There is no nightlife in Tangquan Town, at least not in the open, but it doesn't mean that you have to go to bed as soon as it gets dark. The Prince of Condé from France did not go to bed at this time, but was talking to a beautiful woman.

Beauty is Mary. Mancini, she had been in the boring place of Tangquan Town for several days, but she had never waited for the summons of His Majesty the Ming Emperor...... The Emperor had already decided to see her, but he had to wait in line, and there were about seven or eight days before he could see her.

Therefore, at this time, Miss Mancini wanted to seize the time and learn more about Emperor Zhu from Prince Condé.

"He's a rather boring guy!" "He didn't dance, he didn't like music, he didn't like painting, he didn't go to play, he didn't smoke, he didn't drink much," said Condé...... Basically do not drink alcohol. The diet is also very modest, with only four dishes and one soup for lunch and dinner. ”

"Prince, who are you talking about?" Miss Mancini glared at a pair of big talking eyes, "It can't be Cromwell, right?" ”

"Cromwell?" Prince Condé thought for a moment and said with a smile, "It seems to be about the same!" His Majesty the Emperor is very much like that Puritan madman. Of course, he is a little more open to women. You know, Eastern monarchs are not very monogamous, they usually have a harem full of beautiful women. His Majesty the Emperor also had his harem, but it was not very many, there were only eight women in total, two of whom were chosen for him by his father, the Emperor, and entered the palace when he was still the crown prince.

And his queen and imperial concubine - these two are the most noble women, they are both from political marriages, among which the queen Wu Sanmei is from the Wu family, and the imperial concubine Zheng Chagu is from the richest family in the Ming Dynasty and the navy.

The third and fourth women in the palace were also politically married, from the royal family of the Qing dynasty of the Tatar dynasty, which was defeated by His Majesty the Emperor.

There is also a talented woman from Shanghai, who should be the academic partner of His Majesty the Emperor. There was also a Tatar female vassal who was captured by His Majesty the Emperor...... I entered the palace as a slave girl, and now I seem to be a slave girl. ”

The "Tatar female vassal king" that Prince Kong Dai said was Kong Sizhen, because Kong Tingxun mixed water when performing the contract and turned Shunzhi into Kangxi, so Kong Sizhen, the middleman, lost the opportunity to be promoted to the selection of servants, but it was not much different for her......

Miss Mancini frowned and thought: Eight women is not a lot! I wonder what they look like? If it's similar to the ugly monsters of the European royal family, it's fine, but if they're all beautiful, then it's troublesome......

Thinking of this, she sighed faintly: "I don't know who His Majesty the Emperor will share the bed with tonight?" ”

If Emperor Zhu could hear Mancini's sighs and questions at this moment, he would definitely sigh back.

Because he's working overtime tonight!

There are eight beauties in the harem, and there is a little Western beauty waiting outside the palace who is ready to be his mistress, and he has to work overtime...... This is undoubtedly the most painful thing for Zhu Cihong right now!

And he did not work overtime in the Laoshan Palace, but in the Laoshan Hunting Ground - personally supervising the joint military exercises of the nine-sided teenagers in the Jiangwutang, Laoshan Middle School, and Laoshan Castle!

The military drill was planned for a long time, starting on the afternoon of 15 September and will last for five days and five nights. The venue of the drill was in the Laoshan Hunting Ground, which covers an area of 80 or 90 square kilometers. Emperor Zhu chose this site as his "political capital", in addition to its proximity to Nanjing, because he took a fancy to this mountainous area that could be used for military training.

The regular organization of military drills for the students of the Lecture Hall, the students of Laoshan Middle School and the hard-working nine-sided teenagers is to maintain the martial arts and hard-working spirit of the successors of the Gui Group!

Zhu Cihong, who is 28 years old this year and has been in power for 12 years, has been cultivating a successor to feudalism early!

He is very self-aware when it comes to the issue of succession. He knew that the Kenanxun group he relied on was only a "ZTE group" and not a founding group. The ZTE Group will more or less inherit the bad habits of the Mid-Decline Era, and the foundation of ZTE is not to be demolished and restarted, so the whole society is also permeated with the atmosphere of decay and degeneration. In this case, ZTE is particularly vulnerable to corruption and degeneration...... And once the ZTE group is corrupt and degenerate, then the ZTE of the Ming Dynasty will not be sustainable.

In order to sustain the Zhongxing situation that he had created with great difficulty, Zhu Cihong chose the Pukou-Laoshan area outside the prosperity of Nanjing as the political center of the empire and the place where the nobles lived. And strictly suppressed the extravagance of Pukou-Laoshan, and also opened a large number of new-style schools in Pukou-Laoshan to cultivate new nobles of the Ming Dynasty!

Of course, the Ming Dynasty needs new nobles!

Zhu Cihong knew that his identity was that he was an emperor, not a civilian leader, and that as an emperor, he had to rely on nobles to rule...... Of course, the regime can be open to the common people to a certain extent, allowing examinations to become officials, opening councils, and encouraging (in fact, buying) the young men of the Nine Sides to join the army, but the emperor must not forget that the core of the ruling group can only be the aristocracy, especially the military aristocracy!

The decay of the aristocracy means the decline of the imperial power, and the loss of control of the aristocracy means the decline of the imperial power.

Zhu Cihong now wants to keep the Ming imperial power as strong as possible, and the only way is to create a noble group that supports the imperial power, and at the same time is simple and martial, shrewd and strong.

And this can only be achieved through strict cultivation and education...... The so-called aristocratic schools and aristocratic education are all hated in later generations. However, Zhu Cihong had no choice, he was the emperor, and the nobles gathered around the old mountain were originally nobles.

How could he not properly cultivate and teach the second and third generations of the noble people?

In the future, the world will have to rely on them to work hard! The fundamental reason for the change of Tumubao and the subsequent weakening of the Ming Dynasty was actually the decay and weakness of the Ming Dynasty's Xungui group itself.

If they themselves were not corrupted and weakened, the first Taishi would have been cut into eight pieces a long time ago, and the civil officials in Beijing would not have been able to use any tricks...... Even if the strength of the first Taishi is replaced by Zhu Yuanzhang's slashing expert, he still dares to run to the edge of the Great Wall to die?

Therefore, teaching this group of second and third generations is Zhu Cihong's top priority at the moment, and he must do it himself.

Therefore, this night, there is no beauty around the Ninety-Five Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (of course, you have to bring a beautiful woman to go out to fight, and you can't bring a woman to do a drill at the door of the house, or it looks too rotten), only a group of well-armored imperial guards.

The Ming Emperor took this group of guards and rode his Arab horses to patrol the camp at the western foot of the old mountain.

The young people and teenagers from Jiangwutang, Laoshan Middle School, and the Jiubian Youth Camp, whether they are royal clansmen, or the sons of the Guogong family and the Hou Ye family, or the poor teenagers from several border towns, are now all treated the same, carrying all their own bags, marching on foot, camping by themselves, and cooking by themselves. Now they eat in a circle in a company.

I don't dare to complain, because the emperor himself is patrolling the camp, so no matter how hard and tired he is, he has to pretend to be full of energy...... Seeing the emperor coming over surrounded by the guards and cavalry, he had to shout in unison!

In the midst of the cheers, Zhu Cihong was finally a little relieved. Of course, he knew that most of the tens of thousands of teenagers in front of him were pretending to be ...... In fact, I have been missing the hard bed at school for a long time - what? A maid with a soft bed and a warm bed at home? That can't be!

Jiangwutang and Laoshan Middle School are all residential! Sleeping on a hard bed and eating in the canteen, completely militarized management, not to mention maids, scholars and old servants! Only when I go home from vacation, can I hug and hug the maids...... However, you can only go to your own maid, don't want to go to Nanjing to look for flowers and willows, Pukou Wharf is guarded by a special person, and the children of underage nobles are not allowed to cross the river.

Moreover, Jiangwutang and Laoshan Middle School will also order at any time and call back the students during the holidays to make up for the class, which is really inhumane at all!