Chapter 94 Double Happiness

Zhu Gaoxu cursed all the way.

The private soldiers behind him also heard Zhu Gaoxi cursing all the way.

"That old bastard, sooner or later I will make him regret coming into this world."

He came to the outside of Yingtianfu city defense camp, cursing all the way.

Just then, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance.

The sound of horse hooves came so quickly that Zhu Gaoxu thought it was a messenger.

Looking back, I saw that the person coming was actually Rosen.

When Zhu Gaoxu saw Luo Sen, he was so frightened that he said, "Quick, stop him."

Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly rode his horse into the city defense camp.

"General Yuan Ping pays respect to His Majesty the King of Han."

"Quick, hurry up and mobilize the troops for me. There are thieves outside who are trying to kill me."

"what?"

"Hurry up, remember to catch him alive. I want to personally beat that villain."

Rosen had knocked down Zhu Gaoxu's dozen or so private soldiers to the ground, making them unable to get up.

Rosen walked into the city defense camp in such a swagger.

Yuan Ping immediately led a hundred people to block Rosen.

"You bold thief, do you know where you are? You will die if you trespass into the city defense camp!"

"Come here, take this gentleman down."

Rosen suddenly rushed forward and pushed forward all the way. More than a hundred soldiers were knocked to the ground by Rosen.

Yuan Ping and Zhu Gaoxu were so frightened that their faces turned pale.

They had never seen such a fierce man.

Even those fierce generals could only knock down a dozen or so people with their bare hands.

One against a hundred only exists in legends.

I didn't expect to meet them today.

"Your Highness the King of Han...he he...he..."

Zhu Gaoxu was so scared that he sat down on the ground. Rosen came up and picked up Zhu Gaoxu, and a fierce fight started between the two.

"You... Rosen, I will never forgive you..."

"You still dare to be stubborn!" Rosen came up with another series of moves.

Zhu Zhu Gaoxu had been beaten all over his body, and his head was swollen like a pig's head.

"Do you still dare to tease my daughter?"

"Kill me if you dare!" Zhu Gaoxu roared.

Rosen kicked Zhu Gaoxu in the face, one kick, two kicks, three kicks...

"Do you still dare to tease my daughter?"

"you……"

Rosen then kicked him once, twice...

"Do you still dare..."

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head repeatedly: "Wuwu... No... I dare not... I dare not."

"You dare to beat the prince and trespass into an important military area, you deserve to die..." Yuan Ping roared.

Rosen took out an iron scroll that granted immunity from death and smashed it on Yuan Ping's face.

"If you want to kill me, go to Zhu Di and ask for an imperial decree."

Yuan Ping's face was covered in blood, but his body was shaking violently. Anyone who could take out the iron scroll of immunity from death must be a monstrous figure.

Even if they are not as good as Zhu Gaoxu, they are not much worse. Basically, they are all at the level of Duke.

Why was I so obsessed that I wanted to get involved in this matter?

If I get punished later, my small body won't be able to withstand it.

Look, even Prince Zhu Gaoxu was beaten like this. I, a small deputy commander of the city defense battalion, am afraid that my life will be in danger.

Rosen pushed back his slightly messy hair.

"Would you mind lending me a horse?"

"This……"

"If you don't say anything, I'll assume you don't mind." Rosen grabbed a horse and rode away.

Zhu Gaoxu sent someone to complain to Zhu Di, but he was stopped in front of the Forbidden City. Zhu Di said he was busy and let Zhu Gaoxu solve it on his own.

Since they had all received benefits from Rosen, Zhu Di naturally had nothing to say.

As long as Rosen didn't kill his son, everything else would be fine.

Zhu Gaoxu was beaten up in exchange for a revenue of one million taels in three years. This deal was really worth it.

……

Zhu Gaochi hurriedly found Yao Guangxiao's mansion.

Now Yao Guangxiao is half monk and half layman. He has not yet entered a Zen temple to practice. His daily life is close to Buddhism, but he still teaches Zhu Gaochi every day.

When Zhu Gaochi found Yao Guangxiao, he said with some anger.

"Master Yao, that guy is going too far. The second son just got out of bed, but he beat him up again and he's been seriously injured. This time he can't get out of bed for three months. The first time was fine, but it happened twice in a row. This is really disrespecting our royal family."

"He took out another iron scroll that grants immunity from death." Master Yao said calmly.

"Huh? No matter how grateful Father is to him, it is impossible for him to give him two death-free iron scrolls."

"Not long ago, Your Majesty had an additional source of income, which was the white sugar business. The white sugar business was very profitable, with an income of nearly a thousand taels every day."

"What does this have to do with Rosen?"

"Of course it's because of this white sugar making process, which was given by Rosen. The one who used the white sugar making process will fight the Second Prince again."

"Well... this Mr. Luo is really vindictive. This is not bad. At least the second brother won't dare to show off in front of Mr. Luo anymore." Zhu Gaochi's eyes turned, and his seemingly honest face showed a bit of cunning: "Master Yao, does Mr. Luo have any more profitable business like this?"

"There should be."

"When we started the rebellion, Father suddenly brought out the steelmaking technology, matchlock gun technology, and honeycomb coal technology, right..."

Yao Guangxiao looked at Zhu Gaochi and nodded with satisfaction.

"This Mr. Luo is a real master."

"Master Yao, why don't you ask Mr. Luo for me? Lao Er has to lie down for three months anyway, so why not let him get beaten again? As long as Mr. Luo can give me some income and doesn't beat Lao Er to death, I'll take care of the rest."

As expected, none of the princes were good men and women. Zhu Gaochi looked honest and simple on weekdays, but he was ruthless when it came to betraying his own brothers.

"Then I will go there."

Yao Guangxiao actually also wanted to meet Rosen.

Yao Guangxiao asked his servants to deliver the visiting card that day, unlike Zhu Di who could come and go as he pleased.

Yao Guangxiao treated the other party as a fellow traveler, so due respect was necessary.

The next day, Yao Guangxiao came to the gate of Luo's mansion and chanted Buddhist scriptures to the servants at the door.

"I am Daoyan, the monk. I handed in my visiting card yesterday and came to see Master Luo today."

"Master Daoyan, please come in. The master has instructed that you come in as soon as you arrive."

Daoyan was led by his servants to the backyard, where Rosen was sitting by the lake fishing.

"The master is over there, please come in, Master."

"Thank you."

Daoyan walked towards Luosen and said, "Amitabha, I am Daoyan, a poor monk, nice to meet you, benefactor."

Rosen turned his head and responded with a smile: "Master, do you mind sitting here?"

Daoyan smiled and sat on the stone next to him.

At the same time, he looked at Rosen. Rosen looked younger than he had imagined, with angular features and a kind look.

However, Daoyan knew that Rosen's martial arts were very advanced and it might take more than thirty or fifty people to defeat him.

"Master, what are you doing here?"

"Two things. One is to come and see Mr. Luo."

"Then what did you see?"

"No, Mr. Luo's face is like a rootless duckweed, unable to see the past or the future."

People's faces are all kinds of strange, and some of them are hard to tell, so Daoyan is not surprised.

"Oh? Master, you also know the art of face reading?"

"It's just a small path, not worth mentioning."

"In my early years, I also traveled around the mountains and rivers, hoping to find a great immortal to become his disciple."

"Did you find it?"

"I found it. I did meet some masters in Kunlun Mountain. However, those so-called masters were just hypocritical people who deceived the world and stole the reputation. I did make friends with the young generation who came to the sect and learned some skills from him."

"No wonder Mr. Luo's martial arts are so superb, it turns out that he has inherited the Kunlun Yuan Sect."

"Master, do you also know about Kunlun?"

"Of course I know that my master had also sought out the Kunlun Yuanyi Sect. He originally wanted to learn from them, but they regarded him as a heretic. A group of Taoists attacked my master."

"So, Master is also from the Xuanmen?"

"Although I am a member of the Xuanmen sect, I have only learned a few basics. I cannot compare with Mr. Luo."

"Every inch has its own strengths and weaknesses. Masters should not underestimate themselves."

"I wonder what kind of skill Mr. Luo is good at?"

"I am good at the art of killing. I am not bragging. If I let go, even a hundred people cannot stop me."

"I believe it of course." Yao Guangxiao said with a smile.

"Master said earlier that he came here for two reasons. What else is it?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince feels that His Royal Highness the King of Han is not disciplined enough, so he wants to ask Mr. Luo to help teach him more."

"Haha..." Luo Sen suddenly understood: "Zhu Gaoxu's lesson is enough. Too much is as bad as too little. However, Luo does have some business and is willing to cooperate with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"What business is it?"

"Liuli." Luo Sen said, "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince allows me to use his name, I can guarantee 10,000 or 20,000 taels a month."

Yao Guangxiao nodded: "Thank you Mr. Luo for your generosity."

Yao Guangxiao felt inside his monk's robe again and took out a book called "Caotang Shu".

"I have not prepared any gifts for this visit. These are some of my skills and summaries from my research on military formations, physiognomy, and geomancy. I hope you will not dislike them, Mr. Luo."

Rosen took the "Caotang Technique" solemnly, clasped his fists and said, "Thank you."

Then he took out a book, which contained methods for refining chakra, and also a method for practicing the reversal technique, as a courtesy.

"Master, here are some of my experiences in cultivation. If you have time in the future, you and I can visit each other often."

The Twenty-Four Qi-Training Techniques that Rosen obtained from Wu Kui is Kunlun's martial arts method. He cannot spread it in this world without Wu Kui's consent.

Yao Guangxiao should also have some esoteric skills. Rosen has seen those magicians in the West.

Apart from those people from Kunlun, Yao Guangxiao was the first person from the Central Plains Xuanmen that he met.

However, Yao Guangxiao was proficient in metaphysics, not metaphysics.

In Xuanmen, there is a saying that there are three thousand methods and three hundred and sixty techniques. The three thousand methods are the orthodox ones, while divination, fortune-telling, and face reading are all classified as unorthodox methods, which is also the category of the three hundred and sixty techniques.

Of course, in Xuanmen there is no such thing as the opposition between good and evil as in novels.

In this era, the capable major Xuanmen sects would form their own factions, stick together for warmth, and claim to be the righteous ones, just like Kunlun Yuanyi.

The 360 ​​techniques are to go from street to street, or to attach oneself to high-ranking officials, such as Yao Guangxiao.

In the following days, Yao Guangxiao often came to Rosen to discuss Taoist techniques.

Yao Guangxiao was quite interested in the reversal technique, but the chakra system was a completely new training system, so Yao Guangxiao found it particularly difficult to explore.

In the eighth year of Yongle, it was completed under the supervision of Shuntian Prefecture.

In the same year, Zhu Di ordered the relocation of the capital. This massive relocation took two years to complete.

Yao Guangxiao resigned from his position as Prince's Tutor and lived in seclusion in Xiangguang Temple outside Shuntian Prefecture.

Rosen also moved to Shuntian Prefecture. It was impossible for Zhu Di to let him leave his sight.

It was the twelfth year of Yongle, and Zhu Di once again set out on an expedition to the grassland.

In Rosen's view, Zhu Di's expedition was meaningless and a sheer waste of money and manpower.

The strategic direction was wrong. His goal was to eliminate the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but the crisis in the Central Plains was never just the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but the entire grassland.

Zhu Di would either uproot these nomadic peoples of the grasslands, kill anyone he saw, make their blood flow like a river, kill so many heads that the grasslands became a no-man's land.

Or they could set up a protectorate to prepare for long-term rule.

Instead of fighting once, killing a few insignificant people, and leaving without gaining anything.

At least if Rosen were to be the commander, he would definitely drive all the grassland tribes together, build a new city, take away all their war horses, cattle and sheep, forcing them to rely on supplies from the Central Plains for survival, destroy their beliefs, and force them to learn Confucian culture.