[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 21 Second St. 02

Compared with the whole Spring Festival full of gunpowder because of the establishment of the crown prince in Japan, Datang's side is full of fun.

When the new year is approaching, the whole country is full of jubilation. The fourth year of Xianqing was a very peaceful year. God was very kind to face and did not bring down any natural disasters. Datang's several foreign wars were all victorious, and it was successfully killed. Goguryeo, which has been threatening the eastern part of the Tang Dynasty, made the territory of the Tang Dynasty stretch to the east for nearly a thousand miles, and also surrounded the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and other offshore seas as its own internal sea...

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu is very happy.

The fourth year of Xianqing was also a year when he was proud and elated. In the past ten years, he had been under the shadow of his father, His Majesty Li Er, and his uncle, Changsun Wuji. An elder was ready to be the master of his own house, but his body failed to live up to it. He lay on the couch for a long time, and was almost pushed back to his original shape.

Fortunately, he has a good wife, when he was unable to control the court, he took care of the internal and external affairs very properly, even old men like Li Ji and Du Zhenglun had nothing to say.

During the New Year's banquet, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu suddenly felt that those palace concubines who were so gorgeously dressed because they rarely saw the sky were an eyesore...

Therefore, in His Majesty's speech after the Spring Festival, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu specifically mentioned that there are few concubines in the harem nowadays, and there is no need to raise so many servants to waste the state treasury, so he plans to release half of the palace people in Tai Chi Palace.

In addition, Wu Xu originally promised Li Xiaojiu to revise various systems and regulations for the harem, but in the end, he was too busy with trivial matters such as childbirth and acting on behalf of the government, so of course he couldn't take care of this matter.

Now His Majesty Li Xiaojiu feels guilty when he thinks of this incident, and he no longer bothers Wu Xu about the harem, but privately asks Xu Jingzong to quietly make a new harem rule, which will be issued along with the edict at the beginning of the new year...

In the new palace regulations, the position of the fourth wife was cut in half, and the position of the first-rank concubine was directly abolished, and the positions below Cairen were also revoked, and the number of concubines for each position was also reduced by at least two-thirds.That is to say, now the new rule is that there can only be two first-class concubines, nine concubines in total, three positions of Jieyu, beauty, and talented person from the original 27 to nine, and the ranks of Baolin Cainv. All the concubines are gone. Those who were originally in this position, but all the concubines who have not been favored are all changed to female officials, and they are allowed to leave the palace after serving enough years.

There were no people in His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's harem, so this reform was a good thing for those girls in the harem who never saw saints.

Wu Xu originally thought that Li Xiaojiu would take advantage of Xianqing's reign in the fourth year to recruit a few women from heroic families to fill the harem, but Li Xiaojiu not only refused to accept them, but also let many of them out.

Without seeing the young and beautiful girls once or twice, Wu Xu expressed quite depressed...

The matter of releasing the women in the harem was naturally well received by the whole Tang Dynasty. Even the move of canceling the status of concubines and changing the status of low-level concubines to female officials has also received praise from all the censors, praising His Majesty Li Xiaojiu and the empress. Some are thrifty and benevolent empresses.

After the New Year's edict was issued, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu was still a member of the royal family and officials.This year is quite special, because Datang not only won all the battles in the previous year, but also brought back a large amount of wealth and land, so His Majesty Li Xiaojiu didn't feel that it was too much to do when rewarding people!

Among the heroes, Mr. Li Ji, the commander-in-chief who pacified Goguryeo, was the head. Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, Liu Rengui and others who made great achievements in the siege of the peninsula were all added as third-level lords and rewarded one hundred households in the city.

Among them, Liu Rengui, Xue Rengui, and Sun Renshi also made great contributions to annihilating the Japanese fleet, and they were promoted to three ranks, and they were rewarded with fifty households and daughters.

As for civil and military officials in the DPRK and China, they also have their own promotions. Among them, Li Xianggong is the first because he settled Tubo in the west and prevented him from making trouble behind the scenes during the Eastern Expedition of the Tang Dynasty. , was conferred the title of Duke of Hejian County, two hundred households in Shangshiyi, and his official rank was raised above Du Zhenglun, only under Li Ji, named Yaxiang, and he was actually the top leader of Zhengshitang.

With a body in white clothes, he was appointed as a marquis at a young age. In the previous dynasty, only Ma Zhou could compare with Li Sanlang.

Xiao Li Xianggong is now the hottest young talent in Chang'an, not only because of his status and power, but also because he is still single...

Not to mention that all the noble ladies in Chang'an City are thinking about how to abduct the most beautiful and powerful man in Chang'an to be their son-in-law, but it is said that this little Mr. Li has been hiding in the office of the palace every day since he was promoted to a noble, even eating. He didn't go back to his mansion in Chang'an even when he slept.

The noble ladies in Chang'an City couldn't catch anyone, so they were naturally very depressed, and His Majesty Li Xiaojiu and His Royal Highness the Prince who saw Mr. Li wandering around the palace all day long and visiting the Queen's wife from time to time were even more depressed!

After the new year, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be ten years old. According to the current customs, a boy of this age can already live alone in the same courtyard, but Li Hong's child is obviously unwilling to leave his mother and younger brother to live in the empty East Palace. Huo didn't realize that his son was an adult at all, and he didn't even think about this, so no one dared to bring up the topic of His Royal Highness moving to the palace...

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu used to see his sons surrounding Wu Xu all day long, and felt very uncomfortable, but now there is a damn Li Sanlang going in and out of Baifu Hall, which made him feel uneasy when working in Liangyi Hall, and went to work all day long. Baifu Hall!

It can't go on like this!

His Majesty Li Xiaojiu even thought about the vicious idea of ​​'reward Li Sanlang with a Hedong lion to tie him down', but Wu Xu's words made him dispel this idea.

"The terrain here in Chang'an is too low. Every spring is too humid, summer is too hot, autumn is too dry, and winter is too cold. It is really not suitable for a capital city..." As a southerner, Xiao Wu has long been familiar with the climate of Chang'an. There was quite a bit of criticism. After seeing Li Sanlang that day, Wu Xu told Li Xiaojiu about it. She had no sense of belonging to Chang'an. When talking about Beijing, she always thought of Beijing...

But relocation is a major event, and it's not okay to be careless.

Even if the treasury is rich now, and Datang's territory has also grown, there must be a suitable reason for moving the capital, otherwise even the hardcore imperial party will not easily agree.

Li Xiaojiu didn't expect Wu Xu to bring up such an important matter, so he couldn't help being silent.

The capital of a country is generally in the center of the country, the most easily defended and difficult to attack. Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, Chang'an has always been the first choice for all dynasties and countries to establish their capitals.The land of Yongzhou is also known as "Guanzhong", "Qinzhong" and "Eight Hundred Li Qinchuan". It is the alluvial plain of the Wei River. , like a net intertwined here, there is a saying that "eight waters surround Chang'an".In Chang'an City, there are Xiaoshan Mountains in the east, Qinling Mountains in the south, Longshan Mountains in the west, and the Yellow River in the north. Its dangerous terrain can be seen.

As for what Wu Xu said about Chang'an's low-lying terrain, it is true that people often feel various discomforts in the four seasons. In fact, it is because the Taiji Palace is too old and the palace is too old, so that the residents always feel dark, damp and stuffy.Especially the location of Taiji Palace is relatively low, even in the driest autumn, some palaces near the north of Taiji Palace are still extremely humid, but Wu Xu doesn't know much about it.In the past, His Majesty Li Er also wanted to renovate the old palace of Taiji Palace, but as soon as he got the budget out, he was criticized by Wei Zheng, so he had to give up

After His Majesty Li Xiaojiu came to the throne, he has been desperately trying to make money to fill the hole in the national treasury - for several years of earthquake relief, tax reduction and exemption, the treasury has also bottomed out!Who cares about whether the Taiji Palace or the pavilions are rotten and about to collapse? Anyway, there are not so many people living there, so if it collapses, it will collapse!

Thinking about it now, his family Ah Wu never enjoyed any good things when he entered the palace. He even chose the Baifu Palace because it was relatively close to the Liangyi Palace. It's more convenient, so I haven't moved it all the time, and I'm not even willing to renovate it...

It is still unheard of for a queen like Ah Wu to be thrifty and simple. Those officials who flatter him and his father always say how frugal and frugal his mother is, but in fact, any pair of night shoes of his mother were woven from peacock feathers Yes, the pearls and gemstones embellished on it are no smaller than the ones inlaid on the skirt of Awu's dress. And look at Awu, he rarely wears even larger Bu Yao, and he often wears light makeup and casual clothes on weekdays. It doesn't look like Mrs. Rong Guo's daughter...

Li Zhi couldn't help sighing, and said: "I'm afraid the matter of moving the capital will not work, but I have already planned to use Luoyang as the eastern capital, Taiyuan as the northern capital, Chengdu as the western capital, and Guangling as the southern capital..."

"This is so much?" Wu Xu couldn't help but gasped when she heard that Li Xiaojiu had set up four companion capitals in one go.What shocked her even more was still behind.

"I have already asked Xu Jingzong to draw up an edict. From this year on, the ministers will call you and me the Emperor and Empress, and we will no longer use the old title..." Before Li Zhi finished speaking, Wu Xu in the other side was already dumbfounded.

Emperor? !

Isn't this Nima the self-proclaimed emperor of Little Japan?

It turned out that this was also passed down from the Celestial Dynasty. No wonder she had been hearing from Li Sanlang that the monarch of the Wa country was called a 'king', and there was no title of 'emperor' at all. It turned out that this title was only invented now!

I'll go!

Student Xiao Wu was so distracted that he didn't hear His Majesty Li Xiaojiu's next suggestion about building a new Daming Palace east of Chang'an...

"Awu, you don't have to worry about money this time, the money in the national treasury is enough to build five or six Tai Chi palaces..." After saying this, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu also felt extremely sad. Building a new house to live in is actually more difficult than ordinary people, what kind of world is this!

Wu Xu came to her senses with great difficulty. When she heard that a new palace was going to be built in the east of the city, her jaw almost dropped: Li Xiaojiu is so courageous. He wants to build a palace? !

So is it going to be Feng Chan next?

Sure enough, after His Majesty Li Xiaojiu lamented that he and Ah Wu were finally rich, his expression changed in vain, and he said with a smile: "Today Xu Jingzong wrote a letter, saying that my achievements are astonishing as the past and the present, and I should be enshrined in Zen..."

Wu Xu: "..."

The author has something to say: Feng Chan, Feng Chan, hahahaha...