The enthronement ceremony was followed by the palace banquet, the new emperor gave a banquet to hundreds of officials, the monarchs and ministers drank happily, and festive music filled the palace.

Yi Feng usually drinks a lot, but he drinks in moderation, he is not greedy for a drink, and he can restrain himself very much. But today, on the day of enthronement, just like the day when many people get married and marry their wives, the first joyful day in their lives, hundreds of officials have celebrated and toasted, Yi Feng can't help but let go, rare to drink, unconsciously already drunk high, and finally left when they were drunk and smoky, with the support of the attendants, walking was a little fluttering. "Don't go back to the Manna Palace, go to the Lizheng Palace." Yi Feng said to Wang Hai on the side. Ganlu Hall is the emperor's dormitory, before Yi Feng ascended the throne, Yang Yong had already lived in the Wude Palace, and now he plans to move out of Daxing Palace and build a new palace for the Emperor Taishang to live. The Lizheng Hall is the dormitory of the Empress of the Great Sui, and it has always been the palace of the Dugu family, but the Dugu family has taken the initiative to move out of the Lizheng Hall a few days ago and moved to a palace in the back garden to recuperate. The Dugu clan has now reached the time when the oil is exhausted, and he has only one request for such an attitude towards the new emperor, hoping that Yi Feng can spare the three surviving sons of Gaozu, as well as the sons of Yang Xiu, Yang Guang, and Yang Yong.

When Yi Feng arrived at the Lizheng Palace, someone from the palace had already informed Li Liyi. Li Liyi had already greeted him, helped him sit down on the couch, and personally took off the crown robe on his body for him, and brought him sobering soup.

⊕, "Are you still used to living in the Lizheng Palace?" Yi Feng took the sobering soup, drank it all in one gulp with a frown, and then looked up and asked Li Liyi, "I have asked the Ministry of Rites to arrange and prepare for your canonization ceremony, and in a few days, you will be the queen of the world." Yi Feng snorted wine and said to Li Liyi, although this marriage with her was decided by Gaozu and the Queen Mother. But now Yi Feng has no intention of canonizing her as the queen. Li Liyi has nothing to lose, she is very virtuous. Although there may be some real love between the two, Yi Feng doesn't think that an emperor can have true love. The emperor doesn't need that kind of love either. Li Liyi was not moved when she heard this, but she still gently took off her shoes for him, and then did not dislike Yi Feng at all for a busy day today, and the socks on her feet already smelled of sweat. The palace people called for hot water, Li Liyi personally tested the heat and cold, and then knelt in front of Yi Feng, put his feet into the basin, and gently washed his feet. To be honest, Yi Feng was really moved at this time. When I first got married. Li Liyi washed his feet, and as long as he spent the night with her, she would definitely wash his feet in person. Unexpectedly, now she is about to become the queen, but she still washes his feet herself. How many women will personally wash their man's feet? Especially in the later generations, even if it is a loving couple, it is basically impossible for a wife to wash her husband's feet.

Yi Feng touched her shoulder, "You just let the palace people do this, you will be the queen soon."

"Even if it's a queen. That is also the emperor's wife, and the wife washes her husband's feet, which is the responsibility and the wife's concern. Li Liyi didn't stop, while continuing to wash Yi Feng's feet. He said.

Li Liyi not only washed Yi Feng's feet, but also helped Yi Feng massage and pinch her feet, she pinched very well. The tiredness of the day is swept away. Coupled with a little drunkenness, Yi Feng reclined on the couch. I didn't want to move at all, I wanted to moan comfortably.

"When is Your Majesty going to send someone to pick up the sisters of Huaihuang?"

"In a few more days. When the weather is cooler, I will pick them up and go south, and then go directly to Luoyang. I plan to wait for a while, and then move directly to Luoyang, and then the imperial court will also move to Luoyang. ”

"Oh, Princess Lintao is in Xijing now, why doesn't Your Majesty take her into the palace?" Li Liyi said suddenly.

Yi Feng didn't expect that at this time, Li Liyi took the initiative to mention Yuwen Yubo to him, and he couldn't help but feel a little weak at the moment. Yuwen Yubo is the daughter of Aunt Yi Feng and the daughter of Aunt Li Liyi, and her relationship with Li Liyi is also very good. Later, Li Liyi was given marriage to Yi Feng, and Yuwen Yubo was given to Yang Zhao, but later Yi Feng and Yuwen Yubo had a relationship that was difficult to disclose, so that Yuwen Yubo later ran away directly and eloped with Yi Feng. However, since Yang Guang's rebellion, Yuwen Yubo also began to appear, and when Yang Zhao died, she no longer deliberately hid her identity. Yi Feng also knew that sooner or later Li Liyi would know this, but he didn't expect Li Liyi to mention this matter today.

"She's in her old mansion now." Yi Feng knew that this matter was no longer a secret at all, so he had to tell the truth.

"Since Princess Lintao has followed Her Majesty, why should she stay in the old mansion now, the concubine thinks that Her Majesty would send someone to take her into the palace, and then make her a concubine and give her a name, it would be better than being so disguised and unclear now."

Yi Feng was a little embarrassed by Li Liyi's words, he had always thought that he was very able to restrain himself, but in the matter of Yuwen Yubo, he felt that he had really done something wrong. This is not to say that Yi Feng opposes men marrying wives and taking concubines, but because Yuwen Yubo was engaged to Yang Zhao at the beginning, and he and Yang Zhao are cousins on the surface, but they are actually half-brothers. Now that Li Liyi mentioned it, he really felt empty-hearted.

"I know I didn't do anything right, and I apologize to you."

"Your Majesty doesn't have to be like this, beauties love heroes, Your Majesty is a big hero today, and it's normal for Princess Lintao and Her Majesty to fall in love. His Majesty is the respect of a country, and it is reasonable to have three palaces and six courts. ”

"You're not angry?"

"Concubines shouldn't be angry, and they won't be angry."

Yi Feng looked at Li Liyi carefully, and felt that she really didn't seem to be talking back, and couldn't help but feel a little strange in her heart at the moment, Li Liyi's attitude was a little abnormal, but thinking about it, I felt that it might be Li Liyi restraining herself as a queen, and her mood was slightly complicated at the moment. "The queen is so elegant, I am very grateful, what happened to me was wrong at the beginning, I can't be sorry for Yubo. You're right, since something has been done, you have to dare to do it. It's not clear, and it's also a harm to her. Since you are willing to forgive me, I appreciate it. When you are canonized as the queen, we will make her a concubine together. After thinking about it, Yi Feng said again, "It's just." After all, she once married Yang Zhao, and if she was made a concubine. Will it attract a lot of criticism? ”

Li Liyi kept reminding herself that she was not only a woman. is also a wife, a queen, she took the initiative to enlighten her husband, "No one is perfect, and the emperor is not perfect, even if His Majesty is now the king of a country, it is difficult to be as flawless as a saint." As long as the country is governed well, the world will be peaceful and the people will be healthy. Then some small shortcomings of His Majesty's private virtue must be tolerated and understood by the people of the world. ”

After listening to Li Liyi's words, Yi Feng was really happy, where to find such a reasonable queen. Even if it's like Asa Xue and Rose, they all gave themselves a look back when they returned to Huaihuang last time.

However, not long after Yi Feng was happy, Li Liyi said another sentence, which made him suddenly feel more and more empty.

"The concubine heard that Concubine Xiao had repeatedly asked to see His Majesty before. And then Majesty Xià met her? Li Liyi asked.

Yi Feng didn't know what kind of rumors she heard, so he nodded and said, "There is such a thing." ”

"The concubine also heard that Shangshu Province and the three divisions will try the reverse case. It has been preliminarily decided to kill Yang Xiu and Yang Guang'er against the princes of the king to warn future generations? ”

"Yes, but I haven't considered whether to agree with it yet."

"Concubine Xiao is very beautiful. Is it? 陛xià. ”

Yi Feng felt a little toothache, "What does the queen want to say." Let's put it bluntly. ”

"The concubine actually just wants to remind His Majesty that although Concubine Xiao is stunning. But it is different from Princess Lintao. Although Princess Lintao was engaged to King Han, she was only engaged after all, and now King Han is also dead. But Concubine Xiao is different, she is His Majesty's uncle. If there is anything out of bounds with His Majesty, I am afraid that there will be a lot of public opinion in the world at that time, which is not only a small loss of personal morality, but ugly and unbearable, and the world will not tolerate it. Li Liyi's words were serious and very strict.

Yi Feng even felt that she was a little stranger, no longer the little woman who gently washed her husband's feet just now, nor the tolerant woman who was able to forgive her husband when he had a woman who shouldn't have outside, Li Liyi at this time was completely the identity of the queen admonishing him.

He nodded, "Although I don't know where the Empress heard some untrue rumors, I can responsibly tell Empress Sù that the things you are worried about will not happen, and they will never happen." ”

"That's fine." Li Liyi breathed a sigh of relief. When she heard the news that Xiao had taken the opportunity to charm the emperor to save her son when he met the new emperor, she was really shocked and worried. Xiao is a beautiful woman, and if the emperor can't resist the temptation and really falls into her gentle trap, then something really will happen. There is no impermeable wall in the world, and since she can know, others must also know that if something really happens, the impact on the new emperor will be huge. Now that the emperor said that there was no such thing, she believed him, and the big stone in her heart finally landed.

Yi Feng innocently suffered a wrong, and he was very unhappy in his heart. It's really that the fox didn't eat it, and he made a fuss, who did he find to reason.

He said hatefully, "It seems that there are a lot of unruly tongue-chewing people in this palace, and it's time to clean up the palace." Well, it just so happened that I was also going to clean up some people, simply, simply, and order all the palace maids over the age of twenty-five to be released from the palace except for the female officials in the palace. ”

Li Liyi was a little surprised, and couldn't keep up with the emperor's rhythm for a while, "There are now more than 10,000 palace people in Daxing Palace, and it is estimated that more than two-thirds of those who are over twenty-five years old, are they going to be released?" ”

"Let it go." Yi Feng sighed and said, "In this Daxing Palace, some palace maids are even forty or fifty years old, and some are even fifty or sixty years old, many of them are still palace maids who entered the palace during the Northern Wei Dynasty, and some have experienced the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, and they have never had the opportunity to return to their hometowns in their lives, and they can only spend their lives in the Yeting Palace when they are old, which is very miserable." As an emperor, I can't turn a blind eye. I plan to release all these people out of the palace, and those who have families can receive a reward and return to their hometowns, and the young ones can marry and have children. If they have no family, the imperial court will come forward to settle them, the younger ones, choose a husband for them to marry and start a family, and if they are older, they will be arranged to do some light work in the manor workshop near Gyeonggi outside the palace, and the imperial court will be responsible for providing for the elderly. It just so happens that there are many good young men in my Beiya Forbidden Army, all of whom have not yet gotten married, so this is the right time to match them up and let my guards and palace people pair up to start a family. ”

"The emperor is benevolent, and letting people out of the palace is an excellent benevolent government. However, a large number of palace people were released at once, and the palace was also afraid of insufficient manpower. ”

"Don't worry about this, we will move the capital to Luoyang soon, and in the future, Xijing will only be used as a companion to the capital, and occasionally come over, and Daxing Palace will not need too many palace people." As for Luoyang, you can recruit again. I plan to reform the employment of people in the harem as well. In the future, young show girls who are fourteen or fifteen years old will be recruited from all over the world to enter the palace, and then at most ten years, they will be released from the palace at the age of twenty-four or five, and let them return to their hometowns to marry and marry. During these ten years in the palace, they served the royal family, and the court also paid them salaries, and they could also be educated in literacy and some crafts. In short, they can't be treated too badly, and when the ten-year period expires, they can receive a reward and return to their hometown, continue their lives, and no longer have to waste their youth in this deep palace. ”

"What if you are pampered, or if you are promoted to a female officer?"

Yi Feng didn't expect the queen to think so far, as if he expected him to spoil the palace maid, so he had to say at the moment, "If that's the case, then the favored palace people will definitely give the concubine the name, as for the female officials, they can stay for five to ten years more according to their wishes, and if they are willing to stay, they can stay for five to ten years, but they are not in favor of serving in the palace for an extended period of time, they should also have their own lives." ”

"It is a benevolent government to release the palace maid, and the concubines fully support His Majesty. In addition, the concubine felt that there was still one more word about Concubine Xiao, and in order to avoid suspicion, His Majesty might as well let Concubine Xiao go out of Beijing. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Yi Feng didn't want to bother with that unnecessary thing anymore, out of sight and out of mind.

"You are now the queen, and in the future, the affairs of the harem in the palace will have to be handed over to you. The first priority of this harem is to put the palace maid simply. Queen, you lead the female officials in the palace to try their best to find out the situation of the palace maids, count them, and then except for those who are necessary to stay, the rest over twenty-five years old will be released from the palace. In short, don't settle these palace people well, they are actually very pitiful. ”

"The concubine understands that on behalf of those palace people here, thank Your Majesty for his benevolence and kindness." Li Liyi said and bowed to Yi Feng. (To be continued......)