West Lake, Hangzhou.

Autumn leaves are stained with ink-colored leaves on the turquoise water.

The breeze blows, without making waves, and the lake is as elegant and pure as Jiangnan blue calico, but also tranquil.

Zhu Houzhao sat in a painting boat, the Wu sound in the painting boat was tactful, and the Kunqu opera was melodious, so that he didn't know whether he was drunk or fascinated after just eating two glasses of rice wine.

But the sound of soldiers and the bloody wind of peace still made him finally fall asleep.

In the final analysis, it is still the south of the Yangtze River that is still singing and dancing, and it has not been affected by the Japanese rebellion and is in disarray, so that Zhu Houzhao is completely relieved and sleeps on this West Lake day and night.

Zhu Houzhao did not prohibit people from coming to West Lake to play.

Therefore, under his influence and the fact that the West Lake is as charming as the West, the visitors who come to the West Lake are crammed into the entire West Lake, and under the dark blue, they don't know where the crowd is and where the water surface is.

But fortunately, now is the Ming Dynasty, the world of the Han family, and it is a time of peace and prosperity, when the control of etiquette and music is not very strict, and the atmosphere is open.

Therefore, although these scholars are very dense, the unique Eguanbo white yarn with colorful sleeves in Hanfu also makes these Han soldiers and people flock everywhere like flowers.

Wu Nong's soft words wafting with the fragrance of flowers are very cordial to people's ears, at least there is no Hu Yin, no tone from the East.

However, Zhu Houzhao found that in addition to Wu Nong's soft language, the sound rippling between these clear waves is also the sound of Daming official dialect, which is the Mandarin of this era, the popularization of national education and the popularization of standard pinyin reading, so that people from different regions and different dialects can use one language to communicate, and no longer only rely on words and acquaintances to translate.

"Listening to this seemingly official language but still with the tone of various local accents, it can be seen that decades after the road introduction system was banned, more and more people from the Ming Dynasty came to travel to various scenic spots.

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile, and Zhu Kun, who was accompanying him at any time to report the extermination of the Japanese in various places, replied with a smile:

"As His Majesty said, the road introduction system is banned, and the people of the world are better than returning the birds of the forest, and they are much freer, which has also promoted the prosperity of tourism today, and the famous places such as Suzhou and Hangzhou have made huge profits, and some scholars even do not hesitate to open private gardens for the people to play and collect their fees, and there are people who earn more than 10,000 silver dollars a day."

"Speaking of which, this is also related to the fact that Your Majesty created the first prosperous era of my Ming Dynasty, the people can only travel when they are rich, not to mention the Ming Dynasty now, even between the villages and villages, there are cement hard roads, and there are steam locomotives that pass the world, so that the hermits in the world have nowhere to hide, and the people in the world have nowhere to travel!"

Li Tianpet also echoed.

Zhu Houzhao only smiled slightly after hearing this, but he also admitted that a series of reforms carried out during his administration had indeed promoted the development of tourism in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, before this, visiting the world was only an exclusive entertainment activity for scholars and doctors, and the people had no opportunity or interest in traveling.

But now it is different, the great abundance of material life and the freedom given by the imperial court are getting bigger and bigger, coupled with the increase in demand for culture and tourism with the popularization of national education, making the tourism industry in Daming more and more prosperous.

Even, some officials have begun to suggest that the imperial court set up a tourism bureau to manage the world's tourism affairs.

For Zhu Houzhao, the development of tourism is undoubtedly beneficial to the interests of the entire country in the Ming Dynasty, and can also enrich the lives of the people and drive the local economy.

Otherwise, Zhu Houzhao would not have traveled everywhere in the ancient years, and left his own ink treasures everywhere, and even asked some literati and scholars to leave their names here with a lot of money, in order to promote the development of tourism in the Ming Dynasty.

But not everyone can understand Zhu Houzhao's thoughts, or are willing to see Zhu Houzhao do this.

Playing the world is the privilege of the ruling class, the welfare of meat eaters, just like wearing gold and silver, and wearing red and color.

But now, these have begun to be civilized.

This is undoubtedly unacceptable to some scholars.

After all, this means that hierarchical societies are gradually moving towards equality, and the privileges of the upper classes are being held by the masses.

"Traffickers, pawns, women, children, and grass people, all dare to comment on Li Du Suxin, and dare to leave a name in this famous place to express their nostalgia, it is really a collapse of etiquette and music, and I don't know how to be honest!"

Wang Yi, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, who has been sent to Shi, is extremely bitter and difficult to accept such a phenomenon.

Now, what is even more difficult for him to accept is that because there are so many people who come to meet the saint, that he, a big squire living in West Lake, can only queue up to ask to see him.

Although it is difficult for Wang He to accept the gradual commoner treatment of the scholar class, this is indeed an irreversible phenomenon.

What Zhu Houzhao brought to the Ming Dynasty was not only the modern weapons and industrial system, but also the modern civilization that gradually tended to be equal, and the trend of the gradual collapse of the hierarchical society.

Listening to the various official words sent by the warm wind, Zhu Houzhao found that almost everyone in the Ming Dynasty at this time could casually recite a few Tang and Song poems, as well as their own original ones.

This made him very pleased, and he was glad that the cultural popularity of Daming had really reached a very high level.

Zhu Houzhao has always thought about what it would be like if everyone in the world became scholars.

Now, he, the emperor, can already get a glimpse of the results of this kind of social reform, at least what he can see is that the people have the ability to think actively.

The so-called highly respected and knowledgeable people will often be more easily debunked as deceitful and famous, and even some great Confucians will be challenged by folk thinkers.

The Japanese did not cause trouble to the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, which was undoubtedly a big setback for some coastal scholars with ill intentions.

But the coastal scholars soon found that the Japanese did not cause great trouble to the people on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, not because the Japanese were not bad enough, but because the officials and troops arranged by the Ming Dynasty in the southeast were too strong, and this was all related to Zhu Kun and Qi Jiguang and others.

Thereupon.

Some rumors about Zhu Kun's indiscriminate killing and Qi Jiguang's army looting came out of nowhere.

In addition, some literati who had been bribed by the scholars also began to speak out against the imperial court for placing too many troops in the southeast, causing disturbance to the people and unrest in the south of the Yangtze River.

But contrary to expectations, these rumors and all kinds of contemptuous remarks against the army did not have much impact, and even met with many people's refutations.

"Everyone can see that today's Japanese robbers, both in terms of combat power and quantity, are far better than decades ago, they kill people when they see them, and burn them when they see villages, but they only target the common people's official government, it is obvious that these Japanese robbers are deliberately creating panic, and colluding with local forces to disrupt the government of the imperial court, so today's rumors of slandering the official army are not the ignorance of scholars, but they are deliberate!"

A young student dressed in a Ming version of a student outfit said this while walking with several of his classmates.

Zhu Houzhao, who interviewed privately in Weifu, couldn't help but listen to it sincerely, and laughed for a while, thinking that today's Ming people are indeed not comparable to the people of decades ago, and the improvement of education level has made them have their own judgment on public opinion.

Of course, although the people are no longer stupid people, the people are the people, and it is still impossible to influence the government.

The Ming Dynasty was still a civilian-dominated court.

Although the military ministers are no longer subject to the civilian officials, but because it is now a peaceful and prosperous era, there is no major war in the country, most of the military generals are not interested in internal affairs or can not interfere in internal affairs, therefore, it seems that the current Ming Dynasty has repeatedly played an important role in the political arena is still these civil officials.

As long as the civilian government is in charge, it is inevitable to talk and intrigue;

On the surface, the most noteworthy thing in the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty today is that Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, refused to carry out Emperor Zhu Zailei's request for the deportation of additional taxes from various vassal states to Beijing, which made people can't help but find out that Xia Yan dared to be so bold!

Zhu Houzhao also paid attention to the follow-up of this matter, he was not worried about whether Xia Yan would be eliminated by his emperor's son, because he believed that Xia Yan must be prepared to bear the consequences of doing so, and he didn't think that Xia Yan was challenging the imperial power, because his emperor's son could remove Xia Yan and reappoint and dismiss a first assistant who was willing to countersign.

Zhu Houzhao was worried that Xia Yan's prestige and relationship with himself would make him, the emperor's son, dare not break with Xia Yan directly, but he would resent Xia Yan and be used by some villains.

As Zhu Houzhao expected, Xia Yan was not deposed by Zhu Zailei, as the newly enthroned emperor, Zhu Zailei did not dare to dismiss a very prestigious old chief assistant at will, especially when his own emperor was still alive, therefore, on the surface, Zhu Zailei still gave in and let this resolution be temporarily shelved.

However, not long after Zhu Houzhao visited the West Lake, he saw the herald come to Zhu Kun, and the content of the decree was to change Zhu Kun's military affairs to inspect Fujian and Zhejiang, which meant that he no longer had the power to mobilize troops along the southeast coast.

"There was news from the capital that it was the right of the military department to give forestry in the matter, and suggested that the imperial court change its own military affairs to inspect Fujian and Zhejiang on the grounds that the ministers were arbitrarily transferring troops to disturb the localities, but I never thought that His Majesty would agree", Zhu Kun couldn't help but sigh after saying to Zhu Houzhao, and then couldn't help but say angrily:

"Most of these officials in Fujian and Zhejiang are courtiers who are protégés of Yuanfu, and now they see that Yuanfu is not liked by His Majesty, and they take advantage of this to slander!"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Zhu Kun, who was excited, and only got up and patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Qing doesn't need to be so indignant, it seems that the change of the Admiral's military affairs to inspect Fujian and Zhejiang seems to have canceled your right to transfer troops, but my guards can still be transferred." ”

Zhu Houzhao said and instructed Li Tianzhong: "Spread the edict, Wang Chonggu of the Ninth Army of the Guards Army rushed from Huguang to Fujian, temporarily set up the General Headquarters of the Guards Army to resist the Japanese, and appointed Zhu Kun to inspect Fujian and Zhejiang as the commander-in-chief!" ”

The Guards were the army directly controlled by Zhu Houzhao, the army's money, food, and weapons supply were his own industry, and the officers were all members of his Zhongjun Society, not the army of the imperial court, so Zhu Houzhao himself was directly mobilized.

Now, some officials in Fujian and Zhejiang deliberately restricted Zhu Kun's right to transfer troops, and increased the chances of the Japanese raiding the southeast, and even successfully took advantage of the contradiction between the emperor and the cabinet chief assistant to deprive Zhu Kun of his right to transfer troops.

However, Zhu Houzhao did not let these officials get their way, and directly transferred the Ninth Army of the Guards to the southeast, although these guards were not naval and were not good at naval warfare, but it was more than enough to shoot these Japanese soldiers on land.

Zhu Kun had no choice but to receive the order, and now he was inspecting Fujian and Zhejiang in accordance with the will of Emperor Zhu Zailei, and on the other hand, he was participating in the deployment of the officers and soldiers of the Guards who remained in the southeast in accordance with the will of Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

Because of this, the Japanese still did not take advantage, and tens of thousands of guards were divided into small detachments, scattered all over the southeast, and basically four or five guards could eliminate ten times their own Japanese pirates.

The brave and warlike Japanese can only be the fate of being passively shot in front of the guards officers and soldiers who are equipped with modern firearms, and because of this, in the end, even the local people are no longer afraid of these Japanese robbers, and begin to spontaneously resist the Japanese pirates, or directly send a message to these guards who carry out separate special operations, so that the Japanese can basically not survive once they step into the coastal territory of the Ming Dynasty.

"It's so peaceful in the south! What do these robbers eat? ”

Zhao Wenhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, looked at the news that the famous opera troupe was going to tour Ningbo, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places, and knew that the large-scale Japanese rebellion had not happened, otherwise these folk theater stars would not dare to tour the southeast coast at this time, which made him very depressed.

"According to the news brought by my family, after Zhu Kun did not have the right to transfer troops, the number of officers and troops infested by the entire southeast coast increased instead of decreasing, and finally I found out that it was the Ninth Army of the Guards Army in Huguang who went to Fujian, so this must still be related to the Emperor!"

Forestry couldn't help but say from the side.

"It seems that Zhu Kun voted for the emperor, alas!"

Zhao Wenhua slapped the table helplessly, like other civil officials who secretly wanted to benefit these southern gentry, he still had to admit in his heart that Zhu Houzhao was still their biggest enemy, but although Zhu Houzhao had now become the emperor, they couldn't do anything with Zhu Houzhao, because even His Majesty the Emperor didn't dare to take the first assistant of the cabinet appointed by the emperor before, let alone them.

"The Emperor, the Emperor again! According to Luo, if the emperor does not die, it will be difficult for the gentry in the world to have peace! Why don't you find a chance to end up with him, he is an old man, even if he is dead, not many people will suspect it, and it is not difficult to die! ”

Qiu Luan, who was very close to Zhao Wenhua, couldn't help but say.

"Be careful! How could the Emperor Taishang say that he could kill him! How many noble courtiers are behind him, and you don't know that the gentry in Jiangnan boycotted the city to resist tax increases, and the richest chaebols in the world helped him! Don't think that the West Factory is in the hands of the emperor now, if you say so, there will be nothing, although the one who went to the south has become the emperor, he is not blind or deaf! ”

The so-called think tank Luo Longwen couldn't help but say.

Yan Shifan, who had been silent, couldn't help but laugh gloomily when he heard this, and walked out of the darkest and darkest corner: "You can't kill or chase, can't you invite the Emperor Taishang away, our Emperor Taishang must be tired of playing with the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, can't we go to see the grassland and see the desert is lonely?" ”

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Zhu Houzhao sneezed, the colder weather made him have to admit that the cold in the south is not something that can be carried casually, not to mention that the climate phenomenon of the Xiaoice River is becoming more and more intense at present, and the only thing he is glad about is that he did not go outside the customs, he only wants to go further south now.

But before he set off, he still had to wait for the strategic policy of the General Staff of the Ming military on sending troops to Japan.

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