Chapter 56 The General Trend

So whenever Sima Yan took a fancy to the little beauty, he tied a silk yarn on his arm as a mark. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The daughters of the Info Minister's family were selected as high-ranking concubines (third ladies and nine concubines), and the daughters of 2,000 Shi Yulu officials were selected as concubines below the ninth rank.

To be the emperor's little wife, it seems that there is endless glory and wealth, in fact, it is not true, a deep palace gate is like the sea, since then the family affection is like a passerby, especially to the emperor with many concubines as a little wife, basically thousands of troops and horses across the single-plank bridge, not to compete for favor may not even see the emperor's face for a lifetime, directly equal to the widow, there is no chastity archway. If you compete for favor, then wait to pass five levels and kill six generals, or pin your head to the waistband of your pants to work. Many daughters of big families put on tattered clothes, pretended to be crazy and stupid, risked being punished to avoid selection, and wept and wiped their tears when they were selected into the palace. One of the representatives is Hu Fang, the daughter of the general Hu Fen. After Hu Fang was selected, she cried, made trouble and hanged herself directly in the palace, and the people around her persuaded her not to make trouble, in case the emperor heard it, it would be troublesome. Niu Ren Hu Meiniu said amazingly: "The old lady is not afraid of death, but she is still afraid of the emperor?" ”

In the second year, ten years after the beginning of Thailand, Sima Yan, who tasted the sweetness, launched the second national audition campaign for little wives, this time the scope is larger and the impact is more far-reaching, not only the court officials, including the small officials and ordinary people, all in one net, regardless of the background, there is only one standard, just be beautiful. It fully shows that this old man is not only born in the cause of choosing a wife, but also the spirit of openness, fairness and justice. As a result, there was a grand scene recorded in the history books of "the edict took a good family and 5,000 young generals and officials to enter the palace and select them, and the mother and son cried in the palace and heard it outside". This year, Empress Yang passed away, and Comrade Sima Yan made more frantic strides forward in a more selfless and unscrupulous state.

In the first year of Taikang (280 AD), Jin destroyed Wu, and it was a spring in March, Sima Yan took over more than 5,000 little wives of Sun Hao, the former emperor of Wu, at this time, this brother's harem team successfully broke through the 10,000 mark, even if it was one a day, never absent, it would take a full 27 years to take all the turns, which is the origin of Emperor Wu of Jin's overnight choice phobia.

Yang Ke silently calculated, the Jin Dynasty had a long history of extravagance, and the wind of drunken life and dreams of death spread throughout the country, and it was really necessary to find a breakthrough in order to implement the anti-corruption plan. First, it has set an example and has a role in propaganda and leadership. The second is to set the standard to see who dares to surpass the emperor and the queen mother. The third is also a popular project, let the concubines who have no children go home, at least these concubines and their families will be grateful to Dade. As for the benefits of saving the amount of money in the palace and so on, there is no need to enumerate.

There is just one point, Sima Yan must be denied in public opinion, which is a trouble. In the feudal era, in addition to the emperor's own edict, it is impossible for the court to openly admit that the emperor made mistakes, because since ancient times, the king has been praised as the divine right of heaven, so the name of the Son of Heaven, the Song Dynasty has fallen, the standard format of the edict at the beginning of the edict must be "Fengtian carries the emperor's edict", since it is the son of heaven, how can it be wrong, it will shake the foundation of the rule, and the emperor's authority is sacred and inviolable.

"Guilty 。。。。。" Yang Ke suddenly had an inspiration, how could he forget a set of tricks of the gods, so he thought about it and said with a slight smile: "Starting from the removal of concubines in the harem, I will plan this matter, but I still have to ask Brother Ziping to handle it." ”

Zhang Chang was stunned: "How can my old Zhang manage the affairs of the harem?" ”

The dust has settled on the big case of Shi Chong and the other three, and the imperial court has officially announced to the world, the edict is really sonorous and conclusive, and the crimes of the three are too numerous to write, and the evil is full of evil. In the end, the imperial court conveyed several opinions, the first was to express the determination and will to punish the corrupt and degenerate, the second was to call on the subjects of the world to be models of abiding by the law, and the third was to establish the values of diligence and thrift, seeking truth from practice, and making great efforts to govern the country. Fourth, it is to declare the 24 Friends of Jingu headed by Shi Chong and others to be an illegal association, to convey corrupt and degenerate academic views, to form gangs and factions to engage in party disputes, to deal with the first evil, to coerce leniency, and to dissolve it; comrades on the literary and artistic front must assume the function of promoting positive energy in the future, and must not poison the people with reactionary and decadent ideologies and encourage unhealthy tendencies.

As soon as these four articles came out, it undoubtedly conveyed an important signal to the people of the world that the imperial court would change the bad customs and scrape the bones to cure the poison. Of course, this Zheng Zheng knife pen is Liu Ling's handwriting, and everyone who is one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest is certainly not given in vain.

Some courtiers with ulterior motives just began to argue about whether the first emperor's law of governing the country was to be denied or inherited, a lightning bolt suddenly blinded their eyes, and the miracles of the first emperor frequently appeared in several places across the country, some of them dug up the stone tablet of the first emperor's handwriting from the ground, some were witnessed by the first emperor's car driving and hunting, and some places were the first emperor's dreams, although the form is different, the content is one, the first emperor issued an edict against himself, warning his descendants not to learn to be content with pleasure, to abolish the harem, save money, He also called on the people of the whole world to live a hard, simple, diligent and thrifty life under the leadership of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, tighten their belts and do revolution, work hard for a few years, and work hard for a happy life tomorrow. The speed of the imperial court's reaction was also very fast, and the full text of the first emperor's edict was forwarded, and at the same time a comment was added: "The first emperor has merits and deeds in his life, but the merits outweigh the faults, we must inherit the essence, remove its dross, and make great strides forward on the glorious road of revolution." Under his command, there has never been a shortage of swaggering and deceitful charlatans, fooling the ancient people who generally have feudal superstitions, creating a little sensational effect, and setting off a storm of public opinion.

As a result, a vigorous and nationwide rectification movement of fighting corruption and advocating clean government, being diligent and thrifty, seeking truth and being pragmatic, and doing solid work has become a prairie fire, and the trend of the times is the trend of the times, and no one dares to jump out and sing the opposite, otherwise it will be a great disapproval of the world and will become the target of public criticism. Yang Ke was in the stormy movement at this time, leisurely hiding in his own garden to catch fish, drinking tea, this fire was let go, the court needs to digest it for a while, and those under his command should be busy.