The happy life of the devil and the devil

After passing the Zhaoming Gate, it is the inner court where the emperor, empress and concubines lived.According to the old system of Dayu, the emperor's official bed should be the Zhaoming Hall corresponding to the Zichen Hall. However, since the Taizu, most of the emperors of Beiliang in the past have found a suitable palace to live in. At this moment, Yuan Shao took Ling Yucheng for a walk. And what he entered was Zhaoxin Hall, his bedroom since he ascended the throne.

Once stepping into the gate of the palace, Gong'e, the servant who has been serving for many years in the bedroom, naturally stepped forward to serve, serving tea and water, holding a towel and serving a row, very busy.If Yuan Shao hadn't been out in the army, he would have been used to the palace servants changing clothes and washing, but now surrounded by pink, white, black and green, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, turning his head to look at Ling Yucheng's calm and indifferent expression, as if he didn't care about everything in front of him , suddenly shouted heavily: "Everyone back down!"

Immediately, all the courtiers fell to their knees, even Yu Ji'en, the head of the inner court who had served the late emperor, couldn't stand, his knees softened and he knelt down on the ground.Yuan Shao glanced at the trembling gray head out of the corner of his eye, his tone softened a bit, and he waved his hands and said, "Everyone go down. ——Yu Jien."

"The old slave is here!"

After a moment of retreating from the crowd, Yuan Shao looked at the empty courtyard with his hands behind his back, and finally felt a little more comfortable in his heart, and he let out a long breath: "From now on, if I am here, I don't have a purpose, so I am not allowed to come in to serve."

"The old slave complies with the decree—" Yu Jien looked up at Yuan Shao's face, gritted his teeth, and followed up: "The old slave asks for the decree, where is the queen's bedroom?"

"The queen lives with me, there is no need to set up another palace." After thinking for a while, he clapped his palms suddenly, "Present."

……what?

"It's been more than ten days, isn't it finished yet?"

"—Your Majesty, wait a moment!"

It turned out to be the gold book and gold treasure used by the empress—Yu Jien kowtowed to the ground, ran out all the way with his body bent, and came back with a box in his arms, knelt down on the ground and raised his hands above his head.Yuan Shao took it over and looked through it, then handed it to Ling Yucheng: "It's for you."

The wooden box was two feet long and nearly one foot wide. When the lid was lifted, the eyes were full of golden light.On one end of the vermilion brocade lining lay a square gold seal, and on the other end, a rectangular gold sheet lay flat in it. Ling Yucheng picked up the corner with two fingers, and opened the four-page gold book one by one. With the movement of his fingers, he hung in the air and swayed slightly.

The golden book shook, and a golden light flashed against the sun, Yu Ji'en felt his heart skip a beat.The head of the inner court who served the two dynasties clearly remembered the grand scene when Yuan Shao ascended the throne and became the empress of the Yuan Dynasty - important ministers holding festivals, servants proclaiming praises, female officials ringing arches, and ordering wives congratulating them. After noon, if it wasn't for the empress Yuan who was pregnant and unable to work hard, the scale of the ceremony would have to be several times larger.now, now...

Just hand it over and pick it up and it's over?

Before I finished thinking about it, I saw the new queen who had just received the treasure walk a few steps, randomly found a table, put down the wooden box in her hand, turned her head and smiled:

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Thank you too?"

"I am thanking Your Majesty for bestowing the Xuanjia Guards Seal and Xinbing Talisman a few days ago—" On that day, the Jinwu Guards and Habayashi Guards stood upright, and the pure black banner was unfurled in the sky. , Yuan Shao personally handed over the seal and soldier talisman to him. The ceremony was simple, but the scene was unusually solemn and majestic.It was a serious matter that day, but today it was handed over and received casually. The comparison between the two makes one's heart warm.

"You..." Yuan Shao shook his head and smiled, came over to pick up the box of gold books and treasures, looked around, and threw it into a corner of the cabinet, "Follow me." He took Ling Yucheng out of the bedroom, turned left, passed through The central axis running across the Forbidden City is the Hall of Fengxian, where the tablets of the ancestors of the past dynasties are enshrined.

Retiring the servants, closing the door of the hall, and passing through the front hall where the throne is displayed, Yuan Shao cleaned his hands and burned incense, bowed before the tablet in the middle of the back hall, turned his head and said to Ling Yucheng who was standing far away at the door of the back hall: "You can do it!" All right, minister."

"...Yes." Among the clan, only state rituals were mentioned, fortunately Yuan Shao still remembered this sentence.

"This is the spiritual tablets of Emperor Tai. Zu and Tai. Zu Empress." Yuan Shao stood behind his hands behind his back to watch him bow down, slightly raised his head to look at the two parallel tablets above, and said to himself, "Back then Emperor Taizu led 30 troops, and the empress herself led 20 troops, sweeping the Yan army side by side and sweeping the world. Empress Taizu was brave and resolute, and she often went out with the emperor to participate in all major military affairs. Later, Emperor Taizu Died early on the way to the expedition, Taizong was young, it was the Taizu Empress who made a decisive decision and killed hundreds of chiefs and important officials who followed the expedition at that time, which calmed down the situation."

"Hundreds of people..." Even if Ling Yucheng had [-] lives instead of [-], he couldn't help but gasp when he thought of the scene where blood flowed like rivers before the imperial tent. At least hundreds of thousands of troops are involved, not hundreds of unknown soldiers! "Is it just let her kill? No one resists?"

"Why is there no one!" This period of history is familiar to almost every Beiliang royal family since childhood, but Yuan Shao still feels shaken every time he thinks of it: "At that time, he killed Li Mingda, the Duke of Wei, and Li Mingda hit him in person. I came back: the empress always said that she would send ministers close to the late emperor to serve the late emperor, but the empress was the closest to the late emperor, why didn't the empress go?"

Speaking of this, either the fish died or the net was broken.Even if that Wei Guogong is a general with a heavy army in his hands, as a courtier, if he dares to say such words to the queen, he is ready to draw his sword at any time. Ling Yucheng can even smell the cold breath of war in the tent when he speaks—"Later what ?”

"Empress Tai. Zu immediately replied: I am not unwilling to go underground from the first emperor, but my heir is weak and the country has no owner. I can't go now. As soon as I finished speaking, I drew a knife and cut off my wrist in front of everyone, and ordered people to put him on the ground. Tai, in the ancestor's coffin!"

"..." Ling Yucheng stood behind Yuan Shao, looking up at the tablet with gold characters on a black background standing side by side with Emperor Tai Zu, in a leisurely trance.Thinking of the queen who used a woman to cut off her wrist with a knife, and confronted the important minister and general under severe pain, forcing the opponent to bow his head. Her heroic spirit, determination and determination are really beyond reach, and her heart yearns for it—Beiliang actually There are such characters! "What happened to that Li Mingda?"

"He died well, the descendant is still an official in Daliang for generations—by the way, he used to be a slave of the Xia people. Because of his military achievements, he was promoted to be a bodyguard by Emperor Taizu. Canonized as the Duke of Wei." Yuan Shao moved to the left side of the throne and bowed still, pointing to Ling Yucheng: "This is the spiritual seat of Emperor Taizong and Empress Taizong."

After Ling Yucheng finished worshiping and got up, Yuan Shao pointed to a vertical axis on the side of the emperor's imperial face and said: "Emperor Taizong also died of a sudden illness during the expedition. At that time, my father was only two years old, and it was all thanks to the empress Taizong and the king of Chu." The internal and external forces jointly seized the military power, and this is how the father's throne was obtained—do you know the king of Chu?"

"I only know that Tuoba Dechang, king of Chu, was originally from Xia. He was given the surname of the country because of his support. He worshiped the prime minister and was in charge of the government for more than [-] years." Ling Yucheng answered cautiously.The deeds of that king of Chu were also circulated in Dayu, many of which sounded unbelievable, and even if some were true, they must never be said in front of Yuan Shao.

"It's not that you don't know, you dare not say it." Yuan Shao laughed: "Actually, there is nothing to say - that King Chu was once the guest of Empress Taizong."

"..."

"Not only that, my father was taught by him since he was a child, and treated him as a master and a father. After the death of the king of Chu, my father asked him to be buried in Taizong's mausoleum. The funeral standard was the same as that of Taizong's empress. Year. The King of Chu had no son, and my father adopted his own nephew, the King of Zhou—my cousin—as his heir.”

"...I always thought it was a rumor." Ling Yucheng bowed his head silently, doing this as the Queen Mother's guest... Lai Ai must be very envious of that guy.

"Father has always respected the King of Chu... I once told me that without the earnest teachings of the King of Chu, he would not be where he is today." He raised his hand and pointed: "Beside the Emperor Taizong's imperial appearance, there is a portrait of the King of Chu Facing Ling Yucheng's surprised eyes, he raised his eyebrows, "What? Do you think it's strange? Father was enthroned at the age of two, and since I can remember, he was brought up by Empress Tai Zu and King Chu. What's wrong with respecting King Chu? Tai Zu The emperor's biological mother was snatched away by the Naiman, and she was already pregnant with Taizu when she got back."

It turns out that the etiquette system in Beiliang is really far from that of Dayu - Ling Yucheng is speechless, always thinking that the royal family still wants to save face, who knows that the queen mother... can also be treated as a father by the emperor, and given the surname of the country to be buried in the imperial mausoleum , everything was done aboveboard, and even the portraits were grandly enshrined in the Fengxian Hall.Because he was in a trance, when he paid homage to Emperor Sejong's throne later, Ling Yucheng could hardly hear what Yuan Shao was saying, but only vaguely remembered that Yuan Shao's mother was also a fierce figure, who led the army on horseback, dismounted to participate in politics, and participated in all major military and state affairs .If he hadn't died more than ten years earlier than Emperor Sejong, it was hard to guarantee that there would be another empress dowager in power who was in charge of the court like Empress Taizu and Empress Taizong.

"That's why it's always been a tradition for my empress of Great Liang to lead troops to discuss state affairs—are you listening?"

The author has something to say: The tiger lands!I made an appointment for my dad yesterday so I didn't have time to update it!Trying to fix it today!

ps:

small theater:

Your Majesty: Here you go, the contract.

Xiao Ling: Oh. (Don't even look at it, just let it go)

Your Majesty: Don't you want to see it?What if the salary is less than a zero?

Xiao Ling: If it’s missing, who should I turn to for labor arbitration?

Your Majesty: Of course I...

ps: I had a lot of fun copying history books today... Those above are all from official history, do you recognize them?

pss: Xiaoling, don't be embarrassed, compared to the previous few, you are nothing...