Zhu Houzhao cried loudly.

For fourteen years, he was forever honored in the eyes of others.

Yes, he is the emperor, every day when he wakes up, there are countless eunuchs and palace maids who are busy for him, the emperor gets up, the emperor changes clothes, the emperor washes, and the emperor eats...... As long as he stands still, everything in life can be done by others for him, and it is meticulous and flawless.

He is rich all over the world, and the ancestors of thousands of years ago defined people like him, "under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, and it is not the king's minister", this sentence is full of envy, so throughout the ages, countless people have tried all kinds of methods, risking all kinds of family and extermination, and have to sit on that throne, because it represents heaven and earth, and represents the supreme in the world.

I want to treasure treasures, I want to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, and I want to marry a beautiful woman...... A holy decree, the whole world is moved for him alone, his words can make countless people rich and noble, but also can make countless people go to prison and kill their heads, this is the power of power.

He presides over the life and death of all living beings in the world, and he even has the power to bestow titles on saints and gods throughout the ages, but ...... The world is so big, who can know the suffering of this supreme person in the world?

He fought against the minister for fourteen years!

The emperor shouldn't play, the emperor shouldn't be arrogant, the emperor shouldn't be ridiculous, the emperor should be diligent, the emperor should admonish, the emperor should give birth to a son, can't he give birth to a son? True love? What is true love? It is the right way for a man to marry more women and have more sons, what a ridiculous thing true love is! - Do you want to serve your father? No, your father is fine. Only marrying only one queen is the biggest failure of his life, and you must not learn from him......

Who said that the emperor must be happy? If you have a choice, Zhu Houzhao would rather not be the emperor, he can be a gentleman who walks a dog and an eagle, or a farmer who lives in distress just for a spoon and a meal, when he is busy with farming, he straightens his waist, closes his eyes and smiles and feels the breeze, he can be an amorous and talented man, who uses poetry and danqing to depict in detail on white paper, and lightly dots cinnabar between the eyebrows of his beloved woman on the drawing paper. Write down the signature of the "Hand of the Son......

Zhu Houzhao is willing to be anyone. But it should never be an emperor, he is not a good emperor, competent emperors are ruthless, he can't be ruthless.

Zhu Houzhao was not wrong. Fourteen years. He failed the world. Failed the subjects, because of the feelings.

His love has transcended the black and white rights and wrongs in the world, so he reuses Liu Jin. Got close to the Eight Tigers of the Inner Palace, expelled Liu Jian Xie Qian, he didn't ask whether it was right or wrong, good or evil, and forcibly opened the sea ban in the civil and military opposition of the Manchu Dynasty, just because his most trusted friend Qin Kan wanted to open the sea ban......

Whether Zhu Houzhao is good or evil in this life, future generations after thousands of years will not be able to give him an accurate and pertinent evaluation.

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao cried bitterly in front of Liu Liangnu, still for love.

Liu Liangnu panicked, and hurriedly knelt in front of him and cried: "Hurt Your Majesty and weep, the concubine is guilty of death, Your Majesty must not cry, otherwise the concubine will be too guilty, and she will have to die in front of Your Majesty......"

Zhu Houzhao finally stopped crying, wiped his face with his sleeve indiscriminately, and said, "I don't cry, don't blame yourself, everything is that I am sorry for you, I broke my promise." ”

Liu Liangnu sighed: "The concubines know the heart of His Majesty, it is enough for you to have me in your heart, those concubines will let them live in the leopard room, Your Majesty will treat them well, if they can add a few dragons to Your Majesty, it will also be a great merit, and the concubines will never complain." ”

Zhu Houzhao shook his head: "No, the leopard room is my and your home, we can't live in outsiders in our family, let the eight concubines live in the palace." ”

It wasn't until this moment that Liu Liangnu really smiled, and the sorrow and depression of many days were swept away in an instant, and a smile brighter than the sun appeared on her pretty face.

Zhu Houzhao stared at her stupidly, ten years have passed, his feelings for Liu Liangnu have not changed, like the wine sealed in the cellar, the longer the mellow, her eyebrows, her voice, her smile every moment, all involve his heart, he is like a kite in the sky, willing to hand over the long thread that binds him in the palm of her hand.

The wind and rain passed, and the sun shone brightly.

The cloud-like hair spread out in the sun, reflecting the reflection like black silk, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but reach out and caress her hair, and suddenly fluttered.

"Good girl, where is the hairpin of the golden phoenix bead I gave you?"

Liu Liangnu was startled, subconsciously touched her head, and then tears flowed down again, and said in a panic: "Concubine...... It was obviously worn on the head just now, the concubine ......"

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Forget it, I'll give you another one." ”

Liu Liangnu shook her head and cried: "No, that hairpin is the object of love between His Majesty and his concubines, and it was bought by you for half a year's wages after working hard in the wine shop, and no matter how rare the world is, it can't match it, Your Majesty, the concubines are dead, and I may have sat by the pavilion for a long time just now, and I accidentally fell into the lake......

Saying that, Liu Liangnu was shocked and anxious, and cried.

Zhu Houzhao stepped forward and hugged her into his arms, and comforted her softly for a long time, Liu Liangnu stopped crying, but her pretty face was still full of sadness, obviously the meaning of the hairpin was extraordinary.

After comforting her for a long time, Liu Liangnu still didn't see her happy, so Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to send her to the dormitory.

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Half an hour later, Zhu Houzhao returned to the pavilion just now, staring at the calm lake, his eyes gradually flashed with firmness, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly reached out and began to untie the jade belt around his waist.

Outside the pavilion, a group of eunuchs and palace maids were frightened, and today it was the master of ceremonies who accompanied Zhu Houzhao and the governor of Xichang Gonggu Dayong.

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao inexplicably explained his jade belt, Gu Da was in a hurry, and ran into the pavilion in three steps and two steps.

"What do you want to do?" Gu Dayong didn't care about driving misetiquette, and grabbed Zhu Houzhao's hand in a hurry.

Zhu Houzhao broke free of Gu Dayong's hand, pointed to the lake outside the pavilion, and said with a smile: "The talented girl accidentally dropped a golden hairpin into the water, I went to fish it up and give her a surprise......"

Gu Dayong was shocked: "Your Majesty can't do it!" When the lake was built, the officials of the Ministry of Industry had already set the depth of eight zhang, only for the purpose of draught for His Majesty's boat. How could His Majesty take such a dangerous deed, and ignore the safety of the Ten Thousand Vehicles? ”

Zhu Houzhao kicked him lightly or heavily, and scolded with a smile: "You old dog, when I am a five-year-old milk baby, can't you?" It's not that I don't know how to be watery, when I was still the prince of the East Palace, didn't you and Zhang Yong and Liu Jin ever see me swimming in the pond? I am the Son of Heaven, I have the protection of God, and the four seas in the world are my royal land, how can I be afraid of the small lake? ”

Gu Dayong's old face turned pale with fright, and he knelt in front of Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty." Don't go to the lake. If you want to fish for the hairpin and the old slave, then find the familiar sergeant of the leopard room to fish, how precious is your majesty, how can you walk under the dangerous wall? ”

Zhu Hou stared at the lake and sighed: "It's not an ordinary hairpin. It was bought for her by saving half a year's salary ten years ago. Two or four dollars of silver. Every penny of silver was earned by my own hands, and it was the love affair between me and my good daughter, because of the choice of concubines. The good girl is already very sad, how can I let her lose this hairpin of love again? ”

Gu Dayong still begged bitterly: "Your Majesty, the old slave is a eunuch, I don't understand the love between men and women, the old slave only knows the way, Your Majesty is the most noble person in the world, and you must not put yourself in danger because of a hairpin, Your Majesty only needs to wait for a while, and the old slave will find someone to salvage ......"

"Dayong, you still don't understand, but I didn't expect you to understand."

Raising his eyes and looking up at the sky, it was almost dusk, the blood-red remnants spread on the surface of the lake, and Zhu Houzhao's smile was like fireworks blooming in the night sky.

"It is my blessing to be married to her in this life, I have done countless ridiculous things in my life, to be able to marry her is the most right thing I have done, in my life, fortunately I have her, because I love her, I can't see her sad, if she is in pain, I am more painful than her......"

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The sky was dark, and it was already the time to hold the lights.

Tonight, there are not many guests in the Ningguo Mansion, there is only one, Yan Song, the secretary of the military department.

Half a year ago, Yan Song was ordered to inspect the border towns, go straight to Pingyu Mansion out of Beijing, and then inspect Liaodong through Datong, Xuanfu, Yanqing, and the most Lu Hou, Yan Song, an important border town in the Ming Dynasty, inspected them one by one, and finally returned to Beijing today, and rushed to the Tongzheng Division to hand over the official seal and the office, and then boarded the door of the Qin Mansion as soon as possible.

In the flower hall of the Qin Mansion, Qin Kan waved away the servants and maids who served the wine, and only the two of them were left in the flower hall to drink lightly, talking in a low voice about the situation in the border town and the general trend of the court.

"The situation in the border town has improved greatly...... Yan Song took a sip of wine, and praised with a smile: "Compared with the erosion of the border town during the Hongzhi period, the border town is much better now, mainly due to the credit of the grandfather, these years have quietly and frequently changed generals, plus in the past ten years, the grandfather has personally trained batch after batch of young soldiers to fill the border town, and several governors and commanders of the Datong Xuanfu are half tender, half coercive, or bright and dark, or take the opportunity to punish crimes, in short, more than ten years, those generals who should be replaced have been replaced, The new generals are either the henchmen of the grandfather or the upright and loyal people, and the atmosphere in the border towns has been greatly improved......"

Qin Kan smiled bitterly: "It's not enough, it's far from enough, the case of Li Chongxing's assassination of Ma Wensheng back then is like yesterday, I still remember very clearly, our border town in the Ming Dynasty has been eroded to the point of erosion, I don't believe that it can be completely changed in just over ten years." ”

Yan Song nodded: "This time, the lower officials were ordered to patrol the border, and they also saw a lot of people and things that need to be rectified, through the secret report of the Jinyi Guard's spies, many border towns still have evil things such as drinking soldiers' blood, enslaving soldiers, neglecting drills, secretly selling pig iron and ordnance, etc., these people and things have been written on the song, and tomorrow morning, the lower officials will definitely participate in them." ”

Qin Kan sighed: "Fortunately, with the victory of Yingzhou under His Majesty, this battle is not trivial, at least for our Ming Dynasty in exchange for ten years of peace, His Majesty personally fought for the ten-year period is very important to our Ming Dynasty, in this ten years, we must be strong soldiers, purge the Wang Division, ten years later, we take the initiative to gather the army to march to the grassland desert, and completely defeat the Mongols who have been plagued by the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years!" ”

Yan Song couldn't help but puff up his chest, and his eyes were filled with excitement: "The lower officials will swear to follow the grandfather to the death, and witness the Ming Dynasty King sweep through the universe and pacify the world!" ”

Qin Kan said with a smile: "Therefore, we all have to live well, and live to see the Ming Dynasty defeat the Tatar Warats and return the huge territory in the north to the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yan Song nodded heavily, raised his glasses and saluted each other, and the two drank it all in one gulp, looked at each other and smiled.

"Who would have thought that we would be rich and strong in Zhengde. Compared with the Hongzhi Emperor and a loyal old minister who worked all his life, the Zhengde Dynasty was in the hands of a traitorous minister recognized by the world, Grandpa Qin, God treats you very well, and God treats you too unfairly! ”

Yan Song let out a long sigh, he was Qin Kan's confidant and confidant, and he was also the person who knew Qin Kan best, the more he knew Qin Kan. Yan Song admired him more and more. He saw everything Qin Kan had done over the years, and he knew how much effort Qin Kan had put into this suffering country, the emperor was absurd and mediocre, and the courtiers were fighting. Scholars talk about the country. Someone who has truly dedicated his life to changing the country. What he got was only the infamy of a traitor.

The more this is the case, the more Yan Song feels worthless for Qin Kan in his admiration.

Qin Kan smiled faintly: "Don't be shocked by the humiliation, smile and watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court." I came into this world. Burdened with a heavy mission, others slander the reputation, how can I add to it? ”

Yan Song sighed for a moment and raised his glass again.

The sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the flower hall, and Qin Kan frowned.

The housekeeper of the Guogong Mansion all knew that Yan Song was his important guest, and when it was time to have a drink and talk, who would disturb the scenery so much?

"Master, it's not good, the eunuch in the palace has something urgent to report......" The voice of the housekeeper outside the hall showed a little anxiety.

Qin Kan's brows furrowed even deeper, and he said in a deep voice: "What's the matter? ”

A shrill voice cracked like a broken silk outside the hall: "On the order of the celebrant Grandpa Zhang, please enter the leopard room as soon as possible, and your majesty will give him a ...... He ......"

Qin Kan was shocked, stood up suddenly, and glanced at Yan Song in shock, finding that each other's faces were frighteningly pale.

Three steps and two steps rushed out of the flower hall, Qin Kan grabbed the little eunuch's shirt and picked him up, and said viciously: "What's wrong with Your Majesty?" ”

The little eunuch cried with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty jumped into the lake in front of the leopard's house in the evening and drowned...... Drowned! ”

Qin Kan's eyes darkened, and he suddenly felt that the sky was spinning, and his body shook a few times before he stood firm.

Yan Song was shocked, grabbed the eunuch's shoulder and said sharply: "Drowning? How can the Son of Heaven drown? Are the palace guards and eunuchs dead? Why don't you be optimistic about Your Majesty? ”

The eunuch cried: "Father-in-law Gu has tried his best to stop him, but His Majesty did not listen, and insisted on jumping into the lake in order to catch a golden hairpin. Hurriedly called the guards to rescue His Majesty......"

"What's going on with Your Majesty?"

At this time, the three scholars of the cabinet, as well as the scholars of various ministries, the princes, Hou, and uncles in Beijing have gathered outside the leopard room to wait for news, and Gonggong Zhang ordered the slaves to invite Grandpa Qin and Lord Yan to enter the leopard room together to discuss important matters.

Qin Kan's face was as gloomy as water, his eyes were as cold as iron, he turned his head to look at the shocked Yan Song, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go to the leopard room first." ”

Yan Song nodded hurriedly, under the guidance of the little eunuch, the three of them hurriedly walked out of the mansion, before getting into the carriage, Qin Kan suddenly remembered something, turned to the guard in front of the door and said: "Quickly go to the inner street and outer house in Dongcheng, please Miss Tang to the leopard room, save people like fighting fire, go quickly!" ”

The guards clenched their fists and took orders, turned over their horses without saying a word, and galloped away in the night.

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Qin Kan and Yan Song's carriage galloped all the way, and it only took two pillars of incense to reach the door of the leopard room.

The door of the leopard room was crowded with people, standing on a high place and looking at a black oppressive head, the cabinet scholars, the ministers of the various ministries, the nobles of Jingzhong were all here, the captain of the brocade clothes and the east and west factories were cruising back and forth with knives, Teng Xiang Siwei and the soldiers of the regiment and battalion held the bow and opened the bow, as if facing the enemy, and saw the bright torches and palace lamps everywhere, as well as the faces of panic and anxiety, the tense atmosphere was permeated in front of the palace gate, and the heavy pressure made people breathless.

As soon as Qin Kan and Yan Song got out of the carriage, a group of ministers and nobles came up around them, some people stomped their feet anxiously, some scolded the faint monarch for being ridiculous, and some people shouted hoarsely that this was a conspiracy, it must be a thief who designed to kill the monarch, and all living beings were in different phases, and so on.

"Ladies and gentlemen, be silent!" Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, shouted.

After ruling the world for more than ten years, Yang Tinghe's prestige among the courtiers was still very great, and after shouting, the gossiping ministers around him shut up one after another, and countless eyes were staring at Qin Kan's gloomy face.

After rolling in this turbid court for more than ten years, I have to admit that Qin Kan's status is already very important, whether he is scolded or hated, no one in the court today dares to despise his existence.

Hurriedly making a round of glances at the surrounding ministers, Qin Kan looked at Yang Tinghe and said in a deep voice: "Has Your Majesty woken up?" What did the Imperial Doctor say? ”

Yang Tinghe sighed: "Your Majesty has not woken up yet, the imperial doctor is in and out of the door of the leopard's room, although he didn't say a word, but the old man looked at their faces, I'm afraid something is not good......"

Qin Kan's heart sank, and his face became more and more gloomy.

Looking at the anxious colleagues around him, Qin Kan suppressed the panic in his heart, and said with a forced smile: "Ji people have their own heavenly appearance, Your Majesty will not die prematurely, there must be the protection of God, as long as there is breathing, there will be no trouble, it means that there is still salvation, waking up is only a matter of time, colleagues must not panic, at this time, do not mess up and cause panic among the subjects of the world." ”

Yang Tinghe also nodded and said: "Grandpa Qin is right, there is still breathing under His Majesty, maybe the situation is not so bad, you should relax ......."

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PS: I recommend a good book, Chenguang Lucifer's "The Poison Doctor":

As a cultivator who once stood in the clouds and looked down on all beings, and came to a strange world, what should Xiao Qiang do?

Cultivate the truth, poison the world

Xiao Qiang wants to lay a piece of his own country in this urban land! (To be continued......)