In a blink of an eye, it is December 24 of the thirteenth year of Hongxing, and today is the fiftieth birthday of Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

This is really a good day for the whole country to celebrate and all nations to come! Zhu Youzhen was even more happy, he didn't do anything else all day yesterday, just in the Laoshan Renshou Palace and Queen Zhou Shang to look at the gift list and look at the gifts.

What a gift! The whole world sent things to Emperor Chongzhen...... And give it away!

Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou got up early in the morning, began to read the gift list after breakfast, and just finished reading it in the afternoon, and the number of gifts can be imagined. As for the value of these gifts, at least they are three million taels, and Emperor Chongzhen cried.

"Taishang, why are you doing this?" Queen Zhou, who had become an aunt on the side, looked at her husband's crying appearance and was puzzled.

Emperor Chongzhen wiped his tears and said, "I think when I was in power, I didn't have three million taels of tax silver a year...... If I could receive so many gifts on my thirtieth birthday, the world would have been peaceful a long time ago! ”

Empress Zhou smiled and said: "So Your Majesty is still too comfortable, our emperor is a filial son, and he is a Ming monarch, there is nothing wrong with him honoring us?" ”

Chongzhen shook his head and sighed: "My emperor was early, young and ignorant, and he couldn't know people, so he was coaxed around by the traitors below!" ”

"You know now?" Queen Zhou asked with a smile.

"Of course I do!" Chongzhen said, "I am fifty years old, and I have watched Cihong be a Ming Jun for more than ten years, and I finally know how this Ming Jun is a Ming Jun!" ”

"Oh? You got it? Empress Zhou asked, "Can you tell the concubine?" ”

Chongzhen nodded: "If you want to be a Ming Jun, you must use wicked people, and you must be able to use wicked people!" ”

"With the wicked?"

"Yes!" Chongzhen said, "There are clouds in "Zengguang Xianwen": mercy is not in charge of the army, love is not in charge, righteousness is not financial management, and goodness is not an official. I read this book when I was young and thought it was gibberish. Later, when I watched Ci Hong's governance of the country, I realized that these four sentences are the true truth! Cihong employs people, mostly unkind, unkind, unrighteous, and unkind people, and none of them are righteous men and gentlemen in the Manchu Dynasty. And after I swept away Wei Eunuch, the people I used seemed to be upright, known as the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty, what was the result? ”

"So, it's wrong to eradicate Wei Zhongxian?" Empress Zhou asked again.

Chongzhen shook his head: "Has Cihong ever rehabilitated Wei Zhongxian?" ”

"No, I didn't."

Chongzhen asked again: "Do you know what Cihong said about Wei Zhongxian and the eunuchs?" ”

Empress Zhou still shook her head.

Chongzhen said: "Loyalty and virtue cannot be kept, and the party cannot be abolished!" ”

Chongzhen paused, and then said: "Now the so-called eunuchs, except for those who were falsely accused of opposing Cihong in Nanjing, have all been rehabilitated, but they do not forgive the sins of loyalty and sage!" ”

Zhou Hou asked, "Why is that?" ”

Chongzhen said: "Because the loyal and virtuous do not leave, the eunuch party will not become the imperial party!" And the loyal and virtuous party are all unkind, unkind, unrighteous, and unkind people...... Take it and you're ready to go!

But I was young and ignorant at the time, and I really couldn't compare to the genius of Tzu Hong's young man......"

Where is Zhu Cihong a young genius, it is clearly the soul of a traitor in later generations who has passed four times!

When Zhu Youzhen sighed, the filial sons of the Ming Dynasty had already come in groups - they were all the sons of Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong, the son of Hongxing, took the lead, followed by Zhu Cijiong, the king of Luokun County, Zhu Cizhao, the king of Chongqing County, Zhu Cihuan, the king of Fu, and a large number of filial sons, oh, there are many filial sons who did not wander around by themselves, but were held by the nurse to kowtow to the old birthday star Chongzhen Emperor to celebrate his birthday.

Chongzhen and Zhou Hou stopped chatting, and hurriedly sat down, looking at a large number of sons, they couldn't help frowning.

Emperor Chongzhen has been really absurd and a little too much over the years! The number of sons is almost in the hundreds...... And Chongzhen is only 50 years old this year, his health is good, he is mighty and fierce, and he can continue to make younger brothers for Mingjun Zhu Cihong. And Zhu Cihong also picked up, and the treatment for his younger brothers was 5,000 acres of land and a yard.

Even if there are 100 younger brothers, it is only 500,000 acres of land, and at the beginning, it was returned to the paddy fields in the southeast, and the north and Guanwai were recovered in these years, and the land given to the county king was also moved to Tianjin and Tianhefu.

And the house that was given to him became smaller and smaller...... Where is this still the prince? It is clearly a big landlord.

Those underage are okay to say, there are no big expenses for the time being, and the suffering is the adult children, especially Zhu Cihuan...... They are all 25 years old this year, and they have three concubines and six children, and the ten people are pointing to the 5,000 acres of dry land in Jiangbei to live. If it weren't for the identity of a county king, it would be enough, but Cihuan is the county king of the Ming Dynasty after all! It has to be a bit of pomp, right? You have to keep some guards, servants, and maids, right? All these expenses have to come out of those 5,000 acres of land!

The days are hard, and the prince's family has no food left...... But Zhu Cihuan seems to be in a good mood today, and he seems to be going to get rich! Chongzhen thought to himself: Could it be that Ci Hong's conscience found out and rewarded him with a fat difference? It's a good thing to reward poor fat, I'm afraid that this kid's heart is too black and he is too ruthless, so let the Metropolitan Procuratorate investigate it!

"Erchen respectfully invites the Emperor Sheng'an, I wish the Emperor a long life, and happiness like the East China Sea......"

The filial sons knelt down together and kowtowed to Emperor Chongzhen. After kowtowing, it is a gift. Gifts are not held in the hand, but are held in the hand with a large red envelope stuffed with gift slips or silver tickets. Zhu Cihong was the first to give his father a big red envelope, and said to Chongzhen with a smile: "Father, this is a little bit of the son's heart - it is a special share of ten United States, and I will reward you with a reward." ”

As he spoke, he glanced back at his younger brothers, who were in a horde of them.

Ten special shares can be exchanged for one marquis, and of course they can be split up for ten barons...... What a man's ambitions! The princes of the Ming Dynasty shouldn't all stay in Yingtianfu to gnaw at the old, no, it's a good big brother who gnaws Zhu Cihong, right?

Chongzhen took the red envelope and asked with a smile: "Emperor, I see that the gift list sent by the Ottoman Empire mission has a Rakshasa white slave girl...... Why don't you see people? ”

Zhu Cihong coughed, and said, "Father, the Rakshasa Kingdom is our enemy!" This Rakshasa is most likely an assassin, so she can't be allowed to get close to her father, and the retainers have already ordered someone to tie her up to the Jinyi Guard! ”

"That's the case...... Chongzhen nodded, "The emperor is really filial, filial!" ”

The filial Zhu Cihong had already flashed aside, and the acting king Zhu Cijiong came up with a gift list to congratulate Emperor Chongzhen on his birthday.

Zhu Cijiong is the richest man among the kings, he has been dealing with a group of Shanxi profiteers for more than ten years, and he has long been a broad prince who knows how to manage ill-gotten gains. A large area of pastures has been opened up in the territory of Anbei Town, focusing on raising ploughing horses and horse mules, and the Datong horses and Datong mules produced are essential livestock for the northern farms. This time it was a silver ticket of 100,000 taels of salt trading houses, all of which were stuffed in a big red envelope, which made Chongzhen very happy.

Then said that Zhu Cizhao, the king of Luokun County, came up to congratulate him on his birthday, although he was a worthless county king, but he had his own territory, that is, Luokun, Songkhla, Krabi, Trang, Satun, Bodalun, and Suna, which originally belonged to Siam, were called Jing Navy at first, and now they are renamed Western Army. This is a truly rich land, not only with direct access to the Indian Ocean, but also with the land of Tianzhu, which is rich in rice.

Therefore, Zhu Cizhao's birthday gift to Emperor Chongzhen is also very rich, including ivory, gemstones, jade, spices, etc., worth at least tens of thousands of taels.

After Zhu Cizhao, it was Zhu Cihuan who was bitter, and he also handed over a gift list with a smile, Chongzhen took it and was stunned. After a while, he asked, "Cihuan, you give such a heavy gift, and the family is not old?" ”

Zhu Cihuan said to Chongzhen happily: "Father, my son has made a fortune recently, and I think that I have never honored your old man well in the past, so I prepared a generous gift this time, and you must receive it." ”

"Rich? You? Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, thinking: You are a stupid child, but you can also make a fortune? But take bribes, right? Don't let the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate find out......

Seeing Chongzhen stunned, Zhu Cihuan smiled and said: "Father, my son heard that he would make a profit by buying the shares of the United States, so he mortgaged the palace with 20,000 taels of silver and bought 20 shares. ”

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