Chapter 32: Twilight Ascends to the Hall of the Son of Heaven
It was the rogues who killed Cui Heng and most of the other royal forces. It was they who recaptured Jincheng and ambushed Uncle Nangong. In fact, they were the ones who besieged the capital.
If you want to say that Cui Heng died, it is really enough. At the last moment, he was still counting on returning to the center of power and reviving the Cui dynasty. He felt that he hadn't fought a good battle, and he was inexplicably pushed to the end, which was not right, and there was no sense of reality at all. Heaven must be testing him! The so-called heaven wants to descend on the people, and first work their hearts and bones. The same is true for the emperor. He will definitely be able to temper his ability to govern the country and complete more arduous tasks through this experience!
In essence, Cui Heng feels that he is not a person who is greedy for fame. It can be seen from the fact that he can easily pass the throne to the second prince. It's not like he's putting the second prince in danger. By no means! This is a sign of his serenity!
As long as the country is good, his personal title is nothing.
Of course, if God recognizes his ability, it won't matter if he gets the throne back in the future. Does the second prince still have the courage to fight with him? Isn't it precisely because of this that he is willing to hand over the position to the second prince......
Before dawn, Cui Heng was in a chaotic dream, and these chaotic thoughts flashed by in a hurry.
He hurriedly reviewed his life in a dream and never woke up again.
The rogue stabbed him in the stomach and slit his throat.
The Queen Mother woke up, and in a hurry she only shouted one sentence: "Killing, you will go to the eighteenth layer of hell!" ”
"Hell you made!" The rogue choked her with a sense of humor and killed her too.
The captain and the short guards died sideways. They are only more than they become fellow of the barbecue. I just lived six more days.
When later historians were revising history, they couldn't help but sigh that these rogues were empathetic-look, when the Daling royal family was not sure whether to go to Xie Yunjian immediately!
If Cui Heng and the others went to Xie Yunjian, Xie Yunjian's entire energy would have to be used to take over and work hard for those imperial relatives. Like Donghoon...... To be precise, like Dongxun in the first half of his life, as long as the country is still there, he can't run away from glory and wealth, but he can't do too much of a career.
If Xie Yunjian offends them, maybe he will be punished! Even if you don't get beaten, it's inevitable to be a little angry.
What if Xie Yunjian turned his face against them. That's Xie Yunjian's reversal! This name will come down by all means. In the future, if Xie Yunjian wants to win the Central Plains and the throne, it will not be so easy.
Even if the number of Daling Qi is exhausted, there must be a new emperor. The new emperor can't be a thief. It is best to ask the other thieves to kill the old emperor first, and then the new emperor will come out to save the common people from fire and water. So. The name is right.
Xie Yunjian's name has been corrected.
Now his only obstacle. is that the second prince of the capital is still there. And he is also an emperor in the true sense of the word.
This time. The rogues in the capital didn't know why they didn't have fun, and instead of taking the capital and killing the second prince, they were in the military counterattack led by the second prince. Defeat and retreat.
"Do I really have strategic talents?" The second prince couldn't help but feel such joy.
His wife praised him beside him, and her eyes were full of joy that could not be concealed.
What are the joys of life? A long drought is a nectar, and a foreign country meets an old acquaintance; When the cave room spends candle night, and the gold list is inscribed? Or like someone added two words of achievement: ten years of drought and nectar, thousands of miles away from home; The monk's cave room spends candle night, and the old man comes to the gold list when he is inscribed. To summarize it according to the author, in fact, there are only two words: counterattack!
The more difficult it is in the front, the more exciting it will be when the back counterattack will be.
If you haven't been bitten by a mosquito, you don't know how nice it is to scratch it.
If you are not poor and have no worries, you will not be able to experience the joy of throwing a lot of money.
This woman, Lanling Banshi, a young lady with a boudoir character, has a noble ancestor, and has declined in her generation, and has almost no influence in the court, but fortunately, the clansmen still know how to run the family, so the family is quite solid, and the family education has always been very strict, not only has its own private school, so as not to let the children learn badly outside, but also has a women's school, and the gentleman in it is either old and has lost his teeth, or is a pure woman, in other words, there is no possibility of stealing sex with female students, and being gossiped about by others. And these gentlemen will be even stricter than the gentlemen in the outer school. They also seldom teach female students to read and write, only to teach the necessary cultural foundations for managing the family, keeping accounts, or reading a few nursery rhymes to children, and most of the time is spent teaching female students how to please their in-laws, their husbands, and other relatives and friends, how to master the necessary cooking and female celebrity skills, how to entertain guests, and so on.
The women's school of the Lanling Ban clan is relatively famous in the local area. Some discerning local celebrities are even willing to pay money and say good things in order to insert their daughters into the Ban Girls' School.
Often, it takes a really wealthy or well-known family in the local area for the Ban Girls' School to accept.
The parents of these female students will donate a large amount of money to the Ban Girls' School. A large part of Ban's financial resources come from this.
Since these female students come from such a wealthy family and have high vision, as soon as they enter the Ban's girls' school, they find that the girls in the Ban's class are not as good as them, so they look down on them. And the rules in the girls' school are so strict, they are restrained so badly that they are afraid to take revenge on the Ban girls.
The Ban elders asked their girls to be simple and quiet, and to set a good example for girls from outside. Unfortunately, this does not guarantee that the girls will get along happily with each other.
From the time she can remember, she has been caught between the strict orders of the teachers and the extravagant backgrounds and contemptuous and hateful gazes of foreign girls.
Her family background and upbringing meet the royal criteria for choosing a wife. But she's not the only one who meets the criteria. How did she go from dozens to ...... To be exact, is it among the forty-one girls of the same age, good-looking and excellent who stand out and match the second prince? What an effort she put into herself. And how did her entire family contribute? It can be written as an entire book in itself.
She is the absolute protagonist of her own story, life and death when she enters Beijing to be elected, and even suffers from anorexia because of it, only to find out after this pass that this is not the end of endless difficulties in life, it can only be said to be the beginning of a new stage.
She became a model student, pride, and hope for her family. At the same time, at Royal, she is also a notable newcomer. It's the same pressure on both sides, and it's even greater than before she got married. It's a miracle that she wasn't crushed into powder.
A more subtle problem is: she married the second prince, and there was a prince at that time. Cui Heng still attaches great importance to the prince. The prince's temper is not good. In other words, she can't be too bad, and she can't stand out too much, making some people feel uncomfortable. If it is less than 60 points, it will be stepped on to zero points. What if it's higher than 80 points? It's going to be cut to zero too!
This is called trembling and trembling, walking on thin ice.
At that time, the crown prince had not yet married a wife. Ban Youniang and the other selected girls were filled with Liangdi, Baolin, and Ruzi of the second prince respectively. These three ranks all belong to the status of concubines. But the difference with the folk concubines is that the concubine cannot be promoted to the main mother. The chasm between a concubine and a wife is as deep as the gap between a slave and a master.
The prince's Liangdi and other women still have hope of being promoted to the main imperial concubine, just like the concubines in the palace still have the hope of being promoted to the queen.
In the Daling Dynasty, this was a theoretical hope.
After experiencing a harsh struggle for favor in the inner palace, a certain emperor made an unwritten rule: the harem concubines will reach the top when they are promoted to the top of the concubine; The prince's side chambers rose to the top of Liangdi. No more going up. Give them a glass ceiling, so that they know their duties, obey the rules, and don't make a move on their wives! The wife keeps her safe position, so that she can better and effectively help her husband manage this group of little wild cats.
The above is a very important discovery, and its significance can even be compared with the imperial examination system, and its effectiveness has been quickly confirmed. So the royal family silently implemented it as an unwritten rule.
Ban Youniang's promotion to Liangdi should be said to be the apex of her career. If you agree to treat a woman's marriage as her only career.
She stayed at the bottom of the glass ceiling, waiting for Concubine Zheng to enter the Second Prince's Mansion, and in the future, as the highest first-class concubine, she assisted Concubine Zheng to lead a group of wild cats below.
Who would have thought that the crown prince would suddenly be deposed as the eldest prince?
The second prince is suddenly going to ascend the throne as an emperor, who would have thought?
When you ascend the throne, you have to have a new queen. It doesn't matter if this woman has a goose egg face or a melon seed face. It doesn't matter if you like to write hairpins or flowing clouds. It doesn't matter whether you love mountains or water. The important thing is that she has to be a proper sign, enriched in the whole set of dresses, and steadily follows the side of the second prince.
The turmoil she caused in the political situation had to be as small as possible.
She also has to enter the role as soon as possible and be competent for the role, which is neither lower than the passing mark nor too assertive.
Cui Heng is too lazy to find a new girl. He's too busy. After discussion, everyone agreed: Let's promote Ban Liangdi to a wife.
The glass pane was broken. Ban Youniang's mood at this time has only one sentence of poetry to describe: Chao is Tian Shelang, and Twilight is in Tianzi Hall.
What what! Can the distance between the farmer and the emperor be compared to the promotion of the side chamber to the main wife?
If you know how easy it is for a hermit to become a hermit in Daling, and how difficult it is for this layer of glass between women to be broken, then you will agree that it is light to use this poem to describe the mood of Ban Youniang. (To be continued......)