Chapter 48: The Princess Zhu Ying
At the inner house of Yanfu Palace, a girl in a samurai uniform was practicing swordsmanship. When she saw the head of the royal palace coming in, she quickly stopped and asked, "Teacher, has Lord Zhou agreed to help grandpa treat his illness?"
"Oh." The chief of the clan shook his head and sighed, not knowing how to explain to his disciples.
The chief official named Chongguang, the courtesy name Chongguang, was named Chengpeng, a native of Kaifeng Prefecture. When he was young, he was in trouble with his hometown and was in Kaifeng. At that time, the prince Zhu Gongxiao was only fifteen years old. He was wandering on the street and saw the miserable refugees, and ordered people to open a porridge shed to help. Guan Chongguang's mother used the porridge water he received to feed Guan Chongguang. Guan Chongguang, who was only three years old, insisted that his mother drink it before drinking it.
Seeing that the child was very interesting, Zhu Gongxiao took Guan Chongguang and his son back to the palace. When Guan Chongguang was five years old, he went to find the King of Zhou alone, saying that he wanted to do things and make a living, and did not want to eat and live in vain. The King of Zhou asked him what he could do, and Guan Chongguang said that he could let the prince study. The King of Zhou asked him how he could let the prince study? Guan Chongguang said, I could study even at such a young age, and if the prince was not even comparable to me, wouldn’t he feel embarrassed!
I won’t talk about the system of the vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty. What the emperors most hoped for is to raise the vassal kings into a group of pigs. There is no problem with illiteracy, no problem with no cultivation, no problem with bullying men and women. As long as you don’t think about the throne, nothing else is a problem. The King of Zhou is not concerned about the prince because of this reason. He teaches his children to study and practice martial arts, and then can’t go to Kaifeng City. It would be better to let him live a confused life.
The appearance of Guan Chongguang made the King of Zhou and the Prince of Zhou find good toys. The King of Zhou asked Guan Chongguang to be his companion to read for the prince to see how this little kid made the prince study. Many years later, Guan Chongguang expressed his thoughts at that time. He just wanted to study and had no money to study, so he came up with such a trick. But in fact, the prince and Guan Chongguang had been reading books for several days together and became interested in reading.
The prince of the Analects of Confucius knew half of the time, and Guan Chongguang only knew a few words. When he was studying every day, Guan Chongguang's small handboard was often red. The professor of the royal family who often used rotten wood to describe the prince was praised for his progress for several days. In this way, a seventeen-year-old boy and a five-year-old child competed in academics. In order to ensure his advantage, the prince spent more and more time studying every day, and his chances of being beaten were fewer and fewer.
Ten years later, the fifteen-year-old Guan Chongguang passed the imperial examination for the title of scholar and passed the imperial examination in the second year. When everyone thought that Guan Chongguang would become the first Jinshi among the diners of the royal palace, Guan Chongguang came to find King Zhou again, hoping to take up the position of the chief of the royal palace. The chief of the royal palace was of a high rank, and he was a fifth rank, and even the top scorer was only a sixth rank.
But the chief of the royal family in the Ming Dynasty had a small problem. If he was appointed, he would not be promoted, unless the emperor sent him to monitor the royal family. If Guan Chongguang took the position of chief of the prince from the King of Zhou, he would never leave the prince's palace in his life. The prince also advised Guan Chongguang several times, and Guan Chongguang said, how can he establish himself in the world if he did not repay his life. In this way, the 16-year-old scholar who was amazed and charming became the chief of the Zhou prince's palace, and it has been fifteen years since then.
The girl who practices martial arts is sixteen years old this year. She is the eldest daughter of the prince of the Zhou king. Her name is Zhu Ying and her nickname is Baoer. Zhu Ying is not an ordinary person. She studied with Guan Chongguang at the age of five or six, and she liked to read military books and war books at a young age. In addition to studying, she also forced the head of the palace guards to teach her martial arts. After ten years, her literary affairs are not as good as that of the teacher Guan Chongguang, but her martial arts skills have long surpassed those of the head of the guards. She picked three with one hand and fought five with one sword.
After chatting with the teacher Guan Chongguang for a few words, Guan Chongguang left with great worries. Zhu Ying respectfully sent the teacher away, curled his lips and walked back to the room to pack a small bag, put on a cloak, and climbed out of the courtyard wall and disappeared.
Zhou Shixiong's good mood was bad in the palace. When he returned to the inn, he teased a few girls, and pulled You Min back to his room to do something he loved. At noon the next day, Wu Shijin's staff brought a group of river workers to the inn. Wu Shijin worked very hard. In addition to working hard on women at home, he also worked hard to do what Zhou Shixiong told him. There were 100 river workers who were good at controlling water and 100 river workers who were good at building roads.
With 200 river workers and more than 300 small companies, Zhou Shixiong's convoy instantly expanded to 250 large cars. In addition, military weapons and armor also cost fifty large cars. Zhou Shixiong really wanted to see how spectacular it was to 300 large cars lined up.
Now that there is enough manpower, Liu Wang arranged people to go to the prefectures and counties in front to arrange food early, otherwise it would be a problem for nearly a thousand people in this group to eat. Liu Ning also sent a cavalry team of 200 people. These people were Liu Ning's servants, not given to Zhou Shixiong. Their food and accommodation were not to worry about Liu Wang, which finally made Liu Wang relieved.
On December 22, the seventh year of Tianqi, the imperial convoy headed to Guangxi through Nanxunmen. Looking at the convoy that could not be seen, the residents of Kaifeng City sighed, "Are you not afraid of scattering your skin and filling it with grass?"
A team of more than 30 people followed the imperial envoy's convoy and slowly headed south. The knight in front of him was thin and his cloak covered his entire face. When he left the city gate, the city gatekeeper wanted him to lift up his hood, but the two knights of the knights could not afford to offend the city gatekeeper. These two were the Silver Fox, the boss of the Nancheng City in Kaifeng Prefecture, and the other was the Land-headed Ma San in Tianshui Lane.
If the two were just city foxes and clubs, the city gatekeepers would give them face at most, but they had a considerable force behind them, so they would not dare to offend a city gatekeeper.
"My master, we are probably not enough." The surname of the Silver Fox, Hu, was named Hu Guangli. Because he was young, he was only in his forties and had a white hair. In addition, this person was good at using conspiracy and tricks to plot against his opponents, so the people on the road gave him the nickname Silver Fox.
"You have to figure out that the purpose of this time is not wealth. As long as you tie up this imperial envoy, you will have as much wealth as you want." The thin little girl, who is called Xiaoye, actually said hoarsely.
"Baimao, don't show your calculations in front of me. If you make any mistakes, just save money." Only Ma San can talk to Silver Fox like this. Ma San is different from Silver Fox. He has no power. He just opened a shop to collect old goods in Tianshui Lane. But the underground people in Kaifeng City all know that the old goods collected by Mr. Ma San was originally named Zhexiang. Only after passing through Mr. Ma San's shop can he be changed to the name of the old goods.
If you can get stolen goods in Kaifeng Prefecture, let alone you can't deceive the locals, even those crossing river dragons. Silver Fox clearly remembers that when he was living with his ex-Nancheng boss, Ma San had already opened that shop.
"San Master, the young one is just talking a few more words, don't be angry." They are all here, don't be serious about talking and other words. Don't look at the silver fox being so polite to Ma San, Ma San felt a cold air passing through his spine.
"Call me Ma San, no one is qualified to use the word "Master" in front of me." Ma San still pushed the silver fox without any hesitation. The silver fox was not angry, but instead looked at the thin knight with a serious expression and stopped talking.
The Knight, known as Xiaoye, is obviously the leader of this team. He does not pay attention to the open and secret struggles between the two subordinates, but only thinks about the details of this action in his mind.
Zhou Shixiong returned to teasing beautiful women in the car and trained the puppy next time. Although Shi Qianhu had come to ask if he needed to give it away, Zhou Shixiong really had no idea about the people under his command. Even if he had no courage, it would be useless even if he had a knife.
I couldn't read a book while wandering in the car, so Zhou Shixiong turned into a horse trainer in the morning. The red horse he used for was almost turned into a red rabbit horse, and the color was easy to deal with, but the defects of the horse breed made Zhou Shixiong helpless. Don't think that genetic adjustment can turn a bear into a flying bear, that's impossible. It's already the limit to turning a dwarf Yunnan horse into a tall Arabian horse.
As for the content of horse training, it is also very attractive. I don’t know if you have heard of dressage. It is one of the events of the Olympic equestrian competition. The rider controls the horses on the horse and lets the horses dance elegantly. Zhou Shixiong is doing this, making the horses completely follow his orders and run and stop quickly. Now he is learning to move sideways and move forward and backward.
Zhou Shixiong initially expected to complete the training in half a month, but after only three mornings of training, the red horse had basically mastered it. The rest was to let it match the basic movements and eventually form a complex dressage.
"Young Master, you are so awesome." As soon as Zhou Shixiong got off the horse, Shimazu Nan walked over with a hot towel, staring at Zhou Shixiong with stars in his eyes.
"Aren't you learning boxing? You're also interested in taming animals?" Zhou Shixiong knew that this way of training horses was useless, but it was extremely attractive to the little girl. When he first watched a dressage performance, he was a foreign girl wearing a tight knight's uniform, controlling a famous stallion to perform. That feeling was so handsome.
The convoy arrived in Xuzhou through Weishi City. It was originally called Xuchang. Those who have seen the Three Kingdoms know about Lao Cao and Xuchang. Zhou Shixiong, who had originally decided not to enter the city, had to go in and take a look. The Jun kiln here is also very famous.
There are countless ruins of the Three Kingdoms, and there are more than 80 places in Xuchang. Because of his rush, Zhou Shixiong took a few girls who had just learned how to ride a horse and did something very consistent with the idiom, which was to take a quick look. However, there were too many famous places in Xuchang, and he wanted to see them all in one day. If the weather wasn't too cold, Zhou Shixiong wouldn't have persuaded these girls who were crazy to go back to the inn.
Since Zhou Shixiong didn't want to have so many social engagements, he did not notify Xuzhou magistrate. Although his convoy was so huge that everyone knew about it, since he pretended not to come, people didn't want to get on and find it uncomfortable. It's not that Zhou Shixiong was really worthless. There was no indefinite imperial envoy in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Don't underestimate these two words, it represents the emperor's majesty.
The local officials did not want to get close to Zhou Shixiong, mainly because they were afraid that the imperial envoy would ask for things. The imperial edict had provisions for supply to the prefectures and counties near him, which made all local officials who were approached tremble.
Chapter completed!