After four months of uneasy rule, the Shenghan Empire was overall stable and transitional. In fact, the empire's operating procedures had not been damaged. As long as the central government did not make too big a mistake, there would not be too many accidents and troubles.
After Zhang Xiaowu came to power, he did not carry out large-scale operations on the country as a whole and introduced his own ideas. Even the most controversial tax law reform was suspended. It is unknown what year and month it will be restarted. Everything shows that Long
The imperial court restored the previous decrees.
Zhang Xiaowu accepted the persistence that Zhang Dang paid for with his blood, but it cost them the sacrifices of eighty-seven families and millions of taels of silver. Many Zhang Dang who did not participate in the rebellion also understood
Come here, Zhang Xiaowu is not targeting the Zhang party, he is targeting the rich people - the court is short of money, so it digs it from these rich nobles, so everyone works more carefully to avoid giving Zhang Xiaowu an opportunity to take advantage of.
In the process of government operations, people increasingly feel that the central government plays a very important role. Although there are only six people in the central government now, it is the various departments that actually handle government affairs, and the central government is the final decision-making department. It is a combination of old, middle and young people.
It is very unlikely that a team will be hot-headed or have its own way of doing things. And Zhang Xiao
Although Wu served as the central governor, he did not rely on his power to act recklessly. Instead, he actively listened to the suggestions of other central governors. The six people got along harmoniously and the decrees were smooth. In the first half of the third year of Dade, the Shenghan Empire
We were able to recuperate quickly. Although everyone could not see the emperor, they felt that there was no difference.
The central government system was actually a disguised version of the prime minister system in later generations. During the period when the Great German Emperor was in coma, the influence of the imperial power was basically equal to zero. However, the result of the non-interference of the imperial power made the people who had experienced a massacre
Longdu and even the Shenghan Empire gradually recovered their national strength. Many people suddenly discovered that sometimes excessive imperial power would bring very serious disasters to the country. For example, Emperor Taiqian ignored internal affairs for many years and focused on expanding the territory, leading to internal and external troubles.
In the end, the mess was thrown to Emperor Dade.
Just imagine, if Emperor Taiqian had focused on domestic economic and cultural development, he would not have ended up in internal and external distress, and he would not have had to borrow money from wealthy businessmen to pay his courtiers' salaries.
Gradually, there were no longer so many officials waiting and watching, and everyone performed their duties. They no longer fiercely resisted Zhang Xiaowu's rule, but more often accepted it silently.
However, something suddenly happened that caught Zhang Xiaowu off guard. One day, he was reading a novel by his second wife, Wanqiu, at home, and criticized her, saying that the novel was too Mary Sue. Except for official wives and idiot ladies who are quite like official wives, there are
No one with life experience would know how to look at it, but he saw Wei Yuan coming in a hurry, saying that the emperor had summoned him.
Zhang Xiaowu looked at the sky and saw that it was already midnight. He wondered why he was summoned to the palace at this time. The so-called emperor's summons was just an excuse. The one who summoned him must be Tang Guifei, but he was a little unwilling to be summoned in the middle of the night.
Unwilling.
Zhang Xiaowu came to the Zhonghe Palace. Now the Zhonghe Palace is the place where the emperor cultivates his health and recuperates. It is also where Tang Guifei takes care of the Dade Emperor. The imperial concubine must be treasonous when she summons powerful officials into the harem late at night. Zhang Xiaowu does not dare to approach, but Tang Guifei is very anxious.
The earth will reject the people
Zhang Xiaowu had no choice but to let the servants go down, and then asked the imperial concubine what happened, why he needed to be so anxious to call him into the palace. The imperial concubine Tang bit her silver teeth, wrapped her fingers around the ends of her hair, and after some hesitation, she whispered
: "Master Shaobao, I... am pregnant."
Zhang Xiaowu didn't hear clearly at first and asked: "Empress, what's wrong with you?"
Concubine Tang cried: "I'm pregnant."
Zhang Xiaowu smiled and said: "This is a good thing, why are you crying?"
Concubine Tang said: "I don't know now whether this child belongs to His Majesty or... or to the rebels."
Zhang Xiaowu opened his mouth and suddenly thought that His Majesty loved Concubine Tang deeply, but Concubine Tang was indeed attacked by the rebels on the day of the Jin Dynasty Rebellion. Although he killed all the tenants and generals of Liyang Marquis that day, no one could
Even though they didn't know about this, it doesn't mean that it never happened. At this time, Concubine Tang was pregnant, and she didn't even know who the father of the child was. Zhang Xiaowu was caught off guard. He scratched his head and asked, "Are you not sure?
"
"Not sure." Tang Guifei cried.
"How long?"
"About four months."
"Calculate the days, is it time to have fun with His Majesty?"
"yes."
"Oh, then I'm relieved."
"However, your Majesty and I were happy on the 27th, but - we met the leader on the 29th."
Zhang Xiaowu suddenly felt a headache. There was only two days difference between the 27th and the 29th. In terms of the probability of pregnancy, it can be said that the child may be the son of the great emperor or the rebels. This is difficult to deal with.
Well, not to mention that he couldn't judge it, even the imperial doctor couldn't judge it.
Concubine Tang's face was filled with tears, and she kept beating her stomach with one hand, "What an injustice! What an injustice!"
Zhang Xiaowu was anxious and angry. He jumped up and pointed at her and scolded: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? If you had told me earlier, if you had said something earlier, you - you - you would have made me so angry!"
There was a look of remorse on Concubine Tang's face, and she even acted a little crazy and danced around to explain: "I'm scared, I'm so scared, I don't dare to let anyone know about this. But I also hope that this child is your Majesty's, so
I was very conflicted and wasted time like this. But in the past few days, as the
My belly is getting bigger day by day. I - I can't believe it anymore. What if this child belongs to someone else and not your Majesty? I will become a sinner through the ages. Mr. Shaobao, what should I do? What should I do?
Okay. I can't be sorry to Your Majesty, I can't let other people's children be born in the palace."
"Bastard!" Zhang Xiaowu was so angry that his hair stood up, and his fingers were trembling when he pointed at her. It took him a long time to say a word, and he shouted: "Can you still hesitate about this matter? Your Majesty has already achieved success, no matter how much you do,
A child, whether it is his child or not, is of no use. This child cannot be kept, must not be kept."
Tang Guifei knelt on the ground and begged: "I don't know what to do? I don't know what I can do. Zhang Shaobao, you must help me, you will definitely be able to help me. If you don't help me, I really won't be able to do anything."
There’s a solution.”
Zhang Xiaowu took a few deep breaths and then regained his emotions. This matter must not be known to anyone, otherwise it will be a scandal to the entire empire. The reason why Concubine Tang chose to hide it was that she was really afraid and worried that she would be raped by gangsters.
And the pregnancy was
People knew that it would destroy her and the honor of the royal family. She came here just because she was lucky, thinking that maybe the child belonged to the emperor, but the emperor was stupid. In this case, who could believe that the child was his. Zhang Xiaowu even suspected that someone would take advantage of this opportunity.