I am the carpenter king

Chapter 56 The New Year

"Oh, wait for me to get dressed!" Gently getting out of bed, Emperor Tianqi instructed the court lady. During this period of time, I have not gotten used to many things, but I have learned ten of these enjoyable things.It seems that no matter what time, people are lazy!

"How long have you been in the palace?" Emperor Tianqi asked unintentionally when the maid was dressing Emperor Tianqi.

"Returning to Your Majesty, it has been 30 years since I entered the palace at the age of nine." The maid was slightly taken aback, thought for a while and said calmly.

"30 years, how many 30 years are there in a person's life. Why did you enter the palace in the first place?" At this time, Emperor Tianqi had the urge to release these court ladies out of the palace for the first time. Not a good thing.

"There was a drought at home, and the whole family of slaves and servants went into exile. In the end, my parents had no choice but to sell me. After several handovers by human traffickers, I was bought into the palace by a father-in-law. It has been 30 years now." Maid of the Palace His tone was very flat, as if he was really telling something that had nothing to do with him, but in the eyes of Emperor Tianqi, he was lifeless.It seems that this place has lived for a long time, and people have become walking dead.

"Where is the Empress Dowager? I'm going to pay her respects." After lightly helping her to put on her clothes, after washing, Emperor Tianqi asked the maid behind her.

"Return to Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is reciting scriptures in the Buddhist hall at this time, but she left a message just before she left." The maid seemed to have anticipated Emperor Tianqi's thoughts, she pondered for a moment, bowed respectfully, and said slowly.

"Speak." Emperor Tianqi was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help but secretly said: "It seems that people in this world have a common hobby when they get old, and that is eating vegetarian food and praying to Buddha."

"The empress dowager said that Ming's country can't stand the turmoil anymore. I hope that your majesty will be diligent in governing and caring for the people, and the empress dowager will be very happy if she does a good job. As for those vain etiquettes, don't pay attention to them. The empress dowager knows what the emperor is thinking." Maid of the Palace Apparently he was repeating the words of the Queen Mother, probably because he sang with the Queen Mother for a long time, and it seemed that his demeanor was somewhat similar. Emperor Tianqi was amused but did not expose it.

After leaving the Palace of Compassion and Ning, Emperor Tianqi returned to the Palace of Qianqing. After breakfast, he came to the Imperial Study Room.Looking at Li Lan and Chen Hong who were already waiting here, Emperor Tianqi felt a little warm in his heart, maybe this is the feeling of being waited for!

Through the life in the palace during this time, Emperor Tianqi also gradually understood why so many emperors in the Ming Dynasty favored eunuchs. For these princes who grew up in the deep palace compound, fatherly love and maternal love are a luxury. .The father is busy with his career (in fact, he is a wife), and the mother is busy helping the father (in fact, she is looking after her good-looking husband), so these people have no time to care about their sons.On the contrary, these eunuchs who watched the prince grow up may be out of interest or out of love, after all, they are all sonless people!In the end, they treated the prince very well, at least in the prince's eyes. This kind of trust and relationship established since childhood is not only very difficult to let go, but it is also difficult for outsiders to have any effect.

For the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, most of them had an unfortunate childhood, and perhaps this is the main reason for their mediocrity.

"Concubine, servant, I have seen the emperor." Gently waving his hand, signaling for the two of them to level up, Emperor Tianqi said to Li Lan, "Is there any urgent advice?"

Because Emperor Tianqi liked Li Lan, a little girl, and she could read and write, she helped Emperor Tianqi approve many memorials.Even if she didn't help Emperor Tianqi approve the redemption, Emperor Tianqi would have to let her read the memorial and then read it to himself.Although Emperor Tianqi is not like Emperor Tianqi in history, he has never learned anything, but there is nothing he can do about classical Chinese in traditional characters.Don't talk about writing, I can't even read it now.

"Return to Your Majesty, there is nothing important." At this time, Li Lan was more mature and stable, and it was hard to find the figure of that submissive little girl.

"Well", Emperor Tianqi nodded slowly, and said to Chen Hong: "Go and find Wang An." Seeing that Chen Hong had left, Emperor Tianqi said to Li Lan: "Lan'er, I think the maids in the palace are too much. It's hard work, it seems too cruel to let them die in the palace, I want to let a group of maids out of the palace, what do you think?" Emperor Tianqi told Li Lan what he was thinking, and after discussing with her for a while, he has become Emperor Tianqi got used to it.

"Your Majesty, to be honest, your majesty may have good intentions, but if this will continue, many sisters may not be able to survive." After getting to know her during this period of time, Li Lan knew that Emperor Tianqi liked her to tell the truth, Not only will it not punish, but it will reward, so naturally it doesn't matter if you are angry.

"Why do you say that? Of course I won't let the maids who don't want to leave the palace go. Only those who want to leave the palace will be let go." Emperor Tianqi naturally knew that many court ladies had lived in the palace all their lives, and they were old and frail. Without the protection of the imperial palace, not only would they not be able to live better, but they could easily lose their lives. Such things are not uncommon in history.

"It's naturally the best thing for the emperor to do this. The concubines thank your majesty on behalf of the sisters in the palace." Li Lan didn't expect that Emperor Tianqi had already thought of everything he thought of, and he admired Emperor Tianqi even more in his heart.

The news of Emperor Tianqi's dismissal of the court ladies had just come out, and there was a burst of discussion in the capital, followed by unanimous praise.Countless ministers, countless excerpts, for a while, it seemed that Emperor Tianqi had become the most holy emperor in the world, and Ming Dynasty seemed to be in a peaceful and prosperous age.

In such an atmosphere, winter is coming. In this bleak winter, everything seems to be quiet.The world was peaceful, and the ministers and Emperor Tianqi were doing nothing all day long.The only thing that makes people puzzled is that the Huangzhuang in the east of the capital is not very clean recently, and there are always violent explosions, so that the people in the capital are not resting very well.

Although some ministers reported the matter to Emperor Tianqi, the excerpts were like a mud cow, and there was no news.Some people also sent their servants to investigate, but they were driven back by a group of fierce men.Everyone knew that it must be unusual, and even those who were interested already knew that it was the sound of artillery, but no one went to find that trouble.

Since this incident happened in Huangzhuang, Emperor Tianqi must know that since he didn't reveal anything, these ministers simply didn't bother to go to that trouble.

Apart from this incident, there seemed to be some more Westerners suddenly in the capital, blond and blue-eyed, speaking any language, but not too many people paid attention.

In this way, the year was finally over in a peaceful and peaceful environment, and the first year of the apocalypse ushered in.

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