Since July, several rains have been falling on and off the capital. Once the rain water is poured, the weather has become significantly colder and the autumn is getting stronger.

Zhu Gaoxu was summoned, dressed up and wore a red black gauze dragon suit, and then went to the palace to meet the emperor.

He walked all the way from You'anmen to the imperial city. Under the leadership of the eunuch, Zhu Gaoxu entered Ganqing Gate, then walked through a slanting corridor and came to the Dongguan Pavilion. Only then did he gradually realize that he was the only prince who came to meet the saint today.

When I walked past the partition, I saw that there was no one else in it except my father and two eunuchs.

"My son bows to my father, and my father will live forever!" Zhu Gaoxu said.

"No gifts, get up high." The emperor, wearing a blue five-clawed dragon robe, spoke very kindly.

Zhu Gaoxu said "Thank you Father" and then got up.

The emperor said, "Sit on the stool, we father and son talk."

Zhu Gaoxu thanked him again, and then sat down carefully next to him. After a while, the two eunuchs also left the partition. Zhu Gaoxu looked slightly and saw that the only two fathers and sons were left in this small house.

The emperor pondered for a moment and said, "Hao Xu has gone to the funeral of your fourth uncle at the beginning of the year?"

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment and nodded, "Go back to my father, I went there. After I went to the mourning hall to mourn and bow, I left without eating."

The emperor lowered his voice and said in a deep voice: "But there is a person who should go to mourn. He is Xu Zengshou's wife's brother-in-law, Musheng, the Queen of Xiping! I have seen the gift book of Xu Zengshou's family with my own eyes. Not only did Musheng not go to Beijing to mourn, but the whole family did not go alone, and he did not even give gifts."

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he was stunned for a while before echoing: "My son also thinks Mu Sheng really shouldn't be. No matter what, since his sister has married his fourth uncle, everyone is a relative."

"Well..." the emperor said, "During the 'Jingnan Battle', Xu Zengshou had repeatedly informed me of the military situation of Jianwen's army, and was killed by my nephew. Mu Sheng must have been heartbroken to Jianwen Dynasty and blamed Xu Zengshou for doing so too much!"

Zhu Gaoxu said in a tentative tone: "Jianwen has been defeated, why didn't Mu Sheng judge the situation and be loyal to his father? Or during the 'Jingnan Battle', Mu Sheng transferred the Yunnan soldiers to his father several times, so he was afraid?"

"I can't tell why now." The emperor frowned, "Hu Yi, the minister of the Ministry of Revenue, told me secretly that the descendants of Changxing Hou ran to Yunnan because they were afraid of being punished, but I didn't say that they would punish them. What did they run away? Hu Yi is further verifying that perhaps more old ministers and family members of the criminal ministers have also gone to Yunnan. That place is really a place of filth and filth!"

He glanced at Zhu Gaoxu and whispered: "The clues I got from Pu Qia, Jianwen himself may be in Yunnan!"

"Ah!" Zhu Gaoxu made a surprised expression.

...The father and son were silent for a long time, but the emperor obviously hadn't said anything. When Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, he thought about what his father wanted to say at this time, perhaps it was a bit difficult to say.

After all, the father’s promised to let Gao Xu be the crown prince when the father and son talked alone; at this moment, there was some similarity in the situation.

After a long time, Zhu Di finally spoke: "I have restored your seventeenth uncle's throne, and let him go back to Yunnan. However, King Min is not a member of our family after all, and I am not good at telling him many things. King Min and Mu Sheng had a deep old grudge, but it was not all good things. He was just focused on avenging his revenge, but instead ignored major events, regardless of right or wrong, and made the situation look like a pot of porridge..."

Gao Xu nodded only and said nothing.

In fact, when he mentioned Xu Zengshou's funeral just now, he said that Mu Sheng had not gone, and Gao Xu had guessed something. Now that he could use his toes to think about what his father meant!

Even though Gao Xu had no hope for the position of the prince, he was still a little angry and disappointed when he understood that his fiefdom was Yunnan!

Gao Xu had known for a long time that he could not take any promises seriously. Now it seems that this is true.

Yunnan was a place with good scenery in later generations, and Kunming was even more like spring city; but it was not so good in the Ming Dynasty. The Central Plains civilization had only entered Yunnan for twenty years, and it was not developed enough. The Han people were not crowded, and the road to go was far and difficult to walk. It was obviously not a good place.

...Zhu Di paused and finally said: "I want Gao Xu to go to Yunnan to be the king. Looking at what Mu Sheng means, it would be better if we can find Jianwen's whereabouts. Gao Xu is a close person. I will only be relieved if I leave this kind of thing to you."

Gao Xu didn't say anything for a long time, his face turned a little red.

When he looked up at his father, he saw his sincere expression on his face, and he was completely unchanged! When the emperor was a man who refused to say goodbye in person, pretended to forget it, and did it naturally, but he was indeed very thick-skinned.

"Your mother said, the prince asked your elder brother to do better, otherwise Gao Chi would not be able to handle himself." Zhu Di said earnestly, "Gao Xu blamed me?"

Gao Xu shook his head and said without hesitation: "My son really doesn't want to be the crown prince. But..."

At this moment, he thought a lot in his mind, most of which were very messy, including some thoughts about his father's mentality...

In the Ming Dynasty, there are countless cities in the world, why do countless cities have to be the place where birds do not shit in Yunnan? Perhaps the verbal reasons of the father are not completely fake, so that is considered one of the considerations; but Gao Xu believes that these reasons are far more than these reasons.

Successful people like the father can succeed because of countless wise and correct decisions. Therefore, after repeatedly verifying the results of their decisions, the father should be very confident. People who are confident and in power firmly believe in their own judgments and want to control everything! Including controlling a few sons and making them obedient.

Gao Xu has already acted very obedient, but people often unconsciously become more and more arrogant! Otherwise, if Gao Xu is not so obedient, his father would have to endure it as much as possible? Now, his father ordered him to go to Yunnan to further test him, how obedient he was?

Even Gao Xu did not resist Zhu Di's will, which would make Zhu Di's desire to control the overall situation more satisfying, would it make him very useful?

...Gao Xu felt that it would be beneficial to express his dissatisfaction and true emotions appropriately. Otherwise, if he was too tolerant, his father might be suspicious of him holding back his resentment.

So Gao Xu said, "But... why do I want to go to that place in Yunnan? Isn't it okay for Suzhou, Yangzhou, and Hangzhou!"

When Zhu Di heard the place names, he seemed to roll his eyes, but said kindly: "Gao Xu wants to share my worries. You go to Yunnan first. When the matter is done, will I change the place for you with an imperial edict?"

"What my father said seriously?" Gao Xu asked.

"Take it seriously! I am the emperor, can I still talk about it?" Zhu Di said seriously. His implication was that he would never admit his previous promises and regarded it as a joke because he was not the emperor at that time?

Gao Xu didn't say anything in a depressed mood.

Seeing this, Zhu Di said, "Gao Xu can leave Beijing again after a while. I will ask someone to build the palace in Yunnan to make it big and good. Find another place in the capital to build a palace and live when you return to Beijing."

"Thank you for your kindness." Gao Xu was still depressed. But he never let his father feel that the emperor's will was resisted.

Zhu Di continued, "Gao Xu will go to see your queen mother later. After you get married, your queen mother will be talking about Gao Sui's marriage and fall in love with Xu Zhang's daughter. You probably have time to see your third brother get married.

And you three and four sisters will marry Song Sheng’s son, which I decided.”

Gao Xu bowed and said, "My son received the order."

Zhu Di looked at Gao Xu for a while and said, "Your mother is in Kunning Palace. Go out of the East Warehouse and ask Zheng He to take you there."

Gao Xu stood up and bowed, "My son is leaving."

"Go." Zhu Di nodded slightly and watched Gao Xu walk past the partition.

Walking out of the Donghun Pavilion, Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and looked at the gray sky above the walls. Today, the rain didn't fall, but the sun was gone.

He obviously didn't feel happy at all when he said he wanted to be promoted to Prince.

But how unhappy he was, he really didn't. Even in the border area of ​​Yunnan, he was still a prince. How bad could he be with a transcendent status in the local area?

At most, he was a little disappointed, but he didn't expect to be one of the worst places. As the saying goes, there is no hope, there is no disappointment... It turned out that Gao Xu thought his father had not given him a crown prince, and he heard that his father would have some compensation mentality.

Obviously I was thinking too much.

"It will rain this day." Zheng He suddenly said in his voice.

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at him, nodded and said, "It seems to be, it's all clouds."

Zheng He clasped his fists and said, "I congratulate the prince in advance for being named King of Han."

"King of Han?" Zhu Gaoxu blurted out, looked at Zheng He again, and immediately understood the meaning of this sentence: the fiefdom and title were not decided today, and Zheng He had already known it in advance.

Zhu Gaoxu smiled: "It's okay. I became a prince from the prince, and I felt it was okay, but the fiefdom was a little farther away. In the future, if I wanted to go to Beijing to see my father and mother, it would be less convenient for my relatives and friends in the capital."

Zheng He said: "When the emperor and the empress miss the prince too much, they may be re-entered."

"I hope so." Zhu Gaoxu said, "I really don't like the place in Yunnan very much, now."

The Qianqing Palace stood on a wide and empty brick floor, and the two walked north from the side of the Qianqing Palace to the base of Kunning Palace. At this time, Zhu Gaoxu saw Miaojin standing on the stone steps.

"I didn't expect that my aunt was still in the palace." Gao Xu called out.

"King Gaoyang." Miao Jin first held the ceremony and continued, "The queen is weak. I will stay in the palace for a while to take care of the queen."

Because Zheng He was by his side, Zhu Gaoxu was inconvenient to say more, and said, "I am going to Yunnan, and the fiefdom my father wants to give me is there."

Miao Jin's eyelashes were trembling slightly, and she was silent for a while before asking softly, "When will you leave?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "I don't know, maybe I can stay for two or three months. My father told me to wait until my third brother gets married before leaving."

"Oh." Miao Jin responded and said nothing. In the eyes of others, she didn't seem to care much, so she asked less, but there was sadness in her eyes.
Chapter completed!