Luo Guanzhong finally discovered that when His Royal Highness the King of Chu called his name rudely, he was probably giving him some benefits.
On the contrary, if he politely calls himself 'Mr. Guanzhong', he will most likely do nothing good.
After a few days of this, Luo Guanzhong was a little confused and couldn't tell the difference between good and bad. As soon as he heard that His Highness was polite to him, his heart skipped a beat; when he heard that His Highness was not polite to him, he felt a little expectant.
Cursing secretly why he is becoming more and more mean? He really wants to ask His Highness, do you talk to your master like this?
Then Lao Luo put on the glasses angrily.
Then, his anger disappeared.
Because the vision is always blurry, like looking at flowers in the fog, but suddenly the clouds clear and the sun becomes clear!
"..." Luo Guanzhong opened his mouth wide, holding the frame of the mirror with his hand, looking up and down, left and right, and occasionally uttered exclamations such as 'Oh haha', 'Eh hee', 'Holy shit' and the like.
"I haven't seen it so clearly in thirty years..." He choked with excitement.
"Get a book for you, Teacher Luo, to read." Zhu Zhen ordered his grandson.
Li Fangyuan quickly handed the copy of "The Analects of Justice" to Luo Guanzhong.
Luo Guanzhong took it and subconsciously squinted to look at it.
"Try it without squinting." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "You have such big eyes, why do you wrinkle them into two chrysanthemums all day long?"
"..." Luo Guanzhong rolled his eyes at him, and then tried to open his eyes little by little. Sure enough, he could see the words clearly without squinting!
"Thank you..." Luo Guanzhong finally shed tears of joy.
"You're welcome, these are just the lenses I asked you to polish." Zhu Zhen then said with a smile: "When you are satisfied with me, I will have someone tailor-make a more suitable pair for you."
"Isn't this good enough?" Luo Guanzhong was surprised.
"That's right. You should behave well. Follow me, and your eyes will be bright." Zhu Zhen laughed proudly and said, "In every sense of the word."
"..." Luo Guanzhong was silent for a while, and then suddenly said: "There is a character in "Three Kingdoms" that I have always been unsure about. Thanks to Your Highness, I now know how to write about it."
"Who?" Zhu Zhen took the orange juice served by the high-speed rail.
"Prime Minister Cao."
‘Pfft…’ Zhu Zhen sprayed Robben in the face with a mouthful of yellow soup.
Luo Guanzhong's brand new glasses were immediately filled with fruit bits.
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The Chaohu Navy went north at night and arrived in Bianliang, Beijing half a month later.
This thousand-year-old city is another place of Chinese kingship after Luoyang. Since the Tang Dynasty, there has been a saying that whoever conquers Bianliang conquers the world.
But after the Northern Song Dynasty, it was like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and it was worse than the previous year. The main reason was that the level of governance in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties was low, and it was unable to serve the Yellow River as well as in the Northern Song Dynasty. As a result, the four major water transports in the Northern Song Dynasty were mainly the Yellow River and the Bianhe River.
'They were all silted up due to flooding in the Yellow River.
Frequent flooding also changed the ecological environment here, turning Bianliang, which was once called the "Northern Water City", into a vast sea of sand. This forced the Yuan Dynasty to move the Grand Canal further eastward, instead of passing through Henan, and switched to southwestern Shandong.
, Bianliang's decline was out of control.
Although Boss Zhu designated Bianliang as Beijing in the first year of Hongwu because it was the largest city in the world, after on-site inspection, he discovered that it was dilapidated and the people were in dire straits, so it no longer had the conditions to become a capital city again.
Only then did he abandon Bianliang and instead build Zhongdu...
However, when Lao Liu and his party arrived in Bianliang, it had been restored for ten years. Especially after it was designated as Beijing, Bianliang underwent a large-scale renovation. The rammed earth city walls built in the Jin Dynasty were reinforced with bricks and turned into a city.
Brick City.
At this time, Bianliang City was three feet high and two feet wide. There was a river surrounding the city, and the city wall had five gates. This pearl of the Central Plains, which had been in the hands of foreigners for hundreds of years and a thoroughfare to eight provinces, finally regained some of its former prosperity.
Xu Sima, the commander of the Henan capital, personally welcomed His Royal Highness the King of Chu at the Yellow River Pier.
To be honest, Lao Liu was not familiar with this sworn brother at all. Ever since he was sensible, Xu Sima had already gone to fight for Lao Zhu's family.
However, he mouthed "Brother Ma" in an extremely affectionate manner, and even hugged Xu Sima.
The horse was moved to tears and said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and your highness has grown into a young man!"
Xu Sima's feelings for the old Zhu family are sincere. He was from Yangzhou. He was only nine years old during the war in the late Yuan Dynasty, and his whole family died. When he was helpless, he was fortunate enough to be adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang as his adopted son and given the surname Zhu.
When the queen is older, she comes in and out with attendants.
When Wuzhou was captured, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed him as the commander-in-chief to assist Chang Yuchun in guarding Wuzhou. In the first year of Wu, he was awarded the title of Commanding Officer of Jinhua Guard. In the first year of Hongwu, he followed deputy general Li Wenzhong in the northern expedition and captured Yuanzong Wang Qingsheng alive. He was promoted to
He was the commander of the Hangzhou Guards, and soon he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the governor, and he was ordered to restore his original surname.
Like Ping An and Mu Ying, he is also a direct descendant of Lao Zhu's family. Before Lao Liu came, Boss Zhu personally told him to treat him as a biological brother...
Lao Liu and Xu Sima were both smart people, and soon they became as close as brothers. They got into the car hand in hand and entered Bianliang City.
In the car, Zhu Zhen saw a series of heads hanging high on the city gate. They must have been killed recently.
"After receiving the order, Brother Yu searched the entire city and carefully screened Bianliang City." Xu Sima quickly explained: "Oh, it's really shocking, there are wolves everywhere. These are only a small part, most of them are still there.
The interrogation has not been completed in prison."
"Is that so..." Zhu Zhen put down the car curtain, withdrew his gaze, and asked calmly: "Have all the members of the Ming Sect, White Lotus Sect, and other Maitreya Sect been arrested?"
"Only a part of them were caught." Xu Sima sighed: "Most of them had already received the news and ran away before we took action."
"..." Zhu Zhenxin said, then you have to settle the score with Liu Ying.
"The interrogation confessions are very different from the news coming from Nanjing. The three religions are indeed planning to take action when their highnesses return. Their large troops should have hidden in the Taihang Mountains by now." Xu Sima introduced again:
"We have now sent out scouts to keep an eye on the necessary routes out of the mountain. If there is any trouble, we will know it as soon as possible."
"Where are my second brother and the others now?" Zhu Zhen asked again.
"Your Highnesses plan to go through Beiping, Baoding, Jingding, Shunde, Zhangde, and cross the Yellow River from Bianliang." Xu Sima replied: "Then they will go to Fengyang via Bozhou to worship their ancestors and then return to Beijing. Today they should leave the boundaries of Peking."
"Where do you think the Three Churches will take action?"
"Oh, it's all possible. The Central Plains are flat and flat, and it's the same wherever you go." Xu Sima said: "If it were me, I would ambush in the upper reaches of several large rivers, advance by water and land, and attack them halfway across the river."
"It makes sense." Zhu Zhen said in deep agreement: "How big is such a river?"
"The big rivers in the Central Plains all flow from Taihang." Xu Sima said with a wry smile: "There are more than ten of them."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but complain: "Why can't your highnesses walk along the canal? It's close and safe!"
Zhu Zhenxin said haha...you go ask the damn old thief.
