Great Zhou Empress

When Xue Zhijing and Xiao Liege brought a group of guards into the women's courtyard, they didn't notify them in advance. After all, Xue Zhijing didn't come here specially for inspection, so it's good to be able to see the real situation by the way.

Entering the door of the yard, a clean and comfortable atmosphere blows your face.

The vast square is tidied up flat, and the newly planted trees around it are also in emerald green color. The sun shines down, making people feel very quiet.

However, they didn't have the feeling of a crowd like the Royal Comprehensive University. They vaguely heard the voice. Following the voice, the two of them went to a large classroom. This classroom may also be used as a venue, spacious and bright.

Xue Zhijing sent the guards to the door of this small courtyard, and she and Xiao Liege appeared at the back door of the classroom, and saw that the entire classroom was full of people, presumably all the girls from the girls' courtyard were here Woolen cloth.

They all wear their own clothes, and it can be seen that they are of different ages and family conditions.

But the only thing in common is that they all hold pens and paper in their hands, and listen carefully to a male teacher in front of the stage.

That teacher is a teacher from the School of Economics and History of the Royal Comprehensive University next door. Xue Zhijing once said that teachers are needed here to provide them with free courses, and it is estimated that some teachers like this have been arranged to come here.

This teacher is not young, and he can't see the passion for class. The only thing that is not bad is that he seems to be serious and responsible, and he talks about everything that should be said.

After listening for a while, the teacher found Xue Zhijing and Xiao Liege over the heads of many people. He stopped immediately and bowed his hands to Xue Zhijing.

"His Majesty!"

When everyone heard this, they turned around in unison and looked at her.

Xue Zhijing sighed secretly, hey, it is impossible to be an invisible person now.

Xue Zhijing nodded to everyone with a smile, and everyone stood up with a clatter, bowed their hands to her unevenly, and called her "Your Majesty" or something like that.

Xue Zhijing pressed his hand to everyone, and said, "You don't need to be too polite, I'm just passing by today, so I'll come in and see everyone, please sit down."

Only then did everyone sit down, and many people showed excited expressions on their faces.

After all, they had never met the emperor, let alone the female emperor who was the idol of all the women in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

There was no other way, Xue Zhijing could only walk up to the front desk and chat with them.

Originally, there was no such arrangement today. What she thought was that at most, she would see the women she met on the road and chat with them. How could she have thought that she happened to meet someone in class, and everyone was there, and it became a large-scale meeting again.

But Xue Zhijing wasn't frightened, she had seen even bigger scenes, but she didn't have such expectation.Since the meeting was going to be held in advance at this time, she thought, let's take this opportunity to have a discussion.

Get to know them, talk about their lives and why you are here.

There is a seat on the podium and a desk for various tools, and Xue Zhijing is standing behind the desk.

Because the podium has a certain height, when she stands tall and tall, she can be seen by the people in the last row, and her overall image is better.

Xue Zhijing is very clear that as an emperor, he has to bear the responsibility of a "symbol" to a large extent. The external image is extremely important. It is necessary to leave people with a sense of commitment, security, and majesty with a sense of intimacy. .

Fortunately, she always had the elegant appearance of a teacher in normal times. According to Xiao Liege's words, she was old-fashioned. With this appearance and paying attention to her manners at the right time, it was enough to have a trustworthy image of an emperor.

"Hi, everyone."

Xue Zhijing's voice is also stable with a sense of tranquility, which is very reassuring.When she was talking, she could see that many younger girls had strange excitement in their expressions.

"It's a great pleasure to meet everyone here. I know that everyone has gone through a lot of hardships from home to here."

Xue Zhijing said a lot of words of encouragement, and she was very eloquent. Although she was unprepared this time, she was able to quote from many sources and speak humorously. According to Xiao Liege, she was just like the storyteller in Lichun Academy.

At this time, Xiao Liege was sitting in the first row, looking at her on a stool added by someone, probably thinking about her ability to talk for an hour casually.

"I have a good friend named Li Jing, who is now a member of the fifth-rank military aircraft office. I believe many of you have heard of her name. She was the first woman to take the imperial examination in the previous dynasty. The only female civil servant in the court. I remember that after she knelt in front of the palace gate and begged to take the imperial examination, many courtiers in the previous court and many officials in Bianjing City were not optimistic about her, thinking that she must not have enough knowledge for a woman. The knowledge is bound to not be rich, but I don’t think she won the No. 14 of the second class. You all know that there are only a few dozen people in the imperial examination.”

Xue Zhijing pondered for a moment, looked at the audience and took a deep breath, and said slowly:

"So I hope you all have enough confidence that you can do what others can do. In a few days, I will ask Li Jing to come out to the Women's Court to chat with everyone."

After finishing the blood, Xue Zhijing sat down and expressed in a relaxed manner that he wanted to hear their stories and thoughts.

At the beginning, everyone was a little cautious. After all, Zhijing Xue was the Son of Heaven, a "symbolic" character that he had never seen before. Most people were still immersed in a dreamlike feeling at this moment.However, Xue Zhijing had a calm attitude and seemed easy to get close to. After a while, someone raised his hand to express that he wanted to speak.

Xue Zhijing casually ordered one.

The other party was a young-looking girl, estimated to be fifteen or sixteen years old, with a crisp voice, but those eyes seemed to contain a wolf-like longing.

She bowed to Xue Zhijing and said, "Your Majesty, my name is Lin Yuanchun. My father is the magistrate of Fuyang County under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou. I escaped from home."

When she finished her last sentence, there seemed to be a lot of gasps and small whispers in the entire venue, and it felt like many people were the same as her and escaped.

Xue Zhijing encouraged her to continue with a slight smile.

"I have been studying with my brothers since I was a child. My talent is not bad. Calligraphy and poetry have always been the best among the brothers. That year, Li Jingxing won the No. 14 imperial examination. At that time, I secretly made a decision. In the future, I will also take part in the imperial examination. This year His Majesty will open Enke, so I proposed to my father that I want to participate. I don’t want my parents to make a marriage for me. The other party is a Famous candidate, whose family background is not as good as mine, but it is said that he is talented. My parents want me to marry him as soon as possible, and then fully support him to participate in this year's Enke. My father and mother had five sons, four of whom died young, and only one daughter survived. , they hope to have a son-in-law who can be their future support. My mother secretly told me that if I don’t want to get married, my father will have to take another concubine after he turns 40 in a few years to carry on the family line for him. Of course I don’t want to. Such a marriage, but I failed to communicate, so I had to leave home secretly. But it was the first time I was so far away from home, and I was cheated of all my belongings halfway. Living on the street. Now I only have one thought, I must get a Jinshi, so as not to waste my time in this world."

After Xue Zhijing encouraged her, another girl stood up and told her own story.

"I am 17 years old. I am a widow. I don't want to live a life without end. My husband's family is too powerful. I also escaped secretly. If I hadn't entered the women's courtyard, my husband's family would have arrested me long ago. ..."

"I am 35 years old. I just married my son last year. When I said that I would take the imperial examination, my husband thought I was crazy. Ask me who will host the middle school for him after I leave home, and who will go with him to meet relatives and friends Friends walk around and socialize. But there is a fire in my heart, I just want to burn..."

"My family was poor. When I was young, all my clothes were worn and remade by my brothers. My enlightenment was listening to the corner of the wall outside the school run by an old scholar in the village. I learned it by memory. come down..."

"I feel like I can serve my country too..."

"I don't want to live my life in such a muddle..."

……

As Xue Zhijing thought, they all came out with some strong desire, full of courage and perseverance, and at the same time, few of them came to this women's courtyard smoothly.

After all, in this era, the division of responsibilities between men and women is very clear, and what these women do is to break the original division of labor and rebuild a new order. How can it be smooth?

This is also the reason why Xue Zhijing didn't set a threshold for this women's court, but if there is a threshold, it may hinder the possibility of a considerable number of women.

On the way back, Xue Zhijing was very happy. He was still telling Xiao Liege while riding on the horse that no matter whether these girls could really be selected as candidates, she would support them. This is the first group of brave people. This courage is worthy of respect.

Xiao Liege laughed and said, "I won't say you're old-fashioned, you're just a Nuwa empress, I wish I could arrange all the little people made of clay clearly, so that I don't have to worry about food and clothing."

Xue Zhijing looked at her strangely, and said with a bitter face, "It's better to say that I am old-fashioned. I have become the mother of all living beings, an old fairy who is tens of thousands of years old. Baby, how old-fashioned I am in your heart Old-fashioned, I clearly think that I am lively and cute."

"???"

Lively and cute?It seems that it has nothing to do with you.

Because I chatted with everyone in the women's courtyard for a long time, it was already late when I returned to the palace, and the palace was lit, but the palace is too spacious, especially now that only the three halls of the former dynasty are open, and Xue Zhijing himself Jianzhang Palace, where he lives and works as a study, looks even more empty.Because these halls are all on a grand route, high, wide, and wide, compared with the two hundred palace people in the palace, the proportions are really quite different.

When it was first built hundreds of years ago, the founding monarch of the former Dacheng Dynasty was very courageous, invested a huge amount of money, conscripted a lot of people's resources, and built palaces that were magnificent at a glance.

Such a palace complex is also a symbolic symbol in essence, especially when the courtiers walked slowly across the vast square facing the rising sun, stepped up the long steps one by one, and then entered the vast hall where the words echoed , that kind of awe for imperial power will arise spontaneously.

Not to mention, a palace of this height can be seen from any corner of the entire Bianjing city. Such a symbolic symbol is enough to achieve a sense of dynasty cohesion.

However, now, it seems that it has fallen into disrepair for a long time.

Xue Zhijing was smiling with Xiao Liege, and when they were about to step into the gate of Jianzhang Palace, a tile on top of their head fell off with a bang, Xiao Liege was a little more sensitive, and pulled Xue Zhijing away, and the two danced together. Take two steps back.

Immediately afterwards, another tile also fell, and with a bang, it hit the two of them again.

Both of them tried to look up at the place where the tile fell, but unfortunately the sky was too dark, and the lights in the palace could not achieve the effect of high-power lighting in later generations. In such a night, the two of them could only see a piece of darkness .

Fortunately, after two tiles fell, the house was finally calm.

"How long has it been since this house was repaired?" Xiao Liege asked.

Xue Zhijing thought for a while, "Two years? Three years? When I brought my empress back last time, did you repair it? It should be repaired. But at that time, there were few people in the palace, so I couldn't take care of it. It will cost a lot of money. Well, the division of labor among the various departments in the palace is also less, it seems that no one asked me to repair the palace at that time."

Xiao Liege gave her a blank look, "So, you don't know how long you haven't cultivated?"

"This?" Xue Zhijing really couldn't remember how long it had been since it was repaired, "It looks fine on weekdays, how can the tiles fall off?"

"Your house, how do I know!" Xiao Liege was almost surprised, "You spend so much money every day in the Royal Comprehensive University, Women's College, and future compulsory education, and you don't know where you live. No repairs?"

"The place where I live is the place where the two of us live. Didn't we live in this palace and this hall together?" Xue Zhijing also tried to correct the inaccuracies in Xiao Lie's words.

"Yes, we moved in together. I haven't seen you arrange someone to repair it from before moving in to after moving in?" Xiao Liege patted his forehead, "My tent in our Liao King's family is repaired every year. It had to be repaired. That year I lived in Shangjing for a period of time. Before I moved in, I specially allocated funds from the national treasury to have people repair the whole thing. I replaced several large pillars that were eaten by insects, and they were transported from the forests of Beihai. The three people in the past surrounded such a thick tree trunk, and all the houses were replaced with new tiles and new paint. What are you? Don’t talk about paint, you should at least change the tiles.”

"Okay, I'll have someone change the tile tomorrow."

Xue Zhijing said with a smile, "It's okay, look, it's not falling off now, probably, it's just a piece or two of tiles loose."

"Are you just changing the tiles?" Xiao Liege looked shocked, "You must have someone check if the pillars are not eaten by moths, if the corners are moldy, and if the beams are broken and need to be replaced."

Xue Zhijing finally sighed, and said, "Baby, palace renovation is a big project, and it will cost a lot of money to get it done. I think it's unnecessary for the two of us to live in this palace, and there are less than two hundred people in the palace." Such extensive repairs. You see, most of the harem is locked, save some money, there are many places to spend money now."

Xiao Liege stretched out his index finger and pointed at Xue Zhijing's nose, "Xue Zhijing! You money fanatic, aren't you the God of Wealth? Do millions of copper coins flow in and out? Why don't you even repair the place where you live? I don’t have any money at all. If you don’t have the money to repair the house, I’ll give you the money to repair all of your dilapidated hall. I don’t want to drop a tile when I sleep at night, disturbing my sleep. "

"Really?"

Xiao Liege was so angry that he simply stepped forward and started to knead Xue Zhijing's face into a bun shape.

That is to say, the two of them don't like to let the palace people wait on them, otherwise, with their slapstick appearance, their image will probably be gone long ago.

"It's true, you are a big money addict, you don't spend money on yourself, and you don't know what you want to do as the emperor."

Xue Zhijing hugged her waist and scratched the soft flesh on her waist, making Xiao Liege let go of her face so itchy, she leaned forward and kissed Xiao Liege's lips a few times, smiling Said, "No, my baby will spend money for me, happy!"

"I didn't spend it for you. I also live in this place."

"Yes, yes, it's for us."

However, for the sake of safety, in the end, the two of them did not live in Jianzhang Palace, and lived in another palace room, but that palace room was a bit small, so they could make do with staying for one night.

Xiao Liege even suggested, otherwise, they will live in a tent tomorrow night?

When Xiao Liege talked about the tent, he didn't know what hit Xue Zhijing's mind, and made her kiss him again with a smile, and went all the way down.

After a long time, Xiao Liege almost tore down the bed frame in this small palace.

While she was panting, she was still thinking, well, let's build a few more sturdy beds when the house is being repaired, this bed feels like it will be shaken apart by the two of them.

Xue Zhijing got up, wiped his mouth with the small towel on the shelf beside the bed, went to the table with a smile and drank some water, and then sat back on the bed with the water glass.

Xiao Liege was too tired to open his eyes, Xue Zhijing coaxed, "Hey, get up and drink some water."

Xiao Liege waved his hand at her, really exhausted.

Xue Zhijing had no choice but to take a sip of water by himself, and then brought it to Xiao Liege's lips, letting her drink it.

Back on the bed again, Xiao Liege hugged Xiao Liege from behind, and Xiao Liege asked sullenly, "It's just a tent, why are you so excited?"

Xue Zhijing kissed her on the hair, "I remember when we were in the court of the Liao King, we spent every day in your tent, I still miss it."

"Oh! You weren't so demanding back then."

"..."

Royal Comprehensive University, in Sun Miaoer's small courtyard.

After all, Sun Miaoer did not use acupuncture for Yuan Jin, but used moxibustion for her.

Moxibustion is to knead fine moxa into strips, ignite and simmer to fumigate the affected area.Some methods are more ruthless, directly on the skin.