When envoys come to court, whether the emperor and officials are busy or not, others don't know what they are thinking. Anyway, the common people are very happy and lively. If you ask them why they are so excited, no one can tell why.
In a word, I want to watch the excitement. I heard that the prince and princess from the Yan Kingdom are here this time, and I don't know what kind of battle it will be.
It is the nature of this person that once the life is getting more ordinary, and then something happens, he is eager to join in the fun.
Not surprising.
No, since the red list notice was posted and this matter was confirmed, the people in the capital gradually knew about it.
Then, from the beginning of July, there was a commotion in the streets.
It is similar to the kind of prosperity brought about by various festivals. There are a lot of food stalls outside, and the clothes and jewelry shops are changing one after another. The jugglers on the street, the dragon and lion dancers, and the stage singers all come out, twice a day, in the morning. One game one afternoon.
Gu Qingci felt that it was rare, and went out twice, and found it very interesting.
Turning around, I asked Mother Zhang if the west side of the city was the busiest place.
After all, Nanny Zhang has been eating rice for more than ten years, she is a servant, she is no more disciplined than the girls and cannot go out casually, she knows more.
So he laughed and said: "The east of the city is also lively. It is said that the peddlers from the west brought a lot of good things and replenished a lot of goods. Before I passed by the teahouse, it was full of people, and the storytellers all told the story of the Yan Kingdom. I guess I want to take advantage of this time to make more money."
If you want to know that the kingdom of Yan is coming to the DPRK, why not bring many people? I also heard that they also have a Cuju team composed of noble girls led by a princess. They are all rich people, and they don't kill for nothing.
It turns out that the Cuju show in the capital has been on the decline for many years, and no one plays it.
But ever since they knew that Princess Yan was going to compete with them, and then thought about the women's Cuju event headed by Princess Kangtai, many people gradually realized that it was the meaning of the superiors.
For a while, the wives of many honorable officials couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Why didn't they figure out the holy will earlier, but let the group of more than a dozen girls seize the opportunity, and entered the eyes of the emperor and queen, and relieved the emperor's urgent need. It won't let the face of Daye Dynasty be thrown outside.
People from other countries invite you to compete, but you can’t get out here alone, but when you think about it, you feel embarrassed and lose face. In the end, people may say, isn’t Cuju the first thing you played in the Central Plains? Why can’t you do it yourself now? Well, do those mean...
What does it mean? I don’t think about it later. In short, at least there is a Cuju team in Daye now.
The emperor now looks at Princess Kangtai and Gu Qingci and the dozen or so of them, and thinks that these girls are lively and cute, um, they are better than those sick people who moan without illness.
As soon as the emperor's vision changed, so did his taste. In recent days, all the beauties whom he favored in the harem have become lively and cheerful beauties.
No one in the harem is a human being. With the change of the emperor, the concubines also changed. Now people don't recite poems and paint pictures. They miss home when facing the moon and chant flowers when facing the tree.
All of them put on lively and playful clothes, play cuju today and play polo the day after tomorrow.
In short, the demure and weak women who were as beautiful as bright flowers shining in the water before have changed their appearance unconsciously.
Not to mention, after the lack of a group of concubines who were always crying and weeping, the emperor came to the harem for more days. He felt that the weather was good and his mood improved.
The words and deeds or preferences of the emperor have always been able to affect the ministers and then expand to the capital.
Otherwise, the joke that "the king of Chu is so thin and the harem starved to death" would not have been passed down.
There are those rigid and old-fashioned people who insist on following the "ancient ritual" that the screwdriver has been handed down from generation to generation.
Men teach their wives to abide by the three principles, the four virtues, the three cardinal principles and the five constant principles, and they are not allowed to go out of line. The husband and wife educate their daughters and say things like "a woman who has no talent is virtue" and "a woman should be virtuous and quiet".
These rules and regulations only make women concentrate on serving their parents-in-law, husband and children, and raise them into a marionette, which can be moved as you want. When the daughter grows up and gets married in the future, she will hand over the end of the string to her husband, and the daughter will continue to be controlled by someone else. Day after day, year after year, the girl's life will probably be under the control of others. Next, no thoughts of my own.
At night, when the two talked about this, Li Cheng hugged Gu Qingci and told her these principles, teaching her how to be a human being with self-respect and not to be ruled by others.
Gu Qingci is a person who can't bear to be wronged. He heard that he became angry at first, and said that this is not the case. Most people are fine, but there are always those who don't know how to adapt to their daughters. A girl who can read poetry does not practice virtue.
"I was in the way of many wives before, and I didn't let their girls play with me." Gu Qingci said with a snort.
The overall social environment is like this. It seems that the Gu family has been regarded as a rare family that does not restrain children. In this way, Gu Qingci grew up in the inner courtyard of the Guan for the first ten years, and there are very few opportunities to go out with his mother. A trip to the door.
"Now it's a good thing." Li Cheng smiled.
The reason why Cuju gradually fell into the aristocratic circle was because of the influence of those who advocated the old rules.
Not to mention women, even men who played Cuju felt inappropriate, thinking how could a son of a family do such a disgraceful thing.
One by one, and more people pointing and accusing, these things gradually no one plays.
Up to now, most of the sons and young masters of noble marquis families are more delicate than girls, and they wear powder on their faces and take off their clothes and gowns.
In the past two years, Guai Dao has become more and more disrespectful to each other among literati and military generals.
Ridiculous at meeting.
The literati opened their mouths with the famous phrase of insufficiency and strategy, or they said that people have simple minds and well-developed limbs, and military commanders are not fuel-efficient lights.
Don't look at Gu Qingci, the princess of Kangtai, and the others who play cuju every day, but there are actually quite a few people who gossip secretly.
It is crazy to say they are crazy or stupid. If a delicate girl is not kept in the house properly, she will be dirty and sweaty, and she will be kicked for people to see afterward.
However, once in front of the princess, there was another rhetoric, praising the heroine of Princess Kangtai, her heroic appearance and so on.
It wasn't until the last rehearsal on the outskirts of Beijing that the emperor suddenly appeared, and it was the first time that people could clearly see the emperor's attitude. In front of so many people, the emperor praised the group of girls and gave them rewards.
Only now did many people feel sour from the bottom of their hearts.
But at the same time, he hugged his daughter and comforted himself secretly, they are just a bunch of rude girls, what's the use of praise from the Holy One, no man likes such a flirtatious and unruly girl.
It's just a self-comfort, which can make my heart feel better.
As for whether it's because men only like the demure, gentle, delicate and frail ones, I'm afraid no man dares to represent it.
Well, the heart of a man is also a needle in the sea.
However, after Cuju became popular, there are actually many subtle changes.
Take Fengtai Academy as an example, a gentleman has six arts, rites, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics. There is a saying in "Zhou Li·Bao Shi" that raising a country's son to teach Tao is the six arts. Naturally, which of these six arts Neither can fall.
Generally speaking, the two disciplines of archery are regarded as a way to strengthen the body. After all, students study all year round. If they don't pay attention to their own exercise, they will have a weak body, and they may not be able to survive in the examination room afterwards.
After all, this is an era when a single wind and cold can kill a person.
For the two courses of shooting and imperial education, those students from good families have been exposed to them since they were young, and they are not unfamiliar with them.
It is more relaxed during class, and it is over when the students are laughing and chatting.
And just a month ago, the master who taught riding and shooting suddenly added a class of Cuju to the students.
Men are better at Cuju than women, and they are no strangers to it, and some of them have even played it before.
After all, they have advantages in nature and physical fitness, coupled with the current limelight, I heard that many girls in Beijing are playing this game, oh hey, it is the young Mu Ai's boys who are not married yet, and many of them are ready to move. I find it novel, how can such a delicate and soft girl play this game? At the same time, he thought that they knew how to play. As a man, he must not lose his position. In case the woman I want to marry in the future is a woman who can play Cuju, on the other hand, I don’t know how to do anything. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing to throw home.
Thinking a little further, these young students are more interested in Cuju.
Therefore, this campaign did not arouse any bad opposition in the academy, and it was carried out normally.
Naturally, Li Cheng also joined. In his previous life, he played football from middle school to college, and he was no stranger to football, so in the eyes of others, he got started very quickly.
Many students are scolding their mothers in their hearts, feeling jealous and sad, thinking angrily what is going on with this one, it’s okay for you to be a dark horse that rushes out quietly in school, why can you pull it out in Cuju? Take the lead!
However, the time passed without resentment.
On this day, the prince of Yan Kingdom, who had been waiting for a long time, together with the princess, brought a few envoys, and led a mighty carload of tributes, as well as 3,000 people, to the capital.
Of course, the three thousand elite soldiers did not enter the city, and were allowed to stay outside the city to settle down.
Prince Yan and Princess Yan can only bring two hundred soldiers by their side, the rules are like this, and no one talks about it.
The minister of Honglu Temple received this group of people from Yan Kingdom, and after paying respects to each other, he immediately led the group to live in the Sifang Pavilion.
The people from Yan Kingdom came all the way, and saw that the capital of Daye was very lively, whether it was a wine house or a teahouse, or a large stall outside, it was all bustling and bustling, people's voices were endless, and there was an endless stream of cars and horses around.
Many people stood on both sides of the road and looked at them, as if they were comparing the difference between the people from the outer dynasty and the people from this dynasty.
In short, looking up, it is a scene of prosperity, this is what King Yan thought in his heart.
As for the princess, she only had a high face, and she didn't care about the look outside.
She spent a year in Daye when she was young, but now that the Yan Kingdom is strong and strong, she will feel proud when she comes here again. Afterwards, she will bring her own people to fight with the noble girls of Daye, and she is afraid that she will be able to get better. As soon as she fell in the face of Emperor Daye, she praised her Yan Kingdom's national prestige.