The sons of officials in the dynasty and many of the fathers of officials at all levels of the imperial court hope that their children will find a good family. The men hope to find a beautiful, elegant, generous, diligent and thrifty woman to be their wife, while the women hope to find a handsome wife. A husband who is dashing, knowledgeable, wealthy, and loves her dearly.
Because the dynasty favored boys over girls, women were not allowed in and out of many entertainment venues, such as brothels. Usually, our ladies could only live in the palace and rarely walked around. They would only participate in special activities. This caused a problem. , high-ranking officials hope to find a well-matched person for their children, but there are many men but not women. This is a problem.
Many people even hope that their children can help them stand more firmly in the court and become bigger and bigger. This is a political marriage. When a powerful person is combined with another powerful person, he will often become stronger. , many people understand this truth.
In this age of treachery, the marriage of children is often slightly more reliable than any agreement or agreement!
But some disadvantaged women often have a tragic fate, being forced to marry someone they don't like, or even their enemy! In order to achieve stability for the entire family.
So the question arises, what should I do if I don’t know whose girl is good and how she looks? They often couldn't meet each other, so the imperial court held a grand event every year - a dance and song party!
This is like a large-scale blind date event. The elders of the family take their children to chat with each other and get to know each other. There are special people performing and enjoying food, singing and dancing together.
Some strange women have impressive talents, and they can perform them at this time to win everyone's approval. This is one of the few dynasty activities that puts women first!
The venue is the inner courtyard of the palace. Officials of level three or above must participate, while officials below level three can participate at will! It is a grand event that the dynasty attaches great importance to
This year's event was much more lively than in previous years. Many foreign officials wanted to take this opportunity to enter Wushuang City, contact superior officials, and see which family they could marry so that they could share the same hatred in the future!
This grand event every year is the time when Long Yu is most worried. Other people's children are either proficient in writing, poetry, and songs, or they practice martial arts and keep fit, but Long Yun can't do anything. That's all. He teases women all day long and does evil things. Everyone in the entire dynasty knows about it. If others hadn't given him the face of being the King of Peking, he would have been assassinated several times!
The dance and song party was personally ordered by the emperor. Although the emperor did not participate, the princes participated every year, and the venue was in the palace. Long Yun did not dare to do anything in the palace in front of the ministers.
Every dance and song party embarrasses Long Yu. Others are talking in twos and threes and pulling strings for the children. Only he leads Long Yun like a god of plague. Wherever he goes, others hide on the other side, and even some officials She was also afraid that her daughter would be attracted by Long Yun, so she kept her veil hidden from time to time! Long Yu was very reluctant to participate in such activities, but the emperor personally ordered that officials above the third level must participate, but it was difficult to refute the emperor's face openly, so he had to participate awkwardly every time!
This year is even more embarrassing. It is said that the dance and song party invited Shangguan Yuan to perform, and this idiot was recently thrown into the lake for teasing others. Alas, he almost lost his face!
Sitting in his seat, Long Yu felt uncomfortable all over.
Long Yun looked at the various beauties around him with squinting eyes, very happy!
The "Boom" salute sounded, deafening, and the sky was filled with colorful flowers flying in all directions, officially kicking off the dance and song party.
First, the third-level officials introduce the situation, names and hobbies of each official's marriageable children from top to bottom, and then sit down to watch the performance. After the performance is completed, the young ladies from each family can go on stage to perform their talents and show off themselves in order to win their sweethearts. Favor, this is also an important link. In the end, the two parties who are attracted to each other chat alone or in twos and threes to get to know each other, and those who are interested can continue the development in private.
In the past, performances were all polite parts, with the focus being on the final individual interview, or the performance of one's own son-in-law, which would often win a lot. The performers were all performing folk minor-key dances, which were not interesting, and conventions would not be changed by illusions. Organized by Yuanting.
This year is very different, because the person we hired was Shangguan Yuan. Many people had seen the performance at Mengyu Pavilion before and were amazed. So these people were waiting for Shangguan Yuan to appear and feast their eyes on it. Even the young ladies and young masters from various families were waiting for Shangguan Yuan to appear. Full of interest, why can Shangguan Yuan be rated as the most beautiful woman in the world?
In an instant, Shangguan Yuan appeared on the stage, wearing a big red robe and skirt that covered her beautiful figure. She smiled charmingly at the beginning, and all the men present were moved by it. Even Long Yu was shocked by it, but he soon calmed down. When I came down, I just admired Shangguan Yuan's beauty, nothing else!
There were three consecutive dances, all of which were festive dances with no special meaning. It was just because the dancers were so beautiful that they attracted unparalleled attention. The dancing bodies and bright red robes made people eager to move!
Soon after the three dances were completed, Shangguan Yuan hurriedly stepped off the stage and left without saying a word! Many people are still nostalgic for the beauty just now.
The next step is for the young men and young ladies from each family to show off their talents. After many officials, because they have seen a wider world and have better living conditions, the education they receive is naturally the best. As long as they work hard, the results will be better than those of ordinary people. People are better and more outstanding.
If you are as rich as a thousand pieces of gold, you can reach heaven and earth, if you are rich in culture, you can know the ancient and modern times, and if you are powerful, you can stabilize the country!
This sentence refers to such a person. If he has a lot of money, he can spread it. If he has the talent, he can't do anything in the world. His literary talent is comparable to ancient and modern times. He can conquer the world with martial arts and stabilize the country.
This is simply the ideal person. Every woman hopes to find such a sweetheart and spend a lifetime together, but the reality is often not so beautiful and optimistic. If a man has the above four advantages, there will be one that is indispensable. There are few "shortcomings", which often cause pain to many women.
If a man is too outstanding, he will attract many women, and these women all want this man to be by their side.
So there is a fight, and there is always one person who wins, but what about the unlucky ones? But there will be many, many.
It’s not that men are too carefree, it’s just that there are too many beautiful women in the world, and temptations are always testing men. How can we abandon them and remain pregnant!
It is not difficult for people with firm beliefs to do this. For example, there were very few civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty who only had one wife. They could even be counted on one hand. The most powerful emperor in the dynasty even had a queen and three concubines. There were more than forty concubines, and there would probably be even more if it weren't for the emperor's physical weakness.
These women have no worries about food and clothing throughout their lives, but what are they thinking in their hearts? I'm afraid it's just boundless loneliness!
The princesses of the Qi Dynasty are probably the happiest generation since the Jiuzhou Dynasty competed for hegemony. Because the Qi Dynasty has no enemies and all its enemies have surrendered, there is no such thing as marriage. Liu Cheng has also issued an imperial edict a long time ago. Each princess can choose her own husband, as long as he is not an enemy of the dynasty, no matter his origin!
Liu Cheng did this because no one threatened his rule. If there were many enemy countries, it would be impossible for these princesses to be so free!
He can, but his ministers cannot. In order to preserve his own glory and wealth, his daughter must marry his talisman, and his son must marry a well-matched man. Therefore, although many officials' children have no worries about food and clothing, they are helpless. .
Everyone came back to their senses. The young masters from each family were eager to show off their talents. Although there were no rules in this performance, the officials did not want to be the leader. They subconsciously hoped that the children of officials above the third level would start first. I don’t know. Why are they all looking at Long Yun.
I could see that Long Yun still had a piece of havoc in his mouth, looking at the place where Shangguan Yuan left with a squinting look, not paying attention to everyone's eyes at all.
There were always people who couldn't hide their laughter, and the officials around them all turned their heads away. Knowing that Long Yun had no ability, they just took a look and found out such an embarrassing thing.
Long Yun didn't have to count on it anymore. The young masters from various families took the initiative to take the stage and started the main event of the dance and song party.
Long Yu's face became even more embarrassed. Seeing that Long Yun hadn't come back to his senses, when everyone else turned around, they slapped Long Yun on the face, and Long Yun finally woke up.
"It hurts so much! Why did you hit my father?"
Long Yun didn't dare to resist Long Yu and muttered softly.
"Hmph! You bastard, you actually embarrass me!"
Long Yun was often beaten, so he got used to the slap. He reported his grievances and found that it was of no use, so he stopped talking. However, he was still thinking about Shangguan Yuan's graceful figure, and he completely forgot about the pain.
The first person to take the stage turned out to be the dignified prince, Liu Cheng's seventeenth son. He has an extraordinary appearance and a childish resolute face. He is only twenty-three years old this year. He was a concubine of Emperor Liu Cheng when he was in his 60s. The emperor's youngest sons, the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st princes were all born in that year, and the emperor now only has 21 princes. With Liu Cheng's age and body It seems that it will not happen again in the future.
None of these princes have any concubines now, and at most they have a few concubines, so they are eligible to participate in the dance and song party. The princes above the seventeenth prince have already established concubines and families, and have special residences outside the palace.
Let’s say that the Seventeenth Prince is very impressive. Although he is young, his martial arts skills are not weak. He has gone to the battlefield and killed countless enemies. That year, there was a rebellion in a small country on the border of Kyushu. It was this prince who led the troops to put down the rebellion. The dynasty officially The troops that went on the expedition returned triumphantly without being used, which surprised many people and said that it was the emperor's blessing that the tiger father had no dog sons!
But strangely enough, Liu Cheng didn't like this son very much. He almost completely ignored him and rarely summoned him.
