Zhu Xu accompanied Queen Zhang for a few more words and saw that Queen Zhang was really unhappy, so she said goodbye and came back.

"Come Xiao Cao to see me." Zhu Xu said to Yao Qingqing as soon as he returned to Jinghuan Palace.

When Yao Qingqing saw Zhu Xu's face, he looked slightly shocked and hurriedly said, "It's Your Highness."

"Are there any newcomers in the palace recently? I mean, who is the one who has been favored in the harem recently?"

As soon as Cao Huachun came in, Zhu Xu asked directly.

Cao Huachun was stunned and thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, that is, Concubine Feng is more favored, and no newcomers have entered the palace recently."

Concubine Feng is an old man in the palace. Zhu Xu doesn’t care much, but there is no newcomer. How can Queen Zhang explain her expression?

Zhu Xu frowned and looked at Cao Huachun and said, "Are you sure?"

Cao Huachun was not sure at this moment, so he thought about it carefully and said, "Your Highness, I'll check it out again."

"Go quickly." Zhu Xu waved his hand. A person who could make Queen Zhang so unhappy was probably an amazing person. If he didn't figure it out in advance, Zhu Xu would probably be unable to sleep or eat.

Zhu Xu sat on the lounge chair, tapping his fingers on his thighs, and his eyes were quiet.

There is a ill in the harem, Wei Zhongxian is going to be released from prison, and his uncle is going to be promoted. This series of things seem very sudden. Is there any connection?

Not long after, Cao Huachun hurried over, handed Zhu Xu a note, and said, "Your Highness, look, Miss Rou gave it to me."

Miss Rou? Wu Rou?

Zhu Xu immediately jumped up, took it and opened it, and saw the corner of his mouth twitching, showing a smile on his face.

In black and white, three beautiful small characters are written: Zhang Yanyao.

Zhu Xu felt very strange. He never expected that in the harem, the person who made Queen Zhang seem a little disobedient would be her. Wei Liangqing's wife Ru was beaten by him because she was surveillance of him without permission, and then Zhang Yanyao was missing!

He sat back on the lounge chair, squinted his eyes, and a faint smile on his lips.

Zhang Yanyao is naturally not Keshi. Maybe he can help Zhu Youxiao, who lost Keshi, get a brief sense of comfort or freshness, but after all, it is not Keshi. He cannot dominate the harem like Keshi, do whatever he wants, and do nothing.

Queen Zhang is not a weak person. If she really gets angry, she will take the airs of the Empress of the Central Palace and teaches her a lesson. Zhu Youxiao may not be able to protect Zhang Yanyao.

"Okay, leave the palace, let Yao Qingqing follow me and inform Lao Cao to prepare."

Zhu Xu threw away the paper casually, stood up with a smile and said. Fear comes from the unknown. Since you know the details, you don’t have to worry so much.

Seeing that Zhu Xu's face improved, Cao Huachun also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's Your Highness."

This time when Zhu Xu left the palace, he was not only worried about his desire to have a good chat with Fu Changzong, but the other one was the flintlock rifle that he had been thinking about.

This is a powerful tool to deal with the Tartars in the future, and Bi Maokang and Yao Qingqing are a pair of bitter couples. It is time for them to relieve their longing.

Zhu Xu and Yao Qingqing got on the carriage and walked out of the palace staggeringly.

Yao Qingqing's face was calm, but her hands couldn't help but grab the dress and rub it over and over again, obviously very nervous.

Zhu Xu smiled slightly and said, "Don't be nervous, I will never break my promise when I promised."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Yao Qingqing pursed her lips and bowed slightly. It was not that she didn't believe in Zhu Xu, but was worried about Bi Maokang. Their relationship had been coming and going for ten years, and she became more and more anxious, and she had hope but became more and more eager.

"Your Highness, change the carriage." Cao Wenzhao lowered his voice just after a corner.

Zhu Xu jumped out of the carriage and ran quickly into another carriage hidden in the alley. Yao Qingqing also received instructions, so naturally followed Zhu Xu with ease.

The original carriage quickly left quietly, but soon a figure followed closely.

Cao Wenzhao waited for a while before leaving in the carriage. He wandered around the alley for a long time and was sure that no one was following him, so he went straight out of the city.

Although the capital was still in fear after the court's looting, it finally returned to some of the past lively.

Few people who have been confiscated dare to call for justice. Just like the charges seized by the court and the tradition of being traitorous, the court not only gained enough money in this move, but also once again announced the world that the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is even more important at this time!

It’s okay in the city, but once you leave the city, it’s like another world.

Along the way, there were all refugees, ragged and hungry, and unable to see the end at first sight.

"Young master, please give me some food?"

"Master, how much is the reward? Let's buy some food?"

"Miss, the child is pitiful, please feel sorry for you..."

Zhu Xu lifted the curtain and looked out the window, sighing in his heart.

In the past, when the professor always said that the demise of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be the will of heaven. Because the Ming Dynasty was an unprecedented peak in the development of Chinese culture, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not have a real tyrant. If they wanted to use the means that had happened in previous dynasties, they might not have any at all.

Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty wants to perish, it must be God's will.

So, God's will.

Chongzhen reigned for seventeen years, with severe droughts every year and locust plagues every year. This is unprecedented. No dynasty in history has ever had such natural disasters, as if it was about to destroy the world. It was terrible to think about it.

Zhu Xu was in the palace since he was a child, and everything was cold words in books, and he had never seen them with his own eyes. Now he could not see the refugees on the border at first sight, and he could even imagine that more than ten years later, Li Zicheng led millions of refugees to break through Tongguan, Datong, and the capital.

"Your Highness, will the court ignore it?" Although Yao Qingqing was in the dust, he knew very little about these. Looking at these poor refugees, he couldn't help looking at Zhu Xu.

Zhu Xu's face was strange, and he paused, but he didn't speak.

The court did have silver, but these silvers were not used by Zhu Youxiao or Zhu Xu. They still had to be cut through the cabinet, through six ministries, and various local government offices. He didn't know how many times he could have been used to provide relief to the victims.

Cao Wenzhao drove the carriage and left quickly, and then walked towards a mountain in the distance.

The total population of the Ming Dynasty was only 60 million, which theoretically was larger than that of later generations, so it was very large and sparsely populated. The wasteland, barren mountains, and barren forests were almost everywhere outside the city.

In the eyes of others, it is naturally useless, but in the eyes of Zhu Xu, it is all silver.

He seemed to see sweet potatoes growing underground, corn standing on it, and then taken away one by one by one and turned into silver.

You should know that the current land price is roughly third-class, with a land price of three to five taels per mu, a medium-sized field of about seven to eight taels, and a land price of only ten to fifteen taels. The land yields only three to four hundred kilograms of wheat per mu, but sweet potatoes are different from corn. Sweet potatoes cost more than one thousand kilograms, and corn also has seven to eight hundred kilograms. They can grow well in these wastelands and forests!

Zhu Xu looked at the refugees behind him again, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, wondering whether he could sell sweet potatoes and corn to the court for disaster relief. If so, he might be able to curb those people's efforts.

"Your Highness, you're here."

Not long after, the carriage came to a yard that had been stormy and rainy. Behind the yard was a vast mountain.

After Zhu Xu walked down, Cao Wenzhao explained, "This mountain is quite special. Only this road can be reached. I have arranged people here, and outsiders cannot get up."
Chapter completed!