"Moo—"

On April 23, when the mist emerged in the mountains, the sound of young deer began to sound in the mountains behind the Dading Palace.

"Young deer chirp, eat wild apples...... Huh! ”

At the entrance of the Changchun Hall of the Qi Palace of Dading Palace, Zhu Youzhen squatted in front of the steps, holding a silver water cup in his right hand, and brushing his teeth with a toothbrush with tooth powder in his left hand.

Yang Yuanai squatted next to her, using the copper basin in her hand to pick up the toothbrush water spit out by Zhu Youzhen, and Yang Ruyi stood behind Zhu Youjian with a box of tooth powder.

To be honest, his image is really not very good at the moment, with a disheveled hair and a middle coat, I don't know which prisoner I thought was a prisoner who had changed into a clean prison clothes.

"Phew...... All right! ”

After rinsing and brushing his teeth, Zhu Youjian handed the toothbrush and water cup to Yang Yuanai, and Yang Yuanai handed the basin to the palace maid next to him and took Zhu Youjian's water cup and toothbrush.

"Your Highness, you can go back to the temple to bathe and change your clothes."

Yang Yuanai said to Zhu Youzhen in official dialect with a hint of Jiangnan accent, and Yang Ru handed over the tooth powder to the palace maid next to him when he heard this.

"Hmm-" Zhu Youzhen stood up and stretched, and then walked into a side hall of Changchun Palace with Yang Yuanai and Yang Rusi, as well as four palace maids.

This side hall is bathed and bathed, the hall is all paved with gold bricks, and there is a pool in the center of the hall that is three zhang long and wide, and four feet deep, and the pool is steaming hot at the moment.

Zhu Youzhen unbuttoned his middle shirt, revealing his upper body inside.

After all, after practicing martial arts all year round, coupled with proper diet control, the chest muscles and abdominal muscles are revealed.

It's just that these chest muscles and abdominal muscles are not used on the battlefield, if you need to go to the battlefield, Zhu Youzhen will still eat himself fat a few months in advance and use fat to protect himself.

"The last time I went on an expedition was three or four years ago......"

patted the abdominal muscles of his abdomen, Zhu Youzhen felt a little sorry for his fat body.

He wants to maintain a fat body all the time, but as long as he doesn't fight, he will be thin, and I don't know if Zhu Changluo's genes are not good.

"Your Highness is getting more and more handsome."

Yang Yuan said lovely, and at the same time turned around and began to take off her skirt.

Zhu Youzhen didn't care, walked directly to the pool, and then walked down the stone steps.

As he soaked in the hot pool, he hummed comfortably.

With his hands on the platform stone and his back against the platform, his whole body relaxed.

Getting up early in the morning to take a bath is a habit that Zhu Youzhen developed after contracting the disease in the first battle of sweeping the north.

At that time, Wang Kentang and others only asked to soak until they recovered, but after soaking for a few months, this habit was maintained.

"Boom la la ......"

The sound of water sounded, and before Zhu Youzhen could open his eyes, a pair of slender jade hands put on his body and kneaded them for him.

"Is the strength okay? Your Highness ......"

Under the fog, Yang Yuan loved to serve Zhu Youzhen in intimate clothes, and Zhu Youzhen had already enjoyed the other party's service for nine years, and he was naturally satisfied with his strength.

But before he could speak, there was another "bang" sound of launching into the water, which made Zhu Youzhen frown and open his eyes.

"Go, go, go! What are you going to mix in?! ”

In the mist, Yang Ru was walking towards Zhu Youzhen, so frightened that Zhu Youzhen hurriedly waved her hand to let her leave.

"You...... What's wrong? ”

Yang Ru was stunned in place, not knowing why His Royal Highness was making such a fuss.

"Your Highness, it's time to learn to serve and bathe."

Not only Yang Ru was puzzled, but even Yang Yuanai, who was pinching Zhu Youzhen, was puzzled, and even the other palace maids gathered around the pool were puzzled.

"It's too small, let her study for a few more years before ......"

Zhu Youzhen complained bitterly in his heart, because if he really counted, Yang Ru was only thirteen, how could he bear a thirteen-year-old girl to help him bathe himself......

"I'm not too small!" When Yang heard Zhu Youzhen's words, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she seemed to be very dissatisfied.

After all, she was raised by Zhu Youzhen, and she had a close relationship with Zhu Youzhen, so she naturally dared to refute it, but she didn't dare to do this if she changed to other palace maids.

"If I don't bathe His Highness, then I will have to bathe the princess in the future, I can't stand bathing others."

Yang Ru squatted in the water and opened his head, obviously having a lot of opinions about King Qi's selection of concubines.

After the selection of concubines, Zhu Youzhen will have a princess, two concubines and two concubines.

At that time, there will suddenly be five more principals above their aunts and nephews' heads, and they, as the oldest maids in the palace, naturally can't avoid serving the princess to bathe.

Of course, if they help Zhu Youzhen bathe for a long time, then they don't have to serve the princess.

Yang Yuanai was also afraid that Yang Ru would be jealous and bullied by the princess, so seeing that she was old, she brought her to help Zhu Youzhen bathe.

However, for Zhu Youzhen, this kind of behavior always makes him feel a little disgusting.

"You two don't need to help anyone bathe, just read your books honestly, study poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

Zhu Youzhen calmed down, and saw at a glance what Yang Ru and Yang Yuanai were worried about, and hurriedly made a guarantee.

"Okay, slave and maid...... Hey hey ......"

Hearing that he didn't have to serve people, Yang Ru stood up happily, while Zhu Youzhen could only hide his embarrassment by raising his head and supporting his forehead.

The sound of "banging" water gradually drifted away, and finally the sound of "rustling" came from dressing.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen took his hand away, and Yang Yuanai continued to bathe and knead Zhu Youzhen.

However, after Yang Ruyi's incident, where did Zhu Youzhen still have the heart to enjoy any gentle township, just a tea time, he changed his clothes and walked out of the side hall, and returned to the bedroom next to him.

Yang Ru changed into new clothes, wearing a jacket and skirt, standing by the dresser, holding a towel and waiting quietly for Zhu Youzhen.

The jacket skirt is actually the clothing form of the upper jacket and the lower skirt, which is completely different from the skirt of the Tang and Song dynasties, and is not so explicit.

In the late Ming Dynasty, women often added a short waist skirt to the skirt to facilitate movement, and some maids also liked this kind of attire.

Yang Ru has just entered the water, her hair is still a little wet, although she is young, her appearance is not bad, otherwise she would not be one of the "Qin Huai Bayan" in history.

Her face is goose eggs, her eyes are handsome and her eyebrows are trimmed, and she looks forward to Shenfei, but with a touch of desolation.

Now he is wearing a white ten-panel skirt, the color is lightly painted, and the color is extremely elegant.

The breeze blowing by the dresser is like a moonlight, giving people a feeling of indescribable origin.

If Yang Ru's eyes were red at this time and he was wearing white silk on his head, he would really look like a surviving person.

"Don't wear it like that in the future......"

Zhu Youzhen sat down with his half-wet hair and made a special explanation.

"Why? Your Highness never cared what the slaves wore before......"

Yang Ru frowned slightly, and her face showed grievances, but she still stepped forward to wipe Zhu Youzhen's hair with a towel.

"Don't wear it like that anyway......"

Zhu Youzhen is not very easy to say that it is rumors in the capital that he likes and surviving people, and Yang Ru is although he is young, he is dressed like a widow.

didn't know about this scene, Zhu Youzhen's stigma of "liking the dead" on his head couldn't be taken off, let alone ......

Before Zhu Youzhen could think about it, he saw Yang Yuanai walking into the hall wearing a gown.

Twenty-three-year-old Yang Yuanai is already an older leftover girl in this era, and she has been in the house for a long time, and she is one of the palace maids who have served Zhu Youzhen the longest.

Many rumors that Zhu Youzhen likes came from her.

However, the atmosphere of the late Ming Dynasty is open, and Yang Yuanai is three years older than Zhu Youzhen, and this age difference is nothing.

The two women wiped Zhu Youzhen's hair, but Zhu Youzhen could only endure it.

I don't know if he is idle today, he is extremely sensitive, and he always feels that the tip of his nose can smell two surging body fragrances.

On weekdays, things are busy, and I don't care if I smell it, but in the past few days, I came to Dading Palace to escape the summer, and the number of recitals has decreased a lot, so I naturally began to feel a little full of lust.

"Still not busy enough......"

Snorting, Zhu Youzhen sighed in his heart.

"Your Highness, have you suffered from the cold? The slave will prepare you a cup of ginger tea later......"

"No...... Hmmm......"

Yang Yuanai bowed slightly and glanced at Zhu Youzhen, who was sniffing, but Zhu Youzhen only felt that two truths were instantly pressed in his heart.

The idea of refusing was also in vain, and for a while, I only felt that what Yang Yuan liked to say made sense, and nodded subconsciously.

"The slave is going to prepare a ...... for you."

The hair was almost wiped off, Yang Yuanai handed the towel to Yang Rushi next to her, turned around and left the dormitory in small steps.

The truth that originally occupied Zhu Youzhen's mind disappeared in an instant, and Yang Ru turned around and hung up the towel, and then combed Zhu Youzhen's hair.

"Your Highness, do you have gray hair?!"

Yang raised his voice, and then sent a wisp of hair to Zhu Youzhen's eyes.

That strand of hair was clearly seen by Zhu Youzhen, and there was indeed a white hair in the black hair.

"Most of the time I've been restless lately, just rest more, don't worry about it."

Others have been sick for a long time, but Zhu Youzhen has been seen for a long time to become a doctor, and he only knew at a glance that his hair turned gray due to too much mental pressure.

"Your Highness still has to rest early, don't read the book after dealing with the music in the evening, the slave and maid will go to the royal medicine to calm the nerves, and give you ...... every night in the future."

Yang Ru was like a little housekeeper, babbling in her mouth and saying some words of concern, while Zhu Youzhen listened quietly with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

However, this silence was broken when Yang Yuanai entered the hall with a cup of ginger tea, she put the ginger tea on the desk in the bedroom on the other side, and skillfully opened the screen, and then Zhu Youzhen saw Wang Chengen enter the hall with a hundred books and put them on the table.

"Is that all there is to it today?"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen and asked, while Yang Yuanai came over to tie his hair.

"Today there are only these, a hundred and fifty-seven copies, and there are one hundred and twenty-two copies."

"Banzai said, let His Highness prepare to hunt in the mountains after noon."

Wang Chengen respectfully conveyed Zhu Youzhen's words to Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen nodded tired when he heard this.

"The slave has gone to prepare breakfast......"

Seeing Zhu Youzhen nodding, Wang Chengen returned the salute and withdrew from the hall.

After a few breaths, Yang Ru tied Zhu Youzhen's hair, then put on a golden crown and inserted a golden hairpin.

Zhu Youzhen got up and raised his hands flatly, while Yang Rushi and Yang Yuanai took out the prepared clothes and put them on for Zhu Youjian one by one.

Today, Yang Yuanai chose a set of trolling, and the safari armor was also prepared on the wooden shelf of the dormitory early, and put it on before going out at noon.

"Your Highness, everything is ready, the slave and maid will go and pass you food."

After finishing everything, Yang Yuanai took a step back, and Zhu Youzhen got up and turned around, Yang Yuanai and Yang Ru kept staring at Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen's focus was on the clothes.

The crimson trolling is not bad to wear, and the size is also hand-sewn according to Zhu Youjian's tailoring ruler, and it is very close to wear.

"It's okay, you all go, I'll take care of it."

There was nothing uncomfortable, so Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to signal the two of them to go out, while he walked to the desk behind the screen.

The one hundred and fifty-seven notes will delay him for an hour and a half at most.

After sitting down, he began to deal with the music with ease, and in the middle, Wang Chengen brought a bowl of rice noodles and three fried poached eggs for breakfast.

Zhu Youzhen processed the notes while eating, perhaps because he had a good rest last night, and it only took him an hour and two quarters of an hour to process all the notes, two quarters of an hour faster than expected.

"Your Highness, long live is already waiting for you......"

"Got it, put on the armor,"

Wang Chengen stood at the door of the dormitory when Zhu Youzhen put down the last notebook, and Zhu Youzhen also responded to him.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen say this, Wang Chengen walked into the hall with four palace maids, and Zhu Youzhen also got up and raised his hands flat, and let the palace maids wear armor for him.

Seeing that the parts of the nail stomach were locked and tied, Zhu Youzhen also sighed and said:

"I haven't worn this stomach for almost four years, and I haven't worn it for a long time, but I feel a lot lighter."

"Your Highness has grown a lot taller, this stomach slave has deliberately increased the number of armor pieces, and the weight is heavier than before, it should be because Your Highness has more strength." Wang Chengen explained with a smile while checking the armor for Zhu You.

There was no cotton armor and chain mail, just this armor on his body, Zhu Youzhen did not feel much security, perhaps because of the successful development of the firing gun.

Touching the fish scale armor piece on his body, Zhu Youzhen was a little reluctant:

"I wore it to sweep the White Lotus Sect rebels in Shandong and Henan, to fight Jianlu, and to fight the two battles of sweeping the north with it."

"I don't know how many times I can wear it in the future......"

"As long as His Royal Highness wants to wear it, you can wear it at any time......" Wang Chengen couldn't understand the meaning of Zhu Youzhen's words, and Zhu Youzhen smiled and didn't explain.

Once the rear-loading firing pistol is equipped and lands on the stage of history, no matter what the armor stomach is, it cannot stop it, and the contradictions are interdependent, if any armor can defend against the musket, then the armor stomach will not need to exist.

Of course, that is for the enemy, for the Ming army, it is inevitable that the armor will withdraw from the stage of history, but it cannot be withdrawn all at once, but must be withdrawn slowly.

The terrain that the Ming army needs to face is very complicated, and the army facing complex terrain still needs to wear a certain armor.

The fourth version of the steam engine has appeared, and the Ming army can also be equipped with light cuirass on a large scale.

In the face of street fighting, despite the strong firepower of the Ming army, wearing a cuirass and not wearing it are two different concepts.

What Zhu Youzhen learned from Qi Jiguang's military book is to protect the lives of soldiers.

A cuirass is the price of a meal in the inner court for Da Ming and Zhu Youzhen, but for soldiers, it is the second life to avoid their short-handed encounters in this era.

It's okay to break hands and legs, as long as people survive, the imperial court will arrange jobs for them, so don't worry.

But if the person dies, it is useless for Zhu Youzhen to save more.

The soldiers who went to the battlefield were all children, and they also had fathers and mothers, wives and daughters, and there was no difference in essence from Zhu Youzhen.

It is unfair to use the lives of rural children to ensure the strength of the country, and if he does not have even the most basic benevolence, it is a waste of the memories and experiences of his past life.

"How many soldiers have died in battle this year? How much is disabled? ”

Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen, and after Wang Chengen heard it, he was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it, but he still couldn't think of specifics, so he could only say roughly:

"There should be about 6,000 killed and 3,000 disabled on the side of Xiaoxiyang, and more than 2,000 killed and more than 1,000 disabled on the Yingzhou side."

"There are also the soldiers of the Southern Army Governor's Mansion who suppressed the guerrilla rebels in Jiugang, Nanzhou, Jiaozhi, etc., probably more than 400 people were killed in battle and more than 500 people were disabled......

Wang Chengen's words are full of ambiguous words such as "should, probably", and it is obvious that he does not pay much attention to these.

Perhaps in their minds, the dead soldiers were just a string of numbers, and the reason they cared was because the imperial court needed to pay pensions and fields for this number.

Zhu Youzhen made associations based on Wang Chengen's expression, and the facts proved that he was right......

"After calculation, since the first month of this year, in just four months, the dynasty has lost about 10,000 people killed and nearly 5,000 disabled."

"The household department should be worried about the pension silver and pension field, after all, it has to be close to two million taels of pension silver, 150,000 mu of pension land, and the price of the field is discounted, at least another two million taels ......."

Wang Chengen was a little embarrassed, and it seemed that he personally felt a little too much about the number of casualties in the Ming army this year.

This kind of number of casualties was very normal three years ago in the Apocalypse, but the Ming Dynasty has not appeared for many years, and the number of casualties in one year is 10,000.

"Fifteen thousand ......"

Zhu Youzhen muttered, sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but say:

"I don't know whose children they are, whose fathers, whose husbands......"

"Died overseas, and in the end I could only be cremated home, this is why Lone and Daming are sorry for them......"

Zhu Youzhen's words made Wang Chengen pause in his moves, but fortunately, the armor and stomach were also worn.

The palace maid next to her handed the helmet to Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen took it and clamped it on his waist, holding the saber on his waist with his right hand, and he was heroic.

"Let's go......"

After sighing, Zhu Youzhen walked out of Changchun Palace, but he kept making some arrangements.

For example, the orphans of the fallen soldiers were sent to Beizhili, and all expenses were exempted from the official school, including the cost of books and daily meals, paper and pens, etc., all of which were paid by the imperial court.

There is also the issuance of plaques, using the four words "Home of Meritorious Heroes" written by Zhu Youxiao to open up a plaque, and use this plaque to prove the families of the bereaved families of soldiers.

In addition, the market towns should also set up "merit monuments", engrave the names of local meritorious soldiers, and the market town Huangdian is responsible for the annual worship.

Zhu Youzhen only put forward these few articles, and did not put forward the policy of tax exemption again.

Because he had seen from Jinyiwei's investigation that some gentry with a large number of lands would send some incompetent children of their families to die on the battlefield after knowing that there was a tax-free policy for dying in battle.

is also killed in battle, ordinary people's families are exempt from taxes, and the imperial court will only lose taxes of no more than 100 acres of land, while the gentry and powerful are exempt from taxes, which is tantamount to no income for the imperial court throughout the year.

If we talk about limiting the number of acres of land, this is tantamount to increasing the workload of grassroots officials.

At present, the total number of Ming officials is less than 530,000, and it is impossible to use such a few people to refine taxation.

The current taxation of the Ming Dynasty is basically roughened, and those who can monopolize will be monopolized, and those who cannot be monopolized will be roughly taxed.

This kind of rough management allows the old system of the Ming Dynasty to be carried out, and once more cumbersome rules are created, it will only give the gentry and the gentry a loophole.

After saying everything, Zhu Youzhen and the others also came to the gate of Dading Palace, and hundreds of horsemen at the gate were waiting for Zhu Youzhen's arrival.

In front of them, Zhu Youzheng, dressed in armor, was riding on the back of a red sweaty horse, and next to him was a black sweaty and bloody mixed horse.

"Brother, hurry up, it's almost noon, and the prey will go to drink."

Zhu Youxiao waited for Zhu Youxiao for a long time, and hurriedly waved his hand when he saw him, while Zhu Youzhen set his eyes on Zhu Youxiao's stomach.

As far as the armor stomach is concerned, Zhu Youzhen's armor stomach pays more attention to actual combat, there are not too many gorgeous things, and it is not particularly conspicuous on the battlefield, unless you observe it carefully.

On the other hand, Zhu Youxiao is also on the placket, but there are two golden dragons on his body armor.

In addition, his gauntlets are also pure gold, and although the helmet he wears on his head is still the wine cup helmet of the Ming army, it is equipped with golden phoenix wings and gorgeous helmets.

Not only that, but he also tied a red cloak behind his back, and the whole person standing in the sun can be said to be "golden".

With his appearance, Zhu Youzhen felt that if he encountered such an enemy commander on the battlefield, he might draw his bow and shoot without thinking, and he would definitely shoot accurately.

"Brother, I'm afraid I won't be able to hunt prey today."

Zhu Youzhen came to the horse, turned over on the horse without help, and joked to Zhu Youxiao at the same time.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with his style, and did not pay attention to Zhu Youzhen's jokes, but looked at Zhu Youzhen's riding bow that was one size bigger than himself and asked:

"How much strength can my brother use now?"

"Nine forces of riding a bow, twelve forces of a walking bow!" Wang Chengen opened his mouth with a smile, and as soon as these words came out, not only Zhu Youxiao showed a surprised expression, but also the Xiaocai guards who had been following Zhu Youzhen all the year round were also very surprised.

The nine forces of the riding bow and the twelve forces of the foot bow correspond to one hundred and sixteen pounds and one hundred and fifty-five pounds respectively in later generations.

Under normal circumstances, a single chain mail or a single cotton armor can't stop Zhu Youjian's arrow.

Coupled with Zhu Youzhen's archery skills, it can be said that the face is abrupt within fifty steps, and whoever is sudden will die.

"In the future, it will be the age of firearms, and bows and arrows will be withdrawn from war......"

Zhu Youzhen touched his bow and arrow, and there was a bitter taste in his heart.

After all, with his physique, if he was in the era of pure cold weapons, he might be able to lead his troops to rush into the enemy army and kill all directions, and it would be easier to leave dozens of people in the history books.

It's just that this is the age of firearms, and the firing pistol will go into mass production.

When the firing gun appears on the battlefield, whether it is the Overlord of Chu or the Second Master Guan, when the muzzle of the black hole is ready for them, no matter how invincible the person is, he will have to lie down.

"Let's go, drive!"

When Zhu Youxiao saw Zhu Youzhen say this, he immediately shook the reins of his horse and rode his horse towards the safari ground not far from Dading Palace.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen took a leisurely walk on the belly of the horse, shook the reins of the horse, and led hundreds of horsemen to guard Zhu Youxiao tightly.

The earth was splattered, hundreds of horses were slaughtered, and hundreds of people faded away in just a few breaths until they disappeared......