Chapter 297: The Finale
Princess Ping is very sick, it is estimated that it will not be long before she hangs, this is actually expected by Zhao Yao, he already knew that after he ascended the throne, he did not need to really kill the poisonous woman who tortured him back then, just what she did back then, which made her frightened and worried, she could kill herself, now it seems that it is really good, it saves him trouble, after all, if Princess Ping is a tenacious person, she is excluded like that, and she lives decently, she can't say that in order to avenge the revenge of the year, he still has to find a way to clean her up, and now she doesn't need him to make a move, she will kill herself herself, which is naturally goodγ
After everything was done in the palace, Mu Hibiscus invited Li Yue to come over and play- One is that I haven't seen my friends for a long time and want to see them, and the second is that Li Yue handed over a post to ask to see her a few days ago, but she still had something to do at the time, so she replied to her to come today; , Zhao Yuanniang, the eldest cousin of Changping Wangfu, is a person who is about the same age as himself.
Li Yue saw that Hibiscus invited her into the palace, naturally happy, after all, she was invited by the queen, this is a very decent thing, in the future, in her husband's family, everyone will be better to her, after all, her husband's family is the emperor's businessman, this errand is not once received, you can always be it, if someone has a hard background, it will be replaced if it is not good, but now, she has the queen as a backer, as long as her husband's family does not act badly, no one dares to replace her own errand, in this way, can her husband's family not get better and better for her?
Hibiscus really found the right person, and he can talk better with his peers.
Li Yue came this time and brought a piece of news, that is, her grandmother, that is, the old lady of the Earl of Zhongyong's Mansion passed away not long ago, and then the Earl's Mansion of Zhongyong was in trouble.
It turned out that when Mrs. Li passed away, she gave 30,000 taels of silver to each of the three rooms of the big house, it stands to reason that this should be quite fair, especially the big house with no money at hand, with these 30,000 taels of silver, she should be very happy, but Mrs. Li gave her 3,000 taels of gold in private, and the mother-in-law who was in charge of the accounts said that she leaked her mouth, this is good, the popularity of the big house jumped three feet high, you must know that when Li Yue got married, Mrs. Li gave her 10,000 taels of makeup, and the big house was unhappy at that time, and now that she has passed away, she even gave Li Yue 3,000 taels of gold, and the current gold and silver price is 36,000 taels of silver, so much, the wealth is moving, the person who called the big house couldn't accept it, so Master Li didn't care about the filial piety, so he took his two sons, not only to find the third room to quarrel, but even found Li Yue's husband's house, wanting Li Yue to return the three thousand taels of gold.
This is different from the previous life that Li Xin knew, in the previous life, Aunt Liu was clamoring for Li Yue to repay the money, although Mrs. Li's mother and son also wanted Li Yue to repay the money, but seeing Aunt Liu rushing ahead, they were not so excited;
People are always like this, they don't suffer from widowhood but unevenness, they originally got 30,000 taels of silver out of thin air, and they should be happy no matter what, just because they found out that Li Yue also got silver, and they got more than them, they were not happy, but they were not greedy enough.
Therefore, the reason why Li Yue handed over the post to ask to see her this time was not only because she missed Hibiscus and wanted to see her, but also because she wanted to use the power of Hibiscus to bluff Master Li, who ran to her door every day and was clamoring for her to pay back the money.
also said that since Li Yue handed over the letter asking to see Mu Hibiscus and received a reply from Mu Hibiscus, saying that she would be allowed to enter the palace in a few days, Master Li's father and son were afraid that Mu Hibiscus would find trouble, so they did settle down.
If Li Yue was distressed by the death of Mrs. Li, and Master Li and others ran to the door and clamored for money, then Li Lan, who had just returned to her parents' house, wanted to hit the wall.
Li Lan couldn't help but be dumbfounded when she saw that not long after she returned home, and secretly said that her luck was so bad! It was not easy to get married, but now that the old lady has passed away, she will have to mourn for three years, and in another three years, how will she be old, and how will she marry? At that moment, she couldn't help but resent the old lady, and secretly said that this dead old woman is really annoying, she has so much money, and she doesn't give it to her own family, and she still cheats herself like this, which is really infuriating.
What's more, this is not only a matter of three years of mourning, but also a matter of her family not knowing where to live after she sweeps the floor and leaves the house after her filial piety.
It turned out that although since the death of Mrs. Li, Mr. Li attacked the title of Viscount, and it stands to reason that he should move out of the Earl's Mansion and into the Viscount's Mansion, but because of the presence of Mrs. Li, the countess, the family does not have to move for the time being, but now, the old lady Li has passed away, and the Li family no longer has the right to live in the Earl's Palace, so they should move into the Viscount's Mansion.
Since the time will be moved, then Lai lives in the second room of the Li family in the Earl's Mansion and has not left, and it will be impossible to enter the Zhongyong Viscount Mansion at that time, after all, the old lady Li has passed away, and even the third room will move out, and the three families will be completely separated, not to mention that the second room is not a brother, how can it still be relied on to enter the Zhongyong Viscount Mansion.
And to move out, then the people in the second room will have a hard time, without him, although the second room has been poor for many years, but still don't know how to be thrifty, as long as there is money, it will be spent, at this time Mrs. Li passed away, what is annoying is that they did not share a little money, so that they can only watch the big house and the third room get rich, and there is no way to be greedy, they are still very poor, so when the time comes, where does the money come from to buy a house in Beijing, since there is no money to buy a house in Beijing, but a large family, always have to live, right? So the biggest possibility at that time is to move to the suburbs of Beijing and buy a house in the countryside, although the second room is poor, there are always a few hundred taels of silver, and you can afford to buy a house in the countryside.
It's just that you have to live a more miserable life at that time, the key is that after leaving the capital, you are still so poor, you can't even be considered a rich man in the future, you can only be regarded as a rich man in the countryside, in this way, with this down-and-out appearance, what good family can Li Lan marry when she arrives?
So I'm afraid that I'll be old for three years of mourning, and I'm even more afraid that I'll be filial piety and split up after three years, my family will have no money, and I'm going to be a countryman, and then I can't marry a good family if I remarry, Li Lan can only ask her mother to find a family for her casually, and marry her with filial piety, but now she is still in the capital, and she always has more connections, which is better than going to the countryside, and then she can only marry a widower in the countryside.
This time, Li Lan thought right, so although she married worse than the previous life that Li Xin knew, she married someone as a wife- Although because of his age, he married a widower and wanted to be a stepmother, but he was not a concubine, and not long after marrying, he had a child, so although he was unsatisfactory, it was not like in Pingwangfu, he didn't even have a child, and he was worried about the bleak evening, even if it was not very good in Li Lan's opinion, but it was still a good life, much better than the days that the second room lived in the countryside later, you must know that the second room was poor, and the second master Li and others later went to the countryside and didn't know moderation, and still spent money indiscriminately, so when there was no money, it was thanks to Li Lan to help one or two, in fact, Li Lan really didn't want to help, but when I thought of the previous time I was taken home and had a place to stay, I was worried that this time I would have a bad day, and I didn't help my mother's family, and when I went home one day, I didn't even have a place to stay, so although I was unhappy with my father and brother's indiscriminate spending, I still tried to help one or two, fortunately, they lived in the suburbs of Beijing, far away from the place where she got married, and it was not easy to go back and forth, and I couldn't come over every day to ask for it, plus the second master Li and his son also knew that they couldn't ask for too much, so as not to make their son-in-law unhappy, and if their daughter was divorced, their only source of income would be gone, so they were restrained when asking for money, so that she could still endure itγ
Of course, this is not an afterthought.
However, it is said that although Zhao Yao is now unable to be without a monarch for a day, he can ascend the throne without three years of filial piety, but their husband and wife can not have sex together - during the mourning period, they cannot have children, and there is no safe contraceptive measures in ancient times, so in order not to have children, they naturally cannot have sex together.
Zhao Yao was depressed, thinking that his parents had finally died, and he didn't have to worry about this kind of thing after getting married, he could do it night and night, how good, but now it's okay, he was set up as the East Palace by Emperor Yonghe, and there is not only a pair of parents on his head, but also an extra grandmother, and this filial piety will be guarded in the future, that is to say, the life of the husband and wife will be greatly affected, and the thought of it will be affected three times, can Zhao Yao not be depressed?
But Mu Hibiscus thinks it's good, thinking about three years - in fact, keeping filial piety for three years, but it's only 27 months, a little more than two years - can't get pregnant, she can be quiet for three years, otherwise she will have a child every two years, and it will cost people to continue like this.
Finally, 27 months have passed, and Zhao Yao's benefits have returned, but before he was happy for a few days, someone ran to him to find bad luck - but it was the Ministry of Rites to start the draft and prepare for the draft.
Generally, soon after the emperor ascends the throne, he will conduct a draft, but Zhao Yao has not had this order, so he saw that the filial piety period has passed and he can get married, and the Ministry of Rites will start to play, saying whether to start planning the draft.
As soon as Zhao Yao heard these people mention this, he refused, but it was not good to say that he was only interested in Mu Hibiscus alone, so as not to be bored when everyone was arguing about what demon queen confuses the lord, so he picked up other reasons and said: "The experience of the first emperor is in front of you, and you still mention the matter of the draft." β
Everyone didn't understand what this had to do with the first emperor, so Zhao Yao said angrily: "Is the first emperor unable to have children?" No, there are twenty pregnant concubines in the harem of the first emperor, and in the end, because there are too many women, you hurt me, I hurt you, and I didn't even keep a dragon heir, those women were given to death by the first emperor, but the first emperor failed to leave an heir but it became a foregone conclusion, there are many women, there will be fights, and it is not uncommon for civil wives and concubines to fight, so in order not to follow the mistakes of the first emperor, I will not be drafted, and Queen Zhou is very good. β
When the people in the Ministry of Rites saw Zhao Yao say this, they couldn't help but say: "The matter of the first emperor is an exception, how can Your Majesty not be selected because of the first emperor?"
You must know that every draft, in fact, is a kind of power struggle, after all, if a girl enters the palace, gives birth to a dragon son, and finally becomes the emperor, isn't she going to soar? Even if she is a minister with real power, she also hopes that her family can go further, which is also the reason why the ministers are urging Zhao Yao to draft the draft.
Zhao Yao saw that the ministers still wanted to persuade him, and couldn't help but say coldly: "I don't want to say no, you have to be drafted, what, are you looking forward to me being like the first emperor, and the heirs will be cut off?!"
Zhao Yao's hat was a little ruthless, and everyone didn't dare to persuade him at the moment, but they didn't stop there, just thinking that the emperor loved the queen for a while, so it was like this, and after a few years, the queen was old and yellow, not as beautiful as now to attract the emperor, and then looking at the beauties like flowers and willows in the palace, they would definitely change their minds, so they didn't have to force it too hard, let's talk about it later.
As a result, this is a few decades, when the new emperor and Empress Zhou gave birth to three boys and two girls lovingly, and at the age of sixty, he gave the throne to the crown prince, and he went happily with the queen, and did not stuff his own girl into the palace.
The world doesn't know that the new emperor is only happy with Queen Zhou, and they think that the tragic fate of the previous generation of emperors frightened the new emperor, so Queen Zhou has a mediocre reputation in history.
But I didn't know that several measures that had a great impact on later generations and also brought Zhao Yao a good reputation, such as heavy science and technology, revitalizing women's studies, promoting commerce, spreading the land into acres, and controlling staple grains, etc., were all promoted by Empress Zhou to persuade the emperor, if she was not favored, how could the emperor listen to her.
Of course, people at that time had no way to know about the future generations, but for Hibiscus at that time, it was excellent for others to think of her like this, after all, if the courtiers learned that she was very favored, they had to buckle the hat of a demon queen, and then they had to find trouble with her every day in the eggs, and then Zhao Yao had to fight with the ministers every day in order to keep her, and there would be no quiet life in the future.
So it doesn't matter if it's a favored queen in the eyes of others, the key is to live a good life.
This is also what Hibiscus has been looking forward to all his life.
Peace and joy, a worry-free life.
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