Zhu Youzhen was in the upper study, looking at the investigation report sent back by Luo Yangxing from Xuanfu Town, Luo Yangxing retained the military status of Jinyi Guard, and was transferred to the command of Xuanfu Town, responsible for cleaning up Tuntian, military registration, military discipline and other affairs.

To the north of Xuanfu is the Mongolian Plateau, to the south is Yanshan, and there is only one mountain away from the capital. Behind it is the gateway to the northwest of the capital, Juyongguan, so it has always had the title of Jingshi Ping Domain.

It is precisely because of the dangerous geographical location that at the beginning of the founding of the country, the status of Xuanfu Town was also one of the best among the nine sides. Originally, it had more than 90,000 soldiers, and set up a pro-vassal valley king to guard here. After the Jingjing, the king of Gu was transferred to the mainland, and Xuanfu Town began to slowly decline.

Although everyone in the court and China knew that Xuanfu was a screen domain in the northwest of the capital, there was nothing anyone could do to stop the continuous decline of Xuanfu Town.

In addition to the topographical characteristics of the northwest gateway of the Beijing Division, Xuanfu is also the boundary between the grassland and the agricultural area, and the reason why Xuanfu Town was able to maintain its strength in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China is because it is the starting point for the Ming army to attack the Mongols who retreated into the grassland, and it is also the logistics transfer base for the Ming army to go out to the grassland.

When the emperor of the Ming Dynasty lost his enterprising spirit for the grassland, Xuanfu Town was left with only one task to screen the northwest gateway of the Beijing Division, and the imperial court's supply to Xuanfu Town was naturally reduced.

Although Xuanfu Town is not short of water, the climate here is harsh, and the winter is particularly cold. Before Zhangjiakou did not open the market, in fact, Xuanfu was not very suitable for a large number of people to gather and live here.

Moreover, after more than 200 years of Juntun, the natural environment around Xuanfu has also been particularly damaged, which has made the output of Juntun land continue to decrease. At the same time, the chaos of the management of the military camp and the ** of the military system of the guard station also accelerated the decline of Xuanfu Town.

Xuanfu Town has grown from more than 90,000 soldiers at the beginning of the country to less than 30,000 soldiers today.

The Wanquan Division was in charge of logistical affairs such as tuntian, warehouses, military ration distribution, and ordnance manufacturing, while the Xuanfu chief military officer was responsible for specific military operations such as patrolling the border, preparing for the defense, and formulating battle plans.

The governor of Xuanfu was in charge of all military and political affairs in his town, while the governor of Xuanda coordinated the joint combat operations of Xuanfu and Datong.

In Luo Yangxing's report, the system of the Xuanfu military tun has been greatly deteriorated, the generals have invaded the good fields, the guard officials have encroached on the land of the fugitives, the local haoyou has invaded the tuntian of the guards, and the tuntian sergeants who have not fled have to bear the military rations handed over for the fugitive sergeants, and so on.

In addition, it has become a semi-public fact that officers in the army withhold soldiers' rations and accept bribes from their subordinates.

However, many guards chose to flee because they could not bear the cruel exploitation of Shangguan, resulting in the actual number of soldiers in Xuanfu being much less than the rated number, which also made the ratio of sergeants in Tuntian to the sergeants guarding the border unbalanced, reaching between 1:3-4.

The shortage of the number of tuntians, coupled with the decrease in output after the degradation of the land, forced the officers of the guard to force the remnants of the military households to participate in the tuntian, which obviously became another important factor in the flight of the military households.

Regarding the evaluation of Hei Yunlong, the chief military officer of Xuanfu, Shen Jiye, the governor of Wanquan, and Li Yangchong, the governor of Xuanfu, Luo Yangxing believes that Hei Yunlong and Shen Jiye are mediocre, and Shen Jiye has a greedy personality and has no way to do it, and he also has many private contacts with merchants in Zhangjiakou City, and it seems that he is suspected of reselling ordnance.

Li Yangchong, the governor of Xuanfu, had a high personality and despised the martial arts, although he made great achievements in civil affairs, but he was not popular with the military.

The content of the ministers of the Xuanfu Supervision Army, which was sent back together with Luo Yangxing's investigation report, is basically not much different from it, but the minister's report said a few good words for Shen Jiye, and there were more words of rejection for Li Yangchong.

After reading the report, Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes and wanted to sort out his thoughts, but maybe it was because he had used his brain too much these days that made him a little tired.

Not long after he closed his eyelids, he took a nap. When he woke up, he felt covered in sticky sweat, which was uncomfortable.

When he opened his eyes, he realized that the light in the room had dimmed. It seemed like an hour or two had passed, and he was trying to straighten up when he noticed a thin blanket slipping from his body.

Chongzhen quickly grabbed the thin blanket that had slipped down, and when he grabbed the thin blanket sideways, he found that Zhou Yufeng was sitting on a rattan chair next to him, leaning on the back of the chair and falling asleep, and she was still holding a book in her hand and half-covering her face.

Zhu Youzhen subconsciously looked up and found that the room was empty, not even the little eunuch who used to stand in the corner and wait.

There was silence in the study, like a silent world. It is only through the glass window on one side that shines into the light in the room, and sees the dust in the light spots dancing silently and enthusiastically, that one feels that the world is still in motion.

Zhu Youzhen picked up the thin blanket in his hand and gently covered Zhou Yufeng's body. After he covered the thin blanket, he had time to admire the appearance of Zhou Yufeng who was asleep.

It's a shame to say that although he has been accustomed to his daily life as Chongzhen and has been in contact with Zhou Yufeng for a few months, this is the first time he has looked at his queen in such detail during the day.

Although her eyebrows are a little thick, the shape is very regular, and with a white and beautiful forehead, she looks extraordinarily youthful.

Her nose and mouth shape don't look as delicate as Tian Xiuying's, but when they are combined, they are particularly attractive.

Especially in the past few months, she seems to have become a little plumper, which makes the little childishness on her original face disappear.

When Zhu Youzhen was holding his chin and admiring Zhou Yufeng's face unscrupulously, he suddenly found that although the queen's breath had not changed, her long eyelashes were constantly shaking, and her cheeks were slowly flushed.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know where Zhou Yufeng had woken up. Looking at Zhou Yufeng, who was delicate and delicious, and seemed to be waiting for him to enjoy it, Chongzhen's heart suddenly beat very fast, as if a flame suddenly burned up from his heart, which made his mouth quite dry.

He was about to make a move when there was a sudden commotion outside. Tian Xiuying took her maid and stood at the door of the upper study with a food box, Wang Chengen and Lu Qi, who had never stopped her in the past, stopped her unexpectedly in front of her today.

This made Tian Xiuying, who has always been favored by Chongzhen, suspicious, and under her threats, temptation and noise, Wang Chengen finally had no choice but to hint that the queen was in the study.

Tian Xiuying, who was jealous, ignored Wang Chengen's dissuasion, and forcibly broke into the upper study.

When she pushed open the door, she looked around with her head open, and said in an unkind tone: "Your Majesty, the concubine has just made a cool and delicious mung bean paste, please let your Majesty cool off..."

But soon she was stunned, and there was no ambiguity in the room that she had imagined. Empress Zhou Yufeng was sitting across a table from the emperor, and the two seemed to be discussing something serious.

Seeing Tian Xiuying rushing in rudely, Zhou Yufeng pursed her lips, and immediately pulled down her face to reprimand her: "Didn't the chief manager tell you that the palace is discussing things with Your Majesty?" You are so ignorant of etiquette, are you despising this palace? ”

Tian Xiuying, who had never been convinced by Zhou Yufeng, did not confess to the queen, her eyes kept rolling, and when she saw Chongzhen sitting on the side, she immediately excused herself: "The concubine wanted to take the mung bean paste that had just been made to offer it to Your Majesty, so she was negligent for a while."

Besides, it's still sunny daylight, even if you want to discuss things, you don't have to close the door, since my sister didn't do anything wrong, why bother..."

"That's enough, the more you talk, the more you don't like it, and you don't apologize to Yufeng." Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhou Yufeng's eyes and seemed to be a little red, and quickly interrupted Tian Xiuying, who was still chattering and stimulating the queen.

"Your Majesty!" Tian Xiuying, who was yelled at by Chongzhen, suddenly looked at the emperor in surprise, she never thought that the emperor, who had always been obedient to herself, would yell at her in front of the queen.

Tian Xiuying's tearful appearance, although it was very cute, Zhu Youzhen still said sharply: "If you don't apologize to the queen, what are you doing standing there?" I've been busy these days, so you can't stop? I will punish you for three more days and not be allowed to go out of the courtyard, and draw a picture of a lotus flower to make amends to the queen, do you understand? ”

Chongzhen's ruthlessness made Tian Xiuying suddenly sad, she reluctantly said a blessing to Zhou Yufeng, and then hid her face and ran out crying.

Zhou Yufeng obviously didn't expect this ending, she was quite uneasy and saluted Chongzhen and said: "It's all the concubines who are in charge of the harem, but it makes Your Majesty angry, wait for the concubines to persuade Concubine Tian, and let her come to make compensation to Your Majesty in a few days." ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded at her and said, "I am busy with state affairs, and all the affairs of this harem will be handed over to Zitong..."

When Zhou Yufeng and Tian Xiuying left, Zhu Youzhen leaned back on the chair in a dejected manner, and the few thoughts that had just arisen were completely gone. Sure enough, the monk has no water to drink when he is too much, which is indeed a wise saying.

Zhu Youzhen lay lazily for a while, and then planned to let Lu Qi prepare bath water for him, ready to take a dip to relieve fatigue. However, as soon as he looked up, he saw the two food boxes in Lu Qi's hands, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "This one food box is Concubine Tian's mung bean paste, and what is the other one?" ”

Lu Qi hurriedly replied: "It's the lily sweet soup brought by the queen's mother." ”

Zhu Youzhen took a look, and then said, "Take them all, I just have a dry mouth." ”

Whether it is lily sweet soup or mung bean paste, it tastes very good, Zhu Youzhen touched his somewhat swollen belly, and said lightly to Lu Qi: "In the evening, I will reward the queen, Tian, and Yuan Erfei with a tail of seafood, and send another basket of peaches." ”

Zhu Youzhen paused, and finally spoke: "Didn't a boatload of coconuts come yesterday?" Everyone will send some, and Concubine Tian will send two more, she doesn't like sweets the most..."