Kaifeng City is far away, and the official roads have become lively. Pedestrians and convoys are flowing continuously. Many ships have appeared on the river. In the green fields, busy farmers can be seen everywhere, which looks a bit similar to the scene outside Jinling City.

Li Jie was also very excited when he looked at the Kaifeng city wall in the distance. In fact, the original Beijing in the Ming Dynasty refers to Kaifeng. When Lao Zhu just became emperor, he captured Kaifeng and came to inspect in person. At that time, many people advised him to make Kaifeng the capital, but Lao Zhu only set Kaifeng as Beijing after inspecting it.

Later in the 11th year of Hongwu, Lao Zhu abolished the title of Beijing, mainly because he named his son Zhu Xu as King of Zhou, and the vassal state was in Kaifeng. Generally speaking, the capital of the country must not allow the vassal kings to be vassal, even if they were accompanying the capital, so Kaifeng lost the title of Beijing. Later, Zhu Di seized the throne and moved the capital to Beiping Prefecture, and then changed Peiping to Beijing.

Zhu Biao also looked at Kaifeng City with excitement at this time. It was his first time to come to Kaifeng. He had only learned about this former capital of Song Dynasty from books. He was very yearning for the Kaifeng City described in the book, and even he even collected a picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Unfortunately, it was just a work copied by his predecessors, and he had never seen the authentic ones.

However, as the team arrived at the city of Kaifeng, Li Jie and Zhu Biao were disappointed to find that Kaifeng City had actually seemed a little dilapidated, and there were even traces of repair on the city walls. Some relatively old walls still left some deep or shallow scars. Experienced people can even judge the tragic siege from these traces.

Seeing the dilapidated city walls, Li Jie and Zhu Biao couldn't help but look at each other. Both of them thought of the information about Kaifeng they had collected before.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Kaifeng suffered great damage. Later, although the Jin Dynasty once used Kaifeng as its sub-capital, the Mongolians destroyed the Jin Dynasty. In addition, during the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Red Turban Army led by Han Liner, the king of Xiaoming, also used Kaifeng as its capital and fought fiercely with the Mongols.

It can be said that Kaifeng City was destroyed several times by war. Kaifeng is no longer the extremely prosperous Tokyo Bianliang back then. Even the population of Kaifeng is only more than 200,000, which is already the total population of Kaifeng City and the villages outside the city.

"Before he came, my father said that Kaifeng was the least optimistic city he was in. When he came to Kaifeng for inspection, he found that Kaifeng had been destroyed by war long ago. Even if it was established as the capital, it would be difficult to restore the prosperity of the past." At this time, Zhu Biao suddenly sighed.

"Yes, Your Majesty also said that Kaifeng's terrain is too low, and the water surface of the Yellow River next to it is higher than the ground, so it is easy to be dug up by people to dig up the Yellow River to dig up the city. When the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, it once dig up the city, so it is not suitable for the capital of the country." Li Jie also sighed at this time.

When Lao Zhu came to Kaifeng for inspection, so many people advised him to establish Kaifeng as the capital. After all, Kaifeng's reputation was too great. However, Lao Zhu, as a master of strategy, could see the defects of Kaifeng in the terrain at a glance, so he gave up this idea. This is also the main reason why Lao Zhu told them that he was not optimistic about Kaifeng before Li Jie and Zhu Biao came.

When the team arrived at the city of Kaifeng, many officials came to greet the city gate, but the leader was a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, who looked about the same age as Zhu Yunxi, but he looked serious. When he saw Zhu Biao get off the car, he immediately stepped forward and bowed: "My minister Zhu Youzhuo pays homage to the crown prince!"

Zhu Youzhu was the son of King Zhu Shi, Zhou. The previous year, Zhu Youzhu left Kaifeng without authorization to Fengyang, which made Lao Zhu furious. He wanted to demote him to Yunnan, but later he still couldn't bear to let him go, so he summoned Zhu Youzhu to the capital to house arrest, leaving Zhu Youzhu to guard Kaifeng for Zhu Shu.

Zhu Biao was also very happy to see his nephew, so he immediately stepped forward to support Zhu Youzhu and smiled and said, "Your nephew doesn't have to be polite. Your father is in the capital, but he probably will be back this year. Thank you for your hard work in the past two years!"

"My father wrote a letter recently and said that he was going to come back, and in the letter, his father said that thanks to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince pleaded for him, otherwise he would not know when he would come back." Zhu Youdun said this and saluted Zhu Biao again.

However, Zhu Biao pulled him up and smiled and said, "Don't always be Your Highness, your highness, your highness call me uncle. When did you become so kind to me? When you were just born, I hugged you!"

When Zhu Biao heard what he said, Zhu Youzhu smiled embarrassedly and changed his words: "What uncle taught me is that my nephew is too kind. My uncle is in Kaifeng for a while, and my nephew can just listen to my uncle's teachings!"

Seeing that Zhu Youzhuan was so polite and polite, Zhu Biao was overjoyed and immediately pulled Li Jie and smiled and said to him: "See, if Yunwen and Yunyu were like Youzhuan, I would have been much more worry-free!"

"This is Uncle Jing Hai?" Unexpectedly, Zhu Youzun looked at Li Jie a few times, and then he even called out his identity.

"In the next Li Jie, I will pay homage to the Prince of Zhou!" Li Jie was also surprised by Zhu Youzhu's intelligence, and immediately saluted him with a smile.

"Brother-in-law is so polite. I can often hear my brother-in-law's name in Kaifeng, and I admire her very much. I am really lucky to see you today!" Zhu Youzhu also returned to Li Jie at this time.

Li Jie was also very happy when he heard this. The other party had more eyesight than Zhu Yunyu, so he changed his words and called himself brother-in-law, which made him feel good about Zhu Youzhuan.

After a few greetings, Zhu Youzun also invited Zhu Biao and the others to enter the city. The city had already prepared a residence, while Zhu Biao and Li Jie and the others moved directly into the Zhou Palace. Zhu Youzun even wanted to give up his bedroom to Zhu Biao to live in, but was rejected by Zhu Biao. After all, he was not convenient to enter the inner house of the Zhou Palace, so he lived in the front hall of the palace.

Zhu Youzhuo had already prepared a welcome banquet, and then personally hosted Zhu Biao and his group. Zhu Youzhuo performed very well at the banquet. Although he was young, he was very talkative and very knowledgeable. Even when Zhu Biao asked about the situation in Kaifeng City, Zhu Youzhuo also answered questions and showed talents far beyond his age.

Finally, Zhu Biao couldn't help but sigh again that his two sons were so much worse than Zhu Youzhu. Even Li Jie had to admit that if Zhu Yunyu was as smart as Zhu Youzhu, he would have been pleased with Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao long ago, and Zhu Yunwen would not have had any chance.

In fact, Zhu Youzhu in history is famous for his erudition and talent, especially for zaju opera, and has a certain status in the history of Chinese opera.

In addition, Zhu Youzhuo also valued feelings. After the death of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, they would let their concubines be buried with them. However, when Zhu Youzhuo wrote a letter to Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty to not allow his princess and others to be buried with them. Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty also agreed at that time, but when the imperial edict was issued, Zhu Youzhuo's princess and others had already hanged himself, which made Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty helpless and could only give the titles of Zhenlie and Zhenshun.

Zhu Biao was very happy when he met such an excellent nephew and couldn't help but drink a few more drinks at the banquet. At the end, he was already 70% or 80% drunk. Li Jie and Zhu Youzun also helped him to the bedroom himself. As a result, Zhu Biao fell asleep lying on the bed. Zhu Youzun thoughtfully covered Zhu Biao with a quilt.

Then Zhu Youzun personally sent Li Jie to his residence. On the way, Zhu Youzun also asked Li Jie for some things, such as hot air balloons, Japanese pirates and other news that had been spreading long ago. Li Jie also answered one by one. When Zhu Youzun encountered some things he was interested in, he would take the initiative to ask, and he would also give Li Jie a reply to the answer, which made Li Jie secretly call the evil spirit. This prince of Zhou was too smart, right?

"Brother-in-law, you have worked hard all the way, so I won't disturb you to rest!" In the end, Zhu Youzun sent Li Jie back to his residence, so he said goodbye to him.

"Stay here, I have a letter here and you need to pass it on!" Li Jie suddenly called Zhu Youzun and said.

"Letter?" Zhu Youzhu was stunned when he heard this. He really couldn't figure out what letter would Li Jie have to make him more familiar with?

Li Jie reached out and took out a letter from his sleeve, and handed it to Zhu Youdun and said, "Duke Song knew that I was coming to Kaifeng, so he asked me to hand it over to Princess Zhou in private. Because it was a private message, it was not convenient for me to take it out at the banquet just now."

Zhu Youzhu's mother's surname is Feng, and she is the daughter of Feng Sheng, Duke of Song Dynasty. In other words, Zhu Youzhu is actually Feng Sheng's grandson.

"Brother-in-law, do you still know grandfather?" Zhu Youzun immediately took it excitedly when he heard that it was grandfather's letter. He didn't expect that Li Jie would hide such a surprise.

"Haha, both Song Duke and I work in the newly established martial arts. In the past few months before I came, I have been discussing martial arts with Song Duke. In addition, I am also a junior of Song Duke, so Song Duke asked me to bring a letter." Li Jie replied with a smile.

"So that's it, thank you brother-in-law! My mother will definitely be very happy when she sees my grandfather's letter!" Zhu Youzhu immediately said with joy.

After Zhu Youzun finished speaking, he immediately said goodbye to Li Jie, and then walked towards the inner house excitedly with the letter. Li Jie looked at Zhu Youzun's back and smiled slightly.

Zhu Youzhuan had no problem, but his father Zhu Su was not a good deal. After Zhu Biao died, Zhu Su was not very honest. Even after Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, Zhu Su wanted to rebel. His chief Wang Han realized that he had persuaded him many times, but Zhu Su didn't listen. In the end, Wang Han had to pretend to be crazy and escape.

However, before Zhu Shi's rebellion was carried out, he was reported by his second son. As a result, the court sent Li Jinglong to raid Kaifeng, arrested Zhu Shi and demoted him to a commoner. Later, after Zhu Di seized the throne, he immediately restored Zhu Shi's younger brother's title and added 5,000 stones.

However, Zhu Shi was only grateful to Zhu Di on the surface, but secretly began to accumulate strength to rebel again. As a result, Zhu Di was caught and summoned to the capital to question him. In the end, Zhu Shi cried and pleaded guilty. After all, Zhu Di was the brother of his mother and was not willing to kill him in the end. Zhu Shi was also very tactful and handed over his three guards to the court, and finally escaped.
Chapter completed!