In front of Li Xuan, Lan Zhangyan, who was about to become his brother-in-law, seemed very reserved and couldn't say anything for a long time. To be honest, this made Li Xuan a little disappointed.
Although Li Xuan was also worried that the princess's consort would interfere with politics and eventually shake the imperial power, he did not want the consort to be just a second-rate, because if nothing else happened, he would arrange for Lan Zhangyan to serve in the Zongfu Mansion.
If you work in the Zongfu Office, it seems that you are dealing with housework, but the housework in the clan is not a trivial matter. Ordinary people really can't do it.
In Hantong's report, this person was said to be very thoughtful. Li Xuan judged that this person was probably meeting him for the first time and was more cautious and restrained, so Lian was not in the mood to continue chatting with him, but was very interested.
He was immediately sent away, and then Hantong was asked to continue observing him.
As long as this person doesn't have too bad intentions, such as plotting to gain power, then Li Xuan doesn't mind assigning him a more important position in the Zongfu Mansion.
If he really has bad intentions, then give him a small warning and let him be a good consort!
As for whether you are worried that he will treat Princess Huichen badly, there is no need to worry at all!
After all, Princess Huichen is also the eldest princess of the empire and Li Xuan's only sister. She must have the dignity she deserves. If Lan Zhangyan causes messy things, Li Xuan doesn't mind giving him a 'sick death'
, and then let Princess Huichen remarry.
As for whether you love her or not, that is a bit extravagant. Let alone a member of the royal family. Even if Princess Huichen is a child of an ordinary family, there is no way to predict whether she will love you or not in this important matter of marriage. It is all a matchmaker ordered by her parents.
In other words, freedom of love and freedom of marriage are not realistic for a while.
Although the marriage law in the Tang Dynasty law stipulates the freedom of marriage, both parties must be voluntary and cannot be forced by others.
But the law is the law, and the tradition is the tradition. Most of the time, this law is to avoid forcibly snatching women into marriage!
When parents order a matchmaker, even if both children are unwilling in their hearts, they will verbally agree due to family pressure.
The official can't control so much. As long as both parties legally get married voluntarily, then they can't control the internal affairs of so many families. The policy is that the people don't involve the officials!
Not to mention ancient times, even in modern times, how many people get married because of the coercion of their parents. Especially in some remote mountainous areas, there are a lot of brides and grooms who are thirteen or fourteen years old, and they are not even young enough to get married.
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Strictly speaking, a girl under the age of fourteen is still a young girl, so she is still considered strong. Unfortunately, when people hear these things, they treat them as anecdotes, or use them as excuses such as national customs, and no one is really taken.
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Sometimes Li Xuante is curious, people in later generations are precocious, primary school students fall in love a lot, and sex is normal, but then there is a conflict between the two parties. Will the young bride take the young groom to court and accuse him of rape?
If it is true, then it can prove one thing, that is, it is risky to fall in love with a female elementary school student. It starts in three years and can be punished by death!
But, having said that, if the aunt was in a relationship with a male primary school boy and raped him one day, then it would be no big deal!
Yes, the laws of later generations are so weird. Everyone shouts about equality between men and women. When it comes to this kind of thing, it is definitely a joke!
On the other hand, the laws of the Tang Dynasty are much more formal and reasonable. They apply to all matters of rape, whether men to women or women to men, and they will all be punished as rape.
And men and women are even more strictly prohibited.
After the mid-Ming Dynasty, masculine styles became more popular. It took only a few years for the Tang Dynasty to unify China, and even complete unification was not completed. Although many bad habits were strictly prohibited, there are still some residues.
During the Ming Dynasty, many gentry liked to keep a handsome little bookboy by their side. Just like the secretaries of later generations, they would act as secretaries when they had something to do, and when they had nothing else to do, they would act as secretaries. In fact, many celebrities in these days also acted as bookboys when they had something to do, and when they had nothing else to do, they would act as bookboys.
This situation made Li Xuan feel so sick when he saw it!
Li Xuan had already made relevant regulations on this matter. At first, it was only for officials. Anyone who held a public office and behaved like a chicken would be dismissed from office, sentenced to ten years in prison, exiled overseas, never to be re-employed, and three generations of descendants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.
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Later, after occupying Jiangnan, in order to kill the morale of Jiangnan gentry who liked masculinity, the law clearly stipulated: Anyone who is a chicken will be sentenced to three years in prison and exiled overseas!
If the circumstances are particularly serious, such as rape, gathering a crowd, or those who refuse to change despite repeated admonitions, they will all be punished by death, and their bodies will not be preserved. Therefore, instead of being shot, they will be beheaded!
Otherwise, Li Xuan is worried that if this continues, the fertility rate will definitely get lower and lower. In time, the Tang Dynasty will be finished, because those gays will not be able to give birth to a single child, and there is not a sufficient population. How can Li Xuan rely on conquering
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The rise of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Chinese nation depended on the industrial revolution, a powerful modern army, an advanced centralized monarchy system, and the foundation of all the above: sufficient population!
A population of more than 100 million is the global confidence of Li Xuan's government!
In order to conquer the world, Li Xuan has made up his mind that doing gay things must start in three years, and the maximum penalty is death!
Anyone who supports gays is a barbarian who is determined to subjugate me, trying to overthrow the Tang Dynasty and exterminate the Chinese nation. If I don’t kill you, who will I kill?
In the Tang Dynasty, who dared to engage in homosexuality? Three years to start, the maximum penalty is death!
This move was also opposed by many gays at the beginning, but after a group of them were sentenced and a group of people were killed, they all became more honest. Nowadays, many gentry have stopped hiring personal book boys in order to avoid suspicion.
Going a step further, back to Princess Huichen, she didn't know whether she would like Li Xuan to be the husband chosen by Empress Dowager Bai. Anyway, when I asked her, she agreed.
But whether it's true or false, I don't know.
However, Li Xuan guessed that she should be really willing. After all, she had also seen Lan Zhangyan. His family background was not bad. Although the bachelor did not reach the level of being a scholar, it was not too bad, and more importantly
The thing is, he has a good skin. Later generations of aunts may not like this tough guy appearance, but the female aesthetics in the Tang Dynasty is still very normal.
Five days later, Princess Huichen officially got married!
The Ministry of Etiquette has also formulated relevant etiquette procedures long ago. Everything is in compliance with ancient Chinese etiquette to ensure that no one will find any faults.
In addition, Li Xuan did not feel wronged to this sister and gave her a princess mansion. In addition, she still retained her title of princess and gave her a salary every year.
In addition, some properties from the royal family were given to her, including a farm, a textile factory, a glass factory, and 50,000 taels of silver. These assets were enough for her to live a relatively comfortable life after she got married, at least eating it every day.
Pig's trotters cannot spend all this wealth.
And she also promised Huichen in private that after her child is born, the eldest son will be given the title of baron!
And in the Lan family, although Lan Zhangyan is the second son, he is from a traditional scholarly family and is rich. In order not to lose face, the Lan family directly gave half of the family property to the second son. In total, it is worth it.
Assets of more than one hundred thousand taels of silver.
But this is compensation. After all, after becoming the consort, Lan Zhangyan was completely cut off from his official career. At the same time, using his status as consort, he could also bring certain benefits to the Lan family.
These properties of the Lan family are all used as compensation.
On the wedding day, Queen Mother Bai finally became a normal mother. She held Princess Huichen and cried for several minutes. However, the mother and daughter were both relatively heavy. When they held Princess Huichen and hugged each other, they looked a little spicy.
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But no matter what, Princess Huichen got married. Although Jinling City had been lively for a few days in the past two days, it soon returned to calm, and no one made any comments about it.
After all, it was just an eldest princess getting married, which was not a big deal for the entire empire. Many ministers didn't even bother to pay attention to it. They only congratulated on the surface and turned around to go about their own affairs.
But if it were a prince getting married, the scene would be different.
Especially now that Li Xuan's two sons, although they are not legitimate sons, are getting older gradually, and Empress Dong has not yet left a prince, so it is inevitable that people will have some thoughts.
Li Xuan was too lazy to respond to this. The two boys in his family were only a few years old, and he himself was only in his early twenties. It was too early to talk about the crown prince. If anyone dared to write a letter to him to establish a crown prince at this time,
He would always suspect that this minister had evil intentions and wanted to kill him in a conspiracy, and then support the young master.
With Li Xuan's thoughts, the ministers were not fools, so no one dared Li Xuan to mention the matter of establishing a prince.
What's more, Li Xuan didn't even give the ministers any chance to get close to the two princes!
The two princes live in a special prince's residence and have not yet entered school. After entering school, it is impossible for Li Xuan to ask the important ministers in the court to be the prince's teachers. He will choose someone else.
, even if a minister is selected as a teacher, he will personally inspect it, and the teaching can only teach the most basic cultural knowledge. If anyone dares to instill anything benevolent in his son, he will catch them and kill them all!
His son Li Xuan, the future prince and even the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, definitely does not need benevolence. When the time comes, Li Xuan will personally show the prince what an emperor should do!
And when the time comes, Li Xuan’s teaching will definitely not contain any benevolence!
After the imperial examination ended and Huichen got married, April of the seventh year of Xuanping finally passed!
After the arrival of May, Anda Khan's envoy finally came to Jinling City again, and brought Anda Khan's final reply on the peace talks!