Yao Jinse and Liang Chaozong raised their glasses at the same time and drank the wine in them.
"Husband, how are things going in Jiaxiang Town?" Yao Jinse asked in a gentle voice.
Liang Chaozong curled his lips: "Don't worry, Madam, everything is going according to plan."
Yao Jinse smiled and said, "Then I wish my husband all the best!"
Liang Chaozong nodded with a smile.
Yao Jinse's brows showed a hint of worry, and she said softly, "But I'm still a little worried. What if these people don't make it to Beijing and fall ill on the way? What should we do?"
"Not only did he get sick, but he also..." Yao Jinse hesitated to speak.
Liang Chaozong glanced at the woman beside him and said calmly, "You're afraid they'll die on the way, right?"
Yao Jinse nodded slightly.
"Don't worry, ma'am. I've asked a doctor to prescribe mild medicine for them. Give it to them every other day." Liang Chaozong's eyes were gloomy.
"This medicine can delay the onset of the disease and ensure they can reach Beijing alive, but it cannot completely cure them."
Yao Jinse's worry turned into joy: "I didn't expect my husband to have such a brilliant method!"
As she spoke, her slender hands climbed onto Liang Chaozong's shoulders.
Liang Chaozong gave her a wicked smile, stretched out his strong arms, and hugged the woman's slender waist.
…
Golden Palace.
The lively New Year has passed, and the annual leave for all officials of Daxia has also ended.
The tenth day of the first lunar month is the first morning court session after the Spring Festival.
Early this morning, Xia Zhengqi pulled his daughter out of bed and brought her to court.
Xia Miaoyuan had been used to sleeping in recently, and was suddenly forced to get up early, which made him very unhappy.
She sat next to Xia Zhengqi, dozed off with her eyes closed, her upper body leaning on Xia Zhengqi.
Xia Zhengqi glanced at his daughter and shook his head helplessly. He reached out and hugged Xia Miaoyuan to prevent her from falling.
Inside the hall, those pedantic officials looked at Princess Anguo with angry frowns and whispered to each other.
"The Emperor is becoming more and more unreasonable. He made the princess sit on the same throne as him and even let her sleep in the palace."
"That's right. Looking back over the past five hundred years, it's truly unprecedented!"
"If this gets out, I don't know how other countries will laugh at me."
Xia Zhengqi was not deaf. He could hear the ministers talking in low voices and understood what they were talking about.
Xia Zhengqi winked at Debao impatiently.
Debao yelled at the top of his voice: "If you have the guts, beat him up early. If you don't, leave the court!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a deep male voice was heard in the hall.
"I want to beat you up!"
The voice of this sentence was so loud that it almost penetrated the entire Golden Palace. Xia Miaoyuan was immediately awakened by it.
She rubbed her eyes and sat up straight.
[Who is this? On the first day back to work after the New Year holiday, you came to play a book.]
Xia Miaoyuan focused his gaze and looked carefully. He saw that the person who was speaking was a middle-aged man about 40 years old. Judging from his official uniform, he should be an imperial censor.
"Sir Chen, please speak!" Xia Zhengqi said loudly.
[Lord Chen? Is that Censor Chen Younian? He's on Grand Tutor Jiang's side.]
"Your Majesty, what I want to say today is that your Majesty's series of measures to release concubines and allow childless concubines to leave the palace are truly against the ancestors of the Great Xia."
Mr. Chen's voice was like a bell, his eyes were like a torch,
Xia Zhengqi suppressed his anger and asked calmly, "Why? Sir Chen, please explain in detail."
Lord Chen clasped his hands together, bowed diagonally upward, and said firmly, "When Emperor Taizu founded Daxia, he instituted the system of selecting candidates every three years in order to expand Daxia's branches and ensure the prosperity of the royal family."
"Your Majesty, you actually abolished this system. This is truly disrespectful to our ancestors."
"I second the motion!" Several pedantic censors immediately echoed.
[Tsk!] Xia Miaoyuan rolled his eyes in disdain.
[This has been the case throughout almost every dynasty throughout history. Under the guise of expanding the imperial family, thousands of young girls were selected to join the emperor's harem.]
[But in reality, how many of them actually gave birth to children? The vast majority simply waited to die in the palace, wasting their lives.]
[There were too many of them for the emperor to even see them all. Instead of that, they would rather form families with people of similar age and appearance.]
Xia Zhengqi listened secretly to his daughter's thoughts and nodded slightly in approval.
"Elections are held every three years, and thirty to fifty people are chosen each time! Do you think I'm a stud?"
Xia Zhengqi changed his usual polite tone and cursed sharply.
All the civil and military officials in the hall were stunned, and they looked at Xia Zhengqi in surprise.
The emperor’s scolding was so explicit!
Your Majesty speaks so vulgarly!
puff--
Some ministers couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Throughout the dynasties, there have been tens of thousands of women who were chosen to enter the palace, but they never gave birth to a prince for the emperor, and some even never saw the emperor in person." Xia Zhengqi looked dignified and his voice was sonorous and powerful.
"Wouldn't it be better if they didn't enter the palace and just got married and started a family?"
Censor Chen pursed his lips in dissatisfaction.
"Even if the emperor changed the system of selecting concubines every three years, he shouldn't have ordered the release of the imperial concubines and allowed the childless concubines to leave the palace."
"Our ancestors said that a good woman should not marry two husbands. Moreover, they are your wives, the Emperor."
"As long as they enter the harem and become your majesty's women, regardless of whether they give birth to children in the future, they are your majesty's women and cannot remarry for the rest of their lives."
"Otherwise, it would be a disgrace to the royal family and the whole of Daxia!"
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