The girls from the Gu family formed a group to stand up for Princess Ruyang and won the approval of the empress.
She asked Ru Yang to hold a banquet in the palace and treat the girl from the Gu family alone as a thank you.
Ru Yang readily agreed.
The girls of the Gu family were surprised and excited when they received the invitation.
Gu Rui's wife, Mrs. Zhou, brought the children back to the capital from the northwest at the end of last year because their children had reached the age of marriage.
She was happy for the children when they received invitations to enter the palace.
At the same time, there are still some worries in my heart.
She found Pei Man.
"I'm not familiar with the empress, so I want to ask my younger siblings what taboos the empress has? I'm worried that if the children enter the palace, they will say wrong things and do wrong things, and the empress will be displeased."
Pei Man told her, "If you want to say what taboo the Empress has, if you don't like crying little girls, count it in!"
"So, the empress likes girls who are bright and cheerful."
"Exactly! The empress said before that although girls are naturally weak, it doesn't mean that they have to cry at any time and on any occasion. If you cry too much, you look miserable!"
Mrs. Zhou nodded, "It's inevitable for a little girl to cry a lot when things go wrong. But she can't cry all the time. If she cries a lot, it's really annoying."
With a reminder, Zhou's heart has confidence.
She told the girls in the Hou Mansion that they must abide by the rules when they enter the palace to meet the empress, don't talk nonsense, and don't be smart and make up their own minds.
All the palace people in the palace are well-trained, and there is only the empress in the harem, so there is no need to worry about who the palace people are partial to or plotting against.
Do everything according to the rules. Although it is not brilliant, it will definitely not go wrong.
On the day of the banquet, the girls of the Gu family dressed up and headed to the palace in a carriage.
Ru Yang came forward to receive him.
The queen was not here, and the girls breathed a sigh of relief.
They are about the same size as Ru Yang, and they are quite comfortable getting along with each other.
The imperial garden was chattering, full of girls talking and laughing.
Gu Jiu didn't appear in the imperial garden until halfway through the banquet.
"See empress empress, my empress is blessed and safe."
"Excuse me! Everyone raise their heads and let Bengong take a look."
The Gu family is also a big family.
The Hou family, the uncle's family, the Gu family, and the Taiping uncle's family...
There are so many girls from the mansion together, counting, there are twenty or thirty people.
If all the girls under the age of ten were present, there would probably be forty or fifty people.
Some girls look familiar, maybe they have been to the palace with the elders in the family before.
Some girls looked obviously unfamiliar, and guessed it was their first time entering the palace.
"I can't recognize who belongs to which family, so let me introduce myself."
In the process of self-introduction, you can generally see whether the girls can behave generously and decently in front of others.
Such occasions naturally start with the girls from Taiping Mansion.
They are the closest in blood to the empress.
The two girls from Taipingbo's Mansion have often entered the palace before.
Dafangfang made a self-introduction and performed very well.
Gu Jiu agreed with a smile.
The girls in the back, some are outstanding, and some are not.
A few concubine girls may be too nervous, too nervous to speak a complete sentence. Because of his poor performance, he even cried on the spot.
There are also pinches that are stronger.
The little girl's carelessness was almost written on her face, and in Gu Jiu's eyes there was nothing to hide.
In the Gu family, the manners and upbringing of the girls are generally good.
Individuals who are wild in nature may need to calm down and calm down.
There can be no second Gu Yue in the Gu family.
After reading the self-introductions of the girls, Gu Jiu said: "Everything is good! Eat and drink well today, don't be restrained! I'm here, you are not at ease. I will not delay your eating, drinking and having fun."
After speaking, she got up and left.
"Congratulations to the empress!"
…
At lunch time, Liu Zhao went to Chang'an Palace to eat.
He was quite curious, "You summoned the girl from the Gu family to the palace, did you mean to protect the matchmaker?"
Gu Jiu chuckled, "I'm not interested in protecting the media. I've said that this banquet is to thank them for their righteous words and stand up for Ru Yang. It's also an external statement. Apart from Bengong, I can criticize her. I will not be polite to anyone who dares to criticize Ru Yang."
"Protect the calf!" Liu Zhao looked happy!
Gu Jiu said, "I learned it all from you."
Liu Zhao said with a smile: "A group of little girls, it is inconvenient for me to come forward. You are the queen, it is appropriate for you to come forward. Ru Yang has only been away from Beijing for a few years, and a group of little girls with bad mouths have forgotten Ru Yang's achievements in the past. You angered Ruyang, be careful that Ruyang whips people again in a fit of anger."
Speaking of those years, Ru Yang was also well-known.
He whipped people more than once, and even whipped the elder Princess Anyang, which caused an uproar in the court.
When Ru Yang left the capital, these little girls didn't have a long memory, so they made up gossip about her at the banquet.
Ru Yang just told them to get out, which is considered polite.
Liu Zhao asked again: "You summoned these little girls to the palace, do you really have no intention of being a matchmaker?"
"Which way do you see that I plan to be a matchmaker?"
"This is not in line with your usual style! Even if you want to thank these little girls for speaking up for Ru Yang, you can definitely let Ru Yang hold a banquet at the princess mansion, there is no need to summon him to the palace."
Gu Jiu coughed lightly, "Brother San Yun, seems to have taken a fancy to a girl from the Gu family?"
"Really? Why didn't I hear any rumors, which girl did he fancy?"
"I'm not sure which one he's looking for."
Gu Jiu was very worried.
Liu Zhao was suspicious, "You don't seem to want the youngest to marry a girl from the Gu family?"
What can Gu Jiu say
You can't tell Liu Zhao directly that children born from close relatives have a high chance of becoming mentally handicapped.
She was going to say it, and there would be a hundred, ten thousand whys immediately after.
Gu Jiu didn't want to answer so many why.
If Liu Yun was looking for a girl from the Hou family, there would be no problem in terms of blood relationship.
She was most afraid that he would take a liking to the eldest brother Gu Ting's child.
The blood relationship is too close, absolutely not!
Oppose whatever you say.
Gu Jiu shook her head, and said to Liu Zhao: "It's not that I disagree with him marrying a girl from the Gu family, but the premise is that it depends on whose child he is looking for."
"My eldest brother's daughter is a good match for the third child in terms of age."
Gu Jiu shook his head, "Brother's child can't do it."
Anyone is fine, except that it cannot be the eldest brother Gu Ting's child.
"You really don't want to be in-laws with your uncle?"
"Yes, I don't want to at all." Gu Jiu said loudly.
Liu Zhao nodded with a clear expression, "I understand."
What do you understand
"My uncle is already a relative, and he has made great military exploits. Some people still say sour words, saying that everything he got today is due to the glory of his relatives. If the third brother marries his daughter, it is tantamount to sitting back and watching the rumors of his glory. .It may not be a good thing for the uncle and his child's future."
Liu Zhao analyzed it with reason and evidence, as if he really grasped the truth.
Gu Jiu smiled without saying a word.
She doesn't explain either.
This is a legitimate misunderstanding.
Liu Zhao said again: "It's not convenient for you to come out and talk to the third child, I'll come and talk to him. Brat, you have already fallen in love with another girl without saying a word."
He is a man of action, and he does what he says.
Immediately ordered someone to call Liu Yun into the palace to have a profound conversation between father and son.
Gu Jiu didn't stop him, he was willing to worry about it, so he let him go.
…
The palace banquet ended without causing any waves, and soon everyone forgot about it.
Princess Ruyang is in a hurry to go to sea and wants to hold the wedding soon.
Someone wrote an article to ridicule in the newspaper, saying that the emperor's daughter was also worried about getting married.
Suddenly covered all the limelight.
The person who wrote the article came from a remote area. When he first came to the capital to settle down, he was urged to write a signed article by someone with a heart, and it was even published.
Obviously he was being used.
But he himself didn't understand the situation, so he rashly came out and commented on the members of the royal family. He was a hot-blooded person who was easy to be incited by others, had no firm stand, and was eager for fame and fortune.
The article in the newspaper was seen by Emperor Liu Zhao.
furious!
The little girls commented on Ru Yang, and it was inconvenient for him to express his opinion.
But a scholar, hehe, dares to comment on my daughter, saying that the emperor's daughter is also worried about getting married, and even published it in newspapers, making Ru Yang a laughing stock. This matter must not be tolerated.
The newspaper department dispatched and first closed the newspaper office.
When will it be unblocked
It depends on the attitude of the palace.
Immediately afterwards, the Jinwu Guards dispatched and arrested the scholars who wrote the articles.
After interrogation, a series of people were drawn out, even high-ranking officials were involved.
This is very bad!
Liu Zhao lost his temper in front of the courtiers in the early court, "You think I'm a foolish emperor, and you can't do anything to me in the court, so you use my daughter to openly ruin her reputation. Do you think I can't find out? Let me tell you, no matter who is involved, one counts as the other, and I will never tolerate it. If you dare to touch my daughter, I will let him see the blood."
It's not just about an article.
The person involved behind this is obviously using Ru Yang to test the attitude of the palace.
As long as the emperor Liu Zhao is weaker, this group of people will make a fuss about the prince and provoke the prince to fight.
The ultimate goal is to set off a new battle for succession.
Only when there is a fight, can there be a chance to benefit from the water, and only then can the interests be redistributed.
In the royal family, the harmony among the three princes is obviously not in the interests of the wealthy family, nor in the interests of the courtiers.
Only when the princes fight together can they show their abilities.
They are all masters in conspiring to seize the heir apparent, as long as they find the weak point in the palace, a new battle will start.
Ruyang is the foreshadowing of this battle.
Unexpectedly, Emperor Liu Zhao reacted so strongly to just a teasing article.
The news agency's move was nothing.
The Jinwu Guards actually dispatched and arrested people.
It's a big deal.
"I just want to make a fuss out of a molehill! If you call me a fool, if I don't do a few things that a fool does, wouldn't I be sorry for the title of a fool. I warn you, whoever dares to touch my children and hit the prince and princess with ideas, I Kill his whole family."
One counts as one, and everyone who is involved in it must hold tight to the Jinwu Guard.
They should be exiled, or they should be dragged outside the city to work hard to dig ditches.
The population of Beijing is increasing day by day, and the drainage pressure is becoming more and more serious.
The construction of underground flood drainage ditches and drainage ditches must keep up with and be updated.
This is a huge project and requires a lot of coolies.
Recently, the prisons of the Jinwu Guard have all been emptied.
All the people inside the gate were pulled out to work as coolies.
Whether it is a high-ranking official, a nobleman, or a woman or a woman, as long as they enter the Jinwu Guard, they cannot escape the fate of digging ditches.
Before the summer flood season came, ditches of more than 100 miles had to be dug and paved with stone bricks and slabs.
A huge project requires a lot of manpower.
If the construction period cannot be completed on time, in the summer flood season, the inside and outside of the city will be flooded with a foot of water.
Fortunately, the roads in the capital have been changed to cement roads.
I think back when the capital was paved with yellow mud, when the flood season came, the city was full of mud.
Forget about that scene!
You have to buy three or five more pairs of straw sandals to change them.
When Emperor Liu Zhao got angry, the officialdom would tremble.
People got caught.
Some careerists hiding behind the scenes also temporarily stopped.
"It seems that His Majesty is determined to maintain King Qi's orthodoxy."
"But His Majesty did not make King Qi the heir apparent!"
"It doesn't matter whether or not the crown prince is established. I recently got a piece of news that the late emperor made a decree before his death. The content of the decree is to establish His Royal Highness, the eldest prince, King Qi, as the grandson of the emperor?"
"Really? Where did the news come from? Is it reliable?"
"The news came from the palace."
"News from the palace? Could it be that His Majesty deliberately released the news, just to confuse everyone?"
"possible!"
"Then do you think the will of establishing the emperor's grandson is true?"
"It doesn't matter if it's true or not! The Chuan Guo Yuxi has been passed down for so many years and is said to be fake, but has it had any influence? Regardless of whether it is true or not, the Chuan Guo Yuxi is the Chuan Guo Yuxi. Who dares to stand up and say that the Chuan Guo Yuxi is fake? No People dare! No one openly questioned, he is real."
"You mean, whether the rumors about the emperor's grandson are true or not, it represents His Majesty's attitude. He favors King Qi, and he does not allow anyone to attack His Highness Qi King out of nothing."
"Exactly!"
"What should I do?"
"It's time for His Royal Highness King Qi to return to the capital! As long as he returns to the capital, there is no need to worry about not being able to catch him. With so many people around him, there will always be someone with a weakness."