Chapter 50: The National Election and the Gathering of Artifacts

According to the ancient rites of the Shang Dynasty, after the new emperor ascended the throne, he would give incense to his mother Nuwa, and the era of the gods was also kicked off by the disrespect of the king to Nuwa Niangniang, which is said to be because the king inscribed a poem in the Nuwa Palace......

The scene of Fengluanbao's tent is very, full of mud and gold makeup, the distant mountains are flying green, and the dancing sleeves reflect the glow. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The pear blossom brings the rain to compete for beauty, and the peony cage is smoky and charming, but it has to be enchanting to move and take back the king of Changle.

We don't know what the truth is, but we all know that in the Shang Dynasty, there was absolutely no seven-word quatrain...... The seven-character quatrain rose late, about the Southern Dynasty between Qi and Liang, and basically matured in the Sui Dynasty, the Tang and Song dynasties were at their peak, and in the Shang Dynasty, which was thousands of years ago, most of the time people were still used to using four words to describe someone or something.

At least Qin Lan doesn't have the talent to compose poetry.

After ascending the throne, at the suggestion of Master Wen Zhong, Qin Lan went to Nuwa Palace to enter the incense to ask for the safety of the society, but he did not have the elegance of the king of romance, and he could be happy with a clay sculpture...... Moreover, the demon refining pot was originally cast by Nuwa, so Qin Lan could only respectfully incense, and then at most, he only glanced at the statue of Nuwa a few more times, and then made up his mind, this statue is really ugly, and it doesn't even show one-ten-thousandth of the beauty of Nuwa herself. This is also inevitable, after all, it is still the Shang Dynasty, how can the craftsman's carving skills be as brilliant as the later generations? The statue can be described as miserable, Qin Lan doesn't know if the guys who poured dirty water on the king have seen this statue, and those who can be sexually interested in this kind of thing, I am afraid that they will be shocked when they see the sow......

Of course, if Hou Shifei wants to pour dirty water on the body of King Xu, no matter what, he can make a big deal, maybe he can arrange some charges just by looking at Nuwa a few times now......

But Qin Lan didn't care...... Everyone already knows how Wei Ziqi died, but why did Di Yi die? Who knows?

In history, the king did not succeed to the throne until he was thirty years old, but here, Qin Lan forcibly advanced all this by fifteen years...... Qin Lan had to inherit the throne at the age of sixteen, because he wanted to find Zhan Lan and others, although Di Yi was also a good emperor, but during his reign, he had a long-term expedition to Dongyi and consumed the power of the prosperous Great Shang on this point, and finally let the king inherit his will, as a result, the national strength was repeatedly damaged, causing the Western Zhou to take advantage of the gap and eventually replace it......

In order to keep the vitality of Dashang, in order to find Zhan Lan and the others as soon as possible, it is reasonable for Qin Lan to start in advance...... Di Yi walked very normally, everyone thought that he was injured or sick, even Wen Zhongwen Taishi, who was the first master under the Holy Mother of Golden Spirit, didn't see any abnormalities in him, so let's treat him as if he died of illness.

At this time, the Great Shang had more than 600 years of accumulation, and it was the era when the national strength was at its peak, and the talented people and craftsmen from all over the world also gathered songs to the court, forming an unprecedented excitement and prosperity. Leaving the palace annex, the second to build; dogs and horses strange things, full of palace treasures...... Qin Lan took over such a rich Jiangshan Sheji, so he gathered the strength of the whole country and asked people to send all the women who had reached the age of sixteen to Chaoge, and for a time Chaoge almost became a beautiful city.

Originally, the emperor's concubines should have been selected by the ministers, and they could only enter the palace after studying the family background, lack of virtue, and all the appearances and body shapes, and then seal the concubines according to the emperor's preferences, and then after several years of investigation, they could be sealed, but Qin Lan had to experience this matter personally, he did not allow any ministers to select in advance, and all the women who sent the song to the court, he had to see it with his own eyes.

Wen Zhong and the others didn't understand this, thinking that Qin Lan, as an emperor, should have more and more important things to do, why did he have to waste time on beauty pageants? After all, as an emperor, many people in this life send beautiful women to pay respect, after all, a woman's youth is only a few decades. It's just that they can't resist Qin Lan, after all, at this time, there has never been a matter of a minister daring to disobey the will of the emperor.

The beauty pageant is definitely a troublesome matter, one by one, there are even more than 50,000 women sent from all over the country, I don't know when I want to choose, but Qin Lan is very simple, just let a group of ten people walk in front of him.

What made him laugh and cry was that in order to curry favor with him, many girls who were under the age of sixteen and had been seventeen years old were sent together, but this is okay, Qin Lan will not miss anyone.

Wen Zhong accompanied Qin Lan and watched the rows of women line up, but he always saw Qin Lan silent, so he opened his mouth in wonder, "Di Xin, are you not satisfied?"

"I'm not satisfied, these people I've seen, where they came from, where are they sent back. ”

"......" So Wen Zhong was stunned, what do you mean by this, the teachers are moving, just let them walk in front of you?

However, on the third day of this beauty pageant, Qin Lan finally made a move, he shouted for the first time to stop, and then walked up to a girl in the queue who looked quite weak, and stretched out his hand ...... "Alice?"

"Huh?" Alice suddenly looked at Qin Lan in surprise, "Are you Lan?"

"It's me, you don't know?"

"I don't know...... Alice also showed a surprised face, "No wonder you staged such a general election, it scared me to death." ”

"Well, let's talk about it later, you come with me. Qin Lan looked at Wen Zhong and the others who had already come over, smiled, stretched out her hand to pull Alice out of the queue, and then waved her hand to let those others go down.

Wen Zhong and the other ministers who accompanied them all looked at Alice suspiciously, because the family she was reincarnated in didn't seem to be very good, not only the clothes on her body were very simple, the coloring was the kind of gray linen clothes worn by ordinary people, her head was also messy and messy, and her face was yellow and thin, so she couldn't see any beauty there at all, but Qin Lan didn't scruple at all and took her hand, which ...... In the end, Wen Zhong could only helplessly glance at everyone, forget it, just like Di Xin.

But the next three days were nothing.

However, Alice, who changed into clothes after dressing up, looked much better, especially since she seemed to enter her role quickly, and now she also had a domineering taste and temperament sitting next to Qin Lan, although this made Wen Zhong and the others a little mindful, but it was also impressive, and finally reluctantly accepted her, of course, Alice's name in this life is not Alice, she is called Wang Zihan, and she also likes this name.

But Qin Lan didn't care too much about this issue, what he was most concerned about was the news he got from Alice, it turned out that after sending Qin Lan here, Chu Xuan was out of control, so there were some accidents later? No wonder Chu Xuan didn't respond to calling Chu Xuan all these years, how was she?

There is no longer Chu Xuan's existence in the Demon Refining Pot...... The outsiders present at the time didn't know what happened to Chu Xuan, Qin Lan thought that it was because he sent them all in but Chu Xuan was left alone outside, but now it seems that this is not the case, is it ......

The second one she found was the flail coconut, she was much better, she was the daughter of a big family, and she was dressed up and sent to the court, but the flail coconut didn't know that Qin Lan was the king, in order not to let herself be chosen, she deliberately made a mess of herself, but after being recognized by Qin Lan, she immediately screamed excitedly and then turned over and rode on Qin Lan's head.

Belch......

She just subconsciously got used to it, because she used to do this often, but now Qin Lan is the emperor of the Great Shang, and his head can be ridden by anyone? If it weren't for Qin Lan's fast hands, the flail coconut might be killed on the spot by the male and female whips in Wen Zhong's hand...... Wen Zhong looked at Qin Lan in disbelief, he struck with all his strength in anger, Qin Lan actually just stretched out his hand to block it at will, and then he couldn't even get an inch in, how could this be? Although he didn't use immortal power, he was also the first under the Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit, and he was proficient in the Five Elements Dao Method, even if it was just an ordinary attack on weekdays, it was definitely not something that ordinary people could withstand, let alone Qin Lan resisting with one hand.

Qin Lan smiled, and then took the flail coconut off her shoulder. "Don't be angry, Master, I will naturally explain all this to you in the future, now let's get to know ...... By the way, what's your name now?"

"Liu Yuyun. Hearing this, the flail coconut stuck out her tongue at Wen Zhong, and then hugged Alice who came up next to her.

This scene suddenly made Wen Zhong puzzled...... How did you meet?

But there's more to come.

Zhan Lan, Xiao Loli, Rui Fan, Zhao Yingkong, Ming Yanwei, Ming Yanqi, and Manavia appeared one after another, and they were either reincarnated in the official eunuchs and magnates, or reincarnated in poor families...... Who would have thought that Zhan Lan's current name is Huang Shang, and she is actually the sister of Huang Feihu, the king of Guowucheng in Dashang Town, and Ming Yanqi is now called Jiang Ruiqi, the daughter of Jiang Huan Chu of Dongbohou. Ming Yanwei is a little worse, her current name is Yang Wen, and she is the daughter of the doctor Yang Ren.

Zhao Yingkong was reincarnated in a poor family similar to Alice, and even promised to be married to someone...... Of course, fortunately, Qin Lan's order came in time, and she didn't have time to get married yet, and her current name is Rui Han.

Little Lori is now called Li Ailing, Ruifan is called Zhou Yujia, and Manavia is called Wang Yanyuan.

After more than ten days of selection, everyone was found by Qin Lan, but the more this was the case, the more worried Qin Lan became, where did Chu Xuan go?

She doesn't have an artifact on her body, so it's impossible for Qin Lan to know where she is, and even if she can't sense it in front of her, Chu Xuan will definitely know that she is Emperor Xin, but the problem is that the binding rules of reincarnation and rebirth will temporarily seal her memory, and she doesn't have an artifact body, who can know if she can break this seal?

Where the hell is she?

In the next month, Qin Lan was even unwilling to recruit all the girls again and re-audition, but still didn't find Chu Xuan, and finally Qin Lan had to give up...... Maybe Chu Xuan overcame difficulties and stayed in the outside world?

Most of the ministers were quite satisfied with the nine concubines selected by Qin Lan, especially Jiang Ruiqi, who was the daughter of Jiang Huan Chu of Dongbohou, and the sister of Huang Feihu, the king of Wucheng, who were all rare daughters of virtue and chastity, soft and virtuous, and Qin Lan's choice was also in line with Wen Zhong's previous intention to appease these important ministers, so although Qin Lan chose a little more people, Wen Taishi and the others were very satisfied.

Of course, for Liu Yuyun, who was a flail coconut in his previous life, Wen Taishi has never had a good face.

The vigorous emperor's selection of concubines finally came to an end, most of the girls who were not selected were sent home, and Chaoge returned to calm, but the girls who were selected into the palace began to rarely appear in front of everyone, because they had awakened, and they began to cultivate with the help of Qin Lan, in order to get back their strength as soon as possible, and also for the upcoming battle of the gods.

However, in the second year of Qin Lan's accession to the throne, the Dongfang Yi people were violent again*, and Dongbo Hou Jiang Huan Chu asked the imperial court for help, so Qin Lan decided to drive the imperial expedition in person after soliciting the opinion of Wen Taishi.

Bi Gan is Qin Lan's uncle, that is, the younger brother of the first emperor Di Yi, unlike the innocent dead Wei Ziqi, Bi Gan was smart and studious when he was young, but he never had the intention of competing for the throne, and when he was only twenty years old, he assisted Di Yi in a high position as a Taishi, and now he is entrusted with the lonely auxiliary Di Xin. In the past year, Qin Lan has also seen clearly, Bigan has always advocated reducing taxes and servitude, encouraging agricultural and animal husbandry production, advocating smelting and casting, enriching the country and strengthening the army, which coincides with Qin Lan's plan, so Qin Lan don't say that it is worse than doing, it is too late to spoil him now, there is more than doing it, how much trouble can he save.

The reason why Wen Zhong suggested that Qin Lan take the imperial expedition in person was because the new emperor ascended the throne and needed to establish a certain prestige in order to deter the eight hundred princes and barbarians from all over the Great Shang to disagree...... This is indeed very important, and Xu Cheng is not allowed to fail, Wen Zhongwen Taishi will go out with the army this time, and now Huang Feihu, the king of Wucheng, will also be together, and must pursue a perfect victory.

In this regard, Qin Lan was noncommittal, and after deciding on the day of the expedition, he suddenly proposed to bring his nine concubines to the expedition together.

This suddenly aroused fierce opposition, and even Wen Taishi, who had always been more tolerant of Qin Lan, was extremely disapproving......

After the baptism of the Xia Dynasty and the Great Shang Dynasty for 600 years, the influence of matriarchal female society is weakening day by day, and now men are completely in a dominant position in society, and the role of women's existence is to assist men in taking care of the family and reproducing offspring。

So Qin Lan retreated, and then he put forward a plan to reform the imperial court, after reading Qin Lan's plan, especially when Qin Lan asked the ministers to choose one of the two, all the ministers chose to reform, anyway, for them, it was just a change of official title.

Is that really all there is to it?

Of course not, Qin Lan's main purpose this time is to carry out a major reform, because this court is still left by the Shang Dynasty before, and it is not his, although he is the emperor, but most of the power is in the hands of some powerful people, such as Bigan...... For example, Wen Zhong...... If you want to reform, you have to make them nod their heads first, this Qin Lan did very exquisitely, in the face of the unacceptable condition of bringing concubines to the battlefield, most of the ministers agreed to change the name of their official positions, at least on the surface.

Many of them do not yet understand that this is only the beginning of a radical reform...... Qin Lan basically copied the management system of the Three Kingdoms era, appointed Bi Gan as a young master, built a young master's mansion, and then set up six departments, the criminal department, the ritual department, the officials department, the household department, the military department, and the engineering department. Each ministry has its own duties and responsibilities for the affairs of the country, and they are the highest administrative body responsible for the implementation of the important decrees of the state;

In addition, Wen Zhong was appointed as the Taishi and built the Taishi Mansion, which was mainly responsible for the formulation and review of the central government's decrees and policies, and was responsible for making suggestions and accepting suggestions to the emperor.

From this point of view, the elites with Bigan and Wen Zhong are still standing at the top of the power, so this reform has been carried out smoothly, and there is not much resistance...... Of course, this is the reason why Qin Lan put Bigan in charge of all this before, and this time he directly avoided the conflict of change of rights caused by the reform, and all the people had to rush to Bigan, that is to say, Bigan became Qin Lan's shield.

And with Zhan Lan and others watching, Qin Lan is not afraid of what strong winds and waves can be turned over by Bigan......

After two months of intense preparations, Qin Lan led the army to march out of the court to conquer the rebellious Yiren...... Only this time, Qin Lan was different from the previous expeditions of Emperor Yi.

In history, it was precisely because of the rebellion of the Dongyi people that the king had to spend great efforts to conquer them, and although he won in the end, the great merchants also suffered heavy losses...... The only advantage was that a large number of prisoners were obtained, even as many as hundreds of millions, but the Western Zhou took the opportunity to attack when the Great Shang had not digested these results, and the Great Shang had to send prisoners into battle in order to resist the Western Zhou army.

In the past, Emperor Yi had conquered the Yi people several times in the same way, the army pressed the border, first destroyed their resistance, then destroyed the tribes of the Dongyi people, and finally captured their people and brought them back to the Great Shang ......

Only this time, Qin Lan didn't do it.

Why do the Dongyi people make rebellion every once in a while, because the big merchants have destroyed their homes and captured their parents, wives and children again and again, so the hatred is constantly accumulating, if there is no food, they will rob the big merchants, and if they are useless, they will rob the big merchants...... Of course, Dongbohou Jiang Huanchu is not incompetent, but in such an era, his personal cognition has not yet reached that point, so he has not been able to solve Dongyi's trouble.

What Qin Lan has to do is actually very simple, bring the original advanced Ming to them......