In August of the 17th year of Xinggan, the Dagu Port of the Ming Dynasty. At this time of year, the Navy welcomed a group of young officers who had just taken office. June of each year is the graduation season of the Royal Army and Navy Military Academy. After graduation, those young officers would usher in a holiday - a two-month holiday, and then they would arrive at Zhechong Prefectures of various Army and Navy before August 30 to report.

The so-called "zhe Chong" means to make the enemy's chariot retreat, which means to defeat the enemy and win.

The Zhechong Prefecture is similar to the military region of later generations. In fact, the establishment and establishment of Zhechong Prefecture not only borrowed from the military region system of later generations, but also borrowed from the ancient military system. The Zhechong Prefectures in various places are mainly responsible for the defense of the area under their jurisdiction, the command, supply, departure preparation, recruitment, training of troops, governance operation, supervision, etc.

Unlike the Army Zhechong Prefecture and a province, the Navy Zhechong Prefecture has established four major Zhechong Prefectures from north to south Daming, Lushun, Haizhou, Hong Kong and Nantianmen, from north to south Daming. However, its ports are not limited to these four regions. Just like the Lushun Zhechong Prefecture, it has multiple ports under its jurisdiction, including Lushun, Dagu, Incheon, Zhenhai, Xiangguan, Vladivostok, etc., but its main force is concentrated in Lushun.

In fact, the maritime power of the Lushun guarding palace was the weakest of the Ming Navy. After all, this was the hinterland of the empire and there was no need to retain a powerful naval fleet. Even in Lushun, there were only a few 40-50 guns. Most of the other ports had only a few double-brid schooners, and there were only 10-14 10-jin guns on the ship - so simple that it was pitifully weak, but even so, in Northern China, this was still an extremely powerful maritime power.

On that day, a carriage was parked on the road outside the Dagu base. The carriage was an ordinary four-wheeled carriage. It looked not very conspicuous at all. A beautiful girl in the carriage looked at the lieutenant officer wearing a naval uniform beside her.

"Your Highness, the wind and waves on the sea are high and the waves are rushing. You must pay attention to safety. If the waves are heavy, don't go out to sea..."

The girl reminded the officer, and the beautiful face showed all the worries.

"Okay, don't worry. In two years, I will go home. All my family will be left to you in the past two years, by the way..."

As if he remembered something, the young officer looked at the girl's belly and smiled.

"I will definitely go home when my son is born."

The car door opened. With the girl's reluctance, Zhu Hejia couldn't wait to jump out of the car, breathing the fresh air blowing by the sea with a slight smell of sea, and observing all this curiously - he is about to serve here for two years.

In fact, he had served in the Zhechong Mansion in Northern Zhili for a year, but it was the Zhechong Mansion in the Army. As a lieutenant of the army, he even followed Zhang Heng to participate in the autumn training on the grassland. The roar of guns and cannons shocked the earth, and also shocked the Mongolians who had been tamed - the Mongolian Tartars who had posed a threat to the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, have now been completely tamed. What tamed them was not muskets, cannons, but sheep.

In the past seventeen years, the cold weather has made wool and wool more and more popular among the people in the Ming Dynasty. Although the Northeast, Shaanxi and other places provide a large amount of wool, the Mongolian grassland is still the most important place of origin. Wool has brought huge wealth to the grassland. In the luxurious palaces on the grassland, those Mongolian princes and princes are addicted to the luxurious life. They cannot do without the wealth and beautiful life brought by wool and are willing to indulge in it.

As the crown prince who was not "guarding the border for his father", Zhu Hejia knew very well that the wealth brought by wool was second-hand. Lamaism was another weapon. Now, with the support of the Ming Dynasty, Lamaism has become the only belief in Mongolia. The lower class people place their hopes on the illusory afterlife, while princes and nobles devoted their all to their happiness in the next life. Monks did not work and did not pay taxes, which made young men yearn for becoming lamas, resulting in a sharp decline in the population.

The pastoral areas that were designated to avoid grassland conflicts were also another shackle. In short, in the past seventeen years, the father used wool as bait to complete the taming of the Tartars on the grassland, making them turn into sheep.

Of course, this also disappointed Zhu Heyu. After all, he, who was in the capital, had a desire to leap horses and whip like his father... But in the end, all this only existed in his fantasy. There was no front in the north, and the people were at ease.

And now, the sea has opened its arms to him.

This is a new adventure. In the royal family, he was the first to walk towards the sea. Zhu Hejia, who was carrying his luggage here, couldn't wait.

With the reluctance of the crown princess' eyes, Zhu Hejia walked to the gate of the base, saluted, presented his ID and explained his purpose.

"I am Zhu Yi, a lieutenant of the Royal Navy, and I come to report it under the orders of the Navy Governor's Office!"

Everything was no different from the past. After the guards in front of the door checked their documents, Zhu Heyu walked into the base, and then he turned to the crown princess who was standing by the carriage and waved his hand.

Just as the Crown Princess left the base reluctantly and returned, a telegram was taken from Tianjin, and the telegram was soon sent to the palace.

"We're finally going to sea!"

When he put down the telegram, Zhu Mingzhong felt a little reluctant in his tone. Although after the first "Seaning Calendar" was published eight years ago, the captain of the Ming Navy was able to measure longitude with a book "Seaning Calendar" and sextant, and then use sextant to measure latitude, thereby completing the accurate order at sea, navigation is still full of various dangers and shipwrecks still occur from time to time.

Therefore, when Zhu Mingzhong received a telegram from his son to the naval base, he felt a little worried.

"Your Majesty, are you worried about the Crown Prince?"

Hearing His Majesty's sigh, Ning Yunting looked at His Majesty and asked.

"Um."

Zhu Mingzhong nodded and said.

“After all, there are still many risks at sea.”

Although it is the Bohai Sea, although it is the navy.

"But isn't it the plan of His Majesty the prince to go to the sea?"

Ning Yunting comforted her gentle voice.

"Besides, when His Highness the Crown Prince was ten years old, he had sailed out to sea. His Majesty also knew that this time he entered the navy, he must be like a dragon entering the sea."

"Indeed, he, like me, like the sea!"

Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

Perhaps, this is the benefit of going to the beach to escape the summer heat every year. The royal children like the sea very much, even the children of nobles and ministers.

The awareness of the ocean was formed in their youth. In their opinion, the ocean was not just the sea, but the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and the future. Unlike traditional Chinese people, they think that the ocean is just a piece of salt water.

Under Ning Yunting's deliberate guidance, Zhu Mingzhong talked to her a lot of things, and of course there were some interesting things about the children during the summer vacation this year. As they chatted, they naturally talked about the dance party that was about to return to Zhongdu at the end of the summer vacation. Unlike another time and space, dance party was popular in the West. In the past decade, with the revival of Han dance, the court dance in Europe also appeared in the palace of the Ming Dynasty after being improved. Court dance has become an important part of luxurious celebrations, and of course it is also an important social occasion, especially for unmarried men and women.

For Xinggan Dynasty, which advocates intermarriage between nobles, court dances have always been the most popular entertainment event for unmarried men and women.

"Yunting, at the dance that day, I'm afraid you are the most popular heroine..."

The reason why we talked about that dance was because Zhu Mingzhong noticed that several noble officials sent invitations to Ning Yunting at the dance, and most of them were widowers. The intention was naturally obvious. Although the female official with a pen was only a fifth-rank official, as a person around the emperor, she had a prominent identity.

When I mentioned this, I couldn’t help but feel a little chewy. Is it so cheap for others to stay in the cabbage that I haven’t touched for 16 years?

Looking up at Ning Yunting and looking at her pretty face, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but feel a little lost. She is already thirty-two years old, and her figure is still as slender as a girl and plump as a girl, and she looks really attractive.

Sixteen years!

Since she entered the palace, Zhu Mingzhong has been ruling her for sixteen years to see her around her for the past sixteen years, but for some reason, today he has the idea of ​​not wanting to restrain himself anymore.

"His Majesty,"

Feeling the gaze of His Majesty, Ning Yunting's cheeks were slightly warm and her head was slightly lowered.

In the past ten years, she has become accustomed to the eyes of His Majesty when he looks at her. From a girl in love with her to a milf now... She has been used to it, just a glance, and has been watching for seventeen years.

"I think..."

Just as she was comforting His Majesty like the past, her hand was held by His Majesty, and then she felt a hot gaze.

Looking at Ning Yunting's pretty face, Zhu Mingzhong was silent for a moment, and then said.

"Yunting, I don't want to regret it!"

While saying this, Zhu Mingzhong used his hand to pull her blushed and into his arms. A moment later, amid the sound of undressing the silk, a wave of women's moans sounded in this imperial study room...

A few days later, an order was issued in the palace. Ning Yunting, the female official of Bingbi, entered the palace as a noble person. Although this was just a royal matter, it still caused the outside world. It was not because in their opinion that Ning Guiren waited for sixteen years before he got into a noble person, but saw the vacancy of Bingbi's female official. For a moment, undercurrents were surging in Zhongdu City, and everyone knew what the female official of Bingbi was conscious.

Whether it can be favored by the emperor, entering the palace as a concubine is second-most importantly, that is the people around the emperor. Any official who has a daughter and relatives in the palace is a female official, Shangshen all started to move and tried to win this position for their relatives and daughters through various channels.

However, all this soon calmed down. For the next female official Bingbi, it was actually similar to the "Eunuch of Bingbi". Zhu Mingzhong had already had a candidate, and it should be said that Ning Yunting had recommended a suitable candidate. Of course, this is her power.

"Why choose her?"

In the imperial study, looking at the female official candidate given by Ning Yunting, Zhu Mingzhong was stunned.

"Because she is the choice servant."

Ning Yunting said with a smile.

The so-called "selected servant" is to select maids who were selected into the palace without a famous title as the selection servant. These maids are different from female officials. Female officials are palace maids and maids, while selecting servants are women waiting for the emperor to come. However, they are different from those who had to wait in the palace for a lifetime in the old days. According to the royal rules, the elected servants entered the palace at the age of fourteen. If the emperor did not come to the palace six years later, the queen would reward her with money and property for her to leave the palace, and then she would be free from marriage.

"There are fifty-six people in the palace who are the same as hers. They are said to be the ones. In fact, what they do on weekdays is not much different from the female officials, but they have more free time. This Li Xuanshi has been in the palace for five years and is beautiful and charming. If His Majesty saw her, he would definitely like her."

Ning Yunting's tone had a hint of resentment. She had been waiting for sixteen years, from the age of cardamom to the current milfs.

"Yunting, it seems that you are not choosing a female official for me, but choosing a concubine for me!"

While talking, Zhu Mingzhong slapped her left hand at her buttocks, feeling the plump elasticity.

"His Majesty."

Although he had become a concubine from a female official, His Majesty's actions still made Ning Yunting's pretty face flush slightly.

"Do you know, as your female official, what's the biggest problem?"

"Um?"

Zhu Mingzhong asked with a slightly raised eyebrows.

“What is it?”

"That is, any foreign official will want to make friends with me, hoping to learn from me," he said.

"Um……"

Nodding slightly, Zhu Mingzhong said with a brow.

"Looking at the best intentions is this a bad habit that has not changed in the officialdom for thousands of years. You are my female official with a pen. Someone must try every means to make friends with me and try to get my ideas."

Looking at Ning Yunting, Zhu Mingzhong asked jokingly.

"So, Yunting, tell me, has anyone bribed you?"

"If I said something, will Your Majesty be very angry? And I hope to know who it is?"

After staying with His Majesty for so many years, Ning Yunting could naturally hear the joke in His Majesty's tone.

"You don't need to know that the officialdom is not something that can be changed every day. Besides, there are people in the officialdom, and when the water is clear, there will be no water."

Such an exclamation is more of a helplessness. Perhaps through the investigation of the Bureau of Investigation, officials dare not embezzle and accept bribes, and dare not sacrifice their salary and annuity after retirement for small profits. However, many hidden contempts, even as emperors, can only pretend to ignore them.

"Your Majesty, I never dare to accept money, and I am not short of money, and the Ning family is not short of money. As for human favors..."

Ning Yunting said slightly. The Ning family, who was the first to engage in the Nanyang rice trade, was indeed very rich, with a family income of less than one million. "As for those favors, if Your Majesty is unwilling to give them, I will not dare to give them."

Ning Yunting's answer was clever, and she attributed everything to Zhu Mingzhong, and then she looked at Zhu Mingzhong and said.

"That is why I hope that Li Xuanshi will take over. As the person around His Majesty, the far-far servant is His Majesty's family."
Chapter completed!