[Red House] Lixian

It's another year of firecrackers to welcome the new year.

Wei Qian received many gifts from ministers.After writing a list casually and leaving it to Situ Yun, Wei Qianan accepted the things with peace of mind.

Checking the daily utensils Jia Mei sent, Wei Qian smiled with satisfaction: "I'm only using these things my mother sent me."

Wei Qian's celestial body is not afraid of other people's tricks, but Xiang Ling and others can't.Wei Qian ordered someone to throw away the food that someone from the palace secretly sent over through Ye Ting.

Ask Jia Mei to bring things in from outside the palace, and the food and clothing are all purchased by the Weifu.

At the beginning, Ye Ting was quite critical, but the Queen Mother helped her block it with the excuse of "Wei Qian is in love with the family".

As for who will strike, everyone knows, but the current court is too chaotic to be bothered.

Now that the harem maintains superficial peace, Empress Dowager Chen and Wei Qian have begun to let themselves go.Although he acted according to the rules, but a little out of line, others can't say anything.There is no emperor, no queen, no one can control them.

Of course, only for them.If those Baolin nobles make mistakes, the two will still be relentless.

To put it bluntly, there is a feeling of affection after getting along for several years.Even Yuan Chun, Concubine Wen and the others, as long as the disturbance is not excessive, Empress Dowager Chen will turn a blind eye.

Then, after opening the Ziyu Ruyi sent by Jia Yucun, Wei Qian pondered: "What news is there in Chang'an City now?"

Hearing this, Hong Chun went out to ask Yang Kai about it.

Since Yang Kai followed Wei Qian in Jinling, his relationship with Qing Sidian has always been very close.Now walking in front of Ren Yu in the palace, he asked his companions to report to Wei Qian.

"In the past two days, there has been a scandal in the Mei family. It is said that the son of the Mei family has an affair with a certain widow."

"The Mei family?" Wei Qian straightened her back: "According to the pedantic style of the Mei family, how dare his son do this?"

The rotten Confucian of the Mei University has already infiltrated etiquette into his bones. Their family tradition will let their family members find widows?

The person who knows you best is always your enemy.

Wei Qian immediately said: "Impossible!"

"It's true." Hong Chun said: "Yang Kai's words are strict, and the outside world spread quickly. It is said that he was made fun of when he went to court in the past two days."

Wei Qian stretched out her hand to touch Ruyi, and frowned, "Ruyi does as I please, is this Jia Yucun helping me take revenge?"

"Speaking of which, Master Jia is really destined to be with you. He came out of Jinling and has been helping the empress all along. He can be called a direct descendant."

Hearing this, Wei Qian fell into deep thought.

Wei Qian dared not express any confidence in Jia Yucun's behavior.Jia Yucun is like most officials in this era.He was born in the imperial examination, and then he was full of passion and ambition, and then he was attacked by the dark officialdom, and finally fell into the same rank and became a veteran of the officialdom.

There are official rules of the game in the officialdom. Some people see the darkness in the officialdom, abandon the officialdom, live in seclusion, and watch coldly on the high mountains.Some people choose to join forces with others and join the officialdom to blacken themselves.There are also people who choose to fight against the darkness, burn their own candles to illuminate the darkness, and are eventually swallowed by the darkness and turned into ashes.

In the original life trajectory, Jia Yucun was conceited because of his book business, and finally got into disputes with his boss and was dismissed from office and left.After recovering, he worked as an official in Jinling and handled Xue Pan's case and gradually fell into decline.

Being disheartened or assimilated by the officialdom is the choice of most people, and few people really choose to fight.

But now, there is no so-called Xue Pan case, and Jia Yucun is still assimilated by the officialdom, but he chooses to stand in Wei Qian's camp.Although he was somewhat selfish, Wei Qian tolerated him if he wanted to employ someone.

Over the years, he has been tactful and has helped Jia Lian a lot.Wei Qian's promotion of new agriculture is also inseparable from him.It's just that in private, Jia Yucun still accepts bribes like other officials, and there are some problems with his conduct.

For him, Wei Qian has always maintained a love-hate relationship.In terms of ability, Jia Yucun has it.But in terms of temperament, Wei Qian really couldn't believe it, for fear that he would bite back.So in recent years, Wei Qian has been cultivating her own people.

This year, Enke is Wei Qian's chance to send her people to the palace, aiming at the positions of the living man and the living roomer, and wants to control Situ Yun's situation in the previous court.

The few people she supported joined a special organization - the Plum Blossom Society.That organization was established by Jia Mei to find suitable candidates for funding.In the future, we will help each other and grow together.It can be said that it is a small interest group.

Some people are officials, some people are in business, and every year we gather several times to exchange information and take care of each other.

At present, the best situation of being an official is only to be an official in the local area, opening the door for the merchants in the Weifu.As for places like the Hanlin Academy, there is no way to deploy manpower.

"The Imperial Academy's requirements are too high, and I can't make too many marks by taking care of them. They can only rely on themselves in the imperial examination." Wei Qian thought of the two students of Meihuahui who took the exam this year.What she can do is to arrange living in advance and provide them with a good environment.

As for stealing exam questions, Wei Qian didn't even dare to think about it.Situ Yun was too cautious, even she couldn't do anything.

"Your Majesty, you said Mrs. Jia did this, should we respond?"

"Should be." Wei Qian thought for a while: "Tomorrow I will summon my wife, you leave his wife behind, and I will have something to say to her."

Officials like Jia Yucun either slap him to death, or they can only win over and appease him.Now Wei Qian still needs him to help her family, so she needs to win over their family.

"It's nothing more than seducing people for profit, and using power to move people." Wei Qian was in charge of the kingdom in Southern Qin Dynasty, and gradually became familiar with this kind of trickery.

As an emperor, it is good not to rub your eyes with sand, but to leave a clean and useless official, it is really better to choose a few people who are tainted but capable.

But fortunately, Nanqin is currently in the stage of actively developing.At this stage, all dynasties are generally clean and open-minded, because they are determined to forge ahead and united as one, and the environment at the beginning of the dynasty is the least corrupt.

It's just that as time progresses, the dynasty slowly decays from the root, and finally collapses and is destroyed by the new dynasty.

Wei Qian thought a lot, and finally smiled: "What's the use of thinking about it, if I have power in my hands, and Jia and Wei's second mansion is strong, Jia Yucun can't help but rebel."

This is the heart of the emperor, as long as the power is in hand, it doesn't matter if a few turbid fish mix in the clear water, as long as it is under control.

The desire to control is the essence of the emperor's mind.

Wei Qian and Situ Yun are both very controlling people, otherwise they wouldn't be so congenial.But fortunately, one man and one woman, as the old saying goes: "There are two tigers on the top of a mountain, unless there is one male and one female".

On the second day, Wei Qian and Yuan Chun accompanied the Empress Dowager Chen to invite the married woman into the palace to celebrate the New Year.

After the banquet, Wei Qian intentionally left Jia Yucun's wife Jiao Xing behind.Speaking of which, this stepmother has some connections with Xiangling.

Back then when Xiangling was never bought or sold, Jiao Xing was her maid.

Now that the two meet each other, Jiao Xing recognizes Xiang Ling at a glance, her expression is very excited, and she unconsciously thinks of what her master said.

"You stay and catch up with her, and give her the things I have prepared." Wei Qian gently tapped Xiangling's head with a folding fan, and asked her maid to meet her with a smile.

Xiangling has the position of female official, and she is not inferior to Jiaoxing, the fourth-rank wife.

Wei Qian took Xue Baochai away from Changle Hall.

Walking in the wind and snow, Wei Qian said to Xue Baochai next to him, "Speaking of which, this spring will be the time for you to leave the palace, what have you decided to do?"

Going out to get married?Or stay in the palace?

Xue Baochai gritted her white teeth lightly, hesitating.

In the past three years in the palace, she really didn't know what the situation in Jia's mansion was like now.

Besides, Wei Qian asked the queen mother to give her a marriage, so she ran to disrupt the situation?Her self-esteem could not do such a thing.

Have to admit, the importance of rights.Originally, the sisters tried their best in Jia's house, but they were useless in front of Wei Qian. An imperial decree immediately cleared everything up, even if Mrs. Wang was not happy, she dared not resist the decree.

"I haven't figured it out yet."

"Then go home some other day and have a look. I will give you a privilege to make your own choice." Wei Qian stroked the winter plum in the snow with a calm expression.

"Thank you madam."

"You don't have to thank me. Speaking of which, we all grew up in Jinling, and we met a few times when we were young." Wei Qian said, looking to another corner.Jia Yuanchun took the princess and prince to enjoy the snow in the imperial garden.

"It's getting windy, let's go back first." Wei Qian caught a glimpse of the yellow-clothed figure leaving quickly on the other side, leaving the imperial garden with a series of small footprints.

That direction is... the East Palace?