Chapter 28 The Truth
Su Ze stared at Princess Chenliu, who smiled and said, "I was just joking. Lord Cui is an important official of the court. How can you meet him whenever you want?"
Su Ze asked: "Why is the princess so obsessed with this answer?"
The Northern Wei Dynasty was a Hu regime, and there was a tradition of women interfering in politics on the grasslands.
At the beginning of the Northern Wei Dynasty, a system of "killing the mother and keeping the son" was established to prevent the harem from interfering in politics. Concubines who gave birth to princes would be executed.
The more extreme the system is, the more it shows that the tradition of women interfering in politics in the Northern Wei Dynasty still exists. The two famous empress dowagers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Empress Dowager Wenming and Empress Dowager Hu, both directly controlled the government, and Northern Wei princesses also often participated in court struggles.
Su Ze now does not want to get involved in the infighting among the Northern Wei high-level officials.
Princess Chenliu smiled and said, "Don't you think that Brother Qinghe and I are in the same party?"
Su Ze still did not answer Princess Chen Liu's question. The other party smiled and said:
"My father died a long time ago, and I am not as lucky as you sisters in marrying into a good family. What can I use to participate in the court struggle?"
"I want to know the truth because I am curious."
"curious?"
Princess Chenliu said calmly, "What do you think we are from the royal family? My elder sister, Princess Lanling, was arranged to marry by our father, but she had never seen her husband before drinking the wedding wine. How many concubines in the palace died inexplicably?"
"Even a wise and powerful person like my father will die. Since everyone will die, I hope to know how they die, rather than being used by others like my sisters and not even knowing how they died."
"The Rouran King Anagui is in the Siyi Pavilion. Anagui has requested a marriage from the court. The late emperor had no daughters, so the only ones who can be married are the late emperor's unmarried sisters. I may have to leave Luoyang one day."
"So I just want to know more. Don't you Han people also say, 'If you hear the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening'?"
Su Ze looked at the big exclamation mark in the system, then looked at Princess Chen Liu. He didn't know whether what the other party said was true or false, so he still said:
"Princess, do you know about medicine gold?"
Princess Chenliu thought for a moment and said, "When Emperor Taiwu was in power, he changed the country's name to 'Taiping Zhenjun'. Emperor Taiwu established Tianshi Dao as the state religion and appointed Tianshi Kou Qianzhi as the state teacher. It is said that it was because Kou Qianzhi presented the art of medicine gold, which could turn stone into gold."
Now Su Ze also looked at the Princess Chenliu with new eyes. You know, the upper class of the Northern Wei Dynasty, that is, the Xianbei people, had a generally poor papermaking culture, and many princes were uneducated. Yet, Princess Chenliu, a princess, knew so much about national history.
Su Ze nodded and said, "However, this art of medicinal gold is not about turning stone into gold, but about melting other metals to produce gold-like substances. Real gold is not afraid of fire, but medicinal gold will emit poisonous gas in fire and disappear without a trace. The method of medicinal gold was soon banned."
Princess Chenliu murmured, "Medicinal gold, real gold, so that's what it is."
Princess Chenliu thought and said, "The purpose of the golden vase stabbing the emperor was not to stab the emperor, but to make the golden vase presented by Brother Qinghe Prince fall from the top of the Yongning Temple pagoda. When Yongning Temple was built, the imperial treasury was empty, and it was Brother Qinghe Prince who took the lead in donating, so the wooden pagoda was completed."
"What if what Brother Qinghe Prince presented that day was not real gold but medicinal gold?"
The more Princess Chenliu thought about it, the clearer her thoughts became. Prince Qinghe Yuan Yi was deeply trusted by the Queen Mother, so he would certainly not be punished for offering medicine money.
However, Prince Qinghe was the Queen Mother's close friend, and deceiving the Queen Mother with the medicine money would certainly make Prince Qinghe lose the Queen Mother's trust and achieve the purpose of alienating their relationship.
A major assassination attempt was launched to uncover the secret of the medicine money.
Princess Chenliu thought again of the fire in the wooden pagoda of Yongning Temple last night. This was the countermeasure of Prince Qinghe's faction. Through a fire, Yao Jin could hide and destroy the evidence.
Although Princess Chenliu grew up in the palace, she had never experienced these brutal political struggles up close.
Seeing the struggle of the imperial court in Yongning Temple made Princess Chenliu feel the cruelty of the struggle. The body burned to charcoal in the tower, countless monks in Yongning Temple were imprisoned and tortured, many soldiers who were responsible for guarding the wooden tower were convicted, and the wooden tower that cost countless people's blood and sweat to build was burned down.
And all this was just for the "trust" of Prince Qinghe in front of the Queen Mother.
Even Su Ze felt that this early spring night was a bit stuffy, as if something was weighing on his heart.
[Task "Princess Chenliu's Question" completed, level +1, reward: Princess Chenliu's recommendation, Princess Chenliu's reputation +10]
Mission accomplished?
What does this reward mean? Does it mean that this system is completely free? Is the reward earned by yourself?
"Sure enough, it's really interesting!"
Princess Chenliu suddenly burst into laughter, and her delicate body swayed with the laughter, like a willow tree in the wind that seemed like it would break at any time.
It turns out that these Northern Wei royal family members are all crazy!
Su Ze forgot about the crazy genes of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and was just deceived by this witch!
When Princess Chenliu's wild laughter stopped, she said:
"You make me very satisfied. I heard that you want to participate in the selection of the Qinghe prince? Although I don't have much friendship with the prince, I can still recommend a few people to him. Do you want me to introduce you?"
Su Ze thought about it and decided to refuse the other party's introduction.
Princess Chenliu did not force him. She took off a hairpin from her hair, handed it to Su Ze and said, "Then I still owe you a favor. If you need anything in the future, just bring this hairpin to my house."
[Quest rewards changed, rewards: Princess Chenliu's jade hairpin, Princess Chenliu reputation +20]
It turned out to be a free system. Su Ze accepted the jade hairpin, left the water pavilion, and left the monastery under the leadership of Lu Zhu.
When Luzhu returned to the waterside pavilion, she looked at Princess Chenliu and said, "Princess, since you want to recruit Captain Su, why don't you just recruit him as the head of the guards for your palace?"
Princess Chenliu glanced at Luzhu and said, "Luzhu, you don't understand men, especially those capable men."
"The outstanding sons of the ministers would avoid Princess Shang as much as possible when they met her, and they didn't even want to be her consort. They recruited Su Ze to come to my house to be the commander of the guards. That would be a real enemy."
"This person is so arrogant that he is unwilling to even take my recommendation to participate in the selection of the Qinghe King. If he wants to show his goodwill, he has to use some roundabout means."
"Take out some more silk and give it to the soldiers outside the gate in the name of Su Ze. Then tell them that I want to give it to Su Ze, but he refuses to take it alone and insists on sharing it with everyone."
Lu Zhu nodded quickly, and Princess Chenliu said:
"I have a few farms outside Luoyang City, right? Select some capable people from the mansion and go to the farms to recruit young men to train during the slack season."
Luzhu asked in confusion: "Princess, our farm is already short of manpower, this..."
Princess Chenliu said: "Then recruit more young and strong people."
Seeing Lu Zhu's doubts, Princess Chenliu said, "The sky in Luoyang is about to change."
(End of this chapter)