Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 138 Recruiting a relative?go sign up
Just as Zhu Qi thought, he just stayed in Chengdu for two more days before Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict arrived.

It is said that the rider who delivered the letter changed three people on the road, and five horses were paralyzed during the whole run, and the imperial edict was delivered within five days.

This is really the standard [-]-mile rush.

The contents of the imperial decree were not complicated. Firstly, Zhu Qi was praised for his wit and bravery, and he was summoned to return to court as soon as possible.

On the other hand, the appointment of Xu Da to lead the plateau war must stop Bei Yuan's counterattack.

Zhu Qi felt relieved when he saw this. It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang still has a clear mind.

He didn't entrust such an important battle to his little boy, but let the experienced veteran Xu Da handle it.

After all, Wang Baobao's counterattack was predictable, but I don't know whether the fighters will happen this year or the tenth year of Hongwu next year.

But in any case, the intensity of the battle is predictable.

But now is not the best time to start, because Zhu Qi still has to follow Bai Tang Yu'er back home.

Bai Tang Yuer's hometown is in Bashu. Although it is Bashu, it is already remote and belongs to the land of Nanman.

At least as the official road goes, it disappears.

The official road is still a trivial matter, after all, there are still paths to walk.

It's just that on the way Zhu Qilu told Bai Tang Yu'er that after arriving at his hometown, he must not be called the King of Liao of the Ming Dynasty.

Bai Tang Yu'er was naturally very puzzled, and Zhu Qi also explained that he was afraid that his status would frighten your family, so it would be self-defeating if he refused to agree to the marriage.

The reason was very clumsy, and Zhu Qi did not tell the truth.

The main reason is that today's leaders of ethnic minorities are all local emperors, and that is a high degree of autonomy.

For others, it may be a great thing to marry their daughter into the royal family, but for the chieftains of these ethnic minorities, it may not be so.

The royal family has many affairs, so who knows what troubles will arise, not to mention that each of these chieftains hopes to stay as far away from the central court as possible. Naturally, they are very resistant to marriage with the royal family.

So, three days later...

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Chongshanzhai, when I heard the name, I thought it was a place where bandits gathered.

But in fact, it is the place where Bashu Li people gather.

Although it is called a village, it is actually a fairly large town built on a high hill.

On the highlands of the town, a huge round castle was built with earth and rocks, which looks similar to western castles, but it is definitely not a western castle.

It is a building with ethnic and local characteristics, a round earthen castle, also known as a round castle.

Such a round fort has strong defenses, can store food, and even farm by itself. As long as a few more wells are drilled, it will not be a problem to keep it for a lifetime.

If you don't have 5000 people, or have heavy siege equipment, you can't take it down.

However, as firearms developed more and more, the defense of the city wall was actually weakened more and more.

At least the firearms and cannons of the Hongwu period, if they were bombarded for a few more days, they would be able to collapse this.

Zhu Qi looked at the round castle in the distance, but he didn't expect that he was thinking about how to capture him in his heart.

Even how to arrange troops, how many troops, how much logistics, how to arrange supplies, etc., all popped up in my mind.

Zhu Qi himself was taken aback. It seems that the ancient saying, practice makes perfect, is really not a lie.

After so many years of nurturing as a military novice, Zhu Qi was a little surprised that he could still reflexively reveal these military professional knowledge and show his professionalism.

Bai Tang Yu'er looked at the round castle in the distance, and the towns surrounding the round castle, and happily said to Zhu Qi:

"Your Highness, that's my home. How about it? It's beautiful."

What kind of scene has Zhu Qin not seen before?This barren mountain and wild forest has hardly undergone any development, but the wildness is there, and the beauty is not so good.

But if you really want to evaluate it honestly, even if it’s not a twitch in your head?

Zhu Qi was naturally full of praise, and he didn't even forget a poem by Li Bai.

Unexpectedly, Bai Tang Yu'er blushed and asked:
"Is this a poem you wrote? It sounds very nice."

Good guy, Zhu Qi can't fix it anymore. I don't know if it's serious or deliberately joking.

Since Zhu Qi wanted to conceal his identity, it was naturally impossible for him to go to Chongshanzhai swaggeringly as a prince.

Instead, the alias was once again Tang Qi, the identity of the young master of Tangjiabao.

But because Bai Tang Yuer's father is from the Tang family in Bashu, he definitely can't claim to be the Tangjiabao in Bashu. We have already greeted each other, we are now from Yingtianfu, Tangjiabao!

Bai Tang Yu'er led the crowd down the mountain, and walked towards Chongshan village at the foot of the mountain.

Only halfway through, I saw some women and girls picking mushrooms together in the mountains.

Those women were quite nervous and guarded when they found out that an outsider was coming, but when they saw that Bai Tang Yu'er was leading the battle, the women immediately let down their guard and greeted each other happily. come up.

"Yu'er! Why are you back?"

"Didn't you go to Chengdu with your father?"

"I heard that I went to learn art from a teacher. Is it successful? What have you learned?"

Those women gathered around one by one and chattered and asked, especially those girls, who were the most kind to Bai Tang Yuer.

They asked a lot of questions, and Bai Tang Yu'er was dizzy, but before she could answer, those girls looked at Zhu Qi and the others beside her.

Everyone's eyes were naturally attracted by Zhu Qi, Zhu Qi is a handsome guy, which woman doesn't like looking at handsome guys?
Zhu Qina was used to the infatuated gazes of girls, there was no way for him to look handsome, this kind of pain was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

Seeing that the girls were all looking at him, Zhu Qi naturally wouldn't let the girls watch him. He cupped his hands and said with a smile:

"Next Tang Qi, from Yingtian Mansion Tangjiabao Shaobao Master, I have met all my sisters and sisters."

After Zhu Qi greeted politely, those girls immediately began to ask around Zhu Qi excitedly.

"There is also a round castle like ours in the Central Plains?"

"The Tang surname is very common in Bashu. I didn't expect Yingtian Mansion to do the same."

"Young master is so handsome!"

"How old is the son?"

The girls of the Li nationality were quite open to asking Zhu Qi about things, and the girls of the Li nationality were different from the girls of the Han nationality.

But Bai Tang Yu'er came over and waved her hands continuously, waving away all the girls around Zhu Qi, and then said:
"Stop everything, stop everything, you don't have to think about this son, he is the person my aunt has her eyes on!"

Bai Tang Yu'er declared her sovereignty unceremoniously, even Gao Jin, Xu Zengshou, Li Qi, Li Jinglong and Zhu Di who were beside her were dumbfounded.

When the girls heard Bai Tang Yu'er say this, they all showed extremely regretful expressions, and could only leave Zhu Qi's side one after another.

But they soon saw Zhu Di beside him.

Zhu Di is Zhu Qi's younger brother, and the two of them naturally look alike. Of course, it is also true that Zhu Di is not as good-looking as Zhu Qi.

But Zhu Disheng is young, and he is also a prince. The kind of temperament he cultivated since childhood is not comparable to that of ordinary rich men.

A group of girls gathered around again, pulled Zhu Di and started asking questions:

"Young Master and Young Master Tang Qi look very similar, are they from the same family?"

"What's the son's name?"

"Is the young master also from Tangjiabao?"

Zhu Di is not as experienced as Zhu Qi. He is surrounded by so many girls. Although the scene is similar to that in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, you know that it is okay to be close to the girls in Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

These girls are different. According to the official language, these are all good families. If Zhu Di dares to touch any of them, Zhu Yuanzhang will know about it, and it will be a big deal.

Don't think that the prince can do whatever he wants, among so many sons of Zhu Yuanzhang in history, there are really few who dare to be jerks.

Naturally, Zhu Di didn't have the guts to be a dude, so he froze in place all of a sudden, but it was Zhu Qi who reacted quickly and asked Bai Tang Yu'er to help her out.

Zhu Qi also introduced Zhu Di and others by the way. Zhu Di is his younger brother and he will hand over to Tang Ba directly.

For the rest of the people, all their names have not changed, but if they are just identities, they must not be the children of nobles, just say the retainers of the family.

It is also very in line with the actual situation.

Bai Tang Yu'er asked the girls to go about their own business, and she had to take Zhu Qi and others back to Chongshan Village to meet her mother, and tell her the good news that she had found Mr. Ruyi.

When everyone heard that Bai Tang Yu'er was going to take Zhu Qi and others back to Chongshan Village for this matter, their expressions became a little strange.

I heard one of the girls pulling Bai Tang Yuer and saying:

"Yu'er, you'd better not go back."

Bai Tang Yu'er was a little strange and asked:

"Don't go back? That's my home, why don't you go back?"

Another girl next to her said:

"You don't know? Your father is back."

Bai Tang Yu'er was taken aback for a moment, but she didn't expect that her father who had no family relationship would come over.

By the way, doesn't grandpa have a lot of opinions on daddy?What does it have to do with my father coming over and not being able to go back.

Zhu Qi said with a smile:

"Since my father-in-law is here, wouldn't it be better, I just go to see my father-in-law."

After Zhu Qi finished speaking, the girls next to him stopped him again, and then said:

"You don't know, and you don't know what that man said after he came. The village owner announced three months ago that he wanted to help Bai Tang Yu'er recruit virtuous Xu!"

"what?"

Bai Tang Yu'er was taken aback for a moment, and asked in disbelief:
"Grandpa wants to help me with martial arts competitions to recruit relatives?! I just disappeared three months ago!"

The girls looked at Bai Tang Yu'er with puzzled expressions:
"Missing?"

Bai Tang Yu'er remembered that both her mother and grandfather had entrusted her to listen to her father.

Not only was he disobedient, but he even sneaked out. If his grandfather and mother found out about this, he would inevitably be punished by then.

Bai Tang Yu'er hurriedly waved her hand and changed her words:
"It's nothing, nothing, but do you know why grandpa suddenly wanted to recruit me for a martial arts competition?"

The girls glanced at each other, shook their heads and said:
"It's not clear about this point, we are also surprised, why suddenly want to recruit relatives, but martial arts competition to recruit relatives, it is both civil and military competitions!"

Another girl followed suit:

"That's right, not only that, it's not just people from the same clan, even people from other clans, as long as they think they are good enough, they can come to participate!"

When Bai Tang Yu'er heard this, she couldn't help frowning. Wai Gong didn't like foreigners coming in. He always advocated intermarriage among his own clan. His sudden change of gender must have something to do with his father.

Could it be because they saw that they were so naughty and ran away from home, so they were angry and wanted to find someone to marry them?

Although Bai Tang Yu'er felt that there was a possibility, she wasn't too sure. Even if she was sure, so what, she had already arranged for marriage three months ago, maybe the winners would be chosen by now, right?
As soon as Bai Tang Yu'er couldn't think about it, she had to run away quickly.

She pulled Zhu Qi and was about to run away, but Zhu Qi stopped Bai Tang Yuer dumbfounded, and then asked the girls:
"May I ask, is this recruitment over?"

The girls shook their heads and said:

"No, the official start will start tomorrow. Before tomorrow, it will be the registration stage. As long as young talents above 25 and below 500 can register, but before registration, a deposit of [-] taels is required."

Good guy, when Zhu Qi heard about this condition, he directly included age and financial resources in it.

For the son of an ordinary family, there must be no way to get the 500 taels of silver as a deposit.

It seems this is coming for real.

Walk?This is of course a choice. If it was in the past, Zhu Qi might have taken Bai Tang Yu'er away.

But this marriage is not a child's play. It is of course the best to have the blessing of parents.

Zhu Qi also didn't like to marry Bai Tang Yu'er back home without knowing why, and in the end, her parents and relatives found out, and there was a grudge in her heart.

What's more, Zhu Qi thought it was a very good opportunity since the drama of recruiting relatives was played out.

A justifiable opportunity to marry Bai Tang Yu'er back home!

It also saves time to go back to see the future father-in-law and mother-in-law, and to find a way to conceal his identity, and explain why he concealed it later.

As long as I participate in this competition for recruiting relatives, after winning the competition, everything will be solved easily.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Qi made up his mind to participate in this competition.

He looked at Bai Tang Yu'er who looked anxious, and said with a smile:

"Yu'er, don't panic. I'm here for everything. We won't run away this time. I will also sign up for this competition. If I win the competition, I will marry you back home!"

Bai Tang Yu'er was taken aback, but the girls next to her made booing sounds one after another.

Zhu Qi waved his hand and said:

"Go, sign up."

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(Sorry, I was delayed by something today, so let’s make it even more explosive)

(End of this chapter)