On the morning of the second day, Zhu Di handed down a decree in front of the civil and military officials, and ordered Xie Jin, Hu Guang, Hu Yan, Yang Shiqi and, led 147 officials of the Hanlin Academy and the Ministry of Rites to be responsible for compiling a class of books, which was collected in the Wenyuan Pavilion.

The compilation of books was the most important task of the civil administration of all dynasties, and all the civil officials were praised for their goodness.

When Zhu Quan heard that Zhu Di ordered Xie Jin and other civil officials to compile books, he recalled the huge amount of the "Yongle Canon" recorded in history, and couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, and secretly wondered: The scale of the "Yongle Canon" is far more than the books of the Han, Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties, how can it be compiled by less than 200 people?

Zhu Di stood up, glanced at the civil officials with happy expressions, and said in a deep voice: "I am determined to send a fleet to cross the ocean and visit foreign countries overseas to promote the prestige of the Great Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Quan heard Zhu Di talk about the fleet's going to sea, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zheng He, the head of the imperial study, who was standing in the distance.

When the civil and military officials heard that His Majesty the Emperor intended to send a fleet of envoys across the sea, they couldn't help but look at each other. The Han Dynasty Bowang waited for Zhang Qian, and Dingyuan Hou Ban surpassed the Western Regions is a well-known thing, but these two sages were sent by land, and the sea envoy is indeed unheard of. ”“

Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, frowned and asked, "I don't know how many envoys Your Majesty intends to send to Japan and Korea?" He knew that Zhu Di's temperament was quite different from that of His Majesty Emperor Hongwu in the past, and if he didn't say it well, he was a little happy and paid attention to pomp, and the number of envoys was related to how much silver the household had to come up with, so how could he ignore it?

Zhu Quan heard Xia Yuanji ask like this, and couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: Today, only Japan and Korea have visited China by sea, and Korea is two small neighboring countries.

"I heard that Fujian and Zhejiang are plagued by pirates from time to time, and there is no shortage of pirates who do all kinds of evil on the ocean, ranging from hundreds to thousands. If our Ming envoy fleet was plundered by the Japanese pirates, wouldn't it be self-defeating and lose the imperial court? Therefore, I mean not only to send envoys to the sea, but also to send tens of thousands of sailors to send envoys together to support them. Zhu Di said with a casual smile. It turned out that the plague of the Japanese invaders began at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang reigned for 30 years, and he tried his best to ban the sea, but it backfired, making the plague of the Japanese invaders quite serious.

Xia Yuanji heard Zhu Di's big tone, shook his head again and again, and admonished: "The new capital of Beijing is building a lot of buildings, migrating people to the north, dredging the North-South Grand Canal, all of which have to spend a lot of silver, and the household department is already stretched, how can there be so much silver to build ships and go to sea?" ”

When Zhu Di heard that this Hubu Shangshu, who was in charge of the money bags of the Ming Dynasty, was crying so poorly, he couldn't help but be angry and funny, and asked in a deep voice: "I ordered Xie Jin and others to compile books, and they don't have to spend money, why don't you see Aiqing objecting?" In Taicang, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, how much silver taels are there at present? ”

Xia Yuanji knew that Zhu Di was not such an easy to fool emperor, so he had to reply helplessly when he saw that he had no excuse: "Your Majesty, Taicang's ** has more than 5,846,000 taels of silver, and a number of copper coins, which still need to be counted in detail." The reason why he is vague about the number of copper coins is not because he deliberately deceives them, but because the former founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, reigned for 30 years, worked hard and practiced frugality, and also killed the meritorious heroes, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and even the family property of Ouyang Lun, who sold tea and horses without permission, into Taicang. To this day, many copper coins are stored in the treasury all year round and have never been used, so that the rope of stringing the money is rotten, and the copper coins of unknown value are messed up, which is extremely time-consuming and laborious to count.

Zhu Di laughed and said: "Xia Yuanji, since Taicang is full, how can you say that the household is overstretched?" ”

Xia Yuanji said helplessly: "Even if you have money, don't you have to save flowers?" His Majesty has exempted the northern government from paying taxes for three years, and the move to move the capital has taken a long time, and the construction of palaces, city walls, and dredging canals has cost more than a year and a half to measure. He was in the important position of the household servant during the Hongwu period, and he was accustomed to Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of governing the country lightly and frugally, and he was quite dissatisfied with Zhu Di's lavish pursuit of meritorious deeds.

Zhu Di couldn't help but feel a little headache when he heard that this old and respectful Hubu Shangshu had moved out his father, who he did not dare to openly oppose, to preach.

Seeing this, Zhu Quan slowly stepped out of the column and bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, Lord Shangshu is old and has good intentions, which is a good way to reduce expenditure. However, according to Weichen's thoughts, although the sailor went to sea at a cost of silver taels, he could not take this opportunity to open up foreign trade routes with overseas states, and then make profits for the imperial court. In the past, Weichen talked with the envoy of Timur and knew that at present, a piece of high-grade silk of my Ming Dynasty is worth ten taels of gold in the Western Regions. The Hu merchants of the Western Regions have profited several times from it, and they are eager to buy silk and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty. ”

Seeing that King Ning was so bold and reckless, several civil officials dared to send an envoy from the sea to say that they had broken the 30-year-old sea ban imposed by the previous emperor, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and came out one after another to refute Zhu Quan. This is justifiable, how can the ancestral system be wasted? How could he act hastily when he made a generous statement that the sea was vast, the storm was treacherous, that manpower could not overcome the sky, and that there was a great risk for the fleet to go to sea? There is even an imperial historian who accused Zhu Quan of being prone to words and profits, like a businessman, a fly and a dog, and described His Majesty the Emperor's intention to send an envoy to the sea and promote the prestige of the country as a vulgar thing with the intention of going to sea to make a fortune.

Zhu Quan sneered, and secretly slandered in his heart: Xia Yuanji advised Zhu Laosi to follow the frugal style of Old Man Zhu, and everyone agreed. Feelings, all of you are not the silver issued by the imperial court, it is really a lack of corruption and conspiracy.

Zhu Di saw that Zhu Quan talked about the matter of using the sea route to send an envoy, and imitated the Song Dynasty City Ship Division to collect taxes from Chinese and foreign maritime merchants, which aroused fierce opposition from a group of civil servants, and he suddenly felt unhappy in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "The matter of the sea route envoy is very important, and it can be discussed later. ”

In the afternoon, Zhu Quan sat alone in the study of the palace, and when he closed his eyes and pondered, he recalled the opposition of the ministers to the sea in the early dynasty, and he couldn't help but be very troubled.

There was a sound of broken footsteps in his ears, and Zhu Quan couldn't help but open his eyes, only to see a young woman wearing a purple silk shirt with a very beautiful appearance swaying lotus steps, and came to front of him, it was Feng Xuan.

Zhu Quan took the teacup handed by Feng Xuan, and seeing that his son Zhu Hanmin was not by his beloved wife's side, he couldn't help but ask, "What about Hanmin?" ”

"The two little ones are depressed in the house, and today I finally got your permission, and after lunch, I have already yelled at my sister to take them to the Confucius Temple." Feng Xuan looked at Zhu Quan and couldn't help but ask softly: "Since you returned from the court, you have been full of worries, but what happened?" It turned out that she wanted to take her son out of the house to play, but after Zhu Quan returned to the house, she sat alone in the study, and she was very concerned in her heart, so she deliberately stayed in the house.

Zhu Quan let out an "oh", stretched out his hand to pull Feng Xuan to his side and sat down, and talked in detail about Zhu Diyan's words and sending envoys to sea this morning, and his own advice to reopen the market and meet the fierce opposition of a group of civil servants.

When Feng Xuan heard that the imperial history reprimanded her husband for being a businessman, she couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and said softly: "The imperial court's plan is not well known to the concubines and women, but the matter of going overseas is undecided, and the husband said that it is too prudent to use this to open up overseas trade routes?" Imagine that His Majesty the Founding Emperor strictly forbade the sea for 30 years in order to put an end to the trouble of coastal pirates, how can it be easily shaken overnight? ”

Zhu Quan recalled Zhu Di's attitude when he was in court, and couldn't help but sigh slightly and said: "Since His Majesty the Emperor ascended the throne, he has restored all the laws of Old Man Zhu, how can he suddenly change his course. I was indeed too anxious to break the sea ban. Speaking of this, he reached out and shook Feng Xuan's left hand, and suddenly recalled in his mind that his beloved wife had a wonderful interpretation of the rhythm, since she returned to Nanjing, he had never heard her play a song, and couldn't help laughing: "Don't talk about these troubles, you can play a song, so that your husband can feast your ears." ”

Feng Xuan is the daughter of Feng Sheng, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, since she was a child, she is good at Yaoqin, since she gave birth to her son Zhu Hanmin, every day a mind is tied to her son, and she has not played a song for a long time, and her heart is very itchy.

After fiddling with the strings of the Yaoqin that had been shelved for a long time, Feng Xuan sat at the table, turned her head to Zhu Quanqiao and said with a smile: "I don't know what song my husband wants to hear?" ”

Zhu Quan saw her dark eyes flashing with heartfelt joy, recalling that he had followed Zhu Di for several years in the battle of Jingjing, and placed their mother and son in the land of Daning, and they had to see each other from time to time, and a feeling of guilt involuntarily surged in his heart, and he immediately smiled after a little silence: "Let's have a song of "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" by Sima Xiangru in the Han Dynasty, and Lao Xuanmei will write the lyrics and songs. Yan Yan put himself on Feng Xuan's side, took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk, rolled up his sleeves and grinded the ink, and said with a chuckle: "I think that when Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun were accompanied by Zhuo Wenjun in the past, Wenjun should grind the ink, and the fool didn't dare to compare with Sima Xiangru, so he had to serve Xuanmei with pen and ink." ”

Feng Xuan saw her husband sitting side by side beside her, hearing his nephrite gentle words, her heart was like drinking alcohol, and the slender hand holding the pen trembled slightly in a trance, and the first stroke was slightly distorted, seeing Zhu Quan frowning slightly, she realized that her left hand gently punched Zhu Quan on the shoulder, and said with disgust: "It's all your fault for causing me to lose my mind." After that, he took another piece of paper, suppressed the heart in his heart, and wrote with his heart in his heart.

A moment later, under the plucking of Feng Xuanqianqian's ten fingers, the beautiful and graceful music fluttered along with the gently trembling strings.

Zhu Quan saw that the lyrics on the white rice paper were catchy, and he couldn't help but sing and said: "Feng Xi Feng Xi returns to his hometown and travels all over the world to seek his phoenix." When there is nothing to do, he is now ascending to the hall. There are beautiful ladies in the boudoir, and the room is full of people who poison my intestines. What is the fate of the neck for the mandarin ducks, and the beards and cheeks soar together! The phoenix and the phoenix are from me, and they have to be entrusted with the tail as a concubine. Friendship and harmony, who do you want to know in the middle of the night? The wings are flying high, and I don't feel that I think about the remaining sorrow.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, the great defense of men and women was not as good as the later Song and Ming dynasties, so this song tells Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun's love affair between men and women, "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", not only charming and tactful, but also bold and straightforward lyrics, Feng Xuan was infected by the piano music he played, and then he heard the husband's sincere intention to sing the sentence "What is the fate of the neck for the mandarin duck", the joy in the heart swelled out like a clear spring, only to feel that the cheeks were hot, and when a pair of autumn waves peeked at her husband, it was full of tenderness.

At the end of the song, Feng Xuan finally threw herself into Zhu Quan's arms uncontrollably.

Zhu Quan stretched out his hand to hug his beloved wife's delicate body, seeing her pink cheeks flushed, he finally couldn't help but kiss her cheek lightly, and reached out to pinch her sharp nose.

Feng Xuan was infinitely shy, seeing the playful smile in her husband's eyes, and suddenly smelled the scent of ink from the tip of her nose when she didn't know why, and suddenly came to her senses, while firmly hugging Zhu Quan's waist, while wiping her husband's shoulder shirt a few times.

Zhu Quan couldn't suppress his laughter when he saw that she had turned into a big cat. It turned out that he deliberately tricked him, smeared the ink accidentally stained when grinding ink on Feng Xuan's nose, and then wiped it like this, and Deng Shi was out of control.

Seeing her husband playing tricks on herself like this, Feng Xuan couldn't help but have a small temper, her left hand firmly held Zhu Quan's waist, and her right hand stretched out to stain ink in the inkstone, and wiped it off Zhu Quan's face unrelentingly.

When the two were entangled with themselves, they only heard the sound of footsteps, and a boy jumped into the study, and in front of Zhu and Feng, it was their son Zhu Hanmin. It turned out that he and his sister went out of the house with Xu Ying in the afternoon, and came home to look for his mother.

Zhu Quan and Feng Xuan suddenly saw their son appear when they were messing around, and they couldn't help but feel at a loss.

Zhu Hanmin suddenly saw these two big faces appear in front of him, and after looking closely, he realized that the two parents were so shocked that they spit out the sugar gourd in their mouths, and exclaimed, "What are you doing?" ”

"Well, your mother occasionally got a word song today, and she wrote it down specially for my father to comment on one or two." After all, Zhu Quan was once the commander of thousands of troops, while straightening his clothes, he slowly came to the desk and sat down, and said lightly with a solemn face.

Zhu Hanmin chewed the rock sugar gourd in his mouth comfortably, looked at his father, who pretended to be calm, and then turned his head and tilted his little head to look at his mother, who was cramped and restless, and there were still ink stains on his face. You two don't write on paper, but on your face? ”

Feng Xuan was bumped into by her son when she was making out with her husband, Fang Xin was already flustered, and at this time, seeing her husband's lies being exposed by her clever son on the spot, she was ashamed, hid her face and walked out quickly, and fled towards her room.

Zhu Quan heard that his son's words were unscrupulous, and pointed out that his words were far better than his beloved wife, and the embarrassment on his face flashed, and he secretly said bitterly in his heart: This person is a big rabbit cub. Thinking of this, he immediately turned his head and asked in a deep voice: "Today, as a father, I want to take a good test to see how well you are practicing horse step kung fu, and as he spoke, he came to his son, and grabbed him by the collar and walked towards the garden outside.

Although Zhu Hanmin didn't understand what his parents had done in the study before, he was very embarrassed to see his mother fleeing at this time, and he felt very interesting in his heart.