Ming Dynasty: The Jingnan Rebellion has just been successful, and Zhu Yuanzhang has been resurrected

Chapter 62 Zhu Gaoxu's Ambition
"what's the situation?"

"Why did Hun'er let Li Jinglong go?"

Zhu Gaoxu was puzzled and turned to look at Tang He beside him.

"Why are you looking at me? You don't know, so how could I know?" Tang He raised his eyebrows.

"Humph!"

Zhu Gaoxu snorted coldly and turned his head away.

"Okay, Jinglong is gone, let's go back." Zhu Yunheng said softly.

After saying this, without waiting for anyone's response, he turned around and headed back to the city.

Zhu Gaoxu trotted over to catch up with Zhu Yunhuan and said, "Brother Yunhuan, I've thought about the question you asked me last time."

"Oh? Then tell me, what is your choice?" Zhu Yunhuan turned his head to look at Zhu Gaoxu with a smile.

"I choose to be king!" Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice.

"King?" Zhu Yunhuan stopped and looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

"E'er, is there something wrong with what I said?" Zhu Gaoxu felt a little uncomfortable when Zhu Yunhuan looked at him.

"No!" Zhu Yunhuan shook his head and said, "Second brother, it's fine if you want to be king, but think carefully about what kind of circumstances would allow you to become king."

"Ah?" Zhu Gaoxu was stunned.

Zhu Yunhuan reached out and patted Zhu Gaoxu on the shoulder, then walked away.

"What exactly did Brother Hu mean?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned as he looked at Zhu Yunhu's back.

Tang He walked over and said nonchalantly, "Second Young Master, you are very outstanding, but unfortunately, you are not the Prince of Yan."

"boom!"

When Zhu Gaoxu heard Tang He's words, it was as if thunder had exploded in his heart, and his face instantly became extremely ugly.

He is a little stupid, but that doesn't mean he has no brains.

Tang He's words were like a heavy hammer, making him instantly understand the meaning of Zhu Yunhuan's words.

With his status, it would be very difficult for him to become a king, let alone a general.

In fact, there are not many paths for him to choose.

1: He followed Zhu Di in the rebellion, failed, and died.

2: Follow Zhu Di in rebelling, succeed, and become a wealthy prince.

He understood their old man. Even though he opposed Zhu Yunwen's reduction of the power of the princes now, it was likely that the reduction of the power of the princes would continue after their old man sat on the throne.

Therefore, he could not become king, after all, all the vassal kings were gone.

In addition, the general seems to be no good either. No one will trust him, even if he has no ulterior motives. No one will gamble on him.

He could only sit on the throne.

However, he has an older brother, so unless he commits treason, the throne will not fall to him.

Three: Surrender to Zhu Yunhuan, take a gamble, and believe that Zhu Yunhuan is not fooling him.

"king?"

"General?"

"Xuan Ge'er, can you really let me be your king? Or, do you dare to let me be your general?"

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes flickered.

"Second Young Master, what's wrong with you?" Zhu could see that Zhu Gaoxu's expression was not right, so he walked up and asked with concern.

Zhu Gaoxu came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "I'm fine!"

"Oh!" Zhu Neng nodded without asking any more questions. "Zhu Neng, do you think Hun'er can break into Yingtian Prefecture?" Zhu Gaoxu asked inexplicably.

"What?" Zhu Neng was stunned.

"Nothing!" Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and walked away.

Zhu Neng looked at Zhu Gaoxu's back with a puzzled look in his eyes, and thought to himself, "What's wrong with the Second Young Master? He seems to be worried."

Black Pine Town!
After Li Jinglong left Fengyang, he quickly found Chen Xuan and Zhou Meng after some running around.

"Sir!" Chen Xuan and Zhou Meng were shocked to see Li Jinglong appear in front of them alive.

"Are you surprised? I am also very confused. I don't understand why Hu Ge'er let me go." Li Jinglong shook his head with a wry smile on his face.

"What's going on? Did the grandson of the Emperor Yunhuan release Duke Cao on his own initiative?"

Chen Xuan and Zhou Meng looked at each other and became even more confused.

Li Jinglong said, "Although I don't know why Hu Ge'er let me go, I still want to thank him. If he hadn't let me go, I would have no chance to turn things around and wash away this shame."

"This"

Chen Xuan and Zhou Meng looked strange.

They understood what Li Jinglong meant, which was to continue attacking Zhu Yunhuan in order to wash away the shame of being defeated and captured by Zhu Yunhuan last time.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with what Li Jinglong did. However, after the imperial court learned that Li Jinglong had been captured, it sent a new commander.

"Sir, after you were captured, the court sent Duke Wei to replace you as the commander-in-chief." Chen Xuan said.

"What?" Li Jinglong was stunned, his face darkening as he cursed, "Xu Huizu, I really misjudged you. I never thought you would take advantage of me being captured and try to steal my military achievements."

Chen Xuan and Zhou Meng stood aside, with their heads lowered, not daring to respond.

Whether it was Li Jinglong or Xu Huizu, they couldn't afford to offend either of them.

Li Jinglong took a deep breath, calmed himself, and said, "I will go write a letter to His Majesty now. I was careless last time. This time, I will definitely be able to defeat Zhu Yunhuan."

After saying that, he walked away.

"Oh, with what has happened, I don't know who will be able to stay in the end." Chen Xuan looked at Li Jinglong's back, sighed, shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Zhou Meng said, "This isn't a matter of one commander, but rather one that determines who will become famous throughout the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty attaches great importance to suppressing the grandson of Emperor Yunhuan. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent out 500,000 troops."

"Yes, there are too many things involved here, but it has nothing to do with us. We will listen to whoever wins." Chen Xuan said.

Qianqing Palace!
Jiang Li came before Zhu Yunwen and said, "Your Majesty, this is a letter from Duke Cao."

"Li Jinglong still has the nerve to write a letter to me?" Zhu Yunwen frowned.

Although he said this, he still took the letter from Jiang Li's hand and opened it to read the contents.

"Zhu Yunhuan actually released Jinglong? What does he mean?" Zhu Yunwen looked surprised and suspicious.

After a moment's silence, he said to Jiang Li, "Jiang Li, send someone to call back the Duke of Wei."

"Ah?" Jiang Li was stunned, and he suspected that he had heard it wrong.

Xu Huizu had just left Beijing two days ago and was rushing to Fengyang to clean up the mess left by Li Jinglong. Calculating the time, he had almost arrived at the destination.

Now a letter has arrived from Li Jinglong, asking him to call Xu Huizu back. What's going on?
"Zhu Yunhuan released Li Jinglong. In his letter, he begged me to let him capture Zhu Yunhuan personally to wash away the shame on his body." Zhu Yunwen said.

"Your Majesty, how do you explain to Duke Wei?" Jiang Li hesitated.

Zhu Yunwen waved his hand and said, "You can send someone to pass on the message. When Duke Wei returns to the capital, I will personally come forward to appease him."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Jiang Li bowed and turned to leave.

Zhu Yunwen picked up the letter and looked at it again, then said softly, "Jinglong, don't let me down again this time, or I won't let you off easily."

(End of this chapter)