Feng Xing - Chapter 87

Concubine Li’s pregnancy caused a stir in the palace.

After all, this is a happy event, no one dared to say anything.

The days are still going on as before, no one knows if anything happened in the dark, the palace is still full of happy flowers, just like every year in the past.

The winter solstice custom is to sacrifice to the sky, this time there is no prince, so there is an empty seat. In the court hall, those old ministers were clamoring and raising the issue of the crown prince again. Emperor Jianping smashed a few cups and got angry a few times, more or less it could still be heard in his ears, and there was no way to stop telling everyone about it.

Since then, Feng Sheng has some understanding, why Emperor Jianping was so hesitant to abolish the crown prince. There is a prince there, which saves trouble compared to Emperor Jianping. It is so noisy every day, and everyone will be annoyed. But the crown prince is powerful and will make the emperor jealous. This is destined to be a contradiction that can never be resolved.

The weather is getting colder every day, the coldness in the capital city is very different from that in the south of the Yangtze River, fortunately there are earth dragons in the palace, Feng Sheng is not too cold.

Ever since she stayed in Dali Temple for a while, she became more and more afraid of the cold. She stayed in the room every day and never went out, except to visit Concubine Li in the palace, and then Feng Sheng found out that she was getting fat. Of course, Feng Sheng is not idle. She always writes and draws with paper in her spare time. At first Wei Wang didn’t pay much attention to it, but later he found out what she was doing.

“Do you really want to open a library?”

Recently, Feng Sheng has been raised to be as red as white, but she used to be white, but she was pale, and her lips were bloodless. She just walked around with the cook and was nursed by medicinal food every day. I gained some weight when I got married.

She wore a lotus-colored jacket with narrow sleeves. The sleeves are for the convenience of writing. This dress fits her waist nicely, but her **** are much rounder than before. The ground dragon was burning in the room, and the carpet was full of heat, so she only wore a pair of thin-soled embroidered shoes and a lotus-blue pleated skirt around her waist.

She wrote while standing up, probably because she felt that she was becoming more and more lazy, and she seemed to be consciously correcting herself. When King Wei came in from the outside, he pretended to watch her writing and stared at her for a long time. Unfortunately, this person was slow, probably because he was thinking about something in his heart, and didn’t pay attention to where King Wei was looking until he broke the silence.

“I remember that you have a farm in the suburbs. It’s empty to raise dust there. Why don’t you use it for something.”

“Then what do you want to do?”

King Wei passed her and sat down on the chair behind the desk. Feng Sheng was standing in front of the desk. When he sat here, she bent her back to him like this. . Before the person moved away, King Wei stretched out his hand and pulled her, and she fell unsteadily on his lap.

“What are you doing? I haven’t finished writing yet.” After struggling, Feng Sheng could only protest with his mouth.

“You write, I’ll take a look.” Wei Wang said seriously.

In fact, King Wei has a serious face. To be precise, he is dull and restrained. Shang Fengsheng has fallen into the pit many times without realizing it.

She is holding a Zihao Xiaokai pen, which is specially used to write small characters, and it is not for anyone to read. She writes casually, even if the posture is not correct, it will not affect it. She didn’t want to appear affected, so she tried to distract herself and focus on other things.

“I think the academy can add some current affairs in addition to the Four Books and Five Classics of Classics and History. Don’t you think that the master’s profession can be popular, most of the reason is because many people only read sage books and forget about current affairs.” Feng Sheng said. This was an idea she had when she was planning to open the academy.

“Ten years of studying hard in the cold window, there is no guarantee that you will be selected. Without fame, there is no way to be an official. Even if you understand current affairs, it is of little use.” What King Wei said is seeking truth from facts, which is also the current normal state. The road to fame is not easy. , Those who can make it through are probably the favored ones of heaven, or they are just wasting time.

“Then if the imperial court no longer only focuses on stereotypes, but puts current affairs on the right track, will it no longer pretend to be empty to officials, but will it be able to do something practical for the people?”

King Wei pondered for a moment, then said, “You also said yes.”

“The origin of everything is some very small ideas. These small ideas need to be perfected a little bit. As long as you have the heart, it may not be impossible to make it in the future.”

“It’s rare for you to say that.”

“This is what my father taught me. It may have something to do with my master’s business. Those officials who came from the imperial examinations were heavily stereotyped because of the imperial court. Most of them went for stereotypes. To put it bluntly, our master is to help these people who don’t understand current affairs’ “Master”, to maintain the operation of the Yamen, and “Master” to get promoted and make a fortune. If the master doesn’t know how to do it, the master must do it;

After a pause, she said again: “You said that if the master has to make up the mind of the master in everything other than holding money and putting on airs and making fans, then do you think the master is the master, or the master is the master?”

This was a bit of a mouthful, but it made King Wei frowned, and the slender fingers that were carelessly pinching the corner of Feng Sheng’s clothes also stopped.

“I was able to take down the corrupt officials in Lianghuai with lightning speed, not only because I had the account books in my hand, but also because I had many potential helpers.”

Just like He Lun did back then.

Relying on Master Shaoxing to help those people, without being too obvious, just a few words, such as the weakness of ‘Master’, and other things, this is the key to Feng Sheng’s victory over the enemy. It’s just that many people’s eyes are too high, and most of them are staring at the master. They never thought that if they really understand the “master” and even the Yamen, they must be the master.

Feng Sheng has never mentioned this matter to anyone. It is important to say that this matter is small, but it is also very important. Those people in Shaoxing still count on this bowl of rice, ruining everyone’s jobs, and no one will mess around in the future Yes, but Feng Sheng could see Wei Wang’s anxiety these days.

Although he never said it, playing chess, reading books and admiring flowers with him every day seems to be idle, and only occasionally goes to the quiet room to meditate. But every time he locked himself in the quiet room to meditate, it was King Wei who could not suppress the anxiety in his heart and sought external interference.

“You said that all the soldiers and horses in the world belong to His Majesty, but those who control these soldiers and horses are those commanders and generals. Then do you think these soldiers and horses belong to His Majesty, or those commanders and generals?”

This time King Wei didn’t speak, his eyes were shining with a strange light, and he looked at Feng Sheng.

Feng Sheng was also looking at him, but he didn’t stop talking: “These soldiers and horses can be said to belong to His Majesty, but they can also be said to belong to those commanders and generals, because the people below obey their orders, what His Majesty wants to do, They need to implement it. In the same way, there are deputy commanders under the commander and general, there are guerrillas under the commander, there are guerrillas, there are thousands of households, so who do you think the military power belongs to?”

If Feng Sheng’s division is still followed, the real military power should belong to those soldiers, because only they are the core key to execute the order. And Feng Sheng used two examples as examples, in fact, it was just to tell Wei Wang that those in high positions can only see the high places, but they don’t know that the bottom is the key.

The prince’s business in the court is said to be for the court to solve the problem, but in fact it is just a suitable excuse to make friends with the courtiers. These princes are recruited, bought or even united according to different forces. Only those people who are useful can be used. These people are all eye-catching. So, in fact, you can change your thinking.

As for King Wei’s power, Feng Sheng now only knows very little about it, and she can only give advice through divergent thinking instead of telling him what to do.

“Many of your ideas coincide with mine.”

This is also the reason why King Wei went to support Gouqing, a seventh-rank inspector. But for this truth, Wei Wang didn’t see it very thoroughly, maybe because they were at a high place, they were used to wooing and buying the top ‘head’, but they forgot the bottom.

But this time, Feng Sheng single-handedly stirred up the whole vortex and pulled the prince off the horse. This borrowed the inconspicuous job of the master, which was really beyond what King Wei expected, and it just gave him a lot of inspiration .

“So I think it’s good to open an academy. It’s a different way. It would be better if we can teach students according to their aptitude. For example, the officials of the river course need to understand water conservancy, instead of sending a person who only knows how to play the piano. Not only river workers, but also criminal money, salt affairs, etc. This is even more so. But I’m afraid it’s not easy to do, so I can only figure it out slowly. Many of my ideas are very fragmented and lack a general summary. In addition, I want to add a women’s hall to the academy, which can be regarded as finding something for myself do it.”

“woman?”

Feng Sheng nodded, this idea arose when she saw Man’er blushing and followed behind Fan Jinchuan with her head down in Daming Temple.

Putting everything aside, she felt very sorry for Maner, such an intelligent woman was neglected by her husband because of her background, vision and knowledge. People like Fan Jinchuan don’t pay too much attention to appearance, but pay more attention to spiritual sympathy, and all of these are obviously something that Man’er, who can’t even read, can’t give.

But what if she can read and write, understand the outside world, know how high the sky is and how big the land is in this world?

At that moment, she was shocked by her own thoughts.

She was very excited. In fact, it was a kind of helplessness, because she knew very well that from the moment she married Wei Wang, she was doomed to be in the back house. She didn’t want to live this kind of life. So this can be regarded as a compromise she found for herself.

“How do you like this?”

Wei Wang stretched out his hand to caress her eyebrows, every time Feng Sheng wanted to do something, the pupils would sparkle.

There are stars hidden in it, which makes people unbearable to refuse.

“I find it hard, but you don’t deserve to be buried.”

He kissed him, King Wei didn’t have any good idea from the beginning, but Feng Sheng diverted his attention. At this time, because of Feng Sheng’s words, he had diverted a lot of thoughts, which made his mind agitated, and coupled with Feng Sheng’s sitting posture, he couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.

“what are you doing?”

Feng Sheng didn’t feel right, but when he thought about it, someone pinned him on his lap.

“do not move.”

In the end she didn’t move, but he moved instead.

In the days that followed, the two were very concerned about opening the academy.

Open your eyes and talk, talk while sleeping, and occasionally think of something while eating, and say a few words. The two of them have been very excited these few days, and they probably have the same goal. Feng Sheng always has a pen and ink at hand, and writes down all his thoughts.

This has something to do with her usual habits, as if she was answering Wei Wang that day, but suddenly said something off topic. The master is in a gray area. Although he can assist the master, he is not an official. Because of the complexity of the word official, they have to consider and understand too many things.

For example, in official affairs, they need to know how to write documents, copywriting, criminal names and money grains, and in private affairs, they need to know how to help the master manage various places, so that they can help the master get promoted and make a fortune. Even when encountering the dark side of officialdom, one has to know how to make suggestions and even harm others.

There are so many trivial matters that cannot be memorized by brain alone, so Fang Yan has a habit of jotting down any thoughts or things he wants to do.

Feng Sheng was influenced by him, and she also has such a habit.

The benefits of doing this are great. When you need to sort out your thoughts, take a look at the things you have written down, and you can develop your ideas more.

Later, Feng Sheng showed the tidied things up to King Wei, and the two suddenly realized that to achieve what they wanted, it could not be accomplished overnight. This time span is years, and it may take several years, or decades.

It’s hard, but now that King Wei is at home, he just thinks he’s looking for something to do for himself. After all, if you want to make an academy bigger, it can’t be done overnight.

King Wei ordered people to rebuild his Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing. He and Feng Sheng completed the drawings together. This matter alone cannot be completed in January or two months, so don’t worry if you think about it.

Zhao Wang added a son and posted a message to Wei Wangfu.

If you live in seclusion, you can’t be absent on such occasions, as if you are clearly called brothers but are actually enemies, and the other princes will definitely be there that day.

Since Feng Sheng married Queen Wei, this was the first time she went out as a guest.

When they arrived at King Zhao’s Mansion, King Wei and Feng Sheng separated, one in the front yard and the other in the backyard.

Concubine Zhao is very enthusiastic and considerate. Generally speaking, King Wei and King Zhao have no conflicts, so she treats Feng Sheng carefully. I also know that this is the first time for her to come to this kind of occasion. When she arrives at the place and meets all the sisters-in-law, she is the one who comes forward to help introduce them.

Although Feng Sheng is young, but the king of Wei has a high ranking, all the concubines from the concubine Zhao are called sister-in-law. She didn’t have much experience in dealing with women. After sitting down, she just drank tea with a smile and listened to the chatting of the other princesses.

The youngest person here is Princess Liang.

King Liang was ranked ninth, and not long after he was crowned king, Concubine Liang entered the door ahead of Feng Sheng. The two of them were in a similar situation, and they sat together again, listening to the constant maneuvers over there, and occasionally glanced at each other while drinking tea here, and there was a bit of tacit understanding that others couldn’t figure out.

“The third sister-in-law is very arrogant. Last time I was doing business in the Qin Palace, I thought I could see our new third sister-in-law, but I didn’t expect that the third sister-in-law didn’t come.”

It was Concubine An who was talking, a beauty with an oval face and almond eyes. Ever since Feng Sheng came to this hall, she had been listening a lot and talking little, but from the moment she saw this Concubine An, Feng Sheng felt how much she treated her. He was very hostile, but he didn’t expect to provoke her and Qin Wangfei now.

Hearing these words was provocative, so the others were silent, and their beautiful eyes looked back and forth at Princess Qin and Feng Sheng.

“Sister, don’t blame me. Your Highness and I were not in the capital at the time. After we found out, we asked the servants to prepare a ceremony for the residence. If this happens again next time, we will definitely not be absent.”

Feng Sheng said this directly to Princess Qin. Concubine Qin is naturally not a fool, she would not be fooled if she wanted to provoke the relationship between the two families with one word, but how to speak so as not to offend Princess An or Princess Wei is what she has to consider at the moment.

“Of course I can’t blame it. The family doesn’t have anything to do, but the third brother is very interesting. He actually accompanied the third sister-in-law to the south of the Yangtze River. I really envy my sister. Don’t be too envious of the seventh brother and sister. Catch Minger and the seventh brother Let me tell you, given how much my seventh brother regards you, I won’t refute it, so there’s no need for you to be jealous of my third sister-in-law here.” Princess Qin’s tone was humorous and courteous, it was an embarrassing scene, but Let her round it up.

Concubine Zhao is the head of the family today, and she doesn’t want to make too much trouble, so she naturally wants to help with the conversation. After a while of talking and laughing, the matter is over.

But Feng Sheng was very curious, why Princess An would be so hostile to him.

After waiting for this matter for a while, when a few people changed to the garden to admire the plum blossoms, someone finally gave an answer.

Feng Sheng walked behind, Princess Zhao deliberately took a step down and waited for her.

“Don’t blame the third sister-in-law. The seventh younger siblings have such temperaments, and they don’t have bad intentions. She just sees things and thinks about others. This word is not used properly. To tell the truth, the first princess Wei is the daughter of the Qiao family. , Princess An is also surnamed Qiao, third sister-in-law understand?”

I understand, this Princess An is not hostile to her, but hostile to someone who can become Princess Wei.

After Zhao Wangfei said this, she smiled and quickened her pace and walked forward. Feng Sheng shook her head helplessly and smiled, thinking what was the matter.

With such a distraction, only the backs of the people in front remained, against the icy and snowy land, the garden was full of red plums, Feng Sheng was extremely afraid of the cold, but now she didn’t want to go forward.

“princess?”

Feng Sheng smiled at Zhi Qiu, then closed the stove in his hand again, and said: “Let’s go.”

After turning this corner, I realized that there was someone walking slowly in front of me. This person was wearing a mink fur cloak with folded branches and flowers in the color of a fragrant concubine. It was Princess Qin.

Seemingly hearing footsteps behind her, she stopped with her maid and smiled at Feng Sheng.

“Sister-in-law three.”

“Six siblings.”

The two became colleagues, and the two maids were by their side.

“Don’t blame the third sister-in-law about what happened just now. The seventh brother and sister just don’t talk about the door, but after all, I am not very close to her, so I can’t say anything. If I talk too much, I am afraid of offending.” Qin Wangfei smiled, and the laughter and tone She clearly meant something, but people couldn’t catch the clue, “But she didn’t think about how she became Princess An, and the Qiao family is not an incredibly wealthy family, who can produce two princes and concubines from one family. ?”

She patted Feng Sheng’s hand with a smile, and said to the girl next to her: “I see that red plum plant is not bad, go over and have a look, and let someone pick it up and take it back later, just treat it as my fourth sister-in-law’s pleasure.” .”

With that said, she hurried away with her servant girl.

That’s all for Feng Sheng, Zhiqiu was already confused by these consecutive actions, held back for a while, and said: “Princess, what are they trying to do?”

What can I do? Pick her to fight Princess An.

“Let’s go, let’s also go and see the red plums. We’ll pick one and bring it back later. Let’s treat it as a joy to our four siblings.” Feng Sheng said with a smile.

Seeing that the princess didn’t care, Zhiqiu was relieved. The two of them left this fork in the road, and before they had gone far, a maid came hurriedly towards this side.

“The eldest concubine is here. Our concubine invites concubine Wei to come over.”

Grand Princess? I mean the princess!