My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 121 The Harem
In September of the first year of Jiajing, the army returned to the court.

This battle to conquer the southwest ended with the Ming army's overall victory.

The soldiers who participated in the war in the Ming Dynasty were each rewarded.

As one of his first achievements, Wang Shouren repeatedly defeated the homesick rebels on the northern front. Zhu Houcong personally issued an order to confer Wang Shouren as a bachelor of Wuyingdian, join the cabinet, and continue to be in charge of the Ministry of War, and the crown prince. Doctor Guanglu.

And Jiang Ding, who followed Zhu Houcong in the first battle in western Hunan on the southern front, was directly named Shangzhu Kingdom alive. Although he was just a mortal, Zhu Houcong intended to support him to unite the power of nobles and generals in the capital.

This paved the way for Zhu Houcong's next step in rectifying the Ming court's armaments.

The rest of the generals should be rewarded with titles, be promoted, be promoted, and be benevolent descendants.

In addition to the joyful generals who were promoted and made a fortune, the officials of the six ministries in Beijing were also very busy during this time.

The first is the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel. Regarding the rewards, distribution of credits, official promotions and other issues for the military generals from various places who entered the southwest battle this time, the two departments that have never dealt with them joined forces at this time and their power expanded rapidly after Zhu Houcong succeeded to the throne. There was a huge quarrel in the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army.

After all, the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion personally went to the battle and went to the front line. The people below, even the cowardly people, could only bite the bullet and follow the leaders to rush forward for the sake of the official position above their heads.

After the victory, everyone naturally thinks that they have sacrificed their lives and worked hard to achieve great results, and it is inevitable for each other to quarrel with each other because of the competition for merit.

Just don't use force.

The Ministry of Rites was busy preparing for the heaven-sacrifice activities at the end of the month. The emperor had just returned to the capital at the beginning of the month, and there was an order in the palace. After that, the Ministry of Rites was urged several times to prepare quickly.

The cabinet paid special attention to the lies spread in the capital since the late emperor vomited blood in public in the 16th year of Zhengde's reign. They ordered Dali Temple to strictly investigate the source of the rumors and ordered the whole city to search for those who spread the rumors. Those who do so will be severely punished in accordance with the law.

This is the first time the new emperor has offered sacrifices to heaven since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty. In order to wash away the haze left in everyone's hearts due to the failure of the previous sacrifice to heaven, they are extremely concerned.

Liang Chu, the chief assistant of the cabinet, directly summoned Lan Zhang, the current minister of rites, to the Wenyuan Pavilion many times to discuss the details of heaven worship with the cabinet members. Among the cabinet members, the former minister of rites Yuan Zonggao and the minister of rites during the Zhengde period Mao Cheng were directly stationed in the ministry of rites. , directly involved in reviewing the Ministry of Rites’ plans for the heaven-sacrifice process.

In addition to the cabinet, the government and the public, including the Yushitai, Hanlin Academy students, large and small capital officials, and even the old people who retired from the Zhengde Dynasty and were idle at home, were gearing up on this day of great victory and wrote letters one after another to remonstrate. Everyone was cheered up. , put forward your own opinions.

The government and the public paid so much attention to it, so naturally the Ministry of Rites did not dare to neglect it.

Every process must be checked repeatedly to ensure that every detail complies with etiquette standards and is well documented.

The remaining Ministry of Works was assigned by the Ministry of Rites to summon craftsmen to build altars, while the Ministry of Households was busy checking household registrations in the southwest, resettling refugees in the southwest, and checking the ownerless land in the southwest for tax collection in the coming year.

The last Punishment Department is busy every day convicting the 10,000+ prisoners of the Silun family, counting the property and sending special personnel to confiscate it. The lobby of the Punishment Department has been brightly lit every day since the army returned to Beijing, and the officials from the upper and lower halls work all night every day to interrogate the prisoners and report to them. Various places issued documents signed by the Ministry of Punishment and sea arrest documents, requiring local governments to arrest the rebels' accomplices and send them to Beijing for trial.

Compared to the six pains and joys of being busy.

Zhu Houcong, who rarely had free time when he returned to Beijing, was eating, drinking and having fun every day with his beloved concubines, who were more than nine months pregnant and about to give birth.

Of course, it was Zhu Houcong who was in charge of eating, drinking and having fun, while the pregnant women applauded and acted as the atmosphere group.

"Wow! Your Majesty is great! I like it so much! One more song! One more song!"

In the imperial garden, the maids next to Zhu Houcong watched Zhu Houcong drinking and making trouble. Their eyes were so happy that they couldn't open their eyes with joy. They laughed so hard that their branches trembled, and they clapped and praised.

"No, no! I'll be here today. I'd better go and see if Concubine De and the others are resting on time to nurse the baby." In his previous life, he thought that ancient poetry and prose were feudal dross and not worth mentioning.

Now I finally suffer the disadvantage of being uneducated.

no!No more copying!If you copy it again, you will miss it!My image of being wise and powerful is about to collapse!
Zhu Houcong quickly stood up and said that he was determined to be a good emperor, how could he be misled by a mere woman!
Hurry up and see the next generation of Ming Dynasty is the right way.

Come back in the evening and continue to have fun with these palace maids and concubines.

Seeing that Zhu Houcong had decided to leave, these maids and concubines could only say with tears that His Majesty must come to their palace tonight. They have a new Western tribute cat that can do back flips in their palace, and the emperor must come and see it. Zhu Houcong's Majesty After making a certain promise, he reluctantly left.

"My beloved concubine - I haven't seen you for many days, I really miss you..."

Arriving at Jingyang Palace, Zhu Houcong strode in without waiting for the announcement from the palace maid at the door, his expression extremely sincere.

But unfortunately, three pregnant women were squatting in the hall at this time, staring intently at the small box on the ground, not knowing what they were doing.

"Aifei?"

Zhu Houcong screened the people who were withdrawing from the palace and stood behind a few people quietly to see what they were doing.

I saw a series of soft mats placed in the hall, with several concubines sitting on them. There was a row of long boxes in the middle, each with the words "Invincible Grand Marshal", "Mighty General", "Victorious General" and so on.

There is a large, bright-colored cricket inside each.

There was a fierce battle in the rectangular wooden box in the center, where two huge crickets were in a stalemate. Suddenly, the cricket on the right suddenly exerted force, and the situation was reversed!

"Haha! My Generalissimo bit off your General's head!"

Su Ziping, who was sitting on the right with her stomach puffed up, and who had just been named Concubine Shu, clapped her hands. The purple-painted cricket on the right side of the box jumped proudly on the corpse of the loser after winning. The big cricket that had originally rolled to the ground The general's head flew up and landed in front of Concubine Shun Li Siyi, who was already stunned.

"Ugh! My general died so miserably!"

Seeing the bad woman in front of me happily clearing away all her monthly money on the table without even leaving a hair for herself, she thought about the fact that next month she would have to live alone as a widow as ordered by the hospital. The soothing meal was so mild that Li Siyi immediately hugged the body of her mighty general and started crying.

Su Ziping, on the other hand, deliberately and loudly counted the monthly money she had won from the two of them during this period, indicating how many candied haws, hawthorn cakes, rock sugar chestnuts... and other delicious things Huang Jin could bring from outside the palace this month. .

Li Siyi cried even more miserably when she heard this.

"Don't be afraid of her, a good sister. As the saying goes, kindness can't lead an army. It doesn't matter if you lose soldiers and generals. Let me come and meet her for a while."

Li Siyi was overjoyed when she heard this, but when she looked up she saw that even the jewelry had been lost, and she could only use a hairband to tie her hair. She had lost all the money she had brought into the palace for more than half a month, and she couldn't sleep all night. After a good sleep, Yin Huaisu, who had deep dark circles under his eyes, felt like a deflated ball again.

burst into tears.

"I'm so stupid! Really! I've obviously lost three games in a row, why do I still think I can make a comeback this time!"

(End of this chapter)