Zhu Di was in the yard and heard Yao Guangxiao's voice, his face flashed with a hint of complexity, and said, "Come in."

Outside the courtyard gate, a monk in black walked in.

Seeing Yao Guangxiao, Zhu Di couldn't help but recall the scene in the fifteenth year of Hongwu.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Empress Ma died of illness. Zhu Yuanzhang selected high monks from the people to accompany the kings to recite scriptures and pray for blessings.

At that time, Yao Guangxiao was recommended by the monk Zuo Shan Shizong of the Monk Lusi and successfully served Zhu Di.

"Why did you come to me specifically?" Zhu Di asked with some interest at the time.

"I have a great gift for you." Yao Guangxiao replied.

"What can you give me to me, a monk?" Zhu Di said with a smile, not caring too much. He has no shortage of gold, silver and treasures. As the King of Yan, he is considered to be inferior to one person and above ten thousand people.

"If Your Highness chooses me, I will give you a white hat to Your Highness in the future." Yao Guangxiao said quietly.

When Zhu Di heard this, he was shocked and his face changed drastically, and he wanted to get angry.

However, when facing Yao Guangxiao's deep eyes, all the words seemed to be stuck in his throat.

Finally, he just whispered: "Follow me."

Yao Guangxiao was not a serious monk. His family practiced medical treatment for generations. However, when he was fourteen years old, he was ordained at Miaozhi Temple in Suzhou, and his Dharma name was Daoyan.

Later, he became a Taoist priest Xi Yingzhen as his teacher, learning Yin-Yang numerology, and was also proficient in Confucianism.

It has a good relationship with the academic leaders of various Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in the early Ming Dynasty.

In the eighth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered monks who were proficient in Confucianism to take the exam at the Ministry of Rites. Yao Guangxiao was summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang to the capital as a Confucian monk. Unfortunately, he did not wait to become a monk official in the end and just gave him a monk robes.

This made Yao Guangxiao very disappointed.

Through analysis of many princes, Yao Guangxiao finally chose Zhu Di, and Zhu Di's reaction did not disappoint him.

After Zhu Di returned to Peiping, he appointed Yao Guangxiao as the presidency of Qingshou Temple.

At this time, Yao Guangxiao was almost in his destiny. This monk who should have chanted scriptures in the temple was still very active even at this age.

His main activity area every day is not in the temple, but in the Yanwang Mansion.

It has been ten years since he followed Zhu Di to Peiping. Yao Guangxiao will be in his seventies in a few years.

Yao Guangxiao: Do ​​you know how I came through these ten years?

For ten years, Yao Guangxiao had only done one thing, and kept persuading Zhu Di to rebel every day.

Although Zhu Di ignored him, he never forbidden him from entering and leaving the palace, which shows his thoughts.

Today, Yao Guangxiao knew that he had been waiting for a long time and finally came.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty has appointed the grandson." Yao Guangxiao said softly, but the excitement in his tone was extremely obvious.

He felt that his ambitions had a chance to realize them.

All of this is in his calculations and guesses.

"So what?" Zhu Di said lightly, as if he had never cared about this matter at all.

Yao Guangxiao's mouth curled up slightly. After ten years of being together, how could he not know what His Highness Yan's thoughts?

"Your Highness, we should have prepared a long time ago. It is said that his Majesty was a little ill and fainted in the imperial study and woke up the next day."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Di asked with a worried expression: "How is the father's health? Is it still safe."

Yao Guangxiao: XXX, it’s only us in the middle of the night. What are you going to do here?

"Your Highness, don't worry. It is said that Your Majesty was unable to accept it for a while because of the death of the Queen of Xiping." Yao Guangxiao replied.

"Oh, Brother Mu, why did you go like this?"

Zhu Di sighed softly, as if he was a little sad for Mu Ying's death.

"Your Highness, look at this..." Yao Guangxiao asked tentatively.

"It's getting late, so it's time to go to bed. Master Daoyan, go back and rest first."

Zhu Di said with his voice calm down.

When Yao Guangxiao heard this, he was not disappointed, but his face showed a hint of joy.

If it were usual, the King of Yan would scold him, but now he remained silent, so he naturally understood the meaning.

Some things naturally have to be ahead.

For example, buying officials, winning over military generals, and cultivating trustworthy people are all things that need to be done at the moment.

............

A few days later,

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished his morning court, he had not seen him for a few days and missed his grandson more and more.

He casually told Zhu Yunwen a few words and asked him to follow Huang Zicheng to study, so he went out of the palace directly.

Zhu Yunwen looked at the back of Grandpa's hurriedly leaving, with a grievance on his face.

Huang Zicheng, who was accompanying Zhu Yunwen, also noticed something strange when he saw this scene.

Your Majesty seems to be a little distant to the grandson, which is obviously inconsistent with the normal circumstances.

Suddenly, Huang Zicheng felt a sense of urgency in his heart, and he only found a way to inquire about the situation.

...........

Today is the day when Ye Sheng, Jingning, goes to war. Of course, for small characters like Yuelu Timur, the farewell team will not be too high-profile.

A few simple old friends said goodbye. Lan Yu looked at it early, so he said to Cao Zhen, Hou Jingchuan, Zhang Yi, Hou of Heshou, and others who came here:

"Now in the morning, should I wait to go to Mr. Zhu's teahouse to have breakfast?"

“Very good, very good.”

Many generals agreed very much, so they naturally wanted to get closer to Zhu An.

If I hadn't been afraid of being suspicious of His Majesty, I would have wished I could run to the teahouse every day.

A group of five people boarded the carriage and got off near the teahouse.

They have noble identities and always have to go out. These five people are either Dukes or Bo Hou, and their formation is too big.

So at a certain distance, walk with you hand in hand.

"Duke Liang, let's see if those people are Jinyiwei." Although Wang Bi, the Marquis of Dingyuan, had a very sharp look, and when he was young, he was even given the title of King of Double Swords.

I suddenly saw the postures of several people at the entrance of the teahouse, and said to Lan Yu.

When several people heard this, they stopped immediately, and Lan Yu watched carefully.

After a while, Lan Yu's eyes shook and a big man walked out at the entrance of the teahouse.

"Jiang Yan, why is it him? He is His Majesty's personal bodyguard, how could he appear in the teahouse?"

Lan Yu said with some shock, and after that, he realized that his Majesty is now in the teahouse.

"Duke Liang, are we going yet?" Cao Zhen glanced carefully and asked Lan Yu.

Lan Yu shook his head and said, "If Your Majesty is there, it is extremely easy for us to misunderstand if we go."

Lan Yu looked around and happened to see the window of a second-floor private room in a teahouse, where she could see the entrance of Ping An Teahouse.

"Let's go there and wait."

.............

Zhu An heard the sound of stairs treading, and stood up to greet him. It turned out that the old man was here.

"Old man, the time is just right, and it's so on time every time." Zhu An said with a smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not buy it this time and pretended to be angry and said, "Good you, grandson, tell me, what else can you hide from us?"

"We really didn't expect that the snowflake salt, which has been famous in the Ming Dynasty in recent years, was actually done by you."
Chapter completed!