Chapter 194: The Great Feast of Afang Palace II
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Hu Hai got up and didn't speak, but lightly slapped his palm. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 With the sound of Hu Hai's high-fives, a long woman dressed in court dress entered from the corner of the main hall and went up to a high platform built on the left side of the upper and lower head of the main hall of Afang Palace.
On the high platform that was erected, there were more than 20 brocade stools scattered and scattered, as well as copper cases.
Each of these women, dressed in court attire, had one or two musical instruments in their hands, such as seers, kites, drums, and so on; As these women with musical instruments went up to the high platform, four strong Imperial Forest soldiers carried a bronze bell full of various small and delicate colors to the high platform, and then the four Royal Forest soldiers put down the bell and bowed to Hu Hai and bowed to Hu Hai and retreated.
When the chimes were in place, the dressed women holding their musical instruments sat down one after another, then put on their own instruments and sat quietly on the brocade bench, as if waiting for something.
Standing at the front, a woman in a red-clothed palace dress with high hair in a high bun bowed slightly to Hu Hai with Qin Zheng in her arms, and then put the Qin Zheng in her hand on the bronze case in front of her.
None of the women spoke.
But everyone can see that these women are not the palace maids waiting for the emperor in the palace, because the palace maids are all uniformly dressed, but they cannot wear palace robes with such bright colors and fabrics.
Most importantly, these women don't seem to be the musicians of Xianyang Palace.
Because of the twenty-four women who appeared on the high platform, each of them was the best in the world, and they were all extremely noble in temperament, and most of them had their hair in a bun, such a woman obviously could not be a woman from an ordinary family, and they were obviously all women who had a good family education and had become a wife.
However, how could a woman become a royal musician?
Woman. It is impossible to become a musician serving the emperor in the Xianyang Palace. Not only for the sake of those women, but more importantly, for the sake of the emperor's reputation.
Just imagine that the court musicians were the closest group of people to the emperor. They often had to go in and out of the court, and they had to be innocent women. This is also to make it easier for the emperor to prepare at any time.
After all, if it is a woman who has a family and is fortunate to be sent by the emperor, it will not only affect the emperor's reputation, but more importantly, it will break the woman's routine, what if it leads to the outflow of royal blood?
There were people who were seated near the high platform who had noticed that the women were expressionless. And they didn't make any sound, and they haven't said a word since they appeared, but what they saw from their eyes was humiliation and unwillingness, and even a little hatred when they looked at His Majesty the Emperor standing on the high platform.
Bitterness?
That's right, hate!
No one noticed, from the moment the women appeared. Meng Tian, Meng Yi, Li You, Feng Quji, Feng Zheng and other old ministers who were originally sitting in the main hall with a smile on their faces, and their faces had all changed color. The eyes that looked at Hu Hai also changed. With a little doubt and disappointment.
It's as if they know these women!
Meng Tian, who was sitting at the front of the ministers, even got up several times and said something, but was stopped by Meng Yi beside him, and finally just sat in place, his head drooped slightly, and his face no longer had the same enthusiasm and joy as before.
That's right. The rest of the people in the hall didn't know these women dressed in costumes and holding musical instruments, but Meng Tian, Feng Quji, Wei Yi and other old ministers all recognized these women.
These women are none other than the six princesses and princesses in Afang Palace, who were previously raised by Hu Hai and then released to let them feed themselves.
Among the twenty-four people, the first six amorous women. It was the six kings and queens that Hu Hai had seen before.
As for the one who bowed down with Hu Hai, it was the former Empress Zhao Xuan of the Chu Kingdom!
In fact, not only Meng Tian and others in the hall recognized the identity of the six queens, but Ma Xing, Zhaoping, Du He and other former ministers of the original Six Kingdoms who had joined Great Qin had also recognized the identities of Zhao Xuan and others at this time. You must know that the six of them are all queens of the original six countries. As a minister or general who originally belonged to the Six Kingdoms, how could he not know the queen of his own country.
At the moment when they recognized the identities of Zhao Xuan and the others, the faces of Ma Xing and the others showed indescribable shame and anger. But looking at the slender young emperor on the high platform. Ma Xing and the others finally just clenched their fists tightly and buried their heads deeply.
However, behind the shame and anger of Ma Xing and others, there is deeper fear!
A deep fear eats away at their hearts.
Originally, these people were very apprehensive about coming to Xianyang to perform an event, and from the time they came to Xianyang until now, Hu Hai had not summoned them at all. It's as if they've forgotten that they exist.
In addition, at the court meeting, Feng Qu's rush made Ma Xing, Zhaoping and others even more frightened.
They had already seen that if the emperor was really determined to take back the fiefs granted to the various noble families, then the first to be unlucky would be the former ministers of the Six Kingdoms who had been summoned by the emperor to join Great Qin.
Ma Xing and others are convinced of this!
At this moment, the original six queens and concubines who were imprisoned in the Afang Palace appeared at the banquet as singers, and the emperor who made Ma Xing and others take it for granted was to show them his determination not to take them to heart.
Singers and musicians all belong to the identities of performers in this era.
It's just that compared with the musicians, the status of the singer is much lower. After all, musicians, especially famous musicians, need a thousand gold to see each other, and musicians all have independent identities, except for the court musicians in Xianyang Palace today.
And the singer is only available in a color art field like Red and Green Jiabang. To make a living from hue, not even to make a living from the art of color. It's hue. The identities of these singers all belong to their respective masters, and life and death are under the control of the masters, including the body.
What a noble figure the Six Kings and Queen were!
At this moment, she appeared at the banquet of the Qin Emperor's banquet and ministers like a singer, and used color art to please the Qin Emperor and the ministers of the Great Qin, the generals, and even the common people and hundreds of workers!
What a humiliation this should be to the Six Nations?
With the shrewdness of the emperor, it is naturally impossible not to know the impact that this matter will have on Great Qin and himself, and even more seriously, it will arouse great disgust and even popular revolt among the people of the Six Kingdoms who have just had a slight sense of belonging to Great Qin.
Woe to your wife and daughter!
When the initial emperor destroyed the Six Kingdoms, in order to appease the nobles and people of the Six Kingdoms, although he did not let go of these six kings and concubines and princesses, he never treated them badly. It's not because I'm worried that it will provoke unnecessary popular uprisings and cause a backlash from the people of the six countries! It's just because of the freak in Hu Hai's predecessor that he tried his best to take pleasure in insulting the six kings and queens of these identities, and he succeeded.
Okay, now that the emperor doesn't even care about this, does it mean that he has already made up his mind to take down his former ministers who originally belonged to the Six Kingdoms who belonged to Great Qin?
Ma Xing and the others were deeply humiliated and deeply afraid!
Especially when Hu Hai's eyes passed through the crowd from the high throne and fell on Ma Xing and the others, Ma Xing and the others, who were pale, buried their heads deeply, and big drops of cold sweat poured out of their heads.
The huge hall of Xianyang Palace is silent!
The thousands of people in the main hall also saw something strange from this strange silence at this moment!
After all, the six of Zhaoxuan are so beautiful, they are too noble and beautiful!
Zhao Xuan's eyes were very good, and she also saw Ma Xing and the others sitting in the crowd in the main hall! It's not that Ma Xing and the others are too far in the seat, but that no one around Ma Xing and the others is really willing to sit, even if they are arranged next to Ma Xing and the others, they all quietly move their positions away to show the distance from Ma Xing's subordinates!
So much so that Ma Xing and others are too prominent in the lively hall!
Three days ago, when Zhao Xuan received a request from the Longwei Mansion tonight that they needed these concubines of the six countries who were imprisoned in the Afang Palace to perform on stage, Zhao Xuan's six people couldn't refuse when they were deeply humiliated.
Because before, in exchange for the freedom of these poor women of the Six Kingdoms, they had promised Hu Hai to do one thing for him. Hu Hai has not appeared in Afang Palace for such a long time, and there is no news coming, Zhao Xuan and others thought that Hu Hai had forgotten, and even rejoiced about it.
It's just that they never thought that Hu Hai not only did not forget, but also made such a request to extremely humiliate these noble-born women. Performing in front of the Great Qin Qunchen!!
Perform!
It's nice to say, isn't it actually to entertain the ministers of Great Qin with color art?
Especially after hearing the message from the Longwei Mansion that the people who could tell her Zhao Xuan and the six kings and queens all came to power, Zhao Xuan already understood that Hu Hai did not want to let himself go, but to humiliate himself fiercely!
However, after thinking about it, Zhao Xuan realized that the queens, concubines and princesses who had already become the original noble status of fish and meat actually had no other choice at all!
It's not that she doesn't want to refuse!
But she or the more than 1,000 concubines of the Six Kingdoms who are still in the Afang Palace and have just started a new life really have no capital to refuse!
Since Hu Hai wanted to humiliate them like this, and he was not even afraid of provoking the people of the Six Kingdoms and even the people in the world, it was enough to express his determination in this matter.
It can be predicted that if you refuse, what will happen to these poor people who await you!
Therefore, the six Zhaoxuan finally came! Not only came, but also brought the ten concubines and princesses with the best craftsmanship and the most gorgeous looks in Afang Palace!
Since Hu Hai wants to do this, then let's die together!
The cowardice of Ma Xing and the others made Zhao Xuan's heart even more dead, and now the only one who can pose a threat to that demon is the countless people of the Six Kingdoms. I hope that I and the others can arouse the determination of the people of the Six Nations to fight against the tyrannical Qin!
This is what Zhao Xuan is thinking at the moment! (To be continued)