The Heavens: Starting from Traveling through Song Qingshu

Chapter 104 The concubines left over from the previous dynasty

For Song Lian's dissatisfaction, Song Xuan was not angry, but patiently explained.

"If I am not the emperor, I will naturally feel that it is unfair. But there is no way, from my point of view, I don't want to pass an imperial examination, so that the finally unified Wu Dynasty will be split.

The provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were the territory of the Wu Dynasty. Similarly, the northern part of the Central Plains was also the territory of the Wu Dynasty. If all Jinshi were from the south of the Yangtze River, but no one in the northern part of the country was on the list, would the provinces in the Central Plains still belong to my world? "

Song Lian was silent, and finally bowed and said: "It's because the minister's structure is not enough, I hope Your Majesty will forgive me!"

Song Xuan waved his hand and said: "A discussion is a discussion, there is no such thing as forgiveness or unforgiveness!
Let's discuss this matter here first, and you should go back and think about it carefully. Is there any way to maintain the fairness of the imperial examination without hurting the feelings of Jiangnan and Beidi students!
Think it over, let's discuss tomorrow! "

Song Xuan naturally had a solution. For example, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang specially set up two separate examinations in the north and the south. The students in the south of the Yangtze River and the students in the north did not interfere with each other and had independent imperial examinations.

But Song Xuan didn't say this way, he didn't want his important ministers to rely too much on himself as the emperor for everything.

He is the emperor, and he is also an innate warrior. For Song Xuan today, state affairs are very important, but cultivation is also very important.

Thinking about the problem and finding a way to solve it is what the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty need to do, and as the emperor, he only needs to make the final decision at the last moment.

If you need to worry about everything yourself, why do you need civil and military officials?
Does he still want to practice?

That night, Song Xuan stayed overnight in Kunning Palace, and fell asleep after having an in-depth exchange with Zhou Zhiruo.

On the second day in court, Song Xuan issued two orders.

The first is the land reclamation order.

All unclaimed wastelands can be reclaimed by the people by themselves. The reclaimed land will be exempted from various taxes within five years.

The second is the order to suppress bandits.

Although the Wu Dynasty is unified, there are still bandits, thieves, and some leaders of the rebel army who are unwilling to try to separate themselves and become kings. These forces cannot shake the rule of the Wu Dynasty, but for the local people, it is definitely a shock A terrifying power that people cannot live in peace of mind.

The Bandit Suppression Order ordered the military to come up with a suitable plan as soon as possible to solve these banditry problems as soon as possible, so as to ensure that the people's spring farming would not be affected after the beginning of spring this year.

The two decrees were issued, and none of the officials dared to raise objections.

Some things can be sprayed, but some things really can't be sprayed.

For such an imperial decree issued directly by His Majesty, and it is an important matter related to the country, whoever dares to speak out at this time, His Majesty will definitely give him a special experience of a one-day tour of the Tsing Yi Guard Prison.

Tsing Yi Wei has now become an independent institution, directly under His Majesty, and is not linked to any department in the court.

The Tsing Yi Guards used to be mainly for the outside world, but after His Majesty became the throne, this organization changed suddenly and became a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the officials.

There are not one or two officials who died in Qingyi Weizhao Prison because of corruption and perverting the law to oppress the people.

For Tsing Yi Wei, Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and other important ministers have gone to court more than once, wanting to abolish this secret service agency that is outside the court, but unfortunately, His Majesty the Emperor, who has always been good at listening to the opinions of courtiers, is extremely determined this time.

No matter who goes to Shushu, they will all stay in the middle and not post. In a word,

It is impossible to ban Tsing Yi Wei!

Not only is it impossible, His Majesty has even continued to expand the size of the Tsing Yi Guards, constantly recruiting elite soldiers from the army to supplement the Tsing Yi Guards, so that the power of the Tsing Yi Guards can radiate to all counties and townships in the world.

For a time, the sixth son of the Tsing Yi Wei commander became the living king of Hades that civil and military officials should avoid after hearing the news.

After the imperial court, Empress Zhou Zhiruo and the two imperial concubines wandered with Song Xuan in the imperial garden.

A few people were playing casually, and unknowingly came to the outside of Chuxiu Palace. Looking from a distance, a group of brightly dressed women were kneeling on the ground to welcome them.

Song Xuan was a little surprised when he looked at the group of women in front of him, there were hundreds of them at a rough glance.

"Where are there so many women?"

As he said that, he looked at Zhou Zhiruo and the others and teased, "Why, you suddenly found out with your conscience that you want to open a big harem for us?"

There are hundreds of them at once, the workload is a bit heavy, even if he is an innate warrior, he can't stand it!

Zhou Zhiruo turned her head to the side speechlessly, Xiao Zhao covered her mouth and snickered aside, only Liu Qinglian was not afraid, she stuck to Song Xuan's chest and said in a low voice: "It's not that you can't open it, the key is that your waist is on top of you." Can you live?"

Song Xuan stared at her, the two of them stared at each other, and finally Song Dadi gave a dry cough and turned his gaze to the side.

He really didn't dare to say that his waist could withstand it, otherwise Liu Qinglian, a little fairy, would have dared to drag him to inspect the goods on the spot.

"By the way, you haven't answered yet. Where did these women come from? Why don't I remember that there are so many women in the palace?"

Zhou Zhiruo said helplessly: "Brother, how indifferent are you to the affairs of the harem? Didn't the eunuch who served you say that there are still a group of concubines of Emperor Yuan Shun left in the harem?"

"Ok?"

Song Xuan was taken aback.

If you want to talk about this, then I will be interested!
"What's the situation, even if Emperor Yuan Shun runs away, he won't miss his wife and children, right?"

"He really missed it!"

Zhou Zhiruo pointed to the trembling women kneeling on the ground, and sighed, "Emperor Yuan Shun probably didn't even know how many concubines he had. At that time, the main force of the Yuan army was defeated in Huizhou, and the Ming army quickly approached Dadu. The run was a bit hasty, and it is understandable that some concubines were omitted.

Of course, those who can be forgotten here must be those who are not favored, and some who were defeated in the harem battle and were thrown into the cold palace.

I also only discovered them yesterday when I inspected the Sixth Palace. "

Song Xuan let out an oh, and kept looking at everyone.

"Brother, what's so interesting about these broken flowers and willows!" Seeing that Song Xuan seemed to have something wrong with his eyes, Liu Qinglian quickly murmured in his ear softly, "I can satisfy whatever brother wants to play, let's not provoke you!" Someone else, okay?"

"it is good!"

Song Xuan chuckled and looked away.

No wonder Emperor Yuan Shun didn't take them with him when he fled. From Song Xuan's point of view, most of these former concubines were in their thirties, or even older.

Maybe it's because they have not been favored for a long time or even been thrown into the cold palace. Although they are dressed in bright clothes, their complexions are not very good, and they look very haggard.

It's no wonder that Liu Qinglian called them "remnant flowers and defeated willows", but none of them caught their eyes.

(End of this chapter)