As an emperor, Zhu Youzhen can be said to be very diligent. Zhu Youzhen, who is only in his thirties, has been born early, and his old age is fully revealed.

Although he is very diligent in his administration, God seems to have abandoned the Ming Dynasty. Since Zhu Youzhen's accession to the throne, there have been either natural disasters or man-made disasters in China. In addition, the Dongnu often went to the border, and the pirates made trouble, and the dignified Ming Dynasty was at a moment of danger.

"Ome."

Looking up at the blue sky, Zhu Youzhen's heart was even more painful. It stands to reason that such weather is refreshing enough. But this kind of weather, for the current Ming Dynasty, is undoubtedly even more drought, and the snow is worse.

What is even more terrifying is that successive years of severe drought have led to frequent locust plagues. The current state capitals of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be thousands of miles without rooster crowing, and the roadside is exposed. Years of natural disasters and man-made disasters have led to the displacement of the people, and they have changed their children and eaten. In order to survive, displaced people from all over the country have risen up one after another, and such a vicious cycle continues.

"Natural disasters continue to occur in various places, and people suffer frequently. Now the treasury is empty, and the imperial court has no silver for disaster relief. But the rich men of the city refused to give half a tael of silver. You say, these rich people don't deserve to die. ”

Zhu Youzhen's face was haggard, and his tone was bitter. Wang Chengen, who was waiting beside him, felt a sad feeling in his heart. As Zhu Youzhen's chief attendant, Wang Chengen naturally knows the predicament of the imperial court today.

Last year's heavy flood in Jiangnan caused the grain in Jiangnan, which was the granary of the imperial court, to be harvested. I thought that this year would be better, but who would have thought that this year's Jiangnan encountered drought and locust plagues, and Jiangnan was already starving.

What's even more worrying is that Dongnu now occupies Shenyang, Liaodong, changed Shenyang to Shengjing, officially founded the Qing Dynasty, and fought against the Ming Dynasty, and there is a trend of sweeping the Ming Dynasty in the south.

And in the south, after the thief Li Zichengzi / burned the imperial tomb of Zhongdu, the momentum was also too strong. And the thief Zhang Xianzhong occupied Sichuan. The erosion of the government, the erosion of the current situation, the erosion of the army, and the containment of the emperor by the Donglin Party. No matter how diligent the emperor is, he is still powerless to change all this.

The emptiness of the treasury is clear to everyone in the imperial court. However, as soon as the emperor proposed the imposition of a commercial tax, he would be 100% resisted and refuted by the officials of the Timlin Party in the DPRK and the Middle East, and then he would not do so.

For the imperial court, the taxation of the entire country of the Ming Dynasty was entirely dependent on the field tax. And the businessman who occupies 90% of the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, is unable to collect taxes on it, I have to say, this is a very ironic thing.

Since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne as emperor, the Ming Dynasty has been shrouded in natural disasters from south to north, and the tax revenue is pitiful. The tax revenue of the treasury in the entire Ming Dynasty in a year is only about four million taels of silver, which is less than the annual income of a wealthy businessman in Beijing.

"Long live the ......"

Wang Chengen choked up and wanted to comfort Zhu Youzhen, but he didn't know how to comfort him. Zhu Youzhen looked up at the cloudless sky blankly, and his heart was also full of sadness.

At this moment, when he was about to retract his gaze from looking at the sky, Zhu Youzhen's eyes widened, he looked at a certain point in the sky incredulously, and tremblingly stretched out his hand to point in that direction and asked in a trembling voice:

"Otomo, what's that?"

Wang Chengen looked up in the direction pointed by Zhu Youzhen, only to see a thin crack suddenly open in the sky, and a trace of lightning flashed in the crack. Then a ball of hazy light, with an electric light, burst out of the crack.

Seeing this strange phenomenon, Wang Chengen hurriedly stopped in front of Zhu Youzhen, and shouted to the palace guards not far away: "Come and escort!" ”

Several palace guards hurriedly ran over, protected Zhu You's inspection group, and nervously looked up at the sky in unison, looking at the bead in the sky that looked like the size of a chicken, with a trace of lightning, hovering in mid-air out of thin air.

After a long while, the lightning around the orb finally disappeared. Wang Chengen let out a sigh of relief, just as he was trying to figure out how to get the orb off the air and understand what it was.

The bead in mid-air jumped to the ground at this time, and then suddenly in mid-air, there was an additional figure, like a bead suspended in mid-air, hanging in mid-air. And the orb was suspended above the head of the figure.

Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen's hearts jumped suddenly, and several palace guards pulled out their waist knives in unison, protecting Zhu Youzhen in the center, and nervously stretched out their knives to point at the figure in mid-air.

After seeing the figure in mid-air appear, he just glanced at Zhu Youzhen and the others lightly, and then looked up at the sky. This figure that appeared from the crack was none other than Zhu Yunwen who was hiding in the cave world of the cave dzi to avoid heavenly punishment.

The sky was very clear and cloudless. Zhu Yunwen waited cautiously for a moment, and after seeing that there was no change in the sky, he couldn't help but let out a long breath. It seems that Heavenly Punishment did not chase here, and he should have escaped a catastrophe.

"You, you, who are you?"

Seeing that the figure in mid-air did not move, Wang Chengen asked in a trembling voice.

Zhu Yunwen looked down at Wang Chengen, and saw that the costumes of several people were clearly the Ming Shi clothes in the depths of his heart, and one of them was wearing the emperor's dragon robe in the depths of his memory. I didn't pay attention to it at first, but at this time, Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but be stunned, and did not respond to Wang Chengen's question, but raised his eyes to look into the distance.

What catches the eye is a piece of antique ancient architecture. And this ancient building clearly has an impression in my memory! Zhu Yunwen hurriedly released his divine sense, and the surrounding range of hundreds of miles was suddenly presented in Zhu Yunwen's divine consciousness one by one.

"Hey, this is clearly the Forbidden City!"

Zhu Yunwen was shocked in his heart, looked down at Wang Chengen who was talking just now, and then looked at Zhu Youzhen, who was surrounded by several men dressed as guards, dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe.

After confirming that there were no cameras around, and that the buildings and characters within a hundred miles were all in ancient costumes, Zhu Yunwen had to be convinced that the crack in the air that he broke into when he was evading the punishment of heaven was the space-time rift. Unconsciously, he has traveled through time and space, and returned to the Ming years that should be the depths of his memory.

Zhu Yunwen looked down at Zhu Youzhen, who was dressed in a Ming Huang dragon robe, and his heart moved to put the cave dzi guarding his head into his body. Looking up at the palace in the distance, he stretched out his hand.

In the frightened eyes of Zhu Youzhen and others, a black dot broke through the air from a distance, and appeared in front of the person in the air in an instant.

Zhu Youzhen's body was a little weak, and the figure standing in mid-air and wearing a Taoist robe was clearly the legendary immortal. What's more, the way Zhu Yunwen appeared, even if Zhu Youzhen wanted to break his head, he couldn't figure out what was going on.

"Fourteen years of Da Ming Chongzhen?"

The recital that Zhu Yunwen saw was the report that Liukou Zhang Xianzhong captured Xiangyang, and Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, and Zhu Changfa, the king of Guiyang, were both killed. Zhu Yunwen was in a trance for a while, he actually returned to the Ming Empire established by his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was still the end of the Ming Dynasty when the country was about to die.

Is it that the ancestors have spirits and can't bear the death of the Ming Empire and bring themselves back here? Zhu Yunwen looked down at Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, who was born early in Huafa, and recalled the image in the historical record, and sighed in his heart.

"Hui Xianchang, and now it is the fourteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty." Wang Chengen knelt on the ground with a weak body, and when he saw Wang Chengen kneeling, several guards also knelt on the ground in a panic, not daring to look up.

Zhu Yunwen sighed in his heart and was silent, this is not a good era, in another three years, the Jiannu in the north will be fully entrant. Li Zicheng in the south wanted to enter the city of Beijing, and this descendant of his own descendant, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, committed suicide in the coal mountain. In the end, the only one who accompanied Emperor Chongzhen to martyrdom was the eunuch Wang Chengen beside him.

In addition to the martyrdom of loyal people, most of the officials first demoted Li Zicheng, and then descended to Jiannu, and the last backbone and vitality of the Han people were finally completely interrupted and annihilated by Jiannu.

Looking at Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor who was born early, his old age was revealed, and his face was fearful but he was calm, Zhu Yunwen sighed slightly in his heart, groaned in his mouth, and walked from mid-air to everyone on the ground.

Following Zhu Yunwen's footsteps, Zhu Youzhen was shocked to see that whenever Zhu Yunwen stretched out his foot and stepped down, a white lotus appeared under his feet supporting Zhu Yunwen's footsteps.

"Bai Yujing in the sky, twelve cities on the fifth floor, the immortals touch my top, and give immortality."

With Zhu Yunwen's low groan, in a moment, Zhu Yunwen in mid-air walked in front of Zhu Youzhen and reached out to the top of Zhu Youzhen's head.

Zhu Youzhen's body shrank slightly, and when he heard Zhu Yunwen's low groan, he paused again, and let Zhu Yunwen reach out and stroke the top of his head.

Wang Chengen looked up at Zhu Youzhen in horror, but was stunned to find that Zhu Yunwen reached out to the top of Zhu Youzhen's head. Zhu Youzhen's prematurely born white hair on his temples turned black again under Zhu Ziling's comfort, and he could no longer see a trace of white. The already aged face also regained its youth in an instant.

"Emperor, your dragon face, your dragon face ......"

Wang Chengen choked up and couldn't speak, and several guards who were kneeling on the ground quietly raised their heads, saw the miracle in front of them, and shouted long live excitedly, while looking at Zhu Yunwen eagerly.

Although Zhu Youzhen couldn't see the changes in his face, as Zhu Yunwen's palm stroked the top of his head, an indescribable pleasure overflowed from the depths of his bone marrow, and the whole person felt youthful vitality and returned to his body.

"Thank you Immortal for your mercy."

Zhu Youzhen's voice choked, since he ascended the throne, his body has never felt so relaxed as it is now.