There is no nightlife in Tangquan Town, at least no public nightlife, but that doesn't mean you have to go to bed as soon as it gets dark. Prince Condé from France was not in bed at the moment, but was talking to a beautiful woman.
The beauty is Mary Mancini. She has been staying in the boring place of Tangquan Town for several days, but she has never waited for the summons from His Majesty the Ming Emperor... The emperor has decided to see her, but he has to queue up. , we can meet in about seven or eight days.
So at this time, Miss Mancini wanted to seize the time to learn more about Emperor Zhu from Prince Kongdai.
"He is a rather boring person!" said Prince Condé. "He can't dance, doesn't like music, doesn't like painting, doesn't go to the theater, doesn't smoke, and doesn't drink much... basically doesn't drink. . The diet is also very restrained, with only four dishes and one soup for lunch and dinner.”
"Prince, who are you talking about?" Miss Mancini stared at her big, talkative eyes. "It can't be Cromwell, right?"
"Cromwell?" Prince Condé thought for a while and said with a smile, "It seems almost the same! His Majesty the Emperor is very similar to that Puritan lunatic. Of course, his attitude towards women is slightly more open. You know, Eastern monarchs They are not likely to engage in monogamy. They usually have a harem filled with beauties. His Majesty the Emperor also has his harem, but the number is not large. There are only eight women in total, two of whom were selected for him by his father. He entered the palace when he was still the prince.
And his queen and imperial concubine - these two women are the most noble women, both came from political marriages. Among them, the queen Wu Sanmei came from the general family of the Wu family, and the imperial concubine Zheng Chagu came from the richest family in the Ming Dynasty and a naval general. .
The third and fourth women in the palace also came from political marriages. They came from the royal family of the Qing Dynasty of the Tatar Dynasty that was defeated by His Majesty the Emperor.
There is also a talented woman from Shanghai who should be the academic companion of His Majesty the Emperor. There is also a female Tatar vassal who was captured by His Majesty the Emperor... She entered the palace as a slave girl, and she seems to be still a slave girl now. "
The "Tatar female vassal prince" mentioned by Prince Kong Dai was Kong Sizhen. Because Kong Tingxun mixed water when fulfilling the contract and turned Shunzhi into Kangxi, Kong Sizhen, the middleman, lost the opportunity to be promoted to the selection attendant, but for her It's not much different...
Miss Mancini frowned and thought: Eight women is a lot! I wonder what they look like? It would be fine if they were similar to the ugly ones in the European royal family, but if they were all beautiful women, it would be troublesome...
Thinking of this, she sighed quietly: "I wonder who His Majesty the Emperor will sleep with tonight?"
If Emperor Zhu Da could hear Mancini's sighs and questions at this moment, he would definitely sigh in return.
Because he is working overtime tonight!
There are eight beauties in the harem, and there is a little Western beauty waiting outside the palace who is going to be his mistress, but he has to work overtime... This is undoubtedly the most painful thing for Zhu Cixi right now!
And he didn't work overtime at Laoshan Palace, but at Laoshan Hunting Ground - personally supervising the joint military drills of the Jiubian teenagers at Jiangwu Hall, Laoshan Middle School, and Laoshan Castle!
This military exercise was planned long ago. It will start on the afternoon of September 15th and will last for five days and five nights. The venue for the drill is the Laoshan Hunting Ground - the Laoshan Mountain Area covering an area of 80 to 90 square kilometers. Emperor Zhu chose this land as his "political capital". In addition to being close to Nanjing, he also liked this mountainous area that could be used for military training.
Students from Jiangwu Hall, Laoshan Middle School, and hard-working Jiubian teenagers are regularly organized to conduct military drills together in order to maintain the martial and hard-working spirit of the successors of the Kenan Xungui Group!
Zhu Cihong, who is 28 years old this year and has been in power for 12 years, has already been cultivating successors to feudalism for a long time!
He is very self-aware when it comes to successors. He knew that the Kenan Xungui Group he relied on was only a "ZTE Group" and not a founding group. ZTE Group will more or less inherit various bad habits from the mid-to-decline era, and the foundation of ZTE is not to tear down and restart, so the entire society is also filled with an atmosphere of decadence and decadence. Under such circumstances, the ZTE Group is particularly prone to corruption...and once the ZTE Group becomes corrupted, the ZTE of the Ming Dynasty will be unsustainable.
In order to sustain the ZTE situation he had finally created, Zhu Cixang chose the Pukou-Laoshan area outside the bustling Nanjing as the political center of the empire and the place where nobles gathered. And they strictly suppressed the extravagant style in Pukou and Laoshan, and opened a large number of new schools in Pukou and Laoshan to train the new nobles of the Ming Dynasty!
Of course the Ming Dynasty needed new nobles!
Zhu Cixi knew that he was an emperor, not a civilian leader. As an emperor, he had to rely on the nobility to rule... Of course, the political power can be opened to civilians to a certain extent, allowing examinations to serve as officials, setting up political meetings, and encouraging ( In fact, it was purchased) Jiubian boy joined the army, but the emperor must not forget that the core of the ruling group can only be nobles, especially military nobles!
The decay of the nobility means the decline of imperial power, and the loss of control of the nobility means the decline of imperial power.
Zhu Cixi now wants to keep the Ming Dynasty imperial power that he has preserved as strong as possible. The only way is to create an aristocratic group that supports the imperial power, is simple and martial, and is shrewd and powerful.
To achieve this goal, it can only be achieved through strict cultivation and education... The so-called aristocratic schools and aristocratic education will be hated by people in later generations. But Zhu Cixiang had no choice. He was the emperor, and the Kenan nobles gathered around Laoshan were originally nobles.
How could he not educate and teach the second and third generations who would overcome difficulties and honor them?
The future world will depend on them to fight for it! The root cause of the Tumubao Incident and the subsequent decline of the Ming Dynasty was actually the decay and weakness of the Ming Dynasty Xungui Group itself.
If they themselves were not corrupt or weak, the Grand Master would have been cut into eight pieces long ago, and the civil servants in Beijing would not be able to use any dirty tricks... Just the strength of the Grand Master would have been replaced by Zhu Yuanzhang That generation of assassination experts still dared to risk their lives on the edge of the Great Wall?
Therefore, educating these second and third generations is Zhu Cixiang’s top priority right now, and he must do it himself.
Therefore, on this night, there was not a single beautiful woman around the Ming Dynasty's Nine-Fifth Emperor (of course you have to bring beautiful women to accompany you when you go to war, but you can't bring women when you are doing exercises at home, otherwise it will look too decadent), only a group of well-armored imperial guards. .
The Ming Emperor took this group of guards and rode his Arabian horses to patrol the camp at the western foot of Laoshan.
Youths and teenagers from Jiangwu Hall, Laoshan Middle School, and Jiubian Youth Camp, whether they are royal clan members, young masters from the Duke's family or the Marquis' family, or poor teenagers from several border towns, are now all The same treatment, carrying all the luggage, marching on foot, setting up camp, and cooking pots. Nowadays, companies form a circle and eat there.
You don't dare to complain, because the emperor himself is patrolling in the camp, so no matter how hard and tired you are, you have to pretend to be full of energy... When you see the emperor coming surrounded by the guards and cavalry, you have to shout "Long Live the Mountain" in unison !
Amidst the cheers, Zhu Cixi finally felt a little relieved. Of course he knew that most of the tens of thousands of teenagers in front of him were pretending... In fact, he longed for the hard beds in school - what? The maid who makes the soft bed and warms the bed at home? That is impossible!
Both Jiangwu Hall and Laoshan Middle School are for residential students! Sleeping on a hard bed and eating in the canteen, complete military management, not to mention maids, bookboys and old servants! Only when I go home on vacation can I hug and cuddle with the maids... But I can only cuddle with my own maids. Don't go looking for flowers in Nanjing City. Pukou Pier is guarded by dedicated personnel, and underage aristocratic children are not allowed to pass. River.
Moreover, the Jiangwu Hall and Laoshan Middle School will hold assembly meetings at any time and call students back during vacation to make up classes. It is really inhumane at all!
