The sound of the central and peaceful piano sounded in the garden of a luxurious mansion in Paris, making people feel like a spring breeze. Occasionally, a slippery sound was like a flying swallow passing by the water, splashing ripples.

The one playing the piano was a stunning girl with a bright face and clear eyes, and a charming charm. This girl is not only gorgeous but also has an indescribable elegant and intelligent temperament. She smiles when playing the piano, making people feel like they want to be close.

The person who was listening to the girl playing the piano was a Confucian scholar in his forties. While listening to the piano, he smiled and nodded, as if he was very satisfied with the girl's piano sound.

At this moment, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and the girl smiled and nodded gently at the man as a gift.

The man smiled and said, "Minmin, you play the piano well and have a better mood. It is really hard to laugh so naturally at this time. It seems that the teacher can let you go to the Ming Dynasty with confidence."

The girl who played the piano was named Minmint Moore. You can tell that she was a banner woman from the appearance. However, her bloodline was not that pure. Just looking at her white skin color, her high nose bridge, and her graceful figure than the girl in the Central Plains, you can tell that she has white bloodline, and this bloodline must be a stunning woman from a white man.

The Confucian scholar in his forties also had some white blood ancestry like Minmint Moore. His surname was Liu, whose courtesy name was Zhan, and his courtesy name was Baichun. He was the grandson of Liu Xiaoyuan, a powerful minister of the Yuan Dynasty. He is now appointed as the governor of Zhenghongqi and was named the Duke of Champagne County. He was a nobleman of the Yuan Dynasty and had no real dispatch. However, his poetry, music, singing and dancing were also famous in the Yuan Dynasty. He also served as the Consul of the Yuan Dynasty to Macau. He formed a friendship with Liu Ji, the former Atlantic Governor of the Ming Dynasty. He is now a friend of his age and understands the affairs of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that he is one of the few diplomatic talents in the Yuan Dynasty today.

However, the articles of this Champagne County Duke were not very good. He had the imperial examinations when he was young, but he was not even a scholar. Naturally, he had no chance with Qingliu, and he was from a noble family, so he had no good future in the officialdom. Now he is only in his forties and is a semi-retired figure. Except for a general who has long been under the cover of the throne, there is nothing in his real life.

Of course, this Champagne County Duke is not serious at all. His main job is to train the Eastern Draft Girl.

The so-called beautiful woman is a unique marriage system of the Eight Banners of the Yuan Dynasty.

All women of the bannermen (except for the Khans in the nearest branch) must participate in the talent show. Among them, they are both talented and beautiful. They can enter the palace to serve the Khan, and the second-class one will be married to the noble princes of the Qing Dynasty. If neither the Khan nor the princes look down on them, they can be married to the children of other bannermen. This kind of talent show is "Western Selection". Most of the show is Western Selection.

If there is "Western Selection", there will naturally be "Eastern Selection". Unlike Western Selection, the number of women from the East Examination is not only small, but they are not the marriage partners prepared for the Khan of the Yuan Dynasty and the Prince Qinggui. They are tributes given to the Ming Empire!

Although the Ming Empire has produced two good-tempered saints since Chen Dexing and has not used any foreign military force, no one dares to regard the giant Ming Empire as transparent. Even the Yuan Kingdom, which is in line with the Ming Dynasty, still offers several beautiful women with good sex every ten years to please the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

These women dedicated to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty were not selected from authentic bannermen, but from the girls' mixed-race girls of bad origin. If the biological fathers of these girls are under-class bannermen, they are naturally "black people" who do not have household registration. If their biological father is a bannerman, they can be fined some money to report the household registration of a banner slave. However, such "flag slave" girls who open the back door are not qualified to participate in the "Western Selection" and can only participate in the "Eastern Selection". Moreover, the age of participating in the "Eastern Selection" is also young, the largest being 12 years old. After the election, the banner will be assigned to train them, and they will be taught by piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing, and will be held again when they are over 16 years old. Only those who have the first place in each banner are qualified to board the tribute ship to the Ming Dynasty.

As the governor of the Zhenghongqi, Liu Zhan didn't know if he was so idle that he actually took over the job of training the Eastern Divine Show Girl. The biological father of the Eastern Divine Show Girl Minmintmoor, who had been trained by him for six years, was not someone else. It was Chahante Muer, who had just been deprived of his post and was sentenced to the prison because of his defeat in the Battle of Rotterdam.

Minmintmoor gently took off his finger condom, his face calm, as if he was not worried about his father's fate at all.

"Master, my disciple is not in a good mood, but I really don't worry about my father. Since the founding of the clan, the rules and regulations of the court have become increasingly relaxed. There are countless officials sentenced to the prison guards, but no one has been killed. My father and brother are all rare brave generals. If the court wants to pacify the bandits, they have to use them. It is estimated that in a few days, they will be sent to the army to serve and make meritorious service."

Liu Zhan just smiled and shook his head. "Didn't tell the truth!"

Minmintmoor smiled: "It turns out that I can't hide it from my master. Minmin is not worried about her father because the Yuan Dynasty still needs Minmin to go to Chen Zongdao's pillow to have a breath."

"The wind is not easy to blow by the pillow!" Liu Zhan shook his head. "Chen Zongdao is different from Emperor Taizong of Ming (Chen Chang'an) and Emperor Shizong of Ming (Chen Youwen). He was not a prince, but a navy soldier. He has been in the army for more than ten years, and he has gone from a non-commissioned officer to a major general of the army. He died of a sudden heart attack when he was thirty-two years old because of his brother and had no son, so he got the opportunity to be the prince. He is not the kind of good boy who was taken care of by others in the palace since he was a child..."

When he heard Liu Zhan use "good boy" to describe the emperor of the Ming Empire, he burst out laughing: "Master, isn't this Chen Zongdao obedient?"

"Then you need to say it?" Liu Zhan frowned slightly, "As soon as he ascended the throne, he drove Han Shantong, the left prime minister who had been regent for ten years, off the stage. He replaced Chen Youliang, the former president of the Naval Academy (the grandson of Chen Qianyi), and significantly increased the military budget and promoted the so-called military reform... Look at this, I want to find someone to fight!"

There were not many people in the Dayuan country concerned about the situation of the Ming Dynasty, and even Prime Minister Tuotuo was not very concerned about it. However, Liu Zhan was an exception. He published several Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong and Macau, and he would ask someone to collect them in each issue. Therefore, he still had some understanding of the inside story of the Dayang Dynasty.

The recent style of Emperor Chen Zonghai of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zonghai, has already made Liu Zhan smell a little bit of the h medicine.

Minmintmoor's beauty frowned slightly: "Master thinks... the gangsters this time were supported by the Ming Dynasty?"

"It's hard to say..." Liu Zhan shook his head, "After all, I'm far away in Paris, and I'm just looking at the Ming Dynasty from a distance, just like watching flowers in the fog... It would be inappropriate for Dayuan to send envoys to Daming."

Minmintmoor asked: "Does the master want his disciple to act as Dayuan's eyes and ears?"

"Ears and Ears?" Liu Zhan still shook his head, his tone of voice was already sunk, "It's impossible... there are many foreign women in the Daming Palace, including the saints of the Holy Heavenly Kingdom, the saints of the Japanese Heavenly Kingdom, and many clan girls from China, and sometimes the princess of the Holy Roman Empire. Among so many women, only the women sent by Dayuan are the most untrustworthy."

Today, the Ming Dynasty is a world empire, and the Chinese world is almost the same as the whole world. The Ming Dynasty harem is naturally similar to the United Nations. There are women from all countries. However, those foreign women are not equal to foreign women... The proportion of Han women in the Ming Dynasty harem is still the highest. Among the Chinese countries, the dynasties that are not surnamed Chen generally marry princesses into the Ming Dynasty royal family or other Chen family dynasties, and most of their descendants also have surnames Chen. Of course, the marriages of these dynasties are strictly carried out in accordance with the principles of "the same surname does not marry" and "close relatives does not marry" stipulated in the Chen Li.

The women of the Chinese dynasty have the highest status in the Daming Palace, such as empresses and imperial concubines. They are generally the first-class women who are the daughters of the nobles in the Ming Dynasty and the female Taoist priests of the Tiandaoism, including the saints of the sacred sect. The second-class women are the "foreign vassals" (the Dayuan, Mamruk dynasty, and the Holy Roman Empire are all foreign vassals). Among them, the beautiful women of the Dayuan Kingdom have the lowest status and are the least trusted.

"So even if the disciple finds out, he cannot send a message to the master?" Minmintmoor frowned slightly, "So... how should the disciple help the court? How should the disciple gain a foothold in the Daming Palace?"

Liu Zhan smiled: "This is not something that can be taught by your teacher... This harem dispute, an old man doesn't understand. Now he can only tell you the rules of the Ming harem. The biggest difference between the Ming harem and the empress and the Dayuan people is that the queen has a high status. Almost half an emperor. According to Chen Li, the queen has the status of a lord, and once the king cannot manage the government, the queen will be the regent. Therefore, if the queen wants to gain a foothold in the Ming harem, the queen must not offend. The current queen of the Ming Dynasty is different from the previous three, and her background is not noble.

Chen Zongdao was not the prince and his title was just a short prince, so he was not very particular about marriage. He did not marry the princess of various countries, but married a scientific female Taoist named Zhou Zhiruo. It is said that the two had a very good relationship. After ten years of marriage, they had six children, three men and three women, and they all survived."

"Zhou Zhiruo?" Minmintmoor whispered the name of the woman who might have suppressed her for the rest of her life. Then he nodded heavily, as if he had made up some determination.

Liu Zhan continued: "According to the past, any beautiful girl sent to the Ming Dynasty should be given a Chinese name. Minmin, you can name this name yourself."

Minmintmoor nodded: "Master, the disciple has already thought about it. The disciple wants to call Zhao Min."

Liu Zhan frowned, "Zhao Min? Do you want your surname to be Zhao?"

"Well," Minmintmoor nodded, "I heard that among the kings of the Chinese kings now, there are twenty-eight people with the surname Chen. There are three people with the surname Zhao, which is considered the second surname in China. So my disciple wants the surname Zhao."

...

Ming Dynasty, Jiangdu.

The night was still dark, and Chen Zongdao, a saint of the Ming Dynasty, got up, first comb his hair and wash his face, and then put on a brand new dragon robe. He sorted out the collars, pulled them wide and long, almost hanging to the sleeves of his feet, and held the black gauze crown in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass mirror. After looking at them, he still felt a little awkward.

In the mirror, there was a tall and strong man. His face became thick and black due to the years of wind and sunshine. He also had a thick beard. He always felt a little messy when he trimmed it. Compared with his princely brother who died young, this honor really lacked the appearance of the emperor. However, the inheritance rules of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty had nothing to do with appearance, but were based on the principles of legitimate first, later illegitimate first, later illegitimate first, later, later, later, later, and adoption of the relatives. The prince had no son first, and he was the second son of the emperor, so he could become the prince and inherit the throne.

Now Chen Zongdao has been the emperor for two years, and he is a little bored. This Emperor of Ming Dynasty and the great leader of the people of the world. In Chen Zongdao's opinion, it is not as interesting as his original job in the navy. Because the emperor's job is actually not serious and easy to do, there are only the left and right ministers in the country, and the heads of the Four Army (Secretary of the Army and Navy Department and the Secretary of the Staff of the Army and Navy) and the Consultative Council to worry about it. The emperor's main job is to change the left and right ministers and the heads of the Four Army regularly, so that they should not sit on these extremely powerful chairs for too long... According to convention, the term of the left and right ministers and the heads of the Four Army is at most six years. You can be dissatisfied, but it must not exceed it.

Moreover, after the officials who served as the left and right prime ministers and the heads of the Fourth Army retreated from these six positions, they were so-called important officials. They placed a seat in the upper house of the Consultative Assembly (the meeting of important officials) and received a preferential salary. All their jobs were to elect new left and right prime ministers and the heads of the Fourth Army.

However, we cannot recommend it at will. The left and right ministers must be the leaders of the main parties in the Parliament. The heads of the Fourth Army need to be senior citizens, such as the Army and Navy Academy, the Army and Navy University, when will they be promoted to general, when will they be the commander of the Army, general, and when will they become the admiral of the Shanghai Fleet... In short, there will not be many people who meet the requirements.

In addition, the emperor sometimes has to be the absolute candidate for the religious leader of the Heavenly Daoism. The chief envoy of the Science School was appointed by the emperor, but the chief envoy of the Heavenly Daoism is lifelong and will not be replaced once appointed until the end of death. At the same time, the appointment and removal of the envoys of the Heavenly Daoism must be approved by the emperor.

The Ming Emperor could also theoretically intervene as the candidate of the right envoy of the Holy Sect, because Chen Changan, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, opposed the monopoly of the Japanese sect of the Otani family, was furious and ordered a saint who was not at fault to seduce the stomach!

However, when the 18-year-old saint was crying and shaking her hands to her lower abdomen, Chen Changan's heart softened and issued an order to interrupt the septum. The saint only cut a little skin. However, her identity as a saint was still exempted and she spent the rest of her life as Chen Changan's concubine. After this "saint septum incident", the Ming Emperor could abolish the position of the saint of the Japanese Heavenly Kingdom. In order to avoid the rescinding or killing of the saint, the Otani family simply handed over the choice of the saint to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and gave twelve girls with the blood of the Otani family at once, so that the Ming Emperor could choose one of them as the saint...
Chapter completed!