Chapter 199: The draft begins
The women who participated in the draft, after layers of screening, the winner came to the final round, the final competition presided over by the queen herself!
The venue for this draft will be held in the Qingsi Palace!
At this moment, Li Jing is walking to the draft venue, anyway, there is no big deal now, it is better to go to the scene to observe and observe.
In this draft, the first choice is to choose the relatives of the royal family, the daughters of the powerful, and the famous families, and the second is to select the women of ordinary eunuchs and scholar families.
Li Jing's appearance in the Qingsi Hall immediately caused a lot of commotion, the crowd in the hall was stirring, and countless show girls were watching from the side.
As soon as these people saw Li Jing, most of them were like hungry wolves, their eyes lit up, and they couldn't wait to seduce the emperor to the bed and have an in-depth exchange with the emperor.
These low-born ladies all want to be loved by the emperor, and do their best to get the emperor's favor, so as to fly on the branches and become phoenixes, and even take the entire family to soar.
In this era of bloodline, origin, and family, the emperor first pays attention to the birth of the concubine, since Taizong, in order to limit the family valve to become bigger, he deliberately selects the general eunuch family and scholar family women.
For example, Taizong's crown prince Li Chengqian's crown princess Su is just the daughter of a small secretary and supervisor, and the Su family's family affairs are not prominent.
There is also Gaozong as the crown prince Li Hong, the first crown princess Yang who was chosen, but she was the daughter of Weiwei Shaoqing, and her background was also very ordinary, but unfortunately she was seduced by He Lanmin in the end, and Gaozong could only choose another woman to be the crown princess.
Although there was no rule like the Ming Dynasty that concubines could not be noble relatives, the Tang Emperor began to deliberately develop in this direction.
For this approach, Li Jing still agrees with it, which is conducive to restricting the behavior of the family gatekeeper, and Li Jing will unswervingly continue to do it, even if he can't do it directly, he will do it secretly.
As the Son of Heaven, what kind of woman he wants to choose, that is his freedom, if he doesn't even make his own decisions about this, then what's the point of what this emperor does!
Li Jing walked into the Qingsi Palace, and the beautiful girls in the hall greeted Li Jing's arrival under the leadership of the queen.
Li Jing walked to the front of the Qingsi Hall and sat down.
The queen and the show girls hurriedly stood up to greet them.
"Greetings to His Majesty the Emperor!"
Everyone didn't expect the emperor to come to the scene in person, and they were inevitably a little nervous, but fortunately, there was the queen in front of the leader, plus everyone was a beautiful girl, and the etiquette was very skillful, so the emperor suddenly appeared, so he was not disrupted.
Looking at the warbler Yanyan in front of him, Li Jing laughed happily and said, "No courtesy!" The queen came and sat down beside me. ”
Li Jing patted the seat next to him and motioned for the queen to come over quickly, the queen was naturally interested, and quickly got up and moved to Li Jing's side and sat down.
The other show girls got up, lined up, and showed their best side, hoping to win the emperor's attention, so that they could be selected into the harem to become the emperor's concubine, and fly on the branches to become a phoenix!
After the queen came to Li Jing and sat down, she pointed to the show girls in front of her and smiled: "These show girls are all dignified, virtuous and virtuous little ladies, I don't know who the saint likes among them?"
If it is hand-picked by the emperor, she can also be more relaxed, and she does not have to be exhaustive, and carefully selects suitable show girls to enrich the harem.
As for who the emperor will choose?
It will depend on their luck, but the queen hopes that her cousin will be selected, so that her position in the harem will be more stable!
Li Jing didn't speak, and sat quietly beside the queen, waiting for the first performance of the girls to be drafted.
He sat on the throne and looked like he couldn't get his spirits up, and said, "Then let's begin!" ”
To be honest, he was still quite expectant.
This time in the draft, it can be said that there are many beauties, beautiful like rain, just now he was in the crowd, saw a few women with good figures, didn't look carefully, and didn't know how they looked, for fear of encountering back killing.
It's just that......
I don't know how, Li Jing felt that the women he saw just now seemed to be his uncle's concubines.
Speaking of which, this is to blame Li Jing's grandfather and great-grandfather, the old Li family can be said to have lost all their temperament in terms of women, and the Li family has never had a so-called plot.
On the contrary, she loves mature women and has a soft spot for wives, especially the wives of her own family.
At the beginning, Emperor Taizong launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion and killed the hidden prince Li Jiancheng and his sons, as well as the king of Qi Li Yuanji and his sons, Emperor Taizong unceremoniously took the princess of Qi into his pocket!
So much so that later Emperor Gaozong did the same, and attacked Emperor Taizong's concubine Wucairen, and the two took advantage of Emperor Taizong's serious illness to do in-depth exchanges in the side hall next to him.
In the end, Li Longji's kid, in order to pay tribute to his great-grandfather and grandfather, stretched out his claws to his daughter-in-law, and in the end, because he was obsessed with women, which led to the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion!
To be honest, Li Jing doesn't like this bottomlessness, and he doesn't even let go of his own family, it's really ......
He does not deny that wives have a different flavor, and he also likes it, after all, Wei Wuyi's legacy needs to be inherited, and he is willing to become the heir of Wei Wuyi's legacy.
Everyone hates Cao Thief, but everyone wants to be Cao Thief!
Datang is a very tolerant and open era, and the royal family is adhering to tolerance and openness, which leads to the fact that Datang women do not care so much about chastity, unlike the later Ming and Qing dynasties, chastity is more important than life.
The princesses of the Tang Dynasty are even more outstanding in this regard, such as Princess Gaoyang, the daughter of Emperor Taizong, who had an affair with a monk and gave birth to a child.
There is also Emperor Taizong's sister Princess Yongjia, who fornicated with her nephew at the funeral of her sister Princess Changguang, and I don't know if Princess Changguang knows under the spring, will she come back to life and beat to death the rebel who fornicated with her sister!
This is doomed, Datang women are not perfect to a large extent, in order to ensure that the show girls are perfect before entering the palace, the show girls who participate in the draft every time are young.
Speaking of the old Li family's show girl screening and censorship system, there is no gold content, let alone many rules.
At this moment, a eunuch came to Li Jing with a roster, knelt down, and bowed: "Sage, this is the roster of show girls this time, please take a look at it!" ”
Li Jing stretched out his hand to take the roster, the eunuch got up and bowed down, Li Jing touched the roster in his hand, and felt that the roster was quite thick in his hand.
Li Jing flipped through the roster casually.
This roster is still quite thick, dozens of pages, and if you spread it out, it can probably look like several meters.
Li Jing opened the first page and saw that there were words written on it, which recorded the surname, place of origin, and background of the show girl, and there was also a picture of the show girl's appearance.
Next to the appearance of the show girl, there is also a description of the appearance of the show girl, perhaps because I am afraid that the picture is not good, and there is a gap between it and the real person, so there will be an explanation.
There are painters in the Tang Dynasty, and some painters paint portraits of people, just like real people, but most of the court painters are not good at this aspect of painting, or their painting skills are not skilled enough, and it is normal for them to have some deviations from real people.
In this era, there is still no camera, you can't take pictures of show girls, and you can only rely on manual painting portraits of people.
"On this list, I'm afraid there are no less than hundreds of names of show girls......"
Li Jing flipped through the roster, and secretly said, there are hundreds of young girls, most of them are minors at his disposal, if this is placed in the future generations, it is not enough to shoot him a dozen times, but in Datang, these minors are married early!
It's all a group of poor people, so let my broad heart warm you!
However, even if he is selected now, Li Jing will not move, at least he will not be able to start until they are sixteen years old, otherwise, he will have a burden in his heart.
Moreover, he is not ashamed to do this, even if he is lustful, he will not do anything to minors, if he does that, he is not even as good as a beast.
"Most of the names written in front are ladies from famous families with prominent family backgrounds, or show girls who have relationships in the harem!"
Li Jing thought to himself.
This selection of show girls, how many people should be selected, Li Jing knows in his heart.
In this draft, Li Jing doesn't plan to pick too much, it's enough to have three or five people!
What's more important is that there are hundreds of people on this roster, and it is impossible to assess them one by one, it is too much time to do so, and Li Jing does not have so much patience.
So what to do?
Let the show girls have a group performance show first, and see the right ones to choose from.
As for the role of the roster, it is to allow Li Jing to further understand the situation of the show girl, don't be embarrassed when the show girl's performance is over, Li Jing falls in love with the other party, and he doesn't even know anything about the other party's family history.
Li Jing looked at the roster in his hand, and gently opened the roster, and the first page was actually Yang's, which made Li Jing a little surprised!
Although the Yang family is considered a famous family, it is really nothing compared to the five surnames and seven wang and other families!
This name can be directly ranked in the first place, if it weren't for the cat, Li Jing wouldn't have believed it.
Li Jing looked at Yang's profile, as well as the identity of his parents, and his father's position.
"It's her!"
Li Jing was a little surprised, according to the normal trajectory of history, this Yang family should be Li Chongjun's concubine.
Now that Li Chongjun is already three feet tall, it is not surprising that this Yang can participate in the draft, but it is very interesting to be ranked first!
This Yang family seems to be a relative of the queen, Li Jing thought of this, and understood it, and couldn't help but look up at the queen.
Feeling Li Jing's gaze, the queen turned her head and looked at Li Jing, revealing a smile.
The show officially began, and the show girls began to perform their prepared talents.
Li Jing watched the performance with great interest, wanting to find Yang's figure in a group of show girls.
Although she is only twelve or thirteen years old this year, it doesn't matter, he can grow up slowly!
Li Jing said to the queen quietly: "This Yang family is the queen's cousin!" ”
The queen showed a trace of panic on her face, for fear that Li Jing would be angry, so she bowed her head and said, "Sage, I ......"
"Well, I don't blame you!"