Chapter 63 Little girls become tools of political struggle

This imperial decree is full of hints—implying that Ms. Wei Ji will never be allowed to "be in a position other than her own system, and call her a title other than her own."However, following the edict, it was more material rewards. Seven thousand households in Gu'an (Yixian County, Hebei Province) were allocated to Ms. Wei Ji's Tang Muyi, and she and her stepson, who is now Mr. Liu Chengcheng, Prince, one hundred catties of gold per person.Of course, he didn't say a word about summoning Ms. Wei Ji to Chang'an. This is a kind of appeasement, and I hope that Ms. Wei Ji will accept her fate in peace and stop playing tricks.However, Nutu Wei Ji couldn't forget her child. She missed Ai'er and cried day and night.Only then did she realize that she would rather keep her son by her side than be a puppet leader in Chang'an thousands of miles away.The child is still young and cannot be separated from his mother, and a mother is even more worried about being taken care of by others, not to mention he is still sick.

Mr. Wang Yu disapproved of his father's ungrateful heart. He once again taught Wei Ji and his wife to show her attitude, and directly asked the Empress Dowager to come to the capital to accompany the child.Unexpectedly, the correspondence between them fell into the hands of spies.Mr. Wang Mang's reaction was strong and cruel, and he executed his son, Mr. Wang Yu.They can kill their own sons, not to mention others. In order to kill the grass, the Wei family, including the two newly appointed marquis uncles, were all executed.Mr. Wei Bao's daughter was the queen of the Zhongshan Kingdom at that time—the wife of Mr. Liu Chengcheng. She was also arrested immediately and exiled to Hepu (Hepu County, Guangdong Province), a wild area 2,000 kilometers to the south.

Now, only the lonely Ms. Wei Ji is left in the Wei family, and she is no longer afraid of making trouble again.Poor Ms. Wei Ji, just when she was about to climb to a higher level, she fell down, and the whole family was smashed to pieces.Ms. Wei Ji could only wash her face with tears in the heavily guarded palace.Eleven years later, in AD 10, when the Western Han dynasty surnamed Liu had collapsed and the new dynasty surnamed Wang had been established for a year, she passed away and was buried next to her husband, Mr. Liu Xing, and never saw her son again. We don't know when Mr. Wang Mang became ambitious to usurp the power of the Western Han Dynasty and establish his own dynasty.All he knew was that after he returned to the government, all his efforts—including killing his own son and the Wei family—were advancing towards the goal of seizing power. After solving the stumbling block of the Wei family, the next step was to control the emperor Mr. Liu Jizi more strictly.And the best way to master it is to marry his daughter to him.

In AD 4, Mr. Wang Mang told his aunt, Mrs. Wang Zhengjun, that he should choose a wife for Mr. Liu Jizi, who was twelve years old. Mrs. Wang Zhengjun was old and faint, so of course he listened to his nephew.Mr. Wang Mang fully adopted the ancient rituals—the ancient rituals used by the Zhou Dynasty in the twelfth century BC. In the ancient rituals, the emperor did not marry only one wife, but twelve wives at once at the same time. The term is called "" Twelve daughters of the son of heaven", the number of wives is like a cloud, so that more boys can be born.Ms. Wang Zhengjun then ordered the relevant yamen to find beautiful girls from famous families of the same age, make a list, and petition for judgment.The famous family is neither willing to hide (who doesn't want their daughter to be the queen, but themselves to be the head of the country), and they dare not hide (the concealment is "the crime of deceiving the emperor", which is even worse), and soon submitted the roster to the emperor. , In fact, it was submitted to Mr. Wang Mang.He looked at his Excellency, each of the candidate girls was well-known, and the girls from the Wang family accounted for half. His Excellency's daughter, Ms. Wang Xiaoping, was also among them, but she was not sure of winning.

Only then did Mr. Wang Mang realize that his "ancient rituals" had brought him a political crisis, and he had to rescue this crisis.So he adopted a retreat-for-advance strategy and reported to Ms. Wang Zhengjun: "I have neither special talent nor my daughter's outstanding appearance. I ask permission to remove her." After thinking about it, Mrs. Wang probably didn't want to teach the surname Wang. Let the family get closer to the emperor. This kind of humility and loyalty moved her deeply, so she ordered the relevant yamen and the daughters of the Wang family to cancel it.At this juncture, Mr. Wang Mang's huge tail-wagging system launched an offensive. Senior government officials appealed to Ms. Wang Zhengjun one after another, requesting that no further selection should be made, and Mr. Wang Mang's daughter should be directly designated as the queen.Officials below the middle level and some people all over the country have come up one after another, claiming that Mr. Wang Mang is worthy of heaven and earth, and the Tao is the crown of the past and the present. He does not teach his daughter to be the queen, but plans to choose another daughter as the queen. There is nothing more absurd in the world than this It's even more against etiquette and sentiment.

The strong pressure made the old and confused Ms. Wang Zhengjun even more confused, so she respected public opinion and public opinion and announced that Mr. Wang Mang's daughter was selected as Mr. Liu Jizi's wife.Mr. Wang Mang said that he did not dare to be, and even his daughter did not dare to be. After tossing for a while, he thought of his "ancient ritual" again, and suggested that eleven beauties were still needed as concubines (wife) for dowry, and that Mrs. The empress dowager first sent imperial envoys to check whether her daughter's appearance was up to standard, and then asked the empress dowager to appoint an astrologer to do fortune-telling and fortune-telling.Woohoo, what else is there to see?What else is there to predict?By the time the proposal was made, there was already an affirmative answer.But Mr. Wang Mang still wants to play these tricks, showing that he has no choice but to be impartial.

The result of the inspection is that Mr. Wang Mang’s daughter is wonderful, and the result of the divination is even more auspicious. It's an engagement, and everything is still an "ancient ceremony". The plan is to hire 20,000 catties of gold (20,000 catties, that is, 320,000 taels, this amount can scare people to death), and 200 million coins (it is always 1,000 yuan). According to the purchasing power at that time, 200 yuan could feed a family of five for three months, and 200 million yuan was 20 billion yuan, enough to feed the entire island of Taiwan for a month). ——Mr. Liu Bang, the founder of the Western Han Dynasty, started his business as a hooligan. He was so poor, but his descendants own such a large fortune. Where did the money come from?