Zhu Youjian wandered to Ciqing Palace. The pair of stone unicorns in front of the palace gate were still there, but there was no one around him, and it seemed a little deserted.
It wasn't until the gate of Xunqin Palace that the palace lady Ting'er was opening the gate, and it seemed that she was going out of the palace.
Ting'er kept her head down, as if she didn't see Zhu Youzhen, until she approached Zhu Youzhen's side, she suddenly saw a tall figure, "Your Majesty..." She suddenly fell to the ground.
"Ting'er, where are you going? Do you want to leave the palace?"
"Back to your Majesty, Queen Zhang is doing needlework, and it is estimated that the colored thread is not enough, so let the servants go out of the palace to purchase some back.
Zhang Yan is the queen of Zhu Youxiao. After Zhu Youjian became the throne, she did not give her the title of "Tuofei", so she was still called Queen, but in order to avoid the new Queen Zhou Yufeng, the palace was called Queen Zhang.
"Ao," Zhu Youjian responded, "Then you don't have to go out of the palace, you can go tomorrow, and lead me in first."
"Your Majesty..." Ting'er hesitated, her feet didn't move either.
"Why, my words don't work well, are they?" Zhu Youzhen's voice raised three times.
"Slaves dare not," Ting'er shivered with fright. "Slaves, slaves will now lead your majesty into the palace."
After Zhu Youzhen entered the palace, Ting'er closed the palace gate and ran to the front of Zhu Youzhen, really acting as a guide.
They turned around the long corridor and came to the back, where was Zhang Yan's bedroom.
Ting'er went in first, whispered a few words in Zhang Yan's ear, and Zhu Youzhen came in afterwards.
"The concubine welcomes Your Majesty!" Zhang Yan was flustered for a while, holding the clothes he was decorating in his left hand and the needle and thread in his right, kneeling down in front of Zhu Youjian.
"Yan'er is free, get up!"
"Thank your majesty!"
"What are you holding in your hand? Who is Yan'er making clothes for?" Zhu Youjian discovered that the clothes Zhang Yan held in his hands had no sleeves, and seemed to be a waistcoat.
"I won't tell you!" Zhang Yan's face was reddish, and her hands were hidden behind her back.
"Yan'er is in the palace and has no relatives. Could it be that..."
"Your Majesty..." Zhang Yan interrupted Zhu Youjian somewhat rudely.
Zhu Youzhen smiled, "Ting'er, go out first, don't you want to go out of the palace to purchase needlework?"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Ting'er went out and smoothly covered the bedroom door.
Zhang Yan took the opportunity to hide her finger's clothing in the box, "Your Majesty, why are you here in broad daylight?"
"What did Yan'er say? Do you want me to come after dark?"
"Your Majesty," Zhang Yan was slightly embarrassed, "The concubine said, isn't your Majesty busy with government affairs during the day?"
"The government affairs have been left to the hundred officials," Zhu Youjian sat down on the wooden chair in front of the bed, "Yan'er, if you said that if the ministers knew, I would leave the government affairs to them, but I ran to the Xingqin Palace to stay overnight. Will they impeach me?"
Zhang Yan shook her head: "No!"
"No? Why? Aren't they a lot of people who claim to be the minister of the auxiliary country of Ming Dynasty?"
Zhang Yan's eyes lightly shone on Zhu Youjian's face: "Your Majesty is too difficult to understand?"
"Understand what?"
"Your Majesty, there has been a problem in governing the country in all dynasties, that is, the problem of the separation of power between the emperor and the ministers. The emperor is supreme, but there is only one person. Although the ministers belong to the emperor, they are numerous and can take turns in battle."
"Yes, there is only one emperor." Zhu Youzhen thought that the emperor had lived in the palace compound since he was a child, and he was completely strange to the outside world. He did not know the basic demands of the people. The secret is really unreasonable. It is a good thing for ministers to share some rights appropriately. "But what does this have to do with the harem?"
"It has always been said that there are three thousand beauties in the harem, and the ministers still spare no effort to enrich the harem for the emperor. Like Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, the harem beauties reached forty thousand. He just changed one every night, and it would take more than 100 years to get lucky. all over."
"Yan'er, this is..."
"The ministers used a large number of beauties to tie the emperor to the harem. If the emperor puts a lot of energy on the women, the ministers can naturally get more political power."
"So, the ministers will only open their eyes and close their eyes to the emperor's misbehavior, and even add to the flames?" Zhu Youjian remembered what Wei Zhongxian had said to himself, and actually moved Zhang Yan from Kunning Palace to Ciqing Palace instead of The Ci Ning Palace where the concubines have always lived is his idea.
"Ok!"
"So the first emperor Linxing Taifei, there are records in the palace, but the ministers don't even fart?"
"Your Majesty..." Zhang Yan thought that she was also a toffee, and her face turned red. She lowered her head slightly and scanned Zhu Youjian's eyes with the corner of her light.
"Haha..." Zhu Youjian Dale, these old-fashioned ministers are sometimes quite cute!
"His Majesty?"
"The great discovery starts from the Xunqin Palace!"
"What did your majesty find?" Zhang Yan was confused by Zhu Youjian's consistent behavior.
"Stop talking about it, Yan'er, how have you been doing well?"
"The concubines have always closed their palaces for themselves, keeping some flowers for fun in their free time, and since the time Wei casts the law, the concubines have never been upset." Zhang Yan said quietly, her voice like a gentle drizzle, and a light touch on her face. The smile is deeper than the water of Bibotan, which is obviously the accumulation of time in her heart.
"Oh," Zhu Youjian sighed, "I am too busy on weekdays, and I rarely come to see Yan'er."
"Your Majesty governs the country. It is important to see your Majesty occasionally. The concubines are already grateful to God. The other wives in the palace are afraid that it is rare to see your Majesty in his life."
Zhu Youzhen laughed self-deprecatingly. He really hadn't seen other concubines. He was the new emperor. What's the point of seeing them
"Your Majesty's Northern Expedition? Not a small harvest, right?"
"Well," Zhu Youjian nodded, "At least the slavery that has threatened Daming for decades has been eliminated?"
"This, my concubine has also heard about it," Zhang Yan constricted a smile on her face, "Your Majesty, what's the situation outside the customs now? Can you keep Daming safe for a hundred years like Cheng Zu?"
"If you just keep Daming safe for a hundred years, what about a hundred years later?" Zhu Youzhen was a little proud, "I want to keep Daming safe forever."
"Your Majesty said... What happened to Guanwai?" Zhang Yan's face was joyful. Her eyes were already fixed on Zhu Youjian's face. It seemed that Zhu Youjian had become more mature during her trip outside Guan. To be mature is a superb man.
"I have settled the affairs outside the pass, and I will talk about it later," Zhu Youzheng held Zhang Yan with a hand, "Come here, Yan'er, I will tell you about the affairs inside the pass."
Zhang Yan leaned on Zhu Youjian's side: "In the Guan...Is your majesty talking about the court?"
"I came to Xingqin Palace today, first to see Yan'er, and second, I talked about the court affairs, Yan'er helped me to consult."
"Your Majesty, aren't there so many upright ministers in the court? Like Lord Huang from the Ministry of Rites, Lord Li from the Ministry of War..."
"The ministers of the Korean Central Government are too confined to the ancestor's practice. When they speak and act, they often look at the ancestors' practices first. In fact, if everything depends on the ancestors, then the ancestor is just a monk of Shaolin Temple," Zhu Youjian said in Zhang Yan. She patted her hand, "Only Yan'er can jump out of this fixed thinking by looking at the problem."
"Your Majesty, the harem must not be involved in politics..."
"It doesn't matter, Yan'er is just my personal consultant, and the conversation between us should be regarded as a private lesbian routine."
"Private consultant?"
"It's just to provide advice to me. Whether to adopt it or not is my business!"
"The concubines understand!" Zhang Yan nodded slightly, "Your Majesty, please say, your concubines should know everything."
"In the history of the Han people, there will be dynasties change every once in a while, as long as the Eastern and Western Zhou, Eastern and Western Han, Southern and Northern Song, and Tang, but hundreds of years, and as short as the Qin and Sui, but decades. Yan'er, say, why is this?"
"Your Majesty, this important event..."
"Yan'er, don’t worry, I have already estimated that, on average, each dynasty is less than two hundred years old, and Daming has gone through a history of 261 years. If you can’t face up to these problems, Daming will sooner or later perish. This is the law of history, and no one can change it. What we can do is to extend the time of Daming's existence."
"Your Majesty..."
"Yan'er, come on, you are making a contribution to Yan'er Daming."
"Your Majesty, there are three main reasons for the change of dynasties. One is the people's chaos, such as the Qin and the Sui; the other is foreign aggression, such as the Song Dynasty; and the other is that the common people's chaos and foreign aggression occur at the same time, such as the Tang Dynasty."
"Yan'er, there is another kind of chaos, like the Western Han Dynasty." Zhu Youjian was quite dissatisfied with Zhang Yan's words. "Yan'er, I would like to hear what you say from the bottom of your heart instead of listing phenomena. I know these direct causes. , It’s useless at all, the key is the internal reason, for example, why the people are making trouble."
Zhang Yan's face blushed slightly, she took a chair and sat down beside Zhu Youzhen, "Your Majesty, the people are in trouble, naturally because there is no food to eat, and the Han people are relatively weak. If it is not that they can't live, they are not. Will risk beheading and rise up against the imperial court, just like the Shaanxi mob with money for several years..."
"Yan'er is right this time. The people are making trouble because they can't live. But why can't they live? Don't they have fertile land to grow?"
"Your Majesty, the people are poor. First, the government's taxes are too heavy. After paying taxes, the people's land income is not enough to feed their families. Second, at the end of each dynasty, land mergers are serious, and the people have no land. Planting, or renting the land of large planting households, adds a layer of exploitation."
"Yan'er analyzed very well, and I am also solving these problems." Zhu Youjian cast an admiring glance at Zhang Yan. "For example, for the first question, Daming implements the law of fifteen taxes and one tax, and taxation itself is not important. However, in order to supplement the exhausted financial resources, the Ministry of Households and local governments usually increase taxes. This is worthy of vigilance."
"Your Majesty, once the financial resources of the household department are exhausted and the taxation of the people is not increased, how does the court function?"
"Open source," Zhu Youjian is extremely relaxed. "Now the people who pay taxes in Ming Dynasty are only the poorest people, and the businessmen who have a lot of wealth don't take any money, which is really unreasonable."
"Your Majesty is planning to collect industrial and commercial tax?"