long live the queen

Chapter 91

After a brief and terrifying silence, a nobleman in Jingyang Palace suddenly stood up, and said with a pale face, "Imperial Concubine, I... I feel a little unwell, I'm afraid I have to say goodbye first."

As she took the lead, several concubines who were still on the sidelines also agreed one after another, and it seemed that they really wanted to leave here immediately.And those with high status, such as Concubine Xu Gui, Concubine Zhuang, and Xu Zhaoyi, who was favored before, were all thoughtful and sat firmly in their seats.

Wei Yunqing smiled slightly: "It's okay if you want to leave, I will definitely not stop you. It's just that I have something to say first."

She paused, looked around and said: "You have also seen that after you left, there are quite a few sisters left behind. I will say something straightforward, meddling in the political affairs of the previous dynasty will definitely gain certain powers accordingly. With power in this hand, life will definitely be much easier. After you leave, everyone left in the future will have a better life, so don't be jealous. Well, you can go."

As soon as Wei Yunqing finished speaking, those concubines who originally said they wanted to leave showed hesitation on their faces.Living a better life is secondary. If others have power, wouldn't it be easy for them to bully themselves?When the time comes, where will there be reason?

After shaking in my heart for a while, the concubines who originally wanted to leave sat back one after another.

Wei Yunqing smiled lightly. In fact, she didn't intend to scare them, but she just kindly told them the possibility of the future.

Concubine Zhuang suddenly raised her voice: "You said a good life? But since ancient times, women have not interfered in politics. If the courtiers of the previous court united, wouldn't we be punished?"

Wei Yunqing looked at Concubine Zhuang, who was full of doubts.

She laughed and said, "Since ancient times, women have not been involved in politics? When did you say ancient times? In the earliest times, we were a matrilineal society, and all the leaders in the tribe were women. It is bullshit for any woman not to interfere in politics!"

Wei Yunqing's words startled everyone. Firstly, her words sounded too rude to these pampered harem women, and secondly, it was the first time they heard that women were the masters in ancient times.

"As for the crime..." Wei Yunqing stood up, looked around, with a cold expression, "I have the highest status here, if I really want to commit a crime, I will bear it. I am not afraid, what are you afraid of? There is a sentence You are just following me, and the emperor is not a bloodthirsty tyrant, what are you afraid of? Even if there is something wrong, it is nothing more than punishing me as a leader, you can rest assured."

"According to what you said, the benefits after the incident will be ours, and you will bear all the bad things?" Concubine Zhuang sneered, she didn't believe that Wei Yunqing would do such a self-sacrificing thing.

"You think too highly of me. I'm not that noble, it's just mutual benefit." Wei Yunqing said, "The adults in the previous dynasty insisted on opposing me. I am alone and alone, and I always need some helpers." To deal with them, you helped me and yourself, so why not do it? Anyway, the emperor locked himself in the Qianqing Palace recently, and you are also idle, why don't you come and do something to pass the time."

Wei Yunqing's understated tone gave all the concubines the illusion that all they had to do was get up early and ask for peace.

"I've already finished talking about the matter. I'll talk about how to do it in the afternoon. Everyone go back first, and you can think about whether you want to get involved. If you want to do something, please come back in the afternoon." Wei Yunqing stood up and prepared to send I was a guest, and finally said, "To be kept in captivity in the backyard, confined to that one-third of an acre of land, to fight for a man all day, should not be the destination of our women. Women have never been men's vassals. What they can do, women can do. What we women can do, they can’t do—I’m talking about having children.”

Wei Yunqing's words ushered in a few sporadic laughter, and after the laughter, her shocking words were imprinted in the hearts of those present, and it was everyone's luck to understand how much they understood and how much they understood.

After sending them off, Wei Yunqing asked Lan Tian to take out all the information on concubines collected from various palaces in the past, and she had to go through it carefully to see what everyone was good at.It's impossible for them to get started with government affairs right now, but she can find some simple things for them to do first, and she's not afraid to turn this into a long-term career.

It was also this incident that reminded Wei Yunqing that since she could not return to modern times and happened to be in a high position that could exert great influence, why didn't she do something to change the current situation?She is now working hard to draw women from the harem into politics. In the future, she will also set up a women's academy to make women appear in the officialdom and change the status of women in this era little by little.

Wei Yunqing didn't know which was more difficult, top-down reform or bottom-up reform, but she suddenly wanted to do something.

Of course, the premise is that she has to get through the current crisis smoothly.

In the afternoon, Wei Yunqing waited in her own palace after eating. She believed that even if she had thought about it after returning, someone would still come.For example, Concubine Zhuang, although she has fought with Concubine Zhuang, Concubine Zhuang's temperament is actually quite suitable for dealing with men, and she will not suffer. Moreover, Concubine Zhuang has a relatively strong personality, she believes that Concubine Zhuang will not let this matter go. opportunity to gain power.

In addition to getting help from the concubines, Wei Yunqing also hoped that their families would also stand by her side.Their family members have titles anyway, and there will always be some royal relatives or officials who are close to each other on weekdays. Mosquito meat is still meat no matter how small it is. The more people you can win, the better.

Concubine Zhuang was the first to come, not long after Wei Yunqing had just finished lunch.As soon as she came, she asked Wei Yunqing to explain the details, but Wei Yunqing told her to be calm and wait until the rest of the people said it.

Afterwards, people came one after another, and most of them had a trace of expectation and fear on their faces. Obviously, they were not very confident about this decision.Wei Yunqing counted, and there was no one missing, she was very satisfied.

Because everyone is inexperienced, and after all, as a woman in the harem, she cannot go out of the harem, and she cannot act freely like those officials. Wei Yunqing thought about it and borrowed their strength, and had to proceed step by step.

Wei Yunqing divided people into three groups. Concubine Xu Gui, Concubine Xu Zhaoyi, and Concubine Zhuang each lead a group. They choose the members themselves, and they always choose those who can cooperate happily.Then, she divided the current backlog of memorials at Qianqingmen into several books, and asked them to discuss the results of each matter.

Of course, this is just an exercise, and it is impossible for them to come up with a reasonable solution.She also asked Cao Jun to sort out the past memorials and corresponding solutions, and prepare to show them as "example questions", how much they can learn, and after a period of time, who can learn quickly is suitable for this path, and who is not. It can be seen at a glance if it fits.

Two days later, there were more officials kneeling in front of the Qing palace, and they continued to ask Yang Yi to punish Wei Yunqing.Yang Yi was overwhelmed by the disturbance, and actually fought some of the most vicious court battles.

When Wei Yunqing got the news, the court battle had been going on for a while, and it seemed that Yang Yi didn't intend to call it a stop, so she hurried over with someone.

Court battles are the emperor's lynching of court officials, and there are not a few people who kill people. Since Yang Yi became emperor, this is the first time that this kind of punishment has been carried out. Officials who have not felt the horror of court battles for many years have long forgotten this. Suddenly, it suddenly appeared at this moment, and some officials already had the intention of retreating.

When Wei Yunqing arrived, the officials in front of the Qianqing Palace knelt down, and the moaning voices of the two censors who were beaten were weak, and if they continued beating, they might die.

Cao Jun followed Wei Yunqing while persuading him: "Mother, these pedantic scholars just owe a beating, servant girl, look, you better leave them alone, let them have a long memory!"

Based on his understanding of Wei Yunqing, he could naturally see that Wei Yunqing came here not to watch the excitement, but to prevent the situation from getting worse.

"This might be an opportunity." Wei Yunqing said with a smile.

Cao Jun was slightly stunned, and then smiled flatteringly: "Your Majesty is still thoughtful, but this slave girl's mind is too simple!"

As soon as the group arrived, Cao Jun sent someone to stop the servants of Qianqing Palace from continuing to execute the sentence.Seeing that it was Wei Yunqing and Cao Jun who came, those servants were also quite discerning, so they stopped immediately and said to Cao Jun: "Eunuch Cao, this is the emperor's order, why don't you go to the emperor for an order to stop the execution?"

Cao Jun nodded reservedly, turned around and told Huang Bajin beside him, and the latter responded, turned around and ran to Qianqing Palace to report.

Wei Yunqing and his group came in such a mighty manner that it was impossible for those who knelt on the ground at the gate of Qianqing Palace to miss her, and there were some people who were ungrateful for her actions to stop the execution.

"Imperial Concubine, please put the world first, and don't meddle in the affairs of the previous dynasty!" Someone shouted.

Cao Jun shouted angrily: "Bold!"

Wei Yunqing raised his hand slightly, looked at the young censor and said, "This lord is..."

The censor was handsome and handsome, about 26 or [-] years old, when Wei Yunqing asked, he said with a righteous face, "Xie Sheng, the censor of Jingzhou Road in the Procuratorate, the lower official!"

"Thank you, my lord," Wei Yunqing nodded, with doubts on his face, "I just don't understand. I didn't collect money, I didn't care about people's lives, I didn't eradicate dissidents, and I appointed private people. How can I say that I don't put the world first? ?”

Xie Shengyang said: "Because of your meddling in politics, there are disasters everywhere in Daliang!"

"Hehe... Interesting." Wei Yunqing sneered, "I know about those disasters, but you are ashamed to blame me for things that will happen in a few years."

Xie Sheng's face turned red: "Emperor Gao said that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics! Now that you meddle in the political affairs of the previous court, imperial concubine, you will eventually draw the wrath of the heavens. If you still have a little compassion, you should stop earlier!"

"What we were talking about just now was the disaster in Daliang territory. What are you talking about from your ancestors?" Wei Yunqing snorted, "Tell me one thing at a time. Let's make this 'the rooster wakes up in the morning, the world is in chaos' clearly! Lan Tian, ​​show Master Xie the document I compiled."

"Yes, ma'am!" Lan Tian responded, took out a piece of rice paper, walked past a group of kneeling officials, came to Xie Sheng, and handed it over.

Xie Sheng took the paper and glanced upwards.Several officials around him were also a little curious, and they all glanced over.

The words on the paper are really not flattering, they first despised Wei Yunqing's words, and then carefully read the content on the paper.The more they looked, the more surprised they became, and their expressions slowly changed.

The content on this piece of paper is the statistical data that Wei Yunqing specially found, including various floods, fires, locust plagues, plagues, etc. that have been recorded in the past 100 years. She counted the total, average, and specially selected some Years are counted separately—for example, the year of Emperor Gao’s [-]th birthday, the year of Emperor Ren’s accession to the throne, etc., are all emperors with a reputation for virtue.

Guessing that they had seen it, Wei Yunqing smiled coldly: "In the year of Emperor Gao's 65th birthday, there were 47 recorded floods, three locust plagues, [-] fires, two rebellions, three plagues, and six famines. In the year when Emperor Ren ascended the throne, there were nine recorded floods, four plagues of locusts, [-] fires, one rebellion, four plagues, and five famines... and the memorials you handed in add up to all kinds of disasters today, No more than [-] times! You are talking about the disasters during the reign of Emperor Gao and Emperor Ren. How come there are so many disasters now? You say "the rooster wakes up in the morning, and the world is in chaos", then you tell me, Emperor Gao and Emperor Ren Is it because they were rejected by the heavens and brought disasters to Daliang, or is it because they are all women?!"

(End of this chapter)