After Zhu Youxiao returned to the capital, it was already snowing heavily, and the entire capital was white, solemn but lurking with a trace of vitality. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But for the scholars and officials who hate imperial politics and yearn for freedom, they don't feel the slightest bit of vitality, and His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao's series of actions from leaving the capital have made their mood fall into the freezing point, only to feel cold and biting, where to feel the slightest bit of kindness.

The fall of Confucius in the North Sect was replaced by the Confucian Sect in the Southern Sect, and the title inherited by Confucius in the Southern Sect has been greatly reduced, which undoubtedly shows that His Majesty intends to reduce the role of Confucianism.

When he went to Jiangnan and exiled thousands of literati and scholars to the bitter cold land, it was clearly said that he wanted to temper his muscles and bones and hone his will, so that he could use them for the imperial court in the future, but in fact it was just to suppress the rights and interests of the literati, and then control the finances of the entire Jiangnan, so as to make a test for the next large-scale reform.

The reform of the Fengyang Left-behind Division in the Central Capital and the two political envoys in Shandong and Shaanxi directly and concretely showed them what His Majesty the Emperor was going to do.

But now they can only stop fighting, the fans of the East Investigation Factory all over the country, plus the various Praetorian Guards stationed in various places, are like His Majesty's eyes all the time watching their every move, the dignified patrol according to the imperial history said to be beheaded, the vassal king wanted to rebel, less than one night was suddenly gathered by the Praetorian Guards to break through the city, and on the second day it ended a dismal end, and even with other vassal kings were also implicated, but looking at the world, there is no force that can stop the current Majesty.

However, the prestige of His Majesty among the people is getting higher and higher, and they did not expect that these newspapers such as Daming Daily, which originally only serialized the legendary stories of Zhanghui and the complaints of literati and ink writers, would take away the public opinion guidance advantage of their civilian and official groups in the blink of an eye, and even take away part of their administrative interpretation power.

Now these officials have almost really become tools to serve His Majesty, and even just like other craftsmen, they are just working for His Majesty today, but the division of labor is different, and some craftsmen have begun to surpass them in terms of rank and social status.

For some stubborn scholars who could not give up their privileges, this was a change that could not be accepted but had to be accepted.

However, even so, they are also full of expectations for the imminent birth of a prince or princess in the palace.

When the king's power was great and unshakable, they could only hope for the prince.

For the royalists, this is even more news worth looking forward to, and many ministers have expressed their serious concerns through various channels, some of them directly asked for information, and some secretly inquired about the news from the palace attendants.

Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of Nanjing who had already begun fasting, had already lived in the Guanyin Temple in Donglu Mountain, Nanjing, and decided to practice more rigorously in the remaining days, praying in front of Guanyin Niangniang three times a day, and distributing all his 300,000 silver dollars and family wealth.

Gong Yonggu, the helmsman of the Royal Industrial Company, directly established the Daming Charity Federation and donated 1 million silver dollars to the nursing homes in the yamen of all prefectures and counties in the world.

Sun Chengzong, who was far away in Shaanxi Province to implement the new policy of apportioning the land into the mu, was originally a steady person who never asked about the royal private affairs, but he also actually asked the imperial heir Ke'an in a note at the beginning of this year, and directly advised His Majesty to start the draft from now on, and recruit good women from the people to enrich the harem.

Not only Sun Chengzong, but a large number of ministers began to play the advice that Zhu Youxiao recruited concubines, and even included some famous ministers such as Liu Zongzhou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Yuan Keli.

Since there is no problem, as the Son of Heaven, there is no need to bet on one or two women, because no one is sure whether there will be a prince who will die in the future, so the more concerned about the government and politics, the more strongly the ministers ask His Majesty to accept more concubines, and Li Mingrui, who is a core member of the royalist party, directly admonished His Majesty today to enrich the seventy-two concubines in the harem.

Qian Qianyi was unwilling to follow, and turned this number into one hundred and zero horses in the song, Zhu Youxiao was very angry when he found out, and scolded these ministers for treating themselves as stallions completely, even if they were beaten by their own iron bodies, they couldn't stand up to so many women, not to mention that they didn't have that energy.

But there are people who have rivers and lakes, and there is a whole Ming court, not all officials are selfish, and they do not think about themselves, or so to speak, in fact, everyone is thinking about themselves, but the interests of the royalists are consistent with His Majesty the Emperor for their own sake.

Now His Majesty met a Wei daughter on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and the rumors that he had been desolate for several months, so that he delayed returning to the capital for three months, began to circulate in the capital, and then thought that the one who was now pregnant with the dragon son was also from the place of Fengyue, so that the opponents who were unwilling to affirm this iron-blooded king began to equate Zhu Youxiao with the king who coveted beauty.

As a result, there are also people who persuade His Majesty to clean himself up, dismiss the palace maids, do not love beauty, deal with the ministers of the villains who are flattering or invite favors by offering beauties, and accept the loyal and good to the court.

On the one hand, some ministers advised His Majesty to recruit concubines to fill the harem and protect the Ming Dynasty's 10,000-year-old foundation; On the one hand, the ministers advised His Majesty to abstain from lust and greed, and to set an example for the king; And if it is only on the surface, it seems that the former is a traitor who disregards the interests of the country, while the latter is a loyal and honest minister who dares to disobey the king.

Later historians can come to such conclusions if they do not speculate on the background of the time.

It's not just waiting for the future generations, even now, if these songs are passed out, the people of the world are afraid that they will really simply think that His Majesty is indeed a lustful monarch, so Zhu Youxiao is extremely angry when he heard it, since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he has come into contact with no more than five women in total, and there is only one woman included in the harem, but when did he become a tyrannical king who went to the people to rob the people's daughters and cause the people's wives to be separated.

This is a detailed writing in the imperial history of Du Yihong, which is full of thousands of words, but none of them said that Zhu Youxiao was good, but he wrote all the imagination and rumors out of thin air.

"Du Yihong, can you know his details, whose protégé?" Zhu Youxiao didn't drop anything after getting this note from Wang Chengen, but asked with a sneer, and put a bunch of admonitions to him to accept concubines and a bunch of admonitions to keep himself clean and self-conscious.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't understand, he is so ruthless, how can there be anyone who doesn't know how to disobey himself, you have to say that scolding like Hai Rui is justified, even if you scold yourself for the apocalypse, every family begs, you can bear it, even if you spit it in your face, you can bear it yourself. But one by one, those unwarranted things made Zhu Youxiao really unpredictable.