After a women's one-on-one fight that was too violent to be described, Zhu Yuanzhang lay on Queen Ma's lap and cried like a fifty-year-old child.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Sister, this time we have to lose our shame to our hometown..."
"We have always laughed at the stupid son of Mr. Liu's family. Now I know that in the eyes of those people, I am no different from a fool."
While listening to his cry, Queen Ma helped him apply ice to his swollen forehead. In fact, although Queen Ma's tamer was never merciful, she always had three faults.
, and thirdly, I will rub it after the beating.
This time, when Zhu Yuanzhang was avoiding her feather duster, he bumped into the bag that was knocked out of the brass lamp stand...
"Who dares to say you are stupid?" Queen Ma said, "You are smarter than a monkey when it comes to hair."
"You don't need to comfort us. Our most trusted old brothers and fellow countrymen, they have teamed up to deceive us. It turns out that they have been treating us as fools all these years!"
"You said that we are trying our best to live in Nanjing City. The furnishings in the palace, the carriages when going out, and all the places decorated with gold are made of brass. If it cannot be replaced, we will also use gold foil and gilt... and
The food and clothing expenses of each palace can be saved as much as possible. Don't you just think that this is the people's wealth, the greater our family's expenses, the heavier the burden will be on the people?"
Empress Ma nodded. Her husband came from a poor background, endured hardships and stood hard work, and also required the harem and children to be diligent and frugal together.
Everyone in the harem, even the coquettish bitch like Concubine Da Ding, washes and washes their clothes and wears them again and again. As long as they are not torn, faded, and do not affect their dignity, they will continue to wear them and cannot throw them away.
Because the cost of purchasing vegetables for Guanglu Temple is too high, and they are often stale after being delivered to the various palaces.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked his concubines to work with Empress Ma to carve out a large area of the imperial garden as an 'imperial vegetable garden', and also encouraged the eunuchs and maids to use the vacant land in the palace to grow vegetables... In short, the palace has not spent money to purchase vegetables for several years.
Already.
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"But you haven't seen the luxury of Fengyang Palace. The shipping fee for one stone costs 200,000 yuan!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed sadly: "Then what's the point of saving us here? Isn't it a big joke?
?"
"You spent so much money and you didn't know it before?" Queen Ma asked.
"The reported accounts were quite astonishing, but they were within a reasonable range. We thought we would use the palace for hundreds of years, so we pinched our noses and accepted it. But when we returned to Zhongdu, we discovered that the expenses were much higher than what was reported.
Much more! Your capable brother Li actually found a way to raise his own labor expenses and paid for us!"
"This is really rare." Queen Ma said, "I've only heard of people enriching their own pockets, but I didn't expect that there are people who cheat."
"That shows that his plan is bigger, and it goes far beyond money!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "And the money he robbed through clever means is still our people's wealth, isn't it?"
"If we use the common people's money to build the palace for us, won't it be me, Zhu Yuanzhang, who will take the blame in the end?!" Boss Zhu sat up angrily as he spoke, but he forgot that his buttocks were bruised by Empress Ma. The pain made him grimace.
, quickly lay down again, and said angrily:
"The most hateful thing is that everyone helps him hide it from us! We sincerely do our best for them, but they team up to plot against us!"
"Well, everything has changed since you sat on the throne. The emperor and his ministers, who used to live and die together, suddenly became different, and their thoughts and desires gradually drifted apart. Otherwise, how can the emperor be called a loner? All dynasties have passed.
There are no exceptions." Queen Ma sighed softly and said:
"This is why I didn't let you do it for the officials in my hometown. Because I was sure that if they couldn't do it well, they would either be stupid or corrupt officials, and they would definitely be dealt with by you in the future. Instead of looking bad when the time comes, I would rather
It’s better not to let them do it in the first place.”
After a pause, Empress Ma sighed again and said: "Oh, give first and then take away, and you will become enemies. They may still hate you."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier..." Zhu Yuanzhang said depressedly: "We have canceled all the preferential treatment for our fellow villagers, and we will definitely be scolded to death."
"You were in high spirits at that time, and you were focused on honoring your ancestors, and you wanted the fellow villagers to follow suit. What should I say? Can you listen to what I said?" Queen Ma poked the bump on his head.
"It hurts, what are you doing?" Zhu Yuanzhang grinned in pain, hurriedly dodged and stood up, and said fiercely:
"We thought about it on the way back. We can't let others deceive us in anything we say in the future! We are going to resume inspections, and we want thousands of eyes and ears to keep an eye on the troubles of the Ming Dynasty for us! We want to put eyeliners on those ministers
Around us, we need to know what they eat for every meal and what they talk to the mother-in-law at night?! Then I don’t believe who can deceive us?!"
"What you said is too scary, isn't it?!" Queen Ma felt goosebumps all over her body as she said, "If you really want to do this, why don't everyone be in danger? And they are seizing the opportunity to report it. Do you want to investigate it or not? Investigate it.
If so, who will investigate? How? And who will supervise them, not just to make random accusations for the sake of promotion and wealth?"
"Well, sister, you are right. We have to think about it as soon as possible, and we really need to think about it in the long run." Zhu Yuanzhang secretly cursed himself for always being unable to hide his words in front of Queen Ma.
It was actually not a surprise to him that Empress Ma opposed the re-establishment of the inspection school, because she had clearly supported the abolition of the inspection school back then...
Although Zhu Yuanzhang set the rule that "the harem must not interfere with politics," can Empress Ma be considered a harem? She is Boss Zhu's boss.
"Well, Chongba, actually you want someone to help you keep an eye on the public opinion and the people's hearts. This is excellent. I support it." Empress Ma slowed down her tone and said: "It's just inserting spies into ministers' homes. It's really not what you do.
.Furthermore, the trial must be conducted by the judiciary, so that the court will not be in chaos."
"Sister, we have remembered everything you said." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and asked Queen Ma an extremely pointed question: "But what if the ministers collude to fool us?"
"..." Queen Ma was silent for a moment and said, "Then there's nothing to be polite about."
"Hey, we know that the girl is just like us at heart." Zhu Yuanzhang was finally happy. "Don't worry, we will be careful and will not be like Wu Zetian."
"That's good." Queen Ma nodded and asked, "What are your plans for the next step for your sons?"
"Well, no matter how you say it, the effect of this experience is really good. They are all transformed." Zhu Yuanzhang had already thought about it.
"So we are going to increase our efforts and let them serve as soldiers..."
"Where to go? To the north?!" Queen Ma asked warily.
"No, no, no, how dare we let them go to the front line?" Zhu Yuanzhang touched the big bag on his forehead and said: "They are soldiers in Beijing, right under our noses. Isn't that okay?"
"That's pretty much it." Queen Ma finally relented and said, "But forget about the fifth and sixth. The fifth is not a soldier, and the sixth is still young."
"We didn't originally plan to let Liu Liu become a soldier. Liu Bowen wants to accept him as a closed disciple. Why don't we hurry up and study hard?!" Zhu Yuanzhang said longingly: "Lao Liu just learned half of Lao Liu's skills. We and Boss
There’s nothing to worry about…”
Zhu Yuanzhang was so focused on coveting Liu Bowen's knowledge that he forgot to talk about Lao Wu...
ps. I’m still low on energy, so I can only do two updates today. Go to bed early and try to write more tomorrow!
