Chapter 290: Protecting the Emperor's Media
Yang Zao'er was sitting, and if she was standing, she would definitely be frightened by Guangxu to sit down. Originally, I just accompanied Li Jurong into the palace to talk to the emperor, but I didn't expect to say that the emperor wanted her to be the queen. This change is not too big, too fast.
Yang Zao'er was stunned and didn't know what to say, Kou Liancai stood aside like thunder, it turned out that the queen could still come like this. It was Li Jurong sitting on the side smiling.
Guangxu saw that Yang Zao'er's face was frightened, and in order to strengthen Yang Zao'er's determination to be the queen, he began to tell Yang Zao'er about the queen's honor guard.
There are two queens. One is a phoenix car, wooden, barberry bright yellow, nine feet five inches high. The dome covers the second floor, one foot seven inches high, painted with eight treasures on the top, the octagonal decoration with a golden phoenix, the lower painting clouds, and the decoration of the four corners is the same. Crowned gold dome, carved clouds, miscellaneous treasures. The second is the ceremonial car, wooden, bright yellow, nine feet five inches high. The dome, round above and below, is nine inches high. Crowned silver dome, painted with gold. The queen uses lavender mink in winter, and green velvet in summer, decorated with Zhu Wei. There is a crown of auspicious clothes, lavender mink for it, decorated with Zhu Wei, and the top is made of East Pearl. Earrings, three on the left and right, two for each golden dragon and a first-class East Pearl. The court gown, the court robe, the dragon gown, and the dragon robe are made of three. The gold covenant and the collar covenant are all carved gold, decorated with eastern pearls, and interspersed with coral. Three plates of court clothes and pearls. Picking, green skirt, winter with a piece of gold and sea dragon edge, red woven gold longevity satin, stone blue dragon makeup satin, all are positive. There is a fold accumulation, and the summer is made of yarn. Queen Jinbao, Qing and Han jade seals, Jiaolong New, platform, four inches and four points square, one inch and two points thick. The queen's original name was Lu Book. Five-color dragon and phoenix flag ten. There are four sub-red, yellow dragon and phoenix fans, eight pheasant tail fans, and four sub-red and Sufang umbrellas. Yellow satin embroidered four seasons flower umbrella four, five colors nine phoenix umbrella ten. There are also two gold festivals, two second whisks, two golden incense burners, and two golden incense boxes. There are also gold cups, gold bowls, gold bottles, gold chairs, and gold squares. The second nine phoenix crank yellow cover one. Fengyu is a multiplication, and Yiyu is a two-by-one. One ride in the phoenix car, two rides in the instrument car. All the celebrations of the Longevity Festival, New Year's Day, the Winter Solstice and other celebrations, Luan Yiwei is first furnished.
And that's not all, nor is it complete. The reason why Guangxu knows so much is that he was forced by the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces. In order to marry the queen into the palace as soon as possible, the queen mother requires all ceremonial guards and other related affairs to be prepared in advance. So these things were presented to the emperor after the queen mother drafted, but the two old ladies always thought of what to add, so they changed it to Guangxu once, and they knew a lot when they saw it more often.
"These are all full queen etiquette. It's a gift of prosperity. You always know the pomp and circumstance of the emperor's ceremony during my southern tour, which lasted more than two hours. Of course, you will definitely not enter the palace as a Han woman, or according to the etiquette system of the former Ming queen, I have ordered the Ministry of Rites to go to customize, and then you will see and confirm,. Although the honor guard as the queen of a country is not as good as the emperor's honor guard, it is by no means any worse, and the specifications of the emperor's honor guard must match. In order to make Yang Zao'er his queen, Guangxu was desperately fooling. In order to prove the credibility of his words. Guangxu immediately ordered Kou Liancai to take the picture album painted with the queen's honor guard and the former Ming queen's honor guard in this dynasty, and lined it up on the coffee table. Guangxu said what he knew, and exaggerated what he didn't know. As for the fact that the Ministry of Rites has not yet received this decree, it will not be mentioned. In short, Guangxu's core idea is that Yang Zao'er must be fooled into his own queen today.
Yang Zao'er listened to it one by one. She only knew that the emperor told her a lot. There are many albums in front of me that can also prove the grandeur of the queen's ceremony, but the key is that I didn't promise to be the queen, so it's no need to tell myself now.
Yang Zao'er looked confused, and Guangxu saw it in his eyes. So Guangxu once again strengthened the intensity of flickering. The queen has gorgeous clothes made of gold and silver threads, and the water that flies in the sky and the ground swims in the delicacies on the queen's table. The maids walked around, and the thousands of palace people in the entire palace were managed by the queen. Not to mention that now the emperor has large estates in Beijing, in the northeast, and in the south of the Yangtze River waiting for the queen to manage. And the tens of thousands of people living on these estates are still waiting for the queen to make decisions for them.
"No, it's not ......," Yang Zao'er wanted to say in a hurry, she didn't plan to be the queen.
But how could Guangxu give her a chance to say no. Without waiting for Yang Zao'er to finish speaking, Guangxu interrupted Yang Zao'er's words heavily: "What's not, you'll know when you take over the royal industry, our industry is big." Not only manors, but also factories, shipyards, and mines, our family has industries overseas. But I have to take care of state affairs and don't have time to take care of these things, and Kou Liancai doesn't understand it. Just say that the 8oo taels of silver that started with the Daqing Bank were paid by our family. As a result, the guy sitting next to you, her father bullied me and didn't have a queen to take care of these things, so she was taken away by her father in the name of national righteousness. Do you know how much our family has lost over the years? Think about it, it's bleeding. So you have to get this mess up at home quickly, and don't let people like her father beat our family's idea again. You must know that it is our money that is lost. After speaking, Guangxu hurriedly gave Li Jurong a look and asked her to come forward to prove it.
Guangxu's words are too ...... Li Ju couldn't find a co-made word to describe it. First said that they would wait for someone else to take over, and then it would be our family, and in the end, it would be the two of us. It's as if someone has already agreed. But at this time, the emperor's affairs could not be ruined, so Li Jurong told Yang Zaoer in a very resolute and affirmative tone that what the emperor said was right, and then gave her father by the way: "Tell you, my father is eyeing your family's Shunfeng logistics company again, and wants to follow the example of foreigners to reorganize into the Ministry of Posts and Communications." You don't care about the loss, but it's all the money in your own pocket. β
"Why is your dad like this?" Guangxu shouted with a very exaggerated expression and tone: "Your father always bullies me with the righteousness of the world." I can't say anything about the righteousness of the world, but now these are not under my control, let your father talk to Zao'er, now his righteousness in the world will not work. β
"I'm not ......" Yang Zao'er really wanted to say that she was not the queen, but Guangxu still didn't give her a chance to finish.
"You're still nothing." Guangxu said to Yang Zao'er with a very pitiful expression: "Zao'er, his father has abducted a lot of silver from our family." Now it's up to you how much we can keep. β
Li Jurong laughed in her heart, this emperor is too eloquent. It's our family to open and close your mouth, and the last sentence has the meaning that Yang Zaoer is already the queen.
"Can you listen to me first-" Yang Zao'er was anxious.
"Yes, you name it. But keep an eye out for his father. Our family doesn't have much money left. After speaking, Guangxu also snorted heavily at Li Jurong.
Although she Yang Zaoer and the emperor can be regarded as old acquaintances, they have no affection for Ben. How did you say that today? Yang Zao'er was really helpless in her heart: "You are the emperorβ"
"Hey, what you're saying is like the emperor doesn't have to marry a wife." After speaking. Guangxu squatted on the ground and looked at Yang Zao'er, his eyes flashing with the light of **.
"No, I mean, you're the emperor, this ...... This ......"
"Oh, I see. What do you mean to say that the emperor has seventy-two concubines in three palaces, six courtyards, three thousand beauties in the harem, and beauties around the emperor are like clouds. If you do, it's not necessary. It is said that it is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs, let alone the royal family who is the respect of the world. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is a martial artist. Tang Taizong is wise, but look at their harem. The harem women have always done anything to compete for favor with the emperor, and Wu Zetian strangled his daughter to death with his own hands. If you look at the emperors in history, no matter how wise the king is, he can't take care of state affairs because the harem involves too much energy, and a wise and martial emperor makes a powerful empire decline because of the involvement of the harem. I don't want to repeat their experience, so I can only marry one woman. β
"No, no, I'm just...... I ......"
"Are you also worried like Anxi, the seemingly graceful and luxurious queen. seems to be the mother of the country, but in fact she is just a canary locked up in the palace. It's a pity that I didn't make it clear to her earlier, maybe fate hasn't arrived. It is said that the queen mother is the world. What is Motherhood? Teach your children to be mothers. What is a meter? As an exemplary meter. Since you want your mother to honor the world, you naturally want to be a role model for teaching children all over the world, but you can't go anywhere in this palace to return your mother to the world. I want to teach the children of the world. It is necessary to inspect the education situation in various places and learn first-hand information. Then arrange the school building and dispatch teachers. Yes, and to do that, you have to go out of the palace. And I even thought about the official position. It's the next Minister of Education. Minister Rong is still in poor health when he is old, and his energy will not be enough after two or three years. You are his disciple. The gentleman who is still studying in the university hall is how suitable it is. If you think about it again, our China is so big, it is not enough to inspect back and forth for a year, maybe as the queen, you will spend more time outside the country in a year than in the capital. Can you understand all that I've said? β
Yang Zao'er's face was embarrassed, and she thought about it and said, "It's just ......"
"Why are you still just? I can attest to this as I am prepared to do. Wait a minute. After speaking, Guangxu spread his feet and ran up to the second floor, and then there was a chaotic sound on the second floor, and then Guangxu ran down again, holding a thick book in his hand and patting it on the coffee table. The booklet is hand-bound and bears a few large letters: The Vision of Universal Education for the Whole Country.
"It takes the efforts of every generation for the country to be strong, and now the older generation is getting old, and the middle-aged generation has not much to count on. The younger generation is basically cultivating literacy and reading. So we need to step up our efforts to nurture the younger generation, and more importantly, we need to put our hope in the children, because they are the future of this country. I'm not just talking about it, but I already have a complete idea. Maybe a lot can only be imagined, and there is still a long, long way to go before it can be realized, and it will be very difficult, but as long as you do it, you can achieve it one day. Guangxu opened the pamphlet he had written, pointed to the words painted on it, and said: "My idea is to build universities with the provincial capitals as the center, and all prefectures and counties to build middle schools, and primary schools in towns and villages. We don't have the experience of large-scale rollout, so we can only implement it one place at a time. It will be completed within three years with the Beijing-Tianjin region as a pilot project, and then it will be rolled out in the northeast region, which is still a relatively small number of people, and will be promoted in the next five years in large cities and surrounding areas across the country and in rich areas such as Jianghuai, Jiangnan, and Lingnan. Within 10 years, the planning of key heavy industry areas and densely populated areas across the country will be preliminarily completed. It will take another ten years to spread to Gansu, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guichuan and remote and impoverished areas. My vision is to complete the education of more than 60 percent of the country's young people within 10 years, and to make 80 percent of the country's population free to read within 20 years. If the youth is strong, the country will be strong, and if the youth is prosperous, the country will be prosperous. This is not an empty phrase, and what I am doing is to make Chinese teenagers strong. This is a huge plan, and the money, manpower, and material resources required are even more astronomical. To be honest, I don't know if I can do it, but at least I'm trying to do it. But I am also an emperor, and there are too many places that need my attention in domestic and foreign affairs, so I need an empress who can help me realize this plan. You see, I even wrote the queen's inspection plan. After speaking, Guangxu looked at Yang Zao'er, closed the manual and handed it to her: "It is said that those who are teachers should educate the world, and now this is the best opportunity to educate the world." Take it and be my queen, the next Minister of Education. Whether it's an ideal or an ambition, let's make it happen together. β
Yang Zao'er looked at the manual in a daze and didn't pick it up. Instead, he stammered again, "It's just...... It's just ......" said two sentences but stopped talking.
"I don't know what you're still here?" Guangxu angrily threw the booklet on the coffee table: "Can't believe my words?" Well, I can swear to God. No, I have to set up a document in white and black to summon the world. Guangxu crawled on the ground, took out a pen and paper from under the coffee table, and crawled on the coffee table as he spoke: "Letter of commitment: I, the Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, love Xinjue Luo Zaitian, swear to Queen Yang Zao'er here, I will only marry Yang Zao'er in this life, and cherish and love her." If I break this oath and marry again, let me thunder five times in the sky and die......"
The dead word had just been put down, and Yang Zao'er suddenly reached out and blocked Guangxu's mouth. Guangxu raised it, gently took off her hand and held it in his hand, and looked at Yang Zao'er with bright eyes: "You agreed?" β
Yang Zao'er just didn't expect the emperor to really make such a big oath. But seeing that his hand was held by Guangxu, his face turned red, he withdrew his hand and looked down and asked: "I don't have Sister Ju's family background, and I can't compare to Sister Qian'er's pleasing people, nor do I have Sister Ling'er's well-behaved." Why did the emperor choose me? β
When Guangxu heard this, he fell to the ground like a loss of strength. Leaning on his knees with his hands in his hands, he said in a deep voice: "As an emperor, he seems to have power in the world, but in fact, he can't do many things by himself, especially private matters. After the emperor married, it was more important to look at the political needs, and the current political needs were to completely eliminate the defense of the Manchus and Hans. Therefore, there is no way to change the way I marry a Han girl, and I can only have my own decision when this condition is met. I don't know many women, so it's just the four of you who add willow eyebrows. Liu Mei's identity is problematic, and Huang Ling's brother is a member of the rebellious Zhongxing Society. Anqian is far away from the United States, and Li Jurong is already married, so you are left. Although it doesn't matter who I marry, if I don't speculate when I marry back, and I don't even have a speaker when I get home after a busy day, then I can only end my life depressed. You may say that you can marry again, you are the emperor. Yes, that's right, but once the harem competes for favor, what will happen in the world? I'd rather be lonely and old than see the harems of the emperors of all dynasties again. You and I are finally acquainted with each other, and our words are also speculative. Compared to a woman you are not familiar with, you are the best candidate. Of course I won't force you, if you really don't want to be strong, I'm not going to be strong, I'll put this educational plan here, and if you want to be my queen, pick it up. Give you three days to think about it. β
Yang Zao'er suddenly panicked, she stood up and said: I don't know, turn around and leave. Li Jurong reached out and didn't pull it.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I'll persuade her again." Li Jurong was about to say goodbye and leave after speaking.
Guangxu stood up and walked towards the second floor, and said without looking back: "Whether it is for the hearts of the ministers, or the will of the Queen Mother." Within seven days, I must confirm the ownership of the queen. β
"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the concubines will go to intercede for the emperor. Please wait for the good news. β
At this time, Guangxu had already turned the stairs, looked at Li Jurong and said, "If you can keep this big match, I and the queen will set up a thank you matchmaker banquet to thank you." (To be continued......)