Wang Chengen arrived, followed by several eunuchs, some taking this, some taking that, everyone holding a pile of clothes.

Zhu Youzhen saw Wang Chengen coming in and asked directly without waiting for Wang Chengen's report, "It's all done?" ”

Wang Chengen smiled, "Your Majesty, I can only say that it is almost done, and it will definitely not affect the governor to go to court tomorrow." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhang Ping with a smile, "Go, let them wait to put it on, let me see it." ”

The emperor gave an order, and Zhang Ping naturally wanted to change his clothes.

This Cining Palace is very large, there are many houses, this hall can only be said to be the living room of Cining Palace, there are many corridors on both sides of the front, and there are rooms that.

"Let's go to the bedroom of the mourning family." , Zhang Yan said.

"No," Wang Chengen accompanied him to the front corridor.

There is a large apse at the back of the main hall of Cining Palace, which is Zhang Yan's residence.

The Jurchens believed in Buddhism, and after entering the customs, they set up a place to worship Buddha in the palace, and the apse of Cining Palace was one of them, probably because it was the largest in many Buddhist halls, so it was later commonly known as the Big Buddha Hall.

What Zhang Yan said was to let Zhang Ping go to her bedroom in the back to change clothes.

Now, Zhang Ping is her son, and it is normal for her son to change his clothes in his mother's room.

At this time, Zhang Yan was very bored, boredom can't summarize all of Zhang Yan, if it should be more accurate to say that Zhang Yan is helpless, the emperor is in charge of the imperial court, and the queen Zhou Yufeng is in charge of the sixth palace, so she has nothing to do, so as long as everything is to read books every day, and she reads very miscellaneous, and slowly looks at Buddhist books.

At this time, the most Chinese people believe in Taoism, and Buddhism is also very popular, the core content of Buddhist thought is precepts, determination, wisdom, from the precepts to give birth to determination, from the determination of wisdom, easy to understand summarized into 16 words, all evil do not do, all good practice, self-purification of its meaning.

The basic teachings of Buddhism are the Four Noble Truths, which include the Truth of Suffering, the Truth of Concentration, the Truth of Extinction, and the Truth of the Path. The truth of suffering is to judge everything in social life as suffering, the truth of concentration is to talk about the causes of suffering, the truth of extinction is to ask people to eliminate the causes of suffering, and the truth of the path is to point out the path to liberation, which can be summarized as the Noble Eightfold Path.

Buddhism rejects fatalism and believes that human beings have a destiny, but does not encourage people to resign themselves to fate, but hopes that people create their destiny. Buddhism advocates that all laws are born by fate, so fate is also born by karma, and bad fate can be changed by planting good karma, and this view is very close to Zhang Yan's situation and ideology, so Zhang Yan began to believe in Buddhism.

Zhang Ping, who had changed his clothes, returned to the main hall, and all the people applauded, and Zhou Yufeng praised: "Sure enough, people rely on clothes, and Buddha relies on gold, oops!" It's amazing, Cixuan is really handsome now. ”

Zhang Yan circled around Zhang Ping and helped Zhang Ping tidy up the clothes on his body again, "Not bad!" Not bad! The dress is really appropriate, Wang Chengen will still do errands. ”

Wang Chengen was very happy when he heard this, "Isn't this all what a slave should do?" ”

Zhu Youzhen also praised, "Hmm! This is like a dignified metropolitan governor, and in the future, I will reward Xuan'er a few more sets. ”

Of course, Zhu Cihong wants to join in the fun, "Dude! Don't mess around, if you attract the attention of others, the Queen Mother will be miserable, you say that there are too many relatives who come to the door and don't annoy the Queen Mother to death! ”

This guy is also starting to learn to be poor.

In this palace, there are rules everywhere, and he is the prince, and everyone is in charge of everything he says and does, if you don't pay attention to what you say, and do things too casually, don't say that the emperor is not happy, that is, what bachelors, attendants, Zhan Shi, and Yu De in the East Palace will fire directly at you, telling you that this can't and that's not okay.

After laughing for a while, Zhu Youzhen left.

This guy is a hard-working workaholic who is incomparable, and today during the day, because he was too excited, his mind was focused on how much silver he could get, and his mood was calm, so he had to work overtime at night to read the recitals that he should see.

Zhou Yufeng was a little disappointed, I said Emperor, didn't you say that you would stay in the Kunning Palace of the concubines at night? You guy, you can't control yourself as soon as you do something, is the concubine waiting for you or not, don't you know that the concubine is your daughter-in-law? How can there be a man like you? If you marry you, the concubine will be considered to have been moldy for eight lifetimes.

Everyone also knows that the core of today is the Queen Mother's recognition of the son, so after laughing for a while, they all left under Zhou Yufeng's reminder.

When people recognize each other, there is always room to let the mother and son talk.

Zhang Yan is indescribable, and the most talked about by the two is their hometown Kaifeng.

Zhang Yan was shocked that Kaifeng in later generations became so prosperous, and she couldn't believe it, "Our Kaifeng people are outstanding, and we won't be wrong at any time." ”

Who doesn't say that our hometown is good, Zhang Ping is very much in favor of this, "The Queen Mother is so right, our Kaifeng people are hardworking, kind, able to endure hardships, and are very good in all aspects, and the cultural heritage of the ancient capital is not said." ”

When asked about the development of the city, Zhang Ping naturally had to describe it carefully, which caused Zhang Yan to continue to praise.

I had to be happy with Zhang Yan, and Zhang Ping was willing to say it in more detail, so Kaifeng said that it was a lot of flowers.

In fact, Kaifeng in later generations should be regarded as one of the most declining cities in the country, and it does not look like it once was an imperial city in all aspects.

Of course, this is related to the fact that Kaifeng is not a provincial capital, if Kaifeng is still the provincial capital, how can there be any prosperity in Zhengzhou later.

Zhang Yan is most worried about the Yellow River.

It should be said that the Yellow River is a sword hanging over the head of Kaifeng, maybe there will be a problem at any time, and once there is a problem, the Kaifeng people will be unlucky.

"The Yellow River, don't worry about the Queen Mother, the flooding of the Yellow River has long been cured." , Zhang Ping said.

He knew that the Yellow River had always been a major water conservancy hazard in the country, and it had been diverted many times, causing unimaginable disasters. Previously, the Yellow River flowed due east, through Lianyungang in Xuzhou, to expose the sea, and later diverted to the northeast to flow through Shandong into the Bohai Sea.

In later generations, not only did great efforts be made to completely cure the problem of the Yellow River, but the key was that the flow of the Yellow River became smaller and smaller, and it was almost cut off, and the narrow flowing water was really too far from the mother river.

Of course, this is related to the great economic development, and the upstream provinces are desperately pumping the water of the Yellow River for irrigation, not to mention the Yellow River, even the Yangtze River cannot bear it.

Zhang Ping and Zhang Yan both know that the current Kaifeng should be a puddle of mud.

The year before last, Li Zicheng couldn't defeat Kaifeng City, so he dug up the Yellow River, which was considered to be a complete destruction of Kaifeng.

Zhang Yan sighed, Zhang Ping also sighed, everything was caused by Li Zicheng's villain, he didn't understand, why did the writer surnamed Yao portray Li Zicheng as a heroic and martial artist, and even a little compassionate hero?

The wicked man who slaughters cities at every turn, kills people, and uses people's chests as mangers? No kidding.

It is said that Zhang Xianzhong did the same and slaughtered the city at every turn, but Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng should be nothing compared to each other.

This Li Zicheng became a reduction in the cost of conquering the city, and promulgated a rule that the attacked city should be killed by one-third in one day, seven-tenths in two days of resistance, and slaughtered by resisting for more than three days, and no chickens and dogs remained.

The officials and soldiers were bad, they just looted, and some individuals took the opportunity to spoil women, but what Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did was inhumane animal behavior.

After talking for a long time, Zhang Yan let Zhang Ping go, because Zhang Ping still has to get up tomorrow to go to the morning court.

In this era, the ministers of the central organs were also very hard, they had to get up at three o'clock in the morning, rush to the palace before five o'clock, and then gather in line to wait for the state affairs of the counselor of the previous court.

Zhang Yan spoke, "Yang Mingqi, arrange another sedan chair." ”

Yang Mingqi is the chief eunuch of Cining Palace, "Queen Mother, Gao Yushun of Kunning Palace has been waiting outside." ”

He knew that Zhang Yan was going to send Zhang Ping, the righteous son he had just accepted, back.

Today, Lao Yang is also very happy, the Queen Mother is happy, and those of them who are slaves are happy.

In addition, he also saw that the Queen Mother was about to change, and she no longer wanted to care about anything like before, who was the Queen Mother? That's a person that the emperor respects very much, the first person in the harem, if the queen mother is in charge, Gao Yushun, that bastard, don't think about bullying him anymore Yang Mingqi.

Lend them the guts!

"Tell you to go, and you go."

Then, Zhang Yan said to Liu Qinglian, who was standing beside him silently: "Qinglian, you are not young, at your age, if you hadn't married early in the palace, and you have been the mother of two children, today you will follow the son of the mourning family, take care of the governor of the mourning family, and when he gets married in the future, you will be his wife, go, pick a few palace maids to take care of, you can remember, the mourning family will hand over the governor to you." ”

Zhang Ping was stunned when he heard it, what is the Queen Mother going to do? Is this the woman who is going to send him a call, where is this going to work? "The Queen Mother can't!"

Zhang Yan glared at Zhang Ping, "Why not?" Do you think Qinglian is not good-looking? The mourning family can tell you, Qinglian is the most beautiful, kindest, and most knowledgeable girl in this palace, otherwise, she can't come to the Cining Palace of the mourning family to be a female official. ”

Of course, Zhang Ping knew that women at this time had no status, and no one could make their own decisions about their future. Not to mention the palace maids and female officials in the palace, even the ladies of the official eunuchs are not the same, who her parents want to marry him, she must marry whom, but the Queen Mother gave Liu Qinglian to her like a gift, which made him a little unacceptable.

Liu Qinglian's face was full of shyness, and she lowered her head and kept silent.

"Queen Mother, it's not that my son said you, this person is not an animal, you can't just send it, don't you disrespect the wishes of others?"

Zhang Yan looked at Zhang Ping and smiled, "You guy is always different from what others think, Qinglian is not young, if it weren't for the difficulties in the court in the past two years, the mourning family would have let her out of the palace a long time ago." ”

"You have to ask people if they want to! Even if you are the Queen Mother, you have to respect people, don't you? ”

Zhang Yan continued to smile, "Okay! Yes! Isn't it okay to ask the mourners? Qinglian, are you willing to follow the governor? ”

What did you do? If you ask this to your face, how can you let people answer?

Liu Qinglian blessed Zhang Yan, "The slave listens to the Queen Mother." ”

To tell the truth, the final outcome of being a female official and a palace maid in the palace is not good, because of the needs of the royal family, when they are young, they can't leave the palace, and when they can get out of the palace, they have long passed the best age to marry. After they leave the palace, they are still the parents who make the decision, and she marries whoever she marries, and there is no choice. Even if there is a choice, it is the parents who choose on their behalf, do you know how the parents choose? If you fall in love with the thick things sent by others, if you are greedy for the other party's power, it doesn't matter how old the other party is? I have a brother and sister-in-law who also want to push you out as soon as possible and get more dowry.

The best fate should be to fill in the house for the person whose wife is dead, no matter how good it is, it is still the right wife.

This is the fate of the palace maid.

Who is Zhang Ping? Liu Qinglian already knows, not to mention the handsomeness of this Zhang Ping, the key is the queen mother's righteous son, the emperor's important minister, he became a first-class member at a young age, and he is also versatile, and more importantly, he is still a man who has never been married, which he has followed in the past, and it is certain that he will not become a wife, but it must be Zhang Ping's first woman, in the future, Zhang Ping will definitely not be able to treat himself the same as other concubines, and what is more pleasing is that this person respects people very much, Liu Qinglian is of course very willing.

Zhang Yan said with a smile: "Cixuan, you saw and heard it, Qinglian is willing." ”

Zhang Ping was speechless, you are the Queen Mother, you ask in person, do people dare to say they are unwilling?

Zhang Yan instructed, "Qinglian, go pick someone, everyone pack up and follow along." ”

Liu Qinglian saluted sideways, agreed and left, and the steps were obviously very pleasant.

Zhang Yan looked at Liu Qinglian who walked out with a smile, and said to Zhang Ping: "Cixuan, the mourning family told you that there are several good girls in this palace, the mourning family and the queen will find out, and they will pick two more to send to you in two days." The mourning family asked you, what do you like in the main house in the future? ”

As soon as Zhang Yan said this, Zhang Ping was really speechless, a mother can't care about her children's marriage like this, there are so many girls in the palace, you can't give them all to me, "Don't!" No one wants it, my son still wants to concentrate on his work! ”

Zhang Yan glared, "These are two different things, men should get married and women should get married, and they can't do the right thing when they get married?" The mourning family can wait to hold their grandson. ”