readx; After all, it was already March of Yangchun, and although it was in the "Xiaoice River Period", the long harsh winter of the Beijing Division had finally passed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info With the warm spring breeze, the river ice melts, the willows spit green, and the industrious swallows also fly back from the far south, chirping non-stop, as if to remind the people of Beijing: the new year has begun.

As the saying goes, "the plan of the year lies in spring", although life is hard, but the kind and simple people are still full of beautiful longing for the new year. Several happy events followed, which added a little joy to them.

The first great event was that the emperor married Zhu Cunqi, the lord of Lishan County, and canonized it together with Concubine Qi Meifeng. In fact, this matter was decided a long time ago, but because Zhu Youzhen drove to Liaodong in person, he had to delay for a month.

On the day of the ceremony, Zhu Yousheng drove Luan, and went to the palace of the king to pick up Zhu Cunqi in the sedan chair with Queen Rui'er. This move is unprecedented, and it has caused controversy among many ministers. They think that the emperor is the supreme son of heaven, and it is okay to accept concubines, but they should only sit firmly in the Qianqing Palace and use the phoenix chariot to connect the concubines into the palace. Now that the dragon is the phoenix, it is very inappropriate, and many officials lament that this emperor is really young and absurd, and he has to fight with Zhengde and Tianqi.

Zhu Youzhen was unmoved. As a traverser, the idea of equality for all has taken root in him, and even now that he is emperor, this belief remains unshaken. He never felt that the emperor was nobler than ordinary people, both were human beings, both were in the same era, but the responsibilities on their shoulders were different.

This time he married Zhu Cunqi with a high standard, Zhu Youzhen was firstly to dispel Zhu Cunqi's various concerns, secondly, to thank her for risking her life to pretend to be herself, and thirdly, because Zhu Cunqi and Li Zhenyan had the closest relationship. Now that Zhenyan is gone, Zhu Youzhen is very kind to her good sister, which can be regarded as a kind of consolation to Zhenyan's spirit in the sky.

However, the common people did not know the inside story, nor did they have the concept of dignity and orderliness of the scholar class, and when they saw the emperor personally go out of the palace to marry the county lord, the whole city was a sensation, and they all rushed to see this grand event that was rare in a hundred years. In their opinion, it is natural for the groom to pick up the bride, and the emperor personally greeted him, which showed the deep affection of the husband and wife, which made many young girls with spring envious.

After coming out of the palace, Zhu Cunqi, who was dressed as a newlywed princess, took a sedan chair, and Emperor Zhu Youzhen rode a horse in front of the sedan chair and walked slowly, all the way to accept the people's bows and congratulations. The common people are not as hypocritical as the scholars, they think that the emperor dares to drive the expedition in person and return to Beijing safely, that is the great hero. As for the loss of the city, it is the incompetence of the military generals of Wenchen, and it has nothing to do with the emperor. Therefore, the sound of shouting long live all the way up the mountain was endless, and the excited crowd still refused to disperse for a long time until Luan drove past.

After entering the palace, Zhu Cunqi first paid homage to the Empress Dowager Zhang, and was enshrined together with Qi Meifeng, who was pregnant with Liujia. Qi Meifeng was officially named Concubine Ling, and Zhu Cunqi was awarded the title of Concubine Li. This title made many officials shake their heads, thinking that "Concubine Li" would involuntarily remind people of the Li Ji who confused the Jin Kingdom in history, which was really a bad omen.

But this title was chosen by Emperor Xizong before his death, and no one dared to oppose it. Zhu Youzhen doesn't care even more, he even dares to use the name "Chongzhen", how can he believe this nonsense!

It was the night when Zhu You stayed in Zhu Cunqi's dormitory, and the young couple were newly married Yan'er, and they were in love in every way. After the incident, the two recalled that in order to escape the bandits, they had to jump into the dammed lake and hug each other naked in Sagayama to keep warm. In fact, at that time, Zhu Cunqi had already secretly promised Zhu Youzhen that he was finally married, and he felt extremely happy.

The second great joy was that Zhu Youzhen announced that the election of palace maids would be suspended this year, and the elderly palace maids in the Forbidden City would be released from the palace. This is another thing that has won the hearts of the people, Zhu Youzhen has already won the popularity of the people because of the iron-fisted eradication of the eunuchs, and this move has won the love of the people, and for a time the praise of "benevolent monarch" and "holy monarch" has risen, and even some dead-brained officials have begun to look at the emperor with admiration.

First of all, the selection of palace maids is one of the concentrated manifestations of imperial power. In order to satisfy their selfish desires, the emperors of all dynasties will recruit outstanding young girls from all over the country to enter the palace, ranging from hundreds to thousands every year, and now there are nearly 20,000 palace maids in the Forbidden City.

The selection of palace maids is mandatory, and every year when the spring flowers bloom, local officials and eunuchs will go to the people to select, and those selected will be sent to the palace regardless of whether you want to or not. Except for a few wealthy officials and gentry who wanted to be relatives of the emperor and took the initiative to send their daughters out for selection, the vast majority of ordinary people were reluctant to send their daughters to the deep palace, but what could they do?

However, after entering the palace, only a very small number of stunning beauties have the opportunity to be selected by the emperor as concubines, and the probability may not even be 1 in 10,000. The vast majority of the rest can only serve as palace maids, serving the daily life of the emperor and concubines, and undertaking a large number of miscellaneous duties. He will not be released from the palace until he is too old to do it, but his good youth has been delayed.

Now that the emperor has stopped electing palace maids, it has undoubtedly made the common people who have daughters at home breathe a sigh of relief. And letting the palace maids who are over twenty years old out of the palace has reduced the palace maids in the Forbidden City by two-thirds at once. According to the length of service in the palace, each person received a rich reward from the internal silver, and if they wanted to return to their hometown, they would return to their hometown, and if they wanted to stay in Beijing, this silver would be enough for several years.

Although he spent a lot of money at one time, Zhu Youzhen still felt that it was worth it. Because although the palace maids are an oppressed group, they also consume a large amount of silver taels every year to make offerings. In the past, the Forbidden City had huge expenses, and the royal family's poverty and luxury were certainly the most important reasons, but the cost of tens of thousands of eunuchs and palace maids had to account for at least half of the expenses of the inner treasury. Now that the Forbidden City has lost a lot of weight, it can save at least more than one million taels of silver a year.

Of course, with so many palace maids missing all of a sudden, the manpower in the palace naturally became nervous. Especially the "concubines" of Shenzong, Guangzong, and Xizong, first there were no eunuchs to serve, and now there are more than half of the palace maids, all of whom are dissatisfied with Zhu Youzhen, thinking that the emperor deliberately snubbed them.

But Empress Dowager Zhang strongly supported Zhu Youzhen's initiative and took the lead in reducing the palace maids, and she did all the work done by some palace maids in the past. The queen mother is like this, and the other concubines don't dare to say anything.

In fact, this is just a small test for Zhu Youzhen, and it is also his first step in liberating women at the national level. This step is relatively easy to take, but the latter is much more difficult.

As for the third great event, it is related to the vital interests of all the people of Beijing. That is, Zhu Youzhen's edict announced: Continue the hastily completed project during the Jiajing period and rebuild the outer city of Beijing!

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