Zhu Houzhao took the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra and the Pure Maiden Swordsmanship from the Martial Arts Pavilion. He walked past the dim lights and saw a little maidservant walking by hurriedly, as if she had lost her way!
He actually stumbled and appeared on the path that Zhu Houzhao took to return to Yangxin Palace Hall…
Immediately, the leader of the imperial guards shouted,"What are you doing? Take him down!"
"Plop…"
The little palace maid was so frightened that she knelt on the ground." Commander, I'm a palace maid from the laundry bureau. I'm lost. I didn't mean to barge in here…Commander, please spare me…"
In addition to the palace guards and eunuchs, there were also many serving girls in the Imperial Palace. Most of these serving girls had been selected from the counties near the capital…
They were all around fourteen years old.
When these palace maids turned twenty-one or twenty-two years old, they would be sent out of the palace. Unless they obtained an official position, they would all leave the palace. The palace did not need old palace maids…
The little palace maid was already frightened. The consequences of offending the emperor's carriage would be a light beating or a serious expulsion from the palace. If she was suspected of having evil intentions, she would not even be able to keep her life.
The little palace maid's name was Bai Muxue. She was a little palace maid from the laundry bureau and was mainly responsible for transporting clothes. After she and the other sisters went to deliver the clothes to the Empress Dowager, they actually got separated from the other sisters.
The Forbidden City was too big. She walked around in a panic, but she couldn't find the way back to the laundry bureau…
When the sky darkened, she became even more flustered. The rules in the palace were strict. After nightfall, palace maids and eunuchs were forbidden to walk around the Forbidden City...
The little palace maid knelt on the ground, frightened out of her wits."It's over, it's over. This is bad, this is bad. I don't know if Auntie can save me!”
The commander of the guards was about to order people to drag this palace maid away with thirty strokes of the stick…
Zhu Houzhao walked up to the little palace maid and said softly,""Raise your head."
The little palace maid looked up in panic.
His handsome and fair face was covered in raindrops.
When the little palace maid raised her head to look at Zhu Houzhao, her mind was also filled with suspicion.
"Who is this young man? Was he about the same age as him? Little eunuch? It didn't seem like it. Imperial guards? It doesn't seem like it…"
"What's your name?" Zhu Houzhao asked the little palace maid.”
"My name is Bai Muxue."
"Where are you from?"
"Hejian people…"
Zhu Houzhao looked at the commander of the imperial guards beside him and said,""You may leave."
"Here!"
"Come with me." After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, the little palace maid became even more terrified. She couldn't have caused trouble again, right? It's over, it's over, this time even aunt can't save me.
After Bai Muxue stood up, she followed the crowd and headed to Yangxin Palace Hall.
The little palace maid had always been suspicious of Zhu Houzhao's identity.
Zhu Houzhao was not wearing a dragon robe. He was only fifteen years old, and his lips were red and his teeth were white. He was clean and refreshing.
The little palace maid was very afraid of those tall guards, but she was not afraid of this youth…
After the little palace maid entered Yangxin Palace Hall, she was even more confused. She had just entered the palace for three months and had yet to learn all the palace rules. The only place she went to rest was the laundry bureau. She knew nothing about other places.
She didn't know that Yangxin Palace Hall was the emperor's residence.
After all the imperial guards and eunuchs walked out of Yangxin Palace Hall, the little palace maid finally let out a long sigh. Her tensed heart finally calmed down.
Bai Muxue looked at Zhu Houzhao, who had just entered Yangxin Palace Hall. She was puzzled. There was actually such a handsome young man in the palace. Judging from his age, he should be around her age.
" Thank you for saving me today. I'll stay here for the night. I'll return to the laundry bureau tomorrow…" Bai Muxue sat on the chair and poured a cup of water. She gulped it down.
The little palace maid thought that she would be punished, but she did not expect to come to a bedroom. It seemed that she would not be punished.
Suddenly!
The little palace maid did not believe that she would meet Tian Zi.
She was confused and did not dare to think that she would be able to see Tian Zi.
Zhu Houzhao had asked the little palace maid to come to Yangxin Palace Hall just to ask her about the matters of the people. The memorial was written in a gorgeous manner, and it was all written by the courtiers.
Zhu Houzhao wanted to know the real Ming Dynasty!
"Since you are from Hejian, tell me, how are the people of Hejian? Are they living a healthy life?”
Bai Muxue shook her head and said," Not too well. My family is a big family, so we still have some surplus food. But the other farmers don't have much money and food. The Zhuang family's growth isn't too good either. There are also many big families that occupy a large amount of land. Many of the land is abandoned, and no one cultivates it…"
Inside Yangxin Hall, Zhu Houzhao asked the palace maid about the daily necessities of the common people.
The Great Ming Empire that the little palace maid spoke of was completely different from the peaceful and prosperous era described in the memorial!
Most of the commoners did not have enough to eat…
There are frozen bones on the road where wine and meat stink!
The little palace maid also felt very strange. Why did this youth keep asking her about these things?
After Zhu Houzhao asked what he wanted to know, he called the eunuch in.
"Go, send her back to the laundry bureau.”
"Yes!"
The little palace maid followed the eunuch out of Yangxin Palace Hall in confusion. When she stepped out of Yangxin Palace Hall and turned to look at the golden plaque, she was suddenly stunned on the spot!
Yangxin Palace Hall?
Yangxin Palace Hall!
Could it be!
The little palace maid suddenly remembered something.
The aunt from the laundry bureau seemed to have said that the emperor lived in Yangxin Palace Hall, which was the emperor's bedroom!
Could it be!
A bold thought lingered in the little palace maid's mind!
Could he be Tian Zi?
The little palace maid Bai Muxue was so frightened that she shivered!
" Let's go. I'll send you back to the laundry bureau. From now on, you probably don't have to do the work of a servant in the laundry bureau anymore. There will be new arrangements…"
Bai Muxue looked at the eunuch escorting her and asked in a low voice,""Eunuch, the young man just now was…"
"Shh! You just need to know what you're talking about!”
Bai Muxue realized it later.
The youth in the Imperial Palace could command the internal commanders!
The young man's identity was obvious!
Wasn't that youth with red lips and white teeth His Majesty the Emperor?
However…
Bai Muxue had never thought that the emperor would be so young and not scary at all…
It wasn't like in the legends, where nine families would be implicated at every turn…
……
The next day.
Yangxin Palace Hall.
Zhu Houzhao sat in front of the dragon table and read the memorial.
In the court yesterday, Zhu Houzhao had set a rule for the officials to meet once every three days.
Even though Zhu Houzhao did not do what the previous emperors did, Emperor Zheng De was diligent in his work.
From time to time, a young eunuch respectfully brought over a secret book.
Zhu Houzhao casually unfolded the secret book, which showed a series of events that had happened in the court.
Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, got up at the third watch to drink water, and at the fourth watch, there was a sound of drunkenness…
Minister of War Xie Qian went to the concubine's room at the first watch and left at the third watch...
In the Guarding Dragon Mountain Villa, Iron-bold Divine Marquis secretly sent Guihai Yidao and Heaven's End Cliff to Liaodong with 300 secret agents.
Yu Huatian, the governor of the West Chamber, had arrived in North Korea with a hundred capable barbarians.
Wang Shouren and Qian Ning personally led 150,000 strong Ming troops to aid Liaodong.
Zhu Houzhao slowly closed the secret folder, his fingers rhythmically tapping on the dragon table.
In the silent hall, every knock was like a heartbeat, always tense…
His torch-like gaze was fixed on another red book.
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