The final election of the prince-consort was not held in Cining Palace, but in the queen's Kunning Palace. Although Queen Wu has not yet held the power of the harem, she is the queen of the Ming Dynasty who is in charge of the world. She still needs to be involved in activities such as spring festivals, weddings, and funerals of the royal family's children. This time, Princess Yongfu's choice of the prince-consort is no exception.

At this time, in the Kunning Palace hall, Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcong sat in the middle of a bright yellow rolling dragon robe. Next to her was Queen Wu dressed up, and Empress Jiang sat on the other side of Jiajing. Concubine Shu and Concubine De were also present, sitting on the starting position on the side of Queen Wu.

The above four people formed the "jury" for the final election of the prince-consort today, and Empress Dowager Jiang obviously has the right to veto, so her opinions are the most substantial, followed by Emperor Jiajing and Empress Wu. As for the opinions of Concubine Shu and Concubine De, they can basically be ignored.

In addition, there are "jury" in the hall, namely Fei Hong, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Jin Xianmin, the third assistant Jia Yong, and the real person Tao Zhongwen of Bingyi.

It is worth mentioning here that the former chief assistant Yang Yiqing died of illness shortly after Xu Jin led his troops south, at the age of 73.

Yang Yiqing went through the four dynasties of Chenghua, Hongzhi, Zhengde and Jiajing. He was an unyielding veteran of the four dynasties. He was a talented person who was a general and a prime minister. He was also a clean and honest official, and was skilled and flexible. He was a loyal minister of Zhengde and Jiajing. His death was undoubtedly a great loss to the court.

However, birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws. What should I do? Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houcheng stopped the court for three days, posthumously named Yang Yiqing as the Grand Tutor, posthumously named Wenxiang, and held a grand funeral for him, and sent Jinyiwei to escort his coffin back to his hometown to the ground.

At this point, Mr. Yang was a good start and ending. He was at the height of his position as a minister when he was alive. After his death, he was so full of funerals and lived like this. It was really enviable.

"Go to become a general and a prime minister, with literary virtue and martial arts!" This is Fei Hong's evaluation of Yang Yiqing in his eulogy. Looking at Yang Ge Lao's life, he is indeed worthy of these eight words.

After Yang Yiqing's death, Fei Hong was once again the chief minister of the cabinet, Jin Xianmin, the left censor of the Censorate, entered the cabinet as the second assistant, while Jia Yong was still the third assistant.

The princess' marriage is a royal event, and naturally it is a national event. So Fei Hong and three other cabinet masters also attended the final election of the prince-consort today. Of course, they were just here to testify and would not express their opinions easily. The decision was in the hands of the emperor's family.

However, Taoist Tao Zhongwen actually appeared in such an occasion, which made the three cabinet masters dislike it. The chief minister Fei Hong was peaceful and tolerant. The second assistant Jin Xianmin was born in the Censorate and was the boss of the trolls (censors). He had never been able to rub the sand in his eyes.

Fortunately, Master Jinge gave the Empress Dowager a face, so he tolerated this kind of occasion and refused to post it. After the matter was over, he would probably write a letter and even criticize Emperor Jiajing in person.

It is said that Jiajing is wronged. Tao Zhongwen, the real man of Bingyi, was invited by Empress Dowager Jiang, and it has nothing to do with him. Although he respects Tao Zhongwen, he is far from favored. Since being given a "vaccination" by Xu Jin, Jiajing has not been very tempted by the so-called alchemy and practice Taoism. The reason why he respects Tao Zhongwen is largely just to give his mother a face.

Let’s get back to the point, and Jiajing sat upright in the main seat, looking out of the hall from time to time, obviously very eager to see his future brother-in-law.

Soon, Yan Song, the marriage envoy, and Bi Chun, the deputy envoy, carefully stepped into the hall, followed by Zhu Houcan's five brother-in-law candidates.

"Keep the emperor, the queen mother... five young talents who entered the final election were brought here." Yan Song and Bi Chun knelt down in front of the imperial throne and saluted, and the five talents behind them also knelt down and saluted.

All eyes in the hall fell on the five candidates for the prince consort at almost the same time, but the five people were kneeling, their heads drooping low, and they could not see what they looked like.

Zhu Houcan raised his hand slightly and said, "You are calm, and you will raise your head and let me see it."

The five candidates kowtowed and thanked each other again, and then stood up and looked up to reveal their true faces. A whisper suddenly sounded at the scene, and they all savored their heads and discussed their feet, which was quite a sense of instantaneousness.

To put it bluntly, marrying a princess means being a son-in-law of the royal family. In addition, the Ming Dynasty's son-in-law cannot be an official and participate in politics. No wonder a man with outstanding talents will be disdainful of it.

It is worth mentioning here that in order to prevent foreign relatives from interfering in politics, the princess of the Ming Dynasty was not only unable to be an official, but the princess would not live in the same room with the princess after getting married, but moved to the ten royal palaces of the public "dormitory". What's more, the princess could not meet the princess at will, and could only wait for the princess to summon him when he needed it. Moreover, the princess did not want to meet the princess, and he had to obtain the consent of the female official. If the female official did not agree, she could not meet.

In this way, marrying a princess is no different from being a widow, but she can't take a concubine. It's a miserable thing for a man. Of course, it is a great thing for the family. She becomes a royal relative, and has a noble status from the beginning and has no worries about food and clothing. Therefore, marrying a princess is a business that sacrifices the ego and makes the big self (the whole family).

Let’s talk about the five candidate young talents lined up in the hall, and Li Chun was the first in the right hand. When Jiajing’s eyes fell on this person, he couldn’t help but lit up, and he looked carefully from head to toe, from foot to head.

Jiajing was looking at Li Chun, and Li Chun was also looking at Jiajing secretly. Under the wide sleeves of the long gown, his hands bent and his fingers were eager to try.

Li Chun thought to himself that if he rushed forward at this time, he would definitely be able to break Jiajing's child's neck. In this way, there would be no emperor in the Ming Dynasty and there would be chaos in the world. Then his father would have an opportunity to use Altan's power to kill him from the frontier.

Of course, Li Chun was just thinking about it. It was easy to kill Jiajing, but he himself didn't want to escape from the palace alive. He didn't want to die yet, and he still had a bright future waiting for him. What's more, if he killed Jiajing, the old Zhu family still had so many descendants to inherit the throne. Compared to killing Jiajing, Li Chun wanted to kill Xu Jin, who was the most difficult enemy to deal with.

So Li Chun thought that he would play with the princess first, invade the court as a prince consort, and slowly accumulate strength. Even if he could not make the Ming Dynasty turn over, he could find an opportunity to kill Xu Jin and Jiajing and escape.

At this time, Jiajing had already looked at Li Chun and nodded with great satisfaction. This person's appearance and temperament were both excellent. Although he was inferior to Xu Qing, it was extremely rare. After all, people like Xu Qing were only rare. Moreover, Xu Qing's calm temperament of Mount Tai collapsed before him without changing color was not formed overnight. It was refined from the sea of ​​swords and fire, and no ordinary people could compare with it.

Zhu Houcong obviously understood Yongfu's thoughts, and at this time he couldn't help but use Xu Jin as a standard to measure the five candidates for the prince consort in front of him. However, Li Chun's appearance and temperament are similar to Xu Jin.

"What's your name?" Zhu Houguan looked at Li Chun and asked with a kind look.

Empress Dowager Jiang also looked at Li Chun with a smile. Li Chun had sharp eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, and elegant temperament. She loved it at first sight, and probably Yongfu liked this type too.

Li Chun bowed his hand to be a courtesy and said neither humble nor arrogantly: "Return to the emperor, Li Chun, a grass-roots man, has a name called Shouyi, a native of Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang, and is now studying at the Imperial College."

The three elders of the cabinet stroked their beards and nodded when they heard this. It’s a good scholar!

Yan Song was best at observing his expressions and then interrupted when he saw this, "According to the calculations of Bingyi Zhenren, Li Chun's horoscope is most compatible with Princess Yongfu, which is a combination of heaven."

As soon as Yan Song said this, the other four candidates were uneasy. Bi Chun, the eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor, had a slightly dark face because the person he bet on was Sun Bin.

Jiajing looked calm and asked softly: "Li Chun, do you have fame and fortune?"

Li Chun's heart skipped a beat. He could buy a degree from the Imperial College, but he couldn't buy fame. He had to bite the bullet and said, "Back to the emperor, Caomin has not yet achieved fame and is planning to end up next year to try his skills."

Jiajing was disappointed when he heard this. This person was elegant and elegant, but he had not achieved any fame and fortune at the age of 19. He thought that he was not good at learning and could not compare with Xu Jin. He didn't know how he entered the Imperial College, so he probably went through the back door.

Although Jiajing was a noble emperor, he also knew that the ministers below were trying to get their children and nephews in the family to study in the Imperial College. However, studying is a good thing, not a big evil, so it is not just Jiajing, but emperors of all dynasties turned a blind eye to this. Sometimes, on a whim, they would also choose the children and nephews of a minister to study in the Imperial College as a reward.

Seeing Jiajing showing disappointment, Bi Chun couldn't help but feel sad and stepped forward and said, "Go back to the emperor, one of these five talents is fame."

Jiajing asked quickly: "Who?"

Bi Chun smiled and pointed to the second candidate and said, "This person's name is Sun Bin, whose name is Xingzhi. He passed the palace examination at the age of fourteen. His father was a steward of the construction and repair office."

Jiajing couldn't help but laugh and cry. After a long time, the original [Hongqi Novel www.hongqibook.com] was just a child, but it was very rare to have a fourteen-year-old Tongfu exam, so he looked at Sun Bin carefully.

Sun Bin is about eighteen or nineteen years old. He has a face in the imperial examination, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and is full of heroism, tall and slightly dark skin. He is also very handsome, but unlike Li Chun, he is completely different in type, and he is the kind of heroic handsomeness.

"Hey, Sun Bin, why do I feel familiar with you?" Jiajing exclaimed lightly.

Sun Bin quickly knelt down and said, "Go back to the emperor, Sun Bin, the left guard of Yulin, is the hundred households."

Jiajing said in surprise: "So you are actually Yulinwei, no wonder I looked kind-hearted."

Bi Chun smiled flatteringly and said, "Emperor, Sun Baihu is among the top ten in the martial arts competition this year."
Chapter completed!