[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

It was late at night, and the sky was a bit stuffy. A thunderstorm came down, and the rain was pouring like pours.Princess Ning was awakened by the thunder.The little girl was gently lifting the ice mirror out of the room.The eldest maid Yu Bing took out the thin quilt from the cabinet in a light gauze, and seeing that Princess Ning was awake, she hurried up and opened the curtain to serve her.

"Has the lord returned to the study?" Du Sheng never let King Ning stay in his room overnight, and usually King Ning would stay with him until midnight before going back to the study to rest.Even though she knew that it was unlikely that King Ning would spend the night at Du Sheng's place, Concubine Ning still asked worriedly.

Yu Bing's hand that was hanging the curtain stopped there.After pausing for a long while, she said cautiously: "Mr. Du and the prince had a drink today, and the prince was blocked by the heavy rain and did not go back to the study." Seeing that Princess Ning looked uneasy, she immediately changed the subject and said: "The prince will get up early to deal with government affairs tomorrow, Wangfei Go to bed earlier, and get up early tomorrow morning." This is to say that King Ning is too busy, and he probably doesn't have time to mess around with Du Sheng.

After listening to the latter words, Princess Ning finally felt relieved.Hearing the slapping of the leaves hit by the heavy rain outside the window, he said: "It will be inconvenient for my brother to go to the city tomorrow due to such heavy rain. You can ask Yang Er to send someone to pick him up early in the morning. Don't make any mistakes. In addition , ask the kitchen to prepare more pastries, the people outside came over early in the morning, they must be hungry." Yu Bing agreed in a low voice.Princess Ning pulled the thin quilt to her chest, thought for a long time in the dark, and fell asleep for a while when the sky was about to dawn.

At the time of Zhu Chenhao, Du Sheng was still sound asleep.It rained heavily last night, Du Sheng had no choice but to leave him outside to sleep.Now that Zhu Chenhao woke up, he saw Du Sheng's sleeping face as soon as he entered the door.

There is no doubt that Du Sheng is extremely beautiful.His beauty is neither feminine, nor masculine, but a strange temperament mixed with wildness and arrogance.Because of this, Zhu Chenhao seldom sees Du Sheng being so obedient.The person who was still sleeping had unruly black hair scattered around, and there were red marks on his face from the pressure of the bamboo pillow.

Seeing him like this, Zhu Chenhao became lustful, and wanted to kiss him immediately.A silver light hit his face, Zhu Chenhao hurriedly took a few steps back, and took a closer look, Du Sheng was leaning on the bed, with a silver inlaid dagger on his right hand glowing coldly under the light.Even though he was full of murderous intent, Du Sheng was still beautiful, and the jade-colored skin exposed by the white obscene clothes was especially alluring.

"My lord, please respect yourself." Her voice was a little hoarse just after waking up, and she was a little more sexy than usual.Although Zhu Chenhao was a little angry, he was not unaware of his appearance, and thinking of the same voice he made when the two of them shared the bed before, he let go of his anger and said with a smile: "You are going to sleep for a while. Well, I have something else to do." Du Sheng put the dagger under the pillow, slept happily as usual, and went out with a smile on his face.

In the past few years since the new emperor ascended the throne, life for the vassals has become increasingly difficult, especially after several vassals who meddled in local government affairs were deprived of their titles, everyone was even more in danger.Zhu Chenhao has always been a very ambitious person.He can coax the old Ning Wang to pass on the title to him, so he naturally has a way to deal with Zhu Houzhao's policy of reducing the vassal.

Salt administration is the top priority of a country, and Zhu Houzhao dared to touch anything but the salt administration.The net of dignitaries, officials, and businessmen is too big and too deep, and what Zhu Houzhao wants is to hit every hit.In the absence of certainty, Zhu Houzhao has never touched the Yanzheng.Even afraid of scaring the snake, Zhu Houzhao still acquiesced in all the tricks.Zhu Chenhao took advantage of this loophole.

Now Zhu Chenhao smuggles salt to Tatars and fire sieves, and smuggles ironware to the Yao people in Southwest China, earning countless silver every year.It is also because of the smuggling of two things, salt and iron, that a huge profit network has been built in his domain.Whether they are wealthy or officials, they are all closely linked links in the profit chain constructed by Zhu Chenhao.With this network, Zhu Chenhao became the undisputed emperor of the land here.

The previous generation of King Ning did not have a direct son, so Zhu Chenhao was established as his son in order not to cut down the vassal and go to the country.In the battle of the concubine, Zhu Chenhao learned to use a substitute.Now the imperial power is getting stronger and stronger, and the vassal king is getting weaker and weaker.Zhu Chenhao didn't want to confront Zhu Houzhao head-on, and always pretended to be weak and sick, and closed the door to thank guests under the banner of not seeing outsiders.On weekdays, the substitute would stay in the small courtyard of the palace for him. When Zhu Chenhao came back, it would be time for King Ning to recover from his illness.

The palace is only a square inch, and all activities are carried out in secret.These are the business of ransacking the family and exterminating the clan, no one dares to talk nonsense outside, that's how they managed to deceive Zhu Houzhao and Du Ruo.The hurt Zhu Houzhao really thought that it was because Zhu Houzhao was too incompetent to make Zhu Chenhao rebel, otherwise how could he stay in Prince Ning's mansion well now, and there was a student like Wang Shouren in the princess's natal family.

Early in the morning, someone who was inconvenient to appear quietly entered King Ning's yard pretending to be a farmer delivering things.Zhu Chenhao started to spin around early in the morning.When I saw the people in the southern saltworks and the people in charge of the Yao people in the southwest, by the time they were all sent away, the sun was already high.Zhu Chenhao came out of his yard with a pale complexion, and he was still wearing thick clothes on a hot day.After the sweeper left, Zhu Chenhao went back to his room and changed back to his original clothes.

"My lord, everything has been arranged. It just so happened that the nanny in charge of the poor courtyard made a mistake today, and they were transferred to Xiyuan. My lord can relax for two days." The palace is so big, who belongs to which family? People, Zhu Chenhao naturally has a clear family.The people around Zhu Chenhao are also confidantes, and they can only monitor Zhu Chenhao at the periphery.Usually there is no need for this, but now it is summer, and recently Zhu Chenhao is a little fatter than the double, so he can only send the people here first.Time to find an excuse to get them back.This is the best way to paralyze everyone. What your people see with their own eyes is not wrong.

"Everyone has been quite active recently, and we can't be alone. Find some reliable people and bring some money to Beijing to clear things up." Everyone is making connections in order to keep their titles. If he doesn't move The words are beyond words. "Okay, now let's go see Master Lou."

The marriage of two people is not only a matter of two people, but also a matter of two families and two families.Lou He's eldest sister married Prince Ning and became Princess Ning, and his younger sister married Fei Hong's younger brother Fei Yi, who is known for his talent. Now it seems that the future is bright, and both marriages are excellent.But who can see the crisis behind this.Thinking of what his elder sister said in the letter and his father's entrustment, Lou He completely lost the mood to appreciate the scenery on the roadside.

Zhu Chenhao thought that Lou He would arrive right away, but the road after the rain was difficult.When Lou He arrived, Zhu Chenhao's entire vest was wet, and his complexion, which was originally ugly due to fatigue, became even more ugly, but his appearance turned crooked, which made Lou He think that he was really sick.When he refused to receive him due to illness, he was not too demanding, and went to find his sister by himself.

Zhu Chenhao is not worried that Lou He and Concubine Ning will do anything that is not good for him. However, many people from the Lou family have intervened in what he does. If they want to be bad for him, the Lou family themselves may bear the brunt of it.Even if there is a Fei family, one is just an ordinary official family, and the other is a royal family, everyone knows how to choose.

In the end, the caravan collected the bones and only found a bitten body with only bones left wearing the fragments of Du Sheng's clothing.Du Sheng and his family were already dead, so Du Ruo decided to bury this cousin in the family cemetery of Du's family and take care of it with Du Yide and his wife.After the caravan was seriously injured, it would take three to five years for the caravan to return to its original size.The caravan will be temporarily taken over by You Er, he is an old man, so he can feel relieved to take over Du Ruo.

Originally, Du Ruo didn't have too much hope for the caravan, and only let them do some normal business, hoping to catch their breath slowly.It's just that he didn't expect You Er to accomplish a major event within a few months after he returned to the capital.For the first time in history, the official of the Ottoman Turkish Empire sent officials to visit Ming Dynasty.

It is said to be a visit, but it is just to come to investigate and investigate, how rich is the legendary Daming.After the caravans went through this road, more and more merchants of the Ming Dynasty transported the increasingly cheap silk of the Ming Dynasty to the inland of the empire, which was still far away from the coast.Among so many caravans, the one with the largest scale and the closest relationship with the official is Du Sheng's caravan.They not only sold silk to the empire, but also got rare porcelain, medicines and vaccines that could prevent smallpox.

But after the last trade, they never appeared again.After waiting for half a year, the caravan that should have arrived long ago was nowhere to be seen.Now they couldn't wait any longer, and a smallpox epidemic broke out again in the spring, and people who had doubts about Da Ming's medicine took it.The medicine that was originally spread only on the border was even donated to the palace, saving the life of a nobleman.After waiting for a long time, the Ottoman Turkish Empire also organized a semi-official mission and arrived in Daming with the caravan that came to Daming.

On the one hand, they want to find this miraculous needle-pricked drug called a vaccine, and on the other hand, they also want to see what it is like to see Daming, who has heard various rumors frequently in the past few years.

They first went to Hami, to Xu Jin's territory.Xu Jin is a person who has received an orthodox Confucian education.At first, I thought that others wanted to pay tribute, but it turned out that they were more arrogant than myself.Xu Jin has been suppressing Tatar and Huozie for the past few years, so he is naturally a bit arrogant, and the two sides almost didn't fight.It was You Er who received the news and welcomed them over to settle them properly.