Coming out of the side hall, Sun Xian lowered her head, stepped on small steps, and followed closely behind Zhu Zhanji. Every time she sneaked a glance at the tall back in front of her, she immediately felt like a deer, and her cheeks were feverish.

Since she was eleven years old, she knew that the honors, disgraces, sorrows, and sorrows of her life were tied to this man.

The memories of before the age of ten have faded in her mind, and sometimes in her dreams, she has forgotten even the appearance of her father.

In her life, there is only how to be a qualified queen and how to please this man.

She knows all his preferences, what kind of food he likes to eat, what style of clothes he wears, likes to practice martial arts, and loves her like a younger sister.

Whether he treats her well or not, she has regarded him as her only supporter, and life will always be based on him.

She doesn't know those loves, she just knows that it's enough to treat him as her own.

When she was a child, she didn't feel it, but since she began to develop, she knew that there was a difference between men and women, and every time she saw him, she couldn't help but feel a little flustered.

Zhu Zhanji, who was walking in front, saw Li Liang and them guarding outside the Wenhua Palace, and stood up.

Sun Xian was defenseless and crashed straight into Zhu Zhanji's back, Sun Xian couldn't help but let out a low cry and reached out against his sturdy back.

Shame on the dead.

Zhu Zhanji turned his head and looked at Sun Xian, who was shy with a pink face, and couldn't help but show a smile. "Is it okay to live in the palace? Has anyone deducted the degree? ”

Sun Xian stood still, shook her head and said, "Everything is fine." His Royal Highness returned to his heart from all over the world, and the palace maid did not dare to treat the concubine lightly. ”

Zhu Zhanji looked at her and tightened her face a little nervously, she had just turned sixteen years old, and she would go to high school at most in later generations, but now, the glory of the family is tied together, and she has become much more mature than the students in later generations.

Reaching out and pinching her little face, Zhu Zhanji smiled: "No need to be nervous, we will become husband and wife in the future, and we will be tired every day by being so tense!" ”

In front of the public, Zhu Zhanji moved his hands and feet, Sun Xian was ashamed, covered his face with his sleeve and said: "Your Highness, please save two points of face for the concubine, if it is spread out, it will damage the reputation of the concubine, and it will also affect the prestige of Your Highness." ”

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "We are an unmarried couple, why care about what others say." After the end, you lost your innocence and became old-fashioned. ”

Sun Xian was afraid that Zhu Zhanji would annoy her, so she reached out and hooked Zhu Zhanji's finger with her little finger, and said softly: "There are many people in the palace, and the concubine does not dare to have a trace of negligence, and I hope that His Royal Highness will not blame the concubine." ”

Of course, Zhu Zhanji wouldn't really annoy her, and he also knew how harsh this era was for women. It is romantic for a man to go out and be happy, and it is not okay for a girl to gossip a few words with a non-relative man.

If she has a loss, even if Zhu Zhanji likes her again, she doesn't want to think about the position of queen.

So Zhu Zhanji comforted her in turn and said: "You are dignified and virtuous, how can I be willing to blame." On this expedition, when I came back from Jinan Mansion, I also met your father and mother. The selection of concubines is imminent, and I also informed them that they will come to Beijing from their hometown in February next year. ”

Sun Xian looked up at him, her eyes as timid as a fawn full of anticipation and worry. "Will Your Highness treat me like before in the future?"

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "I will only love you more than before, you don't have to worry, I have already told the imperial grandfather, this time to choose a concubine, no one will cross you." ”

"Really?"

Zhu Zhanji approached her little face, smelled the fragrance on her body and smiled: "If you dare to doubt me next time, you will serve in the family law." ”

Sun Xian sighed, looked up at the eunuchs and palace maids around her, and saw that they all lowered their heads, pretending not to hear their words, which was a little relieved.

After getting Zhu Zhanji's promise, she also put her mind at ease and said softly: "Your Highness is not serious again, and when you get married, the concubine is willing to accept the family law." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she herself was embarrassed, and made a lady's ceremony and said: "It's not too early, the concubine will take Jiaxing and them to Xingqing Palace tomorrow to contract with His Royal Highness." ”

Looking at her back in a hurry, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help laughing.

The so-called family service is, of course, a spanking of the ass. It's just that this game was played a few times when she was young, and when she came to menstruation and developed, she was afraid of it.

Now that she has been promised, she can be regarded as presumptuous.

When she took a group of little eunuchs and little palace maids into the corridor of the Benren Palace, Zhu Zhanji turned around and instructed Li Liang. "Don't swing around, go back to the palace."

There is no difference between Xingqing Palace and when he left ten months ago, Zhu Zhanji left for ten months, and when he came back this time, all the eunuchs and palace maids bowed down with a big bow.

Zhu Zhanji was in a happy mood and personally helped up Jin Kuo, who could only stay in Xingqing Palace because of his involvement. "Farewell to October, Eunuch Jin is tired."

Jin Kuo said in a trembling voice: "It is the duty of an old slave to serve His Highness, and I dare not praise His Highness." ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "From the eunuch of Ningbo City to the chief eunuch of the Seal Ribbon Prison, although you have been promoted, you are only forty years old, so you can only stay in Xingqing Palace, and you must not be able to stand it." However, Grandpa Huang has already agreed to my overseas development plan, and after more than a year, when I am crisscrossing the world, are you willing to take charge of the horse for me? ”

Jin Kuo immediately knelt down on his knees, knelt on the ground and said, "If you can serve Your Highness, the old slave will never give up." ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "You have a good relationship with Zheng He, and you are also familiar with the livelihood of various places in the internal prison. So during this time, you will sit in Xingqing Palace and help me count the output of all parts of the country. This time, I will go to sea in person, and I will make the trade a place where the Daming sea ships can reach. ”

Jin Kuo is only forty years old, and now he is trapped in Xingqing Palace by Zhu Di, although he is in a high position, but for a eunuch with ideals and pursuits, it is not yet time to retire.

To have the opportunity to go out again, Jin Kuo is of course very willing.

On the other side, Xue Shanggong also knelt on the ground with more than 100 palace maids, and Zhu Zhanji said loudly: "I went to the north to march, you have no merit and hard work, Xingqing Palace, with two or two as the line, everyone has a reward." ”

The reward in the palace has its own rules, most of the time it is based on one tael, that is, the smallest palace maid has one or two rewards of silver, and each higher level, there is one tael more.

There are nearly 400 people in Xingqing Palace, and Zhu Zhanji's reward this time will be at least 3,000 taels of silver.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Everyone bowed down one after another, and Zhu Zhanji helped Xue Shanggong up again and said with a smile: "Shanggong is different from me, you don't need to be polite, let's be flat." ”

Looking at the woman in front of him, who was almost thirty years old, Zhu Zhanji also felt a trace of pity in his heart. In her life, she is destined not to enjoy the life of an ordinary person, nor can she experience the joy of being a woman.

Now this Xingqing Palace, and in the future, this palace will be her prison. She can only bloom here and then wither silently.

She is thirteen years older than Zhu Zhanji, and it is impossible for her to become Zhu Zhanji's concubine, let alone give birth to children for Zhu Zhanji.

Of course, if Zhu Zhanji wants her to experience the joy of being a woman, she can still do it.

She is Chinese New Year's Eve years old now, and she is the best age for a woman in the future, but this era can already be called an "old man".

However, with a melon seed face, she doesn't look old at all, and Zhu Zhanji, who even tried a forty-year-old woman in her previous life, didn't think she was old.

"It's all gone, I'm a little tired today, and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Eunuch Jin, Xue Shanggong, you come in with me. ”

Entering the living room outside his bedroom, Zhu Zhanji sat down on a chair and asked, "Are there any troublesome matters that have not been dealt with recently?" ”

Jin Kuo bowed down and said, "Except for the last time Yu Xian had a dispute with Dongying merchants because of tax collection, the situation has been calm since then. ”

"I already know about it. No matter where you are, if you want to come to my Ming trade, you must pay the tax on the entry of goods to the Ming Dynasty, even if my Ming Dynasty is the Heavenly Empire, it is not a big wrong. ”

Although I don't know what it means, I still have a good understanding of Zhu Zhanji's intentions. Nodding his head, he said, "It's not that they are dissatisfied with the tax, they just think that the tax rate is too high." Taizu determined that the commercial tax was thirty and one tax, but the city had to levy one-fifth of the tariff to make those Dongying merchants dissatisfied. ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Who let them transport cotton and linen fabrics that I don't need in the Ming Dynasty, everything that I can produce in the Ming Dynasty will be taxed highly, only the scarce things in my Ming Dynasty, the things in short supply, will be taxed at low taxes, or even tax-free." ”

Jin Kuo responded: "The various departments of the internal supervision have now transmitted His Highness's intention to the town guards and customs, and the tax rate is determined according to His Highness's will. For luxury and valuable things, the things that are not lacking in the Ming Dynasty are five taxes and one one, and the rest of the things are still thirty taxes and one tax. It's just that the major people in the imperial court have some criticism, thinking that the tax rate is inappropriate. ”

"This is the business of the internal supervision, and the profits of the sea trade are also put into the internal treasury rather than the national treasury, so you don't have to worry about them. How's the deal going on with the globe? ”

"In the past ten months, the three craftsmen have copied more than 30 globes, and now they are still locked up in the workshops of the War Bureau, under strict guard."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "They are meritorious heroes and should not be treated like this." Tomorrow...... No, remember to remind me the day after tomorrow that I will go to the War Bureau to meet them. ”

Seeing that the conversation between Zhu Zhanji and Jin Kuo came to an end, and looked at himself again, Xue Shanggong said: "Your Highness, since they have been waiting for them in close proximity, shouldn't their identity cards be changed?" ”

Zhu Zhanji looked at Jin Kuo, waved his hand at him, and waited for him to go out before he said, "Tomorrow, you take them to see Concubine Zhaoyi, which is registered in the register and temporarily set as ...... Inherit it. ”

Chenghui is a kind of concubine rank of the prince and grandson.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the official concubines of the crown prince and the grandson are divided into one princess, two Liangdi, six Liangyuan, ten Chenghui, sixteen Zhaoxun, and twenty-four Fengyi.

In other words, Zhu Zhanji can now be graded, and there can be fifty-nine women on the register.

As for the other palace maids, he can also be lucky at will, and if he is satisfied, he can become an official little wife, and if he is not satisfied, he will still let her be a palace maid without any responsibility.

Only if you are registered can you have a child, or if you are pregnant, you can be registered again.

Several of them have served Zhu Zhanji for several years, and they have worked hard without merit. Chenghui's level is neither high nor low, before Zhu Zhanji got married, this level was just right.

Xue Shanggong nodded and said, "The slave knows. ”