The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 264 The Upper Limit and the Upper Limit

The second year of the Holy Dynasty, July 20th, six o'clock in the morning.

Jia Rong felt some movement in the bed, and after opening his eyes, he looked out the window.

It was already daybreak.

Jia Rong quickly sat up and stretched his legs to push away Qingwen who was greeting him good morning.

"gargle."

Qingwen wanted to make Jia Rong feel better, but seeing that Jia Rong was in a bad mood again after getting up, she said helplessly, "Yesterday, the emperor asked me to wake him up in the morning, but today he is not keeping his word."

Qingwen stood up from the bed, straightened her back and looked at Jia Rong lying on the bed.

"You never keep your word. People always say that a gentleman never jokes."

Jia Rong said angrily, "You took advantage of me and you want to teach me a lesson? If others knew that I was going to court today, who would dare to delay me from doing state affairs? You little bitch, you wanted to seduce me so early in the morning. I'll let Ping'er slap your butt a few times later."

Musk Moon at the side said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I will help you beat him! I guarantee it will be a loud slap~"

Qingwen said anxiously, "How can a maid like you be able to teach me a lesson?"

Jia Rong laughed and said, "It really is her turn. Can't the Queen beat the concubines in the palace if they make mistakes? In the past, when the maids and beauties made mistakes, it was the eunuchs who did it, and the Emperor and Queen didn't need to intervene."

Seeing Jia Rong say this, Qingwen covered her mouth and said, "Alright, hurry up and help the emperor get up. Don't delay the court session. I'll go rinse my mouth first."

Soon, the nearby palace maids came over to help Jia Rong get up.

Go to the toilet, wash hands, brush teeth, wash face, eat, rinse mouth, trim hair, facial hair and beard, take care of skin, trim nails, put on clothes and shoes, and check appearance and clothing.

While they were eating, someone from the cabinet brought the general outlines of what would be discussed at today's meeting, giving Jia Rong some time to think about it in advance.

When they went out, eight concubines who had gotten up early had been kneeling on the carpet in the living room for ten minutes. They waited until Jia Rong got on the car and left before they stood up.

After Jia Rong left, Jia Yuanchun, her sisters, and some unfamiliar concubines and maids stood up.

Jia Tanchun asked curiously, "Sister, I asked the Queen and Consort Xian, and they both said that there was no such rule in the palace before that we had to kneel in the morning. Besides, we didn't do this in the past two years. Why did they tell us last night to kneel today and wait until the Emperor leaves before we can leave?"

Jia Yuanchun didn't quite understand, "I don't know either. Did we do something wrong?"

Just as Jia Yuanchun and Jia Tanchun were daydreaming, Ping'er, who was wearing a tight satin skirt, smiled.

"Don't misunderstand, Your Majesty. This is the Emperor's way of motivating himself."

Jia Yuanchun, Jia Yingchun, Jia Tanchun, Xing Xiuyan and Xue Baoqin all looked at Ping'er.

Jia Yuanchun asked: "Sister, do you know what it is?"

Ping'er didn't keep them in suspense. She walked over to the sofa, sat down with the others, and told them the reason.

"The ladies all know that the emperor doesn't like to attend court to handle state affairs. The emperor himself knows this, so in order to avoid being lazy and not wanting to attend court, he came up with this idea."

"There are now 40 to 50 concubines in the harem. Every day, eight concubines come to the door and kneel inside the house. This way, even if the emperor falls asleep upstairs, he will remember that the queen is downstairs."

"We don't understand state affairs, and the palace affairs are all handed over to the palace maids. We don't have much to do, and it's just because of the emperor's kindness that we have an extra opportunity."

"Now, for the sake of the emperor and the country, we get up every morning and kneel for a while, which will make the emperor more diligent in government affairs. Don't say kneeling for ten minutes, even kneeling for an hour is fine."

After hearing Ping'er's explanation, Jia Yuanchun felt relieved and smiled happily.

"So that's how it is. I finally found something I can do for the Emperor!"

This weird method of humiliating oneself to make men wake up was indeed very simple and won the approval of the women in the palace, who regarded it as a sacrifice and a female virtue.

Jia Rong just likes to make some rules to make trouble for people, to prevent a group of women from having nothing to do in the garden and messing themselves up.

Women are like that. If men don't torment women, women will torment men.

So after Jia Rong, a free man, became emperor, he not only did not abolish those red tapes, but made them several times worse!
First of all, these women would never be able to leave the harem without Jia Rong's leadership.

There was no man in the harem. Boys had to live outside from the age of eight. There were only Jia Rong and the women and girls.

They had to gather for dinner every day. Except for those who were sick, everyone else had to go to Nuanxiang Palace to wait for Jia Rong to come back, and then kneel down to pay their respects.

Feudal oppression is feudal oppression. Jia Rong never opposed feudal oppression. He even knelt when he saw the emperor.

Beating the emperor was not for the purpose of resisting oppression. Jia Rong seldom did things for revenge. He always did things randomly and impulsively. It was definitely not for resisting oppression.

Not only that, Jia Rong deliberately looked for people with big breasts, big buttocks, good figures and faces to be palace maids. He often hugged those with good figures in front of some women who had bad figures and were starting to get fat, in order to enhance the enterprising spirit of these backward women.

Jia Rong would summon whoever had a good figure and was good at speaking to sleep with him more often.

However, Jia Rong's main focus was still on some things outside. During his retreat, he mainly engaged in medical research and rarely bothered the women at home.

In the State Council Building, because it was a long-awaited court meeting, more people came today, and it was densely packed with tens of thousands of people.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

"Flat body."

All the ministers knew that Jia Rong was neither in a good mood nor in a bad mood today.

Because the place was crowded, everyone stood up this time. Zong Zheng was the first to report.

Several first-rank officials were relatively close to Jia Rong and did not need to squeeze together with the others.

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince of Zhou, the King of Shu, and the King of Liao have arrived in the capital one after another. They are now staying in the other courtyards in the city, waiting for Your Majesty to summon them."

Jia Rong said casually, "Let them walk around and see what they want. We'll see each other again on the Mid-Autumn Festival. I'm also a young man, and I know the fathers of the King of Shu and the King of Liao. Later, Zong Zheng will go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get six packs of cigarettes, a few boxes of matches, and three boxes of wine for them to play with. Now that the capital is in ruins, let them eat, drink, and have fun. There's no need to be restrained."

Zong Zheng replied, "As ordered, the King of Donghai and the King of Dongying are both preparing to come to Beijing. They are expected to arrive in Beijing around August 10th."

Jia Rong nodded and said, "Have someone prepare a clean and bright place to accommodate them. Try to arrange it as close as possible so that it will be convenient for summoning them."

Zong Zheng agreed to this, and soon it was the turn of the left and right prime ministers.

Right Prime Minister Wang Ziteng knelt on the ground nervously, "Your Majesty! I beg Your Majesty to appoint a queen. It has been three years since Your Majesty ascended the throne, but the queen has not yet been appointed. I beg Your Majesty not to follow the example of the late emperor and let the queen's position remain vacant!"

Everyone has been urging him for a long time, but Jia Rong has been too lazy to care about this issue, so Wang Ziteng can only continue to urge him.

Who made him a relative of Jia Rong?

"Approved." Jia Rong was too lazy to waste time on this matter and said directly: "Appoint Jia Yuanchun as the queen, and the other concubines will be discussed later. What else is there?"

Everyone was stunned. They never expected that something that would take hours to debate would be decided in just seconds.

The left prime minister said quickly, "Your Majesty, there was a smallpox outbreak in a county town in Luohe, with a population of 150,000. The city gates have been urgently closed. This happened about ten days ago."

Yes! That's it! Jia Rong frowned, "In the future, such things must be reported immediately, without any mistakes! Even when I am not in court, if there is a major plague or epidemic, I must be informed, no matter whether it is day or night."

Zuo Ying replied: "Yes! Your Majesty is wise!"

Jia Rong said directly: "I know the harm of smallpox. If this poison is not eradicated, hundreds of millions of people in my holy dynasty and their descendants will never be able to escape it."

"Although I will not be infected with smallpox again, the families and descendants of the children of the capital, the children outside the capital, and the children of the border will still suffer from the poisonous disease and have a narrow escape from death."

"I cannot bear to see my beloved ministers separated from their families, or to see them lose their children in old age, nor can I bear to see the smallpox poison continue to bring disaster to the people!"

"Pass the decree down. I will send a hundred-member Holy Church medical team to travel around the world, with the Holy Churches in various places as the center to vaccinate the people of the world to avoid smallpox. This will definitely ensure that the people of the world and their descendants will no longer die from smallpox!"

"Let's start with this small county first. Also, starting tomorrow, we'll start with the super-ranking officials and vaccinate a hundred people every day. We must make sure that all my subjects are immune to smallpox by the end of the year!"

After Jia Rong finished speaking, everyone quickly knelt down excitedly.

"We thank the Lord for His great grace! Long live the Emperor!"

Jia Rong is very concerned about this matter.

After all, I developed it, directed it, and promoted it myself, so I should take all the credit.

Of course, if it was really destroyed, the achievement would not be enough to be canonized as a saint.

But if he only saved his own people and not others, and in contrast caused millions of others to die from smallpox, then his merit would naturally be enough to make him a saint.

The credit thing depends on comparison.

Plague, cholera, smallpox, influenza... various viruses occur every now and then.

In the feudal era, human life was worthless, so saving lives did not bring much credit.

It is not enough to think that one can be canonized as a saint by solving the problem of smallpox alone.

But it doesn’t matter. Although Jia Rong’s holy teaching is messy, it can solve all the messy problems of this era.

It doesn’t matter if the problem cannot be solved, Jia Rong doesn’t care about those dead people.

Jia Rong, who has a weak sense of morality, directly treats the ministers in the court and the people of the world as experimental subjects.

Compared to the feudal emperor who didn't care at all and just wanted the patient to die quickly, Jia Rong was actually quite nice.

***
Jia Rong's men's and women's colleges have expanded their staff significantly, and have trained a lot of talents over the past four or five years.

Jia Rong soon took charge of Ningrongyuan in the capital, diagnosing and treating illnesses for court officials and provincial governors, and also led hundreds of doctors from the expanded Imperial Medical Service to vaccinate their children.

The ministers had never received such treatment before. They had to kowtow when seeing the doctor and kowtow again after the treatment.

If they died, it definitely wasn't Jia Rong's medical skills, but their own problem.

The construction of holy churches in various places was quickly accelerated, and the status of the saints began to rise.

At least for the children of the capital and the Beijing garrison, Jia Rong being the emperor is much better than any previous emperor.

Besides, Jia Rong did not take the throne by rebelling, he did not usurp the throne, and he did not force anyone to abdicate. He was elected emperor by the court and the royal family.

Although it feels wrong, it is natural for Jia Rong to succeed to the throne, and there is no problem with it in terms of theory and law.

Jia Yuanchun and others were so excited that the position of queen was finally confirmed that they knelt down every day to send Jia Rong off to work.

Jia Rong was completely oblivious to the festive atmosphere and was still busy scraping smallpox seedlings from cows to make vaccines.

A cow can save tens of thousands of people, awesome!
(End of this chapter)