On the second day of the third month of the tenth year of Tianwu, Zhu Cihong set off as a full deacon and Luan, and set off to Fengyang, the central capital, with Empress Xu, Yang Guifei and two slightly older princes.

On this western tour, Zhu Cihong didn't plan to go with great fanfare, he knew that he could only see the surface of the decoration below.

Therefore, he went on patrol in the name of inspecting Fengyang, and after arriving in Fengyang, he went to Shaanxi for a private visit.

On this trip, Zhu Cihong mainly wanted to train the crown prince and the second prince.

According to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the prince's clan must go to Fengyang every year to experience and train troops, and at least one-third of the more than 300 miles from Nanjing to Fengyang must walk, and no riding is allowed.

Zhu Cihong thought this rule was very good, so he inherited it.

After walking for a few days, Luan drove across the Yangtze River and Chuzhou Mansion, and entered the boundary of Fengyang Mansion.

In Luanyu, Queen Xu Chenyun looked through the curtain and looked distressed at the crown prince and the second prince who were walking beside the guard of honor.

She turned to look at Zhu Cihong and said, "Your Majesty, the two children are only eight years old, and it is strange and hard to walk such a long way. ”

Zhu Cihong reclined on the soft sleeper, looked at the book in his hand intently, and said lightly: "Mother is a loser, don't get used to them." ”

After a while, he put down the book and said with nostalgia on his face: "I think back then, when I was eight years old, I fought in the south and the north, galloped across the field, killed from Beijing to Liaodong, and then from Liaodong to Mongolia, thousands of miles of desert, without frowning, just three hundred miles away, they have caught up with a good era!" ”

Empress Xu smiled gently: "I know you can do it." ”

Zhu Cihong sat beside her and said with a smile: "Do you know where I am the most capable?" ”

Mr. Empress Xu was stunned, and after understanding his meaning, he couldn't help but blush, and said angrily: "It's getting more and more improper." ”

Zhu Cihong took her into his arms, his hands began to be dishonest, and said, "Then how can it be considered serious?" ”

Empress Xu was a little panicked, and Zuo Shen said again: "Your Majesty, don't be like this, the emperor is still outside......

Zhu Cihong laughed and said to Long Yuan: "Little Shenzi, let the prince and them rest in the chauffeur's car for a while." ”

"Slave Command!"

When Gonggong Shen heard the movement inside, he knew in his heart, knowing that the emperor was going to drive, and hurriedly withdrew the Imperial Forest Army around Long Yuan.

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For a distance of more than 300 miles, Luan drove for eight days.

The emperor's move to take a family to visit Fengyang made the whole Fengyang boiling, and on that day, thousands of people in Fengyang City gathered outside the Hongwu Gate, all wanting to pay tribute to the emperor's demeanor.

Especially those old Fengyang people who have seen Zhu Cihong, they are even more excited and tearful, the emperor has not returned to Fengyang for ten years!

Where Zhu Cihong passed by, all the people bowed and worshipped, and there was a cheer of "long live, long live".

Dressed in a solemn queen dress, Queen Xu, who was sitting in Luanyu, couldn't help but be moved by this scene, the people of the land of Longxing in the Ming Dynasty were more enthusiastic than the people of Beijing, which was an indescribable atmosphere.

Fengyang Mansion, the birthplace of Zhu Cihong, is also the spiritual center of the Ming Dynasty, and many nobles and high-ranking officials in the imperial court, as well as a large number of middle and low-level officers in the army, all came out of here.

Every year, a large number of noble children come here to experience and visit, and the officers and students of the Huangming Military Academy also go to Fengyang for training every year.

When Zhu Cihong walked out of Longlin to see here again, Fengyang Mansion was repaired more and more beautifully, the big waterwheels on both sides of the Huai River stood tall, the two sides of the official road were very neat, there was an octagonal pavilion for passers-by to rest every few miles, and sometimes you could see some railways being laid.

In a cheer, the royal driver entered the forbidden wall of the imperial city along Hongwu Street.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang and other thirteen rogues broke through Fengyang and burned down half of Fengyang, including the palace in the forbidden wall.

Now the Ming Dynasty is peaceful, the royal treasury is abundant, these palaces are rebuilt one after another by the internal money, quite a bit of the familiar taste of the Forbidden City in Nanjing Erjing (the architectural pattern is basically the same).

Zhu Cihong was a little tired after lunch, so he rested for a while, and when he woke up, he found two big beauties standing in front of him in a daze.

He used to be an illusion, and then took a closer look, it turned out to be his two wives, Queen Xu and Yang Guifei.

Both of them are dressed up, Queen Xu is dressed in a bright yellow coat, wearing a gold crown, wearing a xia cloak, wearing a red line Luo big belt, and a gold and jade belt;

Yang Guifei was wearing a similar dress, a red imperial princess coat, and the pearl and jade trembled lightly between the lines, showing a graceful and luxurious momentum.

With a gentle smile on her face, Empress Xu said, "Your Majesty, you're awake!" ”

Yang Guifei, who was behind her, said in a formal manner: "The concubine has seen Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Cihong got up and said with a smile: "You guys are dressed up, where are you going?" ”

Empress Xu replied: "The concubine is going to visit Futian Courtyard with Yang Guifei and send some food and clothing supplies to the people." ”

Oh, it turned out to be a nursing home to visit the lonely elderly.

Zhu Cihong's heart warmed, the first thing the queen did when she came to Fengyang was to think about sharing her worries and relieving her worries and caring for the people, she was really a good queen.

Unlike himself, after "tiring" on the road for a while, he was tired and sleepy, and he was not even summoned by local officials.

He looked at Empress Xu softly, held her shoulders and said, "Chenyun has worked hard, come back early if you go to see it, don't be too tired." ”

Speaking of the word 'tired', Zhu Cihong's tone was deliberately aggravated.

Empress Xu didn't seem to understand his teasing, just thinking about these words of concern, her face showed a little touch, and she lowered her head and hummed softly.

Zhu Cihong turned his head to Yang Guifei and said: "Yuerou, you follow the queen to pay more attention, and by the way, ask the old woman there about the welfare of Futian Courtyard over the years, and whether the government has distributed materials on time." ”

"The concubine is the leader." Yang Yue's delicate response.

In the feudal society of the past dynasties, the Ming Dynasty was an era of relatively high social welfare.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang founded three major welfare institutions, namely the Nursing Home, the Leaky Garden and the Huimin Pharmacy!

The almshouse is a place to shelter the homeless poor and beggars, and those who are taken in will be given three buckets of rice and one horse of Kubu every month, and in the event of natural disasters and homeless, the government will also give them free rice and cattle and 15 acres of fertile land.

When Zhu Cihong went south to Fengyang, the first thing he did to govern Fengyang Mansion was to restart the almshouse, shelter the vast number of displaced people, assign jobs, and reclaim wasteland.

Drain Ze Garden, is the government set up a cluster burial ground, where there is no owner bones and the family is poor and there is no burial place, by the official family cluster burial, all the prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty have been established.

Huimin Pharmacy (equivalent to a hospital) exercises the management authority of the national pharmaceutical industry, and Huimin Pharmacy has been set up in Daming to be in charge of the local pharmaceutical industry, which is equivalent to the medical system of Daming.

The role of these three benefits set up by Zhu Yuanzhang is to let the people have something to rely on for the old, a return to the dead, and medical treatment for the sick.

Lao Zhu also introduced the most perfect national pension system in feudal society, and he stipulated: All the people of the Ming Dynasty, the proletarian elderly over 80 years old, can go to the government every month to receive five buckets of rice, five catties of meat and three buckets of wine.

On this basis, the elderly over 90 years old receive an additional piece of cloth and five catties of meat every year.

In addition, the government also holds banquets on the first day of the first month and the fifteenth day of the first month every year to entertain these old people to eat and drink.

In the process of implementing the law, in order to avoid a psychological gap between the rich and the poor, the government gave subsidies to all equals.

If a homeless person or a disabled person is found in any city, the local officials will be held accountable by the imperial court!

Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, who was sent to the vegetable temple by Zhu Cihong, also contributed to social welfare during his reign.

He stipulated that soldiers and civilians, men and women, as long as they reached the age of seventy, could receive ten bottles of wine and ten catties of meat every year.

People over the age of 80 receive an additional two catties of cotton and two catties of cloth on the basis of the former.

Of course, most of these benefits were abandoned due to the war of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen Dynasty.

The Futian Yuan mentioned by Zhu Cihong, that is, the Ming version of the nursing home, specializes in accommodating the elderly, the young, the disabled, and the helpless.

This is the social welfare system re-established by Zhu Cihong after restarting the three social welfare activities of the Sanatorium, Leaky Garden, and Huimin Pharmacy, and it will have to be improved in the future.

After the queen and the concubine retreated, the concubine Yang Yuerou suddenly quietly turned back.

In Zhu Cihong's surprised gaze, Yang Yuerou approached and hugged Zhu's neck in a sly manner, and whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, can you let the concubine sleep tonight?" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "You can ......."

Yang Yuerou smiled, threw a wink at Zhu Cihong, and then took the dress and walked away.

Looking at her shadow, Zhu Cihong decided to make up for another sleep to avoid fatigue driving at night......