"Ah Xiu! Ah Xiu! There seemed to be someone shouting in his ears, and Ah Xiu opened his eyes desperately, but it was a dream.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's anxious and happy face, I heard him say: "Wake up!" All right! Wake up! ”

Ah Xiu only felt that the bones in his body seemed to be dislocated, and when he wanted to speak, he couldn't use his strength, and he couldn't open his mouth.

Ah Xiu burst into tears in a hurry, and Zhu Yuanzhang turned his joy into distress when he saw it, and said hurriedly: "How is this good?!" How good is this!! ”

Only Huilan was careful, and came to the bed as if to comfort Ah Xiu, and as if to explain to Zhu Yuanzhang, she said softly: "Don't worry, my sister has been asleep for seven days, and I can't feed half a little food, we can only cook ginseng soup, and slowly reluctantly pour it into you from between the teeth, but it is only one point for ten points." ”

He also said: "Now my sister should just lose her strength, and when my sister will slowly raise her, we are feeding my sister soft food to increase our strength, and we will naturally be fine." ”

Ah Xiu thought about it, this is indeed the case, and he also put his mind at ease, and slowly closed and opened his eyes, which was counted as nodding, Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, so he could be regarded as a stone falling to the ground, so he sat beside him and shook Ah Xiu's hand, slowly kneading, and slowing down Ah Xiu's body.

Huilan ordered someone to carefully boil millet porridge, put some golden silk dates, and send them here.

At this time, Ah Xiu's mind cleared up. looked around, but found that Xu Datang and Du and a few others were also in the room, standing at the door of the outer room from a distance, knowing that they were coming to visit him. Now that everyone saw that they were awake, they all nodded their heads in a low voice and discussed, but only Xu Dawu looked at him with a shocked face.

Ah Xiu tried to distinguish it, it was indeed a look of surprise, and he suddenly remembered the scene in his previous sleep, afraid that he was lost in a daze.

Hurriedly closed his eyes and carefully recalled the words in the coma, thinking: I lost my strength, I didn't even have the strength to speak, and I didn't have the strength to shout it out, there should only be a sentence and a half, and if I said it when I was in a hurry, I could really make a sound.

Thinking about it like this, I just let go of my heart, but when I thought of the few words that the emperor said when he was in a hurry, I couldn't help but worry again, and said something else, but this emperor said a few words, which one said casually.

Shocked and suspicious, it took a lot of effort for Ah Xiu to fall asleep.

Later, Xu Da also came to visit, but he didn't see anything abnormal, so Ah Xiu was relieved.

By the end of February of that year, Ah Xiu's illness had cured, and Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Kang Maocai as the envoy of the capital water camp, and ordered him to be responsible for building water conservancy projects, improving the agricultural and irrigation environment, and restoring the normal production of grain in the area under his jurisdiction.

At the beginning of March, under the construction of Ah Xiu, the generals of the army were assigned to them, ordering them to reclaim wasteland as farmland as much as possible in their respective garrisons, and distribute part of the land to the people who moved from other places and had no land to plant, only let them pay a small amount of grain and rice as rent every year, and the rest of the fields were handed over to the middle and lower generals, and ordered them to lead people to cultivate.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a reward and punishment order, according to the area of land owned by each army, divided into grades, the same amount of land, will be determined by the level of grain production.

As soon as this order came out, people everywhere praised Zhu Yuanzhang for cherishing the people and not oppressing the people like other forces.

In the following years, Zhu Yuanzhang's troops not only fed and warmly clothed, but also filled the newly built granaries and granaries. So Zhu Yuanzhang explicitly banned the collection of traditional village grain, the burden on the people was completely reduced, and the praise of the people was even higher.

In November of the fourth year of Longfeng, under the construction of Zhu Sheng and Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the establishment of the Wanhu Mansion to manage the militia, which was used to draw some strong men who wanted to join the army, and organized them into militia units, and gave them a small amount of military salaries, so that they could manage local security by themselves. As a result, the incidence of robbery incidents in various places under its jurisdiction has also decreased a lot.

Subsequently, an order was issued to encourage small traders to expand their business operations, and those who did well were appropriately exempted from taxes, so that after they were fed and clothed, commerce also developed, and they basically lived and worked in peace and contentment.

When Ah Xiu heard these orders, he thought to himself: Now that he is open to speech, he can listen to the opinions of virtuous ministers, and innovate his business, how can he not succeed? So many heroes in the world have fallen and defeated one after another, only this ugly-looking little monk who dares to innovate and does not take the usual path is the master of the world in the future.

In March of the fourth year of Longfeng, when Zhu Yuanzhang had just begun to reform the production mechanism, Huilan became pregnant for the third time.

Ah Xiuda felt sorry for this woman who had repeatedly added heirs to Zhu Yuanzhang, but could not raise her son herself, and she really refused to continue to fake pregnancy like this. Ah Xiu persuaded Hui Lan not to keep any more vows, but Hui Lan was also a stubborn woman who valued love and righteousness and refused to listen to her. Ah Xiu had no choice, so he asked Zhu Yuanzhang to protest.

Huilan was not at ease, so she had to follow. But he had no choice but to wrap his little feet, and soon he couldn't catch up with Ah Xiu, who was walking fast with big feet, so he could only follow desperately quickly.

Zhu Yuanzhang was reading military newspapers from various places in the study, and when he looked up, he saw Ah Xiu coming from the corridor with an angry face, and he didn't know which guy had annoyed his wife. So he sent his men back and waited for her to rush in.

But when he saw that Ah Xiu was very cute and cute, he didn't look like a middle-aged woman in her thirties, so she laughed and teased: "What is this thing that is not afraid of death that made Mrs. angry?" Sue sù for the husband, I twisted his head off and made a stool for the lady to sit on! ”

Seeing that this guy was actually teasing himself, Ah Xiu turned red angrily and said, "It's not that you guys are bullying me belly and not fighting, you have to make some oath!" Huilan is young, you are at the mercy of her, and now she has two children who can't be raised justifiably, isn't it pitiful?! ”

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't answer, but just looked at himself with a smile and a ridiculous face, Ah Xiu straightened his waist angrily: "What's so funny!" Now she's happy again! This time, I refused to tie a pillow to my stomach and pretend to be pregnant. See for yourself! After speaking, he found a chair next to him and sat down, staring at Zhu Yuanzhang angrily.

Zhu Yuanzhang was about to answer, Huilan moved her little feet to follow here, Zhu Yuanzhang heard that she was pregnant, saw that she was in a hurry, her face was red and a little panting, so she came to help her.

Huilan looked at Zhu Yuanzhang gratefully, but walked to Ah Xiu's side and persuaded: "Good sister, in the past few years that Huilan has been in the mansion, who is my sister, Huilan has already seen it clearly, and now it is not the husband and the oath that make me willing to do this, it is my sister's heart to treat me!" ”

Ah Xiu saw her walking with small feet, her body was weak, and she was a little shaky, so she hurriedly worked with Zhu Yuanzhang to help her sit down on the chair next to her, poured tea for her, and handed it to her.

After Huilan drank tea, Ah Xiu was about to explain, but Huilan opened her mouth: "Now I only ask my sister, do you really feel sorry for me?" ”

Seeing her ask, Ah Xiu wondered, "What does my sister mean?" I thought you and Lian'er were my own sisters. ”

Huilan said: "In this case, can my sister know that a mother is more expensive than a child?" Can you know that the hearts of mothers in the world are just looking forward to the well-being of their children? Now that Biao'er is getting older day by day, which person in the house is not a good student to serve? It's not because it's my sister's child? ”

Ah Xiu wanted to distinguish and persuade, but Hui Lan didn't listen, and said: "The husband is young and promising, and he will be even more uncommon in the future. ”

Ah Xiu was startled, remembering that he must have missed the words of the emperor during his illness, and he couldn't help but feel anxious.

Zhu Yuanzhang always thought that Huilan's little wife was the most gentle and childish woman with no foresight, but now when she heard this, she couldn't help but be surprised in her heart, but she didn't speak, and listened to her continue.

Huilan said again: "If the husband becomes the emperor tomorrow, my sister will undoubtedly be the queen, and Lian'er and I will be concubines and concubines, which can be regarded as the creation of our generations." But at that time, if you talk about the prince, you must talk about the orthodox heir, right? ”

"At that time, even if we gave birth to a son, we were far less than my sister's children, but we were crowned princes and vassal kings by the emperor's grace, and we went far away, and we didn't see each other for a year. Isn't it pitiful? ”

"Now Biao'er is the eldest son of her husband, and Zhang'er is the second son, and she is called her sister's concubine to the outside world, not to mention who the prince belongs to in the future, just this one, even if you are crowned king, it is also in a few places near the imperial capital, and it will be cheaper to see it at that time, isn't this a great grace?"

"Now God has mercy, I am pregnant with my husband again, but my sister refuses to give me this grace, it can be seen that my sister doesn't really love me, she pretends!" "My sister is giving Huilan a clear sentence, but do you recognize the flesh and blood in my belly? If you don't admit it, and tell Sù Huilan bluntly, to say something disagreeable, Huilan will take her body and go to the well! I just ask my sister to be kind to my two children! ”

After Huilan finished her anxious set of words, she was already teary-stained, so she pulled out a handkerchief to wipe her tears.