I heard my brother is a tyrant

"Aunt He said that my brother is very busy with many things, and it's very hard outside. Tell me to be more considerate of my brother."

"I guess it's her too."

Xie Dan picked up a piece of pouched beef and brought it to her mouth. The beef ribs were wrapped in lotus leaves and steamed until soft. The seasoning was not too much. The aroma of the beef was full of the fragrance of lotus leaves. Ye Chu never liked beef and mutton. Well, with such an approach, she is willing to eat a little.

Xie Dan watched her eat the piece of beef, and coaxed her softly: "An'an, you are still young, if you have anything to do, don't listen to others, you should tell your brother. If there is something on your mind, if there is anything you don't understand , you come to ask brother. The two of us are the closest people in this world, you just listen to brother, what do you believe in outsiders?"

"You are still young. Besides, if I feel that I need you to do something for me, I can just tell you not to. He used to take care of you wholeheartedly, and I also think about her credit and affection, but it is hard for her to compare with you." Is my brother still close?"

"Of course not." Ye Chu said.

She thought for a while and smiled: "Brother, don't worry, I don't think Aunt He has any bad intentions, but she doesn't understand the relationship between our brothers and sisters. No matter who says anything, I believe my brother, and I won't say everything outsiders say." letter."

"Yes." Xie Dan smiled, very satisfied with the word "outsider" in her mouth.

In the waterside pavilion by the river, Mrs. He watched the emperor and the girl having a meal talking and laughing, and felt very relieved. His Majesty is very kind to the girl. If the girl can grasp this favor, she will surely be rich and prosperous in the future.It's just that Mrs. He watched from a distance. She taught for a long time last night, and Ye Chu didn't seem to have made any progress. When the emperor came, he didn't stand up to salute. After a meal, the emperor was still busy taking care of her with soup and vegetables.

He thought to himself, after all, the girl is still young, ignorant of worldly affairs, and simple-minded, but the key point is that she doesn't know Xie Dan's real identity.

Regarding the emperor's identity, Xie Dan was not sure, so He never dared to confide a word to Ye Chu, but she couldn't help watching anxiously from the side.

Adding more novelty to the food will inevitably make people taste a few more mouthfuls, and Xie Dan deliberately coaxed her to eat more while chatting, and when Ye Chu put down his chopsticks, he felt quite full, so he ordered Holding brother's hand, the two walked back to the courtyard at a snail's pace.

There are many flowers and trees in the garden, so it is easy to breed mosquitoes. On the way back, Xie Dan was bitten by mosquitoes twice on the wrist, but Ye Chu was not bitten, which made her a little proud.The little girl stayed in the pavilion by the river during the day. In addition to repelling mosquitoes and incense in and around the pavilion, the maids also scented her dress and wore sachets to repel mosquitoes.

On the other hand, Xie Dan, he is a big man who crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood. He usually doesn't like to deal with these incenses, sachets and the like. If he didn't take care to wear a mosquito repellent sachet for him, wouldn't the mosquitoes just bully him?

Sure enough, no one cares.

So Xie Dan told Ye Chu: "Brother was bitten by a mosquito, you are so happy, you little heartless, ask someone to prepare some mosquito repellent sachets for me tomorrow."

Ye Chu smiled and said, "Got it. I have an ointment for mosquito bites. Imperial Physician Xu prepared it. I'll bring it to you."

She herself doesn't know how to make sachets anyway, so it's all right to tell Chunjiang.A few days later, Eunuch Chen saw a rare sachet embroidered with auspicious patterns on the emperor, and his eyes lit up.Waiting for the emperor to change his clothes and prepare to go to court, Eunuch Chen looked at the opportunity, and by tidying up, he couldn't help taking a few careful glances at the sachet.

Tsk tsk, what a good needlework, what a good embroidery, and the workmanship is not inferior to that of Shang Gong Bureau.The one that His Majesty carried on his body, can it be reasonably assumed that it was made by that person himself?

Thinking of the precious little master raised outside the palace, Eunuch Chen actually had a sense of urgency in his heart.

The emperor is now just like those ministers and workers. He comes in during the day and leaves at night, so he treats the palace as a place for errands. Eunuch Chen wants to clean up the front of the imperial court, carefully covering up, and not revealing the slightest bit of wind, otherwise people will know that the emperor's night and night It's not good to leave the palace.On the one hand, he couldn't help but worried, Chang Shun was at Ye's house, if things went on like this, that kid would have a lot of opportunities, wouldn't he be on an equal footing with him.

Naturally, Chen Lianjiang is not stupid to become the Chief Supervisor of the Imperial Palace. All the troubles in this palace and the harem are in his mind.Chen Lianjiang couldn't understand how indifferent and ruthless he was today.

For example, when civil and military officials went north to the border towns to kneel down to welcome the new emperor, everyone in the capital was not idle. The empress dowager ordered to select a harem for the new emperor. To show loyalty and to occupy a seat early, courtiers from aristocratic families packed their heads in the palace. Man, the new emperor hasn't entered Beijing yet, and the harem is already filled with beauties who are fat and thin.

The empress dowager took all the beauties in the palace to show her favor to her grandson. After the emperor ascended the throne, he didn't slap the empress dowager in the face. Once the door is closed, it's like herding sheep, and it doesn't matter.

Now that the emperor keeps people outside the palace, no one can see what the plan is, and they don't know if they will be brought into the palace someday.On the other side of the harem, the empress dowager's side, I'm afraid everyone is also anxious, Chen Lianjiang pondered, the quiet days in front of him may not be long.

Sure enough, as soon as the beginning of autumn passed and the heat continued, another courtier wrote to mention the matter of the general election.Unexpectedly, the emperor agreed this time.

After playing several excerpts of inviting the general election and the Empress Dowager, Xie Dan went down to the court for breakfast, and then he was cleared and drove to the Empress Dowager's Palace of Compassion.

After greeting the Empress Dowager, Xie Dan took the initiative to say that many people in the DPRK and the Central Committee wrote a letter asking for the general election.

The Empress Dowager said: "It should have been like this a long time ago. Ai's family is at this age, and I don't know how many more days they can live. What I hope in my heart is that the children and grandchildren will be around their knees, and the royal family will be able to proliferate and spread. You The royal grandfather is now the only bloodline left by you, the only direct relative. The Ai family hopes that you will soon become a concubine, and that the Ai family will be able to hold a great-grandson in their lifetime. Otherwise, the Ai family will have no face to see you after death Grandfather."

"The emperor's grandmother is right. It's just..." Xie Tan changed his tone, "There are quite a few people in my harem."

"The emperor really dares to say it." It's okay if he didn't mention it, but when he mentioned it, the empress dowager scolded angrily, "You also know that there are many people in the harem, look for yourself, they are also the daughters of important officials from aristocratic families , are all your concubines and concubines, you have been on the throne for almost a year, have you ever stepped into the harem once, if you are exposed to both rain and dew, and give birth to an imperial heir early, why would the Ai family have to worry about this for you?"

"It's because I'm not filial." Xie Tan frowned, and said with a rather perplexed expression, "I'm also puzzled, everyone said that she is a rich girl with both talent and beauty, and she was sent to the palace to accompany her, why didn't she have one? Can please me!"

The empress dowager choked, not knowing how to refute.

The empress dowager said angrily: "Isn't the emperor a rascal? There are so many beauties in the palace, which one have you seen and recognized? You haven't seen it, why don't you like it? They are all the daughters of important officials of the family. The emperor really doesn't like it." They should be left out like this.”

"They entered the palace to accompany them, but they didn't make me like them. Could it be my fault?"

Xie Dan smiled lightly and said, "Don't be upset, Grandmother, it's not our grandparents' fault, it's theirs if it's the fault, it can be seen that the people they stuffed in at the beginning were mixed, good and bad, and few of them were good. Fortunately, the emperor's grandmother has the foresight. Most of these people do not have the title of concubine, and many of them are female officials. If they feel neglected and feel distressed, whoever sent it in, whoever sent it in, they can take it back. I can save it Spend money to support idlers."

This is the truth, Xie Dan hadn't even arrived in the capital at the time, and everyone in the capital couldn't figure out how deep he was, and they didn't even know if the new emperor could really stand up. Those who are sent in to occupy seats at home focus on the word "sex". Most of them are offspring, concubines and the like. Those who are really valuable and worthy of the high position of empress and concubine will not be sent in this way.

As for the titles of concubines, Xie Dan closed the door of the harem and ignored them. Except for the number of titles that the empress dowager valued at the time, where did the titles come from? There is a female official with a good family background The status, the family background is low, may not even have the status of a serious female official.

Beauties are not easy to keep, they are like beasts swallowing gold.He's making an opening now, and if the family is reluctant, they can take it back quickly to save some money.

Xie Dan said: "I will tell you the truth, I am also in a dilemma regarding the general election. Now that I have been enthroned for less than a year, the internal funds are empty, the people are poor and weak, and the country urgently needs to recuperate. People in the world are afraid that they will scold me for being so blinded by my color and not caring about the suffering of the people."

The Empress Dowager said: "It's not like that, you haven't become a concubine yet, and there are not many concubines in the palace. The general election is originally a ancestral rule."

Xie Dan sighed softly: "Grandmother also knows that since King Rui usurped the throne, the mountains and rivers have been turbulent and chaotic. Dazhou's ancestral foundation has long been riddled with holes. If there is another mistake, our grandchildren will be destroyed." What about the two? My grandson also wants to be elected, so I need the time and money."

"Then what are you going to do? Is the general election inevitable?" The Empress Dowager said, "That's ancestral regulations. Besides, who is the Ai family for? If you set up a concubine and give birth to a few great-grandchildren for the Ai family, Aijia is too lazy to care about you."

Xie Dan was not in a hurry, and when the empress dowager finished counting, he said calmly: "What grandson means is that it should be selected, and only the daughters of officials of the fifth rank and above in the imperial court can participate in the election. Choose a queen for me from among the common people. A family can send one person to participate in the election, and only three or five people can be selected. Three is appropriate, and no more than five. I will scare these people who pretend to be numbers. It is better not to be more , save too many people, and let all the people in the world scold me for being stupid and lustful."

The Empress Dowager wanted to say, people in the world call you cruel and inhumane every day, and I don't see you have any scruples.

But after thinking for a moment, she nodded in agreement.

"Then I will entrust this matter to the imperial grandmother." Xie Dan said, "The imperial grandmother has been in charge of the harem for decades, and my grandson believes in your vision and consideration, so I also ask the imperial grandmother to take care of it and organize this selection for my grandson. "

"Let me take care of it?" The Empress Dowager said, "You hand it over to the Ministry of Rites, Ai's family is an old bone, why do you have to let Ai's family take care of it?"

Xie Dan smiled: "The Ministry of Rites can't be in charge, my grandson is busy with government affairs, and I can't spare time, so I have to entrust everything to the emperor's grandmother. You are my emperor's grandmother, my only surviving direct elder, and it is related to my harem and concubines. You're the only one to be in charge."

After chatting here, it was decided, Xie Dan got up to leave.

The Empress Dowager hesitated for a moment, and said: "I know you are busy, so go and do your own work. Ai's family is also lonely in this palace all day long, and I want to ask your cousin from the Chu family to come to the palace to accompany Ai's family. How good do you think?" ?”

Xie Dan said: "Why do you need to tell me about these small things. I remember several cousins ​​in the Chu family. The imperial grandmother likes to be lively, so she often summons you to accompany you. Don't worry, the imperial grandmother, the cousin is a boudoir girl with a noble status. I will tell Yuqian to avoid it more." Hold on, don't collide."

When the Empress Dowager hears this meaning, you can just pick it up, as I am a "outsider", I will consciously avoid it.Seeing the back of the black dragon robe stepping out of the hall, the Empress Dowager couldn't help sighing.

The nanny beside her said: "Your Majesty is still very filial to the Empress Dowager."

"What do you know," said the Empress Dowager, "He just gave me a problem. His empress position is vacant, and the high positions in the sixth palace are also vacant. How many eyes are staring at him? But they are all important ministers, so just choose three or five people... just wait, how many troubles will arise."

The nanny smiled and said, "But that's fine too. This is for you to choose a granddaughter-in-law. You have to choose a few that suit you. Who are you? It's hard to live with you."