Chapter 805 Enlightenment
Hearing that Emperor Shenwu had left all thirty beautiful ladies behind, Queen Mother Zhou and Queen Mother Yi'an looked at each other and smiled.
This is what they most want to see. At first they were worried that the little emperor would give up his choice, but they didn't expect that he would take all thirty people without making any choice.
But soon, they heard the words of returning the show girl's freedom, and the two queen mothers immediately quit. This guy really didn't follow the routine at all. The queen mother Zhou said hurriedly:
"No, as a selected showgirl, you can only wait in the palace for the emperor's blessing. How can you go out easily? If you cause any trouble, you will lose the face of the Ming Dynasty royal family."
Zhu Cixiang smiled slightly when he heard this:
"Mother, it doesn't matter. If you really can't stand any test, does it make sense for me to ask such a person to be the queen? This is also a test for them."
Queen Mother Zhou nodded with a smile:
"Okay, if that's the case, let's do as the emperor wants. My mother will send a female officer to teach you how to become an adult tonight!"
Before Zhu Cixiang could react, the Queen Mother Zhou and Queen Yi'an had already walked away...
Because she had been away from home for a long time, when she came back this time, Zhu Cixiang gave Shen Yunying a few days off and asked her to go home and spend time with her family.
Chunxiang Qiuyue was still taking care of Zhu Cixiang at night. The two little girls almost grew up with Zhu Cixiang, and the three of them had a very close relationship.
After dinner, Zhu Cihong read the memorial for a while, took a bath and changed clothes in the presence of two palace maids, and then lay down on the dragon couch to prepare for rest.
Suddenly Zhu Cixi heard the sound of brisk footsteps, and he immediately glanced over from the corner of his eye, only to see a girl wearing a gauze dress and skin as white as snow walking gently.
She was not wearing shoes, and was wearing a pair of three-inch jade lotuses as white as snow. As she slowly moved the lotus steps, her exquisite and graceful body appeared and disappeared in the tulle, which was extremely attractive...
When she came to Zhu Cixi's dragon bed, a charming smile appeared on her pretty face, her big eyes blinked twice, then she raised her red lips, and a soft voice came:
"Your Majesty, this servant is Hong Yu, the female official of Kunning Palace. She came to serve you on the order of the Queen Mother. When she came, the Queen Mother issued a death order. If she cannot satisfy Your Majesty, tomorrow will be the day when the servant leaves the palace!"
As she spoke, the thin layer of gauze on Hong Nu's body had fallen to the ground. Before Zhu Cixiang could react, Hong Yu had resolutely carried out the set of standard operations for training beautiful girls...
Chunxiang and Qiuyue were still standing aside. Seeing this scene, the two little palace ladies hurriedly lowered their heads quietly. But they did not retreat...
Zhu Cixiang didn't say anything, and Hongyu certainly didn't dare to ask the two of them to step aside. They just could watch and observe...
Seeing Hongyu being so bold, Chunxiang Qiuyue also regretted it. If they had known this, how could they have taken advantage of this outsider? The two of them had trained the young master two years ago. After all, the three of them had been sleeping in the same bed for several years...
After burning the incense, Hongyu completed her task, got off the dragon couch with difficulty, put on that layer of gauze and left slowly with difficulty...
Chunxiang Qiuyue looked at the young master who was resting on the dragon bed with his eyes closed. The two looked at each other, then slowly climbed up and snuggled next to Zhu Cihong.
Although they are not very old, they have lived in the palace all year round, so of course they know how glorious it is to be welcomed by the emperor, and even have the opportunity to honor the world as their mothers.
They did not dare to desire maternal honors in the world, as long as they could always stay with the emperor, otherwise they would leave once the emperor got married, because the queen had her own maid.
Zhu Cixiang opened his eyes and looked at them. Just when he was about to speak, he heard Chunxiang Qiuyue whisper:
"Young Master, this slave must also be like Hongyu..."
Zhu Cixiang did not reject them, so he nodded in agreement. As the two little girls who had served him for many years, Zhu Cixiang would give them a status sooner or later.
"Okay, help me go to the bathroom..."
The two little girls happily picked up Zhu Cixiang's left and right arms and walked to the bathroom...
Zhu Cixiang's body has been transformed by the system. He and Hongyu didn't feel tired at all just now. Let Chunxiang Qiuyue carry him away, which actually gave the two girls a chance to get close...
In recent winters, Chunxiang Qiuyue has been the maid who warmed Zhu Cixiang's bed.
Zhu Cixiang was young and didn't understand anything. Although he couldn't do anything, his hands were never idle. Everything went smoothly today...
The two girls were babbling there for a long time before the three of them helped each other back...
Zhu Cixiang never expected that for the first time after time travel, he would spend the night with three women...
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Before going south, Zhu Cixiang looked through more than a dozen test papers and found a series of familiar names, including Wei Zaode, Mao Bijiang, Fang Yizhi, Chen Zhenhui, Hou Fangyu, etc.!
I saw Xia Wanchun's test paper earlier. He explained very well what it means to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Xia Wanchun also did the same in history. He even expressed his approval of the collection of commercial taxes and the payment of grain by the gentry as a whole.
Although Mao Bijiang, Fang Yizhi, and Chen Zhenhui were the fourth princes of Jinling, the questions they answered were basically satisfactory and there was nothing wrong with them. They would support policies that were beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.
Hou Fangyu is one of the four young masters of Jinling. The contents of his and Wei Zaode's answers are basically high-minded talks with almost no practical significance.
The two of them flatly rejected the issue of the gentry receiving food from one body. They believed that this was depriving scholars of their welfare. In the past, no one would be willing to be an official.
For them, collecting business taxes means competing with the people for profit, and small businesses and hawkers will not let go of any small profits. In such a corrupt court, it doesn't matter if they don't serve as officials...
Zhu Cixi directly checked off their names. He knew that Wei Zaode, as the chief minister of the last cabinet, was the chief culprit of Chongzhen's suicide.
Wei Zaode was never found in Killing So Corrupt Officials. Zhu Cihong was a little surprised at the time, as it turned out that this guy had only appeared now.
Some people don't introduce it, and many people don't know what bad things they have done.
For example, Hou Fangyu, everyone knows that he is the protagonist of The Peach Blossom Fan, but how many people know that he has done those wicked things that will destroy the world!
There were four young masters in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, they were almost the same as Lord Mengchang and Lord Xinling.
Just like the four princes of the Warring States Period were good and bad, the four princes of the late Ming Dynasty were also good and bad.
Among them, three of them refused to submit, rebel, surrender, or humiliate themselves. Some entertained themselves by enjoying the fireworks, flowing water, and drinking poetry and wine, or retired to the mountains and forests to wander leisurely among the pines and bamboos, accompanied by cranes and deer.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But there was also a maniac who was even more hateful than Sun Zhixian. In order to suppress the resisting martyrs in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, he suggested to the Qing government to open up the Yellow River embankment.
The three provinces of Zhili, Shandong, and Henan were transformed into a water town, Zeguo Yellow River Flood Zone, where millions of people drowned and many more were displaced.
Later, experts and scholars of Qing history compiled the history of the Ming Dynasty and deliberately ignored this person, because even the historians of the Qing Dynasty were embarrassed to record such a thing as a matter of annihilation of descendants.
Everyone knows that the four young masters in the late Ming Dynasty were Chen Zhenhui and Hou Fangyu. Fang used his wisdom to explore the frontiers.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zhenhui "buried in an earthen house and did not enter the city for more than ten years." She ventured to open up new territories and would rather die than become an official. Many wonderful things happened to her and Dong Xiaowan.
Fang Yizhi lived in seclusion in Fushan, Tongcheng. He called himself the Fushan Fool and the Incompetent Person. He also wrote a poem "Going Alone" filled with blood and tears:
"My companions all broke up, and I went into the forest alone. I changed my surname three times a year, and my heart was crossed."
Although these three people did not achieve great achievements that attracted the attention of the world, they did not slavishly sell their masters and seek glory.
However, Hou Fangyu, the son of Hou Xun, the Minister of Household Affairs in the Ming Dynasty, and a leader of the Donglin Party for three generations, anxiously took part in the Qing imperial examination in the second year of Shunzhi.
Later, "The Peach Blossom Fan" became popular all over the country. The male protagonist was Hou Fangyu. However, Kong Shangren wrote "The Peach Blossom Fan" in the 38th year of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty. Of course, the play will not show the Qing government digging up the embankment of the Yellow River and killing millions of people.
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But people at that time will not forget the Yellow River flooding in 1645, nor will they forget Hou Fangyu who came up with the idea: "The two dynasties should elect the prince, and they can't bear to say plum fragrance to the peach blossom."
Hou Fangyu participated in the imperial examination in the second year of Shunzhi. He wrote thousands of words with great pains, and sincerely advised the Manchu Qing Dynasty to "open a scripture banquet", "pro-Confucian ministers", "special emphasis on county magistrates", "don't discuss river management lightly" and "
Make rewards and punishments clear.”
This incident has always made Hou Fangyu feel very ashamed. He was not ashamed because he had forgotten his ancestors and sold out to seek glory, but because he put his hot face on his cold buttocks. People directly threw his "heartfelt words" into the trash heap. He failed the exam!
Since he failed in the imperial examination and his wish to become an important official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty through Yue Longmen was in vain, Hou Fangyu had no choice but to find another way to prepare to "make contributions" to the Qing army.
As the governor of the three provinces, Zhang Cunrui led his troops to suppress the "Yuyuan Army Uprising" which had become a prairie fire.
But the capabilities of this second minister were really not very good. He put out fires in the east and smoke was rising in the west. The Yuyuan Army also engaged in tunnel battles with the Qing Army. The rebels were so unpredictable that Zhang Cunren was unable to take care of both ends.
The anxious Zhang Cunren suddenly remembered Hou Fangyu who failed in the imperial examination in the second year of Shunzhi, so he wrote to ask Hou Fangyu, one of the four princes in the late Ming Dynasty, for his advice.
Those who wrote the history of the Qing Dynasty did not have the nerve to write about what Hou Fangyu had planned. The remaining people's writings could not conceal the truth of the matter.
It turned out that Hou Fangyu's idea for Zhang Cunren was to open up the Jinglongkou embankment of the Yellow River, turn the rebel activity area into a yellow flood area, and turn the rebel tunnels into sewers.
The reason why it is said that Hou Fangyu gave Zhang Cunren a desperate plan is because the Jinglongkou of the Yellow River is a dangerous area.
In May of the second year of Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youtang's reign in the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River burst its banks at Kaifeng and Fengqiu Jinglongkou, and the southern part of Shandong and most of Henan became a vast ocean.
The Ming Dynasty mobilized 200,000 civilians from Shandong, Henan, and Zhili provinces to block the breach.
At that time, Bai Ang, the commander-in-chief of river control, never dreamed that the Yellow River embankment that he spent all the efforts of three provinces to build would be demolished more than a hundred years later by the former deputy general of the Ming Army, the governor of the three Qing provinces, and a Donglin party leader.
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Nowadays, people only know that there is a white embankment in Hangzhou, and the broken bridge with remaining snow is quite beautiful, but few people know that there is also a white embankment in the Yangwu section of the Yellow River in Henan.
That's because the person who dug up the White Embankment of the Yellow River was the governor of the Qing Dynasty and one of the four young masters of the late Ming Dynasty.
This young man is also the leading actor in "The Peach Blossom Fan". Both the Qing Dynasty elders and later generations of literati pretended that this incident never happened.
Regarding Hou Fangyu's proposal and Zhang Cunren's dike digging, the truth cannot be found in some history books. We can only look at the hydrological data of the six years of Shunzhi to see whether the Jinglongkou of the Yellow River was a dyke in recent years.
Everything becomes clear.
If it is true that Hou Fangyu offered his advice, then the sins of Hou Fangyu, one of the four princes in the late Ming Dynasty, would even be greater than that of Sun Zhixian, who first advocated shaving his hair and changing clothes.
Looking closely at the performance of Hou Fangyu and Sun Zhixian, people will not only have a question, why do some late Ming literati and even some Donglin Party members have such virtues?
Li Xiangjun died, and Hou Fangyu died of excessive longing and depression.
I just don’t know if Hou Fangyu, when he was mourning the death of Li Xiangjun, did he ever think about the millions of floating corpses starving to death in Huangfan District...
Chapter completed!