In the evening, Lu Chengzhi and I hosted a banquet for these two new "ministers".

After a few hot drinks, people seemed to get closer, and Chen Enze told everything.

In fact, there is nothing to talk about, everything in Chang'an is the same as the Ming Dynasty - except that there is no emperor.

The Senate was only opened once, and that was when it was founded.

The Senate supported the Senate Committee, and the Committee supported the Chairman Qian Zhaoding. Qian Zhaoding is the committee, that is, the senate, that is, the co-ruling dynasty. You can choose Qian Zhaoding, because Qian Zhaoding is the representative of the nobles and even the common people; You must choose the money according to the law, because he is the only representative of the nobles and the common people; If not, it is against the scholars and against the co-governance of the dynasty.

People feel cheated. People can tolerate the emperor doing everything in the name of the emperor, whether it is good or bad, but they can never tolerate someone who is not the emperor and does the emperor's business.

First the scholars, then the four religions, then the warriors and literati, kept writing and protesting.

Those "protesters" who were "loyal to the rule of the nobles" were rejected, beaten, shot, shot and slaughtered.

After countless deaths, the rest of the people understood: it turned out that Qian Zhao must be the emperor! Then what kind of "first warrior" should you be! People still think that there are "second scholars", "third scholars", and "co-governance scholars"!

Some rebelled.

As a former member of the Senate, Qian Zhao was certainly not a vegetarian, and his tanks and artillery quickly slaughtered all the troops who dared to resist. The rest of them all ran away. So everyone was convinced.

A new Inner Court was established, the Communal Army was established, the Secret Office, the Intelligence Department, the Internal Affairs Office, the Eunuch Palace, the Arsenal, and the Imperial University...... Even the forbidden army was established. He kept saying that he would never build a forbidden army, because only the emperor had a forbidden army. But he did it, and he didn't say anything about it, and everyone didn't mention it, as if he had never said it.

A large number of second sons of civilians were castrated and sent to the "First Shi Clan's Mansion" - that is, the old palace of the former Chang'an County, and the world began to choose the "First Shi Clan's Concubine" and "First Scholar Clan's Concubine......

This "national examination" was very lively, and one million people went to Chang'an to take the examination.

They are the elite of the world, regardless of their age, or their families. They participated in the imperial examination with laughter, because the imperial court itself said that a person could become an official without eunuchs.

Qian Zhaoding said that those who are lifted do not need to be castrated; Even if you can't be lifted, the court will entertain you with good wine and food.

He's right. But there is one thing that I don't say, those who don't win the lift will be castrated. You see, what he said was "Even if you can't be lifted, the court will entertain you with good wine and food" and he didn't say, "If you don't win, you won't be castrated" - so he still counts when he speaks.

Those lucky lifters don't have to be castrated, but if you don't, you'll die. Really, no one forces you, you have a choice, you are free to choose, free to choose to die or free to choose to be castrated.

Qian Zhao must be a free man, and the Gongzhi Dynasty is a free dynasty, there is no doubt about it.

……

Chen Enze cried, lying on the table and crying with a whimper, his back shrugged.

He is the eldest son of the Chen family in Jiangnan, and he went to the capital to take the exam the next day on his wedding night.

Mao Sanmao said disdainfully: "What are you crying for? Can money still be wrong? Now that the world is so stable, why are you crying? If you cry, you are unfaithful! ”

Chen Enze cried even harder!

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On the way back to the house, I passed by Wan Wanbao's room.

He lay quietly on the bed, his whole body motionless, his stomach did not move, nothing moved, I wondered if he was dead?

His eyes suddenly opened, he looked at me, and turned his head away.

Miao Huahua sat on the edge of the bed, holding Wan Wanbao and holding Wan Wanbao's head to her chest.

She lifted her lips and began to sing.

She sang:

"The first people rode on a white elephant

In the forest

Everything is wandering

The goddess came to earth

You see

There is hope in the world

-

People rode horses

On the steppe

The grass grows and the eagle flies

And the chiefs came to the people

People are happy

-

Craftsmen carry it hand by hand

On the plains

Wanxian County has risen from the ground

Dijing revealed

The emperor came to the Central Plains

The Central Plains is incomparably glorious

-

The woman drove the wheel

in the fields

Spring sowing and autumn fruit

Everything grows

The Prophet came to Luoyang

You listen

Luoyang is full of the echoes of all things

-

The people are proud

The people are insolent

The people are hesitating

Even the crops and trees have become perverse

Nothing is imaginable

yes

The autumn harvest is so glorious

That

People have forgotten the teachings of the goddess

I have forgotten what it used to look like

thereupon

The sun is left with only its afterglow

Even death cannot be expected

-

The rat slept on the beams of the house

Wild dogs roam the fields

There was no more food in the harvested fields

The people are so desolate and hesitant

-

Rats and wild dogs were no longer heard at night

There are no more forests and white elephants in the earth

There is no more virtuous in the world

The empire has fallen

The aristocracy had no faith anymore

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yes

The rest of you

Why are you so faithful?

And why are you so full of joy?

You listen

They said

All reincarnation will eventually be one

The Son of God will come

until

Apocalypse—"

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After a long time, Miao Huahua walked out.

I said, "That's good." I heard it in Luoyang seven years ago, "Song of the Central Plains", right? ”

Miao Huahua: "Actually, it's "The Lamentation of the Central Plains". ”

Me: "You changed it?" ”

She said, "Ha, where do I have the ability to do this?" ”

Me: "Ha, it sounds like a cult change." ”

She sneered, "It was like this tens of thousands of years ago. ”

Me: "How do you know?" ”

"I read a book from hundreds of years ago, and it was like that," she says. It says that this is a song from ancient times, no less than tens of thousands of years. ”

Me: "You've even read a book?" ”

Her: "yes." ”

Me: "I didn't expect you to know everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting." ”

She: "It's a lot of money." I have ten silver dollars a night, and others only have five. ”

Me: "This...... I really don't know. ”

Her: "There's so much you don't know. ”

Me: "At least, you have Wanbao now, which is good." ”

Her: "What's good?" Is it like a woman in a green house who was ransomed? ”

Me: "Why are you talking so badly?" Even if it were, wouldn't it be good? ”

Miao Huahua looked at the stars in the distance and said:

"When I was younger, a sister and I fell in love with the same man one day.

Haha, it's actually him who has a crush on us.

That was eight years ago, my first man, and her first.

The man was a scholar, and he was the eldest son of a certain scholar clan.

He was very good-looking, spoke softly, and was even a little stupid.

He said he would take us out and redeem us.

We have spent the moon before the moon, and we have also sworn by the mountains and the sea.

But he is a filial son, he can't marry us, but he can hide Jiaojiao in the golden house.

Haha, listen, 'Jinya Zangjiao', what a good word.

My sister said to me, 'We can open a flower shop in the future, sell only fresh flowers every day, and support ourselves without the man's money.' ’

You know, when I was young, I loved flowers, I loved cherry blossoms, apricot blossoms, peach blossoms, daisies, laurels......

I always fill my room with flowers and change the water every day......

Do you know?

Daisies have many colors of flowers, red, yellow, white, blue, purple, and once, I saw a large black chrysanthemum. ”

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She fell into the memory.

I asked, "What happened later?" ”

Her: "I flinched at the last second and didn't go." ”

Me: "Your sister?" ”

Her: "My sister went. ”

Me: "The result?" ”

Her: "The result? Who knows! ”

Me: "You don't know? ”

Her: "How would I know?" Ha, why would I know? ”

Me: "Why are you telling me this kind of story without a head or an end?" ”

She said word by word: "Because, this is life." ”

Something suddenly occurred to me, but these thoughts flashed through me, like a black worm in the dark.

She looked at the white full moon, smiled, and went back to her room.