409, No Marriage Between People with the Same Surname, Concubine System (Please Order the Whole Thing)

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This is what Bai Gui and the Chang'an court have been doing for the past few months.

Over the past year, the people's strength in Qin and Long has gradually recovered. Both the common people and the gentry have begun to praise Bai Gui, the King of Qin, and have full confidence in his rule.

On the contrary, due to the three disadvantages, the Southern Song court had heavy taxes. In order to resist the invasion of the Jin Kingdom and the "Old Song", miscellaneous taxes gradually increased. The two tax-heavy areas of Jiangnan and Bashu gradually began to boil with public resentment.

Jianzhou Jianmen Pass has been opened.

In July, Bai Gui raised 50,000 troops and attacked Bashu according to the time set in the manifesto.

Because the Southern Song Dynasty was perverse and Bashu had old grievances against the Song court, when attacking Bashu, except for a few states and counties that resisted stubbornly, most of the other states and counties only resisted symbolically for one or two times, and then surrendered to the Qin army.

It was almost to the point where the matter was decided by a manifesto.

This is not so unimaginable!

The Qin army was not the Jin army, and the Song court had long lost its moral integrity. Bai Gui, with the military power of destroying Xixia, had done a good job in the internal affairs and civil affairs of Qin and Long. He would also be treated with courtesy after surrendering. Why should these prefects and imperial army commanders who guarded the city work hard for the Lin'an court?

The people who changed the flags on the city walls and ruled the people were still them. .

Of course, if Bai Gui was just a cruel man, then even if he was lucky enough to seize the Qin territory and destroy Xixia, not many people would be optimistic about him and bet on him.

But he was both civil and military, and he was wise and decisive in dealing with things. He looked like a wise leader.

It is human nature to seek benefits and avoid harm.

In July, Bai Gui sent troops from Chang'an, and by mid-August, Bashu had already fallen into his pocket.

However, after he conquered Bashu, he did not take advantage of the situation to attack the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, but continued to repair internal affairs and take care of the people.

In fact, it is not impossible to attack the Southern Song Dynasty along the Yangtze River from Bashu.

But at this moment, whether it is to capture the remaining half of the Southern Song Dynasty or not, it is not a good thing.

Thanks to the natural barriers of Bashu and Qin, the Qin army only needs to lock the pass and wait for the Jin Dynasty to tire.

But if the Southern Song Dynasty is captured, the troops will be too scattered, and it will also give the Jin Dynasty an opportunity to take advantage. The Jin Dynasty sent troops from the Central Plains to attack Huainan and Jiangnan, and there are flaws everywhere that can be attacked.

Strategic advantage will immediately become a strategic disadvantage!

Moreover, although the Jiangnan Road is prosperous, it is already exhausted to support hundreds of thousands of troops of the Southern Song Dynasty. Even if Bai Gui captured Jiangnan, this... tax was received by Zhao Gou for many years.

It is useless!

"Wait until the Jin Dynasty is destroyed, and the Song Dynasty will be a dead bone in the tomb..."

Bai Gui said to the generals who were eager to try.

Most of his soldiers were from the original Shengyi Army, including relatives of the Bai clan, who were from Lin'an, wing troops selected from Jingnan Prefecture, who were from Jingnan, and some imperial guards transferred from various places, who were all from Jiangnan.

If you don't return home when you are rich and powerful, it's like walking at night in brocade clothes.

Now that they have conquered Bashu, they also want to take the opportunity to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty in one go, so that they can go back and be proud.

"Yes, King Qin."

The generals took the order and said no more.

...

Lin'an.

The continuous drizzle that had fallen for three days stopped at Chenshi.

The clouds and mist dispersed.

The palace, Chuigong Hall.

The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were gloomy.

Losing Bashu was equivalent to a lost cause for the Song court.

However, compared with Zhao Gou's frustration and loneliness, the officials of the court had some ulterior motives.

When in Lin'an, Bai Gui, a secretary from the Tongzi Ke, had a lot of dealings with these civil servants, although they only met briefly at literary meetings.

But with this foundation, Bai Gui didn't ask for them to be treated well, but at least he wouldn't treat them harshly.

"Jin people..."

Zhao Gou, who had been silent for a long time, just opened his first sentence.

Instantly, a minister stopped him.

"No!"

"Jin people are the enemies of our Song Dynasty!"

"The shame of Jingkang, has your majesty forgotten?"

All the officials said in unison.

A trace of shame and anger flashed across Zhao Gou's face.

He hadn't spoken yet.

Speaking didn't necessarily mean asking the Jin people to send troops and attack Qin together with the Jin people...

However, the moment he mentioned the Jin people, these officials directly blocked what he wanted to say later on the grounds of the Jingkang shame.

If it were normal times, this would be a crime of deceiving the emperor.

But now... Zhao Gou hesitated. First, the law does not punish everyone. Even if he wants to execute someone, the reasonable political means is to demote him first, cool down for a certain period of time, and then punish him. He is a master of political tactics and knows how to hide his emotions. Second, he is also worried. If Bai Gui's troops come, if he is too harsh, will there be no room for mediation?

"I heard that the King of Qin recently took a new concubine."

"I am the emperor's uncle, so I can't help but express my feelings. I will send 50,000 taels of gold and silver each, and choose three princesses of the right age from the royal family to marry the King of Qin as concubines..."

He took a deep breath and said.

The officials were alienated and the situation was over. What he could do now was to make friends with Bai Gui.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Song Dynasty to counter the military advantage of Bai Gui. The Jin Kingdom and the Song Dynasty had a long-standing feud. It was possible to negotiate peace temporarily, but if they attacked Qin together with the Jin Kingdom, they would immediately be despised by the people of the world.

"When a prince marries a country, the two countries will go to it as concubines, with nephews and concubines as accompaniment. What is a nephew? It is the son of the elder brother. What is a concubine? It is the younger brother. The prince will marry nine women at once, and the prince will not marry again." - "Zuo Zhuan"

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a system of concubines.

If a prince marries a wife, the prince with the same surname as the wife should be given as a concubine, that is, his concubine daughter or concubine sister should be married to the prince who marries the wife.

A prince with the same surname in the same family will marry three concubines.

Just like in the Legend of Miyue, Miyue and Mishu, Mishu is the princess of the legitimate family, and Miyue is the concubine of the prince.

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At that time, people with the same surname were not allowed to marry, even if they were of the same surname but different clans.

It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the law abolished the ban on marriage between people with the same surname.

It was okay for small families, and they would marry.

But Bai Gui is now the King of Qin, the emperor of a country. If Bai Suzhen wants to marry Bai Gui as a concubine, she has to change her surname. Among the Hundred Family Surnames, Zhao, Tian, ​​Sun, and Li, Bai Gui has not usurped the throne, so Bai Gui simply borrowed the name of Zhao Huan, gave Bai Suzhen the name Zhao, and conferred the title of Princess Anrong.

At the same time, it was also a political article.

Marrying a woman surnamed Zhao, although this woman surnamed Zhao was not his own, but making such a gesture meant that even if Bai Gui usurped the throne in the future, he would still treat the Zhao Song clan well.

Treating the clan of the previous dynasty well was a benevolent act.

If even the clan of the previous dynasty was treated well, then the treatment of the officials of the Song court was self-evident.

"Your Majesty is wise."

In the Chuigong Hall, after listening to what Zhao Gou said, all the officials bowed and saluted.

Now that Bashu has been lost, Zhao Gou wants to ask for peace, and wants to spend money to buy peace, buy a few more years of the throne, and make friends with Bai Gui at the same time. So he wants to use the concubine system to directly flatter Bai Gui.

If he gives money directly, it seems too cowardly. He can use the concubine system to convert the money into a bonus, which is not only legitimate, but also much better.