Ah Qi: "......"

It's embarrassing.

Zhu Gaoxian raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why don't I pretend to sleep for a while?"

Aqi: "Do you hear it yourself?"

What does it mean to pretend to sleep for a while, you have heard what you should have heard and what you shouldn't hear, is it still useful to pretend to sleep now?

She wanted to speak and stopped, the memory in her mind flashed quickly, and when she came back to her senses, she found that Zhu Gaoxian had already closed her eyes and was lying on the chair and snoring.

Ah Qi was a little surprised, and some doubted whether the other party was really asleep.

With the character of this guy, it is very likely that he will play one hand and pretend to sleep again.

But after repeated confirmation, she found that Zhu Gaoxian was really asleep.

He was indeed too tired.

Every day to correct state affairs until the end of the hour, at the beginning of the morning to wake up and continue to work diligently, only sleep for about an hour and a half every day, the rest of the time is busy with state affairs. This kind of sleeping habit has lasted for more than half a year, and he often can't find time to go back to the East Palace to have warmth with his wife and children for half a month or even a month.

"Meow~"

Ah Qi looked sideways and found that there was a snow-white big cat lying on the eucalyptus platform, stretching his waist lazily, and stretched out his paws after seeing Ah Qi's gaze, as if to say hello.

This big cat is a pet given to Zhu Gaoxian by Cheng Guogong, because the snow white body does not see a little black, so it is named "Frost", quite favored by Zhu Gaoxian, usually kept in the Wenhua Palace, not noisy or noisy, but a little sticky.

Compared with the crown princess, it is obvious that this big cat raised in the Wenhua Hall has been with Zhu Gaoxian for a longer time.

……

Zhu Di opened his eyes in a drowsy state, only to feel a splitting headache, and a sense of splitting that he was almost torn apart in the storm.

When he opened his eyes, he felt as if the world was spinning, as if the whole world had fallen upside down. But the familiar decoration around him seemed to recall something: "This, this is the Qianqing Palace?"

"No, no, I always feel that something is wrong......

"Ah, I think about it, this should be ...... The Qianqing Palace in Nanjing?"

The Beijing Imperial Palace was built according to the blueprint of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, but the war of the Battle of Jingyan caused too many palaces in the Nanjing Imperial Palace to be destroyed and suffered damage of different sizes.

And now this strange but familiar palace, Zhu Di recognized it.

He was a little puzzled: "I, how can I be in Nanjing?"

"Could it be that there is a demon at work?"

Zhu Di was fascinated by the lake and lake, as if he saw a familiar back, sitting in front of the bronze mirror and combing his makeup, vaguely a little hazy, but this back made him almost stop breathing.

He stood up tremblingly, picked up the copper lamp beside the bed, used the faint light to illuminate the vision in front of him, and slowly walked towards the back. Perhaps it was because his body was so weak that he felt that every step he took was very difficult, but he still forged ahead until he reached the back of the man.

Zhu Di looked at the figure reflected in the bronze mirror, but it was a young woman who was grooming, with a phoenix crown and a silk shawl, eyebrows like light smoke, apricot eyes, and pink in the snow-white skin, which seemed to be able to wring out water. Dignified and graceful, luxurious and gentle.

It was the woman he had always dreamed of seeing.

His Majesty the Emperor's throat moved slightly, and for a while, countless thoughts and joys in his heart turned into a flat sentence: "Empress, you have come back to see me."

Whether this is a dream or a conjecture, when Zhu Di saw this woman, it didn't matter anymore.

It's enough to see her.

The queen bowed slightly, and asked gently, "Your Majesty, I haven't seen you for many years, have you ever missed your concubine?"

"I miss it, I miss it all the time."

Zhu Di looked at the person in the mirror and sighed, "It's a pity that time has changed, and things are wrong."

In the bronze mirror, the queen is still in her prime, beautiful and moving. But Zhu Di was already full of gray hair, his face was full of wrinkles, and he was old.

The great general in the twilight of his life contrasted sharply with the young beauty, like an insurmountable chasm separating the two, although they were only half a step apart, but like a moat, everything was a phantom on a bubble, and the slightest touch would shatter it.

Zhu Di said softly, "No matter what, it's good to see you."

The queen then asked, "Your Majesty, how is the country?"

Zhu Di replied: "The mountains and rivers are prosperous, the society is prosperous, and the dynasty is prosperous."

The queen nodded with satisfaction: "The concubines know that Your Majesty is a heroic and heroic lord, and will definitely be able to lead this Ming dynasty to become a prosperous era through the ages. In this way, the concubine died without regret."

Zhu Di felt a little embarrassed: "Queen, maybe you said the wrong thing?"

The queen frowned slightly: "What does Your Majesty mean by this?"

Zhu Di touched the tip of his nose and said, "This prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty is not the work of me alone, but more of the credit of Xiaosi. Now that he is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't have to go to the army in person, he has finished the battle for me, and he is better than me. In terms of governance, he is far superior to me, and has become an emperor."

Although men like to hear their beloved women praise themselves, he is no exception, but Zhu Di really can't pull his face to steal his son's credit for himself, even verbally.

Today's Daming, although it is a prosperous era of Yongle, no one knows better than Zhu Di how this prosperous era of Yongle came about.

Before Zhu Gaoxian took power, the jingle of the Ming Dynasty gave people a sense of poor beauty. Although it has never been instigated in foreign wars, the internal contradictions have initially intensified, first, the state treasury is shabby, second, the party is seriously strife, and third, the government is corrupt. The so-called prosperous era is nothing more than a prosperous era of imagination.

It was Zhu Gaoxian who fought in the south and in the north, opened up the territory and expanded the territory, solved the shackles of foreign wars, and established the prestige of imperial authority. Through the excavation of the silver mountain in Yingzhou, the crisis of the national treasury warning was temporarily calmed. Then gradually reform the tax system, reform the rule of officials, based on the three northeastern provinces to send talents to the Ming Dynasty, continue to build the Han Academy to assimilate foreign races, first set up the tax supervision institute, and then set up the civil and military institute, which has now the treasury is rich, the government is clear, the territory is vast, the cultural revival, a new atmosphere of the prosperous world.

Today's Yongle prosperity is actually just the prosperity of Zhu Gaoxian alone.

Zhu Gaoxian stayed up all night in the Wenhua Palace, busy with state affairs all day long, and did his best to govern the country and rejuvenate the country. But Zhu Di lay flat in the palace and enjoyed a leisurely time.

This really made his conscience uneasy, how dare he steal his son's deeds?

The queen smiled, as soft as spring water, clean and refined, and said comfortably: "Little Si, the little boy with a weak personality in the Yan Wangfu back then has now grown into a man who can shelter the dynasty from the wind and rain?"

Zhu Di's forehead was sweating: "Queen, I don't want to refute you, but it's too exaggerated for you to describe Xiao Si with the word "weak personality", right?"

You say that Zhu Xiaosi has a weak personality?

Recruit Jurchen, kill tens of thousands of people to build a view of Beijing, and burn hundreds of tribes of all sizes!

Conquer North Korea, make Korean civil strife with conspiracy and tricks, and there will be a sea of corpses and blood in the royal city!

Conquer the Japanese country, chase down the Japanese *** team, and kill the shogunate and the Japanese royal family with an order!

Conquer Annan, set fire to the mountain, leave no prisoners, and more than 100,000 people have no survivors!

When the world slaughtered, Zhu Gaoxian, who was famous for his "violent and cruel, cold-blooded and ferocious", if he hadn't been benevolent and civilian, so that the people would have straightened their waists, eaten and dressed well, controlled public opinion, and appeased the people, I am afraid that he would have been named a "tyrant" long ago!

The queen whispered softly, "When the concubine left, the children were still young, and I failed to fulfill my responsibilities as a mother. Especially ashamed of Xiao Si, when Xiao Si was only sixteen or seventeen years old, I died, thinking that he must have been sad at that time, after all, this child was filial piety when he was young."

Zhu Di nodded: "After you left, Xiao Si began to grow a short beard, and laid his mother with a beard, this child doesn't say anything, but he keeps thinking about you in his heart."

A thin layer of mist hung on the queen's eyes, and she said quietly, "Your Majesty, the concubine can't accompany you, and she can't accompany Xiao Si anymore. You can't always live in the past, and neither do you

It's time to wake up, Daming, I can't lose you."

Zhu Di sighed in his heart, and asked with some anxiety, "Why did the queen say this, what do you mean by this?"

Outside the window, the sky was shining brightly, the sun was rising, and the bright red clouds fluttered above the pavilion and hall, like five ribbons flying and fluttering, forming a bridge to the upper realm.

The queen glanced at the sky outside the window, and sighed faintly: "Your Majesty, the concubine should go, and you still need to go by yourself in the future."

Her body gradually darkened, like a falling star in the night sky, although it was gorgeous, but it would eventually be extinguished. Little by little, it fell apart over time.

Zhu Di was shocked and angry, he wanted to hold the queen's hand, and refused to let his lover leave: "Queen, I order you, you are not allowed to go anywhere!"

In his voice, there was fear, reluctance, anger, and anxiety......

Finally seeing the person I want to see the most, but I can't keep it, this is undoubtedly the saddest thing in the world.

Zhu Di shook the queen's hand, but only held a phantom of memory, passing through the queen's skin, as if nothing existed in front of him, everything was his reverie.

Before the queen's figure disappeared completely, her red lips rose slightly, and she smiled softly: "Your Majesty, the concubine is leaving, you must take care of Xiaosi and our son......

Her voice gradually weakened, and Zhu Di roared: "I promise you that I will take good care of Xiaosi and our son!"

"Stop, stay with me, don't go!"

However, the empress was gone after all, leaving only the emperor in tears, alone in the phantom grief.

When people go to empty buildings, dreams, it's time to wake up.

The emperor cannot be immersed in illusion, he is destined to be the loneliest person, victorious in the most ruthless struggle of reality.

……

Zhu Di reluctantly opened his eyes and gasped for air.

He looked around in a panic, he was lying on a sickbed, the smell of herbs in the air.

"Your Majesty, you're awake!"

Tang Cheng knelt in front of the dragon couch in surprise, "Your Majesty is a man of destiny, and it will inevitably be invasible and prolonged, long live my emperor!"

Zhu Di's back was already soaked with sweat, and he looked around, he was not in Nanjing, but in the Qianqing Palace in Beijing.

And the queen, as if she never returned.

Everything was just a dream he had.

His mood sank to the bottom, but he quickly recovered.

The queen had already warned him in a dream, he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the father of Xiaosi, he should cheer up and regroup!

After all...... He didn't have much time left, and in this last time, he had to do everything that was behind him.

Zhu Di rubbed his aching eyebrows, only to feel weak and unprecedentedly weak, and then he remembered that he seemed to have been directly pumped before, and then he was unconscious.

He asked in a whisper, "How long have I been in a daze?"

Tang Cheng said, "Back to Your Majesty, you have been sleeping for a whole month."