Happiness Consist in Contentment

Liu Fang: ... Die-mother really thought it through!

"Daughter naturally believes in her mother. Thank you for her hard work. My mother is so troublesome for me. My daughter is very grateful. I can only honor you more in the future."

After that, Liu Fang put down the roster, got up and respectfully gave Mrs. Liu Guogong a big gift.

Mrs. Liu Guogong waved her hand, "You, in the future, live your life well, don't have to worry about it is the best filial piety. Get up quickly, take a good look, and tell me when you've decided on a candidate."

"Yes, mother."

Liu Fang got up, sat on the soft couch, and read the roster carefully.

There are not many people, only seven, but they are indeed in line with her requirements, and they have carefully investigated their life history.

Generally speaking, they are all people with clean family background, clean family style, simple population, and mellow nature. As for the appearance, it is really ordinary.

But Liu Fang doesn't care too much about appearance, as long as it doesn't look too unsightly, she can still accept it.

As for love, I'm sorry, she is an older leftover girl who has never been in love or married in her previous life. She really doesn't understand what love is.

She just wants this life to be simple, to end it leisurely, and to die.

In fact, up to now, she is still ignorant about the content of her work.

Although when she was in the underworld, people told her that she had no worries in her life, and that she could complete the task when she died.

But at the beginning, when she came through, she was very confused.

This concubine department, to put it bluntly, is the task released by various concubines, but in fact, she has no idea what the concubines who released the task actually released the task for.

After she came, she didn't know anything, except the map of this world and all the historical background.

There is no golden finger, and there is no memory of the original owner's previous life, as if she had been reborn by herself.

It's completely different from the kind of task she imagined.

And after crossing over, she still has a lot of things she doesn't understand: Does this world really exist? If it is true, what is the matter with the tasks mentioned by the underworld? Can this world really be reborn at will and traversed at will?

In short, in this experience mission, Liu Fang discovered many problems that he had not had time to think about in the underworld at that time.

But now, she can't get the answer.

I can only wait for the end of the mission this time, when I return to the underworld, I will find the "people" to ask clearly.

As for how to complete this task? In fact, she really didn't quite understand.

Simply, Liu Fang took what he heard in the underworld as his mission goal: worry-free life and death.

As for what kind of life did the original owner of the mission want to live: is he a wealthy family with rich clothes and jade food? Or a humble home, warm and simple?

She can't take care of that much anymore.

She only follows her own thoughts and does what she feels comfortable with. She could only guess some thoughts of the original owner.

She doesn't care what the outcome will be. Anyway, she was already dead, the big deal is to die again, it's nothing.

Take this experience mission as your whole life, and thinking about it this way is equivalent to earning it.

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In March of the Spring Festival, in addition to the vigorous start of Spring Festival, people in Beijing also began to go out for outings in groups of three or five, and large families even held banquets every three days.

After all, everything is recovering and the spring is shining, it is a good time to play, and it is also a good time to have a blind date between families.

Although Liu Fang is very reassured about the people on the roster given by her mother, she still has to see it with her own eyes to be sure.

As for how to see it? That is also simple, as long as these students meet by chance when they go to the outskirts of Beijing to play, they will be able to see one or two across a group of people.

Liu Fang doesn't need to worry about the specifics. Mrs. Liu Guogong will arrange it.

Therefore, on this day, An He, who had cultivated his mind at home for a long time, was mercifully released by Mrs. Liu Guogong and asked her to accompany Liu Fang to Yanghu, a suburb of Beijing.

Yanghu Lake was once accepted as a royal garden in the previous dynasty. The entire lake is surrounded by mountains, and the environment is beautiful, like a fairyland.

In the Jin Dynasty, the founding emperor felt that the previous dynasties were too extravagant and there were too many royal gardens! At the beginning of his dynasty, he was too poor, and he really had no money to support these expensive gardens. So part of it was opened up for the people in Beijing to play.

And Yang Hu is one of them.

The former royal courtyards around the lake were also auctioned off to the founding fathers and wealthy families.

In this way, the founding emperor lost a hot potato that required money to maintain, and made a lot of money to maintain the construction and operation of the country at the beginning of the founding of the dynasty.

Therefore, this emperor is also very business-minded.

Although the people of the world despise merchants and the like, they understand that without them

, the world really doesn't turn around.

And this also proves that one-tenth of the rich people are worth a lifetime of search among the poor.

Therefore, the business taxation of the Jin Dynasty was very fine and heavy. At the same time, officials and nobles are not prohibited from doing business, but the business tax is a lot.

The business tax paid by an ordinary person doing business is completely different from the business tax paid by a seventh-rank official, let alone those high-ranking officials and dignitaries.

However, this is also beneficial.

It has been more than 40 years since the establishment of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the national strength is at its peak, which is entirely due to the correct reason for taxation.

In the Jin Dynasty, farmers paid less tax, and there were no harsh taxes such as poll tax. The payment is based on the number of fields they own. If ordinary people own fields, the amount they own will not be too much. It is different for high-level and large households. If they move, they will be hundreds of acres or thousands of acres, and the number will be huge.

Moreover, the land tax of the Great Jin Dynasty was not exempted from this.

That is to say, except for the emperor's decree, occasional tax cuts in a certain place due to natural disasters. Usually, no matter whether they have fame or not, the common people and nobles are the same and have to pay taxes.

Including the emperor's own farmland, he has to pay taxes, let alone others?

This means that the Jin Dynasty has just been established for less than a hundred years. It is a new dynasty that has broken the old and established the new. If the emperor of the previous dynasty dared to do this? Ha ha.

It was because the agricultural taxation of the Great Jin Dynasty was low, and it was nothing to the common people or the nobles. Then the business tax and other things are collected more heavily. In this way, the national treasury is so full, and the national strength is stronger and stronger year by year.

Therefore, from the beginning of March to March, the people in Beijing are really crowded, there are people everywhere, bustling and lively.

An He and Liu Fang rode the carriage all the way to the suburbs of Beijing. Along the way, they met several noble ladies who were visiting. Just in time for the crowds, An He responded to their invitation and played with them together.

When they arrived at the edge of Yanghu Lake, there were sergeants from the Five Cities and Horse Divisions who specialized in maintaining law and order, and there were also yamen yamen officers guarding, patrolling, and maintaining security.

There are also two large parking spaces for carriages next to them, which are guarded by special people.

This is similar to the tourist attractions of today.

Liu Fang and An He disembarked from the carriage, the guards dismounted, and after them, the waitresses and maids also got out of the carriage, carried the utensils in the carriage, and arranged a place for them to rest for a while.

Liu Fang and An He first brought paintings and calligraphy together with Xiang Ying to meet other noble girls

Hehe, go to the lake to see the scenery, and chat while watching, it is also lively.

Yanghu Lake has surging blue waves, shady trees by the lake, willows and willows, soft grass, and surrounded by green mountains, white clouds and blue sky, it is really refreshing and happy to linger.

Yanghu Lake is very large, and the surrounding grass is also very wide. There are paths between the grasses, and it is very leisurely to walk through it.

Therefore, even if there are many players, they still have their own fun and do not disturb each other. Occasionally see each other, but also smile with each other, happy.

In this kind of play season, no one will care about the status and inferiority, but will only be immersed in the beautiful scenery and the happy atmosphere, and have no time to care.

After walking for a while, Liu Fang was walking along the lake with the crowd, and she met the target of her going out today: the group of poor students on the roster.

Of course, it's not just the seven of them. It's impossible for all seven of them to know each other, and they are all in the same group.

But among the group of students she met face to face, there happened to be four groups of people who knew each other, and then they merged into a group of students.

In this way, the seven people that Liu Fang wanted to meet by chance are all among them.

Yang An is also among them.

Today, he was wearing a white robe embroidered with emerald green bamboo patterns, a sapphire crown on his head, and his black hair was high, but his face was like a crown of jade, and his bearing was extraordinary.

In fact, he didn't understand what he was thinking at the moment when he went out. Instead of tying his hair with the cloth belt he was used to, he wore the only sapphire crown and the new clothes he had just made, as if he had something in his heart. Then a thought: maybe meet her?

At this moment, Yang An saw Liu Fang through the crowd, and he suddenly realized where the urge to go out came from.

Of course, he bowed his head and smiled, laughing at himself that he was still extremely hypocritical after all. It turned out that he also had the idea of ​​clinging to the high door, but he thought that the light was bright and the moon was peaceful and poor.

It's ridiculous!

Maybe it was because the matchmaker frequently came to the door recently and talked with him about too many girls' homes, so that he had such an unrealistic idea in his mind.

Yang An shook his head and thought no more. Just relax and talk to your classmates about recent current affairs.

The Great Jin Dynasty was still a time when the atmosphere was open. Nowadays, the common people and the students, more or less, would discuss and discuss the political affairs of the court.

Especially now that it is the time of spring, and they are in Kyoto, even if they don't participate, they will inevitably have a discussion.

Liu Fang and others listened to the excitement they were talking about, so they stood not far away and listened.

After listening for a while, I finally understood something.

They were discussing the recent addition of the emperor to the emperor.

In the Great Jin Dynasty, there were already female officials in the imperial court, and there was nothing to discuss when a woman was an official. It's just that the female marquis is the first to be knighted because of her merit!

Therefore, recently, whether it is in the court or among the people, there has been a lot of discussion on this matter.

It doesn't mean that the female marquis are unworthy of merit, nor does it mean that the courtiers and the common people have prejudice against the female marquis. It's just the controversy over the position of the prince caused by the matter of the female marquis being enthroned.

The current sage is Emperor Wen of Jin, the eldest son of the founding emperor. He became the crown prince naturally at first, and finally ascended the throne smoothly.

However, the current emperor, the empress of Emperor Wen of Jin, that is, his original wife gave birth to only one eldest princess, no prince, and no children for many years.

Zhong Gong has no children, in fact, it is nothing. The problem is: this eldest princess Wen Tao and martial arts are extraordinary!

Not to mention being smart since childhood, but also quite kind and virtuous, in this way, the princes are really too mediocre in comparison.

Whether it's the courtiers or the commoners, they always sigh: If only the eldest princess was the eldest prince! Then, there is no dispute about the position of the prince.

Now the title of the female marquis has allowed the courtiers and the common people to see another possibility: since there are already female officials and female marquis, then there is a princess, and there will be a female emperor in the future. possible!

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Therefore, this incident has detonated the public opinion of the whole world, and the material discussion is boiling!

At home, Liu Fang also often heard the discussions between Mrs. Liu Guogong and the eldest son, and most of them were more optimistic that the eldest princess would become the heir.

After all, no matter in terms of respectability, seniority, or talent and character, this eldest princess deserves to be the first among the princes and princesses!

Furthermore, Prince An, that is, the eighth prince and the eldest princess are very close, and the eighth prince has no idea of ​​competing for the throne. Liu Guogong's mansion still prefers the eldest princess who is both talented and virtuous as the heir.

Most of these scholars have a good impression of the eldest princess, but some still insist on the concept of male and female superiority and inferiority, and they are not optimistic about the eldest princess as the king.

"In the end, it's just that the eldest princess is a woman. If she was born as a man, would you have any objections?"

A blue-clothed scholar looked at his classmates and said.

Everyone shook their heads, "The princess' talent is admired even in the lower classes, but it's a pity..."

The blue-clothed scholar sneered: "If that's the case, then you can't stand the monarch who will serve as a woman in the future.

With such a narrow mind, even if the eldest princess becomes a king in the future, she will not be happy to reuse you. "

These remarks simply offended the rhythm of the students all over the world. Not only all the students were stunned, but Liu Fang and others were also stunned.

An He rolled his eyes angrily, and said to Liu Fang, "I remember he was one of the candidates favored by my mother, called Fang Cheng?"

Liu Fang nodded, "Well, it's him."

Fang Cheng, who was raised in the 18th year of Jinwen, and who was 17 years old, lives in Xiwenjia Lane, the outer city of Kyoto, and is a native of Kyoto. His father died early, and he was raised by a widowed mother, with a younger brother two years younger and a younger sister five years younger.

The family has a residence in Wenjia Lane in the west city of the outer city of Kyoto, a courtyard with three entrances, two hundred acres of farmland in the suburbs of Beijing, two shops in the west city of the outer city of Kyoto, and several servants.

I am of good character, quite talented and famous. I have no concubine room, and I have never been married.

- The above is what Mrs. Liu Guogong showed Liu Fang on the register, about Fang Cheng's life history.

I didn't see the "good character" mentioned above, but it was true that his words were sharp.

An He said to Liu Fang, "Even if this person is talented, he is a proud person, and his ambition is not small. It is far from what you think, and it is not a good match."

Liu

Fang understood what she meant.

Whether this Fang Cheng said such a thing without thinking or deliberately, it is not a "good match" for her who wants to find someone with "less things".

- It's not that they don't deserve her, but they don't suit her well.

If the other party said such a thing without thinking, it proves that he is not worthy of the name, a reckless and impulsive idiot; Some of them are talented, want to do something, and even have ambitions such as being a prince and a minister.

No matter which one it is, it is not suitable for Liu Fang.

The former will make her devastated, and the latter will make her live in calculations all the time, and she is really tired, and it is not what she thinks and wants.

Liu Fang smiled at An He, "Don't worry, sister, I came to see them on purpose today. If there are no suitable ones, I will not wrong myself."

An He listened and nodded with a smile, "That's how it should be."

The two of them whispered softly next to each other, but no one heard what they said, and the others were still listening with interest to the group of scholars continuing to discuss.

Although Fang Cheng's words stunned everyone, some people still came out and retorted: "Brother Fang's words are serious. It's not that I don't want to serve under the queen in the future. In fact, there are also virtuous people among the princes. It's not just the eldest princess."

Fang Cheng sneered again, "Really? Are you trying to say the first prince?"

"Uh..." The man concluded, unable to really say that he was the first prince.

After all, anyone with eyes will know that the eldest prince is a rough man who can only charge into battle.

Back then, in the three-year border battle of Jinwen, the eldest prince volunteered to lead his troops to fight. Within three days, he was trapped by the enemy until he was almost caught and became a prisoner.

If the eldest princess was not in the northwest and led troops to rescue him, I am afraid he would have become the first prince who was defeated and captured since the founding of the Jin Dynasty.

An He murmured to Liu Fang, "Well, this person is not good either. He actually took refuge in the eldest prince's straw bag, and his mind will not be full of grass, right?"

Liu Fang held back her laughter and gave An He a resigned look, "Sister Seventeen, you are too mean."

"Mean? I think it's the truth?"

Liu Fang: ...Okay, just be happy if you're happy!

At this time, another student said: "Even if the princes are indeed inferior to the eldest princess, they are not all incompetent.

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An He covered his eyes and said to Liu Fang, "I didn't even see it, how could such a stupid thing be said in public?"

Liu Fang also shook his head. What this man said about the Shoucheng King, let's not say whether this sentence is arrogant or not, but only said that those princes heard it, I am afraid they may not be happy.

There are only two emperors in the Great Jin Dynasty today. I won't say that the first emperor was the founding emperor. Naturally, he can blow it to the sky.

It can only be said that Emperor Wen of Jin is not a mediocre and inactive ruler, but a pioneering king who is quite visionary, very thoughtful, and very bold.

No matter whether it is a man or a woman, no one is willing to criticize them for being mediocre and incompetent when they ascend to the supreme position, and the four words "shoucheng monarch" are equivalent to the meaning of "mediocre and incompetent".

- What kind of emperor will be called "the ruler of the guard"?

- When he was on the throne, he didn't do much, and he didn't make any big mistakes. No matter how you took over the throne, when you died, you passed it on.

Come to think of it, who would like to be judged like that?

Even if it is an ordinary person, if a part-time worker wants to be rated as an advanced, at least he has to be an excellent one. Who would fight for that "ordinary"?

So, what this person said is really stupid and has no level.

Liu Fang was really disappointed.

The two people who refuted Fang Cheng in front of them were all on the roster, so there's no need to say who they are. Just saying that these two people said such mindless words, Liu Fang doesn't need to look at other people.

- Mrs. Liu Guogong is the most optimistic about this Fang Cheng, but she also said that this person is not in the pool.

So, Liu Fang felt that she really came to play today, and everything she thought was in vain.

...

The debate here continues.

Fang Cheng looked at the man, shook his head and sighed: "When did the Jin Dynasty fall to the point where I only need a guarding ruler? It's a shame! It's a shame!"

Everyone frowned, Zhang Ming couldn't help it, and said, "Brother Fang, you are wrong."

Fang Cheng raised his eyebrows, "Oh? Really? Brother Zhang, I don't know what's wrong?"

Zhang Ming: "Everyone knows the talent and virtue of the eldest princess, there is nothing to argue about. But to say that the princes are really useless, this is not necessarily true.

Ordinary people have strengths and weaknesses. Isn't this normal?

Besides, the matter of the prince is a major matter of the country, and it is not for you and me to make a conclusion.

The emperor also has his own decision.

Even if one day, the eldest princess is the heir, we will serve the court and will not change the hearts of the people of the world.

On the contrary, if one day, the prince is not the eldest princess, but another prince, will you and I change our original intentions? "

Fang Cheng choked, speechless, but his face was not very good-looking.

As if he couldn't see it, Zhang Ming still said calmly, "Brother Fang, that's the case. Then, what is the difference between whether the eldest princess will become the heir? Don't you still choose the monarch you serve?"

This is so sharp!

An He's eyes lit up and said to Liu Fang, "This is amazing!"

Liu Fang: …

"Hehe, it's so awesome!"

What he said is of course justified. The most important thing is that none of this group of people dared to say a word: I want to choose my own master!

Such thoughts will only be thought in their own minds and discussed in secret, and no one will shout out loudly in front of the crowd.

This is like Fang Cheng just now, he only seized the talent and virtue of the eldest princess to attack others; while Zhang Ming seized only "the monarch chooses them, and there is no way that they will point fingers at the crown prince, pick the fat and the thin. "To fight back.

Even if someone secretly has an inclination, or even has a candidate for refuge, but now, no one will say it, and no one will dare to say it.

Zhang Ming is very powerful and very smart. He found that the angle of the topic is getting more and more biased, from ordinary discussions to disputes of positions, which is incredible.

No matter how open the atmosphere is, it is still a feudal society. In the era of the emperor, if there is an emergency, everyone present will not survive.

Therefore, he intends to end the topic directly, his words are very sharp and merciless.

It's just that he wanted to end the topic, but Fang Cheng didn't want to. He also planned to take this opportunity to become famous all over the world.

So he said from a different angle: "Brother Zhang is right. However, I feel that in addition to being a daughter, the eldest princess's talent and virtue are already worthy of the prince. The other princes are not incompetent, but they are relatively There is a gap.

For the world, for the common people, it is better for the eldest princess to be the prince, what does Brother Zhang think? "

Zhang Ming was really annoyed by him, and said lightly: "Even so. But the matter of the crown prince is a big matter, and it is naturally left to the adults in the court to consider, and the emperor himself decides. Even if you and I respect the eldest princess again. It's impossible to jump to conclusions on this, right?"

Fang Cheng sneered: "The world is a world of people, you and I are just discussing, isn't it okay?"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, An He's eyes brightened and he was excited, but Liu Fang frowned and was very worried:

Arguing, does it really matter?

Yang An also frowned, looking at Fang Cheng and Zhang Ming's unstoppable looks, obviously planning to fight for a better place today.

He took a step forward and bowed to the two of them. Fang Cheng Zhang Ming took a look, but he calmed down and gave Yang An a salute.

Between the salute and the salute, the tension in the field was relieved.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts: After all, a rescue has come!

"Under Yang An, I have a few words that I would like to discuss with the two brothers."

Fang Cheng and Zhang Ming were embarrassed to continue arguing, so they nodded and said, "Please speak."

Yang An nodded and spoke slowly.

An He dragged Liu Fang and said, "Look, this one is not bad, he looks good! And he stunned everyone when he appeared on the stage! Awesome!"

Liu Fang's brows loosened, she smiled slightly, and said nothing, just watching what the other party said.

"Just now I heard the two brothers talking, and they highly praised the talent and virtue of the eldest princess. The same is true here."