Chapter 305: The real and false

Walking into the Han Palace from the quiet Shen family garden, the weather changed, and the flat and wide brick floors and magnificent palaces came into view.

Zhu Gaoxu was in the gatehouse and saw several civil and military officials walking out of the yamen office and bent down to avoid the road.

He passed by those people, turned around and looked at Zhao Ping among them, and asked: Where is the home of Queen Annan? Does Chen Xingwang know?

Zhao Ping immediately clasped his fists and said: I don’t know what the prince said.He didn't know about Chen Xingwang after all.

After saying that, he walked up to Zhu Gaoxu, and said: However, it is really difficult for people like the queen to find out where her family is.Now Pei Boqi, the old minister of Annan Kingdom, was arrested at Yuqin Station. He had to wait until the army arrived in Annan Kingdom and arrested the surrendered official and asked.

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu nodded and agreed.

Zhao Ping returned from the Laotian Xuanwei Envoy Department and found nothing, and had reported the incident to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhao Ping said again: Prince, don’t worry. Now that Chen Tianping has died, the queen has returned home for several times, but she has become peaceful.

oh?Zhu Gaoxu immediately turned around and said, "What does Zhao think so?"

Zhao Ping was stunned for a moment and said: What the prince said is, is there something wrong with this matter?

While walking towards the study, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but say: The news we heard from Chen Xingwang and Lao Mengsao Wa City has something unreasonable in itself. How can people believe it?

According to Chen Xingwang's news, the mother and son of Annan were detained on the ground of Laos by Chen Tianping's men because Chen Tianping bribed the king of Laos for a large sum of money.

Because Chen Tianping wanted to be the king of Annan, he would endanger his mother and son's lives; so at the request of the queen, Chen Xingwang brought the little prince to Yunnan Prefecture.

When Zhao Barmaster arrived in Laos, he learned that the queen's family had bribed the temple monk and the two guards with money, and redeemed the queen... Since the Lao king already knew that Queen Annan was in the city, if he did not get the king's consent, how could a monk let Queen Annan go?

Zhao Ping hurriedly said: At that time, the general thought that this was strange, but he couldn't find the monk when he turned around.The last general had to guess that perhaps the temple monks and guards were greedy for money and let the queen go privately.

Zhu Gaoxu asked: President Zhao met the King of Laos.The king said in person what happened to him and Chen Tianping?

Zhao Ping said with a shame: At that time, the language was not very smooth and the conversation was difficult, so I was unable to ask about this matter.The general is ineffective in his work, please punish him!

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand: It's just this matter, there is another confusing thing.The queen was able to return to her parents' home. Why didn't she entrust Chen Xingwang to take the little prince straight back to her parents' home, but sent it to Yunnan Prefecture?

Zhao Ping bowed: What the prince said is extremely true, and he will be stupid!

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was accompanied by several generals, eunuchs, etc., because the affairs of the Annan royal family were not secrets, and there was no need for Zhu Gaoxu to avoid the people in the royal palace.

So when everyone heard his words so sharply, they all showed a look of awe... Obviously, the King of Han was not easy to fool!

The crowd walked to the door of the study, Zhu Gaoxu gently raised his right hand, and everyone stopped outside the door.Only the eunuch Cao Fu followed in and served tea and water.

Zhu Gaoxu sat down on his mahogany chair and was stunned for a while.

The army was about to set off, but he was very concerned about the whereabouts of Queen Annan.The whereabouts of the queen now really concern the overall situation and are related to the major event of stabilizing the Annan country after the war.

If the little prince’s biological mother cannot be found, what is the use of a child who is four or five years old? How can he prove his identity and be convinced?

Chen Xingwang's narrative and reposting the queen's words, Lao Xuanwei envoys told Zhao Ping... Zhu Gaoxu did not overthrow or doubt everything.

He only felt that as long as it is reposted from people, it is mostly true, false, false, false, and true; there is always a little truth, and it is inevitable that there will be some added fuel to the fire.

What Zhu Gaoxu is most worried about now is that the entire Annan Kingdom is controlled by the Hu father and son, and can the queen's family really protect her?

...In Shenyuan, Zhu Gaoxu said to Mu Sheng, he is already a prince and military achievements are meaningless to him.

The implication is that the prince has no room for promotion, and the prince is the one below the emperor and has the highest status. If the court had not chosen him, he would not be willing to go to Annan and would have no profit.

Mu Sheng had no doubts about this sentence, but Zhu Gaoxu lied to Mu Sheng.

Zhu Gaoxu really wanted to win this battle with a high winning rate, and to win it neatly!

The Hu father and son killed the envoys and soldiers of the sect leader in front of the Ming army and killed the king of Annan, which was already decided. The court and the country were shocked, and everyone in the world was paying attention to this matter and dressed in a hot topic.

If Zhu Gaoxu can use this to prove his martial arts to the world again, the benefits will be very great.

The fate and nightmare that he would be burned to death made Zhu Gaoxu always have the hidden worries that he would be defeated in his death!

On that day, your reputation and ability will be recognized by the world, which is a great advantage.

If a person is destined to be defeated, who would be willing to follow him to risk his death?People want to fight to win!

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu worked very hard and prepared for this war.He even promoted his team training to all 100,000 troops under his command to increase his military prestige.

...In late June of the fourth year of Yongle, the army set out as planned.

Zhu Gaoxu said goodbye to his family, first put on his robes and went to the ancestral temple in the southeast of the Han Palace. After the sacrifice, he changed his armor and ordered the army to leave the city.

Countless people gathered next to the Cross Avenue and near the city gate in Yunnan Prefecture City. Zhu Gaoxu suspected that the people in the city had come out to see them off.

This war is related to the honor and disgrace of the Ming Dynasty, and people look forward to the victory or defeat.

The four words are written on the banner of the Central Army: Crime of silence and punishment of the people.Then there are military flags with the word Ming and Chinese.The iron armor on the road is like a torrent, the flags are like clouds, and the formation is very large.

The Eastern Army led by Zhu Gaoxu had 105,000 soldiers in the army, more than 300 civil servants and eunuchs, and tens of thousands of people were strong; there were no war horses, mules, donkeys, and wheelbarrows.

The total number of people was more than 100,000, and it was known as 500,000. It was a mighty way out of the four city gates.

Going south from Yunnan Prefecture City, the roads in the Ming Dynasty became even more rugged. Zhu Gaoxu divided the entire army into four routes and headed south from different post roads to avoid congestion.

The army marched within the border without any threat, and it would be easier to obtain local supplies by advancing in different directions.

Wang Bin, the commander of the Han Wangfu escort, led his army of 5,000 out of the city from the south gate, and all the troops then advanced.

The road to march is mountainous in Yunnan, and it goes south to the Honghe River Basin; when you go along the Honghe River to Jiling Pass, the terrain road becomes flatter.

In the early strategy, Wang Bin pioneered the capture of Jiling Pass, and then all the troops gathered in Jiling Pass...

Since Zhu Gaoxu was in his teens, he has appeared on various battlefields. He has experienced countless battles for more than ten years, and has not stopped for too long. He is more accustomed to marching and camping in tents and sleeping in the open.

However, on the road, the Central Army would occasionally be set up in native villages, so that they could sleep comfortably in bed.

Although there are Lin'an, Yuanjiang and other prefectures in Yunnan, there are very few Han people; in the vast areas of Yunnan Provincial Administration and the General Office, most of the Han people are concentrated in several large cities and nearby areas.

To the south are full of toasts and native villages.

The rest of June has not arrived at the battlefield.Zhu Gaoxu was happy to see a village with different customs along the way, living in tiled houses, wooden houses, and thatched houses. It was very strange.

The Ming Dynasty government could only manage cities directly, and even the mainland officials were almost no more than county towns. It was rare to see Han officials on these native territories.

However, most of the local people were still very hospitalized, after all, a large number of soldiers of the Ming army were holding weapons.

When people found that the government army was just passing by and did not burn, kill and loot, they also offered good hospitality.

At night, the soldiers often watched the natives ignite bonfires and sing and dance, and they were very happy.

Zhu Gaoxu did not wear the prince's clothes at all, but only wore military armor and wide-brimmed iron hats. The locals along the way could not recognize him as the prince.

Because there are always a group of people guarding him, the people only know that he is a status general.

This saves some risks.

The Ming Dynasty court did not distinguish between ethnic groups, only between Han and barbarians, so Zhu Gaoxu couldn't figure out what ethnic groups he had seen. He only knew that they had the names of the Luohou tribe, Zuo Neng tribe, Wazha tribe and other tribes. The government appointed their leaders as local officials, and used a name to make records according to the transliteration of local dialects.

When the army arrived in Yuanjiang Prefecture, many tribes wore similar languages, with cloth wrapped around their heads and dark earthen cloth clothes.

A tribe's local official had some knowledge and saw the golden gems inlaid on Zhu Gaoxu's scabbard and the brightly colored glutinous ice jade pendant, and introduced his daughter.

Zhu Gaoxu only saw another kind of dress. It turned out that the rich and powerful people in the country really liked silver jewelry. No wonder Meng Yang Si Si once only had silver and even copper coins.

The little girl's hat was almost silver, and she was wearing white fur clothes, and she was a bit pretty and charming.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu felt that it was a prejudice to think that a native woman looked so bad.

I have hardly seen beautiful women along the way, but because many native girls are exposed to the sun and have bad living environment, they are just dark in their skin.

Like the world, Zhu Gaoxu likes the white-skinned little girl.

Zhu Gaoxu and the little girl wearing silver jewelry gestured and communicated for a while. She couldn't speak, and she really could only look at me and I look at you.

He didn't ask the little lady to serve the bed, after all, she is the daughter of a local official and an ordinary local official family. There is no need to marry, and it is a waste of money to find trouble.

Of course, it is impossible to have feelings, even communication is a problem, it is just a matter of meeting each other.