When the concubine realized that her love for the queen mother was hopeless, she sadly came to another place and looked from a distance. She saw that the beautiful ladies were already having sex with each other in full swing and were dressed in extremely ugly clothes.
The concubines saw it with disdain. People of low status were so miserable. They refused the clothes issued by the palace bureau and dressed up separately.
Just the thought of having to farm the same way makes me feel ashamed.
Under the guidance of Eunuch Oden, they stood on the ground and watched, refusing to get off the ground. Later, they couldn't get off the ground, so they forced themselves to do it.
The delicate embroidered shoes became dirty after stepping on the mud, and even the clothes were stained, making me feel disgusted.
A concubine tried to pick up the hoe, but unexpectedly she lifted it a little. When she went down to hoe, she only lightly touched the ground.
Another concubine couldn't help but laugh, and also held up a hoe to demonstrate. Unexpectedly, when she lifted it with all her strength, she accidentally dropped her hand and hit her own foot.
Another concubine saw an earthworm squirming out of the soft soil and screamed in fright, shocking all the concubines.
The crowd dispersed in a panic, and each hid in panic. Some of them bumped into each other, fell to the ground, and were covered in mud.
The situation on the concubine's side was full of troubles from the very beginning.
The show girls also encounter these problems, but the difference is that they have pear flowers to take them with them.
Whenever something happens, the show girls subconsciously watch what Lihua will do.
After listening to eunuch Oden's instructions, Lihua tried a shovel and a hoe, and then suggested that the show girl use the shovel, step on the shovel ear with her feet, put her whole body weight on it, and then pry it up. It would be much easier, and the show girl could not move the hoe.
Pear Blossom wrapped a handkerchief around her hands and turned on the floor, and other beautiful ladies followed suit.
When he saw an insect, he would beat the pear blossoms to death with a shovel without changing their color. When he saw an earthworm, he would explain that earthworms can be used as medicinal materials, and they can also make the land loose and fertile, and they are beneficial insects.
Others seemed less scary and calmer.
Under the leadership of Lihua, the beautiful ladies became more and more successful.
This day was spent in chaos and dire straits.
When they returned home in the evening, the concubines were paralyzed from exhaustion. Many of them had skinned hands and screamed in pain while wiping their tears. They were sent to the imperial doctor.
The situation of the show girls was much better. They were fully equipped and the method taught by Lihua was much easier. Their hands were wrapped in silk and the skin was not broken. They were just a little red, but they were still very tired.
The Queen Mother couldn't bear to hear this and ordered people to send ointments to each palace to appease her. She thought about talking to the Emperor in a few days. The concubines all understood the suffering of the people and were very understanding.
The Queen Mother actually had no objection to this matter.
On February 2 every year, it has always been the practice for the emperor to lead hundreds of officials to personally cultivate the land, in order to show respect for farmers and respect for ancestors, and to repay the original and turn against the original.
In addition, starting from Emperor Wu Chiyou of this dynasty, every prince had to go to Yufeng Garden to farm when he was old enough to receive teachings on farming, understand where the food came from, and understand the sufferings of the people.
People all over the world rejoiced for this and praised it profusely.
Even the emperor worked the land himself, how could the concubines and beautiful ladies be more noble than the emperor? So it’s not a big deal.
The Queen Mother can understand the emperor's intention. There is no harm in this move. The royal family should set an example for the world.
It's just that the incident was too sudden, and the target was a group of weak concubines and beautiful girls. How could they bear it?
It is said that men farm and women weave. Men work in the fields and women collect mulberry, raise silkworms and weave cloth.
When the Queen Mother was still a queen, she personally led her concubines and wives to the mulberry fields to collect leaves and feed silkworms, as a ceremony to kiss the silkworms. This was more of a symbolic meaning.
There is no such thing as now. If a group of concubines who know nothing are allowed to work hard to cultivate the land, what kind of things can be grown.
What happened in the harem was not deliberately concealed, and soon spread outside the palace.
In the previous dynasty, after the Minister of Rites heard the news, he went to the palace to ask for an audience with the emperor. The election rules were changed. Wasn't it a bit hasty?
Yuchi Gong sent him back with one sentence: "Farming is the foundation of the world, and there is no great service. In the past, Queen Shengde grew melons and fruits and eventually compiled the "Agricultural Planting Method". Beautiful girls only cultivate fur, what's wrong with it?"
The Minister of Rites did not dare to say anything more.
The Queen Mother was not so lucky. One after another, her concubines came to the palace to ask for an audience. They were like leeks, trying to test the meaning behind their words.
If I have a daughter who is waiting to enter the palace in the future, I will try to see if I will be able to farm in the future.
The Queen Mother always followed the emperor's decree, and only said that the concubines should remember the ancestral precepts, take the Queen Shengde as a model, understand the hardships of the people, and know that a porridge and a meal should be remembered where they came from. Half a thread, half a thread, always think about material resources.
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Be quiet to cultivate your character, be frugal to cultivate your virtue, and do not be arrogant and extravagant. The same is true for the royal family.
She dismissed the people as if she were doing Tai Chi. Later, the Queen Mother met a few more married women, and pushed away the rest.
The Queen Mother saw her husband and took her children to the farm the next day.
The royal family has personally set an example, and the signal sent out is incredible. How dare they not follow up? Even the election rules have been changed, which shows how determined they are.
The married woman who was not summoned went out to inquire about it, and she also took her children to the village to work on the farm. They did not dare to go back until the concubines in the palace stopped farming.
The capital quickly set off a craze for farming with the families of princes, nine ministers, hundreds of officials and their families. Especially as the situation in the court developed, even disdainful people joined in and kept a low profile with their tails between their legs.
Later, some families wanted to send their daughters to the palace to participate in the next draft. "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" and farming were talents that needed to be cultivated, which tortured many ladies.
But none of them were used. This was Yuchi Gong's first draft after he came to the throne, and it was also his last.
Two days later, when the Queen Mother saw that the battle was getting bigger and bigger and wanted to discuss it with the emperor, a major event happened in the court, which made the Queen Mother immediately give up the idea.
A concubine asked the palace maid to go to Zhuangning Palace to report her illness in order to escape the disaster.
Normally the Queen Mother would just turn a blind eye and get over it, but this time she sent an imperial doctor to go and found out that the concubine was pretending to be ill.
The Queen Mother sighed: "Since you are sick, you can't let people go out to catch the wind, so just stay in the palace and recuperate."
The concubine was grounded with just one sentence, and she didn't even say when she would be lifted.
The concubine did not expect that the Queen Mother would react so strongly. She regretted it so much that she took off her hairpin and knelt down to apologize, but it did not help.
When the other concubines saw this, they remembered that when the Queen Mother was young, she had been sitting firmly in the back position in the complicated harem. She had seen all kinds of people, but now she was just lenient and kind after years of accumulation.
They no longer dare to go to Zhuangning Palace to complain about the hardships of farming.
Someone heard some rumors from the previous court and speculated that the Queen Mother was strictly controlling the harem because of this matter, so they acted more honestly and did not dare to cause trouble in this joint.
The major events in the previous dynasty were caused by something going wrong on the Arsenal side.
The reason was that the cook who was responsible for cooking made a fuss about going out, saying that his old mother was seriously ill before he came in, and he wanted to go out for a visit and bring money to treat the old mother's illness.
In order to earn more money to treat his old mother, he agreed to this job. He didn't expect that he could only enter and not get out, and he would be locked up for so long.
Preview: Rika will probably find out the identity of the emperor tomorrow