In the heavy rain, the quaint building complex of Annan Governor's Mansion became hazy, and the water on the bricks and floors began to flow to all sides. Chen Xianzhen, who was holding a green umbrella, had her shoes soaked.

Chen Xianzhen looked at the front door and couldn't help but stand there. She stood in the noisy rain for a while before she stepped out and walked towards the door in the distance.

On the small bench in the gatehouse, there were people from the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei, which was said to be called the seating record. In addition to the military generals under Zhang Fu, there should be many civil officials in the yard.

"Stop, what are you doing?" the guard said.

Chen Xianzhen immediately started yelling, and excitedly claimed her name, and mentioned Empress Dowager Chen and others.

The guards did not allow her to go in, but immediately asked someone to run in and inform. After a while, some generals and civil servants came to the gatehouse and listened to Chen Xianzhen crying there.

At this time, a general hurriedly walked out and said, "Miss Chen, please be careful, please go inside and talk slowly."

Chen Xianzhen said: "Are you the Queen Mother Chen's person who wants to harm me?"

The general hurriedly said, "You can't talk nonsense. This is the Annan Governor's Office. Please meet the person Zhang Dashang, the Marquis of Xincheng. Don't worry. I'm yelling here, I'm going to be laughed at."

Chen Xianzhen followed him into the hallway on the side of the yard and arrived at a large room on the north side. A man in his thirties was standing in the middle of the house. He was wearing a beam crown and a red robe. He was a high-ranking official, probably Zhang Fu.

Zhang Fu looked at Chen Xianzhen and asked, "Are you the official envoy Chen Xianzhen who was originally sent to the Ming Dynasty?"

Chen Xianzhen didn't have time to answer, and there was a shorter civil servant next to her and said, "It's indeed Chen Xianzhen, the lower official has seen her."

She looked in the sound and felt that the civil servant looked familiar, but she couldn't remember the name for a moment.

After hearing this, Zhang Fu asked again: "What's the noise?"

Chen Xianzhen said in grief and anger: "I just want to write to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to let him know what I had experienced after returning to Annan Kingdom! Since the Chen family has restored the King of Annan Kingdom and our family is a royal family, why is it not recognized by the government?"

Zhang Fu said: "Don't be anxious, just say it slowly. Come on, give Mrs. Chen a cup of hot tea."

She started crying when she said this, and she didn't know whether it was tears or rain on her face. "The Qinghua government took away our fields and houses, and snatched all our property, let alone pay. I had seen through the world and just wanted to find a temple to live in seclusion in Qingjing, and go home to get some property. I realized this. Now I can't even think about it."

Zhang Fu said kindly: "It is necessary to have family power to live in seclusion."

He spoke very kindly, but it was obvious that he didn't care at all about the life or death of Chen Xianzhen's family.

Chen Xianzhen continued, "I wrote a memorial to go to the capital, and asked my brother to try to send it to the capital to inform the emperor of this. Unexpectedly, the memorials were detained by the Queen Mother Chen from Shenglong, and Queen Mother Chen sent someone to secretly chase me. What crime do I have? I was desperate, so I found the Governor's Office and wanted to ask the officials of the Ming Dynasty to help us send our memorial to the capital."

"I will understand what's going on." Zhang Fu said, "If you do this, you can live here first, it's safe. I will handle this matter properly."

Without saying a word, Zhang Fu immediately ordered: "Come here, find a gallery house for Mrs. Chen to settle down."

...After Chen Xianzhen left the lobby, Hou Hai, the civil servant next to him, said: "How can such a small matter be alarmed by the court? The Marquis of Xincheng asked someone to say something to Empress Dowager Chen and comfort Chen Xianzhen's family."

Zhang Fu said: "The Governor's Office now has a great influence on the Chen royal family. Once we say it, it will definitely affect the rule of Empress Dowager Chen. We are too lazy to care about their own affairs, so we might as well send Chen Xianzhen back to our hometown and ask the local Annan officials to take good care of it, so we should not let her come out to cause trouble again."

"This is not possible." Hou Hai walked up and said in a deep voice, "Then Chen Xianzhen has lived in the palace for a long time, maybe with the emperor..."

Zhang Fu was slightly surprised and said, "Is there anything wrong?"

Hou Hai said: "The Marquis of Xincheng may not know, but the official understands."

Zhang Fu asked, "Then why did she return to Annan Kingdom?"

Hou Hai replied: "The officials don't know the inside story. I'm afraid only the eunuchs in the palace know about it, like Cao Fu. But it's nothing strange. During the Yongle period, I went to conquer the Hu family of Annan. I got close to several Annan girls, but I finally forgot about it."

Zhang Fu nodded.

Hou Hai pondered: "The emperor and the emperor are very talented and have issued an order to prohibit the collection of beauties and jewelry in Annan Kingdom, but Chen Xianzhen should not be considered a beauty who collected the beauties."

Zhang Fu did not comment and stopped talking about this matter.

As the hour of You approached, the rain had stopped and sunset appeared in the sky. Zhang Fu left the lobby and asked where Chen Xianzhen was, so he walked over there.

I saw Chen Xian really writing hard on the side of the desk, as if writing a memorial. She turned to see Zhang Fu, and got up and bowed her knees in a regular manner. Zhang Fu saw her well-educated and polite manners, and looked at her appearance, and nodded quietly.

Zhang Fu asked in a casual tone: "I heard that Mrs. Chen has lived in the capital for a long time. Isn't it good for the capital? Why did he go back to Qinghua?"

Chen Xianzhen immediately said angrily: "It's not that Queen Mother Chen's slander!"

"Oh?" Zhang Fu said.

Chen Xianzhen said: "There are many concubines in the palace of the Ming Dynasty. Empress Dowager Chen is not jealous and insists on being unable to get along with me. She will blow the wind beside her pillow if she has the chance..."

Zhang Fu looked embarrassed because from the official statement, the relationship between Empress Dowager Chen and Zhu Gaoxu was very innocent because her son was the legitimate heir of Annan Chen Dynasty, so he was protected by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Chen Xianzhen said aggrievedly: "Which is worse than her? She is not as married as she is. Perhaps because Empress Dowager Chen is particularly good at flattering and pleading, the emperor was confused by her and wanted to support her son as the king. The emperor could not bear to leave me. If it weren't for Empress Dowager Chen's repeated slander, the emperor would not have sent me back and suffered all the hardships."

Zhang Fu nodded, thinking that the emperor seemed to be that kind of person, but it was not because of Empress Chen's beauty.

Chen Xianzhen said again: "I said good things to the general in the memorial, so please help me and let the memorial be sent to the capital. Queen Mother Chen holds a grudge and is really unwilling to give us a way out."

Zhang Fu did not agree and asked again: "Who else is there in your family?"

Chen Xianzhen said: "I am a real Chen Dynasty royal family. If the general does not believe it, please send someone to investigate. My parents have passed away, and there is also a eldest brother, nephew and other relatives. We used to live in Shenglong, but later we went to Qinghua and have been in Qinghua. However, now our houses and mansions have been robbed."

Zhang Fu nodded: "The Governor's Office is completely different from the royal family of Annan. In name, the Governor's Office is still subordinate to the royal family. Therefore, it is not convenient for me to handle whether you are allowed to submit a memorial in Annan. However, you can go to the capital in person. Our people will introduce you to the eunuchs in the palace, and the eunuchs will deal with this matter."

Chen Xianzhen shook her head and said, "There is an eunuch Cao Fu who has been bribed by Empress Dowager Chen. I don't want to go to the capital, I just want the Ming court to give our family justice."

Zhang Fu advised with kind words: "I cannot put pressure on the Annan royal family in the name of the Ming Dynasty. If you don't go, then I will be unable to help you."

He said again: "After a while, the left guard envoy from the North Department of the Guardian Department may return to Beijing. You and their team will enter Beijing together. If Hou Zuo Envoy does not leave, Wang Jinghong's fleet of voyage to the West should also come back this year. When they pass through the sea of ​​Annanguo, you will go to Beijing by sea."

...

At the beginning of the next month, Hou Hai indeed set off to return to Beijing to report his work.

However, at this time, Wang Jinghong's fleet was also on his way back. When they were on their way, they had already sent the envoys from all over the country who entered Beijing during the Yongle period back to their original place, and enthroned the Han people of Shi Jinqing as the old port Xuanwei envoy, commanding the Han people who were rushing gold there and some people from the Three Buddhas.

Then the fleet continued to explore the strait near Adan (Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, near the Red Sea), and searched towns and markets to trade, selling silk, porcelain, cloud brocade, Shu brocade, ruby ​​jewelry, various traditional Chinese herbal medicines and other precious products of the Ming Dynasty. They also obtained rare animals such as long-necked Qilin beast (giraffe), lions, wildebeests, peacocks, black bears, and some rare plants.

Having completed the mission of sending the envoys to the country and enthroned Shi Jinqing, Wang Jinghong ordered the fleet to return to do the third mission: to collect 60,000 taels of gold from the king's promised compensation from Java.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the sea in the north of Java, they found that this matter was not that easy at all.

A few black Javanese came on Wang Jinghong's treasure ship.

The Javanese were quite polite. When they arrived on the deck, they pressed their hands on their chests and bowed to Wang Jinghong. It seemed that before the Ming fleet came here to move, the Hui and Hui Sect in Persia had also come here.

Wang Jinghong also got up and bowed with fists. He heard them silly for a while, but he couldn't understand them at all. Wang Jinghong and others knew nothing about Java's words and didn't understand them. Fortunately, the Sanfoqi people under Shi Jinqing fought with Java and understood some Java language, so they followed the boat as a translator.

The messenger in front of him seemed to have a translation, but he didn't say anything. The Sanfoqi people were not very proficient in Java and Chinese, so they could only simply translate the general meaning: "They come to negotiate."

Wang Jinghong said: "Didn't it be negotiated a few years ago?"

The Sanfoqi people translator gestured with the Java people, and the translator said, "Do they say that they can only give 20,000?"

Wang Jinghong frowned and said, "My subordinates want to be greedy and dirty?"

After a while, the translator said, "They said they were the messengers of the king and had tokens."

Wang Jinghong whispered for a while with the generals around him and the generals of the Jinyiwei. Wang Jinghong said coldly: "The East King of Java, who lives in the old port, is willing to give 60,000 taels and will also subsidize the military expenditure of the Ming army."

The dark-skinned people on both sides talked for a while. The translator said: "The king does not have that much gold, nor does the king of the East, and the king of the East is lying to you."

Wang Jinghong said angrily: "What the King of Java has promised on the memorial is written in black and white. Why did he go back on his word?"

After waiting for a while, the translator said again: "They are going back to report to the king."

Wang Jinghong said angrily: "Tell these envoys that they must give a reply within three days. Save the guests!"
Chapter completed!