zhu Gaoxu's expression clearly, let alone guess his thoughts.

"Isn't Your Highness worried that His Royal Highness King Yan will lose his temper and order someone to rush open the city gate?"

Yao Guangxiao is still in the capital, and Zhu Gaochu doesn't know enough about Zhu Di, but Zhu Gaochu knows more about Zhu Di than him.

In the face of his inquiry, Zhu Gaoxu leaned back in his chair and smiled confidently: "My grandfather is fierce to corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but he is not ruthless to his own family, even if there are many scum in the family, he is only willing to teach himself a lesson, and he is not willing to let others teach him." ”

"At this point, my father is worse than my grandfather."

Zhu Gaoxu will be worried that Zhu Di is strange, in history, the third child pulled people to plot to poison him, and they were all ready to usurp the throne.

But Zhu Di was good, he didn't even fight, he just ordered to kill the third prince's subordinate officials, and he didn't punish the third child himself.

This is Zhu Di, if someone else faced this kind of thing, the third child would have been cut in half a long time ago.

Even if it is Zhu Yuanzhang's character of protecting the calf, he must at least demote his son to a concubine and be locked in the high wall of Fengyang for a lifetime before he can stop it.

Judging from Zhu Di's handling of his predecessor and the third child in history, where is what he is doing now?

"In this way, the poor monk knows how to talk to His Royal Highness King Yan......"

When Zhu Gaoxu's answer was spoken, Yao Guangxiao knew that it was impossible for him and Zhu Di to convince Zhu Gaoxu, because he had mastered Zhu Di's character too much.

He got up and was about to tell Zhu Di what happened here, but when he got up, Zhu Gaoxu said, "Master, slow down." ”

"Huh?" Yao Guangxiao turned back in confusion, not knowing what else Zhu Gaoxu could talk to about himself.

He looked at Zhu Gaoxu, only to see that half of Zhu Gaoxu's face was hidden in the darkness, and the other half of his face was also blurred in the candlelight.

"After the master returned, he told my father that I would let him leave Wuliang Ha Bald City at the end of the month at the earliest, and I would return to Jilin City at that time."

"But before that, I want to ask my father to transfer a batch of military rations to me, which can be regarded as a retreat for my father and son in the future."

Zhu Gaoxu has been thinking about how to solve the financial resources of Jilin City, even if he has asked Yi Weiha to persuade Yang Bin, even if Lao Zhu has transferred so much food to him, he still can't stop muttering in his heart.

Because of this, he set his sights on Zhu Di very early, which is why he was so happy when he knew that he could participate in this northern tour.

Since Lao Zhu had just delivered money and grain to the Sandu Division, the reserve warehouses of the Sandu Divisions in Beiping, Daning, and Liaodong were very full at this time.

More than 200,000 soldiers and civilians patrolled the north, and the daily consumption of grain was enough to thousands of stones.

As long as Zhu Di operates a little, the grain and beans that Zhu Gaoxu can obtain can be counted in tens of thousands.

"Privately using military rations, that's a big crime......"

Yao Guangxiao didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to dare to put his mind on military rations.

"It's just that soldiers and horses are sent out to search and allocate rations normally, so why not use military rations privately."

Zhu Gaoxu's dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and added in the follow-up: "If my eldest brother didn't cut the domain, I would return it." ”

"......" looked at Zhu Gaoxu's confident appearance, Yao Guangxiao didn't know where his confidence came from, but he didn't know why, he felt that Zhu Gaoxu must have mastered some news before he dared to do these shocking things.

He didn't leave, but sat back on the chair and looked at Zhu Gaoxu with a solemn gaze: "The poor monk wants to ask His Highness, if the person who took the stage really cut the domain, what would happen to you?" ”

"I won't be how, or I can't." Zhu Gaoxu's answer surprised him: "When the day comes to cut the domain, I will wait for my father to do it, not me myself." ”

"The master should know that even if I make a move, I can only take Liaodong."

"Grandpa built the Great Wall in Yanshan, and there are seventeen uncles north of Yanshan, so I can't endanger Guannai no matter what."

"Only when my father does it, I will have a chance to enter the customs."

"In this way, His Highness has no relationship with Kannai." Yao Guangxiao heard Zhu Gaoxu's words, and couldn't help but shake his head in his heart.

He knows Zhu Di very well, and Zhu Di will never rebel, so as long as Zhu Gaochu does not lie, then Zhu Di will not be able to affect Yan Mansion because of Zhu Gaoxu.

As for what Zhu Gaoxu said that he could take Liaodong, Yao Guangxiao did not believe it.

There are Yang Wen, Wu Gao, and Ping'an in Liaodong, and Fu Rang is just the person who supervises Tuntian in southern Liaoning, and he can't help Zhu Gaoxu too much at all.

The soldiers of the Bohai Sea are only 13,000 households, how can they fight with the 104,000 households of Liaodong, not to mention that Liaodong is a military town, and all the cities are built very strongly, what can Zhu Gaoxu use to break through these cities?

I'm afraid that before he has scored 30,000 guards, the soldiers and horses of the Shandong Metropolitan Division, the Beiping Metropolitan Division, and the Northern Parallel Metropolitan Division have arrived in Shenyang.

"In this way, the poor monk retired ......"

Yao Guangxiao got up and left, he didn't know what Zhu Gaoxu still had behind, but no matter what back hand he kept, as long as it didn't affect Yanfu, it was enough.

Watching him leave, Zhu Gaoxu could also feel that Yao Guangxiao was not expecting him, but the more he was like this, the more Zhu Gaoxu looked forward to the scene where he and Yao Guangxiao met in the future.

"Old monk, I'm not talking nonsense......"

He teased softly, then leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest.

While he was resting, Yao Guangxiao left his wooden house and returned to the wooden house where Zhu Di lived.

When he walked into the wooden house, Zhu Di was lying on his side on the wooden bed, sulking alone.

Listening to Yao Guangxiao's unique light footsteps, Zhu Di also spoke angrily: "How?" What did the kid say? ”

Yao Guangxiao did not answer in a hurry, but lit the candle, then found a place to sit down, and only after breathing a sigh of relief did he speak: "Your Royal Highness said that at the end of the month, I will return the military power to you, and let you go freely inside and outside the city." ”

"During this time, the generals in the city will not be targeted, and they can come and go freely."

"Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu, and Zhang Yu are too?" When Zhu Di heard Yao Guangxiao's words, he turned over and sat up suddenly, but saw the picture of Yao Guangxiao nodding.

"So, isn't this kid afraid of me making a big deal out of it?" Zhu Di had a feeling of facing his own Xu sister, he obviously felt that the eldest was more like Xu Meizi, and the second was like himself.

But now it seems that after the second child left the town, he neutralized the temperament of the two and took himself to death.

Thinking that he was controlled by the second child like this, Zhu Di felt uncomfortable: "Did he say anything?" ”

"...... said" Yao Guangxiao did not hide it, and told all the conversations between him and Zhu Gaoxu.

Listening to the conversation relayed from his mouth, Zhu Di's heart became more and more cold.

He got up and drank a cup of hot water to relieve his nervousness, and then sat down next to Yao Guangxiao and asked cautiously: "Do you think what the second brother said can be taken seriously?" ”

"Why do you bother to ask the poor monk, in fact, you already have the answer." Yao Guangxiao doesn't know Zhu Yunwen very well, but Zhu Di knows Zhu Yunwen very well.

When Zhu Di left the town of Beiping, Zhu Yunwen was already five years old, so he naturally saw Zhu Yunwen.

For Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di feels that his second child's evaluation is very appropriate, and he did grow up in a depressed environment.

However, Zhu Di did not approve of his second child's belief that Zhu Yunwen would cut the feudal domain through other means.

After all, in his opinion, "The Theory of Cutting Domains" has been approved by the vassal kings of the whole country, and the only disobedient Zhu Li and Zhu Fan have also passed away.

With this set of methods, it only takes two or three generations to completely solve the problem of the vassal king, and it can also ensure the preparation of the local enemy and quell the rebellion, which is already a foolproof strategy.

So in his opinion, there is no need for Zhu Yunwen to choose an additional path to go all over again.

Besides, his group of people, after all, is also Zhu Yunwen's uncle, he can't kill his uncle.

"The words of the second child, I feel that it is a half-truth."

Zhu Di gave his own answer, and Yao Guangxiao also bowed slightly after hearing it, and then asked: "What is the attitude of His Highness?" ”

"I ......" Zhu Di hesitated, although he felt very aggrieved, but the second child was his own baby after all, so he could only continue to be aggrieved: "I'll take a break for half a month, as for the matter of military rations, ......"

After thinking about it for a while, and making sure that no one would have thought that he would transport military rations to Jilin City, he continued: "Old monk, you go and let Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu, and Zhang Yu lead the cavalry out of the city every day, just say patrol the border, and then transfer food from Yang Wen. ”

"By the way, doesn't the second brother have a brother working under Yang Wen, let them discuss it themselves, I don't care anyway."

Zhu Di kept saying that he didn't care, but he arranged all kinds of things.

Looking at his stubborn appearance and helping, Yao Guangxiao chuckled and shook his head, and then got up and left the room.

It's just that after he left, Zhu Di took the water glass in his hand, looked at the candle in front of him in a daze, and didn't know if he was thinking about Zhu Gaoxu's words.

After a long time, he put down the glass of water in his hand, got up and lay back on the wooden bed, and muttered:

"If nothing happens, don't think I don't dare to teach ...... lesson"

Halfway through the words, Zhu Di thought of Zhu Gaoxu's bravery now, and his voice gradually became weak: "Let your mother teach you a lesson!" ”

(End of chapter)