Mother and Son Meet! Noble Consort Zhou was an extraordinary woman in the world!
Zhu Li's body shook when he heard this voice.
What a familiar voice, and what an intimate feeling.
As soon as he finished speaking, a valiant woman in luxurious clothes walked into the courtyard.
This woman had an extraordinary aura, but her eyebrows were somewhat similar to Zhu Li's. Moreover, her height of about 1.75 meters was really rare.
This height would definitely stand out in modern society hundreds of years later!
Furthermore, she was followed by a group of palace maids. It could be seen that her identity was not ordinary!
"Imperial Mother!"
Zhu Li's brain went blank for a moment before he finally reacted.
The Han King Zhu Li was very familiar with this woman who had suddenly appeared. This was his biological mother, Zhou Yao, the current Imperial Consort Zhou of the Ming Dynasty!
After merging with the memories of the King of Han, Zhu Li naturally recognized him at a glance.
Only then did he know why this body had a strange reaction after hearing this voice!
Ever since he became a vassal, even the King of Han and Noble Consort Zhou had not seen each other for several years!
The communication between mother and son was limited to letters.
This Noble Consort Zhou could be considered a strange woman. She was definitely an anomaly in Zhu Yuanzhang's harem!
Perhaps only when Empress Xiao Ci Gao was still around could she suppress Noble Consort Zhou.
It was not that this Noble Consort Zhou was favored by Zhu Yuanzhang, but her own story was very legendary, and her relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang was different from the other concubines in the palace.
Even Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor, would feel admiration for Noble Consort Zhou. This showed how unusual this woman was.
The moment he saw Zhou Yao, Zhu Li's mind was like a movie. He went through all the information about her in the Han King's memory!
As everyone knew, Empress Ma was once the adopted daughter of Guo Zixing, the leader of the Revolutionary Army.
Guo Zixing later betrothed Empress Ma to Zhu Yuanzhang as his wife in order to win him over.
But Zhou Yao was different. When she met Zhu Yuanzhang, she was alone.
She was once the daughter of a rich family in Jiangxi. Because her father had offended Chen Youliang, almost the entire family was destroyed. Only she had escaped by chance.
After that, Zhou Yao followed an old Taoist priest to practice martial arts. She robbed the rich and helped the poor as a chivalrous woman while waiting for an opportunity to assassinate Chen Youliang, preparing to avenge her family.
Zhou Yao and Zhu Yuanzhang's acquaintance originated from the Poyang Lake water battle.
She once swore that if there was a man who could help her kill Chen Youliang, she would be willing to give herself to him.
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang appeared and led the uprising army to fight against Chen Youliang at Poyang Lake!
Zhou Yao felt that this was an opportunity, so she relied on the martial arts she had learned to enter the Revolutionary Army as a woman and become a member of Zhu Yuanzhang's camp.
Very soon, Zhou Yao, who had repeatedly made extraordinary achievements on the battlefield, attracted Zhu Yuanzhang's attention.
From then on, the two of them formed an indissolvable bond.
The relationship between the two had also changed because of the victory of the Poyang Lake water battle and Chen Youliang's death.
Even though she knew that Zhu Yuanzhang already had a wife and that he was likely to become the emperor in the future, and that he had countless concubines in his harem, Zhou Yao still kept her promise and stayed by his side.
The legend of Noble Consort Zhou was not limited to this.
Because she had been living among the people for many years, Zhou Yao knew the sufferings of the common people.
After Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng and unified Jiangnan, other than the south and north that had yet to be unified, the other places were also in turmoil.
Officials or despotic gentry often plundered the people's wealth and bullied the people. If they were caught by this Heroine Zhou, they would not be forgiven easily.
Once again, a Huaixi general from the Revolutionary Army was bullying the commoners on the streets, nearly beating them to death. Coincidentally, he was bumped into by this Heroine Zhou.
Because they knew each other, the Huaixi general thought that Zhou Yao wouldn't do anything to him.
However, Zhou Yao couldn't tolerate it and actually wanted to kidnap him to see Zhu Yuanzhang.
The general was furious and had a conflict with Zhou Yao. In the end, the other party was actually not Zhou Yao's match and was finally taken down by her.
The general shouted crazily, saying that Zhou Yao was just a woman by Zhu Yuanzhang's side.
They were the generals of Huaixi, and they had followed Zhu Yuanzhang to his death.
Even in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhou Yao was the unlucky one.
However, Zhou Yao did not think much of it. She tied the general up and came in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and the Huaixi dignitaries.
When they heard that this general had beaten up commoners in the streets and almost killed them, the Huaixi nobles did not think much of it. They did not think that there was anything wrong with it.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was so furious that he directly crippled Huaixi Xungui!
It was because of this incident that the Huaixi nobles realized the importance of the commoners in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes.
Because of this incident, not only was Zhou Yao not reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang, but she was also praised for doing a good job.
In the future, if he encountered such a thing again, he should do the same!
If she couldn't manage it, she would send it directly to Zhu Yuanzhang and let him, the emperor, manage it!
Soon, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne and broke through Beiping. He chased Emperor Yuan Shun out of Yuan Dadu and fled all the way to Mobei.
With the recovery of Sichuan and Yunnan, Zhu Yuanzhang basically unified the whole country.
At the beginning of the founding of the country, everything was not perfect.
Especially when the laws of the Ming Dynasty were still being revised, there were still many officials and gentry who went against the trend and bullied the villagers.
At that time, Zhou Yao's favorite thing to do was to patrol around in civilian clothes. Her goal was to investigate these corrupt officials.
She was also the only woman among Zhu Yuanzhang's concubines who could walk outside the palace all day long.
In the following ten years, she visited various places in the Ming Dynasty and helped Zhu Yuanzhang punish many corrupt officials.
But gradually, Zhou Yao and Zhu Yuanzhang realized that relying on Zhu Yuanzhang's supervision or Zhou Yao's secret visits alone could not solve the fundamental corruption problem.
Therefore, starting from the 18th year of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, at the suggestion of Zhou Yao, compiled a book called the Imperial Decree based on the experience of criminal law accumulated over the past ten years!
This Imperial Decree had a history of two years and had been revised four times. It became another law that Zhu Yuanzhang promoted among the people.
Zhu Yuanzhang even stipulated that anyone who had the Imperial Decree in their family could reduce the punishment when they broke the law. On the contrary, those who did not have the Imperial Decree would be punished even more severely.
From this, it could be seen how much effort Zhu Yuanzhang had put into the Imperial Decree.
Even for the illiterate people, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that local officials must personally go to their homes to explain the contents of the Imperial Decree to these people.
What is the Imperial Decree?
The Imperial Decree was the power that Zhu Yuanzhang had given to ordinary people to punish corrupt officials.
In other words, ordinary people could directly kidnap corrupt officials according to the Imperial Decree and personally deliver them to Zhu Yuanzhang!
From this, it could be seen how much Zhu Yuanzhang cared about the common people and how much he had paid to punish the corrupt officials!
And there was a woman behind all of this, and that woman was Zhou Yao!
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