Some people always say that women in the palace are pitiful.
In fact, this is what modern people think in their own imagination. They think that a woman who enters the palace will have to stay there for the rest of her life and will have no freedom.
But you must know that the status of women in ancient times was low. Even if they were not in the palace, as long as they were married, they had to stay at home to support their husbands and raise their children.
Under normal circumstances, you are not allowed to leave the house. If you are beautiful, you will be coveted by various men.
Even if you have a husband who can go out with you, modern entertainment facilities are so scarce. Besides taking a walk and buying some things, what else can you do?
Instead of doing this, wouldn't it be better to stay in the palace and enjoy the supreme status and security? You can have whatever you want, and everything is the best.
Besides, if there is really any luxury entertainment, wouldn’t the emperor move it to the palace? Is there no entertainment facilities in the palace?
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to go shopping in the palace, so he moved the entire street directly to the palace for him to wander around and buy and enjoy the market.
If you want to watch a play or listen to music, you can invite the most popular theater performers to perform in the palace with just a few words.
If you want to eat exotic animals or rare fruits and seafood, just one sentence can bring whatever you want to eat to your table as quickly as possible.
Riding on the red dust concubine laughed, no one knew it was lychee.
That's what it means.
This is imperial power, the supreme imperial power!
When you enter the palace, no one in the world will dare to look at you seriously except to please the emperor.
Even high-ranking officials must lower their eyebrows and speak respectfully when they see you.
In ancient times, how could a woman have such power, unless you were the emperor's woman?
If you really enter the palace, your life will be miserable, then why are so many ancient women trying to get into the palace?
Therefore, modern people’s thinking cannot be used to determine the thoughts and situations of ancient people at that time.
At least Jiang Siming's beloved concubines were having so much fun living there.
As long as you are not busy scheming with other concubines every day and thinking of all kinds of bad tricks to seduce the emperor's favor, you will be very happy there.
Those so-called palace battle dramas are just to deceive the audience's attention and ratings.
As long as there is a queen who can take care of things, how can the concubines dare to make mistakes?
Not to mention Jiang Siming's harem, Diao Chan, Xiao Qiao and the others are closer than their own sisters, so there is no talk of palace fighting.
The thing they fight most is probably playing chess...
In the blink of an eye, the Ming Dynasty ushered in its second Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival has been around since the Han Dynasty, in order to make the Ming Dynasty have more holidays.
Jiang Siming moved the Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Labor Day, Children's Day, Women's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Lantern Festival, etc. to Daming.
These festivals have become legal holidays in the Ming Dynasty.
Although these stanzas have many meanings and origins, no one will know unless Jiang Siming tells them.
Besides, Jiang Siming did this to give the people a few more holidays to rest, so everyone naturally raised their hands to welcome him.
This second Spring Festival of the Ming Dynasty is celebrated more lively in various places than last year.
The streets are more prosperous, and the people have more food for winter and festivals.
Last year, what people ate during the Chinese New Year was only pasta, potatoes, corn and the like, and there was generally a little less meat.
But this year, chicken, duck, and fish are already on the table for every household, even though they cannot afford it every day.
But eating it once during the festival is completely affordable for ordinary people's pockets.
There are fewer beggars in various parts of Ming Dynasty every year, and the laughter in the streets is getting louder every year.
This all means that the Ming Dynasty's national power has become increasingly prosperous.
In the Forbidden City, everyone is also celebrating the Spring Festival with joy.
Although Jiang Siming felt that celebrating the ancient Spring Festival in a dungeon was quite unaccustomed, he did not want to ruin the festive atmosphere where everyone was enjoying themselves.
And as an emperor, he had to celebrate the Spring Festival with all the officials.
But Jiang Siming also wanted to spend time with his beloved concubines, so he decided to spend time with his courtiers at noon and his concubines at night.
At noon during the Spring Festival, all civil and military officials from all over the country gathered together in Tongque Taichung.
Everyone's faces were filled with happy smiles, they greeted each other and exchanged glasses.
Sitting down, a troupe of singers were dancing, and musicians were playing the piano to add to the fun.
Jiang Siming sat in the middle, smiling as he watched the civil servants chatting and the generals drinking and boxing.
This feeling is really good.
If he had not come to this dungeon, the great men of this world would still be in turmoil, with wars raging everywhere.
The confidants like Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, Guo Jia, etc. also met a tragic end.
How can it be like now, where everyone is in a high position, has a wife and children, and the family is prosperous.
In the original Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were both beheaded, Huang Zhong died in battle, Guo Jia died of illness, Xun Yu was sentenced to death, etc.
Almost every famous general and celebrity did not end well in the end.
And now this scene and result are exactly what all fans of the Three Kingdoms want to understand.
"Yide, Shiyuan." Jiang Siming said lightly, causing all the officials present to stop their fun.
Jiang Siming couldn't laugh or cry. He didn't want to give orders, so why were he so afraid of him?
"Yide, Shiyuan, I see you two haven't put down your wine glasses since you sat down. Give me more food."
After Jiang Siming finished speaking, all the ministers breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the emperor was angry.
After hearing this, the two drunken ministers smiled naively, put down their glasses honestly, and started using their chopsticks.
"Chen Lin." Jiang Siming shouted.
Chen Lin stood up immediately: "I'm here."
"Your good literary talent cannot be wasted at this time. I want you to write a poem to add color to the banquet." Jiang Siming said with a smile.
It's a festival, so let's put down our baggage and work, have a good rest, and chat about family matters.
"Han Sheng, I heard that your son asked for a wife a while ago? Can you rest assured now?"
Huang Zhong stood up, with an expression of relief for his son on his face: "It all depends on the emperor teaching my son a lesson and letting him change his bad habits by joining the army."
"Don't say it's useless, just drink, three drinks."
Huang Zhong laughed when he heard this, knowing that the emperor was deliberately giving him wine, and he drank three glasses to the end.
At noon, I had a drink with all the officials, and in the evening I stayed in the harem, eating the New Year's Eve dinner with my beloved concubines, and then had a big quilt in the evening.
This day has been really nourishing.
However, Jiang Siming did not forget his goals and ambitions in this dungeon because of the beauty of the palace.
As soon as the Spring Festival is over, Ming Dynasty is already preparing for its next territorial goal.
The next target of the Ming Dynasty is no longer the small country of Japan, but the powerful Kushan Empire in the Western Regions.
During this period, there were four major empires in the world, namely the Kushan, Parthian, Roman and Han empires.
The Han Empire is now a thing of the past and has become the Ming Empire.
But Kushan, Parthia, and Rome are still the most powerful empires today.
As long as the Ming Dynasty destroyed these three empires, other countries would surely surrender after hearing the news. It can also be said that the goal of unifying the world has been initially achieved.
[Author's digression]: First update (to be continued)