In the summer of the 21st year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty, it was the tenth day of the fifth lunar month.
The streets in Pukou of Yingtian Mansion were already full of people wearing their best clothes - of course not ordinary people, but people from Pukou under the emperor's feet. Most of them followed Zhu Cixang to defeat the enemy. The "heroes who overcame difficulties" or "children who overcame difficulties" who made it difficult to rejuvenate the country were at least "righteous people" or "queen of the righteous people."
The Ming Dynasty also has their small share!
Pukou City, where the heroes who overcame the disaster and their descendants lived together, was certainly the best city built in the entire Ming Dynasty. The streets built under Zhu Cixiang's personal planning are all spacious and flat. There are sewage drainage ditches on both sides of the road, all covered with stone slabs. Rows of weeping willows were planted on both sides of the street.
In addition to beautiful and straight streets, Pukou City also has large handicraft areas, port areas and prosperous commercial areas near the Yangtze River.
This city, which faces Nanjing across the river, is now beginning to compete with the prosperity and wealth of Jinling on the other side.
Since the day before yesterday, the people in Pukou and Nanjing City on the other side of the river have known that their wise emperor, Emperor Hongxing, has defeated the rogue bandits who have disturbed the world for more than thirty years and returned in triumph. Although a corner of Yunnan is still missing, how many days can the rogues survive after losing Sichuan Province? Moreover, the bandits who were driven into a province in Yunnan (the common people ignored Myanmar) would be the Dali Kingdom until they died. In the past, when the Dali Kingdom was still there, wasn't the Northern Song Dynasty also a time of peace and prosperity? Moreover, the Ming Dynasty temporarily lacked one Yunnan, but it had countless more internal and external vassals. Because the territory was so large that it could not be drawn on the map, so it had to be drawn on a ball. It was really a prosperous age that has not been seen since ancient times!
Looking at the current situation, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty's Guozuo can last for another 279 years... That is the feudal dynasty in 581. Although it is not as good as the Zhou Dynasty's 800 years, it still exceeds it. More than four hundred years of the Han Dynasty!
There are already many experts who are knowledgeable about astronomy and geography who have given a clue to the current Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty after Jiashen moved south is no longer the same thing as the one before it. The previous Ming Dynasty with Beijing as the emperor's residence was equivalent to the Western Han Dynasty, and the current Ming Dynasty that returned to Nanjing was equivalent to the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Although the Ming Dynasty will eventually come to an end, for people living in this era, they can always live in sorrow and die in happiness.
For people who have started a new life full of hope after experiencing a turbulent time, is there anything more joyful than this?
So the entire Pukou is now deserted. The team to welcome the victorious army lined up from Pukou Pier to the gate of Laoshan Palace, waiting for Zhu Cixiang, Emperor Hongxing of the Ming Dynasty, and his victorious army who returned to Yingtian Mansion from the Yangtze River waterway... This victorious army, They are also soldiers of Pukou people’s sons!
However, contrary to the expectations of this group of Pukou people who spontaneously came to greet him, the large number of people following Emperor Zhu in triumph turned out to be so huge!
There were not only soldiers returning from the expedition wearing black and red military uniforms, but also countless men and women, old and young, wearing blue clothes washed white. These "men in blue" and the soldiers of the Ming Army all marched with flowers under their arms. Often there were thousands of men, women, and children mixed between the two infantry battalions of the Ming Army. They also carried a lot of luggage, supporting each other as they moved forward. The man in blue.
The men in blue and the Ming army sandwiched between them did not disembark from the Pukou Pier, but came on foot or on horseback along the long river embankment in the north of the Yangtze River, and came from the Xijiang Pier in the west of Pukou City. Before the emperor's car landed, he first entered the prosperous place at the feet of the emperor.
Like the people at the feet of the emperors of all dynasties, the people of Pukou were also full of curiosity about national affairs, and they were all well-informed and well-informed, and they also liked to inquire about each other.
"Who are these people in blue? Why are there so many people, old and young, men and women?"
"Who are they? Did you see what colors they were wearing?"
"Blue clothes!"
"Haha, do you know what kind of people in Sichuan can wear blue clothes?"
"Sichuan...ah, the bandits are still blue! The soldiers in the bandits' mansion all wear blue clothes. Could it be that they are..."
"They are the government soldiers and military households of the rogue bandits! After the imperial army entered Sichuan, many of the government soldiers and military households of the rogue bandits had no choice but to be recruited and surrendered to the official army, so they were brought to Pukou."
"What are you bringing here to Pukou? These scourges should be killed!"
"Yes! Back then, the thieves pretended to be supported, but later they found an opportunity to rebel and drove Xiong Wencan to death! Isn't the court afraid that these thieves will rebel again?"
"We can't resist! Did you see that those people have been unarmed and escorted by the army, waiting to be dispatched!"
"Distribution? Where to send it?"
"Of course we are going to Xinzhou and Liaoyang. We are going by boat! Have you seen those sand boats crowded at the Dongjiang Pier? They are used to send these blue-clad thieves out to sea... When they go out to sea, There’s no coming back!”
"It's better if you don't come back. If you don't come back... the world will be at peace!"
...
There's no going back!
I can never go back to the beautiful Shizhu County...
I don’t know why, but Du Mulan, who didn’t really love her hometown of Shizhu in the past, when she closes her eyes these days, what comes to her in her dreams is no longer the handsome local tycoon Zhu Hehao, but the mountains and rivers of Shizhu’s countryside. People from my hometown whom I will never see again.
She is crying now, supporting her old father Du Mazi, walking on the wide street of Pukou - she originally did not belong to Du Mazi's Baihu, but to Zhu Hehao's guard camp. But the family is about to separate... This separation is so far apart that it will be difficult to see each other again. So she specifically asked Zhu Hehao for leave to spend one more day with her father and mother.
"It would be nice if I can't come back..."
"If we don't come back, the world will be at peace!"
"Get as far away as possible!"
People on both sides of the street had already guessed the origins of the "men in blue" and began to yell and curse loudly... It was just yelling and no other extreme behavior. Because guards in black have been deployed on both sides of the street to maintain order!
Screams and strong hostility rushed toward the men in blue, such as Du Mazi and Du Mulan. But this group of soldiers who have been showing off their power in Sichuan for many years can only swallow their anger and continue to move forward - because they have seen that most of the people on the street are wearing swords!
Most of these people with knives and swords are the "fu soldiers" of the Ming Dynasty... They can't afford to offend!
Du Mulan looked at her father Du Mazi with tears in her eyes. Lao Du looked indifferent and comforted his daughter with a smile: "Mulan, don't worry, we won't live in Yingtian Mansion forever... Wait until we get to Tianhe Mansion and The New World would be great!”
"Ada," Du Mulan shed tears, "you must take good care of yourself. My daughter...my daughter will definitely come back to see you when she has the chance!"
Du Mazi shook his head and said: "Mulan, don't think about this old man, you must serve the king well!"
"Well," Du Mulan's little face suddenly turned red, "Uh, I know..." She paused and then said to her father, "The king told me that Tianhe Mansion will let us know..." The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess will take care of it, and there is a lot of food there, so you won’t have to worry about eating. He will also say hello to His Highness the Crown Prince and arrange an official and part-time job for you."
Du Mazi nodded lightly, patted his daughter's shoulder, and said nothing more.
...
When the Du family father and daughter were heading to Pukou City together, Du Mulan's favorite king had already disembarked from Emperor Zhu's ship and went to the ship of his mother-in-law, Concubine Zheng... They parted ways. The day is not far away!
Moreover, Concubine Zheng's mood is a little depressed these days - she is so smart, of course she knows that the appearance of Ding Yuying has completely stabilized the status of Crown Prince Zhu Hexing. Moreover, Ding Yuying gave birth to Zhu Hexing's son Zhu Yiyan... This is Zhu Cixiang's eldest grandson!
Even if Zhu Hexing is gone, Zhu Yiyan will become the emperor's grandson, and Ding Yuying can grow up to be the queen regent under Zhu Cixiang's cultivation. Therefore, Zhu Hehao, Zhu Hekun, and Zhu Hezhen, the three sons of Emperor Zheng's noble concubines, will become the emperor's grandson. My son has no hope at all... No, there is still hope, hope is far away!
