sweeping the world

Chapter 1048: Counterattack from the Emperor

What is it like to be an 11-year-old in this day and age?
In an ordinary family, an 11-year-old child would already have to take on some work, such as chopping firewood, carrying water, and doing housework, and would follow the adults in plowing or harvesting during the busy farming season.

Wealthier families, 11 years old is probably the enlightenment stage, in addition to reading and literacy, they will participate in some family affairs, such as managing tenants and taking over some businesses.

The 11-year-old of the rich family has passed the enlightenment stage long ago and entered the years of intensive reading. During this period of time, their lives will be very regular. In addition to their daily work and rest, they will study, and occasionally they will be taken out by adults for further study. Socializing, laying the groundwork for a more complex future.

To put it simply, in today's society, there is absolutely no innocence at the age of 11, and it is even more impossible to do nothing but eat, sleep, and study. Eleven-year-olds in different families have their own tasks, even because of the differences between men and women. difference, there are clearer tasks.

Men in Han families, regardless of their family environment, poverty or wealth, have a theme. The first outlook on life that their parents cultivated for them is to have a sense of responsibility.

This sense of responsibility can be assuming some labor in the family, or it can be showing filial piety to elders and taking care of younger peers.

Over the long years, Zhuxia has passed down the values ​​that have been recognized by generations of people, including responsibility and filial piety, and filial piety usually comes first.

Of course, filial piety does not mean talking about it. The most practical way is to help parents undertake some labor on weekdays, reduce the burden on parents, and mature in this process, gradually becoming the parents of their own children.

As men, they will also be imported with the idea that once they have an opportunity, they must seize it to make their family better.Usually it is to respond to the king's call, step on the battlefield to resist the enemy, and at the same time obtain meritorious service and become the best person.

In normal Zhuxia society, men are never afraid to step on the battlefield. On the contrary, they are eager to be summoned by the king, and rely on this way as an opportunity to change their life and destiny.

Taking on family responsibilities, taking care of the elders and the young, and responding to the call of the king, these are the life values ​​of the Han men in the classical society, and they are also the life trajectory of most men.

Compared with the responsibilities of men and the pursuit of meritorious service, daughters of the Han family will be more simple and boring.

As long as they are not from a wealthy family, their daughters will never have the process of reading and literacy. They will start to participate in labor from the moment they are sensible, and then in the labor they will learn the life skills that daughters should know. At the same time, all their innocence and romance will be eliminated. The wear and tear is gone.

Even in rich and powerful families, teaching their daughters to read and write is just to make them understand, not to teach them how to become evildoers.

Generally, rich and noble families teach their daughters how to run a family, how to become a good wife and so on, and their standards for choosing a spouse are usually not low.

Daughters married by ordinary people are innocence and romance washed away by labor, while daughters who are not ordinary people mature early in a series of educations. Freedom and unrestrained, even living for themselves, actually do not exist in Zhuxia's classics. society.

Dragons do not mate with snakes, and phoenixes do not mate with maggots. They have always existed in society, and being well-matched will always be the mainstream.

Occasionally, a dragon marries a pheasant, and a phoenix marries a pig. It is a betrayal of one's own class and is destined to be boycotted, but there is a class that drools with envy and is beautified and passed on by countless people. Go down and be a story full of falsehoods.

In that story, people from different walks of life, even if they both die of hatred after they get married, the two people will definitely die unyielding and sweet, and they will not describe the struggles and sufferings they have experienced.For example, the superior class does not accept it, and the ordinary class is full of rejection of them, becoming absolutely isolated.

"There are many suitable candidates, but not many suitable ones." Cui Wanman held a stack of scrolls with distress: "Xu's daughter is the most suitable, but... she is also the least suitable."

Xu's daughter is of course Xu Zheng's Xu family. He has many children, and the youngest daughter is only ten years old. In terms of family background and age, no matter how you look at it, she is a good candidate for the crown princess.

"Your Majesty is in his prime." Tuobaxiu has been coming and going to Cui Wan's place frequently these days, and participated in Liu Shen's concubine selection: "It's not that my sister is too talkative, I chose Xu's daughter, and I got involved in military power too early."

"..." Cui Wan was distressed because she knew that it would be bad: "After searching and searching, only the daughter of the Sang family is left."

"The Cui family and the Sang family have been fighting for so many years, and they have only been suppressed by His Majesty in recent years." Tuobaxiu really couldn't help it, and after laughing a few times, he said: "Do you really want to become relatives?"

The bases of the two families are both in the original Jizhou. If one side wants to grow stronger, it will definitely squeeze the living space of the other side. It is inevitable that there will be competition. In many cases, the competition is even very fierce. There is no big scene of fighting. It's death without a sound.

Later, the battle between the Cui family and the Sang family was forced to stop by the emperor. At the same time, they withdrew their forces in Jizhou.

Not only the Cui family and the Sang family, except for the Ji family, which did not do much business, the other major families with big businesses have withdrawn their strength from the Han Empire and transferred to some new occupied areas to operate.

The emperor does not allow the families to engage in trouble in the country, but it does not mean that there is no competition when they go outside. It is just that compared with life and death in the country, competition and cooperation coexist outside. The bloody smell is not much less, but the relationship has become more intense. Complicated.

Cui Wan was not at all annoyed by Tuoba Xiu's teasing.Her previous fear of Tuoba Xiu was simply because she was afraid that Tuoba Xiu would give birth to a prince, which would threaten Liu Shen's position as crown prince.

So many years have passed, and Tuobaxiu still has no son under her knees. It is difficult for a woman to conceive again when she is close to 40 years old. Moreover, even if she conceives a boy, the difference between the newborn and Liu Shen is at least 11 years. Liu Shen On the premise that Shen has already become the crown prince, how much threat can he pose after at least 11 years of operation?

Later, Cui Wan figured it out a bit. She felt that she was also confused before. How could she ignore such a thing as Tuobaxiu's background? Anyway, even if Tuobaxiu had a son, she was destined not to sit on that unique throne.

After figuring it out, Cui Wan began to try her best to please Tuobaxiu. On the premise that she would not threaten Liu Shen, she felt that the more Tuobaxiu was favored by the emperor, the more she could protect herself from any rookie.

"Why don't you... My sister can find out about the noble concubine for me?" The noble concubine Cui Wan was talking about was naturally Sang Miao.She can please Tuobaxiu, but she will never degrade Sang Miao in any way, it has nothing to do with dignity or status, it is based on the degree of threat: "Shen'er and Sang Qing are still very suitable."

Tuobaxiu smiled silently, and nodded her head in agreement.

Seeing that Tuobaxiu agreed, Cui Wan was naturally extremely happy, and soon fell into her own thoughts.

Tuoba Xiu has a good relationship with most people, and he doesn't antagonize anyone in particular.This is because she knows what is special about her identity. At first she didn't want to have contact with others, but later it was because of the Tuoba clan.

Now there are no Xianbei people. The Tuoba clan is the only one with the best fate among the many other tribes of Xianbei. Most of them have become part of the Han people, not like those other tribes of Xianbei who were exterminated or enslaved.

Everyone in the world thinks it's Tuobaxiu's relationship, but she understands what kind of person Liu Yan is, and she may have some relationship with it, but it's definitely not the main reason.

Liu Yan is not a person who can be influenced by women at all. In the eyes of many people, he is as firm as iron, especially when dealing with foreigners.

From ancient times to the present, only Liu Yan issued the order to kill the slaves (the order to kill the Hu) in the body of a king. Those kings in the past have never done this even if they hated the alien race.

How could a king who could say "anyone who is not of my race can be killed" would change anything just because he doted on a woman.

So far, people in the world still mistakenly believe that Liu Yan's cruelty to Tuoba Xianbei originated from Tuoba Xiu, and they really couldn't imagine that Liu Yan caused Liu Yan to be angry because of Tuoba Xianbei's contribution to history in some aspects. Don't look at each other.

Zhuxia is a relatively simple nation. As long as everyone obeys one person, no matter what that person's will is, and does not harm his own interests...or the damage will not be too serious, everyone will basically follow.For example, if Liu Yan wants to clear out the foreign races, first of all, everyone is eager for such a situation, and secondly, if he can achieve meritorious service in the process of clearing out, he will definitely follow him fanatically.

Sang Qing is the youngest daughter of Sang Yu. She is only nine years old this year, and she is three years younger than Liu Shen. She is not yet married under the Han family system.

Cui Wan will choose Sang Qing, obviously there is no relationship between Liu Shen and Sang Qing, she just wants to strengthen Liu Shen's side.

"Sister, you can go and talk." Tuoba Xiu shook his head: "I'm afraid Shangshu Ling will refuse."

"Why?" Cui Wan was really puzzled: "Prince Princess, how noble is she, how could she refuse?"

"Queen, why is the daughter of the Xu family inappropriate?" Tuoba Xiu knows what it is like to be a mother. She only wants to give her children the best, but she will ignore many things: "If the prince marries a daughter of the Xu family, he may be suspected of being involved in military power. . The Sang daughter’s family is recognized as the number one family in the world, so what else can it do?”

At this moment, Cui Wan really felt that it was a good thing for Tuobaxiu to participate.

"Tell me something that my sister would think about." Tuobaxiu asked very seriously: "Does my sister think that the Holy One is willing to appoint a crown prince so early?"

Cui Wan remained silent.She has thought about this aspect, but she has always subconsciously avoided it, and dare not think too deeply.

"Your Majesty won't think you're old." Tuobaxiu shook her head and continued, "To say something disrespectful, Your Majesty has a crown prince in his prime, and the appointment of a crown prince will make him feel old. "

Cui Wan admitted that Tuobaxiu was taking a big risk to tell the truth, so she forced a smile on her face.

There is such a thing, since the establishment of the crown prince, Liu Yan returned to the harem and never went to the empress again, and at the same time, the higher the rank of the concubine, the higher the rank of the concubine was also very attractive to receive Liu Yan.

From then on, Liu Yan tended more towards women of low rank. For high rank concubines, it was fortunate that Liu Yan didn't pamper someone very frequently.

When Zhuo Xiang came in, seeing the two were silent, she hesitated for a moment, took out a book from her sleeve, and said, "Your Majesty, this is the roster sent by the Ministry of Rites."

It is not only the emperor who can be called your majesty, the queen can also be called your majesty, because "majesty" is originally a step to climb, especially the steps of the emperor's palace, and the queen who is the mother of the world is qualified to be called your majesty.

Then, the queens of the Han Dynasty were never called "Niangniang", and whoever dared to call the queen of the Han Dynasty "Niangniang", even the nine clans were not enough to be killed.

"The roster?" Cui Wan was obviously taken aback, took a look at the roster, and seemed a little unresponsive: "This is..."

Zhuo Xiang had read the roster beforehand and knew the draft list sent by the Ministry of Rites there, but the Ministry of Rites had overstepped this matter.

For a country, everything is subject to legal restrictions, and whoever has the authority is the authority. For example, the draft should be proposed by the queen. The Ministry of Rites has enough power to select some people to add to the list, but the Ministry of Rites is not qualified to start one. draft.

Zhuo Xiang said this on purpose: "When I came over, I heard that Zhou Ming, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, had just died of illness."

Cui Wan looked at the roster, and there was the signer's signature on it, wasn't it Zhou Ming from the Ministry of Rites?She realized immediately that Zhou Ming's death had already paid the price for Chao Yue.If she refuses the draft, or continues to pursue the Ministry of Rites, then things will develop in another direction.

"Let's do it accordingly." Cui Wan's face alternated red and white, and her hand holding the roster trembled violently: "It's going to be grand."

Zhuoxiang saluted and said "Promise", hesitated again and again but said nothing, turned and left.

"Why the Holy One?" Cui Wan said to Tuobaxiu very sadly: "I didn't try to force the Holy One to establish a heir..."

The queen is also the emperor's minister. She can call herself a concubine when she is humble, but there is absolutely no such thing as "concubine".In the Han Dynasty, "concubine" was a way for foreign barbarians to claim their surrender to China. That's why the saying "Everywhere the sun and moon shine, and wherever rivers reach, are all concubines of the Han Dynasty."

If the emperor's queen and concubines call themselves "concubines", it means that they regard themselves as surrendered barbarians. How must the women in the harem be uneducated or idiots to use this title?

"..." Tuoba Xiu was speechless at first, then smiled and said, "It's pretty good."

Cui Wan was stunned more times today than before, and asked puzzledly, "Is this okay?"

"It's better if you don't target the prince." Tuobaxiu pointed to herself, and then pointed to Cui Wan: "We are all old and fading, but the Holy Majesty is still fierce. Wouldn't it be great to have a new color?"

(End of this chapter)