Bright Spring

Zhu Gaoxu came over, looked down at her face and asked, "Are you feeling bored?"

Miao Jin glanced at him, shook her head and said, "Not long after I came here, I just wrote a few lines, and you came here."

"I didn't mean that." Zhu Gaoxu sat down on the chair she had just sat on.

Miao Jin thought about it for a while, and then said: "I feel that life is too comfortable, I just feel that time flies. I have also thought about this, maybe it is due to the queen's tolerance, and the Holy Majesty is very good at preventing troubles."

Zhu Gaoxu asked casually: "How do you say?"

Miao Jin said: "Mrs. Guo and Mrs. Ma, one of them was sent to Fengyang by you, and the other was sent outside the palace. If these two people are in the palace, I'm afraid it will not be so peaceful."

Zhu Gaoxu's face suddenly showed a trace of melancholy, and then disappeared, looking at Miao Jin and smiling.

Miao Jin couldn't help saying: "I never thought before that to be a concubine in the palace and live with a lot of wives and concubines. But it became like this before I knew it, and it feels smooth. Hey... I often feel that, Gao Xu is really different from other people in the world, and I can't tell what's going on. Anyway, I don't believe that there is another person like you in this world."

"Don't think about it." Zhu Gaoxu said, "But Miao Jin is also a rare woman. In the Ming Dynasty, isn't it very common for the emperor and ministers to have three wives and four concubines?"

Miao Jin said: "I don't want to."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, suddenly seemed to think of something again, turned his head and said: "Father once proposed to make you a noble concubine, but you refused. But back then Zhonglie Jinggong arranged for Miaojin and wanted you to be Jianwen's concubine. Didn't you ever promise?"

Miao Jin frowned and said: "I was forced to. At that time, I didn't want to disobey my father and be unfilial. In fact, I was very afraid of entering the palace."

She was silent for a while, and then murmured: "But I don't know what happened to Gao Xu. Until now, I always want to see you and stay by your side. Everything is so logical."

"Me too, Miao Jin looks more and more beautiful." Zhu Gaoxu's eyes stayed on her face.

Miaojin glared at him with her almond eyes, "Look at my mouth, I just open my mouth to say nice words. The strange thing is, haven't we all known each other for many years?"

Zhu Gaoxu said innocently: "Can I still tell lies?"

Miao Jin also looked at his face for a long time. After a while, she suddenly felt her face was a little hot, and she couldn't help reaching out to touch Zhu Gaoxu's lips, "I'm not happy to think that you will treat others like that."

Zhu Gaoxu was speechless, with a slightly embarrassed look in his eyes.

Chapter 862 Mania in Hands

Before Youshi left Rouyi Hall, Zhu Gaoxu received a memorial, and his expression changed on the spot.Because he didn't take the initiative to mention it, and Miao Jin didn't ask more about military affairs, but she guessed that what was said in the memorial might not be good news.

The two went back to the imperial concubine's palace together, and Miao Jin accompanied Zhu Gaoxu to have dinner, and walked around the imperial concubine's palace again.

She could sense that Zhu Gaoxu seemed to be moved by the previous memorial.When the two are together, although Gao Xu will echo her words and sometimes smile, but his words are less and he is often a little absent-minded.

In early summer, the daytime has become longer.The sun seemed to have set for a long time, but the road could still be seen clearly between the palaces and palaces and where the lights failed to shine.

When they returned to the palace, Miao Jin shunned all the maids.The two were already very familiar with each other, so Zhu Gaoxu didn't deliberately talk too much, he was sitting on a grand teacher's chair thinking about something.Miao Jin also does some chores by herself.

Miao Jin sat in front of the dressing table, turned her head and took a look, Zhu Gaoxu was still in a daze.Miao Jin turned her head and looked at the face in the bronze mirror.I saw that the face in the mirror was very glamorous, and the eyebrows modified by Fendai made it even more charming.The powder on her face was lightly used, but she did look better than plain face.

So she stood up from the dressing table, took off the streamer, took off her shoes, went to the big bed to make the bed, and put down the gauze curtain to keep out mosquitoes.Miao Jin remembered that Zhu Gaoxu had praised her waist and other contours many times; and the posture of tidying the bedding on her stomach seemed to be in line with his wishes.What's more, there is an excuse for such a casual gesture, and it will not appear to be deliberately flattering.

As expected, when Miao Jin turned her head by chance, she found that Gao Xu was admiring her intently.She knew that her posture at this time was a bit indecent, so she felt embarrassed, and her heartbeat gradually increased.

Gao Xu's gaze gave Miao Jin a very strange feeling.She thought about the reason for a while, probably because in Gao Xu's eyes, she seemed to be better than herself.There are many concubines in the palace, and there are many beautiful beauties, Miao Jin is sometimes a little angry; but because of this, at this moment, her beauty is recognized by the emperor, which is probably more credible than any other praise.Noticing that Gao Xu was profaning her with his eyes, she didn't resist at all.

Zhu Gaoxu stood up and walked straight to the bed, he seemed to be a little impulsive, and suddenly pushed Miao Jin onto the quilt.Miao Jin let out a soft cry, a smile appeared in her eyes, but she said coquettishly, "Does Gao Xu want to bully me?"

Sure enough, he moved a little slower.Miao Jin lay on her back on the quilt, looked into Zhu Gaoxu's eyes, and saw that he was scrutinizing her face and neck unscrupulously.

"It's a bit hot in the afternoon, and I'm sweating profusely. I haven't showered yet." Miao Jin said again.

Zhu Gaoxu said, "Let's talk about it later."

Miao Jin looked up at Zhu Gaoxu, and couldn't help but slowly stretched out her slender hand, and stretched it in from his collar.She pressed her hand on Gao Xu's chest, and vaguely felt his mania.

…When he is restless, Zhu Gaoxu will have a big appetite and want to repair cars like crazy. This kind of hobby is really not common.

But his troubles seem to be self-inflicted.The memorial received yesterday evening was from Li Bin from the Annan Governor's Mansion. The content of the memorial was indeed not a good thing.Zhu Gaoxu didn't go to the morning court today, he first summoned Liu Ming in Dongnuange, and then summoned the ministers to discuss matters.

There was a lot of "buzzing" in the partition, and civil and military officials were talking about it.Zhu Gaoxu sat behind the imperial case, thinking wildly in silence, waiting to hear everyone's opinions

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The content of Li Bin's report has nothing to do with Annan Kingdom; it is about Chenla, Siam, Malacca Kingdom and other places.It was because the Ming mission going south was based at the Songtai Acropolis at the mouth of the Baiteng River, so Li Bin compiled the results of the southern affairs and reported them to Beijing.

The missions to Chenla and Siam last year did not work.

Among them, the Ming envoys who landed from Saigon Port suffered the worst.On their way to Angkor Thom in Chenla Kingdom by land, they were attacked and all of them were slaughtered.Afterwards, the Chenla Kingdom returned the body, explaining that the incident was caused by rebel bandits in the country, and promised to catch the criminals and hand them over to Daming.

However, Tang Jing, a naval general of the Ming army, believed that after receiving the letter of the Ming Dynasty, Chenla was unwilling to cede the territory, so he ordered people to slaughter the Ming army mission.Tang Jing's reason was that among the corpses returned by the Chenla Kingdom, no book of the Ming Dynasty was found.

However, the mission to Ayutthaya, Siam, waited in Ayutthaya for more than a month, and never saw the King of Siam at all. Every time they asked for an audience, they were blocked by various excuses.After that, everyone had no choice but to return to the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, but returned without success.

Further south, the Sultanate of Malacca (Malacca) is even taking the initiative to make trouble.

Li Bin received a letter from Shi Jinqing, the consolation envoy of Jiugang, stating that the king of Malacca, "Baili Misuci", was sending people to persuade him to form an anti-Ming alliance.The Xuanwei Division of the Old Port is in danger of being besieged. Shi Jinqing hopes that the Annan Governor's Mansion will increase its troops to the south to protect his territory and the Han people in the stronghold.

Inside the East Nuan Pavilion, Qi Guogong and others are angrily scolding the leaders of various countries for their ignorance of good and bad.

However, the civil servant Lu Zhen expressed doubts. He said, "At present, there is only one side of the story, and other evidence has not yet been sent to the capital. There may be discrepancies. Chenla, Siam, Mancijia, etc. are all small countries, how dare they easily offend Ming dynasty?"

Admiral Tang Jing's rank is not high, but because of his position, he is also present today.He reminded Lu Zhendao, "For the distant countries, there is no need to consider how strong the Ming Dynasty is. The Ming Dynasty can threaten the military power of all countries, only the naval fleet and the land division with a maximum of 2 people."

Immediately, there were several civil and military supporters, all of whom thought that Tang Jing's words were justified.

Although Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, he also agreed with Tang Jing's remarks.At present, the only way for Ming officials and troops to threaten the southern countries is to attack by sea.It is basically unrealistic to go to Chenla, Siam and other countries through the tropical jungle by land.

Xia Yuanji, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, said, "What General Tang said is very true. Mancijia and other countries are thousands of miles away. The imperial court clearly requires them to cede land and pay taxes, but I am afraid that sending envoys will not make people obey."

At this moment, Liu Ming strode up from the end of the line and said loudly, "Everyone..."

Liu Ming's voice was very loud, and all the civil and military personnel gradually became quieter and looked sideways.Liu Ming then said, "My colleagues, the imperial court's intention to include the sea route east of the Strait of Malacca into the tributary relationship of the Ming Dynasty is a national policy that was established several years ago and must not be abandoned easily. First of all, the eastern sea route must be controlled, so that sea trade can be greatly improved. This is one of the key strategies of the New Deal."

Xia Yuanji didn't even look at Liu Ming, and went straight to bow to the superior, "Chenla, Siam, Java and other countries are far away from Ming Dynasty, and they are not small in the south. The Holy Lord has learned that many places resist our dynasty, and it may not be a day's work to use troops to conquer them." .”

Liu Ming said, "We don't want the territory of various countries, we only need sea routes and port strongholds. First occupy Saigon Port, then destroy Manchuria, and other matters will be resolved slowly later."

Everyone was discussing for a while.At this time, Qi Tai, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, commented, "I think Liu Ming's words are not unreasonable."

Qi Tai looked around and said, "I don't need to pay attention to the intentions of the Chenla royal family, just build a fort at Saigon Port and garrison troops. The court once promised Champa, and the land north of Saigon will be assigned to Champa; now the official army Once troops are sent to occupy Saigon, the Champa Kingdom will be able to see its sincerity.

The Champa Kingdom wants the promised land, and it is very likely that they are willing to send troops to form reinforcements with the official army to jointly deal with the counterattack of the Chenla Kingdom.It can make up for the lack of troops of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the so-called "anti-Ming alliance" of Manchujia, I think it is difficult to achieve; they may only form alliances in areas that believe in Islam.When we attack and destroy Mancijia, we will kill two birds with one stone and prevent the expansion of Islam. "

At this moment, the eunuch Wang Jinghong bowed and said, "My lord, this servant is so bold, I don't know if I should talk too much."

Zhu Gaoxu said, "Speak."