Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 785 I, Zhu Houzhao, are back

  Craftsman can also be an official?

   Is this child's play?

   Many people have doubts in their hearts.

But His Majesty's attitude seems to be quite firm, and it is obviously extremely inappropriate to oppose it now. What's more, the captain's mighty thunderbolt is really terrifying. This time, it is indeed a great achievement. It can be seen that he wants to contain the Tatars The magic weapon is indeed very important.

   Now, after all, the Donglin Party has not risen yet. Although the courtiers still love to fight, they will not oppose it completely for the sake of opposition. Therefore, although more people have doubts in their hearts, they will not play too much.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "I have ordered the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War to reward all meritorious officers and soldiers regardless of their merits. The two Qing families have worked hard and made great achievements. Thinking about it, they are also exhausted... Zhang Qing's family, you are still wounded. And go back to rest first."

  His Majesty said this, and all the ministers had no choice but to leave the class one after another: "Your Majesty will take your leave."

  Fang Jifan was also about to leave, but Emperor Hongzhi gave Fang Jifan a wink.

  Fang Jifan understood, so he stopped and stayed.

  Afterwards, Emperor Hongzhi drove to the Nuan Pavilion, and Fang Jifan followed suit.

  Emperor Hongzhi sat down, stared at Fang Jifan, and breathed out: "Jifan, tell the truth, Prince, can you come back alive?"

   "Your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince, auspicious people have their own destiny..."

Emperor Hongzhi shook his head: "You are a good boy. If you have brain disease, I will not force you, and you will never do risky things. This time, I urged you repeatedly, so you obediently went to Datong and made great contributions. I was thinking, if my son also suffers from a brain disease and feels terrible when he thinks about going out, that would be great."

"Uh…"

  How does Fang Jifan feel that this is a curse.

  Fang Jifan blushed: "I'm telling the truth, I don't know if His Highness the Crown Prince will come back."

"..." Emperor Hongzhi stared at Fang Jifan, and finally sighed: "I understand, I also understand, no matter what you say in a hundred sentences, a lucky person has his own appearance, I actually understand that the prince went to the desert, and the desert... what is it like?" He is still a child after all, and I shouldn't have let him go to Lanzhou back then, all of this was my fault."

   Fang Jifan felt uncomfortable when he heard this.

Although he and Zhu Houzhao are not brothers, they are better than brothers. He can understand Zhu Houzhao's wish, and hopes that Zhu Houzhao can fulfill his lifelong aspirations, but... when he thinks of this guy, he may be in danger, encounter Tatars, and be killed The Tatars surrounded him, hung him up, and whipped him fiercely. Afterwards, he was humiliated by the Tatars in various ways, even beheaded. Fang Jifan's heart felt as if it had been stabbed.

  The Weng and his son-in-law, their eyes turned red unconsciously, and they remained silent.

  In the warm pavilion, needles could be heard falling. After a long time, Emperor Hongzhi sighed. He thought for a while: "A few senior scholars in the cabinet all hope that the emperor's grandson can start enlightenment studies. What do you think?"

  Fang Jifan looked surprised: "How old is the emperor's grandson, he and his son... no, he is still a child."

  It seems that both Weng and his son-in-law began to try their best to avoid mentioning the issue about Zhu Houzhao.

  Emperor Hongzhi nodded, but stared deeply at Fang Jifan: "You should understand, what are the cabinet ministers worried about?"

  Fang Jifan was silent.

  That’s right, it’s almost conceivable, the prince went to the desert because of ‘nonsense’, which has aroused the deep worries of the cabinet scholars.

   For the prosperity of the dynasty, the most important thing is to ask the emperor to succeed.

  The ministers like emperors like Emperor Hongzhi, but they can't stand the prince. After all...the prince is really easy to make people suffer from heart disease. On this temple, whoever is not in his 70s and 80s is a person of high authority.

  Thus, they are afraid now, thinking that the essence of the prince lies in the fact that he was too pampered when he was young, and he was educated too late. Now... it is too late to repair it, but it doesn't matter, there is also the emperor's grandson. If the prince has something good or bad, the grandson of the emperor is the grandson of the emperor. This education must start from the baby.

  Fang Jifan said: "My minister thinks that this is unnecessary and inappropriate. At the age of the emperor's grandson, can he understand me when I teach him knowledge?"

  Emperor Hongzhi said: "But they said, this child is still in the mother's womb before birth, and he can be prenatally educated. Now the prince can learn to speak, so why not?"

   "..." Fang Jifan was a little confused, and asked for a long time, "What do you think, Your Majesty?"

"Let's try it." Emperor Hongzhi said: "The current Minister of Rites of Nanjing, Wang Hua, has taught the crown prince before. He was born as the number one scholar. Oh, he is also the father of Wang Shouren. This person must have something extraordinary, I think Transfer him back to the capital..."

  Fang Jifan thought in his heart that His Majesty has already made up his mind, well, whoever teaches is not teaching, so he nodded: "Although I have objections, Your Majesty has made up his mind, and I have nothing to say."

  Emperor Hongzhi nodded: "I did this to calm people's hearts."

  Fang Jifan understood what Emperor Hongzhi meant: "Your Majesty said so, and I have no objection."

"I'm still thinking that the emperor's grandson is just a child. It's not appropriate to let him go alone. It's better to let Fang Xiaofan and Fang Zhengqing go together. Xiaofan was raised in the palace, and he and the prince are childhood sweethearts. Fan is with him, and the crown prince will not recognize his birth. As for Zhengqing, I have very high expectations for this grandson. Although he is young, he can go and listen, and he is sure to be right, um, I have made up my mind. "

  It turns out... After talking so much, just for this...

  Fang Jifan couldn't help crying: "Your Majesty, Xiaofan and Zhengqing, they are real children..."

  ...

  Datong...

  A great victory brought peace back to Datong.

  Although there are a large number of wanderers, they began to go deep into the desert, looking for the legendary Prince.

  But... the desert is thousands of miles away, looking for His Highness the Crown Prince is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Countless messages have been sent back, but in the end... there is no news at all.

  Deng Xiong, the commander-in-chief of Datong, got angry in a hurry. The Duke of England and the captain ordered him to come down early. There must be traces of the prince. If there is no trace, come and see him.

  But this...how can I find it?

  Despair grew in his heart.

  But at this time, a scout got the message.

  Nine hundred miles to the north, a large number of armors of the Ming army were found...

  They brought back some of the armors. Deng Xiong just looked at them and was scared to pee.

This... is the armor of the Ming army, and there are quite a few of them, all of whom are forbidden guards. When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince left Lanzhou, some of the scholars from Xishan Academy and some of them were carefully selected forbidden guards. guard…

  Why did these armors appear there.

  Could it be...they were captured by the Tatars, and the Tatars made them strip naked, but why, they wanted to strip naked...this freezing weather...why?

problem occurs…

  General officer Deng Xiong felt that the most terrible thing might have happened. While continuing to send scouts to investigate, he... reported quickly.

  ...

Da da da…

Da da da…

  A group of iron cavalry dressed as Tatars came from north to south at a fast speed.

   The first one is Zhu Houzhao dressed as a Tatar.

After beheading Tatar Khan, Zhu Houzhao still felt that it was not enough, so he ran wildly and burned everywhere. He soon discovered that if he was wearing Tatar armor, the Tatars would not have any defenses when approaching, so After simply defeating a Tatar rout, he made them take off their clothes without hesitation.

   Next, it was like a fish in water, the mouse fell into the rice bowl.

  Tartar has a vast territory, and the news is blocked. The tribes that were attacked continued to kill their livestock, and it was impossible to fly horses to deliver the bad news. It was even more unimaginable for other tribes that there would be Ming cavalry going deep into the desert.

  So, when they saw the swarming iron cavalry, their first reaction was to think that the soldiers and horses of the Khan had returned, until Zhu Houzhao flashed out the knife, at this time, it was too late to want to resist.

  On the grassland, livestock were slaughtered almost at will, and countless grains, grasses and horse fodder were all burned.

   Sometimes, Zhu Houzhao can attack three or four tribes in a row in one day, and the efficiency is so high that even he can't believe it.

  And now...Zhu Houzhao finally felt that enough was enough.

  My son, I don't know if he can walk now, haha...go home.

   More than a thousand cavalry, traveling all the way south, Liu Jin actually... gained weight.

Yes.

  Followed His Highness the Crown Prince to go to the desert, the others were all dark and thin, although Liu Jin was dark, but fat, if this guy said that he went out of the customs, went thousands of miles into the enemy's territory, and crossed the desert, only ghosts would believe it.

  Have you ever seen that bitter student studying hard in the cold window, the fat head and big ears who are still studying?

  The horse under Liu Jin was thumping, thumping, so tired that Liu Jin had to change horses constantly.

  After running wildly day and night, finally, in the distance...the undulating wall of Datong appeared in front of everyone.

   "I'm back!" A cavalryman couldn't help crying, stumbled off his horse, wished he could kneel down, kiss the ground, and finally came back.

  In the distance, a group of Daming's scouts seemed to have discovered these uninvited guests.

More than a thousand people, dressed as Tatars, looked ragged. Except for a chubby fat man, all the others were thin. They used binoculars and kept watching. It seemed... they didn't expect that after a great victory, Actually... there will be Tatars, who dare to appear here.

   As a result, the scouts quickly sounded the alarm.

   Soon, a small flying team that stayed here immediately sent a flying ball to fly into the air, and the whole Datong felt as if it was facing a big enemy.

  Countless cavalry swarmed out, ready to kill this crazy Tatar.

  After this great victory, even the Ming army swelled.

   It swelled to such an extent that as soon as they heard that there was an enemy situation, they sent troops in a swarm, all scrambling to be the first, for fear of credit, as if being robbed.

  Zhu Houzhao watched the countless cavalry come out smugly. What he wanted was this effect, so Gu Pan Zixiong straightened his waist and said, "Where are you going, let's display the banner of the palace!"

  (end of this chapter)