Zhu Cihong was also stunned, although Huang Ying is not as beautiful as Yiyi and the country, she is also a rare beauty, and her shy and helpless appearance at this moment makes her full of a different style. Zhu Cihong looked feverish, he had been away from Beijing for a month, and he hadn't touched a woman for so long, if he wasn't afraid of being sorry for Yiyi, he really wanted to turn into a wolf and pounce directly.

Although he became an emperor, he could have as many women as he wanted, but Zhu Cihong always felt that he would be sorry for Yiyi, and there were still some psychological obstacles. At the same time, Zhu Cihong was also a little helpless, during this period of time, although Huang Ying covered it up well, but this kind of true feelings from the heart could not really be completely concealed, usually more or less revealed, he was not a fool, he had already seen Huang Ying's friendship with him.

My queen, what the hell do you think, it's just that you don't take me a good look, and you deliberately stuff a big beauty to come to my side to tempt me, I'm really not afraid of crying in the future!

Zhu Cihong sighed slightly, it was the most difficult to absorb the beauty affection, if it went on like this, it wouldn't take many days for him to be unbearable.

"What are you doing standing there, come here!" Zhu Cihong glared.

"Huh? Oh! Huang Ying came back to her senses, lowered her head slightly, hid the redness on her face, and gave the ginger soup to Zhu Cihong.

"Your Majesty, this is freshly cooked ginger soup, you drive away the cold!" Huang Ying handed the ginger soup to Zhu Cihong, getting closer to Zhu Cihong, coupled with the embarrassing scene just now, the more Huang Ying thought about it, the redder her face became, if it wasn't for the ginger soup in her hand, she really wanted to run away immediately.

Zhu Cihong glanced at the bowl of ginger soup, and then at Huang Ying, who was blushing and lowering his head, and didn't dare to look at him, somehow, his heart rippled slightly, and he blurted out: "I don't drink, I want you to feed me!" ”

"Huh?" Huang Ying's white jade hand shook again, and she thought she had heard it wrong, so she turned her head and looked at Zhu Cihong in a daze.

"Hurry up, I'm chilling." Zhu Cihong's old face was a little red, but when she saw Huang Ying like this, she felt more and more cute, and she couldn't help but be cheap, so she wanted to tease her, and said with a straight face.

This time I heard it right, Huang Ying bit her red lips lightly, her eyelashes trembled slightly, she forcibly suppressed the tension in her heart, held the spoon, and slowly sent a spoonful of ginger soup to Zhu Cihong's mouth, but after all, she was too nervous, although she forcibly suppressed it, how could she hold it down. Because she had to feed Zhu Cihong, she had to look at Zhu Cihong, and at the last moment, Huang Ying's hand trembled and spilled some decoction on Zhu Cihong's dragon robe.

Zhu Cihong rolled his eyes, took a bite of the ginger soup that still had half a spoonful left, and drank it.

"Okay, I won't tease you, give it to me." Zhu Cihong took the ginger soup from Huang Ying's hand and drank it all, but put the empty bowl back into Huang Ying's hand.

Huang Ying fled without looking back.

Zhu Cihong smiled and muttered: "Actually, this yellow warbler is also quite cute, Yiyi, if I really can't help it one day, you are not allowed to cry." ”

Zhu Cihong is not hypocritical, it is true that he has some obstacles in his heart, but he is the emperor after all, and there can't be only one woman, even if he is willing, the officials and the people of the world are not willing, and the queen mother is even more unwilling. Huang Ying is actually not bad, and she also saved Yiyi's life, and she understands the friendship she has in her heart, Zhu Cihong is grateful and a little moved.

After Huang Ying ran away with a red face, she remembered that Zhu Cihong had deliberately teased her just now, and suddenly her heart was secretly annoyed, and her slender jade feet stomped on the ground angrily, that little enemy was so hateful that he actually played with her like this.

Huang Ying was annoyed, a trace of sweetness appeared in the depths of her heart, and she bit her red lips lightly, you said that it was obviously a little man who was three years younger than her, how could she make her so deep in her heart and couldn't extricate herself, if yes

Thinking of this, Huang Ying's heart thumped again, thinking of the misery she had experienced, her face instantly turned a lot paler, she was just a broken flower and a willow, how could she be so extravagant.

Huang Ying was full of entanglement, she didn't know if she had done something wrong by agreeing to the queen to take care of the emperor, originally she just wanted to take this opportunity to stay with the emperor for a while and satisfy her long-cherished wish, just thinking that maybe after going back this time, she would be able to completely figure it out, and really live her own life, but now she found that she seemed to be sinking deeper and deeper. The yellow warbler was in some pain.

For a month, heavy snow continued in Hubei. Ruixue Zhaofeng year, this is an auspicious omen, there is Zhu Cihong personally sitting in the relief of the people, no one dares to make small moves without opening their eyes, although the people only have two meals a day, but they are starving to death, looking forward to the next year to start life again.

For about half a year, Zhu Cihong could not only spend time in disaster relief.

Wars in the north are frequent, and many people have fled to various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and if they are not properly resettled, it is easy to cause riots. Those refugees who fled from the north, in addition to those who took refuge with relatives and settled down, there were many homeless, at least nearly 10 million, Zhu Cihong thought about it and moved most of them to Hubei.

Hubei was known as Jingzhou in ancient times, and it has been a rich land since ancient times, with 800,000 hectares of fields and about 40 million acres, and it is not a problem to support more than 10 million people.

Zhu Cihong consulted with He Tengjiao.

"The emperor thinks twice, I'm afraid this move is a little difficult." He Tengjiao is embarrassed.

"Why?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"Your Majesty, Hubei has been ravaged by the leftist army, and the population has decreased by half, but many of them have just fled out, and they are likely to come back in the coming year, many of them are big gentry households, and most of the fields are under their names, if there is not enough land, it is difficult to settle refugees at all, unless the refugees are distributed to those gentry and large households as tenants." He Tengjiao said.

Zhu Cihong's face changed, and he actually ignored the most important one.

Indeed, those gentry are well-informed and escape quickly, even if they are robbed of money and property by Zuo Liangyu, but if there is still a land deed, it is impossible for the imperial court not to recognize it, is it difficult not to recognize the previous land deed in Hubei?

Zhu Cihong shook his head, it was impossible to do it. If we exclude the owner's land that can get the title deed, it is far from enough to take out a few million mu of land in Hubei at most to take it out for distribution.

Zhu Cihong sighed, in fact, the Ming Dynasty had a total of nearly 800 million acres of land, at this time, if you exclude the northern provinces, only count the places that are still under rule, there are at least more than 400 million acres of land, but most of these lands are in the hands of the nobles or vassal kings, taking the Fu King of Luoyang as an example, he alone occupies 50,000 hectares of heaven and earth, about 2.5 million acres.

In order to take care of these people, the imperial court does not have to pay taxes on their fields, all taxes are paid by ordinary people, hundreds of millions of acres of fields, there are only less than six million taels of silver in a year, according to the average annual grain production of two stones per acre of land, the Ming tax rate is twenty taxes and one, at least 20 million stones of grain taxes, one stone of grain is about one tael of silver, that is, 20 million taels of silver, but it is only more than six million taels, It is conceivable that only how many of them have paid taxes, not even one-third, and the reason why a lot of taxes have been added in recent years, if it were not for the support of taxes such as salt and iron, the Ming Dynasty would have collapsed long ago.

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