The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 79 King Jing Jin Jue
Mr. Song's seniority in the cabinet is still weak, and his power is weak. In addition, he has offended too many people because of the reconstruction of the account books. Since he entered the cabinet, he has started to keep a low profile, follow the principle of listening more and talking less, and don't ask him. On the head, he usually pretends to be dumb, and doesn't speak or express his opinion.

But soon, the emperor called his name: "What do you think of Song Aiqing?"

Master Song pretended to think for a while before slowly saying: "I think King Su's proposal is very reasonable. King Jing has seldom asked for an increase in military pay during the years he has been stationed in the Northwest, and the Oirats have repeatedly invaded, and there has never been any trouble. "

One sentence awakened the dreamer. Just a while ago, the generals of the Northeast and Liaodong garrisons asked for an increase in military pay. Song Jianming was the secretary of the household department, so he was naturally the most sensitive about money and food.

Thinking about it this way, the emperor suddenly felt that his fourth son, who had been neglected by him for a long time, had really worked hard!

Song Jianming said again: "Different from us sitting in the capital, His Royal Highness Su Wang has also been stationed in the military camp for many years. He wrote this memorial, and it may be just a sympathy for his brother."

Having said that, in fact, the military expenditure in Lingnan has never increased in more than 20 years, and as long as the Tatars and Wala move in the north, the budget in the south will be cut. Although King Su is poor every year, Fujian and Guangdong seem to have already There hasn't been any trouble for many years.

The emperor was silent for a while, and finally hummed, and said: "Then let's do it, ask Qin Tianjian to choose a day, and give the old fourth Jin a promotion to the title."

This afternoon, the cabinet sent the selected papers to the imperial study. The emperor looked through them and became a little angry. Many of them suggested that the fifth prince Xinwang should be appointed as the heir apparent.

The mother of the fifth prince, Prince Xin, is Concubine Chen, the daughter-in-law of the Duke of Jing. Although she is not as beautiful as Concubine Meng Shu when she was young, she has a gentle and upright personality, is knowledgeable and interesting, and is the most favored one besides Empress Xu. The concubine gave birth to five children in total for the emperor, two of them died young, and three grew up: Princess Ping An, the fifth prince Xin Wang, and the ninth prince Yu Wang.

After the empress left, the imperial concubine Chen Guifei was in charge of the harem.

"The Chen family is really good." The emperor threw away the memorial and snorted very dissatisfied.

He asked all the officials to propose who to be the new prince, just to find out the current distribution of power in the court.

If you don't try it, you won't know, if you try it, you will be shocked, but he didn't know that the Duke of Jing's mansion has gathered such a large force after being silent all these years!

The next day, before the title of the Fourth Prince of Jin Dynasty, the courts in the harem first received the news that Cui Jieyu had been conferred the title of Concubine Hui.

Cui Jieyu was originally Empress Xu's dowry maid, since she was conferred the title of Jieyu after giving birth to Prince Jing, the emperor has never had much luck with her.

The Zhongcui Palace where she lives is just beside Weiyang Palace, the yard is very small, but Cui Jieyu never cared about this, she was originally a maidservant.

When the emperor was still a prince, she was chosen by Empress Xu to serve her husband because of her good looks and docile personality.

When everyone was old and the emperor rarely came to sleep with Empress Xu except for the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, the Cui family became an indispensable companion and comfort for Empress Xu in her later life.

So the emperor also wrote in the canonization edict that Cui's status was given to her because of her contribution to accompanying the queen for many years.

Cui stayed quietly in her small courtyard, chanting scriptures and paying respects to the Buddha, when she suddenly received the imperial decree for promotion, she was in a daze, completely confused about the situation, she didn't even see the emperor's face, why did she become a Concubine Hui.

"Eunuch, this...isn't it a mistake?"

Eunuch Yin smiled, showed her the imperial decree, pointed to the word "Cui Shi" on it, and said, "Your Majesty, I'm not mistaken, it's for you!"

"Then from now on, I can invite Prince Jing into the palace to meet at any time?" Cui's eyes suddenly started to shine.

"Naturally." Eunuch Yin smiled respectfully, "Congratulations, empress!"

"Thank you, father-in-law, how about you sit down and have a cup of tea?"

"No, we still have something to do at home, let's go first."

Later, people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to change the courtyard for Concubine Hui to a larger one, moved to Jingren Palace, and gave four more Huangmen and eight maids.

Concubine Meng Shu is very popular in Chengqian Palace. She really doesn't understand why someone who has been silent for so many years suddenly became a concubine. After finishing the errand, Concubine Meng Shu couldn't sit still at all, and immediately wanted to recruit King Su into the palace.

But no one was invited, saying that they went to the Sanqing Temple with the son to perform rituals for the late original concubine.

Concubine Meng Shu slapped the table hard: "Fa Shi? Is it time to do it now? How many days in total?"

Xiao Huangmen, who was kneeling on the ground, trembled, and said frightenedly: "If you go back to your mother, the Lord Jialing said that you will do rituals for 49 days in total."

"It's not the whole year, what are you doing so grandly?"

Mei Zhaoyi persuaded from the side: "Your Majesty, don't worry, why don't you invite the Second Young Master into the palace to ask?"

Concubine Meng Shu waved her hand with a headache: "It doesn't work to find him. His father won't tell him anything." After thinking about it, she had to say to Xiao Huangmen: "Go to Sanqing Temple to find someone! I must see the answer within three days! "

It is impossible to reply, King Su just muddied the water and went up the mountain to hide himself.

(End of this chapter)