Ding Tian's Ancient Life

Even with a lot of candles lit, Ding Tian couldn't see the whole palace clearly at night, he could only vaguely see some outlines, hidden between the flickering light and dark, plus the people here walked silently, bowed their heads, With his chest in his arms, he looks like a ghost floating by, especially with the aura of shooting ghost movies, such as "deep palace old ghost", "fierce ghost story" and so on....

Fortunately, he only entered the range of the front palace, and because it was impossible to wander around at night, he was directly brought into Qianqing by Emperor Yongqing.

palace.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Ding Tian, ​​together with several ministers, was placed to rest in the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace. There are four icebergs in the East Nuan Pavilion, which is very cool. You can also go to relieve yourself, give a compliment, etc., and the treatment cannot be more advanced.

What's more, there is even a ice mirror, which contains not fruits, but popsicles and ice cream made by Ding Tian.

It's actually homemade popsicles and ice cream and things like that, and of course, scrambled yogurt.

Popsicles are sugar water mixed with fruit juice and frozen into popsicles. They taste better than those that come off the assembly line in later generations.The ice cream is a bit more advanced, using pure milk and goat milk, boiled to thicken, and then frozen.

To put it bluntly, Ding Tian thought of this thing and asked Wang Zuo to present it in the palace to honor Emperor Yongqing.

Moreover, Ding Tian followed the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment very discerningly. Anyway, his current official position, except for the title, is attached to the Ministry of Punishment.

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice was also willing to take care of him, and Ding Tian stood behind the old Shangshu, bringing him tea and water, and breaking ice cream for him....

Of the other six ministers, Ding Tian only knew one Minister of Rites, Mr. Cui, so he visited Mr. Cui more often.

"Master Ding, why do you look at Cui Shangshu so often?" Minister of the Ministry of Officials asked Ding Tian curiously.

"No, I just remembered what they said about 'Fantasy Lantern'...a little curious...hehe..." Ding Tian quickly thought of an excuse.

In fact, he was absent-minded and a little dazed, but he couldn't drag his boss to look at it, so he looked at the only person he knew. "This old man and Mrs. Ding are also predestined. Last time... eh, Mrs. Ding is more attractive than this old man. Back then, this old man and Zhuo Jing just looked at beauties under the lamp, but Mrs. Ding has a beauty who offered to embrace her!" Cui Cui Even though Shang Shu is a minister of the Ministry of Rites, he is not an idiot. He understood what happened that day when he thought about it.

Immediately, I have opinions on the tutoring in Chengyibo's residence.

They are now acquaintances.

Ding Tian followed the Minister of the Ministry of Justice and was familiar with the Minister of the Ministry of Rites. This surprised the other four ministers. Ding Tian was an honest person, and he was a civil servant in his previous life. He still had some problems with the superiors. The Minister of the Ministry of Justice mentioned Ding Tian Very conscientious in managing the cell.

At the same time, Ding Tian also said flatteringly that Master Shangshu is fair, and their prison would not be reformed so quickly if Master Shangshu did not take care of them.

Everyone carried the sedan chairs, such a conversation was very appropriate, and the room was full of joy.

But above the main hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the atmosphere is not very good.

"Tell me, what do you think? Ding Tian has no choice but to use that excuse, what about you?" Emperor Yongqing looked at Wang Zuo angrily: "If you really only like men, then your stepmother will be happy, no trouble With a little effort, her son became the heir to Prince Ning's Mansion."

Isn't it!

In the early years, Wang Zuo's methods were fierce and straightforward, and he broke away from the family, and even divided the clan. In their branch, he and Wang You brothers were left.

And he's the same father's brother.

If Wang Zuo had no heir, Wang You would have won without a fight.

"At that time, I had no other choice." Wang Zuo said, "Besides, this is the best result that I have considered for a long time.

"

"What a good result? A good result is that you want to kill off your children and grandchildren?" Emperor Yongqing was so angry!

He really loves Wang Zuo, and when he took care of half of his son, Wang Zuo's father spared no effort to support Emperor Yongqing in secret, so that Emperor Yongqing had the last laugh in the turbulent battle for the succession .

But before he wanted to repay, Old King Ning got sick and died.

So all his rewards were given to Wang Zuo. At the same time, he really couldn't understand the old Ning Wang's habit of doting on his stepmother.

, Knowing that the Changchun Marquis Mansion is uneasy and kind, but gave birth to a son with that woman?He still doesn't like the eldest son... If he hadn't had the face of Princess Chunyang, he wouldn't have caught the line of the old King Ning....

Alas, speaking of it, these relationships between them are really being cut and confused.

But anyway, King Ning has some royal blood, so of course he has to plan for his future.

"Uncle Emperor, please listen to my nephew." Wang Zuo said seriously: "I know that the eight iron hat kings are a bit too big now. The first emperor worked hard with you to weaken it, but this is the only way to go. If you go further, how will future generations comment on the royal family? ?Flying birds are exhausted, good bows are hidden? Or are rabbits and dogs cooking? The palace of the eight iron hat kings will distribute 2 taels of silver every year in accordance with the specifications of the super prince, and eight of them are 16 taels of silver. As far as I know, the annual expenditure in the palace is only 100 million taels of silver. Sometimes, if you are a bit more frugal, it is less than 100 million taels. The national taxes are tens of millions of taels, and they are thrown away to distribute salaries to the army and hundreds of officials. Yes, the treasury will have a balance of 10,000+ taels... You have saved for ten years before you dare to fight the barbarians in the north. It is also because of the appearance of hot weapons that you have won so many victories. However, you handed over hot weapons to the minister to develop And use, if I have any bad intentions, I am afraid that I would have done it by now!"

"Actually, you didn't." Emperor Yongqing said proudly, "I know the child I raised."

"Yes, of course you are not afraid now, but what about the future?" Wang Zuo could understand the emperor's mind, which is why he said so rebelliously: "I was raised by you, so I am naturally loyal. Then what about the future? My son, What about grandchildren and great-grandchildren? Can you guarantee that they will also be loyal to the royal family?"

"Zhen will teach your son and grandson well..." Emperor Yongqing insisted.

"Duke Zhou was afraid of the days of rumors, and when Wang Mang was courteous and virtuous." Wang Zuo took the blame for himself very happily: "I don't want the court to be turbulent, and I don't want my children and grandchildren to be unfilial. Uneasy

Heart. "

Emperor Yongqing remained silent. Who can deduce what happened afterward?

"And I'm really not interested in women..." Wang Zuo put on a troubled look again: "What I said is true..." "What's going on?" Emperor Yongqing was shocked, he really didn't see her I have never seen Wang Zuo favor any woman before, whether it is beautiful, glamorous, naive or seductive, I have never seen him show any kindness to young women, even his cousins ​​are the same: "Could it be You really……?"

"No." Wang Zuo knew that he couldn't speak too rigidly once, and had to be gradual, so he put on a bitter cauliflower look: "You know the experience of the minister. From then on, I have no interest in women... As soon as I thought that they didn't know who sent them, or that they had other purposes for me, I just wanted to drive them away from a distance, or simply slaughter them, and I don't see them for nothing!"

"Girls from decent families... can't do it?" Emperor Yongqing was really frightened. This was different from Ding Tian. Ding Tian had no choice but Wang Zuo didn't like women approaching him from the bottom of his heart.

"It's the same whether it's upright or not." Wang Zuo curled his lips: "The stepmother of the minister, when did the whole thing not be a lady of everyone? From the concubine daughter of the Changchun Marquis Mansion, to the concubine daughter of the Changchun Marquis Mansion, from several Marquis Mansions to the uncle's mansion. , which one is not Miss Qianjin? Besides outside, Hua Kuichen has seen no less than thirty of them!"

Emperor Yongqing smiled embarrassingly: "The beauty is not shallow...."

"I've seen no less than thirty oirans who don't wear clothes," Wang Zuo said out of breath.

"Ahem..." Emperor Yongqing quickly picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, trying to calm himself down.

"There are even more people wearing clothes." Wang Zuo sighed very much: "When I see them now, it's no different from seeing a plate of shredded chicken. I don't feel anything. People say that young Mu Ai, hehe, Chen He went astray when he was a teenager, and now at this age, you can see that there is not even a housemaid around me, so you should know, Chen, I don't have that kind of heart."

"However, if you don't marry a wife, at least take a concubine...and have a child to inherit the incense..." Emperor Yongqing, who was the first and two elders, didn't marry a wife, or it might be because he felt that marriage was dangerous, so he took a concubine, at least for a lifetime. A child passed on: "There are three ways to be unfilial, and having no offspring is the greatest!" "It's not counted as having no offspring, don't you still have several sons!" Wang Zuo said very calmly: "At that time, I can adopt one from you." A grandson is a son."

"Pfft!" Emperor Yongqing immediately sprayed tea: "What did you say?"

Wang Zuo still had that calm look: "At that time, I can adopt an heir from the royal family, and inherit the clan."

"You...do you know what you're talking about?" Emperor Yongqing looked at Wang Zuo with bright eyes: "Don't say such unreasonable things casually, you have a real brother, and Prince Ning's mansion is not the last one!"

If Wang Zuo is the only one, then the royal family still has something to say, but he still has Wang You.

"I don't intend to have Wang You's child. When he gets married, he should be separated and live in another family. Prince Ning's concubine can take care of him. After all, he is a stepmother, and widows have to live in Prince Ning's mansion!" Wang Zuo said very absolutely. : "But after Wang You got married and established a business, he couldn't stay in the palace. The whole family will eat the elder brother, right?"

Concubine Ning was able to deal with Wang Zuo before, one was because Wang Zuo was still young at that time, and the other was because of old Ning Wang's inaction.

tie in.

But later she lost the backing of the old King Ning, and because her background was too low, what kind of insight could a concubine from the Marquis of Changchun have?Frequent stupid tricks have turned the good situation into the current decadent situation.

If the old King Ning was married to the daughter of the Marquis of Changchun, Wang Zuo would have died down long ago and grown up in the palace honestly, waiting to inherit the throne.

The grievance between Wang Zuo and Concubine Ning is too deep, it can be described as a life-and-death enmity, how could it be possible for Wang You's child to inherit the throne?

"You..." Emperor Yongqing was very conflicted. On the one hand, if the future heir of Prince Ning's mansion was the son of the emperor behind him, that is, his grandson, then it would be easy to take back the eight iron hat kings. One of Ning Wang.

But on the other hand, it's not that Prince Ning's mansion has no heirs, the royal family's adoptive...he is afraid that the other seven families will have ideas.

If the royal family gave them adoptive children and grandchildren, then the throne must belong to the adopted children and grandchildren of the phoenix and dragon. What is the difference between that and Ming Qiang?

"The other seven families won't think much about it." Wang Zuo saw Emperor Yongqing's entanglement, so he said: "Ning Wang's mansion was so noisy a few years ago, they don't know that there is nothing scary about Changchun Marquis' mansion now. Those who have been down and out all these years can be fine, when the Marquis of Changchun leaves, his son will at most be an Uncle Changchun, and he has no son yet..."

No matter how much Princess Ning wants to rely on her natal family to do evil, she can't.

He was so noisy back then, everyone knew that he and Concubine Ning were deadly enemies, if it wasn't for the restraint of etiquette, he wouldn't even want to serve Concubine Ning.

"Let me think about it, think about it..." Emperor Yongqing temporarily put this question aside.

But Wang Zuo still has something to say: "Ding Tian has already said in front of outsiders that he likes men, and he is of great importance to us, so we should not marry him lightly."

"Originally, I wanted to choose a suitable princess for you, but I don't want to think about it now." Emperor Yongqing smiled bitterly: "There are a few princesses in the palaces who are good, but after Li Fengning... I think Ding Tian also doesn't like the clan. Princess..."

This one, headache ah!

Wang Zuo pursed his lips and said happily: "Ding Tian's marriage used to be cautious, let alone now, he has said that he likes men... Regardless of whether it is true or not, this marriage is good with two surnames. If he finds a wife The family background is too high. Whose daughter of a wealthy family will marry someone who doesn't like red makeup and blue face? It doesn't matter if the family background is low, he is now the title of General Fuguo. Besides, he is too important to us. As soon as you have a wife, you can talk to each other at night, why don’t you talk about it? Hot weapons are now in the barracks, and many people are asking, how many spies have been arrested? How many spies have been killed? The power of hot weapons!" As the person in charge of this super killer weapon, Wang Zuotai knew the power of those hot weapons that Ding Tian had mentioned.

"Not only the natives, but also those from outside. The rogues from Dongying killed no less than [-]... In the future, don't be too polite to those vassals. Just reprimand those who are disobedient and come back again. New cannons have been installed on the ships, which will surely blow them away!" Wang Zuo said, "Now no one knows that it is Ding Tian's contribution, but if he marries a wife and has children, he will inevitably pass these things on to his descendants..."

After all, Emperor Yongqing was the emperor, so he thought for a while: "Then Ding Tian... must not let people get married, right?"

"Looking at what he means, it seems that he has no plans to get married. Their family has no shortage of heirs to offer incense. The big deal is that they can adopt a child from his cousin?" No need to come to Beijing, just his son in name, guarding the graveyard of his parents and ancestors at home, and their hometown is a village with one surname, so they can just live in their hometown." Wang Zuo flickered for a while, making Emperor Yongqing think carefully feasibility of this matter.

However, because he only ate a glass of water and wine at the wedding banquet, Emperor Yongqing talked to Wang Zuo for a while, then calmed down his mood, and summoned Ding Tian to speak without showing any trace on his face.

After Ding Tian came in, he only knew how to kowtow, and he didn't have time to learn the etiquette, so he entered the palace.

"I just said that casually. There are too many things at the wedding banquet, and it's not suitable for you to stay there. Entering the palace with me can be regarded as getting out of that pile of troubles." Emperor Yongqing looked at Ding Tian standing there with an apologetic smile, I was happy: "Okay, the palace has also entered, the Japanese

Later, I often come in to talk with me. "

"Oh." Ding Tian scratched his head, looked up and looked around for a long time: "It turns out that the palace is like this..."

Compared with the magnificent Forbidden City he saw in later generations, it is worse, but the atmosphere is very,

Emperor Yongqing was amused: "It's evening, please have a supper."

"Okay, okay!" Ding Tian nodded hastily: "I am indeed hungry, and... I haven't eaten the imperial banquet yet.

"

Emperor Yongqing invited guests, not only Wang Zuo and Ding Tian, ​​but also six ministers.

Ding Tian had an imperial banquet for the first time. Fortunately, Wang Zuo made a table with him. The food was exquisite and delicious.

After eating, everyone left the palace and said goodbye.

Dispersed for a while, Wang Zuo came to Ding Tian in the middle of the night, and told Ding Tian his plan without any concealment: "Let the light

If we are together honestly, we have to step by step and let them know that we are under pressure to be together, hmph, being good and taking advantage.

"

This is Wang Zuo's plan.

"Then your stepmother will have to suffer." Ding Tian was overjoyed.

When they are together, they are destined to have no heirs. What great news is this for Wang You?

But Wang Zuo would rather adopt the royal bloodline to inherit the clan's son than to kiss his younger brother's son.

Presumably Princess Ning would vomit blood, right?

This ups and downs, the tossing blood pressure is estimated to rise.

"People from the Marquis of Changchun went to Prince Ning's mansion and made an appointment with that woman. Hehe, my younger brother is so scheming that he actually made an appointment with Concubine Ning's sister in the palace." Wang Zuo gritted his teeth: "Let them be happy!"

"Concubine Ning's biological sister?" Ding Tian was taken aback, "Is that the concubine of the Marquis of Changchun?"

"Oral insult '〇"

"Your brother is a concubine!" Ding Tian has been here for so long, he knows the difference between a concubine and a concubine: "Tell him a concubine?"

"It's just a noble concubine, what do you think of as a wife?" Wang Zuo said, "She fell in love with the little princess of Prince Bin's mansion, but he was not liked by others."

"Did you see the one with half-exposed shoulders?" Ding Tian was a little apprehensive.

"You will know tomorrow." Wang Zuo looked very confident, and Ding Tian couldn't continue to be jealous, but it was true that he didn't sleep well all night.

As a result, the next day, Jin Buhuan came to tell him: "Big news! Big news!"

"What big news?" Ding Tian was buried in the first batch of papers.

"The emperor gave Ning Wangfu a marriage!"

The writing brush in Ding Tian's hand fell off all of a sudden, and he looked at Jin Buhuan in surprise: "Where do you want to give the marriage?"

"Prince Ning's Mansion." Jin Buhuan winked and said, "I gave a marriage to the second master of Prince Ning's Mansion."

"Second Master? Wang You?" Ding Tian breathed a sigh of relief, "It's fine if it's not King Ning."

"No, this matter is very lively, let me tell you..." Jin Buhuan was really good at inquiring news, and at the moment, many people on the street were watching the excitement.

Because Emperor Yongqing's "marriage gift" is purely a mess.

He married the daughter of the second son of Prince Bin's Mansion to Wang You of Prince Ning's Mansion instead of Wang Zuo!

The concubine from the Marquis of Changchun was given a marriage to a military officer whose wife had died in Wucheng Bingmasili to fill in the house. The military officer was over [-] years old and already had a son and a daughter. When they grow up, their daughters are married.

The son is also engaged, and he is waiting to get married.

And another crystallization of the marriage between Prince Bin's Mansion and Prince Guo's Mansion was directly recruited by Emperor Yongqing as a show girl, and Wang You became... a noble concubine.

What's more is the imperial decree, which not only has the name and ranking in the family, probably to prevent them from taking advantage of the loopholes, but also comes with the imperial decree of marriage, and the eight nuns distributed by the palace.

A girl has eight nuns who serve her personally every day, and these eight are all of the rank in the palace, not ordinary old nuns, they are all high-ranking female officials.

Wang Zuo once again proved his wisdom to the world. Prince Bin's Mansion, who wanted to cheat him, was really dumb and ate Coptis chinensis. He couldn't tell if he was suffering. Prince Guo's Mansion also had a private quarrel with Prince Bin's Mansion for a while, leaving only a little bit of face. Affection.

The excitement of giving marriages didn't gradually cool down until the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people saw His Highness Ning Wang swaggeringly leading Mr. Ding Tian to certain banquets.

Then there was a gossip: the two are a couple!

Concubine Ning was very excited, but the next day, Wang Zuo taunted her. When she learned that Wang Zuo would adopt the next emperor's son to inherit the throne of King Ning, Concubine Ning screamed and passed out.

Probably because the blood pressure was really too high, Princess Ning was paralyzed!

Emperor Yongqing, who also heard the news, thought for a long time, and summoned His Royal Highness King Ning into the palace, and the two of them were locked alone in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, saying

One afternoon, according to the little eunuch guarding the door, there were quarrels and the sound of throwing things. Anyway, in the end, the monarch and his ministers broke up unhappy.

Ding Tian waited all night, but he didn't see Wang Zuo coming, but the next day, Ding Tian was promoted: he was promoted from the Prison of the Ministry of Punishments to the Prison of Tian Prison, directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, and his immediate superior became Emperor Yongqing is alone!

And then... his level as the jailer of the Heavenly Prison turned out to be the third rank!

Before Ding Tian was surprised, the news that Wang Zuo and him were a couple spread all over the world, and even Wang Zuo told people in public, "We are together."

The evidence is solid, and Ding Tian didn't object, so it's true?

Some officials did not dare to impeach His Royal Highness King Ning, but pursued Ding Tian fiercely.

It was under such circumstances that Ding Tian went to court for the first time....

After everyone attended the salute together, someone jumped out and after a long pause, Ding Tian, ​​who was shaking his head, didn't understand a word. He just looked at Emperor Yongqing in a daze... This is the living emperor!

Unlike the emperor at the tourist attraction in the Forbidden City before, the emperor was a staff member, and he didn't look like a prince in a dragon robe.

But this Emperor Yongqing is different, the emperor who can pant and sit on the dragon chair.

When Emperor Yongqing saw Ding Tian's gaze, he knew what this kid was thinking. He really was... a weirdo?

Thinking of what Wang Zuo said, Emperor Yongqing knew what to do.

The man babbled for a long time, and Emperor Yongqing only asked one sentence: "Ding Tian, ​​what is your position now? What title is it?"

"If you go back to the emperor, Mr. Ding Tian is now ennobled as a general of the auxiliary country, and he is the second rank; the prison officer of the sky prison is the third rank." Wang Zuo said in a clear voice: "And the sky prison directly belongs to you, the emperor."

The sky prison, that is the royal cell.

Emperor Yongqing asked the censor who impeached Ding Tian: "Did you hear me clearly?"

"Listen clearly." The censor was a little dazed.

"Ding Tian's title, do you understand?" Emperor Yongqing pointed at Ding Tian: "This kid will only be under my control in the future, and others should not worry about it."

It is. ”

Everyone doesn't understand, what does this mean?

Ding Tian didn't understand even more, and Cui Shangshu still smiled: "That's right, I think so too."

There were a lot of things in the early court, Ding Tian was just a small matter, after the court was over, Ding Tian, ​​like everyone else, didn't quite understand what Emperor Yongqing meant... What did he mean?

Wang Zuo held his hand and walked uprightly. Others looked at each other in blank dismay. Some old scholars still wanted to speak, but Cui Shangshu stopped them: "You don't even think about it, Ding Tian's title...that is the title of clan. Don't worry, that's also a matter of the clan mansion, what does it have to do with you and my courtiers?"

Everyone choked, and then thought, isn't it!

Since Ding Tian entered Beijing, his title has been very interesting. He was conferred with military merits, but he himself served as a civil servant... Later, he became a patriarch after being successful in saving his family... In this way, Ding Tian is really beyond their control that's it!

On the contrary, Wang Zuo took Ding Tian directly to his king's car this time, and explained to Ding Tian, ​​what did Emperor Yongqing say just now?

what do you mean.

"So I'm already considered a clan?" Ding Tian knew that there was such a saying about his title.

"Yes, in the future, no one can do anything to you, because you are the noble of the clan and the jailer of the prison." Wang Zuo took his hand: "With the emperor here, the future emperor will also cover you."

This is what Wang Zuo looked for for Ding Tian, ​​the biggest backer.

Ding Tian squeezed Wang Zuo's hand: "Yes!"

Wang Jia drove the two of them out of the palace gate and walked all the way back. The autumn wind blew and the fallen leaves were flying. Ding Tian looked outside and said, "After autumn, I will go to work in the prison."

"Okay..." Wang Zuo's mouth curled up slightly, "I'll visit you when I'm free."

After going around for so long and doing so many things, I just want to walk with him in the sun, avoid those annoying flies, and miss him.

Many years later, Wang Zuo really adopted the emperor's son as the heir, and inherited Prince Ning's mansion. Concubine Ning was so angry that she had a stroke and died...

And Ding Tian also adopted a son from his cousin, but this son only met a few times, stayed at home to take care of the ancestral hall, guarded the grave of his grandparents, he was an honest man...

□Author's gossip: That's it for now, but there will be extra updates!