beauty bible

Chapter 77 Love at first sight
One hundred thousand troops, at the forefront, Prince Sima really has a big tent.

Sima Zhen was wearing a white uniform, sitting in front of the desk, propped his head on one hand, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Outside the big tent, there were bursts of crisp birdsong in the early morning forest.

Sima Zhen's face was relaxed, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.He seemed to wake up from a relaxing dream, and slowly opened his eyes.

The scene in front of him was a scene he was extremely familiar with - his big tent.But at this moment, Sima Zhen looked at the scene in front of him, but for a moment he felt as if he had passed away.

Sima Zhen sat up straight, glanced at the half full bowl of ginseng tea in front of the desk, his pupils shrank suddenly.

Sima Zhen called out loudly: "A Xia!"

The thin man in black opened the big tent, walked quickly and silently to Sima Zhen, and said: "Your Highness."

Sima Zhen's eyes still fell on the bowl of ginseng tea: "...Did anything happen last night?"

A Xia whispered: "It's nothing serious... Oh, there is one thing. After the Queen came over to make trouble last night, she rushed back to her own big tent angrily. Maybe because she left in a hurry, the Queen took her new pet , the kitten named 'Guaiguai' fell near His Highness's big tent. The servant was afraid that the kitten would disturb His Highness's cleanliness, so he caught it, and was about to wait for the Queen to wash it up before sending it over."

Last night, Sima Zhen asked Crown Princess Liu Weilan to reduce the concubine's quota by one more amount.Who would have imagined that the order from the crown princess had not yet come down, but the queen got the news.

In the middle of the night, the Queen rushed into Prince Sima Zhen's tent with a face full of anger.

Seeing Sima Zhen, the queen pointed at him and angrily scolded him for being unfilial and disobedient.

The queen said that Sima Zhen treated the late emperor's concubines so poorly when the late emperor left and his bones were still cold. He really felt ashamed of the late emperor.Moreover, as the empress of the palace, even if Sima Zhen is about to ascend the throne as emperor, she is also a rightful mother empress and empress dowager, and she should be the mother of the world.But he, Sima, really wanted to reduce the number of concubines, but he never discussed with her. Instead, he let the young and unconvincing concubine manage the harem. With such behavior, he didn't see him as a concubine at all, it was extremely unfilial!

For these years, Sima Zhen had nothing to say to his aunt, who was also his queen mother.In the palace before, Sima Zhen would put on airs and say a few perfunctory words to her.Now that the late emperor died of illness, the great state of Zhou was in danger, Sima Zhen was devoting himself to worrying about his family and country every day, so he was really too lazy to distract himself from dealing with her.

So last night, Sima Zhen didn't care about the queen's face at all, almost ignoring her anger, and lightly refuted her words.

Sima Zhen replied coldly, but the queen shook her sleeves and left angrily when she saw that she couldn't find anything to ask for.

As for Sima Zhen, who was agitated by the queen's appearance and departure, he felt a little headache, so he wanted to close his eyes and rest for a while.When he opened his eyes again, it was morning.

Of course Sima Zhen knew that the Empress had always had the habit of keeping some kittens and puppies.Usually, the people below will send up a batch of kittens and puppies for the queen to choose, and whichever one the queen chooses, the kitten or puppy will be raised with gold and jade.

But if after a few months, or a year or so, these little things lose the queen's favor, they will be abandoned by the queen.Before long, the queen will pick another good one and raise it again.

Over the years, Sima Zhen has seen many small animals with different looks in the Queen's Palace, but because these small animals are frequently changed, and Sima Zhen is not close to the Queen, he has gradually become unclear which animal the Queen has raised. .

At this time, when A Xia mentioned the word "obedient", Sima Zhen showed a trace of surprise and strangeness on his face, and he raised his volume slightly: "obedient... obedient?"

"Yes," A Xia said with a low eyebrow, "it was the queen's re-selected pet before leaving the capital. The one she raised last time was left in the palace."

There was a hint of urgency in Sima Zhen's tone: "Bring me in."

"Yes."

A-Xia got out of the big tent, and after a while, she came in with a small golden cage in her hand.

Inside the small cage was a snow-white kitten. This kitten was no bigger than a palm, and its round blue eyes were like a pair of sapphires.

"..." Looking at the palm-sized kitten, Sima was really speechless for a long time. After a long time, he pointed to the kitten in the cage and said, "Go and tell the queen that Ben Gong fell in love with this kitten at first sight." , I love it so much that I decided to raise it in my big tent myself.”

A-Xia raised her head in surprise, wondering why His Royal Highness wanted to "snatch" the queen's kitten all of a sudden?Purely to annoy the queen?You can go, His Highness will never play tricks on the people in the harem with such trivial matters!

Sima Zhen covered his face: "I have my own reasons for this palace, you go!"

A-Xia really didn't understand. Her Highness, who never liked "playing with things and losing one's mind" and had never had the slightest feeling for small animals, could make a fuss about a cat: "...Yes."

A Xia withdrew from the big tent, turned around and went to the queen's big tent to deliver a message.

Sima Zhen sighed while sitting in the big tent, and said in a cold voice: "Take care of this cat for me! From now on, this cat will stay in my tent! There must be no mistake! If the cat If something happens, you will all be buried with it!"

"Yes!" In the large tent, several young eunuchs and maids hurriedly knelt on the ground.They were astonished to the extreme. Usually, His Highness seldom spoke harshly to them. Unexpectedly, now he gave such an order just because of a cat.

It was still the beginning of Mao Shi, and the sky was not yet bright, so Sima Zhen closed his eyes: "Add candles, grind ink."

"Yes."

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone were sorted out quickly.

Sima Zhen took the pen, thought for a while, and then walked around on the rice paper.

It took half an hour before he put down his pen.

Sima Zhen looked at the content on the rice paper, lowered his head, added and deleted a few words from time to time, and said: "Prince Xuan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and two servants of the Ministry of Industry will come to see you immediately."

"Yes." A little eunuch hurriedly ran out of the big tent without a sound.

Within a quarter of an hour, the four of them came in a hurry, and after reporting, they entered Sima Zhen's tent.

The four bowed in unison: "See His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Sima Zhen raised his eyes from the three densely written rice papers: "Get up."

The four stood up, and the second prince Sima Xie said, "His Royal Highness called us urgently, but it was because of the enthronement ceremony."

Beside the second prince, the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry with white beard and hair also said: "Today is the enthronement ceremony, but what is wrong, do you want our Ministry of Industry to correct it?"

One hundred thousand troops were marching outside, and the previous emperor died of illness. The new emperor had to keep everything simple when he ascended the throne, but no matter how simple the enthronement ceremony was, there had to be a charter.The prince hurriedly summoned four people to come here, and all four felt that the enthronement ceremony was too hasty, and it was inconvenient to be far away from the capital, and perhaps there was something wrong with the part in charge of the Ministry of Industry, which needs to be rectified in time.

Sima Zhen shook his head: "Second brother, come up."

Sima Xie took a few steps forward.

Sima Zhen handed Sima Xie the three pieces of rice paper that he had written for nearly an hour, and said, "Look at it first, and then pass it to the three of them to have a look at it too."

Sima Xie took the three sheets of rice paper with an inexplicable expression, looked down, and raised his brows.After he finished reading the three pieces of rice paper, Sima Xie handed the three pieces of rice paper to Minister of Industry with a strange expression.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry frowned and looked carefully, and then passed the rice paper to the two middle-aged servants with a blank face.

Sima Zhen looked at the old Minister of the Ministry of Industry: "Do you understand?"

The grey-haired Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry heard the words, stroked his white beard, shook his head for a long time, and said, "Your Highness, what do you mean by 'primitive soil method for making steel bars'? What do you mean by 'primitive soil method for refining cement'? 'Rebar', 'cement' The old man has never heard of these two things. The last mentioned "basic construction" old man can see that it is the method of our Ministry of Industry to build palaces and houses. It's just that "rebar" and "cement" are mentioned in it, old man..." The Minister of the Ministry of Industry shook his head and did not continue.

Sima Xie spread his hands and said, "Your Highness, I don't understand."

"I know you don't understand," Sima Zhen said, "I have obtained the contents of these three papers. If the Ministry of Industry can figure out one by one, then we can build a tens of feet in the Jinlin." Buildings. At that time, a Jinlin City will be enough to accommodate the countless people of our Great Zhou Kingdom."

Sima Xie's eyes lit up: "Really?" He hurriedly shook his head again and said, "Your Highness, are you joking? How can there be a palace of tens of feet in this world?"

Sima Zhen chuckled: "We are all frogs at the bottom of a well. How much do we know about the affairs of this world?"

Listening to Sima Zhen's words, there was a sense of emotion, and Sima Xie's eyes were full of exploration: "His Royal Highness means..."

Sima Zhen lowered his eyes, shook his head slightly, and half-truthfully said: "Maybe that day you talked to me about 'Jinlin City can't accommodate the people of the Great Zhou'. I thought about it day by day and dreamed about it at night. Dream, went to a wonderful place, got these things there."

"Preaching in a dream?" Sima Xie's eyes widened, and he stroked his palms and said, "His Royal Highness is going to ascend the throne today. Could it be... Could it be that God blessed me for Dazhou? Let His Royal Highness travel to the heavens and get guidance from the gods. Only with this miraculous 'steel' and 'cement'?"

"It's steel and cement." Sima Zhen shook his head, then nodded again: "...Forget it."

Hearing this, the old Minister of the Ministry of Industry and the two servants of the Ministry of Industry hurriedly knelt on the ground, and bowed excitedly: "God has not forgotten my people of the Great Zhou Dynasty! Your Royal Highness is the reincarnation of a real dragon! This is the dream of going to heaven." Chuan Dao, give me the Great Zhou fetish!"

"..." Sima really took a deep breath, and said: "If this method of making steel bars is found out, in the future, my generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty will no longer lack magical weapons!"

Tears welled up in the eyes of Minister of the Ministry of Industry: "Heaven's kindness! God's kindness! Your Highness is the Son of Dragon! With God's blessing, my Dazhou will definitely be able to overcome the difficulties and return to prosperity! The spirit of the late emperor in heaven can also rest in peace."

Sima Zhen turned his head and glanced at a corner of the big tent, where the palm-sized kittens were sleeping in the cage with their eyes closed: "...Yes, I, Da Zhou, will definitely get through this difficult time."

(End of this chapter)