"Next team!"

On the high platform of the draft square, holding the book that was already full of pages in his hand, Wang An opened his mouth without raising his head.

Wei Zhongxian looked at the document in his hand, and said rarely:

"Although there are few show girls in North Korea, they are all within the standard, and you can consider keeping a few as palace maids."

"Hmm......" Wang An responded to Wei Zhongxian's words, because this was a matter of decency for the vassal state.

"Sending them all back will inevitably hurt the heart of the king of Joseon, and after the selection, those who can enter the fourth level will stay."

Wang An said, and at this time, the selection of concubines was almost in the last group.

The people on the stage were all nineteen-year-old women, and for these older women, Wang An and the others looked a little tired.

However, when the third-to-last team came to the stage, Wang An and others still raised a trace of interest.

Among this group of show girls, a show girl with a cold face caught their attention.

Different from the cookie-cutter appearance of other show girls, this show girl gives people a sense of coldness that does not eat fireworks.

In terms of appearance alone, she is not as good as the previous Agarwood Jun and Yuan Xi Concubine, but this kind of coldness is rare.

Therefore, after she stepped down, Wang An turned her head to look at Wei Zhongxian and the others next to her:

"This Tian Xiuying is good, she can be popular."

"Hmm......" Wang Chengen and Wei Zhongxian both bowed slightly, and Wang An also looked up and waited for the remaining two teams of show girls.

At this time, it was close to dusk, and there were no amazing show girls in the penultimate team, so Wang An had no expectations for the last team.

To put it bluntly, a ten-year-old woman who is still at home, there are few people who are national, and Tian Xiuying in front of her is already an unexpected joy.

Thinking of this, Wang An picked up the tea, but it was the last team at this time, nineteen years old when she signed up, and as soon as the twenty-year-old show girl appeared on stage, Wang An heard Wei Zhongxian's breathing next to him become heavier.

Wang An has basically mastered the breathing rate of Wei Zhongxian, a person who has entered the palace from the palace, but whenever he breathes heavily, it means that there is a national color among the show girls.

After making some preparations in his heart, Wang An was very curious, what kind of woman could make Wei Zhongxian's breathing disorder......

When he looked up, Wang An's lips were dry at the first glance, even if he had been in the inner court for a long time, he rarely had such a gaffe.

The last time he was like this, he was still seeing Zhang Yan, and now he is Zhou Sujie, who was ranked in the last team because of his age.

Zhou Sujie's facial features, looking at one item alone, will not make people feel that the owner of the facial features is beautiful, but when they are combined, what is revealed is the national color.

If an ordinary man sees her, he only thinks that whether it is the heavens and the earth, or the rain of guns and arrows, or the oil pot of Daoshan Mountain, he has to marry this girl as his wife.

When Wang An came back to his senses, Zhou Sujie's team had already left the high platform, and several little eunuchs in charge of recording had been watching her back until they had gone far before writing down all kinds of things about her.

"It's going to be a hit!"

Wang An didn't have to think much about it to pick up the written booklet, but at first glance, he nodded with satisfaction.

Calligraphy, painting, guqin, zheng, embroidery......

He looked at Zhou Sujie's talent, nodded with a little satisfaction, and then looked up and asked Wang Chengen: ....

"In your opinion, among the more than ten names in the circle, which one is easy to be loved by His Highness?"

Wang An was asking, and Wei Zhongxian next to him couldn't help but prick up his ears to listen, and Wang Chengen thought about it, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

In his opinion, His Royal Highness does not seem to have the habit of being close to women, and even if he sleeps at night, he does not want palace maids to warm his hands and feet, so he does not know his Royal Highness's preferences.

Just answering like this may offend people and make people think that he doesn't want to answer.

After thinking about it, Wang Chengen could only nod and said, "Your Highness, you should like ......

"Like them all?" Wang An was stunned, he didn't expect His Royal Highness King Qi, who didn't seem to be close to women, to have such a wide range of hobbies.

From young girls to ***, from cold to seductive, from Jiangnan to

Hexi, this hobby is so wide that people ......

"That's it for the time being, tomorrow change Wang Tiqian and Cao Huachun, Li Yongzhen and the three of them will come."

Wang An stood up and sat for a long time, his butt was a little numb, so after moving for a while, he explained the draft of the second level tomorrow and pointed to the book.

Hearing this, Wang Chengen and Wei Zhongxian glanced at the booklet, and then each got up and left.

The three eunuchs left, and as the person selected by Zhang Yan of the inner court, Wang An returned to Kunning Palace with the booklet, and met Zhang Yan here to tutor her five children in their homework.

She was holding a book, her eyebrows were slightly furrowed, she was wearing a light green large-sleeved shirt, sitting on a chair dignifiedly, and from time to time she looked at the five Zhu Ciran who were doing their homework in front of her.

Seeing Wang An coming in, she closed the book, stretched her brows, and asked with a smile:

"How?"

"This time, the selection of show girls is good, and the show girls from all provinces and countries are the best choices, and there are more than a dozen people in the country......

Wang An responded while offering the book on his hands, and Zhang Yan frowned slightly when he heard this: "More than a dozen?"

She took the book and read it, and sure enough, she saw a lot of names that were red, and most of them were average.

The word national color can't be used casually in the draft, that is, Zhang Yan's original batch, there are only five national colors.

"The hearts of all countries and governments, and the fact that the concubine and His Royal Highness have lowered the age limit, it will be easier for the country to come out."

"Although there are more than a dozen people, they are worse than in the Hongwu period."

Wang An responded honestly, while looking at Zhang Yan's face, he didn't forget to say at the end:

"There is only one national color on the Korean side, and for the sake of the dignity of the vassal country, I am afraid that I will occupy the quota of a flat concubine, so the slave maid is brave and wants to ask His Royal Highness and the concubine to increase the number of concubines selected this time to seven, according to one positive, two noble and four ping......

"Three wives and four concubines?" Zhang Yan heard what Wang An meant, and frowned slightly.

The so-called "three wives and four concubines" does not represent three wives and four concubines, but represents the wives, partial wives, and lower wives.

The wife, also known as the wife, is the first wife that the man is marrying, and there is only one wife with the highest status.

Although the partial wife and the next wife are called "wife", they are actually concubines, but the in-laws have a strong background and are given these two titles, but in essence, in the regulations of the government, they are still concubines.

As for the four concubines, in essence, as long as they have money and power, this is not against the law.

After all, the ancient marriage system was monogamous and polygamous, but in the Ming Dynasty, although Zhu Yuanzhang recognized the custom of taking concubines, not all people could have "three wives and four concubines", in principle, only princes and nobles could take concubines, and most of the people could only have one wife in their lives. ….

Zhu Youzhen is the same as a prince, three wives and four concubines are not considered to be against the rules, but in order to ensure the number of concubines, he regularly has to rest with his wife after marriage, and the number and order of sleeping with concubines are regulated.

According to the rules in the "Daming Huidian", this rule will bind the prince to sixty, and then he can do whatever he wants, but at this age, ordinary people may also be powerless.

Zhang Yan does not object to the regulation of giving her little uncle three wives and four concubines, but if she chooses so many concubines at one time, she is afraid that she will be chewed on the root of her tongue and lose the reputation of her little uncle.

"Let's choose the five concubines, and leave some as concubines."

Zhang Yan did not agree, but agreed to leave some show girls to Zhu Youzhen as concubines.

Wang An nodded slightly when he heard her words, indicating that he knew, and then took the document from Zhang Yan's hand.

At this time, Zhu Ciran, who was doing his homework, suddenly looked up at Zhang Yan, and then said:

"Mother, if Uncle Qi is married, can I still go to the inner court of King Qi's mansion to play?"

"It's okay now, but not after you're ten." Zhang Yan turned her head to respond to Zhu Ciran, but Zhu Ciran could only respond with a slightly regretful "Oh".

But as soon as he finished answering, he hurriedly said:

"If I can't go, then Li Dingguo can't live anymore, right?"

"It's nature

, but he is old, and your Uncle Qi should arrange for him to live in the outer court of the palace." Zhang Yan said, reopened the Chinese book in his hand, and signaled Zhu Ciran to do his homework quickly.

Zhu Ciran's eyes rolled when he saw this, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he lowered his head after a few seconds.

Seeing the appearance of this mother and son, Wang An took the document book and prepared to retreat, but Zhang Yan asked:

"Did Cheng En say when Banzai and His Highness will return to Beijing?"

"It is said that I will come back at the end of August......

Seeing Zhang Yan asking, Wang An stopped wanting to retreat, and bowed respectfully to answer, but Zhang Yan was a little unhappy when he heard this.

It has been three months since Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen went to Dading Palace to escape the summer, and no one has brought back a word during this period, everything has to rely on Zhang Yan to send Wang An to the Qi Palace.

This time, the two concubines did not come back, but only sent Wang Chengen back, looking at the posture, it is estimated that they may not return to Beijing at the end of August.

"Stand down......

Knowing the answer, Zhang Yan could only suppress the irritability in her heart and motioned for Wang An to retreat.

Wang An returned the salute when he heard this, and then withdrew from Kunning Palace.

When he withdrew from Kunning Palace, Wang Chengen also returned to the imperial horse supervisor of the Qi Palace's palace with the fatigue of the day.

Back here, he finally saw Cao Huachun, who had been absent for a long time, but compared to the big eucalyptus in Shaanxi, Cao Huachun looked a little tired and old.

"Coming back? When will Your Highness return?"

Seeing Wang Chengen walking into the study, Cao Huachun asked a little tiredly, and Wang Chengen couldn't bear to say when he saw him like this:

"It is said that it is the end of August, but according to the interest of Banzai, I am afraid that it will be until mid-September, and it is not to return to the capital, it is very likely that I will go directly to the Midsummer Palace in Fangshan to escape the winter."

"Don't worry too much, the Imperial Horse Prison has cleaned up a lot of unruly people in the New Year, and His Highness is just angry." ….

"You still have to take care of your body, and when Your Highness's anger is gone, you and Lu Wenzhao will be fine."

"Hmm......" Cao Huachun didn't say much, after working together for ten years, he naturally knew what kind of character and temperament Wang Chengen was.

This may be easy to be deceived and deceived in the palace, but it will not be in the palace of the king of Qi.

Wang Chengen is in charge of officialdom, and there are only a limited number of things that officialdom can corrupt, which is nothing more than grain and livestock.

However, the officialdom passage is guarded by soldiers and horses, and it is difficult to be corrupt.

His Royal Highness can be said to have put Wang Chengen in the most right place, he stayed in that place happily, His Royal Highness was also happy, naturally there would be no problem, and he ......

Cao Huachun looked at the books of the imperial horse supervisor on the table in front of him, and only felt physically and mentally exhausted.

I have to say that Cao Huachun is shrewd and perceptive, and he sees Zhu Youzhen's needs clearly.

With Wang Chengen and Zhu Youxiao here, Zhu Youzhen felt that he was not alone.

Since the Qi Wang Party changed to the Gu Party, and the Yanshan faction broke out the corruption scandal, except for these two people, Zhu Youzhen looked at everyone with a little suspicion.

The closer Wang Chengen gets to himself and the more he helps himself speak, the lighter his position in Zhu Youzhen's heart becomes.

Cao Huachun was also very clear about this truth, so he persuaded Wang Chengen, who was sitting at the bottom:

"In the future, if you follow Your Highness, you will say less for me, Your Highness will not be happy to hear it, and it is useless for you to say it."

"If Your Highness is happy, you don't say that Your Highness will be happy."

"Hmm......" Wang Chengen listened very persuasively, nodded and stood up, and Cao Huachun also explained:

"Don't be in charge of choosing a concubine, just let your godfather decide."

"But wouldn't His Highness be upset in this way?" Wang Chengen was a little worried.

"Alas......" Cao Huachun sighed, only to feel that his friend really didn't know much about his Royal Highness.

He looked at Wang Chengen's eyes, frowned and said:

"Do you think that a man of such great might care about that group of women?"

"People who have cared about a woman's family background throughout the ages,

It's just that we need to use our strength to balance the court and the family."

"At present, the civil officials above the temple are like clowns, and His Highness wants to get rid of them, which is nothing more than a matter between thoughts."

"The reason why they are allowed is because they are afraid that after they are taken down, a group of people who are not as good as them will come up, not to mention the burden on His Highness, and it will also make the court unrighteous and aggravate the contradictions between the court and the gentry."

"Your Highness wants to innovate, this has touched the roots of the gentry, the two have never been in contact with each other, which of these show girls who have been selected does not have the support of the gentry behind them? Which one is not from a gentry?"

"Even if you choose to be the princess, you really have encountered something, and the deposition is just between the thoughts of His Highness......

"This ......" Hearing Cao Huachun's words, Wang Chengen didn't expect that in their eyes, Princess Qi, who was the future lord of the inner court of the Qi Palace, would have such no status......

"After all, it is under the middle palace of the inner court of the future mansion, how can His Royal Highness ...... the biological mother of the future son" Wang Chengen was a little hesitant, but Cao Huachun raised his hand to interrupt him:

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty still dares to kill the hook and stand up the tomb, His Royal Highness is majestic and strategic, how can he care about the life and death of a woman?" ….

"The princess is chosen, and you shouldn't get too close to her."

"Stay with Your Highness and be obedient, so that you, the "chief steward" of the Qi Palace, can sit steadily......

Cao Huachun was explaining well, but Wang Chengen stubbornly said: "His Royal Highness values love and righteousness, and it is common for him to love the princess, and Emperor Wu is cruel and murderous, how can he compare with His Highness?"

"You......" Cao Huachun didn't know what to say, he even doubted his ears.

Wang Chengen actually felt that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was brutal and murderous, but Zhu Youzhen was not brutal and not murderous?

If it weren't for being in the Qi Palace, in the Ming Dynasty, Cao Huachun really wanted to ask Wang Chengen:

"Where is it not cruel to the existence of a person who doesn't care about the life or death of tens of millions of aliens, who easily exterminates the country and the clan, who kills more than 300,000 officials and exils millions of people in six years in power?"

You know, it's easy for a person to verbally brag about how many people he wants to kill, but put everyone in that position, and when he really gives the order, no matter who he is, he will show a hint of soft-heartedness.

The closer the people are, the more difficult it is to give orders.

After the order is given, the civilians of the other countries who were killed will turn into images that appear in their minds from time to time, and slowly deepen as time passes.

With your words, millions of people are ambushed, tens of millions of people are exiled, and millions of families and wives are separated, if such people are not cruel, then there are no cruel people.

Cruelty is a bad thing for ordinary people, but it is a good thing for kings.

In Cao Huachun's view, Zhu Youzhen is a person who is humble and benevolent on the surface, but cold-blooded and cruel on the inside.

This is true when you are young, and even more so when you are old.

said that Zhu Youzhen's simple benevolence was believed by Cao Huachun ten years ago, but as the years passed, step by step, he no longer believed it.

There are some foolish people among the people, and I am afraid that Zhu Youzhen ordered them to be arrested and exiled in order to reform and implement the policy.

When the people below heard about the relocation of the people, did the people below really applaud after hearing it, happily abandon their hometowns, and take people north?

What nonsense......

The family has five acres of thin fields, in the hinterland of the Central Plains, although there are seven or eight people in the family, but the wife and mother raise mulberry weaving, and there is also an income of two taels of silver a year.

In addition, my father farmed and went out to work by himself, so he could actually accumulate more than 1,000 catties of rice and wheat a year, seven or eight taels of silver.

If you go to the north, and don't mention whether there is any work to do, just raising mulberry and weaving cloth will not work.

The imperial court issued ploughing cattle, although every year the family added 112 acres of land, seven or eight people can take the imperial court's grain stamps, eat the imperial court's grain to reclaim 150 or 60 acres of land, and in the future, even lying down can also earn more than 100 stone rice and wheat, but the problem is that it takes too long.

Each household has a ploughing cow, seven or eight people, and eleven or twelve acres of land are added every year, which seems good, but at this rate, after the one hundred and fifty or sixty acres of land is completely reclaimed, it is already already

More than a decade later.

More than ten years......

According to the situation of this family in the Guannei, even if there is a shortage of one or two thousand catties of grain every year, they can take out four or five taels of silver to buy grain every year, and they can still have two or three taels of silver left over to add new clothes and buy new things.

The pain in the customs is the mental fatigue. ….

Bitterness outside the border, suffering in the material.

Accustomed to the comfort of the pass, no one wants to go to the bitter cold land outside the pass to cultivate the fields.

Perhaps Wang Chengen thinks that the people who migrated north are all poor, and most of them are still hungry.

But how can there be so many hungry people right now?

When there were the most hungry people in the world, it was true that at that time, in order to survive, the hungry people all moved outside the border.

According to the situation in various provinces, Qinchuan, an 800-mile river in Guanzhong, where Shaanxi is never short of water, has been irrigated with more than 13 million mu of cultivated land after Xu Guangqi's water conservancy construction, and there is no fear of a major drought at all.

At present, there are only more than 4 million people in Shaanxi, of which one-third are scattered in the Hetao, and two-thirds are in the Guanzhong Plain.

In fact, they have settled down, and even in September they can harvest grain, and each person has five acres of arable land per capita, and they don't want to move at all.

Besides, Shanxi is indeed short of water due to the severe drought and has a large population, but they are also large households who have migrated to eastern Liaodong.

In ten years, Shanxi relocated nearly 2 million people to Liaodong, and more than 500,000 to Hetao.

Nearly 40 million mu of cultivated land in Shanxi is in the hands of the imperial horse supervisor and the local government, and the gentry died and were injured because of the three ladies, and the cultivated land occupied was only more than 10 million mu.

For Shanxi, which currently has less than 7 million people, these 40 million mu of arable land is enough for four mu per capita.

As a result, although the drought continues, most of the people are reluctant to move, as can be seen from the slow-growing population of the three provinces of Taining.

And the people of Henan, Huguang, Sichuan, Guangdong, and Fujian still think so.

Even the people who have been fooled can see that as long as they survive until the end of the drought, they do not have to stay far from their homeland, and each household can get dozens of acres of arable land.

If they are unwilling to go, the imperial court's "immigration plan" will not continue, and the imperial court will be angry with the localities, and the local governments have no choice but to resort to violent means to forcibly relocate the people.

Not to mention the situation reported below, Cao Huachun himself has personally seen the coercion and temptation of some poor people by the officials who organized the relocation of Beizhili.

If they don't move, they sent some thugs to harass them, cut off the village's water supply, let the fields dry up, and then put pressure on them, and finally let them abandon their hometown and move north.

These things, Jin Yiwei reported as early as the sixth year of the Apocalypse, saying that his Royal Highness didn't know was a joke.

His Royal Highness knows these things better than anyone else, but has he said anything? At least Cao Huachun didn't hear it.

If it is said that in the first year of the Apocalypse, or four years before the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen at that time was still worthy of the praise of the four words of Shenren and Houze.

Since the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen began to walk to the temple and embarked on the road of being called a lonely widow.

This kind of Zhu Youzhen is even more terrifying for hundreds of officials, unreasonable for the people, and a little sleepless for the people around him.

But is this change good or bad?

The victims who received the relief food stamps said he was good, and the poor yeoman farmers who had been driven away from their homes said that he was bad.

The honest officials who have increased the number of lulu say that he is good, and the corrupt officials who bend the law and accept bribes say that he is bad.

The people in the country who enjoyed the products of government roads, cement, etc., said that he was good, and those who were imprisoned in the cement yard and worked every day said that he was bad.

You can't just say whether a person is good or bad, and the same is true for evaluating your own highness.

At least in Cao Huachun's opinion, he has never regretted serving Zhu Youzhen.

can serve a person as eloquent as Zhu Youzhen, and Cao Huachun will definitely be added to the history books in the future.

It's just that staying by such a person's side, being scared every day, and it is difficult to live a long life.

Thinking of this, Cao Hua

Chun looked at Wang Chengen and couldn't help but think with envy:

"I'm afraid that only a wooden person like him will not be affected by it......

Cao Huachun's thoughts are incomprehensible to people like Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen also showed a very ugly face in the face of Cao Huachun's words that Zhu Youzhen was "brutal".

He endured it for a long time, and when he saw Cao Huachun stop, he said with a dark face:

"Don't talk about it anymore, Your Highness is benevolent, I won't talk about today's things, tomorrow you remember to change shifts and go to the draft."

After that, he turned around and left, and Cao Huachun also looked at his back, and after a long sigh, he lowered his head and continued to deal with the various matters of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.......

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