Under the Empress Dowager, all members will be King

Chapter 106 Three Concubine Academy
Before the time to ask for greetings, the Compassion Palace was full of people, there were three big chairs in the hall, one stood in the middle, and the other two were side by side.

At the bottom of the three big chairs were Chen, Xi, Mei, and Qi, the four concubines, and behind them were the concubines below the rank of concubine.

Sun Shurong's eyelids drooped, as if she hadn't slept well, while Guo Zhaoyi kept her eyes fixed on the bead curtain.

The expressions of the four concubines were solemn, and the others sensed something unusual from the expressions of the four concubines. They felt that something big might happen today, so they became more cautious.

The bead curtain swayed and made a crisp sound. The Compassion Ning Palace used Lantian jade as the bead and golden silk as the thread, and the entire emerald green bead curtain made a sound at the same time, and everyone present tensed up unanimously.

The Empress Dowager Heng Le took the lead to sit on the throne, and the two concubines Xianzhen stood with their heads bowed. In private, the three of them did not distinguish between superiority and inferiority, and they were very disciplined on the surface.

After the queen mother sat down, the two concubines slowly took their seats.

The concubines had low tables by their hands, and tea and pastries were placed beside the low tables.

"The convening of everyone today is to discuss an important matter."

"Concubine Zhen proposes to set up a college for women only. The college has subjects such as horsemanship, swordsmanship, arithmetic, embroidery, gardening, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

Concubine Chen hesitated to speak, but Gu Yinwei saw her unnatural expression and immediately asked, "Concubine Chen, do you have something to say?"

"The empress dowager is kind-hearted. It is a great thing to open a school to teach women to study. But from ancient times to the present, Xuanhua country has practiced, and there is no precedent for women to enter the school. If the empress dowager sets a precedent, I am afraid that the court will inevitably criticize the empress dowager. .”

"The Ai family never cares about gains and losses in doing things, and they don't care about other people's verbal criticism. If the ministers insist on refuting, Ai family can refute them openly."

Chen Guifei stopped talking. She felt that the queen mother's intention was good, but there were great difficulties in implementing it.

Mei Qingqing asked: "Queen Mother, has the name of the academy been decided yet?"

Gu Yingxia rushed to answer: "It's decided, it's called Sanfei College."

As soon as Concubine Xian's words came out, Concubine Mei keenly noticed that Concubine Zhen and the Queen Mother looked at each other, and then showed a helpless expression. It can be seen that Concubine Xian is not good at naming names.

The Empress Dowager gently raised her hand, and Shuangxi stepped forward to distribute documents to the concubines. The amount of funds raised, the date of return and the calculation of interest were written on the documents.

Qi Yuer suddenly understood the Queen Mother's intentions. The Queen Mother had no money to run a school, so she called on everyone to raise funds to open a school.

Qi Yuer wrote 600 taels based on the idea that meat buns beat dogs and there is no return.

Her monthly silver is 200 taels, and her monthly fixed expenses are 100 taels. 600 taels is enough for her half-year expenses.

Qi Yu'er thought she had written enough, so she secretly glanced at Xi Jiaorong's paperwork, and found that Concubine Xi actually wrote 2000 taels.

Also note below that I am willing to provide three shops. The shop provided by Concubine Xi is located in Tianshui Lane, Kyoto. The land price of Tianshui Lane can be said to be very expensive.

Qi Yu'er thought to herself, I'm careless, she can't do it, she should write more, but the amount of 700 taels can't be changed, so she gritted her teeth and added the word "gold" after the amount of [-] taels.

Concubine Chen Guifei saw that Concubine Qi wrote 600 taels of gold, and Concubine Xi paid out money and land, one by one.

She wrote down 5000 taels with a big wave of her hand, and then noted that she was willing to provide ten good horses.

Mei Qingqing wrote down the amount of 800 taels, and then noted that she was willing to personally teach swordsmanship in the academy.

Concubine Chen Guifei has question marks all over her head, the queen mother asked us to pay, you not only pay the money but also go to battle in person, who do you look down on.

Concubine Chen Guifei said: "Empress Dowager, my concubine's father served as the secretary of the household department in the court, and my concubine has been proficient in arithmetic since childhood, so I can entrust my concubine to take care of the college's accounts.

"Because everyone's enthusiasm is very high and their willingness to participate is relatively strong, this concubine decided to draft a list of appointments. If you have no objections after reading it, we will arrange corresponding things according to the positions on the list."

"Everyone, tell me, is this Dowager Concubine's proposal good?"

Concubine Zhen's words are reasonable according to everyone's opinion.

Concubine Xi was pregnant, so Concubine Zhen did not arrange anything for her, and the establishment of the Three Concubine Academy was in full swing.

Gu Yinwei didn't expect things to go so smoothly, everyone has things to do right now, only she is idle.

Stealing Fusheng for half a day, Gu Yinwei has time to read the picture books that Fugui collected for her with great fanfare.

Recently, the picture book about robbing tombs is popular in Kyoto, Gu Yinwei opened the picture book and read it quietly.

Tantao brought a basin of water, and the goldfinch jumped back and forth stepping on the water, "Look, Chuchu, the goldfinch has turned into a duck."

Chu Chu pointed at the goldfinch and smiled: "Xiao Jin, you like playing with water so much."

The goldfinch nodded now and then wagged its tail.

The goldfinch is cute, and Chu Chu feeds it millet, and the goldfinch jumps happily.

The land for the construction of Sanfeiyuan was provided by Concubine Xi. Gu Yingxia went out of the palace to have a look and found that she was not very satisfied.

There is a river behind the shop, and every summer, a group of frogs come ashore to enjoy the cool air. The frogs' cry is really annoying, and the noise makes Gu Yingxia have a headache.

"Third Sister, you know how to draw Yin Zhao Talismans, so hurry up and draw one and ask the former shopkeeper to come up and ask face to face what is the way to get rid of the frogs.

A yin summoning talisman consumes five years of lifespan.

Gu Yinwei's current fortune is growing very slowly, she is reluctant to burn her life yuan to draw a Yin-calling talisman, just to deal with a few frogs, she won't make a trip by herself.

Then he pointed to the goldfinch pecking rice on the ground and said, "Take Xiaojin there, and make sure that group of frogs don't dare to stand out."

Gu Yingxia hugged Xiao Jin and got into the carriage to leave the palace, mumbling all the way: "Xiao Jin, you have to live up to it, when you arrive at the scene later, you drive away those little frogs, so that they have no chance to come back.

The golden sparrow was confused, it didn't understand the first part, but it understood the second part. Gu Yingxia said that seeing a small frog was easy to do, and it just ate the frog.

Gu Yingxia stroked Goldfinch's head, and suddenly Goldfinch sensed a murderous look, and looked three feet to the right outside the car window.

Gu Yingxia also followed the sight of the goldfinch, and there stood a flower girl with a silk flower on her head, one collar untied on purpose, and a rose red handkerchief in her hand.

Beside her were two other women of similar age, who were pulling passing merchants and bargaining with them.

Gu Yingxia felt that the woman leaning against the tree trunk and staring at her was very familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere, so she recalled it carefully for a while, but she couldn't remember anything.

"Ah Qing, did the woman at the entrance of the alley see me?"

Ah Qing said: "Your maidservant can be sure that the girl just now has never met her master, but the face of that prostitute reminds me of someone."

"Who?"

"Mrs. Jin."

Gu Yingxia was stunned, Madam Jin, when Jin Susu was relegated, the third sister wrote to her, hoping that she would help the female family members of the Jin family. Obviously, the female family members of the Jin family have been sent to the Xiulou by her, but they still cannot escape the dust. destiny.

Good fortune tricks people, the person who rescued Fengchen fell into Fengchen again.

(End of this chapter)