Before Zhu Youzhen understood what it meant, he saw Zhu Yunwen standing up, giving birth to white lotuses out of thin air, holding Zhu Yunwen and flying into the sky, and disappeared in an instant.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the sky in a daze, Wang Chengen approached cautiously, and said softly: "Your Majesty, Immortal Chief, no, the ancestor suddenly descended to the palace, this is the blessing of the Ming Dynasty, the blessing of the emperor." Daming and the emperor now have the protection of the ancestors, presumably the future situation will no longer be as erosive as it is now, and please ask the emperor to be relieved and wait for the return of the ancestors. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, Zhu Yunwen's sudden fall from the sky, no matter from which point of view, is absolutely 100% immortal. For the legend of the immortal family, not to mention far away, just explain that the dynasty has produced a Taoist emperor. Well, although it is said that the Tao cultivated by this Taoist emperor is not very clever and cannot bring immortality.

But as an emperor, what dynasty and generation of emperors does not pray for immortality? Even if you can't live forever, you must pray for the eternal stability of the country. What's more, this immortal first-class figure is still the ancestor of the Zhu family. For example, today's big opportunity suddenly fell on his head, how could Zhu Youzhen calm down.

"Companion, you can get the appreciation of the ancestors, presumably for Da Ming and me, you are loyal, and I also believe in you." Wang Chengen bowed to the ground excitedly when he heard this, and Zhu Youzhen said:

"Companion, you go and arrange it, sort out the Taiji Palace, use it as the cultivation place of the ancestors, and then select some clever palace maids and guards to go to the Taiji Hall on errands to serve the ancestors."

"I'll go." Wang Chengen knew that arranging a living place for the ancestor was a major matter at present, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he personally ran to the Taiji Hall to clean up after answering, trying to leave a good impression in front of the ancestor.

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Besides, after Zhu Yunwen flew out of the palace, he used stealth techniques to fly slowly along the four gates of the capital, observing the current situation of the people in the city. The tragic situation of the people along the way was too shocking for Zhu Yunwen, who had experienced the 21st century. Even the black uncles in Africa, who live in perennial turmoil, are hundreds of times better than these people in the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the miserable people, the rich families in the city, the homes of the eunuchs, are undoubtedly the difference between heaven and hell. Zhu Yunwen stood silently in the air, quietly watching the lights in those rich houses. Recalling in his mind that the income of Daming's entire country was not as good as the income of an ordinary rich businessman, his brows couldn't help frowning.

The merchants in the late Ming Dynasty were basically inextricably linked to the Donglin Party. The Emperor of the Apocalypse wanted to collect business taxes that year, but was resisted by the Donglin Party, and finally failed. And the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty was concentrated in the hands of these rich businessmen and the Donglin Party, resulting in the emptiness of the Ming treasury, and even the vital military could not be delivered to the border pass.

It is time for Emperor Chongzhen to rectify the government and rectify the government, first repair the internal strength, so as to calm the world and let the Ming Dynasty stand up again.

"Second uncle, the food in the city has risen again today, how can I get it if it goes on like this."

As soon as he flew close to Yongding Gate, Zhu Yunwen's divine sense sensed a sad sound coming from the ground street. Zhu Yunwen looked intently, and saw a long queue to buy rice in front of a rice shop on the street. It was the two bitter-faced people in the queue who spoke.

"Alas, the price of rice has skyrocketed due to successive years of drought. I heard that this year's grain was robbed in Shandong, and the official food supply in the capital was insufficient. He only hated that these grain merchants were rich every year, but they were unwilling to donate grain to the imperial court, but took advantage of the fire to loot and raise the price of grain from time to time. God don't open your eyes! ”

Zhu Yunwen was silent when he listened, and quietly fell onto the street to blend into the crowd, and his divine sense penetrated into the rice shop. The granary in the rice shop is abundant, but the guys in the store do not sell grain directly to the people, but mix the white rice with mud and sand, and then sell it outside, which is obviously the order of the rice shop owner.

Pressing the impulse to teach the rice shop guys, Zhu Yunwen withdrew from the crowd of rice buyers and walked towards the Yongding Gate. There is a camp camp outside the Yongding Gate, and the porridge shed set up by the government here has been flattened with grain bags, and the porridge cooked has been as thick as water. Looking at the people whose faces were as numb as earth, Zhu Yunwen, who was already sinking like water, couldn't help but be a little moved.

There were quarantine camps in the camp where people suffering from the plague were isolated. Outside the isolation camp, the academicians of the Tai Hospital sent by the imperial court to treat the people, and the sergeants of the three battalions of Jinyiwei and Jingshi were guarded. Prevent the displaced people with the plague from escaping from the quarantine camp and bringing the plague into the city.

Thick smoke billowed not far from the camp of the homeless camp, and Zhu Yunwen probed it with his senses, but it was the bodies of many dead homeless people who were being set on fire by the sergeants. From the sighing conversations of the academicians of the Tai Hospital in the isolation camp, Zhu Yunwen learned that such a situation happened every day, and every day the corpses of many people who had lost their lives by the plague were carried out of the isolation camp.

After carefully observing the situation of the people suffering from the plague, and then through recollection, Zhu Yunwen already knew that this so-called plague was the plague, and it was not difficult to prevent and treat it. It's just that in this era, people don't have that kind of knowledge of prevention and control.

Knowing the specific situation of the plague, Zhu Yunwen was not in a hurry to return to the palace, but walked into the city again, divided his divine sense into thousands of threads, and searched for those wealthy families one by one. If you want to change the current predicament of the Ming Dynasty, these wealthy families, wealthy businessmen and court officials will definitely not be able to contribute money and grain.

Thinking of historical records, the Ming court was very poor, but after Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing, he looted more than 70 million taels of silver, not to mention gold and countless jewels and grains. Where did all this wealth come from? It was contributed by these wealthy families, wealthy businessmen, and court ministers!

Think about more than 70 million taels, even if only one-third of the wealth is involved, the Ming Dynasty will not have the predicament it is in today. Not to mention that the nine-border army has enough food, even the annual disaster relief and relief for the people is more than enough. In the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there will not be so many displaced people.

Moreover, this is just the capital, think of the rich Jiangnan. Daming is actually very rich! It's just that this wealth is not controlled by the imperial court.

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It was nearly dusk, and the ancestor who had gone out had not yet returned to the palace. Wang Chengen, who had already cleaned up the Taiji Palace, returned to the front of the Qianqing Palace, and waited for the ancestor to appear in the sky of the palace again with Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of Chongzhen.

In order to leave a good impression on the ancestor who fell from the sky, Zhu Youzhen, who has always been thrifty, made an unprecedented decree to the imperial dining room, made nearly eighteen exquisite vegetarian dishes, and sent them to the Qianqing Palace.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen also brought his family members Empress Zhou, Tian Guifei, Yuan Guifei, as well as the crown prince Zhu Cihong, the prince Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cizhao and the princess Zhu Yujiao to the Qianqing Palace to wait for Zhu Yunwen's return, in order to get Zhu Yunwen's favor.

After waiting for a long time, I still didn't see the appearance of the ancestor. The young princes and princesses were already a little hungry and panicked. Empress Zhou looked at the princes and princesses distressedly, and asked Chongzhen in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you want Brother Chun to eat some snacks to fill your stomach first?" After all, they are still young and cannot stand hunger. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at his children with a serious expression, and after thinking about it, he didn't know when the ancestor Zhu Yunwen would return, and he couldn't let his young children endure hunger and wait with him. turned his head and summoned Wang Chengen, ready to tell Wang Chengen to send snacks to the princes and princesses to relieve their hunger first.

At this moment, Wang Chengen, who approached Zhu Tongzhen's side and listened to his orders, just saw a figure in the sky above the palace out of the corner of his eye, and immediately said to Zhu Youzhen happily: "Long live Lord, the ancestor is back!" The Ancestor is back! ”

Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed, hurriedly turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw Zhu Yunwen's figure appear in the sky above the Qianqing Palace. Empress Zhou and the others didn't really believe in the words of the immortals, but now when they saw the figure that suddenly appeared in mid-air, they were immediately shocked, and they didn't even hear the voice of Zhu Youzhen asking them to ask the ancestor for peace.

The next moment, Zhu Yunwen fell from the sky, stood in front of Zhu Youzhen, looked at Empress Zhou and the others suspiciously, and asked, "Emperor, these people are your family?" ”

Zhu Youzhen glared at Empress Zhou and the others with some shame, and in a panic, Empress Zhou hurriedly took a few concubines and princesses and princesses to salute Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Yunwen stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Emperor, you don't need these vulgar rites, just treat them with a normal heart." Looking at a few princes and princesses, they must have been hungry. ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled embarrassedly and said, "The children are still young and can't stand the hunger, so they are just about to ask the eldest companion to serve them some snacks." ”

Zhu Yunwen looked at the dining table and food set up in front of the Qianqing Palace, shook his head with a smile and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, you also know that they are young, why bother to let them wait?" In fact, you can let the princes and princesses eat first, these are all my descendants and descendants, they are all a family, I won't care about these. ”

Although Zhu Yunwen doesn't care about these mundane etiquette, how can Zhu Youzhen let his family lose their manners in front of his ancestors, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty still governs the country with filial piety. It was another false salute, and before Zhu Yunwen sat down at the table, he motioned for the excited prince and princess to sit down, Queen Zhou and others.

Zhu Yunwen was not stingy, and took out two small jade bottles, handed them to Queen Zhou and the prince respectively, and said with a smile: "This bottle of Yangyan Pill will be given to the queen and a few princesses, and this bottle of Yangyuan Dan will be given to a few princes to talk about their intentions, they are not too good pills, and I hope you don't dislike them." ”

Empress Zhou was overjoyed, and politely excused herself, but she was busy dividing the pills in the jade bottle, and the royal etiquette was completely lost at this time, causing Zhu Youzhen to be ashamed for a while.

Looking at the exquisite vegetarian food on the table, Zhu Yunwen shook his head with a smile and said: "Emperor, the prince and the princess are just the time to grow their bodies, although the palace is not very rich, but there should still be a heritage." Or should the prince and princess be given more nutrition and eat more meat. ”

Zhu Youzhen sighed slightly and said: "Now that the state affairs are difficult, the treasury is empty, and the royal treasury is also empty to the extreme. It's not that I don't want my family to live a better life, it's just that now the annual tax revenue of the imperial court is only four million taels, and it is difficult to even maintain state affairs, how can I replenish the royal treasury. ”

Zhu Yunwen shook his head, looked at the princes and princesses who were peeking at him, and took back the words that were about to be said and said with a smile: "Emperor, if you don't mind, these princes and princesses of yours can follow the ancestor and me first." As for whether they can enter the Dao and cultivate immortals, let's not talk about it for the time being, but at least, the ancestor can educate them some knowledge that is different from this era. ”

After a pause, Zhu Yunwen continued: "Maybe you don't know that Confucian morality has been extremely distorted in the Ming Dynasty, and the Confucianism that the Ming Dynasty is learning now is not the original Confucian doctrine. The six arts of Confucianism of the sages Confucius and Mencius, today's Confucian students only take one of them and abandon the fifth. And, emperor, you won't believe it if you think about it, the essence of the sages is also distorted by the current Confucian doctrine.

You should have also heard the saying that it is useless to be a scholar. But are people who read books really useless? Apparently not, it's just that it's useless for people to learn. Half of the Analects governing the world is obviously no longer suitable for the trend of the times, and the six arts of Confucian etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics, if you only learn books and abandon the other five arts, it is even more unsuitable for the pace of the times.

The prince and princess are still young, it is the time when the ability to learn knowledge is strong, the Ming Dynasty should continue, as a royal child, you must have the courage to accept new things, but also have the courage and ability to change the corrupt political affairs of the Ming Dynasty and innovate the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't think about it, and without hesitation, he asked the prince Zhu Cihong and other princes and princesses to come forward and kneel in front of Zhu Yunwen again, which made Zhu Yunwen stunned for a moment.

In fact, Zhu Yunwen just fell in love with Zhu Yujiao, who has a rare body of Xuanyin and is a princess. In Zhu Yunwen's memory, Zhu Yujiao is the later Princess of Changping, and she is also the ninth child in Mr. Jin Yong's novel "Blue Blood Sword". Later, before Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on the Matchmaking Mountain, he cut off Zhu Yujiao's arm with a sword, but saved his life.

Zhu Yunwen waved his sleeves and rolled the prince and others kneeling in front of him back to their seats, and groaned slightly in his heart, Princess Zhu Yujiao can follow her to practice immortal arts, and the prince Zhu Cihong and other princes and princesses can teach them the knowledge of the 21st century, after all, they are all their own descendants, and it is good to learn more self-defense techniques.

"Emperor, I won't tell you, Princess Zhu Yujiao can be a disciple of the ancestor and follow the ancestor to practice immortal magic. But the other princes and princesses did not have the innate root bones to practice the immortal family's magic. No matter how hard you work the day after tomorrow, you can only build a foundation at most.

However, even if they only build a foundation, their lifespan will be greatly extended. In addition, I will impart to them advanced knowledge so that they can become the right-hand man of His Majesty the Emperor in state affairs. ”

The crown prince Zhu Cihong and the others looked at the princess Zhu Yujiao enviously, if she can practice the magic of the immortal family, she will definitely be able to live forever, which is the wealth of the world that can be compared with it. However, since the ancestor has already said it, he can only obey it. Being able to learn advanced knowledge and basic immortal cultivation techniques from the ancestor is also a great blessing.