Bright Spring

While talking, the two walked outside the tent where Huang Yan lived not far away.

There was a Tatar herdsman sitting at the door of the tent. He looked up at Huang Yan, but ignored him, still gnawing his bare bones.Almost all Tatars do this kind of thing, just like the rumination of a cow; after they eat meat such as rabbits, foxes, and wolves, they don’t throw away the bones, but put them in their pockets, and then take them out to gnaw carefully and repeatedly when they are free. .

Huang Yan took a look beside the mud stove, saw that the fire was still on, so he brought some pieces of cow dung over.Then he found mare's milk and flake tea, and was busy making milk tea to entertain the flower girls who came from afar.

Thin flake tea is black compressed fermented tea. Huang Yan knew that this kind of tea was produced in Sichuan Chief Commissioner, and it was mainly supplied to Tibetans through the tea horse post road.Because of poor storage, the tea has a musty smell, which is not very tasty anyway, but the Tartars like it very much.

Huang Yan sniffed the black tea, and thought again: Who drank this kind of tea when we were in the capital and Beiping?

The voice of the flower boy said: "The Horqin people have always been friendly with the Arutai people, but recently they are more enthusiastic about the Tatars of the Asut tribe than before. I heard someone whisper to me that the Arutai people want to support the Horqin people. Dai is the great Khan of all Mongolia."

The movement of Huang Yan's hands stopped immediately, and he blurted out, "Why are you from Horqin?"

The flower girl said: "Adai, the leader of the Horqin people, is a relative of Alutai and a descendant of Genghis Khan."

Huang Yan whispered: "I have heard that the Mongols in Horqin are not from Kublai Khan's lineage. Aren't the profuse khans of these years all descendants of Kublai Khan?"

The flower boy was not interested, so he said absent-mindedly: "There must be a big Khan. Now Dabali Khan from the Wacha people claims to be the younger brother of Benjali Khan, but many people doubt his identity. His bloodline may be fake. When Adai of Horqin sweats profusely, Dabali sweat of Wacha will not be counted.”

Huang Yan listened silently to the flower girl talking there, and threw the black flakes into the pot.The news about the flower girl gave Huang Yan a keen sense of some kind of opportunity.Huang Yan didn't understand what was going on for a while, he was thinking.

The secret letter that was written to Prince Zhao's Mansion was written by Huang Yan; of course he knew the contents of that letter.The people who entrusted the letter to King Zhao's Mansion tried to find someone to take over the remnants of the Tatars of the Hami Kingdom after the Tatar envoys had peace talks with Ming Dynasty.

After such a trouble, Huang Yan thought that there were some important people in the remnants of the Tatars in the Hami Kingdom, such as Ben Yali's relatives who lost sweat.Now Alutai is going to support the leader of the Horqin tribe without waiting for the sweaty man from Ben Yali to come back?

Huang Yan had been in Daming's Vanity Fair for a long time, and felt that something was a little strange, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Your news is reliable?" Huang Yan asked in a low voice.

The flower girl thought for a while and said, "It's hard to say. The person who told me the news was a dignitary of the Horqin tribe. I used to pass by on business and often paid tribute to him."

"Do you want to do another business to make a fortune?" Huang Yan asked.

The flower girl immediately came over: "What business?"

Huang Yan pondered for a long time, a little hesitant.

He wanted to pass the news back to Prince Zhao's mansion in order to please the Ming court.

However, Wang Jinghong, Hou Xian and other Zheng He old parties hated Huang Yan deeply, so they probably wouldn't let Huang Yan go.Moreover, he has to take a big risk. Huang Yan has been in the Tatar Asut tribe for several years, and he has finally gained a foothold.

However, Huang Yan still couldn't help but want to try it. During the countless days and nights here, the boring life was really hard, and sometimes he felt that it would be better to die in Zhao Wangfu.

What's more, there is still a glimmer of hope for things to turn around.If the emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty really wanted Huang Yan to die, and a wanted arrest warrant offering a reward was sent to the grassland, Huang Yan would have been sold for money long ago.It is impossible for Huang Yan to ask Wuliangha people to go back to get money for their livelihood.

The flower girl was very interested, and asked urgently, "What's the matter?"

Huang Yan took a deep breath, bowed his head and whispered in the flower girl's ear, "Take a secret letter to Daming and give it to officials you know. It must be kept secret and no one else will know. If you finish this matter, you will get A lot of money."

The flower girl asked, "Which bank can I get it from?"

Huang Yan shook his head and said, "Ask someone who takes the letter to give it to you, such as Guo Ang from Beiping, 50 taels of gold. Our family wrote it in the letter, and he will give you gold when he sees the secret letter."

The flower girl looked at Huang Yan with unbelievable eyes: "What if he doesn't give it?"

Huang Yan said: "I will. Our family asked you to run a few times, which time did you let you run for nothing? Han people will break their promises and do not obey the rules, but faith is still worth some money, only 50 taels of gold, the government can afford it. "

The flower girl asked in a low voice, "A letter to the enemy?"

Huang Yan glanced at him, shook his head and said, "It's not collaborating with the enemy, but it's a bit dangerous. We have a saying, wealth and wealth are found in danger."

The flower girl quickly nodded and said, "Success."

Huang Yan immediately went to find a pen and ink to write the letter.After the flower girl hid the secret letter in the tattered leather case, the milk tea was almost ready.Huang Yan scooped up two bowls and drank milk tea with the flower girl.

Not long after, the flower girl said goodbye and set off.Before he came to meet him, he had gone to the camp of Alutai to receive the reward, and now he was going to leave here and return to the Wuliangha tribe.

After seeing off the flower girl, Huang Yan stood outside the tent, looking at the back of this Wuliangha man for a long time, feeling a little melancholy in his heart.

Thinking about it, when Zheng He's old party was turned over and attached to the new emperor Zhu Gaoxu, Huang Yan had already failed, and sooner or later he would be plotted against by Wang Jinghong and his gang.When Huang Yan was involved in the previous king's treason case, he was completely finished.

Originally, he could die, but Huang Yan still ran away when things came to an end, so far he is just trying to survive in this place where no birds can lay eggs. It is really not easy to find|death.When he first ran away, he thought he would be wanted|wanted, but after a few years, almost no one paid any attention to him. Daming regarded him as an insignificant person, as if he had forgotten about it.Sometimes Huang Yan even hoped that he would be wanted and brought back to the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Yan believed that his biggest mistake was that he failed to calm down, and began to drive a wedge between Zheng He and the royal family during the Hongxi Dynasty.If he hadn't done this, he might have a chance to wait until the Wu De Dynasty to figure out a way.

Now that he is in a dilemma between life and death, Huang Yan misses the days of Daming even more.He was a eunuch with no descendants, but he still felt inexplicable panic when he died on the grassland.Huang Yan thought: It would be great if I could go back to Daming again.

Chapter 9 Nineteen Pipa Walks

At the beginning of July, Zhu Gaoxu's huge team arrived in Fengyang, the central capital.Everyone will stay in the city for two nights. After Zhu Gaoxu led the civil and military officials to worship in the imperial mausoleum tomorrow, the brigade will set off to continue northward the day after tomorrow.

There is an imperial city in the city, because Fengyang is the hometown of the Zhu family and the place where the ancestral grave is located.However, there were basically no emperors who came to live there. Zhu Gaoxu came to worship his ancestors, of course he lived in his own imperial city.

The imperial city of Zhongdu is well built. It may not be comparable to the imperial city of the capital in terms of wood and jade materials and scale, but it has all kinds of palace buildings, including glazed tile roof towers and three major halls.After Zhu Gaoxu entered the imperial city by car, he felt that the place was clean and luxurious, and it must have spent a lot of manpower and material resources in its construction.

But Zhu Gaoxu soon discovered that the atmosphere here was completely different from the Imperial City of the capital.The most important thing is not the perception of the building, but the lack of popularity.

"Long live, long live..." A voice came from outside the carriage.Zhu Gaoxu raised the curtain of the car and looked at the crowd kneeling beside the brick road.Most of them are old people, some are eunuchs with gray hair, and some are concubines who have become old women.

After all the people who lived here came to greet them, the palace in front became even more deserted, with almost no one in sight.

The sun was shining brightly, and the palaces were layered upon layers, but Zhu Gaoxu felt a strange sense of coolness inexplicably, and felt that this place was like an elegant and bleak ghost town.It reminded him of those hollow small towns in the past.No matter how well the Zhongdu Imperial City is built, without people, everything is in vain.

The itinerary is to pay homage to the imperial mausoleum tomorrow and leave early the day after tomorrow. This arrangement is exactly what Zhu Gaoxu wanted.As soon as he entered the imperial city, he felt that this place was dull and boring, and there was really nothing to stay in.

The emperor's ceremonial guard continued to go north. Zhu Gaoxu sat in the carriage all day, and only waited for the palace where he stayed, so he could rest for a while...

At this time, the commander of Jinyiwei, Zhang Sheng, and the accompanying eunuch Cao Fu had already arrived inside. They brought people with them, not only to deploy guard posts, but also to prepare things for the daily life and food of the emperor's concubines.

Every time Zhu Gaoxu went out, almost all the eunuchs with him were Cao Fu.The emperor may not have thought much about it, but Cao Fu knew in his heart that the emperor must be very satisfied with his work.

Cao Fu first sent people to check the meat, vegetables and fruits brought in carefully.When the emperor and concubines had their dinner, he would also arrange for people to taste the food, and he was very careful and caring.

After he personally arranged the manpower, he took two young eunuchs to walk around and inspect.After walking around for two laps, I suddenly heard someone talking in front of me.Cao Fu walked over following the sound, and saw a woman beckoning to him, calling out, "Eunuch Cao."

Cao Fu approached the woman, and the captain of Jinyiwei standing there clasped his fists and said, "Eunuch Cao knows this person?"

The woman stopped by Jin Yiwei was wearing a Han skirt, but Cao Fu quickly remembered that this woman was Chen Xianzhen from Annan.Cao Fu quickly said: "Yes, you don't need to worry about it for now, let's tell her."

The captain of Jinyiwei clasped his fists in response, and ignored Chen Xianzhen.

Cao Fu greeted, "Does Aunt Chen live here?"

Chen Xianzhen frowned slightly: "Where else can I go?"

Cao Fu looked around, pointed to an empty house in front of him and said, "Let's sit and talk for a while." There are many empty houses around here, and there are not many people in the entire Imperial City of Zhongdu.

The two of them walked into the room together, and Chen Xianzhen said, "Back then, Eunuch Cao sent me to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, so now you plan to lock me in this cage and die alone?"