marquis of jingan

Chapter 262 The minister has his own performance!

It's perfectly normal for the two little maids to have such thoughts.

Although the two of them were born as court ladies, they have now left the palace and become Shen Yi's maids.

The maid originally had only two paths to take.

One is to follow your son for the rest of your life, and be a housemaid. If you are lucky and give birth to a child for the master's family, you can "promote" to become a concubine, or you can say that your son likes it, and you can directly accept it as a concubine.

The second way is to marry the next servant.

Those who are lucky will marry the housekeeper of the family, and those who are unlucky will be grooms or even tenants.

And the two maids, Qinger and Pinger, have been with Shen Yi, a promising and similar age peer, for more than half a year. During these six months, Shen Yi has treated both of them very well. From their point of view, it is natural Can be entrusted to a lifelong lover.

However, half a year later, not only did Shen Yi never touch them, he didn't even have any thoughts about that.

Therefore, the two little maids who were "thinking about puberty" figured out such a way together, sneaked into Shen Yi's bed, and wanted to "cook raw rice into mature rice" and promote themselves to the housemaid.

Shen Yi stood by his bed, looked at the two little girls who were fifteen or sixteen, and fourteen five, and shook his head slightly: "Our family doesn't have to be like this, in the future..."

Shen Yi lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "In the future, when you are older, it will not be too late to think about these issues."

After Master Shen finished saying this, he lit the oil lamp in the room with a torch, and the dim room suddenly lit up. Shen Yi sat by the table, looked at the two maids on the bed, coughed, and said : "Okay, it's getting late, you two go to bed now."

The two little maids got out of the bed with blushing faces.

Ping'er was still a little unconvinced. Standing in front of Shen Yi, she straightened her already slightly large chest, and said to Shen Yi: "Young master, we are not young anymore. A few years ago, my family sent a letter saying that the neighbor's The little girl who is a few months younger than me has given birth to her second son this year..."

This is another characteristic of this era.

Early marriage and early childbearing.

This feature is not caused by human beings, nor is it influenced by culture, but by the times or social needs.

When the average life expectancy is not high, the age of childbearing must be shortened in order to extend the health of a nation. Moreover, in this era of small-scale peasant economy, having a son is a productive force, and there is no need for too much maintenance cost. , everyone is naturally keen to have children.

And the aristocratic families that occupy social resources, in order to have more family members to continue to control social resources, will be able to have more children, more children and more blessings.

In Shen Yi's view, girls before the age of 20 are immature in mind, so even if these two little maids are planning to follow him for the rest of their lives, Shen Yi also hopes that they can make decisions after they are 20 years old.

However, due to the influence of the background of this era, 20 years old is already an "old girl". These two little maids may not have the patience to stay by Shen Yi's side until they are 20 years old.

After hearing Ping'er's words, Shen Yi glanced at her angrily, and said, "Others are others, you are you, what are you arguing with others?"

Seeing that Shen Yi seemed unhappy, the two little maids stuck out their tongues, left Shen Yi's room disheartened, and went to sleep together.

After the two little maids left, Shen Yi hesitated for a moment, and went into his bed to sleep.

At this moment, the body temperature of the girl in the bed has not yet dissipated, and it actually gave Master Shen some warmth in this cold first month.

It was a very sweet sleep.

And the sixteenth day of the first month of the seventh year of Chen Hongde came quietly in Shen Yi's sleep.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the imperial court's half-month vacation officially ended. Early in the morning, the bell rang at the gate of Deqing Hall.

Today is the first day of work in the new year, so it is also the day of the court's first big court meeting in the new year.

Early in the morning, civil and military officials of the fifth grade or above in Jiankang waited at the entrance of the Deqing Hall. When the first ray of sun shone in front of the Deqing Hall, the eunuch Gao Ming walked out. At the entrance of Deqing Hall, he glanced around at the civil and military officials outside the hall, especially Yang Jingzong, who was already very old. After coughing and clearing his throat, Eunuch Gao sang loudly.

"One Yuan starts again, Vientiane renews..."

"At the beginning of the new year, hundreds of officials enter the court..."

After the two singings, Eunuch Gao entered the Deqing Hall by himself, and then everyone's eyes were on Yang Jingzong and Yang Xiang.

Yang Xiang was already on crutches at this moment, and his steps were already a little staggering.

However, he is still the head of the civil service, so this Yang Xianggong was the first to limping into the Deqing Palace.

The other civil and military officials followed Old Man Yang and also entered the Deqing Hall according to their shifts.

Soon, everyone stood up according to their respective positions in the Deqing Hall.

As the officials stood still, the eunuch Gao Ming sang loudly again.

"His Majesty is here!"

The little emperor walked up to Danbi silently, and sat on his dragon chair. He first glanced at his ministers, and after taking a look, His Majesty the emperor said slowly: "The new year is beginning, and the gentlemen are taking a rest. After half a month, I'm back in the court again now, but I'm still used to it?"

The ministers quickly bowed their heads, saying that they love their work, and there is no problem of not being used to it.

The little emperor nodded in satisfaction, and then looked at Liu Jizhang, Minister of the Household Department, with a calm expression: "Shangshu Liu, the new year has begun, did the Ministry of Households not have bad debts last year?"

Liu Jizhang looked embarrassed, and turned to look at Zhao Changping.

Zhao Shilang also understood the old boss's thoughts very well, and immediately went to the office and told the emperor about the situation in the household department.

Last year, the overall situation of the household department was still good. Although it is inevitable that some yamen will report some bad debts and bad debts that are constantly being cut and dealt with, the income of the household department last year was not bad. Throughout the year, the treasury also had a balance of nearly more than 100 million taels of silver, as well as a large amount of grain and rice.

This is the advantage of being in charge of the family. Since Zhao Changping took charge of the treasury, the imperial court's finances have been generally good in recent years, especially in the treasury, which now has a lot of gold, silver and copper plates accumulated.

The little emperor nodded slightly, and ordered the various ministries to clarify and ask the Ministry of Accounts in person if they had doubts about last year's expenditure.

After solving the problem of the household department, the little emperor said a few more things about Chunwei, and then the eunuch Gao announced that this year, Wu Kan, the current servant of the Ministry of Rites, will be the chief examiner of Chunwei.

I don't know if everyone gave the little emperor face, but everyone didn't say much about the emperor's appointment of the chief examiner of Chunwei.

When mentioning the candidates for Chunwei's main examination, the little emperor sat on the dragon chair and kept watching the attitude of his subordinates towards this matter.

But no one stood up and jumped.

The little emperor cleared his throat and looked at the ministers below, especially at Yang Jingzong and Yang Xiang.

In the hall, there was a moment of inexplicable silence.

After the silence, the little emperor yawned and pretended to be indifferent. He looked at these people, and then slowly said: "Is there anything else, Zhu Qing? If not, the court meeting will end here today."

Finally, Yang Xiangguo, who had been standing in the first row pretending to be dumb and deaf, stood up silently.

Because it was a court meeting, Yang Xiangguo held the court wat in his hand, then took out a thick memorial from his sleeve, held it in both hands, and handed it to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the old minister has a memorandum..."

(End of this chapter)