Chapter 27: The Draft
"So what are you doing here! Why work with us conspirators! Yan Ju asked with a sullen face.
"Because we have a common goal! You guys are my best bet. Han Wei smiled slightly, and then replied: "Of course, you can also refuse me, but ......"
"What benefits do you want?" Yan Ju glanced at Han Wei hatefully, and then asked unwillingly.
Han Wei pulled his sleeves, and then showed a smug smile: "I propose that Han Zhao marry, jointly promote Sister Han Wang as the queen, and jointly support Sister Han Wang's son as the king in the future, how about it?" ”
Yan Ju pondered for a while, and couldn't help but be moved, but in order to grasp the initiative in order to obtain more benefits in cooperation, he pretended to hesitate and said: "This matter is not trivial, please wait for me to think about it carefully!" I'll go to you tonight and give you the answer! ”
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On the second day, the Qinzheng Palace, the Great Dynasty, and Zhao Weihou reappeared.
"If there is something to do, it will be played early, and there will be nothing to retreat." The eunuch ordered a loud shout. Subsequently, one after another, several ministers have performed some national affairs.
Half an hour later, the ministers stopped the court, and it seemed that the court's meeting was about to end, so Zhao Dan asked, "But is there anyone else who has important things to do?" ”
The ministers were silent. At this moment, a heavy voice came from behind Zhao Dan.
"The old body has an opinion, please discuss it!" Zhao Weihou smiled and continued: "Now that the king's harem is empty, and the old body intends to enrich the harem for the king, what do you think of the ministers?" ”
Zhao Dan's face couldn't help but blush when he heard this, and he stammered slightly: "Queen Mother, this is not necessary!" It's up to the children to decide how to enrich the harem! ”
Zhao Weihou's tone suddenly became a little stern when he heard this: "You! Now you only have one son and one daughter, how can this be a phenomenon that the royal family should have, my mother doesn't think more about you, don't do more for you, how to be right for your deceased father, right for the ancestors of the Zhao family. ”
All of a sudden, Empress Zhao Wei raised the matter of enriching the harem to the point of being sorry for his ancestors, so Zhao Dan choked and stopped talking. And His Royal Highness's ministers were speechless when they heard this, even Zhao Jie had to swallow the rebuttal he was about to say.
"Since there is no objection, it is so decided." Zhao Weihou said with a smile: "The palace will let the queen stamp the will of enriching the harem, and the Prime Minister's Mansion will quickly prepare relevant matters and complete the matter as soon as possible to avoid excessive disturbance to the people." ”
The ministers of "Nuo" have praised Nuodao.
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Two or three days later, the administrative organs at all levels of Zhao State had completed all the preparations, and the speed was unprecedentedly fast. Subsequently, the eunuchs and female officials sent by the palace were sent to various parts of the Zhao State one after another, and the government also cooperated with these people to start a vigorous draft.
I have to say that in the Warring States period, when slavery was transformed into feudalism, ordinary people were not very disgusted with sending their daughters to the palace, but they were a little keen to send young women in their families to China. In this era, for an ordinary person, if he wants to be a nobleman and change the fate of his family, he must master the knowledge and etiquette that the nobles need. However, knowledge and etiquette are all in the hands of the nobility of the country, and ordinary people are not to mention learning etiquette, and even writing is difficult to access.
There are three paths in front of the common people, the first way is to learn from the masters of various schools of this era, obviously this path requires an extremely large amount of money, and ordinary people rarely can come up with this money; The second way is to make meritorious service from the army, and exchange life for merit on the battlefield, obviously this road is extremely dangerous, and the real nobles who come out of this road can be said to be very few, and one out of a thousand is already considered an overestimate; The third way is to let some people in the family master etiquette and knowledge through some means, so many ordinary families are quite keen to send their children to the mansions of the nobility, and letting the children of the family become palace maids in the palace has become an extremely good choice for ordinary families to acquire knowledge and etiquette.
In this era, the palace maids released from the royal palace often became the fragrant bait that folk men vied for, for two reasons - first, most of these palace ladies were as beautiful as flowers, and they were the best choice for men to marry wives; Second, the descendants of the children released in the palace will often be taught by the palace maids, and they will have the foundation to become intellectuals, and the palace maids who have mastered etiquette and knowledge will also add a lot to the literary and artistic heritage of the husband's family.
In this way, Zhao Guo has a draft trend across the country. Ten years later, just as the draft was coming to an end, a news that shocked everyone spread throughout the upper echelons of Zhao Guo, and for a while Zhao Jie deeply felt a feeling of lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.
"Han and Zhao have been friendly for a hundred years, the ancestors were friends with each other, the family of in-laws, and now my king wants to start his marriage with King Zhao again, in order to chase the friendship of the ancestors. My king is willing to use the eldest princess of Pingyang with His Royal Highness King Zhao, hope that the king will accept him, and use the friendship of the whole Han Zhao to make Han and Zhao a country of brothers, looking at each other and helping each other. In the Qinzheng Palace, Han Wei talked eloquently in front of the ministers of Zhao State.
Zhao Jie's face darkened when he heard this, and then he glanced at Handan Ling Lou Ji. Lou Ji understood, and retorted: "Han Envoy is joking with this, my Zhao Kingdom now has a queen, and there is only a concubine left in the queen's harem, is King Han willing to let his sister condescend to be a concubine?" ”
Han Wei smiled when he heard this, and then said: "For the concubine and the queen, although there is a difference of one word, they are all the companions of the king, what is the difference." The capable go up, the mediocre go down, this is a theorem of nature, and the harem is no exception. For the queen to be a concubine, it is all a matter of the king's words, why should you care so much. As long as the woman is virtuous and virtuous enough, who can know the situation of the other day? ”
As soon as Han Wei's words fell, Yan Ju came out and said: "The minister thinks that Han Envoy's words are reasonable, and the minister seconded the proposal!" ”
"Does anyone else have any opinions?" On the bead curtain behind Zhao Dan, an old voice came from within: "Let's take it out and talk about it, let the old body refer to it carefully!." ”
Zhao Jie heard the words and said: "Erchen thinks that there is something wrong with Han Zhao's marriage? ”
"Yo! The reason? Hearing this, Zhao Dan couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Didn't you particularly care about Han Zhao's goodwill in the past, and fight against Qin together?" ”
Hearing this, Zhao Jie said to Han Wei: "What I will say next will be the military and political secrets of my Zhao State, please stay away for a while, can you?" ”
Han Wei nodded, and said without humility or arrogance: "The guest is as he pleases, naturally you can!" Then he followed the eunuch and left the Qinzheng Palace.