Chapter 9: The New Year (Four)

The dull mezzanine, the vomiting breath, the small space, and the days outside, Hai Lanzhu herself didn't know how she survived the days in the mezzanine. Humiliation and anger made this always quiet and skillful Mongolian girl angry.

Finally, she was suspiciously leaving the terrifying mezzanine. The dazzling sunlight made her extremely uncomfortable.

The warm sunshine did not drive away the coldness in her heart, because she found herself in a very strange place again, to be precise, a cage dozens of times larger than the mezzanine of the car.

"Where is this place?" Hai Lanzhu asked countless times, but no one could answer her because she was in Mongolian. When she woke up, she tried to ask a woman who delivered her food in her inexperienced Chinese, but she got the most surprising answer she had in the past twenty years.

At this moment, she was actually in the Forbidden City where the Han emperor lived, and those who were guarding and dressing themselves were eunuchs and palace maids.

The human being was caught without knowing it, but how to deal with it is a huge problem. Zhu Yinglong was willing to vent his resentment and also provoked the relationship between Huang Taiji and Lin Dan. It would be better to have a fight for three or five years. It would be best to have a loss-making relationship. At the same time, he also wanted to see Hai Lanzhu, a woman who made Huang Taiji fascinated and see what charm she had? In fact, this is also a change in Zhu Yinglong's mentality. Although there is not much danger at present, the consequences of development will be plagued. Since in the early stage, he himself could not detect it, it would be even more difficult for outsiders. This is desire and jealousy. These two very subtle mentalities made Zhu Yinglong issue a secret order to kidnap Hai Lanzhu and find a legitimate reason for himself.

Zhu Yinglong did not blame Wu Sangui for his own initiative and tied up Wu Keshan back, but gave a little warning. Wu Keshan might have great use in the future. Now that Zhaisang has a son and two daughters are in his own hands. If he uses these three pieces well, he might be able to internalize the relationship between Mongolian and Jin people. Of course, it is not the time to use it now, so he instructed Wu Sangui to secretly raise Wu Keshan and serve him with delicious food and drink, but he would not have any freedom.

However, Zhu Yinglong did not rush to see Hai Lanzhu, but let her stay for more than ten days. After the Spring Festival in the second year of Chongzhen, on a sunny afternoon, under Xu Yingyuan, he came to the small hall where Hai Lanzhu was under house arrest in plain clothes.

Hai Lanzhu was smart and very favored by her father Zhai Sang Beile. Many of the Mongolian princes and grandsons proposed to him were rejected by him. If it weren't for her sister Zhezhe's efforts to match her, Shanghai Lanzhu would have surpassed the age of a Mongolian woman's marriage. Huang Taiji's status was as high as the top, so Zhai Sang finally agreed to the marriage.

"You're Hai Lanzhu?"

"Who are you?" Hai Lanzhu looked at Zhu Yinglong with some conscience. Although she did not recognize who the young and luxurious young man in front of her was, she saw Xu Yingyuan beside Zhu Yinglong. For more than ten days, the eunuchs in green clothes were around her. At the most part, the high-level eunuchs in purple clothes were seen. This was the first time that the eunuchs like Xu Yingyuan were blushed and had a silver fish bag on his waist were seen. This was a higher-level eunuch. And such a eunuch was still bent behind the young man in front of her, and she didn't even dare to show off her anger. Then the young man in front of her was very high. Could it be that he was the person behind the scenes who instructed those people to kidnap their brothers and sisters?

Hai Lanzhu's beauty did not bring more surprise to Zhu Yinglong. He was used to seeing him, in his first impression, Hai Lanzhu's beauty was just like Taisong. When it was placed in the Jiangnan area, it was just the best. However, compared to Da Yu'er, Hai Lanzhu had more round and smooth beauty. In the words of his time and space, this was a ripe peach in front of him, which could be picked and feasted.

However, Hai Lanzhu's watery eyes rippled with a mature and moving style, which attracted Zhu Yinglong to have a little interest.

"Is it still a habit for those who live here?" Zhu Yinglong smiled indifferently, without answering Hai Lanzhu's question, and easily found a chair to sit down.

"What do you want to do when you arrest me?" Hai Lanzhu asked loudly. Although there was no need to worry about starving to death in such a place, no one spoke with her, no one accompanied her to ride horses, shoot arrows, and no one cared about her. Even the right to commit suicide was deprived. She really couldn't live such a life.

"If I said I was curious, would you believe it?" Zhu Yinglong raised his head and smiled.

"Don't believe it."

"If you don't believe it, then forget it, because I can only give you this answer."

"How did you do to my brother?" Hai Lanzhu asked.

"He is still alive, delicious and delicious, and there are people who accompany him to fall. His life is very comfortable, so you don't have to worry about him." Zhu Yinglong said.

"Will you let us go back?" Hai Lanzhu asked with red eyes.

"Maybe." Zhu Yinglong gave an uncertain answer.

After seeing Hai Lanzhu, Zhu Yinglong was a little disappointed. Hai Lanzhu was a little different from what he imagined. Apart from maturity and beauty, he almost left no deep impression on him. Soon after a few days, the busy government and military affairs forgot this beautiful and mature Mongolian girl.

After Zhou Yingning took over the harem, she began drastic reforms and abides by the iron law of not interfering in politics in the harem. She decided to reorganize the harem and establish a commercial group headed by the queen and mainly concubines. Their purpose was to make money for the emperor's husband, and at the same time increase the income of the harem, and continuously increase the various treatments of the harem.

Zhu Yinglong was encouraged by Zhou Yingning's reforms, and Zhu Yinglong was responsible for the settlement of the voices in the court. In ancient times, there were emperors who were good at business. There was also a royal shop in the Ming Dynasty. Most of them were handed over to the East Factory or the favored eunuchs to operate. Since Zhu Yinglong issued an order to hand over all these royal shops to the Ministry of Revenue to operate, the harem was almost supported by Zhu Yinglong's original industry income for a period of time. Later, under the management of the Tian sisters, assets continued to increase and wealth increased dramatically. Even Zhu Yinglong himself did not know how much property he would have if he did not become the emperor.

However, Zhu Yinglong had a concern that if the harem does business, no businessman in the world dared to compete with it? Once there is a lack of supervision and the overflow of power, it may definitely lead to a huge disaster. Business and government are complementary and cannot be divided so clearly. Unless the monarchy is abolished in his own hands, or the constitutional monarchy is a constitutional monarchy, and the emperor is only the head of state and the symbol of the country. In this way, the harem may be fairer in business competition. With a certain amount of supervision, it may be possible to completely eliminate it. However, the only thing that can be done is legislation, strengthening the legal system and reducing the human system are the fundamental way. However, for thousands of years, it may take a long time to transform to the legal system, decades, or even hundreds or thousands of years, or more. Zhu Yinglong is confident that he cannot live so long, and only hopes to lay a solid foundation for later generations.
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