Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

The cry of the newborn was like the sound of nature, which relieved the tense atmosphere in Zichen Palace, and the feeling of joy filled the hearts of everyone who heard the cry.Lin Chong and the big men didn't know how to express their happiness.

Lin Chong seemed to be stupid, and said to himself, "That's great, that's great."

When he woke up, he wiped away the two lines of hot tears that couldn't help rolling down, and made two steps in three steps, threw himself on the door panel of the delivery room, pressed his face to the door panel, and asked loudly with an excited expression: "Third lady!" , San Niangzi, are you okay? You answer me."

The excited choking, uneasiness, and unconcealable fear were all expressed in his trembling voice.

When he was in Liangshan, he heard that a woman had an accident during childbirth.For more than half a year, he has been reluctantly stretching himself, not daring to show the slightest worry in front of Hu Sanniang.

Hu Sanniang was taken aback for a moment, thinking why didn't she ask if it was a man or a woman first!But she still replied quickly: "I'm fine, I'll take the baby out for you to see later."

Lin Chong like this is too shocking to Sun Xin and others' understanding of him.In the end, it was Zhang Qing who wisely and cheerfully opened his mouth first, and rescued Lin Chong.

"When my second mother gave birth, I was both happy and scared, and I looked like this too."

Sun Xin also joked and said: "I was so happy that I carried myself away. I was so happy, thinking that I would finally have a baby, finally give birth safely, and finally give birth, so there is no need to worry about it."

Talking, talking, he shut up, and he also felt very boring in embarrassment.

Chai Jin patted him on the shoulder understandingly.Sun Xin and his wife are considered to be able to have children, one every other year.But Mrs. Gu has a big temper and can make troubles. My wife and the empress have persuaded her many times.But every time she conceives a child, Sun Xin is tossing and dying.

Alas, each is not easy in its own way.

I would rather my wife toss when she is pregnant, and don't be scary when she is born.

The empress wanted more descendants of Liangshan to fill every territory of Dayuan.I discussed with my wife several times, and asked my concubine Dian to give birth to her, and send her away after giving birth.Every time, the wife shook her head and wept in disapproval.I am most afraid that my wife will cry.well!It is not easy to be loyal to the official.Dilemma.

Chai Jin looked at Lin Chong who was lying on the door panel, and his emotions turned into a helpless sigh.

After waiting for a while, the door of the palace was opened by Mrs. Gu, and Mrs. Chai carried the child out.Lin Chong frantically wiped away the tears on his face, and carefully took over the limp child who was not as long as his forearm.

The sky was twilight, and the moon had turned to the horizon, clear and white, hanging faintly in the sky.

All the people who had been kept up all night by the cool wind surrounded Lin Chong energetically. Even the palace ladies and Xiao Huangmen, who were ordered by Mrs. Gu to stand in line, couldn't help but poke their heads towards Lin Chong, wanting to see Look at the appearance of the prince or the prince.

The newborn was wrapped in a tight swaddle. Mrs. Chai carefully lifted the veil covering her face, revealing the unique facial features of a newborn: red face, snub nose, small sticky ears, tightly closed lips.But the newborn's fetal hair is thick and oily, although the eyes are not opened, the eyeliner is bent and slanted upwards, and the brows are light-colored and the shape of the eyebrows is also slanted with the eyeliner.

Lin Chong held the newborn firmly with one arm, and protected it with the other big hand. He stared happily at the newborn's face and muttered to himself.

"It's beautiful, it's beautiful"

An Daoquan stretched out his hand, "Governor, you just need to take a look at it. Give me the child, and you have to check it carefully."

How could Lin Chong be willing to give up the child to others.He immediately hugged the swaddling baby back to his chest to protect it, his face darkened as if he was facing a big enemy, and he stared at Doctor An vigilantly, as if Doctor An would snatch the child.

"what do you want to see?"

Imperial Physician An grinned, "Governor, after the baby is born, it is necessary to check the body. You ask how many of them, is that the case? Cough, I have a baby myself, so I won't steal it from you."

Zhang Qing quickly responded, "Yes, yes."

Mrs. Chai gently persuaded Lin Chong from the side: "Great Governor, I will return it to you after inspection."

Chai Jin pushed Lin Chong, and Lin Chong reluctantly handed over the child to Doctor An. Seeing Doctor An's skillful handling of the baby, he followed up and said, "Doctor An, can I come with you?"

Imperial Physician An smiled helplessly, "Your Highness can do whatever you want."

In most cases, people like Liang Shan still called Lin Chong the governor, and he also liked it.Now that Physician An called His Highness Lin Chong, Lin Chong withdrew his footsteps, tried his best to put on a smiling face, and bowed his hands to Physician An.

"I'm sorry, Doctor An."

Humph, that's about the same!

Imperial Physician An was satisfied in his heart, but he pretended to be modest and said: "I don't dare to be the governor's gift, but I can't return the gift to the governor just by hugging the empress."

Only then did the grown men realize that the baby was a little lady.

Sun Xin laughed and said, "I'll be an empress from now on. The governor, my three sons are all handsome young gentlemen. Which one do you like?"

Zhang Qing put his arms around Lin Chong's shoulders, "Governor, my little lady is as beautiful as a flower and has a gentle temper. You can play with her from now on."

Chai Jin curled his lips inwardly when he heard Zhang Qing say that the little lady in his family had a gentle temper.My Erlang's face was scratched by that little lady, thanks to him being a father, he dared to say that his daughter had a good temper.

However, he also stepped forward to join in the fun and said, "Governor, I have children in my family. It doesn't matter if you want to choose a son-in-law or a playmate."

Several people chatted livelyly around Lin Chong, unconsciously diluting Lin Chong's sense of emptiness when the child was suddenly carried away.

Lin Chong cupped his hands towards them, and You smiled from the bottom of his heart on his tear-stained face.

"Playmates are fine. The third lady said that she will grow up together with the children in Liangshan. As for which one to choose as a husband, it depends on literary talent, appearance and skill, and whether she can please the little lady. The most important thing is Be obedient."

The voices of the men were not low, and the women guarding the delivery room all laughed when they heard it.

A unanimous idea emerged in the hearts of Mrs. Chai and the others

——It's great that the official family has a little lady!

It's great to be the empress in the future!

Sun Erniang couldn't help expressing her thoughts, "It would be great if we were all empresses in the future. Every little lady should hire a wife, so that I don't have to marry and have children for others."

Mrs. Gu said disdainfully: "I am willing to give birth to a son for Xiao Yuchi."

Sun Xin and Mrs. Gu have a good relationship. No matter how much Mrs. Gu tosses Sun Xin, she is not annoyed. She coaxes and persuades Sun Xin every day.Of course, Zhang Qing, the son-in-law, is also very kind to Sun Erniang.But Sun Erniang is not as smart as Zhang Qing, if Zhang Qing had no ill intentions towards Sun Erniang, ten or eight Sun Erniangs would have been sold by him.

Mrs. Chai smiled and said, "You two don't argue. Now there are three wives to support us all, and the little wives will have a prince in the future. I don't think the little wives in the world will be unhappy."

Mrs. Wen has delivered these wives several times.In the past few months, she went to the palace several times to have an examination for Hu Sanniang, and she was not restrained in front of them.She answered the words with a smile, "Because of being a big boss in the official family, if we women quarrel with men, we will speak louder."

Mrs. Gu glared: "Your man dares to quarrel with you? Don't you break his legs? Do you keep him to eat meat buns?"

Wenpo knew Mrs. Gu's temperament, so she smiled happily and was neither anxious nor annoyed.

"Sister-in-law, Inspector Gu, are you as good at beating as that woman? Can you beat your own man? You are still as resistant to beating as General Sun in your family. I broke his leg, and I can't return it to myself. Serve him to eat and drink Lazarus."

Sun Erniang bumped Mrs. Gu's shoulder, "You are an inspector, and you should take care of any man who beats his wife. A few days ago, I heard the maid at home muttering that the little lady in Bianliang didn't marry for long. , was beaten to death by the man."

Mrs. Gu nodded with a sullen face, "You go home and ask the maid what's the matter, and bring me to meet her another day. When the housekeeper is confinement, I will write the book."

Hu Sanniang recovered her strength with her eyes closed, and for both Mrs. Gu and Erniang Sun, both of them had their thoughts on themselves clearly on the surface.To say that the people she can trust are basically those inside and outside the Zichen Palace.

While listening to Sun Erniang chatting with Mrs. Gu, Wen Po neatly packed her afterbirth.She saw Mrs. Chai carrying the child back to the Empress, so she added a few words.

"I don't know how many little ladies I have delivered in the past few decades, but I have never seen such a handsome one. The queen cries loudly and has strength, and she will grow up well in the future."

Hu Sanniang turned her head, looked at the little baby girl with her eyes closed, and thanked her with joy, "With your good words, I can grow up in peace and prosperity in the future."

He stretched out his fingers and tapped the tip of the newborn's snub nose, "She's a beautiful little lady."

Lin Chong waited for Wen Po to tidy up Sanniang Hu, then went in and carried Sanniang Hu back to her bedroom.Then he carefully placed his daughter beside Hu Sanniang, leaned on the edge of the bed, and bent down to look at the mother and daughter in a daze.

After Mrs. Chai took care of everything, she pulled Mrs. Gu and Erniang Sun, "Let's go, let's go back and have a rest, come back tomorrow."

Sun Erniang looked at Lin Chong's appearance, smiled and walked out and said, "Our family looked after the children in the same way."

Mrs. Gu glanced at Lin Chong, and said resentfully, "For he has a conscience."

With Hu Sanniang around, Mrs. Gu is not afraid of Lin Chong, anyway, he dare not get serious with her.

Hu Sanniang woke up after a nap, saw Lin Chong was still bending over to stare at her daughter, couldn't help smiling and coughing lightly.

Lin Chong immediately raised his head, "Third lady, you are awake. The nanny has fed her and changed her diaper. Would you like something to eat? There is hot noodle soup prepared."

Lin Chong spoke softly and quickly.He was in high spirits, with a smile on his face, if it wasn't for the black eye circles and crumpled robes that affected his image, he would have looked like another person.

"Is it pretty?" Hu Sanniang asked, pointing at the little girl.After a long sleep and drinking some soup, she felt that she had recovered a lot.

Lin Chong nodded repeatedly, "It's pretty. When she grows up, she must be the most beautiful little lady in the Yuan Dynasty."

"Better than me?" Hu Sanniang asked seriously, staring narrowly at Lin Chong with sly eyes.

Lin Chong was a little embarrassed, and prevaricated: "No. She is still young."

Although he knew that Hu Sanniang was playing with him, but in broad daylight, he still felt a little embarrassed to be told that Hu Sanniang was more beautiful than his daughter.After looking left and right, he took a towel to wipe Hu Sanniang's sweat, and said seriously, "In my husband's eyes, you are the most beautiful in the world. In my father's eyes, my daughter is also the most beautiful."

"Hmph, slippery."

Lin Chong knew that Sanniang Hu had let go of the topic, so he smiled easily and changed the topic along the way.

"Do you just use the name you chose?"

"Hmm. Is there anything wrong with the word Lin?" Hu Sanniang asked back.

"Okay, very good, good pronunciation and good meaning, Meiyu, I wish for it." Lin Chong grinned, and the corners of his mouth went to his ears with a smile.He watched the little baby girl purse her lips, stretched out her index finger to lightly touch her little hand, and was immediately held tightly by the little baby girl unconsciously, which made his heart melt.

The courtiers who went back to work the next day knew that the empress had given birth to a little girl, and the imperial edict for her title as empress dowager had been prepared early.Many people sighed in resignation, but the women in Bianliang City seemed to be bewitched, making trouble day and night for several days.It wasn't until Qiuwei's results came out that some attention was paid to the Crown Princess.

The results of this autumn were reported to the court as scheduled.Hu Sanniang saw that the writing style was outstanding, and the women's test scores were not as good as those of the remote government office, so she called Chai Jin and Wu Yong to the Zichen Palace, and asked the Ministry of Rites to cooperate with the Metropolitan Procuratorate. All the names and traces of the Daoist reports were collected and compared with the original volumes.

Not long after the incident was dispatched, strangers began to come to Chai Jin's house to give gifts.Who are Chai Jin and his wife? How could they accept such a gift.All gift givers, without exception, were rejected.

A month later, the original answer sheets of the candidates from all over the country were sealed and taken back to Bianliang.At the same time, it also includes the candidates who took the exam, the initial handwriting and markings registered in each prefecture.

Pei Xuan and Wu Yong personally led people to interrogate the assistant officials, such as academic administrators and academic supervisors, who were detained in several administrative offices in the capital.The academic and political officials of the prefectural offices were probably out of anger that women had better test scores than men, so they falsified the results reported to the court.

As a result, all those who participated in the fraud fell into the big net opened by Pei Xuan and Wu Yong.

When the princess was able to stand up, the Qiuwei fraud case was uncovered.

Li Gang was holding the sentencing document from the Ministry of Punishment sent by the Empress, his hands were shaking.The Zhun characters circled with cinnabar pierced through the back of the paper, full of murderous aura, ferocious and ferocious.The bright red dazzled his eyes, and the bright red looked like the blood of the officials who were about to be beheaded.

He couldn't help questioning those officials who were going to be beheaded in his heart, did they dare to cheat just because men's test scores were not as good as women's?

——This is malpractice for personal gain.

Didn't they take to heart the empress' will to select useful talents regardless of gender?

——This is not allowed to resist the decree.

Could it be that in their eyes there are only differences between men and women, without the great interests of the people of the world?

— This is narrow-mindedness.

Qiu Wei also dared to lie. This is the bottom line of being a human being. Such a person is not worthy of being a student, a supervisor, or a Confucian disciple.

Kill!

But he still went to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice first, and met all the officials who were to be interrogated and beheaded in private, and asked them one by one whether they had testified against the Ministry of Criminal Justice and whether they had been tortured.

After coming out of the Ministry of Punishment, Li Gang understood why those former bandits from Liangshan were all afraid of Pei Xuan and did not dare to violate the laws of Liangshan.But this also made him feel that he, the prime minister, had no face to face the empress.

Ashamed, Li Gang quickly handed in his resignation, saying that he was the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and he failed to detect incompetent officials in time, which led to imperial examination fraud in several administrative offices.

The empress withheld his resignation but did not agree, and called Li Gang to the political affairs room of Wende Hall. In front of the ministers of various ministries, she said to him earnestly and sincerely: "The school administrators and school supervisors of those government offices where the Qiu Wei accident happened It's not just that they are not angry about the good grades of women, but other officials in their Taoist office also have such thoughts, so there will be such frauds that ignore the laws of the country and conscience. These people's thoughts will not be just because I am the empress. Immediately accepted the fact that women are not inferior to men. The most important thing is that these people are not the officials you selected during your tenure as Minister of the Ministry of Officials. This matter has nothing to do with you. The official exam is coming soon. Put more effort in the big exam and put competent officials in the right positions."

Li Gang's eyes were moved to tears by the empress's words, and she could not bear the infamy for thousands of years.He secretly made up his mind to sort out the officials in various places in the official examination, and transfer those officials who could not keep up with the situation and who had a tendency to disapprove of the empress's ruling from important positions.

In the first autumn of the Yuan Dynasty, he was beheaded and relegated because of academic and political fraud. The whole family of the officials involved in the case was regarded as sinners according to the law, and a bloody scene fell.

Then Chai Jin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, was so busy that he had to send another official from the Ministry of Rites down to organize a make-up examination for Qiu Wei in the accident treatment office.

In the twelfth lunar month, the [-]-mile victory report of the Northern Expedition Forbidden Army was sent to the capital.After capturing Tokyo in the Kingdom of Jin, Qin Ming led the army to pursue the victory to Baishanlushui, the birthplace of the Jurchens of the Kingdom of Jin, and captured most of the royal family members of the Kingdom of Jin.Wu Song set up an ambush with the infantry and captured the Jin Emperor Wanyan Sheng who had fled Tokyo in a hurry, as well as his favorite concubine and youngest son.

The news of victory plunged Bianliang into a carnival.Some officials began to look forward to the prisoner offering ceremony.Officials from the Ministry of Rituals walked in and out with flexibility, but when Chai Jin asked the Empress about the prisoner offering ceremony, Hu Sanniang’s answer frightened Chai Jin so much that when he left the political affairs room of Wende Hall, he tripped over his left foot and fell flat on his right. Somersaulted.

Chai Jin went back and murmured to his wife, "Madam, what do you think the officials think? She said that she had sent someone to pass the decree, and there was no need for an army to bring the Jin Emperor Wanyan Sheng back to the capital. It was only when the country was founded If there is such a ceremony for the emperor of the Jin Kingdom to present prisoners, it will be a grand event that will surpass other founding emperors in the annals of history."

Mrs. Chai was pregnant again, and she was so sleepy that she didn't want to talk.The empress gave her a vacation and asked her to take turns taking care of things with Cui Shi and Hua Shi who lived in the palace, but she herself didn't want to rest, so she came home after a busy day in the palace, so tired that she just wanted to lie down.

"Husband, after giving birth to this one, let's not have another one, okay?"

There are sons and daughters in the family, and this is already the sixth.

Seeing his wife's tired look, Chai Jin felt very distressed.

"If you don't give birth, don't give birth. In fact, you can let others give birth to you."

When it was mentioned that someone else would give birth to the child, Mrs. Chai immediately changed her face, tears accumulated in her eyes and were about to come out.Chai Jin knew that he had said something wrong, so he hurried to make up for it.

"Ma'am, I don't want to be a concubine."

As soon as Chai Jin's words came out of his mouth, he knew he had made a mistake.Watching the lady's tears flow down.He was so regretful and frustrated that he slapped himself a few times, and made a promise and a promise that he would not add anyone to his family, so that he could survive this panic.

After Madam Chai calmed down, she explained to her husband the reason for not holding the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners.

"The officials said that the first is that there is no money. The second is that the soldiers of the Qin and Ming Dynasties should be rewarded. The third is that the soldiers who were disabled and killed in battle should be compensated. The fourth is that the people should be relocated to the north."

Chai Jin grinned, not daring to speak out what was in his heart. All these add up to one reason: no money.

This reason really blocked everything he wanted to say.

Is the imperial court really so short of money?Chai Jin didn't believe it at all.Before the autumn of this year, a group of incompetent officials were laid off. Last month, a group were beheaded, exiled, and dismissed.Some inexplicable additional official subsidies were also canceled by the empress on the pretext of going north, but a few more were added after the implementation of Wang Tian's way.Even if he is not in the household department and does not directly take over the money and food, he also knows that the overall income this year is better than last year, and even better than the year before.

——Because the Empress Hu Sanniang's harem is too cheap.

This conclusion is not only compared with Zhao Ji, the emperor of the former Song Dynasty, but also compared with any emperor who founded the country.

Chai Jin held back for a while, but he still told his wife everything the Empress had said to him.

"The officials said that her dynasty doesn't need the captives of the Jin Kingdom's royal family to decorate its appearance, and she doesn't want to provide silver and rice to support any Jin Kingdom people." Chai Jin was trembling as he spoke.

"Ma'am, I feel scared. I think the official family is no longer in Liangshan. You know, the official family said that she has sent someone to declare to Qin Ming that there will be no Jurchen men and women who are taller than the chariot shaft. My God, really No stay. Tell me what she thinks, God, it's terrible."

Mrs. Chai immediately covered her husband's mouth, "Shut up, the official's will doesn't let you speak out, so you just control your mouth. You are still the Minister of Rites, don't you know that people who are not of my race will have different hearts? How many years did the Kingdom of Jin rise, and it destroyed the Kingdom of Liao. How many disasters did Daliao bring to the Song Dynasty? If it weren’t for the officials who personally led troops to retake Hejian Mansion and Yanshan Mansion the year before last, the Jin soldiers would have gone from Hejian Mansion to Daming Do you think it will be difficult from the mansion to Bianliang?"

Chai Jin's expression was ugly, and he knew that what Madam said was true.If the official family did not win the throne of the former Song Dynasty, when Jin Bing occupied Jingdong East Road and the whole Lu land fell into the hands of Jin Guo, everyone in Liangshan would have to be cleaned up by Jin Bing in the end.After all, Liangshan's output is limited, and ironware, food, medicine, etc. all rely on external purchases.

Seeing that her husband had figured it out, Madam Chai let go of her hand, suppressed her discomfort and said to Chai Jin: "Husband, please keep my words in mind. Now we can only follow the officials, and we can do whatever the officials say." Do it. Didn’t you see all the official births that day, that is, our family. You put away your usual quarrel with the former Song Bie Emperor, and now that Hu Sanniang is an official guest, you don’t owe the Chai family anything .”

Chai Jin sang a fat promise to his wife.

"I remember what you said. It is said that a good wife and husband rarely cause harm. In the past, it was because I was not good at looking good that I was so tired that your life and your children were hanging by a thread. I will not be ridiculous anymore. Just look at me."

"Okay, I'm looking at you.".