Bright Spring

So Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but said again in a deep voice: "General Wang Qu, don't let the king trust you."

Qu Neng raised his head and said solemnly: "The king of Han did not forget the kindness of knowing you. Ever since the time in Beiping, the king of Han ignored the danger and valued me so much, the last general has made up his mind that even if he is smashed to pieces, he will never go back on his word! If you can't fulfill the important task of the king of Han The last general is willing to be killed!"

"General Qu!" Zhu Gaoxu was a little moved after hearing this, and called out, "But I couldn't save the family members of the Qu family. I really feel sorry for your sincerity."

Qu Neng said: "This matter has nothing to do with the King of Han, and the King of Han need not be ashamed."

At this moment, the guards came up with wine, Zhu Gaoxu picked up a wine glass and handed it to Qu Neng, and he also picked up a glass, this is the wine of practice.

Under the grand atmosphere of Xiao Sha, Zhu Gaoxu picked up the wine glass and suddenly felt a little sentimental, maybe every kind of parting will be like this.

Zhu Gaoxu raised his wine glass and saw that everyone around him was looking at him.He felt that he should say a few words, but if he said that he would kill you for the self-interest of prosperity and wealth, it didn't seem appropriate.

After a while, he put aside his low mood, looked back to the left and right, raised his head and said loudly: "My Emperor Taizu expelled the Tartars, swept away the haze in China, restored his clothes, and established a great Ming. The sun and the moon are bright, and it is time to reorganize our Han family and find Back to Wude, when Xiong looked at the world in the universe, how could he let mediocrity and inaction be full of lies and only know how to oppress: "The king of Han once said, you can't fully understand my heart, and I feel the same about the king of Han.The King of Han is different from the first emperor and other royal family members, and even more different from Chaowu.Over the past few months, I have felt by Hanwang's side that Hanwang neither has the idea of ​​achieving Confucian great harmony, nor does he only have the heart of fighting for power and profit, which is really difficult to comprehend. "

She murmured, her eyes were slightly blurred, "Sometimes you are good at weighing the pros and cons, calculating all the benefits in the battle strategy; but sometimes you are impulsive, and you are not hesitant to take big risks..."

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Miao Jin with a complicated expression, he was a little bit unspeakable.

"It's for personal gain." Zhu Gaoxu whispered suddenly, "Not only do I not want to lose my power and position, but I also don't want all my close and cared people, relatives and friends to suffer disaster!"

Miao Jin looked at Zhu Gaoxu with her charming almond eyes, and was speechless for a while.

Zhu Gaoxu said again: "When I think that I may have to face a worse situation and the reality that life is worse than death, I dare to do anything!"

Miao Jin frowned thinking about Zhu Gaoxu's words, and he didn't know how to describe his thoughts, so the hall fell silent for a while.The guards walking slowly outside the door did not make a single sound...

As Zhu Gaoxu once said, people are born full of fear, so they only cry.Some fears like poisonous snakes are hidden in his heart. Perhaps the greatest motivation in his heart comes from fear!

He doesn't want to suffer things that he doesn't want to look back on, so no matter what mood or situation he is in, he can never give up the goal in his heart.

Zhu Gaoxu was originally a humble man, but it was precisely because of his persistence that he inspired the courage to give it a go and his tenacious persistence.

And after he gained a high status in the Ming Dynasty, it is inevitable that he will gradually form a long-term strategy in his heart, even if it is not systematic, but it is sprouting... Even in the long-term strategy, he is still afraid, because he knows, In the future, the whole world will enter a period of hundreds of years of darkness, until the era of his previous life.

So some shrewd people may have discovered Zhu Gaoxu's traits, that is, he is too disrespectful of the moral rules of the world, and he treats the important things that require people to sacrifice their lives for righteousness, but he treats them like a veil.So many people said bad things about him, which made him notorious, probably not for nothing.

Zhu Gaoxu came back to his senses and saw that Miaojin was still thinking about something.He continued Miaojin's initial topic and said, "Qu Neng is indeed very reliable."

Miao Jin nodded and said: "I heard what he said to you this morning, it should be from the bottom of my heart."

"But not everyone is really upright." Zhu Gaoxu mused, "If you only dare to use this kind of person, then no one can use it. Throughout the ages, there are many people with great ambitions, but it is always difficult to change the world, which shows the complexity of people's hearts. ;If everyone has the heart of a child, how can the world be like this?"

He paused slightly, "People's concepts cannot be easily changed, only superficial words and deeds can be changed. If the superior seeks loyalty and integrity too much, the world may become even more false in the end. Everyone will hang loyalty and morality at any time. In terms of mouth, things are even more superficial to show loyalty, the mouth is full of lies, and the truth turns into a joke..."

Miao Jin nodded slightly in agreement.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "That's why Miao Jin feels that I am often good at calculating the pros and cons, and appear indifferent. I don't want to do those things, but I am forced to. This is how the world looks like, people's thoughts and intentions are full of strange things; If I can't tolerate sand in my eyes, then I really can only live in seclusion in the Taoist temple with Miao Jin and live alone."

Miao Jin said softly: "This is why Taoism and Confucianism, the worldly world and the worldly world are incompatible, but they always exist in the same person's heart."

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and found it very reasonable, and then said: "It's strange to say that I noticed Miao Jin not because we could talk at first; but now you are like my confidant."

"Why is that?" Miao Jin looked at him and asked.

The implication of her words should be the reason why Zhu Gaoxu paid attention to her first.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't pay attention, and the scene of the back garden of Prince Yan's Mansion in Beiping immediately appeared in his mind.The stone path among the trees has a tree branch like a slingshot. The sun shines through the treetops and leaves mottled shadows on the ground. The silent woman sends him out and walks in front; Zhu Gaoxu can only see the back, When she walked, she twisted her waist slightly, and the beautiful outline of her buttocks under the robe dangled in front of her eyes.There was a vague voice saying: It is like a city.

Maybe he had something in his heart, so Zhu Gaoxu's eyes somehow saw some disrespect.Opposite the square table in the central hall of Li Rang's mansion, Miao Jin's face flushed suddenly, and there was a look of blame in her bright eyes.

The two looked at each other, unable to speak, and the conversation could not continue.

Chapter 4 Thirteen: Darkness Under the Lamp

To the west of the imperial city of the capital, the mansion bestowed by the late emperor to the famous scholar Gao Xianning was empty.His parents, wife and children are all in his hometown in Shandong, and they usually sleep alone at night.

Gao Xianning put down the book in his hand, picked up the small iron hook on the table, and lightly flicked the wick in the oil lamp, and the room suddenly became brighter.

He didn't feel lonely either, the sages say that a gentleman should be cautious about his loneliness, not to mention Gao Xianning has long been used to such a situation.There are countless nights like this when I studied hard for the imperial examination.

But he didn't continue to pick up the book to read, but looked at the oil lamp with great interest.The lamp is like a bowl. There is light on the table, but there is darkness under the bowl. On the entire table, the place under the bowl is the darkest place closest to the wick.

Such a shadow suddenly reminded him of the scene when he went to put things in front of Geng Tong's house in the early morning of yesterday. There were lights on the long street, but the place where he was standing was in a dark shadow.

There was a trap in that whistleblowing letter, like it was dark under the lamp. The best part was Guo Ming!

People who read the letter usually only stare at Guo Ming, maybe guessing that someone is going to frame Guo Ming, or maybe suspecting that Guo Ming really has resentment; but it is easy to ignore the content itself, which is the relationship between the emperor and the eldest son .

If Guo Ming hadn't been sued, the effect would have been just the opposite.

That's why Gao Xianning took it upon himself to revise "Mr. Li"'s plan and take the risk of directly making a fuss about King Han's father-in-law!

Will it offend people?of course.However, Gao Xianning once again thought about the teacher (Qi Tai) and the character of Han Wang, and he has not regretted doing this so far!

If the King of Han blamed him at all for this in the future, Gao Xianning was ready to retire immediately.Not only for self-protection, but also he felt that such a high-ranking person was not worthy of assistance at all. If he was not a confidant, why bother to seek help?He Gao Xianning is only a student, but he has this arrogance!

...Early the next morning, Emperor Zhu Gaochi arrived at Dongnuan Pavilion. He was going to read the important memorial first, and then went to Yumen to discuss matters with the ministers.

Not long after, Zhu Gaochi suddenly threw a memorial on the ground angrily, and cursed: "These people don't share the worries of the court and society, they only think about these locks all day long!"

"The emperor calm down." The eunuch Haitao knelt on the ground, picked up the memorial on the ground, looked at it twice, and carefully placed it on the imperial case.

The imperial court attendant read Gao Xianning's memorial.Now that the anti-insurgency war ahead is at a critical moment, the Confucian scholar even wrote a letter to urge the emperor to appoint the eldest son as the prince as soon as possible, so as to secure the country!The reasoning is high-sounding, and the citations are well-written, but Zhu Gaochi knows very well that this group of people wants to make long-term plans for themselves?

Zhu Gaochi was very angry, and cursed a few more sentences. When he read other memorials, he was already out of his mind.

Confucian scholars do not distinguish between serious and serious, but it seems that there is no need to be so angry.Even Zhu Gaochi didn't expect that he would be so annoyed and unhappy.

He opened his mouth in the middle of the fat, squeezed his chin down, and there were more layers of chin. He took a few breaths before he tried his best to calm the fire in his heart... A moment later, the whistleblower letter that was burned yesterday was like Like a ghost, it suddenly came to my mind again: Taizong loved the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji and thought he was "like himself", so he reluctantly sealed him today; Taizong wanted to pass on the throne to his grandson, not his son.

Zhu Gaochi remained silent.Quietly thinking about the face of the father with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and then thinking about the appearance of the nine-year-old son, Zhan Ji opened up a little, and his appearance was really similar to that of the father, not at all like Zhu Gaochi's white and round face .Zhanji loves to play, likes to run around the most, and also likes to ride horses and shoot arrows. His temperament is similar to his grandfather; while Zhu Gaochi himself likes to be quiet and not to move. Let him go out and wander around, so he might as well read a few books quietly at home.

More past events came to Zhu Gaochi's mind. He remembered that when he was the prince, he had to be harsh on him to eat simple food. The people in the East Palace, only Zhanji was favored by his grandfather, and he was brought to the palace to eat delicacies from mountains and seas.The first emperor was in charge of the government, and he didn't let the prince come to learn, but he often asked Zhanji to sit beside him...

Zhu Gaochi felt blocked by something, as if he heard many people around him laughing, and some even urged him to hand over the throne as soon as possible!

There seemed to be another voice hidden in his heart, and that voice hadn't appeared for a long time since his mother's sad and loving last words before her death; now that voice seemed faintly audible again.

There are others in this room!Besides Zhu Gaochi and the servants around him, who else is talking?

Zhu Gaochi shuddered, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was still in Dongnuange, sitting on a soft chair, where several generations of emperors had sat.The eunuchs bowed down tremblingly and stood there, only he sat right above him...no one else.

He struggled to get up from the chair, Haitao and others rushed forward to help him.

Zhu Gaochi walked straight out of the East Nuan Pavilion and heaved a long sigh of relief when he saw the open sky on the inclined corridor.If he hadn't come out of the dull, oppressive and weird warm pavilion just now, he would have felt short of breath.

"Go to Concubine Zhang." Zhu Gaochi said.