Zhu Youxiao has never been a father, and he has no feelings about the concept of having children, and he never even thought that he would become someone else's father one day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, he never imagined that he would be a father in the Ming Dynasty, but when he saw the white and red baby crying on the bed, his heart seemed to have been hit, and his whole heart seemed to melt into those royal blue and crystal clear eyes.

This is their own child?

Zhu Youxiao asked himself this more than once, and he didn't know when, he found that Xu Fo, who was also wrapped in a headscarf and had skin as white as snow, seemed to have added a little more mature charm than before.

"You're tired", Zhu Youxiao involuntarily sat next to Xu Fo, holding her soft and weak hand, and said.

The queen Zhang Yan on the side was still smiling, and she couldn't put it down and hugged the little prince.

At this moment, it seems to be more like an ordinary solid house, without the so-called vigilance and mustard between concubines.

Xu Fo also smiled like a flower, and shook his head at Zhu Youxiao, meaning that she was not tired, for her, it was the first time to see His Majesty's soft gaze today, as if in a moment, all the pain she had in this childbirth was worth it, and she would rather keep staring at Zhu Youxiao like this.

"Your Majesty, let's make a name", Queen Zhang Yan interjected at this time and said with a smile.

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and was about to take advantage of the prosperity to name a small life, but he made a difficulty, because Emperor Taizu Gao had already been set the format, except for the surname Zhu, the generations have also been arranged, he belongs to the Yan Wang line, to his own generation, the next generation is kind and kind, and the last word is the rules of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, his own generation is wood as the side, and the next generation is the fire as the side.

But for a while, Zhu Youxiao couldn't remember a few words next to the fire, and after thinking for a long time, he decided: "It's named Zhu Cijiong." ”

His Majesty the Emperor confirmed the name, which means that he officially recognized the identity of his child's prince, Xu Fo couldn't help but get up to salute Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao pressed her back, and asked Wang Chengen to assist the queen in handling this matter.

For a Chinese dynasty that relies on etiquette to establish a ruling system, this not only means that the Zhu dynasty will be stable in the next political life, but also means that the people of the world will have a period of peace for a while.

Because it means that there is a continuation and inheritance of dynastic rule.

The ministers consciously congratulated each other, and the people also spontaneously ran to tell each other, and in big cities such as Liangjing and Suzhou and Hangzhou, there were even literati and ordinary people who spontaneously organized celebration parades.

Because several cabinet ministers advised His Majesty to grant amnesty to the world on this matter, Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to agree to them that death row prisoners except for several heinous crimes should be sentenced to prison and exiled to remote areas for reform.

At the same time, as the emperor's brother-in-law, Gong Yonggu, the head of the Imperial Industrial Company, and one of the richest businessmen in the Ming Dynasty, he directly gave his employees an additional three months of bonuses to celebrate the appearance of the emperor's eldest son.

Gong Yonggu did this, and the Royal Bank was not far behind, and began to mint a batch of commemorative coins and commemorative gold bars for limited sale, and there were also many middle-class and above families to buy.

The Ordnance Department and the Royal House also gave bonuses, and Huo Weihua simply gave the workers under the Ministry of Industry a day off, and also subsidized them with five silver dollars a day to spend.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to give bonuses to hundreds of civil and military officials, and ordered the governors and political envoys of all provinces to give additional bonuses to their subordinate officials, and the amount and amount of bonuses could be reported to the central government for reimbursement by the central authorities.

Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of Nanjing, also went to the Guanyin Temple to repay his vow, and immediately gave 100,000 silver dollars.

Ma Shiying also exempted individual industrial and commercial households in Fengyang's prefectures and counties for three days, and although millions of silver dollars were lost in taxes, the development of the small commodity economy was greatly stimulated.

Since then, a rule has been formed, and every eighteenth day of the lunar month, there will be a three-day tax exemption period, and farmers and residents of the suburbs around the town have begun to develop a habit of coming to the town on this day to sell their agricultural products and buy New Year's goods at the same time.

Because of the tax exemption on this day, in order to maximize profits, many merchants will reduce prices on this day, and for many ordinary people, they can buy goods that are usually unattainable on this day.

Because of the appearance of the emperor's eldest son, if this festive event was put aside, it would naturally be the filial piety below, but at the beginning of this year, it was changed, and the filial piety from above to the below.

It seems that unintentionally, people will find that the whole society is already changing, and the former order of superiority and inferiority is gradually becoming obsolete.

Zhu Youxiao himself didn't realize this, as a person living in a country without a clear hierarchy, he thought that these were normal things, and what really made him incredible was that he really changed history more and more differently, because according to normal history, he, the emperor of Zhu Youxiao, should not have an heir.

However, having the eldest son of the emperor does not mean that the political arena of the Ming Dynasty will be smooth sailing from now on.

The emergence of new things often surprises new events and the beginning of new struggles.

Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa, who were envoys to the Qing Dynasty in the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, also learned the news that the emperor had the eldest son of the emperor today, and the two also hosted a banquet for the upper class nobles of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, including Huang Taiji and others, and conveyed the good news to them.

Although this is not good news, or even bad news, for Manchu nobles such as Huang Taiji, because it means that the cohesion of the Ming will be strengthened, he also has to congratulate him on the surface.

And Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa, perhaps for the sake of the continuation of the dynasty, played a sparse advice, saying that His Majesty would immediately establish the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince.

This is also supported by Lu Xiangsheng, a scholar of the Liaodong Jinglu King in Jinhe University, and Mao Wenlong, the chief military officer, in short, the real power figures of the entire Liaodong system have chosen to jointly write a letter to advise His Majesty to establish the crown prince of the eldest son of the emperor.

The civil and military officials of the court also responded positively to the establishment of the crown prince as soon as possible.

But Zhu Youxiao felt a huge and invisible pressure because of this, this scene seemed to have been repeated in the Wanli Dynasty, and he couldn't help but worry that the government would start to fall into chaos because of the prince again.

With the advent of the steam age, the improvement of productivity, and the disintegration of the natural economy, the changes in the Ming Dynasty will be more developed in the future, especially after a hundred years, which means that the prince at this time will face a more severe reality in the future than he is facing now.

"For the establishment of the prince, I understand your Aiqing's thoughts, but the establishment of a country's prince is a major matter of the country, not hasty, how many times my Ming dynasty has been damaged by the country's strength is bad on this, now the emperor's eldest son has just been born, whether his character is good or bad, whether he is stupid or smart, what talent, I still don't know, you are only afraid that I don't know, if this is the hundred years after my Ming Dynasty The national fortune is handed over to the shoulders of the young children who have not even broken the milk is too rash, so this matter has to be mentioned again!"

Above the court, Zhu Youxiao directly rejected the courtiers like this, and the courtiers did not dare to disobey the king's wishes, but at this time, an official from the Ministry of Rites stood up and asked: "Your Majesty, since you don't establish the crown prince early, why don't you make the crown prince as soon as possible, so as to prepare for the selection of the prince when he establishes it in the future." ”

Qian Qianyi and Li Mingrui all nodded because of this, secretly praising what this person said is really a wise move, since the current emperor is unwilling to establish the crown prince in advance, as a minister, he can't and dare not force each other, but if the emperor's eldest son is crowned as a prince in advance, it is feasible, and if there is really something wrong in the future, he can directly establish the position of the prince.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't think so, he couldn't help but cut the world's vassal kings by more than half, the land under his control was recovered by one-third, and his support was also greatly reduced.

"It is naturally possible to be crowned king, but in my opinion, in order not to stop the embezzlement of people's land and property by the nobles of Tianhuang, there is no need for the king to divide the fiefdom again, and it is enough for the local good ministers to be assisted by the generals, so why add another constraint, and in order to make my descendants no longer indulge in leisure and hard work because they are of royal blood, and do not want to forge ahead, I have decided not to easily grant them any princes and county kings, regardless of their order of age and age, all talents and virtues are moves, and they will only be considered after they are fifteen years old and out of the cabinet."

As soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, the ministers didn't want to say anything, but at this time Li Mingrui stood up and said: "Your Majesty's concern is indeed a far-sighted concern, but the eldest son of the emperor, as the son of His Majesty, is also one of the guarantees of my Ming Dynasty's future world, which is still one of the guarantees of a peaceful and prosperous world. ”

Zhu Youxiao understood what Li Mingrui meant, now that Zhu Youzhen can hang the title of a letter king, then the eldest son of the emperor can also hang the title of a prince, and if he really needs to temporarily appoint a certain person as the emperor in the future, it is not easy to find an excuse for Zhu Youzhen.

And Zhu Youxiao originally planned to let the princes participate in specific government affairs in the future, so it is okay, the prince is just a fictitious title can set the title very low, after all, it is symbolic, and the level of the specific positions of the princes depends on their ability.

"What Aiqing said is very true, even so, the eldest son of the emperor is the king of Zhao, and the gift is the same product, and the same quality official is also the same as Yulu", Zhu Youxiao said.

In this way, the eldest son of the emperor got the title of King of Zhao, but he still lived in the Forbidden City as peacefully as an ordinary baby when he was born.

Compared with the first year of Chongzhen in the original history, there was no large-scale peasant uprising in the eighth year of the Apocalypse in 1628 AD, also in the Western calendar, because the sweep of the royal capital and the huge supply of Fengyang's commercial taxes caused the filling of the treasury to make the military salaries accumulated for many years in the nine frontiers such as Jizhou and Guyuan repaid, and therefore there was no major mutiny.

It can be said that the eight years of the Apocalypse, which should have started with more and more turmoil, did not show signs of turmoil due to the increasingly cold climate, but appeared more stable than the seventh year of the Apocalypse.

In the eight years of the apocalypse when the industrial economy began to impact the natural economy, many people still preferred to stick to the land, to harvest the grain on the one-third of an acre of land, and live a self-sufficient life.

However, because of the large-scale use of steam power, and the acquiescence and support of the imperial court, workshops and factories from all walks of life have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, but there has also been a labor shortage.

The factory owners had to increase their wages, but they lured the people to work in the towns away from home.

With the temptation of wealth, by the end of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, many people had begun to come to the big towns to dedicate their labor in exchange for wealth, and in a metropolis like Beijing, it was inseparable from the services of these foreign populations.

From the most basic public health treatment to the creation of various cultural and artistic creations, as well as the inheritance and innovation of various skills, these skilled craftsmen from all over the Ming Dynasty are playing an important role in the capital.

Now the soldiers of the Five Cities Terracotta Division are becoming more and more lazy, because the treasury is full, and the Five Cities Terracotta Division has also allocated city management funds.

However, these officials of the Five Cities Terracotta Division and the soldiers who had a formal establishment in the military department were even lazier than before, and they were not even willing to do the business of extorting stalls and vendors, let alone other municipal services.

When Zhu Youxiao walked in the capital, he could see many people wearing special costumes of the Terracotta Division working hard to sweep the snow on the street for a few cents of silver dollars a day, while the officials of the Terracotta Division sat leisurely and ate tea.

And there are also these casual workers, who are in the streets, shouting at some beggars and illegal vendors.

But at the same time, it can also be seen that they will also desperately carry the steam-powered pumping machine to the fire accident site, and desperately save people's lives, and risk their lives to extinguish the fire.

Da Ming has really changed, and they don't know each other anymore.

The officials of the Cabinet Scholars, the Scholars of the Six Ministries, the Metropolitan Inspectorate, and the Supervisors of the Monasteries couldn't help but sigh when they saw all kinds of novelties in the capital before entering the Forbidden City.

Not only are they shocked by the glass windows everywhere in front of them, the wooden models in ready-to-wear clothes, and all kinds of products they have never heard of, such as soaps and perfumes, but they are even more embarrassed by the year-end report in their hands, which is a full five inches later, and almost everyone has tens of thousands of words in their hands.

This is the task given to them by His Majesty today, that is, to make a year-end summary, and Zhu Youxiao has released the news, and the quality of the year-end will be directly related to the different reward scales of tens of thousands of silver dollars to thousands of silver dollars.

For this reason, these important ministers who hold the core power of the central court are very serious about studying and summarizing, but what they didn't expect is that after they summarized, they found from the data that the Ming Dynasty has actually undergone such a big change.