After being granted the title of Marquis, Han Du knew that no matter how great his achievements were, Lao Zhu would never make his own Duke. Lao Zhu must leave his own Duke to Zhu Biao.
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At this time, Han Du wanted to lie down directly.
Seeing Zhu Biao looking at him with a speechless expression, Han Du laughed twice and reluctantly explained: "You have to give other navy officers a chance, right?"
Zhu Biao smiled helplessly, reluctantly accepted Han Du's statement, and did not mention the matter again.
As the naval fleet approached the old port, Wang Yuanji, the governor of the old port, and Shi Jinqing, the consolation envoy of the old port, stood hand in hand on the port, waiting for the arrival of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ??
The flagship slowly sailed into the port. As soon as the planks were put up, Zhu Biao's guards got off the ship first and stood guard on both sides of the road.
Han Du stood next to Zhu Biao, bowed slightly and asked: "Your Highness, should we disembark now, or?"
Zhu Biao stood on the bow of the ship, with no intention of moving. Instead, he looked sideways at Han Du and said with a smile: "I heard that the governor of the old port is your disciple?"
Han Du knew that Zhu Biao was referring to Wang Yuanji, grinned, and replied humbly: "What a master, I just taught him physics and chemistry. The Four Books and Five Classics he learned to pass the Jinshi exam were taught by Fang Xiaoru. Besides, I just taught him the Four Books and Five Classics."
A vice-president of the academy cannot be considered his master no matter how he counts. If we really want to talk about a disciple, he should be the emperor's disciple, because the president of the academy is the emperor."
Zhu Biao's eyes widened when he heard this, and he asked quickly: "Are you telling the truth? My father is actually the judge of the academy?"
Seeing Han Du smiling and nodding slightly.
Zhu Biao suddenly smiled freely, which was unexpected but also reasonable. He shook his head and said with a smile: "If you didn't tell me, I would never have thought that my father is actually the judge of the academy."
"No wonder you, the person who founded the academy, can only be a deputy judge. No wonder when rumors of fraud in the examination room spread, my father did not directly issue an order to arrest him, but gave you time to find your own defense."
Evidence." Zhu Biao sighed deeply.
As the saying goes: A son is better than his father! In turn, Zhu Biao, the son, knew his father much better than ordinary people. When the fraud scandal first broke out, Zhu Biao felt that his father's reaction was a bit strange. But his father's reaction was a bit strange.
His actions were also to protect the students taking the scientific examination and did not kill innocent people indiscriminately, so Zhu Biao was happy to see the results and did not interfere.
"Then why didn't you stop Wang Yuanji in the first place? Let him come to this old port to be the governor?" One after another, another doubt arose in Zhu Biao's mind.
Han Du smiled and asked: "Your Highness, do you think it is not good to be the governor?"<
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Zhu Biao shook his head slightly and said: "Don't pretend to know anything in front of me. I don't believe it. You can't see that my father has high hopes for Wang Yuanji. If he stays in the capital, he will stay with his father."
Sooner or later, everyone around me will rise to great heights. Isn't it a pity to come to this overseas country?"
"I don't think so." Han Du said calmly.
Zhu Biao was greatly surprised by Han Du's reaction. Why is it that everyone in the world knows that accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger, but there are still countless people rushing to the front to accompany the emperor? That's because it is in front of the emperor that a person can flourish most.
There is no faster shortcut!
Ordinary scholars are not even qualified to serve as officials, but how can Zhan Hui, who was born as a scholar, directly become a second-rank official minister in just three or four years? Isn't it because he fell in the eyes of the emperor?
, always accompanying the emperor?
Seeing the confusion on Zhu Biao's face, Han Du explained patiently: "Although Wang Yuanji's family background is not very good, he has never suffered much since he started studying. It can be said that he is like a flower growing in the house.
He has experienced ups and downs, has never been poor and grown up, and has never been beaten. If he had stayed in the capital, even if he had good luck, he would be like a flower in the house. Once he was moved to the courtyard, he would be like a flower.
It was shattered into pieces and withered by a storm."
"On the contrary, I think it will be better for him if he comes to this old port. If nothing else, it can at least give him experience in governing a party and increase his horizons and knowledge. The benefits to his future are immeasurable.
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When Zhu Biao heard this, he immediately fell silent. After a while, he raised his head and asked, "Are you using Wang Yuanji's excuse to admonish Gu?"
"No, how could it be?" Han Du was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that what he just said seemed to mean something.
He quickly shook his head and said: "Your Highness is overthinking. I am really talking about Wang Yuanji based on the facts. Your Highness has been carefully taught by the Emperor for many years and has been supervising the country's administration. He has already had the demeanor of a prince. How can I evaluate him?"
"Really?" Zhu Biao glanced at Han Du with a meaningful smile, "But why do you think that what you said is also Gu's problem?"
"This" Han Du smiled awkwardly, not expecting Zhu Biao to respond.
I had no choice but to forcefully explain: "I'm just talking nonsense."
It’s nonsense, your highness will just listen to it for now.”
Zhu Biao did not continue to argue with Han Du and turned around to see the three pirates hanging on the mast in front.
He gestured towards them and asked casually: "What are you going to do with them?"
Seeing that Zhu Biao was no longer chasing after him, Han Du breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly: "Extort confessions through torture and let them tell everything they know."
After Zhu Biao heard this, he didn't say anything. He turned to Han Du and said, "Let's go, it's time for us to go down, so as not to keep them waiting for a long time."
"Your Highness, please!" Han Du smiled and stretched out his hand to signal Zhu Biao to go first.
Zhu Biao walked in front without hesitation and stepped off the boat step by step.
Seeing Zhu Biao coming down, Wang Yuanji and Shi Jinqing both paid their respects: "My lord, I would like to pay my respects to His Highness the Crown Prince. His Highness is a thousand years old."
"No gifts." Zhu Biao smiled and waved.
Both Wang Yuanji and Shi Jinqing met Zhu Biao in person. Wang Yuanji met Zhu Biao more than once in the Hanlin Academy, while Shi Jinqing met Zhu Biao when he went to Beijing to pay an audience with the emperor.
Wang Yuanji straightened up, saw Han Du behind Zhu Biao, and quickly bowed slightly to signal.
Han Du gave him a reassuring look.
Wang Yuanji then turned back to focus on the prince, bowed and said: "Your Highness has come all the way, and I am late to greet you. Please forgive me for being late. I have prepared a small amount of wine to wash away the wind and dust for Your Highness. Please move on."
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Zhu Biao smiled and waved his hand to stop Wang Yuanji, and said: "No hurry, Gu Gu has come all the way. Although he has seen many prosperous ports in Nanyang, this is the first time he has seen such a strange Gu as the old port. Gu wants to take a good look while walking.
have a look."
As the governor of Old Port, Wang Yuanji certainly does not want Zhu Biao to move around. This does not mean that he has any shady secrets here. But as Zhu Biao is the prince, this Old Port is a mixed bag, with Ming maritime merchants and common people.
There are Shi family, natives, Westerners, slaves, etc.
Wang Yuanji was worried about the prince's safety. If there was an accident, he would never atone for his sin.
Shi Jinqing stood and looked at Wang Yuanji with a concerned look. His thoughts were the same as Wang Yuanji's, and he only hoped that Wang Yuanji could persuade His Royal Highness.
However, in the face of the prince's request, no matter how courageous Wang Yuanji was, he did not dare to say the word "no". He quickly bowed and said: "I obey!"
Afterwards, Wang Yuanji looked at Shi Jinqing with a bitter look on his face.
Shi Jinqing immediately understood what Wang Yuanji meant, and quickly ordered the people around him to ensure the safety of His Royal Highness no matter what.
Compared with the tension of Wang Yuanji and Shi Jinqing, Han Du seemed a little relaxed. When Zhu Biao went to sea this time, Lao Zhu gave him two thousand pro-troops. With these pro-troop guards armed to the teeth, even Wang Yuanji and Shi Jinqing
If you don't do anything, no one can hurt Zhu Biao at all.
Zhu Biao walked in front, and Wang Yuanji and Shi Jinqing lined up on Zhu Biao's left and right, and they blocked Zhu Biao's figure intentionally or unintentionally.
Han Du and Tang Ding followed behind, slowly walking towards the harbor.
Zhu Biao walked slowly, looking to the left and right. He saw all kinds of people. Their hair was curly, straight, yellow, brown, etc., and their eyes were also yellow and blue.
They were all different. The differences in facial features, body shape and clothing were even greater, which made Zhu Biao stare at them intently.
"How many Westerners are there in this old port? And why do these people look so different?" Zhu Biao asked with curiosity and sigh.
Wang Yuanji heard this and quickly replied: "Back to your highness, although these people are called Westerners by the Ming Dynasty, according to themselves, they are from different kingdoms, and some of them are even hostile to each other."
"Oh? There is more than one kingdom in the West?" Zhu Biao asked curiously.
Wang Yuanji bowed and replied: "Yes, I heard that there are many Western kingdoms, dozens or hundreds. It is an extremely vast land."
Zhu Biao looked back at Han Du and sighed: "Sure enough, I have never been out of the country and don't know how big the world is. I didn't expect that the Western land is so vast."
Han Du took a step forward with a smile and said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, the kingdom over there in the West is completely different from what we are talking about. I heard that one city over there dares to call itself a duke, and three cities dare to call itself a kingdom. So.
, there seem to be many kingdoms over there in the West, but they are all just a piece of scattered sand."
"Three, three cities are a kingdom?" Zhu Biao was shocked. How old are three cities to dare to be king? If it were in the Ming Dynasty, whoever dared to be king with three cities would not be recognized by the world.
Are people being mocked to death?
After Lao Zhu raised his army, he occupied almost one-third of the world in just a few years. Even so, Zhu Sheng's advice to Lao Zhu was to "build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and be king slowly." The final fact
It proved that Zhu Sheng's advice to Lao Zhu was right. Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang, Fang Guozhen and others who all proclaimed themselves kings and emperors were all lost in the long river of history. Only Lao Zhu, who always insisted not to call himself king, had the last laugh.