A Complete Explanation of the Negative Textbooks of the Imperial Examination - Chapter 123

    “Is it time for your marriage to be announced?”

    Rong Ke heard this, but thought: “What’s the hurry?” She became the princess regent at the age of sixteen, and kept filial piety for her father for three years. Passing away, keep filial piety one after another. Even without the funeral of Empress Dowager Wu, Rong Ke would not have gotten married early.

    After getting married, what should I say about the authority of the court?

    The Empress Dowager Xia seemed to insist on this: “I started seeing your marriage when you were thirteen years old, but at that time, I bumped into the death of Emperor Gaozu, and then your father always said that he was in no hurry. , This has been delayed until now. Although the Empress Dowager Wu still needs to avoid, but now they are starting to see each other, and they will get married as soon as the filial piety is born, isn’t it just right?”

    When Rong Ke heard this, she could only tell the truth: “Auntie, I don’t want to get married yet.”

    “Why?”

    Rong Ke raised her eyebrows and asked cautiously, “Did someone say something to you?”

    “No.” Queen Mother Xia said, “Just say, why don’t you want to recruit a concubine to marry?”

    If it was someone else, Rong Ke would definitely turn his head and leave if he didn’t understand the words for the sake of it, but this is his mother, Rong Ke could only explain: “Auntie, I have just taken back my power now, and the imperial court is in full swing. It is the time to exert force. How can I be stymied by marriage? Moreover, if I get married and deal with the affairs of the concubine and the consort’s family, it will definitely get in the way, no matter what I do. Some people say that I am favoritism to cover up, and the concubine will inevitably participate in the discussions between me and my subordinates. Isn’t this another separation of powers? At that time, someone will ask me to marry my husband and teach my son, and I will withdraw from the court. Rather than being told by the people in the court , it’s better to cut off this possibility from the beginning. As long as I don’t get married, no one dares to question my regent power.”

      , isn’t it good?”

    “Auntie, there are thousands of women in the world, and there should be thousands of ways to live. I am a woman, and I want the world to know that nothing is done by men and women Things that cannot be done. I am the regent princess, as long as I am in this position for one day, everyone in the world needs to remember that I am the king first, and the princess second.”

    The Empress Dowager Xia still looked disapproving. Rong Ke didn’t want to argue with her mother, and she didn’t want to feel wronged to listen any more. If something happens, I’ll go first.”

    Going out of the Wude Hall, people on both sides of the palace road saw Rong Ke, and they all knelt down to salute, all the way solemnly. When there was no one around, Rong Ke asked the maid of Yonghe Palace, “Who has gone to look for mother these days?”

    Rong Ke knew as soon as she heard it that someone must have said something in front of her mother. Dare to give her Rong Ke eye drops, these people are really not afraid of death.

    “Actually there is no one…” Rong Ke glanced at him lightly, and the maid silently changed her words, “When the Queen Mother dies, both internal and external wives must go to the palace to mourn. Now the Queen Mother in the third palace is the only Queen Mother left. , it is inevitable that many people came to talk to the queen mother. Yesterday in the side hall, when the female family was resting after mourning, the queen mother sat down with Princess Qi, Princess Hejing, the eldest princess of Xin’an, and the other eldest princesses who entered the palace. sit down.”

      Rong Ke could imagine the scene at that time. Others were talking around Queen Mother Xia, and they were talking about Rong Ke.

    But Rong Ke also knows that although Xia’s temperament is gentle, she has been the princess of the East Palace for many years and the queen for four years. , but with Rong Ke around, the Queen Mother Xia didn’t really suffer any grievances. There are no fools who can get to this position. Empress Dowager Xia said this today. In fact, the root cause is that Xia Shi thought so too. At most, Xin’an and others just added fire.

    “It’s really troublesome.” Rong Ke was upset by the urging of marriage, she couldn’t do anything with the Queen Mother Xia, but it didn’t prevent her from beating the people below, “Immediately make a plan, so that the Qi Wangfu will soon be Go to Yizhou, and Hejing County Master, isn’t she a filial daughter, let her go to Daye Temple to recite sutras for her great-grandmother.”

    After Rong Ke returned to the palace, he soon heard what Hejing County Lord and Xin’an Consort said on the day of the coup. Didn’t Hejing say that if he had the chance, he would kill her with his own hands? In that case, Rong Ke would be polite to her, and it would have been unpleasant to see her.

    “As for Aunt Xin’an… She must have a heartbreak when she sees me now, so let her stay in the palace less and rest at home for a few days.”

    “His Royal Highness Xin’an is not such an unreasonable person.”

    Rong Ke shook her head: “I killed her concubine, even if she didn’t say anything, she wouldn’t blame me in her heart? And Aunt Xin’an’s sons and daughters, they certainly don’t miss me either. Okay. It’s ridiculous. Their father rebelled and they didn’t blame their own father, but instead blamed me, the one who corrected the mistakes.”

     Unreasonable and ruthless. She often stays by the princess’s side, knowing how much hardship the princess has made to get to this point, and how much effort she has spent for this country, Chang’an is more prosperous day by day, they can’t see it, they just stare at Princess Gan Ning and kill again who. Even the relatives of the princess are increasingly resentful with the princess day by day. Until now, the uncles have to die or stay away, and the aunt of the direct relative has also had a gap. Only the queen mother and the saint are left by His Royal Highness.

    The palace maid thought with some relief that it was her biological brothers and parents who could be trusted.

    Rong Ke’s face was pale until she returned to the Liangyi Hall.

      They quietly stepped back and asked, “What’s wrong with Your Highness?”

    “I don’t know.”

    “This is the funeral list sent from various places. It was sent in an expedited manner. Do you want to present it to Your Highness?”

    Song Xue said: “If you dare to send it, then you go.”

    “Your Highness is in a bad mood now, let them wait.” Song Xue suddenly felt that something was wrong, “Who are you talking about?”

    “The Governor of Kunzhou.”

    Song Xue thought about who the governor of Kunzhou was, and immediately said, “Please!”

    Xiao Jingduo entered the palace as usual, but walked to the Liangyi Hall today.

    Xiao Jingduo knew it at the time, well, Rong Ke must be angry now. Song Xue was also a close minister by Rong Ke’s side, and he had always been wary of him. With such diligence today, he must have wanted to push him out of the way.

    He entered the Liangyi Hall very calmly, and when he dared to enter the East Hall, he heard Rong Ke say, “If you come to plead for King Qi, then you can leave.”

    Xiao Jingduo paused: “His Royal Highness, it’s me.”

    Rong Ke raised her head to see Xiao Jingduo, and pressed her eyebrows with a headache: “I just passed down the decree, and let the people from the Zhongshu Province draw up the edict. They are better, come and talk to me about virtue, benevolence and righteousness.”

    It is an inevitable trend to distribute Qi Wangfa out of Beijing. Xiao Jingduo is a powerful figure who has supported Rong Ke to this step. Seeing that the right to take over is about to be realized, Xiao Jingduo will only try his best to push King Qi to leave the capital. It is impossible to persuade him. He comforted Rong Ke: “What Zhongshu and Menxia do is to draft and review the decree. They are not afraid of the imperial power and dare to speak out directly, which is a good thing.”

    Rong Ke looked up at Xiao Jingduo, raised her eyebrows, and said with a threatening tone: “What did you say?”

    “This is the consensus in the officialdom. No matter what you think in your heart, you will always have a decent face. The servants are responsible for drafting the edict, which is the supreme honor of the literati. They think they are responsible for the country. Harshness everywhere. If you say what they say and they write, that’s a bad thing.”

    “I know.” Rong Ke replied, then sighed, “But I still feel uncomfortable watching them.”

    This… Xiao Jingduo had to say, “Why don’t I play a game of chess with His Highness? Or go outside.” Just as Rong Ke was about to speak, she heard Xiao Jingduo add very coldly: “As soon as you leave the palace Don’t think about it.”

    This person has become more and more annoying recently… Rong Ke rolled his eyes and said, “Bring up the chessboard.”

    The wood-painted red sandalwood chess game is placed in the east hall compartment, and the maid will set the chess game, and then back up. The chess piece was made of jade, and it was warm and cool in his hand. Xiao Jingduo held the black piece and motioned for Rong Ke to go first.

    Although Black goes first by default, but playing chess with your boss is so stressful.

    After walking for a while, Xiao Jingduo saw that Rong Ke’s chess game had calmed down, and then asked, “Can you say now, who made you angry today?”

    Rong Ke left a child and sighed: “It’s my mother.”

    The sunspot in Xiao Jingduo’s hand paused slightly, he really did not expect this answer. This is a bit of a dilemma.

    “What’s wrong?”

    Rong Ke didn’t speak, just put a piece on the chessboard, and the jade piece landed on the chessboard and made a faint clear sound. After releasing the three sons in a row, Rong Ke sighed in a low voice: “She let me marry.”

    Xiao Jingduo originally played chess calmly and coaxed Rong Ke, but he had done it too many times. But this time, his fingers trembled when he fell, and he actually made a “thorn” sound on the chess game. Xiao Jingduo put down his chess pieces, raised his head calmly, and looked at Rong Ke opposite: “What does the princess think?”

    “I declined.”

    Xiao Jingduo had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn’t know whether it was joy or sorrow. Looking at the chess game again at this time, he felt that the game was a mess, and he played some chess.

    “Why?”

    “I just came out of my father’s filial piety, and my great-grandmother’s funeral, how can I think about this at such a time? Moreover, now that the political situation has just improved, and everyone is finally willing to face me, if I am distracted at this time , how wrong it is to fall short. Even if you recruit a concubine, what should the concubine be in the future?”

    Xiao Jingduo replied slowly: “The concubine has no foundation and will be criticized by the courtiers. But if the concubine is strong and has meritorious achievements, no matter where you place him, no one will say anything. .”

    “Where are you going to find such a person for a while? After recruiting a concubine, it is inevitable to avoid suspicion, so many things are not easy to promote. Besides, how should the consort’s family be arranged? If his mother’s clan and his father’s clan are many, if they come to ask for grace, will they be given or not?”

      So Xiao Jingduo nodded and said, “What Your Highness said is very true.”

    Rong Ke looked up at Xiao Jingduo and continued to play chess without speaking.

    When Song Xue was cleaning up the chess game that day, she always felt that the game was messed up, not like the ordinary level of the princess and the Marquis of Chengxi.

    The author has something to say: Small Theater:

    Many years later, the Dalangjun of the Governor’s Mansion asked his father: “Father, everyone said that you got married very late, why?”

    Xiao Jingduo’s face was cold: Don’t mention this in front of me.

    Da Lang had no choice but to ask his mother: Mother, why did my father marry you so late?

    Rong Ke showed a kind smile: I hinted to him, he didn’t understand, blame me?

    Xiao Jingduo kindly reminds players that on various important occasions such as confession, suggestion, and ambiguous period, please speak frankly, don’t go around, don’t go around!