Chapter 967

It makes sense that men always have more feelings for the first woman they own.

It is a kind of deep impression that even if you experience countless women later, you will never forget the first woman. Her position is always left in a corner of your heart.

If you don't marry the first woman, even if you live happily after marriage, and occasionally dream back at midnight, even if you don't deliberately miss, some memory fragments will emerge uncontrollably. You can't do it if you want to "close the screen". The more you want to forget, the memory will become clearer.

Not only men, but also women.

Therefore, if their other half is not "the first time in life", even if they never show any difference, they can't avoid the existence of some unspeakable secrets.

In some things, women are more ruthless than men, while men tend to be more indecisive.

In fact, men are far more affectionate than women, but they are basically driven by a possessive desire that they don't even find.

Liu Yan can have as many harem beauties as he wants now, but he subconsciously comes to Tuoba show when he chooses to relax. In fact, his habit is very bad. If Cui Wan was not rational and didn't have too much ambition with Tuoba show, he would have staged the drama of palace heart fight.

As the queen, Cui Wan maintained the greatest restraint. Her bottom line is that Liu Shen's status should not be challenged. In addition, she will not compete for favor. Her concubines are different.

In fact, as long as Liu Shen's position is stable, Cui Wan's position will never be shaken. In this case, it would be a failure to argue for something again. She had only a vague understanding, but her family had explained it thoroughly.

The female official informed that tuobaxiu was a little stunned and went out in person.

Before long, four "imperial concubine" level women came in talking and laughing.

After they crossed the threshold, they closed their voices and were closer to Liu Yan. In addition to Tuoba show, the rest took their children to salute themselves.

Tuobaxiu, who first followed Liu Yan, is 31 years old this year. In modern terms, she has become a young woman.

The youngest of the four imperial concubines is Xie Daoyi, 22. Sang Miao and Zhang Lan are both 26.

In such an age, if you are over 20 years old, you will be recognized as an old woman. The best age for women is between 13 and 16 years old.

The three concubines who came over, plus the ones held in their arms, fortunately, the indoor space is large enough. Otherwise, more than ten people should be so crowded that they don't even have a place to stand.

Liu Yan is thinking about something. It seems that he hasn't been away from a concubine for a long time. He went to Xie Daoyi's side to stay in bed last night. What's going on today regardless of the impact?

At the second stage under the empress "imperial concubine", they naturally couldn't do anything. They gathered together and chattered together. They were sitting on the sitting garden brought by the palace maid, with a reserved smile on their faces, or talking in a low voice, or sitting quietly.

Liu Yan finished reading the adult and looked at the child.

The children are more active. Those who are brave have gathered around Liu Yan, while those who are timid have gathered around their mother or played in an open place with their brothers and sisters who play well.

Liu Yan has 31 children, all of whom are relatively young. During the winter solstice and the new year, he would only summon his concubines and all the children above Shaoshi (level 10) to eat together in Weiyang palace. Usually, he could not see all the children coming together.

"Father emperor, this is lin'er's work." Seven year old Liu Lin was holding a cricket made of grass in his hand. He looked at Liu Yan with expectant eyes and asked, "is it like?"

"Like." Although Liu Yan was not impressed by every son, at least he could remember his name and appearance. He looked very much like Liu Lin when he was a child and asked with a smile, "did you do it yourself?"

Liu Lin nodded like a chicken, with an expression that wanted to be praised: "it took me four days to do it slowly. I just did it yesterday."

With Liu Lin's leadership, several brothers and sisters also took out their own gadgets and showed them to Liu Yan one by one. Everyone was praised by Liu Yan.

Boys make insects and girls make small animals.

When Liu Yan asked, he knew that it was the extracurricular homework assigned by the teacher. Then he asked who the teacher assigned the homework was. After he got the name, he nodded with satisfaction.

The lecturer is either an official position or some lecturers assigned to teach the prince and daughter. There is no fixed teacher, either Ji Chang, who does not need to be on duty, or a famous opposition scholar whose reputation has spread to Liu Yan, who is invited to speak.

No matter who has the opportunity to lecture to the prince and daughter, they will not refuse. They even cherish the opportunity to promote the teaching of the prince and daughter to the height of preaching.

It is because when they reach the height of preaching that many people have the opportunity to teach to princes and daughters, they generally show their skills, and the topics they talk about exceed the boundary that children under the age of 10 can understand, and the results are obvious.

"Yu Xi?" Liu Yan still had a deep impression on the man: "is his body still strong?"

The oldest Liu Yin replied, "I often cough badly when giving lectures."

Yu Xi is 73 years old this year. He discovered the precession and founded the "theory of an Tian". He is not only a very famous scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, but also a famous astronomer in the history of Zhuxia. The height of the literary world is slightly lower than that of Zhang Heng (the one who made the armillary sphere) in the Western Han Dynasty.

"A bad cough?" Liu Yan knows that it is an extremely long life to live to 73 now. If he coughs badly at this age, it is basically very bad: "lecture with illness?"

Zhuo Xiang, who was also present, saluted and said, "Your Majesty, everyone Yu has been ill for two months. His family persuaded him not to give lectures in the palace and was rejected."

"Cui Jinshi." Liu Yan looked at Cui Zong and said, "order the imperial doctor to visit Yu's house."

Cui Zong naturally should "promise", but he didn't leave immediately.

Now there is no personal secretary Lang said that the official position of the people who always serve around Liu Yan has been changed to a near attendant, but the near attendant has never been castrated. It's just an official name.

The near attendants belong to the Shizhong mansion. According to the rank, they are six grade officials. Because they can serve the emperor all the time, they are absolutely small but not inferior.

Chang'an is the imperial capital and is destined to attract people with lofty ideals from all over the country.

Because the Han Empire has not limited population mobility, ambitious people in the whole Han Empire will come to Chang'an whether they have a big pocket or not.

People with good family resources will definitely choose to buy a house when they come to Chang'an.

However, the richer you are, the bigger the house you live in. If you have money but don't have enough titles, some local restrictions may be blurred, but Chang'an doesn't do that. If you don't have enough titles, you can honestly live in a house attached to your own identity.

Some scholars who want to come to Chang'an to find opportunities are actually more inclined to post to a high nobility. They have a good reputation and enough real materials. Basically, they can be hired, perhaps as teaching for their children, or accepted as family ministers.

If they have a talent and don't have a loud enough reputation, they can only choose to make their reputation loud. Generally, they can set up their own literary challenge arena or challenge the champion of the challenge arena at the temple of heaven square.

In addition, they can also offer articles to senior officials or high barons, hoping that someone can appreciate their articles.

Liu Yanping will pay more or less attention to the literary struggle at the temple of heaven. If there are talents, he will order people to investigate the history and past events. He will also collect the man's articles. That is, he has not personally made an exceptional promotion. He will really appreciate it in a roundabout way... Such as telling which Shangshu to pay attention to it.

The Han Empire does not need to be appointed by the emperor. Even if you have talent, you should struggle step by step.

It's not that Liu Yan doesn't pay attention to talents. It's that he needs to ensure enough fairness and can't break the rules by himself. On the contrary, he should maintain the set rules.

In the Han Empire, if you have talent but don't do practical things, you just think about which golden thigh you can hold, and how many years do you struggle less by holding the golden thigh. Even if it is really convenient to hold the golden thigh, at most, that is, to enter the officialdom or the army, we still need to start from the bottom.

There will be such a rule, which is based on what kind of status you want to get. First of all, you have to establish enough credit and what achievements you have made. Without merit and achievements, one can only pass on his academic name to the world, and he can only be a famous scholar in opposition forever.

In fact, this point has been criticized by many people. What ordinary people want to see and hear most is someone who is amazing, and then valued by who. In a short time, they have completed the achievements that others need to achieve in a few years or decades. They will have such a mentality, which is nothing more than everyone's expectation of "shortcut".

The key lies in the word "shortcut", and what a country can't exist is "shortcut". Usually, "shortcut" is equal to "trickery".

Are all "tricks", doesn't it mean using clever means to seek illegitimate interests or avoid difficulties?

It is not terrible for individuals to advocate "ingenuity" and desire "shortcuts". It will be terrible for most successful people in a country to use such means, and it will be dangerous for the national level.

In the early days, Liu Yan always subconsciously used modern ideas to do things in this era, which is also the reason why his power seemed so strange in the early days.

After the forces became large and formal, Liu Yan understood that advance was not equal to application and began to exercise self-restraint. He still likes some values and thoughts of the general public in the current era, which are full of authentic Chinese flavor. It is not the utilitarian core after Western civilization has become the mainstream.

"Let shen'er and ming'er..." Liu Yan ordered several names in succession. They were all older children: "let them go to the Qinglong gate."

Cui Zong respectfully said "yes!". This time he left with a brisk step, and when he came out of the door, a smile appeared on his face.

Cui Wan, who is the queen, is inconvenient to do many things. For example, when the four imperial concubines get together, the queen has to bear it even if she wants to come again. The queen needs to be reserved, so she can't come with Liu Shen.

Just now Cui Zong looked at the emperor's heirs around Liu Yan, all kinds of coquetry. He was anxious in his heart.

"They followed me, you..." Liu Yan got up and gave no reason: "what to do, what to do."

No matter what the three concubines wanted to say or do, Liu Yan didn't intend to give them a chance. He wanted to tell Tuoba Xiu about the remnant of Tuoba, but he had to mention it later.

When Liu Yan left, he took the prince and daughter over the age of five, and each of them looked for his mother under the age of five. When he arrived at the Qinglong gate, the named Prince and daughter had been waiting by the gate.

"See father!"

Liu Shen saluted with his waiting brother and sister.

"Yes." Liu Yan has put on his regular clothes, followed by a large group of people, and told Liu Shen: "look at your brother and sister more."

Liu Shen, also dressed in regular clothes, saluted again respectfully and said, "promise!"

This time out of the palace, Liu Yan thought of the temple of heaven and a whim surrounded by his children, so he wanted to take his children out of the palace.

When the emperor leaves the palace, naturally, Liu Yan doesn't roar and say to go. In fact, he needs to leave a time difference. At least let the relevant personnel go to the place to decorate first. At the same time, there will be no fewer bodyguards on the surface.

The so-called arrangement is either to clear the site, or to eliminate hidden dangers first, and then to enter the position of people who need to be guarded and protected in the dark.

Shopping with a large group of people in Chang'an is not a conspicuous thing. It is even common that there are many bodyguards around.

After all, this is Chang'an, the capital of the Empire. How can there be fewer senior officials and xianjue people? They don't stay at home every day. They often go shopping with their children. Chang'an citizens won't be surprised to see a group of adults shopping together and with many guards.

"Shen'er and yin'er ride with me." Liu Yan stood beside a gorgeous and spacious carriage and looked around at the female official responsible for taking care of the prince and daughter: "be careful."

Liu Ming, the eldest son of the emperor, and Liu Shen, the youngest, were one year old. He looked at Liu Shen from a distance, and his eyes were full of envy.

Liu Ming was born to a female official. Her biological mother Li Fei became one of the concubines of the Imperial Palace because she gave birth to a prince. Although she was a common son of the emperor, she got the rank of "eight sons".

Li Fei knows what kind of position she is. She is extremely satisfied to have the "eight sons" status of the seventh grade in the harem. She really doesn't dare to ask for more. She always teaches Liu Ming to be self disciplined. She even warns Liu Ming not to have any unrealistic ideas more than once.

These children are all their own flesh and blood to Liu Yan. He is not growing up in a "traditional" family. If he did not often deliberately suppress himself, he would not show such obvious differential treatment.

Liu Yan happened to see Liu Ming's expression of envy before boarding the car. He was a little stunned. He paused and chose to ignore it. He has his own monologue in his heart, which is good for Liu Ming and the country.