[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

The northwest corner of this imperial garden is the Shangyang Palace, which is the palace where the Supreme Emperor lives. It is smaller and more exquisite, not as magnificent as Daming Palace and Taiji Palace.

The northeast corner is Beiyuan, which is the royal martial arts field, the racetrack, and of course the palace for the emperor to live in. Tu Yuanyi will live here when he is free from government affairs, so as to avoid a two-day morning.

Along the way, the corridors are back and forth, the eaves and teeth are high, and intrigues, passing through the artificial river in the garden and listening to the spring water. When passing through the garden path, rare and exotic grasses are lush and lush, and the Old Summer Palace seems to be reproduced here.

Xing Xiuyan felt that it was not wise to rely on walking in this inner palace. She was born in the common people, and she was protected by aura and felt hot and tired. If the other concubines would have collapsed already.

Tu Yuanyi's breath was not disturbed at all. When she arrived at the martial arts arena, she was put on a veiled hat, and sat down to knock melon seeds and eat watermelon, while he changed into his unlined clothes, and practiced sword dancing and dragon swimming.

You can also watch his swordsmanship performances and big swords. Xing Xiuyan, as before, did not hesitate to applaud and cheer.

There were also eunuchs selected from the palace to practice martial arts and the future Jin Yiwei who was born as an orphan, which filled the martial field.

It is a great honor for Tu Yuanyi to teach martial arts in person, eunuchs who want a better future can only practice civil and martial arts diligently, this is especially true for those Jin Yiwei who were born as orphans and have no foundation.

In the formation of dummies made of wooden piles, I saw figures flashing by, swords glowing, and the sound of cracking and tearing continued for a while. It seemed that in just a moment, the twelve wooden dummies had been decapitated or cut in half by the sword, and so on. The fierce and fast swordsmanship, hundreds of people in the martial arts field applauded in unison.

Tu Yuanyi breathed out a turbid breath, walked back to the throne, and said: "If you want to become a qualified Jinyiwei, show your skills!"

"Long live my emperor!" A group of hundreds of teenagers lined up in the martial arts arena with Xiuchun knives in their hands, practicing one move after another.The shouts continued, a hundred people stepped forward, and every sword move caused earthquakes and strong winds.

Their moves are not as complicated as Tu Yuanyi's just now, but they are extremely practical and simplified, but judging from the direction and ruthlessness of their attacks, they are also the key points of their moves. If they succeed, the opponent will not die or be seriously injured.

The moves practiced by the team of eunuchs were not as fierce as this one, and their swordsmanship was more dexterous and feminine. It would not be difficult to pick a hundred or so young eunuchs out of six thousand eunuchs to train them to study and practice martial arts.

There were two batches of eunuchs who had learned some martial arts, and then "graduated" into the Dongxi Factory. The Dongxi Factory had the power to monitor all officials, but did not have the right to dispose of them.

The Dongxi Factory in the Qianyuan Dynasty did not say that there were no wrongdoings to the officials, but they were less wronged, because the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple were the presiding judges.

It was getting dark soon, and Tu Yuanyi stayed in Beiyuan.There is also a hot spring bath in the palace in Beiyuan. After practicing martial arts, you can go to this bubble to relieve fatigue.After dinner, go to the hot spring bath.

Soaking in hot springs is not difficult. Xing Xiuyan sat on the edge of the pool, immersed her body in the hot springs, and let out a long and comfortable breath.

"Xiuxiu likes to soak in hot springs." Tu Yuanyi said suddenly.

"Who doesn't like beauty treatment that relaxes tendons, activates blood circulation and relieves fatigue?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "Then, you should stay in Beiyuan."

"what?"

"This month, I will stay in Beiyuan Xiangtang to take a bath."

"but……"

Tu Yuanyi said: "If you can't sleep, you can take a bath. If you don't work hard, how can you get promoted and raise your salary?"

Xing Xiuyan thinks this is very reasonable. No matter what, her job in this life is impossible to be a female president and a queen. If she doesn't want to be a queen mother, she should hang out with Jieyu anyway so that her mother can visit her.

Xing Xiuyan glanced at him and said, "Saint, turn around and I'll wipe your back."

Tu Yuanyi turned around and let her wipe and rub his back vigorously, but she was already distracted.

He finally managed to get someone into the palace, and the coffin was concluded as a relationship between a man and a woman. How could he feel wronged at this time?He originally wanted to be a wise king, and his ideal was to build a great Great Zhou Empire, but when he happened to meet her, he couldn't help but feel the wrath of both men and gods.It is clear that the emperor cannot have hobbies, or be caught by others, but all the servants know his apex.

Xing Xiuyan had no premonition when he was lifted up by his whole body, but fortunately, she never thought about taking a bath since she stepped into Tangyuan.Not that naive.

He squeezed her against the edge of the wall, her handsome face was flushed with hot soup, her phoenix eyes were faintly glowing with fire, water dripped down his face and neck.

He stroked her forehead, held her cheeks, breathed out a breath of hot air, and looked deeply into her eyes.

"Xiuxiu, I want you, serve me well, and I will reward you."

The tide is surging, the turbulent waves beat the shore, beat back, beat again and then retreat.

The wind and cloud rose up, the torrential rain gathered, and the ultimate bloom.

When she was tossed to the soft couch in the bathing place, she had lost all reason, and she didn't know what kind of disgraceful appearance she had become in his domineering and skillful ways.

But when Tu Yuanyi saw her clinging to him, hooking him, and circling his waist, he had already lost his soul.

He pressed her, caressed her, brushed her forehead hair, and was as gentle as water when he was emotional.

"My silly Xiuxiu, I'm here, I've always been here."

The plum blossoms are scattered by the wind and rain, and the water is vast in the depths of the clouds and smoke.

Pillowing on the man's arm, Xing Xiuyan looked at the rows of bamboo platforms around the bathing place, and the whole room was ambiguously illuminated by the light of the candles.

Xing Xiuyan felt a little annoyed with herself in her heart, now she remembered the process, not only was she eaten up by him again and again, but she was also moving towards the heroine in the process.Really bring your own dry food and be prostituted by the emperor until the end of the festival?

Why?

But in the harem, if she is not prostituted by the emperor, has no promotion and salary increase, no welfare benefits, and will never see her relatives, Xing, Lin, Shi, Jia's family and the people around her will all be affected, and there will be more Maybe she died early, lived a miserable life, and everyone wanted to bully her.

In a place like the harem, the only way for a woman to live well and benefit her family is to be prostituted by the emperor, and to make him happy. This is the job of the women in the harem.It's too hypocritical to enter the industry without professionalism without dying.Forget all the pretentious and unprofessional thoughts, she doesn’t have the life of a princess, and she can see the thoughts of that kind of little woman in modern times. After expressing her thoughts to an ancient emperor, it is more important to live her own life and strive for her own interests.

With such psychological construction, she felt much better.Besides, the emperor should be a good bed partner in terms of hardware and technology.

As she thought about it, her eyelids became heavier and heavier. She was already very tired.

The next day, she was "grounded" in Beiyuan, and temporarily lived in the "Lingxu Pavilion" not far from the bathing place. Zixue Qingjinlan's five servant girls, Su and Zhao Erjian also came to serve her personally.

Jinyiwei and eunuch students would not come into the inner palace when the emperor was not reviewing, they were separated from here by a wall.

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After the morning court, Tu Yuanyi was in a happy mood. Recently, in the morning court, he heard some scandalous things, and a courtier was impeached. When Tu Yuanyi seldom had a serious face, he sometimes showed a benevolent attitude , which is a rare quality in the "mean and ungrateful" Emperor Qianyuan.

Among the courtiers of the foreign court, Emperor Qianyuan now favors Lin Ruhai, a newly promoted university scholar. This old sage's former confidant is even more prosperous in the new dynasty, which makes the inner and outer courts jealous.Emperor Qianyuan did not hesitate to encourage Lin Ruhai to propose and reform some specific measures to tax the salt government.

Tu Yuanyi finally rested in the Queen's Qifeng Palace on the first day of July, and came here a little earlier today.

"It's rare for a sage to come to Qifeng Palace for dinner today, so the concubine asked the small kitchen to cook a few more side dishes." Empress Yang smiled and said to the handsome man who sat on the couch and drank tea, holding a handkerchief.

Tu Yuanyi said with a smile: "Then there is the queen."

After Queen Yang ordered the maids to pass on the message, she also came to speak with the emperor.Empress Yang looked at his solemn and cold handsome face, this man was a stranger to her, even though she stayed in her palace two days a month, she couldn't touch him.

Empress Yang remembered something and said: "Today, my concubine went to pay her respects to the queen mother. The imperial concubine happened to be there, and my concubine saw the ninth and tenth princesses. The time flies, and they are all 13 years old. One of them was born at seven. One month, one was born in August, and I think that two more will be in time."

Empress Yang looked at him tentatively. Tu Yuanyi drank tea and said, "My eldest princess is 12 years old, let alone my younger sister. Are the queen mother and noble concubine looking for husband's homes for the younger sisters?"

Empress Yang smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty, there are two elder princesses in the palace who are not engaged to marry. How can the eldest princess and the second princess find someone else first? The eldest princess is 12 years old, and the second princess is also 10 years old." .Seeing next year's spring, I don't know if I can find two talented and beautiful talents for the two eldest princesses."

Tu Yuanyi thought of his two younger sisters and two daughters' son-in-laws in his previous life, both of whom were involved in the case of the capital change and his house was ransacked by him, so he had to find another family.

People in later generations said that Tu Yuanyi was mean and ungrateful, but it didn't completely slander him. He was cold-tempered and rarely got close to his wives, concubines and children.

The former father, the emperor, and the three princes added to his obstacles, and this Empress Dowager Liu is also very tight, and because of the early death of Yang's previous life, the Empress Dowager Liu has made a fuss about his empress, and she has often intervened because of her filial piety. The front of the harem.

Because the imperial power was not much in her hands, Empress Dowager Liu knew that she was not so in awe of his legal son, but she picked and picked a son-in-law for her daughter, and her vision was not very good.

That family was also a family that fully supported the Tai/Zu's uprising in the early years, was related to the Tu family, and sacrificed his life to save him.Dingzhong Hou Gaozong faded out of the court, but their meritorious duty-free land was even greater than that of the Duke.The Dukes of this dynasty were all military commanders, and Dingzhonghou was a wealthy man at the time, and he did not know martial arts.

This son of the Dingzhong Hou's Mansion is a real talented and handsome man, but he is different from his father's generation who are indifferent and greedy for traveling around mountains and rivers. According to the system of this dynasty, men cannot lead troops outside or join the six ministries.

Afterwards, the eldest son was abandoned in the flower house, and the concubines were taken to the mansion one by one. The ten princesses were forced to hysteria, and the Empress Dowager Liu used power to suppress others, but Dingzhonghou was not a soft persimmon.

Because when Taizong was besieged by the enemy, his ancestor was Taizong's cousin, who looked exactly like Taizong. In the crisis, he pretended to be Taizong to distract the enemy and died generously.After Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he granted his cousin's only son the hereditary Dingzhonghou, and gave him the iron scroll of Dan Shu.

Although Empress Dowager Liu was a hindrance to him in her previous life, she is quite honest in this life.It's just that her niece Liu Jingru had hit him on the tip of his heart, which was difficult to deal with for a while, because he couldn't kill them.

A woman's grievances should be resolved by the woman herself. If Xiuxiu wants to vent her anger, he will naturally support her behind her back.

However, if she herself doesn't care about dealing with the Liu family, the Shen family and the like, it will be really promising for him to reason with the stupid harem women.

That little leopard, I'm going to look down on him from the bottom of my heart.He had heard the story of "Han Zhu Ge Ge", which was the story about the later royal family of Hou Jin in her time.She really looked down on Emperor Qianlong, saying that Qianlong had a brain twitch, and what she looked down on the most was that the emperor took care of the affairs of the women in the harem.

In her three views and aesthetics, the man Shangzhi is everywhere, let alone the man is the emperor?

Teaching the women in the harem is not what the emperor should do. It is the emperor's love for them to teach them to behave well by punishing people like the Liu family and the Shen family.In the future, if they behave themselves, they can still get a good result, but it's time to turn around.

Either the matter is overturned, and she will not remember it for a long time; or, the way she appreciates revenge for her is that they never have a chance to look back, they are crazy in the old death palace, or Zheng Bokeduan dragged out the knife in the end result.

With this style, she may still say: They are so pitiful, they are not married to human beings, but you are cruel enough, like an emperor.

Therefore, she never thought of asking him to come forward to deal with Liu and Shen and others, and let him do what the emperor she despised did. She really hates him, so the only way for him to surprise her is to have his head passed by , tell her that people have dealt with it cleanly, then she will say: well done, awesome.

Yes, this kind-hearted woman really admires this kind of man in her heart, not the man who is sticky about small things in her backyard like Qianlong in the story.

Maybe she didn't know it herself, but when she told a story, when she talked about a man with a big heart and a decisive heart, her eyes would light up.

Therefore, she is a very complicated and special woman. Apart from the helpless situation, her tolerance also has factors that she despises, and her essence is an extremely domineering woman.

In fact, he really can't meet her aesthetics. In his previous life, Xu was the kind of emperor she despised. When she was still Ah Piao, the word leaked when she talked about the story of "Red Mansion" was that he borrowed money from the harem women. The ridiculous emperor, his face was dark, but he concealed his true identity even more tightly in the following decades.