[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Tu Yuanyi didn't pay much attention to Tu Xin's complicated mood, or whether she accepted it, he had his own life, besides being an emperor, he was also a selfish man.He wants to protect his family and happiness, and doesn't have much energy to put on others.

The imperial chariots of the emperor and the empress were mighty, but Xing Xiuyan expressed that he wanted to take a walk by himself, but he and Tu Yuanyi didn't ride in the chariot, and they didn't allow people to walk with them.

Passing through the imperial garden, Xing Xiuyan collected a lot of memories, but thinking about the ups and downs along the way, she felt complicated.

Watching another year when peonies are in full bloom, colorful butterflies are flying, spring is fading away, but midsummer is ushering in, just like her current years.

"Uncle, when you came back that year..." She turned her head and looked at him with pure star eyes, "Did you predict the ending?"

Tu Yuanyi seldom heard her call him that. He was slightly taken aback, pondered for a moment, and said, "Although it's not as planned, it won't be too far away."

"Hmm... oh... I think it's a bit far away..." she sighed.

Tu Yuanyi looked at her and said, "Now you are the Queen of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the head of women in the world, and you have a hundred thousand elite soldiers in your hands. What dissatisfaction do you have?"

Xing Xiuyan sighed: "But I also thought that I was a Mary Su. I would love a man when I saw him. Maybe relying on a man, I would be a generation of legendary strong women. The reality does not satisfy my little woman's mind at all, but there are always women See my husband is wrong all his life."

Tu Yuanyi said: "This shows that I am the best."

Xing Xiuyan said: "You said that I was young, beautiful, and talented. Why didn't you have a rival in love? Didn't a man go all out for me and come to make things difficult for you?" But there are always women who make things difficult for her because of his love. .

Tu Yuanyi said domineeringly: "Who dares?"

Xing Xiuyan curled her lips and said: "Most of the subordinates are married, otherwise I have to ask, no one knew my identity back then, why no one pursued me. Is it blind or stupid..."

Tu Yuanyi hehe: "Who said there is no? Don't Commander Liu and the seven leaders have such thoughts? What is their result? Which man would risk his head and heart to pursue you?"

Xing Xiuyan was not reconciled: "I was also forced. Besides, what are the qualities of these people? They don't meet the requirements, okay? Isn't the man who loves me supposed to be a talented, handsome and domineering president?"

Tu Yuanyi asked back: "In this world, apart from me, which man can be a domineering president in front of you?"

"I'm actually not like this, I was forced."

Tu Yuanyi rolled his eyes and said, "The child has already given birth to three children, and she still has such a girlish heart, is it plausible?"

She punched him, and said: "You still say me, how old are you, and there are still women thinking about... and dragging my Yuanyuan... Why have I hanged on your tree for a hundred years?" Once it's on the tree, there will be no spring. You can enjoy all the good fortune, and then let me shoulder your romantic debt!"

Tu Yuanyi grabbed her shoulders and said with a broken smile, "Okay, old couple, what's going on?"

Xing Xiuyan looked at him resentfully, and said, "Do you know that I'm going to die countless times? I'm just getting married, and I'm not a Tang monk to learn scriptures! Do you still want to give me ninety-nine 81 difficulties? Are you Is it my Western Paradise?"

Tu Yuanyi looked at her, he was the person who was most familiar with her, and found that there was an indescribable subtle difference in her eyes.

"You...you remember?"

Xing Xiuyan looked at him and said, "Are you that good? I'm going to get through this when I'm with you..."

Tu Yuanyi straightened her face, bent down to kiss her lips, a long and affectionate kiss, biting and sucking her gently.

He let go and chuckled: "Okay, you'll know after you try it."

Xing Xiuyan said: "I don't know, I haven't compared them, I don't have a chance to taste others..."

Tu Yuanyi's handsome face darkened, and he said, "In this life, don't even think about it. Hmm...don't think that you can be Wu Zetian's foster male favorite, Zhenlong is in good health."

Xing Xiuyan beat him, and Tu Yuanyi said: "Don't think about it in the next life, you, I will use it well in this life."

"In the next life, I must satisfy the girl's heart! I must have two men and three men like me, instead of hanging on your tree like in this life."

This was a very thoughtful thought in her heart, but she told him without any concealment.

He is still very patient: "You say you, do you have to harm others before you are willing? You don't like people, why do you want them to like you?"

"Who made so many women like you."

"Unreasonable trouble."

Tu Yuanyi sighed softly, but hugged her and stuck her in his arms, stroking her head like a treasure, and said, "It's great that you're back, welcome home."

The husband and wife enjoy the moving and tranquility of being together.

Tu Yuanyuan didn't wake up until two days later, but she didn't remember what happened that day. She was afraid that the incident of being thrown into the lake was her psychological shadow, and she subconsciously avoided it.

The princess's accident also delayed the plan of the southern tour. Originally, Tu Yuanyuan was supposed to stay in the capital, but after the accident, Tu Yuanyuan became very attached to Xing Xiuyan.

Xing Xiuyan regained her memory, remembering that she was in love with Tu Yuanyi and was pregnant in October, and she couldn't be cruel to the child.

At the end of May, there was no longer any delay, so I took my disciple Yuanyuan and a light car to tour Sichuan and Shu from the south, and arrived in Chengdu in the first ten days of June.

Hundreds of local officials in Sichuan greeted him outside the city, and the emperor and empress drove into the former governor's mansion.One application is still simple, to avoid the lessons learned from letting several companies pick up and create continuous troubles during the emperor's southern tour.

The emperor further developed industries such as steelmaking, textiles, chemical fertilizers, and salt control in Sichuan and Shu, expanded agricultural production, improved the use of firearms in the Sichuan army, and abolished [-]% of the soldiers and put them into the production of factories and farms.

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As the years passed, the Qianyuan Dynasty eradicated all kinds of internal hidden dangers, such as the Jiangnan case, royal infighting, border towns, and traitorous groups colluding inside and outside.

Afterwards, the emperor and empress worked together to appoint talents, not only actively reformed the court, but also boldly set up Sichuan Special Zone to make different attempts.

The Great Zhou Dynasty reached its peak, or the officials like to call it "Zhongxing".

However, the prosperity of the Qianyuan Dynasty was no less than that of Taizong's period, and it can be said that it surpassed it in many directions.

In terms of economy, it does not restrict the development of industry and commerce, and creates many new inventions to create state-owned enterprises.Customs were established to encourage overseas export trade, and the customs collected a large amount of tariffs every year.The development of sweet potato, potato and related potato flour light industry has been promoted, and food security has been stabilized.The "Datong Spinning Machine" invented by the queen reduced the cost of cloth and completed the revolution in the textile industry in the late Qianyuan Dynasty.

The collective ecological farms and industrialization of Sichuan farms have also set a model for agricultural efficiency, which makes landlords in other regions have to follow suit.Of course, they don't want to learn for free, which makes Sichuan's hospitality and service industries flourish.

The Qianyuan Dynasty was also far superior to previous generations in terms of official administration, for example, the famous Jia Qingtian and others appeared.Legend has it that every time Jia Qingtian made his inspection tour, he brought at least dozens of "internship" candidate candidates with him.When they arrived at a certain place, if Jia Qingtian found a corrupt official who was a disaster for the village, devoid of conscience, and owed the king's kindness, Jia Qingtian would kill him, and those Jinshi would directly take over, instead of going to the official department to seek vacancies.This made the local corrupt officials frightened, and the Jinshi who followed Jia Qingtian would definitely take the initiative to find clues about corrupt officials and evil officials so that they could make up for it.Because of the experience gained from the official position, these officials were also somewhat in awe afterwards, in case they were dragged down by others like this.

In terms of culture, the Taishang Emperor presided over the compilation of the "Qianzheng Dadian", which was called "the treasure of China" in later generations and the "Yongle Dadian" in the previous Ming Dynasty.This is not counting the various works written by the empress after her abdication and the further development of "learning from the east and learning from the west".

But let's talk about the military.

The army was modernized in the Qian and Yuan Dynasties from its establishment, equipment to tactics.

Because Sichuan has iron mines and coal, and because a large number of demobilized soldiers have invested in heavy industry, the arsenal in Sichuan has also developed rapidly.

Firearms were widely used in the pre-Ming Dynasty. For example, the Qi Family Army had a fire/lance cavalry team. The Qi Family Army was known as "the strongest army in East Asia in the [-]th century." Dazhou inherited and developed this.

The Great Zhou Dynasty was not Manchu/Qing, so there was no need to guard against the Han people and prohibit the development of firearms. Although the equipment construction department of the Ministry of War in the later period of Emperor Qianzheng's reign often cheated his father when building firearms/cannons, Emperor Qianyuan was in power for a long time and appointed talented people to accumulate foundation .

Those foundations have been moved to the land of Sichuan. The different systems, sufficient manpower and various resources make the military industry seem to have wings.

In Sichuan, skilled craftsmen are also equivalent to officials, and not only are they rewarded heavily, but in military state-owned enterprises, the salary of skilled craftsmen is higher than that of ordinary military officers.Those selected "engineers" are treated at a higher level, and even those in charge of confidential military projects have high military ranks, and the powerful generals in the army have to deal with them well.This stimulated the unprecedented creativity of craftsmen, and even craftsmen from all over the country sought jobs here.

It is true that a large number of cannons have been introduced since the pre-Ming Dynasty, and Da Zhou also imitated them.Because of the flexibility of finance and various resources under Sichuan's new system, coupled with the design drawings and various data given by the queen, a 15mm cannon was developed in the 105th year of Qianyuan, which is a fire/cannon with a small elevation angle.

On the other hand, the "mortar" is developed on the basis of further improving the now proficient "tiger squat gun".In fact, the "tiger squatting gun" and "mortar" have the same effect. They are fired at a high elevation angle and equipped with a large number of grassroots infantry.

Under the empress' control, the province of Sichuan was exempted from the taxation of the household department, and the military and government in the province were self-sufficient, due to the rapid development of the military industry.The Datong Army makes other armies jealous. They are the testing ground for new weapons.Even if there is no actual combat, all kinds of weapons are in military exercises, and they are so prodigal that the soldiers of other armies want to beat them.

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Then again.

But it is said that in the 18th year of Qianyuan, An Nanguo invaded Guangxi, but the wise and powerful Emperor Qianyuan did something that would be very interesting in history, and it was also full of turmoil at that time.

It is to let his wife be in command to "conquer" Annan for him, but he himself sits in the court and stabilizes the rear.

This cheeky guy was also very confident, he said that the Sichuan army would "bring their own dry food" and would not transfer money from the user department.

Faced with objections, he said: "Are you jealous of my wife's ability? My wife will not rely on me to buy her clothes and jewelry, and she can also share my worries. It is indeed better than your wife."

"A lesson from Empress Wu? Are you doubting my masculine charm? Although the queen is a little bit stronger, she is a docile sheep in front of me." The emperor said without blushing at all.

"Why did she usurp the throne, and who will she pass it on to after usurping the throne? Isn't she my son?"

The courtiers could only bear with their worries, and let the queen make troubles in the south. Until the 19th year of Qianyuan, the Annan matter had not stopped. The Sichuan army, the imperial court was able to deploy sufficient military strength and supplies for the northern expedition.There were also some sensitive courtiers who felt that the emperor didn't pay attention to Annan's jumping beam clown at all, and the only thing he cared about was Beijiang.With the old hatred in mind, there will be a war between the North and the South, just like the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo more than 1000 years ago.

In the 19th year of Qianyuan, Emperor Shengwu promoted Lin Ruhai, Shangshu of the original household department, to Pingzhang. This is an official position that has never been set up in this dynasty, and its power exceeds that of the chief assistant of the cabinet.

At this time, Lin Ruhai was over 60 years old. He had been the only Pingzhang in the dynasty so far, and he basically had to withdraw from the court, and he would also be old after being promoted to the third division.But this is also something that makes civil officials very excited when they mention it. Now civil officials and scholars all over the world can't say that the emperor values ​​martial arts and despises culture, and the emperor is harsh.He has no doubts about employing people, and the honor and power bestowed on civil servants cannot be given by emperors since the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Emperor Shengwu was really an emperor that civil servants loved, hated, respected and feared. Of course, there were also many people who whispered behind his back that he was unprecedentedly absurd.He is afraid of his wife, and sometimes he pulls his wife to mess around in the dormitory, and there are many incidents of "wild war" in the official history and unofficial history. People in the court "I know, but I don't say it".

Lin Ruhai allocated money, food and supplies for the war, while Tu Yuanyi personally led the eldest son and the second son of the emperor to drive northward, rejecting the suggestion that the eldest son should stay in Beijing to supervise the country.

Tu Yuanyi wanted to bring the prince by his side to educate him himself, and heirs who had never seen war would be less domineering.

Because of the two national wars between the north and the south, the circle of famous noble women in Kyoto also started a charity event to raise money and food to support the national war.For example, the income of the Jockey Club throughout the year is used to buy and sell cotton clothes and shoes to support northern Xinjiang, and several charity meetings have also raised a lot of money to buy a large amount of wound medicine and send them to the North and South battlefields.

Although the Great Zhou went south and north, the common people and officials were not panicked. The household department was full of money these years.

Among them, some were recovered and sealed by the Ministry of Households in the early years, some were copied from the Yang case (most of them were invested in education), some were recovered from anti-corruption/copying corrupt officials in recent years, and some were profit-making by state-owned enterprises. Even the emperor does not have a harem and the emperor is stingy and does not like ostentation, which is saved every year.These are more incomes than the former Household Department, and the land tax has also increased over the years.

The rice grains in several large warehouses in Kyoto, Luoyang, Biancheng, Youzhou, Jinling, Wuchang, and Pingan Prefecture have all started to mold.

During the war in Annan, the queen led the Sichuan Special Zone to fight with the five major armies, and there was basically no need for the court to adjust food for a year.

The courtiers below Lin Ruhai made a budget. In terms of money and food alone, if the consumption of weapons and equipment is not counted, the emperor will have to fight in northern Xinjiang for three years, so the court should still have no worries about money and food.