Chapter 1: The Heaven of Love on Earth

During the 11th year of Chongzhen, Lantian County completely disappeared from the Tang Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.

This name usually only appears in the documents of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works. As for the Ministry of War, it seems that the Ministry of War has forgotten the existence of this place.

The sound of water droplets at night awakened Zhu Youjian who was thinking. He slowly raised his head, looked at the dim hall, and said in a deep voice: "Hand the light!"

Wang Chengen walked out from behind the curtain and lit the candle. After hesitating for a moment, he lit up the lamp mountain beside the table.

Zhu Youjian looked at the shaky Dengshan and wanted to say something, but finally sighed.

Wang Chengen proposed a red-lacquered food box, placed the side dishes inside in front of Zhu Youjian, added another bowl of rice and a bowl of tomato and egg soup, and gave in.

He hesitated for a moment and said to the emperor softly: "Your Majesty, this is done by the queen himself, so I have not arranged to test the drug."

Zhu Youjian whispered: "What poison does the food she cooks have to be tested? If she wants me to die, let her do it."

After that, I took the soup bowl and drank the soup with a spoonful of spoonfuls.

It was not until I drank a bowl of tomato and egg soup that I stopped and looked at the empty soup bowl and said to Wang Chengen: "Although this thing is cheap, it is delicious."

Wang Chengen said: "It was planted by the queen in the open space in the palace."

Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "Since she married me, it is inevitable to endure hardship. Unfortunately, although this thing is good, the place with the highest yield is Lantian County."

Wang Chengen smiled and said, "Your Majesty, try corn again, it was also planted by the queen himself."

Zhu Youjian took a small half of the corn from the plate and took a bite, chewed it slowly, and nodded and said, "Even if Yun Zhao is not good at all, he should have promoted the new grain planting, and his name should not be missing in the history books.

Wang Cheng'en, do you think Yun Zhao hate me?"

"You are the king and father, and Yun Zhao is the minister."

"But everyone says he is a wolfish ambition."

"A man who says he is a wolfish ambitious will not pay taxes!"

"Huh?" Zhu Youjian raised his head in surprise. Wang Chengen, a servant, has always refused to say something to outsiders, but what happened today?

Wang Chengen held the whisk and said, "Your Majesty, my maid's mouth was pried open by the silver from Lantian County, and I have to help them."

Zhu Youjian was not angry, but looked at Wang Chengen and waited for him to explain.

"The locust plague in Shanxi, Your Majesty has saved money and squeezed out 80,000 taels of silver in the treasury, and the Empress's civil-clothed clothes and hairpins have squeezed out 20,000 taels of silver in the treasury... In order to squeeze out this little silver, Your Majesty has not added new clothes for five years. Look at the cuffs are all irritating... The Empress has been vegetarian for many years, but now she is not safe in her body, but she does not allow the imperial doctor to prescribe precious medicinal materials to replenish qi.

Your Majesty ordered all the civil and military officials to donate money, and they received a total of 16,427 taels of silver in two months... Only Yun Qin, a native of Yun's family, pledged 30,000 taels of silver, plus 87,000 dan of grain, and promised to exchange all the silver donated by Your Majesty, the Queen, and the ministers for food according to the price of our emperor's nine years.

With these things, I feel that it is appropriate to say a few good words to Yun in front of His Majesty. As for whether Your Majesty listens or not, it is not something I can control.”

Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "What a slave, you have made you do good people inside and outside."

Seeing that the emperor had a rare smile, Wang Chengen joked: "I don't know that the loyal and unfaithful servants of the Yun family have received the cash silver donated by Yun family. They are all official silver from Lantian County, without a single ingot of miscellaneous silver, and there is no iron coins to replace it.

As for the grain, they are all new grains that were harvested last autumn, without mixing grains, mud, sand, wheat, full grains, millet, sorghum, and corn. Such grains are better than the grain purchased in the palace.

If His Majesty hadn't allowed me to move this batch of food, I would have wanted to exchange these foods with the food in the palace."

Zhu Youjian silently picked up the rice bowl, ate two bowls of rice with various side dishes before putting down the rice bowl, rinsing his mouth, and purifying his hands, slowly walked a few steps in the study.

"Wang Cheng'en, you said Yun Zhao was quite respectful to me, why couldn't he send troops to wipe out the bandits like Li Hongji?

He was guarding an isolated city on the frontier facing the conquest of Dorgon, Yuetuo, Dudu and Dudo, and the 100,000 troops of Jiannu who could still kill him fled in a panic. Why couldn't he send troops to pacify the thieves on the Ming Dynasty for me?"

Wang Chengen took two steps back and bowed to the ground and said, "This is a major national event, how dare I interfere with it?"

Zhu Youjian nodded and smiled, "Yes, I shouldn't ask you, I just can't figure it out. Yun Zhao's military power has been strong, and there were several times when I thought he would rebel and thought he would leave Tongguan. As a result, he still kept his troops in such a good opportunity.

Not only did he remained silent, but he also supported the imperial court's countless food, grass and weapons. Even at the critical moment when I needed it most, he blocked the ancient roads and isolated the passage for bandits to gather. This is a great achievement.

When everyone thought he was ambition, he spent four years planning to build an isolated city and built a Lantian Shou outside the defense line of the Ming Dynasty!

It isolated the passage of the slave chief to the south, and at the same time, it also isolated the Mongolian tribes that the slave chief had conquered into two parts.

This almost shocking method made the subordinates of the Western Mongolia tribes, the Uszang tribes, the Qinghai tribes and the Jiannu die in name only.

Every time I see news about Lantian County, I feel a little joyful, but every time I think of Yun Zhao, I feel mixed feelings and indescribable sorrow."

Wang Chengen was still lying on the ground. He understood that the emperor didn't need his opinion. He just wanted to find someone to listen to him. He happened to be the most suitable person.

"These words were put in the court, and each piece and every piece became a testimony of Yun Zhao's ambitiousness, and there was enough reason, and I had nothing to say..."

"Yun Zhao, are you the strong minister who can support the country in the Ming Dynasty, or an ambitious Cao Cao? I am really confused..."

Seeing that the emperor was walking in the study faster and faster, Wang Chengen quietly stood up, opened the door of the study, and let a ray of white moonlight shine into the dark study.

"Your Majesty, the Empress has not yet rested."

Without saying anything, Zhu Youjian walked out of the study room, bathed his whole body in the moonlight, and spread his arms as if he wanted to embrace the moon in the sky.

There is not a single tree in the front hall of the Forbidden City, only countless winding and twisting open spaces surrounded by black white marble railings.

With Wang Chengen coughing lightly, countless eunuchs walked out of every corner, like ghosts emerging from the ground.

A huge moon hung in the sky. The eunuchs did not light up the lanterns, but instead followed the emperor down, with no sound at all.

Kunning Palace is right behind Jiaotai Hall, and is a palace group composed of nine houses.

Zhu Youjian passed through Jiaotai Hall and walked to Kunning Palace. He suddenly stopped and pointed to a cluster of dog tail grass on the wall that was swaying in the moonlight and said, "Put it down."

As soon as he finished speaking, a eunuch jumped up to the city wall, carefully pulled out the cluster of dog tail grass and respectfully presented it to the emperor.

Zhu Youjian walked into Kunning Palace with a handful of dog tail grass.

As soon as he walked into Kunning Palace, he saw the palace maids and eunuchs kneeling all over the ground. Empress Zhou stood under a lantern and looked at him with a smile.

Seeing that the queen was about to salute, Zhu Youjian waved his hand irritably and said, "Aren't you tired?"

After saying that, he walked straight into the inner palace, and Empress Zhou followed him alone. As for the palace maids, the eunuchs quietly did what they should do.

Queen Zhou saw the bunch of dogtail grass in the emperor's hand early on. Although she felt strange, she did not ask. She took off her shoes and went to a soft collapse. She brought a bowl of tea: "Official, don't you have to take charge of government affairs today?"

The emperor gave the queen a blank look and said, "I have been the emperor for so many years. Why are you still an official? The official name is me?

I can't change it over the years."

Queen Zhou smiled and said, "When we got married, I called you Prince. You said that Wang and Fei are homophones, and the word "Master" is added to the later part, which means that you would hate you for not dying early.

You call you an official, and you said that this title is good, why are you unwilling to do it now?"

Zhu Youjian yawned and looked at the tea on the table: "I won't drink tea tonight, so I won't sleep well after drinking this thing."

When Empress Zhou heard this, she immediately ordered the palace maids to clean up the bed. Speaking of which, the couple had not had a bed together for a long time.

He wanted to remove the dogtail grass in the emperor's hand, but the emperor avoided it. Before he was angry, he slapped the dogtail grass on a short table and said, "This is Yun Zhao!"

Queen Zhou picked up the bunch of dogtail grass in surprise and looked at it in confusion: "I heard that Yun Zhao is either a capable minister in governing the world or a traitor in the world. No matter which one it is, it has nothing to do with this bunch of wild grass, right?

Also, at the big night, did you get such a bunch of weeds from there?"

Zhu Youjian snorted coldly and said, "On the wall of our house!"

After saying that, when Queen Zhou blinked her big eyes and looked at him ignorantly, she intensified her tone: "A fence-bearer, but she doesn't fall with the wind."

Queen Zhou was even more confused.

Zhu Youjian picked up the bunch of dogtail grass again and said seriously to the queen: "Everyone in the world is afraid that I will ask for money, even your father is like this.

Yun Zhao is not afraid. To this day, only he is fulfilling all my requirements seriously and without any complaints.

However, he was another rebellious person. Yang Sichang offended him. He actually dared to send soldiers to Yang Sichang's house in the daytime and kill others.

Afterwards, I gave me a complaint, saying that there is no way to control my subordinates! I am willing to resign from my official position and wait for the participation of the party.

I approved his memorial and allowed him to resign. He was not bad, so he hung the seal on the lobby of the county government and left... What happened? Six county magistrates went to a year, and all six of them committed suicide by hanging their beams.

Other county magistrates may commit suicide, but how could Liang Yiwen commit suicide? In order to seek this position, he even sold his property and gave away his sister's wife. Then he asked for the position he received.

If he could not get enough money from the wealthy Lantian County, how could he give up?

However, the censor went to investigate the county magistrate's suicide, but Lantian County said in the words that these county magistrates were hanging themselves and no one forced them... Queen, do you believe it?"

Queen Zhou covered her mouth and smiled, "You borrowed Yun Zhao's hand to get rid of five people you want to get rid of. You have told me about this."

Zhu Youjian lazily placed his legs on the short table and said proudly: "You are wrong. There are eight, there are two censors and one in charge of the eunuch.

The court is much quieter now, and everyone knows that if anyone disobeys me, I will send him to Lantian County as an official. Don’t forget that the Lobby of Zhengyin of Lantian County is still empty!”

Zhu Youjian spoke proudly for a while, and soon his mood became depressed.

"Lantian County has served me very comfortably... But I have to pay the price in the end... I may not be able to bear this price.

Queen, I really want to get rid of Yun Zhao... But...ah... let's drink poison to quench thirst!"

Seeing that the emperor was in a low mood, Empress Zhou sat next to him and held the emperor's hand and said, "It's late at night, it's time to rest."

Back at the bedroom, Empress Zhou broke the emperor's bun, pulled out a few white hair and put it in Zhu Youjian's hand. Zhu Youjian looked down at the white hair and whispered: "Yun Zhao can manage a wealthy and healthy business in a dilapidated Guanzhong. Why can't I settle the entire Ming Dynasty?

Queen, I am not convinced!"

Queen Zhou hugged her husband with compassion, placed her jaw on her head and whispered to comfort her. Their figures were printed on the window frame, and they were infinitely sweet.

Wang Chengen, who was standing outside the door, saw this scene and smiled. It seemed that the queen and His Majesty had been in great harmony for so many years!

Yun Zhao stood in his huge courtyard and looked at Feng Ying standing at the door, smiling, and ignored Qian Duoduo who had been stolen on his back. She could not kill him anyway, so she went with her.
To be continued...