CHAPTER XVIII

It's nonsense!

Is it possible for a woman to participate in the sacrificial rites?

Prime Minister Wang Juan was straight and ridiculous in his heart, and he got up to stop Yingzheng's ridiculous behavior.

However, at the moment of getting up, Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Tingwei Li Si's brows frowning slightly, and the prime minister's eyes that had been up and down in officialdom for decades moved slightly, and his movements stopped.

- He is not the one who is in charge of the etiquette of the temple, and the second is not the father-in-law of the son, what is he doing in such a hurry?

This kind of thing that touches His Majesty's bad head should be done by the future father-in-law of the son-in-law.

Wang Wan lowered his eyebrows and sat honestly in his place, but his eyes looked directly at Li Si.

As a court lieutenant who climbed from the bottom to the high position, Li Si of course found Wang Juan's gaze, not even Wang Juan, most of the eyes of the ministers in the palace fell on him at this time, as if waiting for his reaction.

- If even the future representative of his son-in-law, the representative of the Legalist family, does not say anything, what do they have to argue with Your Majesty?

After all, the little princess is indeed favored by His Majesty, and she is loved by the book of heaven, and everything she learns is in the community, and she also makes sacrifices with her son as a woman.

Li Si frowned imperceptibly.

The identity of the son-in-law made him, who had always been wise to protect himself, have to wade into this pool of troubled waters.

If it's just the little princess following the sacrifice, then it doesn't matter, Daqin has not been a country that follows the rules since the filial piety, otherwise there will be no Shang Jun to change the law and even the current Legalist dominance, breaking the past conventions for talented people, this is what the kings of Qin will do in all dynasties, and there is no shortage of His Majesty to let the princess sacrifice this sect.

But there are two of these kinds of things, today the little princess will follow, tomorrow it will be other princesses and princesses, there are more people going, and the status of the prince of Fusu will not be highlighted, in the case of the prince of Fusu has not been canonized as the prince, if even the sacrifice of this situation can not guarantee the uniqueness of the prince, then how can the world be convinced that the prince is the heir of His Majesty after a hundred years?

He didn't have a choice.

Li Si got up and arched his hands forward, "Your Majesty, this move is very inappropriate. ”

"I have been a country for a hundred years, and there has never been a precedent for a woman to sacrifice, the princess is a woman, and she sacrifices heaven and earth with her son, I am afraid that it is not in line with the etiquette."

Hehua was a little angry.

She was too young to understand the importance of sacrifice, she only knew that she was excluded by Li Si, and she was a little unhappy in her heart, she raised her head from Ying Zheng's arms, and looked at Li Si with dark eyes, "Because I am a woman, I can't sacrifice with my eldest brother?" ”

"Not bad."

Li Si bowed his head and said softly, "The minister is not targeting the princess, but-"

"You're targeting me."

Hehua said, "When you use the numbers I learned to keep accounts, why don't you think I'm a woman?" ”

"When I planted with the seeds I wanted, why didn't I say I was a woman?"

These words were very sharp, and if an adult said these words, he would surely stir up an uproar in the court.

——This is a challenge to the patriarchal system of the Chinese land for thousands of years.

But Hehua is young, her voice is soft and glutinous, with a small ambiguity of this age, it comes out of her mouth, there is no aggressive questioning, but there is a taste of grievance.

- Why? You're bullying me!

Hehua complained in a milky voice, "I didn't say that I was a woman before, but now I am sacrificed, saying that I am a woman, and I am not allowed to participate, what are you not targeting me?" ”

Li Si's head is as big as a fight.

If the princess was an adult, he could still reason with her, but the princess was not, she was just a four-year-old child, and she couldn't understand the big reason at all, only knowing that he didn't allow her to go to the sacrifice with the child, so he was so angry that his eyes were red, and he said that he was targeting her with a small milk voice.

It's very wronged.

Li Si sighed, "Princess, you are noble and noble, and you are Your Majesty's favorite princess, how dare the minister target you?" ”

"It's just—"

"You're still saying it's not aimed at me?"

Hehua was even more aggrieved, "I'm my father's favorite princess, you don't allow me to go, isn't this aimed at what?" ”

“......”

It's not a pampered thing at all, right?

Li Si was speechless.

Meng Tian's sword eyebrows raised slightly.

Meng Yi hit the nail on the head to point out Li Si's worries, "Tingwei, the princess is just a three- or four-year-old girl, her identity is not sensitive, and her age is even less sensitive. ”

"In this case, why should Tingwei be serious with the little princess and not allow her to go with her to sacrifice?"

These days, Meng Yi was ordered to follow Hehua around, and the first thing she did when she woke up every day was to repeat what she had learned last night to the female official, in a clear and word-for-word manner. Then the second thing is to take the planting methods and precautions of various grains, and recognize the above words word by word, to distinguish what is written in the text that is completely different from this era.

These things are very difficult for even a crowned man to do, let alone a three- or four-year-old milk doll.

But the little princess, who is only four years old, still does it, day after day, never slack, and is so sensible that it makes people feel distressed, so the history of Zhisu Neishi raises rice so well, so that the grain with a yield of 1,000 catties per mu is no longer a fool's dream.

"Although the princess sacrifice is unprecedented in ancient times, my Great Qin has never been a country that follows the rules, otherwise there would be no Shang Jun to change the law, Your Majesty swallowed thousands of miles, and Kyushu was one."

Meng Yi said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the princess can follow the court captain to sacrifice together." ”

Hehua laughed and tugged at Yingzheng's sleeve, "Father, Meng Qing said that I could go with my eldest brother." ”

"I'm not deaf."

Ying Zheng's eyelids lifted slightly.

Li Si's face was slightly embarrassed.

Of course, he knew that the princess was worth it, and he didn't discriminate against the princess by stopping this, but that he had to ensure Fusu's status

Fusu glanced at Li Si.

Of course, he knew that Tingwei was fighting for power for himself, and before the crown prince's position was not settled, Tingwei wanted to ensure that he was the only person who sacrificed heaven and earth on behalf of his father, and no one was allowed to go with him, but if the person who went with him was Xiao Shiyi, he gladly accepted.

Fu Su got up and bowed to Li Si, "Captain Ting's words are reasonable. ”

"But Little Eleven is just a child, so it's okay to go with me."

"I knew that my eldest brother loved me the most!"

Hehua rejoiced.

The corners of Lis's eyes twitched slightly.

- Childe's brotherhood will hurt him one day.

Li Si let out a long sigh, "The prince is benevolent and loves the princess, this kind of brotherhood is rare in the world. ”

"In that case, why should the minister destroy the relationship between the prince and the princess?"

——With his many years of official work, he won some good impressions for Fusu in Yingzheng.

Li Si held the elephant wat in his hand and said to Ying Zheng, "Your Majesty, the minister has no objection. ”

Ying Zheng's fingers rubbed Hehua's small tug, "Xuan Fengchang." ”

"Xuanfeng often enters the temple—"

The people of the small temple sang sharply.

There was a momentary twist on the face of Bong Chang Yingqiu.

Your Majesty is getting more and more ridiculous, how can such a thing as sacrificing heaven and earth allow the little princess to participate in it?

Are the prime minister and the court lieutenant both dead? Don't know where to stop?

No, they can tend to be inflammatory, as the person in charge of the ceremonies of the temple, as His Majesty's uncle, he must not let His Majesty mess around!

After being summoned into the hall, he put on a posture to reason with Yingzheng.

But he was halfway through his reasoning when he was interrupted by the little temple man-

"Your Majesty, Zhisu Neishi is back."

The people of the small temple looked happy and trotted into the temple.

The internal history of the cure?

Didn't he get His Majesty's edict to cultivate strange flowers and plants for His Majesty in Shanglin Yuan? Why did you come back all of a sudden?

Yingqiu didn't know about planting rice, and thought that the history of Zhisu Neishi interrupted him for some flowers and plants, and he was a little unhappy in his heart.

"Your Majesty, the princess is literate and fast, and now she can not only understand the planting instructions of wheat and corn, but also the planting methods of sweet potatoes and corn, and I believe that it will not be long before the minister can grow a thousand catties of grain per mu for His Majesty with the help of the princess." ”

“？？？”

The yield per mu is 1,000 catties???

Zhisu Neishi is dreaming!

Yingqiu sneered, "I can't imagine that the history of Zhisu Neishi will one day also learn the rhetoric of Confucian scholars." ”

"Thousands of pounds per mu? Neishi, aren't you joking? How can there be such food in the world! ”

"You don't know, it's because you're shallow."

In the past, he finally racked his brains to make the grain more productive than in previous years, and he often said that God had mercy and wanted to sacrifice heaven and earth, as if he had no point in soaking himself in the field day and night, and the grain harvest depended on the will of heaven.

- He hated this kind of person who pushed his efforts to the mercy of Providence.

Zhi Su Neishi opened his mouth to be angry and unworthy of life, "Since you are lonely and unheard, don't come to point fingers at my affairs." ”

"In the future, under the guidance of the princess, I will grow a thousand catties of grain per mu, don't come to eat!"

"You-"

"Ahem."

Zhao Gao coughed.

- This is the Zhangtai Palace, but it is not a place for you to quarrel.

Yingqiu suffocated and shut up.

Zhisu Neishi asked Yingzheng for instructions, "Your Majesty, sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn can be planted in the spring, and now is the right time, so the minister dared to ask Your Majesty for the seeds of these things, and now they will be planted together with rice." ”

Ying Zheng's brows moved slightly.

- Little Eleven is smarter than he thought.

"Zhao Gao, give it to him."

Ying Zhengdao.

"Whoa."

Zhao Gao trotted all the way and put the grain seeds in a jade bowl and took them to Zhisu Neishi.

"Your Majesty, just wait for the good news from your minister."

Zhisu Neishi carefully took the jade bowl, "But in March and May, the minister will be able to grow you the grain that shocks the world in Kyushu!" ”

You just blow it!

Yingqiu was disdainful in his heart.

Zhisu Neishi withdrew from the Zhangtai Palace.

Ying Zheng's eyes were a little playful, "You don't believe it? ”

"Your Majesty, Zhisu Neishi has always been insane, but now that he is getting older, his madness is even more serious."

Yingqiu raised his head and glanced at Yingzheng who was sitting upright, and just wrote on his face that his eldest nephew, Your Majesty, you were deceived, "Your Majesty is benevolent, and you are sympathetic to his old age and illness, but no matter how sympathetic he is, he should not be allowed to deceive himself like this." ”

Ying Zheng smiled lazily, "I believe it." ”

“......”

Your wisdom and martial spirit swallow mountains and rivers!

"Zhisu Neishi is old, and His Majesty is willing to coax him with his old skills, so let's coax."

Yingqiu couldn't say anything, "But the matter of sacrifice is not trivial, Your Majesty needs to think about it again." The princess is too young and a woman, so she must not go to the sacrifice with the princess. ”

Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows, "The seed is Xiao Eleven's." ”

“？”

“......”

"Your Majesty!"

Yingqiu couldn't bear it, "The yield of the fertile land of Bashu in Guanzhong is only three hundred, and it is a bumper harvest that can only be paid attention to from time to time. ”

"There is no grain per mu with a thousand catties of grain, and the old man of Zhisu Neishi is dizzy and believes the princess's fairy tales, but you are Your Majesty, how can you be confused with Zhisu Neishi?"

"Bong Chang doesn't have to be thunderous."

Ying Zheng's voice was leisurely, "After three or five months, the yield of these seeds per mu will be known, and at that time, Fengchang will come to preach to me again." ”

Ying Zheng is the final word.

Hehua was too young, she didn't know what it meant to sacrifice with her eldest brother, she only knew that this was the first time she had participated in such a grand event, and she was both excited and nervous, afraid that she would not do well and mess things up, so she was facing the process with the ceremonial officials sent by Fengchang Yingqiu every day, and tried to be familiar with every process.

The ceremonial officer who was sent over by Fengchang was originally quite resistant to Hehua's participation in the sacrificial ceremony, but after a few days of getting along, he found that this little princess did have something, her cleverness was not rumored and flattered by the world, but really smart, no matter what happened, he only needed to say it three or two times, and she could remember it firmly.

This kind of intelligence is rare in the world, and what is even more surprising is that she is not as active and lively as a child of this age, and can quietly follow him through the trap process.

- So smart and so well-behaved, no wonder he is favored by His Majesty.

The ceremonial officer was full of praise, "No wonder Your Majesty prefers the princess, the princess never forgets it, she is extremely smart, don't say that it is Your Majesty's favorite, even the lower officials like the princess when they see it." ”

"You like me?"

Hehua looked at the official suspiciously, "But Feng Chang doesn't like me, and he doesn't allow me to participate in the sacrifice." ”

The ceremonial official couldn't help laughing, "Daqin has never had a precedent for a princess to participate in a sacrifice, and the princess is the first. ”

"It's not that Feng Chang doesn't like the princess, but because of the old rules, he has to admonish His Majesty."

"That's right."

Hehua seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and smiled with crooked eyes, "It doesn't matter what he likes, the important thing is that I still participate in the sacrifice." ”

Just as Father was the first emperor in history, she was also the first princess to participate in the sacrifice!

Hehua was very happy, full of motivation and continued to learn etiquette with the etiquette officer.

Soon it was the auspicious day of the zodiac.

Hehua got up early in the morning, changed into a delicate and gorgeous dress, and followed behind Fusu.

Now that the farming is over, the leaders of the Qians have nothing to do, and when they heard that Gongzi Fusu was sacrificing instead of the emperor, they called friends to join in the excitement of the sacrifice place through the layers of guards.

Hehua was born with a lack of congenital deficiencies, he was born lame, and his walking was not as stable as ordinary people, Fusu walked very slowly at every step in order to take care of her, walking slowly step by step, and the clothes on his body were quite wide, and he looked no different from ordinary people.

Although she is no different from ordinary people, when Fusu led her to appear on the brocade carpet, it still caused a lot of sensation among onlookers-

"Which of Your Majesty's sons is that?"

"It's not a childe, it's a princess, Your Majesty's favorite eleventh princess."

"Ridiculous, the princess is a woman, how can she participate in the sacrifice?"

"You don't know this, the princess is the person chosen by the Book of Heaven, and she has to be taught by the Book of Heaven every night, and the numbers we use now are what she learned from the Book of Heaven."

"Not only the numbers, but also the seeds that can yield thousands of catties per mu, have now been planted in Shanglin Yuan by the history of the Su Nei, and when the autumn harvest comes, the grain will be harvested, and Your Majesty will promote the world and let us all plant it." At that time, even if the taxes are heavy, we won't have to go hungry. ”

"Seeds that yield thousands of pounds per mu?!"

"Aren't you kidding?"

"How can there be such seeds in the world?!"

"What am I lying to you for?"

"My second brother is on an errand in Shanglin Yuan, and now Shanglin Yuan is surrounded like an iron bucket, and not a single fly can fly in, just for these seeds."

The noisy crowd suddenly fell silent.

A moment later, however, an even more heated discussion erupted in the silent crowd, and one after the other, even though the guards who maintained order repeatedly forbade them not to make loud noises, they still talked loudly—

"Is the little princess so powerful?!"

"If there really is such a seed, it is not impossible for the little princess to sacrifice with the child."

"Don't talk about participating in the sacrifice together, I can offer the little princess as a god!"

"Me too!"

"I really want to live a life where I don't go hungry."