Bright Spring

Zhu Gaoxu's opinion is not in favor of this approach, but if he jumps out to stop it at this time, it will block many people's money, so he has never opposed it.

As expected, Wang Bin sent people to the outskirts of Thang Long in the past two days to report: the generals in the army, civil servants, and eunuchs led people to ransack King Annan's palace, and collected rare treasures everywhere in the city. .

Now that Annan was conquered, the envoys who came to Beijing to report victory this time would bring a large amount of money, treasures, and women to the Emperor Ming; the eunuchs also collected many boys.

...After waiting for another two days, Zhu Gaoxu took his entourage to Shenglong City.

The main road in the city was paved with bricks and stones, and the sound of horseshoes pattering on the road was very loud, and the orderly footsteps of the infantry lined up were like drums beating.The whole city seemed to be trembling under the iron hooves of the Ming army.

There was a murderous atmosphere on the street, few pedestrians were seen, and from time to time, some people fell to the ground and cried.Many soldiers are still searching from house to house, taking whatever they want; not only are the good-looking young ladies of each family arrested to pretend to be show girls, but sometimes even the young sons are taken away.

Zhu Gaoxu turned a blind eye to the scene on the road, and rode a carriage all the way to the outside of the palace.When he got off the carriage, Queen Chen also got off.

Zhu Gaoxu looked up at the tower of the palace, and saw that its style was very similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, similar to a house on a hilltop, with towers and towers, but compared with the imperial city of the capital, it was indeed a little smaller, less imposing, and there were some foreign lands. feature.

On both sides of the avenue outside the palace, many civil servants, military generals and nobles who surrendered were kneeling. They were all well dressed, and even the official uniforms were quite similar to the round-collar official robes of the Ming Dynasty.

The officials who surrendered did not dare to raise their heads, and silently surrendered and fell on both sides.Zhu Gaoxu didn't know any of them, and didn't talk to them, so he led a group of people towards the main entrance.

This royal palace is estimated to be less than half the size of the Han Palace.Zhu Gaoxu didn't walk for a while, and quickly boarded the tower.He stood on it for a long time, looking down at the land conquered by the Ming army.

He suddenly felt his chest widen, and his excitement was unconcealable.

After a long time, he recovered from the novelty and found that Queen Chen was standing behind him.She was very silent all the way.

Zhu Gaoxu remembered that she was the queen of An Nanguo, so he said kindly: "War|defeat is inevitable. When the emperors and officials of the Song Dynasty lost Bianjing, the capital was worse than Shenglong! But as long as the war subsides, the queen will be able to Make a decree to sympathize with the people and let them rest."

Mrs. Chen said cautiously: "The King of Han is right. The people suffered because of the Hu thieves who brought on their own troubles! If it wasn't for the Hu's father and son and other rebellious officials doing wrong, why did Annan suffer such a bad luck?"

At this time, a cool wind blew in the air, Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and sighed against the cool wind.The red cloak he was wearing was also blown up by the wind, like a flag.

Chen's words reminded Zhu Gaoxu of his shock and bewilderment when the Qinzhan incident changed.At that time, he thought that the Hu family would please the suzerain and try to gain the recognition of the suzerain, but unexpectedly, the Hu family did the opposite!Not to mention killing Chen Tianping directly, but actually killing the envoys and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, humiliating the Ming army in public... What can you gain by doing this?

Sure enough, in less than a year, the iron hooves of the Ming army broke through the mountains and rivers of An Nanguo, and even Shenglong City groaned in pain before their eyes.Hu's gang of civil and military men are kneeling under the city tower, where is their dignity at this moment?

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu believes that no matter how strange the world's conceptual thinking is, in the end the world has its own laws, which will make everyone correct their unreasonable behaviors!

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu said: "The master of one party, whether he is a good person or a bad person, the worst thing is a stupid person. It is even more terrible to be bad and stupid!" Those who can rule|govern!"

Chen didn't show the slightest disgust, the look in her eyes was clearly filled with awe and joy, as if she agreed with Zhu Gaoxu's words.

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Annan's good news and gifts had not been sent to the capital, but the news spread to the imperial city very quickly.

In addition to the fact that the Ming army completely smashed the defense line of the Dajiang River and broke through the Eastern Capital, it excited the government and the public; Zheng He's fleet also reported good news from the south.

After the king of Champa agreed to form an alliance with the Ming court, he not only sent troops to cut off the Hu family's retreat to the south, but also took the initiative to attack the army in the southern region of Annan, taking the opportunity to regain the occupied Champa territory and capturing many generals of the Annan army.

Emperor Zhu Di was in a good mood. He didn't conquer Annan himself, and he couldn't sit still after hearing all kinds of good news. He seemed to be bored in the palace, so he went to Xiaohongshan to hunt and practice.

Prince Zhu Gaochi has always been nervous for a long time. Whenever there is a good thing in court and his father is happy, he can breathe a little bit of relief.

Zhu Gaochi was temporarily relaxed last night, and couldn't help letting a fair and beautiful palace maid sleep.This kind of thing is nothing, but the next morning, he was too tired to go to bed for a while, and he was half a stick of incense late for Xiaohongshan!

He came to the Xiaohongshan camp and got off the horse with difficulty. He was sweating profusely in winter, and he was very frightened.

However, fortunately, the father didn't seem to care, and his reaction to the prince's late arrival was also very cold.Zhu Gaochi breathed a sigh of relief, and even felt a little lucky: Did the emperor not notice that he was late?

There are not many prey in winter, and the monarchs and ministers just come to the mountains to run around for fun.The whole day was very pleasant. When the emperor was roasting mutton in the camp at noon, he asked someone to give Zhu Gaochi a piece of leg meat.

Zhu Gaochi finally felt relieved, and secretly warned himself not to be negligent in the future.

In the afternoon, everyone rode back to the imperial city. Zhu Gaochi couldn't hunt, but he was so tired after running for a while that his waist was sore and his back ached, so he hurried back to the East Palace to rest.He was still thinking about the beautiful maid from last night, before entering the Spring Harmony Palace, he decided to ask her to squeeze her legs and beat her back.

Zhu Gaochi personally came to the door of the palace maid's room, and as soon as he reached the door, he suddenly saw a dead body hanging on the beam!

The eunuchs and maids around him immediately knelt behind him.

Zhu Gaochi's eyes were wide open, and he took half a step back, inadvertently not standing still, his body staggered, and the eunuch beside him hurriedly supported him.

His face was pale, and he pointed at the stiff corpse on the beam with trembling fingers, "Who, who did it?!"

The eunuch who supported Zhu Gaochi bowed his head and said quietly: "The eunuch dog came to the East Palace in the morning, caught her and hanged her forcibly. That dog is very domineering in front of the servants in the palace, but he is not so courageous as to dare to do it without permission. Move the prince's people..."

When Zhu Gaochi heard this, of course he immediately understood what was going on.He was angry at first, and then gasped, feeling his hands and feet were cold, and a sense of fear enveloped his whole body.

He didn't dare to say another word, he had already decided in his heart: Among the eunuchs in the East Palace, there must be the eyes and ears of the father!Zhu Gaochi was thinking about the whispers of the eunuchs around him, the dog caught the court lady immediately in Chunhe, he must already know everything about the East Palace, even the things like who is serving the bed.

Zhu Gaochi took another breath, and said expressionlessly: "I was negligent and made a mistake, and that's why I killed her. Tell someone to collect the body|head."

"Yes, the crown prince."

After Zhu Gaochi gave the order, he turned around and walked away slowly. He gritted his teeth and didn't look back.Although his expression was numb and his expression was cold, his heart was secretly bleeding.

He just likes a court lady, but he still has to be taken away!The feeling of losing something he loved made him very depressed.

I felt extremely humiliated in my heart.The majestic Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty couldn't even keep the woman he liked, Zhu Gaochi's heart felt prickly|painful, and his face couldn't help but feel hot.

Zhu Gaochi's heart was even more uncertain, and he couldn't understand his father's joy and anger at all.Perhaps the father is simply a moody person, no one can guess his thoughts... During the day today, Zhu Gaochi mistakenly thought that the father was in a good mood recently and nothing happened; but when a corpse was hanging in front of his eyes, he felt that he Totally wrong!

Zhu Gaochi stayed in the palace until late in a low mood, and had a dinner of clear soup with little water and no oil or meat, so he asked Guo Yan to come to bed.

Except for the concubine Zhang who he didn't want to touch at all, the only woman he could get close to now was probably Guo Yan.At any rate, Guo Yan was chosen by the emperor himself, and her natal family is also in the Marquis Mansion, so it won't cause the emperor's dissatisfaction?

Guo Yan came to Zhu Gaochi's bedroom, spoke to him very gently, and even comforted him.Only then did Zhu Gaochi get some comfort, and the pain was slightly healed.

"Ai'er adopted a little rabbit today." Guo Yan said softly.

Zhu Gaochi said casually: "A child who is more than two years old is not raised by others, he only cares about playing."

Guo Yan said: "The crown prince is right, but Kaier also has some intentions. At that time, the eunuchs brought several rabbits, Zhanji chose first, and then Kaier. The prince guessed which rabbit he chose. like?"

Zhu Gaochi thought for a while: "White?"

Guo Yan smiled and said: "It is indeed a white rabbit, and it is a lame white rabbit."

"Huh?" Zhu Gaochi immediately became interested, "Why does Ji'er have to raise a lame rabbit?"

Guo Yan said softly: "Ai'er said it was pitiful, and I was afraid that others would not raise it."

"Hehe..." Zhu Gaochi laughed suddenly, "This kid has a good heart."

Guo Yan also smiled and said: "After all, he is the son of the crown prince, like you, he treats people and things with kindness and kindness."

Chapter 323 Slingshot Hit the Rabbit

Before dawn the next morning, Zhu Gaochi first went to the Wenhua Hall in the south of the Spring Harmony Palace, and returned before noon.Guo Yan accompanied Zhu Gaochi for a walk in a small garden near the Spring Palace.