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There is a shaded street on the west side of Mu Mansion. Zhu Gaoxu came in in a carriage and felt that the light suddenly dim; the shade of trees covered the sun, leaving colorful lights and shadows on the brick and stone floors.

Zhu Gaoxu gently lifted the curtain and felt that the breeze in the air was much cooler than outside. He looked at the street entrance in front and seemed to see the exit of the tunnel, with dazzling light.

There was a smell of vegetation ash and fermented black beans floating in the air. Zhu Gaoxu then remembered that it was almost noon and the people around him should be cooking. The Han people in Yunnan like to put fermented black beans the most in home-cooked dishes. They had to put almost all kinds of dishes, no wonder they had such a smell.

The big trees on both sides are almost all banyan trees, most of which are growing in the yard of the mansion, and occasionally there are those on the street. Not far away, there is a large banyan tree, with many rhizomes intertwined, forming a trunk that both of them cannot hug. It seems that they have been a while. What’s more amazing is that there are incense and candles in front of the trunk, and there are also many remnants of incense ash on the ground. It is believed that some people regard this tree as a god to worship?

Zhu Gaoxu observed for a while and found that there were houses on both sides, and the houses on the east side were not buildings of Mu Mansion... Generally, wealthy families have walls, and they do not plant trees against the walls. The main purpose is to prevent assassins from burglary and avoid assassins climbing along the trees or hiding in them; the houses in Mu Mansion cannot be built like this.

"Why don't you get closer?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Veda understood why he didn't get close to Mu's mansion, so he bent down and looked at Zhu Gaoxu in the carriage and said, "Reply to the young master, there is a street behind the row of houses in the east; but there are people guarding the gate at the entrance of the street, so passers-by cannot walk on that street."

"Oh." Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

...When he returned to the Han Palace, Zhu Gaoxu had lunch with Guo Wei first, and then came to the study in the front hall. He immediately summoned Wang Bin, Liu Ying, Hou Hai, Chen Dachui, Zhao Ping and others to meet.

There are almost no talent specializing in the "Defending Hundred Houses" and the guard of honor guards. Zhu Gaoxu is going to do it himself first, so that these people can learn the routine and then leave the matter to them later.

Opening a wooden door in the study, everyone followed Zhu Gaoxu in. The wooden shelf inside was filled with books. Zhu Gaoxu told Cao Fu to move a pair of bookshelf away and hang a few pieces of white paper to put them together.

While Cao Fu was polishing the ink, Zhu Gaoxu looked back and said, "The situation has changed. Don't wait for Mu Sheng. We must immediately draw personnel to deploy. To teach the soldiers to read, let Qian Xun do it, Wang Bin, Liu Ying, and Hou Hai obey the orders by my side in the future."

The two clasped their fists and said, "The lower official (the last general) obeyed the order."

Zhu Gaoxu picked up his brush and dipped it in the inkstone, then wrote words on the white paper on the wall, and a few powerful running and cursive fonts were placed at the end of the pen, which was quite beautiful. His calligraphy was originally practiced by Zhu Gaoxu.

Mu, Geng, Shen, unknown forces, wrote a few words, and Zhu Gaoxu drew a circle respectively; he first explained the relationship between the Mu family and the Geng family, and then deduced the existence of unknown forces. This was what he said to Veda by the edge of Dianchi Lake.

After Zhu Gaoxu said that, he said, "The Mu Mansion and Shen Xu are all in an open force, and everyone knows it; if the Geng family has a family who fled to Yunnan, it doesn't take much effort to guess. After all, Mrs. Geng is the sister of Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing.

What we are mainly investigating at the moment is this... unknown force, who is it; what disease Mu Sheng has, or where is it? There are two secondary goals. First, find out where the people in the Geng family are hidden and who are there; second, what is the relationship between the Mu Mansion and Shen Xu family." There is another person Zhu Gaoxu who is hard to say, that is Hu Yi. Hu Yi was sent by the emperor, so Zhu Gaoxu was not convenient to place him on the table to monitor him.

Everyone stared at the words on the wall. Hou Hai asked for paper and pen, walked to the table and wrote quickly.

Zhu Gaoxu waited for a while and then asked, "Do you understand?"

Everyone replied, "Go back to the prince, I understand."

So Zhu Gaoxu began to make specific arrangements.

He first ordered Chen Daichi to sell jewelry gold and jade in the next shop in the city, which was the same thing that Chen Daichi had done in the capital.

The difference is that Zhu Gaoxu is now even more blatant, just because he is engaged in espionage activities in Yunnan, targeting local forces in Yunnan, and even if he is discovered, there will be no serious consequences. Moreover, the shops in Yunnan are still registered in the "Defense Center" name: Jinshou Branch.

The "Defense Station" of the royal palace uses sergeants to form a powerful team, and reinforce personnel to various strongholds at any time when needed.

Zhao Ping, a 100-person guard, also led the garrison of the Jinshu Branch. His identity was the shopkeeper. The staff inside were all spies, including Chen, a slave from the royal palace from Shandong.

These spies entered and left the gold shop, and rented or purchased residences in the city. The soldiers took their families and lived there as strongholds for casting nets. They were in the shaded street on the west side of the Mu Mansion and the gates of the Mu Mansion, near the Shen Mansion, and near the Liyuan.

The information found was reported to the Jinpu Branch, and then reported to the "Defense Office" of the royal palace, which was summarized and compiled by Liu Ying and Hou Hai. To understand the progress of the matter, Zhu Gaoxu just needs to summon these two people.

A few days later, the branch office and the strongholds were arranged, and Zhu Gaoxu also drew a diagram of a traitor in Yunnan Prefecture, marked the locations of each stronghold, and hid them in the study room in the front hall.

...The Han Wang Mansion was the Yunnan Mansion that arrived in early April, and Mu Sheng finally arrived on the third day of the fifth month.

Dianzhao Hou Hai reported that Mu Sheng and his wife Chen met, and had already welcomed into the front hall of the royal palace to wait. Then Hou Hai presented the gift list from Mu Mansion.

When Zhu Gaoxu heard that Mu Sheng had brought his family, he obviously wanted to be close. He immediately turned around and said, "Cao Fu, go to the inner hall to ask the princess to change clothes, and meet Mu Sheng with me later."

Cao Fu said: "I obey the order."

Zhu Gaoxu also changed into a red leather suit, Guo Wei wore a zoo clothes to the front hall, and the two went to the front hall to meet Mu Sheng.

As soon as he walked into the front hall, Zhu Gaoxu said loudly: "Have your brother's illness cured?"

Mu Sheng turned around and was stunned when he heard the "righteous brother" on his face.

I saw Mu Sheng was a strong man in his thirties. He was wearing a red round neckline with a lion and black veil on his head. His face was a little dark, but his skin was flat and his color was very uniform, just like he was deliberately sunburned into wheat on vacation by the beach. With his calm and decent posture, he looked a bit aristocratic. Mu Sheng was already the third Marquis of Xiping and inherited his title from his brother. He seemed to have less of the fierce martial arts aura of his ancestors.

The woman next to her was wearing a lifelong official uniform, and seemed to be in her early thirties. She had fair skin, beautiful face, a pointed chin, and a smile on her eyes, but she had a bit of charm.

Mu Sheng and Chen paid tribute to each other and held a tribute to Zhu Gaoxu and his wife.

Mu Sheng said, "Meet Your Highness the King of Han! I was sick before, and I failed to welcome Your Highness into Yunnan. Today I am here to apologize." Chen also said, "I have met Your Highness the King of Han and the Princess," and Zhu Gaoxu and Guo Wei returned the gift.

"I heard that Brother Yi is ill and has no choice. As long as he comes, it's okay to be late." Zhu Gaoxu said, "Please take your seat and let's sit down and talk."

When saying this, Chen looked at Zhu Gaoxu meaningfully.

Zhu Gaoxu did not go to the seat above, but accompanied Mu Sheng and others to sit on the Grand Master's chair next to the mahogany case on the west side. The two men sat on one side and two women sat together.

Soon a team of maids came in and replaced the tea on the table again.

"Your Highness, has the princess' illness cured?" Mu Sheng asked kindly.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "It's been a while since I got better. The doctor said it was because of the difficulty of adapting to the local environment and traveling. He prescribed a recipe for Millennium Korean Ginseng, which made it easy for me to find. Later, I don't know if Millennium Ginseng had its effect, but it was finally good."

Mu Sheng looked relieved and said, "As long as the princess is safe, then we will feel at ease. The person who came back from the Han Palace said that His Highness got the thousand-year-old ginseng from Chen Xu?"

"That's right." Zhu Gaoxu owed his body and said in a deep laugh with a teasing look on his face, "I heard that she has something to do with her righteous brother?"

Mu Sheng turned his head and looked at Chen next to the few cases below, and said seriously: "Your Highness is joking. There is a little personal relationship, that's all. But her father-in-law Shen Mao had a good relationship with her father."

"So that's it, I understand." Zhu Gaoxu also looked up at Mrs. Mu and said with a smile.

At this moment, sitting at the bottom, facing Zhu Gaoxu's Madam Mu also looked over, showing a coquettish and angry look. Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about her anymore."

It was the first time that Zhu Gaoxu and Mu Sheng met, so they could only talk about some Yunnan customs and interesting things. On the contrary, it was an important matter, and neither of them deliberately did not mention it. They really couldn't put it on the table and talk about it... Could it be that Zhu Gaoxu wanted to say that I got the secret order of my father and went to Yunnan to observe whether you have ulterior motives? Did you hide Emperor Jianwen?

So they had to have a happy conversation with each other and said a lot, but most of them were irrelevant. However, Zhu Gaoxu still asked about the situation of Yunnan chieftains, which was of some use.

Since Mu Sheng brought his wife, it was almost noon that Zhu Gaoxu kept the couple for dinner. After lunch, the officials of the royal palace sent Mu Sheng away.

As Zhu Gaoxu expected, since Mu Sheng brought his wife and had dinner, he was kind-hearted. Mu Sheng seemed to not want to make a grudge with the Han Palace. As for the fact that King Min had a deep hatred with Mu Sheng in Yunnan, after Zhu Gaoxu saw Mu Sheng himself, he tended to think that King Min was arrogant and was rude. As soon as he came to Yunnan, he had a conflict with the Mu Mansion.

Zhu Gaoxu accompanied Guo Wei to the inner hall and met Yao Ji calling the cat in the corridor. Yao Ji avoided the road and held a tribute, but none of the three of them spoke.

After sending Guo Wei back to the room, Zhu Gaoxu came out and saw Yao Ji holding the yellow cat he bought in the capital in his arms, and said, "Have you found the cat?"

Yao Ji touched the fur of the grown yellow cat and whispered: "The cat just loves to run around, and I can't bear to tie it up."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, looking thoughtful, and suddenly asked in a deep voice: "Is anyone there to contact you?"

Yao Ji looked up at Zhu Gaoxu without saying a word, her eyes were very bright.
Chapter completed!