Empress Ma did not answer Lan Yunfeng's words immediately.

It would be too easy for her to conceal her identity. No matter how smart Lan Yunfeng is, she will never see any flaws.

But facing the sincere Lan Yunfeng, Empress Ma suddenly felt that she should not deceive her.

Although the two parties have not known each other for a long time, they can be regarded as true sisters.

Empress Ma had never had such sisters in her life.

After all, no matter before or now, her identity is completely different from ordinary people.

Empress Ma has always been a woman with an overall view, and it is precisely because of her overall view that she has sacrificed a lot.

But this time, when facing Lan Yunfeng, Queen Ma suddenly wanted to be arrogant.

Live your life truly for yourself.

However, Queen Ma is still Queen Ma after all.

After hesitating for a while, Lan Yunfeng did not answer Lan Yunfeng's question immediately.

He shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Sister, I'm afraid I won't be able to answer this question for you right away."

"Give me a day to think about it. If I think about it clearly, I will tell you my true identity tomorrow."

Instead of being angry, Lan Yunfeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "I understand Sister Ma, your difficulty. If it's really inconvenient for you to tell me, you don't have to tell me."

"No matter who you are, it will not hinder the sisterhood between us."

"I just hope that if it's not convenient for my sister to tell me, she can just follow me."

Lan Yunfeng did not explain the second half of the sentence directly.

But Queen Ma understood what she meant.

If you don't want to reveal your identity, then don't reveal it, instead of just making up an identity to deceive him.

Queen Ma gently patted Lan Yufeng's hand, saying nothing.

night.

When Zhu Yuanzhang came back from Yanjing Yamen, he found that the room he lived in was brightly lit.

Opening the door and entering the house, the living room of the house is already filled with a variety of meals.

"And you can tell from the style of these dishes that they are all cooked by Empress Ma herself." Zhu Yuanzhang sat down with a smile.

"The Queen has other plans today."

Although he said this, Zhu Yuanzhang still picked up his chopsticks very skillfully and took a bite of his favorite dish: "It is indeed a girl, you cooked it yourself."

Queen Ma placed the last dish on the table: "I can't stop your mouth if I eat it. If you don't like cooking my food, I won't do it anymore."

Zhu Yuanzhang apologized quickly: "When did I say I didn't like it? I just felt a little surprised. Aren't you busy doing business with the male shopkeeper now? How come you still have time to cook such a large table of dishes?"

Queen Ma gave Zhu Yuanzhang a big roll of her eyes: "I don't believe you don't know Lan Yun's current situation."

"The bidding meeting in Lanyunzhai can affect the interests of most merchants in Yanjing. If the yamen doesn't even know about this, then there is no difference between the yamen in Yanjing and Yingtian Mansion."

Zhu Yuanzhang drank a glass of wine and pretended to be annoyed and complained: "This shopkeeper Lan is really not an ordinary person. He can cause such a big disturbance by just making a little noise."

"During this period, some people have even come to our Yamen to complain to shopkeeper Lan."

"What?" Queen Ma couldn't help being stunned when she heard this.

She has been in Lanyunzhai recently, but she doesn't know what Lanyunzhai has done that violates the reputation.

There is no commercial dispute, so why would anyone sue Lan Yunzhai?

"Didn't Shopkeeper Lan want to hold a bidding meeting, but there has been no movement, so the businessmen are getting anxious."

"Actually, they don't really want to do anything to Lan Yunzhai. They just want to use this method to force Lan Yunzhai to tender as soon as possible."

"Isn't this nonsense?" Queen Ma was a little angry: "What do these people take the "Da Ming Law" for?"

Lao Zhu also snorted coldly: "There is a saying in Qiwu that is so right. Although these businessmen are capable, the court has to guard against them. For their own depression, they can do anything.

.”

"But don't worry, Queen, we at Yanjing will not agree to such unfair demands. We have sent them away a long time ago. Some of them are really making trouble, and we have also given them some warnings."

"We know that you have a good relationship with Lan Yunfeng, so of course you won't cause any trouble to our queen."

"In that case, I would like to thank your majesty for taking care of me." After saying this, he pretended to toast Zhu Yuanzhang with a glass of wine.

Zhu Yuanzhang put down his wine glass and looked at his queen with a half-smile: "Sister, now you have eaten and drank wine. If you have anything to do, just tell me directly."

The two of them are an old married couple, and it's basically impossible to hide anyone's thoughts from the other.

Empress Ma said openly: "Chongba, I want to tell her my true identity."

"Ah?" Even the well-informed Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help being shocked.

He originally thought that Queen Ma wanted to win some official support for Lan Yunfeng.

Zhu Yuanzhang had even thought about it, and he actually didn't mind giving Lan Yunfeng some special care.

It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang has any special thoughts about Lan Yunfeng.

The main reason is that Zhu Han once told him that the Ming Dynasty is now in a stage of rapid development.

In this case, Ming's manpower is absolutely not enough.

In order not to affect the development of Ming Dynasty, it is extremely necessary to increase the population.

But how can we say that population can be improved by improving it?

It's impossible to do it for more than ten or twenty years. If it really takes that long, it will definitely delay the development of the Ming Dynasty.

But what if it is to supplement the foreign population?

The current Ming Dynasty is different from the market outlook.

In later generations, China was surpassed by foreigners in science and technology, so there were inevitably many people who worshiped foreign countries and thought that everything in foreign countries was good.

This kind of situation would never happen in the Ming Dynasty. The current Ming Dynasty is far ahead in all aspects.

Even Confucianism is actually far ahead of other doctrines of the same era.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As people of the Ming Dynasty, looking at other foreigners is no different from looking at monkeys.

Especially Lao Zhu, who had just driven away the foreign Meng Yuan and restored Chinese orthodoxy, looked down upon those foreigners even more.

What's more, with the support of various black technologies brought out by Zhu Han, the Ming army almost crushed those clans.

Lao Zhu naturally looked down upon them even more.

Therefore, if you want to increase the population, you basically have to find a way in China itself.

If the population cannot be directly increased in a short period of time, finding a way to let women come out to work will naturally become the only option.

Especially because of the continuous wars, there are more women than men.

If all the women in the Ming Dynasty could come out to work, the labor force of the Ming Dynasty would at least be doubled.

Even if women are still inferior to men in many aspects, their numbers can definitely make up for the gaps in other aspects.

Therefore, although Lao Zhu doesn't really like women to show up in public.

But as long as these women can really do things, he doesn't mind giving them a chance.

Lan Yunfeng naturally proved herself in front of Lao Zhu.

Lao Zhu is a very pragmatic person. He doesn't value any rules or traditions.

But if these rules are broken, the tradition can bring tangible benefits to the Ming Dynasty, and Lao Zhu will never take these dross to heart.

Because of this, he was ready to let Liu Ji allocate some resources to Lan Yunfeng.

With Lan Yunzhai's current size, the court doesn't even need to do anything.

Just showing a little attitude can bring huge benefits to Lan Yunzhai.

When Empress Ma asked him to do something at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang would of course agree to it.

It's just that Lao Zhu never expected that his queen would create such a big battle, both cooking and pouring wine.

In the end, she just wanted to tell Lan Yunfeng her true identity.

If it had been another Zhu Yuanzhang, he would have agreed without even thinking about it.

But it's about exposing your true identity.

Zhu Yuanzhang did hesitate.

It is almost certain that as long as Empress Ma tells Lan Yunfeng his true identity, his and Empress Ma's whereabouts will definitely not be concealed.

However, seeing the expectant look on his queen's face, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't bear to refuse.

For so many years, Queen Ma had always worked hard for him and never asked for anything.

It was a rare occasion to open his mouth. Did he really want to refuse?

After hesitating for a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice: "Has the Queen thought clearly?"
To be continued...