Hangzhou West Lake.

The red leaves are printed on the green water surface with ink-colored leaves.

The breeze blew, without causing any turmoil. The lake surface was as simple and pure as the blue printed cloth in Jiangnan, but also serene.

Zhu Houzhao sat in a pleasure boat. The Wuyin and Kunqu opera were melodious, making him drunk or fascinated after just eating two glasses of rice wine.

But the peaceful wind without the sound of war and blood still made him fall asleep.

After all, Jiangnan is still singing and dancing, and the land is in chaos without being affected by the Japanese turmoil, which makes Zhu Houzhao completely relieved and lie down on this West Lake for a long time.

Zhu Houzhao did not prohibit people from coming to West Lake when he came to visit.

Therefore, due to his influence and the charming West Lake is as charming as West Lake, the tourists coming filled the entire West Lake. Under the black and blue color, I didn’t know where the crowd was and where the water surface was.

Fortunately, it is now the Ming Dynasty and the Han people are in a peaceful and prosperous era, and the ritual and music control is not very strict and the atmosphere is booming.

Therefore, although these scholars and people were very dense, the unique white veil of Hanfu's crown, wide belt, colorful sleeves, also made these Han scholars and people cluster everywhere like flowers.

The soft Wu dialect that drifted with the fragrance of flowers was very friendly to people, at least without Huyin or accent from the East.

However, Zhu Houzhao found that in addition to the soft Wu dialect, the sounds rippling among these clear waves also include the Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty. This is the popularization of national education and the popularization of standard pinyin pronunciation, so that people from different regions and dialects can communicate in one language, and no longer rely solely on text and acquaintance translations.

"Learn from these seemingly official words but still in the tone of various local dialects, it can be seen that after decades of the ban on the road quotation system, more and more people from the Ming Dynasty came to various places to travel. Even in this West Lake, there were countless people from all over the world."

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile, and Zhu Wan, who was by the side, reported the suppression of Japanese pirates everywhere at any time, replied with a smile:

"As Your Majesty said, the road guide system has been banned, and all the scholars and people in the world are worse than returning the forest to the detained birds. They have become much more free, and have also promoted the prosperity of tourism. The famous places such as Suzhou and Hangzhou have benefited greatly from this. Some scholars and officials even opened private parks for the people to visit and charged them for their expenses. Some earned more than 10,000 silver dollars a day."

"In other words, this is also related to the fact that Your Majesty created the most prosperous era of our Ming Dynasty. Only when the people are rich can they travel. What's more, in the Ming Dynasty today, there are hard roads of cement even between villages, and steam locomotives are also passing through the world, so that the hermits in the world have nowhere to hide and the people in the world have nowhere to travel!"

Li Tianchong also echoed.

Zhu Houzhao just smiled slightly after hearing this, but he also admitted that the series of reforms he carried out during his reign did promote the development of the tourism industry in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, before this, traveling around the world was just a exclusive entertainment activity for the literati and officials, and the people had no chance or interest in traveling.

But now it is different. The great enrichment of material life and the increasing freedom space given by the court. In addition, the increasing demand for culture and tourism with the popularization of national education has made the tourism industry in the Ming Dynasty more and more prosperous.

Even some officials have begun to suggest that the court set up a tourism bureau to manage the world's tourism affairs.

For Zhu Houzhao, the development of tourism is undoubtedly beneficial to the interests of the entire Ming Dynasty, and can also enrich the lives of the people and drive the local economy.

Otherwise, Zhu Houzhao would not have to travel around in his seventies, leaving behind his own calligraphy everywhere, and even asked some literati and scholars to leave their names here for a large sum of money, in order to promote the development of the tourism industry in the Ming Dynasty.

But not everyone can understand Zhu Houzhao's thoughts, or are willing to see Zhu Houzhao do so.

Traveling around the world is the privilege of the ruling class and the welfare of the meat eaters, just like wearing gold and silver, and wearing red and hanging colorful colors.

But now, these have begun to become popular.

This is undoubtedly unacceptable to some scholars and officials.

After all, this means that a society with strict hierarchy is gradually becoming equal, and the privileges of the upper class are being possessed by the public.

"The peddlers and barracks, women, children, and people dare to comment on Li Du Suxin, and dare to leave their names to express their feelings at this scenic spot. It is truly a collapse of rituals and music, and I don't know how shameless you are!"

Wang E, the Minister of Rites of Nanjing, who had retired, criticized this phenomenon very much and was difficult to accept.

Now, what he was even more unacceptable was that because there were so many people coming to meet the saints, he, the great squire living in West Lake, could only line up to ask for a meeting.

Although Wang E couldn't accept the phenomenon of gradually becoming popular among the scholar-official class, this was indeed an irreversible phenomenon.

Zhu Houzhao brought to the Ming Dynasty not only modern weapons and industrial systems, but also modern civilization that gradually became equal, and the tendency of hierarchical society to gradually collapse.

Listening to the various official words sent by the warm wind, Zhu Houzhao found that almost everyone in the Ming Dynasty could read a few Tang poems and Song lyrics casually, and also original ones from him.

This made him very pleased, and he was pleased that the cultural popularity of the Ming Dynasty had really reached a very high level.

Zhu Houzhao kept thinking about what it would be like if everyone in the world became a scholar.

Now, the Supreme Emperor has already seen a glimpse of the results of this social reform. At least what he can see is that the people have the ability to think actively.

The so-called respected and knowledgeable people are often easily exposed as people who deceive the world and steal the reputation, and even some great scholars will be challenged by folk thinkers.

The Japanese pirates did not cause trouble to the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, which was undoubtedly a big setback for some coastal gentry who had ulterior motives.

But the coastal gentry soon discovered that the Japanese pirates did not cause great trouble to the people on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, not because the Japanese pirates were not bad enough, but because the Ming Dynasty's government troops arranged in the southeast were too powerful, and this was all related to Zhu Wan, Qi Jiguang and others.

then.

Some rumors about Zhu Wan's indiscriminate killing and Qi Jiguang's robbery emerged from somewhere.

In addition, some literati who were bribed by the gentry also began to make remarks and reprimand the court for placing too many troops in the southeast, which caused the people to be disturbed and the south of the Yangtze River was restless.

But what went against my wishes was that these rumors and various remarks that despise the army did not have much impact, and they even received rebuttal from many people.

"Everyone can see that the Japanese pirates today, in terms of combat power and quantity, are far better than those decades ago. They kill people and burn villages when they see them, but they are only targeting the common people and government officials. It is obvious that these Japanese pirates are intentionally creating panic and colluding with local forces to disrupt the government's politics. Therefore, if the rumors of slandering the government army are not foolish in their opinion, they are deliberately doing it!"

A young student wearing a Ming version of student outfit was walking and saying this to several of his classmates.

Zhu Houzhao, who was on a private visit, couldn't help but listen to it sincerely and laughed for a moment, thinking that the current Ming people are indeed no longer comparable to those of the people decades ago. The improvement of education level has given them their own judgment on public opinion.

Of course, although the people are no longer fools, the people are the people and it is still impossible to control the government.

The Ming Dynasty was still the court where civil officials ruled.

Although military officials are no longer subject to civil servants, because it is now a peaceful and prosperous era, there are no major wars in the country, most military generals are not interested in internal affairs or cannot interfere in internal affairs. Therefore, it seems that the Ming Dynasty now plays an important role in the political arena.

As long as the civil servant is in charge, he will naturally be incompatible and intrigue;

On the surface, the most noteworthy thing about the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty today is that the cabinet chief Xia Yan refused to implement the matter of Emperor Zhu Zailei's request for local vassal states to deport additional taxes to Beijing, which made people unable to help but discover that Xia Yan dared to be so bold!

Zhu Houzhao also paid attention to the follow-up of this matter. He was not worried about whether Xia Yan would be removed by his emperor's son, because he believed that Xia Yan would definitely be prepared to bear the consequences of doing so. He did not think that Xia Yan was challenging the imperial power, because his emperor's son could just remove Xia Yan from re-appoint and remove a prime minister who was willing to sign the signature.

Zhu Houzhao was worried that Xia Yan's prestige and relationship with him would make his emperor son dare not break up with Xia Yan directly, but he would resent Xia Yan for this and be used by some villains.

As Zhu Houzhao expected, Xia Yan was not dismissed by Zhu Zailei. As the newly ascended emperor, Zhu Zailei did not dare to dismiss an old minister with great prestige at will, especially when he was still alive, so on the surface, Zhu Zailei gave in and let the resolution be temporarily put on hold.

However, not long after Zhu Houzhao visited West Lake, he saw the decree officer coming to Zhu Wan. The purpose was to change Zhu Wan's military affairs to inspect Fujian and Zhejiang, which meant that he no longer had the power to mobilize the forces of the southeast coast.

"The news came from the capital that Lin Ye, the military officer, suggested that the court change his supervision of Fujian and Zhejiang military affairs as an inspection on the grounds that his ministers were arbitrarily dispatching troops to disturb the local area. Unexpectedly, His Majesty agreed." After Zhu Wan said to Zhu Houzhao, she couldn't help but sigh, and then couldn't help but say angrily:

"These officials in Fujian and Zhejiang are mostly because they think that their ministers are Yuan Fu's disciples. Now they see that Yuan Fu is not favored by His Majesty, so they take advantage of this to slander!"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Zhu Wan who was excited and stood up and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "You don't have to be so indignant. It seems that the admiral's military affairs changed to inspect Fujian and Zhejiang. It seems that your right to mobilize troops is cancelled, but my guards can still be mobilized."

Zhu Houzhao said, and ordered Li Tianchong: "I passed my imperial edict, and Wang Chonggu, the Ninth Army of the Guards, rushed from Huguang to Fujian, temporarily established the Guards' Anti-Japanese Command, and appointed Zhu Wan, inspecting Fujian and Zhejiang, as the commander-in-chief!"

The Guards were directly controlled by Zhu Houzhao. The supply of money, food and weapons in the army were his own industries, and the officers were also members of his loyal ministers, not the army of the court. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao himself was directly mobilized.

Nowadays, some officials in Fujian and Zhejiang intend to restrict Zhu Wan's military power, increasing the chances of Japanese pirates rioting in the Southeast, and even successfully took advantage of the conflict between the emperor and the cabinet chief to deprive Zhu Wan of military power.

But Zhu Houzhao did not let these officials do what they wanted and directly transferred the Ninth Army of the Guards to the southeast. Although these Guards were not naval and were not good at naval battles, it was more than enough to shoot these Japanese pirates on land.

Zhu Wan had no choice but to receive the order. He is now patrolling Fujian and Zhejiang according to the order of Emperor Zhu Zailei, while participating in the arrangement of the officers and soldiers left in the southeast of the Guards everywhere to pacify the Japanese.

Because of this, the Japanese pirates still did not take advantage. Tens of thousands of guards were broken into pieces and formed a small team, scattered in the southeast. Basically, four or five guards could eliminate ten times their Japanese pirates.

The brave and warlike Japanese pirates could only passively get shots in front of modern gun-equipped guard officers and soldiers. And because of this, even the local people were no longer afraid of these Japanese pirates, and began to spontaneously resist Japanese pirates, or directly informed these guards who carried out a single unique operation, which basically made the Japanese pirates unable to survive once they stepped onto the coastal territory of the Ming Dynasty.

"The south is still so peaceful! What are these Japanese pirates doing?"

After watching a news that the famous opera troupe was about to tour Ningbo, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places, Zhao Wenhua knew that the large-scale Japanese riots had not happened, otherwise these folk drama stars would not dare to go to the southeast coast to tour at this time, which made him very depressed.

"According to the news from my family, after Zhu Wan had no right to transfer troops, the government troops that were invaded along the southeast coast increased instead of reducing. Finally, I found out that it was the Ninth Army of the Guards of Huguang who went to Fujian, so this must be related to the Supreme Emperor!"

Forestry couldn't help but say from the side.

"It seems that Zhu Wan has defected to the Supreme Emperor, alas!"

Zhao Wenhua slapped the table helplessly. Like other civil servants who secretly wanted to make profits for him, the southern gentry, he still had to admit in his heart that Zhu Houzhao was still their biggest enemy. But even though Zhu Houzhao has become the Supreme Emperor, they cannot do anything to Zhu Houzhao, because even His Majesty the Emperor dared to take the cabinet chief appointed by the Supreme Emperor, let alone these people.

"The Supreme Emperor, he is the Supreme Emperor again! I Luo see, if this Supreme Emperor does not die, the gentry in the world will have no peace! Why not find a chance to defeat him? He is an old man in his seventies, and even if he dies, not many people will doubt it, and it is not difficult to kill him!"

Qiu Luan, who was very close to Zhao Wenhua, couldn't help but say.

"Be careful! How can the Supreme Emperor kill just by saying that he is going to kill him? How many noble court officials are supporting him? You don't know that the gentry in Jiangnan stopped the market to resist the tax increase, but the richest chaebol in the world helped him! Don't think that the Western Factory is in the hands of the emperor now. If you say this, nothing will happen. Although the person who went to the south became the Supreme Emperor, he was not blind or deaf!"

The so-called think tank Luo Longwen couldn't help but say.

Yan Shifan, who had been silent, couldn't help but laughed gloomy when he heard this and walked out of the darkest corner: "You can't kill or chase him, can't you invite the Supreme Emperor away? We, the Supreme Emperor, must have been tired of the scenery of Jiangnan. Can't we go to see the grassland and the lonely smoke in the desert?"

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Zhu Houzhao sneezes. The colder weather forced him to admit that the coldness in the south could not be withstood by casually. Moreover, the climate phenomenon of the Little Glacier is getting stronger and stronger. The only thing he is glad that he did not go outside the pass, and he only wants to go further south now.

But before setting off, he still had to wait for the strategic policy of the General Staff of the Ming Military to send troops to Japan.
Chapter completed!