Chapter 237: The Empress Ascends the Throne
Emperor Wei's movements were fast, and once he made the decision to take the Zen position, he would not waste time by procrastinating.
After Qin Tianjian got the news, he quickly calculated the nearest auspicious day, and the Ministry of Rites also quickly arranged the new emperor's accession to the throne.
Because she is the first empress since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, all the processes must be re-finalized, and you can't completely follow the previous rules.
Moreover, in recent years, a lot of new things have also emerged in Dawei, especially the thing called fireworks salute developed at the border gate, which is very suitable for the new emperor to put on a scene on the day of his accession to the throne.
The empress's robe also needs to be remade, so Wei Zining also ordered someone to post the imperial list, inviting the world's embroidery girl to design a suitable imperial robe for her.
As soon as this imperial list was posted, it attracted the attention of countless people, and even let officials from all over the country know about Wei Zining's imminent accession to the throne.
Officials of all state capitals began to prepare congratulatory gifts for the new emperor, and naturally, the emperor could not be ignored.
Su Hengyu had already received the news that Emperor Wei wanted a Zen position, after all, they discussed this matter together.
In these years, Emperor Wei has fulfilled his long-cherished wish for many years - to clear Cui Xiang's party, pacify the Xiongnu trouble, and solve the difficulties of the sparsely populated people and poor people in the border passes.
Although many of them were solved by Su Hengyu, since it happened during his reign, it would be counted as his merits.
Even if only one of these three things is completed, an emperor can be immortalized, not to mention that he has completed three things!
Emperor Wei was a very restrained man, and he knew that he would have infinite desires as an emperor. Maybe he's still young now, and he won't give birth to those thoughts that shouldn't be there, and he won't do stupid things for the sake of immortality.
But he himself didn't dare to guarantee that he would always be so sober in the future and always put the Jiangshan Sheji of Great Wei in front of him.
Therefore, in order not to let the prosperous world that he had managed so hard to run die like this, and in order not to destroy his current reputation as a Ming Jun, he is willing to retreat bravely in exchange for the prestige of future generations.
After learning about his father's thoughts, Wei Zining did not reject his idea of Zen position. After all, it would be too hypocritical for her to say that she didn't want to be the emperor, if her father was willing to give up the position to her earlier, it would be more convenient for her and Su Hengyu to do it.
After Su Hengyu got the news, he didn't do anything, but just presented an atlas of famous snacks and beautiful scenery that he had collected when he was an official everywhere over the years.
Her meaning is obvious, since she wants to be the emperor in the Zen position, what are you doing in the palace every day?
Even if Emperor Wei became the emperor, if he didn't leave for a day, his diehard loyalists would not be able to work under the new emperor.
So instead of letting the other party continue to stay in the capital and end up making the father and daughter and the courtiers unhappy, it is better to let him take the queen mother to leave the palace where he has lived all his life, and let them see what the Great Wei, which he has governed for many years, is like now.
Emperor Wei, who received Su Hengyu's atlas, naturally knew her thoughts, but this did not prevent Emperor Wei from feeling happy.
He is a rational enough emperor, and he naturally will not ignore the things that Su Hengyu can consider. So he also had the intention of taking the queen out to play, so many years in order to deal with the government and his own safety, he didn't even go out to the palace a few times, which made Emperor Wei very regretful.
Now seeing that the atlas sent by Su Hengyu has such a detailed description of the customs and beautiful scenery and delicacies of various places, Emperor Wei can't wait to go and see it.
So, after Emperor Wei officially took the throne, he found a sunny day, changed into the clothes of ordinary rich and noble families with the queen, and took their respective henchmen and eunuchs and guards to travel around the Great Wei.
Maybe when they have traveled all over the territory of Great Wei, they will also be willing to go to the surrounding small countries to have a look.
But that's not what Su Hengyu and Wei Zining should care about.
Now they are busy with the first thing that the new emperor will implement after the arrival of the dynasty, that is, the women's imperial examination!
Since the opening of girls' schools, primary schools in various places have been fully promoted. In order to give more girls the opportunity to study, they have also set up a special support system for girls.
That is, whenever a girl comes to school, she can have an egg every day. If a girl can be admitted to the top ten in the class, she will not only have the rewards of paper and pen, but also the reward of silver money, and the higher the ranking, the more silver money she can get.
As soon as this rule came out, many people jumped out to accuse Wei Zining and Su Hengyu of being unfair, because these rewards were only for girls, and boys couldn't enjoy them at all.
When Wei Zining, who was still a princess at the time, heard this, she only smiled and said to the man: "If the people don't drown their daughters when they give birth to them, and they don't sell their sisters in order for the boys to get married, they will treat the boys as they would treat the girls, and the orphans will treat them fairly." ”
Say she's unfair?
But these people don't look at how much more they have than their sisters? The fields and houses at home are theirs, the opportunity to study the imperial examination is theirs, the opportunity to practice martial arts is theirs, and the opportunity to worship the marquis is theirs...... They already have so much, but they still have to worry about the little benefit in the girl's hand, it's insatiable!
After Su Hengyu gave the number of baby girls killed in various places over the years, as well as the picture of the baby's white bones in the tower, those who were still clamoring immediately quieted down.
Anyway, Wei Zining is this sentence: if you dare to say anything fair to her, you can either solve the death of the baby girl, or just shut up obediently and don't make noise in front of her.
In the second year of Wei Zining's ascension to the throne, Su Hengyu, who was transferred back to the capital and began to serve in the household department, was finally getting married, but she did not marry out, but married the man into the door.
When everyone found out who she was marrying was, strange expressions appeared on their faces.
Even Wei Zining didn't expect it for a while: "How could you get mixed up with Cui Lanting, I used to see that you got along with each other just ordinary, and I didn't see anything special, why did you suddenly ...... the two of you?"
"Naturally, the two of us have to do business, as for how to get along after the next duty, where can Your Majesty see it?" Su Hengyu didn't feel shy about this at all, she didn't think that she was old and needed to marry and have children. Instead, I feel that I have similar interests with Cui Lanting, and I have known each other for so long, and we will be good allies in the future.
Cui Lanting is disgusted with the Cui family, so he is unwilling to let his future children follow the surname Cui, and he does not want his achievements to be separated by the Cui family.
After all, when Cui Xiang fell, not all of the Cui family had an accident, and there were still some side branches of the Cui family, and now they have pulled up the banner of the Cui family, claiming that their family is a family.
He is willing to get into the family, and he doesn't care if he has children, and he is very consistent with her views on state affairs, and he is even more willing to quit the officialdom to be a virtuous helper in the future, and he is so good-looking, and he has good cooking skills.
Su Hengyu felt that if he had to have such a person who would accompany him all his life, then instead of choosing someone who didn't know the details, it would be better to choose Cui Lanting, after all, his two personalities liked him.
Oh yes, she only found out after spending some time with Cui Lanting.