My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 192 Zheng He Arrives at Cochin
"This..., mother, what if it's not a rumor?"

Zhu Zhanhe hesitated for a moment, and finally asked tentatively.

Counting the time, maybe Zhu Gaoxu has already joined Zheng He, so this matter must not be kept secret, so he simply took this opportunity to confess to Han Wangfei.

"What's not a rumor?"

Concubine Han was taken aback, but still didn't react.

"I mean, what will you do if my father really goes to Tianzhu?"

Zhu Zhanhe asked carefully again.

"Impossible, your father is not stupid, why would he go all the way to a place like Tianzhu?"

Princess Han shook her head without thinking about it.

"Mother, think about it carefully, maybe for my father, going to Tianzhu to lay down a world of his own is the best choice for him."

Zhu Zhanhe reminded again.

Now Princess Han finally began to face up to this problem, and she had a tense face, with a thoughtful look in her eyes.

After a while, Princess Han calmly looked at Zhu Zhanhe and asked, "Is your father really going to Tianzhu?"

"Let me tell you the truth. In fact, long before my father went to Jiaozhi, he had already decided to go to Tianzhu. Grandpa Huang also agreed. He went to Jiaozhi to prepare for going to Tianzhu."

Zhu Zhanhe was cruel, and finally told the truth.

The imaginary scolding or crying did not appear, Princess Han actually acted very calm, only to see that she pondered for a long time again, and then she let out a sigh of relief: "No wonder he behaved so strangely during that time, it turns out that there is such a big keep it from me!"

"Mother, are you not angry?"

Zhu Zhanhe asked in surprise when he saw Princess Han's performance.

"Is it useful to be angry? I have been married to your father for so many years, and I have long been used to his willful behavior. I used to persuade him, but then I didn't bother to persuade him. And as you said, he went to Tianzhu to fight the world. , maybe it’s really a good thing, at least you don’t have to worry about him messing around in Daming and causing a big disaster!”

Princess Han couldn't help sighing at the end.

Although she said so, how could she not be worried as a wife when she thought that her husband had gone so far away and had to fight everywhere?

"Mother, you don't have to worry about it. My father's going to Tianzhu has been carefully planned in advance, and he also brought tens of thousands of troops with him. There shouldn't be any great danger."

Zhu Zhanhe also saw Han Wangfei's worry, so he persuaded her.

"Okay, you don't have to comfort me anymore. As a princess, what I should consider now is how to help your father behind the scenes."

Concubine Han waved her hands to Zhu Zhanhe and said again, she is still very sensible, instead of worrying about her husband, it is better to give Zhu Gaoxu some help as much as possible.

"Actually, mother, you are already helping my father. As long as the matter of sailing to the west is done well, my father will be able to maintain smooth contact with Daming in the future. When he needs people, money, and things, he can also come from him." Daming shipped it over."

Zhu Zhanhe hastily said again.

"No wonder you were so relieved to entrust me with the voyage to the West. It turned out that you asked me to open the way for your father!"

Princess Han gave Zhu Zhanhe a blank look when she heard the words.

In fact, at the beginning, she was quite angry that Zhu Zhanhe had lied to her for so long, but after thinking about it, her son was also afraid that she was worried, so her anger disappeared.

"Hey, I also want your mother to do something. After all, staying in the palace every day is not good enough for your parents. Wouldn't it bury your mother's talent?"

Zhu Zhanhe cheekily patted his mother's ass, anyway, it doesn't cost money to say a few nice words.

"Fortunately, you have foresight, but before, I only regarded the voyage to the West as a business, but now it seems that this matter is related to your father's great career, and it needs to be carefully planned!"

When Concubine Han came to the end, she also felt that the burden on her shoulders was much heavier, which even put her under a little pressure.

"Mother, you don't have to feel pressure, just treat the voyages as a business. As long as the scale of the voyages becomes bigger and bigger, and more people are attracted to participate in this matter, then my father will be able to do it in Tianzhu." Get more support!"

Zhu Zhanhe persuaded again.

"Okay, I'll listen to you. In the future, I will run the business well and strive to earn more money. Your father must be very short of money."

Concubine Han nodded when she heard the words. Her husband was not here, and thanks to her son who helped her make up her mind, otherwise she would be in a panic as a woman.

At the same time, Zheng He's fleet finally arrived at the port of Jiuzhen Port in Tsinghua Prefecture, Cochin, after undergoing final repairs in Guangzhou.

Zhu Gaoxu came to the pier in person to welcome Zheng He. He and Zheng He were old acquaintances, so there was nothing polite about it. After chatting a few words later, he invited them to rest in the city. He had already made preparations. There was a banquet.

"Meet the King of Han!"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a person came down from the merchant fleet behind, and quickly stepped forward to salute Zhu Gaoxu.

"Boy Zhang, why are you here?"

Zhu Gaoxu was also taken aback when he saw the person coming, because it was Zhang Zhong who came.

"It was Zhanhe who arranged for me to board the ship. I also want to go out with the fleet to see something. This is the letter Zhanhe asked me to bring to you!"

Zhang Zhong explained with a smile, and then took out Zhu Zhanhe's letter and handed it to the other party.

"I didn't expect you to be so ambitious when you look like a girl!"

Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Zhang Zhong in surprise, only to find that Zhang Zhong's body had changed a lot. Although he still looked like a woman, he was darker and thinner, and he didn't have the old makeup on his body. Just a handsome boy.

Faced with Zhu Gaoxu's praise, Zhang Zhong smiled shyly, and did not tell the other party what happened to him. Although he intends to join Zhu Gaoxu, but now is not the time. At least he will have to wait until he can control a fleet by himself before he can reveal himself. the value of.

Zhang Zhong was not an outsider, so Zhu Gaoxu asked him to go to the city together, and then discussed with Zheng He and others about voyages to the West while drinking.

Although the preparation time for Zheng He's voyage to the West was a little short, he still organized 160 large ships, as well as various small and medium ships, plus [-] merchant ships, the scale was already very large.

Zhu Gaoxu also organized a group of ships on the Cochin side, but the shipbuilding technology on the Cochin side is backward, so most of these ships are relatively small, and they can only be regarded as small and medium-sized ships in Zheng He's fleet.

Zhu Gaoxu's boats are mainly used to attract people. After all, he has thousands of guards from the palace in his hands. In addition, there are craftsmen and young men recruited from Jiaozhi. These people also need to be taken to Tianzhu.

As for the troops that Zhu Di promised to send to Zhu Gaoxu, they were also brought by Zheng He, but because of the limited number of ships, the first batch was only 1 people, which already accounted for nearly half of Zheng He's fleet.

(End of this chapter)