Chapter 45: The Testimonies

After Concubine Guo Ning finished speaking, she asked the show girls to perform their talents one by one. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info her eyes looked at Zhang Zhaohua, who was silently retreating to the side, but her heart was full of thoughts.

It was clear that this woman was very clever and very good at talking, and she spoke to the emperor's heart. Looking at the meaning of the emperor, I also look at this girl differently, and it is eight or nine to be a prince, but I don't know which prince it is, or the emperor's grandson, or the emperor's grandson?

Thinking of this, Concubine Guo Ning's back teeth hurt a little, because not long ago, the imperial grandson entrusted someone to her and asked her to list the daughter of Guanglu Temple Shaoqing Ma as the first when reading the election, which means obviously, the imperial grandson wants to let Ma be his concubine. Concubine Guo Ning didn't know how the two looked at each other, she only knew that she couldn't refuse the grandson's request, this is the second real master in the palace in the future, if she is lucky enough to live behind the emperor, wouldn't it be the grandson to be martyred?

Of course, she wanted to meet the requirements of the princess, but she didn't expect the emperor to intervene horizontally, according to the old practice of Hongwu in the fourteenth year, when Queen Ma was sick, she and Concubine Hui presided over the final round of selection, at that time she selected the top ten and then handed it over to the emperor to decide, but I didn't expect that this time the emperor would come in person, so what rank of the Ma family, it is not up to me to intervene.

After all, the grandson can't compare to the emperor. One is the sun that has not yet shown its edge under the water, and the other is the sun that has sunset and decline after the middle of the sky, but now in the sky, it is still this round of sun.

Let's look at the emperor's thoughts, I hope that the Ma family, who has not yet come in, is really as good as the grandson said, and he is a person who can make people's eyes shine.

At this time, Zhang Zhaohua was also in a complicated mood and full of emotion, she not only had a kind of luck in getting through the rest of her life, but also had a question about how the emperor was so easy to deceive.

In history class, Zhang Zhaohua knew that the Ming Dynasty was different from other dynasties, and the concubines came from the people and from good families, all of whom belonged to the list of empty family backgrounds and weak forces. The rulers of the Ming Dynasty originally thought that by filling the harem with such women, they could avoid the mistakes of the Han and Tang dynasties, but it was such women who created the special history of the Ming Dynasty.

Because no matter how humble their status is, once they enter the ranks of concubines and become part of the masters of the palace, they are close to power, and they can even have power more easily than others.

There is no such thing as "rear power" in history, the back power is always born with the imperial power, so this power has the dual characteristics of invisible and explicit, when the emperor makes great efforts to govern himself, they are a corner of the role; if the imperial power is in crisis, these women from the people who are in the forefront of the concubines are given the special status and power of the extension of the imperial power, and their activity space is infinitely expanded.

And since it comes to the matter of changing the law, although Zhang Zhaohua does not have deep historical knowledge, he still knows that there have been several large-scale "law change" activities in history, and they can always be related to women. For example, Wu Zetian who launched the Wuzhou Revolution, for example, the Empress Dowager Gao, who played a decisive role between the old and new parties in the Northern Song Dynasty, for example, the Empress Dowager Li, who held the power of the court during the reform period of Zhang Juzheng, and for example, the Empress Dowager Cixi during the Wuxu Reform of the Manchu Dynasty.

Although the nature of the changes is different, the role of women in it is surprisingly important.

Zhang Zhaohua said that Empress Dowager Gao "took the restoration of the ancestral law as the first priority", but in fact, Empress Gao came to power by abolishing the policies set by her son herself, and after she died in the eighth or ninth year of her reign, her grandson single-handedly overturned all her policies. She was afraid that the emperor would ask another esoteric question, such as Empress Dowager Gao's mother's change to her son or Zhezong's father's non-change, which is right?

If the emperor asks this question, then Zhang Zhaohua will really be speechless. Because this is the issue of inheritance that involves the law of the ancestors.

The premise is that if Song Shenzong changed the law, whose law did he change? It was the law of Taizu Taizong Renzong, so is their law necessarily correct? This question is far away, but Zhang Zhaohua believes that no matter how good and advanced the various Zhang Cheng systems that the emperor has formulated now, they will not be applicable to the country in 200 years, and they will not even be able to reach a hundred years, and the Northern Song Dynasty will only be many years.

In the future, the programs on the computers will have to be updated from time to time to check and fill in the loopholes, not to mention the systems and policies related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. However, the emperor regarded his "law" as an eternal law that would be followed forever by future generations, so how could it be -- a small problem in the system now will become a chronic disease and the more difficult it will be to get rid of it the further it develops. There are so many good talents in the Ming Dynasty, and there have been heroes of the ages such as Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, who did not hesitate to die in order to cure these chronic diseases brought out of the mother's womb, so why not set this "ancestral law" so dead and guarded so strictly at the beginning?

The most painful thing in love is that I am standing in front of you, and you don't know that I love you. And the most painful thing for Zhang Zhaohua at this time is that he knows what disadvantages the ancestral law will cause in the future, but he can't do anything about it, and even goes against his will to say that Song Zhezong's change of law is a bad government for the country, and the Empress Dowager Gao's restoration of the old law is to save the country.

This is tantamount to saying that Emperor Guangxu's changes are all wrong, and the feudal and conservative forces represented by the Empress Dowager Cixi behind her are orthodox.

Hahaha, that's so interesting!

Thinking like this, she suddenly felt ridiculous.

However, when she was still trying to restrain herself from suppressing the smile on her lips, she heard the emperor's voice calling her: "Zhang, what talent do you have?"

What, that's my turn? Zhang Zhaohua raised his head in a trance and saw that it was indeed her turn. Duan played a flute song, Wang and Zeng each embroidered a small flower, and Li wrote two big characters - Mingde, which was praised by the emperor.

Of course, Zhang Zhaohua still remembered the path he set for himself, so he said: "Back to Your Majesty, the people's girls have no talent. ”

"I don't have any talent," Concubine Guo Ning said in surprise: "I don't know the silk and bamboo orchestra, and I don't have any talent in women's red knitting, so I can always write words!"

"Yu Niangniang," Zhang Zhaohua glanced at the Gong Zheng Mama standing next to him, and said: "The qualifications of the folk girls are crude, and the writing is even uglier, I am afraid that if I write it, I will stain the eyes of the nobles." ”

At this time, Mama Gong Zheng stepped forward to help her speak: "Good Pope and Niangniang learned that although Yongcheng Zhang has studied, his handwriting is really not good, and there are many mistakes. ”

The emperor was silent for a long time, and during this half of an hour, Zhang Zhaohua's heart went up and down, and he felt that he could clearly hear his heartbeat.

"Well," said the Emperor, "you didn't come unprepared, did you?"

Zhang Zhaohua really wanted to say that he was unprepared, if he hadn't met the emperor today, he would have met other concubines, and hearing her sentence would definitely have brushed her off, but the emperor asked like this, she just didn't prepare and had to say that she was prepared.

"Minnu," Zhang Zhaohua thought about it, and suddenly said with a flash of inspiration: "Minnu, Minnu can do acrobatics." ”

"Miscellaneous drama?" The emperor's voice seemed to be very interested: "What kind of miscellaneous drama, if you can sing it, ask the Teaching Workshop Division to give you a soundtrack." ”

"It's not a miscellaneous drama," Zhang Zhaohua's sweat hurriedly explained: "It's ventriloquism, it's country slang, and today I am in the hall of elegance, and I invite the emperor and all the ladies and girls to listen to it in vain." ”