"Now Xiangzhuang draws his sword and dances, and his meaning is always with Pei Gong." [Historical Records·The Chronicles of Xiang Yu]
"I heard what you just said, does the eldest princess also want to leave the palace?" Tang Ji asked a little uncontrollably.
Liu Jiang slowly stood up from the couch and walked to the railing. He lowered his eyes and looked down at the remaining lotuses in the pool. The expression on his face did not show much relief and relief, but rather a sense of loss: "You are leaving, I still have to leave."
How long can I stay here?"
Tang Ji couldn't understand for a moment, so she stood up, walked behind Liu Jiang, and thoughtfully put an autumn coat on her.
Liu Jiang held the autumn clothes on his shoulders with one hand, looked back with a delicate profile, and looked at Tang Ji with a smile: "Some people are here for me."
As the emperor gradually grew up, not only was it inconvenient for Tang Ji, his sister-in-law, to live with his brother-in-law, but also Liu Jiang, the ten thousand-year-old princess who was his sister, was not suitable to continue living in Weiyang Palace. What's more, Liu Jiang was old and would not marry out.
Going to the palace will inevitably attract rumors.
So this time it was obviously aimed at Tang Ji, but in fact, as soon as Tang Ji left, someone would bring Liu Jiang out to make a case.
Song Hong's real intention was to get Liu Jiang out of the palace, so that it would be inconvenient for him to point fingers in the palace, so as to relieve his resentment. But in doing so, he was inadvertently used by others, not only as a way to drive away the eldest princess.
This chess piece gave some people an excuse to criticize.
"Mr. Dong." Liu Jiang said as if talking to himself, "I really underestimate you."
"What does this matter have to do with the Queen?" Tang Ji looked at Liu Jiang's hand holding the collar. Even though she had doubts in her heart, she still knew how to act appropriately and stopped asking further. She also knew that it was useless.
It's better to think about it by yourself.
Seeing the hesitant look on her face, Liu Jiang didn't want to tell the truth, but he didn't want to hide it from her either. After thinking about it, he replied vaguely: "When His Majesty took charge of the government and got married, Ye Ting recruited a large number of new palace maids. She
Since she is a queen, she will naturally be dispatched from among them."
"In other words, the palace servants of Pixiang Palace...?" Tang Ji hesitated to speak. If the palace servants around Song Capital had already been arranged by Empress Dong in advance, wouldn't everything that happened in the past two days be caused by
Yu Dong's conspiracy?
Liu Jiang looked at her and said nothing. Instead, after looking at the scenery for a while, he went to find the emperor.
To Liu Jiang's surprise, the emperor did not agree with the selection of palace officials next year, but was somewhat resistant to it.
"Now that the world is in war, household registrations are withering, and there are more men than women, it is the time to encourage the people to multiply and live. How can I open the door for my own selfish desires?" Having sex too early will lead to longevity, and the emperor also
Those women who were considered 'adults' at the age of fifteen or sixteen had mental disorders, so the emperor refused righteously, but in fact he was feeling more guilty than anyone else.
Liu Jiang was slightly surprised, opened his eyes wide, and said after being stunned for a while: "What do you mean by this? It is important for the people to reproduce and live, but is it a trivial matter to leave an heir to the Han Dynasty? How many of the late emperors in this dynasty have died?
After becoming the heir,... Yin Jian is not far away, why doesn't Your Majesty keep it in mind?"
She did not have the emperor's knowledge that was far ahead of his time. She only knew that early marriage and early childbirth would mean that a young couple from an ordinary family would have both children at the age of fifteen. Even some wealthy families would not sit idly by and watch their daughters survive after they were eighteen.
Do not marry. Only those who strictly adhere to the "Zhou Rites" will abide by the rule of "marry a man at thirty and a woman at twenty".
"I know, but now is not the time. The days are still long." The emperor's mood was completely different from that of Liu Jiang. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, except for the two emperors Guangwu and Xiaoming, no other emperor lived past the age of forty. Even though
The mortality rate was high in ancient times, but for the royal family who had gathered the best, most resources and living environment in the world, this was simply unbelievable.
In the same era, there were farmers and even scholars who lived past the age of seventy or eighty, but few emperors lived past the age of sixty or seventy.
The emperor was unwilling to doubt the people around him with unfounded speculations, but he was extremely attentive to his diet and daily life, coupled with unremitting physical exercise. The emperor believed that he could become the third emperor after Emperor Gao and Emperor Xiaowu.
Emperor Liu who lived over sixty years old.
Therefore, adhering to Yuanyang is not only the moral integrity of the emperor as a descendant, but also the basic principle to survive better and longer in this era.
But this kind of unsubstantiated thing could not convince Liu Jiang at all: "Emperor Xiaowu had a concubine when he was fifteen years old."
"But Emperor Xiaowu is also the Princess of the Guard who was only eighteen years old." The emperor said in a very clear voice: "Since I am the emperor, I am determined to revive the country. If heaven will not give up, it will not be less fortunate than me. Now.
There is already a queen and two nobles in the palace, so there is no rush to add more girls, this matter will be discussed later."
Liu Jiang couldn't resist him, but he didn't want to give up this opportunity to restrain Empress Dong, so he had to give up stating the grand reasons for producing an 'emperor' and directly explain the pros and cons to him: "Your Majesty must also understand in his heart that this matter
It seems that they are pointing at Tang Ji, but in fact they are pointing the finger at me. After Tang Ji leaves the palace, they will continue to say that I am older and not suitable to continue to live in Weiyang Palace, and they will also discuss my marriage...
How could Song Hong alone cause so many disturbances?"
"I'm afraid they have always had this idea, but they just couldn't find a reason to bring it up." The emperor said lightly. This time it was not only Song Hong, but also the Kansai scholars behind him.
It is suitable to live with the eldest sister and widowed sister-in-law. This is a valid reason, and even the Yang family agrees.
All the ministers were doing private things for their own benefit under the guise of considering the reputation of the emperor. Even the emperor could not protest openly, so he had to go along with the situation and promote this matter, and then retaliate in the next episode.
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After hearing the emperor's words, she thought of the cause and effect. Although she didn't know how the emperor had expected it so far, she was very alert after all, and she vaguely realized that the emperor also played a role in this matter to separate her from Tang Ji.
The character who 'asks' to leave the palace.
Liu Jiang's face couldn't help but change like the weather in summer. She held back her anger and said coldly: "Now that you have given the reason for this, the reaction of the ministers must also be in your mind?"
"What's the reason?" The emperor smiled, pretending to be completely ignorant. In fact, he knew better than anyone else that he deliberately concealed the fact that he had a wet dream. On the one hand, he did not want it to be known so quickly, which would attract public attention.
A group of people like Liu Jiang forced themselves to have children underage; on the other hand, they threw this topic to Dong, wanting to see what Dong would do with it and test the other person's coping ability.
His worst expectation was that Empress Dong concealed the matter for her own selfish reasons to save the emperor trouble. The other expected result was that the eldest princess left the palace under the pressure of public opinion, as she did now.
To be married.
In both public and private matters, the emperor did not want Liu Jiang to stay in the palace all the time. Instead, he wanted her to leave the palace and play a greater role for the emperor.
"Don't pretend to be confused here." Liu Jiang looked hesitant. She wanted to say that the emperor couldn't possibly not know the importance of 'wet dreams' to a man. But as a woman, she was too shy to speak out, so she had to emphasize her tone and said: "Queen
On the day I invited you to Jiaofang Palace, when you turned back halfway to find Song Capital, you already had a plan in your mind on what to do, right?"