Dajin royal family

Chapter 643 Zhaohuang Era ([-]) (Happy New Year)

In the 16th year of Emperor Zhaohuang, the huge border of the empire stretched thousands of miles, from the inaccessible ice fields in the north, to Central Asia and beyond in the west, to the jungles south of Jiaozhi in the south, and to the Fusang Islands in the east.

Aristocratic families, martial arts, literati, and all major emerging classes are scrambling to provide strength for the empire's southern and northern wars for innumerable benefits.

The population of the empire has swelled to more than 6000 million people, and the enclaves that were out of control in the past dynasties are now under the control of the empire. Roads, rivers, and canals extending in all directions are intertwined on the huge territory of the empire.

Over the years, Jiang Chengxiao has been busy expanding and accumulating money, while vigorously developing "practical technological inventions". The empire encourages people to invent tools that are useful for life, study, and war. The imperial court established a "foundation" to support it. Very high office.

In order to refine the separation of powers, Jiang Chengxiao subdivided the original six departments into twelve departments, and set up "participating in politics" to assist him in handling state affairs.

After years of development, the imperial examination has gradually improved.In addition to studying and becoming an official, now you can also pass the exams to military academies, technical schools, medical schools, painting, etc. to become officials of the imperial court.

In general, the entire empire is now devoted to 'practicability' and rejects 'talk'.

A lot of things have happened in these years. After Yu Shinan retired, he died within two years.Pei Ju choked to death while eating beef. It was rumored that he choked to death, but he was indeed too old, and Zheng Shanyuan died of depression. The elders are basically dead.

Most of the people are dying, eating, drinking and dying.

A small number were opposed to the unrestrained expansion of the empire, and were coldly suppressed by Jiang Chengxiao and died.

The Imperial History Department and the newly established Supervision Department have become the nightmare of imperial officials. The Taixue Hall Jijiu Liu Zhiyuan and hundreds of outstanding children of the imperial examination have worked hard. After more than ten years, they have finally completed the "Zhaohuang Law" that surpassed all dynasties.

This law ranges from the princes and nobles to the common people, all religions, all walks of life, and even slaves. All the regulations and provisions are clearly engraved on the "Pillar of Law" standing on the square of the "Law Palace" of the Empire.

The children of the Imperial Law School sneak into the folks every year with elemental uniforms to protect the interests of the people for free.

This is an order issued by the emperor himself.

Liu Yuyuan was exhausted. After thoroughly perfecting the "Law of Emperor Zhaohuang", he vomited blood, laughed three times in the deep Taixue Hall, and was caught off guard.

At that time, the emperor ordered Liu Yuyuan to be listed as a hero in Lingyan Pavilion and moved to Zhaoling for burial.

Today's central capital, Luoyang, has expanded unprecedentedly, with a permanent population of more than 700 million. The Luoyang Imperial Palace has become a group of imperial palaces under the hard work of slaves.

In the depths of the palace, there is a peach grove. The emperor, who is over 40 years old, is still in high spirits, standing among the groves and swinging a knife at the wood.

Empress Changsun, whose youth was fading away, leaned on the table and looked at her husband with a smile on her face.And beside her, there was a large group of Yingying Yanyan's concubines, and there were even one or two women with blue eyes.

Over the years, the emperor has gradually lost the restraint he used to have in private matters. There are more than 40 concubines in the palace, 22 princes, but only seven daughters.

Some of the concubines once made Empress Changsun very angry that her husband couldn't control his belt.

For example, Sun Wei, the eldest sister of her own clan, Yu Wenshu's favorite concubine, Pei Xuan'er, the widow of the Pei clan, Shen Shi, the favorite concubine of Emperor Chen Mo, and so on.

Even, the matter of the empress dowager and the concubine in the deep palace caused her to have a cold war with the emperor.

After a while, Jiang Chengxiao stopped his movements, took a few breaths, stared at the horizontal blade carving, and then threw it to Shenju.

Back to the queen, Jiang Chengxiao dismissed the concubines.

"My husband is still the same as before." Empress Changsun handed him a cup of tea, "In the past, my husband also trained in the mansion like this."

Jiang Chengxiao smiled and drank the tea in one gulp.

"It happened more than ten years ago."

After a pause, he said: "That kid Changsun Chong is still fighting with his son-in-law recently."

Empress Changsun covered her mouth and smiled, "It's not all my husband's fault."

"My fault?" Jiang Chengxiao said dissatisfiedly: "What's wrong with me, these bastards, how long have you been staring at my precious daughter, what kind of troubles have they caused?"

A few years ago, a vicious fight broke out because of the golden branch of the imperial princess.As the school belle of the first Zhongdu Women's University Palace, Wunan was not only favored by the emperor, but also admired by the young men of Zhongdu.

Because the princess has never been married, and there is no marriage, the wanton honorable teenagers are engaged in a fight in the middle, and because of the extremely bad relationship, they are all severely punished according to the "Law of the Emperor Zhao".

Although this matter was settled, the officials only remembered at this time that Princess Luoyang is not young anymore and it's time to get married!
Under pressure, Empress Changsun could only find her precious daughter and ask her who she had a crush on.

Then, Wunan told her that she fell in love with that bloated student of the Zhongdu Military Academy back then, Qin Huaicheng!
After Jiang Chengxiao found out about this, his heart was instantly broken.

He remembered very clearly that before Wu Nan expressed his feelings, he jokingly asked his daughter who he wanted to marry, and at that time Wu Nan said that he would not marry and wanted to be with his father forever.

In the end, everything was a lie, and my cabbage was crooked early in the morning.

There are a lot of things going on before and after the marriage without difficulty.

Because the dowry was too generous, Shangguan Di and Wei Xuancheng from the Imperial History Department spit on the stars, asking the emperor to take back the generous dowry.

This time Jiang Chengxiao refused to give an inch, and sang a double reed song with Changsun Qingyi to trick Shangguan Di and Wei Xuancheng around.

The trouble-free matter was settled, and Baiguan suddenly remembered that a certain eldest princess who was already in her third year was not married yet!

Since the eldest princess has been living in Chang'an and not in Zhongdu, no one thought of it.

As a result, after this matter was brought up, Jiang Chengxiao remained silent.

Princess Chang'an, the former Princess Leping, still doesn't want to marry.

For the matter of getting married, Empress Dowager Zheng scolded Leping a lot during her lifetime.Until Mrs. Zheng passed away two years ago, Leping's home was still on her mind.

She took Jiang Chengxiao's hand, asking her son to find someone to support her daughter.

After his death, the Zheng family was revered as the empress dowager, and was buried in Guanzhong together with King Zhao.

Yes, Jiang Chengxiao finally decided to follow King Zhao's wishes, and buried him beside Emperor Wu's mausoleum, and let him accompany his elder brother.

Regarding the matter of Leping, Jiang Chengxiao was already in despair. He guessed what this sister was thinking, so he let her go.

Empress Changsun said with a smile: "If my husband loves that girl less, it won't be so many years for the young man to follow her to make a fuss in order to take a shortcut."

Jiang Chengxiao laughed, "It's not my fault, who told you not to give me more daughters."

Hearing this, Empress Changsun immediately rolled her eyes.

"By the way, my husband, I have already handed over the child in the palace to Leping."

Jiang Chengxiao's face turned red, and he said awkwardly: "Yes, is that right, that person didn't make trouble, did he?"

"What's the trouble? If she wants some face, she shouldn't." Changsun Qingyi didn't continue, but gave her husband a look of 'you understand'.

The husband and wife have been together for more than 20 years, and they will not be unable to let go of one thing, but it is embarrassing to mention it occasionally.

As far as Jiang Chengxiao was concerned, Empress Dowager Xiao and Concubine Xiao were the prey he had coveted for a long time, so how could he let go easily, but having a child was beyond his expectation.

"I hope this child can accompany Leping well." Jiang Chengxiao sighed softly.

Changsun Qingyi said: "Le Ping. Alas."

The wind gradually picked up, and the garden was full of peach blossoms.

The eldest Sun Qingyi waved away the surrounding guards and maids, only the husband and wife sat quietly in the garden.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Chengxiao asked strangely.

"Husband, what are you thinking?"

"What do you think?"

"The position of the crown prince." Eldest Sun Qingyi said.

Jiang Chengxiao paused when he heard the words, and said: "It seems that some people in the court can't wait."

Changsun Qingyi said: "Husband, you can't blame them. The children are getting older and have different thoughts in their hearts. It's inevitable."

"What about you, what do you think?" Jiang Chengxiao asked her.

Changsun Qingyi rubbed her eyebrows in distress, and said: "In the past, I really wanted Heng'er to help you solve your problems."

"now what?"

"Now I hesitate."

"why?"

"I'm worried that Heng'er doesn't have this ability." Changsun Qingyi sighed.

The empire my husband built was too huge, so huge that it surpassed the emperors of all dynasties. If such a heavy burden could not be shouldered, it would bring the empire into a state of eternal doom.

Therefore, Changsun Qingyi hesitated, she was worried that her son would not be able to shoulder such a burden.

Seeing this, Jiang Chengxiao stretched out his arms to hug her.

"Manchu civil and military, honorable family, and even the dozen or so boys, there is no one who can understand this. Those little guys all think that the throne is supreme, but they don't understand what is under this seat. "

"That's a cliff!"

"If you are a little careless, you will be smashed to pieces. Over the years, I have been inspecting them and training them, just to see who has the ability, who can have this understanding and determination."

"Is there anyone in my husband's heart?" Eldest Sun Qingyi asked directly, greedy for her husband's heart.

For the two of them, there is nothing that cannot be said.

"Have."

Jiang Chengxiao said, holding her catkin, without saying the name.

Eldest Sun Qingyi didn't ask either, and the husband and wife just enjoyed a moment of tranquility.

(End of this chapter)