Daming: From the end of Hongwu

328 Chapter 326 - Going to Beijing and Zhen Shi

On the first day of October, it is advisable to travel, and this day is also the day that Zhen Wu and the others agreed to go to Beijing.

Outside the city, before dawn, many soldiers and horse-drawn carriages gathered, including people from the royal residence and family members of Jingnan heroes who went to Beijing. The number of people on the trip can definitely be regarded as mighty.

When the team really spread out, it stretched out for several miles, which was no less than a march. Fortunately, Zhen Wu was a general in charge of the army, so he was handy in arranging such things, and there would be no mistakes.

At the head of the team, Zhen Wu led the sergeants to guard the people in the palace and the family members of some important generals, followed by the carriages full of luggage, and each section of the team also had officers arranged by Zhen Wu Responsible for guarding, there are also cavalry around outside the team, as well as scouting horses running back and forth.

Zhu Gaochi in the carriage looked at Zhen Wu who was riding a horse outside, commanding the guards like his arms and fingers, with some flickering lights in his eyes. It made him a little envious, and he suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he had fantasized about becoming such a general, but unfortunately God didn't agree with him, and finally made him go another way.

Mrs. Zhang probably guessed what was on Zhu Gaochi's mind, she reached out her hand and put it on Zhu Gaochi's big hand, and shook it lightly. Zhu Gaochi smiled at Mrs. Zhang and didn't say anything. He had long been used to hiding his thoughts.

On the contrary, seeing Zhen Wu's appearance, Zhu Zhanji made a noise and wanted to ride a horse, but he was too young, so no matter how noisy he was, he was finally suppressed by Zhang.

Zhu Gaochi smiled and comforted Zhu Zhanji: "You are still young, how about I let your uncle teach you how to ride a horse and fight when you are a few years older?"

"Is my uncle very powerful?" Zhu Zhanji asked curiously with his small face up.

Zhu Gaochi nodded.

After Zhu Zhanji thought about it, he asked crisply: "The second uncle is better, or the eldest uncle is better?"

Zhu Gaochi smiled and said: "When your second uncle first entered the battlefield, he practiced with your uncle. Who do you think is the best?"

Zhu Zhanji suddenly became excited: "Then I will learn from my uncle, and I will become better than my second uncle."

These words made Mrs. Zhang smile. In her eyes, this was a sign of her son's ambition.

On the contrary, Zhu Gaochi frowned, and reprimanded him in a warm voice: "You talk nonsense again, and I asked you to learn martial arts from your uncle to fight. It's just to make you fight fiercely and compare yourself with others, let alone you and your second uncle. What's more, the family should live in harmony, your second uncle pinched your face before, just to tease you, you still remember it."

Zhu Zhanji let out a muffled 'oh', but he didn't take it seriously in his heart. He is young and forgets most things when he turns around, but he can't forget one thing, that is, the last time his second uncle returned to Beijing, Dressed in armor, he was majestic and arrogant, arguing with his father, as if he didn't take his father seriously at all.

He thinks his father is a little...

Anyway, after this incident, he thought that when he grows up, he must be more prestigious than his second uncle.

Zhu Gaochi didn't know that the little child had already started to think about it at this moment. He only felt that his words had an effect, and after thinking about it, he continued: "But your uncle is indeed a very capable person, and he has the opportunity to follow your uncle. If you are studying, you must get along well with Sanyue, study hard, and in the future, it will always benefit you for the rest of your life."

"I see." Zhu Zhanji said sullenly.

At this time, Mrs. Zhang wondered and asked: "Hasn't my brother-in-law named Xiao Sanyue yet? This Xiao Sanyue will be five years old in a blink of an eye."

"got it."

Zhu Gaochi said: "It was just decided a few days ago, but my elder sister doesn't seem to like the name very much."

"What's your name?" Mrs. Zhang became curious.

After Zhu Gaochi laughed twice, his face suddenly became serious. He turned his head and raised the curtain to glance at Zhen Wu in the distance, and said softly: "Zhen Pobei, and the name of the second son in the future is also the same. Once the sex is taken, it is called Zhen Dingnan."

Break the north and settle the south.

These two names seemed to have laid out all Zhen Wu's ambitions for this world.

Mrs. Zhang chewed a few sentences in her mouth, and sighed: "Brother-in-law has high hopes for Sanyue, but didn't they want to give the child a big character at the beginning? Why did they choose two characters."

Since ancient times, single characters are expensive and double characters are cheap. In the Han Dynasty, it can be said that only inferior people would call names with double characters. However, the Hu and Han people in the north gradually blended. However, after a great Song Dynasty, the wind showed signs of blowing again.

Many aristocratic families disdain to use double characters, but ordinary people often name their children with double characters.

Of course, this is also because most of the aristocratic families are scholars, so they will use another name to refer to them.

Ordinary people do not have this condition, and the two words are better for ranking and addressing.

Zhu Gaochi snorted coldly and said: "I think the double characters are quite good. Didn't the emperor's grandfather just set the single characters for his father and his generation, and then all changed back to the double characters. Our ancestors were ordinary people, it's nothing It is taboo, and there is no need to learn those rules."

"That's true." Zhang said.

While they were chatting, the team was slowly advancing. Three days later, they arrived at Hejian Mansion, and planned to take a rest here.

And just after the team was arranged properly, Zhen Wu found Zhu Gaochi.

As soon as Zhu Gaochi saw Zhen Wu, he knew why Zhen Wu was here, and asked, "Brother-in-law is leaving now? Don't you plan to let aunt and the others rest for a while?"

They had discussed before that when the team arrived in Hejian, Zhen Wu would take the members of the Zhen family to Wuji, and Zhu Gaochi would need to replace Zhen Wu and be responsible for the safety and operation of the team.

Zhen Wu nodded and said: "If you don't rest, you can come back sooner if you go early. If everything goes well, you will be able to catch up with you in five or six days."

"That's fine. If that's the case, I won't say anything more. As for this, brother-in-law, don't worry, I will definitely take care of it, and there will be no mistakes."

Zhen Wu nodded, he still believed in Zhu Gaochi, this guy is definitely the kind of person whose ability is higher than expected, completely different from Zhu Gaoxu.

Afterwards, Zhen Wu went to inform Zhang Yuqing and others to turn to Wuji.

This time, when going to Wuji, Erxian and other married people, Zhen Wu didn't plan to call them, but Xiaoliu Xiaoqi, Zhang Yuqing, Zhu Yuying, Sanyue, and Tang's Zhen family all needed to go.

At this time, Xiao Liu had already started playing with a group of little ones. She was wearing the lady's armor given to her by Zhen Wu, tied a ponytail, and happily enjoyed the compliments of a group of little ones.

Among them, in March, Zhu Zhanji and Zhang Ruolin were all in it, and their aunts and aunts were all so happy.

After being flattered by the group of little ones, Xiao Liu turned several somersaults in succession, causing the group of little ones to exclaim incessantly.

Not to mention, against the backdrop of this armor, and with his not-short height, Xiao Liu is really heroic and has a good temperament.

After Zhen Wu found her, he slapped her on the back of the head angrily, causing her to fall from the status of the king of children to a spoiled girl in an instant.

"You are really arrogant, and you don't think the armor is too heavy."

"I want you to take care of it." Xiao Liu bared his teeth and claws, very dissatisfied with Zhen Wu's behavior of not saving her face.

"You can pull it down, I don't care about you, you have to want to go to heaven."

Zhen Wu was still merciless, and turned around to look for him after speaking, but he didn't see Xiao Qi among the group of little ones, so he asked again: "Where is Xiao Qi? Why isn't he with you?"

"I don't like to take him to play, so I asked him to go to Brother Sanbao." Xiao Liu rolled his eyes, straightened his back and said.

Zhen Wu saw through Xiao Liu's little thoughts at a glance, rolled his eyes and pierced through: "You don't like to play with Xiao Qi, it's because you can't fool Xiao Qi, you just fool around with these things every day. Little carrot head."

"Zhen Dawu..." Xiao Liu became anxious.

"I'm still Zhen Liude."

Zhen Wu didn't care too much, he waved his hand annoyedly and said: "It's alright, alright, go and clean up, we'll go to Wuji's hometown right now, didn't you expect it before."

Xiao Liuben planned to fight Zhen Wu for a round, but when he heard what Zhen Wu said, his attention was immediately diverted to one side.

"Going right now?"

"Yes, go now."

Xiao Liu grinned, the aura of the round with Zhen Wu just now dissipated completely, and the eyes of joy disappeared: "Well, I will clean up now." After finishing speaking, she turned around excitedly and left tidy up.

Zhen Wu said unhappily: "You should bring Sanyue with you, I have to call Xiaoqi."

Xiao Liu was taken aback, turned around and looked at Zhen Wu scratching his head and smiled foolishly, then ran over, bent down to pick up San Yue, and ran away again.

This silly girl.

Zhen Wu shook his head helplessly.

Then he wiped Xiao Liu's butt, beckoned to serve Zhu Zhanji and the others' maids, and asked them to take Zhu Zhanji and the others to find their own mothers before calling Xiao Qi.

When Zhen Wuti came back with Xiao Qi, Zhang Yuqing and the others had already packed up.

With a wave of Zhen Wu's hand, the group of people headed towards Wuji.

……

Wuji is the headquarters of the Zhen clan, and the Zhen clan is spread all over Wuji, and the Zhen clan mainly lives in five places.

The county seat is the main activity area of ​​the main family.

Zhen Village is where the ancestral tomb of the Zhen family is located.

The other three are descended from three relatively large side branches, namely East Zhenjiazhuang, Beizhenjiazhuang and Xizhenjiazhuang.

The heads of these five places are the five elders of the Zhen clan. These five not only control some public resources in the clan, but are also responsible for mediating and managing the Zhen clan in the Wuji realm.

It's just that the head of the main line of the family and the patriarch of the Zhen family, Mrs. Zhen, is dead. At the beginning, Zhen Wu was regarded as a traitor, and the other four elders of the Zhen family divided up the rights of the main line. And money, even the Zhongshan Hall, which has been passed down for a long time, was robbed.

Zhen Wu heard from the Tang family that the Zhen family has a lot of properties in Wuji, such as fur shops, cloth shops, grain shops, medicinal materials, etc., which can be said to be all for making money. It also occupies a large share of public property.

This made Zhen Wu a little speechless after knowing this.

If the Zhen family is compared to a company, the Zhen family is completely a giant entrenched in Wuji, no wonder it is always heard that new officials have to deal with the local gentry when they take office.

Can this **** deal with the relationship?

And Wuji is only a small county. As for the Zhen family, let alone in the whole country, I am afraid that it may not be able to rank in the forefront in Zhending Mansion. Family terror.

If these families are determined to cause trouble for the court, they are not terrible individually, but if they are united, they are really a terrifying force.

Along the way, Zhen Wu thought about how to reduce these forces without causing turmoil, but when he arrived at Zhending Mansion, he still had only a vague concept in his mind.

He shook his head, and temporarily put these problems behind him, let's settle his family affairs first before talking about other things.

It was dark now.

They arrived at Zhending Mansion at night, after Zhen Wu asked to open the city gate, they rested in Zhending Mansion for one night, and went on the road again towards Wuji early the next morning.

When they arrived at Wuji County, to Zhen Wu's surprise, there was a group of people waiting to welcome them in front of the city gate.

A sneer appeared on the corner of Zhen Wu's mouth.

It's okay, not incurable.

At least the news is well-informed.

Xiao Liu rode beside Zhen Wu and asked curiously, "Brother, are those people waiting for us?"

Zhen Wu nodded and said, "Apologize."

After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu lightly clamped the horse's belly, and the horse walked slowly towards the city gate, while the group of waiting people saw this and hurried up to meet it.

One of the people dressed as a county magistrate led the group of people to kneel down, and then he said, "Your Majesty, Jia Wen, welcome Zhao Guogong."

Zhen Wu ignored him, his eyes scanned the group of kneeling people indifferently, and raised his eyebrows: "Who are the elders of my Zhen family? Raise your head and let me see."

The four old men in the crowd raised their heads in panic. They looked at Zhen Wu, and with just one glance, they felt that Zhen Wu's eyes were as sharp as knives.

Then, in October, cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

Zhen Wu snorted softly, and then said expressionlessly: "You guys kneel until the afternoon, think about how to explain to me for a while, and then go to the mansion to talk. As for the others, get up."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhao Guo." Jia Wen took the lead in thanking him, and at the same time Jia Wen couldn't help but feel relieved. He was also in the Zhen Mansion when Old Master Zhen committed suicide, but he couldn't help himself at that time, and there was no other way to do it.

He was really afraid that Zhen Wu would take him along without reason, regardless of the reason, and end all these people in one go.

As a mere county magistrate, he couldn't resist Zhen Wu at all.

In fact, Zhen Wu did not intend to start a massacre. After all, it was Zhu Yunqi's order at that time. The old Mrs. Zhen who Cheng Ji brought people to kill had nothing to do with these people. What Zhen Wu hated was just their villainous style. .

Of course, he doesn't plan to kill, but that doesn't mean he won't kill people.

Jia Wen didn't know what Zhen Wu was thinking, he was worried in his heart, and with a flattering smile on his face, he looked up at Zhen Wu and said, "Master Guo, my servant has prepared drinks in the city, and the time is almost noon. , why don't we go eat first? Presumably the young master and Mrs. Tai must be hungry too."

Zhen Wu glanced sideways at Jia Wen, but didn't say anything, but Jia Wen was so frightened that he didn't dare to say another word, for fear of making Zhen Wu angry if he said something wrong.

Afterwards, Zhen Wu withdrew his gaze and ignored the group of people. He led Zhang Yuqing, Tang Shi and the others slowly towards the city, while Jia Wen and the others followed cautiously.

As for the clan elders and their direct descendants, they watched Zhen Wu and his group enter the city with ugly and terrified faces. After Zhen Wu and the others entered the city, they breathed a sigh of relief and dared to take a deep breath.

Now there is only regret left in their hearts.

Knowing why today is the beginning.

But who would have thought that a rebel at the beginning would become the Duke of the state, and who would have thought that King Yan, who was in a city, would break into the capital and become the emperor.

Who would have believed this matter a few years ago, I am afraid that even if someone told them the ending, they would sneer and slap that person.

At this time, among the direct descendants of these clan elders, there were a few young descendants who couldn't help looking at the clan elders with resentment. Ask their elders why they did that in the first place, if they hadn't done that, if they were on the side of the main line of the Zhen family, then now they have a patriarch, a cousin or a cousin...

What is this concept.

They can take advantage of the situation to walk out of Wuji, not to mention Zhending Mansion, even the whole Daming, they still dare to walk sideways.

But these dreams are just dreams after all.

In fact, they offended the Duke instead.

Finally, one person couldn't help but said: "Grandpa, why were you so confused at the beginning, but now you have caused us misery."

One person opened his mouth, and other complaining voices sounded continuously.

"Yeah, Dad, why didn't you discuss it with us at the beginning, we are all from the Zhen family, why are we in such a rush, why did you help others to kill the old patriarch?"

"Speaking of which, the old patriarch hugged me when I was young. If I had known that you were going to force the old patriarch to death, I would have stopped you."

……

The nagging complaints continued.

A clan elder couldn't help but said: "Fart, how can we stop the imperial court's order back then? You don't want to be an afterthought here, our old ones are not dead yet, it's not your turn to be the masters of the house."

Another clan elder said: "This is such a critical moment. What's wrong with the children saying a few words? It was because your words were too fierce back then that old brother committed suicide in anger. Otherwise, it wouldn't have happened."

"Xizhuang, what do you mean? Now you are going to shirk responsibility with me?"

"What am I shirking, am I wrong? Don't you guys from Dongzhuang just keep disobeying the master?"

"You fucking fart, no matter how disobedient you are, the ones in your Xizhuang are no worse than ours in Dongzhuang."

……

A group of people immediately quarreled, blowing their beards and staring when they were heated, it was very lively.

And this scene happened more than once when they learned that Zhen Wu had become the Duke of the state. They thought of various ways to deal with it, and even wanted to contact the Zhen family officials to make peace, or send money to find a protective umbrella. But now who dares to offend Zhen Wu?

Even if someone dared to offend Zhen Wu, it was not within their reach.

Not only that, although Daming is big, but he offended a Duke, they have nowhere to run, and now they can only pray for Zhen Wu's forgiveness.

But this feeling of life and death is really uncomfortable.

……

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