female concubine

In April of the tenth year of Qianyuan, Wang Wenfu returned to Beijing.

"I went out to Beijing to inspect, and there are many folk sayings: In addition to the three-year-old Jinshi in the country, the special subjects are more obtuse, the supplementary ones are more arrogant, the miscellaneous ones are more dancing, the nobles are more corrupt, and the officials are punished. It is true that most of the embezzlers are officials who accept millet. The first emperor sent troops frequently and the country was short of food, so he set a precedent for accepting millet to buy officials. Wanshi can grant Dali Temple Chancellor and enshrined officials, which is different from the officials who built the canal before and ordered the court officials to donate money. These people who buy officials with grain are mostly for the sake of more benefits, and they are often ignorant. Cunning toothman."

The emperor leaned on the table and looked at Wang Wenfu's letter, "It's the scholar-officials who offended Enmeng, and Nasu Maiguan is those idiots. The previous business affairs caused some people's dissatisfaction..."

Seeing the emperor hesitated, Wang Wenfu remonstrated: "Your Majesty, unscrupulous merchants only care about their own interests and disregard the lives of the people. The opening of Shiyiwu is just to make the government the largest merchant. This is also a sharp edge, but it depends on how you use it Whether it is to collect money or serve the people, I can't guarantee what will happen to the future generations, but as long as your Majesty uses the minister for a day, the minister will not let it become a place to oppress the people."

"Nasu buying officials is a bad idea when the national treasury is in short supply. Ya people are profiteers. How could they donate food to the court for no reason? When the country is in peace, if it is not for profit, what is it for? ?”

"Only remove the Jinna in the miscellaneous stream, and leave the special name. There are many literati in the country who study hard and fail to pass the exam. Many of them are capable, but most of them are out of luck. The courtiers are faint. It's nothing. The important thing is not to chill the hearts of scholars."

"Your Majesty Shengming."

In the [-]th year of the Qianyuan period, the regular system of accepting millet to buy officials was removed from the selection list of Liu Neiquan in the Ministry of Officials, and academies were donated to various places again, and the imperial court sent literati to serve as professors. Students from poor families with good character and learning could be exempted from tuition fees.

In the tenth year of Qianyuan, the enrollment of martial arts was expanded, and the martial arts competition was set to be held once a year. At the same time, an edict was issued that the academies opened by the government not only recruited male disciples but also allowed female students to enroll. This order was opposed by a group of ministers. Zhongshu Sheren, who refuted the imperial edict, was removed from his post and replaced by Shizhong, and the secretary and provincial officials were moved to Shizhong, so the imperial edict was promulgated.

In the [-]th year of Qianyuan, after the rectification and rectification, the effect on the administration of officials and military discipline was remarkable. The "Records of Qianyuanhui" compiled by the Ministry of Households showed the growth of the country's total population and tax revenue in the past ten years. The emperor also ordered the Ministry of Households to check the number of households and residents. A new law was established to exempt military members from taxes in bad years and to reduce corvee in good years, and to use the fertile land cultivated as rewards for military exploits in the future.

"In the tenth year of Qianyuan, the treasury's income has increased compared with the beginning of the reform, and the number of adult horses that have been bred for more than two years has increased several times. Now it is possible to form a large-scale cavalry, but the minister is worried that frequent wars may cause damage to the army. arouse public resentment."

"Whether it is the people or the officials, they don't want to see the war. I don't know, but what can be gained if it is delayed. It can't be regained when it is prosperous. If you wait until it declines, then the loser must be yourself. If the ruler himself If you can’t see the future trend, then this country will not last long.”

"After the mutual market, I got news from Xixia that the Yeli family was extremely arrogant in the middle palace, and Li Yuanhao had been dissatisfied many times, and Li Yuanhao didn't trust the Yeli tribe of his relatives. After splitting the left and right armies with King Tiandu, he also sent many supervisors and deputy generals to disperse power. The two uncles named kings can only command their own tribes. The military and political power of Xixia is still in the hands of Li Yuanhao alone. "

"The cunning rabbit is a dead dog. Use it when you need it and discard it when you don't need it. The reason why you don't kill it is because it is still useful." The emperor squeezed the ring in his hand, "Suspicious, this divorce plan is half done, and it will be big soon." The court meeting, send people to Xixia and Beiliao, this time..." The emperor smiled and said, "We don't need people who are very good at talking."

"Yes."

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The envoys who entered the Northern Liao Dynasty were still served by the internal servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty changed his arrogant attitude and walked out of the palace tent to greet him and hold a banquet in person.

"Your Majesty, are you safe?"

Yeluming, Emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty, looked at the familiar face of his servant and squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "The emperor is in peace and I am in peace."

"I have the blessing of the gods to His Majesty the Emperor, and I will be blessed."

"The superior answered that the emperor did it, and the emperor's army was defeated and I sent troops to rescue it. The emperor said that you have a plan in the Central Committee, and asked to encircle Wei and save Zhao. Is that what you said?"

The servant smiled, "This is a strategy in the art of war. Your Majesty is talented and intelligent. This time I sent a villain to His Majesty the Emperor. In addition to the invitation from the Great Court Conference, I also want to thank you."

Several servants carried them into a box together. Yeluming looked at the rare treasures inside and murmured in his heart, "The Son of Heaven has not fulfilled what he promised me before, so what is he trying to do now?"

The servant turned around, thinking that this Yeluming was not too stupid, "Of course it is to fulfill the last promise."

Yeluming looked around in the tent in panic, and immediately pulled the servant aside, and whispered, "There are my uncles outside."

The servant smiled and said, "Who is His Majesty planning to send as an envoy this time?"

"When the father was in power, all the emperor's uncles were sent to the Song Dynasty. Now the emperor's uncle assists me in handling the affairs of the Peking University King's Court..."

"However, His Majesty has long passed the age of being in charge of the government. The name of the auxiliary government is actually to monopolize the power. Your Majesty is so old now. Are you willing to be controlled by others?"

Yeluming said angrily, "I really don't want to!"

"As long as His Majesty finds a way to let the Generalissimo continue to go to the court as an envoy, my lord will have a way to let His Majesty take power."

Yeluming muttered, thinking about it, then lowered his voice and said urgently: "I don't need the emperor to help me win the power. The emperor has no heirs. As long as the emperor dies, I can regain the power."

As long as Yelufang died in Wei Song, he could blame Wei Song for all his crimes, so that the khans of the Peking University King's Court would not suspect him.

The waiter saw that he didn't pierce the messy intestines in his heart immediately, but smiled and said: "I value loyalty, especially my lord, a gentleman can't be followed by a word, please rest assured, Your Majesty."

"Then please thank the Son of Heaven on my behalf. If I am in power, I will be reconciled with the Great Song Dynasty forever, and become brothers with the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven is a brother, and I will be a brother."

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Western Xia·Xingqing

Since Wei Song took the initiative to ask for a mutual market, Xixia regarded Wei Song as having admitted that he was the emperor, and he did not treat Wei Song envoys with the same politeness and respect as before.

"I don't know what Song Envoy thinks when he sees my Great Xia Kingdom?" Li Yuanhao asked the envoy contemptuously while sitting on the throne.

The envoy was a lower-level official of the Ministry of Rites, and there were maids and eunuchs from the Ministry of Rites behind him. "I don't know if your majesty is asking about the comparison with Kaifeng and Tokyo, or just referring to the capital of Xixia? If you compare it, the customs of the two countries are completely different. Your Excellency I would like to invite your majesty to personally go to Tokyo City to see the prosperous and prosperous world under the rule of His Majesty the Emperor."

Li Yuanhao cut off a piece of mutton with a dagger in his hand, and immediately took a bite of the meat with his eagle eyes sideways, "I will definitely go, please rest assured the envoy."

"This time the official was ordered to go on a mission for the sake of the Great Court..."

"Emissary Song is tired," Li Yuanhao interrupted the envoy, "Division Yi Wei."

Commander Ma Budu, who is in charge of the Suwei Army, stepped forward, "The minister is here."

"Please envoy Song to go down and rest," Li Yuanhao thrust the dagger into the flesh, "Settle down well."

"Yes."

Li Yuanhao's confidants saw that the envoy of the Song Dynasty left very dissatisfied, and immediately turned his head and worried: "Wu Zu, will it be bad to treat the envoy of the Eastern Dynasty like this?"

"What's wrong, the general came back last time and said that there is no general in the Eastern Dynasty, and the court is full of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death."

"Wuzu, I'm a little worried. Since the last time King Yeli designed to lure the enemy to seize the two states of the Eastern Dynasty... he has been taking credit for himself, and he is extremely dissatisfied with Wuzu's dispersion of military power and the delay in establishing a prince."

"Dissatisfied?" Li Yuanhao turned his head to look at his confidant, then squinted his eyes and scolded, "Are you trying to drive a wedge between me and the two generals?"

The confidant was so frightened that he knelt on one knee and said in a panic, "I dare not!"

"They are the queen's brothers, and the prince's uncles. If the monarch and ministers suspect that they will only cut off their own arms to benefit other countries."

"Have you forgotten, Your Majesty, Wei Mu's family used to be your own uncles, but they pointed at Qing Tianzi and swung their swords at each other."

"That's enough!" Li Yuanhao said annoyedly, "I know that your Xifeng clan and the Yeli tribe have a feud, but that's all in the past, and you all only need to be loyal to me now."

"Yes."

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The next day.

Empress Yeli lay on Li Yuanhao's body and complained, "Your Majesty won't let them come back after my brother won the battle. In the blink of an eye, it will be winter and spring will begin soon."

"Although the war has stopped, the frontiers have to be guarded. Great Xia has Khitan in the north, Song in the south, Tubo in the west, and Xizhou Uighurs in the west. Life is not easy." Li Yuanhao put his arms around Ye Lishi, "Only by standing firm in the Central Plains can we gain a foothold." Slowly expand to other regions."

"Is the Central Plains so good?" Ye Lishi turned over, "Could it be that Your Majesty has taken a fancy to the women from the Central Plains?"

Li Yuanhao got up from the couch, picked up his clothes and put them on, "So what if you don't, have you read Han Shu?" He was stunned when he bowed his waist to pick up his pants, and there was a trace of disappointment in his eyes, "I forgot No, you are not her."

"The Han Dynasty has prestige and trust, and he leads all nations. The sun and the moon shine on them. They are all concubines. The Han people have occupied the Central Plains for too long. Do they think that they are really the emperor?"

Ye Lishi got up from the couch, raised his brows and said displeasedly: "It's been so long, Your Majesty still hasn't forgotten her..."

Li Yuanhao was extremely dissatisfied with the woman's jealousy, and immediately approached and pinched her chin, and said viciously: "You are my first queen, and a queen should look like a queen. Don't talk about government affairs, and don't try Interfere in my private affairs."

"Wu Zu, the Eastern Dynasty embassy came to report, and the Eastern Dynasty envoy said that they lost a person."

"Huh?" Li Yuanhao walked out of the inner hall, "Didn't the envoy Song come to report the letter? Why did he bring someone with him?"

"The envoy of the Eastern Dynasty said that it was a beauty presented to you by Jin, but yesterday you drove him away without listening to him, so you didn't have time to say it and donate it."

Li Yuanhao touched his chin, "A woman from the Central Plains?"

"Yes, but the envoy said that the woman disappeared last night, and now she is making a fuss in the palace saying she wants to see you."