Sun Jiao, whose identity is a secret and unannounced, is very busy.

The Ministry of Rites confirmed that it was Zhang Zilin, so it was only the Ministry of Criminal Affairs who wanted to push it.

Among the current ministers, since Zhang Zilin, who has a close relationship with Yang Tinghe, has been promoted to a prominent position, he can no longer stare at the position of the secretary of the Criminal Department, according to the unspoken rules.

The other four ministers also knew that Sun Jiao's position in the center was to succeed Yuan Zonggao and become the leader of the "Imperial Party".

Therefore, to form a good fate, this criminal department Shangshu has to follow Sun Jiao's door.

Sun Jiao agreed, then Wang Qiong and the others would have no opinion.

The thirteenth day of the first lunar month is the first fixed day of rest after His Majesty's "grace", but there are many guests in the Sun Mansion.

In the backyard, Sun Ming couldn't cry or laugh: "Mother, my daughter doesn't play much leaf play, no matter how much you say, her daughter can't play well." ”

"Then when I enter the palace today, I will ask Your Majesty and the eldest princess for advice!"

The mother and daughter got into a soft sedan chair and went out through the back door.

When I turned to the alley, I saw that there were still many people going to the main gate of their houses, and many of them were carrying gifts and prayer stickers.

Sun Wang put down the sedan curtain and felt very happy.

I have been idle in my hometown for several years, but I didn't expect to regain the grand occasion of the former Hubu Shangshu Mansion, and it is even better.

"I heard that Zhu Yunming, a talented man in Wuzhong, often enters the palace to teach His Majesty calligraphy, if you don't play leaf play, you can also ask Your Majesty to learn calligraphy together." Sun Wangshi pinched his daughter's little hand with a smile on his face, "Ming'er is the most happy to look at when she learns calligraphy." ”

Sun Ming only felt that what her mother was thinking about every day now was how to behave in front of His Majesty, how to invite pets and gain love.

Her heart began to get nervous, she was about to enter the palace again, and she was going to see His Majesty again.

Although he knew that he was only one year older than himself, in his father's mouth, His Majesty's mind was better than that of many people, and his experience seemed to be comparable to that of an old man who had traveled from south to north.

It's a contradiction, I remember the young, cheerful, playful face I saw that day, and the smiling look in his eyes when he looked at himself.

It's like there's a look hidden behind that smile.

I only heard my mother say again: "This grace is rare in all dynasties, how much time do you spend with Your Majesty than other concubines?" Your father is also a pavilion elder, don't be too restrained in front of Your Majesty, if you are restrained, it will make people feel difficult to get close! Treat him like a husband......"

When she heard what husband was, the girl felt very strange in her heart, and she couldn't help but be afraid.

Could it be that His Majesty has to do anything before the wedding?

The sedan chair slowly walked towards the Forbidden City, and in a certain township in Nanzhili, Li Zheng nodded to the county officials and bowed, and then said to the first head who was called: "You all heard it." His Majesty's wedding this year, this extra annual tribute, the county lord has already received the order of the official, and our amount is so much. By April, everyone collected from every household. In addition, His Majesty's wedding is celebrated all over the world, and the county will also celebrate it for ten days. Each of us has to go to the county on an errand, and tomorrow we will set the list, and I will take it to the county. ”

Eleven households per mile, ten households per class.

A leader hesitated for a moment and said to the county officials: "Master, are you going to serve tomorrow?" Although it is still the first month of the year, the farm work in the fields is about to get busy. How long do you have to serve? ”

"What are you talking about?" The county officials glared, "It's a blessing to be able to work for His Majesty's wedding celebration!" In the year of this year's change, the palace had to come down to inspect and be congratulated by the county and the people of our county. The county has to be renovated everywhere, which is the top priority given by the county! The summer tax can't be mistaken, the year can't be less, this year's His Majesty's wedding must be completed before April! ”

The ten capitals were silent.

After speaking, the little official also emphasized: "It must be a strong man!" Don't send any half-sized boy and old guy to fool me! ”

“…… Master, last year, Qin sent a case to handle the case, and the miscellaneous work sent by him has not yet been completed. If the summer grain can't be mistaken, spring plowing is really indispensable......"

"Long-winded! Is it more important to entertain Lord Qincha, or is it more important to have His Majesty's wedding? You can't tell the difference between the important and the heavy, do you still want this master to say? The little official weighed the short stick and got up, "Do you want to disobey?" This is to resist the emperor's order, Lao Tzu can take someone to the county and lock him up now! ”

"The lord is angry, the lord is angry." Li Zheng hurriedly grabbed him, and then said in a pleading tone, "Xia Liang really can't be mistaken, and the New Year's office is urgent, can you be accommodating?" The burden in us is heavy, can we produce five dings? The remaining six members, the lord begged the county lord, we made up some money, and didn't the county hire some homeless people to work as relief every time? ”

"It's a big deal this year!" The little official snorted, "Those outcasts are either hungry and have little strength, or they are all goods. The work that six strong men can do, I'm afraid twelve homeless people can't do it! ”

The other leaders looked at the lieutenant chief and the people from the county government, and they were silent one by one.

How many commissioners are assigned? I don't know, and I don't know if I ask.

It's just that if you don't send Ding's A, then you have to scrape together a piece of money and hand it over.

Watching the lieutenant chief discuss with him how much silver should be folded for this difference, some of the leaders lowered their heads to hide their anger and confusion.

Every time I change the yuan, it is the most difficult.

The county lord will use knives, guns and sticks to urge the full amount of the field endowment, and want to pay tribute to the emperor in various names to please the emperor.

If you want to donate to the old man's door, it is becoming more and more difficult to find the door, and the amount of money to spend is increasing, and the tenant rent is getting higher and higher.

How will we survive this year?

If there is another natural disaster, it will be all over......

The same thing happened in almost every province and most counties of Daming at this moment.

Yes, it has been arranged since before the Chinese New Year.

Therefore, before the Chinese New Year, news from some places has also spread to the capital.

"Guangdong is no exception?"

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Houxi confirmed a sentence to Zhang Bo.

"No exception."

Zhu Houxi nodded silently, and then calmly ordered: "You did a good job." According to what I told you, give the Fourteen Cicada Kings all the money and put on more eyeliner. ”

"Obey the order!"

Since the arrest of Fang Muxian and several of his righteous sons last year, the internal inspection factory has only been secretly paying attention to a lot of information.

His Majesty summoned him for the first time after the Spring Festival, and Zhang Bo didn't want to talk about these things that would upset His Majesty.

But His Majesty asked him if he had made money through the draft wedding, and Zhang Bo could only report it.

Anyone can hide it from the outside world, but not from Your Majesty.

“…… Your Majesty, Sun Ge Lao's wife and daughter have arrived at Qingning Palace. ”

After Zhang Boring left, Huang Jin reminded him in a whisper.

Zhu Houxi asked him: "Fang Feng, who impeached Yuan Jinsheng arranged by Xie Changjie before, went to which province to be the imperial historian?" ”

The name is very good, but there are actually only seven products according to the imperial history. It's just that if an ordinary superintendent has the qualifications to patrol a province, he will enter the fast lane of promotion later.

"Your Majesty, after the Fujian Governor was killed, Fang Feng made up for this shortage."

"Tomorrow you go and call Xia Yan. In the next month, pay attention to the notes handed over by the provincial governors, and some mention the indiscriminate dispatch of servants under the pretext of the change of the yuan, the draft, and the big wedding, and sort out the names and provinces. ”

Huang Jin's heart sank: "The slave obeys the order." ”

Xia Yan has already contributed a lot to the resetting of the three major battalions, and now that the matter has been sorted out, and in the next two years, it only needs to be implemented according to the rules and regulations to let the Beijing battalion expand, prepare, and drill, then Xia Yan seems to be of great use.

"I also want to say a word to Yan Song."

Zhu Houxi gave a faint order, stood up and walked towards Qingning Palace.

"The slave and maid understand." Huang Jin followed and persuaded, "Your Majesty, after all, it is a big wedding, and these things are inevitable." You love the people like a son, and the slaves and maids will remember it, so don't be angry. ”

"I'm not angry." The smile on the corner of Zhu Houxi's mouth was cold.

It is indeed inevitable that the local community will celebrate him. In the name of celebration, it is inevitable to swallow a little.

But if the food is too ugly, then Zhu Houxi is also ready to send another knife.

The new atmosphere of changing the yuan, but what was planted on Zhu Houxi's head was full of resentment.

This belongs to the people who are suffering, and they will get more than half of the benefits, and I will bear the infamy.

"Your Majesty, you're still angry." Huang Jin said.

"So what do you do?"

"You called all those Portuguese prisoners, and the slaves and maids first let them play a scene of monkeys and crowns? Let them put on costumes and learn a few steps, and then will they make you and Sun Niangniang happy? ”

Zhu Houxi was immediately amused by him: "You can figure it out, what kind of monkey is crowned ......"

Those who were escorted to Beijing earlier than Zhu Yunming included the 40 or so "Qin prisoners" who were captured in the Second Battle of Tuen Mun, of which 27 were Europeans.

Along the way, six of the forty or so people died. After arriving in the Jinyi Guard's prison, eleven more died in the next month.

Today, only 17 of the 27 Europeans remain, and the rest of the "traitors" who aided the abuse have been executed.

Together with Pilletz and the two Portuguese who had been sent to the capital before, there were exactly twenty.

Zhu Houxi asked Luo An to bring them over today, not to show Sun Ming the novelty.

"Ask Wei Bin and Zhu Yunming to meet them together. Tell Wei Bin that I told him before that he could pay attention to the things he bought back to the Ming Dynasty in the sea trade shop, and asked him to ask these Westerners if they had seen them and what they looked like. Zhu Houxi waved his hand, "Then let Zhu Yunming listen to the description and draw it." ”

Zhu Houxi doesn't know how to paint, and he doesn't know what sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, which have not yet been introduced to Daming on a large scale, look like and what their names look like at this time.

Those who often go to sea along the coast may have seen these things, but they may just taste them as novelties.

Who knows where it is now?

Luo An's side also focused on interrogating the current strength of the Portuguese in the south, their next plan, their warship gun skills and other "military intelligence".

Although Zhu Houxi can have no taboos as an emperor, it is more systematic to let Wei Bin do this first, in the name of collecting overseas products.

Finding a more stable source is more important, and Zhu vaguely remembers that these high-yielding species also have drawbacks. Including breeding and planting methods, Zhu Houxi knows nothing.

came to Qingning Palace, said hello to Empress Dowager Jiang, smiled and nodded to Sun Wang's family, and Zhu Houxi said to Sun Ming very familiarly: "Let's go, take you to the Imperial Garden, and see all kinds of strange stones and flowers." ”

“…… Your Majesty, are the eldest princesses over there too? ”

Following behind Zhu Houxi, seeing that his mother did not follow, and he did not see the emperor's sister and sister, Sun Ming seemed to have walked into a strange jungle alone.

"Scared to stay alone with me?"

Of course, Sun Ming was uneasy and nervous, but when she heard this, she could only purse her lips and bow her head and shake her head: "No ......"

"I heard that you read a lot of books at home, and I'll see how many things you recognize." Zhu Houxi looked back at her, with a smile, "In the future, I will be my queen, come to me, I will take you to the imperial garden, don't be afraid." ”

The little girl heard his gentle tone, clasped her hands together and slowly looked up at him.

Seeing that he was looking at himself with a smile, he let out a slight "um" and suppressed his nervousness, and quickly moved two steps to a little further beside him.

is not lively, but the girl's timidity revealed by this is full of ten.

Zhu Houxi walked slowly: "I don't go to the imperial garden to shop much, it's only the first month now, I heard that there will be a few plum blossoms next month, let's go to see it then." Let's look for it today and see if there are any flower bones. Do you know how to draw? ”

“…… The folk girl is not good at drawing. ”

"You just say me, I say everything."

Sun Ming suddenly chuckled, and then covered her mouth in a panic.

Zhu Houxi turned her head to look at her, and the little girl's eyes were full of panic.

"That's interesting?" Zhu Houxi thought to himself, "Do you know that there is a Hanlin editor named Chen Quan in the Yongle Dynasty?" ”

Sun Ming actually nodded: "I know...... The tender chrysanthemum scatters light smoke, and the green stamen contains morning dew. I don't see Chai Sangweng, and I am far away. People...... I like this song "Mo Ju"......"

She read the poem in a crisp and tender voice, and Zhu Houxi looked at her in surprise.

casually said that she could still recite poems written by others, although Zhu Houxi didn't know if this poem was written by Chen Quan.

But the little girl should not dare to bully the king.

“…… You don't know the interesting thing I'm going to tell, but it's hard to tell right now. ”

"Why?" Sun Ming was aroused a little curiosity.

"Gao Zhong, what you tell me to hear, you can tell me."

Now if it is not an important thing during the day, Gao Zhong will accompany him, and Huang Jin will make up for sleep.

At this time, Gao Zhong took two steps forward but had a bitter face: "Your Majesty, if the slave and maid tell this old thing, it will be insulting to listen to the mother......"

Although he has not yet got married, looking at the emperor's "favor" for the daughter of the Sun family, how could Gao Zhong not know the situation.

"Let you talk about it, now it's time to concentrate on fun."

“…… Be. Gao Zhong cleared his throat, "This old thing, the slave maid also heard from the palace." When it was said that it was the Yongle Dynasty, the editor Chen Quan was used to telling jokes. One day, I got lost in the palace and strayed into the forbidden land, and I was caught by a big man. Chen Quan was extremely frightened and hurriedly begged for mercy. Although that place is forbidden, it is not really a matter of urgency. Da Jue tested him: "I heard that Chen Xiuxiu is used to laughing, if you only use one word to make our family laugh today, then I will let you go." 'Niangniang, do you know what Chen Quan's answer is?' ”

Sun Ming shook her head, her eyes full of curiosity.

How can one word make someone laugh?

Gao Zhong smiled and said, "Chen Quan opened his mouth and replied: 'Fart'." ”

Sun Ming blushed suddenly, and then secretly looked at the emperor: If this Gao Gonggong doesn't talk about it, will His Majesty talk about it...... The word?

But what's so funny about this word.

"Da Jue lowered his face and asked him, 'What's so funny about this?' Unexpectedly, Chen Bianxiu replied with a bitter face: "That's not just by the father-in-law, and if you don't let go, it will be by the father-in-law." ’”

"Poof......" Sun Ming suddenly laughed, and then raised her sleeves to cover her face, only to see her face flushed, but her shoulders were still shaking.

Zhu Houxi looked at it interestingly, and said with a sigh: "The tender chrysanthemum scatters light smoke, and it is this light smoke that scatters......"

Sun Ming's eyes widened, and he forgot to stare at the emperor for a while: What a poem!

"Your Majesty's Solution!" Gao Zhong immediately patted his ass, "This is more amusing than that word." ”

They don't know what a tender chrysanthemum is, but they know what light smoke is.

"It's also a coincidence." Zhu Houxi smiled, "Aren't you also a coincidence with me?" Ruined a poem you liked, and I'll tell you something elegant later. ”

Sun Ming followed him into the imperial garden, but his mood relaxed unconsciously.

Your Majesty is also an interesting Majesty, and...... Except for his brother, Sun Ming has never visited the garden like this with any man of the same age.

When I came to the Imperial Garden, sure enough, a few plum blossoms began to sprout, and there were a little flower bones.

She looked at the emperor who was easy-going and laughing with her, and the girlish feelings in her heart also sprouted.

What my mother said was right, for a woman, it was a great luck to be able to meet her husband before the wedding, and to be able to visit the garden together.

Only a few days later, His Majesty's appearance became a little clearer in her heart.

The emperor was in a mood with the future empress on the day of rest, but Huang Jin went to Xia Yan's mansion first and told him to see the emperor tomorrow.

"Gonggong Huang, I don't know what His Majesty is calling, what is the matter?" Xia Yan insisted on handing Xie Yi to him.

After Huang Jin took it off, he just smiled and said, "We really don't know, maybe there is something to send." Your Majesty is lenient and loves the people, and Xia is loyal to the king. ”

Xia Yan kept this sentence in his heart and bowed solemnly to Huang Jin: "The minister will be loyal to the king and live up to His Majesty's high expectations." ”

No matter what kind of dispatch it is, then the focus is on the words "Your Majesty is lenient and benevolent and loves the people".

The emperor's imperial eunuchs always do not accept Xie Yi, so this trip in person is to remind him of these words.

As Huang Jin, he naturally doesn't have to deliberately make friends with any foreign ministers, so he should be here to remind himself that the next dispatch should be very important.

What is more important than what he is sending now?

(End of chapter)