Chapter 861
Zhao Bing has never seen these people to be selected, so he can't talk about it, and these materials can only be used as reference. If he made the decision, he would rather let the Li family's little Tu Niang be the queen, at least he had contact with him, know what she looks like, and understand her temper and personality. Now he is purely relying on luck, as if he bets, and he does not use his will as a transfer.
However, Zhao Bing was still grateful for the Queen Mother's painstaking efforts. After all, he did not have the concept of marriage in the future than himself, but he acted according to conventions and regulations. Even though he was dissatisfied, he could not blame him for his own sake. And why was it for the sake of the Song Dynasty? It was not for the considerations of the Song Dynasty for thousands of generations. At present, the royal family of the Song Dynasty was rare, and the six sons left by the late emperor were the only ones except for the deposed emperor in Dadu. If he died, he would not even have an heir.
Therefore, Zhao Bing knew that the Empress Dowager wanted to grow up and grow up and have children as soon as possible so as to continue the bloodline of the late emperor and prevent the throne from falling into the side branches. He knew that the Empress Dowager promoted Su Lan around her to a female official before the wedding, and wanted him to know about the affairs of men and women before the wedding, and leave his bloodline at the same time. Unfortunately, he was "uncivilized" and kept his body as jade, keeping his body as a boy.
The truth is that Zhao Bing has a lust, but has no lust, and he is only fourteen years old this year. Even if he is fifteen years old, he is still a child in adolescence and his physical and mental development is not yet mature. But he is mentally mature and physically unable to do it, so he has been drooling for many years! As a later generation, he certainly knows the harm of early marriage and early childbirth. It not only harms himself, but also often affects the next generation. The many heir crises in the Song Dynasty cannot be said to have nothing to do with this.
"It seems that I can't escape this time!" Zhao Bing touched the fluff on his lips and smiled bitterly. He had already seen the current situation. It was obvious that he refused to marry, so the empress dowager refused to let him take charge of the rule and asked him to hang up so lukewarmly.
I couldn't escape it anymore. I looked at a few more pictures of beautiful women, which made Zhao Bing, who had already grown up in my heart, feel relaxed. There were a few men in my previous life who had never dreamed of hugging each other and having wives and concubines, but because of the limitations of law and morality, I could only think about it. In this era, it was news that the emperor only had one wife. Even if he had three thousand harems, there would be no one to say anything. Instead, he thought it was right, otherwise why should he be an emperor?
Zhao Bing, who had figured it out, couldn't help but feel happy when he looked at the beauties in the picture. In fact, these people are already sure that they have become their own women. Although only one of them will become the queen, the others will also enter the harem and become their own little wives. In this way, why bother to worry about whom you choose? What I worry about is the question of who put the crown on.
You should know that according to the rules of the Song Dynasty, in addition to the queen, there were also imperial concubines, moral concubines, moral concubines, Shu concubines, and Chen concubines; Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Xiuyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Chongyuan, Wanrong, Wanyi, Shunrong, Guiyi; Jieyu, beauty, talented man, national lady, lady, Hongxiaobao, Shiyu and other names and names were in vain, and they were worried that they could not place these little girls.
"But it's really hard for the Queen Mother and these old ministers!" Zhao Bing smiled and muttered. According to the national system formulated by Taizu, in order to avoid the power of the foreign relatives, the daughter of the official family will be removed from their real power after being selected into the harem, but they will be granted titles, given a generous salary, and transferred to a false position to prevent them from threatening the imperial power and interfering in the government. Of course, there will be exceptions, but the time will not be too long, and they will be ordered to retire.
Now there are many important officials in the court with appropriate age, but none of them are selected, which shows that the Empress Dowager and the Prime Minister are aware that Jiangnan was the first to use people, and there were very few people available, so they simply excluded them. Although the selected people are all famous, there are no high-ranking officials in the family or clan. All they have had is the glory of their ancestors and their strength is not enough to affect the direction of the regime. In this way, the conditions for the election are met and the interfering in the affairs of foreign relatives can be avoided. It is the best of both worlds and everyone is happy.
But Zhao Bing felt that the only drawback was that the people chosen by the Queen Mother and the others were older than him. He thought that the Queen Mother still regarded him as a child, so he found a few older sisters to take care of him, or enlighten him so that he could give birth to a dragon son as soon as possible. But he did not have the fetish of a sister-brother relationship, and he did not want to coax the little girls to play. He didn't know who enlightened who at that time?
Zhao Bing knew that if there was no special reason now, it would be a good end, and his lifelong affairs were decided, which made him a little depressed. However, the revitalization of the Song Dynasty and the recovery of the Central Plains all require sacrifice. What is his "sacrifice" compared to these? Thinking of this, he was actually looking forward to the arrival of this day early...
In the blink of an eye, dozens of days passed, and the crowds who came to worship the Empress Dowager gradually became rare, and eventually returned to silence. Everything was like a farce, coming and going in a hurry. Zhao Bing was even more lonely by guarding the green lamp of the ancient Buddha, and everything seemed to be calm in the court and the countryside, and there was almost no visit or official documents. Every day, there was nothing else except burning incense routinely, and he had no interest in discussing scriptures with those monks, and tabloids became his only channel for understanding the outside world.
The so-called idle sorrow is the most painful. During the mourning period, he cannot entertain himself. Zhao Bing was at a loss for this calmness. He even hoped to burn all the Qiqing Temple to free himself. In the blink of an eye, Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. In the past, in Qiongzhou, because everything is simple during the national crisis, and no large-scale events will be held for various festivals. Zhao Bing can no longer remember whether it was in Taihu Lake or Qiantang last year.
Because August 15th is the middle day of autumn, it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. By the Song Dynasty, it was Mid-Autumn Festival. After the southward transition, the court attaches more importance to Mid-Autumn Festival, and the government will have a day off. Mid-Autumn Festival is also the day when new wines are on the market. The tabloids in these days are full of advertisements for wine shops and restaurants. According to Wang De, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, restaurants and hotels sold new wine. In order to welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival, each restaurant will decorate the storefronts, reorganize the colored buildings, hang flower heads and painted poles, and hang the drunk fairy pennant.
People in the city rushed to restaurants to drink new wine. Often at noon on the Mid-Autumn Festival, every restaurant has no wine, and they all pulled their children down. In Lin'an City, the Mid-Autumn Festival not only did the hotel business flourish, but the night markets were prosperous. On this day, people pay attention to eating crabs and fruits. It is time for crabs to be released, pomegranates, vegetation, pears, dates, chestnuts, grapes, and tangerines to be launched.
At night, people all enjoy the moon. There are Yigui Pavilion, Qiuhui Hall, and Bicen in the palace, which are specially built for viewing the moon. The bridge is built with white crystal stones and is clasped with gold nails. There are clean white lotus under the bridge. There are palace maids playing clear music on the south side, and there are musicians from the Jiaofang on the north side, and the heavenly music is straight through the world. The couches, bottles and stoves used by the emperor are all made of crystals. The wind is really blowing, the moonlight is like water, and it is clear and crystal clear, as if it is the world of gods.
After the night, the noble family gathers on terraces, while the people compete to occupy restaurants to play with the moon. Princess and grandsons and wealthy families all climb to dangerous buildings, play with the moon in the pavilion, or climb to the broad pavilion, list the harp banquets, drink the zither and sing loudly, and enjoy the joy of the evening. As for ordinary merchants, as far as the houses of like paved mats, they also climb to small terraces to arrange family banquets to commemorate the festival. Even poor citizens, even poor people in the streets, will take off their clothes and drink in the market, barely welcome them, and refuse to waste the night.
The more Wang De talked about it, the more angry Zhao Bing became. Although he was free this year, he had such a job and couldn't get rid of it. The soldiers of the Guards camp had been drifting outside for almost half a year, and it was extremely hard to accompany him to protect the car every day and had not had a rest. Seeing that the soldiers of the Guards camp were trapped in a room like him, he was also idle and uncomfortable. He simply gave them money to take turns to return to the city for vacation and relax. But when everyone left early in the morning, he looked at the empty vegetarian house and only a few soldiers on duty left, he was even more melancholy.
"Official family, official family..." Just as Zhao Bing was strolling in the yard, he suddenly heard someone shouting.
"Liu Ling, the pure land of Buddhism, what are you doing when you shout? It's shocking to peel off your skin!" Before Zhao Bing could speak, Wang De, who was by his side, scolded sternly.
"Damn it, I'm happy when I saw the official family and forgot the etiquette!" Liu Ling quickly said.
"Premium!" Zhao Bing looked at him and frowned and asked in confusion, "What's the matter if you are not in the palace?"
"It's already mid-autumn and the weather is getting colder. The Queen Mother asked the young man to send some clothes!" Liu Ling stood up and replied.
"Oh, how about the Queen Mother?" Zhao Bing nodded and asked with some disappointment. He thought the Queen Mother was going to call him back to the palace to celebrate the festival!
"Everything is in good condition for the Empress Dowager is just to deal with state affairs and worry about the marriage of the official family. I have been a little tired recently," Liu Ling replied.
"Oh, I can't share the worries of the Queen Mother, and I'm so ashamed of worrying about the Queen Mother!" Zhao Bing sighed.
"Don't worry about the officials. The Queen Mother will come to Jiqing Temple tomorrow to pay homage to the Queen Mother and spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with the officials." Liu Ling hurriedly comforted him.
"This... the conditions in this temple are simple, how can the Empress Dowager celebrate the festival here? You are reluctant to persuade him!" Zhao Bing said with an angry expression when he heard this.
"The Empress Dowager misses the official family and is eager to miss her. How can she persuade her young people?" Liu Ling said with a bitter face.
"Since that's the case, please inform the monks in the temple quickly and let them arrange it quickly, clean up the idle people, and don't let them disturb the queen mother!" Zhao Bing hurriedly gave the order, but then said, "I'd better go, don't make any mistakes."
"The official family is really filial! Now Jingzhao Mansion has sent someone to inform you, and there are people coming from the palace to arrange things, just waiting for the official family to give instructions." Liu Ling said with politeness.
"Well, the vegetarian house here is quite clean, so I packed up my residence for the Empress Dowager to live in. I moved to the small courtyard of the east wing, so that it would be convenient for me to serve you!" The vegetarian house where Zhao Bing lived was also built in order to take over the horse in his early years. It is naturally the best and most spacious courtyard in the temple, with more than 40 rooms, and he pointed at him.
"The official family is also a little smaller!" Liu Ling looked at it and said in embarrassment.
"Nonsense, there are only so many people in the palace, and there is still a free place to go here!" Wang De scolded him when he saw this. He was the chief supervisor of the palace, so he naturally knew how many people there were in the inner palace. Because the royal family had withered, only the empress dowager and the little emperor lived in the inner palace, and His Majesty had not been married, and there were only more than a hundred eunuchs and palace maids used in the two palaces and more than two hundred men, so how could he not be able to stay!
"The high-ranking officials accompanied the official family to leave the palace for a long time. Recently, there have been many new people in the palace, and there are more than 300 more palace maids, and some new little yellow gates have been entered, which is a little more than before." Liu Ling quickly explained.
"In this way, it has returned to the old system?" Wang De said in a panic. He was shocked and angry. He was so shocked that he had so many things that happened after he left the palace, but he was unaware of them. He was happy that he had too many people in charge, which was naturally a good thing. At least he could pass it away, instead of having to hold multiple positions as in the past, but he was too busy to do something big.
"Report to the high-ranking officials, that is, the people in each department and bureau have been fully assigned. They are all waiting for the high-ranking officials to train and place them after they return to the palace!" Liu Ling said with a smile.
"How did the Empress Dowager give birth to so many people all at once?" Zhao Bing frowned. In this way, the expenses of the inner palace will inevitably increase, and so many people are not necessary, which is equivalent to raising idle people.
"After the wedding of the empress dowager, the empress dowager's family, there were many empresses in the uterus. How could there be no one to serve? If the population is added, it needs people more, so that people will be added. Worrying that the government is not happy, everyone will not talk too much, and they will not repay the small ones." Liu Ling quickly defended.
"Oh, since the road is already done, that's all!" Zhao Bing could only sigh and sighed. But he was secretly happy. Now that the eight characters have just turned aside, the queen mother was so anxious that she even prepared the people who served her grandson. This is too anxious!
"The official family, the empress dowager came to pay tribute to the empress dowager this time, and the selected beautiful girl accompanied him. I think the empress dowager wanted to let the official family see it and choose the queen." Liu Ling said in front of the mysterious words again.
"This..." Zhao Bing was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't say anything. He originally wanted to say that the Empress Dowager asked him to go on a blind date in the monk temple. This idea was not only bold, but also weird enough, so he was not afraid of the Buddha's fault. But it was inappropriate to say it, so he could only swallow it back.
"The Empress Dowager and the princes were chosen by the officials for a long time, but they could not agree on it. The young man heard from the Empress Dowager privately that the Empress Dowager had always been wise and fair in his work. He was protected by him in the past and sent them to Lin'an City in the face of danger, so that the country could continue. At this moment, the Empress Dowager's coffin returned to the country. If it was still difficult to make a decision, he would withdraw the visa in front of the spirit and take it away and the Empress Dowager decided to protect his descendants." Seeing the little emperor's speechless look, Liu Ling said another 'secret'.
Chapter completed!