[Comprehensive Wear] It's hard to be a princess

To be honest, Shangguan Jie is still very flexible in his mind, but it is a pity that he was not flexible to the point. First, he falsely accused Huo Guang of colluding with the vassal king. The emperor is not obedient, it is better to change to an obedient emperor!He didn't even think that Liu Kang couldn't control Liu Kang at this age, let alone Liu Dan who had grown up long ago.

Shangguan Jie's fate was miserable. Princess Eyi had experienced several turmoil before, but this time, she touched something that should not be touched. Liu Kang didn't have much affection for this sister. He lived in this life. He has several older sisters, and Princess Eyi did not contribute much to his rise to power. Under such circumstances, Princess Eyi's attempt to rebel naturally only has one word of death.Although Emperor Xiaojing broke the tradition of not humiliating generals, such a tradition still exists in most cases.Therefore, Liu Kang also gave Princess Eyi a decent way to die. He didn't listen to Huo Guang, saying that he was directly sentenced to be cut in half, as a warning to others, but directly gave her a pot of poisonous wine and a three-foot white silk to make her die. Killed himself.As for that outsider Ding, he naturally did not escape the fate of being buried.In Liu Kang's words, the princess had a deep affection for you during her lifetime, and she did so much to confer you an official title, and now it's your turn to continue to serve the princess!

The whole family of Shangguan Jie was killed, but Sang Hongyang escaped because of the previous informant. Even so, he was almost not involved in this matter.This also forced Sang Hongyang to recognize the fact that he couldn't beat Huo Guang.To his dismay, his economic strategy is starting to look out of date.To put it bluntly, Sang Hongyang's previous economic strategy was to build a big government, control everything, and collect taxes on everything.But today’s cultivation of life and rest is similar to the so-called retreat of the country and the advancement of the people in later generations. Under such circumstances, it is politically correct to encourage and support the rise of small and medium-sized businesses, and even to support big businessmen again, instead of continuing to pursue these businessmen. Hit hard and tax everything!Therefore, Sang Hongyang has realized that he has no use in the court, and he is also aware of current affairs. If he doesn't take advantage of the current rapids and retreat bravely, if he waits any longer, will he wait for someone to settle it?

Therefore, Sang Hongyang directly wrote to resign, and after three more requests and three concessions, Liu Kang finally named Sang Hongyang a lieutenant, and named the descendants of Sang Hongyang's family as Langguan. Sang Hongyang was more and more relieved to receive courtesy from each school, and retained Sang Hongyang's right to directly write a letter to discuss politics. After all, after retaining such power, Sang Hongyang didn't have to worry about people leaving the tea and getting caught. A bully comes to the door, otherwise, if he files a complaint, then the other party will be in trouble!

Huo Guang is not someone who will kill them all. Since Sang Hongyang took this step back, Huo Guang will naturally not continue to chase after him. On the contrary, he has given considerable kindness to Sang Hongyang's nephew who stayed in the court. Huo Guang is considered to be the only one in the court.

However, some people felt dissatisfied, mainly Huo Xian, Shangguan Jie's family died cleanly, but the queen was still Shangguan's queen.This woman entered the palace at the age of five or six, and Liu Kang was extremely sympathetic to this wife, so he always loved Empress Shangguan very much. Empress Shangguan was not a spoiled and willful person, on the contrary, she had a gentle and submissive temperament, and was quite Somewhat beautiful, after a few years, even if you have a cat or dog, you should have feelings, let alone a living person!

Therefore, even if Shangguan's family was convicted, Liu Kang did not anger Empress Shangguan, but comforted her a lot. After all, Empress Shangguan married into the palace early, and she didn't have much affection for Shangguan's family. It's more about the relationship of interests. After all, how much affection does a family have for their children who let their young daughter enter the palace for the sake of power?

What's more, a queen without a strong family is not a bad thing for Liu Kang. In the future, it will save her relatives from arbitrating power. Therefore, Liu Kang kept the Shangguan queen and let her live in the Jiaofang Palace. People neglected her.In the palace, the emperor's favor comes first. For the time being, there are no high-ranking concubines in Liu Kang's palace except for the empress Shangguan. Regarding Liu Kang's personnel affairs, Liu Kang kept him here, but he was only appointed as a young envoy. He always remembered Feng Yu's advice, don't be obsessed with women when you are young, you must understand the importance of temperance, otherwise there will be harm to your body. Great impact, ranging from affecting future offspring, to affecting life expectancy.Liu Kang was originally born with some deficiencies, so he needed to pay more attention to this matter.

Liu Kang naturally attaches great importance to his own life, and he does not want to end up with Emperor Xiaohui, like now, because these generations of emperors are all descendants of Emperor Xiaowen, so the sacrifices of Emperor Xiaohui are all They are very perfunctory, and sometimes, when worshiping ancestors together, they even skip it directly.Liu Kang didn't want to be plucked by others. Fortunately, he is different from Liu Che. Liu Kang is not keen on female sex. What he needs now is to get the power in the court from Huo Guang, not to be busy expanding the harem and having children .

Liu Kang doesn't want to expand the harem, but others do!In the eyes of many people, Shangguan's Queen's family is not worthy of continuing to be the mother of the world. As for who the new queen will be, everyone thinks there is hope.One of them who is very enthusiastic about this is Huo Xian.

Huo Xian is Huo Chengjun's daughter, although Huo Guang's son is also very filial to her, but filial piety to Huo Xian is not uncommon.The big man ruled the world with filial piety, even ordinary people were fine, they were so poor, even if they wanted to be filial, they didn't have very good conditions.But for those who want to become an official, filial piety is a necessary condition. Your filial piety may not be regarded as filial and honest, but if you don't have obvious filial piety, then don't expect to have any future at all. No matter how many books you read, No one will recommend you!Therefore, although Huo Xian is only a stepmother, his stepson should not be unfilial at all, even more filial than his own mother, because his own mother is often not picky, but his stepmother is.

Although Huo Xian doesn't have much knowledge, but he has seen a lot of things, so naturally he doesn't feel much about Huo Xian's filial piety, which is more formal than intentional. What she cares most about is the future of Huo Chengjun, the only daughter.In her opinion, her daughter is good at everything, so she deserves the best.

Now that Shangguan's family has been convicted and the status of Shangguan's empress is unstable, Huo Xian feels that his daughter has a chance.Even though my daughter is still young, as long as Huo Guang speaks, who would dare to fight with Huo Chengjun?

Therefore, Huo Xian approached Huo Guang and told him about it.In fact, Huo Guang didn't have any idea about being Liu Kang's father-in-law. He is already an extremely human minister, and being a foreign relative is just icing on the cake. However, Huo Xian burst into tears in front of Huo Guang: "Husband, concubine!" Just such a daughter, I naturally hope that she will be prosperous and prosperous, but she is married to an ordinary family, but there are many unforeseen disasters. Changjun married into a Shangguan family that day, how is it now? But it's also tears day and night! How can I have the heart to become a king and end up in such a situation in the future!"

Huo Guang was silent for a moment. These days, it is really a gamble for a woman to marry. It is fine for ordinary people, but Huo Guang's daughter, concubine daughter can join the Gongqing family, let alone a daughter-in-law!Huo Guang's daughter-in-law is more than enough to be a prince and queen, but in the current situation, there are no princes and kings at the same age as Huo Chengjun. Moreover, princes and queens must live in Fengguo, and it will be rare to see them in the next few years. Huo Guang felt a little reluctant after thinking about it.After such a calculation, it is really the safest to marry the emperor.

After thinking for a while, Huo Guang said: "I think the Son of Heaven has a lot of affection for the Empress, so he can't call Cheng Jun into the palace as a concubine. What's more, Cheng Jun is still the Empress' aunt. This is always a bit inappropriate!"

Huo Xian said disapprovingly: "What's wrong with this, the queen's surname is Shangguan, not Huo! What's more, the Shangguan family is like this, it is inevitable that the queen will hate our family. My husband also said that the emperor has a lot of affection for the queen. Turning back to the queen Wouldn't it be bad if you whispered something in the emperor's ear and caused the emperor to have a rift against our Huo family?"

Huo Guang pondered for a while, and said: "Cheng Jun is still young, this matter is not urgent for now, I will talk about it after I test it out!"

Huo Chengjun is only eleven or twelve years old now, and at this age, he is eager to be sent to the palace to be a queen. It is inevitable that people will criticize him. They think that Huo Guang's appearance is too ugly, so it is better to ask his granddaughter to occupy the position for a few years first.Liu Kang now has a lot of affection for Empress Shangguan, but after a long time, men like the new and dislike the old, and Empress Shangguan lost her natal family, so it is inevitable that there will be some complaints. At that time, it can be logically abolished and then re-established, and Huo Chengjun's age is almost up.

Huo Guang is old and cunning. Liu Kang didn't expect for a while that Huo Guang also had the idea of ​​abolishing the empress. He refuted those ministers who tried to make him abolish the empress in the court, saying that this was the emperor's family business and they were not needed. The courtiers interfered.It was rare for Liu Kang to be so strong in the court, and Huo Guang didn't speak, so those courtiers could only die down.However, I can't be a queen. Liu Kang is not young now, and there is no news from the harem so far. Naturally, at this moment, we should welcome all beauties and spread the branches and leaves for the royal family. Therefore, he simply suggested that Liu Kang choose a concubine.

Regarding this matter, Liu Kang did not mean to refuse. Back then, Chen Ajiao actually did not want Liu Che to be single-minded to her. These days, this is simply impossible. Throughout the dynasties, the one who is truly indistinguishable is an emperor. , that is Emperor Hongzhi, and the price of this is that after Zhu Houzhao's accident, the throne fell to Emperor Jiajing. Moreover, Emperor Jiajing refused to adopt him at all, and even held a big ceremony to posthumously proclaim his own father as emperor.Therefore, even if the emperor wants to be a couple for a lifetime, he must have a few more sons like Yang Jian and Dugu Jialuo, so as to ensure that the imperial power will not be left behind.What's more, Yang Jian was able to devote himself to Dugu Jialuo at the beginning, but when he became emperor and got older, wouldn't Yang Jian still play tricks?

Liu Kang doesn't have the same affection for Empress Shangguan as Yang Jian does for Dugu Jialuo. In addition, he also needs some reliable people. According to the tradition of the Han family, the best choice is his relatives!Because the relatives have the same interests as the emperor to at least a certain extent, as long as the emperor is in a dominant position, then there is no need to worry about the disaster of the relatives.However, if the emperor is in a weak position, the situation will be different, and the relatives will turn against the guests.

Therefore, Liu Kang directly agreed to the matter of choosing a concubine. Of course, he also defined the scope, that is, he was born in a good family. Anyway, Liu Kang set a tone. All those ministers and ministers were eliminated.However, having said that, there is still a lot of room for maneuvering, just like Wei Zifu, who was born as a singer, but she has always been branded by the Pingyang Houfu.When Emperor Xiaojing was there, many beauties in the palace were presented by Princess Guantao. Even when Emperor Xiaojing was still the crown prince, he met some beauties among the people, and in the end they were placed with Princess Guantao first, and then Princess Guantao After some operations, send it to the palace, or simply keep it in Princess Guantao's place. When Emperor Xiaojing goes to Princess Guantao's place, he can always have a caring beauty waiting for him.This is also why Li Ji hated Princess Guantao deeply, because Princess Guantao sent a bunch of beauties to the palace. Li Ji didn't think it was her old age, but she just thought it was Princess Guantao who sent them here. stole his favor.

Therefore, in the selection of concubines this time, there must be a considerable number of beauties selected by the ministers and ministers in the court. What Liu Kang needs to do is to let people pick out these people as much as possible.

Feng Yu didn't interfere much with Liu Kang's actions, because Chen Ajiao had already shown obvious signs of aging, she was not young at all, and although she had taken good care of herself these years, after all, the end of her life was coming, people are a little confused now up.

Chen Ajiao has forgotten that she has a daughter, and even confuses the memory of her previous life with the memory of this life. Sometimes she is very close to Feng Yu, and sometimes she is very resistant.She never mentioned Liu Che, but she was always looking for Empress Dowager Dou and Dou Taizhu, which made Feng Yu a little helpless.

Forgetting those things, just remembering that Chen Ajiao was not necessarily unhappy when she was a girl, so Feng Yu had to find a way to satisfy her wish, find someone to play the role of Queen Dou and Dou Taizhu, and make her happy.

"Sister, mother is like this, are you really okay?" Liu Kang didn't know much about what happened back then, seeing Chen Ajiao, who had always been majestic and calm in front of him before, acted like a girl, he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

Feng Yu shook her head and said: "My mother's body has begun to fail now, and her memory has also declined significantly. She has subconsciously forgotten the things that made her unhappy. Although she has forgotten many things now, she can't even recognize people clearly. , but she is now happier than she has been for so many years, so what else can I say?"

Liu Kang suddenly fell silent. In his memory, the relationship between Liu Che and Chen Ajiao was quite harmonious, so much so that even though Chen Ajiao was the abolished empress, Liu Che was able to entrust his new king to his ex-wife and canonize her ex-wife as the queen. Eldest princess, such outrageous incidents made Liu Kang think that Liu Che and Chen Ajiao were probably just at odds with each other back then, just like those couples who were divorced in the folk.

But now, after hearing Chen Ajiao's words, Liu Kang knew how much resentment and resentment Chen Ajiao had towards Liu Che.He didn't ask Feng Yu, but after returning to Weiyang Palace, he found the old man in the palace and asked about the past.These old palace people didn't dare to say anything at first, but under Liu Kang's threat and questioning, they still told what they learned about the year.

After Liu Kang heard it, he really had nothing to say, even though these palace officials had already beautified Liu Che a lot in their words, but putting aside these words and looking at the facts, one can know that the late Emperor was true to Empress Chen. He is not kind, and a name of ungrateful is indispensable.It's just for the sake of the venerable, if it wasn't for what happened back then, there is nothing wrong with Liu Kang now, so Liu Kang can only be speechless.

Chen Ajiao's days like this did not last long. On this day, Chen Ajiao suddenly woke up, but Feng Yu realized that Chen Ajiao's time limit had come.

"Grandmother!" Feng Yu showed a smiling face, pretending that nothing happened before, sitting next to Chen Ajiao as before, and said affectionately, "Daughter has figured out a few snacks before. Just ask the foster room to make it for grandma, you have a try?"

Chen Ajiao still had some impressions of the previous events, she looked a little guilty, touched Feng Yu's hand hesitantly, and then sighed: "Ah Shu, my mother actually forgot you before, it's really..."

Feng Yu held Chen Ajiao's skinny hand with her backhand, and said warmly: "Mother, I know, you don't want to, besides, I am also very happy to see my mother's carefree appearance back then! "

Chen Ajiao felt more and more guilty, she sighed, and said: "I thought I couldn't remember those things clearly. Who knows, I still miss that time in my heart! Ah Shu, in my current situation, there are some things But you have to make it clear to the emperor, you send someone to call him over!"

Hearing the news, Liu Kang hurried over. Seeing Chen Ajiao's clear eyes, he was overjoyed and called out, "Grandma, are you well?"

Chen Ajiao shook her head with a smile, and said, "Your Majesty, I'm getting old, and it's rare for me to be sober for a while now, but there are some things I want to explain to Your Majesty!" Then, she said to Feng Yu: "Ashu, go Bring that mother-of-pearl and gold-covered makeup box!"

Chen Ajiao has a lot of dressing boxes. Feng Yu recalled it and then remembered the mother-of-pearl gold-coated makeup box that Chen Ajiao mentioned. I remember that Chen Ajiao said before that this makeup box was given to Chen Ajiao by Empress Dowager Dou when she was dying, or was used by Empress Dowager Dou back then. of.Feng Yu got up and took out the makeup box stored in the dowry, and held it in front of Chen Ajiao.

Chen Ajiao touched the decoration on the makeup box with nostalgia. The decoration on the top was old, and the gold-covered corners were a bit dull. Chen Ajiao opened the makeup box. The makeup box was actually very delicate. It was divided into several compartments. There is a dark layer, Chen Ajiao opened the dark layer, took out a piece of jade tiger charm, and handed it to Liu Kang.

Liu Kang was a little stunned. The deployment of troops these years is not a military order, but a tiger talisman. Under normal circumstances, there will be half a tiger talisman in the army, and the other half of the tiger talisman will usually come with the order to deploy troops. If there is no If the tiger talisman or the tiger talisman does not match the number, then it is a coercion, and the army cannot be ordered.However, correspondingly, the emperor also had a tiger talisman in his hand, which could mobilize the entire army. When Liu Kang succeeded to the throne, he had a jade tiger talisman in his hand, but Liu Kang has never used it so far. Have a piece?

Chen Ajiao stuffed the Tiger Talisman into Liu Kang's hand, and said: "This is specially left by the late emperor. Back then, he additionally trained the two armies of Yulin and Qimen, independent of the southern and northern armies. The late emperor sent part of the Habayashi , The Qimen army is now stationed in Maoling, with this tiger talisman, you can mobilize this part of the army and horses, just in case something unexpected happens!"

Liu Kang was puzzled. After all, it was not that he had never been to Maoling, nor had he seen any extra troops stationed there. Especially, it is not easy to raise soldiers these days. It requires a lot of money and food. Liu Che left Although Liu Kang's treasury is not empty, it really has no money, and these years, Liu Kang has not found any extra money and food expenditures!

Chen Ajiao obviously didn't mean to explain further, after giving the tiger talisman to Liu Kang, she took out another volume of edict: "This edict has not passed the Prime Minister's Mansion, but there should be a record in Shiqu Pavilion, you can just look it up later! With this edict, if Huo Guang feels disobedient in the future, you can use this edict to summon loyal and brave men to deal with Huo Guang!"

At this moment, Liu Kang is a bit overwhelmed by Liu Che. Did Liu Che realize that among the several auxiliary ministers, Huo Guanghui's family dominates, and he is most likely to have a different heart?He took it with both hands respectfully, and carefully hid it in his sleeves. Huo Guang must not let Huo Guang know about this, otherwise, even if he has no different intentions, he may have other ideas!

After giving these two things to Liu Kang, Chen Ajiao sighed: "Originally I should do these things, but obviously I don't have the energy now, so don't get confused again, Ah Shu doesn't know about these things, so It’s better to leave it to you!” Actually, Chen Ajiao lied, because Liu Che meant that if Chen Ajiao felt that she couldn’t do it in the future, she would hand it over to Feng Yu, but why did Chen Ajiao risk her daughter’s possible The risk of being suspected by Liu Kang left this difficult matter to his daughter. Now that Liu Kang is not young, since he is the emperor and has already taken charge of the government, it is better for him to do these things by himself.

Liu Kang didn't know this, and he was very moved when he heard it. He thanked Chen Ajiao sincerely, and then heard Chen Ajiao say: "Your Majesty has a lot to do every day, so let's go back now. I still have something to say to Ashu!"

With all the most important things in his hands, Liu Kang naturally would not be ignorant, so he left honestly, leaving behind Chen Ajiao and Feng Yu's mother and daughter to talk.

As a result, when Chen Ajiao opened her mouth, Feng Yu was taken aback.