Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 328 Niu Sheng and Peng Yue are back

After Zhu Ming left the palace, he first returned to his palace.

Because there was no carriage, he also borrowed the carriages of brothers Xu Yingxu and Xu Zengshou.

As for what the two brothers will do if they want to go home later.

Xu Zengshou said: "We can ride in eldest brother's carriage without getting in the way. If he doesn't like His Highness, he won't drive us two brothers off."

Zhu Chu was speechless and said to himself, brother-in-law, please be more careful.

In fact, Xu Zengshou is older than Xu Miaojin, but he can't be called brother-in-law. The brother-in-law is Xu Huizu.

Do you call him third brother-in-law?

That's not right. Xu Da's son who died young was the third eldest son, Xu Tianfu, and Xu Zengshou was the fourth eldest son.

Fourth brother-in-law? It doesn’t sound good either. From now on, we’ll just call him brother-in-law, right?

So Zhu Chu went home grandly in Xu Mansion's carriage.

"Your Highness? You didn't come back last night. Where did you go? You made us look for him." Xiao Baozi was startled when he saw Zhu Chu returning.

"Why are you looking for me? Didn't I ask Wang Fu to come back?" Zhu Ming asked.

He went to Xu Mansion to steal someone's house. Of course, he couldn't do it too blatantly, so he asked Wang Fu to go home by himself.

At this time, Wang Fu also walked out of the small courtyard assigned to him by Zhu Chu. He looked at Xiao Baozi funny and said, "I told you not to worry about you, but Xiao Baozi is afraid that you will accidentally get lost in Qinhuai." Riverside, that’s why I’m anxious.”

Zhu Ming didn't understand it at first, but later he remembered that the Qinhuai River bank, damn, isn't that the land of smoke and willows with flower boats?

In fact, the popularity of the Qinhuai River has a lot to do with Zhu Yuanzhang, because Yingtian is now the capital, and Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to scientific examinations, so he built the Yingtian Prefecture Gongyuan on the Qinhuai River as a place for Southern Zhili candidates to take the provincial examination. .

As a result, students from all over the world came one after another, and the Qinhuai River gradually became a lively place.

Among them, many rouge powder businesses came after these students and literati, and the result was the unique style of flower boats.

But in fact, as early as the Tang Dynasty, great poets such as Du Mu and Li Bai left works. Perhaps the reputation of the Qinhuai River has long been spread throughout the world.

Only in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Qinhuai River reached the level of Qinhuai, which is ten miles away, in its heyday, and the story of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai is even more popular.

For example, Liu Rushi and Chen Yuanyuan, as well as Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan, etc.

Even if you don’t know them all, you should know a few of them, right?

But as a vassal king, Zhu Zhen's reputation is even more popular now.

What would the people think if he was seen going to the flower boats? Co-author: You usually act as a virtuous person, but in fact, like other dandy boys, you also like to visit brothels, right?

Then it's all over.

It's not that you can't go shopping, but since you want to have a good reputation, you have to work hard to maintain this reputation. You can't have both.

It's like being both in place and standing at the same time.

Zhu Zhen couldn't laugh or cry immediately. Aren't his two wives beautiful? What's more, there is still Tang Xin who is eyeing him "covetously", so why go to the flower boat?

To be honest, Zhu Chu has also been in the capital for so long, and he doesn't need to be as cautious as before. He has also heard about the Qinhuai River, but he never planned to see it.

There is nothing interesting to see, even if it is a song and dance performance, poetry and song, haven't future generations seen a beauty contest?

Well, although we can't generalize, but they are similar?

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, go prepare something to eat, and then prepare a set of ordinary clothes for me, not so fancy. And Wang Fu, Niu Sheng and Peng Yue are coming back today. We have to go and take a look. We can't say anything about it. We have to clean them up. We also need to send people to Shen Mansion. Those cattle and sheep must be exchanged for food as soon as possible and sent to the tribes in the grasslands. Speaking of which, have all the cattle and sheep in Ningxia Town been replaced? Do you owe anything?" Zhu Zhen didn't have the time to think about those messy things, there was still a lot to do.

Wang Fu's heart moved, remembering the past of fighting side by side with his two colleagues, and said with a smile: "It should be so."

As for the food that Ningxia Town told them to send to the Alutai tribe continuously since the beginning of the year, Tang Jie and Qian Shu have been doing these things.

Especially Qian Shu, since he chose to protect himself first, let him do other things. In addition, he is actually still responsible for the position of Jin Yiwei, so it is not difficult to do this.

If he can't even do this little thing well, then don't blame Zhu Zhen for punishing him.

At ninety o'clock that morning, the capital became lively.

After all, Peng Yue and the others not only returned in triumph with an army of 14,000, but they even drove hundreds of thousands of livestock. Such a large team naturally attracted the attention of the city.

Moreover, the news about Zhu Chu's achievements on the grassland two years ago and two years ago has long been spread in the capital.

It has only been more than half a month now. Peng Yue and the others arrived in the capital from Peking about twenty days later than Zhu Chu. Naturally, the people have not forgotten this incident.

I saw many people spontaneously come to the streets to welcome him. Although they were not singing and dancing, they were still excited and cheering.

But after all, the team was too large to enter the city.

In addition, Zhu Min led this army to fight for half a year, and this army also developed the good habit of strict military discipline.

So the troops stopped outside the city. Not only were the troops uniform, but the livestock were also managed in an orderly manner so that they would not run around everywhere.

This made the people in the city marvel.

At the same time, Zhu Yunwen was fully prepared. He personally led a solemn and solemn honor guard and rushed to the camp outside the city holding an imperial edict.

"The emperor's edict is carried out by heaven, and today..."

Zhu Yunwen began to read out the contents of the imperial edict step by step.

In fact, the rewards for the whole army and the rewards for the two generals Peng Yue and Niu Sheng, as well as the arrangements for the meritorious and sacrificial soldiers, have been decided long ago.

Zhu Yunwen just came to go through the process. He first read out the achievements of the soldiers, then praised and expressed his emotions, and finally commended them.

That's the process.

However, Niu Sheng glanced around with a surprised look on his face, and finally scratched his head in confusion and muttered: "Why don't you see our Highness?"

Our highness?

Zhu Yunwen narrowed his eyes slightly, his face seemed expressionless, but there was a hint of gloom in his eyes.

It seems that this army, which originally belonged to the Prince of Qin's Palace, has secretly pledged allegiance to Uncle Eighteen.

"Both of you are in command, why don't you accept the order?" Before Zhu Yunwen could say anything, Huang Zicheng, the minister of Taichang Temple who was accompanying him, had already reprimanded him loudly.

The duties of the Minister of Taichang Temple are originally related to sacrifices, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors and offering sacrifices to heaven.

However, when the court held a grand ceremony, there were also examples of Taichang Temple ministers taking over or praising the ceremony.

Although the Rites Department will always quarrel with them, because if your hands are too long, what will happen to my Rites Department?

Peng Yue glared at Niu Sheng fiercely, you stupid cow, look at what you have done.

Peng Yue was unjustly accused. He really did not seek refuge with Zhu Zhen in private. Instead, he always maintained clear barriers.

Now it's good, I was coerced by Niu Sheng and forced to take sides. It would not be good if the emperor's grandson would hold a grudge because of this.

Niu Shengcai was unjustly accused. He approached Peng Yue and murmured in a low voice: "I said, Lao Peng, have we made meritorious deeds? Why does it feel like we are asking for guilt?"

"Shut up," Peng Yue wanted to scold him, so he snorted angrily and quickly knelt down with his hands in his hands.

As soon as he knelt down, he immediately led the entire army to kneel down.

After all, it is to meet the imperial edict.

Niu Sheng was no stupid cow, and he quickly knelt aside.

Following the imperial edict, the two of them were immediately promoted two levels, from the previous third-grade guard commanders to the second-grade capital commanders.

It can even be said that even upgrading to three levels is not an exaggeration.

Because they were originally just the commanders of the guards of the Prince of Qin's Mansion, they were not as free as the commanders of high officials like Tang Jie, and their power was also far different.

But after becoming the commander of the capital, he is a general of the same government, such as Qu Neng. If Qu Neng is still in Sichuan, then in theory, he should be responsible for dispatching all the large and small troops in Sichuan.

How majestic is this? Even Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, relied heavily on Qu Neng.

It's a pity that Qu Neng was intercepted halfway by Zhu Zhen, and he was frightened and sent to Yunnan.

After a discussion of merit and rewards, there was naturally a large amount of silver reward.

In addition to rewarding the entire army, they must also take over the spoils brought back by this army.

For example, the 30,000 BMW horses may not seem like a lot in terms of numbers, but in fact they are quite considerable.

After all, the Central Plains has always been short of horses.

As for the cattle and sheep, the imperial court will not intervene, and will leave full power to Zhu Zhen. Niu Sheng's eyes naturally lit up when he heard Zhu Chu's name, and he didn't even care about the soldiers receiving the silver reward from the court.

I don't know when they started, but they also seemed to be Zhu Chu's die-hard fans.

Even during this expedition, many of their brothers actually died.

But no one cares, so why not die? His Highness deserves their loyal loyalty.

At this time, Zhu Zhen, dressed casually, surrounded by Wang Fu and a hundred guards in the palace, with one or two "boys" among them, also followed him to the outside of the city.

"Eldest nephew, have you finished your work?" Zhu Zhen asked loudly.

Zhu Yunwen's face turned dark, but he could only endure it and said: "Uncle Eighteen, my nephew has finished his work here and is about to return to the palace to resume his life."

"Then go ahead, I want to catch up with my brothers and catch up on old times," Zhu Ming said casually.

Countless soldiers were moved by it.

I don't know who made the first move. As the first person knelt down on one knee, the entire army once again pushed down a mountain of gold and knelt down before Zhu Chu like a jade pillar.

Both Niu Sheng and Peng Yue looked excited as they knelt down and saluted Zhu Chu.

The whole army even shouted in unison: "See you, Your Highness, see the Holy Khan. Thousand years old, thousand years old, thousand thousand years old."

This scene deeply shocked everyone in the capital. Whether it was the defenders on the city or the people inside and outside the city gate, they all looked at the scene in front of them in surprise.

Zhu Yunwen clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth with a ferocious expression.

All these honors should have been his.

He is the Crown Prince, he is the Crown Prince, he is the Crown Prince's son and legal heir.

But who are you, Zhu Zhen? Isn't it just that we can fight a few bad battles?

What a bunch of stinky Cupids really think they can do?

I am the orthodox one. No scholar in the world will accept you. The advantage lies with me.

Zhu Yunwen took a long, deep breath to keep himself from losing his composure. He looked at Zhu Ming again and found that he was no longer looking at him, so he flicked his sleeves and said, "Let's go."

Zhu Yunwen's people left quickly.

But at this time, no one cared about them.

Zhu Chu took a few steps forward, came to Peng Yue and Niu Sheng, stretched out his hand to help them up, and shouted to the whole army: "Get up, get up, what are you doing? I should be thanking you. , you are the heroes of my Ming Dynasty, you are the heroes of my Ming Dynasty."

As he spoke, Zhu Zhen actually clasped his fists with both hands and cupped his hands in front of the entire army.

Although it was just a hand gesture, it moved countless people.

Because this is a feudal society, there is no such thing as fairness. The world is unfair from the beginning, with absolute class distinctions.

The simplest example is that King Zhu Ping of Qin committed many evil deeds and even forced the death of many families.

But just because he was the vassal king, apart from being scolded by Zhu Yuanzhang, what was his end?

Zhu Yuanzhang just downgraded his funeral standards by one level. In the final analysis, he was still at the level of a prince.

Zhu Yuanzhang could not bear to expose his body in the wilderness.

Zhu Ming subdued the entire army at the cost of only one python robe.

Now he bowed to this army in front of the whole capital behind him. Not only the whole army was deeply touched, but also countless people in the city looked at Zhu Cheng with fanatical eyes.

This is more than just a polite corporal, it is simply too polite and virtuous (let’s put this aside.)

However, Zhu Chu was not here to show off, so he asked people to inform the people in the city that they should just do whatever they had to do, and the excitement was over.

You don’t think he would be so generous as to give each household a cow, right? Can't tell the difference, really can't tell the difference.

However, the Shen Mansion was notified, and Shen Wang came in person, bringing with him a large number of people such as the accountant and the housekeeper. With the help of the soldiers, they began to count the number of cattle and sheep.

Initially, there were indeed 50,000 cattle, 130,000 sheep, and 30,000 horses and horses brought back from the grassland.

Those 30,000 horses will wait for the court to send someone to collect them.

As for the number of cattle and sheep, they may have suffered a lot from eating and drinking along the way.

The cows were eaten less, probably less than a hundred at most.

But sheep are not less of a 'disaster'. With Zhu's warm hospitality, he even roasted a whole lamb for Brother Seventeen and Sister-in-law Seventeen, and he couldn't bear to let all the soldiers in the army watch him enjoy it. It's spicy, and I'm afraid the damage would be in the thousands.

But this is quite a lot. In fact, according to Zhu Chu's original plan, he wanted to leave 10,000 cattle and 30,000 sheep in Daning for Zhu Quan, and the same number of cattle and sheep as a return gift to the fourth brother in Peiping. of.

It's just that neither of his two brothers wanted anything from him.

I don’t know if Lao Zhu remembered to send a reward booklet to the two brothers before, but this is not what Zhu Chu worries about.

Inside the temporary Anza camp.

Because they had to go to court to see His Majesty tomorrow and thank him in person, and there were still a lot of things to do, they couldn't leave for the time being, so the whole army began to set up camp.

"Your Highness, our brothers have lived up to their orders and brought the entire army and all these trophies to you," Peng Yue said excitedly.

"What?" Zhu Zhen was stunned.

It turned out that they encountered several groups of bandits on the road, some of them were blind, and they were really blind. They didn't see such a large force, and they actually wanted to block the road and rob them.

Niu Sheng said carelessly: "There is no need for anyone else to take action. I just opened my arms, Old Niu, and slashed them one by one, killing them all."

Thinking of Niu Sheng's fierce battle on the grassland and his unrivaled force, Zhu Zhen suddenly smiled bitterly and shook his head.

What kind of blind thing is it? It doesn't want to live a good life, but it has to seek death?

"By the way, Your Highness, why isn't Miss Xu here?" Niu Sheng is Niu Sheng after all. He has a straight temper and will say whatever he wants.

Back when they fought side by side on the grassland, although Xu Miaojin was a woman, who dared to underestimate this invincible 'little Xu Da'.

Niu Sheng just expressed his feelings, which shows that he is thinking about his old comrades.

Peng Yue couldn't help but wink at him, this stupid cow was a comrade on the battlefield, but now is it on the battlefield? This is the capital, and that is Wei Guogong's daughter. How can you just meet her?

What's more, Xu Miaojin and His Highness are not married yet. They were considered to have eloped with His Highness before. How can they show up easily now?

What a fool.

Unexpectedly, a little face appeared behind Zhu Ming, looking at Niu Sheng with a smile, and said angrily: "Stupid Niu, look at your aunt and grandma, isn't she always here?"

When Xu Miaojin was at home, she was a lady, but in the military, she didn't care about those details at all.

She is one of the few heroines in Zhu Chu's army, and unlike Mu Qiu who led his own Tu troops, she needs to work twice as hard to make the already tough female prairie soldiers obey.

But Xu Miaojin still conquered everyone, even Zhu Chu fell under her pomegranate skirt.

I have to say that Xu Miaojin is very capable.

Niu Sheng's eyes suddenly lit up, he laughed and stretched out his hand: "Sister Xu, I miss you so much after not seeing you for a long time."

"Huh?" I remembered with a cold snort, and a slender hand stretched out and grabbed Niu Sheng's wrist fiercely.

Niu Sheng was stunned. He was as strong as a cow. On the grassland at that time, even Badalkin, who was known for his martial arts, was impressed by him. Even Wang Fu couldn't easily subdue the cow with brute force alone.

You know, Wang Fu's weapon is the Guandao. Just lifting that thing is very difficult. Who can use the Guandao as a weapon, which one is not famous for his force?

But at this moment, Niu Sheng suddenly felt numb, and his wrist was pinched?

Tang Xin frowned and scolded angrily: "Presumptuous."

Even though Tang Xin looks like Xiaojiabiyu's type, she is actually very tough. In terms of force alone, she is still superior to Xu Miaojin. Of course, this refers to foot battles. If it is a horse battle, Xu Miaojin is even better.

The main reason is that Tang Xin's weapon is mainly a whip, which is made of solid steel and cannot be wielded without any strength.

Niu Sheng took a breath: "What a terrifying power. Your Highness, save me, why did you accept another mistress?"

"You," Tang Xin was angry, stamped her feet, but let go of her hands.

Zhu Zhu tilted his head and looked at her, narrowing his eyes slightly, full of doubts.

This girl doesn't seem angry? What do you mean?

(End of this chapter)