Daming: From the end of Hongwu

This... is too much thought.

How powerful is the Ming Dynasty now, how dare little Annan stroke the tiger's beard lightly.

And Zhen Wu became more and more angry when he said that, he thought of plotting Annan's affairs, why, now he turned it into a joke: "Well, I don't play anymore, damn it, I will go home and prepare for the New Year's head office Bar."

After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu took a step forward and went to ask Zhu Di for leave.

However, when Zhen Wu just came to Zhu Di's study, Zhu Gaoxu actually came out from inside. Zhen Wu squinted at the triumphant Zhu Gaoxu, and asked, "Why is the King of Han looking for His Majesty?"

Zhu Gaoxu smiled like a dog's tail grass: "Isn't it Li Jiyao who wants to welcome Chen Tianping back? I'm thinking about choosing some soldiers to escort Chen Tianping, and I will also put some people in Annan first."

Zhen Wu nodded. He didn't want to say much at first, but in the end he endured his displeasure and reminded: "Li Jishou has always been cunning, you must take more precautions, and the generals who escorted Chen Tianping also You need to choose some cautious people, don't make mistakes..."

While talking, Zhen Wu suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Li Jisha would not attack Chen Tianping.

There seems to be a possibility.

Chen Tianping is a child of the Annan royal family. If Daming attacked Annan, with Chen Tianping around, it would be a hundred times easier for them. After all, it is very easy to have a royal child for things like calling the door.

Ok?

Why does this sound familiar?

But now is not the time to say that.

A sharp light flashed across Zhen Wu's eyes, and he said solemnly to Zhu Gaoxu: "It suddenly occurred to me that Li Jishou might attack Chen Tianping on his way back south, and it is very possible, so you This is absolutely unavoidable.”

Speaking of this, Zhen Wu thought for a while, and said seriously with a little uneasiness: "Do you have someone to choose who will escort Chen Tianping back to the south? Do you want me to find someone to escort Chen Tianping, or... I will personally escort him once." .”

"do not."

Contrary to Zhen Wu's expectations, Zhu Gaoxu directly rejected Zhen Wu without even thinking about it, and looked at Zhen Wu with some vigilance, and said to Qu: "Brother-in-law, how can you be an escort for a country? Besides, in our Daming, you are not the only brother-in-law who can fight alone. I, Zhu Gaoxu, will promise you again today. You are impressed."

Zhen Wu was stunned.

What does it mean?

Are you afraid that he will steal credit, or are you afraid that he will intervene in Annan in advance?

Zhen Wu looked deeply at Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu's self-confidence that has been touted these days is overwhelming, and he meets Zhen Wu's eyes without avoiding. In the end, Zhen Wu's anger dissipated again, and he waved his hand and said: "Okay, I'm a dog with a mouse."

Afterwards, Zhen Wu directly passed Zhu Gaoxu and walked towards Zhu Di's study.

And Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhen Wu's background, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything in the end, turned around and strode away, he believed that he could do well this time.

He is not a child anymore.

When he returned to the Han Palace, he immediately called Huang Zhong over, and he ordered: "This time, you will lead five thousand troops to escort Chen Tianping, and when you arrive in Annan, remember to put the person who should be placed in there. In addition, we must never bring Li Jishu's eldest son back to the capital, we must take this opportunity to firmly grasp Annan's government in our hands."

"Don't worry Your Highness, I understand this." Huang Zhong said.

After Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while, he solemnly told Huang Zhong: "Although we have been preparing for this matter for some time, when I came back from the palace just now, Zhao Guogong's words also reminded me that Li Jishou is very serious. Cunning, when you escort Chen Tianping to Annan, you must be cautious, but if there is any trouble, report it immediately. If Li Jishou wants to go back on his word, I can even support you at the frontier of Chen Bing, so you must not go along the way Be careless, don’t overturn the boat in the gutter.”

Hearing this, Huang Zhong couldn't help but said: "Your Highness is underestimating people like this. You have won countless battles with Zhao Guogong, but you are not a fledgling boy with a humble job. Even if you count the time, you have been in the army for more than ten years. These things don't matter. You and Zhao Guogong will be on guard beforehand."

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

Afterwards, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Speaking of which, as long as we do well this time, let alone the benefits we can get, the admiration of all the officials alone will make people happy."

"Yes." Huang Zhong nodded in agreement.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Huang Zhong, recalled what happened some time ago, and said, "By the way, I heard that you were taught a lesson by Zhao Guogong some time ago?"

Huang Zhong was stunned and said: "It is a humble position that offended Zhao Guogong, and he deserves to be punished."

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand generously and said: "Speaking of it, but I know you are angry, so this time you have to be more aggressive. Zhao Guogong values ​​people with ability the most. When he was in the palace just now, Zhao Guogong wanted to personally escort Chen. Tian Ping, it can be seen that he attaches great importance to this matter, so as long as you handle this matter well enough, presumably Zhao Guogong will not underestimate you like that in the future, and this is also an opportunity for you to make a name for yourself."

After hearing this, Huang Zhong nodded heavily.

At the same time, his fists were secretly clenched without knowing it.

Speaking of which, he is older than Zhao Guogong. He admits that Zhao Guogong can fight, but he doesn't think he is much worse than Zhao Guogong.

In the final analysis, it is not better for Zhao Guogong to order, and His Majesty should value it.

If he had the opportunity of Zhao Guogong to display his skills, he didn't believe that he would do worse than Zhao Guogong!

After all, everyone carries a head with two arms.

Why risk your life to lose to others!

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Chapter 379 - New Year and Zhu Di's Visit

Time flows.

As the new year advances day by day, in addition to touching the anticipation in people's hearts, it also makes people restless.

Since the last court meeting, Zhen Wu took sick leave as he wished, and stayed at home with his family every day, as if he didn't care about world affairs, and Zhu Di probably cheated Zhen Wu before, so when the new year was approaching, I am also willing to let Zhen Wu take a good rest.

Anyway, nothing important recently.

But this made Xiao Liu very sad.

She rested her head on the table, stared blankly at her big eyes, and complained: "This big brother is about to die, why is he staring at his embroidery spoon every day, when will he be a head?"

Looking at Xiao Liu from the side, the personal servant girl couldn't help covering her mouth and chuckling.

Xiao Liu glared at the servant girl unhappily, and then said angrily, "Sister-in-law doesn't even keep an eye on him."

At this time, the little girl Fei Que from outside ran in excitedly and said, "Miss, Miss, the third master and the others have arrived for the new year. There are several large carts, and now they are parked at the side door to unload the goods. I just went to look at them." Look, there are a lot of fish, all kinds of shrimp crawling, and things I don't know, there are so many."

Fei Que is only 13 years old, still young, and has a lot of playfulness. Zhu Yuying thinks that Xiao Liu is about to get married, and she is one of the four girls picked out from the Zhuangzi at home.

These four maids happened to be in love with birds during that period of time, so they were named Feique, Oriole, Bailu and Caihe respectively. Liu's personal maid, Hong Dou, is enough for Xiao Liu to order.

When Xiao Liu, who was originally bored, heard this, his eyes lit up.

The next moment, Xiao Liu jumped up and ran outside: "I'll go and see if Third Brother has prepared anything good for me."

Before the words were finished, Xiao Liu had already ran out of the house.

Feique and Hongdou hurriedly chased after them.

After Xiao Liu arrived at the side door, he grabbed the carriage and looked inside to see what was there. Most of the guards escorting the New Year's goods were old people in the house, and they knew the aunt at home.

One person came forward with a smile and said: "Third Master and the others have prepared gifts for you early on. I was just thinking about sending you to the hospital. I didn't expect you to come out."

"What's there?" Xiao Liu asked with interest.

The man smiled and led Xiao Liu to the gift car prepared for Xiao Liu and said: "Look, by the way, there are still a few small live fishes. The third lady specially told us to take care of them together. They are colorful and colorful." of."

While talking, the servants found the wooden bucket containing the live fish. Xiao Liu squatted beside the wooden bucket, watching the live fish swimming happily in the bucket, and giggled with narrowed eyes.

However, she smiled for a while, then she retracted her smile, rolled her eyes, and took advantage of the porter's inattention, and slipped out of the porter's room with the two of them.

When the porter saw it, he hurriedly asked a few guards to catch up to protect Xiao Liu, while sighing and stomping his feet skillfully, he turned his head and went to report to Zhen Wu.

It's just that the porter on the way was a little puzzled. Xiaoliu, who was very concerned about the New Year's ceremony in the past, why this year he just glanced at it a few times, and then slipped out with all his heart.

After all, I am old enough to know that it is fun outside.

After Xiao Liu ran outside, he found an alley with few people and got in.

She coughed twice and said, "Come out."

After a while, two masters who played hide-and-seek with Xiao Liu from Duke Ding's mansion came out from the shadows. If you find him, just say that I am waiting for him in Wangyue Tower."

The two people in Dingguo's mansion left without asking why.

Then Xiao Liu went to Wangyue Tower.

She has something to ask Xu Jingchang.

Soon, Xu Jingchang came to Wangyue Tower in a hurry, but Xiao Liu still rolled his eyes, a little disgusted that Xu Jingchang came too slowly, then she ignored Xu Jingchang's excited expression, and asked directly: "I'm asking you, my elder brother Why are you always at home these days, and look a little depressed, tell me honestly, did something happen during this period?"

Xu Jingchang was taken aback and said, "You don't know?"

"Should I know?"

Xiao Liu waved his hand with an unhappy expression in the next moment: "Don't mention it, my elder brother is still nagging at home about happy things, and my elder brother who is unhappy has a strict mouth, and won't say a word."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Liu glanced sideways at Xu Jingchang, and said dissatisfiedly, "Hey, hey, I said my elder brother is in a low mood, why are you smirking?"

Xu Jingchang looked at the beautiful woman with jade cheeks, and was taken aback for another moment. He couldn't help covering his mouth with his hand: "Did I laugh? No."

Seeing Xu Jingchang like this, Xiao Liu knocked on the table without temper and said, "Okay, okay, what do you think you were asked to come out for? Hurry up and talk about something."

Xu Jingchang calmed down his turbulent mind, and then began to tell Xiao Liu about the recent events in detail.

Some of them were known to him, and some were just rumors, all of them were told to Xiao Liu.

At this time, Zhen Wu also received a report from the porter. He thought for a while and said, "Give her two sticks of incense time this time. After the time is up, you can just ask someone to bring her back."

The concierge should have gone down.

Zhen Wu looked at Shi Leng again.

This time it was Shi Leng who brought the third child's new year's goods over, and reported some business matters to Zhen Wu along the way.

Shi Leng first took out a few letters and handed them to Zhen Wudao: "This is a letter from the third master and the seventh master to the family. The seventh master has settled down there, and now he lives with the third master. You can rest assured .”

Speaking of Xiaoqi, Xiaoqi went to Changle with Zhuzi and the others last time. When he went there, Zhang Yuqing often talked about it unwillingly, but when the child grows up, he always wants to go out and make troubles. , and also looking for the third child, Zhang Yuqing finally nodded in agreement.

After Zhen Wu received the letter, he put it away first, and chatted with Shi Leng about serious matters.

In fact, the Zhen family's business is not too much now, but they are all arranged in areas with prosperous business in the future, and they are also hot businesses such as tea, furs, restaurants, etc., so the family is not short of money.

After the two chatted for a while, they chatted about business for a while, and Shi Leng got up to leave.

Afterwards, Zhen Wu picked up the letters and read them. They were all the recent records of the third child and the seventh child, and there was nothing worth mentioning. After Zhen Wu read the letter to him, he took the third child and the seventh child to the Zhang Yuqing's letter went to Zhang Yuqing's yard.

For Zhang Yuqing, the New Year is not as lively as the children.

Especially this year, the eldest came back with great difficulty, but the third and seventh were not here, Zhang Yuqing couldn't help feeling sorry for this.

It seems that since the children in the family have grown up, they can't get together every year.

This made her, a mother, endlessly worried and worried every year.

Today, the third child and the others brought their new year's goods, and she had been waiting for Zhen Wu and Zhu Yuying to come and report these things to her after they had packed them up.

Of course, she didn't care about those New Year's goods, but wanted to know some information about the third child and the seventh child.

When she saw Zhen Wu coming with the letter, Zhang Yuqing's spirits lifted immediately, and before Zhen Wu could speak, she hurriedly said, "Sit closer and read to me what the third child and the seventh child have said."

Zhen Wu walked over to sit down with a smile, then opened the third letter first, and read it slowly.

Zhang Yuqing listened to these, as if she was listening to the third child whispering in her ear.

The letter from the third child is very long, probably the third child has been out of town for a long time, and it coincides with the end of the new year, and he misses Zhang Yuqing more. I said a lot of things.

And Xiaoqi's letter was much simpler, and it was just a report of safety under the carelessness.

Zhang Yuqing raised his eyebrows and said, "Xiaoqi's gone?"

Zhen Wu nodded and said, "It's gone."

Zhang Yuqing nagged dissatisfiedly: "It's the first time for this child to travel far away, and he doesn't know how to talk to his family, whether he is tired from the errands, or whether it is hard or not, it's good to talk about it."

Zhen Wu coaxed: "I personally arranged his errands, how can he be tired and hard, don't worry about him too much, after he has experienced two years, I will detain him at home, then you will let him Get married first, and give birth to a big fat grandson for you, do you think this will work?"

"You know how to coax me."

Zhang Yuqing smacked his mouth, as if he hadn't listened to the letter just now, but he also knew that he had read the letter, so he muttered in a low mood: "Okay, why do you have to go to practice, I don't know what is good to practice Yes, you are the big brother too, and your family is not what it used to be, so is it possible that you still use Xiao Qi to make contributions?"

Zhen Wu smiled wryly and said: "Oh, my old lady, didn't I tell you earlier, that is Xiaoqi's own ambition, and I can't stop it, why do you think you still have emotions?"

Zhang Yuqing was not happy anymore: "I said what's wrong with you, it's alright, don't stay with me, go to your business." Zhang Yuqing called her maid and said: "Go, Let's go outside and walk around, and when we come back, you will accompany me to ponder over the leaf card, last time I followed the old master to the palace, why did I lose so much money, it doesn't make sense."

Zhen Wu got up and helped Zhang Yuqing up, and then followed Zhang Yuqing to the yard. After watching Zhang Yuqing go for a walk accompanied by the maid, he smiled wryly and turned and walked towards his own yard.

Zhang Yuqing was getting old, and was often locked in this deep house compound. She was full of thoughts about these children, but she also knew that children had their own lives, and she couldn't disturb them often, so she had to find fun and waste time by herself.

Zhen Wu didn't have a good solution for this, except to ask Zhu Yuying to take Zhang Yuqing to visit the house more often, and he could only gossip with Zhang Yuqing when he had nothing to do.

……

Just as Zhen Wu walked out of Zhang Yuqing's courtyard, he suddenly found Xiao Liu rushing over from the corridor in a hurry.

Zhen Wu wanted to reprimand Xiao Liu.