At this time, Zhu Bai had just walked to Lu'an Guanya Station. Lao Zhu asked people to hurry up and deliver a message to him, telling him not to come back for the funeral and to continue to Changsha.
At the same time, Lu'an was asked to go to the guard posts along the way to Yingtian to strengthen defenses to prevent Zhu Bai from doing anything irrational.
As long as Zhu Bai doesn't move, leave him alone.
Originally, Zhu Bai was enjoying his trip to the mountains and rivers, taking four beauties with him.
When he received the letter, it was like a bolt from the blue. He locked himself in his room and cried bitterly. He ignored anyone who called him and did not come out for several days.
The guards were all sad. King Xiang looked arrogant, but he was actually only fourteen years old. He left his hometown and lost his relatives in just a few days. It was really pitiful.
When Lao Zhu received the news, he felt sorry for Zhu Bai and asked the Guan Ya Bureau convoy to send a handwritten letter and Zhu Bai's wet nurse to comfort him.
The Guanya Bureau's convoy set off from Yingtian and met Zhu Bai in Lu'an.
I don’t know whether it was Lao Zhu’s letter that had an effect, or whether the nanny came and made Zhu Bai feel better.
Anyway, Zhu Bai finally came out of the room early the next morning.
Although his eyes were red and swollen and his energy was listless, he ordered to continue to Changsha.
A few days later, he finally arrived at the palace. He only said that he wanted to rest and asked people not to disturb him and just leave the wet nurse.
Zhang Wu Fugui and the others also wanted to settle down, and everyone went out.
Zhu Bai locked the courtyard door and grabbed the nanny's hand: "Mom, I've been waiting for you so hard. If you don't come, I'm worried that the lie will become true."
The wet nurse sighed: "Oh, poor Xiangyun, she died for me."
This turned out to be Concubine Hu Shun wearing a wet nurse's clothes.
This was all Zhu Bai's strategy to get Concubine Hu Shun out of the palace.
Xiangyun looks similar to Concubine Hu Shun. In recent years, at Zhu Bai's request, she has been imitating Concubine Hu Shun's walking.
In order to test the results, she and Concubine Hu Shun often exchanged clothes and walked in the garden without anyone noticing.
Moreover, Zhu Bai calculated that if Lao Zhu smelled the stench of the corpse, he would not examine the corpse carefully at all.
In addition, Zhu Ju was holding Xiangyun and crying, so Lao Zhu and the others had no suspicion at all.
It worked.
Now buried in the imperial mausoleum is Xiangyun.
Zhu Bai: "Yeah."
Concubine Hu Shun said again: "Poor Ju'er is alone in the palace."
The most difficult part of this plan was not to ask Xiangyun to die for him. When Zhu Bai and Concubine Hu Shun were discussing the plan, it was Xiangyun himself who proposed to die for Concubine Hu Shun.
Concubine Hu Shun stayed and was eventually buried with her. Xiangyun will also die when the time comes.
The hardest thing is to convince Zhu Ju.
Because she was with Concubine Hu Shun every day, it was impossible to hide it from her.
And only if she cooperates will Lao Zhu believe it.
Zhu Biao put his arm around Concubine Hu Shun's shoulders and comforted her: "In two years, when she is older, I will tell my father to marry her to Changsha."
Concubine Hu Shun nodded with tears in her eyes.
Although the Xiang Prince's Mansion built by Zhu Bai was not as big as the Qin Prince's Mansion, it was still enough for him and Concubine Hu Shun to live.
Moreover, when he was repairing it, he specially built the large courtyard next to it. Even if the two courtyard doors are closed, there is a small door in the middle that allows people to visit each other, and people outside will not know.
Everyone really thought that Concubine Hu Shun was Zhu Bai's nanny, and no one doubted it.
People who know the situation, such as Fugui, will naturally not say anything.
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Zhu Biao has already started his inspection, and this time Zhang Yu is following him.
Lao Zhu's intention was very clear, he wanted Zhang Yu to introduce all Zhu Bai's connections to Zhu Biao.
After all, Zhang Yu had traveled with Zhu Bai many times, and Zhang Yu also knew everyone Zhu Bai knew well.
The first stop is Shandong.
In order to make things easier, Zhu Biao dressed in plain clothes and asked the guards to call him "eldest son". The various chief envoys were not notified in advance.
Although the Guanya Bureau Station on the section from Yingtian to Shandong had long received orders from the General Administration to cooperate with Zhu Biao, everyone was still secretly surprised when they saw Zhang Yu following Zhu Biao.
After thinking about it carefully, it was just that the emperor's order was hard to disobey, and there was nothing he could do.
As soon as he crossed the Yangtze River, Zhu Biao felt like leaving home.
Stay overnight at the Guanya Bureau Inn in Huai'an Prefecture.
Although the condition of the inn is very good, it can never be better than the East Palace.
So Zhu Biao was so tired that he couldn't sleep.
He always felt that Zhu Bailao wanted to run away because the outside world was so attractive.
Now I feel it is really painful.
After a day of riding, my back, hips, thighs and calves are all sore.
Think about Lao Zhu and the others who used to spend all day on horseback, sleeping in the open air, with swords and swords flashing, and narrowly escaped death.
The country is hard-won...
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Zhu Biao wanted to inspect the Liangji Canal, so when he arrived nearby, he kept walking along the canal to Jining.
In the 26th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the previous dynasty excavated the Huitong River, connected it to the Jizhou River in the south, and went northwest through Shouzhangji, Shawan, Zhangqiu to Linqing to connect the Yuhe River.
Nowadays, most of the military rations going to Peiping are transported from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Peiping via the Grand Canal.
Liangji Canal is a very important section of it.
After Zhu Bai's inspection, the Grand Canal in the prefectures and counties around Yingtian has been well maintained.
Water transportation is smooth, and both military and civilian officials are relaxed.
The distance between here and Yingtian is only a few hundred miles, but the conditions of the canal are one in the sky and one underground.
The river is clogged with sediment, the banks have collapsed, and weeds are overgrown.
Countless people in ragged clothes, with sallow faces and skinny faces, tied with ropes around their waists, filled the river with sacks of sediment and transported it to the shore.
There were also officers and soldiers overseeing the work.
When Zhu Biao saw it, the fire in his heart suddenly burst out. He motioned to the others to wait where they were, and he and Zhang Yu dismounted and walked over.
He raised his hand to a young man on the shore and asked: "Excuse me, this little brother, who are you and why are you working here as coolies?"
The man whispered: "We are all farmers in Jining."
Zhu Biao frowned: "This kind of thing should not be done by water transportation or corvee labor. This is the time when summer grain is harvested. Why don't you go and collect grain?"
The man sighed: "Jining is responsible for water transportation and military transportation, and the cost of military transportation is borne by the farmers. During the summer floods at the beginning of the month, the Yellow River burst its banks, silting up the Huitong River and destroying our crops. We have no money to pay for military transportation. We can only do our best.”
Zhu Biao clenched his fists and said, "I really want to come down and take a look." Otherwise, how would we know that in the peaceful and prosperous times, there were still such people who were living in poverty, taking bribes and perverting the law?
The yamen servant saw what was happening here and shouted from afar: "Don't be lazy, hurry up and work."
The younger brother quickly turned his head and did not dare to pay attention to Zhu Biao.
Someone suddenly fell to the ground over there. Someone nearby looked at him and said he fainted from hunger.
The yamen servant told him to go back and have a full meal before returning to continue working.
It turns out that when you come here to work, you have to take care of your own food.
Zhu Biao was so angry that the sword on his waist seemed to be buzzing, waiting to be unsheathed and killed.
But the yamen servant was also acting under orders, and he might have come from a poor family, so killing him would be useless.
Zhu Biao endured his anger and walked back, mounted his horse and continued walking along the Liangji Canal.
Everything I saw along the way was pretty much the same.
The fields are covered with yellow mud and hungry people are everywhere.
