Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

"My daughter is the one who knows how to love me."

Emperor Chongzhen took the persimmon and took a bite. It was crispy and sweet.

"My brother and sister love our father very much, but my brother is busy studying and my sister is too young. Our mother is worried that they will disturb our father from handling government affairs."

Princess Kunyi took the tea bowl from Wang Chengen and poured a cup of tea for Emperor Chongzhen.

Although she was only ten years old, she was almost five feet tall. In her light blue palace dress, she looked like a little adult.

"Don't even mention your brother. I get angry whenever I think of him. He just studies hard all day long. If studying hard is useful, why is the Ming Dynasty like this?" Emperor Chongzhen frowned.

Ever since he was provoked by Zhang Shikang last time, Crown Prince Zhu Cilang seemed to have gotten into a dead end. He rarely talked to people and just read books on weekdays.

Emperor Chongzhen also read a lot of books, including Confucian classics and history books.

He did not deny that there was a lot of knowledge in the book and that one could learn the principles of being a human being. However, if governing a country was really as written in the book, the Ming Dynasty should not have been what it was before.

Emperor Chongzhen found the path he took difficult, so he did not want the crown prince to follow this path. After all, human abilities are limited. Although learning is important, there are still more important things than memorizing books.

For example, when it comes to knowing people, if it weren’t for Zhang Shikang, the imperial court wouldn’t be what it is today.

So what is the court like now?

The treasury was piled with silver. Since the new national policy was implemented under Zhang Shikang's strong hand, the people who obtained the land have been praising them.

Although Zhang Shikang always speaks rashly, now that I think about it carefully, it is absolutely true.

The Ming Dynasty never lacked silver, it was just not in the treasury.

Now he was no longer worried about the bandits. He had already known through the Eastern Jishichang that the people in various places felt at peace after they had obtained the land.

Even though they were still worried about their livelihood in the short term, no one thought about rebelling anymore. Land was their hope and their obsession.

"Father, please stop being angry. Kunyi will give you a leg massage."

Princess Kunyi carefully handed over the tea bowl, then used her tender little hands to gently massage Emperor Chongzhen's legs, hoping to ease her father's anger.

"You are still too young." Emperor Chongzhen felt very relieved and said for no reason.

"Father, Kunyi will be eleven years old after the New Year. She is not a child anymore." Princess Kunyi replied with a pout.

Emperor Chongzhen had always doted on his eldest daughter, but it might be because the food, clothing and other expenses in the palace had not been very good in recent years, or it might be because of Emperor Chongzhen's own actions.

Princess Kunyi did not develop an arrogant and overbearing character. Instead, she was very considerate. No matter how depressed Emperor Chongzhen was on weekdays, he would always be happy as long as Princess Kunyi came to the Qianqing Palace.

Girls at this age mature early. If they were in the common people, they would be able to help their parents with many things at this age.

Princess Kunyi also wanted to share some of her father's worries, but she was not a common woman and had no idea how to do it.

She often asked her mother or father-in-law. If she knew that her father could not sleep because of worries about state affairs, she would come to accompany him. This was the only thing she could do at such a young age.

“Kun Yi also wants to be like his brother and help his father solve his problems when he grows up.

But Kunyi is a girl, and she doesn’t know how to help her father.”

This problem has actually troubled Princess Kunyi for a long time. Born in an imperial family, she does not have to worry about her livelihood, nor does she have to help her parents with work like ordinary girls.

But Princess Kunyi sometimes thought that if she was born in a peasant family, she could really help her father and mother.

As the eldest princess, she couldn't do anything to help her family, which really made the little girl unhappy.

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen smiled for the first time in a long time.

"My daughter is much better than my son. Who says you can't help your father?

When you grow up a few years, I will find a capable husband for you and have him help your father.

In this way, isn't it also considered that you are helping your father?" Emperor Chongzhen said, and looked at his daughter's reaction quietly.

"Kunyi always listens to my father. As long as I can help my father and keep our people from going hungry, Kunyi is willing to do anything."

Princess Kunyi raised her fair little face and looked at her father very seriously.

This instead made Emperor Chongzhen feel guilty. There is no parent in the world who does not want their children to live a happy life.

"Didn't you always say that you wanted to marry a great hero in the future?

But what if the prince consort your father finds for you doesn't suit your taste?"

“Born in an imperial family, Kunyi had no worries about food and clothing since childhood, but Kunyi knew that all that came at a price.

What a great hero or not, that's just Kunyi's nonsense.

Kunyi just wants father to stop working so hard." Princess Kunyi said softly with a hint of moisture in her bright eyes.

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly felt like his heart was broken.

"Your Majesty will definitely find you a prince consort that you will be satisfied with." Emperor Chongzhen gently placed his hand on Kunyi's head and said to his daughter.

"He has to be able to help father, otherwise why would Kunyi want him?" Princess Kunyi rarely retorted.

After saying this, she seemed to remember something and continued:

"We should be like Marquis Guanjun, who dared to do anything and could do everything well for the sake of our Ming Dynasty.

Kunyi sometimes wondered, if all the civil and military officials in the court were people like the Marquis of Guanjun, why would the emperor worry about the affairs of the court? "

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, his eyebrows twitched.

"Don't you hate Guanjun Hou anymore?"

Although his father-in-law was not killed by Zhang Shikang, he died because of Zhang Shikang after all. Emperor Chongzhen could certainly understand this and had no intention of blaming Zhang Shikang at all.

But his children were too young, so they had some resentment towards Zhang Shikang and believed that Zhang Shikang had killed their grandfather.

There were also some eunuchs in the palace with ill intentions. They deliberately leaked the news to his children and even deliberately vilified his humerus in front of his children.

Later, Fang Zhenghua found out that most of these people had accepted money from the Donglin Party.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious about this and had all the eunuchs who were disloyal to his country beaten to death.

"Father... Kunyi has really grown up, how could he not be able to distinguish right from wrong?

The emperor told Kunyi last time that it was not his grandfather who allowed Kunyi to eat meat, and it was not his grandfather who saved the people of the world from the suffering of war, but Marquis Guanjun.

Grandpa is only greedy for money.

Besides, Kunyi knew that Grandpa died of anger, who can he blame? "

Family affection is inherently weak in the imperial family, and neither Princess Kunyi nor the crown prince sees Zhou Kui more than a few times a year.

Zhou Kui was greedy and stingy, and his relationship with his grandson and granddaughter was very dull. It would be a lie to say that he was not sad at all, but not by much.

"Marquis Guanjun is indeed the right-hand man of my father." When Emperor Chongzhen talked about Zhang Shikang, he always smiled unconsciously.

He glanced at his good daughter again, sighed and said:

"But you are still too young!

Marquis Guanjun said that people should do things according to their age, and I think there is some truth in what he said.

You little girl, don't think too much. Father is already very happy that you can chat with him every day."

Princess Kunyi blinked her bright eyes again, as if she understood something.