Emperors are also human beings, and they also need to get married and have children. Not to mention His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire!

If there are no special circumstances, His Majesty the Emperor will generally marry a wife at the age of sixteen. Although most emperors would plague a group of court ladies before marrying a daughter-in-law. But the Ming Dynasty is a monogamous society, and His Majesty the Emperor must also set an example.

In Daming, getting married is considered an adult. Generally speaking, the family will be separated at this time, and the children who have become married will be separated. As far as the special work of the emperor is concerned, getting married is the beginning of pro-government.

From the day he was married, he was to take over the supreme power from the Auxiliary Minister and become the supreme leader of the empire.

Not one of them!

Now this question falls on Li Xiao's head, and it stands to reason that Zhu Yihai, who is 15 years old this year, is about to enter the process of selecting a daughter-in-law. Then find the master of Qin Tianjian and find an auspicious day for the zodiac next year to complete the major events in life.

Legally, from that day. Li Xiao and Sun Chengzong had to hand over the power in their hands and loyally assist His Majesty the Emperor, who was only sixteen years old.

Hand over the power in your hands?

Of course, Li Xiao would not make such a stupid bubbling decision!

Thinking about the aftermath of Mr. Zhang Juzheng, you will know that once the minister loses power, the end is worse than the soup chicken. His family was starved to death, and his son was killed alive. If it weren't for a few righteous fellow villagers, maybe Mr. Zhang, who had already been buried, would have been dragged out for repairs.

But what if you don't hand over the power in your hands? Kill the emperor and get a new one?

This trick is feasible, the three-legged toad in this world is not easy to find, and the person waiting in line to be the emperor can circle the earth several times per meter. It's best to find a little pot friend who is still breastfeeding, and if you want to be in power, you have to wait another sixteen years.

Given the huge population base of the Zhu family's descendants, it doesn't seem to be a problem to find such a person.

This idea is very tempting, and the only flaw is that ......, all the people of the Ming Dynasty are fools.

The emperor hung up as soon as he was about to take power, and fools knew that Li Xiao was the biggest suspect. Not even talking about the suspect, who is the murderer.

Although the Zhu dynasty has been stormy, it has ruled for more than two hundred years with strong inertial thinking. Whether it is Sijiu City or the people of the Ming Dynasty outside the remote Saiwai, the Zhu family is still the orthodox emperor in their minds.

If it weren't for the fact that the Zhu family was deeply rooted in the minds of the people, Li Xiao wouldn't have pulled a tablet called Zhu Yihai to poke it in the Forbidden City.

There is another layer of Li Xiao that has to be considered, after all, Zhu Yihai is Zhang's biological son. If you really kill ......, you really can't say it.

Li Xiu stayed here for a night and then took the train to Qinhuangdao, and Zheng gave birth to a big fat girl. The girl is her father's little lover in her previous life, and Li Xiu wants to see if his little lover is like a flower.

In the warm sunshine, the capital ushered in the golden autumn October.

October is almost the best season of the year in Beijing. It's neither hot nor cold, and it usually doesn't rain yet. People go out in groups to play, and the restaurant and tea shop are even more crowded.

In the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has stepped into an upward channel. The powerful army was invincible to attack the city and pull out the village, especially the news that Li Xiu sent troops to the South China Sea to calm down the capital and return to the capital, which greatly stimulated the people's national pride.

Since the Three Treasures eunuch Zheng He went to the West, it has been many years since the Ming Dynasty has not made any achievements in the ocean. Now that the border has been pushed out by tens of thousands of miles at once, it is simply a shot in the arm for the people of Daming.

Now even if it is a flower child who asks for food, when he sees those Hu merchants with thousands of dollars, he will pass by with contempt. The money given by the Hu merchants will be thrown out by the beggars. You can accept the relief of the Ming people, but you can't accept the relief of the Hu people.

Those Hu people in the Xidan market have become more and more humble, and they are cautious when they walk, for fear of bumping into the uncle and getting into a senseless lawsuit. Today's Ming Dynasty is no longer the time for the Tartars to wreak havoc outside the fortress.

As long as there is a dispute between the Ming people and the beard, the government doesn't have to think about judging the Ming people to win. If the officials were biased in favor of the Hu people, the next day he would be buried alive with snowflakes. It is still light to lose office and resign, and countless people will block and abuse it at the door of the house. Until you are bored and look for a rope to hang on the southeast branch.

That's it, you are not allowed to enter the ancestral grave even if you die.

Pushed tens of thousands of miles before the crossing, this was a great victory for the Ming Empire. The Ministry of Rites wrote to Chen to invite His Majesty the Emperor to personally go to the Temple of Heaven to thank God for the smooth weather of the country and the peace of the people over the years. At the same time, pray that the Ming Empire will overcome obstacles and expand its territory in the coming years.

The emperor went to the Temple of Heaven to practice, and this kind of thing happened every year. Most of the time, the emperor who lived in the palace did not want to do such a stupid thing. It was too tiring to walk out of the Tianyi Gate and the front gate in full view of everyone, and then walk through the long streets to the Temple of Heaven.

What's more, there was an apocalypse explosion during the Apocalypse Year. His Majesty the Emperor's crown prince was actually scared to death in the prayer hall. After this incident, the emperor was even more reluctant to go to the Temple of Heaven, thinking that it was an unlucky thing.

Most of the time, the Rite Department Shoshu would do the work for His Majesty the Lazy Emperor. After Zhu Yihai ascended the throne, this workmanship fell to Sun Ruyou's head. Anyway, in the past few years, Sun Ruyou has come to the Temple of Heaven to worship heaven and earth.

This time it won't work, open up the territory for thousands of miles, and His Majesty the Emperor will have to come out and show his face no matter what he says.

Zhu Yihai agreed to Sun Ruyou's request with extreme reluctance. On the first day of October, I walked out of the Forbidden City to the Temple of Heaven to pray for the blessings of the Ming Empire.

The emperor wants to travel, which has not happened in the past few years. The people of the capital can be regarded as the masters who have eaten and seen, and the emperor has seen them since the Emperor Yongle. But this mysterious Emperor Longwu is still traveling for the first time, so this is a good meeting. went out to brag to others, Lao Tzu is also a person who has seen the emperor.

After the news spread, there were thousands of empty alleys in the capital. The roadside from the front gate to the Temple of Heaven was crowded with people, and the scene was much more lively than the temple fair.

For the emperor to travel, security must be strict. The night before, the men of the Five Cities Terracotta Division were standing guard in the streets, and no one was allowed to move around at will. The windows of the restaurants and tea shops along the way must all be closed. If you dare to poke your head out, there will be fierce soldiers who will come over and ask what you are going to do.

People with glass windows are considered to be blessed, and if you lie carefully inside the glass window, you can see the tense street below.

The servants of Shuntianfu were driven like donkeys. Conduct door-to-door checks to see if there are any suspicious people, etc. As long as you look at the suspicious guys, they are all brought back and interrogated strictly.

Of course, Li Xiao would not be stupid enough to accompany the emperor out to hang out, and Sun Chengzong was unwilling to move. The two of them made a black fish weighing more than seven catties, sat on the edge of the Chaobai River, and tasted the taste of boiled fish while basking in the sun.

Zhang Huangyan is a dog's nose, and he can smell the fragrance through the eightfold courtyard. came uninvited with chopsticks, and counted Li Xiao and Sun Chengzong if they had delicious food and didn't call him. I don't believe it when I kill Li Xiao!

The second assistant of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Huangyan, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, is his mother missing a mouthful of boiled fish?

"Sun Ruyou has made it big this time, and more than 10,000 people have been dispatched by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses. I heard that the queue began in front of the noon gate and went all the way to the Temple of Heaven. Now it can be regarded as peaceful in the world, as for making such a big noise. Our garrison in Tongzhou has been transferred to more than 1,000 to participate in security, marshal! Did you approve it? Zhang Huangyan sat on the pony and kept pulling black fish fillets from the pot with chopsticks.

"I'm afraid that the world is not peaceful yet, and the Donglin Party is still making trouble. Yang Sichang's chief guard has changed three, and he was either killed by a gun or killed by a bomb. Originally, there was Cao Wenzhao in Jinling, and they didn't dare to fight openly. Now it's okay, Cao Wenzhao's third division went to the northwest. Now there are only three garrison divisions in Jinling, and the strength is only half of that of Cao Wenzhao.

It can be said that the rich people in Jiangnan are ready to move. Li Xiao ate a chopsticks fish and took a mouthful of Wuliangye.

"Humph! The land that your ancestors had accumulated over hundreds of years was confiscated and then distributed among the tenants. Put it on you, can you be willing? Don't go to Jiangnan, you kid, now I'm afraid there are thousands of people who want to pick your skin and eat your meat.

Yang Sichang was assassinated four times in three years, you go to Jiangnan. Ten assassinations a year! Sun Chengzong craned his neck, afraid that the red oil would drip onto his meticulously combed beard.

"This is the accumulation of our Ming's shortcomings! The gentry did not pay the land tax, and the people were willing to sell the land to the gentry so as not to pay any more taxes. As a result, there was less and less land that the imperial court could collect taxes. Da Ming fought with the Tartars, and he could hardly get military salaries. The front line is retreating, but the gentry in Jiangnan are relying on welfare and extravagant pleasures.

The smoke cage is cold, the moon is long, and the sand is long, and the night is close to the restaurant in Qinhuai.

The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the backyard flowers across the river.

Do you think that if the Tartars really drank the Yangtze River, this kind of scene would not appear? Li Xiao took a sip of wine.

Sun Chengzong is old and can't eat a few chopsticks. Put down the bowl in his hand, take out the Great China and order one.

"Li Xiu went to the South China Sea, and the border was expanded thousands of miles away. With the help of tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, there was no war in the south. Now the imperial court has to pay attention to the only thing in the northwest.

As long as it takes three or two years, the Northwest Railway will be completed. We can crusade against the Mongols!

Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi and others began their expedition outside the Saiwai. The hands of our Han people have never really controlled the Western Regions. The old man is sixty-five this year, if in his lifetime, he can see my Han army reoccupy the Western Regions, and the old man will be able to look at it! Sun Chengzong took a puff of his cigarette and looked in the northwest direction with his eyes far away.

"The war in the northwest, there is no consumption and no output. Moreover, most of the land in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions is the Gobi Desert, which is not suitable for cultivation at all. If we really use troops in the northwest, we will consume our national strength empty, but we will not get any benefits. In the long run, the treasury will not be able to support it. We can't follow the old path of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and finally exhaust the national strength, and it is the people who suffer.

According to the old man's idea, it is to let the Ge Ri Tu, who is gradually recovering his strength, go to the top. Anyway, it's all a matter between them and the Mongols, let Ge Ritu and Batur Hun fight to the death. They were feuds, and Baturhun almost killed Geritu. As long as you give him some weapons, Ge Ritu will be more than willing to teach us a lesson for Batur Hui. Zhang Huangyan rarely expressed such objections, especially with Sun Chengzong.

"Drive the tiger and devour the wolf! Fattening the tiger, isn't it a big problem for us? For more than 270 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the northern Mongols have brought countless border troubles. My Han family Miao descendants were killed by the Mongols I don't know how many, this is why the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beijing, the Son of Heaven guarded the country, and the king died in Sheji.

No matter how much labor is wasted, as long as we can defeat the Mongols and make our borders peaceful, the money will be worth it. Sun Chengzong also did not give in.

Mr. Zhang is right, the unproductive grassland is indeed the heaviest burden on the country's finances. The northwest war, the first heavy money and food. Once the fight starts, the cannon will go off with ten thousand taels of gold. This money is really spent like flowing water. There is no income to fill it, and the little national strength that I have accumulated over the years is not enough to consume. Li Xiao participated, and apparently Sun Chengzong was very unhappy. Smoking a cigarette and glancing at Li Xiao!

"But the grasslands are not unproductive! For example, in recent years, textile mills in Liaodong have purchased large quantities of wool from the Mongols. This wool is processed into fine wool and wool fabrics. Now wool and wool materials are not only popular, but also sold overseas.

Not only the Japanese country, but also the Koreans like it. Even Indians, Arabs in the Middle East, and even distant Europa people like it. In front of the Jinzhou Textile Factory, the carriages for picking up the goods are dense. The stewards were fat one by one, and the port of Jinzhou was full of merchant ships waiting for wool and wool.

In August, Ai Husheng told me that he wanted me to march into the Western Regions and let the Mongols get more wool back. So, it's not like there's nothing on the steppe. Wool alone, our tax revenue is staggering. Li Xiao paused and took a sip of wine.

"What's more, this Western Regions is not just wool. The Western Regions has good sunlight and is very suitable for growing cotton. Cotton can also be spun into cotton cloth. The common people live their lives, and they open the door for four things: clothing, food, housing, and transportation. Cotton is one of them!

In our north, there is no padded jacket in winter, how can we spend this winter? ”

"Not only cotton, but also countless mineral deposits in the Western Regions. Why are the Mongols better at the blades than ours? That's because the iron ore in the Western Regions is better than ours. You don't know how short of iron ore we are! There are also copper mines, gold mines, and coal mines that we need more and more. ”

"Therefore, it is still profitable to attack the Western Regions and defeat the Mongols, and it will not empty our treasury. However, Mr. Zhang is also right, attacking the Western Regions requires the cooperation of Ge Ritu. In the early winter of this year, Geritu will come to visit, and we will discuss it at that time. Li Xiao held a wine glass in his hand and looked at a column of smoke above the capital.

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