Professional Ethics of a Concubine

When the Seventh Prince returned to the guild hall, he felt a little uneasy because he had been stared at by the Ninth Princess the whole way. He rubbed his arms and asked,

"Han Yan, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Brother, when you ascend the throne, can you also abolish some bad rules and improve the status of women?"

The Ninth Princess asked him with a smile.

The Seventh Prince shook his head and said, "Sister, I am still a long way from ascending the throne, and there are many differences between Great Yan and Great Zhao.

We in Dayan do not have strict etiquette for women. We are not as serious as in Zhao where women's chastity is valued. We do not need to change it."

When the Ninth Princess heard this, the smile on her face slowly disappeared. She lowered her head slightly, hiding the disappointment in her eyes.

My royal brother is not the crown prince of Zhao, so he does not have such a broad mind or such strong courage.

When his elder brother ascends the throne, it will probably be difficult for him to suppress those belligerent nobles and prevent them from launching wars, so he will have no spare energy to carry out other reforms.

The Ninth Princess felt that she was becoming more and more greedy. She had originally only wanted to escape from Dayan temporarily, become a princess of a foreign kingdom, and live happily for ten years.

But now, her expectations are growing.

She began to look forward to her married life, looking forward to seeing more, better and more novel changes in the future of the Great Zhao, looking forward to her brother really sitting on the throne, looking forward to Dayan learning the good aspects of the Great Zhao and also having good changes...

Alas, if you expect too much, you will get hurt.

But the Ninth Princess did not expect that the critical strike against her would come so quickly.

But two days later, another letter came from Dayan. After reading it, the Ninth Princess and the Seventh Prince both felt bad.

"What on earth is Father thinking! I can understand marrying a princess to the Zhao dynasty, but he actually wants to marry the Donghu barbarians. What is he trying to achieve?

When have we ever been afraid of the Donghu? Every time they came to plunder, we killed them back.

They didn't attack us deeply at all, so why did Father want to sacrifice the Seventh Princess to marry?"

The letter was written by their mother, saying that the seventh princess had also been chosen to marry a foreign prince, and that the prince would be a barbarian from the Donghu region, and that the man she was going to marry could be her grandfather.

"The Donghu invade our border dozens of times every year. Although it does not cause major disasters, it is very annoying.

Since this problem can be easily solved by a woman and it can also promote transactions between the two sides, why should we fight a war?

The emperor may not feel sorry for the soldiers who died in the war, but the war still cost the emperor money and food, so he felt sorry for them. "

The Seventh Prince was silent for a moment, then said,

"It's a good thing you came to Da Zhao. If you had stayed in Da Yan, you might have been chosen to marry the Dong Hu in the grassland."

The Ninth Princess pulled the corners of her mouth and forced a smile, "I said I have always been lucky."

"I wonder if the Seventh Princess will be sent to marry the Donghu people..."

"Seventh sister appears to be soft-hearted and easy to bully, but she is very stubborn in her heart. I'm afraid she would choose to commit suicide rather than go to Donghu and suffer humiliation."

The Ninth Princess paused and then spoke again,

"But it doesn't matter. Without the Seventh Sister, there are still others. There are always those who are obedient and those who are timid and afraid of death."

The Seventh Prince patted her shoulder and said comfortingly, "There's nothing we can do about this matter. Don't be too upset."

The Ninth Princess agreed and sent her brother back to her room. She wanted to be alone.

For the first time, the Ninth Princess stopped avoiding the question and thought seriously about it:

The Crown Prince of Zhao was such a man of great strategy and vision, but he chose to make peace with the Yan Dynasty and support his brother to ascend the throne. Even a pig would not believe that he had no ambition to swallow up the Yan Dynasty.

Therefore, there will definitely be another war between Great Zhao and Great Yan, but no one knows when it will happen, perhaps a few years or even a dozen years later.

If Yan was annexed by Zhao, the people and women of Yan could also enjoy the laws and etiquette reforms of Zhao, and it seemed that the loss of her country would not be a terrible thing for her.

When the Ninth Princess thought of this, she couldn't help but despise herself. How could she even think of becoming a princess of a fallen country? If she told this idea to others, her brother the Emperor would probably not tolerate her.

However, after only two months in Da Zhao, she had already felt the power of Da Zhao, especially the power of the Da Zhao royal family.

The Crown Prince of Great Zhao is not only talented, but he also has a broad mind. He can accommodate his brothers and make them loyal, guard against arrogance and extravagance, care about the people, control the nobles, and contribute his own strength to the strength of Great Zhao.

How could such a royal family and such a great Zhao not prosper!

As for Dayan, it was plagued by deep-rooted problems and abuses. The people's lives were becoming increasingly difficult, while the nobles were becoming increasingly rich and arrogant.

The royal family of Dayan lacked the power of unity and the determination for reform. Instead, they were controlled by the nobles and gradually lost their royal dignity.

How can such a Dayan compete with the Zhao in the future!

The more the Ninth Princess thought about it, the heavier her heart became.

She didn't know why she didn't just think about having children and vying for favor like other women. They couldn't think of what she was thinking. Even if she told them, they wouldn't care and just thought it was a man's business.

But she can't.

Because she saw it clearly, and because she did not have the courage and ambition like the Queen of Gulan, she did not want to make a thousand times more effort to scheme and seize the throne, nor did she want to accept the huge price of failure.

So, she was awake, in pain, and escaping.

The Ninth Princess buried her head in the quilt and decided to hide for a while. Anyway, there would be no fight in the next two or three years.

The conflict between Da Zhao and Chu was even greater, and there was Chu in the front to support them.

They are Dayan, it’s still early.

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royal palace.

"Is the etiquette debate at the manor over? How is it going?" The emperor asked the chief steward beside him, "Did Prince Duan send any news?"

"Prince Duan just sent a eunuch to deliver a memorial." The chief steward handed the memorial to the emperor, "The eunuch said that everything went smoothly."

"It went so smoothly?" The emperor raised his eyebrows. "The prince wanted to change the mountain of etiquette and law, but there was no strong opposition from those corrupt scholars?"

The emperor himself didn't quite believe it.

"Prince Duan said that basically the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues were not touched. Only the issue of female chastity was touched. It did not say that women should be treated the same as men. And with the tragedy that just happened, the public's opposition was not fierce."

The chief steward spoke again.

The emperor nodded when he heard this, thinking that this was understandable, and then he asked again,

"Where's the prince? Has he not returned from the hot spring villa yet?"

"Not yet." replied the chief steward.

"This prince is getting better and better at avoiding work. He just gives orders and leaves it alone on important matters involving etiquette and law. I feel relieved about him."

The emperor teased the prince while opening the memorial.

The chief steward glanced at the emperor and wondered whether he was complaining about the prince or making fun of himself.

The emperor opened the memorial and read it carefully. He could not help but nod his head frequently. He felt that Prince Duan's approach was good, which made those sour scholars unable to vent their anger.

When the emperor saw the last part of the Ninth Princess' speech, he was also shocked and couldn't help but murmured, "This Ninth Princess is not simple."

The emperor read the memorial again from beginning to end, and couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.

At this time, the eunuch announced that the messenger from Gulan had returned.

"Let him in quickly." The emperor's voice became much higher, revealing his excitement and eagerness.

Because the Emperor and the Empress are communicating frequently now, the messengers have been replaced several times, and they can't catch one to use, which is very tiring.

The messenger came in and respectfully took out the letter. The chief steward had been waiting on the side and took it and handed it to the emperor.

"Did the Empress leave any message?" asked the Emperor.

"No, Your Majesty," the messenger replied sternly.

The emperor was a little disappointed. It was just a little bit, really not much.

He waved his hand to let the messenger go, then opened the letter and was surprised to find that this time there were several pages!

After counting carefully, there are actually four pages!

The first two letters were only a thin piece of paper with only a few words on it, not even filling up half the paper.

The emperor was cheered up and went to see with anticipation what the empress had written. She actually wrote so much.

But after a closer look, I found that only the first page was for him, and the rest were all written to the prince!!!

Just let him pass it on.

He is a messenger.

The emperor stared at the letter for a long time, took deep breaths, and told himself that there was nothing to be angry about.

Is he trying to compete with his son for favor? Haha, so funny!!

The emperor suppressed his inner discomfort and read the part of the letter written by the empress to the prince without any psychological barrier.

Comparing it with what the empress wrote to him, the emperor was heartbroken again!

For example, the comparison is as follows:

The emperor showed off to the empress how fragrant, soft and delicious the cakes made with white sugar were, and praised them all for being able to enjoy them so much because the prince and Tutor Ye made the white sugar. He wrote a whole page of words in a very eloquent manner.

The empress replied that she had tried it, and that was it.

However, in her reply to her son, she praised him for his cleverness in putting the sugar in an exquisite container, and praised Master Ye for his intelligence in coming up with such a delicious dish as egg cake.

The empress also said that she liked eating it very much and thought it was very good, but she didn't dare to eat too much, and her tone contained a hint of complaint and grievance.

emperor,……

Women, your discriminatory treatment, dare you be more obvious!!!

The emperor felt that the empress's decision to ask him to pass on the letter to the prince was actually her deliberate revenge against him!

This was her way of reminding him how much she disliked him.

The emperor sneered angrily.

Haha, okay, okay, you heartless woman, if I can't handle you, how can I handle your son? !

"Call the prince back to the palace! He just enjoys his leisure time all day long. Let him come back, I have something for him to do!" The emperor ordered the chief steward.

"...as you command."

The chief steward hurried to make arrangements.

Alas, I don’t know what the emperor is thinking. Every time he is so angry at the empress’s reply, he still continues to write to her.

Have fun.

His mental state is extremely unstable, he has convulsions from time to time and is difficult to deal with!

Oh my god! This is the spring for the elderly? ?