Fang Yuan went to the palace to greet Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, and presented some jewels that had been confiscated from King Mu's mansion. Almost all of these jewels were collected from Burma, Annam, and Siam, and were rarely seen in the city of Beijing.

Chongzhen and Empress Zhou were very pleased with his filial piety, and even if they stayed in Fangyuan, they dined in the Qianqing Palace.

Fang was worried about poisoning, so he didn't want to stay in the Qianqing Palace for dinner, but he couldn't stand the princess's repeated begging him to stay, so he could only agree to stay in the Qianqing Palace.

Ma Yishan secretly arranged a team of 100 brocade guards to guard at the door of the main hall of the Qianqing Palace; Another team of 50 Jinyi guards went to the imperial dining room of the Qianqing Palace to monitor whether each dish was poisoned, and the intermediate links were also supervised by Jinyi Wei.

The princess also asked the palace maid to bring the two princesses, Fang Mu and Fang Yu, to dine in the Qianqing Palace. Also present was Fang Yuan's brother-in-law Zhu Cihong.

In order to please Fang Yuan, Zhu Cihong also took the initiative to toast Fang Yuan and congratulate him on his triumphant return. Fang Yuan no longer has any hatred for this brother-in-law, as long as he no longer thinks about the princess all day long, and engages in those messy thoughts, the past will be over!

Fang Yuan happily drank a drink with him, and at the same time gave him some jewelry.

Fang Yuan has been out for more than a year this time, Xiao Yuan was pregnant before the expedition, and Xiao Yuan gave birth to a son during the expedition. And they waited in the royal palace for him to return, and to name his newborn son.

Fang Yuan was uneasy during the banquet, and hurriedly finished the night meal and left the Qianqing Palace.

When Chongzhen and Queen Zhou saw him eating, they were absent-minded, probably worried about whether they would poison the food. Chongzhen was displeased, so he didn't force him to stay in the Qianqing Palace.

On the way back to the Regent's Palace, the princess remained silent, her face was full of sullenness, and she complained, "Horse, the father and queen mother kindly left you to eat in the Qianqing Palace, but you guarded them like thieves, what are you worried about?!" ”

Fang Yuan looked at her and sighed, "Er, be careful to sail the Ten Thousand Year Boat." Besides, it's not just my father and mother that I need to guard against. I forced the eunuchs to donate money before, and there are not a few eunuchs in the palace who hate me! ”

The princess was displeased, "The colt is wrong again!" What if the father and mother also ambushed a hundred sword and axe men behind the main hall and smashed the cup at any time?! I suggest that the horse order the brocade guard to watch over the banquet next time, and it will be foolproof! ”

Fang Yuan saw the princess's sarcastic words, obviously still angry, so he could only choose to soften, "Okay, good, Jiao'er, this time I suspect that I have a dark ghost, tomorrow I will be the east, and I will have a banquet for my father and mother in the regent's palace!" ”

The princess said angrily, "No, the father and the queen mother are still worried that they will be poisoned in the palace!" ”

The two of them didn't talk speculatively, and the atmosphere became more and more dull.

When passing by the palace garden, Fang Yuan saw that the princess was still unrelenting, thinking that he hadn't made love with the princess for a year, and he was also itchy, so he glanced at Ma Yishan and asked them to stay outside the garden.

After Ma Yishan stopped knowing and interested, Fang Yuan rushed up in a few steps and carried the princess on his shoulder, and entered the pavilion.

The princess screamed in panic at first, and when Sakura's lips were sealed by his lips, she half-pushed and half-obeyed.

After the two were in the back garden, the princess's previous anger disappeared, so she tidied up her clothes and went to Xiaoyuan's bedroom to visit the mother and son.

Fang Yuan held his newborn son for a while, and the princess suggested that the baby be named.

He thought about it, since he decided to start conquering Nanyang, it was better to name him Fang Yang! In the future, if this son is successful, he can also follow the succession of the thrones of European countries and make him a prince or governor in a confederation abroad.

With a blood connection, it's the same as in Europe before the crossing. Although World War I and World War II were full of corpses and rivers of blood, after the fighting, after all, they were still a family, and after sitting down to talk, the European Union was established.

Fang Yuan took this name, Xiao Yuan hadn't yet comprehended the meaning, and he was quite dissatisfied with this extremely ordinary name.

The princess realized Fang Yuan's intentions, and immediately agreed, "Okay, the name taken by the concubine is good, let's call it Fang Yang!" ”

Xiao Yuan looked at the two of them in astonishment, since a male host and a female hostess had reached an agreement, it didn't matter whether she agreed or not.

That night, Fang Yuan stayed in Xiaoyuan's dormitory, and when her ears and temples were grinding, she truthfully informed her of the grand blueprint for opening up thousands of miles of sea frontiers in the future. And Fang Yang is the governor that Fang Yuan planned to canonize overseas in the future to take charge of military and political affairs.

Only then did Xiao Yuan understand Fang Yuan's good intentions, her two sons, one became the prince regent at the age of five or six, and the other had already been arranged to be in a high position just after he was born.

With these two sons in hand, she was enough to rest easy. Fang Yuan's arrangements for her future can be said to be meticulous, what else is she not satisfied with?

In the next few days, Fang Yuan stayed in the princess's bedroom, not only to be able to do something, but more importantly, to ask her about the military and political events that had occurred in the Ming Dynasty in the past year.

The princess told the truth that in the past year, except for the flooding of the Yellow River, 300,000 taels of silver have been allocated for disaster relief in Shaanxi and Henan.

Fang Yuan was secretly pleased that a mature political system did not require the emperor and regent to deal with state affairs all day long, but without any emperor or regent, the state machine could operate normally.

Whether it is the emperor or the regent, it is enough to be responsible for the decision-making of major military and political affairs, to supervise whether the state apparatus is operating normally in accordance with various systems, and to pay attention to the direction of public opinion among the people.

These three points seem simple, but in fact, none of the previous Ming emperors did it.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di have too strong a desire for power and monopolize power. The result was a continuous bloody massacre, laboring people and losing money, and after Zhu Di's death, the finances of the Ming Dynasty were already overwhelmed.

Jiajing and Wanli do not have such a strong desire for power, and they are not yet in court, but they obviously did not supervise the normal operation of the state apparatus and paid attention to the trend of public opinion among the people. Otherwise, it would not have been during the reign of these two emperors, internally, the literati clique in Jiangnan gradually controlled public opinion, reversed black and white, and engaged in large-scale corruption and land annexation. Externally, the plagues and sea disasters in Jiajing plagued the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years; At the end of Wanli, Li Chengliang raised tigers as a problem, and Jiannu eventually became a big trouble.

By the time of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, the state apparatus had long been unable to function normally, and the fiscal deficit had become very alarming. Not to mention the trend of public opinion, the common people have already voted with rebellion!

At present, the system of the Ming Dynasty has obviously entered a mature virtuous circle stage, whether Fang Yuan is present or not, it will not affect the normal operation of the Ming Dynasty.