Bright Spring

Zhu Gaoxu told her that Li Li and others lied to her, and that Annan's tyrants were for their own benefit and had little to do with other people.However, these Han people in front of them are obviously very proud of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and even an eunuch speaks loudly.

She turned around and remembered Zhu Gaoxu's other words. Compared with those tribes in the west, Annan Kingdom is indeed much better.In the previous Chen Dynasty, even the Li Loi rebels somewhat despised others when receiving those "barbarians".

Chen Xianzhen returned to the door of a tile-roofed house arranged for her, only to see the eunuch Cao Fu hovering at the door.Cao Fu turned his head and saw Chen Xianzhen, and immediately said, "Our family heard that Mrs. Chen has gone to the river, and I was going to look for you."

"Come on, Eunuch Cao." Chen Xian said sincerely.

Cao Fu carried a wooden box, and followed Chen Xianzhen into the main room. Cao Fu sat down on a stool without being polite, and carefully placed the box in his hand on the square table.

Chen Xianzhen glanced at the box and asked, "Eunuch Cao is here in person, what's the matter?"

Cao Fu immediately opened the wooden box and said, "This is a gift from the emperor himself. Congratulations, Mrs. Chen."

Chen Xianzhen couldn't help reaching out to get it.

Cao Fu said, "Hey, why don't you thank me soon?"

Zhu Gaoxu is not here.After hearing this, Chen Xianzhen didn't want to argue with Cao Fu, so he bowed his knees and said, "I thank Your Majesty for your kindness."

Only then did she take out a satin-wrapped bundle and a hat from inside, and after pulling the red string, she took out a set of clothes from inside.

Cao Fu said next to him, "The picture drawn by the emperor himself, the imperial pen description, and the dress made by the Weaving Institute in Zhongdu, specially made for Mrs. Chen. The emperor also named it 'Ao Dai', which is 'Ao Dai'. The meaning of jacket'. The emperor said, if Mrs. Chen likes it, she can accept it, and it doesn't matter if she doesn't like it."

When Chen Xianzhen heard this, he looked at Cao Fu in surprise, and blurted out, "Really?"

Cao Fu stared and said, "With a hundred courage from our family, our family dare not pretend!"

Chen Xianzhen's head suddenly felt mixed, and the strength in his arms seemed to be weak.She used to think that Zhu Gaoxu didn't pay attention to her at all, and sometimes guessed that Zhu Gaoxu would become angry because she always didn't follow Zhu Gaoxu's wishes...Suddenly Zhu Gaoxu went out of his way to make a suit of clothes for her, which made her Chen Xianzhen was at a loss for a moment.She was moved, but she couldn't let go of the long-standing grievance immediately, so she felt very uncomfortable, like having a nose discomfort but being unable to sneeze for a long time.

After calming down a little, Chen Xianzhen felt a feeling of being spoiled and pampered again.After all, he is the most powerful and vast emperor of the Ming Dynasty among countless countries in the world, and he did not retaliate and convict her for her disrespectful words and deeds, or even her past events with unruly intentions, but showed kindness.Chen Xianzhen suddenly felt a little hot on his cheeks.

In short, this incident surprised her.

Her fingertips gently touched the clothes in her hand, the material was soft and delicate, very comfortable to touch, plain white color, with light yellow embroidery on the hem.The stitches are thin and neat, very delicately done.The folk hats in Annan also have similar styles, with pointed tops and large eaves, which are convenient for sunshade, but the hat in front of me is made of yarn.

Chen Xianzhen said, "Your Majesty treats beautiful women like this?"

Cao Fu shook his head and said, "Look at what you said, how can the emperor be so busy? How many women in the capital are crying and shouting to win the favor of the emperor. There are thousands of people in the palace alone. This is the number of people after the emperor dismissed half of them .”

After he finished speaking, he stood up a little anxiously, "Miss Chen, try it yourself, we still have something to do at home, the emperor is going to have dinner soon."

Chen Xianzhen sent Cao Fu to the door, then turned around and continued admiring the chic clothes.

The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, Chen Xianzhen packed up and went straight to the nearby Chinese Army Yard.After Jin Yiwei inquired, he went in to report, and then let her in.

When Chen Xianzhen went to the inner room, he saw Zhu Gaoxu sitting with four women, eating.The four women were more beautiful than the other, and two of them were dressed in men's robes.

Holding the chopsticks, Zhu Gaoxu looked up at Chen Xianzhen, stunned for a moment, and immediately asked, "Has Mrs. Chen eaten?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I have eaten breakfast." Chen Xianzhen stepped forward and bowed his knees, "Your Majesty rewarded me, I came to thank you."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Chen Xianzhen and said, "This style really suits your figure."

Chen Xianzhen also thinks so, she tried it last night.Compared with the beauties around Zhu Gaoxu, Chen Xian is really much shorter. This long dress with clothes and clothes together makes her figure look more slender, graceful and exquisite.Wearing this kind of clothing is more attractive than ordinary Hanfu, but there are trousers inside the skirt, which is not revealing at all when you look closely, and has the same reserved and pure appearance as a skirt.Anyway, Chen Xian really felt that it looked much better than those clothes in Chenla Champa that exposed a lot of skin.

But the beauties around Zhu Gaoxu don't seem to have friendly eyes.Their expressions were gentle and calm, but Chen Xian could really feel that they didn't like him very much.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much, and pretended to be flat and said, "The brigade is about to leave, Mrs. Chen will go back and prepare. If there is anything, Cao Fu will arrange it for you."

Chen Xianzhen made a blessing, thanked him and resigned as he said.

Chapter 923 Nowhere

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A large group of people went north all the way, and when they reached a river confluence, they left the bank of the Guohe River and marched along a canal.The canal has just been dredged recently, and some new soil and silt have been piled up on the bank, and the saplings on the bank are also newly planted.

Zhu Gaoxu left the brigade on horseback, Yao Ji Muzhen and other imperial concubines also changed into corset dresses, and rode horses with him for a stroll.There were no cities around, and the horse team passed by several villages and headed towards the river bank along the dirt road.

This place already belonged to the territory of the Chief Envoy of Henan Province, and the terrain was very flat.However, the surrounding vegetation is very rich, blocked by small forests, crop fields and field ridges, people's sight is not wide.There are harvested wheat piles and patches of yellowed rice fields on the land.

It is autumn and the air is crisp and cool.

When people reached the main road on the bank of the canal, they saw several official ships approaching.The canal was not wide, and soon the soldiers on the boat saw Zhu Gaoxu's robe clearly. Many people stood on the side of the boat and shouted to the shore, the voices of "Long live" came and went.After a while, military music was played on the ship, and the officers and soldiers lined up on the ship to perform the military salute.

Zhu Gaoxu also reined in his mount and cupped his fists facing the official ship.The soldiers raised their firecrackers and cherry guns and cheered on the water, and the canal was full of noise.

When the official ship gradually drifted away, the shouting still did not stop.Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and glanced at Yao Ji next to him, and saw that she looked happy and in a good mood.Yao Ji withdrew her gaze and said, "The Holy One has won the hearts of the army and the people."

Zhu Gaoxu said, "I just tried my best to do what I should do."

As they talked, they continued to ride slowly along the river.At this moment, there was a rush of hoofbeats behind him, and a cloud of yellow dust rose.

After a while, the man on horseback caught up with the cavalry, and the cavalry behind him didn't seem to stop him.Zhu Gaoxu looked back and saw the face of the person who came, it turned out to be Hou Hai, the envoy of Zuo Shou.

"Hoo!" Zhu Gaoxu yelled at the sitting brown horse, and raised his hand to make the horse team stop gradually.

Hou Haihai stepped forward, got off his horse, took out a torn envelope, bowed his head and said, "I pay homage to the Holy Majesty. The officials from the North Office of the Imperial Guard Division got some news in Beiping. This time, I have to report to the Holy Majesty as soon as possible."

The mention of "this time" in his words probably alludes to his negligence and delay last time.

Zhu Gaoxu sat on the horseback and bent over to take the things.

It contained an official document from Guo Ang, an official stationed in Peiping, and a letter from eunuch Huang Yan.This Huang Yan is a sinner, implicated in the treason case on behalf of the king, which can be described as a serious crime, and has fled to the Tatars for several years.It's a little strange that no one has decided on Huang Yan's crime so far; Zhu Gaoxu speculates that the matter may involve King Zhao, and it is difficult to handle it with the Si Yamen. The criminal was not caught and no one urged him, so the matter was delayed.

Huang Yan wrote a few pieces of paper eloquently, most of which were self-defense and grievances. The words were almost begging, and Zhu Gaoxu was not very interested.After flipping through it twice, Zhu Gaoxu finally found a useful passage in it.

According to Huang Yan, he got reliable information from the dignitaries of the Horqin Department.Alutai, the Zhiyuan of Tatar, is interested in contacting the ministers of Mongolia, and wants to support the leader of the Horqin Tribe as the Great Khan of All Mongolia. The name of this leader is Borjijin Adai.

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu saw the surname, he knew that the leader of the Horqin tribe was a descendant of Genghis Khan.

"I know

up. "Zhu Gaoxu finished reading roughly, and responded. He returned the official document Guo Ang sent to the North Office to Hou Hai, but put Huang Yan's letter into his sleeve pocket.

Hou Hai bowed, of course he didn't dare to answer the letter.

Zhu Gaoxu waited for a group of people to ride horses, and continued to wander by the river. After having fun, they turned back and looked for the guard team.

Along the way, he already felt something strange in his heart.According to everyone's previous guesses, the reason why Alutai took the initiative to accept the title and entrusted someone to support Hamiwei's Tatar remnant was because there was an important figure in the Tatar remnant, most likely the son of Ben Yali who lost sweat.Now Alutai wants to support|support the Horqin people, so his efforts to rescue the remnants are in vain?

Or, the inferences made by Zhu Gaoxu and a group of people from the Ming Dynasty were completely wrong?

When the sun was setting, each camp of the army set up camp.Xingyuan of the Chinese Army is still a village requisitioned, but with more than 1 guards, the village cannot accommodate it, so most of the troops set up tents in nearby camps.

Zhu Gaoxu asked someone to invite the important civil and military officials who accompanied him to have dinner together in the courtyard where he lived.Among them are Hou Hai, Gao Xianning, and Xungui Qiu Fu, Wei Da, Wang Bin and others.After giving the order, Zhu Gaoxu specially called Cao Fu, and invited his son-in-law, He Kuixi, along with him.

Everyone came one after another when they got the news.Naturally, there was no place like a throne in the courtyard of this private house, so after the civil and military officials finished their salutes, Zhu Gaoxu asked them to sit around a square table.The guards took some snacks and dried fruits, and set out several jugs of wine.