I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Thinking of this, Mao Wenlong breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "It's really hard for the angels to travel all the way, and the general has ordered someone to prepare a banquet to welcome you!"

"Okay! Chairman Mao please!"

Hearing about the banquet, Wang Tiqian immediately became interested.

……

After a while, Wang Tiqian looked at the "banquet" in front of him and frowned.

A badger, two rabbits, and a few bowls of rice, is this the feast to welcome our family from the capital?

Ren is the military supervisor under our family, has he ever had a more shabby banquet than this in the local area?

Who is this humiliating?

"Mr. Mao, what do you mean?" Wang Tigan held the chopsticks and couldn't take a bite.

After a long silence, he stood up abruptly, with a reproach in his tone.

"Angel, you, you don't want to eat?" Mao Chenglu raised his hand and smacked his mouth a few times.

At this moment, the bowl of rice in Wang Tigan's hand rolled down to the ground.

The steaming rice fell into the soil. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, this was more distressing than the gold and silver spilled all over the ground.

They moved forward one after another, grabbed the soil mixed with rice in their hands, and swallowed it into their mouths without the slightest hesitation.

"What are you doing?" Mao Wenlong supported his saber, and said loudly, "Don't be presumptuous in front of the angels, step back!"

"General, this... this is food!" Mao Chenglu grabbed the soil and stuffed it into his mouth. "We starved to death five people yesterday because we couldn't eat this food!"

Seeing this scene, most of the anger in Wang Tiqian's heart dissipated.

Before he could speak, a large group of Liao people crowded in from afar.

These Liao people, all in ragged clothes, stared straight at the few bowls of rice and rabbit meat left on Wang Tigan's table.

"Eat! Still eat!" Mao Wenlong kicked a soldier on the back and reprimanded him: "You are all so courageous, you are not afraid of my general's military methods!"

The soldier let go of his hand and lay on the ground exhausted.

"General, my brother and I both escaped from the Pu River. What military law? We are here to kill the Tartars. If we obey the military law, we will starve to death!"

"General, I haven't eaten for two days, one meal for three days, I'm hungry!"

Looking at these people, Mao Wenlong let go of the saber in his hand, and sighed: "Don't do this in the future."

Wang Tiqian's eyes widened, and the few Tiqi he brought with him all looked in disbelief.

Dongjiang Town, is it so impoverished?

its not right!Where did the emperor collect several million taels of Liao affairs every year?

Just when he was shocked by the scene in front of him, a little girl from Liao people who was about five or six years old ran over.

She put her cold blue hand into her bosom, rubbed it for a while, took out a large ginseng, looked up at Wang Tiqian, and said:

"Uncle Angel, here I am... I dug it up today, give us some food."

Mao Wenlong didn't expect it to be like this today, if the people get into chaos and don't do enough to supervise the left soldiers, he will not be able to atone for his sins even if he dies!

He was about to scold, but found Wang Tiqian squatting down.

With tears in his eyes, Wang Tigan took the big ginseng from the little girl's hand, and said with a smile, "Okay, Uncle Angel will return to Beijing now, and let the emperor exchange this ginseng for you rice."

"OK?"

"Good! Good!" The little girl was picked up by Wang Tigan, her eyes were bright.

The Tiqis looked at each other, spontaneously took out all kinds of food from their pockets, and distributed them to the Liao people in Phi Island.

……

Looking at Wang Tigan's return boat, the Liao people were happily guessing.

"Hey, tell me, what will the emperor send us when the time comes?"

One person replied: "There are probably fine noodles."

But another person sneered and said: "You two worthless fellows, the emperor sent you big white steamed buns, of course!"

Chapter 59 Pick Three

In the Wenhua Palace, Sun Chengzong, the son of the left concubine, looked at the "homework" handed in by Zhu Youxiao, stroking his beard, and said with a smile:

"The writing style of this "University" is strong, not bad, not bad."

After a while, he said to the little Gong'e who was standing on the side: "Go back and tell the emperor, and ask him to copy another copy with a different artistic conception for me."

Little Gong'e hadn't read much, so naturally she didn't understand much, so she nodded and ran back to Xinuang Pavilion.

After hearing her words, Zhu Youxiao's face showed bitterness.

He really didn't expect that he had to "hand in homework" every day after he became the emperor after time travel.

What the hell is Sun Chengzong's so-called difference in artistic conception? I just copied it casually, so there is no artistic conception...

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youxiao asked, "Where is Wei Zhongxian, is he on duty at the Supervisor of Rites?"

Little Gong'e nodded: "It should be."

"Call him over." Little Gong'e had just turned around when she heard Zhu Youxiao calling from behind:

"Forget it, this guy doesn't know a lot of big characters. I'm afraid he can't write his own name. It's useless to call him."

"Well, go to Nanhaizi and tell Li Chaoqing to ask the Commander of Jin Yiwei, Liu Qiao, to enter the palace."

The little Gong'e was secretly delighted, she hurriedly nodded and left Qianqing Palace.

Not long after, Liu Qiao came with a worried face.

On the way here, he was both surprised and happy. The emperor hadn't summoned him for a long time, but this time he summoned him suddenly, did he feel dissatisfied.

Want to resign yourself?

Or, because I am able to do things well, I want to be promoted?

But no matter how he thought about it, he didn't feel that his Jinyiwei was any more powerful than Wei Zhongxian's Dongchang.

"Chen Jinyiwei Commander Liu Qiao, see the emperor."

At this moment, Zhu Youjiao was earnestly copying "The Great Learning" repeatedly, and from time to time he became slightly angry, twisted a piece of white paper into a ball and threw it on the ground.

"Come on, take a look, how about my article?" Zhu Youxiao looked at him excitedly.

"That's right, Your Majesty's writing is good." Liu Qiao looked confused.

Zhu Youxiao was dumb: "It's over?"

"Your Majesty..." Liu Qiao scratched his head, and added: "The Emperor is talented and intelligent, and the Emperor's handwriting is truly, truly admirable!"

"Alright, alright."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand resentfully, his nature just now was completely dissipated by this blunt flattery.

"You copy it for me."

Liu Qiao's throat hardened a bit, looking at the pen, ink, paper and inkstone brought by the little Gong'e, he was also speechless for a while.

Not long after, Zhu Youxiao took over the copy by Liu Qiao, clicked his tongue twice, and said to himself, "If Sun Chengzong finds out, I'm afraid he will be very angry."

Hearing this, the little Gong'e on the side started laughing.

I am afraid that Liu Qiao's writing can only be described as flamboyant, flying and phoenix dancing. Even Zhu Youxiao thought that if Wei Zhongxian could write, it might be better than his writing.

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Send this to the gentlemen in the side hall, and say that I wrote it."

"Liu Qiao, it's okay, you can go back."

Liu Qiao let out an "ah" and retreated step by step full of fear.

"This, what is this word?" In the Wenhua Palace, Sun Chengzong, who was holding this word, opened his mouth wide.

Seeing him being so surprised, the rest of the lecturers thought that Zhu Youxiao had written some remarkable words, so they all came over one after another.

Not surprisingly, they all blew their beards and stared angrily.

Sun Chengzong's face was pale with anger, and his lips trembled. The emperor's "crazy grass" and the one just now did not seem to be written by the same person at all.

As for why Zhu Youxiao is so excited, it is not because at this moment, the harem is "choosing three".

……

On the third day of December last year, the Supervisor of Rites inscribed the Ministry of Rites, asking the new emperor to enrich the harem.

Naturally, Zhu Youxiao would not refuse such a constructive and good point of view.

Ever since, from that day on, Li Shi, the eunuch and eunuch, received the emperor's order and went to Zhili, Lianghuai, Fengyang, Shandong, Shanxi, Fujian and other places in the north and south to select folk beauties to enter the palace as a show. stand up.

When the emperor was looking for a wife, there was naturally a lot of movement.

Zhu Youxiao cared about it in his heart, but on the surface he couldn't urge Li Shi and others, the supervisor of ceremonies, to do so.

The biggest reason for this is that he didn't want to cause a butterfly effect because of his words, and married a woman other than Zhang Yan in a daze.

At the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao edited "Women's Training".

"All emperors, princes, concubines, and palace concubines carefully select women from good families. Those who enter are not accepted, so concubines and empresses are colorful folks."

Zhu Yuanzhang made such a regulation, of course, learned the lesson of the puppet Yuan's foreign relatives intervening in politics. If the queen came from Xiaojiabiyu, her relatives would not be self-fertile and mess up the government.

Since December last year, Li Shi, the eunuch of the Rites and Eunuchs, has "beared a heavy burden" and made unannounced visits across the country.

At the beginning of February in the first year of Tianqi, Li Shi and others selected 13 beautiful girls, the youngest was 16 years old, and the oldest was only [-] years old.

This is only the first round of "sea selection".

The [-] young girls were paid for their travel expenses by the royal family, and they came to Beijing from various places in early February, and in March, they all arrived in Beijing one after another.

Immediately afterwards, another "screening" is carried out.

Li Shi, the eunuch and eunuch, will choose a relatively large inner courtyard venue, and let the girls sort according to age, line up every hundred people, and they will carefully inspect them one by one.

In this round, those who are slightly taller, shorter, fatter, or thinner will be eliminated. According to Concubine Liu, more than a thousand people will be eliminated.

On the second day, following the ordering method of the previous day, the eunuchs will carefully inspect each girl's facial features, hair, skin, etc.

If one fails to meet the requirements, it will be eliminated.

On the third day, the director of ceremonies chose another large courtyard, and asked the girls to report their family background, name, age, etc., and experienced palace officials secretly observed it.

Those with slurred speech and poor manners will immediately lose the election.

In the past two days, at least 2000 more people will be screened out.

This is not over, the remaining nearly 1000 people have to go through another step of "selection".

On a certain day, the eunuchs will take a ruler and measure the hands and feet of each girl carefully, and then let them try to walk around.

The girls misbehaved a little and lost the election.

Within a few days, the [-] beautiful girls who entered the capital were screened several times, and only about a thousand were left at this time. Only these people were eligible to officially enter the palace.

Do you think this is the end?

Nonsense, how can it be so simple.

After the girls broke through four levels in a row, they just got the chance to enter the palace. They are not show girls yet, and their identities at this time are - palace ladies.

Just like the little maid next to Zhu Youxiao, she also lost the election after passing four tests in a row.

At this time, the "work" of the eunuchs and supervisors was basically completed, and it was the turn of the old maids.

They led thousands of young girls to secret rooms in the palace, "exploring their breasts, sniffing their armpits, feeling their texture, and inspecting their chastity."

If the girls' skin is not delicate and lustrous, if there is a trace of trace on their body, it will be quickly screened out under the "golden eyes" of the old maid.

At this time, there were only 300 of the more than [-] young girls who had just entered the palace, but this was not the end.

Next, these [-] girls will be left in the palace for a month, during which time the old maid will observe them meticulously.

During a month, the words and deeds of the girls will be recorded by the old maids to judge whether they are gentle and honest, virtuous and virtuous.

As a result, 300 people out of 250 people will be rejected, and the remaining 50 people will have all their hardships and become the quasi-concubines of the Ming royal family.

After passing this level, there will be a "choose three" link.