Volume 1 The Newlyweds Chapter 1 The Great Entropy Consort
After the first snowfall, the entire Xuanyang City was covered in silvery white, and the rows of pavilions and pavilions were covered with a layer of flawless silver.
This is the capital of Great Entropy, the place where power is concentrated in the four states and 326 counties.
The Great Entropy Kingdom lasted for thousands of years. It has a vast territory, a vast territory, a population of tens of millions, and millions of soldiers.
And this year is the 20th year of Yong'an, the 20th year after Emperor Mingwu succeeded to the throne.
In the past twenty years, through His Majesty the Emperor's iron-fisted governance of the country, the Great Entropy has reached the peak of prosperity that has not been seen in thousands of years.
So much so that a later singer said: Emperor Mingwu's sin was in the ancestral temple, but his merits were in the hands of all people.
What is the crime? In the ancestral temple, His Majesty used his concubines to seize the throne, bloodbathed the palace, slaughtered all the clan members, imprisoned the late emperor, and hanged seventeen former empresses and concubines. All of these crimes were for rebellion against the ancestors and treason.
However, His Majesty's achievements are also unprecedented. Internally, there are abandoned well fields, old burial rituals, encouraging farming, and establishing imperial examinations. Externally, he has pacified the barbarians in the south, destroyed the Qiang and Di in the north, and expanded the territory of the Great Entropy by more than 2,000 miles. His illustrious achievements are enough.
Comparable to Emperor Taizu, the founder of the Great Entropy.
However, such a strong-armed emperor also had a tender side. For example, he doted on his daughter very much.
The emperor had a total of thirteen children, four princes and nine princesses. Among them, he especially doted on the youngest daughter, Princess Anyang.
Princess Anyang, seventeen years old, her maiden name is Luo Junyue, she is a very noble woman inside and outside the temple of the Great Entropy today... No, she should be a girl.
Although this princess was not the Queen's biological child, she was regarded as her own by the Queen. When she was seven years old, her biological mother, Gongsun, passed away due to illness. The Queen and Gongsun Guifei, who were sisters, could not bear the suffering of their daughter and adopted her as her daughter. From then on, she became a daughter.
Became the direct princess of the Great Entropy.
After she turned fourteen and had hairpins, just because she said that the Prime Minister's Palace looked good, the next year the emperor granted her a princess palace with the same specifications as the Prime Minister's Palace, and gave her the title of Anyang, with the title of 5,000 households in the city, and the county of Daentrop.
Wang is the same.
This is also the highest regulation that princesses have enjoyed since the founding of the Great Entropy.
However, who could have imagined that such an unprecedented princess mansion would protect the great entropy for thousands of years.
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Anyang Princess Mansion is located in the southwest of Xuanyang City, covering an area of 300 acres, with an open terrain and a whole lake behind it.
The majestic front door is also different from other places. There are three black doors with animal heads hung with red cloth lanterns with the word "happy". There are about a dozen brightly dressed servants guarding the front steps, and two people are patrolling below the steps at all times.
Team Royal Tiger Guards.
This is the princess palace with the highest standards in the Great Entropy, and its level of favor can be said to be unprecedented in the past and unprecedented in the future.
The morning fog has not yet dispersed, and the sound of snow removal is everywhere in the three-hundred-acre mansion. Only the splendid main courtyard and a remote courtyard in the northeast corner of the mansion are quiet, which seems out of place with the surroundings.
This splendid main courtyard is where the princess lives. Already at dawn, the snow inside has been quietly wiped away by hundreds of servants.
As for this remote courtyard, it was originally the residence of dozens of laborers who built the Princess Mansion. After it was built, it was completely abandoned. It was not until this month that it was cleared out and it welcomed a new owner yesterday.
Early in the morning, Xue Junyou was awakened by a harsh "squeaking" sound.
He sleepily opened the window and looked at the hard-working servants clearing snow in the yard. His anger at getting up was suddenly suppressed.
He has a straight back, a kind face, and his gentle and elegant demeanor, which makes people think he is a young Confucian general who is proud of his talent. However, there is a hidden edge in his eyes, which is three parts like an eagle's gaze and seven parts like a wolf's gaze.
After sitting alone in front of the window and sobering up for a while, Xue Junyou picked up a book on The Art of War from the case and flipped through it. The Art of War was not too difficult to understand, and was much simpler than the "Six Tao" and "Sun Tzu" he had read in his previous life.
"Sigh. I wanted to come back and join the army, and then wait until the day I can avenge you. Unfortunately, fate has played a trick on people, and it happened to be that the Xue family was killed. The Xue family has supported me at least, and it is not as good as the kindness...
.In order to repay my kindness, I have to do this. But don’t worry, I will eventually avenge you, otherwise I will be sorry for you for bringing me to this world."
Xue Junyou looked at it for a while, then turned to look at the sky, which seemed hazy like that day.
There was mist under the clouds, and the ground was blood red.
That year, Xue Junyou was not even one year old, but he experienced the most tragic day in the country, which was known as the Dongming Rebellion.
It was a sudden sneak attack launched by the Ming people far away from the East China Sea.
The short thieves disguised themselves as merchants and crossed the sea for several days, landed at Jieshikou in Dongzhou, and invaded Dongjie City the next day.
After entering the city, they burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. In just twenty-three days, they killed 300,000 soldiers and civilians in the city.
It is said that on the day the corpse was abandoned, the seawater under the Jieshikou cliff was dyed bright red with blood, and the piled corpses were even seven or eight feet higher than the water surface.
Xue Jun was worried about his life. He witnessed his biological father and mother being beheaded in a haystack, and his sister was defiled by seven or eight thieves. When he was on the verge of starving to death, he was rescued by the passing Xue family.
The Xue family was a very wealthy businessman in the Entropy Kingdom at that time. When the thieves massacred the city, the adoptive grandfather spent 10 million taels of silver to buy the lives of the whole family. Finally, seeing that Mr. Xue was pitiful, he took them out of Dongjie City together.
Since then, Xue Junyou has become a young master of a wealthy family, but he is awakened by nightmares every day, and the Xue family has searched for good doctors but can't cure it.
Until he was ten years old, Xue Junyou was spotted by an old Taoist named Hongxiu Zhenren, who took him as his apprentice and taught him martial arts and marksmanship for ten years.
After Xue Junyou gained real talent and learned a lot, the nightmares subsided a lot. Only then did he realize that maybe his dead biological parents wanted him to avenge his family and country.
Thinking of this, Xue Jun suddenly realized that if he lived in his previous life just to make up the numbers, then in this life, serving the country, avenging shame, and carrying a three-foot sword to achieve immortality would be his real life.
In this way, Xue Junyou returned from his studies and resolutely chose to join the army.
Of course, there are countless ways to repay one's country and avenge one's disgrace, and the quickest way is to take the scientific examination, become an official, and join the ranks of those powerful officials in the court.
As for why Xue Junyou chose the least promising option of joining the army, it was entirely because he had the only option.
The Great Entropy Kingdom has been around for thousands of years, but it has never had the status of a merchant. Even if a merchant is rich, he is not allowed to wear fancy clothes, take exams for fame, or enter the court to participate in politics. This is an eternal and clear rule.
As a descendant of a businessman, Xue Junyou had no right to participate in the imperial examination or join the ranks of the powerful. The only way out was to gain military merit bit by bit by serving as cannon fodder in the army.
At least the generals of Great Entropy have always talked about military merit rather than family background. Although there are no generals from businessmen in the past dynasties of Great Entropy, there are precedents for generals from Baiding and criminal backgrounds.
Xue Junyou knew clearly in his heart that if he wanted to become an official, he could only fall through this loophole.
But something unexpected happened, and something happened to the Xue family at this juncture, and they were involved in a major corruption case. Just as dozens of members of the family were waiting to be punished and beheaded, the Xue family was approached by Lin Liang, the prime minister of the dynasty, and
Did a business.
That business is to be this consort...
Ah! Plop!
Just as Xue Junyou was deep in thought, a head suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
It was a round head with angry eyes, and its seven orifices were covered with bright red blood.
Xue Junyou was caught off guard, lost his balance and fell straight into the house.