Zhu Shunming and Li Zicheng came out of the back room with a smile, obviously chatting very happily.

Li Cuiwei was overjoyed in her heart, with tears in her eyes and spring in her eyebrows. With her father's permission and being with her beloved, she felt that the whole world was a better place.

Liu Zongmin's face was gloomy, and everyone could see his frustration and resentment. His inner dissatisfaction with Li Zicheng gradually grew.

Li Zicheng married Li Cuiwei to Zhu Shunming and married a large number of dowries.

The plundered gold, silver and jewels were of little use to Li Zicheng, who was on the move, but a burden.

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Although Tian Jianxiu admired Zhu Shunming very much, he still followed Li Zicheng's side.

Tian Hui and Li Cuiwei hugged each other and cried, inseparable from each other.

"Sister Cuiwei, if you want to be happy, you must be happy...... Tian Hui shouted with a crying voice: "I will miss your ......"

Li Cuiwei also couldn't cry, nodded and agreed: "I will...... You have to take care of ...... too."

I don't know if we can meet again in the future, maybe this time the separation is goodbye, Li Cuiwei said goodbye to her little sisters in turn, and the sadness was uncontrollable.

"Dad, my daughter is not filial and can't serve you by your side......" Li Cuiwei kowtowed to Li Zicheng to say goodbye.

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Silly girl, when a man is married and a woman is married, can my father still support you for a lifetime?" If you can marry Brother Zhu and live a stable life, your mother will be happy for you. ”

"Brother Zhu, there will be a period later. Treat Cuiwei well. ”

As he spoke, Li Zicheng turned around and led the men and horses to roar away.

Liu Zongmin had a dark face, with resentment and unwillingness, with yearning and longing, and left without looking back.

Zhu Shunming didn't care about Li Zicheng's inconsistency in title, but lamented the huge inertia of history.

Li Zicheng, who is full of personality charm, gathers people who are helpless or disgruntled, or act recklessly, and goes farther and farther on the road of no return to rebellion.

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Yang He and Zhu Shunming had a very happy conversation.

Yang He, who is upright and pedantic, is highly educated, but he has some assumptions about governing the country.

Zhu Shunming's actual age is older than Yang He, and his education is not high, but he has been in officialdom and at the grassroots level for decades, coupled with leading theoretical knowledge, and his ability to deal with practical problems exceeds Yang He's ability to deal with practical problems a few streets away.

"Today, it can be said that the people are not worried, why is the situation becoming more and more erosive? The princes of the DPRK and China are full of talents, why can't they reverse the disaster? Yang He asked worriedly.

History is unfair to the Ming Dynasty. In particular, the "History of the Ming Dynasty", which was tampered with by the Qing Dynasty, and the historical materials that preached the justice of the peasant uprising.

The Ming Dynasty won the world from foreign races, continued the Han civilization, conformed to the will of heaven, and won the hearts of the people.

Emperor Taizu "scholars and the imperial family share the world"; Emperor Chengzu "The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies"; In the Ming Dynasty, "no land, no compensation, no tribute, no harmony"; Yingzong was taken captive, he refused to surrender, and the Ming Dynasty changed its emperor, and he was still tough; Chongzhen could have moved south and ruled the river, but he would rather hang himself, leaving only the last words of "don't hurt the people".

The Ming Dynasty was tragic!

The topic was very big, but Zhu Shunming still boldly expressed some of his opinions.

"There is no such thing as an immutable ancestral law." Zhu Shunming said cautiously: "Taizu's 'sharing the world with scholars' intentions is good, but it has planted a disaster for the current situation. ”

Yang He was puzzled: "Is it better to hold the imperial power alone?" ”

Zhu Shunming shook his hand and said: "Let's not discuss the form of government, only the facts." ”

"The imperial court is a big family. If a family wants to prosper in harmony, money is the first element. The biggest dilemma of the imperial court is that there is no money. ”

"How can you compete with the people?" Yang He said unhappily: "The people are the most important, the community is second, and the monarch is light." Lightly relieving and being considerate of the people's feelings should be the way to govern. ”

Zhu Shunming smiled: "The butt decides the head." Is the imperial court collecting taxes really competing with the people for profit? I'm afraid it's 'competing with the soldiers'. Yang Gong is also a member of the scholars, and of course he has to speak for the scholars. ”

"If you really don't compete with the people for profit, why can't the poor people in Shaanxi be able to sustain themselves and rise up one after another? The royal family, bureaucrats, scholars, merchants, and others who occupy more than seventy or eighty percent of the world's wealth do not pay taxes, and the operating expenses of the entire imperial court, the military expenses of the nine-sided army, and the exploitation of landlords and merchants are all pressed on the poor at the bottom. Let's ask, is it really not competing with the people? ”

"Therefore, the imperial court can improve its fiscal strategy, change the main body of taxation, and increase fiscal revenue, and the problem of rogue can be easily solved."

Zhu Shunming didn't want to talk too much about Yang He's shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty, even if he talked about Yang He, he might not be able to accept it.

For example, the top-down government is bound to be corrupt, for example, the castrated people are bound to be weak, and for example, no matter how rich the cattle and sheep are, they will inevitably be watched by tigers and wolves......

Yang He pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "It seems to be reasonable, but it is difficult to accept." My child is weak, known as a talent, well-informed and flexible, and his language and thinking are the same as those of him. ”

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Zhu Shunming's brigade was packed up and ready to go.

After the baptism of war, whether it was the young family or the surviving soldiers of the nine teams, they all became calm and atmospheric, their every move was clear-sighted, and their advance and retreat actions were orderly.

The girl is like a half housekeeper, managing the backyard in an orderly manner, her words are reasonable, and her body is plump and material. Or she also has the idea of saying goodbye to Li Cuiwei.

Master Zhu looked around with some reluctance. To leave the land of Shaanxi, facing the unknown future, Master Zhu is a little hesitant, not to mention the daughters of the Zhu family.

Li Cuiwei changed into a goose-yellow long dress, pulled up her hair in a bun, dressed as an adult woman, although she has not yet had a round house, she has already regarded herself as the young grandmother of the Zhu family.

She wasn't scared at all about going south. Women are like duckweed, where there is a lover, there is a home. Being able to follow your beloved to the end of the world is also a kind of happiness in life.

"Although you don't read the Four Books and the Five Classics, you have learned a lot from the world. The official recommends it, and it will be reused by the imperial court. Yang He said goodbye.

Zhu Shunming smiled: "Thank you!" Yang Gong thinks, how much role can I play when I enter the court? Can the court do what I say? When the time comes, I'm afraid that Yang Gong will be the first to rise up and oppose it. ”

Also, if Zhu Shunming collects taxes on his head, he may not know how to fight back.

Yang He smiled and said goodbye: "So, I wish you all the way!" ”

"May the public have great ambitions!"

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Zhu Shunming's brigade crossed the Yellow River at the Dayu ferry in Hancheng under the banner of "Jiu'an Trading Company" and entered Shanxi.

All the way to the east, enter Zezhou, then turn to the south, at the Jiyuan Changquan ferry for the second time the Yellow River, step into the Luoyang boundary.

The reason why the Yellow River is second is for safety reasons. Going directly south from Hancheng, you need to pass through most of the Shaanxi boundaries.

Especially in the Shangluo Mountains. There are countless heroes and strong men entrenched in the dense forests of the Shangluo Mountains. Zhu Shunming's caravan with dozens of carts and not particularly strong defense force is exactly what they like.

Diverting to Shanxi and Henan, although the road is longer and you have to cross the Yellow River twice, it is relatively safer.

Shanxi is an important town on the nine sides, and the idle thieves dare not show their heads. There are many vassal kings in Henan, including King Lu, King Fu, and King Zhou...... All of them were heavily defended, temporarily suppressing the undercurrent of the people.

The weather in March and April is warm and cold at first. The Yellow River is not particularly turbid, and you can occasionally see golden ripples left by large carp passing by.

"Brother Zhu, where are we going?" Li Cuiwei wore a fur coat, snuggled in Zhu Shunming's arms a little shyly, and asked casually in the slightly cool river breeze.

Li Cuiwei already regards Zhu Shunming as her father-in-law, and she strives to be a wife and a daughter-in-law in her behavior and dress. As long as you can follow Zhu Shunming, even if it is the end of the world.

The two have never had a substantial skin-to-skin relationship. Li Cuiwei didn't know very well how the couple should have boudoir fun, but she always felt that the two got along a little weirdly. Sometimes she even envies the girl like jade.

Zhu Shunming has never been able to reverse his thinking and feelings.

How did Cuiwei become his wife? How does he start?

The scene on the other side of the river could not be seen clearly in the steam, it was hazy, just like Zhu Shunming always confused the present and the past.

Looking at Li Cuiwei, who is a bird, Zhu Shunming feels so unreal. Hasn't she been naughty since she was a child and rebellious and perverse when she grows up?

Oh, she is not that Cuiwei, she is her own wife, Li Zicheng's daughter. Wife? Zhu Shunming has not yet been able to enter the role of her husband, especially now that his wife is Cuiwei.

Zhu Shunming retracted his chaotic thoughts, looked at the real and illusory Li Cuiwei, and said with a smile: "Let's go to Huguang." The lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full. As long as we concentrate on farming, everyone in the world will have food to eat, and no one will rebel. ”

"Okay, let's go to Huguang." Li Cuiwei began to look forward to her future life: "You farm, I weave, and our husbands sing and women." ”

"Yes, let's have more than a dozen of his children and form a football team...... Zhu Shunming was in a better mood and began to laugh at Li Cuiwei.

Li Cuiwei blushed and twisted: "How can a concubine give birth to so much?" Let Ruyu also give birth to a few. ”

"Okay, let's only have a few ......" Zhu Shunming laughed: "Let's go and have children now...... Hahaha......"

Zhu Shunming finally figured it out, this time is different from the past, this Cuiwei is not the other Cuiwei, let hell with yesterday! Lao Tzu should enjoy the decaying feudal life.

Li Cuiwei was soft, her face was red, and her whole body was hot, and she was almost carried down to the cabin by Zhu Shunming. She had a vague idea of what was going to happen, a mixture of anticipation and shame, and a little relieved. I'm finally going to be a princess!

The boat sails the Yellow River, the waves are undulating, the wind and water are sounding, such as crying, all things are affectionate, and the spring is full of ......

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Luoyang was the fief of King Fu.

King Fu missed out on the throne. Perhaps because of the imbalance in his heart, Fu Wang Zhu Changxun is extremely extravagant and indulgent in life.

Fuwang's Mansion covers an extremely wide area, with high-rise buildings, pavilions, rockeries and streams, comparable to the imperial palace; One should use utensils, I don't know how many times more than the simple Emperor Chongzhen; There are more wives and concubines than the emperor and more beautiful than the imperial concubine; Even King Fu's figure is as fat as three Chongzhen.

Zhu Shunming's motorcade passed through the suburbs of Luoyang, full of scrawny homeless people, children who sold their heads, and occasionally human figures and bones scattered in the grass by the roadside, and no one restrained.

The tall Luoyang city wall cut off the poor and the rich, opposed the people's hearts and imperial power, and annihilated conscience and humanity......

Zhu Shunming shook his head and sighed. The imperial court regards the people as enemies, how can it be justified by not being defeated?

The spark will soon burn in the Central Plains.