Zhu Zaihou looked at the Minister of Rites and said,
"Your Majesty, King Li Yuanzheng only has one daughter.”
Hearing this, Zhu Zaihou nodded and said,"
"Allow the memorial to be submitted, then follow the rules.”
After dealing with all the matters in the court, Zhu Zaihou announced his withdrawal.
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In the first year of Longqing, everything was renewed.
The empire had revealed its brilliance!
Defeating the Tartars shocked the world.
The surrounding countries were even more terrified when facing the huge Ming Empire.
They were most afraid of the Emperor of the Ming Empire. If he was unhappy, he would destroy them.
The vassal countries that had already surrendered quickly increased their annual silver and bought tribute treasures or beautiful women.
Those with princesses gave them princesses, and those without princesses even gave their concubines.
Barbarians didn't know etiquette.
Zhu Zaihou was surprised, but he didn't know whether to laugh or cry at these barbarians 'heroic act of giving him a concubine.
In the end, Zhu Houxi ordered them to stay in the palace as servants and palace maids.
Those small countries that had not submitted to the Ming Empire scrambled to send envoys.
He prepared a generous gift and went to the capital to beg to become a vassal state of the Ming Empire…
Hugging a thigh, ensuring safety.
In the first year of Jiajing, Tartar fled far away.
The rise of the empire and the rise of the East!
At the end of the court session, a heavy snowfall fell in the capital.
Yellow tiles, red walls, and the white and flawless ground were extremely quiet.
The imperial censor led the imperial guards to patrol the city.
Zhu Zaihou announced his retreat and walked out of the throne room.
The officials had already left the Meridian Gate, and the noisy court quickly quieted down.
All the officials went to busy themselves with the documents and government affairs at hand, not daring to relax in the slightest.
The reason why it was called white jade was because all the things spread out in the square were made of large pieces of white jade cut and paved.
It was extremely beautiful. The eunuchs and guards had already cleaned up the snow here.
No matter how heavy the snow in the sky was, as long as the emperor went anywhere.
He couldn't let the emperor step on the snow.
At the end of the White Jade Square was the steaming Golden Water Bridge.
Because it was already spring, although it was snowing, the weather was not that cold.
The water under the Golden Water Bridge was still flowing.
It was snowing heavily as Zhu Houxi strolled alone in the snow.
He stopped the eunuchs from bringing the canopy over and allowed the snowflakes to fall on his body.
Behind him was a series of footprints left behind by his majestic steps, winding all the way to the flying corridor.
After going up the flight corridor, they would be able to reach Yangxin Hall directly.
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The next day, the snow stopped.
The sun was shining brightly and the sky was clear.
The spring breeze gently brushed against his face.
A year's plan is in spring!
The busy spring plowing was about to begin.
In the north of the empire, the green wheat was fluttering in the wind.
Last year's snow was heavy, but this year's wheat was good. It was destined to be a bumper harvest year.
Zhu Houxi strolled in the imperial garden, the palace maids and eunuchs following behind the Emperor.
On the trays in their hands, there were people from Guangdong and Guangxi, the southernmost part of the empire.
With the fragrance of all kinds of fruits and melons sent from 800 miles away.
The various reforms of the Empire were in full swing…
In a few days, plowing would begin in the south of the empire.
However, what Zhu Zaihou was more concerned about was that the aristocrats in the south were secretly stirring up trouble.
Huang Jin, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, was ordered to go south to investigate.
After more than a month of secret investigation.
Huang Jin had already figured out the movements of these aristocratic families and provided a list of names to Zhu Zaihou.
What made Zhu Zaihou extremely vigilant was…
The southern gentry clans had been building the Academy for decades! The "Donglin Party" was about to be fully fledged.
Zhu Zaihou, who was familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty, knew that these people used the name of satirizing the government and commenting on officials.
It is the truth of protecting the landlord and fighting for profit for the rich merchants.
They used the idea of integrity, reviving the rule of officials, opening up the way of speech, and getting rid of the long-standing abuses of the government as a cover.
In fact, he was the spokesperson of a big landlord and a big merchant's interest group.
Among these people, the vast majority of them were big landowners themselves.
They turned a blind eye to the current emperor's reform and tried their best to obstruct the implementation of the reform by the local prefectures.
If these aristocrats didn't suppress them…
If they were not reorganized, how could the Empire's comprehensive reform progress?
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