The twenty-second year of Kuanyong, the seventh day of the sixth lunar month.

The 21-year-old Emperor Koiko, who lives in the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan, has no idea that the trajectory of his life will change dramatically on this day.

In the early morning of this day, the Empress woke up from the erotic dream of dating Hikari Genji again. Throughout the next morning, she felt ashamed of her dream and lamented her misfortune.

The life of being born into an imperial family and becoming emperor at a young age was not what Emperor Koiko wanted. She would rather be born into a wealthy feudal lord's family like her cousins.

Her mother, Tokugawa Kazuko, was the daughter of the second-generation shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and the royal family Asai. This background was nothing to the Imperial family, but it was extremely noble to the samurai family.

If Kazuko had not married the emperor, she would have married a wealthy feudal lord with a salary of hundreds of thousands of stones... Koiko would often imagine that her father was a particularly wealthy feudal lord, and when she grew up

She can also marry a rich and very handsome feudal lord. In this way, she will not have to worry about spending her whole life, and she can also enjoy the love of her husband, give birth to several children, and watch them grow up little by little.

This is Xingzi’s dream life!

But now, although she is the emperor, it is not affordable at all. The entire imperial family only has a total income of 10,000 shi. This is not her personal income, but the income of the entire imperial family!

Except for her mother, Tokugawa Kazuko, who also had an additional allowance from the shogunate, the entire imperial family lived on such a small amount of money... It was an imperial family, and there were many places to spend money!

First of all, the Imperial Palace is so big that it needs to be repaired, right? Although the Imperial Palace is getting more and more dilapidated as it is repaired, it still has to be repaired. If it is not repaired, it will be uninhabitable.

Secondly, the female officials in the palace must be given food, clothing, and monthly money, right? Otherwise, they would all run away, and the emperor would still have to wash and cook by himself, which would be unseemly!

Thirdly, Emperor Masahito and his bunch of concubines have to spend money, right? Emperor Masahito retired early and was in good health, so he took in many concubines with worrying looks - in fact, Emperor Masahito's middle palace Kazuko was the most beautiful

, but Masahito does not care about it. Being beautiful means that the blood is not noble! Isn’t it because he followed Asai Nagamasa and Oda Ichi that he is beautiful?

Fourth, the most hateful thing is that Emperor Masahito continues to have children! Every time he gives birth to a child, the already thin Emperor's purse will become even thinner. Moreover, Emperor Masahito and those ugly monsters

The son born to the concubine will inherit the throne of Queen Xingyu... It makes me angry just thinking about it! Moreover, the "ugly" brothers and sisters can get married, but she cannot.

It’s so infuriating!

But it was useless for her to be angry to death. Her father still asked her when she was going to abdicate the throne as soon as they met... This is also in Japan. If the Ming Dynasty was next door, who would dare to ask Emperor Chongzhen such a question?

In fact, Emperor Koiko doesn't particularly care about the throne. The question is where can she retire? She hasn't saved any money on the throne, so how can she live her life if she retires?

The Koiko Emperor has been frugal since he was sensible, and has never lived a good life where he spends money lavishly.

The thing she regrets most now is that she didn't take advantage of her grandfather Tokugawa Hidetada's lifetime to save a little more money for a private house...Grandpa still loved her, and she could always get a lot of money if she really wanted to be poor.

.But her uncle Tokugawa Iemitsu is not so easy to talk to, and Iemitsu is not familiar with her either!

Moreover, once she became the emperor, she was too embarrassed to write to her uncle, a general, begging for money!

So Emperor Koiko is a poor emperor. If he abdicates the throne again... he will die in poverty?

Just before noon, when Emperor Koiko was about to enjoy a lunch that was full of ceremony but actually contained no real ingredients, he suddenly came to report that General Zhengyi and Guan Bai both came to the imperial palace and requested

Summon.

"Nani?" Queen Koiko was stunned when she heard this, "Isn't the general far away in Nagoya? Why did he come to Kyoto? Could it be..."

As she spoke, Queen Xing was already a little nervous.

She frowned her slightly upside-down eyebrows and said, "Please ask the general and Guan Bai to wait at the Zichen Hall. I will go right away."

Shichenden is the most magnificent hall in the Kyoto Imperial Palace. When it is not windy or raining, it is the ideal place for the emperor to receive ministers. If it is windy or rainy, water leaks in Shichenden, and the ministers may get wet.

Fortunately, it was a sunny day today, so Empress Koko was able to summon Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had come from Kyushu, and Guanbai Kujo Daofang who accompanied Iemitsu in the very dark Purple Hall.

Although I said I could see it, I actually couldn't see it at all, because there was a bamboo curtain between them, so I could only vaguely see the silhouette of the person.

"Your Majesty the Emperor..." Kujo Dobō reported to the Emperor in a very strange "Ya Yin" that seemed to be spoken in a high voice, "General Zongyi, Iemitsu, the elder of the Genji family, came from Nagoya.

I have something important to report."

Queen Xingzi also said in a elegant voice that could only be spoken in a high voice: "Really? What's the important matter?"

I asked, but in my heart I thought: What important matter could the Emperor have? He doesn’t want me to abdicate, right?

Tokugawa Iemitsu could not say "Ya Yin", so he said to the emperor behind the curtain in a normal tone: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Arimei proposed to your Majesty..."

"Nani?" Queen Xingyu was really frightened, and even her voice became normal.

"Your Majesty," Tokugawa Iemitsu said, "an envoy from the Ming Dynasty arrived in Nagoya a few days ago and asked you to marry His Highness Cijiong, King Ning of the Ming Dynasty..."

"What happened..." Queen Xing's breath was a little short, "I wonder what His Royal Highness Prince Ning of the Ming Dynasty looks like? How much is his salary this year?"

Isn’t this too direct a question?

Tokugawa Iemitsu and Kujo Daofou were both stunned...How much does this emperor want to get married?

"Ah," Tokugawa Iemitsu said, "Your Majesty, the painting minister of Prince Ning of the Ming Dynasty has been brought here."

"Roll up the bamboo curtain." Queen Xing immediately ordered the female officials to roll up the bamboo curtain - she had to see clearly.

After rolling up the bamboo curtain, Empress Koiko saw a man, probably Tokugawa Iemitsu, handing a scroll to an attendant. The attendant raised the scroll high above his head, and then another attendant unfolded the scroll.

.An upside-down figure suddenly appeared in front of Queen Xingzi.

"Took it down!" Queen Xingyu muttered, and did not ask the attendant to put the painting back. Instead, she got up and walked out to look at it.

"This painting is so long!" Xingzi found that the unfolded scroll was too long and the attendant could not lift it up, and part of it was spread on the floor.

"It's not the painting chief," Tokugawa Iemitsu said, "but the fact that Prince Ning of the Ming Dynasty is very tall... Although he is only 14 years old, he is already a handsome man."

"Only 14 years old... so young?" Queen Xing'u had already seen the face in the portrait of Prince Ning Zhu Cijiong, "He is really very handsome, exactly like the Guangyuan clan in the dream!"

Iemitsu glanced at the emperor and found that she seemed to be swallowing...

"Your Majesty," Iemitsu quickly changed the subject, "The salary of King Ning of the Ming Dynasty is 2 million dan!"

"Two million..." Emperor Koiko suspected that he was dreaming, 2 million koku! It was twice as much as Maeda's million koku, and he was almost catching up with the Shogun's family!

"Then, can he like me?" Emperor Xingzi was no longer confident.

Tokugawa Iemitsu said seriously: "Your Majesty, you are the Emperor of Japan!"

"Oh..." Emperor Xingzi nodded, "The emperor of ten thousand koku... By the way, can the emperor get married?"

"Yes!" Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded heavily, "But after you get married, you can no longer be the emperor, but you have to abdicate and become the emperor."

"Yaoxi..." Emperor Xingzi frowned with a slightly upside-down brow, and his fairly upright face was full of worries, "I wonder if this prince of the Ming Dynasty is willing to marry an emperor.

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Chapter completed!