In the middle of the night.

The drunken Zhu Youzhen and the queen Zhou returned to the Qianqing Palace.

Zhou Hou bathed in the Tishun Hall, while Zhu Youzhen was halfway in the warm pavilion outside the hall, shouting for water to drink.

At this time, Chen Yuanyuan did not show up to bring him a glass of water.

Zhu Youzhen had to get up by himself, and he was about to stumble in with a strong sense of alcohol, but suddenly saw a woman with the same phoenix crown and a veil appear in front of him.

Zhu Youzhen thought that this person was the queen Zhou, so he couldn't help but pounce and hugged this person: "The banquet is over, why don't you wear this tiring Laoshizi again, it's not too troublesome." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen was about to unbutton her personally, and she was about to get carried away when her breathing became heavier.

Unexpectedly, the woman hurriedly took a step back: "Please respect yourself, this palace is your imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan!" ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his drowsy head, looked up again suddenly, and sure enough, the beauty in front of him was not Zhou, so he had to smile awkwardly: "It turned out to be the imperial sister-in-law, Zhu Youzhen was polite, I didn't expect the imperial sister-in-law to be still young for so many years, it is difficult to hide the glory of the past, and I moved here with my south, and my brother has no time to visit, it is really disrespectful, please forgive the imperial sister-in-law." ”

"I am already a surviving person, what can I see and not see", Zhang Yan, the queen of Yi'an, handed Zhu Youzhen a glass of water: "Drink." ”

"Thank you to the imperial sister-in-law", Zhu Youzhen drank it all, only to feel that the wine was slightly reduced, but the whole body was still like a fire, looking at Zhang Yan with hooked eyes, pursed his lips and said: "The imperial sister-in-law doesn't have to say this, if it wasn't for the imperial sister-in-law's help, this country would not have reached the hands of the courtiers." ”

"This is also your brotherly affection, I introduce the women and children in the palace, how can I have that ability, the first emperor ascended the throne at a young age, used the eunuch party to control Donglin, refused to build slaves in the north, and levied commercial taxes internally, the country can still be maintained, but after the royal brother ascended the throne, it was abnormal, and it was very easy to be suspicious, and he didn't take the advice of the first emperor in his heart at all, first misheard Yuan Chonghuan's wild words, sat back and watched Mao Wenlong be killed, and then reused Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, and Wei Zaode's generation, so that the northern capital fell, and the Ming Dynasty was almost buried in the hands of the imperial brother, and the palace is sorry for the first emperor!"

Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan wiped her tears as she spoke, and laughed again: "Fortunately, Your Majesty has now woken up to the realm of the emperor's art, and I have quietly seen today's banquet, in the past, the first emperor was said to be a carpenter emperor, and he was sluggish, but who knew that the first emperor also worked tirelessly to clean up people's hearts like the royal brother, so that after only seven years in power, he left me and ascended to heaven!" ”

Empress Yi'an couldn't help but whimper and cry as she spoke.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't see the beauty crying sadly, not to mention that she was still her current imperial sister-in-law, and her little face without fat powder looked more and more pitiful under the heavy phoenix crown.

"Don't be sad about the imperial sister-in-law, it is the younger brother who has the great trust of the imperial brother, so that the Ming Dynasty has fallen to the point where it is today, but please rest assured that the imperial sister-in-law, he will regroup, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, unify my great tomorrow, and not make the imperial brother's mausoleum perennial occupied by foreign races, if he waits for the imperial sister-in-law for a hundred years, it will also be good to merge in the imperial brother's mausoleum."

Zhu Youzhen impulsively gave Empress Yi'an a hug, touched her face that had not seen aging, and said.

Empress Yi'an pushed Zhu Youzhen away in a panic, and Empress Yi'an, who hadn't let anyone touch her for eighteen years, felt her heart pounding, but she still pretended to be calm and smiled: "It's a good thing that the royal brother has such determination, and it is inconvenient for the surviving people to stay in the front hall for a long time, so they will retire first." ”

"Congratulations to the imperial sister-in-law!"

Zhu Youzhen looked at the weak but pretending to be strong appearance of the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan, and couldn't help but want to comfort her, but when he thought of the special relationship between them, not to mention that this is the Ming Dynasty, which is not more open than the future generations, and his previous actions were a little Meng Lang, and he couldn't do anything else.

Queen Zhou returned from bathing, looked at Zhu Youzhen with a smile, a thin shirt wrapped around her curvaceous figure, walked on the carpet as warm as spring, and gently snuggled in Zhu Youzhen's arms: "Let Your Majesty wait for a long time." ”

The spring breeze in one night is in the jade gate, and the hundred-year-old mandarin ducks are heartfelt.

In the past ten days before the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Youzhen can still be greedy for a while, and mingle with the concubines in the harem.

However, in fact, from the seventh day of the first lunar month, Zhu Youzhen's imperial life began to switch to the usual busy mode again.

From this day on, the officers and men of the Guards returned to the Huai'an Lecture Hall for intensive training, and Zhu Youzhen directly ordered the Generalissimo to extend the daily training time by half an hour, and stop taking leave before the 10th day of the first month of February, that is, the officers and men of the Guards should directly train for a month in the future.

Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to intensify his training and speed up the process, and now that he was thinking about it, it meant that the war was getting closer and closer.

Although Zuo Liangyu is not to be afraid, Zhu Youzhen does not know whether history will change because of his own appearance, he only knows that he can despise Zuo Liangyu strategically, but he must pay attention to tactics to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

On this day, Wang Chengen came to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Majesty, the source of the spread of Zuo Liangyu's desire to suppress the territory of the army has been found out, it is from the mouth of Liang Yungou, the right imperial historian, this person is the same year as the old Gao Hongtu, Li Banghua, Zhang Shenyan, etc., and Qi Biaojia, the right attendant of the household department, is a close friend, once served as the prefect of Quzhou, Lianghuai Yandao, Chongzhen was transferred to the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate in the fifteenth year because he was impeached by the official. ”

Zhu You couldn't help but smile coldly after hearing this, and then asked, "Have you chosen the person you want to assassinate?" ”

"I have chosen, it is this Liang Yungou, in the eyes of the slave maid, it doesn't matter which pavilion elder it is, sooner or later, the dog will jump off the wall sooner or later, His Majesty's will is to deter, and since this Liang Yungou is the first to jump out, you might as well use him to make an example of the monkey, so as to save yourself waiting until after the Lantern Festival."

As soon as Wang Chengen said this, Zhu Youzhen nodded and said: "Do it quickly, let his friends of the same year know the news, the means, it is best to be cruel, the kind that can scare people, since you have decided to start beating grass, you will scare the snakes." ”

"Slave understands!"

Wang Chengen walked out of the Qianqing Palace as he spoke, looking at the azure sky, and a trace of killing intent couldn't help but appear on his solemn face.

Even Chen Yuanyuan didn't dare to get close to His Majesty's close minister, avoided it from a distance, and waited for Wang Chengen to leave before coming in: "Your Majesty, today is the birthday of the noble concubine." ”

Here, Zhang Shenyan also disguised himself as a merchant and sat on a flower boat on the Qinhuai River and said to Liang Yungou, the right-hand servant dressed as a boatman: "The minions of Dongchang are only afraid that they have been eyeing you, you are still recuperating at home these days, don't go out easily, or leave here and go back to your hometown, and wait until after February, after the prince ascends the throne, you come out again, I will guarantee you to be a second-grade department." ”

"Everything is subject to the arrangement of the elder Ge, I will go home to clean up, and go back to my hometown first."

Liang Yungou said and shook the boat and sailed away from Zhang Shenyan's flower boat.