After a while, Zhu Chenmu and the three of them took Du Yixin and Zhu Qi into a bamboo forest outside the city, and in this bamboo forest was standing an attic, and the attic was guarded by countless men with big knives around the attic.

After Zhu Mu arrived at the bottom of the attic, several women immediately walked down from the attic, and then helped Zhu Chenmu to the attic together, and sat on a Taishi chair with a dragon and a phoenix.

Du Buyi and Zhu Qi also walked to the bottom of the attic at this time and stopped.

I only heard Zhu Chenmu in the attic shouting loudly:

"Since both of you came here with me, what are you still holding back, and you're not an outsider?"

Du Buyi and Zhu Qi looked at each other for a while, and then walked up to the attic hand in hand.

I saw that the banquet had been set up on the attic at this time, and as soon as the two of them came up, several young and beautiful girls came out of nowhere, so they helped them to the banquet.

Du did not forget to ask Zhu Chenmu at this time:

"Did you bring us all this way to treat the two of us to dinner?"

Zhu Chenmu smiled:

"This banquet is for me to get together with the county lord's relatives, but the most important thing today is to invite Du Tanhua to talk to you!"

Du was stunned for a moment at this time:

"You...... How do you know I'm from Du Tanhua?"

Zhu Chen smiled:

"Haha...... Haha, Du Tanhua's reputation has long been well-known inside and outside my Ming Dynasty, if someone doesn't know you Du Tanhua, isn't it too uninformed? I kept talking to the county lord just now, and I snubbed Du Tanhua, you won't mind, right?"

Du did not forget to raise his head with a smile:

"Of course I won't, if you talk to the county lord, doesn't it mean that you are talking to me?"

Zhu Chenmu looked at Du Buyi and Zhu Qi respectively:

"Look at the two of you like this, are you already ......?"

Zhu Qi lowered his head a little shyly at this time:

"I'm not satisfied with you, uncle, in fact, Brother Du and I have made a private agreement for life, but it's just that my father hasn't really agreed to this family affair!"

Zhu Chenmu suddenly asked:

"But as far as I know, Du Tanhua already has a few wives, and now Mrs. is also the daughter of my Daming clan, a descendant of Emperor Jianwen, I heard that it is called Mingxi, right?"

Du Buyi was shocked again at this time, and asked:

"How do you even know that?"

Zhu Chenmu smiled again:

"I'm not afraid that Du Tanhua will be angry, I also know that Miss Mingxi used to be the concubine of the current emperor, that is, Du Tanhua's second brother, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

Du Buyi also laughed:

"It seems that I can't hide anything from you that I can't forget?"

Then he asked:

"I don't know what to call you yet?"

Zhu Chenmu said:

"You don't mind, just call me Brother Zhu!"

Du did not forget to feel and waved his hand:

"This ...... I don't dare to do this, you were a prince and nobleman before, and you were Qi'er's uncle, how dare I call you brother?"

Zhu Chenmu suddenly dropped the wine glass in his hand to the ground, but he looked at Du Cheng very calmly:

"Du Tanhua, your reason is too prevaricating, right? You dare to sleep with the current Princess Yong'an, and you also call the emperor a brother, but you don't want to call me a lifelong brother of Zhu someone, could it be that Du Tanhua looks down on me Zhu someone?"

Du didn't forget that he didn't expect this Zhu Chenmu to speak so directly, but he still quickly waved his hand:

"No...... Of course not, Brother Zhu!"

Zhu Chenmu immediately slapped the table and shouted a few times:

"Good...... Good...... Today I finally made a good brother, and I will never forget it!"

Then I saluted Du Yi with a glass of wine:

"Then celebrate me and Du Tanhua with this glass of wine, you are brothers of the opposite sex, right?"

Du did not forget to raise his glass and echoed:

"Good...... Okay, I'm also celebrating that I have another good big brother today. ”

Zhu Qi asked at this time:

"Brother Du, now that you have married my uncle, what should I call my uncle in the future?"

Zhu Chenmu laughed again:

"Haha...... Haha, Qi'er, my marriage with Du Gongzi has nothing to do with you, you can still call me uncle in the future. ”

After half a year of drinking, Du did not forget that he was not restrained, so he asked Zhu Chenmu curiously:

"Brother Zhu, why did your leg become like this?"

Zhu Chenmu sighed and said:

"Brother Du, have you heard of the past of King Ning's rebellion?"

Du did not forget and replied:

"I've heard of some, but because I didn't have any biological experience at the time, and I only knew a little about it, if Brother Zhu wanted to say it, I would just listen to it as a younger brother. ”

After Zhu Chenmu laughed bitterly a few times, he began to speak.

It turned out that Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao and Zhu Chenmu have been a pair of brothers with a good relationship since they were children, and the two are only a few years apart.

But because Zhu Chenmu was more intelligent than Zhu Chenhao when he was young, and he was still a descendant, King Lao Ning made Zhu Chenmu his son at the beginning.

But when Zhu Chenmu was seven years old, his mother died, and King Lao Ning set up Zhu Chenhao's mother as the concubine, after the concubine took the throne, she was naturally ambitious, and often said bad things about Zhu Chenmu to King Lao Ning in the bed.

Zhu Chenmu naturally began to be left out in the cold since then, but Zhu Chenmu did not give up on himself, but worked hard to learn the art of war, and after a few years, Zhu Chenmu seemed to have become the most talented of many brothers, and at this time King Lao Ning had also passed away.

It stands to reason that the newly appointed Zhu Chenhao should have been jealous of Zhu Chenmu, after all, his position as the son of the world was hidden from him, and he was so talented that he was even more talented than himself, but the two brothers got along very well, and even Zhu Chenhao's mother asked him to guard against Zhu Chenmu, but Zhu Chenhao couldn't listen to it.

Until one day, Zhu Chenhao suddenly asked Zhu Chenmu to play in Poyang Lake, and Zhu Chenhao confided in his brother Zhu Chenmu that he wanted to be the king of Bingqin and be the emperor, and promised Zhu Chenmu that if he became the emperor in the future, he would follow the allusions of Song Taizu and Song Taizu, and pass the throne to Zhu Chenmu after a hundred years.

Zhu Chenmu was naturally excited at this time, and in the future, he began to prepare wholeheartedly for Zhu Chenhao to raise troops and serve the king.

Zhu Chenhao gradually grew bigger due to snobbery, and naturally the nearby King Huai and King Yi began to secretly support Zhu Chenhao, and King Huai even secretly gave Zhu Chenhao Leping, Wannian and other places under his jurisdiction.

So Zhu Chenhao built a splendid palace for Zhu Chenmu in Leping County, which is naturally the current Xu Mansion.

But it backfired, not long after Zhu Chenhao announced the start of the army, he was defeated like a mountain, and was soon suppressed by the imperial court soldiers led by Wang Yangming and others.

Zhu Chenhao was naturally captured alive, and although Zhu Chenmu lost his legs in the chaotic battle, he was rescued by Zhu Chenhao's cronies, and then hid all the way to Leping County, and also changed the former palace into a Xu Mansion surnamed Xu.

Because someone in the local area reported to the government at this time, so the imperial court sent the imperial history to investigate, but unfortunately the imperial history sent by the imperial court is a timid person like a mouse, under the intimidation of these people around Zhu Chenmu, after this imperial history returned to Beijing, it was only reported, this is just a large family's Xu Mansion, not the mansion of the traitor Zhu Chenmu at all.

Therefore, Zhu Chenmu no longer lived here in the future, but moved outside the city, collecting the lost subordinates of his brother Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, hoping to make a comeback one day.

After listening to it, Du didn't forget to sigh:

"I didn't expect Brother Zhu that after so many years, you haven't let go yet!"

Zhu Chenmu smiled bitterly for a while, and said:

"More than 10 years ago, I had the opportunity to be ashamed, but I missed that opportunity because of a serious illness back then. ”

Du Bu Bu suddenly remembered the rebellion he put down with Wang Yangming more than ten years ago:

"Could it be that Brother Zhu, the opportunity you said was the Rebellion of the Eight Great Villages in the Southwest?"

Zhu Chenmu nodded:

"It was that turmoil, I remember that Du Tanhua was still led by you and Wang Yangming at that time!"

Du Bu did not forget to ask curiously:

"If Brother Zhu had sent troops back then, how would you have defeated us?

After Zhu Chenmu drank a glass of wine, he directly threw the wine glass to the ground again:

"Hmph...... I had actually gathered 100,000 elite soldiers back then, and I was going to capture Yingtianfu when your army was transferred to the southwest, but I didn't know that I had a leg disease at that time, and my brothers all knelt down to dissuade me, so I couldn't start a rash incident, so I endured it for the time being. ”

Du did not forget to drink a glass of wine with him:

"That's true, you were right at the time, the soldiers and horses we left behind in Nanjing City at that time, plus the soldiers and horses in the prefectures and counties along the road, added up to less than 10,000 people, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, if Brother Zhu, your soldiers and horses would definitely be no problem to defeat Nanjing City. ”

After a pause, he continued:

"However, after you conquer Nanjing City, I am afraid that you will not be able to hold on for long, because if our army knows that Nanjing City is lost, it will definitely give up the southwest bandits and come back to recover Nanjing City with all its might, and the emperor in the north will not sit idly by, and will definitely send Beijing soldiers and horses to support. ”

Zhu Chenmu sighed again:

"I also dissuaded my subordinates in the same way, but they don't understand a truth, if you don't gamble at the best time, I'm afraid you will never have such a chance again in your life. ”

Du did not forget and said:

"Yes, people have to gamble, just like Liu Xiu back then, if Liu Xiu doesn't gamble, he will go to Hebei without a foundation to develop, and he will not continue the Han Dynasty for nearly two hundred years!"

Zhu Chenmu slapped the table again, and said dejectedly:

"Brother Du, you're right, I also want to be Liu Xiu, but I don't have those talented people around Liu Xiu?"

Du did not forget to comfort:

"Brother Zhu, in fact, you don't have to worry, Maxima will always meet Bole, but I still advise Brother Zhu, now that the people of the Ming Dynasty are stable, even if you want to soldier, I'm afraid it's just a drop in the bucket!"

Zhu Chenmu said:

"Brother Du, I'll let you meet someone and you'll know!"

Clapped his hands.

After a while, a man in a robe and a group of white-clothed monks walked towards the attic.

When these people got closer, wasn't the person wearing a robe at the head of the Maitreya Sect Li Fuda?

At this time, Li Fuda also seemed to find Du Yifu upstairs, so he shouted:

"Brother Du, haven't you seen you for a long time?"

Du did not forget to respond:

"Brother Li, we haven't seen each other for a long time, hurry up and have a drink together!"

Li Fuda jumped up directly, sat down on an empty seat next to him, poured a glass of wine into his mouth, and said:

"Zhu Guanren's wine is really delicious...... It's delicious!"

Zhu Chenmu looked at Li Fuda at this time and asked:

"***, how is the preparation of the Tang Palace?"

Li Fuda nodded:

"Tang Wangye has already prepared soldiers and horses, just wait for Zhu Guanren to give an order, it will first wave his troops south to Xiangjing, and then meet with Zhu Guanren in Wuchang Mansion, and then go all the way down the river to capture Yingtianfu. ”

Zhu Chenmu's face was a little unhappy at this time:

"Didn't I make an appointment with the Tang King to meet together in Anqing, and then capture Yingtianfu along the river? Why did the Tang King change his name to Wuchang Mansion privately?"

Li Fuda shook his head:

"I don't know about this, but I will be responsible for containing the soldiers and horses of the Ming army in Guanzhong, Hexi and Jinzhong. ”