Chapter 192
Xia Fuyang's memorial consisted of only two sentences.
After reading it, Qu Dubian's first reaction was to post this guy on the bulletin board in Beijing, and then he couldn't help laughing.
This guy, how could he be so childish.
Although some officials in the northern border have taken over the Protectorate, he, as the General Zhenbei, does not have to keep an eye on it all the time, but isn't it wrong for him to keep an eye on the little red flower?
However, this memorial of greeting has a clear purpose and concise content, and deserves reward.
He got out of bed, went to the desk behind the screen, picked up his pen and wrote on the inappropriate greetings, and replied: [Okay, Old Xia]
Qu Dubian took out a little red flower seal and stamped it on this sentence.
"Banban, return the memorial to him tomorrow, secretly."
It will be difficult to deal with if the leader uses backdoors and it is too blatant.
Ye Xiaoyuan couldn't help laughing: "Okay."
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Emperor Yonghe ascended the throne for one month.
After the memorial reform was completed, efficiency doubled, and business volume decreased, so the court system was changed to one court session every three days.
Another month later, the Great Zhou held its coronation ceremony at Ganji Palace.
Because of Qu Watanabe's strong request, the enthronement ceremony was kept as simple as possible, and the Ministry of Rites gladly accepted the order.
It can be seen from the reform of the memorial system that their Majesty is a person who hates useless and cumbersome procedures and pays attention to efficiency and practicality.
The court's working style will be influenced by the leader in power.
The coronation ceremony was the most economical and simple since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It took no more than half a day, and it was the ministers who were busy. His Majesty himself just changed his clothes, walked up the steps, and accepted the worship, and it took less than a quarter of an hour to appear on the stage.
The second night after the ceremony.
Qu Watanabe is taking a bath in the east warm room. He doesn't have to attend the morning court tomorrow, so he can take a more comfortable bath.
Washed halfway.
[Yu Ruo’s favorability +3]
[Yu Ruo's favorability +1]
【Total Favorability 54】
“…”
Qu Watanabe opened his eyes.
...No, man, what are you doing?
It's really confusing.
In the more than one year since he became blind and injured, Yu Ruo's favorability rating automatically increased, as if he were dead.
Of course, Qu Watanabe never intended to really raise Yu Ruo's favorability to 60. It was too difficult. They couldn't even meet each other, and they were enemies.
Now, just two days after his coronation ceremony, his favorability over there has automatically started to increase.
Qu Dubian pondered for a moment and looked through the time when Yu Ruo's favorability increased.
When he was a proton, he confronted him and the other party gained power.
When the Xiang River was under disaster relief, he made things difficult for him and the other side rose.
When Qingji was suppressing bandits, he chased him and the other side gained strength.
When the war broke out in the northern border, and he took charge of Zhongyi City, the enemy was still gaining strength.
The time points when the favorability increased basically occurred when people suffered a setback in Nanning.
Qu Dubian couldn't help but murmur.
Yu Ruo was so happy to see Nanning suffer a defeat, could he be a spy from the Great Zhou hidden in the Nanning royal family?
Otherwise, he would narcissistically suspect that this guy was his career fan.
The young emperor in the bathtub raised his hand to stir the water, and his wet black hair fell on the edge of the bathtub. A few disobedient strands of hair stuck to his neck, and occasionally, they would playfully stick to his chest under the water.
The air was filled with steam, and his cheeks were slightly red, with water droplets on his shoulders, neck, and forehead.
"My companion hasn't arrived yet?"
Ye Xiaoyuan went to mix the shampoo powder for him. He had been using the powder mixed by Ye Banban himself since he was a child, but it needed to be mixed on the spot, otherwise the medicinal materials would be wasted.
Eunuch Wang smiled and said, "Yes, we should wait for a while."
He is a newly promoted eunuch who has served many masters before and is very experienced. However, he is still in the probation period and it is not certain whether he can stay in the imperial court.
Qu Watanabe: "Then I'll come out first. I feel a little dizzy after soaking. I'll wash my hair later."
The medicinal bath this time was also the custom in previous years. Concubine Xuan wrote to remind him specifically that he should take a few baths before winter to get rid of the cold and avoid getting sick after winter.
"Bring me some cotton towels to wipe your body, and you can leave first."
Eunuch Wang responded, then clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Why don't you bring the cotton towel in?"
Squeak——
The door of the east warm room opened and then closed quickly.
A beautiful palace maid, holding a cotton towel, stopped beside the bathtub and said softly, "Your Majesty."
Qu Dubian frowned, thinking that Eunuch Wang might not know the rules, and did not say much.
He raised his hand, and his dripping fingertips just touched the cotton towel. The maid changed to one hand and the other hand fell on a corner of the cotton towel, "Your Majesty, let me help you."
The hand was slender, like a green onion, and had light red nails.
“…”
Qu Watanabe paused.
Eunuch Wang spoke up, and said ambiguously, "Your Majesty, this is the palace maid Yue'er, she is very good at massage. Can you ask her to clean your body and give you a massage?"
In one sentence, he spoke in many twists and turns, like an opera.
When he was transferred to the imperial court, he had inquired about it and found out that His Majesty had never had anyone close to him since he was a child.
If you have never tasted the pleasure of love, you naturally don't understand its benefits. Now the harem is empty, and your majesty's appearance and age have fascinated the new young palace maids in the palace. I wonder how many of them want to be the first woman to enter the harem.
That status must be special, right?
Yue'er handed over the money, and seeing that she was pretty and sensible, he went along with it.
When the matter is accomplished, His Majesty will be very pleased, and he can truly stay in the imperial presence.
Qu Dubian had a faint expression and took his hand back. The palace maid was delighted and Eunuch Wang also looked as if to say, "It's just as I expected."
He quickly raised his chin towards Yue'er, who shyly put the tray aside and approached with a cotton towel.
Unexpectedly, just as they got one step closer, they heard a slightly cold voice:
"go out."
The maid froze.
Eunuch Wang: "Your Majesty?"
Qu Dubian glanced over, and the coldness and barely detectable anger in his eyes made Eunuch Wang feel like he was falling into an icy cave. He couldn't help but shiver, "Your Majesty."
"Do you want me to say it a second time?"
This emperor, soon after he ascended the throne, made known to all the civil and military officials in the court and even all the officials in the capital that he was an emperor who did not like to repeat his words a second time.
Eunuch Wang was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed frantically: "I know I was wrong! I know I was wrong!"
The palace maid was so frightened that she knelt beside him, her soul almost gone.
Someone soon came in from outside and pulled them both out.
There is no one left in the East Warm Pavilion now.
Qu Dubian held his forehead and said, "No, at least leave someone behind. The bath towel is five meters away from him, how can he get it?"
When Ye Xiaoyuan came back, he saw Eunuch Wang and a palace maid he had never seen before kneeling at the door, trembling.
He immediately guessed something, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly inquired about what had happened before entering the East Warm Pavilion.
When Qu Dubian saw him coming, he changed his posture and said weakly, "Banban..."
I’m almost dizzy from soaking, let me fish it out.
Ye Xiaoyuan quickly brought him a long cotton towel. Qu Dubian wrapped it around himself, stepped out of the bathtub, and relieved the dizziness for a while.
The anti-cold medicine in the tub was very effective. Normally he would soak in it for half a quarter of an hour, or even longer than a quarter of an hour, and he would feel slightly dizzy. However, after soaking, apart from the simulation, he did suffer from fewer common colds and fevers.
"Don't let those two people outside kneel down. Go and find out what's going on."
Ye Xiaoyuan had already made it clear outside and said apologetically, "It's my fault for not choosing the right person. Wang looked like an honest man, but I didn't expect him to do this while I was away."
Qu Dubian: "This is the first time. If we don't handle it properly, there will be more in the future. Let's make an example of that maid, and send her out of the palace to be with my mother, and help out at Yangzhou Nursery Hall and Jishan Hall."
"That eunuch Wang did the same thing. He packed them up and threw them out, and told everyone that they had been thrown into a mass grave."
Ye Xiaoyuan: "Don't worry, I will take care of it. Such things will never happen again in Zichen Palace."
only……
Ye Xiaoyuan hesitated for two seconds and finally didn't say it.
Your Highness has ascended the throne and become His Majesty. If there is no one by his side, and the harem does not choose a queen or recruit new concubines, the court officials will not be happy.
Qu Dubian dried his body, washed his hair with the shampoo powder prepared by Ye Xiaoyuan, and wiped it half dry with a cotton towel. Half an hour had passed.
No wonder the day of rest in ancient times was called "rest day". The ancients all had long hair, and it would take them a whole day or half a day to wash their hair and take a bath after they finally got a rest.
When I left the East Warm Pavilion and went to the Zichen Palace, there was no one outside.
Before going to sleep, Qu Dubian opened his eyes.
"Six six?"
Yi Twelve appeared in the hall and hummed softly.
Qu Duanbian sat up from the bed instantly, "You're back," he waved his hand quickly, "Come here, Si... How is Xiao An now?"
It was still autumn when Yi Twelve saw the Fourth Prince off, but now it is winter.
"He's fine," Yi Twelve thought for a moment and added, "I don't even have nightmares when I see him sleeping at night. He's currently living in a small courtyard in the mountains west of Jeju, and he often goes out to fish and bask in the sun."
"I came back only after I saw that he was settled down safely."
Qu Watanabe: "That's good."
He imagined that kind of life.
Fourth brother should like it very much.
Only then did he put the matter on his mind to rest.
"Liuliu, thank you for your hard work."
Yi Twelve shook his head.
He squatted beside the bed, "Your Majesty."
This was the first time Yi Twelve called him Your Majesty, usually he was called Your Highness.
"you say."
"All the secret guards who followed the previous emperor have sealed themselves in the imperial mausoleum. In fact, they were going to leave one person for your majesty to continue training new secret guards, but because I am by your side, the leader of the secret guards did not keep anyone. Do you still want to continue training secret guards?"
Qu Watanabe: “No need.”
The dark web is enough.
He was very disgusted with the system of secret guards being buried alive with the dead. The people around Lao Deng had been brainwashed and he could not control them. So he decided to let the system of secret guards being buried alive end in his generation.
Yi Twelve nodded, "But we still need to train a few with good skills."
Qu Watanabe: "Just do it yourself."
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Another period of calm days passed.
The news that a palace maid secretly bribed the eunuch who served in front of the emperor in order to get close to His Majesty was instead sent out of the palace. The eunuch who accepted the bribe was also thrown into a mass grave spread from the palace and reached the ears of court officials.
Many officials suddenly realized.
Yes, Your Majesty is eighteen years old, almost nineteen, how come you don’t even have a concubine at this age? !
then.
I went to court one day a few years ago.
I don't know which minister stepped forward first and gently said, "Your Majesty, the New Year's Day is just over a month away. Do you think we can start the selection after the New Year?"
The Great Zhou had its own formal selection process, and all it needed was the emperor’s nod for things to start working.
There are also more direct ones: "Your Majesty, the harem cannot be without a master. You need to appoint a queen early to manage the affairs of the harem. It is also the emperor's responsibility to expand the royal family."
The three regent ministers Fang Hechuan, Lin Zongping and Xi Shiqiu thought this was a good thing.
Fang Hechuan, in particular, thought happily that with his current body he would probably still have another eight or nine years to live, so he could help His Majesty take care of the children.
Lin Zongping: "That's true. It would be good for the country if Your Majesty gave birth to a child as soon as possible. Queen Dowager Xuan is still in Yangzhou. If Your Majesty wants to choose a concubine, you have to invite Queen Dowager Xuan back and choose together with Queen Dowager An."
Xia Fuyang stood below, not making any comment on the court officials' suggestions. He found it hard to imagine Xiao Qi having a partner standing next to him.
Only Xi Zixing, when he went out to play with Qu Dubian, understood his attitude of living a carefree life.
Can you still be willful as an emperor?
He raised his head and looked at the person on the dragon throne.
Qu Watanabe felt overwhelmed.
It seems that what is happening below is not a meeting of court officials, but a large-scale marriage-urging scene in Ganji Palace.
Although he had expected this day to come, he still sighed when it finally came.
After the battle in the northern border, he had not done much simulation in the past two years, and now the life value he had saved was less than ten years.
It's time to get the simulator working, it can always provide some temporary relief.
However, he still had to find a way to solve the problem once and for all.
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