golden scales

Duan is not interested in state affairs, but just learning to integrate into her husband's life.Although she is a queen, the only information she has obtained is newspapers and some small things occasionally mentioned by Zhu Cihong.She gradually discovered that with such a strong-minded emperor, there was no possibility of a concubine intervening in politics, because no concubine had comprehensive knowledge and long-term vision that could compare with His Majesty the Emperor himself.

This made it impossible for Duan to discuss issues on an equal footing with Zhu Cihong.

"How is Lao Wu?" Usually at this time, Zhu Cihong would shift the problem to family matters, so that the husband and wife could not communicate at all.Now he finally has some understanding of married life. He once thought that this kind of relationship is natural and needs no management, but later realized that this is not fair to his wife, especially a wife who is not really mature.

After consciously running the family, at least the queen's personality is much more cheerful than before, and she keeps her worries in her stomach and does not vomit out, and the situation where she is full of negative energy is gradually decreasing.This also improved Zhu Cihong's life after get off work, and finally took the first step towards a harmonious family.

"The fifth one is coming soon, she must be a daughter this time." Duan gently stroked her protruding belly.

Knowing that his wife loves his daughter, Zhu Cihong was a little secretive about it at first, but now it's an open secret.Fortunately, there are four thriving princes above, and it is not too much to want a daughter.

The royal family does not have contraception. Zhu Cihong and his wife Duan are in good health and work regularly.Especially Zhu Cihong, who has no preference for wine, sex and vocal music, lives like an ordinary person, going to work every day.Going to get off work, walking, exercising... no wonder "the bullet is always there".

"Don't let Kunxing hear this." Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "She even gave birth to two daughters."

Thinking of sister-in-law, Duan also finds it funny.I want to have a daughter but can't.My sister-in-law is looking forward to her son but can't get it.It is said that Kunxing built a Buddhist hall in his home, dedicated to the offering of Avalokitesvara and begging for a son.And it was also heard that she returned to Beijing to report her duties in Yongwang.Hosting banquets and entertaining, and sleeping with concubines at home, just want to "steal" a son to raise by himself.

This kind of thing seemed absurd to Zhu Cihong, and he secretly taught Kun Xing a lesson, which made the eldest princess go home with red eyes.However, the person concerned, Yongwang Cizhen, didn't respond. He just rejoiced that he didn't become a father for no reason, let alone an uncle who became his son for no reason.

But other insiders such as the queen, the queen's sister, including Chongzhen, Zhou Hou, Yi'an and Zhang Hou.I don't think there is anything wrong with Kunxing's doing so, but I approve of it very much.Because Zhu Cizhao's son was originally a blood relative, and it was an "accidental income", and his mother was just a concubine, so it would not be out of the ordinary to offer incense to his sister and brother-in-law.

If there is really no son, the Fu family may have to embrace an adopted son who is almost unrelated by blood. How can they be so close?

This kind of ethical relationship made Zhu Cihong unable to resist.I had to blame myself for being troublesome, and sending a letter was an apology in disguise.

"Actually, giving birth to a son is the same as giving birth to a daughter." Zhu Cihong said.

Empress Duan raised her eyebrows, "It's still different."

After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, she also laughed.

Now there are many princes, and they are in good health, and the country is safe.If, like my uncle, the queen's son was damaged, and the other sons died young, there would be people in the court urging the concubine every day, wishing that the emperor would become a little bee among the flowers.However, this is a vicious circle. The more indulgent you are, the worse your sperm quality will be, and the less healthy you will be able to produce children.If there is a slight change, it will die again.

"Nowadays there are no ministers staring at my harem. It's all due to the empress." Zhu Cihong laughed.

"It's also the emperor's love." Duan said, her face flushed.

Emperor Longjing is simply a copy of the Temple of Filial Piety, and there is only one woman so far, which leaves a lot of room for imagination for those who don't know the inside story.Even the queen's parents thought that their daughter was a pamper and could not be tolerated, so they secretly came to persuade her a few times.During that time, the queen was also quite distressed.I am obviously not a jealous woman, why are there such slanderous words in the world?

As her son grows up day by day, the queen also finds that being a "jealous woman" is also beneficial. Seeing her father's kindness and filial piety every day, being able to be harmonious and beautiful, without worrying about backstabbing, isn't it a blessing in human relations?Moreover, since she married into the palace for several years, her dependence on the emperor seems to have increased. Occasionally, the emperor was late for overtime work, and she couldn't help but look forward to her husband's return.

"The emperor's father and mother are coming back." Zhu Cihong said again: "It is said that they are coming to pick up the fifth child."

"Jiangnan and his party have been walking for so long, it's time to come back and take a rest." The queen rubbed her stomach, feeling that she was still taken care of by her mother-in-law.She thought of her eldest son again, and sighed: "The letters written by Qiu Guan these days make my concubine really anxious."

"What? Isn't there nothing wrong?" Zhu Cihong also read those letters, and didn't find any surprises, but thought that his wife was too sensitive because she was pregnant.

"Qiuguan's calligraphy has not improved for a long time, so I may have wasted a lot of homework." The mother saw her son's 360-degree view without any dead ends. Even Zhu Cihong, who pays so much attention to details, neglected to analyze his son's situation from the perspective of calligraphy. .

"Calligraphy has reached a bottleneck, and hard work alone cannot improve it. There must be a secret." Zhu Cihong laughed when he said it.However, this is his understanding in this life. He can only write good-looking calligraphy only by practicing hard, but to become a master of calligraphy like Fu Shan, he needs to accumulate life experience and walk out of a new world in a sudden and transparent place. .

Besides, when Zhu Cihong asked Zhu Hegui to go out with his grandparents to play, he wanted him to waste some of his homework, restore his child's nature, and not be bound by old prejudices.

"You're still laughing!" Duan said with a feigned annoyance, "Second elder brother has never cared about his studies, so you don't mention him. He just plays, plays, plays all day long! Bringing the two little ones below is also crazy. go."

In fact, the second child, Zhu Heqi, is more in line with Zhu Cihong's wishes, and it can already be seen that this child is more free and easy.

Although there may be some deficiencies in actual work, but in terms of grasping the general direction, I am afraid that it is more suitable for my needs in the "post-Longjing era" after a hundred years.However, the crown prince is not at fault at all. To abolish the elders and establish the younger ones will undoubtedly lead to chaos in the court, and maybe the achievements of reforms over the years will be in vain.Never make a mistake.

"The two younger ones are only three or five years old, now they will grow stronger after going crazy." Zhu Cihong said with a smile.

Duan sighed, and said: "When can a mother not worry? Since the birth of her son, she hasn't had a day to worry about. I'm afraid I'll have to worry about it until I grow old."

"The times are different. When these little bastards arrive, we will drive them out one by one. None of us should worry about it. I don't believe they will starve to death." Zhu Cihong said.

"It's true... the son has to leave when he grows up, how can he stay with his parents forever?" Although Duan said this, she was a little dejected.Turning her eyes to look at her husband, she said: "My lord, why don't you see who is promising, and follow the old example of King Yong, and make a governor of the border barbarians?"

The governor of the country must not have the turn of the royal relatives and relatives. In fact, even civil servants rarely have a governor.Because the power of the governor is too great, it is almost controlled by the army and the people, which makes the emperor, the cabinet, and the ministry feel insecure, so as long as the province is stable.There is no longer a governor, and even fewer and fewer governors.

In the local area of ​​Ming Dynasty in the future, the third department is destined to become more and more important, ensuring the balance and restriction of power.At the same time, fields such as the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Municipal Bureau of Shipbuilding, and national taxation are all vertically managed by the central government, which has greatly strengthened the imperial court's control over the localities and ensured the country's ability to mobilize.

The newly opened provinces are too far away.Either the ethnic origin is too complicated. In the era without telephones and telegraphs, the central court couldn't control it even if it wanted to.Nowadays, the four capitals of Mongolia, Wusizang, and Duogandu, the civil affairs officials sent by the court are just decorations, and they are only responsible for "tax exemption and exemption from labor"-the collection will definitely not bring in much, and being able to "exempt" can be regarded as direct management.

"It's not easy to be the governor of the border barbarians." Zhu Cihong said, "Let's see when the time comes. In fact, I'm also considering the issue of conferring. It's really not possible. From the beginning of these small gangs, the royal family members began to make false appointments. No more country."

The princes of the Ming Dynasty were initially sealed.He has military and political power in his own fief.Otherwise, Chengzu would have no chance to raise troops.

Later, with the rise of the civil service group and the impact of the Jingnan War, the princes changed from a real feudal seal to a half-empty, half-real feudal state.This kind of feudal country has real land, and the prince can get the benefits on the land.But no military power.Compared with the real virtual title - only receiving salary and not occupying land, although the power is great.But the bondage is also deep.

Empress Duan was overjoyed when she heard this: "It's fine if you can make a false seal, so as not to run so far."

——In order not to run too far to harm the people.

Zhu Cihong secretly added a sentence in his heart.Although he is his own son, and the emperors after Qin Shihuang may not have put as much effort into education as he did, Zhu Cihong still cannot trust human nature.When there is no restraint and power, corruption is almost certain.

Even if it was me, didn't I ever think about relocating the people of Qin and Jin savagely, and would rather die on the way than leave behind to nourish the intruders?

……

"No! Don't! I want a country of my own!" Zhu Heqi tugged at Zhu Cihong's sleeve, almost half-kneeling on the ground with a faceless look.Fortunately, the quality of the dragon robe is excellent, otherwise the sleeves would have been ripped off long ago.

"I want to be like Li Jun, go overseas to conquer the world and become a real king." Zhu Heqi looked up at his father without any fear.

Although Zhu Cihong was strict with his son, he never beat or scolded him, at most he severely reprimanded him.Some people are born with weak tolerance, and they burst into tears when they say a few heavy words—such as the crown prince; .

"Li Jun?" Zhu Cihong's first reaction was that he was a Jinshi in the Chenghua period, but this person died in the Hongzhi period and was an official in Shanxi to participate in politics, so he had nothing to do with it.

"Haven't father read "Water Margin"?" Zhu Heqi stood up suddenly, his eyes almost narrowed: "There are books that father has not read? Haha, then Li Jun was originally a hero on the Xunyang River, No. 20 in Liangshan, the one who is nicknamed Hunjianglong! He is very good at water skills. After defeating Fang La with Song Jiang, he returned to Beijing to receive an award, but he pretended to have a stroke in Suzhou and kept Tong Weitong behind. Brother Meng, build a ship together and go to Siam to become the king! This is worthy of the name of a hero!"

Zhu Heqi danced and danced while talking, his face full of excitement.

Zhu Cihong was quite helpless: "Father only saw the great gathering of righteousness in Liangshan."

"Father, the back looks really nice... Hey, what's the matter with you?" Zhu Heqi was talking excitedly when the little eunuch beside him suddenly fell to his knees.Drenched in cold sweat, his face was pale, and his lips were already blue.

Zhu Cihong was also taken aback, thinking it was a sudden heart attack or something.Quickly said: "No one should touch him, hurry up and call the doctor over."

The little eunuch simply curled up and fell to the ground, wishing he could die... What a crime it must be to tempt the prince to read "Water Margin" and become obsessed!

Zhu Heqi was also frightened.Holding tightly to the hem of the dragon robe, he was relieved to see a group of doctors carrying the eunuch away.

"In the future, if someone around you has an accident, don't be in a hurry to move him. You must call a doctor to see him." Zhu Cihong said to his son.

Zhu Heqi nodded, and said: "He usually doesn't have this problem, and he can sing twice when he's in the mood."Just after Zhu Heqi finished talking about the eunuch, he asked again, "Father, is Siam ours now?"

"No." Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "Li Jun's going to be the king of Siam is a false story in the storybook, and it can't be true. He is also a country with an orderly inheritance of grammar."

"Then can I go to be the king of Siam?" Zhu Heqi jumped up and said, "I'll take two good men on a boat, father, can you go?"

Zhu Cihong didn't know that he should worry more about the eldest child or the second child, and why they had the same parents.The same way of treatment, the same teacher, the same books...is it possible to teach people who are so different?

"While waiting for you, my father will send you ten large ships, and you can bring as many heroes as you want." Zhu Cihong gently touched his son's horns, and added: "However, there must be righteousness to support the destruction of Renzongmiao. It shouldn’t be a hobby.”

"My son knows." Zhu Heqi was so excited that he wanted to roll on the ground.

"Do you know what righteousness is?" Zhu Cihong was a little surprised.

"Dayi is to do justice for the heavens!" Zhu Heqi shouted.

Zhu Cihong nodded, but did not speak.

—I should have guessed it earlier.

The emperor thought to himself.

……

In April of the eighth year of Longjing, His Majesty the Emperor suddenly ordered the large library to revise and catalog the popular novels such as "Journey to the West", "Water Margin of Loyalty", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Jin Ping Mei", and delete the obscene novels. Violence and other overly straightforward descriptions.make it universally acceptable.Then it was printed and published, named: Huangming Novels Album.

On the side of the book case of this set of books, it is clearly marked in engraved regular script: suitable for teenagers to read.

This set of abridged "clean books" is indeed not popular in the market, except that libraries around the world have been strictly ordered to only provide these clean books for borrowing.Others who can afford books still prefer the original.Until they discovered that the Great Library's edition was more elegantly written than the other publications.This was accepted by some bibliophiles.

Zhu Heqi was the only one among the princes who got the entire set of first edition and first engraved books, and he was overjoyed.And because there was a pair of Danqing bookmarks drawn by his father in it, with the inscription "opening the book is beneficial", so this set of books and bookmarks were carefully preserved by Zhu Heqi, and finally they were collected as treasures in the Imperial Palace 300 years later. library.

The picture of a child reading a book combing his horns is also the only painting in Zhu Cihong's life. It has no artistic value at all, it is just a gift from a father to his son.

……

When Zhang Youquan was imprisoned, many people came. They did not come to ask about the details of the incident that day, but to focus on what Zhang Youquan was thinking at that time.Although these people were not wearing military uniforms, their military identities could still be seen in their speech and demeanor.

This is a senior training officer sent by the General Training Department. They are studying a budding discipline: psychology.

Why do people think so?Why do you behave like that?What are the factors?How to make the best use of the situation?

All of these have a practical purpose, that is, to gain a deeper understanding of people's hearts, so as to consolidate their ideological positions.For trainers, their enemies are not aliens with knives and guns, but unpredictable demons.

"You knew what you were doing then?"

"Were you angry and angry?"

"Are your hands shaking? What's going on in your head?"

……

"I didn't think about anything, I saw him as my enemy in front of me, and I didn't know why I wanted to kill him." Zhang Youquan replied sincerely: "I am not angry, my hands are not shaking, I feel like It’s the same as on the battlefield, you have to go through this, there’s no way to avoid it.”

This sincere answer was finally accepted by the General Training and Training Department, because Zhang Youquan was not the only retired soldier who committed a felony, but his special situation attracted attention.The General Training Department has been tracking the data of retired soldiers for several years, and found that there are [-] murders committed by retired soldiers, and the common point among them is violent attacks caused by disputes.As for suspected cases, there are hundreds of them.

None of the perpetrators lost their minds, and it can be said that they were in a state of "peaceful killing".

"Is our education on killing the enemy too successful?" The training officers of the General Training Department finally discovered that the root cause is likely to be in ideological education.

In the era of formations and shooting, any fear and ego will lead to the collapse of the formation.

Eliminate ego, eliminate fear, and let soldiers go into battle as if they were doing exercises. This is the ideological education philosophy that the General Training and Training Department has always adhered to.

The combat effectiveness of soldiers trained in this way is more than a hundred times stronger than that of a hot-blooded hero. It can almost be said to be a cold-blooded killing machine.Once the attack point is touched, they can quietly put down their chopsticks to kill the enemy in front of them, and then pick up the chopsticks to continue eating.

This kind of mental illness was finally accepted by Dali Temple, citing the criminal law that "a madman kills a mortal, such as the crime of negligent injury".

In June of the eighth year of Longjing, Zhang Youquan was convicted of "negligent injury causing death" and sentenced to exile in Haixi Yongming City to settle down, and he was banned from entering the customs for life.

In the same year, Shen Dacheng and his family settled in Yongming City, and registered "Zhang Youquan Rubber Shoes Shop" with Zhang Youquan to officially produce rubber-soled shoes.

This is the birth of Huangming Shoes Group. (to be continued~^~)

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