In Beiping, officials from the Shanxi Provincial Department of the Ministry of Political Affairs were ordered by the emperor to convey the same message as the front line, and then resigned and left. Who knew that Zhang An, a thousand households in Jinyi, was ordered by Fang Xiaoru to secretly throw a secret letter on the table.

Zhu Gaochi, who returned, was suddenly shocked, and his hand holding the envelope trembled uncontrollably, and no matter what the letter said, as long as he accepted it, it meant that he would be charged with having a private relationship with the court; If you don't accept this letter, you can't explain why the imperial court secretly sent someone to contact you, anyway, it's a dilemma.

In the past few years, Zhu Gaochi's situation has become more and more difficult, and his second brother Zhu Gaochu has repeatedly made military exploits and his prestige in the army has become increasingly serious, and he often claims to be Li Shimin. Gao Xi assisted his father in conquering the world, and he made the greatest credit, since he was unwilling to be born and die, but finally made a wedding dress for others!

Thinking that Gao Xi was brave and good at fighting, he had saved his father from critical moments several times, and he was most loved by his father since he was a child, and it was not a day to seek the position of the son of the world, and the most disappointing thing for Zhu Gaochi was that the two younger brothers befriended each other and joined forces to be hostile to him.

Fortunately, with the support of the civil and military officials of Beiping, and the closeness of Xu Hao outside, Zhu Gaochi knew that as long as he did his duty to guard the rear, there would be no merit and hard work, and his father would have no excuse to depose himself, the question is what about the future?

Urgently summoned Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi and other advisers, the letter was not opened, Zhu Gaochi smiled bitterly: "How should this be?" ”

Xie Jin groaned: "This time the news from the DPRK will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble in the city and force the prince to rebel against the prince, and the little prince's chamberlain Huang Yan is cunning and wise, and will not let go of such a good opportunity to hit the prince, I am afraid that he will soon send someone to the army first." ”

Yang Shiqi said casually: "To tell the truth, the prince will not blame." ”

Xu Hao's reaction was completely different from Zhu Gaochi and others, at this moment the others were not in Liaoyang, and after instructing Mu Yi to temporarily put the person under house arrest, he ordered to block water and land transportation.

For Xu Hao. The discord of the imperial court is a double-edged sword, no matter how Zhu Di reacts to this, he must not hand over his life and death to Zhu Di or the emperor in a word, why? The emperor is bullshit!

Zhu Di, who was in the Daimyo's Mansion, received an urgent report from his youngest son, and was shocked to learn that the imperial court conspired with the prince and ordered him to return to obedience and be crowned the prince.

The commander who leads the army outside is most worried about the instability of the rear and the truncation of the way back, and Zhu Gaosui's words are by no means false. If you don't dare to believe it, you can't believe it.

Who made the rift between Zhu Di and the eldest son is not a day, if it is impossible for Zhu Gaochi to rebel alone, the problem is that there is still a bold Xu Hao.

Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaoxu, who was standing aside: "Will your brother surrender to the imperial court?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said without thinking: "The eldest brother and the prince have been getting along with Zhu Yunwen before, and for many years, the king of Qin and the king of Jin have been on both ends of the snake and the mouse, God knows whether they will be united, Gao Sui's report will never be wrong, and he doesn't have the courage to frame his brother." ”

Zhu Di walked around with his hands behind his back, his suspicion growing and his anger growing. Thinking about how to get rid of this henchman's trouble.

At this moment, the messenger from outside the tent reported that the messenger of the prince arrived, and several guards walked in, along with the captured Zhang An and the letter, which were delivered intact. This is a sign of the heart.

Zhu Di first read the letter from the prince, and then opened the letter from the court to the prince, and unconsciously broke out in a cold sweat, and suddenly shouted: "Huh! Kill my son a few times! "Ordered Zhang An to be imprisoned.

Soon, the news that the imperial court sent people to contact Xu Hao also came through various channels. Zhu Di can trust his eldest son but can't trust Xu Hao, God knows what choice Xu Hao, who has been guarding Liaodong for generations, will make? If the Mu family wants Xu Hao to return to the imperial court. Or take the lives of the Mu family to threaten them?

No matter what, Zhu Di can't let Xu Hao continue to occupy Liaodong, after all, Xu Hao is not his wife and nephew, as the saying goes, knowing people knows faces but not hearts, at least take this opportunity to empty Xu Hao's military power in advance, and it is not too late to reuse it for him in the future.

I didn't want Beiping to send an envoy to inform him again, Xu Hao actually returned to Beiping in person to pick up the whole family, and the city would not dare to stop him in the future, and he had already taken a boat to Liaoyang to attack Qinhuangdao.

Zhu Di said angrily: "Xu Hao dares to betray this king? will arrest him and ask for the crime, and someone will order Fang Kuan and Sun Yan, the second general, to take people to Liaoyang to put the Xu family under house arrest. ”

Yao Guangxiao hurriedly said: "Xu Hao told the princess that she was going to take her family to Liaodong for the summer, and if others were not in Liaoyang, they should not be able to meet with the courtiers, and the prince should not be suspicious." ”

Zhu Di's face sank like water, even if Xu Hao had no objection, but this move could be regarded as making him have no worries, and taking away his family members without authorization was equivalent to a de facto betrayal.

At the time of the confrontation with the official army, Zhu Di threw himself into the trap for a while, but he could not publicly announce that he would blame Xu Hao.

Yao Guangxiao said cautiously: "The prince deprived Xu Hao of his men, it seems that it has aroused Xu Hao's suspicions, it is better to invite him to lead the army to fight, then his suspicions will be solved." ”

Zhu Di sneered: "Relying on some talents, he is lawless, isn't it obvious that the king has asked him to come?" Just tell his family to stay in Liaodong forever, and don't enter the customs for the rest of his life. ”

Yao Guangxiao smiled bitterly, and said in his heart that fortunately, Xu Hao has always been used to acting boldly, although this move will make the prince very dissatisfied, but it has not reached the point where he must be killed quickly, and there is still room for turnaround.

Zhu Di, who calmed down, probably guessed that Xu Hao was going to run away for Lu, to put it bluntly, that kid just didn't want to be controlled by others, and if he ran back to the capital in a hurry, it would be troublesome, wouldn't the imperial court have muskets and artillery? It was a foolish saying: "Revoke the previous military order!" You immediately return to Beiping and assist the prince in changing the Liaodong generals. Xu Hao will not rebel against me, it is up to him to do whatever he likes, and when this king succeeds, see if he still has the face to see me? ”

On the magnificent blue sea, seabirds soar freely in the sky, the blue sky and white clouds are slowly fluttering, and ten sea boats line up in a row to chop the waves and sail forward.

On the side of the ship, the old lady in a cloak faced the salty sea breeze and said with emotion: "I really didn't expect to go to sea in my lifetime, alas! I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse this time, if you didn't come to persuade me, I wouldn't have listened to Hao'er's bastard boy if I was killed, Jinling moved to Beiping, and then moved from Beiping to Liaodong, God knows if Lu Dao will move to a foreign country in the future. ”

Xu Da, who was surrounded by his granddaughters in the center, hugged the red leaves and green bamboos with a satisfied expression, and said with a smile: "It's good to move anywhere, as long as the whole family can live together carefree, and no longer face the danger of extinction at any time." If you want to go through the ups and downs in Jinling for decades, sister-in-law, haven't you had enough? That Zhu Di is the second Zhu Yuanzhang who is alive. ”

The old lady frowned and said, "Then why do you and Hao'er have to come to the north." Isn't it good to stay in Beijing and live a stable life? ”

Xu Da said with a smile: "How can young people understand the truth of living a stable life without going through it, Hao'er is also in order to get the glory of the lord, so he took refuge in King Yan." The old man thought that he would not realize the true meaning of ordinary life until he experienced the bloody storm of the Zhu Di Dynasty, but he didn't expect him to understand it so early. ”

At this time, Momiji pointed to the green mountains and land in the distance and exclaimed excitedly: "Look! That's Lushunkou, right? ”

Xu Hao hugged his wife out of the cabin and said with a smile: "In the Yuan Dynasty, it was called the lion's mouth, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was called the capital of Li Town. Then the lion's mouth was renamed Lushun mouth. ”

The big guys all looked at Xu Hao and his wife, and Hongye asked, "Then is it cold here?" ”

Xu Da said nostalgically: "Back then, the two generals told me that this place is a good place with four distinct seasons, of course, the winter will be colder than the south, and the summer will not be so hot, and the climate is similar to Shandong on the other side, which is completely different from the hinterland of Liaodong." ”

Xu Hao said: "I want to go back to Shandong and take a boat for a day and a night, so Lushun is equivalent to living in the Central Plains compared to Beiping." Don't complain that you have come to a barren land, where there are mountains and rivers and the sea on three sides. The climate is suitable, the products are abundant, people settled here thousands of years ago, the land is fertile and the scenery is beautiful, and the local population is 30,000 or 40,000. Together with the tens of thousands of people who moved in, there are a total of 80,000 or 90,000 people, and it is not a deserted place. Sooner or later, millions of people will be moved. Besides, after the battle, you can take a boat to Jinling by sea anytime and anywhere. ”

Just as the Xu family was in a complicated mood, they were preparing to land and move to Dalian in the future. Sheng Yong, the chief military officer of Shandong, ordered Wu Jie and other generals to converge in Dezhou in order to advance again. Some officials and soldiers and civilians from Hebei Xinxiang Imperial Court attacked the Yan army's grain transportation team in all directions, killing hundreds of people and capturing the commander Zhang Bin alive.

June 15th. The official army attacked the Yan army again, together with the post letter of the official army's transfer of troops, etc., so that Zhu Di had the pretext of supporting the army and rebelling, and sent the commander Wu Sheng to the court again, asking whether the "sending the envoy to rest the army" was true or false?

Nearly 10,000 words were sprinkled, pointing out that when the first emperor was alive, he ordered King Yan to control the military horses of Beiping, Liaodong, Daning, and Xuanfu, and lowered his posture to ask the imperial court to withdraw his troops, and only a corner of Beiping would be left in the future.

Thinking that it is difficult for the father to start a business, and the children and grandchildren are not guaranteed, so I would rather not chill at this time. Today, the soldiers are in trouble, the world is prone to drought and locusts, and the people are struggling to make a living. The strong bully the weak, the tyrannical widows, the hungry people gather, the mountains and forests, the fans are thieves, and the government cannot prohibit it. Its momentum is terrifying. The ancestral foundation will be in danger, and the so-called chilling ones are also. Do you want to worry about it?

In the world, artifacts are also very difficult to obtain, and easy to lose. The vows of hope are easy to lose, and they hold on to what is rare, the virtue of God's good life, and the righteousness of the whole flesh and blood.

My brother King Zhou has been detained for a long time in the miasma, and I am afraid that once I am depressed, I will become ill. If you don't hide it, you will brush the love of your father and queen mother, and bear the name of killing your uncle, and laugh at it for thousands of years. Emperor Wen of the former Han Dynasty was called a virtuous monarch. The rumor of "ruler cloth dousu" is detrimental to Shengde, and people have to discuss it so far. I am sincerely willing to choose what I say, be sincere, and get the soldiers and the people as soon as possible, so as to protect the ancestors, and be gracious. ”

In the face of his uncle's deliberate weakness to win public opinion, Emperor Jianwen was unmoved, bought time by himself, and ordered Wu Sheng to be arrested in Jinyiwei Prison.

The imperial court has not been idle over the years, and has gradually emptied the military power of the royal palaces in various places, and removed a large number of generals, such as Yunnan Mu Sheng and other generals with heavy troops, have expressed their allegiance to Emperor Jianwen.

Sheng Yong passed on the Datong guard general Fang Zhao to lead the troops south, Fang Zhao soon out of the Bauhinia Pass, attacked Baoding and the surrounding counties, and mobilized the local people to go up the mountain to form a village, its leader was awarded thousands of households, Fang Zhao 80,000 northwest army stationed in Yizhou Xishui Village.

It turned out that Xishuizhai was located in the depths of Wanshan, and Fang Zhao did not dare to confront the Yan army head-on, and wanted to rely on the danger for a long time, and then watch Beiping.

Sheng Yong and Wu Jie accumulated tens of thousands of soldiers, crossed the river into Hebei, He Fu led 50,000 southern soldiers to Shandong by boat, and the imperial court mobilized thousands of sailors from all over the country to regain control of Caoyun.

Baoding is in danger if it loses Beiping! Zhu Di was also very jealous of the combat power of the Northwest Army, and the imperial court's move hit the soft underbelly of the Yan Army, and he had to be rescued.

At this time, Zhu Di realized Yao Guangxiao's suggestion, and he was helpless and regretful. I think that apart from Xu Hao, who else can lead troops alone to resist the northward movement of hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers? Who can be sent to defeat Fang Zhao's 80,000 Northwest Army?

The drawbacks of setting up the five armies at the beginning were exposed, and the cronies and generals were all under Zhu Di's orders, that is, the elite of the whole army had only followed King Yan to fight in the south and the north, and the other guards did not have many troops, and they were not allowed to attack without military orders, and even Zhu Gaochi in Beiping did not have the right to transfer troops to fight.

Although there are generals who can win battles, who can Zhu Di trust for the usurpation? Before seizing the throne, he would never dare to send generals to lead the troops alone for a long time, that is, Xu Hao knew Zhu Di's ambition, and he participated in it early on, so he dared to lead the troops to Chifeng to Liaodong.

There is no way, character determines fate, since Zhu Di is guarding against the rebellion of the generals, he can only be like a firefighting captain, and he will take the army to kill wherever something happens, and he can't take care of the whole thing. (To be continued......)