The east wind ruffles the moss walls, and this is where I sit alone in the pavilion to enjoy the spring scenery.
Jiang Zitong, the wife of Emperor Xin, the queen of Dashang, and the daughter of Dong Bohou Jiang Huanchu, had been in charge of the internal affairs of Dashang for three years. She was well organized and everyone praised her virtuous name.
She is nearly thirty years old, but this queen seems to have not been ravaged by time. Her fair skin is like that of a 28-year-old girl, and the embellishment of time makes her full of intellectual charm.
At this moment, Queen Jiang was holding a volume of "New Book of Mencius", holding a cane in her hand, and shouted sternly.
"Don't you two always admire Uncle Meng? Now you are asked to memorize a chapter on benevolence and you can't even recite it. Those who have gained the virtue will have many help, and those who have lost the virtue will have little help. Just like you, three characters can mark six days. , who will be willing to help you if you have sole power in the future?"
There were two young men kneeling in the hall. The older one was twelve years old, Yin Jiao, the legitimate son and heir of the great Shang Dynasty. The younger one was eight years old, Yin Hong, the second prince of the same mother and daughter of Empress Jiang.
"You are still laughing. My brother is young, so are you young? When the king was as old as you, he had already put on his armor and went into battle to kill the enemy."
Yin Jiao pouted and expressed dissatisfaction: "I can also go to the battlefield. I don't want to memorize any nonsense about benevolence and morality. Give me a sword. I will go to Dongyi to find Wai Weng. I will follow Wai Weng to kill the barbarians." .”
Jiang Yu was so angry that she whipped Yin Jiao with the cane again and again, scaring her younger brother Yin Hong so much that he rolled away from his eldest brother.
Yin Jiao was worthy of being the legitimate son of Emperor Xin. He followed his father in his whole body, and Empress Jiang's cane hit him. The boy looked at his mother with a hint of provocation, with disdain in his eyes.
The mother was so unfaithful that the mother was in tears. Queen Jiang dropped the cane and leaned on the table, crying sadly. When Yin Hong saw this, he immediately beat his elder brother with his little fist: "It's all your fault, it's all your fault." , you made the Queen Mother angry."
Yin Jiao was heartbroken when he heard the cries. After all, he was still a filial child. His mother cried, and the son immediately knelt down in front of his mother. He hugged his mother's waist and admitted his mistake with tears: "I was wrong. Mother, don’t cry anymore, I’ll carry you, isn’t it okay for me to carry you?”
"What's the use of having a bare back? You have to remember these principles. The Meng Fa chapter talks about the way to govern a country, and the Benevolence chapter talks about the way to be a king. In the future, this great businessman will be handed over to you. If you don't want to make progress, I don’t know what it means to use grace and power at the same time, how can we govern this country well?”
"Your father is a reckless man. Fortunately, you are assisted by Prime Minister Bigan, Li Yue Dafu Shang Rong and other wise ministers. They are all wise ministers who have been well versed in the way of governing the country and the people since the Wu Yi period. But now these people You are already old, when you inherit the throne in the future, who can you rely on?"
Among the elders of three dynasties, how many can survive to live together in four dynasties? Take Bigan for example, this year is also the year of Jiazi. The ministers in this dynasty are getting old. The old ministers are as good as the old ministers. With them, there will be no chaos in the court. The old ministers also have their shortcomings. As long as the method of innovation is There will always be people who jump out to make excuses about ancestral systems and ancestral precepts.
"No, Queen Mother, Meng Bo is still young, and Hong Di will also help me like the Prime Minister."
Empress Jiang looked lovingly at the two and a half sons she had worked so hard to give birth to and raise, her eyes full of care, she gently brushed away the tears on the faces of the two sons, and said softly: "So, you have to grow up quickly. Your father and grand master deliberately exalted him and suppressed him, just to plan for the future. After some time, the king will issue an edict, asking you to follow Meng Bo and learn how to govern the country and the people. You must do a good job. When studying, you must not be rude to Uncle Meng. You must be like Taijia ancestors to Yi Yin. A teacher is like a father, respect him and trust him. Do you understand?"
Yin Jiao had a sad face, full of displeasure: "But... Uncle Meng is farming. Is it possible that he wants his son to follow Uncle Meng in the mud and learn how to be a king?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yin Jiao saw his mother looking like she was about to cry again. She hunched her neck and responded hurriedly: "I'll go, I'll go."
After a while, Queen Jiang continued to review the trivial internal affairs for the king, while the two princes honestly recited in the hall: Good governance is not as good as good teaching to win the people. Good governance will be feared by the people; good education will be loved by the people. Good governance wins people's wealth, and good education wins people's hearts.
The hateful Uncle Meng is so obscure and difficult to understand, and often contradictory to each other. Sometimes human nature is good, and sometimes human nature is evil. He only digs holes and does not bury them. Every time he memorizes, he is randomly checked by his mother to understand the meaning of the words. He really deserves a beating.
"Jiao'er, I heard that Dr. Zichen has chosen a good teacher for you. Has this Taoist priest Kuang Cheng taught you anything?"
When this was mentioned, the sleepy Yin Jiao stopped feeling sleepy and immediately spoke energetically.
"Master Kuang is amazing. He actually knows how to use three heads and six arms. However, my son is dull and couldn't figure it out even after learning for a long time. Now Master Kuang is teaching me the techniques of double swords and painted halberds."
"Mom, please rest assured. It won't be long before my son and I can tear apart tigers and leopards, capture dragons and control cranes just like our father."
Queen Jiang was displeased and picked up the cane again, but had no choice but to put it down: "Don't learn from your father. To be a king, just look at the art of war. What you really want to understand is the way to be a king. You are the future king. Not a big shot."
"I understand, Queen Mother, please don't read it again!!"
"well!"
Every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite. Children from ordinary families become sensible late, which only affects themselves. But if the children from the emperor's family become sensible too late..., at least Empress Jiang does not want to see her children bring trouble to the common people.
The cramped royal court is far less majestic than the Daming Palace, Weiyang Palace, and Forbidden City in later generations. There is a lot of architectural skills and knowledge, which cannot be piled up by crowds. Civilization is built by accumulating knowledge step by step and requires the cooperation of many great people. Advance the forging.
Compared to the bustle at Queen Jiang's side, Concubine Huang, who was in the West Palace of the Houting, felt that her surroundings were deserted.
She does not have a son and a half daughter who are always with her, and the king rarely visits her. Only her brother Huang Feihu, who comes to visit from time to time, can add a touch of color to her cold life.
Wind chimes made of shells jingled on the eaves of the door. Huang Fei, who was weaving and embroidering to relieve her loneliness, suddenly felt sleepy. She put down her work, walked slowly to the couch, and slept in her clothes. .
The early twenties are the time of youth and beauty.
But in terms of appearance, even with the advantage of youth, she is not as good as Empress Jiang, who is already in her thirties. If Empress Jiang is the most noble lady in the world exuding intellectual and mature charm, then Concubine Huang is more like a different person. A pure and young girl who is well versed in world affairs.
Since entering the royal court, Chongxing failed to conceive a royal child many times. Her father and brother were extremely disappointed, and gradually they came less and less. When they finally visited her, they only blamed her for not living up to expectations and not being able to give birth to a son or a daughter.
The faint melancholy made her look a little bit more bitter, so she was even less loved by Emperor Xin. They all said that mother is more valuable than son, but Empress Jiang has been with the king for twenty years, and Yin Jiao has become a middle-aged man, so she just Entering the palace, the simple Concubine Huang didn't understand at all. She was already a step too late. Is it still necessary to fight for a son?
Well, perhaps, the king's preferences are also very unique. He likes Queen Jiang's charming and wolf-like character. The king may not like a shy little girl like her.
With her thoughts in mind, Huang Fei gradually fell asleep. After a while, she felt as if she had entered a strange world. The surroundings were dark, and Huang Fei was a little panicked in her dream.
Then the sky brightened, and I saw the senior doctor of Wangting Medical Department secretly holding a powder bag and pouring something into a pot of meat porridge while mumbling something.
"Huang Concubine, don't blame me. This is Empress Jiang's order. As a doctor, I can't help but save people. But now I have to do something that violates my conscience. I hope Huang Concubine will forgive me."
Concubine Huang was a little panicked. Is this what she heard? She didn't even understand what the old doctor meant? Could it be that he wanted to poison himself?
The picture was a bit stagnant, as if he couldn't believe that the general and tiger girl in front of him was so stupid.
The scene changed, this time it was simple and rough. Queen Jiang was not as gentle and elegant as before. With a ferocious face, she held a sword on the great doctor's neck and said fiercely.
"Prescribe a medicine that will kill the heir, and secretly put it into the cups of Concubine Huang and Concubine Yang..."
Concubine Huang covered her mouth with a look of horror and disbelief! !
"It turns out that the queen was secretly causing trouble, so I was never able to give birth to a child."
"Oh, I'm so tired. If you don't want to give birth, don't give birth. I heard that giving birth to a child will make you older and it will still hurt. It's okay if you don't give birth. It's a bit cooler to be free and alone. But just watching the queen train her son I feel so exhausted that I don’t even understand how to survive on my own. What are you going to do if you have a child? Are you going to die alone with me?"
Listening to Huang Fei's secret murmur, the whole dream trembled violently, and the being who controlled the dream seemed extremely angry.
A chubby little pink beast with long pink fur is really cute. It looks like a faceless pig with seven orifices, six legs and four wings. It looks like a human standing and pointing in the void with its short forelimbs. Huang Fei is a little crazy.
A chaotic aura rushed towards her face, and the mortal Huang Fei immediately fell to the ground and howled in pain, as if a pair of invisible hands were constantly turning and toying with her cognition and memory.
The Jiuzhou Cauldron, which was suppressing the Great Shang's national destiny, made a buzzing sound, and the national destiny black bird was about to appear. The little beast glanced solemnly in the direction of the Jiuzhou Cauldron, and the pores of his body breathed in the breath of chaos again, and the movement slowly calmed down.
Immediately, the pink pig stuck out its butt and swayed away, and the dream was shattered. Huang Fei woke up from the couch, kept patting her plump chest, and took several deep breaths of the cool air of early spring before she recovered. God comes.
"Did I just dream about something?"
With a confused look on her face, she stood up and drank several large gulps of cold water before she gradually came back to her senses from the nightmare-like scene. What was that dream about?
"Huh? What is this?"
On the previously empty couch, a palm-sized straw man appeared out of thin air and lay on the bed.
Huang Fei's eyes were obsessed, and she subconsciously grabbed the straw man in her hand. Instinctively, she grabbed the knife on the desk and stabbed the straw man in the stomach. Blood flowed out slowly from the straw man, but Huang Fei didn't. He ignored it and silently used his strength to turn the short knife in a circle in the straw man's belly.
Behind the straw man is a huge "ginger" character.
"Give back my son's life, give back my son's life, you vicious woman, give back my son's life!" Huang Fei murmured with dull eyes.
If Meng Chang were here, he should be able to quickly recognize the little beast. During the Nuo Beach in the past, in the black mist of Shebi Corpse, it was this strange little beast that dragged him into a dream.
Empress Jiang, who was handling domestic and state affairs in the halls and teaching her two sons, suddenly felt a wave of nausea and dizziness coming over her, and a pain in her stomach that felt like a knife.
The bamboo slips in her hand fell. Empress Jiang fell on the table and endured the pain, and immediately shouted: "Send the message to the great doctor quickly, quickly!"
Yin Jiao and Yin Hong were horrified and immediately stepped forward to check on their mother. When they approached, Queen Jiang had already passed out. On her lower abdomen, blood soaked through her robes and dripped on the ground.
"Queen Mother! Queen Mother!!"
Yin Hong sat on the ground and cried loudly, while Yin Jiao clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, looked around, shouted to the guards, explored the surroundings, and quickly called the great doctor.
"Who dares to harm my mother?!"
The foreshadowing is basically over. I’ve been a little busy recently. I’ve laid out the plot a little bit. Come on, let’s get ready for the main course. December is coming, and it is also the third month of new book release. Please support me by voting for it!
My dear fathers, why should I choose Concubine Huang? Instead of Concubine Yang?
(End of chapter)
