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In India, the passage of Guò ships through the Bay of Bengal to the original Dongwu capital city of Ava, which is now the city of Wangben;

In Wang Bencheng, there are 5,000 Qin troops stationed here, commanding 70,000 servant troops, not only controlling the main grain-producing areas around Wang Bencheng, but also constantly attacking the mountainous areas of the Indochina Peninsula, the war is still in full swing, and countless people are still killed every day.

Wang Ben had just erected a telegraph line in the city, connecting Kunming, Guiyang, Changsha, Nanchang, and Nanjing. Therefore, the news from India can be quickly transmitted back to Nanjing as long as it is sent by speedboat over the Bay of Bengal.

In the city of Nanjing, the spring festival in March has just ended, and the people all over the city are vying to watch the gold list, all wanting to see who the champion of the current department is. In addition to those who came to see the list, there were also those who came to catch their sons-in-law.

The catch of sons-in-law under the list began in the Song Dynasty, that is, on the day of the list, the rich gentry from all over the country went out with their families to compete to select the first scholar as their son-in-law.

Since there has been the imperial examination, the imperial examination is the main way for the imperial court to select officials, the winner of the imperial examination has both fame and fortune, and the treatment is rich, so that people take the examination as the ultimate goal of life struggle, once the title of the gold list, the "cave house candle" that marries the daughter of the rich family will immediately follow.

After all, the official position of the imperial court is limited, and it can't withstand the competition of the world, and only the best are expected to win, so everyone has to lie down and taste the guts, and study hard in the cold window, and "not becoming a family if you don't reach the first" has become the oath of some people.

Even Zhao Heng of Song Zhenzong expressed this meaning in the poem: "The rich don't need to sell good land, there are thousands of millets in the book; There is no need to erect high beams for the house, and there is a golden house in the book; Don't hate a wife without a matchmaker. There is Yan Ruyu in the book; Don't hate to go out, there are many cars and horses in the book; The boy wants to fulfill his life's aspirations, and the six classics are read in front of the window. ”

This has created many unmarried older young people and even older adults, which has also affected the ladies of the Great Song Dynasty. "Women are afraid of marrying the wrong man", since they are popular as officials, everyone squeezes their heads to compete to be "official wives", so from the Song Dynasty, China's unique "catching sons-in-law under the list" began to appear.

The Song people said that "choosing a son-in-law" was "catching a son-in-law", and it was also jokingly called "son-in-law", and "belly" was a piece of meat, which could be described as a metaphorical image. It's ironic.

But no matter how sarcastic you are, this phenomenon has continued, and when it comes to Daqin, it seems to be intensifying again.

Because the mercantile policy of the Great Qin Dynasty was the same as that of the Song Dynasty, this promoted the rapid development of industry and commerce, and also made the social atmosphere more profitable. Therefore, there are more giants and gentry who come to catch their sons-in-law.

This time, there are 387 people on the north and south lists, and the number of people on the list is still very large. Therefore, the acceptance rate of the Ministry of Rites examination is naturally higher.

In addition to participating in the Qionglin banquet held by the emperor, the new science and technology jinshi with the title of the gold list must also be taken by the Ministry of Rites to visit the memorial halls of the victims in Jiangyin and Yangzhou and take an oath. This point has never existed in previous dynasties, but only Great Qin.

Qin Mu drank some wine at the Qionglin banquet, and his face was slightly drunk. He suddenly remembered that there was still a person locked up in the West Garden, so he walked along the gallery to a small courtyard deep in the flowers and trees.

In this season, the willows on the shore of Mochou Lake are cloudy, and the apricot blossoms are reflected in the lake. The clear waves of the half-lake were dyed a faint rouge color.

The plum is not yellow, and the yellow warbler frolicks among the flowers and leaves.

The West Garden is quiet, and the faint time and lush greenery form a kind of empty meaning of idle flowers falling spontaneously. Qin Mu walked outside the small courtyard and heard a faint sound of music coming from the courtyard covered by flowers and trees.

Qin Mu couldn't help but stop, because he happened to know that this piece of music was called "Empty Cicada", and the empty cicada originally meant the empty shell left behind after the transformation of the cicada. Later, it was extended by Buddhism to mean "physical body", that is, the rest of the human soul except for the soul. Because the life of a cicada is very short, the word "empty cicada" also means "life is short, and the world is impermanent".

And this piece of music is related to a woman named Kucicada in "The Tale of Genji". The empty cicada is the first woman Genji met as an adult, and the only woman who refuses to accept Genji's love for the rest of her life.

Just like the name of the empty cicada, it is faint and fragile, and the looming cicada is molting. Gentleness contains strength, like a thin bamboo, which seems to be broken, but finally continues. Even when Genji forcibly broke into her inner chamber to confess to her, she maintained her purity.

It's just because she thinks that she is a married woman and is not qualified to accept the love of a beautiful man like Genji. This is in stark contrast to the other beautiful and noble women in the story.

Her appearance is far from the most beautiful, but her overall posture is unusually dignified, which does have something to attract attention. Her temperament of both weakness and strength has made her never drown in the countless peerless beauties after the story, and in the hearts of readers, she has become the most beautiful and refined cicada clothes.

Qin Mu stood for a while, looking for the sound of music and slowly walked into the small courtyard, next to a swing frame in the courtyard, there was an octagonal pavilion, and the pear blossoms on the edge of the pavilion were like snow, falling in pieces.

There was a woman in her twenties sitting in the pavilion, her appearance was not very gorgeous, but her empty Zen-like posture quietly blended into the scenery in the courtyard.

Seeing Qin Mu coming, she glanced up, the music stopped, and the surroundings became even more empty, Qin Mu didn't speak, and sat down on the stone bench opposite her.

Xingzi finally couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?" ”

"Do you speak Chinese?" Qin Mu was a little surprised, she didn't expect her to be able to speak Chinese.

"What are you doing here?"

Qin Mu didn't answer, and when he got to the paper-colored paper on the stone table, there were a few lines of Japanese characters written:

白鸟はかなしからずや

空の青

海のあをにも

染まずただよふ

Qin Mu couldn't understand Japanese characters, he only understood six Chinese characters, many of them are Chinese characters in Japanese, but where the original form of Chinese characters is retained in Japanese, the meaning is not much different from Chinese, he was a little curious, so he asked, "What did you write?" ”

"You haven't answered my question, who are you?"

Xingzi is the seventh empress of Japan, Japan is also a male-inferior society, the reason why the empress has been repeatedly produced, the reason is that the first one or two generations are to avoid bloody conflicts due to the urgency of the army, and later, it has transformed into a "transitional means" to keep the throne in their own people, like Xingzi, is the most typical latter.

So why was the Japanese "empress" able to avoid bloodshed, and why was the "empress" able to peacefully change the traditional killing so that the throne passed vertically among her immediate relatives, while the male emperor couldnnot?

Is this an interesting question?

Qin Mu looked at Xingzi with interest, thinking about this question, Xingzi couldn't answer for a long time, so he said, "You are the emperor of Qin?" ”

Qin Mu smiled and said, "That's right." Now you can sue me, what are you writing on this piece of paper? ”

Xingzi lowered her eyelids and looked at the waka on the white paper, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, and she whispered, "O white bird, how sad it is that you are neither melted into the blue sky nor accepted by the blue sea! The blue of the sky, which makes the white birds lament, cannot be soaked in the blue of the sea, and reflects each other"

Qin Mu listened quietly, as if he heard an empty heart sighing, this white bird is probably a portrayal of her. She was originally a princess that everyone admired, but fate prompted her to become an empress.

In Japan, once you become an empress, you can't remarry, no one can marry her, you can only be lonely for the rest of your life.

But on the other hand, she, the empress, is just a puppet, without any actual power, she can't fly into the sky, but she can't return to the ordinary, she can only look at this world alone, how sad is this?

Qin Mu looked at her, her appearance was not very gorgeous, but her posture was very graceful, revealing a kind of weakness, but she looked very dignified, this kind of temperament did have a different touch.

Qin Mu stretched out his hand and pinched her chin, lifting her face up, Xingzi stopped talking, his eyes showed a touch of hesitation, and there was a little shyness.

She should be twenty-six years old, but she is still a virgin, and she has been an empress since she was seven years old, and she has never been looked at by a man with her chin pinched like this.

She didn't know what was going to happen next, but she knew she couldn't resist, her full chest rising and falling with her rapid breathing

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PS: Now the monthly pass is so small, it's already the end of the month, brothers and sisters, the update is basically restored, ask for some monthly pass encouragement, I work hard to accumulate some drafts and more!.

(To be continued......)