Chapter 38: Sage
Cheng Chen's attitude made Cheng Jin's expression soften slightly, "Anyway, Empress Zhuang Jing is also the founding queen, and the world will let those unscrupulous booksellers arrange a queen like this?" β
"This kind of thing is to write some strange and mysterious cases before someone reads it, the more outrageous it is, the more people are willing to buy it, if it is a serious book to write about the exploits of Empress Zhuang Jing, it is better to read the history books directly. Even if Wen Xiang didn't escape being arranged, he resisted the 80,000 Northern Barbarian army back then, and protected the border of Daliang for 50 years with his own strength, but no one wanted to read his chivalrous courage, but would rather see his affair with the Northern Barbarian Princess? Cheng Chan sighed.
"The world has been peaceful for a long time, and the world does not know the pain of chaos, and naturally they are not willing to look back on the suffering, so let them read those books that resist foreign aggression and are chivalrous and courageous, and I am afraid that they will not be able to read it." Although Cheng Jin felt melancholy, the fact was that she couldn't accept it.
At this time, at that time, how can people living in peaceful and prosperous times remember their suffering and respect those who gave everything for them, who have never experienced the days when they were displaced and people were inferior to dogs?
She can also see it, after 50 years of peeling skin and bones, can't she stand such a little grievance? The previous life is gone, and she is like the rich idlers in this prosperous world, and she treats everything in her previous life as a book.
"It's not, now it's singing and dancing everywhere, this kind of book of words about love is the most popular." Cheng Zhan picked up the book "Dream of the World" and laughed, "I heard that this book sells the best in the bookstore now, and the two princesses in the palace have entrusted me to help them find it and send it to the palace." β
"The eldest sister wants to read the book now, this kind of book should be read less." Cheng Jin said with a smile.
"I don't see much on weekdays, and I have only read a few books of Empress Zhuang Jing's words in the past," Cheng Zhan said with admiration, "Empress Zhuang Jing is a real strange woman, her appearance and talent, all of them are amazing, a woman like her, not to mention being able to get the love of men, I also admire it very much as a woman, but it's a pity that I was born decades late......"
"There are so many ministers under her skirt, I still think she is a woman who can be a husband!" Cheng Jin laughed at himself, Zhao Hua has been ruthless and in love all his life, and his mind is on Daliang, but Daliang people only talk about her illusory romances.
"I told you a long time ago, don't take this kind of talk book as a true history." Cheng Chan is colorful.
"The official history is not written by those historians themselves, whether it is true or not, we really can't tell whether it's true or not." Cheng Jin said with a smile, "Even the script can be arranged at will, how good can it be in the official history?" β
Cheng Jin doesn't expect Xiao Sheng, who can ruthlessly detain her soul for decades, to write about her exploits in the history books, the reason why Zhao Hua is still known as the "Queen of the Ages" is probably because of Xiao Sheng's guilt at the beginning.
"The virtuous person in the history books is not like a real person, I can't figure it out every time I read the history books, are all virtuous women in the world like this? Take the initiative to draft a concubine for her husband, and the harem concubine is like a sister, she will not let the palace concubine be martyred after she dies, but many palace concubines are willing to leave the palace to guard her spirit, and a few even cry for her blindly, and the front of the harem is up and down to say that she is good, which is too good to be true. If you look at our family, there are a few concubines in the room of my father and two uncles, and my wife and concubines are restless, not to mention Emperor Taizu's huge harem, can a woman really be generous enough to care about sharing her husband with others? β
Cheng Jin smiled strangely, but Cheng Qian looked inexplicable, "What's wrong?" But think I'm talking nonsense? β
She shook her head, "Xingxu Empress Zhuang Jing is just a queen, and Emperor Taizu may not be as affectionate as an ordinary husband and wife, since she is ruthless, Emperor Taizu must not care how many concubines she accepts, for the sake of the overall situation, she will even persuade Emperor Taizu to take more concubines." β
"But you see that Auntie is not as affectionate as ordinary couples to Daddy, don't you still hate Aunt Liu?"
"That's because A-Niang has us, and she doesn't want to have concubines and concubines to share what belongs to us, Queen Zhuang Jing has no children and no daughters, so she naturally has no desires and no desires."
"But don't you think it's strange? It is said in the history books that Empress Zhuang Jing is deeply loved by Emperor Taizu, but why does she have no children? β
"There is not only one childless queen, but also Empress Zhang, the first emperor, is not also childless?"
"Having said that, I still think it's strange, the history books say that Empress Zhuang Jing treats the children of the harem concubines as her own, doesn't she never expect that she can give birth to children for Emperor Taizu? If you have one or two points of hope, you can't do it so freely, don't you see that Queen Zhang also made things difficult for the Queen Mother's aunt and the emperor's cousin again and again? β
"Therefore, Empress Zhuang Jing can afford the word 'virtuous', but Empress Zhang can't afford it." Cheng Jin said disapprerovingly, "In the eyes of Empress Zhuang Jing at that time, I am afraid that it is never Taizu who cares, how can she be as jealous as ordinary women?" β
"You're just right, so you can also learn from people and characters." Cheng Chan laughed, "Maybe there is something else hidden in this matter, but we don't know." β
"Why are there arrangements for Empress Zhuang Jing and Wenxiang in these books, but not for Emperor Taizu?" Cheng Jin muttered, but he also knew in his heart that after all, this country belonged to the Xiao family, and the Xiao family would never let the script arrange their ancestors too outrageously.
"Since no one has the guts, after all, the world is the world of Emperor Taizu, although Empress Zhuang Jing is the founding queen, but she has no children, this great country has nothing to do with her? Naturally, no one will care about how those words are arranged in the book. As for Wen Xiang, he has no queen, and since his death, the Wen family has been in obscurity, where will he care about what to say. Cheng Chan said with a smile, "Actually, it's not that there are no people who arrange Emperor Taizu, it's just a little less, there is an old drama that is quite famous, it is about the story of Emperor Taizu and Empress Dowager Fan's love for three lives, which was widely circulated in the past few years, and I watched it once when I was a child." β
"Oh? I haven't heard of it. Cheng Jin's face was a little strange, Empress Dowager Fan was the mother of King Qi, Fan Jieyu in the palace back then.
Although Fan Jieyu can barely be regarded as beautiful, she looks mediocre in the flowery harem, and she has never been favored by Xiao Sheng.
Fan Jieyu's father was stationed in Nanban, and he knew the local situation very well, when she and Wen Dingnian helped Xiao Sheng to level Nanban, Fan Jieyu's father also made a lot of efforts, and it was that time, Fan Jieyu, who was only fourteen years old, saw Xiao Sheng, and resolutely abandoned her childhood sweetheart fiancΓ© at first sight and became a concubine.