Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

"You're awake."

A basin of cold water was poured down, giving Zhu Gaoxu a jolt.

The headache after a hangover and the annoyance that would never go away prompted Zhu Gaoxu to angrily send out a greeting without even opening his eyelids.

"Wake up, you motherfucker, if you dare to throw cold water on me, I will kill you!"

"bring it on."

Zhu Gaoxu's buzzing ears finally vaguely identified the owner of the voice. He opened his eyes in horror, and a boot grew bigger and bigger in front of his eyes.

"father!"

The sensitive reaction developed by avoiding swords and guns on the battlefield prompted Zhu Gaoxu to move his body to the other side as much as possible, but he still could not completely avoid it.

The boot kicked on the shoulder, and Zhu Gaoxu was pushed to the wall with huge force.

"boom!"

A burst of dust flew up, and Zhu Gaoxu got up in disgrace.

Emperor Yongle in front of him had no intention of continuing to take action. Zhu Di was wearing a black linen shirt today, with leather wristbands on his sleeves, and a jade talisman on his thumb. He had obviously shot a few arrows before coming to the prison. Relax your muscles and bones.

"Where's Jiang Xinghuo?"

Zhu Di's expression was calm, but Zhu Gaoxu, who was familiar with Zhu Di, knew that when he was a child, he got into big trouble, and Zhu Di had the same expression when he came to beat him.

Zhu Gaoxu, who was tall and powerful, could almost reach the cell door when he stood. He had to lower his head slightly and watched Zhu Di trying to lie without changing his expression.

"What ginger... Ha, daddy, I told you! I told you everything!"

With a "clang" sound, Zhu Di suddenly pulled out a Xiuchun knife that shone with cold light from Ji Gang's waist behind him.

Zhu Gaoxu knew that the old man was very stubborn and could really chop him if he got angry, but he couldn't fight back, so he quickly shook out what happened last night like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.

After hearing what happened and looking at the smart-alecked second son, Zhu Di took a deep breath through his nostrils, stuck the embroidered spring knife on the ground, and roared like thunder.

"Jiang Xinghuo is lost, do you know?!"

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth, but saw Zhu Di moved his boots and kicked something that looked like a Cuju ball towards him.

Astonishingly, it was the head of the old jailer with graying beard from last night!

Another young jailer, the son of the old jailer, with tears all over his face at this time, was dragged in like a dead pig by two guards in uniforms, and was thrown in front of Zhu Gaoxu, with all his limbs broken.

A foul smell came, and he was already frightened to the point of incontinence.

"My father hung a man over the wall last night. I put him on the pulley of the donkey cart and left. When I got there, I found that the man was missing. I really don't know where he fell!"

The young jailer begged and begged, but when he couldn't vomit anything more, Ji Gang personally led someone to drag him out.

"Ji Gang, take the Jin Yiwei to search!"

"Ma He, instruct the Five Cities Military and Horse Command Department and the Yingtian Mansion Yamen to fully assist the Jinyi Guards."

"According to the order!"

Ji Gang and Ma He looked at each other, saluted and replied.

The two were about to go out and start taking action, but Zhu Di gave another order.

"Tell me the loyal guards and I will lead them myself!"

"Your Majesty!" Ma He was surprised for a moment.

Zhu Di twisted his hands together, held the knife, and shouted sharply.

"go!"

Ma He and Ji Gang were shocked and dared not speak out to dissuade them.

Not long after, a large number of armored soldiers appeared outside the imperial edict in an organized manner.

The Loyalty Guard was a personal guard force that was mixed together during the Jingnan War during the period when Zhu Di was still the King of Yan, the former guards of the Yan Palace, the recruited Mongolian Tartar officials, and even the surrendered Songpan Rangers.

There are not many people, just over 3,000, but all of them are veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles. They can not only fight on foot wearing sixty kilograms of armor, but also can fight on horseback for more than ten rounds without defeat. Extremely strong-willed.

In the Battle of Dongchang, Zhu Di led this army to attack the central army of the famous Hongwu general He Fu. He was surrounded by tens of thousands of troops and was still able to fight his way out.

Zhu Di even recreated the story of Zhang Liao's power and shock in Xiaoyaojin. Hearing the words of the loyal guard cavalry, "The King of Yan wants to abandon me," he turned around, rode his horse to kill the pursuers, pulled the cavalry onto his own horse, and escaped unscathed. .

It was precisely because of this that when Zhu Gaoxu saw the Zhongyi Guards appear, he knew that something was wrong.

No matter how mediocre Zhu Gaoxu's intelligence level was, he knew at this time that Zhu Di already knew about his apprenticeship with Jiang Xinghuo.

As for why he knew it, it might have been exposed by his memorial, which was obviously not written by his own level, or it might be other reasons.

And there is no doubt that Zhu Di attaches great importance to Jiang Xinghuo!

Zhu Gaoxu looked at several powerful eunuchs putting on Zhu Di's armor, feeling a little uneasy in his heart. He tentatively said to Zhu Di, who had his back turned to him.

"Dad, I'll go look for it with you too."

"You don't have to look for me."

Zhu Di looked at the breastplate fastened to his chest. The willow-leaf-shaped armor reflected a deep luster, and he said coldly.

"You just have to squat in the prison. I will make you squat for the rest of your life this time."

After tightening his shoulders, Zhu Di twisted the skirt armor with his hands. After confirming that he could move freely, he took his long knife from the eunuch's hand and pulled it out of its sheath. The dark golden long knife was covered with tiny scratches.

"This is the sword that your grandfather, General Xu Da, passed down to me. It was forged from ten thousand years of meteorite iron. I originally wanted to pass it on to you, but now it seems... Humph! What an idiot!"

After that, Zhu Di sheathed his sword, wore the same armor as other loyal guards and walked out of the imperial prison. There was a sweaty horse waiting at the door.

"One hundred households form a group and search for Nanjing City!"

"You want to see people alive, you want to see corpses when you're dead!"

Zhu Gaoxu watched blankly as his father went to personally lead the troops to search for Jiang Xinghuo, as if he were on an expedition.

After a long while, he hit his painful head.

But he still couldn't understand how his father could pay so much attention to Jiang Xinghuo?

Of course, what Zhu Gaoxu didn't know was that the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi came to the palace early in the morning to report on the improved land system based on the two tax laws. After hearing this, Zhu Di was very happy and felt that he had found a feasible solution.

Not to mention completely getting rid of the dynasty cycle rate, using this land system plan can at least effectively suppress land annexation, and at the same time prevent the 'two-volume' system from completely degenerating over time without promptly checking the population and fields for updating. For decoration.

Maybe using a more reliable field system can make the Ming Dynasty's national fortunes survive until the next agricultural technological advancement?

With such a beautiful dream in mind, Zhu Di shot three arrows with great interest, and then came to the prison.

As soon as they arrived at the imperial prison, they discovered that Jiang Xinghuo was missing!

It doesn't matter if Zhu Gaoxu is lost. Zhu Di has more than one son, so he should be regarded as having died in Jingnan, but Jiang Xinghuo and Teacher Jiang can't be lost!

The teacher Jiang who came up with the question is lost. Who can tell him the answer to how Ming Dynasty got out of the dilemma of dynasty cycle rate?