The Moon in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 616 Loyalty!

This new beauty who entered the palace was of outstanding beauty, like the precious jade of Kunshan. Even Ying Xin and Mi Yun had to admit that in terms of appearance and color alone, Su Xin Jing Yue was not inferior to the other two.

In terms of temperament, this Taoist goddess has wide sleeves fluttering like a white crane flying over the snow, and her white hair and feather crown show her elegance; she is pure and clean, like ice silk reflecting the moon; she is cold, proud and noble, like a snow plum condensed with frost.

She is truly a fairy-like figure like Biyue in Hanyue Palace.

And with the support of Taoism behind them, they cannot be underestimated.

As long as they had a child, their status would immediately rise to that of a beauty; the two of them were certain of that.

We must guard against the ready-made powerful enemy.

Su Xin Jing Yue stayed in the palace for a few days and was actively adjusting her mentality. She knew that it would be impossible for her to get out in this lifetime.

Although she was content to stay in one place without having to go out, she really didn't like the noisy and numerous rules in the palace.

She originally thought that she would have no worries about food and clothing in the palace, and she would not have to worry about anything. She could enjoy wealth and prosperity in peace and quiet, and she only needed to serve Ying Zheng well. But she soon found that it was not true. The situation in the palace was too complicated, and it would be difficult to stay out of it.

Su Xin Jing Yue just has social anxiety. She gets nervous when she's close to people and when she's in crowded places. But she's not stupid, and she hasn't lost her ability to think. She can control herself and won't have any abnormal reactions, at least not on the surface.

Since she was young, she has been keen on using her cold temperament as a disguise, and using it as a weapon to keep people at a distance to protect herself.

She is a person who is truly extremely intelligent and resourceful. In addition to her background, talent, wisdom, and practice, in the eyes of the outside world, even in the eyes of her grandfather and parents, she has always been a fairy-like person who is like a frost blade hidden in its sheath and a rock supporting the stars.

As soon as she was taken into the harem by Ying Zheng, she sent someone to deliver a letter to Chisongzi. Of course, the letter did not mention the plot against her. The matter was already done and there was no point in saying more. Why bother to ruin their relationship and leave any grudges?

She only reported the good news in the letter, and then asked for information and resources in the palace, and asked Chisongzi to find a way to send a reliable and close friend into the palace to be a personal maid.

It would be extremely difficult for an ordinary person to send someone to the palace, but it was not difficult for a Taoist, as they would not hide it from Ying Zheng anyway.

It is reasonable for a Taoist saint to marry into the palace and bring two personal maids with her.

When Chisongzi saw the letter, he was filled with emotion and joy. His junior sister, a fairy-like person and a rare genius, had entered the harem. As long as she didn't mess around and served the king well, she would have many sons and daughters. That would be a blessing for Taoists.

With a few young masters like these, the development of Taoism will only get better and better.

Of course, Chisongzi also tacitly did not mention the plot against Suxin Jingyue, let alone express his apology. They were all smart people, and some things were over and done with, and there was no point in talking too much.

Chi Songzi just expressed his congratulations and sent a lot of wealth in the name of dowry. Of course, there was also the most important information from the palace.

The wealth is so abundant that it is difficult to measure. There are all kinds of rare treasures, silks and satins, exquisite clothes, gold, silver and jewelry. This is not just the support of Chisongzi alone, but the support of the entire Taoist school.

Any normal person knows that in this world, you cannot survive without money, especially in the palace.

In this world, nothing can pave the way better than using gold and silver.

What's more, the servants in the palace are even more fickle and will not do anything without benefits.

Even if you are a fairy, if you want to live a comfortable life and help your family become rich, you still have to humble yourself.

Who in this world can be truly free? With benefits come responsibilities.

Even the Tianshan Snow Lotus, if born in the human world, will be tainted with the smell of money.

Suxin Jingyue is not an absolutely selfish person. On the contrary, she is a person who values ​​gratitude. If not, Taoists would not place their hopes on her, let alone support her with all their strength.

If any family business wants to maintain stable rule, it cannot do without its own people, even if they have less ability, but they must have blood ties.

The world belongs to the king, but if he wants to keep his throne secure, the most important thing is always to have a group of his own people to help watch over him.

The principle is the same, but the king's property is a little bigger.

Our own people are always more reliable than outsiders. This is human nature. Blood ties and knowing each other are always much better than strangers.

It is certainly not enough to rely on your own people alone, but it is even more impossible to have no one of your own.

For everyone, marriage constitutes a blood link and is always the most trustworthy relationship.

Only blood ties bring natural and relatively solid trust, hope and possibility.

Humans are social animals, and blood ties in social relationships bring natural intimacy and trust.

In a family-based society, family continuation is the top priority and personal destiny is insignificant.

What allows two families, forces, or organizations to quickly build trust and a community of interests is a blood connection, which can only be achieved through marriage.

No guarantee is as useful as in-laws, nor as reliable as blood ties. A marriage between people who are originally related is about winning over and maintaining, while a marriage between people who are originally unrelated is about guarantees and attitudes.

Marriage alliances may not always work, but they are definitely useful. They may not always work, but they are relatively useful in most cases.

For the king, the ones who are related by blood and pose the least threat are always his in-laws.

Even if he is not capable enough and cannot be entrusted with important tasks, he should be sent to keep an eye on outsiders who can be entrusted with important tasks.

In this world, loyalty and reliability are always more important than ability!

As for maternal relatives, there are so many benefits to being one.

If a woman in the family becomes a concubine of the king, she will be directly a royal relative, and the social status of all the people in the family will be greatly improved. Ordinary families will be promoted to the aristocracy, and the aristocracy will be promoted to royal relatives and nobles, and they will be respected and envied. Even the servants in the family will be superior to others when they go out.

Becoming a royal relative will greatly increase the family's reputation and prestige, which means the family's status will be improved. It will be more advantageous to marry into other wealthy and powerful families. Through marriage, the family's influence and resources can be further expanded, a huge social network can be formed, and the family can be quickly stabilized and strengthened.

The monarch often gave official positions, titles and other rewards to the families of concubines to consolidate the monarch's power or balance the power of the court. If the concubine was favored, she could speak well of the family in the monarch's ear, helping family members gain an advantage in political struggles, obtain more power and resources, and stabilize the family's political status or even quickly improve it.

As I said, the opportunity to make a contribution has come, but who to send is up to the king.

But the king's words determine life and death, honor and disgrace, and the wealth of the family.

For example, if Bai Yifei hadn't made the investment in advance, it was obvious that the entire Bai family would have gradually weakened, and within three generations, they would have fallen from being nobles to commoners. If he was accidentally involved in a political struggle, he, an outsider and a conquered member of the Bai family, would most likely become cannon fodder and die.

But Bai Yifei invested in Mingzhu in advance, and with this relationship, he got the opportunity to make military merits, and squeezed into the ranks of Qin's military nobles and became "one of our own". As long as he managed well in the future, the family's wealth would be preserved.

If it weren't for the fact that Mingzhu's family, the Xin family, was really unpromising, Bai Yifei would have no way to give money to Mingzhu. Even so, Bai Yifei gave Mingzhu a lot of money. In Korea, the two were in a cooperative relationship, but Bai Yifei still took the lead. But now, Mingzhu has taken the lead.

In addition, even if the family really has no promising talents and cannot be employed by the imperial court, there is still the path of becoming an imperial merchant.

There are so many commodities monopolized by the royal family that if you give anyone the responsibility of any region, you will enjoy endless wealth.

Salt, iron, copper, wine, which one is not easy to make a lot of money? In addition, there are countless other opportunities to make a fortune.

Just like Mingzhu's family, Xin's, her father was in charge of the ironware civilian products of the entire Nanyang, which was also a business with unlimited wealth. This was a lucrative job that was given to him recently because Mingzhu gave birth to a son, and it was also a small compensation for the grievances she had suffered this year.

In comparison, once a family woman becomes a concubine, the extra gold, silver, property, and other rewards bestowed by the monarch are nothing.

In a nutshell, even if a farmer's daughter becomes a concubine of the monarch, then the glory, wealth, and honor of the entire family will come.

If you are favored, it would be even more unimaginable.

The world belongs to the Wang family. As a relative of the Wang family, you are one of their own. If you help the Wang family manage the world, you will naturally enjoy unlimited wealth and honor.

With so many benefits, problems arise.

As we all know, monarchs often have a large number of concubines. Whether it is for the purpose of consolidating rule through marriage, balancing rule, or simply loving beauty, there will be no shortage of beauties in the harem.

That means there are many maternal relatives. In this case, there are naturally more wolves than meat. How to eat the best meat and how to get the opportunity depends on how favored you are.

Mingzhu was definitely not among the top ten concubines in the Qin King's harem, and it was unlikely that she would be in the top 20. But even so, she had already ensured the wealth of both families. It is conceivable that the more favored she was, the more her family would naturally be more valued.

Just like Ying Xin of the Zhao family and Mi Yun of the Chu family, they were in high positions and had great power, and even Ying Zheng had to consider them in the court.

There is also Nian Duan, who was born in a humble family and did not have much help, but now he has more than just an extraordinary status. Who in the court dares not to give Huichun Hou seven points of face?

There was nothing Ying Zheng could do. Politics was all about personal relationships, and power was also about personal relationships. He would definitely give priority to his own people.

There must also be people whose interests are deeply bound together.

No matter what you do, you must have your own people in it.

No matter what department it is, no matter how complex its composition is, there must be our own people.

Everyone says that they are the king’s men, but who knows what they are thinking in their hearts?

After all, people’s hearts are separated by their stomachs.

But blood ties, family ties, and shared interests are all visible.

Throughout history, both in China and abroad, marriage is the simplest and most reliable form of relationship.

If we don’t use our own people, will we use outsiders? If we don’t appoint people based on personal connections, will we appoint people based on intimacy?
As for appointing people based on merit, that's fine, but they must be loyal! How can you ensure loyalty? Become one of your own!

How can we reuse someone if he is not one of our own? Even if we are not connected by blood through marriage, we must form a deep community of interests.

There are many people in the world, and many of them can do things. There are always more people who can do things than opportunities to do things. People from wealthy backgrounds can receive more education and use more resources than people from poor backgrounds. There are too many wolves and too little meat. When it comes to the stability of rule, loyalty and reliability are always more important than ability.

This is also why the Yin-Yang family never tires of sending the beauties they have cultivated with great difficulty into the palace one after another without any regrets.

The benefits are truly increasing.

Taoists are naturally anxious.

Everyone wants to eat more meat. If some people eat more, some people are bound to eat less.

Especially since the businesses of Taoism and Yin-Yang School are highly overlapping, the competition is naturally more fierce in this case.

Apart from anything else, the fact that the revised calendar was snatched away by the Yin-Yang School was enough to make the Taoists gnashing their teeth in anger.

The calendar must be re-issued when a dynasty changes. The emperor is the "Son of Heaven". The formulation and promulgation of the calendar is a symbol of imperial power and represents the legitimacy of the rule. The new regime must promulgate a new calendar in order to show that it is the Mandate of Heaven. This is one of the necessary measures for political legitimacy.

Moreover, we are now living in an agricultural society, where calendars are extremely important, because planting and harvesting crops require precise timing. Today, the world is an agricultural country, and the calendar is directly related to the success or failure of agricultural production.

Secondly, the selection of auspicious and unlucky days in the calendar affects daily life, such as weddings, funerals, construction starts, etc. The calendar plays an important guiding role in social life and shapes the customs of the festival system.

As for culture, in order to promote social unity and cultural identity, after the unification of China, it was inevitable to add festivals to celebrate the same festivals as the country. This is an important carrier of cultural inheritance, and the arrangements of these festivals all rely on the calendar.

The calendar is by no means a simple timekeeping tool, but an important comprehensive carrier for establishing the legitimacy of the regime, enhancing political authority, providing a guide for agricultural production, a code of social behavior, and a cohesion of humanistic beliefs. It can be called the 'time operating system' of agricultural society.

Compiling a calendar for the new empire is an extremely great achievement that will surely go down in history. It will inevitably bring unlimited fame and fortune to oneself and one's family.

Moreover, this job is safe and stable.

It was precisely because of this that Zou Shi was determined to stay with Ying Zheng and die in the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty was destined to unify China, so Zou Shi could not refuse the benefits offered by Ying Zheng.

If the two schools were not in the same dynasty, and if Ying Zheng was not a man of few words and would not tolerate any tricks, the Yin-Yang School and the Taoist School would have fought each other over the revision of the calendar.

Su Xin Jing Yue naturally knew clearly about these things and the challenges faced by Taoism.

She has lived the life of a favored daughter of heaven since she was young. Taoism is her home. It is not bad for her to be Ying Zheng's concubine. Taoism also fully supports her. Naturally, she will do her best to report back to her home.

You know, her parents are still alive and her family is prosperous.

Su Xin Jing Yue was not surprised at the amount of money and goods that Chi Songzi supported her with. When she was sure that she would enter Ying Zheng's harem, she already knew that these inevitable things would happen.

She is now carefully checking the information about the harem sent by Akamatsuko, which is what concerns her most.

(End of this chapter)