Mother personally met with Hu Luzhong, gave him wine and meat, gold silk and palace maids, and issued an order to comfort Dugu Yuankang and Dugu Shao. Dugu Yuankang sealed one hundred households with merit and practice, entered as an auxiliary general, gave five thousand paragraphs, and one of the children of Enyin, and the crime of Dugu Shao was not discussed, and he was rewarded with merit - only in terms of official position, but she was re-called as the captain of the Mulan cavalry school, and gave three hundred paragraphs, there is nothing peculiar, the only unusual thing is that her mother directly made her a township king.

The rank of women in this dynasty, in addition to the clan knighthood, either relies on the inner court to do some female history, zhanggu, Shanggong and other functions, or they have to rely on the official gifts of their husbands and sons, and they are crowned township kings with merit, which is really unusual, but since there are already female guerrilla generals, it is not because they are someone's mother, wife, It's not a big deal for a daughter to be crowned a townshipman, not to mention that it is better to let a meritorious woman get the title that a woman deserves, than to ask her to keep hanging on the guerrilla general, a military officer, so Dugu Shao's acceptance of the township monarch is almost unhindered.

I guess that most of the thoughts of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are "the lesser of two evils", but I have not thought that it is difficult for a female general who dares to go to the front line alone in a thousand years, only to have strict standards, and in the end of my Tang generation, maybe there is only one Dugu Shao, which is a special case. However, the rank of the township monarch is given every year, setting a precedent that the township monarch can be crowned without being attached to her husband and son, and from then on women can earn the title of the emperor by their own ability, and no longer have to interfere in court affairs through men.

In the middle of November, Dugu Yuankang returned to Beijing, and the Ministry of Rites prepared a grand ceremony for him, not only spreading the cloth, music and dancing to welcome him, but also specially promulgated the reward for him and his subordinates in public before entering the city, and his mother ordered that no barriers should be set up, and the people inside and outside the country were welcomed, and Yuankang also imprisoned the captured rebels, and selected the soldiers to escort the powerful ones, and the fresh clothes and angry horses, galloped into the city, which attracted countless eyes.

Contrary to Dugu Yuankang's prominence, Prime Minister Pei Yan was imprisoned on suspicion of liaising with the rebels and attempting to rebel. The incident occurred in early November, and a few days later an edict was issued, condemning Pei Yan to the crime of beheading all three clans, exiled his relatives, and losing his female dependents—along with the captives brought by Motoyasu and abandoning the city, and passing on the beheading of.

Pei Yan's case was handled very quickly, by the end of November, Pei and his comrades who should be killed, who should be exiled, who was not official, who was demoted, and who was dismissed from office had been clearly listed, Zhou Xing handled the case with ironclad evidence, and even a few who spoke for him could not refute it, in order to show justice, his mother also specially sent someone to Xijing to ask Liu Renliang's opinion, this old fox saw that the situation had come to this, and clearly said that the queen mother was aware of everything, Pei Yan's crime should be killed, but secretly he sent a messenger from his mother, asking him "Pei Yan's rebellion, do you know?" , The messenger naturally spoke chiseledly, gushing Pei Yan's counter-state, Liu Renliang recorded the messenger's words in the book, sealed it with fire paint, and handed it back to him, and his mother took a look at the book, which counted the words of the messenger, saying that he "conspired with Yan early, and knew but did not report", and I don't know whether she really didn't know, or deliberately sold Liu Renliang's face, in short, this messenger was also regarded as Pei Yan's party, went to Tianjin Bridge together, and became a headless ghost.

In the past, half of my news came from Ah Huan and my own people, and half from my mother, and the things I knew were mostly related to the inner court and the clan, and now Cui Mingde also began to communicate with me intermittently, so that I gradually knew the private affairs of these ministers, and I don't know whether this matter is good or not, after all, Cui Mingde is different from Ah Huan, what she has paid is what she expects me to return, and my return is not something that can be achieved in a moment, the more I receive it, the more uneasy my heart becomes.

Fortunately, the mother's intentions, but also the heavier the official, the internal official, at the beginning of December, Li Dan issued an edict, asking the queen mother to come to the dynasty to call the system, the mother resigned several times, persuaded by the minister, Fang Mian agreed to come down with embarrassment, and refused to accept the title of "called me, called the edict, called the majesty", only said "temporarily manage the government, until the son of heaven is older, that is, return to the government", and it is the house of the law, Cui Qiao, Liu Yizhi, Wu Chenghei, Liu Renliang and other prime ministers on the letter to the solid request, the mother responded, so the next year was changed to the first year of Zaichu, the edict ordered the first hundred officials and women to enter the palace at the same time, The same group of court classes, the queen mother of the pilgrimage, the female officials, eunuchs and others around the queen mother, naturally followed their mother into the court class, standing left and right.

The mother also ordered all the internal officials in the palace to change their names, and set up two people in Zande to replace the four concubines, four people in Xuanyi to replace the nine concubines, five people to replace the beauties in the boudoir, and five people to replace the talents in the will, and the rest were also changed - all of them replaced the meaning of the concubines with official positions and virtues, and clearly divided the functions, so that the internal officials and the foreign officials corresponded one by one, more like members of the inner court, rather than concubines and concubines.

Dugu Shao's original Mulan ride, since the end of last year had been divided into a section led by Hulu Duobao, for the queen mother's guard, now with Dugu Shao's rank, it will be divided again, the township monarch Dugu Shao inspected the school Mulan riding, set up a post of 1,005, to Yuankang and Dugu Shao recruited Xiangyong and the tribe, the house slave for it, belonging to the Yulin Army, the camp Xuanwu Gate, the original Mulan riding women and eunuchs more than 300 people, returned to the palace, divided into the stable as an envoy.

There are six stables in the palace of Chang'an, and now there are also six stables in Luoyang, of which five stables are filled by eunuchs, and one stable is led by Hulu Duobao, each with hundreds to thousands of additional posts, in addition to leading the dancing horses in the palace, fighting horses, and horses of the emperor, they also lead the royal horses of the Gyeonggi Huangzhuang. Among them, Feilong and other two stable envoys were in charge of hundreds of thousands of royal horses across the country, and one was appointed as Gao Yanfu's righteous son Gao Jingang, and the other was appointed as a eunuch surnamed Li who was favored by his mother recently.

When it was approaching the New Year, the internal and external affairs were already redundant, and my mother made such an innovation, and the palace and the palace were more and more busy like a mess, and my mother called me into the palace to go home to prepare for the New Year: "I see that you have nothing to do on weekdays, and I am busy here these times, and you can also help to see." Without waiting for me to answer, I have already assigned the matter first: "The things that should be prepared in the New Year's palace, as well as the rewards and graces of the inner women, internal officials, and palace people, the relatives and daughters of the outer domains and the Fanbang, the lights and candles, songs and dances, music, and offerings and purchases from the first day to the Lantern Festival, will be under your control. ”

Li Dan is not married, his mother is already the queen mother, these trivial matters are lazy to manage, and Ah Huan has been entrusted to manage the monks and nuns in the palace, and all the Dharma and dojo that need to be done for the New Year, and he is too busy to □□, so he asked me to come and see, and the name is reasonable, so I did not shirk, but took the opportunity to make a request: "I have never taken care of these, I don't know the inside, Ah Niang sent a few people to help me." ”

My mother knew what I wanted, raised her chin, and said, "You have to use the people in the palace, and say to its officials that you want to use your own people." ”

I said: "Others haven't thought about it yet, but they want to borrow Cui Mingde." ”

Without thinking, the mother said, "Yes." "Because I was really busy, as soon as I finished explaining, he waved my hand and drove me out like a fly. 166 Reading Network