Chapter 208: Shaofu

The winter of the big man is not too cold.

At this moment, on the dock, the sea breeze is blowing gently, and countless people are waiting on the pier, I don't know who said that it came, and then in the distance, I saw rows of hard sails rushing out of the sea. After a while, countless ships revealed themselves at sea level.

This is the main force of the Yongguo Navy Division led by Zhu Houhuang.

In particular, more than a dozen five-masted ships are extremely tall.

Not long after, Zhu Houhuang came. He got off the boat, and when he saw that Wu was also waiting in the crowd, he knelt on the ground and said, "The unfilial son is tired and my mother is worried." ”

Do as the Romans do. Zhu Houhuang: We have been in the industry for many years, and we have gradually become accustomed to the environment of kneeling at every turn.

Wu hurriedly helped Zhu Houhuang up, looked at Zhu Houhuang, and said with relief: "My son has grown up." ”

Although Zhu Houhuang is young, a year of tempering has gradually precipitated his temperament. If you don't look closely, you can't even see that he is not yet twenty years old.

After Zhu Houhuang and the Wu family greeted each other, the officials who followed behind the Wu family, headed by Lu Wan, saluted Zhu Houhuang and said, "Meet His Royal Highness King Yong." ”

Zhu Houhuang knelt down in front of him, and Zhu Houhuang waved his hand and said, "No courtesy." ”

The pace of life in the Ming Dynasty has always been very slow, even if Zhu Houhuang wants to be fast, he can't be fast. Especially the project presided over by Lu Wan, it can't make people be on the construction site during the New Year.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang is a workaholic, the holidays he gives to hundreds of officials, during the Chinese New Year, only give five days off, from the first to the fifth day of the new year. But by this time in Zhengde, the five-day vacation had evolved into a twenty-day holiday, from the first to the twentieth day of the new year. It can be seen that seeking one's own welfare has been a common practice from ancient times to the present.

Zhu Houhuang felt that the holiday was a bit too long to put on the twentieth day of the first month. Simply take the 23rd day of the lunar month as a holiday, until the 16th day of the first month, after the Lantern Festival, it is the opening of the government.

Looking back on this year, Zhu Houhuang couldn't say that it was almost the same all year round, except for a few days when he was sick.

At this moment, all of a sudden, the hundred officials were on vacation, and Zhu Houhuang didn't even have anyone to talk to about work. simply found Shaofu's account book. Grind finely.

Although there is a Shaofu Cheng, no, there are already two Shaofu Cheng, but the real person in charge is the Empress Dowager Wu, but the Empress Dowager Wu has been tired of doing chores since her daughter-in-law entered the door. The real power of Shaofu fell into the hands of Xu Lan, Queen Yong.

Although Xu Lan has been a businessman, she has been exposed to things since she was a child, and she is in charge of Shaofu, coupled with the assistance of his eldest brother Xu Song, although Shaofu's income has not increased significantly, but compared with Zhu Houhuang's beginning, the profit has risen a little.

But there are pros and cons.

Maybe Xu Lan was born as a businessman and is more interested in money, so he is a little bit concerned about spending money, and pays less attention to those places that are not profitable and only invest.

For example, shipyards, cement factories, iron mines, artillery factories, and so on. Although Xu Lan knew that it was important, it was inevitable that she didn't care enough.

Zhu Houhuang frowned when he looked at it, and said, "Go and call the queen over." ”

Someone immediately called Xu Lan over.

The sound of clanging collision came, but it was Xu Lan who had already arrived, Zhu Houhuang looked up, and couldn't help but light up in front of him. What a beauty,

But I saw Xu Lan wearing a goose-yellow skirt and two or three simple jewelry on her head, so she naturally had a lonely and fresh charm. She asked, "Your Highness, is there anything wrong?" ”

Zhu Houhuang woke up like a dream and said: "Oh, there is something wrong with Shaofu, the Nanyang route has made a lot more money than before, this is the queen's credit, but the shipyard, cement factory and other places are the important of the militaristic state, and the queen can't be neglected." ”

As soon as Zhu Houhuang said it, it seemed that he couldn't stop saying that a lot of words about the importance of shipyards and cement factories were spoken. The more I talked, the more excited I became.

Listening to Xu Lan's ears, it seemed to be a reprimand.

Zhu Houhuang was talking, when he suddenly heard the sound of crying, turned his head to look, but saw that in Xu Lan's eyes, there were crystal clear tears flowing down drop by drop.

Zhu Houhuang couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and said, "Why are you crying?" ”

"Your Highness, you think I didn't do a good job, just spare me this errand, and I didn't come to your house to be a bookkeeper." Xu Lan sobbed slightly and said, "Don't talk about me like that." ”

Zhu Houhuang softened for a while, and said: "Okay, good, it's mine, it's me, it's me." ”

Xu Lan didn't cry, but as soon as she started crying, she couldn't stop it, and said: "Your Highness, I haven't been at home for a few days a month, and I don't spend the night at home, and my mother is urging her to give birth to a son every day, how can a concubine give birth to a son alone?" Every time the queen mother reprimanded, she thought that I couldn't be a wife, and Her Highness was so tired of me today, why didn't you stop me. Dongyong doesn't know how many women want to marry His Highness, why didn't His Highness let me be idle. ”

Zhu Houhuang didn't know what to do for a while, he couldn't see the woman crying, and he didn't know how to coax, and said, "Good queen, it's mine, it's mine." ”

Zhu Houhuang is not Yanagi Hui who does not touch women, but thinks that Xu Lan is a little small. specially kept a distance from Xu Lan.

Thanks to the late education of later generations, Zhu Houhuang felt a great sense of guilt when he overthrew Xu Lan.

Xu Lan Chu looked up at the little face of the pear blossom with rain and asked, "Does Your Highness look down on me like this?" ”

Seeing Xu Lan's appearance of being picked by Jun, Zhu Houhuang felt that the thread in his heart suddenly collapsed. I couldn't help it anymore and grabbed Xu Lan's hand and held Xu Lan in my arms. Kissed him hard.

Although Zhu Houhuang has never tasted a woman in this life, he was not a virgin in his previous life. Immediately I started to do something that I was not allowed to write at the beginning.

The doors and windows outside the study were closed one by one by the interested maids.

After a long storm.

Zhu Houhuang hugged Xu Lan and said: "Lan'er, this Shaofu is an important tool for our children to rule the world in the future, you can't ignore it." ”

Xu Lan drew a circle on Zhu Houhuang's body with his finger and said, "Your Highness, I know it's wrong, I'll do a good job when I go back." ”

Zhu Houhuang didn't know what to say, but then he knew that turning his own woman into a subordinate, or turning his subordinate into his own woman, was really a work efficiency thing.

Zhu Houhuang had no choice but to tell Xu Lan in detail: "The ancestors restricted the power of the prime minister and let the monarch have the sole authority first, but looking at the imperial brother now, the cabinet does not have the name of the prime minister, but there is the fact of the prime minister." is also because the name is not right, the words are not good, but there are many drawbacks. Therefore, I think that from the beginning, I will leave an example for future generations, and between the monarch and the minister, draw a good line so that each other does not cross it, so the power of the foreign government belongs to the prime minister, and the same will be true in the future, without the consent of the prime minister, even the king cannot interfere in government affairs beyond the prime minister. But there are two other things, which must be grasped in the hands of future generations, one is the military heart. This is what I am doing, only the military heart is in my family, even if the prime minister is powerful, he does not dare to do anything wrong. The second is Shaofu. Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver. Zhu Houhuang's tone, with sarcasm, said: "Now the officials are talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and their subordinates are male prostitutes and female thieves. If you don't have money in your hand, how can you summon people? Therefore, the foundation of Shaofu is an important basis for future generations. ”

Zhu Houhuang's meaning is very simple, although the future Yongguo is not necessarily a constitutional monarchy, but it must be a court with great power, because he wants people to do things, not to give power, and to be able to do a hanging thing, in order to maintain the influence of the king on the government, so there must be the support of the military and the Shaofu.

Xu Lan didn't understand Zhu Houhuang's words too much, but he also knew that this Shaofu was a very important thing. nodded and said, "I will definitely handle the affairs of Shaofu." ”

Zhu Houhuang was a little worried, Shaofu is not only an important source of Zhu Houhuang's finances, but also a place where Zhu Houhuang climbed the science and technology tree, he secretly said in his heart: "Forget it, after the New Year, I will personally inspect Shaofu to see how the situation is." ”

Zhu Houhuang and Xu Lan are here again.

Empress Dowager Wu had already gotten the news and said, "The prince and the queen have a round house?" She was overjoyed and said, "All over the house, send one more Boxing gift." ”