After listening to Zhu Youzhen's affectionate words, Queen Zhou was a little happy in her heart, and smiled slightly.

She felt in a trance that she hadn't heard such kind and kind words from the mouth of Emperor Zhu Youzhen for a long time.

Zhu Youzhen also smiled slightly, he stroked the silky and white hands of the Queen Zhou, he didn't know what he was about the Queen Zhou at this time.

Is it a monarch? Or a husband, or a friend who is dependent on each other, or a younger brother who is of a younger mental age?

Frankly speaking, Zhu Youzhen was not a mature woman in his previous life, and of course he was not a Loli controller, he always had a dullness that was close to low emotional intelligence for the relationship between men and women.

But he knew that he was now the emperor and the closest person to the Empress Zhou, so he boldly stroked Zhou's hand and looked at her boldly.

However, in the eyes of Queen Zhou, Zhu Youzhen is the only person she needs to remember in this world.

Rao is that she has been a queen for so many years, and she still misses the innocent relationship with Zhu Youzhen when she was a teenager.

Therefore, at this moment, at this moment when both of them were relaxed, Queen Zhou suddenly put down her former dignity, like a little woman, and when there was no one around, she put her lotus root arm on Zhu Youzhen's shoulder: "Kiss me!" ”

Zhu Youzhen seemed to be given by a spell, he couldn't believe that this was what Queen Zhou said, he looked at her bright eyes, slightly pursed red lips, and a pretty smile.

I don't know when he seems to feel like he is being captivated by a girl who is just beginning to fall in love.

Zhu Youzhen, who didn't speak, unconsciously wrapped his hand, and the Yishan crown projected on the Luo tent gradually moved closer to the phoenix crown, and the two hugged each other and rolled onto the brocade couch.

That night, Haoyue was ashamed all night, hiding in the clouds and refusing to come out.

The wind blew the red lanterns in the pepper room, as if an eighteen-year-old girl was singing a bright and light song.

Zhu Youzhen fulfilled his responsibilities as a husband and tried his best to make the queen more and more delicate.

Early morning.

The sun rises in the east mountain, the spring snow stops, the wind stops in Zhumen, and the husband and wife hug each other and wake up.

"Your Majesty, restore Hong'er's position as the crown prince."

This sentence was said by Queen Zhou to Zhu Youzhen here, and it seemed to be more like a wife's advice to her husband, but Zhu Youzhen had a feeling that he was suddenly pushed far away by Queen Zhou, and last night's intimacy suddenly disappeared without a trace:

"You're too tired, sleep more, don't wait, just let the people below come."

Then, Zhu Youzhen didn't say a word, and he didn't dare to look at Queen Zhou again, he was afraid that if she looked at her more, he would complain and agree to her.

And Queen Zhou only looked at Zhu Youzhen and didn't say a word, she wanted to say that because Zhu Cihong was not the prince, the hearts of the princes were also cold, and the court was more chaotic and complicated, but she didn't say it, until Zhu Youzhen walked out of Kunning Palace, she suddenly hugged the futon and beat the pillow: "So ruthless, you are really ruthless!" ”

The imperial chariot came to the Qianqing Palace, and Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but laugh as he watched the rising sun rise from the direction of Zhengyang Gate in the distance.

No matter what others think or think, at least he has now let Da Ming really get out of the crisis of being destroyed!

The Manchu Qing in the north had suffered a great loss of vitality, and the Dolgon party that united with the Han bureaucrats and gentry could no longer suppress the royalists represented by Zilharang, which meant that the internal struggle of the Manchus would also become fierce, and the Manchus would naturally no longer be able to go north, and the external crisis would no longer exist.

Internally, Zhu Youzhen already controls the most powerful army in the empire, and the central finances have improved significantly.

It can be said that even if he no longer has anything to do now, more than 100 years of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty is enough, and he can undoubtedly be the second Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen himself couldn't help but think again, if he didn't carry out any reforms, if he didn't move the land interests that the entire gentry clique was really afraid of, and no longer went on a northern expedition, would it be better if he would be in harmony with each other?

History may at best follow its current trajectory to the beginning of the twentieth century, and then be caught up by the natural sciences that rose after the Renaissance in the West, and the Ming Dynasty will certainly follow.

For himself, now he can be a Taiping Emperor, rule by inaction, return power to civil officials again, let them help him take care of the country, and then enjoy life, women, and wealth.

If he wanted to do this, he should have promised Empress Zhou just now, after all, letting Huiwang Zhu Cihong restore the crown prince would be equivalent to letting the imperial power begin to give way to the Confucian order adhered to by civil officials, and reducing the fighting between civil officials in the court would make the struggle in the court tend to be calm.

But Zhu Youzhen didn't know why he chose to be silent, and he didn't choose to agree to Queen Zhou, even though Queen Zhou had pleaded with him with the love of husband and wife and the temptation of his body.

"Maybe I'm not a person who is only willing to fall and sink, I am not only the master of this empire and civilization at this time, but also a part of him, since I have become the leader of this historical process, I have the obligation to use my best efforts to make him better, because I am not his occupant, and I have no idea of eating him up."

Zhu Youzhen explained for himself.

And although there is no way to predict the current situation two hundred years later, will there be a Temujin and Jin Mujin in the future like in the Southern Song Dynasty?

In any case, Zhu Youzhen felt that he could not let the Han people in the north continue to be slaves for the children of the Eight Banners for more than a hundred years, or maybe two hundred years, when he was alive.

Once he decided to continue to fight with the gentry and continue to push the existing unreasonable system of the empire into a new era faster, Zhu Youzhen found that his life as an emperor was no longer confused, and his world should not just look for more stunning concubines to release his dopamine.

What's more, Zhu Youzhen didn't want to disappoint some northern children who shed their blood for themselves, although he could live in Nanjing, but for many northern children, this was the beginning of their hopes, and they were looking forward to the Northern Expedition more than ever at this moment, looking forward to returning to their homeland.

No matter how good the southern country is, in their eyes, it is just empty prosperity, not as good as the northern homeland that they have not forgotten for a long time in their hearts.

But Zhu Youzhen knew that if he wanted to go on the Northern Expedition and let the Ming Dynasty go further, he would encounter greater resistance, and as the emperor, he still wanted to steal peace, not to mention the gentry and people in the south, and the unattainable future in the north was somewhat meaningless to them.

In order to resist the Qing army's southward march and defend their homeland, they can take out or even sacrifice their interests to unite around Zhu Youzhen, but if they want to pay their interests again to realize the ideal of the Northern Expedition and let the Ming Dynasty go further, I am afraid that most southerners will not agree, after all, human nature is selfish, not to mention that this is still an era without too strong national consciousness.

Moreover, the contradiction between the north and the south is already very great in this era.

The Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty was not successful not because of insufficient national strength, but also because of too much resistance.

(End of chapter)