Jinyi Night Walk

On the eighth day of August, Xia Xun rushed to Kaifeng, and King Zhou of Kaifeng went out of the city to meet him in person.

According to the Ming system, the subjects of the world, whether they are officials or ordinary people, regardless of their titles, should pay vassal kings the courtesy of monarchs and ministers. The King of Zhou does not need to go out to greet him. Xia Xun has to go to see the King of Zhou first when he enters the city. But he condescended and greeted him ten li outside Kaifeng.

His life can be regarded as being picked up by Xia Xun for him, otherwise, he might have followed the example of King Zhu Bo of Xiang and killed himself.Knowing kindness should be repaid, not to mention that the important officials of the Xia Xun Dynasty wanted to make friends just for this, and it was a taboo for the vassal king to make friends with courtiers. Because of the previous relationship, the two of them communicated in a dignified way, and others had nothing to say.

When Xia Xun arrived in Kaifeng, he was warmly received by King Zhou. Five days later, Xie Xie and Su Ying also rushed to Kaifeng with Chen Dong and Ye'an.Ye Qianqian has been under Xia Xun's control for a long time now, and after thanking her, she realized that the Fengmen senior who fought with her in Suzhou was actually Wan Songling back then.

Knowing that Wan Songling had escaped, Ye Qianqian didn't care to keep the past secret. In order to avoid the pain of flesh and blood, she told all the previous things.Thank you for knowing that the deployment in Suzhou that day, the reason why Wan Songling was not caught was purely because Wan Songling was lucky, because there was an accident in Lianxiang Xiyu, it was not because his wits and strength were not as good as Wan Songling's. Said it was a trick of good fortune.

Xia Xun can't let the local governments know the real reason for arresting Wan Songling, because if the local government finds out, the news will definitely leak out. There's no guarantee what he'll do.If the pursuit is only in the name of Tuoba Mingde's accomplices, the local authorities will not do their best. If the local government is not used and only the power of Qianlong is used to track down, it will be even more difficult to find a needle in a haystack.As a result, with Wan Songling's shrewdness, since Xingyang escaped, there has been no trace of him.

Although Xia Xun was concerned about the whereabouts of the seal, he couldn't care less about asking about it himself at this moment, because... Emperor Yongle has arrived.

Early in the morning, all the roads ten miles outside the north gate of Kaifeng City to the King Zhou's Mansion in Kaifeng City were all under martial law. On the street, there was a post at five steps, and a post at ten steps, all the way to the ten-mile long pavilion.The soldiers standing guard had bright armor, swords under their ribs, and long spears in their hands. The cavalry and ceremonial bands waiting for the holy driver rushed to the ten-mile long pavilion early.

Before the sky was fully lit, the officials of the Sansi Division of Henan Province gathered in Zhou Wangfu. Just after the fifth watch, Zhou Wang, Shizi and Xia Xun walked out of the Wangfu in full suit. The guards of the Wangfu stood on the left and right, completely silent.

King Zhou and Xia Xun didn't show any courtesy to the big guys. They gave orders solemnly, and everyone rode on the road one after another, followed by a few carriages. They were officials who were too old to ride a horse.

When we arrived at the Shili Changting Pavilion, the officials who arrived first had already arranged the place. The red carpet was laid on the floor and the colorful shed was set up high. On both sides were musicians equipped with big drums, horns, silk, bamboo, and bells. After everyone arrived here, people shouted and neighed, making a lot of noise.

King Zhou is the brother of Emperor Yongle's mother and compatriots, and Xia Xun is an important minister who followed Emperor Yongle before he ascended the throne. Both of them are familiar with Zhu Di, so they are not nervous. A good shed, drinking tea and eating snacks, waiting for the emperor to arrive, the other officials are not as calm as the two, and the officials with duties are even more nervous, walking around from time to time, for fear that the things they are responsible for will go wrong Late.

The scouting horse who was inquiring about the emperor's car was like a meteor, shuttled back and forth continuously, sending news of the emperor's army.

As the sun rose, the noisy atmosphere gradually calmed down. Many officials who hadn't sat down early to have tea and snacks, and were tired of resting their feet, were now wilting, because the sun was already high...

Suddenly, another galloping horse came galloping and reported loudly: "The emperor has arrived, the emperor has arrived!"

The whole reception area suddenly boiled again, and the officials and soldiers took their positions one after another. After a while, the king of Zhou, the prince and Xia Xun also slowly came out of the tent, cleaned up their clothes, and went forward to meet them.

With a sound of "huh", King Zhou and Xia Xun just came together, as if they had received a silent order, they lined up on the left and right of the welcoming team, and the soldiers lined up in the shape of wild goose wings immediately tingled their waists and clenched their hands tightly. With the weapons in their hands, thousands of people moved at the same time, and there was an explosion like an explosion.

Xia Xun put on a formal official uniform, wearing a black gauze hat with no wings on his head, a unicorn suit with a leather belt around his waist, and soap boots. Wearing python dragon robes, the three of them marched hand in hand, and the horns were sounded in the army formation, and the sound spread for ten miles.

In the distance, the swords and guns were shining brightly in the cold, and the banner of Tuanlong was fluttering in the wind. King Zhou, Xia Xun and the sons of King Zhou stood in awe, and saw a large army coming towards them.One-color mandarin ducks and red robes, the same leather horses, long lacquer guns, bows and knives, leather shields, distinctive armor, excellent equipment, people like tigers, horses like dragons, majestic and majestic, really strong like a mountain, what an elite soldier!

This time the emperor was on the Northern Expedition to the desert, forcing Ben Ya to lose his way, and forced to land on Arutai. I like the military style, so King Zhou and Xia Xun didn't take it seriously when they saw that the guard of honor was different from the usual one.

Seeing the army approaching, a member of the army will be wearing chain mail, wearing a golden phoenix helmet, riding a snow-white horse, wearing a golden dragon brocade suit, with a waist like ape's arms, and a beard all over his face. Can't help being moved by this, the two exchanged glances, and hurried forward together, the officials in charge of ceremonies at the side didn't dare to neglect, and immediately waved and shouted: "Fire the cannon! Sound the horn!"

"Tom! Tom! Tom!"

"Woo~ woo~ woo~~~"

The cannon rang, and the drums and trumpets sounded together. King Zhou, Shizi, and Xia Xun stepped up quickly, and quickly walked to the front of the army formation that had just stopped in front of them. They brushed their robes in unison, and they were about to bow down to the dust. The soldiers and horses in front parted, and a long laugh came out: "Uncle Wang, son, and duke, don't salute, Gao Xu is just standing in front of the father!"

The three of them froze for a moment, looked up again, and the one riding the white horse galloped out, and the one sitting upright was actually Zhu Gaoxu.Zhu Gaoxu is stronger and more mature than before, with a beard on his face, no matter his figure, appearance or temperament, he is very similar to Emperor Yongle. In addition, he is riding the emperor's imperial horse Baiju, and the three of them mistake him for Zhu Di.

King Zhou frowned slightly, and was immediately displeased. If he wasn't here, it would be nothing more than Xia Xun or his son coming to greet him, and Zhu Gaoxu would accept the gift in the formation. Second to the emperor.But the king and the king also have a distinction, he is not the prince, he is the king of Han, he is the king of Zhou, and the king of Zhou himself is his uncle of the king of Han. If Zhu Gaoxu rode out alone early, how could he be misunderstood?

King Zhou was displeased in his heart, but it was inconvenient to make it obvious. He just snorted softly, straightened his waist, and remained silent.

Xia Xun didn't take it seriously, gave another salute, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty Yang Xu, I have seen His Highness the King of Han. His Majesty is majestic and looks like the Holy Majesty. I just took a look from a distance. I really thought that the Majesty the Emperor has arrived!"

At this moment, Prince Zhou's son stepped forward and bowed, and said, "My brother has seen Brother Wang!"

Zhu Gaoxu laughed, raised his legs and jumped off the horse.This time following the emperor's expedition to the north, his performance was remarkable, and won the favor of his father. Not only did he give him a white horse, but he also gave him a bodyguard.Originally, when Zhu Gaoxu was named Queen of Han, he should be equipped with three guards, but he has been staying in Beijing and refused to surrender, so naturally he didn't have to give him the three guards.

But this time he went to the north with his father, made many military exploits, and regained Zhu Di's favor. He tentatively asked his father for a bodyguard, and he specified that he wanted a heavenly guard, and Zhu Di agreed. Zhu Gaoxu was really proud.Tian Cewei!Tian Cewei!There was also a Tian Ce horse in history, but it was Qin Wang Li Shimin's personal guard. The father promised to give him the Tian Ce guard. What does it mean?

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu has regarded himself as Zhu's second child as Li's second child who succeeded in the Xuanwumen mutiny, so he is naturally proud.

Zhu Gaoxu dismounted from the royal horse, walked forward a few steps proudly, and without hesitation, made a very reluctant cross-hand salute to his Uncle Wang, and said, "Uncle Wang, please forgive my nephew who is wearing armor and cannot fully salute. !"

King Zhou was furious, but Xia Xun put his hand on his arm at the right time, made a gesture of inviting him to go with him, and took advantage of the situation to give him a wink to appease King Zhou, then turned to Zhu Gaoxu, smiled and said: "King Zhou Your Highness has been waiting for the Holy Majesty for a long time, please His Highness King of Han to lead the way, let's go to see the Holy Majesty together!"

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Sanbu Chuan, God Monkey Ridge.

Wan Songling and Gongsun Dafeng were running between the valleys in embarrassment.

Wan Paopao was chased to heaven and earth by Xia Xun, and finally ran to Xingyang, thinking that he could be quiet here for a while, but he didn't want Xia Xun to be yinhun, and he chased him again, which really scared his guts, Wan Songling Confused, he simply walked north out of the pass, planning to hide outside the pass for a while.Anyway, he and Gongsun Dafeng both knew the ancient Meng language, so they fled to the territory of the ancient Meng people outside the Guanwai, and they could live with their abilities.

While the two were walking, there was a sudden cry, and a few sets of horse ropes flew out of the air, binding the two of them firmly, and then many murderous ancient men with bows and knives flashed out from the bushes on both sides of the path. Come.

As soon as Wan Songling saw the swords and guns, he quickly shouted in the old Meng saying: "May I ask which tribe you are the heroes of? We two brothers are just ordinary mountain herdsmen. Please don't hurt us, don't hurt us!"

A big man next to him who had never done anything ordered in a deep voice: "Search them to see if they are spies from Tatars. If they are ordinary people, chop them up and forget it!"

Wan Songling's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, who are these people?This is the territory of the Tatars, why do they want to kill the Tatars?If we say that they are Han Chinese, from their clothing, hair style, skin, and even the very authentic Meng ancient language, they really don't look like them.Wan Songling felt both strange and frightened in his heart. Forgive him for all his clever schemes, what else can he do when he encounters such a careless master?

It turned out that this place was the territory of the Tatars, but this group of people was from Oara, and the leader who spoke just now was Tuhuan, the son of Mahamu, the loyal king of Oara.Zhu Di marched to the north and led Wala troops to lurk on the eastern frontier in order to take advantage of it. As a result, Benya escaped into the Wara territory and was killed by him. The Tatar territory was distributed to the three kings of Oara.

Zhu Di was not willing to be fooled, not only refused to split the Tatar territory, but also supported Arutai to check and balance Oala.Tuo Huan refused to stop there, trying to forcibly plunder the Tatar territory with soldiers and horses.Alutai's scheming is far from being comparable, and he is fighting at home. This is his advantage, but his disadvantage is that he just died profusely, and was wiped out by the Ming army by tens of thousands of elite soldiers. His strength is greatly damaged. Sometimes wins and sometimes loses.

In recent days, Tuohuan fell for Alutai's trick, lost a game, separated from the brigade, and had to run south and hide in the mountainous area near the Ming Dynasty's side wall. However, he absolutely did not dare to move his army southward, causing the Ming army to misunderstand, but in the end they just caught Wan Songling and Gongsun Dafeng.

Several big men rushed to the two of them, searched all over, and found some gold and silver banknotes, and even found the beautiful jade that Wan Songling kept close to him, and showed it to the leader big man: "My lord, look at this Fang Meiyu, these two must not be ordinary shepherds!"

"Ok?"

The leader took Baoyin and looked at it, his body suddenly vibrated, and he rushed to Wan Songling with a stride, and said in shock: "You... who are you? This square seal... how could it be in your hand? superior?"

Wan Songling stared at the change in the expression of the ancient meng leader, and saw that all the hostility on his face had disappeared, and there was a hint of excitement hidden in his gaze when he looked at him, and his heart suddenly moved.

Gongsun Dafeng saw that the ancient Meng leader was very concerned about the beautiful jade, and thought: "If you lose your wealth, you can cheat again. If you lose your life, you can never get it back." If you like this..."

Wan Songling suddenly turned his head and said sharply, "Agadorji, shut up!"

Gongsun Dafeng was stunned: "How did I become Agadorji?"

However, among Wan Songling's apprentices, although Ye Qianqian was not as thoughtful as Ye Qianqian, he was not stupid to be a liar after all, and when he heard this, he knew there must be a reason, so he immediately shut his mouth tightly.

"Agadorji?"

Tuo Huan trembled all over, looked at Wan Songling and said, "He...he is Agadorji? Are you brothers? You...you are Tuotuohua, aren't you?"

Wan Songling saw that there was something interesting in the change of his expression, so he raised his head and said proudly: "If you want to kill or cut, it's up to you! I'm not a descendant of Genghis Khan, you can't humiliate me!"

"It's really you, it's really you! Hahaha..."

Tuotuobuhua looked up to the sky and laughed wildly three times. After a pause, he immediately shouted: "Untie! Quickly untie! This is Tuotuobuhua Taiji!"

Wan Songling let go of his tense heart: "Meng is right! Damn, that's okay too? I'm pretending to be an official, and it's getting bigger and bigger..."! .