female concubine

The imperial guards of the Imperial City Department presented the evidence confiscated by the Ministry of Punishment to the Hall of Wende.

"Your Majesty, this thing is too dangerous, so don't..."

The emperor put down the book in his hand and said very displeased: "It's not like I haven't seen it before, you all go down!"

Xiao Xianfu hesitated for a while, then cupped his hands and said, "Yes."

Han Si also closed the book and prepared to leave.

"Zijulang stays."

Han Si had no choice but to turn his head back, and walked to the emperor with the book in his arms, "Your Majesty."

The emperor got up from his seat and walked to the two boxes. Sulfur was very pungent, so he pinched his nose, picked up a bamboo tube, and showed it to Han Bo, "Do you know what this is?"

Han Bang approached, nodded and said: "There is a historical record: there was a fire craftsman in the previous dynasty, who transformed fireworks into a gunpowder that was several times more powerful than fireworks, but due to defects, most of them would self-explode when ignited, too. During the ancestor period, some craftsmen also developed firearms according to the order, but they all had defects and cost resources, so they were ordered to stop."

"Yes, this is indeed a firearm. I haven't seen it for decades." The emperor looked at it, put it down immediately, and clapped his hands.

Han Si took out a clean silk handkerchief from his arms.

The emperor tilted his head and smiled slightly, "Qing's handkerchief is spotless, but my hands are dirty, I can't bear to get dirty."

Han Si did not flatter the emperor either, and said bluntly: "I will take it back carefully and it will be clean."

The emperor turned his head and looked at Han Bang deeply, "Qing thinks, where did this fire weapon come from?"

"The judgment of Dali Temple came from Shen's residence in Xijiaofang, Xincheng."

The emperor raised his eyes, then turned back immediately, his back turned to Han Si and said nothing.

"But I heard that Shu is rich in products, and the mining industry is the most prosperous. Forty percent of the iron used in Kyoto comes from Shu."

The emperor put his hands behind his back and said slowly: "The King of Chu stayed in Shu for three years before returning to Beijing!"

"This is what you want to say, right?"

Han Bang folded his sleeves together and bowed slightly, "I just said what your majesty thought, speculating on the holy will without authorization, and ask your majesty to come down."

"Have you told your benefactor about this?"

"After the sinner was punished, the minister has been by His Majesty's side."

The emperor turned his head back, "I don't care about the rest, but don't tell him about this matter!"

"Yes."

"You go down first, let Zhao Ci come in!"

Han Si raised his head, then lowered his head immediately, "Yes."

Both Zhao Ci and Xiao Xianfu were waiting outside the hall, but the emperor only called Zhao Ci.

Zhao Ci was shocked when he saw the contents of the box after entering, "Why did they leave such dangerous things in the hall?"

"Brother Zhao."

Zhao Ci hurried forward, "The villain is here."

"Send people to Sichuan to investigate secretly. You don't need to tell the people in the Imperial City Department about this matter, just use...the original group of people!"

"Sichuan?" Zhao Ci was startled, smelling a pungent sulfur smell, "Does Your Majesty suspect the Six Kings?"

"In terms of ruthlessness, the Prince is on par with King Zhao, but in terms of tricks, I seem to have underestimated the King of Chu!"

"Your Majesty, let the villain risk his life to remonstrate!"

The emperor raised his head and looked at Zhao Ci slightly.

Zhao Ci immediately bowed his head and knelt down, "Your Majesty has three sons. In the future, there must be an heir. If Your Majesty does not make up his mind to let his siblings kill each other, then he will be powerless and the villain will be afraid." Zhao Ci raised his head, blushing Old Eye, "The villain is afraid that His Majesty will regret it for the rest of his life!"

The emperor sighed, and then smiled coldly: "I will not regret it, I will not lose the inheritance of my ancestors, and of course, I will not hand it over to them easily!"

"Go ahead, after resting for so long, it's time to move your muscles."

After Shen Tu was beheaded, his home was confiscated, together with the title deed of the house. Except for the family servants who packed up their belongings and left, there were dozens of helpless young women with nowhere to go.

The next day, the Jingzhong Mansion newspaper spread.

"The tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and the government didn't care about it. With no livelihood, wouldn't these women have to sell themselves as prostitutes again..."

"This apprentice Shen is over forty years old, but he has no son or half daughter under his knees. He has raised so many daughters... No wonder you want to curse me to have no children and grandchildren!"

"Is the prince listening to my concubine?"

"Ah?" Chu Wangxuan put down the curtain of the car, "Listen, the king knows the heart of the princess."

"Eliminating troubles, innocent people should be properly settled."

She nodded, "Don't worry, there are people who care more about these poor people than my wife." After finishing speaking, the Chu Dynasty got out of the car and said, "Drive to Xijiaofang."

Near Xijiaofang Hanzhai.

The king of Chu raised the curtain of the car, "Look, don't the good people come to do good?"

I saw a few little yellow men dressed like servants carrying several large cloth bags full of things, walking towards the poor woman squatting at the door of the Han house, and then I didn't know what the servants said, and they were caught in a short while. Hugged and surrounded.

"Housekeeper?"

The King of Chu nodded, and immediately said to the outside: "Let's go, go to the shop outside Linyuan!"

An ordinary carriage stopped at the entrance of a shop, and two men and women in casual clothes alighted from the carriage. They looked like siblings from a distance, but they looked more intimate than husband and wife interlocking their fingers.

"Wai Lin, come down and pay the rest of the money!"

A businessman came out from the inside, and when he saw someone coming, he approached with a kind smile, "Are you satisfied with the contents of today's mansion newspaper?"

He squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "I am working outside the staff, don't worry."

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In the past few days, the atmosphere in the East Palace has been very harmonious. The crown prince was overjoyed. Not only did he reward the guards who played football with him generously, but even his indifference towards the crown princess improved a lot.

"His Highness rewards others when he is happy, have you forgotten the concubine's jewelry?"

The prince gently hugged Di Liang, helped her to sit down on the couch, and immediately lay down in front of her already pregnant belly, listening to the fetal sound, "Don't be angry, my concubine, this is also an expedient measure, now that King Zhao is gone Ma Jun, only the Dianqian Si is left, and the odds of winning the palace are great, you are well, if you can successfully give birth to the emperor's eldest grandson, then he will be the future emperor's grandson!"

"But this concubine is... the concubine of the East Palace, so I dare not ask extravagantly."

"This is from His Majesty's own mouth." The prince seemed to have heard something, and immediately got up, and his attitude immediately turned cold, "She is the official wife married by three matchmakers and six hires in this palace. A concubine should look like a concubine. Be quiet!"

"Your Highness..." Chen Liangdi was a little terrified of the prince's sudden change of face.

Approaching a servant, "Your Highness, do you want to read today's residence newspaper?"

"What did the Di Bao say?"

"Shen Tu, Marquis Yu of Ma Jun, ransacked his home..."

"Take it away, don't look at it!"

"Yes."

"Wait!" The crown prince raised his head, "Isn't the crown princess fond of watching this thing, give it to her, and say that I gave it to her!"

"Yes!"

The servant turned around and went to the palace where the princess lived.

"His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness ordered the villain to send today's residence report."

"Give it to me." A female historian walked out of the hall.

Inside the pavilion, many court ladies were dressing the woman in front of the bronze mirror, as if they were about to go out. The female secretary stood aside respectfully holding the mansion newspaper and asked, "Your Highness, the mansion newspaper sent by the crown prince."

"You can't read, give it to me, I can read it myself."

Seeing that the Crown Princess frowned after reading it, Nushi asked curiously: "Your Highness, what did the mansion report say?"

"Palace people."

"The little guy is here."

"Go and exchange 1000 taels of gold for silver, and send someone to buy some food and send it to Shen's house in Xijiaofang, Xincheng."

"1000 taels of gold?" Nu Shi looked at the princess in surprise, "What is your highness going to do?"

"General Shentu was decisively executed yesterday!"

"General Shen Tu..." The female historian heard the famous words familiar, and immediately remembered: "Is it the Marquis of Duyu who climbed the lighthouse and won the first prize in the Shangyuan Dynasty? His Majesty even personally rewarded him with hairpins." In the moment of life and death, It's too unbelievable, but also frightening, and I feel deeply afraid.

"Shen's house was ransacked, and there were some innocent women in the family. This matter was reported to the mansion, and the government should take over, but if the government takes over, those women will be sent to the teaching workshop and lose their freedom again." The princess turned her head, "So be quick!"

"Yes, little man, let's go!"

Then the palace servants brought a few servants of the East Palace to leave the East Palace, but the prince's personal servant Ah Si saw him, and rushed to find out why.

After Ah Si returned to the prince, he hesitated to tell the matter, "Your Highness, Your Highness the Crown Princess took 1000 taels of gold to help the female relatives in Shen's house."

The prince sat up from the couch, stared and said, "1000 taels, gold?"

"Yes!"

"The most time Your Majesty rewarded me was only 500 taels, but she actually used 1000 taels of gold to help those useless women?"

"Your Highness, the Crown Princess is here."

Ah Si stepped aside from the prince, and the princess bowed slightly to Wei Shu.

The crown prince looked at her from top to bottom, "Who are you going to see with such a dress?"

"Have you forgotten, Your Highness, the day after tomorrow will be the Cold Food Festival, there will be Cuju in the palace, and the concubine will go home early to worship."

Wei Shu proudly turned his head, "Hmph!"

"The concubine retire."

Wei Shu turned his head and said directly: "If the princess has a lot of money, why don't you take care of your husband in the court."

The Crown Princess paused looking at the outside of the palace, then turned around immediately, "As the Second Chu, isn't Your Highness ashamed of what you have done?"

"The second one, you should be lenient to others, and repay grievances with kindness, instead of scheming siblings!"

Wei Shu was very annoyed at the Crown Princess' incomprehension, "What do you know, a woman's opinion is extremely stupid!"

"Yes, I don't understand. If His Highness behaves well, why should he be afraid of other people's advice? Why use money to buy people's hearts? Your Majesty sees it too clearly. If His Majesty can protect His Highness once or twice, what will happen after that? Your Highness doesn't know how to restrain himself and confess his sins, but instead intensifies, even the courtiers can be framed!"

The prince jumped up angrily, and pointed at the princess, "Don't think that you are the princess, I dare not do anything to you!"

The princess turned around, this time, she was really disappointed.

"When Concubine Liang gives birth to the eldest son of the East Palace, I will ask His Majesty to play..." The two grew up together since they were young, and Wei Shu still couldn't say the word deposed.

"Please!"

"Sister!" Wei Shu raised his head and looked straight at her.

"Sister, my concubine, I can't afford your Highness's call!"

"Why, do you think Liu Lang is the only brother in your eyes?"

"You always say that I'm hypocritical, but what about him? Isn't he hypocritical? He has been pretending to be a ghost for 17 years, hibernated for 17 years, and lied to us for 17 years. Isn't such a person scary?"

The Crown Princess just sneered and said, "Only with a guilty conscience will you be afraid!"

The day before the Cold Food Festival, the night.

A boat is slowly swimming on the Bian River next to Fudong Street in Kaifeng, and a red gardenia lamp is hung outside the boat house.

The melodious sound of the qin came from inside the boat, and the green smoke lingered softly around the fingers. The player who played the qin sat in the arms of the listener.

Halfway through the song, the listener took her hand away.

"Ok?"

She put her hand on it slowly, and the rest of the ensemble said, "This part in the middle...does sister have something on her mind?"

Xiao Youqing turned her head to the side, she looked down and saw her eyes, and the speed in her hand also slowed down, "What's wrong?"

"What did you mean by what you said in the courtyard the day before yesterday?"

The hand playing on the strings froze suddenly, then slowly retracted, tightly holding the hands of the person in his arms.

"elder sister!"

"I really want to give you everything I have, everything I can give you, to accompany you and take care of you, but I'm afraid I won't be able to do it in the end."

"I'm not a god. I can't control everything. I don't know what will happen in the future. Winning is actually just comforting myself and deceiving myself."

"I have never been afraid of anything before, even death, but now I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that I will not see my sister, and I am afraid that my sister will be hurt." Death is not terrible, what is terrible is that there are still concerns in my heart that I can't let go of.

Xiao Youqing lay in her arms, turned around, stretched out his hand to gently cover her face, "The sky will last forever, this hatred will last forever, but I am not a noble concubine, and I will not leave you first, I will Believe in every word you say, and believe in you, you will not be merciless!"

Then she straightened her body and whispered in her ear, "The emperor already knows Liu Lang's little thoughts."

"He sent a group of people to Sichuan. Those people are the gentlemen of Liangshang who came out of the prison. No one is better at searching things than them!"

King Chu put his arms around her waist, stared in surprise and said, "How did my sister know? Did the second uncle tell you?"

Xiao Youqing shook his head, "Second uncle, he doesn't know, my concubine has divorced and gone to the southwest."

After the words were closed, the King of Chu turned over and pressed him down, "Okay, sister is hiding something from me?"

Xiao Youqing reached out and hooked her neck, raised her head to her ear, and said softly: "Don't put everything on yourself, and don't forget that Liu Lang is no longer alone, because you still have me! "

"Although I don't live with you, I hope to share the wind and rain with you, and I will die without regret!"