"It's coming, it's coming!" A maid said excitedly, and the crowd who had been waiting for a long time immediately came forward.
The palace is a royal forbidden area, symbolizing the authority of the emperor. It has always been a place of silence. Of course, it cannot be as lively and lively as the gongs and drums played when ordinary people get married, but the royal family also has royal etiquette and attention.
The big cowhide drums on the four corner towers of the city wall in the distance were beating at the same time as Li Xingchen walked into the corridor connecting the palace. The sound of the drums echoed in the huge palace city. The sound hit everyone's ears hard.
The edge is shocking.
The welcoming convoy passed through many palaces, and at the entrance of each palace there were a large number of maids and chambermaids crowded together to watch. They had been in the deep palace courtyard for a long time, and their days were the same. They had not experienced such a lively scene for a long time.
Not to mention these maids and chamberlains, several princes and princesses were also mixed in the crowd, looking at the scene in front of them curiously. They had lived in the deep palace compound for many years, and this was the first time they had seen this scene before them.
arrive.
Several generations of monarchs in Nanchen were relatively prolific, and Chen Xu was probably the best among them. There were forty-one of his sons on record, and the number of his daughters was said to be even more than his sons, which made Li Xingchen doubt Chen Xu.
Do you remember the names of each of your children?
And not every one of these many children was born powerful. In history, there were even some who were too young and died before they could be canonized. The rest of the sons and daughters died.
Even if they are canonized, it is mostly a false title, and they still live in Jiankang Mansion.
Only a few older sons will be canonized and take office outside, such as Chen Shuling, the governor of Yangzhou, Chen Shuying, the governor of Dongyangzhou (author's note: the third son, Dongyangzhou is today's Shaoxing, Dongyang area), Chen Shujian, the governor of Xiangzhou, and a few others
, these people are qualified to take office mainly because their title of governor or general has little to do with their title of king.
The remaining ones, even though they have titles but no actual official positions, are all in Jiankang Mansion. The older ones will be given residences outside the palace, while the younger ones and unmarried princesses are all in the palace.
Otherwise, if so many princes are arranged to go out, I am afraid that the local officials in Nanchen will all become the royal family. In a small way, this is certainly not conducive to selecting talents. In a big way, it is easy to have too many royal relatives scattered everywhere.
Some criminals will find the opportunity, which will eventually lead to civil strife and the disintegration of the entire dynasty.
Therefore, Nan Chen's arrangement was helpless but reasonable. This can be seen from the history that after the Sui Dynasty destroyed Nan Chen, the royal family members of Nan Chen had a huge headache. After all, the Sui Dynasty still needed to appease the common people and scholars in Jiangnan at that time.
, we cannot go too far towards the royal family of Nanchen, so we can only try our best to arrange official positions for them. However, if there are so many people and they are simply given idle positions, it will be difficult for the court to pay such a large expense. In the end, they can only hastily transfer these
The royal family members dispersed to various places, which eventually laid the foundation for several subsequent rebellions in Nanchen's restoration.
This shows that these royal relatives are really a headache.
Their identities sound prestigious, and the titles on their heads can scare people, but in fact many of them have never even gone out of the palace gate because of their young age. Even those who are older and have received the title of Chen Xu
Her beloved children, such as Princess Lechang and Princess Ningyuan, just hang around in Jiankang Mansion and rarely have the qualifications to leave Jiankang Mansion, so Lechang cherished going to Jingzhou very much last time.
As long as the dynasty is peaceful, they may never have the chance to leave Jiankang Mansion in their lifetime.
So maybe some people are envious of their status, but they don't know that they are imprisoned in freedom and have no way to make decisions about their own future. In the peaceful era, the emperor's relatives were considered lucky and happy, but in the troubled times, the emperor
Relatives and relatives, their lives are like straw, no different from those people outside the high wall, and even better than those people where they can't help themselves.
People within the high wall always envy the people outside the high wall who are so free, and people outside the high wall also envy the people within the high wall who have no worries about food and clothing. So now Li Xingchen is standing inside the high wall,
Looking at these excited eunuchs and even their descendants, Li Xingchen was even a little lucky. At least he was outside the high wall. Although he was struggling to survive, at least he still had the possibility to decide his own destiny. At least he would not be like this.
The princes and grandchildren of Nanchen can only wait within the high walls for the changes in the situation and for their future to be decided.
Li Xingchen sighed softly. Perhaps by marrying Lechang at this time, he could give her a new choice, a choice to see the outside world.
Li Xingchen rode his horse to the entrance of the palace in Lechang. The huge courtyard was already full of people. When he saw Li Xingchen appeared, cheers suddenly broke out. Li Xingchen got off his horse, strode to the door of the palace, and said solemnly
Hand over:
"I, General Li Xingchen of Zhenxi, have come to greet His Royal Highness Lechang. I would also like to ask Your Highness to move on."
As the servants on both sides shouted at the same time, the palace door slowly opened, and with the support of Princess Ningyuan and several other maids, Lechang with a phoenix crown and a beautiful dress appeared in front of Li Xingchen.
The red headband and beaded curtain blocked Lechang's sight. All she could see was the ground moving and changing under her feet. Feeling something, Lechang raised her head slightly. She heard the man's voice, but when she saw it,
Everything was so red that she couldn't see anything.
"Your Highness, please!" Li Xingchen made a gesture of invitation and got out of the way.
Princess Ningyuan smiled at Li Xingchen and gently supported Lechang: "Sister, please slow down, steps."
Lechang trembled slightly and responded. She could feel that Li Xingchen was beside her, and she could even hear his breathing. At this time, she wanted to throw herself directly into his arms and tell him,
Leave here and go as far as possible.
But she couldn't. As the princess of Nanchen, she had to complete the rituals in front of her first.
Li Xingchen said that he should believe her, but originally she thought that he would find an opportunity to leave on the way to the imperial city. She thought that he would leave immediately after accepting Chen Xu's interview, but he still appeared in front of her.
in front of.
What on earth was he thinking? Didn't he know that it would be more dangerous if he continued to delay?
Li Xingchen strode to follow Lechang's figure, and Princess Ningyuan felt her sister's arms tremble slightly. She realized something immediately, turned around and winked at the maids following behind, and those maids immediately understood.