Daming: You are really my eldest son

Chapter 19 Feng Sheng was shocked

Time always flies by in people's anxious mood.

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed, and it is the Ching Ming Festival, and Zhu Ji is also busy filling the graves of his adoptive parents and burning paper.

Zhu Ji has been busy planting crops these days.

He has no practical experience in his two lifetimes, so he can only rely on some memories received in his mind and the help of an old farmer he hired under the pretext of being sick, so he can plant a few acres of land in his family that have been deserted for the winter with well-cultivated seedlings.

On the eighth day of March, Zhu Ji, who had finally finished his busy farming season, stood on the field ridge, looking at the fruits of his labor for the past few days, and his empty heart was rarely satisfied.

Traveling through time for more than four months, Zhu Ji has seen limited people and experienced limited things.

In the years to come, although I have a few more books to accompany me, I am lonely and ignorant when I study alone without friends.Obscure classical Chinese, slow progress, a long time, no sense of gain and accomplishment.

For a young man like him who has been tempered from the fast-paced modern life, this is undoubtedly a kind of torture.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to be his father to make adjustments, Zhu Jizhen felt that he was no different from being in prison.

Although he also relied on external forces to plant crops on the few mu of land that his adoptive parents had worked so hard to earn, Zhu Ji always felt that he had finally accomplished something in this unfamiliar Daming.

Not vigorous, but enough for myself.

But what he didn't know was that in the Forbidden City today, there were two figures who could really make him great in this era.

Xu Da, Feng Sheng.

The two military commanders in the north, after receiving Zhu Yuanzhang's urgent order, took an official boat and went all the way south through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and arrived in Zhenjiang in just fifteen days.Then he drove his fast horse to Yingtian Mansion, and entered the palace directly as soon as he entered the city.

Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely happy when he learned that the two had arrived.

Taking the two of them directly to the imperial garden, and driving all the servants around them to a distance, Zhu Yuanzhang invited them to sit in a pavilion with exquisite scenery.

Empress Ma had been waiting for a long time in the pavilion, and the fine old wine was warmed on the small stove. Before entering the pavilion, the three of them could already smell the mellow taste.Xu Da, who had quit drinking for a long time in the army, couldn't control his glutton for a while, and cast his eyes on the stove a few more times.

Feng Sheng, on the other hand, was not as close as Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang after all, but he kept his eyes fixed on him rather formally.

The reactions of the two fell into Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. Looking at the two people with completely different attitudes, Zhu Yuanzhang was not as fussy as usual:
"All sit down."

One was open-minded and casual, while the other was cautious and restrained. After both of them were seated, they were horrified to find that Empress Ma was actually holding a jug and filling up all four wine glasses on the stone table.

Xu Da had enjoyed this kind of treatment before, and when he saw this, he just got up cheerfully and bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang, and then thanked Empress Ma very seriously.

Feng Sheng was not as casual as Xu Da.

He seemed to think of something in his heart. With sweat on his forehead, he got up and knelt down on the ground in an instant and said to Zhu Yuanzhang:
"Your Majesty, I deeply feel that I have little virtue and talent, and I can't afford to be a high-ranking officer in the army. This time when I return to Beijing, I have the intention of avoiding the virtuous way, and I hope Your Majesty will allow it."

Not only Xu Da was taken aback by this extreme reaction, but even Zhu Yuanzhang stopped the hand holding the wine glass in mid-air.The air seemed to stagnate for a moment, and then Zhu Yuanzhang poured the wine in the glass into his mouth with some amusement.

"Get up, it's cold on the ground."

Feng Sheng was both nervous and strange.

He had never seen Zhu Yuanzhang talk so well, especially after ascending the throne.

Today's abnormal behavior, if you say you don't panic, it's really a lie.Just now, he remembered the allusion of Song Taizu drinking wine and releasing military power.Zhu Yuanzhang called the two of them and asked Empress Ma to pour wine for them in person. Didn't that mean it?
Seeing Feng Sheng sit back timidly, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and shook his head:
"If we really want to release your military power, why call you back. Although some people have talked to us about Song Taizu in the past two months, they are just saying good things for you people and thinking about the future."

"After thinking about it, we really can't be those heartless and ungrateful people. In the future, we still have to rely on you. As long as you don't act recklessly, we won't criticize you anymore."

Feng Sheng's hanging heart dropped half, but he still hung up and down.

Xu Da, on the other hand, seemed to have nothing to do with him whatever Zhu Yuanzhang said. With a smile on his face, he took advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's attention to Feng Sheng and drank several cups happily.

Seeing that Feng Sheng's face was slightly relaxed, Zhu Yuanzhang continued:
"You are all the generals I rely on most, but I have called you back this time because there is an important matter that needs to be explained to you."

"Xu Da, I wonder if you still remember what happened in the winter of 13?"

Xu Da, who was about to sneak another drink, was stunned for a moment, and then he agreed in an unpredictable way:
"But we couldn't bear the intrigue of those marshals in Haozhou City back then, and the fact that 24 people ran away?"

This is the thing that impressed Xu Da the most, and it is also something that can be said in front of Feng Sheng.But obviously this was not the answer Zhu Yuanzhang wanted. He shook his head and reminded with a heavy expression:
"It's another one."

another one?
Feng Sheng was already a little dazed.

Xu Da also couldn't react for a while, but soon he remembered what happened back then, glanced at Feng Sheng, saw Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly, and immediately screamed in a low voice:

"Your Majesty said, could it be the one from back then, Eldest Young Master?"

Words like code words came out of the mouths of Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da one after another. Feng Sheng seemed to feel that he was going to be exposed to some great secret today.The sweat that had just disappeared suddenly came out again.

And Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't care less about comforting him, he just nodded in response: "That's right, I found him."

Xu Da's eyes widened instantly.

After all, he was a prime minister, and he instantly understood what kind of impact the sudden appearance of the eldest son would have on the court situation.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang shouldn't ask Li Shanchang and those literati for this kind of thing.Only the gang of rotten Confucians can keep making troubles about the crown prince, and these generals don't want to listen to Zhu Yuanzhang in the end.

With a somewhat tentative tone, Xu Da couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty wants to bring him back?"

"We know that there will be a lot of resistance in the court, but we don't plan to Yichu now. He is the auspicious gift of our old Zhu family from God. It's fine if we didn't know it before. Now that we know it, we can't let him continue. wandering outside."

"However, I came to you today for another matter."

"The girls in your family are all at the age of marriage, right?"

(End of this chapter)