Slowly returning to the Jingxin Hall, Jiang Beiran was just about to enter when he heard a delicate call.
Turning his head to look, Jiang Beiran said, "Oh, it's Zhiyi who's here."
Nowadays, the status of the concubines in the Yuxiu Palace is rather embarrassing, because specifically they are the concubines of the previous dynasty. Now that there is a new emperor, they naturally have no status. Logically speaking, they are either buried with the former emperor, or they are buried with the former emperor.
They were exiled together. Of course, some emperors with strong tastes also left some coveted concubines as their wives.
A few days ago, the Taifu said that the management of the harem was also an important part of the emperor. The women in the Yuxiu Palace are now neither concubines nor maids, so it is strange to stay in the palace.
Jiang Beiran thought for a moment and gave them a new identity, Cai Ren, which means talented women.
These concubines have lived in the palace for a long time, and they will naturally find some hobbies when they have nothing to do, such as embroidery, music, sleeve dancing, etc.
Then Jiang Beiran asked them to continue to develop their hobbies and talents, and it would be quite good to set up a choir, song and dance troupe, and drama troupe in the future.
The Qiu Zhiyi in front of me is the one with the most outstanding comprehensive qualities among the five thousand beauties in the harem. She can sing, dance, embroider and weave. She is especially good at playing the flute. She can attract birds every time she plays the flute.
Come on, it's amazing.
I heard from Wang Shougui that Qiu Zhiyi was a newly selected beauty, and Deng Bo was taken away before she even met the emperor.
You must know that there are tens of millions of civilian girls who want to join the emperor's family. If they want to be selected as a show girl, they have to go through layers of selection by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Qiu Zhiyi finally stood out all the way, but when she entered the palace, she was told that the emperor was gone.
, which made her really depressed and panicked.
Now there is a new emperor, and the queen has not yet been chosen. This makes Qiu Zhiyi extremely anxious. After repeated trials, she found that she could leave Yuxiu Palace freely, so she couldn't wait to attract the emperor's attention.
One night, Jiang Beiran was walking to his palace when he suddenly heard the sound of a flute.
With the moonlight at that time, Jiang Beiran was suddenly touched by a certain memory point and couldn't help asking: "Who is playing the flute under the moon?"
In this way, Jiang Beiran first met Qiu Zhiyi, who was both talented and beautiful.
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Hearing that the emperor remembered her name, Qiu Zhiyi was overjoyed and immediately came up and said, "I have met the emperor. Did the emperor just return from the court this morning?"
Seeing Qiu Zhiyi's attentive look, Mu Yao, who was standing behind Jiang Beiran, couldn't help but pout.
Because Jiang Beiran didn't show any pretentiousness to most of the beauties in the palace, this made Mu Yao feel inexplicably happy. She thought that Jiang Beiran had a very high vision and was not sentimental. He was a rare good man. He was better than marrying a young man with only eight wives.
My eldest father is even better.
But Qiu Zhiyi was a special being among them. Not only was the emperor specially called to him that night, but today the emperor also called her by name affectionately. This made her feel a little uncomfortable in her chest. How could she see that Qiu Zhiyi?
accurate.
On the other side, Deng Xianghan also kept looking at Qiu Zhiyi.
She was not hostile, but wanted to find out what attracted the emperor to her. After all, she had never given up on "seduction", the most cost-effective method.
'Although her beauty is good, she is definitely not outstanding. She should not make the emperor look at her differently. So...does the emperor really like to listen to the flute?'
Deng Xianghan, who silently remembered this, decided to go back and study hard.
Hearing Qiu Zhiyi's question, Jiang Beiran nodded as an answer.
"The emperor is so diligent, which is really a blessing to the people of the world. I really admire you very much. Why don't you let me play a song for you to relieve your fatigue?"
"No need. I like to be quieter when I read."
Qiu Zhiyi paused for a moment, and the words she had prepared later were blocked by this sentence of preference.
Mu Yao was secretly happy after hearing this, and she just wanted to go up and laugh at Qiu Zhiyi.
Deng Xianghan silently wrote down that the emperor liked to be quiet when reading.
Seeing that the emperor was about to leave after finishing his words, Qiu Zhiyi quickly held her forehead and said: "Your Majesty, I have been feeling weak recently and can't exert any strength. I heard that your majesty has unparalleled medical skills. Can you give me a diagnosis?"
Because he cured a sixty-year-old minister who suddenly coughed up blood and fell to the ground some time ago during the imperial court, Jiang Beiran gained a reputation for his unparalleled medical skills in the palace.
After looking at Qiu Zhiyi's slightly panting expression as if holding her heart in her arms, Jiang Beiran said.
"Drink more hot water."
After saying that, he went back to Jingxin Hall.
'The Emperor... is indeed completely different from those ordinary people. It seems that we need to consider the matter in the long term.'
Secretly making up her mind, Qiu Zhiyi turned around and left.
Stepping into the Jingxin Hall, Jiang Beiran ran into Deng Shuowan who was practicing dancing under the fallen leaves. She was Deng Bo's third daughter, also known as the third princess, Princess Pingle.
Under the fallen leaves, Deng Shuowan danced gracefully. A shiver spread from the fingertips of her left hand to her shoulder, and then from her shoulder to the fingers of her right hand. The silver bracelet on her hand vibrated, and every movement was natural and smooth, as if she was dancing.
Spirits dancing in the wind.
Feeling the emperor's gaze, Deng Shuowan's dancing posture suddenly changed, and finally she had to stop and make a shy expression, just like a young girl in love when she was accidentally seen by her crush.
Walking further, Jiang Beiran saw the Sixth Princess Deng Yunmeng sitting at a table and painting ink paintings. Her ink brushes were like flowing clouds and flowing water around the plain paper, showing that the vast sea and mountains were still beautiful. She was quite like everyone. He noticed Jiang Beiran's expression.
When he looked at her, Deng Yunmeng smiled slightly, very softly.
Jiang Beiran, who saw the two princesses in succession, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and had some understanding in his heart. It was probably because Deng Xianghan knew that he had named those harem women as talented girls, so he thought he liked talented women, so he sent his sister to the palace.
We all came here one by one to show off their talents.
The facts were not as expected by Jiang Beiran. On the way back to the royal study, Jiang Beiran saw the various talents displayed by the princesses one by one, including even sword dancers. But no matter what the performance was, after noticing his own
After looking at someone, they will immediately show their unique charm, or smile, or avoid shyly, or boldly invite someone.
'Good guy, there is really a complete range of varieties.'
Sighing in his heart, he pushed open the door to the imperial study room, and when he was about to step in, Jiang Beiran was stunned.
I saw Princess Luoyu, who was only 6 years old, waving her long sleeves and dancing a strange dance that she probably couldn't dance a second time. When she found the emperor coming in, Princess Luoyu Deng Shuyu immediately lay down on the ground and put on a show
A seductive gesture, blinking hard, seems to be ogling.
Seeing a ten-year-old girl boldly seducing him, Jiang Beiran suddenly had veins on his head. He rushed up to pick up Deng Shuyu and spanked her on the butt!
"Ah! Ah! Ah!!"
Deng Shuyu, who was suddenly beaten, couldn't help but let out a series of screams, feeling that her buttocks were about to split into eight pieces.
Hearing Deng Shuyu cry so hard that she was out of breath, Jiang Beiran put her down and took a deep breath and said: "If you let me see you doing this coquettish gesture in the future, more than just your butt will blossom!"
"Ooooooo, I know I was wrong." Deng Shuyu cried, rubbing her butt.
Taking a long breath, Jiang Beiran looked at Deng Xianghan again and said, "You! If you come up with such a bad idea again, I will kick you all out of the palace!"
"Yes, I know my mistake."
But after apologizing, Deng Xianghan was quite confused. It was obvious that the younger sisters had not been criticized by the emperor before, so why could the ninth sister not do the same? Even if the emperor didn't like the younger one, he wouldn't be so cruel.
Venting the unknown fire in his heart, Jiang Beiran pointed at Deng Shuyu and said to Kong Qianqian: "Go and get some candied fruits for her to eat."
"My slave obeys the order." After Kong Qianqian said that, she went to get the candied fruit.
After a while, Deng Shuyu, who was chewing candied fruit, gradually stopped sobbing. Looking at the palace maid staring at the candied fruit in her hand, Deng Shuyu took out a piece of peach candied fruit from the bottle and handed it to Kong Qianqian and said, "Do you want to eat it?"
Although Kong Qianqian wanted to nod, but remembering the rules set by the emperor, she quickly shook her head.
Seeing Kong Qianqian shaking her head, Deng Shuyu put the candied fruit back into her mouth again.
Although her butt was still burning with pain, Deng Shuyu looked at the emperor with some curiosity.
Jiang Beiran, who felt that a line of sight had been focused on him, put down his book, looked at Deng Shuyu and said, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Deng Shuyu quickly lowered her head.
But after a while, Deng Shuyu quietly raised her head and looked at the emperor.
"Let me know if you have anything to say." Jiang Beiran asked again.
"I feel that your Majesty is a really good person."
'Good guy, it's okay to be given a good guy card by a ten-year-old girl.'
Rolling his eyes, Jiang Beiran was about to continue reading when he saw Deng Shuyu running over and hugging his leg.
"Your Majesty, will you always protect us?"
Looking at Deng Shuyu's pitiful look, Jiang Beiran replied: "As long as you are in this palace, you are my people."
Although Deng Shuyu didn't fully understand, she felt very safe. She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she remembered her sister's advice and swallowed it back.
At this time, Deng Xianghan, who was standing behind, said, "Slave, please take her out. Don't let this child affect the emperor's reading."
Jiang Beiran nodded, raised his foot and handed Deng Shuyu to Deng Xianghan.
Looking at Deng Xianghan carrying his sister out, Jiang Beiran couldn't help feeling that it was not easy for these princesses, and it was quite heartbreaking to see them trying their best to survive.
It's not their father's fault that things turned out like this. After all, being the emperor of Sheng Kingdom is really not easy.
When correcting the memorial at night, Jiang Beiran felt that the content of the memorial was somewhat different, so he put down his brush and began to think deeply.
As time goes by, he is becoming more and more accustomed to the status of emperor, and at the same time, he no longer wants to follow the rules like this.
He had been learning how to be an emperor step by step before, because he knew that before he wanted to change something, he had to understand it first, otherwise he would not be able to start at all.
Now that a revolution has laid the foundation for Shengguo, on this basis, Jiang Beiran decided to do something interesting. Before, he patrolled various places. In addition to the main purpose of intimidating local magistrates, another purpose was to check himself.
Is it now in a "safe" state?
When Jiang Beiran first became emperor, he had a blueprint for the 21st century in his mind, but he didn't know how to make this place what he imagined.
After becoming emperor and reading so many books, the blueprint in his mind gradually began to become more concrete.
For example, the imperial examination system was abolished to make people's studies more diversified. Although there were no teachers for mathematics, physics, and chemistry, Jiang Beiran believed that as long as his reform was successful, talents in all fields would naturally spring up like mushrooms after a rain.
When the time comes, he will write a few more books on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as enlightenment reading materials, and maybe he will even be able to see a steam engine in his lifetime.
The other is to reduce taxes and encourage businessmen.
Because he knows that no matter in which era, the economic base determines the superstructure. If the economy cannot keep up, or even falls behind, blindly transforming the political structure can easily have the opposite effect.
There is also the need to gradually delegate power to those loyal ministers selected by the system, so that they can work freely in the fields they are good at. Don't point to him, the emperor, to decide everything. It is too inefficient.
As for the obstacles that will arise in this kind of reform, Jiang Beiran has thought of them one by one, and is also thinking and experimenting with solutions.
The first and most important point is that throughout the dynasties, no matter how powerful the emperors were, they could not change the corruption of grassroots officials, the management and control capabilities could not be extended to the county towns, the bureaucracy violated the law, and the law could not be enforced.
This is because he can fly and fly very fast, so it can be considered as being cracked by force. Although it is impossible to completely eliminate it, it is much better than before.
In addition, Jiang Beiran plans to make another "report box" and place it in various places to encourage people to submit letters and report, and then set up sufficiently generous rewards.
If the people are in other places and want to come to Ningdu to report, they can directly provide post horses and provide the treatment of a fifth-grade official, giving them two liters of fine rice, two liters of noodles, one liter of wine, three parts of meat, as well as salt, soybean, onions, and ginger.
, sunflower and other spices.
To put it simply, there are special cars for delivery and delicious food and drinks. For many people who don’t usually have enough to eat, they will die anyway, so why not give it a try?
Of course, it is impossible to completely rely on people to report.
After studying a large number of books and recalling various regulatory systems in the 21st century, Jiang Beiran also came up with a feasible method.
First of all, to rectify the corruption of local officials, we must focus on institutional and legal standards to make the operation of power open and transparent and subject to the supervision of specialized agencies. In addition, the media is also a very powerful weapon of destruction for officials, powerful enough to make all government officials
I don’t even dare to wear a famous watch for fear of being taken away by a wave of people.
Although it is impossible to create online media that can spread information very quickly, newspapers can still be created first, and their destructive power is not weak.
Under multiple circumstances, Jiang Beiran believed that one day he would no longer need to fly around every day, and the level of corruption among local officials in Sheng would also be greatly reduced.
The second point is forming parties for personal gain, party strife, and vested interest groups.
This thing, which can be said to be the ultimate cancer in the court, was easily eliminated by the system, because under him, there are only loyal and patriotic ministers. This is impossible in any era, and he is the only one.
It can be said that it saved him a lot of trouble.