Zhu Xiuniang didn't know why the emperor's uncle knew that he was sick, and he had some lower abdominal pain when he came to Tiankui, but her mother said that it was all normal, and it would be fine in a few years, but why did her emperor uncle say that he was sick?

Zhu Xiuniang boldly asked, "Your Majesty, why? ”

"Embroidery girl, call uncle!"

"Uncle, why do you know about the embroidery girl?"

"I know, and I know how to relieve your pain! Did your mother ask you to drink more brown sugar water? ”

Zhu Xiuniang opened her eyes wide and said, "Uncle is amazing, that's what my mother said!" ”

"Your mother is wrong, drinking brown sugar water can only alleviate this disease, but it can't go to the roots, only I will go to the roots!"

Zhu Xiuniang was really happy to hear the emperor say that he could go to the root, and Zhu Xiuniang was in pain for a few days every month, it would be great if he could go to the root.

"Uncle, please save the embroidery girl!" Zhu Xiuniang bowed after speaking.

Zhu Hongsan pretended to mutter: "It's easy to go to the roots, but you need to take off your clothes and be honest with your uncle, are you willing?" ”

Although Zhu Xiuniang is young and does not understand the affairs of men and women, she is not a fool, her body has not been seen by anyone except her mother, that is, she is shy when she encounters a secret place in the bath, and now she wants to let her uncle see how can he agree?

"Uncle, this is not in accordance with the law!"

"Xiuniang, can I still harm you if I am your uncle? The root of your disease is in the lower abdomen, how can you treat it without taking off your clothes? Do you still want to hurt once a month? ”

Zhu Xiuniang naturally didn't want to die of pain every month, so she hesitantly took off her clothes when she heard the emperor say this.

Zhu Hongsan saw that he had succeeded in coaxing the little girl, and quickly took off his clothes.

"Uncle, why did you take off your clothes too?"

"Xiuniang, you don't know, you need something on my body to cure the disease, it can be a little painful for a while, you can bear with it, and if it hurts, call your uncle lighter!"

In the main hall, there are not two people, Zhu Hongsan and Zhu Xiuniang, but also Li Chengen and four little eunuchs. Li Chengen saw Zhu Hongsan coaxing underage girls here, and scolded in his heart that this faint monarch was really not a thing, and his niece didn't let it go.

After some clouds and rain, Zhu Hongsan asked with satisfaction: "Niece, how is it?" Uncle didn't lie to you! Doesn't it hurt anymore! ”

"Yes uncle, it hurt a little at first, but then it didn't hurt anymore! But what was the goo that my uncle told me to eat? ”

"Niece, this is medicine, just take it!"

"This one is so fishy, it's so unpalatable!"

"Well, if you eat it to cure your disease, you have to eat it for seven hundred and forty-nine days in a row to get better!"

Zhu Hongsan was in a good mood after treating his niece Zhu Xiuniang, got up and went out after getting dressed, he still has a lot of things to do today, and he has to go back to his hometown in Wuchang to worship his parents.

Zhu Xiuniang, who had just experienced personnel, returned to the backyard with the support of two little eunuchs, half of the Jiangxia County Palaces were burned down, and only a few houses in the backyard were still good, one of which was the residence of Zhu Hongyu, the daughter of Zhu Hengyu, the king of Jingjiang.

Originally, Zhu Hongsan also had a Yi woman Lu Riguo, but the Yi woman's desire was too strong, Zhu Hongsan really couldn't stand it, and Zhu Hongsan was originally using Lu Riguo to anger the Shuixi clan, so after pacifying Guizhou, Zhu Hongsan was tired of playing Lu Riguo and found a reason to send it back to her father in Zhaotong, Yunnan, so now the woman in the backyard is only Zhu Hongyu alone.

Zhu Hongyu was only fifteen years old when she was occupied by Zhu Hongsan, and now she is eighteen years old, and she is still five months pregnant.

Zhu Hongyu's father and three elder brothers all died at the hands of Zhu Hongsan, it stands to reason that she should hate Zhu Hongsan to the bone, but Zhu Hongyu is a weak woman and is pregnant, so she has accepted her fate in the past few years.

Today, Zhu Hongyu saw a young girl brought in by the little eunuch, and Zhu Hongyu was also a person from the past, and at first glance, she had just experienced personnel. In the entire harem, except for the eunuch Zhu Hongsan, there is such a man, and Zhu Hongyu naturally knows who created the sin.

"Sister, are you Your Majesty's new woman?"

Zhu Xiuniang sat down and looked at this pregnant woman, this is probably the emperor's uncle's imperial concubine, Zhu Xiuniang didn't dare to slack off, and quickly struggled to get up and salute back: "Hello auntie, my niece is Zhu Xiuniang, the daughter of Zhu Hongyan, the king of Jiangxia County!" ”

Zhu Hongyu read books when she was a child, and knew that the king of Jiangxia County was the second ancestor of the bastard emperor Zhu Hongsan, if it was a bit far-fetched to count himself as Zhu Hongsan's relative, the king of Jiangxia County was Zhu Hongsan's real relative. I didn't expect this beast to even let go of his niece.

"Hey, poor child, don't call me aunt, call me sister!"

"That's not in line with the etiquette law, Your Majesty still asked me to call him uncle!"

Zhu Hongyu couldn't help but scold in her heart when she heard Zhu Xiuniang's innocence: This faint gentleman is still not a person, and he still makes people call him uncle when he does that kind of thing? Zhu Hongyu suddenly blushed after scolding, she remembered that when she did that, didn't she also call her grandfather?

"Silly boy, how did Your Majesty trick you into the palace?"

"Liar? No, my uncle said that I was sick and asked me to stay and be treated! ”

Zhu Hongyu heard that it was an old routine, and this faint gentleman probably wouldn't be anything else.

"Humph! Did he still say that he was going to check your body? Do you still say that only he can cure your body's ailments? ”

"Yes, is my sister also suffering from this disease?"

"This bastard, it's still the same old routine, it's a shame! Silly boy, that's all he lied to you, and in a few months you will be pregnant like your sister! ”

Zhu Xiuniang heard Zhu Hongyu say this, and immediately cried: "Uncle Emperor is so bad, he lied to Xiuniang that he ate what kind of smelly thing to cure the disease, it turned out that he was going to give birth to a baby!" The emperor is a bad uncle! ”

Just when the two girls scolded Zhu Hongsan, the bad uncle Zhu Hongsan had already taken his subordinates and his son Zhu Jiang to Wuchang County, ten miles outside the city of Wuchang Mansion.

Looking at the familiar city wall in dilapidation, Zhu Hongsan was really full of emotion, although this is not his hometown, but after all, he has grown up here for more than ten years. Here are all his youthful memories, family, friendship, and love are all in this small county town less than five miles away.

Wuchang has always been a battleground for soldiers, especially in the late Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, Wuchang changed hands seven times, namely Zhang Xianzhong, Zuo Liangyu, He Tengjiao, Manchu, Zhu Hongsan, and Manchu, and finally fell into the hands of Zhu Hongsan.

Every time it changes hands, it will affect Wuchang County, Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu are the most serious, the entire county has basically been killed, and now the people in the county are the people who slowly gathered after Zhu Hongsan occupied Wuchang County, but they are no longer those people that Zhu Hongsan is familiar with.

Accompanying Zhu Hongsan back to his hometown today was Xu Fuyuan, the prefect of Wuchang Prefecture, and Xia Yunyi, the political envoy of the governor Liu Siyi, did not come today because he was preparing to seize Hanyang.

The current Wuchang county order is a person named Liang Guan, he was originally a native of Nanzhili, destroyed his family in the battle against the Qing Dynasty, sold his property to join the righteous army, although he did not make any meritorious service, but his courage was commendable, so Zhu Hongsan occupied Nanjing and rewarded him with a county order.

Liang Guan had already received a letter from the political secretary and the yamen, knowing that the emperor was coming today, Liang Guan was very disgusted that the emperor had nothing to travel around, according to their scholars' point of view, the emperor should be a mascot in the palace, and traveling everywhere was not a waste of money and food?

Although these scholars and doctors in the Ming Dynasty were unbearable, they still had one benefit, that is, they never gave in to the imperial power.

When Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zhengde went to the south of the Yangtze River, the magistrate dared to write and say that the local people did not welcome you emperor, and you should return to Beijing early, emperor! This is absolutely true, and this kind of character that is not afraid of power is not something that those scholars and doctors in the Manchu Qing Dynasty can have.

And Liang Guan is also this kind of person, after he learned that the emperor was coming, he was about to meet the emperor and persuade the emperor to return to Beijing quickly, what is there to wander around?

Liang saw that the emperor's imperial chariot had arrived, and stepped forward to salute and said, "Liang Guan of Wuchang County greets His Majesty the Emperor!" He said that he would see him, but Liang Guan just bowed and did not bow down.

Zhu Hongsan didn't take it to heart, he originally gave the welfare of scholars, and those who have merit and fame don't have to kneel down, so he didn't take it to heart when he saw that Liang Guan just made a salute.

"Wuchang County, tell me about the specific situation of your county!"

"Yes! Your Majesty! At present, there are 11,200 households in Wuchang County, with a population of 56,224 people, and because of frequent wars, there are only more than 11,000 people! ”

Hearing Liang Guan say this, Zhu Hongsan sighed, when he was in Wuchang County, there were more than 30,000 people in the county, plus the displaced people outside the city, the county had a total population of more than 200,000, and now only a quarter is left, which is really miserable.

In fact, this is not bad, Huguang has not been as war-torn as the northern provinces for more than ten years. Although the loss of the population was great, only half of the people died, and the rest of the population was hidden in the mountains.

This is not the case in Henan, the hardest-hit area of the war in the north, with less than 500,000 people left in the entire province, a full 95 percent less than the 20 million population in its heyday.

"Wuchang County, I am a native of Wuchang, and this is the land of my Longxing, so I am ready to exempt Wuchang County from money and grain, and at the same time exempt Wuchang Mansion from money and grain for five years!"

Exempting his hometown from taxes, money and grain is a decision that Zhu Hongsan has thought about a long time ago, although he made more sins than good deeds in Wuchang County back then, but he is now the emperor, and it is really embarrassing if he cares about it.

Zhu Hongsanman thought that he had written an edict, and this Wuchang County was not grateful to Dai De, who knew that this Wuchang County was not very excited, but just bowed down and obeyed the order.

Zhu Hongsan was very strange when he saw Liang Guan like this, and couldn't help asking, "Wuchang County, why are you unhappy?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are unhappy, of course it's a good thing that Your Majesty can exempt the county from money and grain, but the people can't get benefits from exempting money and grain!"

"Oh? Why is that? ”

Liang Guan heard the emperor's question, and his heart was horizontal, thinking that this was the case anyway, it was better to break the net with those guys.

"Your Majesty, now ninety percent of the 180,000 mu of grain fields in this county and all the lake waters are in the hands of the new nobles of Huguang, even if Your Majesty reduces the money and grain, those big landlords will benefit, and the local farmers still have to pay rent normally!"