[Red House] Lixian

After the banquet, Wei Qian took several female officials for a walk in the imperial garden.

The bright moon is in the sky, the shadows on both sides are quiet, and the flowers and leaves sway with the wind.

The imperial garden at night is quiet and quiet, and there are melodious and endless cries from time to time.

The maid in front held a lantern, illuminating the dark path.

Wei Qian didn't like to use eunuchs, and there were fewer and fewer eunuchs in the harem of the female official system.

Eight maids of honor and four female officials were at the side, holding censers, colored fans and other things, and the gorgeously dressed Concubine Ning walked along the narrow path.

"Concubine Ning." Suddenly someone called Wei Qian from behind.

Wei Qian stopped and turned to look.She is the original concubine of the Fifth Prince.

"Is something wrong with Princess Zhongxiao?"

The concubine was wearing a five-color silk peony dress, and bowed to salute: "The concubine and the prince heard that the concubine mother is not feeling well these days. I want to send the concubine mother back to the palace to recuperate from illness."

Invite Concubine Zhen Gui out of the palace?No wonder the couple at the banquet just now were honest and honest, daring to ask for affection.

Wei Qian's heart moved, and she refused with a smile on her face, "There are many imperial physicians in the palace, and there are also many female doctors in the Shangyi Bureau. If you can't even cure it in the palace, how can you recuperate outside the palace? Let the concubine stay in the palace. In the middle, I will send someone to ask for her pulse tomorrow. If the princess is fine tomorrow, you can come to the palace to pay her respects."

The fifth concubine hurriedly said: "Mother and concubine's illness is a heart disease. After father and emperor left, mother and concubine were depressed. There is no cure for this disease. The concubine and the prince want to take mother and concubine out of the palace, leave this sad heart, and relax in the palace. .”

"What's sad?" Wei Qian immediately lowered her face, "If there is sadness in the palace, could it be that only Princess Zhengui is sad, not the Empress Dowager and all the other concubines? Don't I feel sorry for the two older sisters who have passed away? "

Wei Qian waved her sleeves, feigning anger and said, "There is no need to mention this again."

The fifth concubine hurriedly made amends, Wei Qian suddenly heard a rustling sound while the two were talking, and suddenly turned her head: "Who—come out!"

Branches shook not far away, but no one responded.

Xiangling took the opportunity to release Baiyun Diao from her arms, Diao'er ran to call a few times, a man and a woman hurried out with disheveled clothes.

"The Zhongyong County King and the County Princess?" Wei Qian asked in surprise, "What are you two doing in the garden?"

The king of Zhongyong County is Situ Yun's ninth younger brother. He was drunk, and the ninth concubine supported him, and hurriedly said: "My prince is drunk, and I don't know much about the palace, so I can't find the way out of the palace."

Wei Qian glanced at the fifth princess, and the fifth princess resigned knowingly.

Wei Qian went over to take a look, reeking of alcohol, the Ninth Prince was in a daze, and kept muttering.

Wei Qian frowned: "Alcohol is something that hurts the body, you don't know how to persuade your prince."

"My lord is in a bad mood these days." Ninth Princess seemed hesitant to speak.

Wei Qian lamented in her heart, none of these concubines are fuel-efficient lamps.

The fifth concubine wanted to pick her up just now, and the ninth concubine wanted to test Situ Yun's attitude towards her younger brother.

"It's hard for the Ninth Prince to defile himself." Wei Qian saw clearly, and said with a smile: "Not in a good mood? The late emperor passed away, and everyone is in a similar mood. Your Majesty can't eat well these days and can't sleep well. Take the country and the community as the most important thing. Turn around and persuade the county prince, if the county prince has always looked like this, how dare your majesty entrust him with important tasks?"

After Wei Qian finished speaking, she ordered Xue Baochai to lead them away.

On the way back to the mansion, the Ninth Prince slowly opened his eyes.

The Ninth Concubine smiled and said: "Congratulations, the lord. Judging by the tone of Concubine Ning, I am afraid that the lord will re-enter the court soon."

"It's just Concubine Ning's words. I'll go to some ministers to inquire later." Since King Zhongyong was reprimanded by Situ Yun last year, the city has become more and more profound.

The couple were discussing in the carriage, the fifth prince and his wife were frowning, and they were also thinking about how to bring back their mother and concubine.

Wei Qian returned to Qingsi Hall, and Situ Yun also came here not long after.

This year he was not allowed to have intercourse, Situ Yun didn't dare to go to those beautiful concubines, so he could only go to Wei Qian's side.

"You did a good job today. You did a great job!" Situ Yun laughed loudly: "It's rare to be able to overwhelm them. During the Chinese New Year, you will work harder."

"No, by then my sister should have recovered and let her come out." Wei Qian looked in the mirror and asked someone to remove her makeup.Her hair was scattered, and Xiangling combed her slowly.And Wei Qian herself carefully took off the engraved gold jade earrings.

Situ Yun sat on the bed with his pillow in his arms: "Every time I see you taking off your makeup, I think it's so difficult for you women."

"..." Wei Qian rolled her eyes and ignored him.

Wei Qian doesn't like palace makeup, and it's very cumbersome to remove makeup after each makeup.Unloading layer by layer, there are more than a dozen pieces of jewelry alone, not counting the veneered flowers and goose yellow.

Slowly take everything off one by one, and it needs to be washed repeatedly to ensure that the powder does not hurt the skin.

"But your appearance is indeed good, you are the only one who dares to completely remove your makeup in front of me."

Wei Qian has a delicate and beautiful face because of her Taoism, even without makeup, she still has a clear and beautiful beauty.But when meeting with the ministers and holding banquets, showing such a beautiful face is simply death.Wei Qian has always had a domineering and crushing style outside, and she is tough and not inferior to a man.To whom should I show this beautiful face?Empty Valley Youlan's temperament is obviously not suitable for superiors.

It's okay for people to play with and watch, but as the imperial concubine who is in charge of power, she must not use this appearance.

Therefore, I can only imitate the appearance of other concubines, put on colorful makeup, wear gold and jade, and follow the route of gorgeousness.

Whenever this happened, Wei Qian yearned for the life in Nanqin very much.Because of the climate, Nanqin gradually adapted to the warm and humid climate of Nanyang in terms of clothing, and it was more suitable for bare-arm Han shirts.

Wei Qian liked the life there even more after revisiting things like dresses.

Situ Yun was fascinated by Wei Qian's appearance, because Wei Qian took off his makeup every day, so he didn't dare to look at the appearance of those concubines under their makeup.For a concubine like Wei Qian who dared to take off her makeup, there were no more than three harems.Among them, Bai Su and Shi Qinglan also died.

"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?"

"Huh?" Situ Yun came back to his senses.

"Did you hear what my concubine said just now?"

"Oh, you are talking about the matter of the fifth and ninth? Now that the fifth is idle and has no power, it doesn't matter if Concubine Zhen Gui leaves the palace. It is my generosity. But this matter depends on the Queen Mother's mind. As for the ninth, I really Want to find him some work, what do you think of the Ministry of War?"

"Let the prince of the county go to the Ministry of War? If His Majesty can still sleep at night, I naturally have no objection."

"You..." Situ Yun shook his head helplessly, but it was indeed as Wei Qian said.If his own old nine is in charge of the military, he should be suspicious and worry about the dragon chair.

"However, the previous dynasty did need checks and balances."

The Wu family is full-fledged, and those who used the Wu family to deal with the Supreme Emperor, now that the Supreme Emperor left, the Wu family annexed many of the Supreme Emperor's forces.Become the leader of the noble forces.Some of the people promoted by Situ Yun in the past all defected to the past and opposed the emerging faction cultivated by Situ Yun.

Wei Qian rolled his eyes and ordered Xiang Ling to bring the cakes.

"Your Majesty, try this Seven Treasure Cake."

Passing the plate to Situ Yun, Situ Yun saw the six pieces of cakes, and his expression paused: "Is this Qibao cake based on Qibao rice?"

"Where, because there are seven cakes, it is called Qibao cake."

"Seven pieces?" Situ Yun held the plate, no matter how you looked at it, there were six pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cake arranged in the shape of petals.

Wei Qian smiled slightly, stretched out her hand to break off one piece, and put it aside: "Isn't this seven yuan?"

"Excessive words." Situ Yun laughed dumbfounded, and suddenly thought of something, the smile dropped from the corner of his mouth, staring blankly at the seven pieces of pastry that Wei Qian put down.

"Haha...that's how it is!" Situ Yun was overjoyed, and stepped forward to hug Wei Qian and was about to kiss him.Wei Qian hurriedly stuffed Situ Yun's mouth with cakes: "What did your Majesty understand? I don't know anything about myself." She walked away and ignored the crazy Situ Yun.

Yes, since the power of the six films is not easy to control, how about another one?

Thinking about the feasibility of this matter, Situ Yun said again: "Although this plan is good, but the pressure from the government and the government is too great, I'm afraid we will conflict with them sooner."

"Tomorrow, my concubine will invite the Fifth and Ninth Consorts to the palace for tea." Wei Qian followed suit, and Situ Yun knew what he was saying, and smiled, "Then there will be Concubine Lao Ai."

The power of the six ministries is too great, so it is better to re-establish a new ministry to divide the power of the six ministries, and place Situ Yun's people by the way.

Divided into parts, it can be arranged calmly.

The next day, Wei Qian invited two concubines.

The three daughters are transparent people, needless to say, the two concubines will naturally help persuade them when they turn around.

One will advance, and the other will be the adoptive mother, who will stand by Situ Yun's side in the days to come.Separate the six parts of rites, soldiers, households, punishments, officials, and workers.

Take the matter of farming and cao in the Ministry of Households, add the popularization of agricultural tools and agricultural planting in the Ministry of Industry to form a new seventh department.

Situ Yun can hold the Ministry of Agriculture in his hands, and divide it into two servants for management, without setting up a minister.

In recent years, agricultural production has occupied a large part of the income of the Ministry of Finance.If you can handle the Ministry of Agriculture, the name is food, and you can really do a drastic job.

For the Xinxing faction, the completion of the Ministry of Agriculture meant the beginning of reform.The new dynasty has a new atmosphere, because the Supreme Emperor did not die suddenly. In the past, Situ Yun had already started to carry out his own new policies slowly, so there is no saying that he will not change his father's way for three years.

The Ministry of Agriculture was established, and people like Jia Yucun and Jia Lian were all thrown to the Ministry of Agriculture by Situ Yun.

Jia Lian was already cultivating corn planting with Wei Qian, and from time to time he went to the palace to ask Wei Qian for instructions, and Wei Qian took command.

A few days later, when the news spread, all the veterans were in an uproar.

"The reason why the Ministry of Agriculture did not establish a minister is to facilitate the manipulation of this empress? This is to let the harem get involved in politics!"

"Don't establish a minister? Of course, there is no need to establish one. The position of a concubine is the first rank. How can you think of a second rank minister?"

University scholar Mei was furious, and immediately went to Zichen Hall, asking Wei Qian not to intervene in affairs outside the palace.

However, Minister of Rites remained silent on this matter.He is well aware of the means of the man in the palace, and waits and sees the changes.

University scholar Mei led many censors, each of whom spoke cleverly and compared Wei Qian to Lu Dou and his ilk.There was also a large group of courtiers kneeling outside the Zichen Hall, forcing Situ Yun to express his opinion.

At this moment, Situ Yun took the memorial and threw it to Qingsi Hall.

"Look, this is comparing you to the likes of Daji and Baosi, with the appearance of Lu Dou, and the disaster of Empress Wu."

"Isn't it true that your Majesty is regarded as Xia Jie, Shang Zhou?" Wei Qian flipped through the memorial and threw it into the brazier: "Okay, since these people despise this palace for meddling, then let them promote the new agriculture. The promotion of farm tools and the records of farmland are obviously offensive. Since these people are strong, let Master Mei lead his students to do it."

Wei Qian and Grand Master Mei were simply at odds.Back then, when Grandma Mei was in Jinling, he had pointed fingers at her, and he still refused to let her go.Whenever Wei Qian did something, he would come forward and say something.A woman who has no talent is a virtue, and the concubine should serve the emperor honestly, spread her branches and leaves, and don't think about intervening in the previous court every day.

"It's okay to expect them to recite poems and be right. These Confucian students, expect them to rule the country for me?" Situ Yun said dumbly: "Forget it, teach them a lesson. When they mess up, I will take advantage of the situation and send them away. go out."

The emperor and concubine discussed it properly while teasing.Situ Yun took advantage of the opportunity to confine Wei Qian, and handed over the corn planting to the old officials such as Bachelor Mei.

How do these old ministers understand Situ Yun's New Deal?Even Wei Qian didn't know much about the New Deal.Apart from the promotion of crops, Wei Qian still doesn't understand farm tools and the summary of plowing records.This is a policy put forward by Situ Yun, who wants to regulate agriculture across the country.