Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 566
Empress Dowager Wan's ideas are relatively simple and unpretentious. She just chooses a wife for her son from the two perspectives of "relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law" and her son's "harem tranquility".

The Dou family and the Dugu family, these two women from the Guanlong family, are naturally objects to be excluded in the eyes of the Empress Dowager Wan.She didn't have a deep understanding of the relationship between the aristocratic family and the court, so she wouldn't understand that her unintentional actions actually solved a lot of trouble for her son.

For the women in the harem, Li Zhiyun has always been indifferent to their origins, and he himself is not jealous.

Young women and mature women are his favorites, and Sister Lolita also has his way of appreciating them.

In the early Tang Dynasty, it was impossible to completely eliminate the influence of the family, so Li Zhiyun didn't care at all about the appearance of a family daughter in the harem.As for whether it will involve the power struggle of the court and the struggle between the family and the court, that is not a problem.

Because, he is the emperor.

The emperor can be indiscriminate, but not dedicated.This is a very straightforward matter. If he wants to be a dedicated emperor, then he will definitely not be able to become an emperor who has practiced the way of perfect balance.It is even more impossible to fulfill his ideal and benefit the entire nation.

Is the word "lonely family and widowed person" empty talk?

Tianjia doesn't talk about family affection. If it talks about family affection and love, it's him who enjoys it, but the people all over the world suffer.

As the emperor of the empire, Li Zhiyun can be greedy for money, but he must not have the tendency to favor only one person.

Because, that would not only make his harem uneasy, but also increase the difficulty of work for Empress Yang, and it would also cause a struggle for the heir apparent, which in turn would make the government and the public turbulent.

Throughout the dynasties, the harem concubines and their heirs have always been associated with seizing the throne.

This is especially true for the daughter of the family.

Doting on the daughter of the aristocratic family is undoubtedly slapping himself in the face and hindering his plan to suppress the aristocratic family.

Of course, Li Zhiyun is not worried about the family daughter entering the harem.Because, there are not no concubines from families in the harem.

Empress Yang was born in Hongnong Yang family, Concubine Wei was born in Jingzhao Wei family, Concubine Pei Xian was born in Wenxi Pei family, and Concubine Yang Shu was born in the former Sui royal family.

Even if the Empress Dowager Wan didn't prevent Dou's daughter and Dugu's daughter from entering the harem this time, Li Zhiyun was not afraid.

Because, in the final analysis, the battle in the harem and the battle for the throne depended on whether the emperor's ability to handle things was sufficient.

It was actually not wrong for the first emperor to play a balance between the abolished prince and the king of Qin.Because of his status as emperor, if the first emperor wanted to monopolize the power and be the supreme forever, then he had to let his two sons fight, otherwise, at the age when the first emperor ascended the throne, he would be driven away by the abolished prince or King Qin sooner or later, and retreated to the position of the overlord position.

History has proven this.

As for Li Zhiyun himself, he was not that afraid.

Because, from the very beginning, he didn't intend to just be the emperor of the Central Plains, nor did he intend to raise all his sons as pigs and keep them in Chang'an to do nothing.

Facts have proved that the more idle people are, the more likely they are to make mistakes.

In the final analysis, what the late emperor did not finish, he had to do.If the first emperor eradicated the aristocratic family, this is not realistic.

Although he really didn't want to belittle the late emperor, Li Zhiyun himself knew that with the late emperor's ability and age, he couldn't cut off the family.

All of this had to be done by him himself.

All in all, when women from aristocratic families enter the harem, once they are involved in the struggle between the government and the countryside, there is only one fate waiting for them.

Leng Gong.

It's not that Li Zhiyun is ruthless, but that he must be ruthless.

Otherwise, if the center is chaotic, it will only bring endless disasters to the people.

What happened in Luozhou is a wake-up call.

The emperor's feelings can be given to many people, but they must be willing to give up.

Therefore, Li Zhiyun personally loves Empress Yang very much.Because, he hoped that Queen Yang could become his 'Queen Wende'.Connect with him, give him support and encouragement.

Fortunately, although he and Queen Yang got married first and then cultivated their relationship, they were not bad.The two of them, husband and wife, can watch and help each other, and they are in harmony with each other.

The news of the emperor's small-scale draft was spread in the near future, and the officials who wanted to go further by going through the back door racked their brains to study, and wanted to send their daughters into the palace.

You know, there are not many concubines in the emperor's harem now. If the emperor is lucky enough to leave a dragon seed behind a beautiful girl, then the family from which the beautiful girl came from, not to mention skyrocketing, at least half-step into the gate of the nobility.

As for whether the emperor's announcement of the draft in the second year of Zhenguan, which was full of disasters, would arouse the disgust of officials and common people, that's not at all.

The reason is simple, the emperor is thoughtful!

Since the first year of Zhenguan, all disaster relief expenses were either paid by the Ministry of Civil Affairs or the emperor's internal funds.Among them, the money from the emperor's internal funds accounted for as much as half.In this troubled year, the salaries of officials were not paid in arrears, and the common people also received effective food relief.

Before that, the emperor even bought those sold children and returned them to their parents unconditionally. In addition to all the things he had done in the past, the people did not think that the emperor was having fun, but felt that the emperor should do this.

Because, Emperor Zhenguan is a real good emperor in the eyes of the people.

He was able to exterminate the Turks externally, and valued agriculture and mulberry internally. He unconditionally taught the people how to make soil and chemical fertilizers, taught the skills of Quyuanli, gave the people the seeds of Champa rice, and taught the people how to eat better wheat.
Everything piled up together, so that Emperor Zhenguan was directly linked to a good emperor in the hearts of the people.

It is no exaggeration to say that now that Li Zhiyun walked out of the imperial city and raised his arms, the ordinary peasants in Guanzhong would immediately subdue him and sacrifice their lives for him.

The people are so cute, whoever treats them well, they can work hard for them.

Being able to do this is all due to the advantages that Li Zhiyun has accumulated little by little through his own hard work.

His status is legitimate and reasonable.

Before he came to the throne, when he was the prince, he often went deep into the people, teaching the people how to use the Quyuanli

After he came to the throne, he exempted taxes everywhere, reduced or exempted labor, and even took money from his own money to help the people.

Coupled with the assistance of capable ministers and newspaper exaggerations, it was only now that the people respected it.

For officials, the emperor's draft is even less of a thing.Because before that, the emperor had been rejecting the draft, and this draft was a 'forced' decision by the emperor.Then, not only do they not feel that the emperor is having fun, but they think that the emperor listens to persuasion.

After all, whether Emperor Zhenguan was a good emperor or not, the people may be deceived, but the officials still can't tell.

In addition, the draft is also a huge opportunity for officials.

In Chang'an City, who doesn't envy the chubby Yin Ashu who eats.Because of Concubine Yin De's relationship, Yin Ashu got a piece of goods from the emperor casually, and the money he earned would never be spent in several lifetimes.

Although this draft is said to be a small-scale draft on the surface, in fact, the officials all know that there are at least ten places to enter the palace this time!

The reason is very simple, the emperor has too few concubines, which is not in line with the system.

Ever since, the officials, who were still immersed in the grief of the disaster on the surface, had already secretly prepared to send their daughters and sisters into the palace.

The winter moon in the second year of Zhenguan was not only not cold, but it started to heat up.Especially those officials who moved their minds.

Of course, while it was hot, it was inevitable that there would be jokes.Some shameless officials even began to regret their marriages and withdraw their marriage certificates in order to send their daughters to the palace for draft.

For a while, Chang'an gossip danced all over the sky.

(End of this chapter)