At the beginning of the lanterns, the Beijing division is full of people and is very lively.

Jingshi Ying Tianfu is the place of outstanding people since ancient times, Zhongshan Longpan is in the east, Shicheng Tiger is located in the west, there is Xuanwu Lake in the north, there is Qinhuai River in the south and walks around the city, known as the tiger in the dragon Pan.

Since ancient times, it was called Jinling, the Northern Song Dynasty changed its name to Jiangning, the Southern Song Dynasty called Jiankang, and the Yuan Dynasty called Jiqing Road. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang set the capital in the future, renamed Yingtianfu, after decades of construction and development, today's Yingtianfu has a population of one million, prosperous, businessmen are like clouds, and it is the largest city today.

Zhu Gaoxu's Han Palace, built near Xuanwu Lake in the north, was a quiet place in the middle of the noise, and was an address chosen by Zhu Di himself. Although it is already summer, due to its proximity to Xuanwu Lake, the cool breeze blows on the lake at night, which is pleasant.

Zhu Gaoxu sat in the garden pavilion, looking at the exquisite Jiangnan garden, but his heart was indescribably irritable. Since last year, when he led the army to defend the border in Kaiping, his father suddenly issued an edict to establish the emperor's eldest brother Zhu Gaochi as the crown prince, canonized himself as the king of Han, and his younger brother Zhu Gaosui as the king of Zhao, and sealed his vassal country far away from Yunnan, his heart has not been comfortable for a day.

He has been fighting in the army all the year round, with outstanding military achievements, and he has an excellent relationship with generals at all levels in the army. Therefore, Qiu Fu, the prince of Qiguo, wrote a letter to analyze the pros and cons for him, and resolutely advised him not to go to Yunnan to become a vassal domain, but to live in Beijing, so as to facilitate activities up and down, and wait for the times to change. He deeply understood Qiu Fu's words, but it was a little strange when Qiu Fu, the big boss, became so shrewd and analyzed the situation well, as if he had the guidance of a master.

In any case, he still followed Qiu Fu's advice, and wrote only one sentence on his father's thank-you recital: "What crime do I have to reprimand me for thousands of miles?" and then returned to Beijing with his son, resolutely refusing to surrender.

Unexpectedly, everything was as Qiu Fuxin said, not only did the usually hot-tempered father not be angry because of his disobedience, but instead dispatched Ouchi craftsmen to carefully renovate this Han Palace's palace for him, with carved beams and paintings, exquisite and abnormal, and even not inferior to the palace building. This is undoubtedly tantamount to acquiescing to him that he can live in Beijing for a long time, and there is no need to rush to Yunnan to become a vassal. This result aroused his curiosity about the master behind Qiu Fu, and he must meet him when he has the opportunity.

The connivance of his father is not difficult to understand, since he was a child, Zhu Gaoxu has been naughty and active, and his bow and horse martial arts are very good, which is quite popular with the father who was still King Yan at that time, and he feels that he is very similar to him. The eldest brother Zhu Gaochi likes to be quiet and disgusted with movement, loves scriptures and literature, and is also fat and bloated, and his legs have fallen into problems, and he must be supported by two attendants to stumble and walk, which makes his father very annoyed, and once commented that "the son is not like the father". However, because his words and deeds were very popular with Emperor Taizu, he was established as the son of King Yan.

During the Battle of Jingjing, my father's army was defeated several times and was in a critical situation, but he led his subordinates to charge bravely to reverse the defeat and turn defeat into victory. My father was very satisfied with this, and it was not a secret in the army that he had promised the position of prince until he ascended the throne later. Unexpectedly, he was far away on the frontier, and the group of sour and rotten literati led by Xie Jin shook their tongues in the ears of their father, telling right and wrong, and even made an edict not only canonized the position of Prince Zhu Gaochi, but also sealed himself far away in Yunnan, and became a Han king, which is really unreasonable. Especially the Xie Jin, who was the leader, said in front of his father that he was a "good saint grandson" to lobby for his brother Zhu Gaochi, which was even more hateful.

However, speaking of the eldest brother Zhu Gaochi, who is a fellow mother, in fact, the relationship between the two was still good when he was a child. Both of them were descendants of the then princess and the current queen Xu, and their mother was the eldest daughter of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, who could be regarded as a prominent family.

Although the two have different personalities since childhood, this elder brother usually acts mostly based on benevolence, and he also loves his younger brother who loves trouble, and has defended him in front of Taizu and his father several times, so he is still a little grateful to him. Until, until he met Ru Yun.

In that year, Taizu died, Jianwen ascended the throne and became emperor, and his father sent Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaochu and his younger brother Zhu Gaosui to Beijing in order to eliminate his suspicions, and handed them over to his uncle Xu Huizu to teach, in fact, he stayed in Beijing as a hostage. Although he had already been named the king of Gaoyang County at that time, and Xu Huizu was his own uncle, he was loyal to Emperor Jianwen, instigated the imperial court to take strict precautions against his father, and even wrote a letter requesting that the three brothers be taken down in order to force his father to hand over his military power. Fortunately, the little uncle Xu Zengshou and the concubine Wang Ning, who has always had a good relationship, advised him to avoid being imprisoned.

During that time, Zhu Gaoxu was depressed in his heart, coupled with his disgust with his uncle Xu Huizu, he had no intention of learning, and wandered around in Beijing during the day, causing trouble, until he met Ru Yun. Ru Yun is the daughter of a famous Confucian in Beijing, although she was not born in a city and a country, she is also beautiful and generous. On that day, she accidentally covered Zhu Gaoxu, who was in trouble on the street again, so the two became friends.

Since Zhu Gaochu came to Beijing this time, there is no one around him who can talk to him, and even his brother Zhu Gaochi has been nagging him all day long to restrain his heart, and he is annoyed to death. Now that she has met Ru Yun, it is rare that she doesn't care about herself, the king of Gaoyang County, who has caused trouble in Beijing, because she has been raised in the boudoir since she was a child, but she is very interested in the deeds of his father and king who have traveled south and north and fought on the battlefield for many years, and even wants to go to Beiping to see the folk customs and people along the way, and see the outside world of this Beijing division.

For her words, Zhu Gaoxu avoided the people who were spying on him, quietly stole his uncle Xu Huizu's BMW, and took Ru Yun on the road back to Beiping.

Along the way, he learned that this beautiful woman who seemed to be weak in appearance was actually chivalrous and heroic, and whenever she saw the injustice of the government and soldiers oppressing the people on the road, she must come out to take care of it. At that time, the war in the world was initially decided, civil chaos was frequent, and the officials and soldiers were arrogant and domineering, and they were often killed by Zhu Gaoxu. So along the way, rumors spread about his willful behavior and killing officials and people, and the imperial court even sent a special envoy to reprimand his father who was far away in Beiping.

So when he arrived in Beiping, he was angrily reprimanded and locked up by his father, and he never saw Ru Yun again. In the days of his imprisonment, he never regretted his reckless behavior this time, and he did not care about the notoriety he had brought to himself. All he cares about is Ru Yun's smile along the way, as long as she is happy, no matter how big the guilt he suffers, it is worth it.

He often misses Ru Yun, misses the days when the two of them were chivalrous and righteous in the rivers and lakes, and thinks that he will look for her as soon as he comes out. But it didn't take long for the Battle of Jingyan to begin, and after three years of war, he fought with his father in all directions, and the battlefield was stained with blood. At that time, he also sent people to Jingshi to inquire about her news, but because of the war, he could not find her whereabouts.

When the world calmed down, re-entered the Beijing Division, and saw Ru Yun again, it turned out to be in the mansion of the emperor's eldest brother Zhu Gaochi, she became the emperor's eldest brother's woman, and she was just a lowly concubine. It turned out that in order to win the hearts of the literati in Beijing, his father asked Zhu Gaochi to marry a famous Confucian in Beijing, so Ru Yun became his woman.

This made Zhu Gaoxu almost crazy, and the woman he loved suddenly became a little sister-in-law, and he couldn't accept it anyway. What made him even more unacceptable was that when he went to find Ru Yun in private, she actually maintained a cold etiquette, and she was like the enthusiastic girl who was in the rivers and lakes back then.

Impossible, Ru Yun can't be so ruthless, it must be him, he forced her and forcibly occupied her, Zhu Gaochi!

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu's hand holding the wine glass clenched hard, and there was a crisp sound, and the golden cup containing the wine was shattered by him.