In early June, the weather gradually became hot.

In the slightly empty and deserted palace.

In a casual side hall.

Zhou Ming, wearing a loose and breathable short jacket and shorts, sat on a marble table in the hall, holding a deck of playing cards in his hand, and was playing Landlord with his playmates.

Zhou Ming’s playmates are two women and one man.

The two women were two maids who were waiting for him, namely Hairou and Marcia.

Hairou is 16 years old this year. She has been in the palace for less than six months. She looks pretty, has a perfect development and has a relatively mature personality.

Marcia is only 14 years old, but she has been in the palace for eight months and has been with Zhou Ming for a long time. As for her appearance, she is more beautiful than Hairou. She is in the development stage and has obvious disadvantages in some aspects. She is drinking milk crazily to replenish her breasts recently, and her personality is more lively.

In fact, Zhou Ming knew that Hairou and Macia were not maids selected from ordinary families, but the granddaughter of two important officials in the court. They sent the daughter to the palace and to Zhou Ming's side. Those with a little bit of mind should know why they did this.

Of course, the Lucis family was very unhappy about this and was preparing to select two maids from the Lucis family and send them to Zhou Ming to serve them closely.

But it was unanimously opposed by the "monarchists".

"This is a rule, the Lucis family can't destroy it!"

Indeed, this is a rule, a rule that has been tacitly followed for nearly three hundred years, and is also one of the measures to maintain a balance between the "monarchists" and the "noble faction".

That is, the emperor cannot be occupied by a certain faction.

The same is true for the harem. The queen must be a woman from the Lucis family, but the emperor can still marry three concubines, and these concubines must be women from the ministers.

Therefore, Zhou Ming, who often faces the maid Hairou and Marcia's intentional or unintentional seduction, understood why the average lifespan of the 16 emperors in the previous 16 years is less than 50 years old... It hurts the body if you work so much.

There is also the male companion sitting opposite Zhou Ming, named Reggie, who is the same age as Zhou Ming, but it is one month younger.

Reggie is also a member of the royal family and is the grandson of the royal patriarch Rubost. The main reason why Reggie was able to move into the palace and become Zhou Ming's companion was because of the stability of the empire.

Once Zhou Ming has any accident, Reggie is his substitute... under the premise that Zhou Ming has no descendants yet.

This inevitably brings a problem: What if the royal patriarch Ruboster has a strange intention and Reggie has an idea that he shouldn't have in his young mind?

Zhou Ming's personal safety is in danger.

However, Zhou Ming was not worried. Rubost, a royal patriarch, was loyal to the royal family, was honest and honest, and had no genius in his stomach.

As for Reggie, after a brief time together, Zhou Ming discovered that this was a more straightforward boy, who could be said to be scheming and innocent and kind.

Therefore, Zhou Ming took the initiative to ask Reggie to stay in the palace and become his playmate... The patriarch Rubos agreed.

In this way, with two maids and a royal cousin, Zhou Ming had three partners... a total of four people.

With four people, Zhou Ming invented them one after another in order to spend his spare time besides practicing, such as chess, flying chess, playing cards, and mahjong.

Not only that, Zhou Ming also asked the merchants in the "trade zone" to open a chess and card product sales store, selling chess, flying chess, playing cards, mahjong and other products to the outside world, and arranged service personnel to teach the gameplay.

Once launched, in just half a year, the entire imperial capital was trapped in various gambling activities, and mahjong became popular in the upper-class ladies circle. Even in the most months, the sales of mahjong plaques reached an exaggerated 100,000 pairs, bringing more than one million gold tower shields.

But gambling is not a good thing. Wouldn’t Zhou Ming do this to harm his empire and put a large number of citizens into the abyss of gambling?

In fact, even if Zhou Ming did not invent the above chess and card tools, those who were addicted to gambling still had various ways to gambling and engaged in various games... You should know that gambling has begun to appear since humans entered the feudal era, and the higher the social productivity, the more prosperous the gambling trend is.

Instead of strictly restricting it, it is better to guide it reasonably and regulate it in an orderly manner so that people can understand the truth that "small gambling is good for love, while big gambling is harmful to the body."

Finally, we can enrich people's entertainment life and make a small fuck from it.

“Four two.”

"King Blast, I won." Zhou Ming, as a landlord, has already released all the cards in his hand.

"Oh, Knox, why did you win again? We all lost." Marcia pouted and unwilling to push the last golden tower shield in front of Zhou Ming.

"Let's just play here today. I will give you 20 golden tower shields each tomorrow." Zhou Ming swept all the money on the table into a cloth bag, tied his pocket, and handed it to the female housekeeper Ellie Potter behind him.

"Hey! I can only look at tomorrow's luck." Reggie shook her head in annoyance.

"Hairou, has anything important happened in the imperial capital recently?" Zhou Ming asked.

"Well, no, except for the 'Emperor's Hoe' incident that happened last month, there is still some influence among the people, and nothing else is gone." Hairou, who is quite familiar with civil affairs, said.

The Emperor's Hoe incident?

It turns out that this is the case. In the "trade zone" opened around the palace, Zhou Ming asked the merchant to open a farm tool shop, which specializes in selling various farm tools, including a hoe. Because it is made of alloy materials, it is not only light in weight, not easy to rust, but also has a long service life and is extremely reliable.

More importantly, since it is a mass-produced product in a hydraulic factory, the cost of this hoe is half that of an ordinary cast iron hoe.

The hoe with such a high cost performance should be quite high by reason. However, since the commercial area is located in the core area of ​​the imperial capital and has a very small agricultural population, it has been opened for more than three months and has not sold much hoe.

The turning point of the drama is the agricultural area around the imperial capital. There is a place called Sera Town. An old farmer from the town came to the imperial capital by chance and went shopping in the commercial area. When he accidentally entered the agricultural tools store, he accidentally entered the farm tool shop. He saw many hoes and was shocked: "The store opened by His Majesty the Emperor also sells the hoes we use?"

After trying the hoe for a while, I found that the hoe was light and easy to use, and it was very easy to wield.

When I asked about the price, I was even more surprised. The price was not only not high, but it was half the cheaper.

The old farmer bought two hoes on the spot and carried them home happily.

While doing farm work in the field, using the new hoe in his hand, the old farmer couldn't help but show off: "This kind of hoe is a hoe used by the emperor. It is very easy to use, and the price is only half!"

As soon as this live advertisement was played, it was spread to ten, and ten to hundreds of people. Immediately, countless farmers ran into the imperial capital to buy the so-called "emperor's hoe".

In just two months, tens of thousands of "Emperor's Card Hoes" were sold.

The influence of rumors is naturally getting bigger and bigger. In the eyes of farmers, the emperor who is arrogant seems to have become a physical laborer who also needs to farm and use hoes.

This naturally alarmed the official. The Royal Imperial Guards dispatched a large-scale operation and arrested tens of thousands of farmers within half a month, and all of them were sentenced to "slandering the emperor". According to the law, they should be sentenced to death, and tens of thousands of heads are about to land.

When Zhou Ming learned about this, he could not sit still and quickly stopped him.

He even rushed to the execution ground in person, and someone brought a hoe, and in front of tens of thousands of people, he hoeed off a few grasses on the ground, washing off the "slanderous crime" on these farmers.

It also announced on the spot that the Emperor's Farm Tool Store will establish sales outlets nationwide, and the Emperor's Hoe will be sold to farmers across the country.

Even interest-free loan services are provided so that farmers with poor economic conditions can use them first and then pay.

As soon as these news was announced.

"Long live! Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the emperor!"

The farmers were moved and kowtowed, tearing up.

Even the ordinary citizens watching nearby knelt on the ground and shouted long live.

For a moment, among the middle and lower classes of the empire, Zhou Ming gained a very good reputation for the first time and was sincerely supported.

The Emperor's Hoe incident came to an end.

However, in mid-June, after a severe torrential rainstorm that lasted for ten days, Andorha County, more than 200 miles east of the imperial capital, suddenly came urgently:
Chapter completed!