On the morning of the first day of May, Queen Tian stood on the stone steps and watched King Wu Sheng's car go away. Even though she could no longer see her husband's car, Queen Tian still stood in the same place and stared. There was a court meeting this morning, and King Sheng had to be at the palace's council hall by 7:30 a.m. The court was held five times a month. The court meets five times a month to discuss major proposals. Wu Wangsheng wanted to be a good king in his father's eyes, so he would arrive early for every court meeting.
"Madam, the foreign affairs steward has arrived." The royal palace attendant hurriedly came to report.
"Oh, beckon them to the Great King's study to deliberate." Queen Tian turned back to the palace with her maids.
The two foreign affairs stewards waiting in King Wu's study, one of them was the original steward in the Western Marquis' residence, the other steward was chosen by Queen Tian from the yellow clothes of the royal palace, these two people were very capable of doing things.
"Ma'am, this is the April account, April's profit increased by 20% compared to March." The steward in the original Marquis of the West's mansion was the chief administrator of King Wu's husband's and wife's estate, and would report the estate's situation to Queen Tian every month.
"The Chief Steward has worked hard." Queen Tian nodded with satisfaction as she looked at the statement. King Wu Sheng's name has a lot of industries, half of the industries are new under Zheng Yuming's guidance, such as the Royal Clothing Workshop, which is made up of skilled embroiderers and seamstresses from the royal palace, the Royal Clothing Workshop not only produces clothes for the King Wu's husband and wife, but also receives foreign orders at a high price, which is very lucrative. The King of Wu's yearly offerings amounted to 200,000 gold, and there were only two couples in the royal palace, Wu Wangsheng, who did not spend much, so the extra offerings were invested by the Queen of Tian every year.
"Madam, the clock is made!" Another royal palace steward had an excited look on his face, he was the chief steward of the Royal Clock Factory, the Royal Clock Factory was founded last spring, and it took almost a year to manufacture the product, which was in the large wooden box he was holding in his hands.
"Oh, it's done?" Queen Tian was overjoyed and let her maid take the large wooden box and open it, in the large wooden box was a clock with a rather clumsy appearance, the shell was made of wood, one side was covered with glass, in the glass there were three metal needles of different lengths, and underneath was a pendulum.
Queen Tien placed the pendulum clock on the table and it swung evenly, the seconds walking regularly.
"Ah, this long needle can move by itself." The maid in the study marveled.
"Director Gongsun is truly a great immortal, this clock moves in January with an error of less than two minutes." The chief of the clock factory marveled.
The clock was developed by Gongsun Pan, who was in charge of directing the craftsmen, and in March he succeeded in reproducing the clock-anchor escapement, and the pendulum-type wall clock came out more than a thousand years ahead of schedule.
Royal Watch Factory shares are not owned by Wu Wangsheng couple, Wu Wangsheng couple accounted for forty percent of the total shares, Zheng Yuming, Chu Chao Hui, Gongsun Pan three people each accounted for eighteen percent, the other six percent rewarded the development of the clock process of a few great craftsmen.
Queen Tian fiddled with the wall clock for a while, figuring out how to use it, before she instructed the chief manager of the clock factory to arrange for mass production at the factory, aiming to bring it to market before the Harvest Festival.
After the two chief stewards left, all the stewards in the palace came to report on various matters, and when Queen Tian sent the stewards away, it was nearly noon, and Wu Wangsheng had not yet returned from the front palace.
"Are there many court proceedings today?" Queen Tian walked out of the palace and stood in the doorway, muttering to herself. On the palace road, the carriage of King Wu Sheng could not be seen, only a small yellow coat came running in a hurry, that small yellow coat is King Wu Sheng's personal attendant, the person is more witty, quite valued by Queen Tian.
"Ma'am!" Little Yellow Clothes ran in front of Queen Tian and bowed, not saying anything after the bow, but her glasses surveyed the surroundings.
"Follow me into the study." As soon as Queen Tian took a look at Xiao Huangyi's expression, she knew that Xiao Huangyi had something secret to report, remembering that Wu Wangsheng hadn't returned by now, Xiao Huangyi's report must be related to this.
Only when there were only two people in the study, Queen Tian and Little Yellow Cloth, did Little Yellow Cloth bow and confide, "Madam, the Minister of the Royal Court wants the Great King to take a concubine."
"What? To ask the Great King to naji? What reason?" Queen Tian's face immediately paled.
Xiao Huang Yi's head lowered, "The minister said that the Great King has not had an heir in three years of marriage, and that for the sake of Wu society, he must take a concubine."
Some ministers felt that Zheng Yuming, who was in power, did not have the idea of usurping the throne, the position of the king of Wu Wangsheng was secure, and the belly of the Queen of Tian had not been moving, so the heir to the kingdom of Wu was vacant, so these people became greedy, and wanted to let their own daughters enter the palace as concubines of the Ji, so that the firstborn son could become the future king of the kingdom of Wu.
"What did Prince Ming say?" Queen Tian valued Zheng Yuming's statement the most.
"Prince Ming did not make a sound this time." Before this court meeting, some ministers came to Zheng Yuming and vaguely expressed that it was too shabby to have only the queen in the harem to serve King Wu Sheng, and that they wanted Zheng Yuming to take a concubine for King Wu Sheng, which was dismissed by Zheng Yuming. After Zheng Yuming openly expressed his aversion to having a concubine, there were rumors quietly circulating in the royal palace that Zheng Yuming had a selfish motive and did not want King Wu Sheng to have a queen, which is why he did not give King Wu a concubine. So at this court meeting, Zheng Yuming did not take a stand.
"All unopposed?" Queen Tian understood Zheng Yuming's difficulty.
"Of course there were; the Hussar General, Gongsun Sima, and Wu Vice-Sima all objected, arguing that the king and his wife were still young, and that an heir would come sooner or later. They argued with those ministers who proposed to take a concubine at the court session." This was the reason why the court session was prolonged.
Queen Tian laughed bitterly, why her belly did not move, is that she and Wu Wangsheng has not yet married. Wu Wangsheng is like a child, at night the couple sleep is pure sleep, do not do intimate things between husband and wife, of course, the belly did not move. For the uninitiated Wu Wangsheng, this kind of thing has to be broken by the initiative of the Queen of Tian, but the Queen of Tian because of shyness and other reasons, so dragged down.
As long as the couple remains pure, this sooner or later is not possible.
"Don't worry ma'am, this time the court session the Great King showed his power and shut those ministers up with a few words." Little yellow clothes face frowning. "The great king was originally drooping his eyes to rest his mind, suddenly jumped up and yelled loudly against it, saying that having a madam is enough, and if he wants him to take a concubine, he has to wait until he can't walk anymore."
King Sheng of Wu had dozed off and was awakened by the loud voice of a certain minister, he was a bit unhappy, and when he heard that this minister also asked him to take a concubine, he was even more unhappy, because before the death of Marquis Xi, he had promised not to take a concubine when his son had offspring, and if he wanted to take a concubine, he should not do so until he was in his thirties or forties and his wife was unable to bear children. Because Xihou himself was a concubine son, he suffered from the coldness of the royal palace since childhood, and was looked down upon, and he did not want his children and grandchildren to suffer the same fate.
Thirty or forty years old is very, very old in the mind of Wu Wangsheng, who is actually twenty-five years old.
Hearing her husband defend himself, Queen Tian's heart trips over a hot current, and then hearing Wu Wangsheng's childish words about not being able to walk before taking a concubine, she can't help but 'puff' and laugh.
"Has the court come to a conclusion on this matter?" Queen Tian finished her smile and started to feel sad again, this matter can't help her not to deal with it positively, in the royal palace there are a few more dignified female officials who are thinking of getting close to Wu Wangsheng, it's true that one batch of them is driven away and another batch comes back.
"Lastly, it was Great General Chu who suggested that the matter of the Naji Consort be discussed after the year of the Great King's rise to power, and that the royal court would no longer discuss the matter until then."
"Five more years." Queen Tian's heart was relieved, and her husband's childish defense made Queen Tian's decision.
Wu Wangsheng didn't go back to the harem for lunch and didn't come back from the front palace until late afternoon.
"Chance, we're going on a trip to Ulsan next month." Wu Wangsheng's expression was excited, anticipating the upcoming excursion.
"To Ulsan?" Queen Tien helped her husband take off his coronet and remove his crown.
"I like Dacheng." Wu Wangsheng had a soft spot for Dacheng, where he had warm times with his father.
"Concubines like it there too." Queen Tian smiled faintly. "Isn't it true that Mr. Ming is also going?"
"Yes, all go play." Wu Wangsheng took off his heavy coronation clothes and felt much more comfortable.
"Where's the play, it's going on patrol." Queen Tian tapped her husband's head with her finger.
"Ming is going on a patrol, we are going for fun, and Lone is going to take Chance to climb Mt. Ulsan." Wu Wangsheng laughed nervously.
Queen Tian stared at her husband's naive smile in her heart. "Great King, let's play a game tonight."
"Yeah! Great! What game?" Wu Wangsheng clapped his hands.
"It's just a game between the two of us, we can't tell anyone else." Queen Tian's face was a little mysterious and a little red.
"Oh, Lone knows, don't tell anyone else." Wu Wangsheng nodded and after a while asked, "Can't even tell Ming?"
Queen Tien's face turned even redder, "It can only be a game the two of us can do, we can't tell a third person."
"It must be a lot of fun." Wu Wangsheng began to look forward to it.
After nightfall, Wu Wang husband and wife's chambers early lights out, dark silence, from time to time came from Wu Wang sheng's alarm, just alarm always issued half of the sound was swallowed by what, and after that only vaguely faint gasping sound out.
While the couple of Wu Wangsheng were making their game, the king of Tang was secretly summoning a ranger to his own palace.
"Kui Ji, do you want to make a name for yourself?" A short, compact young man stood before the king of Tang.
"A great man's life in this world should be light on life and death, to be able to get a thousand years of fame is Qui Ji's lifelong pursuit." Kui Ji was full of grandeur.
"Good! The strong man deserves to be Yan's number one ranger!" King Tang's small eyes flashed with brilliance. "The Duke of Wu's Falling Wild Goose is known throughout the world, and if Strong Man succeeds in assassinating this man, everyone in Great Qin will know about it."
"Mr. Falling Goose? That's the first beauty?" Kui Ji had heard about Zheng Yuming's reputation.
"Not bad, the strong man wants to be famous in the world, there is no more sensational than the success of assassinating Gong Zi Ming." The King of Tang now hates Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui the most, these two people made him lose his country, lose the profit of his salt farm, and also have to compensate Wu for the huge amount of money. Tang's finances have fallen into collapse, the King of Tang thinks that the way to turn the finances around is to eliminate the culprits that caused the current situation, the culprits are Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, among the two, but also Zheng Yuming as the most important.
"Haha! Not bad, thanks to the Great King's reminder! "Kui Ji is a ranger from the Yan Kingdom in this time and space, he grew up with the ambition to make a name for himself, and as an adult, he is an accomplished fencer who has been focusing on the goal of making a name for himself. Despite his efforts, Kui Ji has only achieved a small amount of fame in his home country of Yan. Dissatisfied with his lack of fame, Kui Ji traveled around the vassal states with his sword, hoping to find a chance to make a name for himself. In the capital of Tang, he was noticed by the king's favorites and recommended to the king.
"If you succeed in stabbing Gongzi Ming to death, on the day you retire, I'll make you an uncle, and you'll be supported by the royal family for the rest of your life, and you'll be hereditary!" King Tang promised.
"I can make a name for myself and get rich at the same time, why wouldn't Kui Ji do it? Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely take the life of that Duke Falling Goose!" Kui Ji laughed.
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Author's word: Ranger in the mouth of Han Fei Zi is a terrorist, Han Fei Zi that the ancient ranger, light life and death, heavy Ran Noi, not for profit, but for the ages to stay famous. These people do things a lot of times do not ask right and wrong, the following paste paragraph ranger to leave the short story.
When King Helu of Wu ascended the throne, he learned that Qing Ji, the son of Wang Biao, had fled to the state of Wei. This man had the courage of a million men, and was known as the best warrior in Wu. Now, Aicheng of Wei was recruiting soldiers and horses, and was waiting for an opportunity to avenge his father's death, so he became a problem for Helu.
One day, Helu and Wu Zixu agreed to find a brave man to assassinate Qing Ji. Zixu recommended his friend, Yao Li, to go there. Legend has it that Yao Li's family lived in the north of Hongshan Mountain in Wuxi, on the south bank of the mouth of the Fiery Fork Bank at the head of the Dahe, and he was a fisherman. He was born with a thin figure, only five feet or so, with a girdle around his waist, and an ugly description, but his wisdom and skill were extraordinary, and he had the courage of ten thousand people, and was a famous fencer in the area. Today, one of the eighteen scenic views of Hongshan, Dongling Mountain, "Sword Grinding Stone", is rumored to be the year to be away from the grinding of the sword of the stone.
To be away from the heart of loyalty and righteousness, he offered to use the trick of bitter flesh. According to folklore, one day he fought with Helu in the imperial court, first stabbed Gongzi Guang's wrist with a bamboo sword, then took the real sword and cut off his right arm, and ran away to Wei to look for Qing Ji. After he left, Helu even killed his wife according to his plan. When Qing Ji found out the truth, he was convinced of Yao Li and regarded him as his beloved one, entrusted him to train soldiers, repair boats and ships, and often stayed by his side to conspire with him to organize affairs.
Three months later, Qing Ji went on an expedition against Wu, riding with Yao Li in the same warship, going down the river, and occasionally winning a victory, he celebrated his success on the warship at Taihu Lake. Yao Li, taking the opportunity of Qing Ji sitting on the bow of the ship and having a drink, stabbed Qing Ji violently with his one-armed arm under the moonlight, penetrating into his heart, and piercing out of his back. Qing Ji then fell back on Yao Li and drowned three times, then put Yao Li on his knee and said with a smile, "There is such a warrior in the world who dares to stab me!" The left and right guards raised their swords toward to kill Yao Li, but Qing Ji shook his hand and said, "This is a warrior of the world, how can you kill two warriors of the world in one day?" He also said, "It is better to let him go back to his country and fulfill him!" After saying this, Qing Ji fell to the ground and died.