The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 164 The little emperor won't eat this set
"Slave Chen Yuanyuan, I pay my respects to Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!"

"Greetings to the Queen Mother, all blessings to the Queen Mother."

In the imperial study room, Chen Yuanyuan kneeled down excitedly and nervously.

She had almost given up on being the emperor's woman. Who would have thought that His Majesty would be the first to summon her when he first came to Jiangnan, and a gleam of thoughts and hopes inevitably arose in his heart.

"Well, get flat!"

"Chen Yuanyuan, the imperial concubine has already conferred you the title of imperial wife, so you don't need to call yourself a slave from now on."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly thanked him again, and after she got up, she couldn't help but take a peek at the little emperor who was haunting her, her heart was beating non-stop, and her body couldn't help trembling slightly.

Zhang Yan saw her expression in his eyes, and immediately frowned upon seeing her expression.

But seeing that Lang'er's face remained calm and unmoved, he was relieved.

"sit down!"

Zhu Cihong thought she was freezing on the way here, so she waved her hand and said, after all, it is only a few days away from the Chinese New Year, and even the south is very cold.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Chen Yuanyuan was moved in her heart, and carefully sat down on the low stool beside her.

"Chen Yuanyuan, how many brothels are there under your name now? How much money can you earn every month?"

"Return to Your Majesty, now slaves... There are 310 two brothels under the name of my concubine, more than 50 flower boats, more than [-] artists under my name, and more than [-] other people, who are removed every month. Various expenses can earn about [-] taels of silver, Your Majesty, this is a detailed account..."

As Chen Yuanyuan spoke, she took out an account book from her pocket, obviously she was fully prepared when she came.

Hearing that they could earn so much money every month, both Zhang Yan and Zhu Cihong were a little surprised.

Zhu Cihong took the booklet from the female soldier and began to read it, but Zhang Yan looked at her and asked, "So, in the past six months, you have earned several million taels of silver?"

"Back to the Empress Dowager, it was very expensive to buy brothels in various places in the early stage, and now the balance is more than three million taels. The slaves have entered the palace several times to hand in the money, but the Empress Dowager has not summoned them..."

Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly and carefully explained.

"You can take the time to hand in the money, and then you can talk to me carefully, how do your brothels work?" Zhu Cihong put down the brochure and said.

"His Majesty…"

Zhang Yan saw that he didn't talk about business, but became more and more interested in the brothel, so she had to remind him.

"Auntie, you slept late last night and got up early today, do you want to go back and take a nap?"

Zhu Cihong also felt that it was really inappropriate to ask about the brothel in front of Zhang Yan, so he said embarrassingly.

"All right!"

Although she was a little worried about Chen Yuanyuan, seeing what Lang'er said, Zhang Yan had no choice but to get up and leave, and regretted recommending Chen Yuanyuan to him.

After Zhang Yan left, Chen Yuanyuan obviously relaxed a lot and became more courageous. She started to introduce Zhu Cihong about the brothel. The more she spoke, the softer her voice became, the more charming her eyes became. Obviously unconsciously, she began to use the hook again. human means.

"So, the management of your brothel is quite humane?"

"If your majesty thinks there is something wrong, I will definitely rectify it when I go back."

"No need, just manage it like this. You don't need to hand over the money for the time being. You can continue to buy brothels and build flower boats."

Zhu Cihong waved his hand. After listening to her introduction, he planned to continue to support Chen Yuanyuan in the future.

There is no way, brothels are still prevalent even in modern times, and it is impossible to completely ban them. We can only rectify the regulations and then guide them.

It is very simple to rectify the norms, but it is difficult to guide them. Now it is time for Chen Yuanyuan and the others to guide them.

After all, compared to the brothels run by other dignitaries, these brothels run by Chen Yuanyuan and the others are indeed more humane and nobler. What's more, it's better to earn their money by those rich and powerful than by themselves.

In Zhu Cihong's view, those famous prostitutes in brothels, no matter what kind of prostitutes they are, are clearly celebrities, even better and more noble than the celebrities in the previous life.

First of all, if you want to become a famous prostitute, you must not only have a good appearance and body, but you must be proficient in at least one, or even several, of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and poetry.

And this kind of famous courtesan with both talent and beauty is just average. If you want to become a top famous courtesan like Qinhuai Bayan, you have to be upright, not afraid of power, not greedy for money, and not admiring vanity.

That is, only scholars and literati with real talents and knowledge, famous prostitutes will show their performances, otherwise, no matter how powerful and rich they are, they will not show their faces.

And those so-called celebrities in the previous life, as long as they were rich and powerful, they basically couldn't sleep.

In such a comparison, these courtesans are indeed more noble than celebrities.

As for the guests who want to become famous prostitutes, it is even more difficult to kiss Fangze. Unless the famous prostitutes value themselves and are willing to entrust them for life, otherwise, no amount of money is useless. If the dignitaries force them, some famous prostitutes will even jump off suicide.

Of course, there are very few courtesans who can do this.

It's really ridiculous to say that most of the literati in the south of the Yangtze River are hypocrites, but the prostitutes trained are more honest than themselves, more concerned about the country and the people, and more gentlemanly, it is really ironic.

The most typical ones are Liu Rushi and Qian Qianyi, the great scholars.

In history, after the Qing army crossed the river, Qian Qianyi surrendered in the name of saving hundreds of thousands of people in Nanjing.

The concubine Liu Rushi persuaded him to die for the country, and she was willing to jump into the lake with him to die for her husband, but Qian Qianyi was greedy for life and afraid of death, saying that the water was too cold, but Liu Rushi, who was born in a brothel, was not afraid of the cold and jumped into the lake. What a great irony.

At this moment, Chen Yuanyuan heard that His Majesty not only allowed her to continue to operate the brothel, but also supported her to continue to expand, her body trembled with excitement, because when she came, she was actually ready for His Majesty to take back the brothel and sell it.

"I originally planned to set up a Fengyue Division under the Commercial Supervision Department, and you would be the female officer of the Fengyue Division, but in order to avoid criticism, I cannot give you a formal official position. I can only give you an appointment document in private. You can willing?"

After Zhu Cihong sent out the maids and soldiers, he took out an official document and handed it to her.

Apparently, he was also afraid that the news would damage his reputation, after all, there was still a difference between this brothel and Jiaofangsi.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Thanks to His Majesty's respect, I am willing to be your majesty's cow or horse."

Chen Yuanyuan hurried forward to take the document, knelt down and kowtowed excitedly, almost incoherent.

"Okay, get up."

"It's Your Majesty."

"By the way, in the future, I will go through a lot of efforts to rule, and the people's lives will get better and better. The phenomenon of selling children and selling daughters will never return, and the female relatives of criminal officials will only be distributed, and will no longer be demoted to low status. How do you plan to solve the problem of no successor?"

"This...Return to Your Majesty, the world is so big, there will always be poor families who sell their daughters..."

Chen Yuanyuan didn't expect His Majesty to ask such a question, so she hesitated for a while before answering nervously.

"I said that no one will sell their daughters anymore, and the court's laws will not allow it. What should I do?"

Zhu Cihong emphasized her tone and stared at her.

Chen Yuanyuan shuddered suddenly, thought for a while and said: "This... If this is the case, the people of the world will live and work in peace and contentment, and no one is willing to sell women as slaves, and brothels will no longer exist."

"Confused, as long as there are people in this world, the brothel industry will exist forever. At that time, there will naturally be people who cheat and abduct girls. In order to avoid this situation, we have to find girls to replace them, but it can't be us Han girls. Do you understand? "

"what!"

Chen Yuanyuan nodded first, then shook her head, obviously not understanding.

Zhu Cihong saw that he had said it so clearly, she still didn't understand, and wanted to kick her, so he beckoned, ready to give some advice: "Put your ears here."

"It's Your Majesty!"

Chen Yuanyuan blushed when she heard the words, and stretched out her ears cautiously, with some anticipation in her heart.

"The Japanese and Korean women are similar to us Han people, do you understand what to do now?"

"Understood, when the concubines go back, they will pay a high price, and let the merchants buy some good-looking girls from the two places to come back, and teach them piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and Fu from a young age, so that they can take over in the future..."

"Hehe, a child can be taught, but I didn't teach you this, you figured it out yourself, understand?"

Seeing that she had finally come to her senses, Zhu Cihong finally had a smile on her face, and then she restrained her smile, her expression straightened.

"Return to Your Majesty, the concubine didn't hear anything just now." Chen Yuanyuan was not stupid, she nodded quickly.

"It's not that you didn't hear, but I didn't say anything at all, understand?" Zhu Cihong said angrily.

"I understand, Your Majesty didn't say anything just now." Chen Yuanyuan nodded again.

"Okay, let's stop here, remember to prepare more, don't be afraid of wasting money!"

Zhu Cihong gave another order, and then told them to be responsible for propagating the New Deal to the people.

After Chen Yuanyuan finished listening, she opened her small mouth in shock and stood on the spot. What shocked her was not that His Majesty asked them to promote it, but the content of the New Deal.

"Do you remember what I just said?"

"Back... back to Your Majesty, all the courtiers and concubines have written it down. Your Majesty is truly the number one sage king through the ages. Once this new policy is implemented, it will surely benefit all people in the world..."

Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly replied, then knelt down excitedly, and praised with admiration on her face. After talking, she actually got up her courage and said, "Your Majesty, can I dance for you again?"

"Don't do these things, doing things with all your heart is the right way, understand?
I only give you one month. Within one month, I want people in all counties and counties in Nanzhili to understand the benefits of the New Deal. "

"Yes! Don't worry, Your Majesty, the concubine will arrange it immediately when he returns. He must explain the benefits of the new policy to all the people within one month."

Chen Yuanyuan blushed from being taught a lesson, and hurriedly replied.

"Well, let's go back and make arrangements, then I will reward myself." Zhu Cihong waved his hand.

"Chen and concubine retire."

Chen Yuanyuan resigned and left with a disappointed face. She finally found a chance, but she didn't expect that the little emperor would not accept this.

In fact, it's not that Zhu Cihong doesn't want to eat it, but that he doesn't have time to eat it.

(End of this chapter)