Since the founding of Hongwu, the Ming Empire, which was so poor that it has gone through a series of vicious battles, such as the Battle of Jingjing, such as the border pass of Annan for more than ten years, Zhu Di also conquered Mongolia six times, and the people were miserable.

Zhu Gaochi's three brothers competed for the crown prince, the Han King rebelled, one by one, you sang and I appeared, and I followed you as soon as you perished, and the Ming Empire has been in constant civil strife.

In October of the first year of Xuande, Zhu Zhanji announced: The King of Han was rebellious, and the whole family was beheaded, and no one was left. There is a folk saying: The king of Han was so miserable that he was burned to death with a copper jar, and his whole family was killed. However, there is also folk gossip that says: In fact, King Han did not die, but was disfigured, and his family was also sent to the people, and his whereabouts have not been known since then.

However, what made the people sigh was. They became more and more enriched in the treasury, and the Ming Empire began a new era and moved towards the peak of the Ming Dynasty.

During the reign of Zhu Zhanji and his son, it was also known as the rule of Renxuan.

Declare.

In a small mountain village in Jinan, Shandong Province, at night, an old man sits under a tree to enjoy the shade, and next to him, there is a small table with a few side dishes and a pot of home-brewed rice wine.

In the house, candles were lit, the daughter-in-law was cleaning up the dinner table, and the son went out fishing. Two grandchildren, next to him, listened to him tell stories.

"Grandpa, was Shandong very poor before?" The child on the left asked curiously.

"yes, very poor." The old man took a sip of wine, drank it in a hurry, and choked on a few sips.

The old woman inside was dissatisfied and shouted, "Drink less wine, the evil ghost will be reincarnated, and I will drink you to death."

The old man didn't care, smashed it, smashed it, and enjoyed it very much.

"Grandpa, keep the story." The child on the right is in a hurry.

"Second baby, don't worry, come, feed grandpa two fennel beans."

In order to listen to the story, the second baby obediently sent the fennel beans to his grandfather's mouth.

"It's still a good second baby—"

"Grandpa, I want to hear a story." The big baby shakes his grandfather's thigh, and the little ones love to listen to stories.

"Okay, okay, you listen to it - it's still the first year of Jianwen, well, the imperial court cut the domain, Yongle Ye was forced to be in a hurry, so he turned against Jianwen, the battlefield, just in our Shandong, at that time, the war was in chaos, and the people were struggling to make a living-"

"Later, just a little later, there was another Han king, who eats people without spitting out bones, and the taxes are heavy, and many of your grandfather and my brothers and relatives are starving to death, and we are hungry, and we eat the bark, and the bark is eaten up, and we eat the Guanyin soil, that thing, and I feel full when I eat it, but it will hurt soon, and it hurts, and the people will be gone-"

"Everyone can't do it, so they believe in the White Lotus Sect, and the result is still cannibalism—"

"Every year there is a drought, and the hungry people are everywhere, and the court not only doesn't care, but also kills and buries them—"

"Ahh

"Don't be afraid." The old man comforted, "Later, a messenger came, known as the prime minister of Buyi, who rectified Shandong, killed many officials, and the imperial court exempted taxes for a few years, and our life gradually improved."

"Prime Minister Buyi is such a good man—" The child couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, if it weren't for him, your grandfather and I would have starved to death, how can we have our current life, you see, the house can afford to light candles. After paying the tax, we still have a balance, and we can still have rice and wine, which we didn't dare to think of before."

"Grandpa, in the future, I will also study hard and be a person as great as the Prime Minister of Buyi." The second baby said.

"Ouch, good, good, second baby." The old man was rejoicing.

"Hmm, grandpa, what about the bad guy Han Wang?" The big baby suddenly asked.

The old man was stunned: "King Han, I don't know, I heard that all of them were killed by His Majesty."

"Oh." The big baby sighed, the bad guy died, they felt happy, and pestered the grandfather to continue telling the story.

The old man has a lot to say today, and he is very eloquent.

It's not so much a story as a sad past he experienced.

Xuan, Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji ordered Zheng He to go to the West and other countries such as Hulumus on official business, accompanied by eunuchs Wang Jinghong, Li Xing, Zhu Liang, Yang Zhen, right Shaobao Hongbao and others, this is Zheng He's seventh trip to the West, there are more than 27,000 people in the official school, flag army, fire chief, helmsman, class leader, general, office, bookmaker, doctor, iron anchor and other craftsmen, sailors, people, etc.

This time to the West, Zheng He, a generation of navigators, made great contributions to the development of the Ming Dynasty, and completed the pioneer of historical feats, died on the voyage. After that, Wang Jinghong, his deputy, led the fleet and continued to complete the voyage.

The years of the rivers and lakes urge people to grow old, the willow trees on the banks of the Qinhuai River do not know how many times they are green, the peach blossoms in the Jiming Temple do not know how many times, and another spring day has arrived.

In the spring of this year, the imperial examination was to be carried out again, and many literati poured into Nanjing, on the Qinhuai River, chanting poems, appreciating songs, drinking, watching dances, singing echoed in the air, and dancing sleeves fluttered on the water.

But in another place, in what was once a royal estate. A man and two women planted rice there.

The man rolls up his sleeves, is very fast and skillful, and at first glance he works a lot, and he looks unremarkable.

There are two women, who are very beautiful, a little more beautiful than the young lady of the official family. It was Weininghou Chen Yuan and Chunhua Qiuyue.

For a time, the Hou Mansion was full of children's playing and babies crying.

Chunhua is a farmer, and the rice planting is not weaker than Chen Yuan, but it is Qiuyue, the official family is big, rarely does rough work, and does not plant a plant for half a day, and is covered with mud.

"Young master, why do you have to come to Nanjing to farm?" Qiu Yue was puzzled.

Hou Ye didn't stop the movements in his hand, and sighed: "Alas, I don't want to either, but Shandong has been in war for many years, and the fields and climate there are not good, and now if you want to improve the rice variety, you can only choose this place."

Qiu Yue sighed.

"Young Master, why don't you ask someone to do it?"

Hou Ye patiently explained: "This hybrid rice, you can only get it yourself, practice to get the truth, others operate, just like talking on paper, how do I know how the soil is, what the climate is, what the variety is, and what the mixing ratio is." You have to do it yourself, you can't learn from some bricks, talk about it, sit in the office, drink tea, imagine it out of thin air, make a car behind closed doors, and come up with a lot of ridiculous suggestions and theories."

The two concubines didn't understand what the brick family was, but they didn't feel like a good word. It's no wonder that the third lady has been helping Xianggong write and paint in the past few years, and she has written a bunch of manuscripts.

"The second lady went to Jingzhou and came back soon." Hou Ye asked.

Qiu Yue snorted, "Xianggong, you still know that the second lady is coming back."

"Hehe, my own wife, why don't you want to." Hou Ye looked a little embarrassed.

While planting seedlings, Chunhua muttered in a low voice, "Qiuyue, have you heard? Yesterday in the city, there was a man with a heart who was looking for a woman outside, and the lady of the house cut off the bottom."

"Ah, really, his wife is really good at it." Autumn Moon Road.

"Of course, this kind of flowery man is the most hateful, Qiu Yue, if it were you, would you be able to do it."

"Yes."

Hou Ye suddenly felt that his back was cold, and when he saw them looking at him, he pointed to the sky: "I don't share the sky with the flowery man, and I swear to kill the world's negative men!"

"Really?" Chun glanced at him, and said quietly, "I heard that in Linchun Building, there are a pair of sisters, Xianggong often visits, Xianggong, how about the pair of sisters, is it that you are very lingering."

"Nonsense, nothing, nothing! I go there just to talk to my friends and talk about life." Hou Ye is serious. I couldn't help but feel a pang in my heart, alas, these two sisters are really open, you can play as much as you want, tsk, you can't think about it, you can't think about it, it's all Zhong Xiao's mother, you can do it alone, why did you let Xiao Fengxian climb into our bed.

went to the Qinglou to talk about life, ghost letter, Chunhua said softly: "Xianggong, Chaoyang, I heard that there is a jade girl, Xianggong, do you know it?"

Hou Ye's heart jumped, and he shook his head resolutely: "I don't know." But I complained in my heart, Queen Mother, why do you want to send someone to spy on me, I am still a woman.

"Oh, there seems to be a prairie princess in that Fangshan, don't you know each other-"

Qiu Yue intercepted: "Sister, you forgot, she was picked up by her father-in-law, how could she not know, I heard that she was pregnant with the moon recently."

"Ahem, spring flowers, autumn moon, let's plant rice today, say what to do, work, work."

Chunhua didn't give up: "Hehe, Xianggong, that day, a girl told me that in order to repay you for saving her family's life, you are willing to serve Xianggong as a slave and a maid. Tsk, that figure, that appearance, is really stunning in the world, I'm afraid only the third lady can compare with one of them."

Hou Ye was impulsive in his heart, and his heart was manic, but he said on the surface: "Alas, Chunhua, you also know, Hou Ye, I am too great, I look like Sai Pan'an, handsome and chic, and romantic, although I am very low-key, there are many women who like me, cough, what kind of eyes are you looking at?"

The two concubines naturally scoffed at his self-confidence.

"Xianggong, are you so confident, aren't you afraid of thunder?"

"Why, I'm telling the truth, uh-"

"Boom—" A sudden dry thunder appeared in the sky.

Hou Ye shrunk his neck and snorted, "Tsk, people are handsome, God won't agree to tell me the truth."

These words were naturally ignored by the two beauties.

Hou Ye put on a sincere smile: "Ahem, I don't have any thoughts about her, really, you have to believe me, I really haven't slept with her, alas, I didn't take the initiative, I just wanted to influence her, I didn't think about her, alas, cough, shh, Chunhua, your second lady shouldn't know about this."

"I don't know about this, Xianggong, there are some things, you can go to the second lady to explain it yourself."

Explain a fart, that big vinegar jar, I've been looking for scissors recently, I'd better find a place to wander around first, wait and see.

"Hehe, Xianggong, there is also a woman who said that you bullied her, and she didn't go to Annan to find her, she wanted to settle accounts with you."

"Where is she? Ah, quick, Qiuyue, find a few more ropes and tie her up for me."

"Xianggong, what are you anxious about?"

"Qiuyue, I can't explain it clearly, she snatched something from Xianggong, Xianggong has been looking for several years and hasn't found it, I'm in a hurry, good Chunhua, tell me, where is she?"

"Master Hou, it turns out that you are here, so that our family can find it."

Suddenly, a eunuch appeared on the ridge and interrupted their speech.

Judging from his dress, his status in the palace is very high, and he is the celebrity next to Zhu Zhanji, Wang Zhen.

Now in the palace, the eunuch Wang Jinghong has come out, it is he Wang Zhen, who is already in charge of half of the palace's internal affairs, who dares not to give him some face.

So he started to get a little aggressive.

Now in the palace, Yang Shiqi, Xia Yuanji and others have retired. Yang Shiqi's students Chen Wen, Li Xian, and Xu Youzhen showed their prominence, this Xu Youzhen, whose first name was Xu Hui, the word Yuanyu, the number Tianquan, and the people of Wu County, Nanzhili, all three of them were dissatisfied with Wang Zhen, thinking that he was a scholar and a eunuch, and he was insulted by scholars, so they were impeached one after another.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji didn't care about these at all.

They are too young to shake Wang Zhen, and they are still hated and suppressed by Wang Zhen.

"Princess, long time no see." Chen Yuan said with a smile.

Wang Zhen lowered his eyebrows and pleased: "Master Hou, I haven't seen you, our family misses Master Hou very much."

"Look at the situation of my father-in-law, but now it is developed."

"Where is Wang Zhen today, thanks to the grace of the Hou Ye back then."

"My father-in-law is humble, all achievements are the result of my father-in-law's efforts, I don't know what is important for my father-in-law to come?"

"Master Hou, our family is here to preach the holy decree."

Ah, Chen Yuan was taken aback, looked at the seedlings in his hands, his hands were full of mud, and sneered, "Father-in-law, let me go back and prepare."

"Don't bother Master Hou, the third lady has already received the holy decree just now."

"Ah, I'm ashamed to have neglected the prince."

"Hou Ye doesn't have to be polite, our family is here to meet Hou Ye, and in the future, the court will have to rely on Hou Ye more." Wang Zhen bowed ninety degrees to Chen Yuan and raised his eyebrows.

Relying on me, I have been planting fields for a few years and have not entered Beijing, relying on my fart.

Wang Zhen smiled slightly, arched his hand, and said softly, "Our family is waiting for the prince in the capital." And then he took the people and left.

Chen Yuan was very curious, and when he finished planting the seedlings, he couldn't wait to return home.

When I opened the decree, I was stunned!

Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: I am the Marquis of Weining, Tianhui is smart, and he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats. He worked tirelessly to benefit the people and the common people, so he still did not forget the major events at night, and I was very relieved. With the discussion of the six pavilions, he was specially crowned as the protector of the country, and the household. Lead the young master of the prince, teach the prince Qi Zhen and the servant king Qi Yu, admire this!

Xuande ten years, a generation of Shoucheng Emperor Zhu Zhanji, due to the addiction to the room in the arts, sealed two queens, more than ten concubines, and dozens of talented people, pampered countless palace maids, hollowed out the body, and finally died, at the age Chinese New Year's Eve of six, the temple name Xuanzong, the name Xiantian Chongdao Wise Divine Qinwen Zhaowu Kuanren Chun Xiaozhang Emperor, buried in Jingling.

Zhu Zhanji's life is full of real criticism, he allows literature and martial arts, poetry, song and painting have attainments, Zhu Zhanji has about 2,000 poems handed down, representative works are: "Locust Catching Poems", "Yilan Cao", "Guanzhen", "Min Drought Poems", paintings such as "Wuhou Gao Lying Map", "Sanyang Kaitai Picture", "Melon Mouse Picture".

In addition to the throne, he quickly quelled the rebellion of the king of Han, and then implemented reforms, from the time of his accession to the throne, the treasury owed 10 million taels of debt, to the time of his death, and in ten years, there were 80 million taels of silver in the treasury.

It can be said that Zhu Zhanji is better than his grandfather and father, and he is a proper Mingjun. However, Zhu Zhanji likes to play, and many times there is no degree, and the ministers admonish, but he does not blame or correct it. still has self-fun, especially indulging in women, which leads to later illness and untimely death.

Before Xuanzong's death, he entrusted Chen Yuan, the protector of the country, to seal the right pillar country, and did not tend to enter the court, and praised and worshipped.

Chen Yuan finally survived the peak of his life, and Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne for Ming Yingzong.

Chen Yuan grasped the power of the Ming Empire and continued to promote reforms, and the Ming Dynasty flourished and stood proudly on top of the world.

(End of book)

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