Chen Tianping arrived in Kunming City in the autumn of the third year of Yongle.The military general Huang Zhong, who escorted him, was the left deputy general of Guangxi. He was reporting on his duties in the capital this year, so he took on this job.
Huang Zhong and Chen Tianping will stay in Yunnan Fucheng for a while, waiting for the Yunnan Metropolitan Command to transfer troops and escort Chen Tianping back to China.Now, the Yunnan Provincial Administration Office must inform the Han Palace and Mu Palace.
So Zhu Gaoxu quickly learned the news.Then he summoned Chen Tianping, Huang Zhong, and the old ministers of Annan Kingdom in Chengyun Hall.
Chen Tianping's ambition made Zhu Gaoxu very curious: The Hu father and son have done the throne to kill the king and usurp the throne, and they must have taken over the power. How can Chen Tianping, the royal family, regain power when he returned to Annan Kingdom?
Before Zhu Gaoxu asked, Chen Tianping expressed his plans... Before, the Hu family was in power, and in order to stay away from the Chen family's royal family, he controlled the king to move the capital to Qinghua in the south, and Qinghua became the capital of Annan Kingdom. However, Chen Tianping would not go to Qinghua, but planned to succeed him in Shenglong (Hanoi, the map of the Ming Dynasty court was marked as Dongguan County, Jiaozhou Prefecture) with the help of the Ming army.
Zhu Gaoxu listened to his plan with great interest, without commenting, but just nodded slightly.
This is a strategy formulated by the Ming Dynasty court, and Zhu Gaoxu certainly would not raise any questions.
...But this is definitely not that easy.Zhu Gaoxu was thinking in his mind while listening to them.
At present, the Hu family, the largest power in Annan Kingdom, must meet two conditions if he wants to be a stable king: one is to control the situation at home, and the other is to be recognized by the Ming Dynasty.
A regime like Annan is different from the Central Plains court.Annan has a powerful sect leader country and is bordered by land, so the recognition of the sect leader country is equally important.
Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu rationally speculated that Hu would not be willing to engage in evil with the Ming Dynasty.
Hu should have controlled Chen Tianping and found an opportunity to kill him, while finding ways to get recognized by the Ming Dynasty court. Frequent tribute and showing respect and loyalty are an effective way.
At present, it seems that the Hu father and son wrote letters to apologize and obeyed the arrangements of the Ming Dynasty, and were all walking on that path.
Zhu Gaoxu was full of confidence and felt that he was almost completely guessing about Hu’s abacus...
Emperor Zhu Di must also know that Chen Tianping will not succeed.But why did the emperor send Chen Tianping back to die?
Zhu Gaoxu guessed the inside story, and the emperor must have done it on purpose.Perhaps the emperor's strategy for the Annan issue has gradually become tough, and he is determined to be enterprising Annan and open up territory!
When the Ming Dynasty launched a war, it was famous for its masters and took great care of the great righteousness.
This battle may still be launched in the name of helping Annan Chen family.
If Annan is captured in the future, it is better to find another puppet from Chen.
Now that Chen Tianping was sent back to Annan by the Ming Dynasty to be killed, he had to find another famous person...
When Zhu Gaoxu thought of this, he left the military general Huang Zhong when he saw off the guests from Annan Kingdom.
In the study room east of the front hall of the Han Palace, Chen Xingwang came with the little prince.Zhu Gaoxu asked Huang Zhong to see the little prince with his own eyes, and then listened to Chen Xingwang narrating the whole story.
Zhu Gaoxu said: When I got Chen Zhengyuan, the prince of Annan, I did not dare to write a letter rashly because I failed to confirm his identity.This time, General Huang is going to return to the court to report the matter, and when he sees my father, he can report the matter.
Huang Zhong clasped his fists and said: I will obey the order.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and asked the eunuch yellow dog to send him out.
Zhu Gaoxu did not write a letter before because the court already had Chen Tianping, the candidate for King Annan, and the unknown prince was not very meaningful; now he wanted to tell the emperor, but because Chen Tianping might be dying, the little prince became a candidate and became valuable again.
...The Yunnan Metropolitan Commander was ordered to mobilize a guard and horse to escort Chen Tianping.
Zhu Gaoxu did not care about the specific transfer of the Ministry of the Ministry, but only found Zhao Ping, the general of the guard; asked Zhao Ping to select a hundred guards and follow General Huang Zhong to the south.
Zhu Gaoxu sat on the chair, facing the door of the study. He greeted Zhao Ping and said: You don’t have to follow Huang Zhong to Annan Kingdom, take Chen Xingwang with you, just go to Laos.First find the temple that Chen Xingwang mentioned, and then take Queen Annan back to Yunnan Prefecture to reunite them.
Zhao Ping held the courtesy and said: I will understand and obey the prince’s orders!
The prince of Annan is only four or five years old and knows nothing. If you want to start confirming the prince's identity, this matter must start with the queen.
When Zhu Gaoxu thought of seeing the famous and beautiful queen soon, he couldn't help but feel a little expectant.
Perhaps the true superiors will only care about power and gains and losses.But Zhu Gaoxu found that he could not completely eliminate his personal thoughts and was still very interested in seeing beauty.
……
Yunnan Metropolitan City has pieced together and finally got 4,000 troops, barely counted as a guard army.A group of thousands of people left Kunming City and went south to Annan Kingdom.
More than a hundred people including Zhao Ping followed the army to the bank of the Hong River, and then parted ways.
The army of Huangzhong continued to descend along the Honghe River and entered Annan Kingdom from Jiling Pass (Laojie); Zhao Ping led his troops across the Honghe River and went to the Xuanwei Envoy Office of Laos.
Fortunately, Chen Xingwang has been to Laos, so a group of people will not get lost.
Laos and Yunnan Provincial Administration and the Ministry of Justice will be next to each other, and they will arrive in Laos territory in a few days.
Zhao Ping brought a large group of armored soldiers, and his whereabouts were very obvious. Soon they met the chieftain officials who came to interrogate them.
There is no need for translation, and the chieftain officials will also speak a little Chinese, and everyone will negotiate reluctantly.
Zhao Ping handed over the official documents from the Yunnan Dusi, with a seal on it, claiming that he was the envoy of the Ming Dynasty government.
The Lao chieftains have had a good relationship with the imperial court in the past two years, and Lao officials did not make things difficult for Zhao Ping, so they took Zhao Ping and others to see Lao Xuanfu Envoy.
Zhao Ping wanted to make up a reason so that Lao Xuanwei envoy allowed them to go to the temple.
At this time, Chen Xingwang said: Xuanwei Envoy should know about the Queen Annan.When Chen Tianping and the old ministers of Annan Kingdom were hiding in Laos, they had bribed a lot of wealth.
I see.Zhao Ping nodded and said, then there is no other way, just explain the purpose of the visit and talk about the conditions to pick up people.
Lao officials greeted him, and everyone went to Mengsaowa City, and they walked smoothly along the way.
...Mengsaowa City is the capital of Laotian Xuanwei envoy. It has many Buddhist temples and luxurious palaces. It does not look like a capital city, but a country's capital.
But the Ming Dynasty court had to call them a chieftain.
Chen Xingwang said that Laos' national name is Nanzhang Hongkao. In addition to being granted the title of Ming Dynasty and being called Xuanwei Envoy in the Ming Dynasty, the king was called king in the local and other countries.
The meaning of Nanzhang is that they claim to have one million war elephants that can scare people.
The king of Laos was very happy because he gave Chen Tianping to the Ming Dynasty and paid tribute to the ministers many times.Today, the emperor just signed his envoy to comfort him.
But it is said that in recent years, Laos has been often attacked by the Hu army of Annan Kingdom, so he took the initiative to show goodwill to the Ming Dynasty and seek protection.
Fortunately, Zhao Ping read and learned to read, and soon learned a little about this place.
In terms of diplomatic relations, Laos is now in the Ming Dynasty and is hostile to Annan; but Annan has more than one force, so the Lao king accepted bribes from the Chen clan.
The king of Laos is Wu He'an. He has a name that looks like a Han Chinese, but he doesn't speak Chinese at all.
The two sides could not communicate directly. Under the clumsy translation of Lao officials who had only a little understanding of it, Zhao Ping submitted the official document, barely letting each other figure out the general matter.
Wu He'an respected the envoys of the Ming Dynasty very much and sent elephant soldiers to send them to the temple.
But there was no queen in the temple, nor was there the guardian Chen Xingwang said!
Zhao Ping had been walking on the rugged and difficult road for so long, and at this time he suspected that Chen Xingwang was lying, and he was extremely angry.But he still calmed down and questioned Chen Xingwang.
Chen Xingwang was also very nervous and finally found a monk he knew in the temple.
The monk could speak some Chinese language, mixed with Chinese and local dialect, and told the whole story, which finally proved that Chen Xingwang did not seem to be lying.
The words of the temple monk and Chen Xingwang were linked together, and Zhao Ping roughly told him to understand what had happened...
Chen Tianping was not directly responsible for detaining the queen, and handed it over to Chen An's man; then Chen Tianping went to the Ming Dynasty capital thousands of miles away.
Previously, Chen An accidentally let the little prince be kidnapped and was eager to bring people to Yunnan Prefecture to make up for the mistakes; but Chen An was shot to death by an arrow by a general of the Han Prefecture... After that, an assassin who escaped brought back the news of Chen An's death.
The remaining three men could not find their employer. They were about to play with the queen first and then escape to continue their original activities.
Just as they were working together to insult the queen, the queen's resistance was fierce, which alarmed the monks in the temple and stopped the matter.
The queen proposed to bring a letter back to Annan Kingdom and asked her family to redeem her with a large amount of money; the money was divided equally by three men and monks in the temple.
Several people finally agreed to this method because the leader Chen An was dead.
Zhao Ping thought for a long time and asked: Master, has the woman returned to Annan Country?
The monk understood this sentence and nodded.
Zhao Ping asked again: Since Chen Tianping has given the king treasure, the king should order the person who let him go. Why do you, a monk, dare to do such things?
But the monk didn't seem to understand such responsible words.Zhao Ping asked Chen Xingwang to come. Chen Xingwang didn't understand Laotian's language very much, so he couldn't tell it clearly after talking for a long time.
Zhao Ping and more than a hundred soldiers were stationed in the temple for a few days. Lao officials sent food and water, but they were not familiar with the place and could not understand the language. Zhao Ping could never find a way to find out the truth or falsehood of the matter.
Chen Xingwang has been doing business in Laos for several years, but he hasn't even learned it in the local area, and only knows some simple words of greetings.
Chen Xingwang said that he mainly deals with fellow Yunnan villagers, and although his employer Chen An is from Annan, he knows Chinese language.
When Zhao Ping wanted to find the monk from that temple again, he could no longer find him.
In short, there was no clue about this matter, so Zhao Ping decided to take his people back to Yunnan Prefecture first, report to the King of Han, and then listen to the arrangements.
Huang Zhong and Chen Tianping will stay in Yunnan Fucheng for a while, waiting for the Yunnan Metropolitan Command to transfer troops and escort Chen Tianping back to China.Now, the Yunnan Provincial Administration Office must inform the Han Palace and Mu Palace.
So Zhu Gaoxu quickly learned the news.Then he summoned Chen Tianping, Huang Zhong, and the old ministers of Annan Kingdom in Chengyun Hall.
Chen Tianping's ambition made Zhu Gaoxu very curious: The Hu father and son have done the throne to kill the king and usurp the throne, and they must have taken over the power. How can Chen Tianping, the royal family, regain power when he returned to Annan Kingdom?
Before Zhu Gaoxu asked, Chen Tianping expressed his plans... Before, the Hu family was in power, and in order to stay away from the Chen family's royal family, he controlled the king to move the capital to Qinghua in the south, and Qinghua became the capital of Annan Kingdom. However, Chen Tianping would not go to Qinghua, but planned to succeed him in Shenglong (Hanoi, the map of the Ming Dynasty court was marked as Dongguan County, Jiaozhou Prefecture) with the help of the Ming army.
Zhu Gaoxu listened to his plan with great interest, without commenting, but just nodded slightly.
This is a strategy formulated by the Ming Dynasty court, and Zhu Gaoxu certainly would not raise any questions.
...But this is definitely not that easy.Zhu Gaoxu was thinking in his mind while listening to them.
At present, the Hu family, the largest power in Annan Kingdom, must meet two conditions if he wants to be a stable king: one is to control the situation at home, and the other is to be recognized by the Ming Dynasty.
A regime like Annan is different from the Central Plains court.Annan has a powerful sect leader country and is bordered by land, so the recognition of the sect leader country is equally important.
Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu rationally speculated that Hu would not be willing to engage in evil with the Ming Dynasty.
Hu should have controlled Chen Tianping and found an opportunity to kill him, while finding ways to get recognized by the Ming Dynasty court. Frequent tribute and showing respect and loyalty are an effective way.
At present, it seems that the Hu father and son wrote letters to apologize and obeyed the arrangements of the Ming Dynasty, and were all walking on that path.
Zhu Gaoxu was full of confidence and felt that he was almost completely guessing about Hu’s abacus...
Emperor Zhu Di must also know that Chen Tianping will not succeed.But why did the emperor send Chen Tianping back to die?
Zhu Gaoxu guessed the inside story, and the emperor must have done it on purpose.Perhaps the emperor's strategy for the Annan issue has gradually become tough, and he is determined to be enterprising Annan and open up territory!
When the Ming Dynasty launched a war, it was famous for its masters and took great care of the great righteousness.
This battle may still be launched in the name of helping Annan Chen family.
If Annan is captured in the future, it is better to find another puppet from Chen.
Now that Chen Tianping was sent back to Annan by the Ming Dynasty to be killed, he had to find another famous person...
When Zhu Gaoxu thought of this, he left the military general Huang Zhong when he saw off the guests from Annan Kingdom.
In the study room east of the front hall of the Han Palace, Chen Xingwang came with the little prince.Zhu Gaoxu asked Huang Zhong to see the little prince with his own eyes, and then listened to Chen Xingwang narrating the whole story.
Zhu Gaoxu said: When I got Chen Zhengyuan, the prince of Annan, I did not dare to write a letter rashly because I failed to confirm his identity.This time, General Huang is going to return to the court to report the matter, and when he sees my father, he can report the matter.
Huang Zhong clasped his fists and said: I will obey the order.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and asked the eunuch yellow dog to send him out.
Zhu Gaoxu did not write a letter before because the court already had Chen Tianping, the candidate for King Annan, and the unknown prince was not very meaningful; now he wanted to tell the emperor, but because Chen Tianping might be dying, the little prince became a candidate and became valuable again.
...The Yunnan Metropolitan Commander was ordered to mobilize a guard and horse to escort Chen Tianping.
Zhu Gaoxu did not care about the specific transfer of the Ministry of the Ministry, but only found Zhao Ping, the general of the guard; asked Zhao Ping to select a hundred guards and follow General Huang Zhong to the south.
Zhu Gaoxu sat on the chair, facing the door of the study. He greeted Zhao Ping and said: You don’t have to follow Huang Zhong to Annan Kingdom, take Chen Xingwang with you, just go to Laos.First find the temple that Chen Xingwang mentioned, and then take Queen Annan back to Yunnan Prefecture to reunite them.
Zhao Ping held the courtesy and said: I will understand and obey the prince’s orders!
The prince of Annan is only four or five years old and knows nothing. If you want to start confirming the prince's identity, this matter must start with the queen.
When Zhu Gaoxu thought of seeing the famous and beautiful queen soon, he couldn't help but feel a little expectant.
Perhaps the true superiors will only care about power and gains and losses.But Zhu Gaoxu found that he could not completely eliminate his personal thoughts and was still very interested in seeing beauty.
……
Yunnan Metropolitan City has pieced together and finally got 4,000 troops, barely counted as a guard army.A group of thousands of people left Kunming City and went south to Annan Kingdom.
More than a hundred people including Zhao Ping followed the army to the bank of the Hong River, and then parted ways.
The army of Huangzhong continued to descend along the Honghe River and entered Annan Kingdom from Jiling Pass (Laojie); Zhao Ping led his troops across the Honghe River and went to the Xuanwei Envoy Office of Laos.
Fortunately, Chen Xingwang has been to Laos, so a group of people will not get lost.
Laos and Yunnan Provincial Administration and the Ministry of Justice will be next to each other, and they will arrive in Laos territory in a few days.
Zhao Ping brought a large group of armored soldiers, and his whereabouts were very obvious. Soon they met the chieftain officials who came to interrogate them.
There is no need for translation, and the chieftain officials will also speak a little Chinese, and everyone will negotiate reluctantly.
Zhao Ping handed over the official documents from the Yunnan Dusi, with a seal on it, claiming that he was the envoy of the Ming Dynasty government.
The Lao chieftains have had a good relationship with the imperial court in the past two years, and Lao officials did not make things difficult for Zhao Ping, so they took Zhao Ping and others to see Lao Xuanfu Envoy.
Zhao Ping wanted to make up a reason so that Lao Xuanwei envoy allowed them to go to the temple.
At this time, Chen Xingwang said: Xuanwei Envoy should know about the Queen Annan.When Chen Tianping and the old ministers of Annan Kingdom were hiding in Laos, they had bribed a lot of wealth.
I see.Zhao Ping nodded and said, then there is no other way, just explain the purpose of the visit and talk about the conditions to pick up people.
Lao officials greeted him, and everyone went to Mengsaowa City, and they walked smoothly along the way.
...Mengsaowa City is the capital of Laotian Xuanwei envoy. It has many Buddhist temples and luxurious palaces. It does not look like a capital city, but a country's capital.
But the Ming Dynasty court had to call them a chieftain.
Chen Xingwang said that Laos' national name is Nanzhang Hongkao. In addition to being granted the title of Ming Dynasty and being called Xuanwei Envoy in the Ming Dynasty, the king was called king in the local and other countries.
The meaning of Nanzhang is that they claim to have one million war elephants that can scare people.
The king of Laos was very happy because he gave Chen Tianping to the Ming Dynasty and paid tribute to the ministers many times.Today, the emperor just signed his envoy to comfort him.
But it is said that in recent years, Laos has been often attacked by the Hu army of Annan Kingdom, so he took the initiative to show goodwill to the Ming Dynasty and seek protection.
Fortunately, Zhao Ping read and learned to read, and soon learned a little about this place.
In terms of diplomatic relations, Laos is now in the Ming Dynasty and is hostile to Annan; but Annan has more than one force, so the Lao king accepted bribes from the Chen clan.
The king of Laos is Wu He'an. He has a name that looks like a Han Chinese, but he doesn't speak Chinese at all.
The two sides could not communicate directly. Under the clumsy translation of Lao officials who had only a little understanding of it, Zhao Ping submitted the official document, barely letting each other figure out the general matter.
Wu He'an respected the envoys of the Ming Dynasty very much and sent elephant soldiers to send them to the temple.
But there was no queen in the temple, nor was there the guardian Chen Xingwang said!
Zhao Ping had been walking on the rugged and difficult road for so long, and at this time he suspected that Chen Xingwang was lying, and he was extremely angry.But he still calmed down and questioned Chen Xingwang.
Chen Xingwang was also very nervous and finally found a monk he knew in the temple.
The monk could speak some Chinese language, mixed with Chinese and local dialect, and told the whole story, which finally proved that Chen Xingwang did not seem to be lying.
The words of the temple monk and Chen Xingwang were linked together, and Zhao Ping roughly told him to understand what had happened...
Chen Tianping was not directly responsible for detaining the queen, and handed it over to Chen An's man; then Chen Tianping went to the Ming Dynasty capital thousands of miles away.
Previously, Chen An accidentally let the little prince be kidnapped and was eager to bring people to Yunnan Prefecture to make up for the mistakes; but Chen An was shot to death by an arrow by a general of the Han Prefecture... After that, an assassin who escaped brought back the news of Chen An's death.
The remaining three men could not find their employer. They were about to play with the queen first and then escape to continue their original activities.
Just as they were working together to insult the queen, the queen's resistance was fierce, which alarmed the monks in the temple and stopped the matter.
The queen proposed to bring a letter back to Annan Kingdom and asked her family to redeem her with a large amount of money; the money was divided equally by three men and monks in the temple.
Several people finally agreed to this method because the leader Chen An was dead.
Zhao Ping thought for a long time and asked: Master, has the woman returned to Annan Country?
The monk understood this sentence and nodded.
Zhao Ping asked again: Since Chen Tianping has given the king treasure, the king should order the person who let him go. Why do you, a monk, dare to do such things?
But the monk didn't seem to understand such responsible words.Zhao Ping asked Chen Xingwang to come. Chen Xingwang didn't understand Laotian's language very much, so he couldn't tell it clearly after talking for a long time.
Zhao Ping and more than a hundred soldiers were stationed in the temple for a few days. Lao officials sent food and water, but they were not familiar with the place and could not understand the language. Zhao Ping could never find a way to find out the truth or falsehood of the matter.
Chen Xingwang has been doing business in Laos for several years, but he hasn't even learned it in the local area, and only knows some simple words of greetings.
Chen Xingwang said that he mainly deals with fellow Yunnan villagers, and although his employer Chen An is from Annan, he knows Chinese language.
When Zhao Ping wanted to find the monk from that temple again, he could no longer find him.
In short, there was no clue about this matter, so Zhao Ping decided to take his people back to Yunnan Prefecture first, report to the King of Han, and then listen to the arrangements.
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