female concubine

Hanging Palace

Han Bang hurried in, "Your Majesty, news from the Ministry of Industry, Sichuan Manufacturing Sizuo Manufacturing Imperial Military Arms Institute," Han Bang took out a letter from his sleeve and presented, "The siege weapon is ready, and the range can reach several kilometers. A hundred steps is close to a thousand steps."

The manufacturing department had been established for more than ten years when the emperor ascended the throne. The emperor got up from the chair and opened it immediately. The manufacturing department played military affairs and drew the details of the drawings on paper. , if it’s too late, I don’t know how to explain to the household department.”

"Your Majesty attaches great importance to military affairs, especially firearms. The country has produced a large number of talents. Congratulations, Your Majesty."

"Have someone transport it to the capital, and set up another military weapon factory in Gyeonggi to manufacture firearms. You are going to start training the Shenji Battalion."

"Yes."

"In the past, there was a secret performance in the Northern Liao Dynasty, and the clans in the Northern Liao Dynasty had the desire to seize power. Yeluming was as suspicious as his father, and killed several siblings in a row. The death and assassination made people panic. Now I think it’s not so bad to have few heirs.”

"Your Majesty wants to take advantage of the chaos and send troops?"

"It's not in the time of decline, should we wait until the people are stable? The pre-Qin wars are full of rituals. Now there are no princes, only the emperor and the enemy, and there is only survival and death between countries. The Northern Liao Dynasty has already started a small war. Fire, if I send another southerly wind across the river, it will surely start a prairie fire." The emperor put the paper back on the table, and clasped his chin with his hands together, "The matter of Yelufang is no longer a threat to the emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty. Who will come, or compete for the selection..."

"Officials." The minister approached the forked hands and said, "I know something about the Privy Council, please see me."

"Xuan."

Fang Zhiyan, who knew the Privy Council, hurried in, knelt down and said, "All blessings, Your Majesty."

"Get up."

Fang Zhiyan stood up and presented a secret letter from the north, "There is news from the north that Yeluming's aunt Empress Dowager Xiao died of illness."

"The Xiao family of Beiliao..." the emperor looked down at the secret letter, "The relatives of Beiliao are more powerful than our Song Dynasty."

Fang Zhiyan said: "The emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty put Empress Dowager Xiao under house arrest, which caused dissatisfaction among his relatives. Yeluming has several brothers who are compatriots and concubines. If Empress Dowager Xiao dies, I am afraid they will be in chaos."

"Stand still and wait quietly." The emperor tore up the secret letter, "I still have time to wait."

"Your Majesty Shengming."

Outside the Chui Gong Hall, the courtiers and the female officer were waiting at the door together. Qi Liu saw that the female officer would look up at him from time to time, and immediately stretched out his hand to touch his face, "Is there something on my face?"

The female officer bowed her hands to Qi Liu, "Your official just looks at him and knows that he is handsome, so he can't help but want to take a look, and even if he looks at him, he knows not to blame him."

"That's it..." Qi Liu put down his hands, "Is it okay for a female official to work by Han Xianggong's side?"

"The gentleman treats his subordinates equally, and there is no distinction between men and women."

Qi Liu squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Mr. Han, like the official family, is rare in the world among men."

The female officer immediately lowered her head, "It's a pity that I don't have such a blessing to meet such a good man."

"So this is why Si Zhengzhong didn't marry?" Qi Liu asked.

"Well, the lower official came from a humble background, and since he can remember, he has been learning piano art in a dark place. After that, he can't help himself in many things. Guochao has always paid attention to family status, so how dare we expect to find a lover."

"That was in the past. Now that a female official enters the court and becomes an official, and she can follow someone like Han Xianggong, if a female official is willing, she will definitely be able to find a lover."

"The lower officials are all ten-year-old old women."

"Lu Zhizhong looks young and looks so good-looking..."

"If you are greedy for sex, you are not considered a good man, right?" The female officer raised her head.

Qi Liu thought for a while and then shook his head, "Not necessarily, as Her Royal Highness often said, people should not abstain from desires, unless they become Buddhas, good-looking people and things will always be praised and appreciated, in fact, the same is true of officials and saints at first, It’s been 20 years now, isn’t it the best proof of consistency?”

The female officer turned her head and looked into the hall, "Everyone has selfishness, and most of the superiors don't care about the survival of ants. A dike of a thousand feet is destroyed by an ant's den; a room of a hundred feet is burned by smoke from a gap. No one should be burned." neglect."

Qi Liu turned to look at the female official, and immediately smiled and said, "No wonder Mr. Han thinks highly of Lu Zhizhong. If a woman can enter the palace to discuss politics, Lu Zhizhong will also be valued by the officials."

Han Bang and Fang Zhiyan withdrew from the Chui Gong Hall together, and the female officer bowed to Qi Liu and followed Han Bang to leave.

Seeing that the time was approaching noon, the emperor planned to go back to the Kunning Hall to have a meal and rest, Qi Liu walked into the hall and bowed to preach: "Officials, Doctor Sun is here."

"It's not time to ask for a pulse, has it?"

Qi Liu replied: "On today's day, Doctor Sun should have come out of the East Palace."

The emperor who had just stood up sat down again, "Let him in."

Sun Hongda entered the hall, bowed and said: "The medical officer of the Imperial Academy sent Sun Hongda to kowtow to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty bowed to you." Then he knelt down, "Your Majesty is overjoyed, Donggong Concubine is three months pregnant."

The emperor opened his eyes wide, and immediately stood up from his seat, "Really? Give me the pulse."

Sun Hongda took out the brochure from his sleeve and presented it, and the servant forwarded it to him. The emperor happily asked, "Is that true?"

"The old minister has practiced medicine for many years, and he has been calling for the pulse of officials and saints. The Eastern Palace Concubine has reacted since the month before last. It's just that the matter is related to the emperor's eldest grandson. I don't dare to make a judgment. Only now I have the facts to inform His Majesty."

"Does the prince know?"

"The Chongwen Museum is not in the East Palace after the Crown Prince went down, so the minister first went to Da Nei to meet His Majesty, and His Royal Highness the Crown Princess knows."

"Six sons!" the emperor called out.

"The little guy is here."

"Go and call the crown prince back to the East Palace, inform the Hanlin Medical Official Academy and Shangshi Bureau, and ask Neidongmensi to send the brocade tribute from Shu to the East Palace."

"Yes."

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Before the servant arrived at the Chongwen Hall, the Crown Prince returned to the East Palace from the Prince Academy.

Zhao Xi dragged the Crown Prince into the room and sat down. The Crown Prince was puzzled and said: "I just came back from the academy, and I browsed through the bookstore. I'm covered in dust and haven't changed my clothes yet. What's wrong?"

Zhao Xi got up and sat next to the prince, held his hand and put it in front of his lower abdomen, "Your Highness, I have a concubine."

The crown prince stared blankly for a moment with his eyes open, and then happily picked him up, "Really?"

Zhao Xi nodded, "Physician Sun came here today."

The Crown Prince hurriedly sat down the man comfortingly, then stretched out his hands and had nowhere to put them, and walked towards the servants and palace servants in the hall, and told the servants in the palace, "I am going to be a father!" The palace servants and the servants knelt down one after another In front of the crown prince and the crown prince, Jishou said: "Congratulations to your highness, the crown prince, and congratulations to your highness, the crown prince."

The Crown Prince walked back to the Crown Princess, slowly knelt down and threw himself on Zhao Xi's knee, holding his hand and said with trembling eyes, "Ah Xi, I'm going to be a father."

Zhou Huai, the crown prince's personal servant, walked into the hall, bowed and said, "His Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness, the Inner Dongmen Division's coordinator is here."

"Neidongmensi?" The Crown Prince got up, lowered his head and asked the Crown Princess, "Does Your Majesty know?"

Zhao Xi nodded, "The concubine asked Imperial Physician Sun to go to the palace to announce the good news to His Majesty."

In the courtyard of the outer hall of the East Palace stood more than a dozen servants side by side, all holding lacquered wooden plates covered with silk in their hands.

The two young couples who came out of the official court saluted, "The villain has met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness the Crown Princess, and the Second Highness, Wanfu Jinan."

"But daddy sent a servant here?"

The officer nodded and waved to the servant behind him, "According to His Majesty's imperial decree, the Neidongmen Division will take South Sea pearls, Shu brocade, and moon pearls presented by Fusang... 500 taels of gold, and another 20 people will be transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs into the East Palace. Every three days, the imperial physician will come to see the doctor, and the officials also reminded that the diet of the two bureaus of Donggong Dianshan and Dianyao must be carefully inspected by the imperial physician, ah, yes," the official approached the crown prince, He whispered: "Everyone knows that the villain will tell His Highness the Crown Prince that the official family has been on the throne for nearly 15 years, and they have never seen anything other than a saint being so happy. As soon as Doctor Sun announced the reward, he immediately came down. It can be seen that the official family's attention."

After hearing this, the crown prince knelt down and said, "My minister, crown prince Wei Xu, thanks the emperor for his kindness."

After the people from Neidongmensi left, the Zhonggong sent another group of people, and the head of the Kunning Palace personally announced the decree.

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In the winter of November of the 14th year of Qianyuan, the siege firearms were successfully developed and improved, and another military weapons institute was established in Gyeonggi to be responsible for the manufacture of firearms.

In mid-November, the Empress Dowager of the Northern Liao Dynasty passed away. In December of the same year, the emperor personally wrote a condolence letter and sent envoys from the Ministry of Rites to the Northern Liao Dynasty to mourn the Empress Dowager Xiao.

Funing Hall

When the pen was written, the emperor put down the pen in his hand, picked up the hanging essay he had written for the Empress Dowager of Beiliao, and read it carefully. He felt deeply moved, but his eyes were not as sad as it was written in the article, "Empress Dowager Xiao was born There are three sons, who loved the eldest son and the youngest son during his lifetime. The eldest son Yelu Ming succeeded the second son and was sent to a local tribe. Therefore, the emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty has always been jealous of his family, and the emperor suffered from no chance to get rid of it, so this time we will not only send the diaowen, but also send some words to the third brother of Yeluming's compatriots, but we need a few who are not afraid of death. People, in case of accidents."

Xue Jin waited at the side, "But isn't Yeluming drunk every day and ignoring government affairs..."

"Do you think he is really drunk and doesn't care about anything? Another way of killing people...is also the most stupid way." The emperor put down the epilogue that he thought he was very satisfied with, "There is no king who will not be suspicious, and the bones are piled up The power to rise up, even if you stand on the highest peak, you will be afraid, and you will be afraid that others will take it from you again in the same way. Anyone but yourself may overthrow you. You don’t dare to trust the people closest to you, father, son and brother may turn against each other because of the desire for power.”

Xue Jin lowered his head, crossed his hands and bowed: "The villain has never met his biological father, and has no heirs. I feel that even if we turn against each other in the end, it is better than having nothing. At least there was a father-son relationship."

The emperor supported the table and turned his head, Xue Jin's words seemed to enter her heart, "Yeah, even if I turned against each other, I still longed for it, and I got it in the end. It wasn't until my son grew up that I realized that the most terrible fear is actually It comes from the people closest to you, mixed with hatred, whether you win or lose, you will not win, because the winner will only spend the rest of his life in endless regret, which is more painful than losing."

Xue Jin went to the table and knelt down, put his left hand on the ground with his right hand, and kowtowed: "The government governs the world, the world is peaceful, and now the world is returning to its heart, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is benevolent, filial, magnanimous, and the country will never have such a thing happen."

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In mid-December, envoys from the Wei and Song Dynasties arrived in the capital of the Northern Liao Emperor to mourn Empress Dowager Xiao in uniform. In the same month, the Emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty sent envoys to the court.

On the first day of the first lunar month in the 15th year of Qianyuan, the Zhengdan dynasty was as usual. In February 15th, the Empress Dowager Xiao was buried and the envoys returned to the country, but they were assassinated and killed on the way back to Youyun in Beiliao. In mid-February, there was a great internal turmoil in the Northern Liao Dynasty. The third brother of the Northern Liao Emperor escaped from Zhongjing and conspired with his second brother to rebel, pointing his sword at the imperial city.