Force a good concubine

Happy life, worry about hurting the body, the old saying is not wrong at all, from July 29th to July [-]th, in half a month, Cui Chengxiu lost seven catties.Everyone in Yuqian saw his changes in their eyes, but no one had the time to think about it—a group of mud Buddha crossing the river, who can't protect themselves, who can laugh at whom?

The eunuchs are ignorant of government affairs, they can't see the stormy situation in the court, and they don't understand the splendid memorials of the cabinet ministers, but as long as they are old people in front of the imperial court, they can guess what is going on with the cabinet's refusal: Your Majesty The ruler is in charge, the adults are assisting the government, the emperor has passed down a decree, and the adults have written an edict based on the decree, and distributed it to various ministries or localities to implement it. Now the ruler and the assistants are about to fight, isn't it going to cause chaos in the world?

This time the emperor seemed to have made up his mind to go his own way, and after the Ghost Festival, he issued an order to the cabinet.According to the old practice of the first one, if it is rejected three times, it must be issued to the six ministries and nine ministers for consensus. At the time of Emperor Taizu, the cabinet ministers refused to obey the imperial edict. Shangshu and Guanglu Temple followed the emperor's edict to prepare for the post-enrolment ceremony in court, but the censor was not in time to remonstrate - because of such a lesson from the past, the cabinet ministers were worried that some good and bad would jump out and invite favored villains to ruin things, so they were not in a hurry to refute. It's just a bitter remonstrance handing out signs like flowing water.

The courtiers entered the palace like a lantern, and naturally they couldn't hide it from the eyes of those who cared. Seeing that the city was full of wind and rain, Cui Chengxiu almost wanted to cry: it was just flattery, and he wanted to gain a step into the palace. Become a deadly rope?In his heart, Gu Yan's matter was a huge bargain, the emperor was in the ninth place, how easy is it to lift a person into the palace?There are too many vacant palaces in the palace, just put it in any place, give it a name, who can tell if it is the 72nd concubine of the Sixth Court of the Three Palaces of the Son of Heaven?Who would have thought that this young master would put him on the phoenix seat now that he had accepted death?

The ministers made admonitions every day, and wrote letters asking the emperor to "far away from villains and approach gentlemen".The monarchs and ministers come and go, although they have not yet confronted each other, but they are about to respect each other like ice, and the queen mother can't sit still.

The first day of August is the Grand Court Meeting. In front of many ministers, if the emperor and the cabinet openly tear their faces, things will inevitably get out of hand.

On July [-]th, Cui Xi passed on the Queen Mother's decree, and invited the former chief and deputy chief executives to Renshou Palace for interrogation.Cui Chengxiu and Wei Fengchun tremblingly entered the gate of the palace. They saw the empress dowager sitting in the high seat with two women on the left and one on the right. The one on the left was dressed in palace attire, Zheng Jia, the head of Luanyi, and the one on the right was Lin Yuan, the admiral of Luanyiwei. , Suddenly the legs are weak.

Luan Yiwei is in charge of the Zhenfu Division and the Punishment Division, which is in charge of the important criminals and felony palace officials. Cui Chengxiu felt that his life was half gone, so he reluctantly greeted the Empress Dowager with Wei Fengchun with a smile on his face: "Little Cui Chengxiu, Wei Fengchun, kowtow to the old lady. The old lady is healthy and auspicious."

"I don't have anything else to ask you to come," the queen mother said straight to the point, "Nowadays, the emperor and the cabinet ministers are getting angry because of the canonization of the big wedding. Originally, I didn't interfere in political affairs, but it's not a problem for the monarch and ministers to be like this. Cause and consequences, the emperor is so stubborn, it must be because he has someone in his heart, you two are the closest to the emperor, what do you know?" Her eyes fell on Cui Chengxiu, and her expression suddenly became serious, "Cui Chengxiu, is the emperor going out of the palace? You followed, and now that something like this has happened, did you have some thoughts and led the emperor to some place where he shouldn't go?"

Cui Chengxiu's smiling face almost turned into a crying face: "The old lady is here, and the servants followed me every step of the way when the young master left the palace. Apart from discussing articles and current affairs with a few scholars, there is nothing else! It's not the servant who lied to the master, it's not just the servant who watched with eyes, but also Shangzhi Wei Xu guerrilla, if you don't believe me, your old man sent him here, the servant will confront him face to face!"

Lin Yuan next to him also nodded: "I also asked Xu Guerrilla. Your Majesty is diligent in governing. When you are in a humble clothes and observe the people's conditions, you usually listen to people talking about state affairs and people's livelihood, and don't pay much attention to other things. I will also send someone about the origins of those scholars. I went to the Xuezheng Yamen to check, and he looks like a decent scholar, and he is much older than your majesty."

"It's fine if it's not those crooked ways." The Queen Mother breathed a sigh of relief, "Since it's not from outside the palace, it's from inside the palace. I know the emperor is cautious, and there must be something to seal your mouth, which is what should happen. Today I'll just put my words here: winning the emperor's favor is a great thing, and it's definitely not a traitor. It's just that some things that are out of proportion can't be done, and ministers stop them. Don't even think about being a phoenix, but Ai's family is the master. As a concubine, if she is a really good concubine, it is not impossible for her to become a noble concubine in the future."

Seeing that the Empress Dowager put her mind on the palace, Cui Chengxiu breathed a sigh of relief, and refused to admit it to the end: "Returning to the old lady, most of the days when slaves and maids are on duty are lectures on a daily basis. The young master studies in the morning and in the afternoon. When you read the memorial and meet the ministers, you can’t come up with these things. When there is no day to talk, the young master sometimes wanders in the palace to relax, and the servants have never served before, so they don’t know.”

Seeing the hot glutinous rice ball stuffed into his arms, Wei Fengchun hated Cui Chengxiu so much.He followed the emperor for a stroll, but that was when the emperor was thinking about his thoughts with his hands behind his back. When did he talk to the maids of various palaces?He decided that it was a matter of going out outside the palace, and Cui Chengxiu must have put in a lot of effort, and he didn't want to speak up for the culprit, but the two of them are now grasshoppers on a rope, and both of them are hurt. , I had no choice at all, so I had to say with a bitter face: "The old lady Mingjian, our young master, this, this, just like what the adults said, the holy mirror is deep, the holy candle is illuminated, the holy learning is profound, and slaves and maidservants are really looking at it." Don't come out!"

He used idioms so neither fish nor fowl, the court ladies in the palace who could read a few words covered their mouths and snickered, and the Empress Dowager couldn't help but sigh.

Seeing that both of them were biting to death and did not let go, Lin Yuan and Zheng Jia looked at each other, bowed slightly to the queen mother and said, "Women and men have always had different temperaments, and these slaves can't see it."

The Queen Mother sighed.That's right, the daughter's heart, the seabed needle, even though the eunuch is cleansed, after all, the innate conditions are there, serving tea, handing water and running errands can be flattering, how can I figure out the daughter's boudoir's thoughts?The rules handed down from the ancestors, although the emperor is a female emperor, the maids around him are still governed by the male emperor, and there is no change. One is that the emperor Taizu was the emperor on horseback at first, and he didn't care about these small details. With the women in the deep palace, they are weak and can't afford the country, but they don't expect that the current emperor will reveal this shortcoming.

"And this person may not necessarily exist."

This sentence is really puzzling. Everyone in the palace was stunned, but Zheng Jia remained unhurried: "The Emperor Taizu decreed that the Chu family should be appointed as the queen; His Majesty did not mention who should be the queen, but only suggested the ceremony. At that time, the minister was a little suspicious, but the cabinet ministers had already granted the decree, so they didn't mention it—the minister went to check the memorials of the previous few days, and sure enough, the Ministry of Rites wrote to ask for the selection of the emperor's husband. But it has always been the first to establish a harem and then take charge of the government. The minister privately speculates, is it because His Majesty has no intention of getting married, and can't find a suitable excuse?

These words were exactly in line with what the emperor said a few days ago. The empress dowager was so enlightened that she was so enlightened, she brows brightly for a moment: "I think it's because of this! Really, what's the point of saying such things? The emperor is young, and he has never touched these places. Being ashamed and afraid of marrying is a daughter's nature, but I was negligent."

"If this is really the case, things will be easy to handle." Zheng Jia said, "The female emperor is different from the male emperor. She gets married too early, and it is not suitable for bearing children. Why don't you ask the old lady to make an order to postpone the wedding to three years for the time being?" We can discuss it later. When His Majesty grows older in the future and understands the love of children, it will naturally come to fruition."

"What's so difficult about it?" The Empress Dowager recalled the emperor's daily behavior in the palace, and the more she thought about it, the more she became convinced. "I originally wanted to postpone the wedding for a while, and wait for the emperor to grow up before saluting. Now I simply Ask the emperor, if it’s really for this reason, then just do it this way. Marriage matters are the orders of parents, and I am the emperor’s master, so the cabinet ministers shouldn’t say anything.”

She went to Qinghe Hall in person in the afternoon, and took a rest that day. The emperor ordered the cabinet ministers to pick out the remonstrance letters to one place, and was looking through them one by one. After hearing the report, she hurriedly got up to greet her: "Why did the queen come here in person?" gone?"

The memorials were piled up on the entire book case, and the queen mother sighed as she looked at it: "I heard from the cabinet ministers that the emperor wants to learn from the emperor Taizu?"

"How can you compare with Emperor Taizu?" the emperor said, "After Emperor Taizu was established, half the cabinet of remonstrance books was collected in one day. This is incomparable; Emperor Taizu ordered the cabinet not to do it, but someone in the Ministry of Rites dared to accept it." It’s nothing compared to the fact that the purpose is poor.”

Although the tone of these words is calm, the gully inside is shocking. The Queen Mother thought about it carefully, and her mind became more certain: "Everyone talks about the golden words of the emperor, but sometimes the golden words don't count. Marriage is a big matter, the order of parents According to the matchmaker, if the emperor has someone he likes, you might as well bring it to me to see, if it is really good, I will decide with the emperor."

The emperor thought for a while: "I don't have anyone I like, I'm just curious, why can't I even discuss the ceremony when the Taizu emperor can become a queen?"

The words were still full of resentment, but the queen mother was completely relieved.Once the emperor and the courtiers, it is common for the emperor to take power in person. It is reasonable for the emperor to start with this matter on a sudden whim.However, this was related to the political situation, and he couldn't persuade him, so he asked Zheng Jia to persuade the emperor privately.

Zheng Jia did not speak at the court meeting, as if she was focused on staying out of the matter. The emperor thought that Luan Yisi, like the cabinet ministers, was not happy to hear the proposal. After three years?"

"This is indeed what I proposed." Zheng Jia remained unhurried, "It's just a reason, but not necessarily. I serve Your Majesty in governing the country, and I know that the sacred considerations are far-reaching, which is very human. If you have a claim, those words can only be said to a loyal person like the Queen Mother."

"Then what do you want to say in front of me?"

"Your Majesty, please clear up your doubts first." Zheng Jia smiled slightly, "Emperor Taizu was so talented and powerful, he only fought for the sake of the princes in the harem, and he suffered misfortune—Is His Majesty just enjoying the joy of his sons and daughters for a while, or does he really want to imitate Emperor Taizu? ?”