Fuji [Four Beauties]

It is not easy to find someone in the huge palace.Song Ci didn't realize that his idea was very unrealistic.

First of all, the imperial palace of the Han Dynasty occupied a very large area. In the capital Chang'an, it can be said that [-]% of it is imperial palace buildings.The largest ones are Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace and Mingguang Palace.Not to mention anything else, the area of ​​Weiyang Palace alone is more than six times that of the Forbidden City.

Secondly, each palace complex is separated independently, and there are strict palace walls and guards between each other.There is no way for ordinary people to freely pass through several building complexes.

Finally, there were a lot of court ladies during this period, and most of them did not have names in the palace, and they called each other by surnames.Even if Song Ci had a way to go back and forth between the various palaces, it was impossible for her to ask them one by one.Even if there is a so-called roster of court ladies, it is very difficult to find Wang Zhaojun's name in the mountain of rosters.

The palace where Song Ci is now is the most unnoticed and neglected group of northern palaces in the palace. In fact, it is the Lenggong Palace.Although it is a cold palace, its area is also larger than that of the Forbidden City.Just trying to figure out the topography of this area is enough to be nerve-wracking.

Soon, Song Ci realized the naivety of his thoughts.At the same time, she also noticed the unusually large area of ​​the palace complex she was in.Then, she fell into a deep headache.How can we figure out the terrain in such a large place?

The bedroom where the Empress Dowager lives is just an inconspicuous palace in the huge North Palace complex, and it doesn't even have an official name.When everyone talks about it, they call it the Empress Dowager Palace.The court ladies who served the Empress Dowager lived around the palace, and of course they had no names.Different court ladies have their own activity areas.If you rush to other areas, you will attract the attention of others.

After much deliberation, Song Ci still decided to do his old job and be active at night.If it were in other palace groups, Song Ci's plan would not be successful.Because there are always some nobles in the palace who like to drink happily and stay up all night.Their palaces are illuminated by all kinds of lamps and treasures, some even reaching the level of daylight.

It is impossible to visit the palace at night in such a place.Fortunately, here is the Beigong complex, except for the maids, there are some concubines who are ashamed.How could these people be in the mood not to sleep at night?This gave Song Ci the chance to spy at night.

After staying for a while, Song Ci finally understood why the couple dared to prostitute themselves in this area during the day.The man's status is noble, and the place is a cold palace. Even if someone finds out, everyone will pretend to be blind, and let it go by just fooling around. No one dares to meddle in his business.

This situation is also a good thing for Song Ci.The security level of Beigong must be much lower than that of Weiyang Palace where the emperor lives, so it is much less difficult to make troubles.

After visiting the palace at night for several days, Song Ci probably got a general idea of ​​the construction of the North Palace.

The heights of the buildings in this area vary, some are only a few meters high, while others are tens of meters high, not counting the foundations of the buildings.The height of the outermost palace wall is tens of meters.It is quite difficult to climb over the wall and run out directly.The most important thing is that there are not many guards in the North Palace, but there are more guards outside.If someone finds out climbing over the wall, he might be shot as a hedgehog.

Song Ci's swordsmanship is good, and his lightness kung fu is not bad.But she didn't think she had the ability to climb over the wall and avoid the rain of flying arrows at the same time.No matter how good your kung fu is, you are afraid of kitchen knives. Even a peerless master can't handle so many arrows.Therefore, Song Ci gave up the idea of ​​climbing over the wall and escaping.Life is precious, and she will not try this method with a particularly high risk factor.

Then, Song Ci began to think of ways to find out about the previous dynasty.The so-called emperor and courtiers in one dynasty, when a new emperor is appointed, the court will undergo a major change, and the palace is no exception.No matter how big the imperial palace is, it is limited, and there are always times when it cannot be accommodated.The old always has to make room for the new, and we can't all squeeze together.

What Song Ci is most concerned about is whether these court ladies will be replaced regularly?After being here for so many days, I have heard a lot of gossip, but Song Ci never heard anyone mention the matter of going out of the palace.If others didn't mention it, she would not take the initiative to mention it to attract others' attention.So last time I changed the method, instead of asking how to get out of the palace, I went to find out how people entered the palace.After inquiring like this, I really found out a lot of inside information.

During this period, because the founding emperor was born as a commoner, he didn't pay much attention to his background in the officialdom and harem.Most of the people who are very successful are not from high schools.As long as you have the ability, a pig butcher, mourner, slave, or dancer can become a prime minister or a queen.There were many commoner queens in the Western Han Dynasty, such as Wei Zifu, Wang Zhi, Xu Pingjun and so on.

Empresses and concubines were born civilians, and most of the maids came from the folk.Many folk women followed these predecessors as examples and entered the palace voluntarily, wanting to become the next legend.

There are many people who want to enter the palace, some emperors will be restrained, and some will accept all rivers based on the principle of the more the better.This creates a very serious problem.There are too many maids in the palace, but the supply to the palace ladies in the palace is limited and will not increase, and sometimes it will decrease because of the advocacy of frugality.

Over time, there was a serious shortage of supply in the palace.This situation was especially serious after Liu Shi succeeded to the throne, which caused a headache for the officials in charge of court affairs.

In such a situation, the number of court ladies can be reduced directly.But because the emperor Liu Shi never refused anyone who came, he basically just couldn't get in, and the officials couldn't find a suitable excuse to restrain him.They can't say that because the royal family has no money, they want to let the maids leave.What is the face of the emperor like this?But the financial crisis had to be resolved, and these officials came up with some very tricky solutions.

Their methods can be broadly called "following the public and violating the secrets" and selling dog meat under false pretenses.On the bright side, the officials claimed that they had provided a service according to the number of court ladies.But in reality, they took a significant reduction in supply from it.

For example, they say that a thing equipped with a hundred court ladies can actually achieve six achievements, which is very good.Among the [-]% of the supply, the things distributed to each court lady have also shrunk.There should have been ten items, but only sixty percent remained.This is the method of throttling that officials came up with.

Light interception is far from enough, they also came up with an open source strategy.That is to turn the maids into labor force and extract their labor to make up for financial insufficiency.These court ladies who have become labor force refer to those court ladies who are not valued in the North Palace, and the powerful court ladies are not included.

So, on the first day of Song Ci's arrival, when they went to get their things, the people who came later couldn't get them, and no one dared to say anything.The court ladies also had to go to work every day, some weaving, some doing embroidery, some making spices, and doing handicrafts.These made things will be taken out of the palace for sale.After exchanged for money, they returned to the palace and provided for those palaces that were just red.

After entering the palace, many court ladies discovered that there was a big gap between the palace and what they had imagined.Some are not reconciled, and are still working hard, dreaming of changing their destiny once in a while.Some regretted it, but they couldn't escape.This is the so-called, easy to get in, hard to get out.There are many people who regret it, but no one dares to mention that they want to leave the palace.

There are indeed precedents in the palace for letting maids out, but these precedents were all initiated by those in power.When Queen Mother Lu knocked Madam Qi down, she released all the maids in her palace.It is said that they were released, but in fact they were abandoned and exiled.Since ancient times, only the royal family has abandoned the court ladies, and no court ladies have dared to abandon the royal family.

Even if you want to go out again, you can only wait for such an opportunity.You can't take the initiative to bring it up, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable.

For others, this kind of opportunity may be the only hope, but for Song Ci, this low-probability event is somewhat slim.It is impossible for her to stay in the palace. Now that the emperor is dead, she will find a chance to go out when the next emperor comes?Who knows when the emperor will die, Song Ci doesn't want to outlive him.

What's more, Liu Ao, Liu Shi's son, is more lustful than his father.Maybe at that time, Liu Ao will come and get everything in his pocket, which will be even worse.

Speaking of Liu Ao, there is a pair of very famous sisters in his harem, Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede.If Song Ci waited until Liu Ao came to power, the palace wouldn't know what kind of mess it would be.She didn't want to see how those two sisters killed people in the harem.

Counting it, Wang Zhaojun and Zhao Feiyan are actually a few years apart.If Wang Zhaojun had stayed in the palace instead of going to the Xiongnu at that time, maybe Liu Ao, who was not jealous of meat and vegetables, would have really taken a fancy to him.If that's the case, there will be serious beauty schemes staged in the palace.Wang Zhaojun, one of the four beauties, faced Zhao Feiyan, who was known as Huanfeiyanshou, and Yang Yuhuan.The real stunning beauty versus the stunning beauty.

Not to mention, if such a plot appeared, Song Ci really wanted to see it.Since this era, she hasn't eaten melons for a long time, and such extraordinary big melons must be very interesting.

Thinking of them, Song Ci thought of another famous character, Wang Mang.In fact, Wang Mang and Zhao Feiyan were born in the same year, and Zhao Feiyan's mother-in-law, the Queen Mother, is Wang Mang's aunt.The few of them have to meet the prerequisites.These three people are likely to be able to form a game, plus Zhao Feiyan's younger sister Zhao Hede, it is enough for a mahjong table.If the four of you really want to get together, it will really be a wonderful show.

Thinking of this scene, Song Ci felt very excited.If she could be on the front line of eating melons and watching such a rare scene from a close distance, it would not be in vain for her to travel through such a time.

This kind of Melon Song Ci didn't eat, but she caught up with another rare event.