Chapter 098: Succession (10)
Zhao Kuangyin sat on the very elaborate backrest in the dining room of the Funing Palace, one arm lazily resting on the back of the chair; The jade pillar axe rested on the Huabiao wooden pillar inlaid with flying dragons.
Wang Jien passed the decree that King Jin had been gone for a long time and had not returned, and Zhao Kuangyin had an indescribable boredom in his heart.
The family banquet has been prepared, which kitchen manager named Lan Caihe is responsible for arranging; Lan Caihe commanded more than a dozen palace maids to clean up the corners of the dining room neatly, and a few cold dishes and a few bottles of royal wine were also placed on the table.
When the King of Jin did not arrive, Lan Caihe and a dozen palace maids stood in two rows facing the emperor; Listen to the call at any time.
There were several eunuchs standing beside the palace maids, of different ages.
Grandpa Tai glanced at Lan Cai, a dozen palace maids and a few eunuchs, and suddenly wanted to ask about the daily life of these subordinates on a whim; Then he got up from the back chair and walked to the maid and the eunuch.
Lan Cai, more than a dozen palace maids and a few eunuchs saw the emperor coming, and one by one they bent their bodies into a shrimp-like shape and stood in a regular manner to greet the emperor.
Zhao Kuangyin saw that the palace maid and eunuch were restrained, smiled and said, "Everyone relax, I have some time now, I want to chat with everyone!" ”
Zhao Kuangyin said that he circled around these standing palace maids and eunuchs like a tiger, and saw that their standing posture and letting go were very neat; I couldn't help but say "yo he" and said: "Have you practiced this standing posture!" ”
Without waiting for the palace maids to talk, the grandfather continued: "Which of you is the head!" ”
"Slave Lan Cai and meet the saint!" Lan Caihe took a few steps forward and pressed his hand on his hips and responded, "The slave is temporarily greeting these sisters!" ”
Zhao Kuangyin stared at Lan Caihe and smiled: "So you're the head?" ”
"Enlightening the saint, the slave and maid greet the sister, even if it is a leader!" Lan Caihe said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
Grandpa Tai was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "How can you say that it is even a leader?" The head is the head! ”
Lan Caihe lowered his head and didn't dare to stare at the grandfather, and the grandfather said in a loud voice: "I want to know how you work and live on weekdays, so you can tell the widow about it!" ”
Grandpa Tai actually called Lan Caihe the leader, Lan Caihe had received a secret order from the King of Jin to complete an earth-shattering event, and he didn't dare to speak up when he saw that Grandpa Tai called himself with the word leader; smiled and told the emperor about the daily life of the palace maids in the Song Court.
The women in the Song Court Palace are roughly divided into four groups: one is the palace maids, which are the largest and most numerous in number. the second is female officers, mainly management; manage the miscellaneous servants among the palace maids; Female officials were selected to enter the palace after strict screening, and it can be said that it is not easy to enter the palace. the third is breast protection, as the name suggests, it is a wet nurse and a nanny; This type of person is mainly used to nurse princes and princesses, and to take care of and raise young royal heirs. the fourth is the concubine, which everyone seems to understand; It is the emperor's wife and concubine.
The selection of palace maids by the Song court is similar to that of several other dynasties, and it is selected nationwide; Be between thirteen and nineteen years old, and you have to be an unmarried woman; The job of these people is to serve those who are in high places.
As for cleaning, it was the older ones who did the chores and the men who had sinned; The wife and daughter were confiscated as slaves and maids.
Some people are eager to send girls to the palace, first, so that they can see the world; And every month he earns silver.
The second is to let the girl learn something in the palace to find a good mother-in-law, although the palace maid is a servant in the palace, she has a good reputation; In the end, if you are favored by the official, it will not be a matter of a few taels of silver.
The selected palace maids must receive training after entering the palace, and the training content of the palace maids is first to read and write; the second is the sewing and embroidery of women's red, and the third is the precautions for cleaning; The fourth is to teach the rules and etiquette of the palace.
After the training, the assessment should be carried out, and those who fail to pass the assessment will be removed from the palace and replaced by the back.
After the palace maid attacks and trains, the excellent ones will go to serve the concubines, and the next class is Shangyi, then Shangyi, and then the miscellaneous servants, the absolute hierarchy, and then you can find a mother-in-law to marry when you leave the palace.
The new palace maid calls the old palace maid aunt, and the old palace maid who specializes in managing the new palace maid has great rights, and the new palace maid can be beaten and scolded.
It can be considered that the new palace maids have no interest and are assigned to be miscellaneous servants, and these old palace maids have a very hot temper; If you are angry, you will find a new palace maid to vent, and you will be scolded and punished directly without saying the reason.
What these new palace maids are most afraid of is punishment, and if they are beaten, they will endure it; But if you want to be punished, you will go to the corner and kneel, and this kneeling is not sure how long you will kneel.
The punished new palace maids would often kneel on the ground and beg their aunt to beat them.
Of course, these palace maids also have one step to ascend to the sky, fly on the branches and become phoenixes, if they are favored by the emperor, it is a person who has ascended to heaven.
After listening to Lan Caihe's introduction to the life of the palace maids in the palace, Zhao Kuangyin felt that they were a group of people worthy of sympathy; Then he waved his hand and said, "I sit here, you can find a place to rest, and it's not too late to summon you if you have something!" ”
Lan Cai and the saint said this, and the palace maid and the eunuch brushed the brush to the emperor to say ten thousand blessings and retreated to the back.
The great grandfather stomped his steps in the Funing Palace, and looked at the gate while pacing.
Zhao Guangyi, the king of Jin, has not yet arrived, and Zhao Kuangyin is inevitably a little anxious.
I don't know when it started, Zhao Kuangyin vaguely felt that his brother was a little detached.
When Zhao Guangyi was the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, a series of measures to rectify Bianjing were very appropriate and appropriate, which Zhao Kuangyin secretly admired.
But his brother Zhao Guangyi, who is obedient everywhere, disagrees with his brother in the matter of moving the capital to Luoyang and Chang'an, and he is so indignant.
So many ministers actually made a tune with Zhao Guangyi, and kept agitating and coaxing; This made Zhao Kuangyin very annoyed, and he lost his temper for two months.
Zhao Kuangyin thought that he had lost his temper for two months and was in a stalemate in Luoyang for two months; Zhao Guangyi and the ministers will give in, after all, he is the emperor's power to make a statement.
However, Zhao Kuangyin was wrong, and in the two-month confrontation; Zhao Guangyi and his ministers did not let a single step, and stubbornly said that the emperor could not be relocated, so he was set in Kaifeng Bianliang.
Zhao Kuangyin suddenly found that he was afraid that the throne would be unsafe if he held on, so he gave in a step.
Zhao Kuangyin didn't understand why Zhao Guangyi did this, the establishment of the capital of the Great Song Dynasty in Bianjing was only an expedient measure at the beginning; Now 16 years have passed, and the toddler Da Song has become a young man in 16 years; The crusade to the west is invincible.
The problem is that the Khitan people who rose in the north are also getting stronger and stronger, and in the war of the Great Song Dynasty to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty, the Khitans constantly supported the surname Liu Xiaoxiong to fight to the death with the Great Song Dynasty; If the imperial city is still fixed in Bianliang, it will be flattened by the Khitan iron cavalry one day.
The Khitans were the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty and the Turks in the Tang Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty did not have Huo Quzhi and Li Jing.
Bianliang faces the Yellow River in the north, and once the Yellow River is crossed, it is the plain of the Pingchuan River; The Khitan horse team can reach the other side of the Yellow River in a day or two, and the capture of Bianliang is not an alarmist statement.
Based on such a situation, in order to make the Great Song Dynasty thousands of generations; Zhao Kuangyin plans to migrate to the country; The first step is to migrate to Luoyang, and the final capital is in Chang'an.
Only by setting Kyoto in Chang'an can the Great Song Dynasty have long-term peace and stability; But Zhao Guangyi, this deflated calf, is your consent.
Zhao Kuangyin finally gave in to the matter of moving the capital, but Zhao Guangyi actually had to forcibly occupy Mrs. Hua Rui......