The Ming Dynasty started with caution

Kunning Palace,

Emperor Hongzhi held up his grandson with a smile, like the warm sunshine in the early morning, "The grandson's eyes are like Emperor Gao, and they look at each other like tigers."

Like a little tiger, he looked at Emperor Hongzhi fiercely.

Xiao Jing hurriedly smiled and praised: "Your Majesty is right. I was almost scared to death when the little ancestor looked at me."

Emperor Hongzhi laughed, and Zhu Houzhao on the side looked at the two fools as if they were idiots.

The grandson obviously looks like me, but he wants to lie with his eyes open.

Who has seen Emperor Gao? It's just a casual painting by the painter.

"Father, you are fine, so I will return to the East Palace. There are still many affairs in the East Palace that need to be handled by me."

Emperor Hongzhi's face collapsed, and he handed the grandson to Empress Zhang: "I heard that Yan Qing's family gave you an IOU for two million taels?"

This happened a month ago.

But it happened that the earth collapsed and the grandson was born, so Mou Bin suppressed it and reported it carefully until today.

Zhu Houzhao said without hesitation: "The Jinyiwei framed me, how can I accept the money from the court official?"

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao did not admit it, Mou Bin looked up in panic: "Yan Chengjin will not lie, Your Majesty, why don't you ask Yan Chengjin directly?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard what Mou Bin said, he knew that it was probably true, and looked at Zhu Houzhao and said: "Where did Yan Qing's family get so much money? Why did they give you so much money? Tell me!"

The shouting scared the grandson next to him and looked at Emperor Hongzhi in confusion.

Empress Zhang took him aside and played with Princess Taiping.

Zhu Houzhao said: "Old Gao gave me an IOU for 5 million, but it has not been paid yet. I sold something to him."

Emperor Hongzhi's expression was relieved: "You can go back to the East Palace."

Yan Qing's family had long been informed that any IOU paid to the prince would not count.

I'm afraid the prince used other things as a threat to write such an IOU.

Zhu Houzhao was stunned, and then he was overjoyed: "Where did I take Weiwu back to the East Palace?"

"Zaikun! It's Zaikun! You are not allowed to change the name of the emperor's grandson!" Emperor Hongzhi almost roared, the emperor's grandson's name inherited the fate of a country, and the country's fate would decline.

Empress Zhang said: "Zaikun is not even a month old, so keep him in Kunning Palace until the crown princess leaves the silkworm room. If you miss him, come to Kunning Palace every day to pay your respects."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded. The prince acted in an unruly manner. The emperor's grandson was only 28 days old and could not be handed over to him.

Zhu Houzhao knew that he could not take his son away except by stealing, so he walked out of the hall angrily.

Ye Zhun bowed to him, then walked into the hall: "Your Majesty, I found out that the foreign things the prince sold to Lord Yan are called snow lotus."

"To treat illness?"

"I don't know, but Madam Yan takes good care of it every day, it doesn't look like a common thing."

Xiao Jing hurriedly bowed and said: "Yan Chengjin never makes a fuss. I think it's strange that he can spend two million taels to buy foreign things."

"Yes." Emperor Hongzhi nodded.

Yan Chengjin found foreign things such as corn, potatoes, peanuts and peppers.

This time, people have to think about that, but this boy often hides it for three to five months after getting it. If I don't ask, he will really pretend to know nothing.

Early in the morning, the dismounting monument at the Meridian Gate.

Lifting the curtain of the sedan chair, Yan Chengjin saw a red four-man sedan chair, which was Li Dongyang's sedan chair.

"Morning, Mr. Li."

Li Dongyang glanced at him lightly, hummed, and walked towards the cabinet with his hands behind his back.

My two sons have been out to sea all year round, and my daughter married an enemy. I am really miserable!

Yan Chengjin passed through the moon cave, but saw Zhu Houzhao with his back to him, afraid of being discovered by the officials.

"Lao Gao, my father knows, but I didn't betray you."

"Yes, I know, Your Highness keeps his word."

Yan Chengjin knew that Emperor Hongzhi would definitely ask about it in the morning court, and Zhu Houzhao came to inform him so that he could be prepared.

Zhu Houzhao, the top brother in the capital, still has a sense of loyalty.

The golden bell rang, and the officials lined up holding the plaques and walked into the Fengtian Hall.

Emperor Hongzhi looked ruddy and bright. He became more energetic after the birth of his grandson: "What does the cabinet want to report today?"

"There are more than 337,000 households and more than 1.24 million people in the refugees who were resettled in Hetao for the Great Wall.

I beg that those with less than three males can be exempted from three mu of tax, or three mu can be reduced for more males. If there is no surplus land, they can be exempted from corvée." Liu Jian said.

The refugees who built the Great Wall were settled in Hetao and registered locally.

But the refugees have weak foundations. They only have the wages earned from repairing the Great Wall, and they need to open up wasteland and cultivate it themselves, and they have no spare energy to pay taxes.

Emperor Hongzhi nodded: "Exempt them all. I have never thought of collecting taxes from them."

"Your Majesty, you can't!" Li Dongyang said: "To favor one over the other will surely make the people of the world angry at the injustice of the court."

"Then exempt the tax for five years for the merits of rest and repairing the court."

All officials nodded, so that the rest of the people would not feel unfair.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Yan Chengjin deeply: "Does the Censorate have anything to report?"

"Nothing." Yan Chengjin said.

"I heard that you bought something from the prince with two million taels?"

With a bang, all the officials were shocked. Would the prince sell the jade seal?

Yan Chengjin said: "Yes, the Jinyiwei already knew about it. I named myself Sweet Potato, nothing special."

Li Dongyang didn't believe it.

Liu Jian didn't believe it either, and instead felt it was strange.

"Your family doesn't need to hide it. I'm not asking for punishment today. I just want to know if this thing can be used as a staple food like corn?" Emperor Hongzhi's eyes were bright.

Chai Sheng took a deep breath. Yan Chengjin found another staple food?

Li Dongyang also guessed it, but why did this boy always find it? Could it be that he has some magical power to identify things?

"I only know that this thing can be eaten, and I don't know anything else."

Emperor Hongzhi and all the officials had bright eyes and were even more curious.

There are millions of refugees in the northwest, but they can't grow rice. If they can grow this thing, the northwest will not become a burden to the court.

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Annan, Hui'an City.

Two months have passed since the departure from the capital. Wang Shouren led a hundred elite cavalry to take charge of Pang Wei's army and won a great victory in the first battle!

In the city, the people fled with their livestock and were scared to death by the Ming soldiers.

During the Yongle period, Emperor Wen made Annan a provincial government, so Annan's current official system is very similar to that of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Shouren said: "The property plundered from the royal family will be distributed to the three armies according to military merit!"

After Pang Wei was killed, the morale collapsed like water, and the legs weakened when they saw the elephant soldiers of Annan.

At this moment, the soldiers rushed into the mansion of the vassal king like chicken blood, and moved out boxes of gold, silver, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings.

The gentry knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, knowing that this was what they plundered from the people, but Wang Shouren was not moved at all.

Li Fuda, the military supervisor, frowned and said: "This is the property that should be handed over to the court. How can Lord Wang reward it privately!"

"After returning to the court, I will only report to Your Majesty." Wang Shouren was calm.

Han Wen rode up on horseback and bowed, saying, "Master Jijiu."

"You lead 80,000 elite troops from the north and south to attack Dongjing City. I will lead 100,000 Li people to stop the northern army, fight quickly and return to the court."

Wang Shouren knew that if he could not report victory within 15 days, the court would need to send out the Beijing camp.

The national debt will become a losing business.

Li Fuda was anxious: "Dongjing is the royal city, with 100,000 soldiers and elephant soldiers. How can we disperse our strength? We should fight in one go!"

Before that, the Southwest Army had suffered a defeat.

Wang Shouren drew his sword: "I have my own arrangements. If you say more, I will kill you for the crime of misleading the army!"

Li Fuda was so scared that he shut up immediately. Wang Shouren, remember this for me. When I return to the palace, I will sue you to death!

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