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

Chapter 91 Personal expedition!

Besides, now that the Jiang family is at its peak, Mother Jiang would not attack these little princes and princesses in front of her own emperor and son.

"Goo!"

While Zhu Houcong was thinking, the girl on the left side of the imperial couch, wrapped only in a thin blanket, made a strange sound.

This little girl has trouble sleeping.

Due to the unique concubine selection system of the Ming Dynasty, most of the beautiful women entering the palace in the Ming Dynasty were between the ages of thirteen and sixteen.

The Jiajing Dynasty was even more outstanding, and most of the beautiful women who entered the court were young girls around ten years old.

Of course Zhu Houcong couldn't accept it. As early as when he was in the palace, Zhu Houcong strongly stated that he only liked the beauties mentioned above.

Empress Dowager Jiang naturally knew Zhu Houcong's temper, so the show girl this time was not too outrageous.

Zhu Houcong, who had read the Jin Yiwei secret report, recognized that this was Li Siyi, Li Siyi, the second daughter of Li Xiyan in the Etiquette Department.

He was also one of the three people who he paid special attention to after briefly exploring the roots of these beautiful women last night.

Fortunately, three of these show girls have quite good spiritual root qualifications.

At least he has a second-class spiritual root, and he can be considered a little genius in the world of immortality.

It is a pity that the environment of the Ming Dynasty means that most people do not have the opportunity to truly cultivate immortality.

Even if you embark on the path to immortality, without enough resources, you will eventually degenerate into an abominable monster that eats raw hair and drinks blood.

As soon as the little girl opened her eyes, she saw Zhu Houcong sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at her quietly. Thinking of the charming scene last night, her little face suddenly turned red.

This was not what Zhu Houcong expected. Through his observations last night, Zhu Houcong felt that the little girl was indeed a little confused.

It's the kind of person who stumbles with his left foot and falls flat with his right foot when walking on the road.

It feels good to bully.

"His Majesty……"

Just when she was in shame and didn't know what to say, a gust of fragrant wind blew beside Zhu Houcong.

This woman is tall and slender, with a charming appearance. Her eyes are like peach blossoms, and the corners of her eyes are slightly raised like a fox's. There are all kinds of amorous feelings in her every move.

Her cheeks were flushed, as if she was shy, but also as if she was teasing, trying to stir up the heart of the boy in front of her.

She hugged Zhu Houcong behind her, blew the fragrant wind from the sandalwood mouth and surrounded Zhu Houcong's ears, and said coquettishly.

"I still want to play the game last night. Your Majesty~ You can't bully me again this time~"

This person is Su Ziping, the daughter of Su Zhen, the chief military officer of Shandong Beiwa Road, at least in name.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were many ambitious people who used various means to send their own people to the emperor.

According to the secret report submitted by Jin Yiwei, Su Ziping's true identity is the only daughter of Su Zhen's eldest brother's family. Her brother was sentenced to exile for crimes during the Zhengde period. This woman is a sinner and should not enter the palace.

But Su Zhen pitied his eldest brother's only daughter who was young, so he bribed officials and secretly raised her under his own name. He always claimed to the outside world that she was born by his concubine. In the 16th year of Zhengde, Zhu Houcong had just ascended the throne. When the Ministry of Rites drafted girls, Su Zhen recommended her to the throne. palace.

"As a concubine in the harem, you should be careful in your words and deeds, obey the destiny, and advise the king. How can you deceive the emperor and deceive the master! You are promulgating prostitution in the daytime! Your Majesty should have high aspirations and be alert at all times. You must not miss beauty. You will not see it. The ancient Jie and Zhou..."

The person in front of me was sitting on the bed with only a thin veil on her body. Although she had a sultry figure and a beautiful face, she was sitting upright at this time. She sat in front of the emperor with a serious face and explained to Zhu Houcong how to govern the country. It was Dashanniu who She was Yin Huaisu, the eldest daughter of the Yin family from a well-known scholarly family in Jiangxi Province near the southwest.

This woman has always been famous for her profound knowledge and deep understanding of Confucian classics. She is like the ancient sages who were not afraid of power and sacrificed their lives for righteousness. She is as talented and knowledgeable as men.

Zhu Houcong had a preliminary experience of this woman's power last night.

After you saw it, you analyzed it for Zhu Houxuan and analyzed the reasons why the price of land in Jiangxi has remained high for decades and why most people have been reduced to tenants without natural disasters. Finally, you concluded that the smuggling groups in Jiangxi have been colluding with the merchants along the coast for decades. Were they women who formed a system of sharing the spoils of Jiangxi's silk porcelain and exported it overseas through the Ming Dynasty's domestic and foreign trade networks as a pastime?

"When I come back next time, I can have wine and talk with my beloved concubine!"

Zhu Houcong smiled and shook off Su Ziping's hand and said.

What a joke, Zhu Houcong didn't want to hear Yin Huaisu continue chanting sutras in his ears.

This guy talks endlessly. The key point is that Zhu Houcong can't really end up confronting her. The opposite person is a professional contemporary Confucian scholar. Zhu Houcong, who had four books and five classics when he was in the palace, had to rely on the final assault method of his previous college life The bastard who passed Zhou Zhao's assessment.

Now I am busy fighting with various evil gods every day, and the few remaining Four Books and Five Classics have long been returned to the gentlemen invited by the palace.

He must not be scolded, but Zhu Houcong couldn't just stare at her and start beating a pregnant woman!

Zhu Houcong chose to fight in person and stay away from the capital.

These three best products should be left to the Empress Dowager Jiang and her daughters to enjoy.The palace outside the tent was empty. For those women who had ordinary qualifications and were unwilling to leave the harem, Zhu Houcong finished the work at a very fast speed and sent them back to their homes to prepare for the order.

"His Majesty--"

Huang Jin had been waiting outside the palace for a long time.

"Let the Ministry of Rites and the Supervisor of Rites negotiate to increase the salary of all the women who are lucky today, and by the way, give some talents and other titles - the money should come from the internal funds, not the state treasury."

Nothing else worked, but Zhu Houcong was still able to do it.

Even if they suddenly change their minds and don't want to be trapped in the deep palace compound for the rest of their lives, Zhu Houcong can send people to take them out of the palace at any time and find them a way to make a living.

Of course, those who are already pregnant cannot leave until the child is born.

Huang Jin noted down that he was waiting for Zhu Houcong's next words, that was the key point. After all, when Zhu Houcong was being debauched in the Chengqian Hall, Huang Jin was listening attentively outside and counting in the corner.

"There are still three people in the palace. Let the Ministry of Rites select some concubine names for them to choose. Let the free palaces in the palace be tidied up and let them move in at noon!"

"As soon as possible! Do it yourself!"

Looking at Zhu Houcong's slightly serious expression, Huang Jin knew that Zhu Houcong was obviously very interested in the three women in the palace.

Don't be lazy.

Concubine's name...

On the way to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, Huang Jin thought of the women who were sent out of the palace by Zhu Houcong to reunite with their families last night, and also thought of the three beauties in the palace who were deeply favored by the saints, and sighed slightly.

How many people have spent their entire lives trying to get the concubines, palaces, and slaves, but they are randomly given away by the emperor as gifts overnight.

But throughout the ages, many women's unwilling tragedies have been buried in the palace, and they will only be a small talent until their death.

The harem is also another battlefield where all forces in the world compete for power. Zhu Houcong has tried his best to prevent those women from good families who mistakenly fall into it from wasting their lives there.

As for the remaining people, except for the three people who Zhu Houcong deliberately showed his protection in front of Huang Jin, the others Zhu Houcong could only seek happiness for themselves.

I hope the family behind them has that strength and can protect them even if they are in a deep palace.

……

On the third day of December, good news came from the harem. After repeated verification by the imperial doctors of the Taiyuan Hospital, 13 women in the palace were confirmed to be pregnant.

And the three women who were quickly promoted to concubines by Zhu Houcong all won the prize.

The emperor was overjoyed when he heard the news and gave each official in the capital below the third rank ten taels of silver and five pieces of silk.

Have fun with all the officials.

The next day, urgent news came from the southwest.

The rebels from the southwest invaded western Hunan, and the chieftain of the Liu family in western Hunan asked the court for help. However, before the court could send troops, the Liu family stronghold was breached, and more than [-] members of the Liu family were wiped out by the rebels.

The children's brocade and silk were robbed.

Along with this news, rumors suddenly spread in western Hunan that a woodcutter who went up the mountain to cut firewood met King Xiao Mu, who was suspected to have been missing for many days.

For a time, people in the southwest were in shock, and the rebels also began to search the mountains overnight, vowing to find the orphan of King Mu and eradicate him.

The emperor discussed with officials and concluded that the southwest was a problem that had plagued the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. However, every ten years or so, the bandits from the southwest would descend again and rebel again, killing and plundering the people, maiming the court officials and everyone in Prince Mu's palace. The people in the court were furious, and the emperor was equally angry. angry.

Determined to conquer the country personally and conquer the southwest in one battle.

On the same day, the imperial court sent troops from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Civil Affairs to report to the post office and fly to Nanzhili. They ordered the seven southern provinces, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, and Guangxi, to declare martial law immediately and open the gates. The arsenal distributed ordnance, and young military households from all over the country were mobilized to return to the garrison to accept the court's instructions.

He also ordered the chief secretaries of each department to mobilize a total of 5000 elites from various military posts, and a total of 12 elites from the northern security posts and the Beijing army, for a total of 8000 people, to march to the southwest on the same day and enter the massacre in batches. Fighting in the mountains.

He was granted the title of Minister of the Ministry of War and censor of Zuodu. Wang Shouren was appointed governor of Zhejiang Province, taking charge of military affairs in the south and leading all the armies in the south to advance.

Jiang Ding, the former military governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, was given the title of Grand Marshal of the Western Expedition, commanding the Beijing army and accompanying the army to escort him into the southwest to suppress the rebellion.

As for Zhu Houcong, he naturally expressed humbly that since others had been sealed, it would be inappropriate for him not to be sealed, so he simply followed the old affairs of the late emperor Wuzong, the Ministry of War, the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, and the emperor's own army to arrest him. .

He proclaimed himself the "Gong of the State" and ordered the Ministry of War to keep records and the Ministry of Households to pay him.

I am not talented, it is Zhu Houcong who is the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses.

(End of this chapter)