Zhu Zhen did not refuse the proposal to go to Annan, which made Lao Zhu very happy. The father and son chatted for a long time, and Zhu Biao and Li Jie were also with him. It was not until the second day that Lao Zhu asked them to go back and rest.

Zhu Biao and Li Jie personally arranged accommodation for Zhu Zhen and his son, and left after they checked in. Li Jie also wanted to go home to rest, but at this time, Zhu Biao suddenly grabbed him and said, "Just just now, I found that your eyes at Meng Xiang were a little strange. What were you thinking at that time?"

"Your Highness, you've read it wrong. Your Highness and I have only met for the first time. I haven't known each other before. What can I think of?" Li Jie spread his hands and asked with an innocent look on his face.

"Really?" Zhu Biao carefully observed Li Jie's expression, but found nothing abnormal.

"Of course it's true, but although I haven't seen the prince before, I heard Yun Yu mention him. In addition, today I heard from His Majesty that he ran to Songjiang alone, so I felt that he was very brave at that time, so Your Highness misunderstood." Li Jie finally said helplessly again.

Seeing that Li Jie didn't seem to be lying, Zhu Biao also dispelled the suspicion in his heart and smiled and said, "Okay, maybe I misread it at the time, but Meng Chuang rarely comes to the capital. In the past few days, you and Yun Huang will accompany him more and walk around the capital. After all, he is likely to go to Annan with his sixth brother this time, and he doesn't know when he will come back in the future."

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will discuss it with Yunxi to make the prince have fun in the capital!" Li Jie immediately patted his chest and promised.

Hearing Li Jie's promise, Zhu Biao nodded with confidence. Then the two chatted for a few more times before saying goodbye to each other. However, when Zhu Biao left, Li Jie stood there for a long time and did not move. The smile on her face also calmed down, and instead changed into a worried look.

In fact, Zhu Biao read it correctly. When Li Jie looked at Zhu Mengguan before, a worry flashed through his heart, because he remembered something about Zhu Zhen. Although Zhu Zhen was good at fighting in history, he made a very serious mistake.

At that time, a rebellion occurred in Guizhou. When Zhu Zhen and King Xiang went to quell the rebellion, they obviously asked the court for 300,000 military pay, but in the end, Zhu Zhen did not lead the troops personally, resulting in the war being very unsuccessful. In the end, Lao Zhu was very angry and could only let the two build Tonggucheng to guard the local retreat.

The impact of this incident was quite serious, especially for Zhu Zhen himself, because since this incident, Zhu Zhen has never led troops again, but this also brings an advantage, that is, when Zhu Yunwen reduced the vassals in later generations, he did not target Zhu Zhen too much, and even when Zhu Di reduced the vassals later, Zhu Zhen was very distributive and not greatly affected.

However, why Zhu Zhen did not lead the army to fight in person has attracted a lot of interest. After all, judging from Zhu Zhen’s previous record, he was not a timid person, let alone sent troops with the King of Hunan, so there was no reason to worry. However, Zhu Zhen did not lead the army in person, which was simply too abnormal.

Later, someone soon discovered that before Zhu Zhen received his order to go to war, a major event happened in the Chu Palace, that is, Zhu Zhen’s eldest son, Zhu Mengguang, suddenly passed away. You should know that Zhu Mengguang is the eldest son and has always been trained by Zhu Zhen as his heir. The relationship between father and son is very deep. Li Jie can also see this today that Zhu Zhen’s feelings for Zhu Mengguang were just like Lao Zhu’s feelings for Zhu Biao.

However, before going to the war, Zhu Menghui suddenly died. This incident had a great blow to Zhu Zhen. You can refer to the reaction of Zhu Biao when he died suddenly. It is estimated that for Zhu Zhen at that time, the whole sky had collapsed, so how could he have any intention to go to war?

It was precisely because Li Jie knew this that he had just looked at Zhu Mengxiang specifically because as far as he knew, Zhu Mengxiang died at the age of sixteen, and he is already fifteen this year. In other words, Zhu Mengxiang may die next year.

However, there is no record of the cause of Zhu Mengcong's death in history books, so Li Jie didn't know whether he died of a disease or an accident. However, according to Li Jie's observation just now, Zhu Mengcong's face was rosy and energetic, and she didn't look sick at all. Of course, this cannot rule out the disease. After all, as the prince of the king, he usually has many people to take care of him, and the possibility of an accident is very small. In comparison, the possibility of a disease is greater.

"Some diseases are coming in full force, and the patients did not have any abnormalities before the onset. Zhu Mengguang shouldn't have this disease, right?" Li Jie lowered his head and said to himself, "It seems that we still have to find an opportunity in the past few days to let the imperial doctor have a good health check on Zhu Mengguang!"

Zhu Mengcon is also Zhu Yuning and Zhu Yuning's cousin. Li Jie has a good impression of this young man. It would be fine if he hadn't seen him before. Now that he has seen him, he naturally has to find a way to avoid the fate of premature death as much as possible.

In addition, from the utilitarian perspective, Zhu Zhen is the core figure in the strategy of Annan, and Zhu Mengcon's life and death also had a great impact on Zhu Zhen. In history, Zhu Zhen's entire life suddenly became mediocre since Zhu Mengcon's death. It was obviously the death of his son that made his will depress.

However, this is not the time to make Zhu Zhen depressed, but he needs to fight for the Ming Dynasty with full fighting spirit, so Zhu Mengcong's life and death have become very important, which is one of the reasons why Li Jie is so concerned about it.

But this matter is also very troublesome, because Li Jie cannot discuss with any of them. After all, he can't say that he expected Zhu Mengcon to die next year, right? So he can only do this matter by himself. As for how to deceive Zhu Mengcon to check his body, he has no idea about it for the time being.

The next morning, before Li Jie got up, Zhu Yunyu ran to his house and brought Zhu Mengxiang with him. Both brothers were very excited and pulled Li Jie out for a walk, especially Zhu Mengxiang. This was his first time to come to Beijing, so he was even more curious about it.

Li Jie and the other two also changed into casual clothes. Zhu Mengcong was very curious and felt fresh when he saw anything in the capital. He also bought a lot of snacks and snacks on the way. After all, at his age, his stomach seemed to be unable to fill his fill and he could digest as much as he ate.

However, after switching to several lively attractions, Zhu Mengqing suddenly suggested to Li Jie and the others: "Brother-in-law, cousin, I heard that there is also a Xu Zhen Academy in Beijing. I had thought about going to the academy to study before. Can you take me to see it?"

"Okay, I haven't been to the branch of Qiuzhen Academy in Beijing, but my brother-in-law often goes there, so I can just ask him to take me to visit!" Zhu Yunsheng nodded immediately after hearing this.
Chapter completed!