After Shao Song

Chapter 171: Extra [-]: The Emperor's Family (Thanks to Arflola book friend)

Xie Xiaoman remembered that the eldest prince concubine Han Yuanniang, later Queen Xuanzong, married into the royal family in the 23rd year of Jianyan.

Before that, she had often visited Concubine Wu's Ninghua Palace. After all, everyone knew that she had been destined to be the eldest son of Guan Zhao as her bride since she was born.

When Xie Xiaoman met her for the first time, Han Yuanniang was only fifteen or sixteen years old.At that time, I only saw a little girl in a silver-red narrow-sleeved robe.Her braids were tied up, her skin was like snow, her face was like the full moon, and her eyes were full of energy. When he saw her, he smiled and said, "You must be Lady Xie from the official family. The little girl Han Yuanniang is so polite."

Xie Xiaoman paid a half-ceremony and noticed that Han Yuanniang bowed rather than bowed her skirt, and the maids behind her were also dressed in wild clothes. It was just that it was difficult to carry weapons in the palace.

She had lived in the palace for a long time, so she couldn't help but be curious. After a little inquiry, she found out that there were a lot of rumors about Miss Han. It was said that she was different from her twin brother Long Wen, who had turned against his father. Dong Dong was so favored by King Qin of Han that he built a 50-person Makui army for her using his clients.

It is said that Han Shizhong and Xixia fought for half their lives and learned a lot from them.For example, he promoted the Beiwei Army to all armies of the Song Dynasty.The folk customs in Dangxiang are strong, men, women, old and young are all good at riding and shooting, and women can also join the army. This is Ma Kui.Of course, the population and culture of the Song Dynasty are not suitable for this, but it does not prevent Han Shizhong from giving his daughter a small personal guard.

The girl from the Han family is also very sensible. Every time she takes Ma Kui out for hunting, she always gives some game to her future mother-in-law. Concubine Wu also followed Zhao Jiu Nanyang to boil water and pull weeds in Tokyo when she was young. She has also been learning martial arts. She is so enthusiastic about this daughter-in-law. Very active and very fond of it.

Xie Xiaoman sometimes shares some roe deer meat, and the imperial concubine sighed, "Now I just hope that they will get married soon and let me become a grandmother."

The eldest prince was granted the title of queen and then got married. The scale was so grand that it was hardly the work of the Zhao Guan family. Among other things, Xie Xiaoman still remembered that the road from the Han family to the Chonghua Palace was paved with red silk, and there were fireworks and firecrackers every ten steps. After all, all the etiquette was carried out according to the crown prince's wedding. The Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple were busy for three months.

In comparison, the wedding ceremony of the second prince, King Mu, in November of that year seemed a bit satisfactory. There was only a bride, and the dowry was really huge.After all, King Zhang Qi cannot be compared with King Han Qin, but he has more money.

However, for Xie Xiaoman, these are just some conversation topics and have little to do with her life. At that time, she accidentally understood Zhao Guan's theory, and actually made a simple version of the water spin car roll - after Zhao Guan's experiment, This car uses water to drive the water wheel to rotate, which can not only irrigate farmland, but can also be further improved for pounding rice and spinning.

Zhao Guan's family was overjoyed and promoted Xie Xiaoman's status to De Fei despite her repeated objections.At the same time, he also used it to severely reprimand Hong Zun, a doctor in the Ministry of Industry. You are a loser. You have been working on steam engines for three or four years and you still haven't researched it well. If it weren't for some breakthroughs in water and electricity, I would have deducted your salary.

Xie Xiaoman was a little puzzled. Yes, the Ministry of Industry, under the leadership of Zhao Guan's family, had turned into an academy of sciences over the years.Of course, Xie Xiaoman also heard this word from Zhao Guan's family. "Scientific power is the primary productive force" often became a special article and was published in the Di newspaper.

If it is just for the needs of navigation and increasing grain production, Xie Xiaoman understands it very much, but as for the more ambitious goal.There was nothing she could do.However, Zhao Guan's family doesn't seem to have such big demands on this concubine. He can usually listen to his nagging and still understand a little, and he is very satisfied if he occasionally comes up with a novelty.

However, as the highest leader of the Song Dynasty, the Zhao Guan family did not care much about the affairs of the harem.But that doesn't mean the two princes' biological mothers don't care.Starting around the 24th year of Jianyan's reign, Xie Xiaoman's Yuhua Palace has become a place where the two princesses often come. Of course, they are never empty-handed, and their purpose is very simple, which is to hug Xie Xiaoman's two-year-old son. Zhao Xin.

Xie Xiaoman knew the reason.The son was born to Guanyin, and the birth was extremely smooth. In order to please Zhao Guan's family, people in and outside the palace said that this was a gift from Guanyin.

Faced with huge pressure to give birth, can the two princesses find a way?

Maybe the fourth prince, nicknamed Shanzuo, was really lucky. Anyway, in the next half year, the two princesses were rumored to be pregnant.

But our Lady Xie looked at the table full of thank-you gifts. Half of them were silver and the other half were all kinds of mink furs that would not be exchanged for a million dollars.Very reluctantly, he reported it to the officials.

After all, no matter how passionate we are about science and yearning for independence, we have to understand one thing: the battle for reservations is not something we can easily avoid.

Zhao Guan's family didn't care at all, "Just take it if you give it to me, otherwise they will feel uneasy." In fact, how could he not know about Concubine Wu and Concubine Pan's various fertility tricks?It's just that my uncle couldn't explain it clearly.Besides, their family really has a throne to inherit.

Soon Princess Han of Yan gave birth to a little princess.Afterwards, Princess Mu, Zhang Shi, was happy to have a son, but because King Mu stole a maid during her pregnancy, the princess was disturbed, and the child she gave birth was also a little weak.

In the next two years, Xie Xiaoman felt a little uncomfortable every time he saw Princess Yan. The bright and lively girl in the past was gone forever, and she gradually became anxious and haggard.Her childhood sweetheart husband still loves and respects her, but the issue of the emperor's eldest son's heir is not a family matter at all, so when the princess was two years old, she had a concubine.

Afterwards, the two royal houses were like competing in a competition. Their children were all prosperous, but in the end, they were all born to the side wives.The Zhao Guan family didn't care much about the legitimate concubines, but cared about the feelings of the two in-laws.

But this is still an era of monarchy after all. As soon as possible, Zhao Jiu will advocate the separation of powers in education, but obviously, both Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun feel that their daughters are not up to date. How about Zhang Rong’s daughter? I have two children every year, and they are both grandsons of the emperor.

Xie Xiaoman finally couldn't bear it one time and advised the two princesses privately, "In terms of background, I am incomparable to the two of them, but there is no one who will not suffer in this life. There is no one that cannot be endured in peacetime, just look at you." How is the human nature?"

Princess Zhang's eyes turned red and she said, "Even though Mrs. De is unhappy in every way, Prince Shen's brother is so healthy and smart, but my eldest brother..."

Han Yuanniang was even more bitter and said: "You still have a son after all. Our royal family doesn't have any imperial doctor, so why can't we nurse him back to health? But I only have one princess so far. Do you know how unpleasant the people behind the scenes are?" Her biological father even said that she was useless with swords and guns. None of the eldest prince's four sons were born to her.

Xie Xiaoman couldn't say anything anymore. He would say anything to persuade others, but it was not his turn to suffer.How can we really feel the same way?Just like if she told the two princesses, she would almost be forced to become a concubine.Even her parents almost wanted to sell her.I believe they can't understand it either.

In the end, she could only sigh softly, "Concubine, I just can't bear to see you so miserable. But if you want to think about it, I think there is nothing I can do."

She had no choice, but the matter of childbearing, as long as the couple had a good relationship, was a metaphysical issue in ancient society.For example, in the eighth year of her marriage, Han Yuanniang finally gave birth to a legitimate son without any illness or disaster.

It is said that King Yan and his wife wept with joy, and everyone in the Qin Palace bought firecrackers and set them off all day long to celebrate.Fortunately, his neighbors were all members of the secret pavilion and knew that King Yan was the secret prince.No one cares about him.

Zhao Guan's family was also very happy and personally went to the nickname of An Tailang for this grandson.

After the child was one month old, Princess Yan Han Yuanniang carried him into the palace to pay homage to her parents-in-law, also thanking the emperor and his father-in-law for the gift.

Xie Xiaoman looked at it with a smile, and Han Yuanniang, who was full of joy, suddenly felt a little sad.The agility in him was gone.Turned into a real house woman.

If she could really fight on the battlefield like those Makui leaders in Xixia history, would it still be like this?
Xie Xiaoman had no way of answering this question. Apart from taking care of the children, he devoted more energy to the inventions and creations that Zhao Guan's family liked, to see if he could cultivate some hybrid rice.

Because after so many years, she had a vague feeling that what Zhao Guan's family wanted to do must be as famous as Qin Shihuang's unification of weights and measures.If I can contribute to it, I won't go to her next life.

Yes, Xie Xiaoman’s name may not be on the book.She doesn't necessarily record how much she contributed to it, but she just knows that she has been there and done it, because she doesn't want to become insensitive or ignorant.

but.Soon after, Xie Xiaoman discovered that God might have given her another role, that of being a witness to the history of the Emperor's family.

　This combination with scientific and technological theory cannot be written in one chapter.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)