"Emperor, do you want to go and see Miss Xia."

Liu Jin asked cautiously, he knew best about the relationship between Zhu Houzhao and Miss Xia who lived in the quiet courtyard behind Chunhua Building, and he also knew the emotional entanglement between Zhu Houzhao and Miss Xia.

Miss Xia, whose real name is Xia Zhi, the queen of Zhu Houzhao, when the Zhang brothers plotted to assassinate Zhu Houzhao unsuccessfully, Zhu Houzhao took crazy revenge, the Zhang brothers were driven to Liaodong to farm, and the Zhang family was also hit hard.

Empress Xia had a younger sister who married Zhang Yanling's son Zhang Zong, and when she saw that her husband's family was in trouble, she begged the head of Empress Xia's father, Qingyang Bo and the governor of the Chinese Army, Xia Ru.

Xia Ru is also a blind person, knowing that Zhu Houzhao is upright and angry, he still has to come up to intercede for the Zhang brothers, but as a result, Zhu Houzhao is angry, and his temper comes up, and he doesn't care whether his father-in-law is old or not, he directly throws Xia Ru to Liaodong.

I don't want Xia Ru to be a military attaché, but his body is really not very good, and he died within two months of arriving in Liaodong, and Zhu Houzhao and Queen Xia, who had a good relationship with each other, fell out when they landed.

Later, Empress Xia simply moved out of the palace, Zhu Houzhao was a stubborn person, anyway, he did it, it was impossible to bow his head, so that it became the state he is in now, Zhu Hou came to Chunhualou as usual, but he just didn't go to see Yiren, just because he couldn't let go of his dignity as an emperor.

Even if it was indeed his fault to kill Xia Ru inadvertently, the emperor knew that he had corrected his mistakes, but he did not admit his mistakes.

"Forget it, she doesn't want to see me, so why should I bother her."

Zhu Hou waved his hand in anticipation.

He is not ruthless to Xia Zhi, but in any case, he can't bow his head, but as long as he can coax him with a good voice, he will not come to this point.

"Send someone to keep an eye on the point, what she needs, try to meet her."

Zhu Houzhao commanded.

Sitting in front of the window listening to the sparse sound of the piano not far away, Zhu Houzhao suddenly felt a little irritable, he asked himself in his life if he was worthy of anyone, but he owed too much to Xia Zhi.

It is precisely because of this debt that he always comes to Chunhualou to sit in his spare time, listen to her piano sound from afar, and inquire about her current situation.

"Master, your dish is here!"

The shopkeeper walked in with a tray and placed a few side dishes on the table.

"Little Er, how is your boss doing lately?"

Zhu Houzhao asked.

"It's good, I heard the maid of the owner Xiaohong girl say that the owner is in good health, and from time to time she will go outside the city to go out and do something."

The shopkeeper replied very skillfully, obviously not the first time he has been asked by Zhu Houzhao!

"It's good to be fine."

Zhu Houzhao drank all the wine in one gulp, and his aged daughter Hong had lost her taste at this time.

He didn't feel that he was wrong about what happened back then, the Zhang brothers were filthy and unruly, wanton, and evil, and after being reprimanded by him, he dared to send assassins to deliberately assassinate, so that he almost entered the ghost gate, the Zhang brothers died not a pity, and Xia Ru, who interceded for the Zhang family, also deserved it.

He is the emperor, he sits on the whole world, and he will never bow to anyone.

Even if you know it's wrong, it must be right, at least on the surface.

But in his heart, he couldn't stop thinking of that beautiful shadow over and over again, at the beginning of his ascension, everyone wanted to go against him, even Liu Jin had the idea of being the second nine-thousand-year-old Wang Zhen, but Xia Zhi followed him, no matter what he did, he would support him, and that kind of affection was something he couldn't forget no matter what.

has the heart to take her back to the palace, but Xia Ru's death is always a wall between them, unless he lowers his head and justifies Xia Ru's name, can he do it?

What he can't do, many years of emperor career have long allowed him to develop a domineering character of self-respect, he will not bow to anyone, let alone justify a dead and long-convicted criminal minister, he can't slap himself in the face.

The more he thought about it, the more irritated he felt, so he simply stopped thinking about it, turned around and left, maybe only the busy affairs could make him forget this bad relationship caused by him for a while.

"Liu Jin, let's go, let's go to the three major camps and have a look."

Then he took Liu Jin to the three battalions, and wanted to know where Wang Yangming's three battalions had been dismantled and rectified.

The three major battalions are the five military battalions, the three thousand battalions, and the Shenji battalion.

The five military battalions are composed of mixed infantry and cavalry, divided into the middle army, the army, the left sentry army, the left sentry army, the right sentry army, the right sentry army, the cavalry and infantry mixed operations, and the mode of operation is changeable.

Three thousand battalions, all of which were cavalry, learned the tactics of the Mongolian cavalry, assaulted and charged, and were invincible.

The Shenji Battalion plays with firearms, such as artillery, firearms, arquebuses, etc., based on the three-stage shooting invented by Mu Ying, the founding general.

The three battalions were created by Zhu Di, the emperor of Yongle, and at their peak, they had beaten all the departments of the grassland to raise their heads, and then they were all buried by Zhu Qizhen in Tumubao, and they never returned to their former glory, until they gradually became a place for the children of the nobles to gild and eat empty salaries.

When he came to the garrison of the three battalions, after being reported by the guards at the gate, he visited the three battalions under the leadership of Wang Yangming.

"Wang Qing, what's the situation?"

Looking at the three battalions that were slightly messy and did not have the appearance of the Ming military aircraft, Zhu Houzhao frowned slightly, but he did not get angry, the three battalions were not erosive for a day or two, and it is estimated that they have been cleaned up.

"It's worse than you think."

Wang Yangming smiled bitterly, the three major battalions are not only rotten, they are rotten to the bones.

Not to mention the large number of old, weak, sick and disabled, not even the number of people, after the dismissal of the old, weak, sick and disabled, there are less than 3,000 soldiers with a good foundation.

"No matter what, the three major battalions will be re-established, after the old, weak, sick and disabled are dismantled, they are allowed to send twenty taels of silver as a settlement fee, and the newly recruited soldiers can also increase their salaries as appropriate, don't be stingy with silver, and directly ask Liu Jin to transfer it to you if you need as much as you need."

Zhu Houzhao said very generously, as long as the silver he accumulated was used in a serious place, he would not be stingy at all.

"I understand."

Wang Yangming nodded, he was one of the few people who knew Zhu Houzhao's family background and understood that Zhu Houzhao was not bad for money.

In addition to the part of the money needed for the operation of the imperial court, most of the money of the entire Ming Dynasty was piled up in Zhu Houzhao's leopard room, and the wealth owned by Zhu Houzhao was the real rich.

Originally, a lot of wealth had to be put into the treasury, such as the silver obtained from mining Iwami Silver Mountain, but Zhu Houzhao still forcibly included it in the treasure house of the leopard house, not giving anyone a chance to stretch out his hand.

According to the urine nature of those civil officials, putting a large amount of silver into the treasury is equivalent to putting a piece of fat meat in front of the hungry wolf, and after they toss up and down, in the end, the remaining one-tenth can be regarded as Zhu Houzhao looked down on them.

"The recruitment of soldiers has already been arranged, but Your Majesty, who do you plan to send to lead the three new battalions."

Wang Yangming inquired: He was only responsible for the abolition and rectification of the three battalions, but he could not manage the three battalions, after all, he was in charge of the reform of the law, and he still had many things to do, and he was not able to govern the three battalions at all.