A great man of the Northern Song Dynasty

? A simple loom is placed in the corner indoors. The light from outside the door shines on it scatteredly. The wooden loom looks mottled and old in the light and shadow.

Zhao Shu walked over, looked at the slippery areas being rubbed by his hands, and sighed: "My dear...why bother with this?"

Queen Mother Cao did not cause him any trouble, which was the greatest support, and he was naturally grateful.

In addition to being grateful, he told Gao Taotao to spend money freely with Empress Dowager Cao.

But look at these...

Zhao Shu looked around and saw that there were no windows, and his eyes became gloomy, "Where are the windows?"

When Shen An got the glass out, apart from his own house, it was the first to install it in the palace. Zhao Shu was curious about it for a while.

But what about here?

Zhao Shu suppressed the anger in his heart and looked at Gao Taotao, his eyes unkind for the first time.

We have used it, but I don’t have it here. Where did you put my face?

Gao Taotao stood up to explain, but Queen Mother Cao smiled and said: "It's none of her business, I just don't want to use it."

Zhao Shu smiled bitterly and said, "Madam, this thing... isn't worth anything. You just need to use it."

"It has nothing to do with money."

Empress Dowager Cao looked indifferent, "It's not good if it's too bright."

Zhao Shu was shocked and couldn't help but think of a scene.

Queen Mother Cao is sitting here alone, the light is shining in from the glass window, but she feels more lonely.

Lonely people don't like sunlight.

"Empress..."

Zhao Shu felt guilty, "Why don't you... go home and take a look?"

As the emperor's woman, after the emperor's death, Empress Dowager Cao had honor but no vitality.

The most important thing is that she has no children.

It would be nice to have a daughter!

There was a smile in Queen Mother Cao's eyes, "That's fine."

After the empress left, Empress Dowager Cao couldn't wait to say: "Send someone to tell Da Lang to get more of what I like to eat. Also, call all the children and let me see them."

The Queen Mother left the palace later.

This is a formal departure from the palace, with guards of honor and guards, and the momentum is not small.

All the way to Cao's house, Cao Yi was waiting with a group of relatives, and the children stood beside him a little nervously. 35xs

"Sister."

After a long time, Queen Mother Cao finally returned.

Cao Yi went up to her with tears in her eyes, helped Queen Mother Cao out of the carriage, and then introduced her relatives one by one.

Empress Dowager Cao nodded slightly. She had a special status and needed to be more dignified outside, otherwise she would be embarrassed.

After meeting the adults, she waved to the children, "Come all."

The children came over timidly. Empress Dowager Cao stretched out her hand, and Ren Shouzhong brought a wooden box over. Every girl was given a piece of gold jewelry.

"Thank you, ma'am."

The girls were quieter and it was the boys' turn.

Those relatives on the side praised Queen Mother Cao's kindness to her children, and the eyes of the parents with boys in front were all bright.

"Tell me... will the empress give me the Four Treasures of the Study?"

"Most likely, the four treasures of the study in the palace are rare, and most people can't even get them."

"The empress also hopes that the Cao family will have more talents. Alas! It was just that they were suppressed in the past few years. Now that the opportunity has come, let those children study hard."

"Yes! With the scholars, our family will work hard to make their official career smoother. In a few decades, the Cao family will have deep roots and naturally become a prominent family in the Song Dynasty."

"Come, come, hey, it's such a big box. What do you want to reward the children?"

Several chamberlains laboriously carried a large wooden box over. After opening it, Queen Mother Cao took out a long knife from the inside, lovingly touched the head of the first boy and said, "Take it, practice well, ten In the future, I will go into battle to kill enemies for the Song Dynasty."

The boy was only seven or eight years old, the age when he liked swords and guns the most. He hugged the long sword and saluted happily, "Thank you, empress."

This is the nature of children, and Empress Dowager Cao said happily: "Practice well."

Those parents were a little confused.

"My dear, what do you mean?"

"Our family...what else does our family practice?"

"Read!"

"..."

Each person had a long knife, but a five-year-old boy couldn't hold it, so he dragged him away. Empress Dowager Cao raised her eyes, and his father immediately ran over and said with a smile: "Mother, this... this child is good at studying."

Cao Yi next to him said: "Yes, eldest sister, this child is the best at studying in the Cao family. I think he can become a Jinshi in the future. 35xs"

"Oh!" Queen Mother Cao glanced at Cao Yi and said, "Then do whatever you want, take the knife back."

Cao Yan was very familiar with the look in his eldest sister's eyes. When he saw the parent preparing to get a knife, he winked at him desperately.

Don't take it!

There will be times when you regret taking it.

The head of the family was stunned for a moment and looked at Queen Mother Cao. Seeing her indifferent expression, he couldn't help but panic.

what does this mean?

"Empress..."

Empress Dowager Cao said calmly: "The ancestors of the Cao family were engaged in martial arts. The glory and wealth you are waiting for today were also created by our ancestors with swords and swords. Why, now, you dislike the martial arts?"

Everyone did not dare to speak and looked at Cao Yi.

Cao Yidui smiled and said: "Sister, our family... needs to study in the future!"

Studying is the best, joining the army is the stupidest.

This is the current mainstream trend of thought.

Queen Mother Cao looked at him and suddenly stretched out her hand, "Here comes the knife!"

Cao Yi was startled, took a step back and said, "Sister, I'm wrong..."

Ren Shouzhong advised: "Empress, uncle..."

Snapped!

Empress Dowager Cao waved her hand without looking back, and a slap mark immediately appeared on Ren Shouzhong's face, which swelled instantly.

Someone handed over the long knife, and Queen Mother Cao took it. She immediately stood up and rushed forward, rushing in front of Cao Yi.

"Sister, please spare my life..."

Cao Yi immediately began to run for his life.

Empress Dowager Cao held her long sword horizontally and struck it with the wide part of her back.

Boom!

Cao Yi was pulled back and ran to the right again.

Boom!

Cao Yi was whipped several times and found that he couldn't escape either side, so he turned around and ran away.

Empress Dowager Cao chased him slowly and stabbed her from time to time.

"Sister, please forgive me!"

Cao Yi was running when his legs suddenly went weak, and he knelt there and burst into tears.

"Sister, when I was a kid, you taught me martial arts, and you just chased me and beat me like this..."

He was still young at that time, and Empress Dowager Cao was his elder sister, and she taught him how to practice swordsmanship very arrogantly.

If Cao Yi can't be beaten, he will run away. If he runs to the left, Queen Mother Cao will use the scabbard to pull him back. If he runs to the right, he will be chased all the way.

Cao Yi couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of that period of time.

"Sister, you are so useless that you are suffering in the palace."

Queen Mother Cao stopped and looked ahead with a sad expression.

When the relatives saw Cao Yi being beaten, those who didn't know the past of the two siblings were dumbfounded, and those who knew about it were sighing.

Cao Yan cried for a while, and Queen Mother Cao said impatiently: "The man is crying so sadly. Could it be that he was born in the wrong child?"

Well!

Cao Yan burped, raised his head and said: "Sister, our family should be educated. The day before yesterday, I talked to some great scholars. They all said that just send the children in the family, and they will be good at becoming professors...Sister, it only takes two generations. The Cao family has changed its family!"

Being powerful is good, but being powerful depends on the king's care and trust. If the king's care no longer exists, being powerful is just a joke.

Therefore, it is urgent to change the family. This is Cao Yi's decision as the head of the Cao family, and the whole clan supports it.

Empress Dowager Cao looked at those relatives and asked, "Do you want your descendants to be Congwen?"

"Yes." Everyone lowered their heads, but their voices were very neat.

Queen Mother Cao glanced at her Baba brother and walked towards the main hall with her hands behind her hands.

Cao Yi quickly followed, and everyone was further behind.

"What is the foundation of the Cao family?"

Queen Mother Cao's question made Cao Yi startled, and then he said: "Sister, it's sincerity, trust, and courage."

Integrity and courage are the creed passed down from the Cao family’s ancestors.

"Want to change?"

Queen Mother Cao climbed up the steps easily.

"I don't dare, I don't dare, little brother."

Adding is okay, but modifying...that's just seeking death.

Cao Yan felt that if he dared to change the family motto, his eldest sister would rush out of the palace and hang him outside the ancestral hall door to dry.

"What is sincerity? What is trust?"

Cao Ji lowered his head and said: "Be sincere to your Majesty, be sincere to your relatives, and be sincere to your subordinates..."

"Once a word is spoken, it is hard to follow it. This is trust. People cannot stand without trust, and the Cao family should keep their word."

Empress Dowager Cao said calmly: "Then what is courage?"

"Courage..." Cao Yan said with some confusion: "You have to be brave in battle... If you are timid, you may die faster."

In many cases, the timid die faster than the bold. This is the experience of the ancestors of the Cao family: the more you fear death, the more likely you are to die, so you just let go and kill, but you are safe.

"Reading is good."

Empress Dowager Cao looked at these relatives and sighed slightly in her heart, "But don't forget that the Cao family is a military general, and your heel and heels are in the army, not in the court."

"Sister, our family has met many civil servants!"

As the head of the family, Cao Yi is responsible for the future of the family, so there is no shortage of these plans.

"madness!"

Empress Dowager Cao said calmly: "Civil officials are too narrow-minded. Honesty and bravery have nothing to do with them. No, honesty and bravery are their enemies. When you become an official, you still think about honesty and courage. Such officials have long been stepped on by others. In the fields. The Cao family... If the Cao family becomes like this in the future, I will never come back."

She nodded slightly, looked toward the ancestral hall, and prepared to go down.

"Sister..."

Cao Yi knelt down, and all the Cao family members knelt down.

Empress Dowager Cao looked at them, frowned and said, "When a man is alive, he must be decisive first. Who can be successful if he is indecisive? If you want to be civilized, it's up to you, I don't care!"

She strode down, and Cao Yan desperately grabbed the hem of her skirt, "Sister, I was wrong."

When he was with his eldest sister, he felt that everything about him was wrong and there was nothing good about him.

Queen Mother Cao turned around and looked at him with a frown, "The Cao family must stand upright and don't change the decision they made. That's it."

She slapped Cao Yi's hand away and led the people away.

What to do about this?

A group of Cao family members looked at each other.

Cao Yi stood up and cursed: "Eldest sister said that the Cao family will join the martial arts in the future, who won't? Who?"

His eyes were wide-eyed and murderous, as if he wanted to leave the clan if anyone didn't obey.

A group of people looked at each other...

Later, news spread that the head of the Cao family, Cao Yi, had finally decided to give up the imperial examination after half a year of hard thinking, and his children trained hard to join the army for the Song Dynasty.

Bianliang was in an uproar!

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