Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan's words quickly spread throughout the palace, and I heard that Zhu Youxiao was going to take Zhang Yan to tour the disaster relief area this time to win the hearts of the people, and someone in the palace immediately wanted to accompany him. But they were all rejected by Zhu Youxiao, if it was really a big and powerful way to take so many people out of the palace, it would definitely be a bad thing to do with good intentions.

"Your Majesty, let Cijiong go with you." Concubine Ren asked.

"Originally, I should have agreed to this request, but now the taste of my release of this tour seems to have changed." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, Cijiong is the prince, and now that the empire is suffering, Cijiong has an unshirkable responsibility as the prince." Ren Guifei explained.

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said: "Your mind I understand, the position of the crown prince, I encourage you to fight for it openly, this disaster is very serious, disaster relief materials are extremely scarce, if you want to go to disaster relief, you have to rely on your own ability to raise disaster relief materials worth 50,000 taels of silver, there are many places in the empire that have been affected, I allow him to go to Shaanxi to appease the people, and I even allow you to go with him." ”

"Cijiong is young, how can he raise such a huge amount of relief materials?" Ren Guifei said.

"When I ascended the throne, the treasury of the empire was so empty that it could run rats, and at that time, the military salaries could not be paid, let alone disaster relief, time has passed, and what the empire looks like now, you know, you have experienced all this yourself." Zhu Youxiao said.

"The emperor is the Holy Lord, how can Cijiong compare?" Ren Guifei said.

"If Cijiong wants to be recognized by me, he must do something, if Cijiong wants to participate in this disaster relief, he must rely on his own ability to raise 50,000 taels of silver dollars in disaster relief materials, which is a test question for choosing the prince." Zhu Youxiao said frankly.

"No, the concubine understands." Ren Guifei nodded.

"I know that Cijiong works hard, but becoming a prince is not just hard work, you must have the ability to do things." Zhu Youxiao said.

……

Among Zhu Youxiao's princes, only Zhu Cijiong is the oldest, he is fifteen years old this year, and he is the most powerful candidate for the crown prince, and then Zhu Cijiong, who is only thirteen years old this year, although Zhu Cijiong was brought up by the queen, but due to the early death of his mother, Zhu Cijiong's threat to Zhu Cijiong is not great, and the rest are even smaller.

Therefore, the call for Zhu Cijiong to be the crown prince is the highest, and Zhu Cijiong has a group of staunch supporters in the court, and among this group of supporters, it turns out that the eunuch party is the hardcore of the supporters, which has a lot to do with Ren Guifei's background, Ren Guifei was originally Wei Zhongxian's person.

Zhu Youxiao's meaning was immediately passed to Zhu Cijiong by Concubine Ren. After receiving Ren Guifei's words, Zhu Cijiong immediately convened a meeting of this group of people who supported him to discuss disaster relief.

Zhang Yan was preparing the materials needed to patrol the disaster area at the moment, and she had the support of Zhu Youxiao, who mobilized a batch of grain from the granary of the Beijing division to prepare to send it to the disaster area in person.

"The queen's mother, the concubine thinks that this tour of the disaster area is not enough food, for the people in the disaster area, food is only one aspect, and the other is to dress warmly, and clothing is also an extremely important thing for the victims." Gu Mei suggested softly.

"What good advice does Gu Jieyu have?" Zhang Yan asked.

"The concubine's Ruixiang woolen has a batch of blankets, which were originally defective, and the preparation is to be dealt with, the cost price is only one hundred yuan, and now this batch of blankets can just be used for disaster relief, if the queen needs it, the concubine can let Ruixiang wool spin to the queen." Gu Mei said.

"How many blankets are there?" Zhang Yan asked.

"That's about half a million blankets." Gu Mei replied.

"500,000 pieces, even if it is a defective product, it is worth 50,000 taels of silver dollars, how can there be so many defective products?" Zhang Yan asked.

"Since Ruixiang Woolen made blankets, all the defective products are here, this time the defective products were originally to be destroyed, the concubine thought that it was a pity to destroy, so she stayed, I didn't expect it to come in handy today." Gu Mei said.

"You have a heart." Zhang Yan stared at Gu Mei and said.

"For the emperor and the queen, sharing worries and solving problems is what a concubine should do," Gu Mei said.

"Your opinion is excellent, the palace will tell the emperor and let you drive with you." Zhang Yan said.

"Thank you, Queen Mother!" Gu Mei said.

……

For Gu Mei, everyone in the palace did not regard her as an opponent, one was her background, and the other was that her children were still young, and when her children grew up, the prince might have already settled down.

On the sixth day of the first month of June, Zhu Youxiao, Zhang Yan, Gu Mei and others went out of the palace to patrol the disaster relief area. This is the first time Zhang Yan has left Beijing since entering the palace. After Zhang Yan became the queen, Zhang's mansion also moved to Beijing, and in the future, she didn't even have to go out of the inner city to save her relatives.

On this tour of the disaster area, Zhang Yan prepared a large number of supplies, if you take the land route, the consumption is too great, Zhu Youxiao decided to go to sea from Tianjin, land in Rizhao, and then go straight to the first destination, Yizhou.

Zhu Youxiao specially built a sea ship for the royal family, called the Imperial No. 1, which was only built last year, and is one of the largest ships in the empire at present, and the interior decoration is extremely luxurious. The Imperial No. 1 is rarely used in normal times, and stops in Tianjin when it is not in use.

This is the first voyage of the Imperial No. 1, and Zhu Youxiao is also the first time to board this ship.

"Orb, what do you think of my Imperial One?" Zhu Youxiao looked around, he felt very satisfied, he felt that the next time he had the opportunity, he should bring the concubines to enjoy it, enjoy the scenery on the sea, stay in the palace every day, Zhu Youxiao felt annoyed.

"Your Majesty, how many silver dollars did this ship cost?" Zhang Yan asked.

"I built it with the dividends that the phoenix gave me, but it didn't cost a penny of people's fat and people's ointment." Zhu Youxiao was stunned by Zhang Yan's question, and immediately replied with a smile.

"The concubine just thinks it's too luxurious." Zhang Yan said softly.

"If you use state money to satisfy your own selfish desires, such a person is a sinner of the empire, and there is nothing wrong with me using the money I earned. That's why I have to completely separate my internal and national funds? I want to put an end to this kind of public and private ambiguity of the royal family. Zhu Youxiao said.

"The concubine understands." Zhang Yan said with a smile.

"I'll take you around, and the interior design of every part of this boat has been personally confirmed by me and Xiaoxiao." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Hmm." Zhang Yan nodded.

……

The total cost of the Imperial No. 1 is more than one million taels of silver dollars, which shows the luxury of the Imperium No. 1, and the construction of this ship was completely for enjoyment from the very beginning.

(End of chapter)