Yun Niang has led the crowd to leave Beijing, rushed to the area of Zhejiang, let all the entourage's families live in seclusion in Tianmu Mountain, Yun Niang led a group of carefully selected people to go back and forth between the city and the countryside, embarked on the road of entrepreneurship that she felt very handy.

Yuefu seemed even more deserted. Tang Ji only brought a few subordinates back to Beijing from Miyun and replaced Liang Gang as the commander of the Yuefu Guards, and the elite men and horses of the brigade remained in Miyun. In addition to studying, Zhu Qiming not only discussed with Ouyang Tong, but also went to Luo Han to watch him pour fire guns and gunpowder, and his life was also fulfilling.

He allowed himself to stand behind the scenes through and through, secretly and subtly influencing the situation.

Thanks to Yang Pu's foresight back then, the current cabinet has kept the tacit understanding with him, the king of Yue, and it is obvious that the composition of the new cabinet is much purer than that of the current cabinet, and the cabinet members can always convert Zhu Qiming's insights into the consensus of the cabinet in a timely manner, and package them in elegant words, give them to the emperor, and turn them into a strategy on the temple.

As long as the fundamental interests of all sides are not touched, the simple strategy of the DPRK and government can still avoid all kinds of obstacles and be put into practice.

I also want to thank Wang Zhen, the minister who was disgusted by Zhu Qiming. In order to get the society out of its predicament, the top priority at the moment is to employ people, including the use of extraordinary miracles and the mobilization of necessary soldiers, and no one can solve this problem, except for Wang Zhen. Wang Zhen was quite trustworthy, and after some activities, nearly 100,000 elite men selected from Shandong, Henan, and Beizhili Guards were successively moving to the military camps around the Beijing Division; Before the end of the year, Yu Qian will return to Beijing to reinstate the right attendant of the military department, and will no longer patrol Shanxi and Henan.

It is a wonderful irony that only need to control an internal minister who violates the pre-government system can achieve great things!

The only major event that remains to be planned at the moment is the financial reserves of the Ming Dynasty. Maybe the Wara people have already seen the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is beautiful on the surface, envious of the barbarians, in fact, the current Ming Dynasty can't withstand the test of extreme situations at all! Once the smoke spreads, the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably shrink sharply, and the required expenses will increase significantly, where will the money come from? Everyone is accustomed to a life of luxury, and when it comes time to tighten their belts, it is difficult to turn this bend around; On the other hand, they can rely on the financial resources squeezed from the Ming Dynasty to defeat the Ming Dynasty! In case the war is protracted, the anti-war voice of the DPRK and China will be high, and it is a high probability that the Ming Dynasty will make a compromise like cutting meat, and the compromise can only be exchanged for a temporary Gou An, sooner or later it will be a death.

For this last big event, Zhu Qiming still has to wait for the opportunity, after all, it involves the harem and the queen, he can't act rashly, and he has to secretly observe for a while.

"King Yue, it's windy here, so it's a good place to cool off."

At the end of June, Zhu Qiming was ordered to enter the palace, and the emperor sent him to the imperial garden, and walked in the forest with him, and Wang Zhen was the only official who accompanied him.

Now the emperor is used to treating Zhu Qiming with courtesy, after all, Zhu Qiming is an adult, after returning to Beijing, he looks like he is following the rules on his face, and he really has no handle to pinch, besides, Zhu Qiming was ordered to take care of diplomatic affairs, and he always lived up to his mission, saving him a lot of trouble as the Son of Heaven, so the Son of Heaven must maintain due respect for Zhu Qiming.

The strange thing is that for some reason, the internal and external officials no longer play with Zhu Qiming's rights and wrongs, and even the major event of his visit to the domain seems to have been forgotten. This surprised the emperor, so when the monarch and the minister were alone, the emperor would always look at Zhu Qiming with scrutiny. That's it at the moment.

Feeling the coolness of the forest and the coolness of the strong wind, Zhu Qiming smiled indifferently, "Your Majesty might as well move to the Chunxi Palace to manage the government." ”

The emperor was stunned, then laughed a few times, and turned to Wang Zhen and said: "King Yue is reasonable, in case of a hot day, I will move to the Chunxi Palace to review the question book and the transcript, and Mr. quickly ordered." ”

"The old slave obeys."

Next, the emperor's complexion was not very good, "The battle of Luchuan has ended." ”

Not long ago, the Yunnan army fought the last battle with Sijifa, and at the end of the battle, the Yunnan army pointed to the Nu River and dropped a very funny "heavy" sentence: Sijifa, from now on, you must not cross this river again!

Si Jifa threw down a funnier "hard" sentence: But it's just that, who is rare!

Alas, there is no way, raising a military without profit is as ridiculous as putting aside politics and talking about military affairs, which is equivalent to a child's house!

"But there is not enough money." As soon as the silver was mentioned, the emperor's eyes lit up, it seems that the Son of Heaven also had a poor and crazy aftermath! "Disaster relief plus the repair of the City God Temple and Dongyue Temple, there is not a single copper plate left in the inner treasury, when will this poor day be a head!"

At present, not only is the inner treasury empty, but I am afraid that the household department is also overstretched, the battle of Luchuan has just ended, the effect of provincial silver has lagged behind, and most of the taxes in Fujian and Zhejiang must be kept for their own use, in order to calm the people's unrest and appease the displaced people, which is a big lack of financial resources for the household department.

But the hard days are yet to come!

"King Yue, I'm wondering, is the reward for you too early?"

It's really poor and crazy, how can there be any reason to get back the money that has been rewarded? Zhu Qiming thought it was funny, he was not as good at talking as he was back then.

"Your Majesty also knows that those rewards of silver entered the Yue Mansion, and there was not much left of the minister, and the minister borrowed a large amount of silver from Princess Changde back then."

Hmph, I don't believe that the Son of Heaven is embarrassed to call his own sister poor!

The emperor shook his head in disappointment, "Why are you looking for her to borrow silver, really!" ”

Hey, do you have to choose someone to borrow money? Could it be that the silver was borrowed from Princess Shunde, and you are happy?

Without waiting for Zhu Qiming to mutter, Jin Ying hurriedly walked over, "Your Majesty, Lu Xili from the Hanlin Academy, please Zhishi, waiting outside the Yongsu Hall at this moment." ”

The emperor's face sank, stared at Zhu Qiming for a long time, and sighed quietly before leaving: "At the beginning of the year, the prince of the country resigned from the priest Li Shimian, and now Lu Xi resigns, do you want to abandon me?" King Yue, you are waiting for me here. ”

Leaving these words, the emperor left sullenly. At present, the ranks of bureaucrats are becoming more and more bloated and huge, the government offices at all levels are overwhelmed, and a large area of the reserve army is pressed by black, and many people and even jinshi have to queue up to take up their posts, and some people have not been in the queue for more than 10 years.

Wang Zhen is different, there are still a number of hard bones among the middle and lower-level officials of the former dynasty, and now these hard bones have been killed, and the resignation of the official is not a bad thing for him, the internal minister.

"Your Highness, Lu Xi doesn't need to be a servant."

Wang Zhen's implication is to distinguish Lu Xi from those "stones in the pit", but this scheming inner phase is an over-interpretation of Lu Xi's simple intentions.

"Who knows what Mr. Lu thinks?" Zhu Qiming responded without saltiness.

"Your Highness, please." Wang Zhen's attitude towards Zhu Qiming is very good, and he doesn't look like he has been coerced at all, "Those rotten Confucians in the court are really unbearable!" Sprinkle some means to make them remember longer, and blame them for their own fault! It is really rare for His Highness to be able to watch from the wall, which makes the Sprinkle family understand the sincerity of His Highness. ”

The sincerity of the fart! This king just saw it through, in the final analysis, the internal and external officials are the same, and this king is not interested in those people on the table! He said, "This king knows what he should do and what he shouldn't do. ”

"Well, what Your Highness said at the beginning was true. Let's take the matter of diplomatic relations as an example, His Royal Highness's stay in Beijing can relieve the emperor's worries, and it also makes the life of the Sprinkle family much better. ”

Dinner? That's not going to work! This king doesn't want to get involved in the fight between internal and external officials, but he can't be your guest of honor, and openly stand on the opposite side of Jiuqing, right?

"Didn't my father-in-law say that he wanted to 'add icing on the cake'? Why don't you wait for the king to feast on your father-in-law after the matter is completed? ”

Wang Zhen smiled leisurely, "Your Highness, don't worry, the queen is speaking for the daughter of the Lu family; Concubine Zhou also seemed to have changed her mind, and no longer mentioned her sister in front of the emperor and the queen mother. Concubine Zhou also said that she was happy to see the daughter of the Lu family become the princess of Yue. ”

Can Concubine Zhou have such good intentions? Zhu Qiming didn't believe it, hesitated for a moment, and suddenly wondered if he was a little nervous by this matter, so he smiled self-deprecatingly, "I don't know what the Queen Mother thinks?" ”

"I heard that the empress dowager plans to choose a day to pass the daughter of the Lu family to the Xianxi Palace to meet her, and then immediately send the palace officials and female officials to go to the Lu family to pay a ceremony together with the governor of Yuefu, Shi, Ji Shan and other officials."

Zhu Qiming suddenly felt inexplicably excited, as if he had fallen into a dream.

Suddenly, a woman's chuckle came, Zhu Qiming was shocked, and immediately woke up, only to realize that he and Wang Zhen were walking slowly all the way, and unknowingly came to a rockery. Looking through the gap in the sparse forest, I saw that less than ten zhang away, the queen was sitting in the pavilion, and there were two teams of concubines standing in front of her, and the figure of Concubine Zhou could be vaguely seen in the middle.

looked at Wang Zhen blankly, but Wang Zhen had a calm face, just signaling Zhu Qiming to stop, and did not urge him to leave as soon as possible.

Zhu Qiming's ears sounded the voice of the emperor, and when he thought of the embroidery, he wanted to take the opportunity to say a pun to Wang Zhen loudly, so that this word floated into the queen's ears.

It's a rare opportunity! But what should I say? After hesitating, the sound of talking sounded again on the side of the rockery.

"Today is the Queen's Thousand Autumn Festival, the Queen Mother has been exempted from the congratulatory gift of the foreign wife, and the concubines and others get together to guess the lantern riddles and congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday, which is also an interesting pleasure!" I don't know if it was the concubine who smiled.

Queen's Thousand Autumn Festival? Damn, I forgot to celebrate!

As soon as he thought of this, the secret word inspiration that had just emerged in Zhu Qiming's heart suddenly slipped away.

Wang Zhenfang on the side wanted to invite Zhu Qiming to move away, but suddenly heard a commotion from the rockery, so he held back the idea of moving and looked at the pavilion curiously.

Zhu Qiming followed Wang Zhen's gaze, caught a glimpse of a graceful figure floating from the shade of the trees to the outside of the pavilion, and when he looked at it, he realized that she was Qin Huifei.

Under the muttering of the concubines and their indifferent gazes, Qin Huifei stopped, bowed down and said: "The concubine occasionally felt unwell, so she came late, and asked the queen to forgive her sins." ”

"Presumptuous! What day is it? You were the only one who came late, and you found a ridiculous excuse. Don't kneel yet! Concubine Zhou said sharply.

The weak Qin Huifei knelt on the stone steps scorched by the scorching sun with her head on her head, and when her legs landed on the ground, a trace of pain passed through her eyes.

Zhu Qiming subconsciously looked at the queen, and saw that the queen was leisurely holding up a cup of tea, with a coldness in her eyes.