Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 504

In September of the 18th year of Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao and his party began to leave Wuzhou one after another. Originally, Zhu Youxiao only planned to let the chief inspector of ceremonies Wang Chengen accompany Ning Bin Luoruo to visit relatives in Yangjiacun, but Zhu Youxiao also wanted to see Seeing the living conditions of the most isolated aborigines deep in the mountains, he finally decided to personally accompany Ning Bi Luo Ruo to Yangjia Village.

Concubine Ning Luo Ruo was very happy, she never thought that she would be sold to a town eunuch to be a slave because of her poor family, and then brought into the palace by this eunuch to become a palace maid, and now she became the emperor's concubine directly. She also received the treatment of being accompanied by His Majesty to go back to the hometown to visit her relatives, which made her feel like a person who has experienced a lot of hardships in her life.

As a result, Concubine Ning Luo Ruo worked harder to serve Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao's tiger-wolf body was so moistened by her tenderness like water that she almost forgot what year and month it was.

The bamboo raft made of green bamboo floats on the green water like a leaf falling from the treetops. The beautiful landscape formed by the unique karst landform in Guangxi makes Zhu Youxiao standing on the bamboo raft feel like he is in a painting. generally.

Wearing a heavenly-colored double-breasted dress, a pink floral pleated skirt, and a chaise bun, Ning Concubine Luo Ruo, who wears a golden hairpin, stands respectfully on Zhu Youxiao's right shoulder.

Concubine Ning Luo Ruo had a smile on her slightly powdered face, but she didn't make any gurgling sounds. Once upon a time, this area was the paradise where she played and played when she was young, and she could sing loudly when she disagreed with her. Here, she seems to have forgotten how to sing.

Liu Rushi was sitting on a bamboo raft, looking at Concubine Ning Luoruo and Zhu Youxiao standing under the setting sun, but couldn't help pouted, and after feeling bored for a while, stretched his snow-white wrist into the emerald green In the stream, the water was slightly cool, as if countless fish were pecking at her wrist, Liu Rushi couldn't help paddling slowly, creating layers of ripples.

The time seemed very quiet at this moment, and even Li Mingrui, a scheming cabinet scholar, raised his head slightly at this moment, looking at the blue sky, it seemed that if it weren't for the presence of the current Emperor Zhu Youxiao, he would have recited a few words. A line of poetry should come out in response to this scene.

"At this moment, there is no court struggle, no disturbances in the world, and the supervisor of ceremonies, the cabinet, the inner court and the outer court seem to have nothing to do with me. The feeling of being far away from the rivers and lakes is indeed different from the feeling of being in a temple."
It was Wang Chengen, the chief inspector of ceremonies, who expressed emotion first. He and Li Mingrui were walking on another bamboo raft, so Zhu Youxiao couldn't hear him, but Li Mingrui couldn't help laughing when he heard it: "Your Majesty thinks so, Your Majesty." Why don't you think so, but this kind of you and I are not idle people, and neither is Your Majesty. If you stay for a few days, you will find that your life can only be a tiring life, picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence. It’s not enjoyed by people like you and me, even if you are not His Majesty, even though you are on tour, it is estimated that this thought is still inseparable from the affairs of the court.”

At this time, Zhu Youxiao did glance at Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen. Seeing how happy the two were talking, the first thing he reacted was not that he was envious of these two old guys who could speak so freely and freely, but that the two men Is it true that the powerful officials in the court are jointly plotting against him, His Majesty the Emperor? Suspicion is too serious, which can be regarded as a typical occupational disease of the emperor, and Zhu Youxiao can't change it.

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While Zhu Youxiao and others were enjoying the rare quiet state after leaving Beijing, Sien Prefecture was already busy.

Fang Zhenru, the governor of Guangxi, also felt Sien Prefecture at this time, and having received Li Mingrui's warrant, he had no choice but to strengthen the military defense work in this area after learning that His Majesty would also enter the Yangjia Pass in the mountains.

All the roads and roads in the area of ​​Sien Prefecture have been cleaned again, and all the houses, whether official or private, have been redecorated, so that all the officials, gentry and common people in Sien Prefecture, except for the family of Concubine Ning Luoruo, have been redecorated. He was asked to wear the best clothes to go out and prepare to wait. In order to be ready to greet the driver and shout long live, Cen Jie, the local prefect who was in charge of specific tasks, had rehearsed several times with the people of the whole prefecture.

Because it's autumn now, it's okay to be at the bottom of the mountain, but on the pass, the scenery looks rather desolate and desolate. In order to prevent His Majesty Zhu Youxiao and Ning Concubine Luo Ruo from seeing this decaying scene, they are in a bad mood. Yang Honggui, the chief minister of the left, personally summoned people to paint most of the withered yellow leaves on both sides of the road green.

When Zhu Youxiao and others were about to enter Huayang Lake near the capital city of Sien Prefecture, Guangxi Governor Fang Zhenru, Guangxi Zuo Buzheng Envoy Yang Honggui, Sien Prefecture Local Magistrate Cen Jie and other officials of all sizes in Guangxi, including Wu Weiye, gathered On top of the horse's head, and behind them, there are all villagers in simple but not sloppy straight-sleeved long clothes, and all of them are full of energy.

When Zhu Youxiao raised the binoculars and saw the villager in such attire from a distance, he also felt very happy because of this. After all, this phenomenon can intuitively show that his changes to Daming are effective, indeed. It benefited people from all walks of life in Ming Dynasty, otherwise the people in this mountain valley would not be better dressed than the rich people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that Zhu Youxiao saw when he went to Jiangnan a few years ago.

Although these local officials in Guangxi were geographically separated from Zhu Youxiao by thousands of miles before this, it did not prevent them from understanding the preferences and temperament of His Majesty today. In the decoration of beauties and beautiful houses, it happened to be in the vein of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao would naturally guess that these local officials in Guangxi may have deliberately improved the living conditions of these mountain people in order to please him. The local officials in Guangxi are also well-governed and honest, otherwise, these old men and women would not be able to live so peacefully and ordinary people live so richly.

However, despite this, in Zhu Youxiao's view, this can still prove that these local officials have surplus money. As long as the officials are clear and the finances are not tight, it is possible to benefit the people.

Therefore, although Zhu Youxiao knows that they are whitewashing the peace to achieve the purpose of making himself happy, Zhu Youxiao is also sure that only after the political and economic environment has been greatly improved, these officials will be able to They don't care about these things, otherwise they only worry about how to avoid the looting of the rogues, how to make more money when the country is overthrown, regardless of his political achievements or not, whether the superiors and the emperor are happy or unhappy.

However, Zhu Youxiao still pulled his face down when he went ashore, deliberately showing a very serious and somewhat annoyed look. After all, in principle, this kind of flattery and deliberate behavior of local officials should not encourage of.

(End of this chapter)