Seeing Gao Lan's behavior, Zhu Cixuan quickly arranged the palace for Chen Yuan, who was still unmarried, and walked quickly to the palace chosen by Gao Lan.

Walking into the palace, he saw Gao Lan sitting in front of the table and chairs, Qing'er with six maids, and six eunuchs decorating the hall.

Seeing Zhu Cizhen entering the palace, Gao Lan took Qing'er, the maids, and the eunuchs to bow.

Zhu Cixuan hugged Gao Lan and said, "Sister Lan, why did you choose such a remote palace with such an ordinary scenery?

My husband must have done something wrong to make Lan Mei angry. You tell my husband, and my husband will definitely change."

Gao Lan turned away from Zhu Cixuan in his arms and said softly: "The prince is wise, powerful, benevolent and generous, how could he have done anything wrong?

It’s just that I have a miserable life.”

Zhu Cixuan thought to herself: "It seems that the problem is serious. Lan Mei is really sad about something."

He immediately walked into the master bedroom with Gao Lan in his arms, and pulled her to sit down beside the big bed.

Zhu Cixuan used both hands to force Gao Lan's body to turn towards him, looked into her eyes and said:

"Mei Lan, have you been obsessed with Ah Yuan over the past two years and ignored your feelings?

I sincerely apologize to you now, and I can definitely tell you that in the past two years, I have indeed been addicted to Ah Yuan and have been absent-minded, but since the day of my father's grand visit, I have completely woken up and returned to normal."

The light of hope flashed in Gao Lan's eyes, but then dimmed again, and he said: "Your Majesty, you have said similar gentle words before, but you rarely come to my palace.

Maybe what grandma said is right."

Zhu Cizhen immediately felt great pain in his heart. The scene of the night when he and Gao Lan made love that day in Nanhai County, Guangzhou Prefecture, clearly emerged in his mind.

When the two of them were gasping for breath, Gao Lan looked at Zhu Cixuan with starry eyes and said softly: "My lord, will you love me as deeply as I love you? My mother once said that Han men are so lucky."

Zhu Cixuan said hurriedly: "Sister Lan, it is indeed my husband's fault in the past two years. I have not loved and cherished you properly.

But now, as a husband, it’s like waking up from a big dream. I will no longer be addicted to A Yuan’s charm and I have returned to my normal self!”

Knowing that he had hurt Gao Lan's heart countless times in the past two years and that it was difficult to prove his words to her with just words, Zhu Cixiong immediately kissed Gao Lan's red lips and asked for love wantonly.

Gao Lan couldn't help but feel emotional, and her heart gradually softened.

While "farming", Zhu Cixuan thought to himself: "In the past two years, I have really felt sorry for Lan Mei and all the concubines. Moreover, Lan Mei has not given birth to an heir for me so far, compared to the others who have children."

The concubine, Lan Mei is especially sad."

In the following ten days, Zhu Cixuan was busy dealing with matters in the palace during the day, and stayed in Gao Lan's palace every night. Finally, on September 22, the 10th year of Chongzhen, it was confirmed that Gao Lan was happy.

After spending these days and nights with Zhu Cixuan, Gao Lan finally believed his words of "waking up" and became happy. He followed Zhu Cixuan's persuasion and chose another palace with beautiful scenery to live in.

Fortunately, in the past two years, despite being obsessed with Chen Yuan's magic, Zhu Cixuan still checked Ji Fan's accounts every month.

At present, after the careful management of everyone under my command in the past two years, various undertakings throughout the domain have been steadily advancing.

The monthly net profit from sales in various domestic markets has reached 4 million taels. Among them, the sales volume of goods imported from Flangji has grown fastest, reaching more than 1 million taels per month, with a profit of 600,000 taels.

Foreign sales are also growing, and the total trade volume with the Franconian country has reached more than 40 million taels of silver per year, with a monthly net profit of 2.8 million taels.

The monthly expenditure is 1.8 million taels, with a net savings of 5 million taels.

As for the Guangdong Chief Secretary under the leadership of Chen Xiangming, the net customs revenue plus tax revenue from various "free zones" also exceeded 4 million taels per year.

At the end of April, Chen Xiangming wrote to Zhu Cixuan through the "Good News System", saying that the court was currently dealing with rogue bandits inside the pass and slaves outside the pass, and was in urgent need of money and food.

Chen Xiangming expressed vaguely that he was a disciple of the Emperor when he was a Jinshi. Now that the imperial court and His Majesty are in trouble, he hopes that half of the tax revenue of the Chief Secretary of Guangdong can be retained in Guangdong and the other half can be handed over to the Chongzhen court.

At that time, he thought that Chen Xiangming had always been loyal to Chongzhen and hoped that Chongzhen could wipe out the bandits and establish slaves. If he opposed it, it would inevitably cause serious differences between Chen Xiangming and himself. At the same time, in order to make Chen Xiangming loyal to him wholeheartedly in the future, Zhu Cixuan agreed.

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Recalling that in the past two years, he only summoned his confidants at the New Year's banquet at the end of the year. On September 26, Zhu Cixuan ordered Deng Zhong to inform his confidants to discuss matters at the "Finance Department" in the front yard of the palace in the afternoon.

The Crown Prince has not called for a long time. After receiving the report, all the confidants under his command gathered together. Many people arrived at the "Treasury Department" an hour early.

Zhu Cixuan walked into the palace accompanied by Deng Zhong and others. After the ceremony, everyone was in a lively mood.

Zhao Zheng smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you finally summoned your subordinates to discuss matters. I almost thought that you would no longer care about state affairs and the country, and that you were drunk and lying on the knees of a beautiful woman."

Sun Chuanting said: "Your Majesty, I thought you wanted to imitate King Zhuang of Chu and stayed silent for three years. I even planned to become Shen Wuyu."

Zhu Cixuan smiled and said: "Everyone here is my confidant, and I will not hide it from you. In the past two years, I have really been fascinated by A Yuan's charm and indulged in it.

But now, this prince has fully woken up."

Du Yinxi said: "Your Majesty, this Chen Yuan beauty in the world has deceived the prince into chaos. I will ask the prince to kill him!"

Zhu Cixuan said displeasedly: "If you block the magistrate, the flowers will not charm people.

A Yuan did not charm this prince, he indulged himself in it. Moreover, my prince has already said it and has completely sobered up.

From now on, you must not blame A Yuan for the fault, the fault also lies with this prince."

Seeing Zhu Cixuan protecting Chen Yuan like this, all his subordinates and confidants did not dare to say anything anymore.

Zhu Cixuan looked at Feng Yu and said: "Feng Wanhu, have there been any major events in the government and the public in the past two years?"

After Feng Yu saluted, he sorted out his thoughts and said: "Your Majesty, I think there are four major things that need to be brought to your attention.

One: On April 11, the ninth year of Chongzhen, after the establishment of the slave state, the great khan of the Jin Kingdom, Aisin Gioro Huang Taiji, proclaimed himself emperor and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Chongde, so this year was the first year of Chongde; the name of the pseudo-state was officially changed to "Dajin" It was called "Qing Dynasty"; the family name was changed to "Manchuria"; the capital was established in Shenyang and renamed Shengjing. All the puppet officials honored him as "Emperor Kuanwenrenrensheng."

On May 30, Huang Taiji sent Duolowuying County Prince Azige and other Eight Banners soldiers to invade our country with 100,000 troops.

On June 27, Azige soldiers divided into three groups and entered Xifengkou and Dushikou. Wang Zhaokun, the censor who patrolled the pass, refused to fight and was defeated and died. The Ming army withdrew to Changping, and the Qing army invaded Juyong and Changping North Road again. Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, rushed to the rescue and killed 1,104 people and captured 143 people.

In July, the Qing troops entered the capital and captured Changping. They successively captured Liangxiang and besieged Shunyi. Shangguan Xin, the magistrate of Shunyi, and the guerrilla rulers all commanded Su Shiyu and others to resist the city defense. The city fell, and Xin and the national weapons were seized. Rain and others all died. The Qing army took advantage of the momentum and captured Baodi, Dingxing, Ansu, Dacheng, Xiongxian, Anzhou and other Kinkizhou counties.

The Qing soldiers captured more than 100,000 of my people from Xifengkou, and our troops near the capital did not dare to pursue them."

After hearing this, Zhu Cixuan was furious, slapping the table and saying: "The slave-building barbarians are extremely ignorant and backward, how dare they bully my Chinese superiors like this!

This prince will raise an army tomorrow to conquer the Jian slaves!"

Du Yinxi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, please be patient! A little impatience will ruin the big plan.

King Zhu Yujian of the Tang Dynasty was eager to build slaves and invaded the capital. He recruited troops and horses. He led a thousand guards from Nanyang to the north and went to King Qin. His Majesty ordered him to capture him and imprison him pending trial.
Chapter completed!