After the performance of the Chaoyang Hall ended, Yang Tong returned to the Chaohui Hall with charity

Queen Wei Fengwu, Concubine Xian's eldest grandson Wuji, Concubine Wu Shui Tianji, Concubine Li Xiuning gathered together, and there was a royal sister Jiang Fengyi, the five of them didn't know what to say, it was very lively.

Yang Tong came to the hall, sat down on the seat, and said with a smile: "What are you talking about, so lively." ”

"Holy!" Xiao Wu walked over and put her arm around Yang Tong, staring at her husband with big eyes as if she could speak: "Holy Lord, there are too few people in the palace......

Yang Tong said: "Then what do you want?" ”

Xiao Wu stared at Yang Tong: "The concubine wants to ask the Holy Lord to send a decree to recruit some young show girls to enter the palace." ”

Yang Tong was puzzled: "I don't think Shenwu Palace lacks people. ”

Xiao Wu wrenched his hand and said: "In addition to Shenwu Palace, there are Jingzhao Daxing Palace, Xingqing Palace, Yishou Palace, Xianyou Palace, Bushou Palace, Fufeng Renshou Palace, Qiyang Palace, Taiyuan Jinyang Palace, Loufu Fenyang Palace, Wuyuan Zhaowu Palace, Zhuojun Linshuo Palace, Beiping Linyu Palace!" ”

Yang Tong said: "At the beginning of the year, I robbed nearly 100,000 women in Goguryeo, and not long ago, Jieli Khan used 200,000 women to beg to surrender, and every time I selected some people to come to the palace to listen to it, isn't it enough?" ”

Xiao Wu said helplessly: "You can't use all the bearded girls, right?" ”

"That's just as well!" Yang Tong thought for a while and said: "In the past, show girls were selected into the palace, and they were generally not released from the palace, and only when the new emperor succeeded to the throne, they would be let out and a new batch would be selected." If this emperor has been in office for a long time, these palace maids will stay in the palace for the rest of their lives, and finally they will be driven out of the palace by the new emperor, all of them will have nothing to rely on, and they will end up in a bleak evening. We must not do such a thing. ”

Jiang Fengyi's watery eyes looked at Yang Tong: "Then what does the saint think should be able to do both?" ”

Yang Tong let her touch her beautiful eyes, and her heart beat wildly. This royal sister went to the grassland to live for several years, bold and bold, and compared with Xiao Wu, she has a unique taste: "Just like recruiting the army, in line with the principle of voluntariness, recruit some show girls from the people, first give the family of the selected a settlement fee, and then distribute these show girls to the nearest palaces to do things, and after four years of age, you can retire and go home, so that there will be no tragedy of the palace maid's bleak evening." Moreover, changing compulsory conscription to recruitment can prevent local governments from taking the opportunity to disturb the people. ”

"Holy Lord, the concubine thinks that the first thing to be virtuous is to show girls, and she can be ...... with a delicate appearance."

Yang Tong interrupted Xiao Wu's words: "Xiao Wu, you are now the queen of the world who is virtuous and virtuous, and your mother is the queen, among the women in the world, except for a few elders, you are the biggest, this kind of thing should be up to you, if you don't understand, you can ask the imperial grandmother for advice, no more, isn't there also a big internal manager?" Just play on your own. ”

"You murder me......" Xiao Wu's phoenix eyes were wet with tears.

"I don't have ......"

"You have it!"

"Okay, okay, I have it, I have it, I was wrong...... I solemnly apologize to the Queen Mother. "Women have the right to make trouble unreasonably, they can't scold or beat, Yang Tong admits it.

"Hongu forgive you." As soon as Xiao Wu raised her head, the tears in her eyes were magically taken back, and Yang Tong and several women on the side were dumbfounded.

After getting along for so many years, Yang Tong knows his wife very well, she is not a vexatious person, and wondered: "Xiao Wu, what's wrong with you?" ”

Xiao Wu simply stopped talking!

"Holy Lord, the eldest sister wants to choose some virtuous and virtuous good women to enter the palace and enrich the four concubines and nine concubines!" The eldest grandson said.

When Yang Tong heard this, he immediately understood Xiao Wu's mood. The status of the queen made her have to consider the four concubines, nine concubines, nine Jieyu, nine beauties, and nine talents for the emperor...... But what wife is willing to give more of her husband's favor to others? Between public and private, Xiao Wu is very entangled, very contradictory, and very unhappy!

I also saw that the other three wives looked depressed, and their beautiful eyes were shrouded like a light mist, which was a sign of lack of sleep, if they were in good spirits, their eyes should be as bright as gems, and their mood was obviously the same as Xiao Wu, and they were all entangled in the problem of enriching the harem. Yang Tong couldn't help but feel a little guilty, feeling that he had neglected them in the past few days after becoming the emperor, and comforted them softly: "I didn't say that I wanted to enrich the harem, and the elders didn't say it, the four of you are completely unhappy for yourself." ”

"You're not going to lie, are you?"

Shui Tianji already knew that Yang Tong thought so, so why worry about it? She had been sad for so many days, and she was angry in her heart.

"But the eldest sister said that in addition to the four concubines and nine concubines in the emperor's harem, there are also Jieyu, beauties, talented people and nine people, and these twenty-seven people are collectively called world women; There are twenty-seven Baolin, the royal maid, and the picker girl, and they are collectively known as the eighty-one royal wives. All of them add up to one hundred and twenty-two. ”

Although Shui Tianji's tone was angry, but her heart was about to explode with joy, the four of them were so worried about this problem that they had been restless for two days, and now when she heard Yang Tong say this, how could she not be happy, and the joy in her eyes was full of joy.

"What you said is indeed good, but it is impossible for the emperor to really have so many wives, just take Emperor Wen as an example, under the Empress of Literature, there are only Mrs. Xuanhua, Mrs. Ronghua, and Mrs. Hongzheng; In addition to the imperial grandmother, Emperor Wu only has Empress Nangong, Mrs. Chen, Mrs. Wang, and Mrs. Cui! As for me......"

"How are you?" The four girls asked nervously.

"If I linger in the gentle land and work hard to build the Great Sui Emperor's industry, I am afraid that it will not be long before it will be wasted, and I don't want to be Emperor Yang of the Sui." Yang Tong said with a smile.

"Blame me for being small-minded. I knew that it shouldn't be like this, but I felt uncomfortable and panicked in my heart, as if I had been cut by a thousand cuts. Xiao Wu whispered softly into Yang Tong's arms and said in frustration.

"Because I care, I'm jealous!"

"Our sisters are not vinegar girls, and it is still acceptable for four concubines and nine concubines to be the first and the next." Xiao Wu said affectionately.

"......" Jiang Fengyi, the eldest grandson Wuji, Shui Tianji, and Li Xiuning stroked their foreheads and sighed, why did they only work hard for a while, and they revealed the bottom limit as if pouring water into a bamboo tube?

"Holy Lord, Taibao has something important to ask to see!" At this time, a sword squire hurriedly came and said, "It is said that it is 100,000 urgent." ”

Yang Tong was stunned, how long have they been apart?

After thinking about it, he returned to Chaoyang Palace.

"Meet the Holy One!" In Chaoyang Palace, Yang Gongren and Ling Jing hurriedly saluted.

"Sit down!"

"Thank you!"

After Yang Tong sat down, the two sat down.

"But where is the border trouble?" Yang Tong saw that the expressions of the two were not very good-looking, and said with a smile.

"Holy Lord, the Black Ice Platform has just sent an eagle letter from the Central Plains, and the news above is related to the royal face." Ling Jing said solemnly.

"Royal face?" Yang Tong looked at Ling Jing suspiciously, most of the children of the Yang family died in the Jiangdu Change, and some unlucky people became puppets in the hands of all kinds of anti-kings during the period when they were the most anti-king, and in the end, except for their eldest brother Yang Qi, who escaped, all of them were torn up.

Where are there still royal children in the Central Plains?

"Saint, do you still remember the marriage between Wang Shichong and Li Mi?" Ling Jing bowed.

"I naturally remember that Li Mi accepted a woman with five surnames as a righteous daughter, and prepared to marry Wang Shichong's third son, Wang Xuanqiong, the king of Wu, as his wife; If it weren't for the fact that I closed off the country during the Great Sui Western Expedition, causing Wang and Li to dare not stimulate Yu I, I'm afraid I even have dolls at this moment. Yang Tong shook his head, although he does not advocate harmony and marriage, but he can't control other people's family affairs.

Suddenly realizing something, Yang Tong looked at Ling Jing, his eyes narrowed slightly: "This woman, is it related to my Great Sui royal family?" ”

"Hei Bingtai claims that this woman is very likely to be the wife of King Yan before he became a monk - Princess Pei." Ling Jing's voice was like a knife, full of awe-inspiring murderous aura!

The lord humiliates the ministers and dies, and the lord is glorious.

This is not for fun.

Yang Tong asked in a deep voice, "My imperial sister-in-law?" ”

"Exactly!" Ling Jing nodded.

Yang Tong nodded slowly, and the expression on his face gradually turned cold: the women in the royal family, let alone the princess, even ordinary palace maids are not accessible to the subjects, if Yang Tong ignores the Pei family, it will be a great shame for the royal family and the Great Sui, at least it will trample on the dignity of Yang Dong Emperor, and at worst it will shake the confidence of the subjects.

Since the Wuhu Rebellion, the Central Plains Rites and Religion under the influence of Hu Feng have withered, and the social atmosphere has deteriorated.

The princess had just died, and his beloved concubines and maidservants were often married off and sold by their children and grandchildren, and some were even directly included in the house, so this improper atmosphere became a custom; There are also court officials who were like brothers in their lifetimes, but after the death of their friends, they treat their friends as passers-by, and their indifference is to the extreme, and some people hear that their friends are dead in the morning, and in the evening they persuade their friends' wives and concubines to remarry, so that they can marry themselves, and in order to get the purpose of others' beloved wives and concubines, they shamelessly abandon all morality.

When the Great Sui was founded, Yang Jian revitalized and educated according to Li Ge's words, retreated and degraded frivolity, and vigorously prevented gorgeous hypocrisy, if it was not for the classics, the simplicity of the arms, the ambition in the Tao, and the heart in benevolence, it would not be able to enter the official career, in the fourth year of the emperor's reign, there was a thorn history to write a gorgeous and glamorous official document, and was also questioned, since then, the Sui Dynasty abandoned the gorgeous and beautiful, and returned to the right path.

When Yang Guang ascended the throne, he further promoted sinicization, and severely cracked down on Hu Feng's legacy, especially in terms of human morality, which was quite seriously suppressed, but in fact it did not achieve much effect, just because the people above the court, the vast majority of them are people of mixed Hu blood, they do not pay attention to the Han family etiquette, and women are willing to marry, men are willing to marry, and the desires of men and women can be controlled by an edict from the emperor? Therefore, the marriage problems in this period were quite chaotic!

The "Civil Law" formulated by Yang Tong has made strict restrictions on marriage, once someone marries a stepmother, a daughter-in-law, a sister-in-law, or a younger sibling, not only will he be killed without forgiveness, but he will also be reduced to slavery for all three generations, in order to uphold the social atmosphere and human morality.

It's just that when the matter came, someone dared to forcibly take their sister-in-law, which was really against the sky.

"Forget Chen did not sign the 'Reconciliation Document', Pei's family is related to the face of the Great Sui, even if Wang Shichong and Li Mi are beaten at the same time, it is a big deal to mobilize three or four hundred thousand slave soldiers to take the ladder." Yang Gongren announced domineeringly.

"Holy Lord, Wang Shichong's nephew Wang Qianshou and Li Mi's close minister Bing Yuanzhen came to congratulate, and they are still waiting for the Holy Lord to receive them, so why don't you summon them and ask?" Ling Jing said.

"Yes! Summoned together. Save yourself the hassle. ”

Ancient marriage also had a humane side, and normal couples could divorce peacefully in addition to having seven out of wives that could divorce their wives! The words they sign are called 'Harmony Papers,' and once signed, they do not interfere with each other.

If Yang Qi signed the 'Reconciliation Document' with Pei's, even if she remarried a few husbands, it had nothing to do with the Yang family, but after Yang Kui was usurped by Wang Shichong, he was sent to the north bank of the Yellow River, how could he have the time and mood to sign the 'Reconciliation Document', so that Yang Kui and Pei's are still a normal husband and wife, and Pei's is still the Yang family. Li Mi married the daughter-in-law of the Yang family, and Wang Shichong's son dared to marry, where did this put the face of the Yang family?

If the Yang family didn't have the ability to seek justice, they would have swallowed their anger and admitted it, but the Yang family had this ability, and they could even beat Wang Shichong and Li Mi, how could they admit this humiliation? What's more, the Yang family is royal, and they can't bear it, and they don't even dare to endure it, otherwise they will be regarded as a symbol of weakness by outsiders.

It is precisely because he understands the consequences of Pei's marriage, not to mention that Yang Gongren, an ancient man who values discipline and family reputation, is angry, but Yang Tong is also extremely angry.

In Yang Tong's opinion, Yang Qi has become a monk, and the Pei family, who is in the mood for love, has no children and no daughters, and it is normal to remarry, but the premise is that the relationship with the Yang family must be broken.