Chapter 188 Starting from giving gifts

Since July, it has rained several times intermittently in the capital.Once the rain water is poured, the weather becomes significantly colder and the autumn is getting stronger.

Zhu Gaoxu was summoned and dressed up and wore a red black gauze dragon suit. He went to the palace to meet the emperor.

He walked from You'anmen to the imperial city. Under the leadership of the eunuch, Zhu Gaoxu entered Ganqing Gate, then walked through a slanting corridor and came to Dongnuan Pavilion.

Only then did he gradually realize that he was the only prince who came to meet the saint today.

After walking past the partition, I saw that there was no one else in it except my father and two eunuchs.

My son bows to my father, and my father will live forever!Zhu Gaoxu saluted.

Relieve the gift, Gao Xu gets up.The emperor, wearing a blue five-clawed dragon robe, spoke very kindly.

Zhu Gaoxu said thanking Father, and then got up.

The emperor said: Sitting on the stool, we father and son talk.

Zhu Gaoxu thanked him again, and then sat down carefully next to him.After a while, the two eunuchs also went out of the partition. Zhu Gaoxu looked slightly and saw that the father and son were the only ones left in this small room.

The emperor pondered for a moment and said: Gao Xu has gone to the funeral of your fourth uncle at the beginning of the year?

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment and nodded: Go back to Father, my son has gone.After the son-in-law went to the mourning hall to mourn and worship, he left without eating.

The emperor lowered his voice and said in a deep voice: But there was someone who should go to mourn. He was Xu Zengshou's brother-in-law and Hou Musheng, Xiping!I have seen the gift book of Xu Zengshou's family with my own eyes. Not only did Mu Sheng not go to Beijing to mourn, but the whole family did not go alone and did not even give gifts.

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he was stunned for a while before echoing: Erchen also felt that Mu Sheng was really inappropriate. No matter what, since his sister married his fourth uncle, everyone is a relative.

Well... The emperor said, during the 'Jingnan Battle', Xu Zengshou had repeatedly informed me of the military information of Jianwenjun, and was killed by my nephew.Mu Sheng must have been so overdoing his heart to Jianwenchao and blamed Xu Zengshou!

Zhu Gaoxu said in a tentative tone: Jianwen has been defeated, why didn’t Mu Sheng judge the situation and be loyal to his father?Maybe during the "Jingnan Campaign", Mu Sheng transferred the Yunnan soldiers to become enemies with his father several times, so he was afraid?

I can't tell why now.The emperor frowned and said, Hu Yi, the minister of the Ministry of Revenue, secretly told me that the descendants of Changxing Hou ran to Yunnan because they were afraid, but I didn't say that they wanted to punish them. What did they run away?Hu Yi is further verifying that perhaps more old ministers and family members have also gone to Yunnan, and that place is really a place where dirty and dirty things are hidden!

He glanced at Zhu Gaoxu and whispered: Jianwen himself might be in Yunnan if he got clues from Pu Qia!

Ah!Zhu Gaoxu made a surprised expression.

...The father and son were silent for a long time, but the emperor obviously hadn't said anything.When Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, he thought about what his father wanted to say at this time, perhaps it was a bit difficult to speak of?

After all, the father promised to let Gao Xu be the crown prince in the past, which was when the father and son were talking alone; at this moment, there was some similarity in the situation.

After a long time, Zhu Di finally spoke: I have restored your seventeenth uncle's throne to King Min, and let him return to Yunnan.However, King Min is not a member of our family after all, so I can’t tell him about many things.King Min and Mu Sheng had a deep old grudge, but it was not all good things. He was just focused on avenging, but instead ignored major events, regardless of right or wrong, and made the situation look like a pot of porridge...

Gao Xu nodded only and said nothing.

In fact, when I mentioned Xu Zengshou’s funeral just now, I said that Mu Sheng did not go, Gao Xu had already guessed something.Now that he said that, he could think of what his father meant with his toes!

Even though Gao Xu had no hope for the position of prince, he was still a little angry and disappointed when he understood that his fiefdom was Yunnan!

Gao Xu had known for a long time that he could not take any promises seriously.It seems that's true now.

Yunnan was a place with good scenery in later generations, and Kunming was even more like spring city; but it was not so good in the Ming Dynasty. The Central Plains civilization had only been in Yunnan for twenty years, and it was not developed enough. The Han people were not large in number, and the road to it was far and difficult to walk. It was obviously not a good place.

...Zhu Di paused and finally said: I want Gao Xu to go to Yunnan to be the king. Seeing what Mu Sheng means, it would be better if Jianwen can be found.Gao Xu is a close person I am. I will be relieved only if I leave this kind of thing to you.

Gao Xu didn't say anything for a long time, and his face turned a little red.

When he looked up at his father, he saw his father's sincere expression and he was completely unchanged!People who are emperors, they have done things naturally when they are dismissed and pretend to forget. As expected, they are very thick-skinned.

Your mother said, the prince asked your elder brother to do better, otherwise Gao Chi would not be able to handle himself.Zhu Di said earnestly, Gao Xu blamed me?

Gao Xu shook his head and said without hesitation: My son really doesn’t want to be the crown prince.but……

At this moment, he thought a lot in his mind, most of which were very confused, including some speculations about his father's mentality...

In the Ming Dynasty, there are countless cities in the world, why do countless cities have to be the place where birds do not shit in Yunnan?

Perhaps the father’s verbal reasons were not entirely false, so that was considered one of the considerations; but Gao Xu believed that these reasons were far more than just these reasons.

A successful person like his father can succeed because of countless wise and correct decisions.

Therefore, after repeatedly verifying the results of his decision, the father should be very confident.

A person with confidence and power firmly believes in his own judgment and wants to control everything!

Including controlling several sons and making them all obedient.

Gao Xu has already acted very obedient, but people often unconsciously become more and more flawed!

Otherwise, if Gao Xu was not so obedient, wouldn’t the father have to endure it as much as possible?

Now, the emperor ordered him to go to Yunnan to further test him and how obedient he was?

Even Gao Xu did not resist Zhu Di's will, which would make Zhu Di's desire to control the overall situation more satisfying, would it make him very useful?

...Gao Xu feels that it is beneficial to express his dissatisfaction and true emotions appropriately.Otherwise, he would be too enduring and his father might be suspicious of him holding back his resentment.

So Gao Xu said: But...why should I go to that place in Yunnan?Isn’t it okay to Suzhou, Yangzhou and Hangzhou!

When Zhu Di heard those place names, he seemed to roll his eyes, but said kindly: Gao Xu wants to share my worries. You go to Yunnan first. When the matter is done, will I change the place for you with an imperial edict?

What the father said seriously?Gao Xu asked.

really!I am the emperor, can I still talk?Zhu Di was serious.What he implied was that he would never admit his previous promises and regarded them as a joke because he was not the emperor at that time?

Gao Xu didn't say anything in a depressed mood.

Seeing this, Zhu Di said: Gao Xu can leave Beijing again after a while. I will ask someone to build the palace in Yunnan to make it big and good. Find another place in the capital to build a palace and live when you return to Beijing.

Thank you for your kindness.Gao Xu was still depressed.But he never let his father feel that the emperor's will was resisted.

Zhu Di continued: Gao Xu will go to see your mother later.After you got married, your mother talked about Gao Sui’s marriage and fell in love with Xu Zhang’s daughter. You probably still have time to see your third brother get married.

And your third and fourth sisters are going to marry Song Sheng’s son, which I decided.

Gao Xu bowed and said: My son will receive the order.

Zhu Di looked at Gao Xu for a while and then said: Your mother is in Kunning Palace.Go out of the East Warm Pavilion and ask Zheng He to take you there.

Gao Xu stood up and bowed: My son is leaving.

Let's go.Zhu Di nodded gently and watched Gao Xu walk past the partition.

Walking out of the Donghun Pavilion, Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and looked at the gray sky above the garbage.It didn't rain today, but the sun was gone.

He obviously didn't feel happy at all when he said he wanted to be promoted to Prince.

But I really didn't feel so unhappy.Even in the border area of ​​Yunnan, he is still a prince and has a transcendent status in the local area. How bad can he be?

At most, I was a little disappointed, but I didn't expect to be one of the worst places.

As the saying goes, there is no disappointment... It turns out that Gao Xu thought his father had not given him a crown prince, and he heard so much that his father would have some compensation.

Obviously I was thinking too much.

It will rain this day.Zheng He suddenly said in his voice.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at him, nodded and said: It seems to be, it's all clouds.

Zheng He clasped his fists and said: I congratulate the prince in advance for being named King of Han.

King of Han?Zhu Gaoxu blurted out, looked at Zheng He again, and immediately understood the meaning of this sentence: fiefdom and title were not decided today, and Zheng He had already known it in advance.

Zhu Gaoxu smiled: It's easy to say.I became a prince from the prince, and I felt it was okay, but the fiefdom was a little far away.In the future, if you want to go to Beijing to see your father, mother, and relatives and friends in the capital, it will not be so convenient.

Zheng He said: When the emperor and the empress miss the prince too much, they may be closer.

Hope so.Zhu Gaoxu said, I really don’t like the place in Yunnan, the current Yunnan.

The Ganqing Palace stood on a wide and empty brick floor, and the two walked north from the side of the Ganqing Palace to the base of Kunning Palace.At this time, Zhu Gaoxu saw Miaojin standing on the stone steps.

Unexpectedly, my aunt was still in the palace.Gao Xu greeted.

Gaoyang King.Miao Jin first held the gifts slowly and continued, "The Queen is weak, so I stayed in the palace for a while to take care of the Queen."

Because Zheng He was by his side, Zhu Gaoxu was inconvenient to say more, and just said, I was going to Yunnan, and the fiefdom my father wanted to give me was there.

Miao Jin's eyelashes were trembling slightly, and she was silent for a while before asking softly, when will she leave?

Zhu Gaoxu said: I don’t know, maybe I can stay for two or three months.My father told me to wait until my third brother got married before leaving.

oh.Miao Jin responded and said nothing.In the eyes of others, she seems to be not very concerned, so she asks less, but there is sadness in her eyes.

Sometimes people don’t want to talk, but it’s not because they have nothing to say.