Chapter 321
In the blink of an eye, summer is coming, and the Xi Dynasty has been in the Puhua Temple for more than two months and returned to the court, and the body is almost nourished, and the bones are afraid to be crispy if they are idle.
The courtiers raised the matter of the first concubine in the morning of the court, seeing that there is another month that the emperor's self-determined filial piety period is approaching, how can the emperor who is about nineteen years old not have a person who knows cold and hot around him, and for more than three years, there is not even a person who warms the bed. It's not good to be so good, the good thing is that the vacant harem has great benefits for the daughter who was elected to the palace, as the old saying goes, men care a lot about the first woman, and they retain the most affection, so they just enter the palace to win the first place by beauty and means, and lay a position in the harem.
On the contrary, the courtiers can't help but worry about the emperor's body, men will inevitably think of women when they are old, but the emperor is not, if there is no hidden disease, no one will believe it, and some officials even have another unbelievable idea, the emperor does not love beauties, but he likes male style! As soon as the thought came out, I broke out in a cold sweat.
After it was rumored that the emperor had a close relationship with the Wing King, the worries that had arisen were slightly reduced, and the intention to probe the wind became stronger and stronger, and he endured it until now after all parties were angry.
"Your Majesty, the harem can't be vacant all the time, it's time for the draft." The courtiers stood on a line and advocated that the emperor's draft women should be filled with the harem and extend the heirs.
"The emperor is only one year away from the crown, and it is reasonable to choose a concubine this year until next year and after the crown." The officials were unanimous, and they all wanted to find out the emperor's attitude towards the draft girl.
"The royal family is not rich in heirs, and the emperor should consider it for the sake of the country." No matter who you put on it, you have to abide by the rules handed down by your ancestors. It was in this way that the officials put pressure on the emperor.
To be honest, the officials of the eldest prince's faction do not approve of the emperor's choice of concubines in their hearts, and the reason is that the emperor has no heir, which is the best opportunity for the eldest prince, even if he can't sit on the throne now. There is also the next generation, the emperor has no heirs for the long-term prosperity of the royal family, but this is only his own imagination, and the choice of concubines cannot be avoided whether the emperor wants to or not.
Mu Zhao was silent, his eyes fell on the Wing King intentionally or unintentionally, secretly wondering why Mu Jinming wanted to take the concubine Wing King didn't react, if the harem entered the newcomer Mu Jinming's heart, how could he put it all on the Wing King alone. The old saying is not often said, only hearing the newcomer laugh and not hearing the old man crying, is it possible that the king of the wings has the confidence and ability to get the exclusive favor of the harem? Even so, the officials who sent their daughters to the palace for glory and wealth would never allow such a thing to happen. Otherwise, what kind of concubine do you choose, entering the palace is just a good-looking ornament, and it will be wasted until you are old and old, and you will have heirs. The Wing King is really generous enough to share Mu Jinming's grace with other women. With the temper and temperament of the Wing King, it is unpredictable, and the struggle between women is not weaker than that of men, especially when it comes to the inheritance of the throne in the future.
Mu Jinming looked at the rhetoric of the officials below, and secretly sighed that as the king of a country, when he could really be the lord of the country, when he would have a concubine, when he would have an heir, when he would establish a prince, and when he would abdicate, he couldn't help himself. Sitting in a high position is inevitably desolate, and there is no chance to find an informed and interesting woman as a companion. said that it was three thousand beauties in the harem, heh, on the surface, it looks mouthwatering, but in fact, it has to go back to the woman to bargain with the snake, just thinking about it makes me feel tired, let alone really come to such a thing.
I was no longer willing to sit in this position that everyone envied, and I couldn't help myself, the rules of the ancestors fell, and I was sure to smash a big hole, and I wanted to escape, Mu Jin recognized his current situation tomorrow morning, and complained that some things were capricious.
"The draft girl matter consumes time and financial resources, and the treasury is still not abundant, and some things can be avoided." Mu Jinming threw out a sentence lightly, depending on how the courtiers reacted next, he would not respond to the courtiers' suggestions so happily.
The courtiers were a little surprised, the emperor actually found such a reason to block the way of the draft, absolutely not. After making up the draft, it was clarified that several generations of emperors had no shortage of money and had not seen a draft, so bitter and bitter, it was inevitable that this matter would be done smoothly, and the minister would have to do it out of his own pocket.
Mu Jinming thought for a moment and said: "Not to mention that the draft girl has caused a lot of trouble to the people, the country has just improved, and it is not appropriate to be extravagant and wasteful, and my father and emperor also don't want my energy to be put on the harem concubines." ”
The more the courtiers listened, the more they frowned, and they couldn't help but wonder if the emperor chose or not, and he was really willing to live alone for the rest of his life, which was too much nonsense.
"I have to choose the draft, and I will wait after the filial piety period." Mu Jinming made a decision, "There is no need for the general election, the draft girls will be selected from the school-age daughters of officials above the fifth grade in Beijing." ”
When the courtiers heard that the emperor promised to choose a concubine, they were first happy and then surprised, is the scope a little small, and the young lady of the right age is afraid that there are not many, what does the emperor mean by this?
"That's it." Mu Jinming ended the topic, the fewer women in the harem, the smaller the fight, and he didn't want to see the harem chickens and dogs jumping without peace.
So the courtiers are not good to force too hard, this time the officials who took care of the Beijing are not bad, and there should be more choices in the general election after three years, or wait less than three years, after the emperor and the crown are always established, the number of concubines in the harem is not enough to choose the concubine is bound to open again, the officials who failed to participate this time are not depressed, and the officials who do not have daughters will have a headache, and Ping Buqing will have no chance to go at all.
The matter of the emperor's selection of concubines spread all of a sudden, and the people were first worried and then happy when they heard it, this draft girl has nothing to do with the people, so you don't have to worry about her daughter entering the palace where she cannibalism and doesn't spit out bones, let alone hurriedly looking for someone to marry in order to avoid the identity of the draft girl.
The people's conversation after tea and dinner has suddenly changed to whose young lady is beautiful and talented, and she has won the emperor's eyes and concubines.
At the beginning of the conversation, all the good people in the know sat down one after another, saying that their eyebrows were flying, dancing with noses and eyes, as if they had seen the face of the boudoir lady who did not go out of the door, and also ranked up, so it was not lively.
"If you want to talk about the back seat, it has to be the Wing King." The people opened their voices and began to sing, and I appeared after you sang. It also injects a new atmosphere of relaxation into the hot summer.
"Then you still need to say, everyone in Beijing knows it." Someone answered, "The Winged King is the queen, that's what everyone wants." Which lady is comparable. ”
"The Wing King must be talented and good-looking, a hundred times stronger than those boudoir ladies." There are not a few people who praise the Winged King, and the achievements of the Winged King are obvious to all, and the good of the Winged King is always remembered.
"If the Wing King changes into women's clothes, he will be called a shocking celestial person, and he can be called the first beauty in the world." I couldn't help but have a little more fantasy in my mind, and the smile on my face changed.
"I think of the beauty, you have never had the opportunity to see the delicate face of the Wing King in his life." Someone took the opportunity to ridicule, "The beauty of the Wing King is to be left to the emperor." Which green onion are you? ”
As soon as the words fell, everyone in the audience burst into laughter, and the smile made the man's face blush, and he couldn't even say a word of rebuttal.
"You said that the Winged King is the queen. Will it be rare to take off the burden on your body and enter the harem? One person suddenly asked, feeling that the Wing King should not be trapped in the deep palace.
"The concubines in the palace are not all in the palace, and they rarely come out." One of them answered with a puzzled voice, "What is there to say about this?" "Everybody knows common sense.
"Without the winged king, sit in the court and seek the welfare of the people, how can it be good." The people who tasted the sweetness were even more convinced of the Winged King, and the fact that the Winged King caught corrupt officials and punished them was enough to make the people applaud.
"That's right! The Winged King became the queen, and it was inconvenient to come out and walk. Without the Winged King, what should I do if the number of corrupt officials increases? One exclaimed. Isn't there a saying that says, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and without the winged king, he will have to go back to the past days when he contributes to the people. ”
"No, it's still the queen who doesn't work hard, just wait for the Wing King to be lucky enough to meet a real person on the street one day, and it must be a supreme honor to see one." Just thinking about it makes me feel like a bubble of snot.
The controversy among the people is also a thorn in the hearts of the courtiers, and the emperor has not expressed his attitude on which position the winged king is in. The Winged King is still the old god doing what he is doing, and he is so anxious that he can only be someone else.
When the controversy intensified. Our main Xi Dynasty is enjoying the cool in the Wing Palace, and there are large pieces of ice exuding a coolness, slightly lighter than the heat outside.
"Master, Doctor Xu is here." Hongming happened to meet them on the road and entered the house together.
"It's rumored that the city is full of wind and rain outside, so it's good for you to hide in the house." Xu Mian didn't have to stay on duty in the Tai Hospital today, so he went directly to the Yiwang Mansion after leaving the palace, in order to inquire about the situation and eat and drink by the way.
"When did you gossip like that?" Xi Chao used the ice bowl to raise his eyes and swept Xu Mian, "What is done outside is not accurate." ”
"The people are worried about you, how can you go down this drama when you get to it." Xu Mian knew that the Wing King and the emperor had joined forces to pit everyone, probably because he didn't want to be controlled by others, and he was like himself.
"How do you want me to act?" Xichao kicked the ball and did not answer.
"Seriously, you really want to enter the harem and be the queen of a country, give me a good word?" Although Xu Mian had a guess in his heart, he still couldn't figure out the content of the play, so he was afraid that the emperor would be as crazy as the Wing King, and he would play a big trick to scare people.
"If a good prince doesn't do it, who wants to be the queen of Laoshizi." The Xi Dynasty has no intention of continuing to act, and the father is afraid that he will cry to death if he has a spirit in the sky.
"I'm relieved to have your words." Xu Mian patted his chest exaggeratedly, "If I don't think it through, your identity will never be the same for a lifetime, and you will always have to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors." "The emperor probably also has this plan, and it depends on the timing.
"You have become a shield this time, all the women who enter the harem are not good at stubble, and trouble in the future seems inevitable." Xu Mian had a little bit of schadenfreude, and he was very good at concealing it, afraid that the Wing King would see that he couldn't eat and walk around, which would become a typical joy and sorrow!
"The emperor started the draft, why didn't you move at all, living like a nobody, not afraid of those old foxes in the court to see the clues?" Xu Mian found that Yiwang was lazy and lazy in acting, and he didn't take things seriously at all, and he was no different from the original, except for the rumors between him and the emperor, there was nothing else.
"You're making me do something violently abnormal?" Xi Chao slightly hooked the corners of his lips and smiled that it was called a deep meaning.
"What do you mean by abnormality!" It's not normal to react, which woman is willing to share a husband with other women in a harmonious way, a woman who is not so generous, otherwise where is the palace fight, the corners of Xu Mian's mouth twitched and he was quite speechless, what does the wing king think, and normal people are not on the same route, and the words spoken can scare people to death.
"One crying, two troubles, three hangings, can Mu Jinming spoil me without choosing a concubine?" It's taken for granted. Xi Chao shook his head and smiled lightly, "The more I express my anger and lose my normal heart, the more I will be targeted by the old fox in the court, and I don't want to think about what I am like in my prime." ”
What? Xu Mian frowned and recalled. The Winged King usually looks unfathomable and calm, his face is as cold as frost, and his body exudes an unapproachable momentum, and suddenly he realizes that it is really as the Winged King said, with the temper and temperament of the Winged King, he can't make an ordinary woman's small belly chicken intestines, if he really does this, his eyes will be shocked to the ground, but he wants to suspect the internal cause.
Sure enough, the Winged King is different from others. Naturally, the ordinary state of affairs cannot be used as an analysis and judgment, Xu Mian stroked his forehead and secretly thought, the Wing King is simply an anomaly. There is no delicacy as a woman at all, and it is a pity to see the side of the Wing King who is trapped in love, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see it in this life.
"The content of the drama is that Mu Jin loves me and has deep roots in love and doesn't want to bind me in the harem." Xi Chao was in a good mood and was telling Xu Mian a play. "What I want to show the courtiers is that Mu Jinming can't do it without me. And in a hurry, it reduces some unnecessary troubles. ”
Xu Mian nodded and understood, only the emperor liked to hold on and not let go, and the courtiers had no way to do anything to the Wing King, so they had to sigh and let the status quo develop. In the future, it is not too much for the emperor to do more to the Wing King, the Wing King only needs to accept the others and does not have to do it, and the courtiers have to vomit three liters of blood.
"What's next, just idle?" Xu Mian reached out to pick up the rare large bunch of tempting grapes in the fruit bowl on the table. Unceremoniously took the largest bunch and asked while eating.
"Which eye of yours saw me idle?" Xi Chao threw out a roll of his eyes, "The roads at the south and west border passes are almost repaired. There are a lot of affairs to be dealt with one by one in the Acropolis, and seeing that this year's autumn and martial arts are approaching, all kinds of preparations need to be considered, and they are very busy, and you should be the only one to say that you are idle. ”
"I mean the emperor chooses a concubine, you don't care?" Xu Mian wanted to join in the excitement, but unfortunately his status was not high and he couldn't get in, so he inevitably felt a little sorry in his heart.
"Why are you going to look at your future wife?" Xi Chao made fun of Xu Mian's marriage, "Why don't I talk to Mu Jinming and choose one with both ability and political integrity to marry you, so that the door of Xu's mansion will be cut and flattened by the matchmaker." ”
"Don't, how dare I fight with the emperor for women." Xu Mian was almost stuck in the grape seeds, coughed twice and spit it out, and drank tea again to slow down.
"If you don't marry a wife and have children, do you want to be lonely for the rest of your life?" Xi Chao asked a few more questions because of his curiosity.
"What's the matter, if you want to find a suitable one, I can't afford to be a lady of those official families, not to mention the big temper, it's hard to serve." Xu Mian didn't want to put his whole life into it.
The selection of concubines is very low-key, there is no regulation of the election of fancy, choose an auspicious day in the morning, get dressed at dawn, take a carriage to the side gate of the palace to enter, under the leadership of the old lady in the palace, receive their respective number plates, sit in a side hall and wait.
There are 200 show girls who enter the palace to participate in the election, which is not too much and not a lot, and the mother said the rules that should be told before seeing the royal driver, lest any of the brains make a bad act and anger the holy driver.
Taking advantage of the end of the early dynasty, the weather is cool and people are also in spirit, it is a good time to choose a concubine, the show girl is led by her grandmother to take neat steps to the imperial garden, there are beautiful scenery and beauties.
Mu Jinming put down a sentence at the end of the early dynasty, which shocked the courtiers' hearts and livers, and looked at the Wing King in disbelief, just because of that original sentence, the Wing King accompanied the emperor to choose a concubine.
Calling the Wing King to choose what else to choose, the courtiers couldn't figure out what the emperor thought, that is, they agreed to choose the concubine, and the show girl had entered the palace and waited for the Wing King to choose, and a few could be selected with the relationship between the Wing King and the emperor!
The official who sent his daughter into the palace and waited for his daughter to win the crown and concubine in one fell swoop had a chill down his spine, and his eyes were very subtle when he looked at King Yi.
It's too late to voice an objection, the emperor has already walked out of the palace of diligence, and the courtiers can't help but withdraw their eyes from the door of the palace, and turn to the winged king who stood up unhurriedly.
Knowing that the Winged King will not go, the emperor will not go to the mouth is equivalent to resisting the decree and not complying, although the emperor's love for the Winged King will not be punished, but the Winged King must go no matter what kind of mentality he holds, the courtiers panicked, and couldn't help but think carefully about whether the emperor was pressed too hard, the emperor agreed very happily on the surface, and his heart was extremely disgusted and was waiting for the courtiers to be an army, and now this is not the case.
In case the Winged King can't look down on any of them, will the emperor put the Winged King's opinion first, so the officials in a happy mood are afraid that there is no place to cry, what can they do to the Winged King? I can't even move a hair, and I haven't tried it, so it's better to do less stupid things with eggs hitting stones.
The situation has taken a turn for the worse, and the courtiers want to redeem it but can't open this mouth, it is difficult to bribe the Wing King's subordinates to show mercy, and use the righteous ancestral system to force the Wing King to commit it, don't be stupid, the Wing King is not afraid of threats, and often the people who target the Wing King do not have a good end.
Since the selection of concubines has been decided, the courtiers have watched the Wing King many times, and everyone is disappointed that the Wing King is no different from usual, he is not in a hurry to have his position seized by others, and he can't figure out the Wing King's thoughts, and the whole heart is very uneasy.
The winged king staggered past the courtier who had not walked out of his contemplation, and the look in the official's eyes naturally caught in his eyes with irony.
The show girls were divided into groups of ten people and lined up in a row to wait for the summons, Mu Jin came a step early tomorrow, his eyes swept over the various colorful show girls who were dressed incomparably, and the hand holding the tea cup casually played with the tea in the bowl, and his eyes were on the place where he came.
The show girl stood a little far away, saw the emperor coming and knelt together, just got up, still polite and slightly drooped her eyes, should not look indiscriminately, especially staring at Emperor Feng, her heart was uneasy, especially remembering the mother's Chunchun advice at home, and she was calm and pressed down impetuousness.
Catching a glimpse of a familiar figure striding over, Mu Jinming put down the teacup and smiled gently and dotingly at the approaching people.
"Come and sit here." Mu Jinming pointed to the only vacant seat beside him, and motioned for Xi Chao to sit.
The show girls are clear that there is such a favorite of the emperor's winged king, is the opponent they are about to face, the parents of the family are not allowed to fight with this high-powered winged king after being elected to the palace, if it is inevitable to meet in the palace, it is also polite to make people unable to grasp the handle, in a word, you can hide and never allow a frontal conflict, in addition to being the emperor's favorite, the winged king is also a pivotal courtier above the court, the harem must be found back in the court, the courtier is not happy to let his daughter give himself to the pit, It is to deal with the killing god of the Wing King, which is to avoid it.
Why is the Wing King here! This is the unspeakable voice of all the show girls at this moment, the emperor also allows the wing king to sit beside him, that is an equal, even the queen of a country does not have this honor, and the position is always slightly lower than the throne.
Before the show girls officially experienced what it means to be so special that they can ignore the honor of the ancestral system, they also saw the legendary Wing King, although the face is not large, and the list is impeccable.
Some unconvinced show girls secretly snorted coldly, very disdainful of the Wing King, as his father said, the emperor looked at the Wing King is nothing more than the military power in his hands, what is the point of a girl who often wears men's clothes, how can there be innocence in the appearance of men outside, no matter how good the wind review is, the chess pieces in the emperor's queen, if the emperor really loves the Wing King, why should he agree to choose a concubine, and there is no sentence to canonize the Wing King as the queen, the emperor is just trying to appease the Wing King, I believe that he must be stronger than the Wing King, Men love delicate women like water the most, rather than cold and hard girls like men.
No matter what complicated feelings the show girls have, the illusions in their hearts were completely shattered after they stepped forward in order to see the true face of the emperor and the winged king, not the emperor but the winged king's eyes were too cold, and it was really scary, the most puzzling thing was that the emperor was asking the winged king all the time if he had a fancy to it, and it was difficult to restrain himself from thinking about such a strange concubine selection test. (To be continued......)