female concubine

In the winter of the ninth year of Qianyuan, Shezhang De, the former Minister of Shangshu, was dismissed from his post and imprisoned. Liu Shubai, the deputy minister, was appointed as the right servant of Shangshu, and the assistant minister of Zhongshu took the position of Zhongshuling. mutual market.

Zhang De, the former right minister, was deprived of his fame and was put under house arrest. Not long after, he suffered from palpitations. Mrs. Zhang's family asked Du Langzhong, a famous doctor in Beijing, for diagnosis and treatment, but failed.

The white-haired old man packed up the medicine box and shook his head: "Mr. Zhang is suffering from heart failure. There is no cure for this disease. Forgive me for being old and incompetent. My lady should ask someone else to be wise."

Zhang Houwenzhi went from the local area to the memorial to ask to return to Beijing for a visit, and was allowed. After returning to Beijing for several days, Zhang Hou waited on his father's side with a perplexed waist.

The person on the couch aged more than ten years overnight, sometimes stupefied, sometimes crazy, pointing to the ant's movements as a cow, and losing his mind.

Zhang De was dismissed from office, and his wife, Mrs. Guo's order was also cut, and the aunt took all her grievances on the concubine.

The old woman who came back from her mother's house kicked open the door and broke into the room, "An unfilial son dares to come back, are you satisfied now that your father is like this?"

Zhang Hou ignored it, served his father and got up after drinking the soup. He bowed politely to his aunt, "Mother."

"Don't call me mother, our Zhang family doesn't have a son like you!" the aunt said angrily.

Zhang Hou calmly walked past his aunt, but the woman couldn't stand his attitude and his indifferent eyes without any guilt, so she chased him out of the house angrily.

Under the eaves, he cursed loudly: "If it weren't for your father, where did you get your knowledge and fame? It is you who eat what is inside and outside that made my Zhang family become like this."

Zhang Hou turned around, "My son asked himself that he has never done anything against morality, and the adult's illness is all his own fault."

When Zhang Hou said this, he angered his aunt even more, "Okay, you, now that Zhang's family is in trouble and you alone gain power, I don't believe that I can't cure you." The woman walked down the steps and raised her hand.

When he was about to swing down, he was stopped by a young woman who rushed over, "The officials and I rushed all the way back to the capital to visit, and dealt with it everywhere. You are good. Uncle Jun fought with the officials for the sake of his three brothers, and in the end he was defeated by Aunt Jun If you draw your anger on the officials, it's really like a family only enters one door!" The woman grabbed the woman's wrist and slammed it down.

Zhang Hou wanted to stop his wife, but when she stared at him, he took a step back and lowered his head secretly.

The wife stepped forward, "In the old days, my family was pushed out and demoted to Beijing by Uncle Jun, and the officials followed. At that time, did Uncle Jun and Aunt Jun care about the relationship between father and son? Did Uncle Jun give in at all in court? If the father is not kind but wants his son to be filial, will everyone in the world be fools?"

"Huh?" The mother-in-law stared, crying and shouting to the surroundings: "What kind of world is it now? Even the bride of the concubine dares to speak rudely to the uncle and insult the mother-in-law, officials..."

"Hmph," the woman was unmoved, and still said coldly: "I kept talking about the concubine, but when something happened at home, the three concubines were hiding far away. If your Zhang family loses officials, it will definitely end in this generation." !"

"You..." The mother-in-law pointed at the girl, "Your father has already been exiled from Beijing, what kind of a person are you, do you need to intervene in my Zhang family's affairs?"

"If it wasn't for the official's surname Zhang, do you think I want to take care of your family's mess?"

The embarrassed woman pointed at the woman, and before she could yell harsh words, the envoy behind her hurriedly stopped her, leaned into her ear and whispered: "Young lady, Fang is the granddaughter of the old general Li Shiji, the Duke of Dai. "

"Bah, when my uncle was alive, what was your Li family? Old General Li was considered a hero, and the juniors he taught didn't even know how to behave."

"What about Weng Weng, you don't need to worry about Jungu. Now that the official family is in power, it is no longer the literati and bureaucrats of Taizong. It’s really doing my part.”

"You..." The aunt pointed at the Fang family, and then looked at the concubine, "No matter how bad it is, the Zhang family didn't starve you or freeze you, not only invited you to a husband, but also let you go to the Imperial College to study. If you didn’t make proper arrangements, and now you are being blamed by your bride and you without conscience, if the officials know what you have done after waking up, they will really be disappointed.”

Fang opened her aunt's hand, put her toes in her mouth and said proudly: "My family's officials are gentle and honest. In the past, they were often irritated in this family. Now, Uncle Jun is seriously ill and serves him day and night, but in the end he still has to be ridiculed by Aunt Jun. It's chilling and makes me sick."

"you!"

The two women scolded each other and refused to give in. Seeing the servants at home rushing to watch Zhang Hou, it was very embarrassing, so they stepped forward, "My lady, today..."

"What are you afraid of? When dealing with this kind of people, the more timid you are, the more they will push you forward. You are not their punching bag, and you have never done anything wrong. You are fair and comfortable."

Persuasion was useless, and when Zhang Houben was about to drag his wife away, the family boy in Zhang's house on Maxing Street hurried in, "Master, the Ministry of Officials sent someone to the mansion to say that the imperial court issued an order to transfer you back to the capital from the local government and resume your post as an official. The official doctor of the imperial edict is waiting in the mansion."

The family boy's hasty announcement almost made the woman faint. Zhang Hou did not act arrogantly because of this, but pulled his wife and handed over to his aunt, "If the son has something to do, please go first. My lord, please take care of my mother."

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In the early spring of the tenth year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, Fang Zhiyan and Zhang Hou, the ministers of reform who had been relegated to the place where the edict was relegated, were reinstated. A little old school objected.

On the first day of March, at the meeting of Shuosan, Yushi Zhongcheng and the Jianyuan jointly opposed the reform, and once again scolded Fang Zhiyan and even the emperor by changing customs and not abiding by the ancestral system.

"Zhang Hou is the son of a guilty minister, how can His Majesty use him as Prime Minister and insist on reform."

"Yu Shitai requests His Majesty to withdraw the imperial edict calling back Zhang Hou and Fang Zhiyan."

"The Court of Remonstrance requests Your Majesty to repeal the new law."

"What if I don't want to?" The emperor looked gloomy, looking at the few scarlet robes kneeling in the center of Zichen Hall.

"Then please Your Majesty bestow death on the minister!" Su Yu put down the wat board, then took off the Futou on his head with trembling hands and knocked it down heavily.

"Okay." The emperor stood up on the stepping bed, and walked step by step towards the vermilion lacquered railing in front of the hall, "I will follow the official!"

Outside the hall, the Imperial City Siqin heard the order from the previous commander, one of the five official commanders, and rushed into the hall with more than a dozen burly armored guards. , each court has thirty sticks, so you don’t have to go anywhere in this hall.”

"Yes."

The emperor's words caused confusion among the officials, "Your Majesty, absolutely not. Since the founding of Emperor Tai Zugao, there has never been a precedent for punishing scholar-bureaucrats in the Zichen Palace. Admonishment and Jiang Zhongcheng are wrong, but the fault does not end there, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

The emperor held the court stick in the court to blame the scholar-bureaucrats. If there is a precedent, the situation in the future can be imagined. The courtiers understood the meaning, and they were all afraid, so they all knelt down and begged for mercy, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

A command from the official personally ordered people to escort Su Yu and Jiang Luochuan to the wide stool and hold them down. Seeing the courtiers kneeling down and begging one after another, he was not in a hurry to act. The emperor was furious and shouted in a hoarse voice regardless of the pain in his throat. : "What are you doing in a daze, am I the emperor or are they?"

A close servant is the emperor's closest soldier, and he only obeys the emperor's imperial edict, and he lowered his eagle eyes at the last command, "Fight!"

The imperial army pressed the two scarlet robes on the wide stool, and swung the staff down. The veins in front of Su Yu's forehead suddenly popped up, and he gritted his teeth to resist without crying out.

All the ministers had already seen the pain from their expressions, and after unsuccessful persuasion, they all hid their faces and dared not look directly at them.

"As the Son of Heaven, Your Majesty is self-willed and does not listen to the persuasion of his ministers. We, as ministers of the Great Song Dynasty..." With a stick down, Su Yu clenched his hands and gritted his teeth, his eyes widened for a moment, and finally passed out from pain.

Jiang Luochuan, who was on the side, was also beaten into a faint. The previous commander stepped forward and patted the faces of the two of them, then put his hands in front of the crowd, turned around and cupped his hands in relief, "Your Majesty, they all fainted."

"Take it."

The imperial guards took down the fainting officials and the instruments of torture one by one. At this time, the officials in the court had already been frightened. Many ministers of the old party who had opposed the emperor in accordance with the rules were already frightened when they saw today's situation. soft.

The emperor sighed, and then walked down the hall steps step by step with heavy steps, "You ministers can stand here today, which one is not full of poetry and books, and which one did not step into this hall with pride and ambition? You must be loyal to the king, cherish your loyalty and never forget it, but you must not lose the soul of the country. When I was studying in the past, I only remembered two sentences in Hanshu most clearly."

"Sima Qian praised in "The Chronicles of the Five Emperors": As the sun and the moon shine, and as the wind and rain come, you must obey." Is there only one word for governing the world? Is it possible that as long as the four words of Guotai Minan are achieved, you will be the Holy Lord in your mouth?"

Seeing that all the ministers bowed their heads and stopped talking, the emperor said again: "Take home as your home, your town as your town, your country as your country, and the world as your world. The earth is like the sky. Festival."

"Your Majesty's holy bow, the ministers are ashamed."

"The minister is ashamed."

Looking at the large area of ​​kneeling nobles, the emperor sighed and said: "Today I send you four words, I hope you will take a good look, I hope you will." The emperor walked among the kneeling civil and military officials, turned his head and said: "Don't forget the robe on your body, why do you wear it!" After saying that, the emperor turned and left.

Two servants walked out of Duo Hall, and went to the civil and military officials to unfold a two-foot-wide banner. On it was written four lines of horizontal running script. The heaven and the earth establish a heart, establish a life for the living and the people, inherit the unique knowledge for the past saints, and create peace for all generations."

As soon as the banner was unfolded, the ministers held their tears and wept the moment they raised their heads.

Han Bang got up from the ground holding the wat board, took a look, turned and left, turned his back to the officials and said as he walked, "Your Majesty has great ambitions, I hope you don't want to be a sparrow."

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In the late spring of the tenth year of Qianyuan, the new law received the full support of Prime Minister Lu Wei, Zizhang was overthrown, and the emperor started reforming again to make the new party gain power.

In April of the same year, Wang Wenfu, Zhong Cheng of the imperial censor, worshiped Zhongshu Shilang as deputy prime minister, and the reform was further intensified. The three pavilions and secret pavilions were merged into the secretarial province, and pavilion pavilion officials were set up separately. Nine temples and five supervisors each performed their duties, and there were no more empty officials.

In the same year, Sichuan firearms manufacturing department sent people to play.

"In the first year of Qianyuan, the manufacturing department was ordered to improve the sudden fire. The gun was originally made of giant bamboo because it could not withstand the power of gunpowder, so many tests were carried out on the gun body. In the Western Jin Dynasty, soft iron was used as the spine, and five animals were used in the bath. Drowning, tempered with the fat of animals, cut armor for more than [-] strokes, and then have the method of practicing swords today, so I chose iron instead of bamboo tube."

"The deadline I gave has already come."

"Yes, so the envoy pleaded guilty in the memorial, saying that he had failed His Majesty's high expectations."

"Forget it, if it weren't for him and his master, I might have died under the claws of wild beasts. How can I return to Tokyo and sit here?" All command envoys to come."

"Yes."

In the tenth year of Qianyuan, fire weapons were officially put into use in the army. A heavy infantry equipped with fire guns was screened and formed in the Imperial Army, and they were named Shenji Battalion. Generals were sent to train the soldiers of Shenji Battalion, and the confidantes served as the capital Supervise.

In the last ten days of March, when the farming season was busy, and the official system was changed continuously, the officials close to the people in prefectures and counties were transferred frequently. In order to prevent chaos, the imperial court ordered the minister who presided over the reform to go to Beijing for inspection.