Jingming

Chapter 434 The real emperor

The queen's eldest brother came back. After kneeling in front of his emperor's brother-in-law and saluting, he was helped up by the emperor himself.

The atmosphere in the royal study room was sad, and Huang Jin sighed silently in his heart.

Zhu Houcong looked at Sun Yuan's darkened and thin face and the wrinkles on it, and said softly: "Thank you for all the hard work for so many years."

"I don't feel sorry for you. Your Majesty, please take care of your dragon body."

"Sit down." Zhu Houcong returned to the imperial court and sat down. "How do the trees grow in Shaanxi?"

"...difficult." Sun Yuan said truthfully, "Tree seeds are the next best thing, and there is a shortage of manpower to plant trees. Farming and grazing are banned in the Mu Us area, so people naturally prefer to go to the Hetao border area. Xining's border market is booming, and trade is endless. We can’t afford higher wages than businesses and companies.”

Doing this is something that won’t see results in the short term, it’s just investment.

In fact, both monarchs and ministers understand this, and are trying to find some cash crops that have the best of both worlds.

"Elaeagnus elata, wolfberry, and Asparagus japonica have not been harvested yet?"

"There is a harvest," Sun Yuan said, "but there are not many fruits. After the harvest, the quality is not good. When I come back this time, I also want to ask Your Majesty to ask the priests of the Agricultural College to go to Shaanxi again. This time Send some people to stay there all year round. We still need to see if different tree species can be grafted into new ones, where they will be easier to survive and bear more fruits."

Zhu Houcong nodded, but said: "I have been paying attention to the report from Shaanxi. The Sun family has worked hard and made great achievements. You have been in Shaanxi for so many years and the foundation has been laid. In the future, if the tree species are improved, there will be people who are willing to plant trees there. If you make this a career, you can't just spend time. When you come back this time, you can stay in the capital."

"... Sir, it's better to go to Shaanxi. After years of sand control, we can't let our efforts fall short."

Zhu Houcong waved his hand: "I have a plan and someone in mind. If he goes, he will be able to continue to do a good job in this matter."

"I don't know who it is?" Sun Yuan asked, and then explained, "Your Majesty, forgive me, I didn't mean to disobey the holy will. It's just that the trees there were planted by me, and I remember..."

"You have this level of concern, I read you right." Zhu Houcong paused and said, "This is Hai Rui, a Jinshi in the 14th year of Jiajing. Now he has been in the sixth rank for several years, and I will appoint him as a patrol officer. Shi, specializes in this matter. He... endures hardships and loves the people like a son."

"I have heard of him." Sun Yuan suddenly realized, "I know that Xingang County in the Taiwan Border Region has a reputation for education. The native people and the Han people are all regarded as one. He cultivates wasteland and builds water conservancy projects. He has a reputation for blue sky."

"Let him go there, and he will continue to run your errands." Zhu Houcong returned to the topic, "I think you know why I asked you to stay in Beijing, and there is no need to mention returning to Shaanxi."

"……Yes."

Sun Yuan was expressing his position before, and it was only because of his correct words today.

It was Sun Lan's matter that required his eldest brother to come forward.

Zhu Houcong said slowly: "The important ministers in Beijing have elected Yang Shen to take over as the Prime Minister and Minister of State. There is no need to worry about the prince's affairs. The harem cannot be left without an owner. I still have many things to do for the Ming Dynasty. I can't waste too much energy on the disputes in the harem. Ming The son has a last wish, and the sisters are succeeded one after another. There is not much other trouble. It’s just that the Sun family is so favored, and the government and the public will talk about it. In addition, the Tong family’s mother’s family..."

Sun Yuan understood the emperor's meaning and lowered his head helplessly: "Despite all kinds of restrictions, it is inevitable that some relatives will take pride in the emperor himself and do something that ruins the reputation of the Tian family. I am ashamed of your majesty."

"Human nature is inevitable." Zhu Houcong recalled the situation Lu Bing checked back. "It's not a big problem. It's just that I bought a few more acres of land in the village and opened a few more stores. It was about oppressing the village and killing people. I haven’t done it before, but it’s already restrained effectively.”

"...His Majesty's intention is for me to personally restrain you in the future?"

He knew that in the past it was because they were separated by one layer.She was just a concubine taken by Sun Jiao in his old age, and Sun Lan was not Sun Ming's biological sister.But judging from the current enthusiasm for buying real estate, if Sun Langui becomes the queen, Sun Jing, who was given the title after Sun Yuanqian gave way, may not be able to suppress the inflated desire of the Tong family.

Zhu Houcong nodded: "After all, Sun Jing has no official position and is not an important minister in the court."

"...I am not qualified enough to hold a big position."

"It doesn't matter, the position of Director-General of the General Department of Public Security is all appointed by me." Zhu Houhuang has made arrangements. "The two current deputies, Chen Yin, used to protect the Yang family in Chengdu and have some connections with Yang Shen. Yuan Hongmao is a loyal minister. After that, there is also courage and strategy. In that position, you can use good people, and there are not so many things going on inside the Ming Dynasty now."

"I thank your Majesty for your trust!"

Using the eldest brother-in-law of the two queens as the chief of the Public Security Department, now the entire Ming Dynasty's anti-theft and security powers for the two capitals and sixteen provinces are in his hands. Sun Yuan's deterrence is sufficient.

The two brothers naturally have to be more careful in dealing with things and not to be found guilty of too many mistakes by others.

On weekdays, the Tong family, which controls its own small family, cannot be done with just a few words from the emperor or Sun Yuan brothers.If something really happens, it is only right to deal with it impartially.

Mrs. Tong herself is still young, I am afraid that brother Sun Yuan will be gone in the future, but she will still be alive and kicking.

Sun Lan is younger.

If the Tong family is not restrained in the next ten years, God knows what will happen in the future?

Zhu Houcong originally really wanted not to establish a queen, but to promote only two concubines, and let Lin Qingping and Wen Suyun help him take care of the harem.

Sun Ming had a problem, and Zhu Houcong agreed to her dying request, so she had to make arrangements to deal with the hidden worries.

Now besides Sun Lan's mother's family, the biggest worry is Sun Lan himself.

"I have issued a decree to reward the Sun family greatly at this time because the queen and you and your son have made great contributions to the country. The Tong family has received the imperial edict, and his father has also been awarded the title of country title for his service in managing the grain storage farm. Outsiders may I thought I was just grieving to reward the Sun family, but the clever courtiers may have guessed something. How to welcome your little sister into the palace, you can go and visit Cui Yuan later."

"Jingshan Marquis?" Sun Yuan was a little surprised.

"The queen mother has left. I will entrust the eldest princess to take care of this important matter." Zhu Houcong reminded, "Since last year, there have been many misfortunes in my family. Cui Yuan offered his strategy, and the eldest princess will play it again in the name of happiness. Please choose some. When a new person enters the palace, the old and the new are balanced. Then the old people in the palace are not willing to let things be trivial, and there will be more worries about the fight between the direct descendants in the future. I don't know much about your younger sister's temperament, so I asked the eldest princess to take a look first. Send her over and live in the Grand Princess Mansion for a while."

Sun Yuan knew the danger inside.Since a new queen is to be established, the most unpredictable thing is always the new queen's future thoughts.If she has a son, when the emperor gets old in the future, and she hopes that her own son will inherit the throne, that will be a real big trouble.

She is also required to save the emperor from the troubles in the harem, and she must not fight. How high is the temperament requirement?

"...Your Majesty, the queen has requested this invitation only for the prince. Now that your majesty has made proper arrangements and the prince has no worries, why bother creating complications?" Sun Yuan knelt down and advised, "It is difficult for the Sun family to bear the weight of one family and two queens. , Your Majesty, would you like to think more about it?"

Zhu Houcong was silent for a moment, and then spoke: "Before Ming'er has gone far, something has happened in the harem. The queen's position is vacant there, which is always an irresistible temptation. After establishing another family, it will not be the crown prince's mother's family in the future. The problem It’s just as big. In this case, you two brothers just have to do whatever it takes and be cautious.”

In this incident, Zhu Houcong was not moved by Cao Cha's desire to deeply bind the prince.But it was the situation where Wen Jingyi was unwilling to give up and was finally tortured by a little thought that she was willing to risk everything, which made Zhu Houcong realize how many possibilities were hidden in the harem.

The longer time passes, the more likely it is that problems will break out among the old people in the harem.

It is possible for anyone from a concubine to a palace maid or an eunuch.

Completely abolish this system of eunuchs and palace maids?
It makes no sense. Zhu Houcong is no longer a political novice.The imperial power is there, and the emperor's selfish desire to possess the harem is there. The long vitality of this system proves its reliability.

Twelve were selected at once, and later there were contributions from Carolina, Duoyan, Lanna, and Ordos. When Zhu Houcong was young and energetic, he also had the indulgence that an emperor felt he should take for granted.

The current situation is the result. Contradictions are everywhere and everything has two sides. It is true that it is not a lie.Bear with it.

In this regard, Zhu Houcong has also become the paper framer of his own family.

Do you have any expectations for newcomers here?

Zhu Houcong looked at Sun Yuan's leaving figure and felt the same in his heart.What Sun Yuan said made sense, and what Zhu Houcong considered also made sense.

There are many solutions to everything, it's just Zhu Houcong's choice.

Just be real.

Zhu Houcong looked at Huang Jin, put the book he had written down back into the box, locked it, and then stood up: "Go and sit with Concubine Xian."

After working hard for twenty years, he had no other way to enjoy and relax his mind.

For him, there was only the spiritual happiness brought by the slightly different Ming Dynasty, and the joy and relaxation of so many different faces and styles in the harem.

The emperor's uncle has been fighting for most of his life and still wants to continue playing music and dancing.

Maybe when Sun Ming made that request, she had seen through the man she had been with for many years.

She knew that the emperor would not refuse.

That position was just a position, and it just happened to be her back then.The emperor gave her respect and pampering for most of his life, but it was not that he would love her without anyone else, just because a queen who was authoritative enough could save the emperor a lot of trouble.

She was raised like that from an ignorant girl by the emperor.

If that's the case, why couldn't it also happen to be her sister?

Why not let the emperor think more of her sister perhaps in the future?
Only thinking of her, if something happens in the future, and looking at the prince they gave birth to together, is that the ultimate insurance to awaken the tenderness in the emperor's heart, right?

Zhu Houcong was thinking about this, and when he walked to the entrance of the palace corridor leading to Lin Qingping's place, he looked back in the direction of Kunning Palace, and then in the direction of Jiyan Palace.

Sun Ming is a very good queen, she has done everything she is supposed to do.Except for that time when she interceded for Queen Mother Zhang, she never did anything she shouldn't have done.

She understood her husband deeply, but Zhu Houcong did not understand her that well.

When she really left, Zhu Houcong had to allocate some of his energy to deal with the harem during this period. Only then did he know how deeply Sun Ming had considered it.

His eyes were slightly hazy, and Zhu Houcong thought of the restrained and polite girl who accompanied him to the imperial garden when he was a boy.

The tender shoots at that time were now full of sweetness, making Zhu Houcong seem a little drunk.

The first half of his life was indeed gone.

……

The eldest princess of Yongkang told the emperor that her first impression of Sun Lan was that of Queen Ji Xiao.

Of course it's not about appearance, it's about behavior and temperament.

If you are smart and work hard, you may not live long.

Zhu Houcong felt more and more that Sun Ming had made a lot of preparations early on.He already had a vague impression of Sun Lan, but behind this impression was a clearer figure, familiar and gentle.

Based on Zhu Houcong's current experience, he has already made a judgment.

How much training has Sun Lan received from Sun Ming to prepare the emperor to see her sister's shadow everywhere in his eyes when he looks at her in the future?
Zhu Houcong didn't know whether his choice this time was right or wrong, and now he could only take one step at a time.

How could he not take one step at a time for the future of Ming Dynasty?
Today's Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty in his impression.

There are fewer and fewer things to learn from, and more and more things require him to make decisions based on experience and intuition.

The report from Guangzhou came, and Louis had arrived. Among his requests was one thing: he hoped to strengthen the friendship between the two countries as Portugal's permanent diplomat in Beijing.

Zhu Houcong knew that friendship was nonsense, and João III felt that the Ming Dynasty had a lot to learn from.

Alfonso said that in the past few years, the war between the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and France had been at a stalemate, and Charles V, who was also the King of Spain, could not shift his attention to the west.The King of Portugal was able to survive the most difficult period of "secret reparations" and really has some ambitions in today's new situation.

So, if Zhu Houcong agrees to João, what will happen to the future of East and West?
On Tsushima Island, Yan Shifan didn't know that he had won the title of earl. Now he was told about another thing: after Nizi's son was succeeded by Nizi's son, he and Mo Ligen started fighting, and Ouchi Yoshitaka also Joined the war.Now that the area around Iwami Ginzan is in a mess, should we take action and simply seize the so-called Kyushu and Shikoku in southwest Japan?
That Yinshan produces one million taels of silver a year, and now the silver taels obtained from various businesses there are just over 30 taels.This is just "turnover", not profit, let alone tax money.

Yan Shifan's enthusiastic petition could be summed up in one sentence: Your Majesty, let's grab it.

Similarly, Xia Yan also submitted a secret report to discuss with the emperor first: after the military reform, the armies were purely maintained.Nowadays, although Anda still avoids fighting, the fighting in the Western Regions is lively, and Yarkand and even further west have gained a lot of territory and slaves.The cavalry brigade has begun to take shape. Your Majesty, is it time for another battle?

Before Gao Gong's report on the new situation in Nanyang came, North Korea's Li Yi came out again to accuse the Jurchens after having an "internal Zen": The Jurchens, who were robbed by Anda people every year, had nothing to do with the Mongols. method, but began to take advantage of North Korea's internal relatives and princes competing for power and the princes to frequently cause trouble for North Korea.As the co-sect master, Daming doesn’t care?
This is an external matter, and the internal petitions are even more varied.

Supervisor Qun Mu said that the Ministry of Culture and Education purchased and supplied fresh milk from all over the Ming Dynasty’s primary and secondary school system, and the accounts from the previous year have been delayed until now.

Baojin Bureau stated that the newly opened iron factories in several places are currently experiencing slow sales due to the completion of the Beijing-Guangzhou Straight Road and the basic completion of military reform and armament replacement.

The Publication and Engraving Department of the Ministry of Etiquette and Foreign Affairs stated that the requests from various provinces and counties for permission to print local newspapers were becoming increasingly difficult to suppress, and the imperial court needed to give its opinion.

Da Ming Bank noticed that a large amount of grain bought from overseas countries at the end of last year had a great impact on coastal grain prices around the Spring Festival. This year, the private businessmen guarded by the Maritime Great Wall Company also transported a lot of good grain seeds cultivated by agricultural colleges. Plantations over there in Nanyang.

In Guangzhou and Ningbo, due to the promotion of pulley cranes, many dock workers have lost their livelihoods, and there may be hidden worries...

Zhu Houcong did not need to take care of many things personally, but after Zhang Bi took over Zhang Fujing's position, he was not so responsible?

Compared with these things, Zhu Houcong felt that it was easier to think about steam engines.

The completely different Ming Dynasty was like a deep water area for Zhu Houcong.

His eyes returned to the reports from Xia Yan, Yan Shifan and others.

Regarding the more detailed gains and losses in internal affairs and the long-term effects of many measures, Zhu Houcong would have to pay more attention to the opinions of Yang Shen and Yan Song.

But he came to build the foundation of the future Eastern power.Take advantage of the last bit of your prime to lay the foundation you want to build first?
You still have to spend time arranging your digestive posture, right?
(End of this chapter)