The emperor was not in a good mood. Now there were ministers in the capital who had young people of the right age at home. He had already gone through it before when he proposed marriage to Chang Yu, and finally carefully selected Wei Yu, the son of Wei Zhi.
He didn't like the rest when he was choosing them for Changyu, let alone choosing them for Mingda now.
So there were only some feudal officials left.
But those officials were away with their families all year round, and the emperor had only heard of and never seen their children and nephews, and some had never even heard of them.
It's impossible to say how relieved I am.
So recently the emperor was asking Yin Li to check the family members of the Jiedushi envoys in various places. As a result, there are not many sons with both ability and political integrity. He only checked three Jiedushi envoys and two of their nephews did some bad things such as sneaking around and bullying others.
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The reason why he had a disagreement with Mr. Old Tang last time was because of his disagreement on the handling of an official's son.
Lord Tang believed that the emperor punished people excessively and violated the law, so he asked the emperor to change his ways.
At present, the emperor no longer has much hope for the children of officials in the court. Instead, he wants to select someone from the reserve talents of the aristocratic family to be his consort.
So he recently wrote letters to several heads of aristocratic families. The emperor sighed: "It's a pity that Yang Changbo married early, otherwise he would have been quite suitable."
Prince:......
Why is it that not only his sister, but also his father is now eyeing Yang Heshu?
The emperor felt very sorry. He felt that among the descendants of the entire aristocratic family, the only one who could match their wisdom was Yang Heshu, who was both talented and beautiful.
When the emperor heard the prince ask about Mingda's marriage, he asked casually, "Why, do you have a suitable candidate there?"
The prince frowned. He didn't like Bai Cheng. Even if the prince said good things for him, he still felt that Bai Cheng's family background and talent were far from Mingda.
But after hearing about the candidates his father was looking for recently, and that several of the selected candidates were politely rejected, he suddenly remembered what happened when he got married.
The prince said unhappily: "Didn't my father swear not to marry anyone from aristocratic families?"
The emperor was startled and said nonchalantly: "Did I say that?"
The prince then said: "My father doesn't remember it, but my sons and ministers still remember it. I am afraid that the heads of the aristocratic families and their wives also remember it. If you marry Mingda like this, won't you make her laughable?"
The emperor's face turned cold, "Who dares?"
He snorted and said, "And it's not like you don't have any sisters who married into aristocratic families."
The prince said bluntly: "The second sister and the third sister are the ones who return to the palace the least often. Although their lives are more prosperous than those of the other sisters, they are much less comfortable."
The queen, who had been coaxing her grandson on the bed like an invisible person, finally said: "Mingda is weak and I don't want her to marry into a noble family. Family relationships are complicated and it is too energy-consuming."
Originally, the emperor had a lot to say, but when the queen opened her mouth, he fell silent.
The prince looked at his father, then at his mother, and decided to side with his mother, so he said: "If you ask me, it would be better to choose someone in the capital who has decent character and appearance, and who is sensible and not annoying. From now on.
She relies on the royal family in the capital, and no one can bully her."
As soon as the prince opened his mouth, the emperor said like a hedgehog: "No!"
He said: "My Mingda is not only worthy of a peerless number one, but at least my family background, talent, and character and appearance should not be bad, otherwise it would be too unfair to her."
Although the prince thought so too, he felt that rather than suffering from a noble family, it would be better to choose someone who suits his own needs.
He couldn't forget that when he proposed to get married, he was picked over by several wealthy families. Humph, he and his father had obviously put their attitude down enough. When Cui's daughter was mentioned, not only Cui was disdainful, but also those few
People who are married to Mr. Cui also help with the selection.
Mrs. Lu even came to propose marriage to him right after he selected Ms. Cui, saying that her family had a daughter from hundreds of families. Ms. Cui refused him, turned around and agreed to Ms. Lu, but then mentioned another story about Cui.
The girl is here.
There was also a lot of neglect in his words, and he looked down upon the Li family of Longxi.
It was also because of this that the emperor and the prince gave up on Cui's daughter in anger and chose Su as the crown princess. The emperor even said that he would never marry Cui.
In fact, his original words were that he would never get married to a wealthy family.
After that, the emperor held back for several years. He first revised the clan annals, downgraded the Cui family from the first class to the third class, and also reduced the number of people selected from the Qinghe area.
Therefore, if the Cui family's children want to become officials, there are very few places available through recommendation, so they can only take part in the imperial examination.
Originally, after taking the throne, the number of places recommended by various places was reduced every year. If the number of places in Qinghe area was further reduced, it might only take three or two years to get a place.
Otherwise, why are there so few officials of the Cui family in the court now?
Although it seemed that he had taken revenge, the prince felt a sigh of relief in his chest when he thought about what happened when he was singled out. Mingda was weaker than him and was a girl.
She wants to marry into a wealthy family and be ridiculed by others. How miserable will her life be?
When the prince thought about it, he became even more reluctant, "Anyway, father, if you can't choose one of the children of the ministers, then choose an ordinary one. Let's forget about it."
Hearing this tone, the emperor couldn't help but want to get angry. The queen looked on and stuffed the child into the prince's arms, chased him away and said: "The eagle slave misses his mother, please take him and see."
The prince reluctantly took the child and went to find the princess.
When the eagle slave arrived in his father's arms, he became excited immediately. Not only did he jump twice in his arms, he also patted the prince's face with his hand and screamed.
The prince grabbed his hand and said, "We can fly again when we get back."
The princess on the other side of the screen seemed to have heard her son's laughter and immediately ran out to pick him up. She also said to the prince, "Don't throw him into the sky. Zhou Mandu said that this is not good for the child. He was frightened."
, I feel restless at night.”
The prince hummed: "How can Gu's son be so timid?"
The queen had no words to say about the father and son's stubborn temper. She patted the emperor's hand and leaned tiredly on the pillow.
The emperor immediately put away his anger towards the prince, sat next to the queen, held her hand and asked, "Are you tired?"
The queen sighed and said, "There are too many things going on in the palace recently."
The empress almost never complained in front of the emperor about the large number of palace affairs. He couldn't help but be startled when he heard this, and then felt even more distressed. He held her hand and asked, "Would you like to select some female officials to help you?"
"Can't you make a decision on my behalf?" the queen asked, "are you writing letters to the heads of various aristocratic families because you are interested in the direct descendants of their families?"
The emperor said matter-of-factly: "Of course she is a legitimate daughter. Our Mingda is also a legitimate princess. How can a concubine be worthy of her?"
The queen smiled and asked, "There won't be any eldest son, right?"
The emperor then said: "There are only two of them. The others are either too young to match or already engaged. One of them is..."
The queen interrupted the emperor's words with a sigh, and said: "The wife of the clan is not much easier than the queen like me. Is Your Majesty willing to let Mingda work so hard?"