Qi Tai confirmed his guess from the palace maid Yao Ji and asked carefully. He thought there would be nothing wrong before leaving Jiming Temple.
Early the next morning, Qi Tai waited outside Donghua Gate early, and went in when the imperial city opened. The officials who entered the imperial city were tidying up their clothes outside Fengtian Gate. At this time, the eunuch Wu Zhong appeared in the crowd and reminded the officials of the hour.
As usual, Qi Tai exchanged a few words with Wu Zhong and then asked Wu Zhong for help. He said that he had something secret that he wanted to see alone and asked Wu Zhong to tell the emperor.
Wu Zhong is still very effective in doing things! After the morning court, Wu Zhong followed him out of Fengtian Gate and called Qitai to see him.
At this time, Huang Zicheng saw the two of them muttering and walking north again, so he looked back twice in a row. But Qitai couldn't care about him anymore.
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The Imperial Street had just been swept in the morning, but fallen leaves were floating on the brick floor in the afternoon. The capital was covered with dark clouds, and it was impossible to tell whether it was morning or afternoon just by looking at the sky.Ministers walked towards Fengtian Gate one after another. Huang Zicheng tidied up the table, straightened his black hat with both hands, and stood up and went out to Fengtian Gate.His Majesty summoned the ministers this afternoon to discuss the matter of suppressing the Yan rebellion. The most important thing was to decide on a new commander-in-chief to replace Geng Bingwen who was killed in Zhending.Huang Zicheng is still unsure who he will choose.These days, the emperor has been waiting for the opinions of his ministers. Huang Zicheng has always wanted to recommend Li Jinglong, but the Minister of War Qi Tai opposed it and strongly recommended Guo Ying; Xu Huizu again recommended Sheng Yong.
A few days later, Zhu Gaoxu returned to Peking with the Yan army.The wound of Captain Wang Bin was only a flesh wound, and it would be fine as long as it did not get infected. Zhu Gaoxu asked him to take off his clothes and observe. Seeing that the wound was healing, he was relieved and asked Wang Bin to go home to recuperate first.When he returned to the Prince's Mansion, the eunuchs and servants came out to greet him and asked him about his well-being. Zhu Gaoxu took off his armor and military uniform and went back to the inner hall to rest.The people in the mansion were still the same as before, but for some reason, Zhu Gaoxu always felt it was deserted. It was like a person who had been working away from home for many years and suddenly returned to an empty home and felt a sense of strangeness.The Prince's Mansion was not empty, there were many people. Zhu Gaoxu soon realized: Du Qianrui was missing.Without her, there would be no delicio
The Prince of Yan's attitude towards others was very contagious. He put his hands behind his back, walked in front of his seat with his burly body, frowned, and seemed to be thinking about what else he could give Zhu Gaoxu.In addition, he is his biological father. Who wouldn't be willing to work for him willingly and risk their lives? It's no wonder that King Gaoyang worked so hard in history and believed that he was the heir... In fact, King Yan had always treated King Gaoyang fairly well. After all, he was his biological son. It was just that King Gaoyang didn't treat him as well as he expected.At this time, the King of Yan turned around and said, "Last time you asked for merit for your generals, I agreed to your request and promoted Wang Bin and Wei Da to the rank of captains. They will go with you to Yongping Guard to gather troops."Zhu Gaoxu fully understood one thing: if his father was willing to give him something and really gave it to him, he coul
At noon, Zhu Gaoxu was invited by Princess Xu to have lunch, and Prince Yan also came to the dining room. Zhu Gaoxu ate the meal in a very restrained manner, which did not feel like he was having a meal with his parents at all.However, the dining room of the Prince's Mansion was really luxurious, with valuable antique calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, fine mahogany furniture in the room, and exquisite tableware from the Jingdezhen official kiln. The dishes were also very rich, and they were completely different from what Zhu Gaoxu enjoyed in the Prince's Mansion!Eating here and comparing the house with the low houses outside the Prince of Yan's Mansion, Zhu Gaoxu felt like he had traveled through time again. The inside and outside were two worlds with different levels of civilization.Princess Xu picked up a piece of fried mutton offal for Zhu Gaoxu and sighed softly, "Gaoxu is already of marriageable age, and I am still worried about this ma
The soldiers of Yongping Guard had been transferred away by Prince Yan, and only about 300 people were left to garrison.Zhu Gaoxu retreated to the signing room, where he flipped through the messy files that Jin Zhong had given him before he left, and asked his generals to think of a solution.At this time, Liu Ying, a centurion captured from Xiong County, said, "I have some ideas, but I wonder if I should tell you about them?""Captain Liu, please feel free to speak." Zhu Gaoxu looked up and said.Liu Ying clasped his fists and said, "The local garrison troops are usually divided into defense and farming, and they rotate regularly, and there is a system. In recent years, the garrison system has been rigid, and no one will change the rules before the rotation period. The Prince of Yan has just started his army, and everything is hasty. It is possible that he has only transferred the garrison troops, and the troops who are farming in various places shou
The city of Daning in the eastern part of Yanshan is still peaceful.A general stood behind the battlements of the city wall. He was dressed in armor, holding the hilt of his sword with his left hand, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance. His name was Li Tai, a general of Daning. He had another identity in private: he was ordered by the court to secretly monitor King Ning.Everything Li Tai saw was so calm, except his heart.It was precisely because there was no movement in Daning City that it seemed so unusual... If Prince Ning Zhu Quan would obey the imperial edict, he should have mobilized his troops, packed up his things and headed to Liaodong. How could he pretend that nothing had happened?Li Tai couldn't pretend nothing happened. Prince Yan had already rebelled in Beiping! Something bad would happen to Daning sooner or later!At this time, a general came up to the city wall, clasped his fists and said, "General, there is a man
In September of the first year of Jianwen, Geng Bingwen's defeat angered the Ming emperor and his ministers, and the court decided to launch an unprecedented large-scale attack on the Prince of Yan!The two sides decided to attack from both sides, with Li Jinglong, Duke of Cao, leading 500,000 central troops in the south, and Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, leading the Liaodong troops out of the Liaoxi Corridor in the north. By attacking from both sides, it was expected that the rebellion in Beiping would be resolved within the first year of Jianwen!Li Jinglong told his soldiers that they could go home to celebrate the New Year after taking Beijing!...In Hejian Prefecture, the army gathered inside and outside the city, and Li Jinglong stood on the top of the city. He faced the cold wind of late autumn, but his blood was boiling. Looking at the teams of galloping cavalry, the tents, and countless soldiers on the plain, he seemed to be standing on the clouds.
"Reinforcements are coming! King Gaoyang really keeps his word!"Zhu Gaoxu was lying on the top of the city wall when he heard someone nearby shouting excitedly. He used his palm to block the glaring sunlight above his head and stared outside the city with wide eyes. Wu Gao's Liaodong Army was retreating! Behind the fortifications, shovels, hoes, tents and other things were thrown everywhere.Jiangyin Hou Wu Gao was also funny. He traveled thousands of miles to Hebei, bringing thousands of people with him to work on the construction site every day. After working for several days, he didn't fire a single shot or arrow, and then he abandoned the fortifications he had worked so hard to build and ran away with his people.However, what if the King of Yan’s reinforcements did not arrive?Fortunately, the King of Yan really came. First, a group of cavalry crossed the fortifications outside the city and chased northward. Then, in the west, a dark mass of flag