Zhu Ming looked confused now, slowly thinking about what happened last night. He didn't know how long he had been dancing. In his impression, he seemed to have been dancing all the time, and he couldn't feel the passage of time until it was already dark.
, everyone dispersed, and he suddenly felt very sleepy. He was carried to the bed in a daze, and no one knew what happened to him after that.
He reached out and touched both sides, but did not touch anything other than the quilt. He looked at both sides again, and there was no trace of a woman spending the night. He couldn't help but secretly wonder: Could it be that he had made a mistake?
While he was still thinking, he probably heard a noise in the room. A maid came in and said with a smile: "Your Highness, would you like to get up?" Her voice was mellow and she spoke very fluent Chinese.
"Serve alone and get up." Zhu Ming didn't think about what he had or what he had, and prepared to get up.
He got dressed under the service of the maid, and Dao Siluan came over and respectfully invited him to have breakfast. Zhu Chu also felt a little hungry, so he got up and followed Dao Siluan to the dining place.
However, although Dao Siluan's attitude was very respectful, Zhu Xi always felt that he seemed to have a lot of opinions about him.
After dinner, Zhu Ming called all the generals and local officials over to discuss matters.
"Today the army must begin to move out. Since the great marquis Zhizhou Dao Fengyou has appointed you as the former army general, you will lead the four thousand men and horses of your headquarters to Jiangtou City immediately; Meng raised thousands of households with long swords and Yubin, and you will do the same.
, leading a thousand troops from his headquarters, Gu then sent a thousand Han troops to Jiangtou City to join the army that had gone there before. Your uncle Dao Mudan recommended you to Gu to serve as the former military counselor to command Meng Yang's former army.
, don’t let me down." Zhu Ming ordered.
Dao Fengou and Dao Yubin both said: "I will definitely obey His Highness Zhao's order."
"Chu Jie, Wang Yong, the 13,000 Han troops sent to the central army, Dao Mudan, 10,000 Meng Yang troops from the left army, Si Renfa, 10,000 Luchuan troops from the right army..., the central army,
The 60,000 troops of the Left Army and the Right Army must also be prepared and ready to go at any time." Zhu Zhen said again.
Several people whose names were called by Zhu Chu also said: "Yes, Your Highness."
"Li Guan, Mu Chui, the rear army composed of the Han Army and the Lijiang Army led by you two can rest in Mengyang for a few more days, but remember to pay attention to military discipline, no matter whether you are alone or not in Mengyang, you must pay attention."
He also gave instructions to Li Guan and Mu Kui.
"Yes, Your Highness." The two of them agreed hastily.
Zhu Ming gave a few more instructions and asked them to disperse.
Not long after, the sound of people shouting and neighing was heard from near the city. The Han army and the Meng Yang army that were about to be sent to Jiangtou City were just fighting back. The prince's army had just arrived near Meng Yang City last night and was still fighting.
I haven't had a good rest and am very reluctant to go to Jiangtou City now.
Dao Fengqi relied on the authority of his leader to force them to leave. These people did not dare to disobey the leader's order and began to pack their things, but they were also very reluctant.
Dao Fengqi said to them: "It is actually a good thing for us to transfer to the former army! We can be the first to fight with the Burmese. It is not that we have not fought with the Burmese before. We happened to have grievances and revenge; and there are also
Isn’t it a good thing that the spoils of war can be plundered?”
When the small-headed men under his command heard such words, some of them drooled when they thought of the Burmese's treasures in the city, and their morale immediately rose. When they returned to their own team, their men became much more efficient in packing things.
Already.
After Zhu Jie heard the report, he said to Chu Jie: "These barbarian troops are actually quite useful and they fight very hard, but their military discipline is a little poor."
"What His Highness said is that before, King Qianning (Mu Ying) and Duke Qian (Mu Chun) sent troops to quell the rebellion and recruited barbarian soldiers. They fought very hard and were extremely brave. However, after winning the battle, they always looted and were difficult to restrain.
"Chu Jie said.
"Actually, it's not enough to rob property. They also like to rob people from other tribes as slaves. This is very bad. Chu Jie, you send people to Jiangtou City to warn Yan Wu. After the troops invade the city, they are strictly prohibited from setting fire to the city. It is strictly prohibited.
Robbery of slaves, as for other things, don’t worry too much, let our own army be relaxed and relaxed. But remember not to start a fight just to grab a few goods, and you must also pay attention to precautions." Zhu Zhen said again.
"Yes, Your Highness." Chun Chujie replied.
In the afternoon, Zhu Gong reviewed several documents transferred from Yongchang. Although there were more barbarians in his territory than Han people, there were still some Han people. After handling these Han affairs, Minfan Right Prime Minister Zhuo Jing would send them to him for review.
look.
Most of the essays that Zhuo Jing has approved will not be changed. Even if there is a small amount that needs to be changed, he will list the reason for the change and send it back.
After reviewing these documents, Zhu Zhen called over his son Arigong, who was sent by Ayuegong, the prefect of Shunning, and talked with him.
Most of the barbarian people in the places under Zhu Chu's jurisdiction now belong to the Dai people. Whether they are Mengyang, Luchuan, Mubang, Mengding, Menglian, or Menggen, they are all Dai people. But Shunning is different.
It is mainly composed of the Yi people, and the degree of Chineseization is extremely high. The writing of this ethnic group is about to be lost. Although he is a local prefect, he is not much different from the official prefect appointed by the imperial court.
Therefore, Zhu Zhen relied heavily on the Shunning Prefecture. On the one hand, he continued to strengthen his control over the Shunning Prefecture: he built a Confucius Temple in Shunning and set up social studies to teach local children to learn Chinese classics. Last year and this year, he also opened the imperial examination in Shunning, removing
In the county examination, many children and scholars were selected through the government examination and the academy examination, and it is planned that in next year's township examination, no matter how poorly the Yi scholar examination papers are written, at least one scholar will be selected.
On the other hand, he also continued to win over the upper echelons of the Shunning Mansion, conferring many hereditary generals. He also asked Yunxi for instructions and appointed the upper echelons of the Yi tribe's hereditary generals to serve as officials in the Central Plains.
This time he called Arigong over and told him about the war and how he 'taken care' of the troops from Shuning Prefecture by arranging them with the Chinese Army, and asked Arigong to leave with a grateful expression.
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"These barbarians are easy to deceive. Even if he doesn't really thank Gu and his expression just now was fake, he won't doubt that Gu has any bad intentions." Zhu Zhen said to himself after Arrigong retreated.
Later, he criticized a few more memorials, and in the blink of an eye it was already dark. Zhu Ming stood up from the chair, ordered the guards to take down all the memorials and send them back to Yongchang, and then turned around and left the house.
He had just walked out a few steps when he met Dao Mudan. After saluting him, Dao Mudan said: "Your Highness, does your Highness have anything to do tonight? I want to entertain Your Highness again, and I wonder if Your Highness can give me a favor."
Zhu Chu didn't have anything to do, but he said: "I have some things to do tonight, but I don't have to worry about it now."
"Then please, Your Highness, follow me here." Dao Mudan led Zhu Zhen to a very spacious house.
Dao Mudan waited for Zhu Chu to sit down, clapped his hands, and the servants came in with a lot of food and put it on the table. Dao Mudan said: "In addition to the food yesterday, I, Meng Yang, also have these things for Your Highness to taste."
"Just tell me, you are such a big chieftain, how can you only have those things? Sure enough, there are still good things hidden." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.
"Nothing can be hidden from His Highness," Dao Mudan also smiled: "But apart from these, there is really nothing special. There are only some dances because it was getting late last night and I couldn't let His Highness see them all."
"Oh, I saw more than a dozen kinds of dances yesterday, are there any that I haven't seen?" Zhu Zhen said with some surprise. He enjoyed a lot of dances yesterday, but there are still some that he hasn't seen yet.
Dao Mudan smiled proudly: "Although we Dai people are not as good as the Han people, we still have a long history and have many songs and dances."
He then clapped his hands again, and several young men and women walked into the room and performed a song and dance in the center of the room.
In the blink of an eye, Zhu Chu watched two more dances, and Dao Mudan clapped his hands again. A beautiful woman walked in, saluted Zhu Chu and Dao Mudan and started dancing.
Zhu Zhen felt that this woman and her dance looked familiar. After thinking about it for a moment, he said to Dao Mudan: "This woman is the woman who danced the peacock dance yesterday, right? And the dance she dances now looks very similar to the peacock dance yesterday."
The dance is very similar."
"To be honest with Your Highness, she is the girl who danced the peacock dance yesterday, and she is also my daughter." Dao Mudan said.
"Your daughter?" Zhu Ming was surprised.
"Yes, Your Highness. And although the dance she is dancing now is also the peacock dance, it is different from yesterday's dance. Yesterday's dance was the female peacock dance, and today's dance is the little peacock dance, and the dance steps are different." Dao Mudan continued.
Zhu Ming didn't know what he wanted to do, so he didn't say anything and just ate the food and drinks.
After a while, the dance was finished. Dao Mudan's daughter came over to Dao Mudan and said to Dao Mudan in Chinese: "Dad."
Dao Mudan also said to her in Chinese: "Go ahead, don't be shy."
Zhu Chu didn't understand what they were doing, so he saw the woman walking in front of him, squatting down, and opened her mouth, but she finally said something in Thai, and Zhu Chu couldn't understand it. But the woman was already blushing.
His face retreated behind Dao Mudan.
Dao Mudan said to Zhu Ming helplessly: "Your Highness, to be honest with you, my daughter Dao Baifeng has fallen in love with you and wants to marry him. I encouraged her to propose to your highness according to the custom of the Dai people, but she
I'm a little shy and can't say it."
"This..." Zhu Chu's first feeling was that he couldn't help but smile. He felt like he was being teased by a barbarian woman, just like a good woman from a good family.
However, he came back to his senses immediately and looked at the woman. The woman's face was crimson. When she saw his eyes and looked over, she lowered her head and did not dare to look at him. Zhu Chu was not a young girl, so he concluded at a glance that this virgin, who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, was not a virgin.
I wasn't acting, my heart suddenly moved.
This kind of southwestern ethnic customs was something he had never experienced before, which made him a little obsessed and very excited for a while.
But ordinary women are just fine. The daughter of Meng Yang Chieftain cannot be taken in casually. He not only has to consider the issue of identity, but also has to carefully consider the impact on the fief.
But he just thought about it for a while and then he thought: 'I, Zhu Chu, am the king of a feudal country, so even if it's troublesome to bring a girl to my side, so what!'
Then he said: "In that case, let Gu Lai propose to Dao Baifeng and grant her the status of a concubine."
Dao Mudan was not particularly satisfied. He hoped that his daughter could become a concubine. But he was still able to accept it and said with a smile: "Thank you, Your Highness."
"How do you Dai people propose marriage? Let me imitate it." Zhu Ming stood up and said. He was suddenly very curious about the Dai people's marriage proposal.
Dao Mudan smiled and guided him to propose to Dao Baifeng. Dao Baifeng shyly said a few words in Thai, and Dao Mudan translated it to Zhu Zhen. Then he went back and forth several times to complete the Dai's proposal.