Chapter 42: The Royal Family

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Because of the end of the war in Liangzhou, the emperor sent a letter of surrender, asking for tribute, and only asked for them to be allowed to graze outside the Tianshan Mountains in the Great Zhou.

This is the first time in hundreds of years in the Central Plains.

Countless civil ministers and military generals all sang praises to the emperor, praised him as the first emperor of the ages, and finally drove Yidi out of the Tianshan Mountains.

No matter which one it is, it will make the dragon's heart happy.

Therefore, during the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, the emperor was in great mood and held a banquet in the imperial garden to entertain the royal nobles and high-ranking civil and military officials and their families.

This day the autumn is high and cool, the concubine has the habit of welcoming and wearing the head flower, today the palace is full of this banquet, but in the Shanglin Garden destroyed a lot of new osmanthus flowers.

In addition to those worn on the head, there are also those used to lavender clothes and to make cakes.

The ones in the imperial garden are all used to see, but no one dares to pick them casually.

During the day, the emperor had already had a banquet with all the civil and military courtiers in Guanglu Temple, and at night it was just a banquet with the royal family.

The chief in the middle is the emperor, because he is pampered and lives in the palace, but people who are over half a hundred years old look only in their early forties, and because of this, they think they are still young, and they have never fallen in the three-year draft, so there are many concubines in the harem.

In the harem of the Great Zhou Dynasty, in addition to the queen, there is one imperial concubine, two concubines, four concubines, nine concubines, concubines, nobles, women, dressing, etc.

And on top of this, there is another concubine appointed by the emperor, whose rank is higher than that of the imperial concubine.

It's just that since the emperor sealed the harem for fifteen years, there is only one concubine on the throne.

The rest were low-ranking concubines.

Now the harem is only the queen, Concubine Chen, Concubine Li, Concubine Jin, Concubine Qing, Concubine Ming, as well as Concubine Xiang, Concubine Jing, Concubine An, Concubine Yun, Concubine Lin and others.

Among these people, except for Concubine Ming, Gu is the one who has given birth to princes and princesses.

Since Concubine Qing was promoted to one of the four concubines from the position of noble concubine, no one has been able to cross the position of noble concubine.

When Concubine Ming entered the palace, she was also canonized as a concubine directly from the nobles, which inevitably had some political factors, who called her the daughter of the Xue family.

The emperor's least favorite thing in this life is that the harem women are involved in politics, in order to avoid the harem disasters in the time of Gaozu, including the queen, those who gave birth to sons in the early years are above the concubines.

Later, the concubine gave birth to the eldest princess and the thirteen princes, and she couldn't go further.

This is the most ruthless thing about the emperor.

The queen is also almost fifty years old, maybe she has been fasting and chanting Buddha for too long, and she looks even older than the emperor.

She was born in the Marquis of Wu'an and was the niece of the Queen Mother.

At that time, she was wearing a purple gold Zhai phoenix bead crown, wearing a crimson gold and silver silk Luan bird Chaofeng embroidered pattern, and a freshly picked osmanthus flower was pinned next to her, sitting beside the emperor with a thousand demeanors.

Every word and deed is full of the gesture that she is the mistress of this empire.

The queen's head is Concubine Chen, she has a goose egg face, beautiful appearance, looks no more than thirty years old, and wears a bright yellow court dress.

Wearing a burnt blue dot emerald phoenix-shaped hairpin and a hollow peony-shaped red coral head flower, the ten fingers are slender, like a girl.

The emperor gossiped with her from time to time, and the two of them were so intimate that there seemed to be nothing that could not be said.

Concubine Chen's opposite seat is Concubine Li Guifei, her eyes are sharp, she is the daughter of General Zhenbei, she has always disdained to compete with the harem for favor, at that time she just sat quietly, and she had already drunk two pots of wine.

Below is Concubine Xue Baoning.

Concubine Ming's body is delicate, her skin is delicate, her face is like a peach blossom with dew, her fingers are like spring onions, and thousands of strands of green silk are combed into a fairy bun, which is only decorated with green jade and ruby hairpins, and she feels dazzling in contrast. Sure enough, it is beautiful and beautiful.

She is only in her early twenties, and she is very outstanding among the palace concubines.

Below are Concubine Qing and Concubine Jin, both of whom are invisible people in the harem, and they are happy to see you at that time.

There is also a throne hanging vacant next to the emperor, which is the position of the queen mother.

The queen mother has always been more noisy, nine times out of ten times she did not come to this kind of banquet, and the emperor did not dare to force his adoptive mother, and he always felt unhappy with an empty position, but he was helpless.

Most of the flowers and plants in the Imperial Garden are potted plants, and for the evening banquet, a special place was set up to come out, and in the center of the huge central open space, the royal family and nobles gathered in a circle, and in the center was the venue for the Kabuki performances of the Kyobo Division.

I only heard the silk bamboo raised: "The furnace incense sandalwood beast charcoal idiot, the golden cinnamon outside the pearl curtain." The six palaces enter the wine Yao Meishou, and the phoenix pan dragon is full of royal clothes. ”

This is the new lyrics made this year, and they are sung gracefully and beautifully.

The singing kabuki is only sixteen or seventeen, a wonderful person like water, the emperor was attracted by her, and looked at the past, the kabuki was not afraid, and looked back affectionately from afar.

At this time, the eldest son of the crown prince, Ying Si, stepped forward to congratulate his imperial grandfather.

Ying Si is the eldest son of the crown prince and the crown princess, the eldest grandson of the emperor, he is fifteen years old this year, with a slender figure and an elegant temperament, which makes people not get close, but he feels that he is unattainable, and to get along with him is to be cautious.

The emperor glanced at his eldest grandson a few times and felt that he was not satisfied.

The sons are all talented, they can be literate and martial, and their grandsons are not bad, even in the next hundred years, they will be able to see their ancestors and ancestors with peace of mind.

Thinking of this, I not only sighed with emotion, but also said some sad words.

For a while, the clan relatives stood up and persuaded him: "The emperor is in the prime of life, and he has conquered the two Yidi tribes, such feats have never been seen before and after him, and they should be admired by the world." ”

The person who said this was Prince Li, one of the only two princes of the first emperor.

After the emperor was canonized as the crown prince, Prince Li was to show that he had absolutely no intention of fighting with the imperial brother, but he was **** wandering in the fireworks and willow alleys, and he was disgusted.

Prince Li is stupid, and he is not stupid, otherwise he would not have lived so peacefully until now.

When the emperor heard that his brother was like this, his heart was even more complacent, and he couldn't help but drink a few more glasses.

At night, he was taken back to Changchun Palace by Concubine Ming.

Everyone just pretended not to see it, and after a while, the queen announced that the banquet was over.

She is used to such scenes.

The crown princess came to send the queen back to Kunning Palace, the princess was born in the Haiyang Marquis Mansion, which was a wealthy family that existed in the previous dynasty, and the foundation was prudent, and she was the daughter-in-law chosen by the queen for the prince.

It's just that I heard that the prince has recently been infatuated with Hu Nu, and in order to ease the heart of her daughter-in-law, the queen said: "No matter which concubine the emperor likes, in the next hundred years, she can only be buried in the imperial mausoleum with the palace!"

The crown princess naturally knows, the queen has said many times that the prince can go as much as he likes, and her most important task is to educate the emperor's eldest grandson. (To be continued.) )