back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 655
After the popular Enke trend in Chang'an, another topic was widely circulated among the people in Dashun, that is, today's son Lu Chengqi finally accepted his concubine.Of course, this news was only mentioned briefly in the "Dashun Minbao", but the other newspapers gave full play to their "entertainment spirit" and spared no effort to find out the details of the two newly promoted concubines.

One of them, of course, was a court lady who saved the emperor's life in the Daqing Palace. Her name was Han Feng'er, and she was the daughter of Marquis Wu Lie Han Boke.The emperor appreciated her kindness and made her a noble concubine.The other one, I heard that she has a bigger background, even her name is a mystery, all I know is that the emperor was very attached to her before and made her Concubine Shu.There are even folk rumors that the emperor's fall into the Yuxiang Pond was also related to this Concubine Shu!

Now, the people of Chang'an City are the most gossip people in the world. This rumor has been spread ten times and ten times, but three people became tigers. The more you talk about it, the more ridiculous it is.Some said that this concubine Shu was the reincarnation of a vixen, and that she was the "Daji" of Dashun who specially confuses the king; It was rumored that this concubine Shu was the Queen Mother's favorite... Anyway, no matter it was true or not, it became the topic of conversation among the people of Chang'an City after dinner.

If Lu Chengqi accepted the concubine, he would not be very happy.The emperor's acceptance of concubines is not as big a scene as the queen, it's just a piece of imperial decree.If it is accepted, the ostentation will be big.It was a lavish, well-known wedding, anyone who remembers how to pay the queen would know.Because it is impossible for the emperor to greet the queen in person like the common people, he must appoint an envoy to take charge on his behalf.According to the procedures of the wedding, it is divided into: Linxuan order, Nacai, asking names, Najib, Nazheng, telling the date, telling the temple, registering the queen, ordering to welcome, and being in the same prison.The envoys of Linxuan are the envoys ordered by the emperor to perform the wedding in the palace of imperial ceremonies: Taiwei is the envoy and Zong Zhengqing is the deputy envoy.And it was announced by the waiter: "A certain official daughter is accepted as the queen, and the public is ordered to perform the rituals of accepting and adopting." Then the envoys, deputy envoys, master festivals, and books were made.After the Taiwei and others took the order, they began to arrange the wedding ceremony for the emperor. They rode on horseback, brought a guard of honor, advocacy team, and used carts to make books, and traveled between the imperial palace and the Hou family's home.Especially the betrothal gifts are dazzling: give the daughter's family ten thousand taels of platinum; for acceptance, twenty sheep, twenty jugs of wine, and forty horses of color; for the fixed ceremony, thirty head of sheep, thirty jugs of wine, fifty color Horses, a hundred catties of tea (tea), gold and silver jewellery, satin and silk, etc.; Gold clothing, pearls and emerald jade, horses, sheep, wine, etc.That is to say, the emperor's family can get so much money, and ordinary people just want to give it away, which is beyond the rules of etiquette.

As for Na Fei, there is no such ostentation.Lu Chengqi only needs to write an imperial decree and send it to the palace where Han Feng'er and Jinxuan are.As for the betrothal gift, it was not as rich as after accepting it. It was just some gold and silverware and 20 guan of money.

No, when these betrothal gifts were delivered to the Han family, Han Chengyi curled his lips and said, "Mother, my sister is married to the emperor, so that's all the betrothal gifts are?"

Mother Han scolded him and said, "What stupid things are you talking about? It is her blessing for your sister to marry into the emperor's family!"

Han Chengyi said unhappily: "I'm telling the truth! My sister became a noble concubine, and I became a relative. Dashun has regulations that foreign relatives are not allowed to be involved in politics. Since I was a child, I wanted to roam the battlefield like my father. Wouldn't it be the same?" Even if I went to the Ministry of Officials and became a tenth-rank official, I would not be able to be a high-ranking official..." It turned out that Han Chengyi participated in this Enke, and his ranking was not ideal, only in the 700 or so.There is no hope in the imperial examination, so I can only fight for the tenth rank official.But he never thought that Han Feng'er would enter the palace and become a noble concubine, which completely cut off his hope of official career.

Mother Han sighed, and said, "There's nothing I can do about it. Mother is also in a dilemma. The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh... how about this, why don't you go to the Ministry of Officials and give it a try?"

"Did mother tell the child to know the law and break the law?" Han Chengyi was happy in his heart. He didn't want to be an official, but he pretended to be innocent on the surface. Han's mother felt distressed when she saw it.The Han family has a single line of incense, if there is no future, how can they be born!

"Forget it, if you don't have a future, you don't have a future. Anyway, you are also a hereditary Marquis of Wulie. You have a monthly salary from the court, and you can't starve to death. Your sister will help you a little bit. After a hundred years of old age, you can also marry a few wives and concubines to support the Han family. Scattered leaves..." Mother Han has her own plan, "If it's not righteous, the business momentum is good now, why don't you use the 20 yuan to do business?"

Han Chengyi wanted to be a general with all his heart, so he couldn't listen to it, but he just said a few times, and his mind had already flown to the battlefield...

As the night was getting dark, Lu Chengqi came to the Kunning Hall for the first time. This is the empress and palace that ordinary people in Dashun talked about with gusto.In the Kunning Hall, sitting in the north and facing south, there are nine wide corridors and three deep ones, which can accommodate three concubines to live here.And the imperial concubine and concubine Shu who were accepted this time are all in the Kunning Palace.The Kunning Hall was originally the queen's bedroom, but it has been vacant for many years.Because Lu Chengqi's biological mother, who was the queen of the former dynasty, Cisheng Guangxian left too early, and the late emperor remembered it, so the Kunning Hall was emptied.The name of Kunning Hall comes from the original text of "Tao Te Ching": "Those who have gained one in the past, the sky can be cleared, the earth can be calmed, the gods can be spirited, the valleys can be filled, and all things can be born. Wang got one and thought the world was right."The position of the empress is opposite to that of the emperor. She is the most honorable among women in the world. The emperor is the sky, the empress is the earth, the emperor is Qian, the empress is Kun, and the empress is the only one in the world. Yiyi Ning this sentence, hence the name Kunning Hall.

Originally, Lu Chengqi had two options for accepting the concubine, one was to be placed in the Baoci Hall, and the other was to be placed in the Kunning Hall.It stands to reason that the Kunning Hall is the queen's exclusive bedroom, and Lu Chengqi should not place his concubine here.But by coincidence, Lu Chengqi hesitated for a moment, and the word "Kun" was written on the imperial decree, so he could only write down the name of Kunning Hall along the way.

Outside the hall, Lu Chengqi hesitated for a long time, but did not dare to go in.Although he had already married the queen, it was the first time that a girl of Huang Hua had been on a sedan chair in terms of real marriage.Well, the first time is always stressful.Lu Chengqi was just like that, and he was a little scared.

Fortunately, Gao Gao and the others had been waved away long ago, otherwise his ugly appearance would have fallen into the eyes of these little eunuchs and maids.

"What are you afraid of? I'm a man, so I'm afraid of losing money?"

After cheering himself up, Lu Chengqi finally dared to step into Kunning Palace.

The Kunning Hall is divided into the main hall and the east and west chambers. The main hall is the sleeping hall of the empress and the main lord of the palace. Lu Chengqi didn't dare to let the two concubines live in it, so he had to arrange it in the east and west halls.This east chamber is naturally where the imperial concubine Han Fenger resides.This west chamber is where Concubine Shu Jinxuan resides.

Now Lu Chengqi is faced with a difficult choice that every man would have a headache: "Who should I go to?"

(End of this chapter)