Chapter 344 Harmony

In the autumn of the fourth year of Jianwen, the capital was captured by the Jingnan Army, and more than half a year had passed.In the corner of the northwest of the palace, the Jianwen Dynasty Empress Ma Enhui was also imprisoned for several months.

It is easy for people to forget many things. Even the queen who once paid attention to the world will be forgotten by people in a flash.

The only people who remember Ma Enhui seemed to be Zhu Di and his few confidants. They wanted to take out some news about Jianwen and his son from Ma Enhui's mouth.

At this time, Zhu Di's second son Zhu Gaoxu came.Ma Enhui knew in her heart that Gao Xu had seen her several times, but she was just following her father's order and wanted her to tell her where Jianwen and his son had gone.

...In the past, Ma Enhui hated Gao Xu a little.

Gao Xu had a bad reputation, lustful, violent and cunning. Such a person kissed her on the mouth when he first met... But Ma Enhui gradually realized that Gao Xu was not humiliating her lightly, but that she was choked in the smoke of the fire in Fengtian Palace and was almost dying. He was saving her life.

At that time, Ma Enhui was going to burn herself, and she was flirted with her life before she could survive. She was not grateful to Gao Xu for saving her life; she just knew in her heart that he had no malice.

Later she felt that Gao Xu respected her, a cousin whom she had never met before.

If Ma Enhui was still the queen, there would be too many people who respect her, but when she fell to this point, even the palace maids and eunuchs had no respect for her; only Gao Xu even regarded her as the princess and the respect was not because of her power and fame.

Who wants to be despised?

Ma Enhui could not deceive her feelings, and she began to no longer hate this brother.

Especially after one meeting, Ma Enhui was excited and said that the prince (Wen Kui) was also her son... The implication was that she might know where Jianwen and his son went, but because the palms and backs of his hands were flesh, she was unwilling to betray Prince Wen Kui for Fengyang's Wen Kui.

Zhu Gaoxu immediately reminded her that if she didn't decide to confess, she would never admit that she knew whereabouts of Jianwen and his son.

From that time on, Ma Enhui actually trusted Gao Xu in her heart!

The legitimate son of King Yàn was loyal to his father in the Jingnan Campaign to overthrow the Jianwen court. He was simply a quick knife for Zhu Di, and he made many military achievements in conquering cities and lands. Ma Enhui was destroyed by King Yàn's party, and his family was destroyed, and he became in this situation. It can be said that Gao Xu was at least half responsible.

But things in the world are so subtle and strange. In the heart, Ma Enhui believed in this person so easily!

...And this time when we met, Gao Xu said that he was named King of Han and was going to Yunnan, so he came to say goodbye.

Because Ma Enhui asked him to take care of Wen Gui in Fengyang last time; so this time Gao Xu came and brought a strand of Wen Gui's hair cut by one year old and put it in his purse.

When Ma Enhui saw Wen Gui's hair, her mood collapsed.She cried sadly, trying hard to smell the breath of her own son, and was very worried about Moon Kyu.

At this moment, Ma Enhui felt that power or status was no longer important; she felt very fragile, only endless loneliness, helpless sorrow, and longing for her relatives.

She said that if there were no vassals and no war, it would be great that everyone would be in harmony.Maybe as a relative, she can still interact with Gao Xu.

The war that men are addicted to and frantically fight for power and profit are actually very cruel and useless things?

Gao Xu was already very kind to Ma Enhui. Although he came to approach her with a mission, he had never forced her. Ma Enhui even felt a little warmth from Gao Xu in the cold palace.

Ma Enhui is not a ruthless person, but she is now an almost worthless person. What can she use to repay Gao Xu?

It is absolutely impossible to betray Jianwen and his son. Her eldest son Wenkui is innocent!

Ma Enhui finally thought of something she knew, and she would not hurt Jianwen and Wenkui's lives if she said it.She said, I want to tell the King of Han a secret.

She whispered: Under the Taizu's spiritual throne in Fengxian Hall, there is an authentic tunnel arranged by Taizu, which can be connected outside the capital.

Emperor Jianwen left the palace from there, but now no one except the closest person of Emperor Jianwen, knows the tunnel; after Emperor Jianwen left, he saw that the authentic palace maid had been burned to death in Fengtian Palace.

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In Fengxian Hall, Zhu Gaoxu kowtowed a few times in front of the Taizu's spiritual throne, turned around and shouted outside the hall gate, while pushing open the heavy incense table of the Taizu's spiritual throne!Miao Jin and Wang Yin next to him both looked at him in surprise.

Zhu Gaoxu lay straight on the ground and punched the floor tiles twice.However, he did not hear the sound of empty sound, as if he was knocking on the solid land!

He suddenly became a little worried!If Ma Enhui lied to him back then, or what she said was a little bit off, such as the authenticity was not in Fengxian Hall... Then Zhu Gaoxu would definitely be in trouble today.

At such a moment, he couldn't feel at all calm, but he finally calmed down.

He stood up and picked up a copper lamp holder that placed the oil lamp. This lamp holder that Zhu Gaoxu had seen before was cast and riveted.

He placed the lamp holder horizontally on his knees, and then broke the riveted part of the upper head, and then walked back to the place where the Taizu's spiritual position was placed.

Zhu Gaoxu began to tinker with the brick pried on the ground, but the copper rod was not easy to use. He found another jade incense burner and gently tapped the top of the copper rod.

Miao Jin seemed to see the clues, and she hurriedly took off the lantern hanging in the door, then took the oil lamp on the lamp stand to light the wick inside.

At this time, people outside the hall might come in at any time, and time was very tight. Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly to Miao Jin.

Fortunately, there was no cement at this time, and the floor tiles were just inserted into the ground.Zhu Gaoxu worked hard for a while and finally pried open the floor tiles.There is no hole below!Only soil.

He thought for a moment, pressed his palm on the soil below, and immediately felt the subtle elasticity.

call!Zhu Gaoxu breathed a long sigh of relief, stood up, then shouted at the hall gate, and stepped on the mud with one foot!

After a crack, the soil fell down.Even though Zhu Gaoxu was ready, his body tilted and he almost fell down.

He cleaned the entrance of the cave and found that the entrance of the cave was very small and could just accommodate a person; but if it were a person like Prince Gao Chi, he would definitely not be able to go down.

The floor tiles covered on it are slightly larger than the hole, and there are strong points on the edges of the floor tiles, so even if the heavy incense table is placed on it, it cannot fall off.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and whispered: You two go down first!

Miaojin took the lantern and took the initiative to walk to the entrance of the cave. She first took the lantern and then placed the lantern on the ground.

Her hands grabbed the edge of the ground and the man went down carefully.

After a moment, Miao Jin stood below and raised her head and whispered: It’s not deep below!

Then Wang Yin also crawled into the cave.

Zhu Gaoxu first cleaned up the ground and wiped off the soil around the hole with his sleeve.While he was busy, he shouted and answered with Jin Zhong outside the hall.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu lay on his back on the ground so that he could reach out and move the incense table to restore it to its original position.

When half of his body reached into the hole, he shouted: You guys are trying to harm me!

Then he jumped out of the hole, reached out to pull the floor tiles outside, and dragged the bricks to cover the hole with his palm.He immediately followed the lights in the black hole and rushed up.

This tunnel is very small, and people can't stand up at all. They can only hunch over and walk forward half-squat. It was fine at first, but this posture will feel very tired after a while.

The tunnel is square in cross-section, and is made of stone slabs on the top, bottom, left and right, and the ground is very wet.The initial section of the road was a downward slope. The further the three of them walked, the deeper they went underground.

After walking for a while, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly realized that when Taizu wanted to build the imperial city, it was the foundation built by filling the lake.

In the past, this place was a lake called Yàn Que Lake.

Liu Bowen, the counselor of Taizu, was a Feng Shui master. He believed that this Yàn Que Lake was located in Longtou of Zhongshan, which was the best place in Jinling Feng Shui. If the Zhu family lived here, it could maintain the prosperity of at least three hundred generations. Unfortunately, this place is a lake, how can the palace be built?

This problem cannot stop Taizu's determination. He was prepared to continue for at least one thousand years. How can the feng shui of the imperial city be bad?

So Taizu sent 200,000 craftsmen from military households and began to fill the lake.

During the reign of Taizu, the foundation of the imperial city was built and a large number of drainage canals were built, including the Yang canal on the ground and the Yin canal buried underground.

The secret passage that Zhu Gaoxu was squatting and walking on now may be one of the underground drainage canals built.

But the function of this canal is not to drain water, but a secret passage arranged among many canals.

Perhaps Taizu thought too much about his descendants, hoping that one day if something happened to the palace, his descendants could still run away on the secret passage and go out to recruit soldiers to help the king.

Unexpectedly, Taizu's layout was really useful. Just four years after his death, his grandson ran away on this secret passage.A few years later, another grandson Zhu Gaoxu also ran away on this secret passage.

The three of them walked downhill, stepped on the accumulated water and entered a flat and straight canal.

The surrounding stones were very wet, and the moist water gathered into water droplets, which dripped into Zhu Gaoxu's neck from time to time, making it a bit cold and harsh.

My half-squatted legs have begun to become sore and weak, and my breathing is not smooth, and I feel very stuffy and depressing.The silent darkness filled the sound of their heavy and deep breathing.

I don’t know how long I walked, but the flat road reached the end, and the slope in front became very steep, the slope upward.

However, stone steps were actually built on the slope. It seems that this secret passage was indeed for people to walk on since its construction, not for drainage.

Zhu Gaoxu walked uphill and heard a subtle sound of running water, but his vision was unclear and he could not see where the accumulated water in the tunnel was flowing.

He walked up the stone steps and said: Miaojin, give me the lantern, I will walk in the middle, and I will have better physical strength.

Miao Jin handed over the lantern as he spoke, and Zhu Gaoxu moved forward.

Then Miaojin began to climb up the stone steps with her hands and feet. At this time, she should understand what Zhu Gaoxu meant to say that he was physically better.