In the ninth year of Chongzhen, at the end of July, it was already hot summer. Xi'an City was exposed to the sun, and the whole city seemed to be white.

Zhu Yuanzhang handled political affairs in the garden pavilion of the Qin Palace, and felt a hint of chill when he was covered by the trees. At this time, the 100 scholars who passed the exam were all assigned to various places by Li Qingshui, some were county magistrates, some were county magistrates, and some were Ren Dianjie... In short, they were all driven to the shelves. When these people arrived at the place, they had their own capable veterans to lead them in, and then they would decide the best based on their own abilities.

Among these people, one of them was not sent to the place, but was left in Xi'an by Li Qingshui. He studied with Li Qingshui. This person was naturally Ma Xinyu. As the head of the case, he was highly expected by Li Qingshui and did not want his talents to be wasted in a small city and county. From the beginning, he asked him to do things with him and practice the ability to master the overall situation.

In fact, Li Qingshui was also studying, and the two of them happened to learn and do it. With Zhu Yuanzhang's guidance, they didn't make any mistakes.

At this time, the situation in the world was relatively slow. Because the officers and soldiers were transferred to the north to deal with the invasion of the Qing army, the situation of bandit suppression in the Central Plains was not fierce. The rebels from all over the country had the opportunity to recuperate. Only the rebels of the rebels were in a serious situation, because he claimed to be the great marshal of the civil and military in Fengtian, while other rebels called themselves the generals, which was one level lower than him. Therefore, Gao Yingxiang became a new thorn in the court's eyes and a thorn in the flesh. Lu Xiangsheng

Although he went to the north, many generals from the court were chasing Gao Yingxiang. Among them was Sun Chuanting, the newly appointed governor of Shanxi of the Ming Dynasty (Note, the governor of Shanxi in history should be Wu Qi. Sun Chuanting should be the governor of Shaanxi, because of Zhu Yuanzhang's arrival, history changed. Wu Qi was dead and Shaanxi was not in the hands of the court, so Sun Chuanting became the governor of Shanxi. Please investigate in a hurry). He worked very hard when pursuing Gao Yingxiang.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked through the news about Gao Yingxiang's troops wandering around and saw that Gao Yingxiang entered Henan in February this year. After making a fuss in Dengfeng, Lushan, and Nanzhao Mountain, he met again and the two rebels of Chuangcaotian. The scorpion blocks advanced into the west of the mountain. He couldn't help but think in his heart: Gao Yingxiang entered the west of the mountain, and seemed to want to move west from the west of Taiyuan, and return to northern Shaanxi...

In fact, Gao Yingxiang and others have always wanted to return to the soft land of Shaanxi West, but Zhu Yuanzhang guarded Tongguan and Wuguan, which prevented the 36th Battalion from returning. They had to go to Taiyuan and planned to go west from Taiyuan to directly enter northern Shaanxi. The 100,000 guards in northern Shaanxi, Hengtianwang and Chongtianzhu did not reject the 36th Battalion as Zhu Yuanzhang. There is a great possibility of integration.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed in his heart. Even if these guys return to northern Shaanxi, they can't do anything. At most, they can recruit more messy shrimp soldiers and crab generals, which will have no impact on the overall situation.

He looked at the military affairs with a smile on his face, but saw a slender hand stretching out from beside him, holding a cup of herbal tea. It turned out that it was handed over to him by Zhang Yingxian. Zhu Yuanzhang took the tea, and Zhang Yingxian picked up another palm fan and fanned Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked up and smiled, "You are several months pregnant and your belly is big, don't do these jobs. Isn't there a little mute to take care of you?"

Zhang Yingxian said softly: "When I was in Huanglong Mountain Village, I was used to doing these tasks. Now I am a little uncomfortable when I go back to the days when there are people serving me..."

Zhu Yuanzhang signaled her to sit down and said softly: "When Qiuye was pregnant, I told her not to work and have a good rest. Now that you are pregnant, you should have a good rest."

Zhang Yingxian nodded. He stopped insisting, so he asked the little mute to help fan Zhu Yuanzhang from the side.

At this time, the sun was shining brightly, and Zhu Yuanzhang was dressed seriously again, so he was naturally sweating. The little mute took a palm fan and fanned him. Zhu Yuanzhang felt refreshed and continued to read the letters.

As he looked at it, he suddenly felt that the fan was in the wrong place. He no longer slapped on his face, but slapped on the table, making the paper leaves on the table buzzing. He couldn't help but wonder that the little mute just couldn't speak, but his eyes were not blind. How could he slapped so tilted? Turning his head and looking at the little mute's hand mechanically, he saw that the pavilion was going outside. Following her eyes, it turned out that she was looking at Ma Xiaotian. A touch of tenderness in her eyes was condensed on Ma Xiaotian's body and it didn't move.

Ma Xiaotian's eyes were also stunned. He was looking at Hongniang, with gentle eyes and no blinking. Hongniang's eyes were extremely flexible, sometimes looking at birds on trees, sometimes looking at insects on leaves, sometimes looking at the bright sky, sometimes looking at grasshoppers in the grass, without a moment of staying...

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed silently and leaned over to Zhang Yingxian and said, "What do you think is this?"

Zhang Yingxian whispered: "The little mute has always been affectionate with Ma Xiaotian. I knew it long ago, but Ma Xiaotian...he... he only knows the Red Lady, and he doesn't even look at other women. The Red Lady... This child is still young and hasn't woken up for a long time. This is really..."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Young man..."

Zhang Yingxian smiled and said, "My husband, you are only in your twenties, don't speak in such an old-fashioned tone. I'm very strange to say that I have never seen my husband pretend to be a woman. Although you married Qiuye and me as wives and concubines, in fact... well... you understand." What she wanted to say was that Zhu Yuanzhang married them because he fell in love with them, but this sentence was inconvenient, so he held back and refused to say it.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled but didn't explain.

Zhang Yingxian said: "I am a big belly at this time and cannot serve my husband. Qiuye has to take care of her children, so I don't spend much time with her husband. If her husband is an ordinary man, I should take another concubine for her husband now, but it is not convenient for you to speak up like this."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his hand: "Forget it, I don't have time to spend it on women..." After saying this, he felt a little rude to Zhang Yingxian, so he said softly: "It's okay to spend time on you and Qiuye. It's not worth it to use it on those inexplicable women."

Zhang Yingxian's face turned red, she was secretly happy, and she whispered: "The concubines of the King of Qin all want to be drooled by their husbands. If you like one, you will call me to sleep in bed... If you just let them spend the night with you, it will not take any time."

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent and thought to himself: That was the concubine of my more than ten generations of grandchildren. If I took them to bed, wouldn’t it be a mess for more than ten generations? What’s wrong? Even if I find an ugly village girl to bed, it would be better than finding the concubines of the King of Qin. He smiled and said, “Don’t arrange these messes for me. You are not like this. Why do you talk about such things today?”

It turned out that Zhang Yingxian heard the discussions of the princesses of Qin last time, so she took them to heart. After going back and thinking about it, she felt that her husband was the dragon among the people, so how could he marry only one wife and one concubine? In the future, he would have to marry dozens or hundreds. Maybe one day he would win the country and three thousand beauties in the harem were not a problem. She put her position right and decided to be more generous, so that she could speak today.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang had no such intention, she was happy and said nothing more. She dragged the fan from the little mute and slapped it by herself. The little mute was watching Ma Xiaotian being in a daze, and the fan was tilted around in her hand. It was not until Zhang Yingxian dragged it away that she realized that her thoughts were leaking and she couldn't help but blush.

At this time, the sound of rapid footsteps suddenly came from outside the pavilion. Ma Xinyu ran in quickly. It seemed that there was something urgent to be reported. As he ran, he suddenly saw the Red Lady outside the pavilion again. He tripped and fell into the flowers. After several days, he crawled out of the flowers, and his head was covered with grass. He didn't dare to look at the Red Lady anymore, but hurried into the pavilion. He first glanced at Zhang Yingxian, the "Second Aunt", with an awkward look, and then said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu, there is an emergency military sent..."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What emergency military information is required to send you? Is our Zhu army short of command troops?"

Ma Xinyu looked embarrassed. He came to send the letter to the point of seeing Hongmao, and forced the errand to ask for the errand from the messenger. Zhu Yuanzhang said it in one sentence and couldn't help but feel ashamed, but he was also anxious and hurriedly said: "This matter is so important, I'm afraid that the errand will be speechless, so the young actor dared to deliver the message in person."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Tell me."

Ma Xinyu quickly said, "Gao Yingxiang is dead."

"Hmm?" Zhu Yuanzhang was not very surprised and asked lightly: "How did you die?"

Seeing that he had a face that was still changing when he heard such a big news, Ma Xinyu couldn't help but admire him. When he heard the news just now, he was so scared that he was urinating. Even now his heart was still beating. So he reported: "Gao Yingxiang moved from the south of the river to the west of Shanxi and headed to Taiyuan. On the way, he met the army of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shanxi. The two armies fought fiercely. Gao Yingxiang's troops won the first battle and defeated the troops of the officers, soldiers, and generals, Li Yuchun."

"Unexpectedly, Sun Chuanting used a plan to scatter and took out an edict issued by Emperor Chongzhen himself, saying that the court sincerely recruited bandits this time and could grant them a high-ranking official. Zhang Er, the Qiang Rooster in the 36th Battalion, and Huanglong, Yi Dougu, were bribed by the officers and soldiers... In the second battle, these two guys took advantage of the heavy fog after the rain to steal Gao Yingxiang's mount, and then led the officers and soldiers to attack Zhang Yingxiang's camp. Gao Yingxiang suffered a great loss and had no mount to ride and escape, so he had to take off his armor and hide in the grass. However, there were traitors in the rebel army, so what's the use of hiding in the grass? So Gao Yingxiang was captured by the officers and soldiers and escorted to the capital to behead."

Zhu Yuanzhang listened quietly and did not express his opinion.

However, the Hongmao, who followed the pavilion to listen, said angrily: "The traitor is shameful... it should be killed!"
Chapter completed!