Chen Xu had just returned to Qinghe Villa after visiting the Secretariat. He was holding his second daughter and Fan Caiying about the bet with Zhao Wei and Fan Sizhe at noon. A manager hurried in to report that it was news from the palace that the emperor was preparing to sack the harem, and he also told the rumor that the circulating news was a bit slight and eye-catching.

After hearing this, Chen Xu let out a long sigh, and a stone in his heart finally landed on the ground.

The so-called "will be planted with intention but not blooming, and the willows are planted with unintentional but willows are formed. Unexpectedly, because of the emergence of perfume, the emperor actually wanted to lay off the harem.

Moreover, following the tone of the manager's report, the layoffs will be very strong this time. At least thousands of women will be dismissed from the palace. The related eunuchs, eunuchs, eunuchs, and officials who participate in service management will also be cut off in large quantities, so the huge harem will be at least half reduced.

Once so many people are missing, the Shaofu’s expenses will be saved at least half.

The most important thing is that these women have been in the deep palace for seven or eight years or even ten years, and finally have been liberated and free, and no longer have to live alone in the deep palace.

The emperor's restoration of the royal tradition formulated by the Zhou ritual will also make many Confucian sects that follow ancient rituals more support the rule of the Qin Dynasty.

At least after the First Emperor re-enacted the feudal system, Confucianism has now criticized the emperor much less. Once this matter is proven, Confucianism will definitely have many famous scholars who want to write articles praising merits and publish them in the Daqin Metropolitan Daily to express their excitement.

The First Emperor had tens of thousands of concubines and palace maids in the harem. The things that Confucian disciples were completely unacceptable to the fact that the superiors and inferiors were superiors and inferiors, equals the family, courtesy, righteousness, integrity and shame, benevolence, forgiveness, sincerity and filial piety, and ethics. These are the traditions that Confucian disciples uphold. The First Emperor robbed other people's property and went to other people's wife. This was simply a heinous act of being conscience.

The princes compete for hegemony and the seven countries compete for power, and Confucianism hardly participated. Confucianism never advocated the concept of war. They advocated that the king should improve his own cultivation and use benevolence to influence the enemy. He valued the invincible and the need to conquer people with virtue. Even the left Confucianism, such as Xunzi, who integrates magic to govern the country, advocated the rule of etiquette, advocated the war of winning without fighting, winning without attack, and conquering the world with benevolence and righteousness.

But, since the primitive society, the Chinese nation, which has been fighting against the sky and the earth, fighting against wild animals and natural disasters, is not as good as a brick, and is not as good as a fist, a gentleman is so flattering, and a villain hides a few. For Qin Shihuang, who keeps fighting and blood flowing into a river, Confucianism does not like or even hates it. However, the confucian disciples and emperors convene to write articles that praise merits and praise merits several times. Therefore, both Confucian disciples and emperors dislike each other, and they naturally do not get along well with each other.

However, due to the huge influence of Confucian theory and its disciples all over the world, Qin Shihuang also maintained enough caution and respect, and recruited a large number of Confucian scholars to serve as doctors and doctors to participate in the court's political discussion. Although it had no substantial effect, it at least gave Confucian enough face to appease the largest sect of exoteric scholars spread throughout China.

In Chen Xu's understanding, if China completely abandons Confucianism, then China may not be China. All the etiquette and morals that Confucianism upholds for thousands of years are indelible. This etiquette adhered to in etiquette and morality has allowed China to inherit the ancient civilization bit by bit in various seemingly red tape grand rituals.

Later generations felt that the festive atmosphere was getting weaker and weaker. In fact, it was just going further and further away from the road of etiquette. Without various serious rituals and without the grand sense of ritual, many festivals would have no meaning. For example, the coming-of-age ceremony that has been passed down for thousands of years, the men's twenty crown rituals, and the women's fifteen crown rituals are all extremely grand etiquettes. They are believed to be the most important rituals in life besides getting married. Select the date, invite guests, banquet teachers, and all aspects are extremely serious and solemn, which also creates a concept of truly growing up in the hearts of children.

These etiquettes were not created by Confucianism, but were slowly passed down from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. However, Confucianism has always insisted that this etiquette can make people more mature and steady, take on the responsibilities and obligations they should bear, and learn more ways to deal with people.

In the Qing Dynasty, in order to erase the national culture of the Han people, the court ordered that the coming-of-age ceremony should not be held again. As a result, this grand ceremony that had been passed down for thousands of years ended. During the Qing Dynasty, many Han etiquettes were abolished, and the benevolence and etiquette inherited by Confucianism were discarded, and only the two words "loyalty and filial piety" were retained. The Chinese civilization was castrated beyond recognition.

Chen Xu himself sighed that when he was a child, all kinds of rules were old-fashioned and serious. When he grew up, those rules gradually disappeared, and replaced by boredom and loss, as if the New Year was just for a meal, and there was no longer any taste of the New Year.

The emperor's abolition of the harem caused heated discussions among the people, almost surpassing the construction of the library and the voting of the predecessors of the hundreds of schools of thought, which became the most lively topic in Xianyang, and was in a top position.

"Mr. Marquis, I heard that those palace maids are living very pitiful in the palace!" Fan Caiying said while tidying up her daughter's clothes.

"The ancient palace is lonely and the palace flowers are lonely and red. The white-headed palace maid is sitting idle and talking about Xuanzong... The deep palace is lonely and cold, so what if it is pitiful, it's just their lives!" Chen Xu sighed.

"My husband has another good poem!" A gentle voice sounded outside the door, and soon the water in a black dress with a ponytail was gently pulled Chen Xi in.

"Xi'er pays homage to Dad!" Little Chen Xi gave a blessing.

"Well, be good, look at your sweaty head, where did you go with your aunt?" Chen Xu nodded with a smile.

"I took Xier to Huayu Palace to see the refining of essential oils. The distillates made of fiberglass steel look so complicated. I don't know how my husband imagined it!" Shui Qingrou said with a smile.

"Those are not what I think, they are just seen in the Book of Heaven. Why didn't Wan'er and Shi Man come back together?" Chen Xu asked.

"Wanniang and the fifth princess lived in Huayu Palace. They said that the perfume was not enough to sell recently. They wanted to make more preparations and bring them back together tomorrow!" Shui Qingrou shook her head.

Chen Xu was so amused that he handed his daughter in his arms to Fan Caiying and said, "I'm already five or six months pregnant, why are you still so uneasy? I'll take them back!"

"Husband, don't worry. It will take at least an hour to travel back and forth from Jingyang. It is almost dark and the road is not safe. I have arranged for the guards and maids to follow and take care of the family servants. There will definitely be no problem!" Shui Qingrou explained quickly.

"Oh, it's better that you arranged the care for me carefully. If you weren't at home every day, I would have seen this home be in chaos!" Chen Xu said with emotion, holding Shui's gentle hand.

"My husband is busy with government affairs every day. Gengrou should take good care of his family for him. Then Gengrou came in. He heard that his husband was reciting a poem. He heard that he was quite quiet and said that the palace maids were talking about. I wonder what his husband remembered again?" Shui Qingrou looked at Chen Xu with concern with her beautiful eyes.

"I just heard from the manager to report that the palace was reported and the emperor was preparing to abolish the harem. Many old concubines and palace maids who had no children would be sent out of the palace. I was lamenting this matter!" Chen Xu explained with a smile.

"This is quite bizarre. Emperor Shin-Emperor first acquired tens of thousands of wives, concubines, princesses and princesses in the harem, but why did he suddenly dismiss him..." Shui Qingrou was puzzled.

"What the wife said is that this matter is indeed puzzling. Didn't the king always choose young and beautiful concubines in the palace, why would he be dismissed?" Fan Caiying also nodded in confusion.

"Haha, I probably guessed some of this matter, it's related to you!" Chen Xu said with a smile, squatted down and used his sleeve to wipe the sweat from his eldest daughter's forehead.

"It has something to do with us?" Shui Qingrou and Fan Caiying became even more confused.

"Because you were going to take a petal bath, I extracted the essential oil of the flower fragrance and made perfume. In order to subsidize the household income, you sold it. As a result, the perfume was passed on to the palace. Because the emperor liked the smell of perfume, he went to favor Yun Fei for several days and caused an illness. Perfume became an item that the concubines and palace maids in the harem were rushing to buy. I heard that Wan'er said a few days ago that most of the perfumes were ordered by the female imperial officials of the palace. Even if these perfumes were given 10% off for them, it was a considerable expense. A bottle of thousands of dollars was not something that ordinary concubines could afford. The emperor had countless beauties in the harem. I heard that there were wives in the independent bedroom. I heard that there were wives in the independent bedroom.

There were two or three hundred people, and there were hundreds of concubines of different grades. The daily expenses of food, drink and travel were calculated in a monthly amount of millions, not to mention buying such luxurious items. These money would eventually come out of the Shaofu treasury, but how could the Shaofu support such a large demand? At noon today, the Shaofu Order Zhao Wei invited me to have a banquet, thanking me for helping him raise funds for the construction of the library by donating money. Otherwise, the Shaofu would be even more stretched to spend more than ten thousand dollars next year. In order to save expenses, the emperor might have thought of abolishing the harem... You see, is this matter related to you? Haha!" Chen Xu laughed happily.

Shui Qingrou covered her mouth and chuckled and nodded, "My husband said it well. It seems that it is our reason, but the culprit is still my husband. If it weren't for the husband telling us the story of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, how could perfume appear!"

"That's true!" Chen Xu nodded calmly.

"Why do I feel that the emperor's quarrel's shadow seems to be the marquis?" Fan Caiying teased her daughter gently with her hands.

Chen Xu also hugged Fan Caiying in his arms and smiled and said, "You are really quick-minded. The emperor was unwell after a few days of favoritism for Concubine Yun last time. The imperial doctors and imperial doctors all asked him to cultivate his desires. Later, the emperor invited me to the palace to ask about perfume. I also reminded the emperor that if he wanted to live a long life, he should be calm, cultivate himself, and cultivate his nature. The emperor asked about the specific methods. I said the best way is to be cleansed if he was out of sight..."

"Husband, why is it because you don't see it?" Shui Qingrou's eyes lit up.

"Haha, it means that if you can't see it, it means that you will be purified. The emperor's harem has tens of thousands of beauties. It is probably difficult to abstain from desires during his daily life. Only when you can't see it will naturally be able to be clear-hearted and have few desires to cultivate one's own nature. I think it's the emperor who understands what I mean!" Chen Xu said proudly.

"It turns out that the initiator is still the husband, but the husband did a good job in this matter. All the women in the palace were suffering. They were dismissed from the palace as soon as possible to marry into a wife, so as not to become the white-headed palace maids mentioned in the husband's poems, and eventually died alone and old in the deep palace!" Shui Qingrou spoke softly.
Chapter completed!