When the Dutch were sent to Zhu Shuren's mansion, they also saw it: the palace was full of lights, and they were about to prepare a ceremony for the prince to accept the concubine.

So a few days after the Dutch left, Zhu Shuren also completely broke off this long-cherished wish that had been plotted for several years and had been formally prepared for half a year.

In the old system of the Ming Dynasty, only the prince's wife was a concubine, and there was no reason to call the side room a concubine.

But the general trend of the world has developed to this situation, and the old ancestral system is used to gradually break through. Emperor Longwu Zhu Changshu himself personally decreed to improve the treatment of his son-in-law, and he didn't even care if his daughter was jealous, what else did outsiders have to say?

To tell the truth, at the same time, Dolgon and Zilharang in the north have also further improved their honorable treatment on the basis of previous years.

Dolgon is about to change from "Imperial Uncle Regent" to "Imperial Father Regent", isn't that a hundred times more arrogant than Zhu Shuren?

The turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties was originally a worse era, and with such a negative teaching material as Dolgon placed there, Zhu Shuren simply seemed too humble.

He just wants his new woman to have a concubine name, not for himself, but for the sake of stabilizing the place and encircling the superintendent.

The day of the ceremony was finally chosen on the first day of April.

Fang Ziling, who is twenty-one and a half years old, was finally taken to the house by the eight-carried sedan chair.

Her father, Fang Kongzhi, is far away in Sichuan and has the important task of stabilizing the party. In addition, the geographical situation in Sichuan is relatively closed, and it is easy to form a separation, and Zhu Shuren is not worried about letting Fang Kongzhi leave, so Fang Kongzhi is also exempted from the labor of traveling thousands of miles to watch the ceremony.

The woman's family scroll is naturally represented by Fang Ziling's eldest brother and Huguang governor Fang Yizhi. Anyway, Fang Yizhi is stationed in Wuchang, and it is much easier to come to Nanjing. Huguang's geography is also relatively open, relatively inseparable, and Fang Yizhi leaves for a few months every year.

The tacit understanding and transaction of power behind this political marriage is also very obvious -

The truce with the Tartars has been more than two years, and the Qing court in the north has also trained a lot of new army green battalions in recent years, but in order to maintain expenses and restore combat strength, the people in the north are increasingly forced by them to be in dire straits, and their resentment and hatred against the Qing court are as deep as the sea.

Therefore, all kinds of signs show that Dolgon can no longer suppress the truce, if he does not fight again, and then only relies on internal demarcation to self-exploit and strengthen his armament, I am afraid that he will completely blow himself up without fighting the Qing Dynasty.

This year, there is a high probability that the Qing army will restart the war and go south again!

According to Zhu Shuren's plan, when the Ming army withstood the first wave and once again severely damaged the Qing army's vital forces, it would take advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack and strive to gradually regain the lost ground.

At the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the most tragic years of natural disasters have almost passed, and the burden of the north will be much lighter than that of Chongzhen in the future.

It's just that when the spring farming is busy, the Tartars themselves have to farm, and they also have to maintain their own self-feeding lifeline that is so fragile that it will collapse at any time, so it will not start fighting at this time.

Anyone who knows a little bit of military common sense knows that an attack in the spring will not only destroy agricultural production, but the key is that there are no crops waiting to be harvested in the fields at all.

Last year's harvest was all "hidden" again, which made it much less difficult for the defenders to clear the fields, and even did not have to do anything to prevent the attackers from losing food to the enemy.

No matter how short the Qing army is of food, it should not destroy the production of both sides at this juncture. For Dolgon, the best time to resume the war was either when the summer grain was to be harvested, or after the summer grain had been harvested and replanted, but before the autumn harvest.

In that way, wherever the Qing army went, they could harvest grain at will, or loot new grain that had not yet been put into storage.

Dolgon knew this in his heart, and of course Zhu Shuren and the high-level officials of the Nanjing Imperial Court knew it in their hearts, so all the strategic preparations made by everyone were made for the resumption of the war at the turn of summer and autumn this year.

Zhu Shuren has other things that need to be busy, whether it is farming, sharing spoils or private affairs, they should be limited to this time node and get it done as soon as possible.

Once the Ming Dynasty is to return to a wartime state, it is also very necessary for all localities to temporarily delegate the dispatch authority of the army to avoid micro-manipulation of thousands of miles from damaging the combat effectiveness of the troops.

During the previous two-plus years of peaceful farming, it was enough to leave a maximum of two governors at the local level. Anyway, it is mainly about dealing with civil affairs, and in wartime, it is useful to have a few more governors.

Fang Kongzhi and Fang Yizhi have been governors for four and a half years and two years respectively, and in terms of qualifications, it is not impossible to be promoted to governor. Zhang Huangyan can actually be promoted by then, but he is too young after all, and he is still almost thirty.

Before the promotion of Kong Zhi and Fang Yizhi as governors, the completion of the marriage is a good political insurance.

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The matter of the concubine of the prince of E was naturally completed in such a political atmosphere.

Zhu Shuren did not treat Fang Ziling badly, the two reunited in September last year, and finally it took half a year to complete all kinds of etiquette procedures.

Although it can't be as complete as marrying a wife, it's basically all on it.

On the day of the ceremony, after dealing with the woman's family represented by Fang Yizhi and dealing with all the things outside, Zhu Shuren finally dressed in auspicious clothes and came to a new house in the garden to clean up.

Fang Ziling wore a Suzhou embroidered dress with a pink background and red embroidery, sitting quietly on the boudoir, without any movement, completely passively waiting.

Zhu Shuren waved away the maids who were originally waiting in the house, leaving only a woman who carried a plate and followed him into the house, then picked up the jade Ruyi from the tray, removed Fang Ziling's headdress, and put it back on the plate.

In addition to the jade ruyi and headdress, there is also a golden cup and jade pot on the plate.

As the prince, even if it is a side concubine, it is impossible to leave only the prince and the side concubine alone in the cave room, and there must be a maid to help more or less.

This is normal, if it is the emperor, the concubine Lin Xing can't be served by a group of palace maids? How can you give the concubine a chance to be shy?

Some concubines even have to let their most powerful palace maids serve diligently in order to consolidate their favors, and strive for more opportunities to show their faces in front of the emperor. If the emperor is in high spirits one day, he is still unsatisfied, and he is fortunate to be the personal palace maid next to the concubine, then the concubine will have to secretly rejoice that there is another reason to attract the emperor in her palace.

Zhu Shuren, as the prince, only left one person by his side, or in order to hide people's eyes and take care of the etiquette, he was already very considerate to Fang Ziling.

Fang Ziling is also a beautiful girl, full of poetry, books and history, naturally knows the bitterness of Houmen as deep as the sea, and she can more and more appreciate the thoughtfulness of Zhu Shuren's small action.

The sense of alienation that had been intersecting with each other for many years, but later by mistake, gradually dissipated a lot.

"Although I have forgotten about other people in the past few years, I am still a careful person who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade......" Fang Ziling thought silently.

Zhu Shuren looked at her expression of thinking with her head down, and he could roughly guess that the other party had already seen his detailed arrangement.

That's the benefit of communicating between smart people, without saying too much, just to the point.

However, Zhu Shuren's arrangement does not stop there, Fang Ziling has been bowing his head and remaining silent, how can he know everything? Zhu Shuren naturally wants to provoke again:

"The lady is a spiritual person, and she doesn't look up to see, who is serving us to drink wine?"

Fang Ziling raised her head slightly, swept it quickly with her eyes, and then noticed that the woman in the end plate was indeed familiar, although she hadn't seen her for two or three years, she still reacted quickly: "Sister Yujing? How dare you do this, you are ...... How can you do the things of a maid. ”

It turned out that the Duanpan woman was as beautiful as Fang Ziling, and she was one or two years younger than her, and it was Zhu Shuren's last concubine, Bian Yujing.

Among Zhu Shuren's four concubines, she has the most friendship with Fang Ziling, both of whom love to comment on historical gains and losses, read quite a lot, and also helped annotate "The Continuation of the Thief" together back then, and also wrote a lot of songs and lyrics and songs that Zhu Shuren commanded, which are quite valuable for propaganda warfare.

Fang Ziling hurriedly took the plate, put it on the boudoir, and pulled Bian Yujing to sit beside him, and said a few words to inquire about the current situation.

Bian Yujing also brushed his sideburns, and smiled: "Sister, don't worry, Xianggong is not using my little sister as a maid, but also knows that we have old friends and have a good temperament, let me serve for a while, and the weight is enough, so that the other maids can rest."

My sister is a famous lady, although my little sister is also loved by the princess, after all, she comes from a humble background, and occasionally serves tea and water. When you finish drinking, my little sister will leave. ”

Fang Ziling was slightly moved, turned her head to prevent people from seeing her expression, and said softly: "That's it, they will all be their own sisters in the future, so I won't be polite to my sister." ”

can be regarded as calmly accepting Bian Yujing to help her serve the plate and pour wine.

After the husband and wife finished drinking, Bian Yujing was about to leave, but Fang Ziling still grabbed her and asked her to sit down for a while.

Bian Yujing didn't expect this, and he didn't know what to say, so he had to make fun: "Congratulations to my sister for waiting for several years, but she has finally achieved positive results, and the better days are still to come."

Her Royal Highness the princess has always been a kind person, and even our sisters have never suffered hardship, and my sister will know in the future. ”

Fang Ziling: "Why have you waited for years......

Bian Yujing was slightly speechless, he didn't know that he stepped on the thunder, which caused Fang Ziling to be shy, and he was speechless for a while, so he hurriedly thought quickly, and found another word to relieve the warm-up.

She and Fang Ziling are only similar in learning, but their attitudes towards feelings are still very different.

After all, Bian Yujing has been in a miserable situation since she was a child, and she has to be trained by her adoptive mother to greet men with a smile, although she was fortunate to be redeemed by the body of the Qing people, but after all, she didn't know what shyness was, she was happy to be rescued from the fire pit by Zhu Shuren, and she was naturally generous and generous, daring to love and hate.

Treating others with herself, she felt that since Fang Ziling had been in her heart for many years, and now that she had got what she wanted, she must be as happy as she was, where could she refuse to welcome.

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Zhu Shuren was embarrassed when he saw their sisters talking, and finally spoke up in time to save the scene: "That's it, Yujing, you still don't know Ziling, don't talk about this." ”

As he spoke, he didn't break it, but just stepped forward domineeringly and hugged the two beauties left and right, taking the two beauties into his arms, as if he didn't care about their jealousy.

This move made Bian Yujing, who had been with him for three years, blush slightly: Sister Ziling is a famous lady, aren't you afraid of humiliating her? Why should Xianggong be in a hurry......

Fang Ziling also immediately showed a look of resentment, annoyed that she was bullied again: "You prodigal son......

Zhu Shuren smiled proudly: "Lone is the prodigal son, what's wrong?" Didn't your father and brother have to betray their mother? If Brother Mi didn't betray his sister, the imperial court wouldn't worry about promoting him to the governor of Huguang as originally planned, wouldn't he? The governor of Sichuan, who is old Taishan, is afraid that he is also a little suspicious.

Now she can release the suspicions of the masses, work together, and the lady suffers a loss, so she can endure it for the sake of the world. ”

These words are really shameless, Bian Yujing didn't react at first, she was very surprised in her heart, but she has been smiling for a long time, and it is not difficult to maintain a calm smile on the surface.

She thought that Fang Ziling would be annoyed when she heard it, didn't this become a scene of "bullying men and women"?

However, peeking at it, Fang Ziling was blushing and shy, so she didn't say anything, just brushed her sleeves and slapped Xianggong's arm a few times.

Bian Yujing is also a smart person, and he quickly understood: Xianggong still has a hand in dealing with a famous lady with a tender face.

implied himself to be a villain who bullied others and sought to dominate the world's sisters. That sister is naturally Bingqing Yujie, she doesn't want a man at all, and there is no such thing as waiting for him for several years, everything is just taking into account the overall situation and obeying the arrangements of her father and brother.

She is a virtuous and virtuous woman who "depends on her father and brother to arrange everything", but she is not a stubborn woman who wants to find a man by herself and would rather not marry if she can't get it.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, women were persistent in love, wanted to pursue the good match they wanted, and did not listen to their parents' arrangements, which was not a good reputation.

Fang Ziling's three aunts, cousins, and sisters are still widowed and set up a chastity archway, and the pressure on her family reputation is even greater, how can she be allowed to reveal even the slightest "I want to pursue what I love" in front of outsiders?

Even if there is no need to scruple now, the weight of twenty years of etiquette and religion will not be able to be unloaded and adapted at once after all.

"Xianggong is really pitiful and cherishes jade, even Sister Ziling's heart and demons have been thought of and taken care of in advance, and being able to stay with a good match like Xianggong for a long time, although there are a little more sisters to share, it can be regarded as a fairy-like day......"

Bian Yujing thought about it, thinking of her husband's usual gentleness and respect for her sisters, she couldn't help but be a little stupid, and it took a long time to realize that she really should go.

The night was already dark, and Fang Ziling didn't stop her this time, but when she went out and closed the door, she said softly: "Since it is in the hands of the husband, the concubine naturally knows that the husband and the son are the husband, and let the husband deal with it!" ”

"Then you're welcome." Zhu Shuren grabbed Fang Ziling and pressed the other party on his shoulder domineeringly.

In this way, the other party can't see his face, and the expression he has been brewing to hide before can finally be soothed and natural.

Isn't it just a sullen and introverted lady? As a modern person, Zhu Shuren has a rich source of information, and in his previous life, he has accumulated a lot of ways to deal with Gu Quan's sullen face.

It can only be said that modern people respect women more and care more about women's ideas.

It's not that the ancients didn't understand this truth, they just disdained it.

The red candle went out, and there was no word for the night.

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Concubine Na is also a newlywed Yan'er, of course Zhu Shuren has to indulge in gentle township again, ignoring the government for a month.

What's more, Fang Ziling really waited hard, from the age of eighteen to the age of twenty-one. When the sullen ice is opened, it will take time to release the resentment that erupts in private, of course, it will take time to heal.

The entire April of the third year of Longwu was spent in such a peaceful manner.

Providence seems to be re-rolling Gu Daming, this year, the corresponding northern puppet dynasty, has been Shunzhi for four years, and the continuous fierce natural disasters seem to have slightly converged in the overall scope.

Because there are no thieves in the north and south, there is almost no delay in spring ploughing, and some small floods and droughts can also be carried over by repaired water conservancy facilities. Throughout April, the seedlings in various places grew gratifyingly, and it is estimated that there will finally be a good harvest of summer grain.

The time entered May, and it was less than a month before the summer grain harvest, and Zhu Shuren finally encountered a political matter that had to be dealt with immediately-

As mentioned earlier, when the Zheng family went deep into Dayuan Island and expanded their private sphere of influence, Zheng Zhilong died because of the epidemic. Zheng Chenggong and his second and third uncles also had some disagreements on how to share the spoils with the imperial court.

Of course, Zhu Shuren had to spend a little capital in exchange for Zheng Chenggong marginalizing his second and third uncles. And as the world is about to be unified again, the existence of warlords will not end well.

Even the Shen family, to which Zhu Shuren originally belonged, had to be restrained, let alone the Zheng family.

Give the other party a little name, take back a little economic benefits and military power, but wash the rest of the money, and at the same time let Zheng Chenggong see clearly: not only the Zheng family needs this, but the Shen family also needs it, so that he doesn't have psychological imbalance, which can be regarded as the most peaceful solution.

The final specific measures turned into three integration conditions that Zhu Shuren privately revealed to Zheng Chenggong:

First, Zhu Shuren also knew that Zheng Zhilong had some small moves in the process of recovering Dayuan Island, and he also slowed down the progress of the final attack on Relan City, leaving more time for the Zheng family to operate other deep areas on the island and expand their forces.

To put this matter seriously, there is a suspicion of raising self-respect, but since Zheng Zhilong has died, there is no need to talk about it on the table.

The imperial court can pretend not to know, even if Zheng Zhilong is dedicated to the king's affairs and martyrdom, and can posthumously give him the title of marquis, but it is only a false name, and this title does not have any attached economic benefits and powers. At the same time, Zheng Chenggong was allowed to directly attack the lord as it was, so that he could be regarded as a marquis at a young age.

Politics is given, and the Zheng family will certainly spit out something in other aspects. Zhu Shuren privately gave the other party the condition that from now on, the Ming Dynasty will lift the sea ban and officially establish a customs.

Therefore, the sea trade that originally went to S must not be done, and in the future, everyone will pay taxes according to the rules and regulations, and they can do import and export trade after paying the money. The Zheng family's collection of money in the nature of protection fees such as "flag silver" will not be in accordance with the law in the future.

However, Zhu Shuren can promise the Zheng family to promote Zhejiang-Fujian Customs after whitewashing, and the imperial court will legislate, and the post of Zhejiang-Fujian Customs can be held for life.

After the formal establishment of the customs, the imperial court's import and export tariff revenues were divided into accounts according to 73, and 70% became the imperial court's revenue, and 30% of the funds reserved for the construction of the "anti-smuggling fleet" were raised and disposed of by the customs to cover the cost of taxation, the maintenance of the anti-smuggling coast guard, and the construction of anti-smuggling ships.

To put it bluntly, the Zheng family originally received ten percent, but after the collection, they also had to take out several million taels every year for gray expenditures everywhere and maintain officialdom relations. Now Zhu Shuren only keeps 30% for him and takes 70% for himself, but these three achievements are completely legalized and whitewashed, and Zheng Chenggong doesn't have to pay any more filial piety to so many people.

In the past, when the customs promoted the elderly, they could nominate a list of five people to the imperial court, and the imperial court selected the best performer from the assessment to take over the promotion of the customs.

Moreover, the imperial court will stipulate that in the list of candidates submitted by the predecessor, the total number of people with the same surname and clan as the predecessor shall not exceed half.

For example, Zheng Chenggong's surname is Zheng, and when he is old and will retire in the future, he can report to five successor candidates, among which there can be no obvious poor performance and bid-rigging, otherwise the court will apply for him. Among these five people, only two surnamed Zheng are allowed at most, and at least three cannot be surnamed Zheng.

This is also a gradual suppression of the hereditary promotion of customs. People are used to being the emperor of the soil, and suddenly they want to completely deprive him of his hereditary nature, which is easy to provoke resistance, even if Zheng Chenggong wants to agree, he can't suppress the second uncle and the third uncle.

But with such a gradual boiling of frogs, the will to resist of the pirate-born creatures can be greatly broken. Although the imperial court stipulates that when Zheng Chenggong retires in the future, the promotion he will be selected may not be surnamed Zheng, so Zheng Chenggong can also learn from Zhu Shuren and train a few more sons-in-law!

The son-in-law is definitely not surnamed Zheng, and when Zheng Chenggong reports a list of five people in the evening, two sons and three sons-in-law, let the court choose within this range, although it is not hereditary, he is also satisfied. If it is two or three generations, this problem will gradually be solved.

In the end, Zhu Shuren still left a hand, he will not let the Zheng family fully grasp the Ming Dynasty's overseas trade investigation, since the sea ban has been completely opened in the future, then not only Zhejiang and Fujian provinces have customs to go to sea, but also the two Guangxi side will have it, and in the future, the Central Plains will be recovered, and Sulu and Liaozhi in the north will also have it.

Zhu Shuren estimated that in the future, four major customs offices could be set up, each of which would manage the import and export trade of the two coastal provinces. Zhejiang-Fujian Customs is only the earliest and strongest in the beginning. But in time, the other three places will also develop and share in their business.

If the Zheng family wants to engage in a closed kingdom, but his children and grandchildren are not angry, under the competition of the other three major customs, there will be less and less business, and even lead to the decline of Fujian's maritime trade and be snatched away by the Cantonese, then he will not have much ability even if he is really hereditary.

The flow of water is not corrupt, and the four major customs can compete freely within the legal framework of the Ming law, and they are not afraid of inefficiency.

If anyone dares to cross the line and use extrajudicial means to attack competitors, and is caught by the imperial court, it is just a good time to thoroughly investigate and liquidate.

Of course, when talking to Zheng Chenggong about the conditions now, there is no need to say anything about "how the north will be in the future", just tell him that Liangguang will also open another level.

In this way, even if the established fact that there are many customs in the world and the principle of "the law of the ancestors" are decided, whether it will be two or three or four in the future, depending on the development of the situation, the rice must be eaten one bite at a time, and the rebels must be forced to the opposite side step by step, so that they are powerless to resist.

Zheng Chenggong still chose to trust his eldest brother and agreed to this condition, and what his second and third uncles opposed was also cleaned up. The reason why Zheng Chenggong was able to win the majority of the support within the family was also because he told everyone:

Shen Tingyang's youngest son also has to accept this condition, and in the future, he will raise the customs of the two provinces of Sulu, and he will not be hereditary, and he must also report the list of five people at the time of the official and the imperial court will choose a successor from among them.

Shen Tingyang's youngest son is one of Zhu Shuren's younger brothers.

After all, Zhu Shuren has changed his surname, so in the future, his second brother can inherit the officialdom resources of his father Shen Tingyang, and the third brother can inherit the family's business interests.

Prince E's half-brother has to do this, why doesn't he Zheng Chenggong do this? It is said that it is already very preferential, Zheng Chenggong feels that if such conditions are missed, it will only be more harsh in the future, and it is better to accept it when it is good.

It's good to divide the account with the imperial court, at least the thirty percent is completely and legally whitewashed, and there is no need to worry about filial piety every year in private, and there is the protection of the court law.

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ps: I'm going out on the weekend.,This chapter was also saved yesterday.,Informed that it's an emotional drama that can be jumped.。 Ask for leave tomorrow.,Change the map and sort out the outline.,Resume the update on Monday.,The back is the plot of the Northern Expedition to re-start the war with the Qing army.。