Zhu Guobi was afraid that Kou Baimen would say anything taboo again, and he hated the woman who exposed his old bottom just now, and immediately said: "The woman has no knowledge!" I mean: don't let those killers get away! Not only do you have to kill, but you can't even give a chance to hang a seal! Catch them one by one! ”

"100,000 scholars in Jiangnan, I'm afraid it will provoke public anger." Kou Baimen lowered his voice.

"Among the 100,000 scholars, there are always some who understand reason." Zhu Cihong pushed the case up, felt really bored, and said, "That's all for today, I'll go back first." ”

Where did Zhu Guobi dare to stay, and got up to send it off.

Ruan Dacheng was very surprised, and said secretly: What's going on? I haven't drunk a few glasses of wine, and I haven't heard the song yet. Could it be that Fu Ninghou brought Kou Baimen here just to make a show?

"Congratulations...... Zhu Gongzi stepped carefully. Ma Shiying also hurriedly got up and sent people away.

Kou Baimen thought that he had annoyed Zhu Gongzi, and he was also a little weak-hearted, and he wanted to redeem some goodwill through quyi, but he didn't want this son to leave. She stepped aside, sent her blessing away, and watched Zhu Guobi and Ma Shiying send Zhu Gongzi out of the city left and right, but the Xiao Zhuangshi over there had already stepped forward and beckoned the boat to come over at the bow of the boat.

After the boat came over, Ruan Dacheng saw clearly that the person on the boat was not Tian Cunshan, who was it? Look at the head of the painting boat in the ring row over there, there is also a person standing on the head, and under the light is the heart of the eunuch king of Nanjing.

These two people are not even qualified to board the big ship!

Ruan Dacheng suddenly understood, and after the boat rowed away, he said to Ma Shiying, who was not dying: "This is ......" He compared the mouth shape of the "crown prince".

Ma Shiying nodded and said secretly: It's really scared to death!

Ruan Dacheng's face was really pale, and he muttered in a low voice: "Tian Cunshan is really a friend, let me and the crown prince feast at the same table and only received five thousand taels!" I hated that I didn't even see it. ”

Zhu Guobi turned his head and glared at Ruan Dacheng, but there was blood in his heart: You people are used to making trouble! In order to invite this deity. Master, I spent 30,000 taels!

He glanced at Kou Baimen again, thinking about whether to send her out of the city.

The status of concubines in the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty was similar, and it was higher in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming people also attached more importance to feelings than the Song people, and it was rare to take concubines to give birth to children, or to change horses. However, from the perspective of law and human feelings, it is a matter of course to send a concubine. Zhu Guobi was not reluctant to Kou Baimen, but worried about whether doing so would make the crown prince unhappy.

In the end, Kou Baimen is already old, and he really can't give it away.

- But what if the crown prince likes this kind of charming half-aged?

Zhu Guobi decided to go to Wang Zhixin tomorrow to inquire and then make a decision. However, he didn't dare to let Kou Baimen go home again, so he ordered her to live on the big boat, wash her body, dress up, and look better if she was to be sent to the East Palace.

Zhu Cihong really didn't think about accepting Kou Baimen.

In his previous life, he had seen many good-looking beauties in the workplace. But these beauties either have other purposes, or they are acting on the spot. Whoever wants to be serious loses anyway. Moreover, men overthrow women, only a very small part of them are physiological needs, and more are to conquer psychological troubles to satisfy their own power desires that they can't release.

Zhu Cihong has now mastered most of the empire, even if he is the emperor, it is just because he doesn't need it. Isn't this sense of accomplishment better than pushing a few girls?

Thinking of his empire, Zhu Cihong had already left Kou Baimen or other Qin Huai beauties behind.

"I didn't expect the resistance in Jiangnan to be so great, even the prostitutes didn't welcome us." Zhu Cihong joked with Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo stood beside Zhu Cihong and said, "Wait for His Highness's civil affairs measures to be promoted." The people must be on His Highness's side. ”

Zhu Cihong shook his head and casually pointed to the lights on both sides of the Qinhuai River. As if it was a city that never sleeps, he said: "Look at this scenery, whether it is prosperous." ”

Xiao Mo said: "The last general has never seen such a prosperous place, far better than the Jingshi. ”

"It's just appearances." Zhu Cihong shook his head and said: "Since Chongzhen, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been flooded for many years, and even the area around Hangjia Lake has been repeatedly flooded. This place is also my tax field. The tax burden on the common people is the heaviest. It can be said that the people have not had a respite for more than ten years. Others thought that the imperial court had exempted the north from taxes for two years to recuperate, but in fact, it was Jiangnan who really needed to rest. ”

"If so, they should go all the more to His Highness."

"It's good if they don't scold me." Zhu Cihong smiled bitterly: "You have never been a herdsman official. The people had better be incited, as long as they go hungry. It is especially easy to be incited. And Jiangnan still has a bitterness, I have to carry it if I don't carry it. ”

"What's the problem?" Xiao Mo said curiously.

"There is no food in Jiangnan." Zhu Cihong sighed: "The grain grown in the entire Nanzhi and Zhejiang regions is no longer self-sufficient. ”

Xiao Mo was speechless.

Just look at this season, the prostitutes on the Qinhuai River can still take out fruits that are not in season to entertain guests. Snacks of three or five taels of silver at every turn, five or seven taels of silver wrapped around the head, and squandering dozens of taels overnight can be regarded as thrifty. Who would have thought that the people of this place would hover between freezing and starvation.

"In previous years, during the famine season, there were large households who came out to give porridge, and they could barely survive some of the population and avoid civil unrest. I'm here this year, as long as they say a word: the crown prince has taken all the money and rice...... Those guarding in front of Zhengyang Gate are not 100,000 scholars, but millions of hungry people. Zhu Cihong said bitterly: "And they have done this kind of thing three or five times, so they are familiar with it." ”

"No wonder His Highness has to deal with them in his busy schedule." Xiao Mo said.

Zhu Cihong smiled: I saw Zhu Guobi because he spent 30,000 taels of silver, and he was not familiar with Nanjing Xunqi, so there must be a breakthrough point. As for Ruan Dacheng, he was invited to the Qing guest, purely for fun, and it was not a loss to get him an extra 5,000 taels. Ma Shiying was deliberately arranged by Zhu Cihong for an interview, and the results were not bad, but they were slightly subversive.

"In your opinion, what's next?" Zhu Cihong asked.

Xiao Mo was a little caught off guard and said, "The last general will not be able to communicate with civil affairs." ”

"Let's talk, there's still a water trip anyway."

"His Royal Highness laid down Ying Tianfu and settled a military fort in Nanzhi, where people and horses could be placed with grain and grass. The next step, naturally, is to attack the place...... Is it to remediate Zhejiang? Xiao Mo said reluctantly.

"There are similarities between governance and war, but what I seek in war is to annihilate the enemy and have vitality, in other words, to kill and maim people." Zhu Cihong said: "The governance is different. The purpose of killing is not to kill, if it is all about killing all the way, how will future generations say about me? said that during the Chongzhen period, how was Jiangnan prosperous, the crown prince was full of people, and it was no longer prosperous? Say how many famous calligraphers and painters I have killed, and how much of a crime I have committed against Chinese civilization? ”

"Posterity will not be ......"

"The stance of future generations on the problem is different from ours now." Zhu Cihong sighed and said, "What's more, I heard Mr. Li talk about gardens today, and I was also thinking: What is my Huaxia?" Thinking about it, there is only a hazy shadow. But what is certain is that the fine house is beautiful, poetry and songs, and opera and painting...... All these are part of China. In addition to saving the lives of the people, aren't we also protecting these tangible and intangible Chinese elites? ”

"The last general didn't think about it, but it was really interesting to hear His Highness say this. We must not take what the traitors did not destroy, and at the end destroy it in our own hands. Xiao Mo said.

Zhu Cihong took a long breath of the Qinhuai evening breeze in the night, and a thick aroma of rouge lingered. Adhering to the principle of not fighting a war with no certainty, Zhu Cihong is not worried about dividing Jiangnan, and believes that he will soon be able to make the Jiangnan Shilin collective, which is currently in turmoil, lose its voice.

The key is how much you can eat this piece of bread in Jiangnan.

The rest, to whom to share.

It's like recruiting partners, and presumably no one wants to be in a relationship with someone who is "stupid" or "insatiable". The screening work that Zhu Cihong is doing at the moment is to eliminate these three kinds of people - in addition to stupid and insatiable people, there is also a kind of stupid and insatiable people.

As the days passed, the "inspired" Qingliu took up the resignation, and without exception they were retained - if they were allowed to return to their hometowns, they would undoubtedly lose control over these people and give them a more influential environment.

However, the names of these people were recorded one by one by those who were interested in secretly inquiring about their relationship networks and the distribution of family property.

Zhu Cihong is like a chef who always monitors the fire, waiting for his ingredients to change every day. It seemed that there was nothing to do, but in fact, he couldn't walk half a step, and even his wife's pregnancy and his sister's marriage failed to let him return to Beijing.

At the same time, Shen Tingyang led a part of the Shandong Naval Division south and returned to Chongming Island. The ship was accompanied by the third group of law and accounting students, the oldest of whom was no more than twenty-two and the youngest of whom was only fourteen. After more than ten days of sailing, their faces were haggard, but they could see excitement and excitement in their eyes.

This thousand-strong force will soon be thrown into the treacherous political struggle.

In addition to manpower, the fleet brought with it luxury goods made in Shandong: flat glass and four-wheeled carriages, as well as the first steam pumping machine that could be put into practical use.

Shen Tingyang personally escorted the steam pump to Nanjing to meet Zhu Cihong, while the fleet was replenished in Chongming, and then took the officials who were "appointed" by Jiangnan to Ryukyu and embarked on the vast sea journey. They would dock again at Zhoushan, wait for the monsoon with the commissioners brought from Peking, and then sail across 1,600 miles to Ryukyu.

Although this route is a familiar road, it also has a record of capsizing many times. Because of the poor shipbuilding skills, the Ryukyu Kingdom also requested to relocate the 36 surnames of Fujian during the Taizu period to build a sea ship that could safely sail to the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued......)

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