I now have a deep understanding of why people in this era always pray for more children and grandchildren, in this time when there is no ideal, and it is purely based on blood patriarchal theory, having many children and grandchildren is not only a guarantee of succession, but also an important human resource, and the regulations written on the law ensure the loyalty of relatives with the same surname in both glory and loss.

I have no children or grandchildren, so for a long time, although I have enjoyed the honor of the imperial family, I have never experienced the prosperity that comes from many close relatives. The establishment of the Women's Club changed this, He Lou Yingluo - until now I don't know her small characters, and she is used to using her husband's surname, so we still call her He Lou - there are several younger brothers and nephews who are officials in the court, one of them is from the Ming Jing, has been on the top of the five grades, a sister married a certain Jingzhao Wei's official of the fourth grade, and among the relatives of the husband's family, there is also a third-grade Shangqing He Loudun, Xu Zhen Ruhai is not a brother, but he has a nephew who was the assassin of Huazhou, Now it is time to change the official at the end of the term, Wan'er's deceased uncle Zheng Xiuyuan has six sons and four daughters, two of whom are in favor of the shade, one of them is a jinshi, two of them are in the middle of the court, all of them have been in the court for several years, the youngest is newly in the system, and the mother is hand-picked by the royal pen, and chose the scholar dream of the white official, the Xianyang County Lieutenant, and the women are all married to Xue, Pei, Wang, Li, Pei Lansheng close relatives withered, there are still a few cousins married in the family of the surname, sisters and children, but also to the time of marriage, Dugu Shao was established a month after the establishment of the society introduced by Cui Mingde, I have no children, brother-in-law Luo Fengchun by my strong recommendation, has been awarded General Zuo Wuwei, cousin Dugu Hong for the governor of the same history, from the nephew Dugu Lin graduated from military studies, awarded fruit Yi Chang, the rest of the people are roughly the same.

Cui Mingde collected the relatives who were interested in and could not be promoted one by one and I saw them, and we roughly classified these people according to their resumes, and the three grades and above and the right to be reasoned into a category, the five grades and above and the officials and the low power of the officials were sorted into a category, and the young children were expected to be in the imperial examination in another category, among which those who had a little dealings with me, or those who did take refuge in another separate list, after a little consideration, through my name, recommended He Loudun as the Qiuguan Shangshu, Xu Chong as the Duzhi Langzhong, Dugu Hong served the imperial history for Zuo Su Zhengtai, and the petty officials and small posts were not reported to the Holy Hearing, and were directly entrusted to various places, because of the fierce struggle between the two factions, the low-grade positions were more difficult to fight for than the middle and high grades directly appointed by the mother, I saw that the opportunity was rare, and simply reported the names of these small positions to my mother.

Recently, there have been drastic personnel changes, there are many vacancies, and my mother is worried that no one is available.

I made up my mind not to participate in the two-sided struggle, except to wholeheartedly stuff my own people into the various official vacancies, and to prepare gifts for my mother.

Every year is a big event, especially this year, Li Wu and both sides are gearing up, intending to win the favor of his mother, even Li Dan has been busy for a long time, spending a lot of money to translate scriptures for his mother, building Buddha statues, I am far inferior to these people in terms of financial resources, and everyone goes to the precious, but when it shows my sincerity, so this year I am ingenious, do not prepare in kind, only do three virtual things: please set the holy birthday as the longevity day, a day off, the capital is drunk, give more than 70 old people wine and meat, Giving the world Wu's money and silk; Asking someone to choreograph a thousand dances, called "Thousand Autumns and Longevity Dance", to perform for his mother on the day of Shengshou; asking Cui Mingde to write a 10,000-word "The Fu of the Saints of the World", praising his mother as one of the saints of the past and present, and Yao, Shun, Yu, Laozi, Confucius, Mencius, Han Gao, Guangwu, Gaozu, Taizong, and the first emperor, translated into a variety of languages, each of which was hand-copied and dedicated to his mother.

My mother was most satisfied with my gift, and gave me a copy of the Book of Filial Piety - unlike the one Li Sheng had received back then, this one was read and annotated by the emperor himself, wrapped in a purple cover, decorated with gold and jade, and a big word "filial piety" was written on the cover, as if otherwise the world would not know my filial piety.

After a small ceremony, my mother got up early and ordered me to wait at home, and sent an envoy to prepare the book and the Book of Filial Piety, and led a long line to my home to give it, while I wore court clothes, fasted and burned incense, and led the whole family to receive it respectfully, and then carefully framed this small scripture and offered it in the main hall.

Early the next morning, I entered the palace in court clothes, knelt outside the palace gate to thank God, and presented nine small gifts, and the next day the palace gave a return gift with great fanfare, so I entered the palace again to thank the grace, presented gifts, such as three, the end of this performance.

I finally entered the palace in civilian clothes again, my mother wore a homely light purple robe, sat cross-legged in the hall, listened to the nuns talk about "Eyes and Changes", a change of text and rap and singing, speaking colorful, wonderful, but my mother had no intention of listening to the lecture, sat for a while, then waved her hand, after the lecture stopped abruptly, everyone peeped at the mother's meaning, and withdrew in turn, I looked at my mother, and looked at Wan'er, Wan'er quietly shook her head at me, I stayed, my mother frowned and sat for a while, and came to a sentence without a head:" The prime minister who was degraded was recalled again, but what is his position?"

I went to see Wan'er again, Wan'er lowered her head, looked at her nose and nose, and did not speak, her mother squinted at me, half smiled without smiling: "If you don't know how to answer, you will serve a cup of tea for your master, and ask for advice and advice." ”

I was a little nervous, hurriedly lowered my head to hide the past, and said softly: "There are many prime ministers who have been belittled, I don't know which one A-Niang is talking about?"

The mother was unhappy and puzzled, and half-squinted her eyes and said, "Which one do you say it should be?"

I said: "Doulu Gong and Yang Gong are very senior, and they have a political voice, and the prince is from a big family, and he has written poems and books from China, and he has also presented the right army letter to A-Niang, so I think I can call them back as squires, and there should be no objection in the court." ”

My mother didn't answer my words, but only looked at Wan'er: "What do you think?"

Wan'er said: "The concubine thinks what the princess said is very true. ”

The mother showed a real smile and nodded slowly: "Even if you say so, let's make it up." Feeling a little tired, he got up and went to the couch to take a nap.

I waited for everyone to disperse, took a step closer to Wan'er, and whispered: "Wan'er?"

Wan'er glanced left and right, also took a step closer, and whispered: "I am not satisfied with the test of Saburo's knowledge." ”

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Whitening: The first official position of a scholar entering the office, that is, the meaning of breaking away from the white body, the lieutenant of Xianyang County can generally be held after two or three transfers, and it is an extremely advantageous official position as a whitening officer. 166 Reading Network