The status of the concubine is low, but the concubine can be regarded as famous, and many rich and noble families have many women without a name in the family.

So for ordinary people, it's still monogamy, and the rest are still concubines no matter what you call them.

This is Hu Hui's identity, and there is no way, unless he can be crowned a duke, this can be like Xu Da, a two-country duke. is because Xu Da's identity is noble enough, and the rest are fake.

The concubines, in the Ming Dynasty, are strictly distinguished, and are divided into six classes, namely the daughters of famous families, the daughters of good families, the concubines of the main wife, and the daughters of the destitute families of good families. Further down are the drama concubines, and the lower prostitutes. Of these six classes, the first two are registered by the government, and they have status in the family, and they are counted as half the level of a hostess.

This category should be regarded as the so-called three wives and four concubines, which can also be understood as belonging to flat wives.

The rest are concubines, fifth and sixth class, similar to slaves and maids.

This is the strict social hierarchy of the Ming Dynasty, until the late Ming Dynasty, the dynasty was chaotic, and the people's hearts were chaotic, which was really a mess of the rules.

Hu Hui's concubine belongs to the first class and is a famous concubine.

Strictly speaking, Wan Xue'er's identity is from Du Sifang, and she can be defined as a sixth-class concubine. Even if he gives Bai Minghe a face, he is only a fifth-class concubine, even if the Ming Emperor's amnesty decree can make the artist a good name. But the thoughts that have been ingrained in the hearts of the people for thousands of years will never raise artists to the top two ranks.

It is already good to be able to sell their daughters to poor families.

According to common sense, concubines at this level, below the first and second ranks, are not qualified to participate in banquets of this level at all. But Wan Xue'er is special, not because of the identity of the white crane, but because Wan Xue'er herself is special enough, and the first Oiran of the Ming Dynasty is not called for nothing. The name of that art book also made up for the face of the Confucian ministers.

Then comes the problem.

Sun Yuanjun and Huaiyu, which is the wife?

This question is difficult for the emperor to ask, who dares to ask. This is the face of the royal family, and I have not heard of the royal princess going to be a concubine. So who dares to ask the question of the white name crane's wife. It is that the Zongren Mansion has discussed it in private, and the sons of the two daughters are both concubines, and they are only divided into the eldest and youngest.

A happy scene in the flower field startled the birds that set up nests under the eaves of the Taihe Palace......

It's a festive banquet, who would have thought that opera would be performed like this.

Opera originated in the Tang Dynasty, developed in the Yuan Dynasty, and flourished in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Bai Minghe just made this process one step ahead and used opera to tell a story. The opera of later generations has been precipitated for thousands of years. Bai Minghe applied the experience of later generations to the opera of the early Ming Dynasty in the development period, and the natural effect was extremely obvious.

It was a lively afternoon, most of the night.

More than 100 people from Nanjing were so tired that they didn't even want to touch their cups to drink water, but they still needed to insist on packing up and leaving the palace at night to return to Baifu. There were a lot of rewards, so much so that I borrowed the carriage in the palace to pull the rewards back.

"Do you have something on your mind?" Bai Minghe noticed that Wan Xue'er didn't smile all the time.

After squeezing out a smile a little reluctantly, Wan Xue'er responded: "No." Just a little tired! ”

Bai Minghe was about to ask again, when a stall head from the East Factory approached the team. A guard immediately knocked lightly on the car window: "My lord, there is some information." ”

Bai Minghe didn't have a chance to ask again, so he motioned for the team to go home first, and he went to the East Factory.

In the East Factory, Shu Liang and a few people were sorting out the information, and when he saw Bai Minghe coming over, he arched his hand: "My lord." It's hard work to let you deal with official business in the New Year! ”

"You're working harder. This kind of kind words don't need to be said much, just say something! ”

"The three hundred and eighty-four guards of the Nuergandu Division, the three guards of Duoyan, the four Jurchen tribes, and several major tribal leaders have passed the Shanhai Pass. The reason given was that he had planned to rush to the capital before the New Year, but it was delayed due to heavy snow and road closures. It is estimated that it will be two days before entering Beijing. ”

"Tribute?" Bai Minghe asked.

"Nominally, it's like this, but ......" Shu Liang had already prepared and took out a copy of Da Ming's own records.

Bai Minghe looked at it, and Shu Liang was also making an introduction on the side.

Since Emperor Yongle, the Ming Dynasty has become more and more loose in the management of Liaodong, because it does not attach importance to this place in Liaodong. In the ninth year of Xuande (1434), Nuer Gandu Division existed in name only, and each guard was actually each tribe, and it was already its own government. It's just that nominally it's still a subordinate of the Ming Dynasty.

After the change of the civil fort, Liaodong here is even more inconsiderate of the Ming Dynasty.

The tribes had even begun to interact with the Tatars, and the internal wars did not stop, the Jurchen tribes had expanded hundreds of miles to the south, and the Duoyan Sanwei still became the most powerful tribe in Liaodong.

A secret file was opened in front of the white crane.

Once Duoyan Sanwei sent elite soldiers to help Emperor Yongle attack Emperor Jianwen, Emperor Yongle promised many benefits, but in the end except for the false title, the rest was not fulfilled. Duoyan Sanwei has been fighting to the south for many years, and more than ten years ago, Zhu Qizhen had just ascended the throne and had actually occupied the Daning area.

Then, immediately after the Tumubao Incident, they finally launched a full-scale offensive against the Liao River Valley, so that they could get their wish to stay outside the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty.

Even outside the Xifeng Pass, there were cavalry of the three guards active.

But nominally, they also consider themselves to be the Nuergandusi of the Ming Dynasty and the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

"Lack of cleanup!" After reading it, Bai Minghe threw down such a sentence.

"My lord, how should we deal with it? No matter what the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War think, Dongchang also has its own countermeasures! ”

"Don't deal with it, let the Ministry of Rites go to receive it according to the etiquette. If they have anything that does not conform to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, let him see why there is a piece of sandy land outside the Guangzhou dock that is red. ”

Shu Liang received the order, and he began to arrange people to be responsible for monitoring, and the deployment of troops and horses was ready to deal with it at any time.

After arranging, Shu Liang asked again: "Do you want to arrange a military exercise so that they can see the military strength of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

This mention is very attractive to Bai Minghe, that is, it is a good way to warn the enemy by showing military strength in later generations, but this time it is different, Bai Minghe shook his head gently: "Shu Liang, what do you think is the difference between Duoyan Sanwei and Tile Thorn, and what is the difference in strategy." ”

Shu Liang can kill people, but he is not a general with troops, and he can't answer this question.

Bai Minghe explained straightforwardly: "Whether it is Shanhaiguan, or Xifengkou, or Daningwei. Within two days, we will be able to deploy heavy troops to fight, and there will be no problems with logistics. I don't know why the military department hasn't beaten him all these years, but to beat him now is like walking out the door and giving those naughty children a few slaps. The tile spur is different, this is a real journey of 10,000 miles, and just one logistics support can give the military department a headache for half a year. ”

"What do you mean by that if they don't accept it, they will go directly to their house to fight?"

"That's what it means, and that's one of the reasons why I dare to buy them with silver and let them send troops for Daming. Under Daming's nose, it's not okay to mess around casually. It can't be farther, but five hundred miles north from Daningwei, there is no pressure on Daming's current logistics. ”

Five hundred miles to the future of Shenyang, and a thousand miles to the northeast to Changchun.

It can be said that Nurgan Dusi does not have the slightest pressure on Bai Minghe, and a new group of Japanese people can get on the ship to work, so Bai Minghe can transfer grain and grass troops from the Northern Wahai Sea, and even borrow troops from North Korea to deal with the Jurchens.

The striking distance is the bottleneck that restricts the Ming Dynasty's foreign conquest at present.

A few days later, this group of envoys arrived in the capital, camped outside the city according to the rules, and those with status lived in the Yingbin Garden. The tributes offered are also rich, including ginseng, deer antler, mink and other valuable things from Liaodong.

According to the rules, they still need to make an appointment to see the Ming Emperor, and they also need to arrange a date.

There are trade routes in Xifengkou, and there are more and more trade goods in the past two years, so much that these semi-savages are dazzled. It also made them feel that they were very poor, that thermos that could keep warm for a day was sky-high, and three complete sable furs could barely be exchanged for a pair of stainless steel shells.

In the past, such a fine pure white complete ferret skin could be exchanged for at least nearly forty stone of grain.

The purchase price of deerskin has risen, from the original four coins and two cents of silver per piece to four coins and six cents of silver, and the price of Yanling thousands of roots has also risen to three coins and seven cents of silver, and the carving feather directly offered one or two five cents of silver and one hundred.

In the VIP room of the Welcome Garden, there was a thermos with a stainless steel shell, which made these half-savages exclaim for a long time.

After resting for a long time, these people also have official positions in Daming, after all, the name of the Dusi Guard is not Bai An's, so the first thing they want to visit is Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department.

Yu Qian met these people in the main hall of his house.

Fame is made.

Don't look at these semi-savages who dare to use swords against Da Ming, it can be seen that Yu Qian is also very respectful.

After a few rounds of politeness, the patriarch of the Yehenara clan from the Haixi Jurchen suddenly mentioned something that made Yu Qian want to kill someone. Because the patriarch said: "There is a river in the vicinity of our Haixi and Li Goryeo, and although there are not many people living there, we also know that many boats pass by there every day. ”

Yu Qian's first reaction was that this Jurchen was talking about the transportation river in the Maoshan mining area.

Although it belonged to the Ming Dynasty, it was actually the Jurchens' control area.

"So, and then what?" Yu Qian asked with a smile.

"There are some bandits there, and the warriors of our tribe have led troops to clear them. And it also restricts the tribesmen to protect the river, but also to prevent those loose stones on both banks, or some broken branches or something, because the boats on the river are flying the Ming flag. ”

Yu Qian was very angry, because this was a threat in disguise.

Yu Qian, who was originally about to get angry, suddenly had a bad taste, what will happen to you half-savages when you meet the white-named crane. (To be continued......)