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The emperor was very busy, but he was still busy.

Just when Lu Cheng had recruited five thousand households and was engaged in construction and military training, the Wanli Emperor in Yanjing City also came to the end of his life.

Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun became emperor when he was only ten years old. In his early years, with the assistance of Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, he also created the situation of "Wanli Zhongxing". In his later years, he did not attend court for 28 years, but the Ming Dynasty still operated as usual. It must be said that this is also a kind of skill.

He lived to be 58 years old and was the emperor for 48 years. He had a lot of fun in the harem and had basically no regrets in his life.

However, the death of Emperor Wanli had no impact on Lu Cheng. It was nothing more than a change of emperor. He had to go on with his life and worry about all kinds of troubles.

In fact, for Lu Cheng, the death of the emperor was not as important as the sweet potatoes and corn in the fields.

Lu Cheng had sent people south to collect sweet potato and corn seeds, and selected a suitable piece of land outside Haizhou City to plant sweet potatoes and corn as seeds for the future.

Unexpectedly, the Later Jin army did not capture Haizhou City. Before leaving, they took out their anger on the surrounding land, sent cavalry to trample the land, and destroyed the large tracts of fertile land outside Haizhou City.

Now that he had finally finished all the affairs, looking at the fields outside the city that were no longer in shape, Lu Cheng had to send people south again to collect seeds of various crops.

This time, Lu Cheng simply sent more people to collect seeds of crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, peppers, peanuts, and sunflowers, and planted them on the land near Haizhou.

Sweet potatoes and corn can be used as food, potatoes can be used as both food and vegetables, and peppers and peanuts can also be used as vegetables or condiments. Peanuts and sunflowers can also be used to extract oil.

These crops were introduced to China during the Ming Dynasty, and most of them started to spread from the southeast coast.

Just when Lao Ma from the logistics department arranged the staff and prepared to set off, Lu Cheng suddenly thought of someone.

Later, Lu Cheng recruited a captain of the special operations team and assigned him a special task.

Since Lu Cheng was promoted to commander, the size of the special operations team has expanded again to 100 people, divided into 10 teams.

At present, Ding Xian is leading a team of special operations veterans and training 50 recruits. The remaining 40 special operations team members are ready to be dispatched by Lu Cheng at any time.

The captain of the special operations team recruited by Lu Cheng is named Zhang Quansheng. He was one of the cavalrymen who followed Lu Cheng to kill the Jiannu scouts when Lu Cheng first arrived in Liaodong.

He participated in every battle organized by Lu Cheng. He has rich combat experience, is loyal, and is very capable, so he became a captain of the special operations team.

"Zhang Quansheng, I'm going to give you a special mission this time. Take your team and select 20 elite soldiers from the reconnaissance brigade. Follow the caravan southward into the pass and head to the Central Plains. After arriving in the Central Plains, you will lead people to Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, to find a scholar named Zhang Guoji. He should have a daughter who is about thirteen or fourteen years old this year.

After finding this person, invite their whole family here for me. Remember, it's invite, don't scare the little girl."

When Zhang Quansheng heard the last sentence, he immediately grasped the key point: "General, I understand. I must sincerely and respectfully invite this scholar Zhang's family here, especially to treat Miss Zhang, I must be more respectful, right?"

"That's good. Take these banknotes and take good care of them on the way."

Zhang Quansheng respectfully took the banknotes from Lu Cheng with both hands, and found that there were three hundred taels. He attached more importance to this mission in his heart. There is no need to think too much. His master is most likely interested in the little girl of the Zhang family.

What he didn't understand was how did his general know about the little girl who was thousands of miles away?

Could it be that his general had a childhood marriage? Was he planning to bring his future wife over?

However, Zhang Quansheng didn't dare to think too much. After returning, he immediately summoned his team and talked to the captains of the reconnaissance brigade about the situation. He selected 20 of the most elite scouts, brought goose feather knives, crossbows and various equipment, and followed the caravan south.

In fact, Lu Cheng also thought of the carpenter emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was about to take the throne, and then he thought of the carpenter emperor's main wife, Empress Zhang.

Empress Zhang's real name was Zhang Yan, and she was very smooth in the original play of Embroidered Spring Blade.

The girl in the clinic has the same name and surname.

However, the very smooth girl in the clinic is just a beautiful girl from a small family.

This Empress Zhang Yan, but she was selected from 5,000 beauties from all over the country of the Ming Dynasty, and she passed eight levels and stood out as the first beauty.

Moreover, this Empress Zhang is not only beautiful, but also well-versed in history books, with both virtue and talent, and has the style of an empress. She is known as the five great queens of ancient China together with Xia Ji in the Spring and Autumn Period, Empress Zhen of Emperor Wen of Wei, Empress Li Zu'e of Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi, and Empress Xiao of Emperor Yang of Sui.

It's a pity that Empress Zhang's fate is not very good. She married Zhu Youxiao, the carpenter emperor, and became a widow after only seven years of being an empress.

Moreover, because Zhu Youxiao concentrated on being a carpenter and favored the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, he handed over all the important affairs of the court to Wei Zhongxian to handle, allowing Wei Zhongxian to control the government.

Empress Zhang advised Zhu Youxiao to be close to virtuous ministers and stay away from villains, so she offended Wei Zhongxian and his mistress. Empress Zhang finally got pregnant, but Keshi secretly made trouble for her, which directly led to the fetus dying in the womb. Empress Zhang could no longer give birth.

Interestingly, the empresses of the Ming Dynasty were generally selected from the daughters of commoners or minor officials, and rarely from the daughters of nobles or high-ranking officials.

Perhaps because of this, there were many virtuous empresses in the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there were many emperors who were romantic in the Ming Dynasty, and even monogamous emperors, which is quite interesting.

For example, the Wanli Emperor who just passed away, although he played a lot in the harem, had a deep relationship with his queen Wang Xijie, and the couple lived in harmony.

In fact, Emperor Wanli always insisted on establishing the legitimate son instead of the eldest son, and was waiting for the queen to give him a son so that he could be established as the prince. But Queen Wang only gave birth to a daughter in her life.

It was not until Queen Wang died that Emperor Wanli decided that Zhu Changluo would be the prince. This also caused a dispute over the foundation of the country, which led to Zhu Changluo's death after only being emperor for more than a month due to taking the "red pill" presented by his subordinates. This is how the Carpenter Emperor came to power.

After reviewing the history and sighing about some random things, Lu Cheng has already made new plans for the future.

This time, the future queen of the Carpenter Emperor was taken away in advance. On the one hand, Lu Cheng also wanted to see this queen who was famous in history books. On the other hand, it was to see if the Carpenter Emperor would collapse the Ming Dynasty faster without a virtuous queen.

As for which reason is more important, it is not important.

Of course, Lu Cheng is now in charge of one side, and his subordinates are all a group of rough men, and he really needs a few women to take care of his daily life.

After fighting for so long, can't he enjoy himself occasionally?

Of course, even if the future Queen Zhang is brought here, she is just a little girl now.

Putting all this aside for the time being, Lu Cheng called Ding Xiu over again: "Ding Xiu, go and ask the cavalry to prepare. Let's go to the grassland in the next two days to pick up a batch of good horses and expand the cavalry team."

"Yes, sir. How many people are we taking this time? All cavalry?"

"Yes, all cavalry."

In the future, whether it is fighting against Jiannu, Lee Korea, or the tribes on the grassland, an elite cavalry is indispensable.

Relying on the recent glass, soap, and newly developed flower soap business, Lu Cheng made a lot of money and saved a lot of money.

If you have money, you have to spend it. Money that can't be spent is just a pile of metal and waste paper. Only money that is spent can become real strength.

Today, Lu Cheng owns the entire Haizhou Guard and has a stable source of income, which is enough to support more than a thousand cavalry.

Two days later, Lu Cheng led his cavalry, fully armed, with silver, and went north to the grassland to buy horses.

This time, Lu Cheng had made full preparations. If he could buy them with money, he would buy them with money. If he couldn't buy them with money, he would not buy them with money. Anyway, he had to get some horses...