Fourteen years passed in a flash.

The Ming Dynasty was too big, so big that the people far away from the empire’s hinterland didn’t know that the emperor had changed.

The impact of the Jingnan Campaign was ultimately limited to the Central Plains, which was the distance from Beijing to Nanjing. The provinces in Jiangnan, the taxation area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, were not greatly affected.

The war-torn places gradually emerged from influence due to the governance of the court. When the Ming Dynasty emerged from the civil strife, the neighbors lived in dire straits again.

as always.

In the eighth year of Yongle, Zhu Di began his first northern expedition.

In the eleventh year of Yongle, Zhu Di made his second northern expedition to the desert.

Both northern expeditions were won, but it was not small, and the treasury could not be sustained. If it weren't for Zhu Gaochi, who had been the crown prince in recent years, I would have probably been bankrupt in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Di's intention to fight in the north has never stopped. Perhaps, since he became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the north has always been what he needed to do. But it is true, even at the end of his life, on the road to the north...

The court was very busy every day. The big men could make the land of a state and a prefecture tremble with just one word, and also make the people in the place sing praises.

The lives of the people are still living like flowing water. As long as the Ming Dynasty flag on the top of the city has not fallen, no one will sigh at the desolation of the world.

On the banks of the Qinhuai River, even during the Jingnan Campaign, the heart-wrenching singing sounds never stopped, let alone the peaceful and prosperous era now.

The singer's voice was louder, the dancer's waist was softer, and the prostitute's head was lower.

Even if Grandpa Tian comes, he has to give him a piece of silver first before he can enter that hazy and gentle country.

It took fourteen years for Nanjing City to turn the beacon into a whisper of Yingying.

Next to the west gate of the imperial city, a small door that usually accommodates the servants in the palace enter and exit quietly opened up a gap. Two figures slid out from the inside and out, and in an instant they mixed into the crowd of people in the imperial city.

"Can you not take your subordinates next time?" A man wearing a long knife muttered in a low voice in the crowd.

Zhu Zhanji smiled and turned to look at Zhang Tian: "Who made us get close to each other? What good things are there? Don't you all think of you."

Just now, they were Zhu Zhanji and the other two. Zhang Tian was the guard who blocked Zhu Zhanji's arrows outside Nanjing. Now, as Zhang Shi said back then, he has always been by Zhu Zhanji as his personal guard.

Zhang Tian's face looked even more ugly. After breathing a few times, he said, "Taisun, did you say that there was a good thing? But every time you go back to the palace, your subordinates will be scolded by His Majesty. He may not say that when he goes back this time, His Majesty will chop his subordinates' head..."

Zhu Zhanji curled his lips: "Don't worry! Grandpa won't chop your head, and in the end he will punish you for one year's salary."

"That's my wife..."

Zhu Zhanji glared: "Look at the palace, which guard's wife is so much as 1,000 taels! Zhang Tian, ​​do you want to marry a hundred wives?"

Zhang Tianhan smiled: "Who is better to let me be? I have to strive for one year without a duplicate!"

"Bah! Vulgar!" Zhu Zhanji spat viciously and looked at Zhang Tian with disgust: "It's so breathless... Why do we have such an inappropriate thing in our family? Fortunately, I'm full of righteousness and have not been ruined by you in recent years!"

Zhang Tian's face was strange, his eyes and nose were almost twisted together: "Master, I'm here..."

Before Zhu Zhanji could react, he heard a familiar voice coming from behind him.

"Oh, who is this? I asked why when I woke up early, I saw the magpies outside the house screaming. It turned out that Mr. Zhu was coming!"

Under Zhang Tian's gaze, Zhu Zhanji slowly turned his face.

"Young Master Zhu, you haven't come for a while. If you don't say that old woman, I miss you anymore. Even the flower and the Cui'er miss you so much!"

However, the madam in her early thirties skillfully carried Zhu Zhanji's arm.

Zhu Zhanji coughed dryly and straightened his back seriously: "Let's talk about it when you go in!"

"Okay! Let's talk about it when you go in, let's talk about it when you go in!"

Zhu Zhanji skillfully pinched the madam: "Where to go?"

The madam exclaimed, her eyebrows and eyes were filled with water: "I am so old that I can't stand your troubles. The girls in the building are young, so you can make a lot of troubles!"

The two of them flirted and walked into the Cuichun Building in such a flirting manner.

Zhang Tian, ​​who was following behind, rolled his eyes. Who said he was a serious person? Who said he was righteous?

I'm gonna be!

After entering the building, Zhu Zhanji went up to the top floor, picked a private room facing the Qinhuai River, and sat down calmly.

The madam was covered in eyebrows and eyes: "Young Master Zhu has been here so long ago, but who is the dead girl you are thinking about?"

"Do you still need to choose time to visit the yard?" Zhu Zhanji asked back, "Is it because I haven't come in half a month, and your business has changed its business hours?"

The madam was stunned and smiled dryly: "Then there is no time to choose... There is no time to change, no time to change... The young master will come whenever he wants!"

Zhu Zhanji waved his hand: "Drinking today, just call two girls to come up!"

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji had no intention of making fun of him, the madam immediately left for arranging matters.

Zhu Zhanji pointed to the position in front of him: "Sit down, there will be no outsiders coming today."

Zhang Tian did not refuse, put the long knife in his hand at his feet, and sat straight opposite Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhang Tian, ​​and a harsh smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Ask you, the water flows long and the waves are swaying? Which of these two idioms do you like the most?"

"Fast and long flow?"

"The waves hit the shore?"

Zhang Tian was thinking about his wife, but when he heard Zhu Zhanji suddenly ask, he was stunned and confused.

Zhang Tian seemed to understand but he shook his head and said, "Of course, he chose to beat the shore, so that he could appear to be a man!"

“Vulgar!”

Zhu Zhanji spat again, feeling more and more disgusted with Zhang Tian: "You are just a rough man. After being with me for so many years, why haven't you seen your progress?"

"Taisun, you are wise and powerful, and your subordinates have improved a lot with you!"

"Bah!" Zhu Zhanji pointed at Zhang Tian's nose: "Why did the maid in the Zhao Palace last month be sunk into the pond?"

Zhang Tian looked aggrieved: "I betrayed myself for you, Grandson..."

Zhu Zhanji raised his hand to cover his face: "I will send you to the northern border tomorrow and let you eat sand!"

Zhang Tianyixi: "Okay! I thanked the grandson first! But I have long heard that the grassland is big, white and upturned..."

A few drops of water fell on the table.

Zhu Zhanji became more and more disgusted: "Can you restrain yourself? I'm still the grandson!"

Zhang Tian was puzzled: "I am not drooling."

Zhu Zhanji was stunned and turned to look at the window facing the Qinhuai River.
Chapter completed!