Chapter 64 From empress dowager to princess

Since Mr. Wang Mang is determined to seize power, the whole country has to pocket it. Of course, he doesn't care about gold and copper coins, and in order to show the virtue of humility, he only accepts 40 million copper coins. One million guan, allocated to the natal families of the eleven maids (媵), and each family received 3 million guan.This beautiful approach has aroused applause, and Mr. Wang Mang needs this kind of applause.The tail-wagging system protested to the Empress Dowager, saying that the queen's dowry was only 7 million guan, which was almost the same as that of a concubine. Not only was it unfair, but it also damaged the queen's dignity and asked for an increase.

The old woman Wang Zhengjun ordered an additional 23 million guan, together with the original 7 million guan left by Mr. Wang Mang, a total of 30 million guan.Woohoo, Mr. Wang Mang is really an outstanding person. After he did this, the national treasury spent another 23 million yuan. This is all tax money for poor people, but Mr. Wang Mang made face.But Mr. Wang Mang still continued to stage close-up shots, and among the 40 million guan, he allocated 10 million guan to distribute to the poorer family surnamed Wang—he wanted every possible role to be grateful to him. Affection.The tail-waving system also suggested to the Empress Dowager that according to "ancient rituals", the fief of the emperor's father-in-law should have at least 50 square kilometers, and Xinye (Xinye County, Henan Province) has just found out that there are 25,000 square kilometers of fertile land. Six hundred hectares, just to increase his fiefdom.

Since Mr. Wang Mang's goal is the land of the whole country, of course he does not want this small 25,600 hectares, so he firmly refuses. After the engagement was lively for a while, it was followed by marriage, which of course was more lively than engagement. On the auspicious day in February of the fourth year of the A.D., Mr. Ma Gong, the chief chancellor (Da Situ), and Mr. Zhen Feng, the second chancellor (Da Sikong), guarded the imperial sedan chair and chariot dedicated to the emperor, and arrived at Mr. Wang Mang’s duke. Mansion to marry a bride——Mr. Wang Mang was granted the title of Duke (An Han Gong) after he returned to the government.

It is also the emperor's prerogative to send a representative to marry. The folk etiquette is that the groom must go to the wedding in person in a sedan chair. But if the groom is not an ordinary person but an emperor, the traditional etiquette will completely collapse. Xiaomin's also.If Mr. Liu Jizi was an ordinary family, and he did not marry himself, but only sent a representative, he would probably be beaten and bruised all over his body.Ms. Wang Xiaoping, like Mr. Liu Jizi, was only thirteen years old. At the age of thirteen, she was an immature child in the first and second grades of junior high school.Alas, even after two thousand years, we can still imagine the grand occasion of the emperor's "big wedding".They were lucky in their three lives to witness the most thrilling glory and wealth in the world. ——If someone pierces through the streamer and sees the terrible fate of the prosperous and wealthy hero and heroine and supporting actors, their blood will freeze, woohoo.

On December 8th of the lunar calendar in the second year of marriage (AD 6), commonly known as "Laba", Mr. Wang Mang offered chili wine to the emperor and son-in-law, but put poison in the wine. Mr. Liu Jizi suffered from stomach pain for several days and died. end.Poor Ms. Wang Xiaoping became a widow after only one year as queen. She is probably one of the youngest widows in the world, only fourteen years old.After the death of Mr. Liu Jizi, there were no close brothers, uncles and nephews who could inherit the throne, and the imperial line of the Western Han Dynasty was cut off.At this time, Mr. Wang Mang could take the stage by himself, but he still proceeded cautiously. He selected a two-year-old child from the alienated royal family surnamed Liu—Mr. Liu Ying, and taught him to inherit the throne.A two-year-old baby is a standard puppet, and the female lead Wang Xiaoping has become the empress dowager as a matter of course, and is probably one of the youngest empress dowagers in the world.

Liu Yingwa was hugged and sat on the dragon chair for four years. In the ninth year of AD, Mr. Wang Mang arranged it properly and the time was ripe. Liu Yingwa was carried down again. He was only five years old. ——The reason why he became the last emperor of the Western Han Dynasty was because he was too young; and the reason why he kept his life after the fall of the dynasty and was not poisoned to death like Mr. Liu Jizi was also because he was too young. Mr. Wang Mang is now the emperor, and the regime he established is called the New Dynasty, which means that everything has been renewed from scratch.Liu Yingwaer was named Duke Ding'an of the new dynasty, and his eighteen-year-old daughter, Ms. Wang Xiaoping, was conferred the title of Empress Dowager Ding'an of the new dynasty.Ms. Wang Xiaoping is a gentle girl. She is praised in history books as "gentle and virtuous". She watched the Western Han Dynasty fall and her beautiful dreams were ruthlessly destroyed by real politics. She felt helpless in her lonely heart. Grief and indignation.But she was caught in the cracks, the Western Han Dynasty was her husband's family, and the emperor of the new dynasty was her father, so she couldn't choose. Her only reaction was to often pretend to be sick and refuse to go to court.Mr. Wang Mang also felt sorry for his daughter, so he changed her title to "Huang Huang Family Head" to pave the way for her remarriage. "The head of the Huanghuang family" is a strange term formulated by Mr. Wang Mang according to the ancient etiquette, and it is actually the "Princess Huanghuang". What is "Yellow Emperor"?No one knows, only Mr. Wang Mang knows.His Excellency is the "King of the Retro", and the Confucian school's retro spirit has been carried forward in him.After he seized power, he asked everything to return to the original state of the Zhou Dynasty in the twelfth century BC, and the "Yellow Emperor" was just one of the smallest tricks.