Bright Spring

"Xu Zhang's daughter came to see me today." Duan Xuehen said.

Mu Zhen turned her head slightly to one side, as if thinking, "Xu Zhang's daughter?"

Duan Xuehen said again: "The concubine whom King Zhao has retired."

"Oh!" Mu Zhen looked suddenly enlightened.Her big, clear and watery eyes seemed to be able to speak, and they were immediately covered with a layer of sadness.

Duan Xuehen only looked into Mu Zhen's eyes, and immediately understood that Mu Zhen must have remembered the thing that Emperor Taizong almost promised Zhao Wang back then.At that time, Mu Zhen seemed to be seduced by Zhu Gaoxu, and she was really worried and sad for a long time.

"Anyway, isn't the imperial concubine already asking for benevolence?" Duan Xue said bitterly.

Mu Zhen was stunned for a moment, and after a while she understood what Duan Xuehen meant, and said softly, "I often feel that Xuehen is closer than my younger siblings."

Duan Xue hated it, and said: "Xu Niangzi heard that the sage wanted Zhao Wang to marry the younger sister of the imperial concubine, so she wanted to see the imperial concubine and wanted to persuade you to stop it."

"Why?" Mu Zhen asked.

Duan Xue said bitterly: "Ms. Xu wants to reunite with King Zhao. She thinks that Marquis Ning Yuan (He Fu) has status in the court now. As long as King Zhao can't marry the Mu family, he will consider taking Mrs. Xu back to Prince Zhao's mansion."

Mu Zhen shook her head lightly: "It is possible to dissuade the Mu family from marrying King Zhao. But I think King Zhao won't take Miss Xu back."

"En." Duan Xue replied with hatred.Mu Zhen often gives people a lively and simple feeling, but her mind is like those eyes, thinking things seem simple but very clear.

Mu Zhen said: "In fact, I have already written a letter to my father, asking him to write a letter to refute the matter. Not to mention that the two sisters of Wu Dinghou (Guo)'s family are both married to the royal family, and Guo Yan will eventually have a bleak end; let's say that our Mu family is now Being too flamboyant, and marrying the Holy One's younger brother, I'm afraid it's easy to attract people's jealousy. This is not a good thing."

Duan Xuehen nodded.

Mu Zhen glanced at her, and said with a smile: "Since my sister...has agreed to Xu Shi, you'd better let her come to see me. I can't sleep with you right now, but the Holy One will come to see me every now and then; when the Holy One comes, I will So I persuaded him. But no matter how much the Holy One thinks about it, we can’t be the master.”

Duan Xue said bitterly: "I will take Miss Xu with me in the afternoon, and then I will see the imperial concubine."

...The weather forecast of the official of the Qin Tianjian was miraculously accurate once.Within two days, the light rain stopped and the weather cleared up.The Ming Fleet heading south, set sail according to the prepared itinerary.Zhu Gaoxu still went to Longjiang Port; but most of the ships were in Liujiagang, which was too far away from the capital, so Zhu Gaoxu naturally did not go.

Later in the evening, Zhu Gaoxu went to the East First Palace to visit Mu Zhen, who was in confinement, and his second son Zhu Zhanqi.

"The older ladies and nurses in the palace told me that this concubine can't take care of her bed, so the Holy One should go to another palace to sleep at night." Mu Zhen said apologetically.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at her chest, and hurriedly said: "I just want to see you and talk to you for a while. Every time I'm with you, somehow I'm in a particularly good mood, so I don't need to do anything else."

Mu Zhen covered her mouth and smiled, "The Holy Majesty will coax me."

Zhu Gaoxu said solemnly: "It's the truth. I love seeing you smile very much. As long as I look at these eyes, I feel that everything will go well and everything will gradually get better."

At this time, the faces of the two maids standing beside her also turned red.Mu Zhen turned her head and took a look, then said, "Go and do other things."

"Yes." The ladies bowed their heads and bowed their knees.

Mu Zhen waited for them to go out, then said softly: "The clothes I just changed before I saw the Holy Majesty, I really have no choice but to be impolite."

Zhu Gaoxu said kindly: "It's okay to stay in my bedroom."

Mu Zhen approached his ear, exhaled like blue and said quietly: "The Holy Majesty is so curious, you can touch it for a while, it seems to be all right."

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Unexpectedly, Mu Zhen immediately left a certain distance, at this time she said again: "My lord, I have something to ask."

Zhu Gaoxu responded happily: "Zhen'er just say it."

Mu Zhen thought for a moment, then said: "I heard that the Holy One wanted Zhao Wang to marry my sister. But now my father has made the Duke of the state, and my two uncles (Mu Ang and Mu Xin) are both very important in Yunnan. The Holy Majesty added the title of imperial concubine to the concubine, and the Mu family is deeply favored. If the younger sister is married to Zhao Wang again, the Mu family may not be able to bear such a great grace. Besides, Zhao Wang is the holy brother. , Feng Mu's concubine's daughter is the princess, will Zhao Wang be wronged?"

Zhu Gaoxu's expression became a little more serious, he pondered for a moment, and said, "Duke Qian also meant this?"

Mu Zhen said softly: "I actually wrote a letter to persuade my father, but I haven't received a reply from my father, so I don't know yet."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Zhen'er is right, King Zhao is my own brother, and now the only brother. After thinking about him, I don't think he will do anything too ridiculous, and he will be fine."

Zhu Gaoxu alluded to that the tragedy of the two sisters of Marquis Wuding and the two brothers of Guo's family will not happen again.

Mu Zhen said: "By the way, the former Concubine Xu of Zhao came to see the concubine. The concubine is really pitiful to hear what she said. If Zhao Wang can change his mind, it must be a good thing."

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head without hesitation and said: "Gao Sui is a prince, and he will not be afraid of He Fu; besides, He Fu is only Xu's uncle, and he is not willing to make enemies with Gao Sui because of this. Only Xu Zhang is a little unhappy, but Gao Sui is even more unhappy. Will take care of him.

Gao Sui was indeed a little ruthless in this matter.But now that everyone is an adult, I am the second brother, so I can't scold him for everything, otherwise this brother will not get along well. "

"En." Mu Zhen responded softly.

Zhu Gaoxu said again: "If Duke Qian really has objections, I don't need to force it. However, Gao Sui wants to move out of Beiping and go to Zhangde Mansion on his own initiative, so I have to vote for Li Baotao. I know what he wants, he is Because I am very afraid of my eldest brother, I want a useful promise.

It doesn't matter if Princess Zhao chooses a member of the Mu family or the Wei family, as long as it's my confidant and confidant.Wei Da's second daughter seems to be more than ten years old. I will talk to Wei Da in a few days. "

Mu Zhen said: "Your Majesty is very considerate, my concubine has added trouble to you."

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said, "It doesn't matter."

He stood up and took a few steps, and then casually talked about today's events: "Today I went to Longjiang Port, and this time the fleet is heading south. The fleet that went to North Korea, Japan, and Japan have already left. It took almost 20 days, and it is estimated that they will be able to arrive in Japan in a month at most.".

Chapter 726 The Chaotic Shogunate

From May to the first year of Wude, the capital became more and more hot.The fleet led by Hou Xian has left the capital for almost two months.

Zhu Gaoxu thought of this incident from time to time, and guessed that Zhou Quan and others who were envoys to Japan should have already arrived in Japan, and they might be investigating what Zhu Gaoxu needed.Japan is regarded as a neighboring country of Ming Dynasty, but the imperial court really knew too little about it before; the emperors and ministers of the Jianwen Dynasty, and even the actual ruler of Japan were mistaken at the beginning.

Based on Zhu Gaoxu's impression, the first thing he thought of was that Japan has a lot of gold and silver mines.The famous Kinkakuji Temple is a witness, the whole building is actually wrapped in gold leaf.

Unexpectedly, the court soon received an urgent report from Hou Xian.The courier took the post road on the Liaodong land route and sent the report to the capital on a fast horse.

The things were presented to the Hall of Rouyi, and Zhu Gaoxu got two things, one was the Japanese national letter, and the other was Hou Xian's memorial.

Zhu Gaoxu first glanced at the letter of credence, and the meaning turned out to be that Yuan Yichi refused to accept it, and the imperial court canonized him as the king of Japan!

He also read Hou Xian's memorial, and even the request of the Ming envoy to go to Kyoto was rejected, and he was not allowed to go to pay homage to the dead Minamoto Yoshimitsu.Until Hou Xian's memorial was sent away, the Daming Fleet, Zhou Quan and other dozens of missions all stayed in Geoje County (southeast corner of South Korea) in North Korea.

Zhu Gaoxu was suddenly angry.Because during the Jianwen Dynasty and the Yongle Dynasty, Japan was very active in diplomatic relations with Ming Dynasty; but once I became the throne, why did I send them to make friends with them, but was rejected?

It's also very strange, before the matter of Yuanyi's death, the Japanese envoy took the initiative to come to report the funeral; why did the attitude change so suddenly?Its policy of pondering impermanence is really confusing.

At this time, he carefully read the Japanese national certificate again, but did not find any meaningful explanation.

The signature is Minamoto Yoshichi, and his explanation in the letter of credence is very ridiculous, to the effect that: after the founding of the country, everything will follow the instructions of the gods.Recently, the gods entrusted a person to tell him that Japan has never been a vassal since ancient times, and warned him not to accept the mission of foreigners in the future, and taught his descendants to stick to it.

Zhu Gaoxu cursed and threw the letter of credence on the big desk.He has never seen such a credential, let alone such a ridiculous and unreasonable content that can be written in a serious credential!

Hou Xian wrote a lot of words in the memorial, but the eunuch's memorial is much more reliable.

It states that Japanese officials who came to Geoje County sent credentials, and one of them was a samurai from the Ouchi clan of Hakata Port (Kyushu area).Yao Fang competed with the Da Nei family in martial arts, took the opportunity to make friends with this person, and then bribed with a lot of copper coins to get some inside information from the Da Nei family.

In fact, Yuan Yichi decided to reject the canonization of Ming Dynasty because of the objections of the power ministers under his command, Spock and others, and the result of Yuan Yichi reaching a consensus with them.