Zhu Linmiao turned her head to look, but saw that it was Princess Chen. He stepped forward to give a salute, and the princess pulled him aside, only saying that the queen mother almost recited the Buddha all day long, and occasionally went to see the emperor, but ignored everything and let him leave the palace.

Zhu Linmiao turned her head to look and saw that Princess Chen was crossing the threshold, although she looked surprised, there were tears in her eyes.

He hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Mother is blessed." ”

Princess Chen helped him up and looked at him carefully, "Okay, good, I'm finally back, it's just a ......" She had something to say to her son, but she forced her emotions to suppress, looked at the Empress Dowager Zeng, and said in a low voice: "The Empress Dowager has been short of food and sleep for several months, and it is decreasing day by day, so I have been accompanying her in the palace." ”

Then she walked slowly to the side of the Empress Dowager Zeng, and said, "Sister-in-law, Mi'er is back, I will go back to the house for the time being, and I will accompany you tomorrow." ”

Empress Dowager Zeng nodded again and said lightly: "You go." ”

Zhu Linmiao walked out of the noon gate and was dragged by the princess to take a carriage and go towards the auxiliary palace.

The princess asked a long and short question, Zhu Linmiao waited for her to stop talking, and hurriedly asked: "Mother, the emperor has been getting better recently, how can the queen mother describe it like this?" ”

Princess Chen shook her head and said, "The emperor is still the same, only occasionally opening his eyes slightly when he is breastfeeding, and the rest are all unconscious. ”

She sighed again, "This son is the lifeblood of the mother, the emperor has always been like this, the queen mother has been in despair, all day long, if she can make her Yuan'er wake up, she will fall into the eighteenth layer of hell, and she has no complaints."

"You can also see that the Queen Mother is only chanting Buddha and praying to God all day long, although it is not good for her body, but I am afraid that if she does not have this little bit of energy, she will collapse......"

She chattered a lot, and Zhu Linmiao couldn't help but sigh in her heart. In history, Zhu Linyuan was killed by Li Chengdong when he was only two or three months old, and now although he has saved his life, he is still crumbling.

He immediately thought that although he had his own support for the Ming Dynasty at the moment, the emperor still had a symbolic meaning that could not be ignored. Now it is not only the Lord Shaoguo who is suspicious, but also the Son of Heaven who is seriously ill and does not wake up, so it is inevitable that the people of the world will have other thoughts in their hearts, and there will be restless people in the government and the opposition.

It seems that only by recovering Nanjing as soon as possible can the world's confidence in the Ming Dynasty be completely restored.

He summoned Shi Lin again, asked him to return to the palace, and told Pang Tianshou to strictly restrain the eunuchs, palace maids, and imperial doctors, and that none of the conditions of the Son of Heaven should be disclosed.

When the carriage and horse stopped in front of the auxiliary palace, Zhu Linmiao got out of the car, and saw that the wall of the palace had been changed to a two-zhang high city wall, the main gate had been expanded by more than four feet, and the vermilion gate was obviously newly painted, and the dense copper nails on it were dazzling.

Princess Chen looked surprised when she saw him, and hurriedly said, "When you first returned to Guangdong, the imperial court ordered the palace to be overhauled. She lowered her voice again, "There are many places where the princely ......system has been overrun."

Zhu Linmiao frowned, knowing what the idea of the people in the imperial court was.

He marched into the house, called a man who should be in charge, and ordered them to tear down all the places that had exceeded the rules, and repeatedly warned them not to spend an extra tael of silver on the mansion in the future.

After the dinner in the palace was over, Yang Tinglin, Song Yingxing, Xu Erlu, Zhang Canghai and others rushed to the palace to meet and report to His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King on the affairs in their respective hands in the past few months.

In fact, they would perform every once in a while, and Zhu Linmiao had already learned about it on the way back to Fujing.

But they didn't come to see him to disturb him. These people are all his "descendants" in the court, and being able to come at this time also means that they have an unusual relationship with His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King. The officials next to him wanted to come here, and they would definitely not be able to enter the auxiliary palace.

Several people were polite in the side hall, but in the end, according to the level of their positions and their relationships, Yang Tinglin and Zhang Canghai of the household department entered His Royal Highness's study first.

Yang Tinglin made a big salute, first said some kind words to congratulate His Royal Highness on his victory, the beginning of the Jiangnan Dynasty, and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and then frowned and said bad news, "Your Highness's expedition to the southwest, although he only led the elite main force, but the journey is thousands of miles, and the consumption of grain and grass equipment is still very great.

In addition, the income of officials is very high, and the construction of water conservancy and the construction of the two provinces of the people are also quite expensive. As for the two shipyards in Nan'an and Yongbeili, they are even more bottomless.

"At present, there are less than 600,000 taels left in the account of the household department. If there is no large income, according to the previous spending rate, I am afraid that it will start to lose money in more than two months. ”

The money that was confiscated from the enemy prisoner before bottomed out so quickly? Zhu Linmiao smiled bitterly in her heart, it is really easy to go and difficult to come, it seems that the speed of maritime trade must be accelerated, but the Dutch will definitely not give up. Some time ago, there was also a report from the Guangdong Customs Department, saying that in the past two months, a total of 10 Franc machine merchant ships have been looted by the pirates, and it is expected that most of them were committed by the Helan people.

He had a plan in his heart, and he should go to the shipyard to have a look recently, and also learn about the training of sailors by the way.

However, the Yang Pavilion Department in front of him still had to be comforted, Zhu Linmiao pretended to smile lightly and said: "There should be tax silver sent from the Guangdong Customs Department recently, which can temporarily relieve the urgent need." ”

In fact, the construction of the port of Macao has not yet been completed, and the Dutch have been obstructing it, so the volume of trade has not been very large recently, and the tax silver for two months is only 60,000 or 70,000 taels. Even so, this has doubled several times compared to the previous customs revenue.

Yang Tinglin hurriedly said: "Xiaguan will contact Guangdong tomorrow, so the treasury may be a little wider." ”

He solved the biggest problem in his heart, his expression immediately lightened, and he continued: "Your Highness, Your Majesty still has some good news to report to you. ”

"Yang Gebu, come on."

Yang Tinglin signaled to Zhang Canghai beside him, who took a step forward and said respectfully: "Your Highness, the first batch of potatoes and sweet potatoes sown in Gandi a few days ago were harvested. ”

Zhu Linmiao was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "How is the harvest?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, there are still Nankang Mansion, Raozhou Mansion and other places that have not yet been summed up, but only a few places in Ganzhou, Ji'an, Jianchang, Fuzhou, and Linjiang, with a total of 140,000 stone of rations produced!"