"How should I put it? In my generation, the shadow of a feministic society in our Great Zhou has already been deeply rooted. In the grassroots society, a boy can marry a wife, but once you enter the upper class, most of them will marry into the family. It is common for a man to marry a woman in our dynasty.
However, there are also disadvantages to being deep-rooted. As the Great Zhou's foundation operates, there will always be a few eras of war, such as the era I was born in.
The origin was that the harem of the previous three dynasties was not very peaceful. The consorts monopolized power, the military officials divided the country, the laws collapsed, and the war had not subsided after the death of three emperors. The war that lasted for nearly 60 years caused the entire Great Zhou to be deeply divided. In my hands, it was a situation where the northerners looked down on the southerners, and the southerners looked down on the northerners.
My name is Ji Shen Yang. Shen comes from the Book of Songs. Yang comes from the surname Ji. My Master Taifu told me that the word Yang comes from the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty after the Yellow Emperor. There are three versions of it. The origin is the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty.
"It means that I hope you can become a person who can help the people take charge of the boat and become the sun of the Great Zhou people.”My Grand Tutor told me so. He said that my name has a deep meaning.
I was born in Jinling in the second year of martial arts. My mother's family gradually lost their wealth due to years of war. Under the meddling of treacherous officials, my mother with the surname Ji married a man with another surname instead of marrying my father back. This was a matter that made the relatives smile and could be considered a great humiliation for the Zhou family.
My grandfather was the head of the Zhou family at the beginning of the war in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. His ancestral fief was in the east of Taihang Mountain, which was the land of Qi and Lu. My grandmother was the second daughter of the Hang family, the world's number one salt merchant at that time. However, she passed away early due to illness, leaving only a legitimate daughter. She was conferred the title of Princess Huaiyin by the former emperor. Even the princess should have stayed in the old imperial capital, Yi Zhao, but the power of dissidents in the court gradually expanded, and this princess became a sacrifice. She was chased to a fief that was the same as a title. She was my mother.
In the end, it was not enough to be chased out of the capital. At that time, the biggest traitor was the Minister of Rites, Guo Wan. He advocated starting from the marriage of the Zhou family to set an example for the people. In fact, he wanted to see the Ji family make a fool of themselves, but he still won.
Then, my mother, a princess, was married to a man with a different surname from the Yin of the Huai River. He was my father, who had been patronized by the late emperor's grandfather for generations. The only thing that remained unchanged was that his descendants still took the surname Ji, which was me. This was something my grandfather insisted on even if he had to vomit blood.
Fortunately, I was a girl. This gave my grandfather a lot of hope that he could pass on the two businesses of the family. However, before I grew up, the North and South split. The Bei Feng clan that controlled the Northern Dynasty seemed to have no intention of letting us, the royal family that was scattered in the South, return. These good things were cut off from our hands even more legitimately, becoming one of the ways for the Northern Dynasty to earn money.
My grandfather also died of depression because of this. It can be said that my mother's entire family was basically the victims of the division between the north and the south. Although after I studied and learned how to read and understand these things, I didn't plan to return to the north to take revenge.
It's said that my grandparents were dragons and phoenixes among men. When my grandfather was young, he participated in the Three Realms Sword Competition and struck a silver magpie carving dragon. My grandmother won the first prize in the Great Zhou National Abacus Competition. Unfortunately, my father and mother were two cowardly and cowardly good-for-nothings, so they also gave birth to a good-for-nothing like me. Just based on this point, I can be sure that I wasn't picked up by them.
When I was four years old, I was brought back to Dayuan by the mother-in-law of the late emperor's sister, who was also the only remaining member of the Zheng family who was still loyal to the Zhou family after the battle. At that time, Dayuan was already in the south, and the Zhou family was fleeing to the south to unify the newly chosen capital city. However, Bei Feng really liked to press on step by step and kill everyone. He did not leave any leeway and attacked all the way to the north of Dayuan. Later on, they wanted to continue fighting south, but the generals and soldiers said that they were afraid of the heat. Moreover, seeing that the public opinion was really not going to work, if they continued to fight, even if they held a knife to the neck of the historian, no one would write a good history book for them. They could only stop and draw the 38th parallel. Then, they divided Dayuan into the north and south, just like the Great Zhou in the next few decades.
So what if I took it? No matter how hard Old Lady Zheng nurtured me, I'm still a good-for-nothing. How can there be so many things in the world that can be done successfully just by finding a name? I often feel that it's good to surrender and cede territory as soon as possible and tear down the ancestral temple as soon as possible. It's a waste of candle money.
One year, I told this idea to Eunuch Yan, who was in charge of my daily life, food, and toilet. Eunuch Yan told Nian Gu about it, so Old Lady Zheng knew. She didn't hit me, nor did she stop me from eating. She just punished me to kneel in front of the hundreds of ancestral tablets in the ancestral temple and reflect on myself. I could have stayed in a more luxurious place to eat and wait for death, but why could I only eat and wait for death in the imperial city and palace that could be considered an absolute defeat to the construction industry of the Great Zhou? She said that when I understood this, I would go out and work hard.
However, she had forgotten that " a leopard may change its spots, but a leopard may not." This was a classic left behind by her ancestors. Since I could be a complete bastard and a good-for-nothing, I could also be extremely satisfied with the current situation and have the ability to find happiness for myself. This made me feel that she really had no one to choose from and had chosen the wrong person.
After coming out of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, I was confined in my own palace and was not allowed to do anything. I could only read books and study political affairs, history, and the art of war. Since I couldn't go out, I could only play cards in the palace every day. I invented this card. To be specific, I would draw cards to calculate the size of the city on the map and then distribute the city to the players present by throwing the dice.
No one dared to play with me, so I could only fight with myself. After fighting, the city would still be mine. How good would it be if it was like this in reality?
I f * cking played cards every day, crossed my legs, slept, and drooled. When I saw a beautiful palace maid walking past the palace gate, I immediately said hi. She didn't look like a girl at all, and she was a girl with the blood of the Zhou family.
But I like to play cards, I like these useless days, I feel that no one in the world can hide or deprive me of this freedom, not even myself.
"During that time, my job was passed down, which was to write and draw books every day. The purpose was to control the minds of the people.
Of course, it was also for entertainment. After all, there could be some dirty content in the drawing book. Although I had never experienced it before, and I had never even seen the erotic pictures hidden in the homes of those powerful ministers of the previous dynasty, at least I could entrust my dirty young dreams. Moreover, this way, the sales would be good, and everyone would love to see it.
Therefore, if you came to the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was about to change dynasties, you would be able to see a woman in Changle Palace who wore short braids every day. She had a round face and a pair of lecherous small eyes. She was dressed shabbily and could even come up with patterns. Her forehead was often covered with white stripes, the money bag on her waist was clattering, and she even held two writing brushes in her hands to pretend to be a b * tch.
"Why two?" Little Shuanzi asked me strangely.
"Idiot! One is writing, the other is drawing!" I raised my hand to give him a violent blow, but the small embolus was too tall, nearly 1.9 meters. I couldn't reach it, so I had to give up.
They did not understand the joy of earning money.
After a few months, I felt that I was almost growing on the stone bench of Changle Palace. Nian Gu came over to take down the big lock on the palace door.
At that time, I was having some erotic dreams in my mind. In my dreams, there were some blurry figures. In fact, they were very pure, but who cares? I just wanted to be happy.
Nian Gu woke me up with a slap." Hey, wake up. You're drooling on the ground."”
I raised my head and rubbed my eyes." What's that noise outside?”I had probably woken up when she opened the door. I heard many palace eunuchs bustling about outside, coming in and out. The footsteps were not loud, so it seemed that it had nothing to do with the Changle Palace I lived in.
She pointed at the palace that was more than 100 meters away from Changle Palace." Here, this is Weiyang Palace. It's for you to marry a wife in the future.”
"Shouldn't the Empress live in the Jiaofang Palace?”I silently complained. Looking at the palace she was pointing at, it was a little small. My Changle Palace was better.
"Your focus is very strange." Nian Gu had always taught me sword dance and pitch-pot. Since I was young, I liked to hug her thighs, so she was also close to me. She basically didn't need to say "you" when talking to me. Only in front of Old Lady Zheng would she pretend to be a little respectful to me. I know that she has always treated me like a child. The people in the palace basically listened to her orders. As time passed, they also followed Nian Gu and called me "you". I think this is very good. I feel very comfortable listening to it.
Nian Gu was Old Lady Zheng's dowry. She once had a husband who was her senior brother and a famous hero. He followed Old Lady Zheng and Nian Gu into the Zheng family and worked as the Zheng family's death attendant. Unfortunately, he later died in the hands of the Northern Dynasty. Nian Gu tearfully begged Old Lady Zheng to take her as a fighter in her husband's mourning hall and protect him. Because the two of them had studied under the Lotus Twin Sect and graduated together, her martial arts were not much worse than her husband's. Old Lady Zheng saw her crying sadly. She begged Fanchang Imperial Concubine to make her the female official in charge of the Zheng family's martial affairs.
"Twin Lotus Sect is famous for its sword dance and ice sword techniques. It can be considered the mainstay of the Great Zhou's top ten martial arts sects. Moreover, it's very ornamental. Many disciples have entered the aristocratic families to work, and they can be training partners or program managers. I think the swords and ribbons produced by their sects are very beautiful.
"Then what should I pay attention to?" I yawned and picked up the white sugar steamed bun she brought me. Recently, the Southern Dynasty had just experienced a new round of drought. The palace was really poor and could not afford decent snacks. Every time this happened, she would make this for me to eat. She said that after eating this, it would be strong for martial arts.
"Shouldn't you be concerned about who you're going to marry and who's going to live here?”
"I don't want to. It's too troublesome to marry me." I quickly picked up a steamed bun and stuffed it into my mouth. My words became muffled.
"It's good that you know it yourself."
I really didn't care much, but I could find out immediately if I wanted to. This was because I was actually the biggest owner of the casual folk's training workshop in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although I was only a nominal owner and was essentially a regular customer, he called me 'boss' to give me face. The money and power were still in the hands of the shopkeeper, but I could sneak into the training workshop to see beautiful women and listen to the corners when I had nothing to do! Therefore, whenever there was any negotiation with the North, everyone thought that I didn't know. Only Old Lady Zheng and the female minister knew, but in fact, I knew everything. It was just in another way.
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