[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Xin Xiuyan's memory is only sporadically able to recall some scenes of being A Piao, she doesn't remember the rebirth, and of course she doesn't remember Yang Shi, but she has also heard of the grievances between the two.

Facing such a little girl, Xin Xiuyan was not really annoyed, she smiled lightly and said: "If you don't want me to take care of you, of course I won't take care of you. You can leave now, sorry for your disrespect."

Tu Xin got up annoyed and said, "I don't..."

Tu Hui grabbed her tightly: "Sister Huang!"

Tu Xin has resentment in her heart, but if she says she is not afraid, she is deceiving herself and others. If she is not good enough to offend her, her life will be lost.I heard that this woman killed people like hemp, and even killed demons back then.

Tu Xin sat down, Tu Hui stared at her and suppressed it.

Xin Xiuyan paused, and said, "Now, do you still have objections to participating in this 'Marriage and Employment Guidance Lecture'?"

The four looked at each other, and Tu Xian said: "Empress, I... didn't understand."

Xin Xiuyan said: "It is to guide you to marry in the future to marry, and to marry a daughter-in-law. In the future, you will have real talents, careers, self-reliance, and self-improvement. Don't be like those useless clans in the previous Ming Dynasty."

She also heard this kind of lectures before graduation, not to mention very useful, after all, anyone's life still depends on themselves.But it still has guiding significance for changing feudal thinking, establishing positive three views, setting small goals and so on.

Tu Xin felt wronged in his heart, and said, "I...we are also the children of the emperor, so...do we want to be like the common people?"

Xin Xiuyan chuckled lightly and said, "Many high-ranking, famous and wealthy people were all herding cowherds back then. What happened to the common people? Your gold branches and jade leaves are enshrined by the common people, but what did you give to the common people? Every piece of grass and paper, the fat of the people and the anointing of the people, you should deal with it." Be in awe!"

Tu Xin was annoyed and said, "Is the empress trying to restrict our monthly regulations? We are supported by the people for nothing, and you yourself are rich and unparalleled..."

"Sister Huang!" Tu Hui shouted angrily.

Xin Xiuyan let out a long sigh, it is not bad that this eldest princess has a peaceful life.

Xin Xiuyan sighed: "Your status will not be less than you, but what kind of husband you can marry and what kind of future your son will have, don't you have to work hard? Just like your father and emperor working hard now, you have yours." Ronghua. Of course, it’s not for you to win the heir, 360 lines, every line will be the number one.”

The two princes hurriedly got up and said in panic: "I dare not."

Xin Xiuyan said: "I don't like politeness and hypocrisy, but I don't have any malicious intentions."

Seeing that Tu Xin pursed her lips and couldn't speak for a while, she was not convinced, but she didn't have the courage to give up everything to fight.She only thought that she deserved the glory of the royal family, but the past of the Yang family and the real origin of the Yang family made him feel inferior.Having grown up to this age, of course she also understands the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason committed by the Yang family back then and the truth that Yang Huaigu is actually a "disabled person".But she was not convinced that Empress Xing and her children had taken great advantage, and she was also the daughter of the emperor.

Xin Xiuyan also said that the reason why her father did not give them marriages easily was not because she didn't care at all, but because she hoped that they could find someone they really loved when they were young.

"Give a marriage rashly. If you end up resenting your spouse and harming others and yourself, you are still young at this time, so you still have a chance. The first prince and the second prince are really 25, and there is no one they like. I think your father will have to The one who gave you the marriage. The most precious thing in life is to love what I love and do what I want. You have such an opportunity, but you are better than your father's generation."

Tu Xian said: "Empress, if we really want to choose by ourselves, then we must have a beautiful girl to choose for us."

Xin Xiuyan came to oppose the draft and said: "There will be no more drafts in this dynasty, but a charity conference will be held in this dynasty. On the one hand, it will benefit the country and the people, and on the other hand, it will help young men and women to show their talents. Those who are interested can find beautiful women by themselves. Big fanfare for the draft."

The expression on his face was strange, the father actually allowed the queen to break the ancestral system like this, the father himself was full and didn't know the hunger.

Xin Xiuyan also said that they could be asked to prepare for the reconstruction of the South City, get to know more people, learn how to deal with people and do practical things.

Seeing their surprised faces, she still persuaded softly: "If you know more people, you will know who are just talking and who are doing practical things to benefit the people. This is also an opportunity to show your abilities, attitudes, and morals. People appreciate you, wishing to marry their best daughters to you, and will help you wholeheartedly in the future, this is a real man. Your mother clan is already like this, so the wife clan is naturally very important."

Tu Xian didn't take it seriously, but Tu Hui thanked him with a complicated expression.Xin Xiuyan asked the two princesses to work together, even sharing the management of the accounts, and let the ladies in charge and nuns under Daiyu's daughters teach them.

But Tu Xin became even more indignant, and said: "Empress, you have already won, you have won the favor of the emperor, and I have fallen into the dust. But why do you humiliate me now, and treat me as a slave under the hands of a married woman?" The housekeeper's wife order?"

Tu Hui wanted to drink her, but Tu Xin was already in tears, full of resentment and pitiful.

Xin Xiuyan let out a long sigh in her heart, and thought to herself: Not all women want to know this world and learn the skills to settle down in the future.The Buddha wants to save all living beings and spread the Dharma, but there are some people in this world who do not believe in the Buddha, let alone she is not a Buddha. Freedom of "religious belief" cannot be forced.

Xin Xiuyan said: "You feel wronged, so what is the best arrangement for you?"

Tu Xin pursed her lips and said, "Jiu Gugu received the gold book at the age of 13, and now I'm almost twenty... Jiu Gugu is also married to the prince's son of Xining County. In the future, she will not only be a princess, but also a solid princess .I am also my father's biological daughter... It's just that some people don't like me, and my life is miserable."

Originally, with her brother present, it was absolutely impossible for Tu Xin to say such a thing, but at her age, no one in the palace had ever really asked her about her future, she had been suppressed in her heart for a long time, and this was a chance to vent.After today, no one can tell when she will receive the gold book, and no one can know what kind of family she wants to marry.

Xin Xiuyan only felt the veins floating in her forehead, and she couldn't breathe out or swallow it.

Xin Xiuyan stopped Tu Hui's intercession, she finally let out a sigh of relief, and said: "If you want to receive the gold book, I will tell your father. But the marriage with Princess De is the prince of Xining County who asked the old sage himself. Yes, my fair lady, a gentleman is so good. Even if there is no such person to ask you to marry, then you really answered your words, you don’t have a life, your life is hard. Life is given by God.”

Tu Xin finally couldn't hold back, hated and wronged, waved her face and got up and ran. There was no one waiting nearby, so it was convenient for Xin Xiuyan to talk to them, but now no one stopped her.

Xin Xiuyan glanced at Tu Hui coldly, so that he didn't need to talk nonsense about pleading, she looked at Tu Yue again, and asked, "What is the second princess' plan?"

This princess who participated in the rebellion in Tu Yuanyi's previous life is in a different situation today. Since she can remember, she has been watching people's faces since she was a child. Although she is timid, she has a clear mind.

Tu Yue said: "The empress's thoughts and thoughts are a hundred times greater than those of my son's ministers. The son's ministers are in charge of the empress's empress. If you really go to learn some skills and know some people, there will be no harm."

Xin Xiuyan said: "It's so good, what you learn is always your own."

……

In the evening, Xin Xiuyan also informed Tu Yuanyi of today's events, making a plain statement without any subjective color.

Tu Yuanyi narrowed his phoenix eyes, looked at her face again, and said, "That's all for the eldest princess, and the emperor can't say anything."

When Xin Xiuyan heard that he was speaking from her standpoint, she felt depressed in her heart.Since then, I will not worry about it any more, but I have not carefully remembered the small faults, and completely left them behind.

Judging from the attitude of disregarding his former children, she is not a good wife, nor is she a good stepmother, no one is perfect, Tu Yuanyi also knows her temperament, and did not force her.

After that, Tu Yuanyi also asked the workers to allocate three mansions, which were smaller than Rongguo Mansion, and prepared a set of equipment and personnel.The eldest prince and the second prince have not fully graduated from the Royal Academy, so naturally they cannot be crowned kings, so this is a bald prince's mansion.But Tu Xin wanted to receive the gold book, so Tu Yuanyi named her "Princess Anning" and asked her to move to the Princess Mansion to live alone.

Tu Yuanyi summoned the Eldest Princess once alone, and wanted to teach her as a father, but seeing that she was just showing grievances, and her eyes were very similar to Yang's, especially when she was not angry, Tu Yuanyi also extinguished it. Thoughts.Instead, arrange two more nuns to teach her for a few years, but these are not slaves who sell themselves, and they will be able to leave the princess mansion in the future.

Naturally, the high society in Kyoto would not think that the Eldest Princess is a sign of being favored. Because the Eldest Princess has no good reputation and is born of the Yang family, everyone is afraid of being her concubine.It's still Tu Hui who is still thinking of his mother and compatriots after all, so he will take care of her more in the future.

……

Jia Lian patrolled Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces with Shangfang's sword, handled dozens of frontier cases, and left home for a year, and did not return to Beijing until this spring.

Nearly a hundred candidates for Jinshi he brought filled the vacancies of the corrupt officials he had taken down, and some corrupt officials who had committed the most heinous crimes were executed after the public trial.

He spent a new year in Guangzhou before going north, and when he arrived in Kyoto, he had just passed the Spring Festival, and the first thing he saw when he returned to Beijing was of course to enter the palace to meet the saint.

Entering the palace at noon, I was summoned by the emperor in the imperial study room of the Hall of Liangyi, and also saw the empress sitting beside the emperor.Last year, the queen was still in court. He was not in Beijing, but he also received news when he was in Guangzhou.When I saw the queen this time, I felt that she was even more different from before.

The emperor asked him about the customs and customs of the four provinces one by one. He had been an official for many years and knew what the emperor wanted to hear, so he told him in detail.The emperor listened to what he said every time to the point, but he didn't show any emotion on his face.

It took nearly an hour before the emperor let him kneel down and let him go home to enjoy the family relationship for a few days off.

After Jia Lian left, Tu Yuanyi showed concern, and talked to Xin Xiuyan about the large number of local-official conflicts in the southwest and the difficult government orders.

Xin Xiuyan sighed: "It's not so easy to solve the grievances and grievances of the natives for hundreds of years. The Yuan and Ming dynasties drove the seedlings up the mountain, and the Jiuli clan is full of distrust towards the Han people."

Xin Xiuyan also traveled to some Miao villages in modern times. The Miao people do not recognize that they are descendants of Yan and Huang, they are descendants of Chi You.

Tu Yuanyi said: "If we continue to chase seedlings until..."

Xin Xiuyan knew that when only facing her, Tu Yuanyi spoke more casually, he would not weigh things up and down, and would even say that he knew in his heart that he had wrong ideas.

Tu Yuanyi smiled again: "That's not possible, can we follow what you did in Sichuan?"

Xin Xiuyan said: "Sichuan has reshuffled the cards, including the Miao people who have also divided their fields. The resistance is not small. I have done a lot of ideological education. When the Miao people divided the land, I went to supervise it personally and made an oath. Just a little bit of understanding."

In any case, the Han people in Yunnan and Guizhou are now the foundation of Dazhou there.If there is no war, there is no reason to dig your own roots, so what do people in the world think?

When Tu Yuanyi heard the reshuffle, he couldn't help thinking of a piece of land. In the 15th year of Qianyuan in his previous life, An Nanguo violated the border and fought a big battle. His confidant Lu Kun made great contributions at that time.

However, when the national treasury was empty, he and the cabinet ministers did not want to be dragged into the war. Although they won the war, they withdrew from the territory and accepted their tribute.Turks/Contradiction is difficult to resolve, this is an internal contradiction, wouldn't it be enough to turn it into an external contradiction?

At this time, Tu Yuanyi's thoughts were floating, but he didn't tell his wife, in case she gave her a meaningful look again, as if to say, "Do you think you are a seven-point boy?"

……

When Jia Lian returned to the first-class general's mansion, the door of the general's mansion was naturally wide open. Lin Zhixiao and a group of respectable stewards greeted him respectfully at the door.Seeing Jia Lian coming back on horseback escorted by Jin Yiwei, his eyes lit up, and he led his servants to greet him.

Jia Lian dismounted and thanked Jin Yiwei. Lin Zhixiao stepped forward and said, "My lord, you are finally back. Everyone in the house is looking forward to the stars and the moon. The master and wife are waiting for you in Rongxi hall!"

Jia Lian smiled and said, "Where's grandma?"

Lin Zhixiao said: "Aunt Ping is back too, Grandma is with her."

Jia Lian thought that their master and servant might have something to say. Wang Xifeng is a formidable one. Although Ping'er became an aunt, she has no children.I followed him outside to take care of his daily life for a year, but I didn't dare to stop the medicine without authorization to make him healthy. I just put him in jail.

He often went out on inspections, Wang Xifeng, as the grandmother in charge, of course couldn't follow her, and if Ping'er was a girl, she was afraid that she would not be able to hold down women who wanted to be superior outside, so she became an aunt.

However, every time he went out to follow the twenty Jinyiwei, and there were so many candidates for Jinshi and officials from the Ministry of Criminal Justice, he would spend his time, and he was afraid that these people would inform him of negligence of duty.

It was rare for Jia Amnesty not to listen to plays, play with antiques, and drink with his concubine. When Jia Lian came, he and Mrs. Xing were in the hall.Because of his son's merits, the Holy Grace allowed him to live in the main room, instead of Jia Zheng's unrighteous and disobedient one, who could only live in the side room.

"My son greets his father and mother!"

Jia She caressed his beard and said with a satisfied smile, "Get up, it's been a year since you've been back, what merits have you made?"

Jia Lian said: "It's all the son's job, and there is no credit for it."

Jia Amnesty thought that his son earned some credit for his meritorious deeds, got some rewards or raised his title again, Jia Lian had a clear mind.However, in the officialdom, he understands the principle of taking credit and not being arrogant. If you want to say what credit you have, the Holy Spirit won't be clear in his heart?Is taking credit and pride to blame the saint for not being promoted to rank?Such an official and a person will fall out of favor sooner or later.

Mrs. Xing said: "Lian'er has worked so hard all the way back, the master is too busy asking questions, and doesn't let him sit down and have a sip of tea first."

Only then did Jia She let Jia Lian sit down, the maid served tea, Jia Lian drank a couple of sips, and then answered Jia She's words. He didn't dare to talk too much about the important affairs of the court, so he only talked about the scenery along the way.

Jia Amnesty asked the emperor's intention again, and Jia Lian clasped his fists to the north and said, "How can the holy intention be guessed? The son entered the palace only to answer in front of the holy majesty, but he still saw the empress. The empress is still in court. Congratulations."

Mrs. Xing said with a smile: "In mid-August last year, the empress returned to court, and many things have happened in the past six months."

After talking for a while, the second elder still let him go back to his yard first.

Jia Lian went back to his yard surrounded by his servants, and saw Wang Xifeng, Ping'er and several children waiting in the yard.

Wang Xifeng's eyes turned red when he saw him, and the sons and daughters came forward to say hello, Jia Lian said with a smile: "Get up, there is such a big battle in my family."

Speaking of which, Jia Lian stepped forward and took Wang Xifeng's hand, and said with a smile, "Grandma hates me, and she cried when she saw me."

Wang Xifeng was so angry that he beat him, he smiled and took people back to the house, Ping'er stopped Qiaojie and asked them to have a conversation first.

It was almost evening, and if Jia Lian wanted to make out with Wang Xifeng, he would have to wait until evening, so the two sat on the kang and talked.

Speaking of Jia Huan and Tanchun getting married, Jia Lian nodded and said, "At this age, it's good to have a family."

Wang Xifeng didn't take it seriously, and then said Jia Huan's marriage partner, and then said that he and Xiren had a child outside.

Jia Lian paused and said, "Which Xiren?" It was because Jia Baoyu's phoenix egg was so special back then. Xiren was a maid on the same level as Ping'er and Yuanyang, with a special name, which Jia Lian still remembered.

Wang Xifeng said: "There is another attacker, the one in Baoyu's house back then, who later said that he followed Brother Huan and did a lot of business together."

Jia Lian couldn't help being stunned, he was not a Taoist, and even different from other ancient men, he rarely used the ancient chastity shackles to demand women, but it was still too surprising.

When Wang Xifeng talked about what happened later, Jia Lian sighed, "How can Brother Huan be so confused in his intelligence?"

Wang Xifeng said: "This is not confused, it's too calculated, and I can't see the other side. As a man, I don't have any responsibility at all."

Jia Lian knew that Jia Huan was capable, so he said something for him: "Men also have difficulties like men."

Wang Xifeng said: "I think he is bent on climbing high, and he deserves it. Now even Baoyu is better than him."

Although Jia Lian hated Mrs. Wang and disliked Jia Zheng, and knew that Mrs. Wang's starting point was mostly for Baoyu, he didn't dislike the simple-minded Jia Baoyu very much, even Jia She loved Baoyu back then.Otherwise, when Ma Daopo killed Baoyu in the original book, he would always insist on saving Baoyu.

This seems like a paradox, but it actually exists.