The area of Daming Gate has always been the most prosperous area in the capital of Daming, this area of merchants gathers, the shops are dazzling, the flow of natural people is also very large, up to the officials and dignitaries to the peddlers and pawns, people from the south to the north are gathered here, and the goods from Tongzhou are basically gathered here.

Zhu Houzhao now asked people to set up a high platform in front of the first floor pavilion in the center of Qipan Street, which has the most people in Daming Gate, and a red carpet was laid out on the high platform, and a gilded dragon chair throne was placed.

And Zhu Houzhao sat on the dragon chair, wearing a yellow robe and a filial piety robe, with a kind smile on his face.

Even if he hadn't let Liu Jin shout at this moment, the people of Daming who came and went were attracted by the scene, because even if they hadn't seen Zhu Houzhao, they knew that anyone who could sit on the gilded throne and wear a yellow dragon robe could be so bold except for the Ming Emperor.

"Your Majesty, that's Your Majesty!"

The people had already shouted in surprise.

Then, more and more people consciously gathered in this direction.

The current Ming Dynasty still has the hearts of the people, and the people have even taken the initiative to kneel down when they see this:

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Although these people don't know why the emperor is here, it's always right to say goodbye, just like meeting a Bodhisattva who doesn't know what a Bodhisattva is, but it's always right to say goodbye.

The people who had already gone far also rushed out after noticing that the emperor was here.

Those who ate and drank in the teahouse restaurant also checked out and hurriedly ran out.

Even, even the scholar who was holding the girl in the Qinglou put down his confidantes and rushed over, and some even ran over with their confidants.

"The emperor has come to Daming Gate, go and see!"

"Oh my God, why did the emperor come here!"

"This is really the sun coming out of the west, and my Emperor Daming actually appeared in Daming Gate!"

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For a time, people have consciously spread the word of mouth, so more and more people heard that Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, appeared in the Daming Gate, and some merchants even closed their shops directly in order to be able to come and see the Ming Emperor.

Zhu Houzhao saw more than ten layers of people inside and outside the half-zhang high stage, and they all kowtowed to him, and couldn't help laughing, he felt like a star in later generations, as soon as he appeared, countless people screamed and shouted, causing thousands of empty alleys.

Liu Jin stood up at this time, holding a brass horn made by the Royal Industrial Laboratory and roared: "Everyone! Please be quiet, as you can see, now sitting in front of you is my Emperor Ming! It's our Son of Heaven! Now please ask the emperor to speak to us, and you will shout long live with our family! ”

"Hooray!"

"Hooray!"

"Hooray!"

Liu Jin roared like this, so that the excited people of Daming were beaten again, and they were busy shouting long live again!

Zhu Houzhao stood up, smiled and made a gesture of pressing his hands, and took the brass horn from Liu Jin's hand: "My people, please be quiet!" ”

Zhu Houzhao roared like this, and all the people stopped shouting, and looked at Zhu Houzhao seriously one by one, because this opportunity is too rare, after all, for ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to listen to the emperor's speech or listen to the county master's speech.

"I came to this Ming Gate today not to sit in the court to listen to the government, nor to listen to the voice of the people, but to open the first royal exposition of my Ming Dynasty to carry on the past and open up the future!"

As Zhu Houzhao spoke, he motioned for Wei Bin and Qiu Ju to open the red curtain behind him.

Thereupon.

Wei Bin and Qiu Ju began to slowly open the red curtain.

The people in the audience were staring intently at the slowly opening curtain, they were a little surprised when they heard the emperor say that the expo was going to be opened, thinking about what the expo was, but when the red curtain opened, they couldn't help but exclaim when they saw the huge glass wall and the five gilded characters in the center of the glass wall.

"Oh my God, it's royal! I, Xu Jing, am also well-informed, and I have never seen such a large piece of glass! And it's so pure and colorless! ”

A middle-aged Confucian scholar named Xu Jing exclaimed.

"Not only that, but the craftsmanship of the royal craftsmen of this court is different, how the golden characters are inlaid into the glass! It's amazing! ”

On Xu Jing's side, there were also other people who discussed.

"This is better than the glass of the West, as the name suggests, the expo should show us some objects, and now this glass can be seen to be a very rare thing!"

"Say no more! This kind of glass, to say the least, is worth thousands of taels of silver. ”

"It's more than thousands, in my opinion, no less than 10,000 taels!"

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The people below looked at Emperor Zhu Houzhao and the glass wall behind him with curiosity.

At this time, Emperor Zhu Houzhao shouted again: "You think that I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and I must be rich all over the world, but I tell you the truth, I am poor!" The poor haven't eaten bread for two months. ”

Some simple people didn't know that Zhu Houzhao didn't eat flatbread, and one of the butchers even casually said: "So miserable? I, a pork seller, can eat cabbage and meat stuffed flatbread enough, and I can eat better than the emperor? ”

"It was still a winter, the snowflakes were drifting, it was so cold that people shivered, at that time I was still the prince, the emperor was still the emperor of Daxing, at that time my father saw that I was very cold, so he asked the eunuch to find me a thick cotton coat to wear, but the court was poor, I couldn't find a thick cotton coat, but fortunately, my father was still alive at that time, except for the cold spots in winter, I was carefree."

Zhu Houzhao began to complain, vigorously making up how miserable he had been before, and then wiped his tears and said: "But who would have thought that my father would suddenly die, just like your ordinary people's children died of their father, no one cares about me, woo!" I have no money to eat, no money to buy clothes, and now that I am grown up, I want to marry a queen, that is, I want to marry a daughter-in-law just like you people! But I don't have the money to marry the queen! ”

"Also, I still have to spend money to buy a coffin for my father to repair the mausoleum and bury it, even if your parents are old, you have to do it, not to mention that I am still the emperor, but I have no money, my father has not been buried yet, and my Qianqing Palace can't block the rain in summer and the cold wind in winter, and I have to spend money to repair, in short, I am poor!"

"So, I'm going to hold a royal exposition today, the purpose is to take out some of the treasures in the royal family to show you, if you can afford to buy these treasures back, it's equivalent to helping me the emperor, and it can be regarded as helping me Ming, I don't want to make money by adding taxes to the people to marry my daughter-in-law and bury my father, so that's the only way, if you want to say that I am a loser emperor, just say, I just accept it, as long as you don't let my father and emperor can't be buried, so that I can't marry the queen!"

The people in the audience were surprised, they didn't expect the Emperor of Daming to be so poor, and the poor wanted to sell the treasure in the house to marry the queen and bury the emperor.

The people of the Ming Dynasty are not as numb as they were in the Qing Dynasty, and now listening to what the emperor said, some people with more sympathy have begun to wipe their tears, but they didn't say that the emperor didn't say it, we didn't expect you to be miserable.

And in addition, Gu Dayong also sent someone to be a nurse according to Zhu Houzhao's instructions, and said among the people: "This is really touching, you are my good emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I would rather lose and sell my royal treasure than raise taxes!" ”

"Isn't it, and the treasure in our Ming Emperor's seller is just to marry the queen and buy a coffin for the first emperor to bury! It can be seen that my Ming Emperor is not only a good emperor or a filial son, but I don't know if those ministers are blind or nonsense, not to say that our emperor is a faint monarch, if this kind of emperor is a faint monarch, then there are still good emperors in the world! ”

Some of the people echoed this with approval.

Of course, there are also people who don't want to believe it, and one of the businessmen questioned: "How is this possible, we pay a lot of taxes every year, and nearly thirty percent of my family's income is handed over to the imperial court, which is thousands of taels of silver, and the imperial court can collect millions of taels no matter what, how can it be poor to this." “

Gu Da, who was pretending to be a nursery, hurriedly shouted in a sharp voice: "That's not to let those corrupt officials and corrupt officials be greedy!" The emperor is a good emperor, but these officials in the world may not be good officials, so those officials in the court are so rich that they eat delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, buy maids, buy slaves and buy land, but pity our emperor is obviously a good emperor, but he has been harmed by these corrupt officials and corrupt officials into a faint tyrant who is not sympathetic to the people! ”

The common people at the bottom all had natural illusions about the emperor, and even many peasant rebels only shouted the name of killing corrupt officials in the early days of the uprising, and in their eyes, it was corrupt officials who made them unable to survive, while the emperor who did not directly exploit them would be sympathized with or at least think that they were not so bad.

Therefore, now that Gu Da said this, the people also felt that he was right, and began to say indignantly: "Yes, it is these corrupt officials and corrupt officials who are harmful, and these corrupt officials and corrupt officials should be killed, not only to make us poor, but even the emperor to be poor, and the taxes we pay are not for them!" That's for the emperor's food! ”