Jinghong Building

Chapter 306 The choice of concubines (two chapters in one)

Xiaokui is talking about Bai Zhiyuan.

There was a hint of warmth in Xiu Gu's eyes: "Can the grown-up children be bad?"

Zuo Xiaoai curled his lips: "You say you're going to blow."

Xiu Gu glared: "At least they look better than the two of yours!"

Zuo Xiaoai: I will strangle Baiyun and Heizu to death when I go back!

He Ran watched them quarrel, smiling all the time. If time could stop, the sisters would not grow old or die, how great it would be.

That day, everyone was drinking and arguing. I don’t know who started singing the song first, and then everyone sang together until late at night.

The next day, Zuo Xiaoai returned to Zhending, Xiaokui returned to Shunde Mansion, Du Hui also returned to Baoding, and He Ran held Xiu Gu's hand: "Or you can stay."

Xiu Gu is different from others. She wants to go south, and the south is still the world of the new emperor.

Xiu Gu looked at He Ran with a reluctance in her eyes. She knew her age. She didn't know if she could see the boss again when she went there.

It's so good that a young boss.

That day, He Ran took her into the inner room. He Ran said a few scars on her body, including two scars, and even her daughter Bai Die didn't know, but the boss not only knew, but also remembered. Because this is the mark left by their battle together.

At that moment, Xiu Gu believed it. The girl in front of her, who was about the same age as her grandson, was their boss.

No wonder Xiaokui said that as long as she saw the boss, she would understand.

Everything that seems incredible to others will take for granted.

Their master is not an ordinary person, she is a fairy who fell from the sky, and she is a miracle.

"The boss, I want to go back, Du Hui is going back to Baoding to rebuild Jinghong Tower, and I also want to rebuild Jinghong Tower in Jinling. If it doesn't work a year, it will take two or three years. The boss, don't worry, for the sake of Jinghong Tower, I want to live, too.”

He Ran stretched out her fist and punched her shoulder lightly, as if it was back then.

Seeing the Xiu Gu leave, He Ran entered the harem accompanied by Li Jinxiu. She did not go to visit King Zhao first, but asked someone to bring the palace concubines over.

The concubines were trembling. For the past three months, they had been in fear day and night, but they were stared at them, unable to die.

They regretted countless times, why didn’t they die when the late emperor passed away?

If he died at that time, he would still be able to achieve the reputation of chastity.

But now, it's too late for them to die.

I don’t know how this legendary killer He Dajia would treat them.

The legendary He Ran has a green face and fangs, ugly and fierce woman, who is as ugly as salt, will definitely not be able to marry, and all the women who cannot marry are strange in nature.

The ugly and weird He Ran, will he be jealous when he sees their beauty? Do you deal with them with a hundred times more cruel than treating others?

He Ran: Am I that free?

The concubines were taken to He Ran, lowered their heads, wishing they could plunge their heads into the ground and hide their beauty.

He Ran seemed to have not noticed their strangeness, and his voice was faint: "King Zhao has no money, and my money has to be used for war. We can continue to support you, but it is only limited to food and clothing. Even King Zhao doesn't eat it every day. If you take meat, your treatment will definitely not exceed that of him."

Finally someone raised his head, and it was the oldest one among them. Seeing He Ran who was tall and above, she was stunned. It turned out that this was the head of He Da family, so young, so beautiful, so majestic.

"Can we continue to live in the palace?" she asked cautiously.

He Ran nodded: "Of course, the palace is so big, it's empty, you can live here all the time."

The old concubine breathed a sigh of relief. She was old and had no capable parents' home. If He Ran didn't let them live in the palace, she would have nowhere to go.

Another concubine asked boldly: "Can you find a family temple or a temple?"

He Ran said, "Do you have private money? If you have it, that's fine. After all, neither Taoist temple nor temple will make people live in for a long time."

The concubine said, "In the past, there were people who went to practice in the palace, and they all paid for it."

He Ran: "You also said that the palace used to pay the money, but you should also know that the money in the palace was taken to Jinling by Min Lan and Min Chen. In the current palace, in addition to furniture that cannot be moved, there are also What?"

The concubine shrank up guiltily and did not dare to look at He Ran again.

He Ran said, "Anyone of you who want to go to the temple to practice will have money, as long as you have money and enough money, as long as you report it, you can send you there at any time."

There are no royal temples in this dynasty. If the concubines want to become monks or lead the way to practice, they can only go to ordinary temples like ordinary people.

If they were just poor and helpless orphans and widows, temples and temples might take them in, but they are different. Any female family member who wants to become a monk must first donate a large sum of silver, and in some places, they even have to donate every year.

Sure enough, after He Ran said this, no more concubines asked to go to the temple.

The concubines who are still in the palace are the highest positions, and the others are low-ranking concubines below the position of concubines. They have no descendants and have low status in the palace.

They have private houses in their hands, but they are reluctant to donate them all. It is better to have money in their hands than to have no money.

Another whispered, "Did you really just fill your stomach?"

He Ran looked at the person who was talking. He was a young woman in her early twenties, with beautiful hair, beautiful appearance, clear and stupid eyes.

He Ran said, "Yes, it's just filling your stomach, and the only thing I can promise you is this. The clothes, jewelry, rouge and powder you want cannot be satisfied."

A concubine, who was also in her twenties, asked, "Can we make some needles and threads so that we can get them out of the palace to sell?"

The concubine who spoke was blushing and even her voice was trembling.

He Ran smiled: "Of course! Any of you who want to work hard and make money and support yourself? If so, you can tell Yuan Xiaodong that he and Zeng Fu will help you contact the shop outside, and of course, they will keep it secret for you, and those shops will not Know your identities.”

"Ah? This is too embarrassing." said a concubine.

As soon as she finished speaking, she was robbed: "We have all been thrown into the capital, how can we still have the face?"

There was silence, yes, when the Empress Dowager and the previous emperor moved the capital, they took so many people and so many things, but they were left in the capital.

The name is to let them stay, but in fact it is to abandon them.

They are just poor people abandoned by the royal family.

The moment they were left behind, they had no face. Three days later, Zeng Fu received a batch of embroidery work from an embroidery workshop, embroidering various flowers on the handkerchief.

At first, only three concubines took the embroidery work, and later other concubines participated. After embroidering these handkerchiefs, the embroidery workshop felt that their skills were pretty good, so they began to distribute embroidery work such as pillows and tents to them.

Soon, Zeng Fu took the job of copying books from the book shop, the job of illustrations from the printing shop, and the cotton coats and boots in the ready-to-wear shop.

For a moment, all the concubines who had done nothing before, were busy, and had no crying in the yard where they lived for a long time.

He Ran is very satisfied with this. No matter men, women, young and old, as long as you get busy, you will lose a lot of things.

It was the Spring Festival in a blink of an eye, and this was He Ran’s first Spring Festival when he entered Beijing.

After the first month of the year, the second official examination began.

Compared with the first official exam, this time is more complete, divided into written test and interview, three rounds of written test and two rounds of interview.

Most of the students who took the official exam last time were Jindi, and now with the smooth flow of the road, the students who came to take the official exam were five times that of the last time. In addition to Jindi, there are also Baoding Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, and Hejian. There were even more than a dozen students from the palace, as well as Henan.

Zhong Yi came to see He Ran: "There are twelve people in the He family who have signed up, and there is He Shuming among them."

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

He Ran smiled: "This is a good thing."

Zhong Yi said again: "Zhou Cangyue sent two people here."

He Ran was stunned and asked, "Who is he sent? From the Beggars' Sect?"

"One of them is the son of a leader of the Beggars' Sect. He has been to a private school for several years, and the other is from Xiangyang, who has some talent in Xiangyang." Zhong Yi said.

He Ran smiled and nodded: "Zhou Cangyue has made progress, which is gratifying."

Feng Xieying was the chief examiner of the official examination, and there were several examiners. He Ran was present in person for the last two rounds of interviews.

At the same time, He Ran sent Feng Zan's army to attack Wudingzhou in Jinan Prefecture, and the Battle of Lu began.

The official examination took two months, and 82 reserve officials were selected. After one month of training in Beijing, all of them were sent. Some stayed in the yamen in Beijing for internship, while others were sent to the local area. They will conduct the first round of internships for three months. After this internship period, they will rotate to other yamen. After another three months, they will make arrangements based on their internship assessments.

In fact, if it weren’t for the urgent need for employment, He Ran would have wanted to extend the internship period even longer. Unfortunately, the conditions now do not allow it, so this is the only way.

In May, Feng Zan's army began to attack Qingzhou Prefecture.

Qingzhou has sixteen counties under its jurisdiction. The King of Qi has been operating in Qingzhou for many years and has strong troops. Feng Zan took one month to capture two counties.

Feng Zan is no longer the Feng Zan lying on a rocky beach in the river. He has an army of 100,000, and is the general valued by He Ran.

This was also the most proud day in Feng Zan's life.

In the past, when he was a bandit, everyone shouted to beat him, but after he was recruited, he was despised by everyone. When he fought with the King of Jin, he was thrust by the court. He was blamed for winning and losing. He ran away from Cangzhou in anger. He was so poor that he couldn't even afford to eat, so he took his subordinates. The soldiers were hungry together.

Now, with sufficient food and grass, military pay can be paid normally. He Ran also sent medical workers to them. What satisfied Feng Zan and his brothers even more was that no one thinks they are bandits, and no one looks down on them now.

During the Chinese New Year, Feng Zan came to the capital and drank with Wu'an Hou and his son, He Xiulong, He Dali and others.

Both of his battles in Hejian were painted in comic strips. Feng Zan used to know that he was not many people when he was in the capital. But this time he came to the capital again, but unexpectedly heard someone mention his name in the teahouse Like He Xiulong and others, he became the heroes mentioned by the people. Even children knew what weapons he used and what horse he rode.

At that moment, Feng Zan's eyes turned red.

Therefore, Feng Zan was ambitious. He had already captured Jinan Prefecture, and now it was Qingzhou Prefecture's turn.

And in the palace, there was a person who also wanted to go to Qingzhou Prefecture.

That is Bai Yan.

Qingzhou is Bai Yan's hometown. His daughter was humiliated and died by the King of Qi, and his wife and daughter were all buried in Qingzhou.

He was a scholar and didn't have many things to do, but he still plucked up the courage and said to He Ran: "Master, please send me to General Feng. I don't know how to fight, but I always do some trivial things. It's OK."

He Ran said, "You don't have to do chores. I'll give you ten intern officials. You can take them to the army and find things to do by yourself."

Bai Yan was overjoyed. Three days later, he said goodbye to Zhou Jian and took people to Qingzhou.

Seeing that Bai Yan had left, Zhou Jian was nervous. Apart from the servants around him, Bai Yan was the closest person he was.

He came to see He Ran: "Sister, will Mr. Bai come back to teach me in the future?"

He Ran said, "Of course, I will do it. When the battle comes to Qingzhou, Mr. Bai will come back to continue teaching you."

Zhou Jian's lips moved, trying to say something, but he swallowed the words to his mouth.

He actually wanted to ask He Ran when he ascended the throne.

But he didn't dare to ask.

In fact, it is not only Zhou Jian, but many people in the capital have this question.

King Zhao has entered the capital and is now living in the palace.

Originally, everyone believed that King Zhao would ascend the throne after entering Beijing. Although there is still a court and an emperor in Jinling, King Zhao is also a descendant of Taizu, and it is reasonable for him to ascend the throne.

Besides, there have been cases in history when two emperors ruled across the river.

Fortunately, when the capital was moved, most of the officials and families in the capital followed. Even if there were still people in these families, they were either younger generations who were not valued or private houses that had been separated, and all the royal families were all. Walk cleanly.

Otherwise, someone would have submitted a memorial to King Zhao ascend the throne.

However, although these people have left, there are still many scholars.

Take this official exam as an example. In the two rounds of interviews, people proposed to let King Zhao ascend the throne as soon as possible. Only when King Zhao ascends the throne can the people be calmed.

Of course, not only to ascend the throne, but also to allow King Zhao to marry after ascend the throne and to establish a crown prince early. Once a crown prince is given, the imperial power can be truly stabilized.

Some people also took Emperor Gaozong as an example. If Emperor Gaozong had appointed the crown prince early, there would have been no false Emperor Min Chen, and the Empress Dowager who was in trouble with the country and the people would not have ended his imprisonment, and there would have been no rebellion by the later King of Jin. The world is in chaos.

It was just a matter of publicly saying that the chaos in the world was because Emperor Gaozong had no son. If Emperor Gaozong had a son, there would be no such thing as King Zhao and He Ran.

During the official exam, there were not many people who held this kind of argument. They cherished this opportunity to express their feelings in front of He Ran. Therefore, there were still people kneeling on the ground, crying loudly, beating their chests and stamping their feet.