Although he looked sad at first and lost the impassioned momentum he had just expressed in front of his parents. Instead, he felt depressed that the monkey could not escape the palm of Tathagata no matter how much he jumped. However, Lu Sanlang's greatest advantage is that he does not get into trouble, and his emotions come and go quickly.
Come on. When Zhang Shou said that he and his father would go to the Liu family to propose marriage tomorrow, he immediately became overjoyed.
"Fortunately, I met someone tonight, otherwise I would look back with a black eye, and maybe I would have rebellious thoughts! And if I hadn't happened to be there, maybe the fourth girl of the Liu family would have met the second prince.
When the time comes, there may not be a good man like me, who is old-fashioned and warm-hearted, to come to the rescue!"
Looking at the proud and proud Lu Sanlang, Zhang Shou couldn't help but want to poke the little fat man's face to see if a person's face is as thick as a pig's skin. Thinking about Lu Sanlang's previous protest against hitting people in the face,
He gave up the idea for the time being and changed the subject thoughtfully: "But since your father arranged for me to stay with you, I happen to have something serious to ask you for help with."
If someone else suddenly interrupted with something serious during that sweet and longing moment, they would definitely feel uncomfortable and muttering endlessly. But Lu Sanlang immediately became energetic, rolled up his sleeves and asked: "Mr. Do you want to do this again?"
Got any other clues? Hurry up and tell me, I'll help you figure it out and we'll try to answer it tonight!"
Then tomorrow morning he can go to Jiuzhangtang to show off his abilities as a chief!
Zhang Shou couldn't help but knock the little fat man on the forehead, and then lowered his voice and said: "You go to find Uncle Weinan. It's best to see if Ah Liu has come back from Liu's house and ask him to accompany you. You are on the streets today."
The second prince, you have been in too much limelight, so you have to guard against someone getting angry with you and doing evil things. After you see Uncle Weinan, ask about this first..."
When Lu Sanlang happily slipped out of his small courtyard to look for Ah Liu, for the first time in the Qingning Palace, the Queen Mother, who usually went to bed early and got up early, did not go to bed early. Because just after the Qingning Gate was locked, the emperor suddenly brought
Zhu Ying knocked on the door and came in. The grandniece she had always liked was hiding behind the emperor, as if she didn't dare to face her if she got into trouble.
The Queen Mother had long been used to Zhu Ying's irregular troublemaking, and was too lazy to get out of bed at this time. She ordered the female officer Yuquan to put a big pillow behind her, and she leaned there and asked angrily: "Yingying,
Tell me, what trouble did you get into again?"
"It wasn't me who caused the trouble!" Zhu Ying confidently stuck her head out from behind the emperor, and then coughed dryly and said, "But it has something to do with me!"
"It doesn't matter, you won't go into the palace to see the emperor at night, and then come to see me again!"
There was anger on her face, but the Queen Mother didn't take it too seriously. Because the emperor was still smiling slightly at this time, it shouldn't be a big deal. Sure enough, next, she only heard Zhu Ying say seriously: "Lu Sanlang is worried that his father will act like a mandarin duck."
He was so anxious that he begged Ah Shou to ask me to find a suitable match for him. It happened that the fourth girl from the family of Liu Shilang from the Ministry of Industry was quite interested in him, so I helped to find a match."
"It's definitely either giving or receiving in private, or meeting each other face to face in public."
The Queen Mother knew that Zhu Ying was just messing around, and she shouldn't talk nonsense about such a big thing, so she glared at her angrily: "I often hang out with your third aunt, and I learned bad things! That's all, we just fight each other.
Meeting each other is not a big deal..."
Zhu Ying coughed again, and then whispered: "But there is still something to come...Then the second prince suddenly came over with a lot of force."
Seeing that the smile that the Queen Mother had just shown suddenly froze on her face, she simply told the whole story exactly as it happened. However, of course, she weakened Lu Sanlang's toughness by several levels, and weakened the Second Prince's.
His arrogance and domineering increased several levels, and he finally said: "Later, the eldest prince also came, and with a few words he scared the second prince away, and the matter was over."
"Two evil obstacles, these two evil obstacles!"
Since the Queen Mother once listened to politics behind the curtain, she naturally had a deep understanding of people's hearts, so how could she not know the tricks in it? At this time, she cursed twice angrily, and seeing the emperor's expression indifferent, she couldn't help but hold her tongue. She didn't know that the emperor only
Feeling that this was a trivial matter where brothers were fighting each other, or that there was nothing more sad than heartbreak, I could only take a deep breath and forcefully change the subject.
"The Ministry of Rites has just released a preliminary list of concubines. Maybe they were misinformed by someone and misunderstood..."
"Mom, you don't have to speak for the two of them. How dare you think that the daughter of the minister of the Ministry of Industry is not noble enough? Apart from being my son, what else can he do well? Is it that his literary talent is enough to dominate the world, or his military skills?
Is it enough to guide the country? Or can it win people? Emperor Taizu’s painstaking decision that the prince should not be crowned king at will seems to have been forgotten a long time ago! "
The emperor sneered, and then said coldly: "Moreover, no one proposed that the concubines and concubines of the harem should be selected from among the people to prevent relatives from interfering in politics, but Emperor Taizu refused."
"Emperor Taizu said at that time that women from small families who teach their children will often perpetuate the small family spirit and easily teach bad children. The same thing happens if the princes and princesses are handed over to eunuchs or even foreign ministers and separated from their mothers.
If it is not appropriate, it will often develop serious character flaws. Furthermore, the nature of mother and child means that this dynasty cannot do anything like killing the mother and leaving the son."
"So, starting from the reign of Taizu, the princes and concubines were generally selected from officials of third rank and below."
Although she knew that she should not interrupt in this situation, Zhu Ying still couldn't help but murmured in a low voice: "Emperor Taizu's compassion has changed over the years. At that time, he was an official of the third rank and below, but later he was not a first-rank or second-rank official.
The quality was even selected in the noble Duke's family. When the prince married a wife, it all turned into a competition for the wife's natal background, which was a mess and a mess."
Seeing that the Queen Mother's face suddenly darkened after hearing this, Zhu Ying immediately hid behind the emperor, but immediately after, she only heard the emperor laugh: "Yingying is right. So, the second child said nothing in the street and was humiliated.
Daughter of the Liu family, this will certainly require a heavy punishment, but I want to discuss something with my mother. From now on, the prince will only choose wives from officials below the seventh rank, officials, scholars, supervisors and other enlightened scholars."
The emperor curled his lips and said calmly: "There are several princes at a time, and a few girls around the age of twelve are selected at a time. If you are afraid of problems along the way, it doesn't hurt to select a few more. Then the palace will send someone
, teach the classics, history, etiquette, control the subordinates, and then look at the character, temperament, and bearing, teach them like this for three or four years, and then select a suitable betrothal to the prince."
The Queen Mother immediately took a breath. Marrying a prince would require three to four years of teaching? She glanced at Zhu Ying subconsciously, and was dumbfounded when she saw this girl who had her own way of doing things. She knew that the emperor might have already
Probable.
Knowing that the emperor might have been thinking about this since he was dissatisfied with the queen, she was silent for a moment and then sighed: "Maybe it will be possible in the future, but now their brothers are already very old, and they can't wait for three years."
Four years.”
"Three or four years won't work, but they can still afford to wait for two years. What's more, my queen loves her son, and it's not like they don't have women around them. When I ascended the throne as a young man, my mother's teachings were strict. I didn't have sex with a woman before I was fifteen, but
Those two have seen countless flowers since they were in the Thirteenth Division, and they only missed one spot for those Yingying Yanyan."
Knowing that the emperor's face was calm at this time, he was actually very angry, otherwise he would not be so stubborn in trying to reverse the purpose of choosing a concubine. The Queen Mother thought about it again and again, and finally nodded and said: "Forget it, that's it. Let the people around me
Yuquan, go with Bingbi Chukuan, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites to select them. Don’t disturb the people too much. In the end, three or five people will be selected.”
"As for those who are not selected in the future, they will be given to royal family members as wives, so as not to humiliate them."
Seeing that the Empress Dowager finally nodded, the Emperor, who had long expected that the result would be like this, was still tense, but he was quite satisfied in his heart. Therefore, when he saw Zhu Ying's face clearly confused, he smiled and said: "Actually, I
I still learned the recruitment from Yingying's father. However, raising a son-in-law from scratch is really too long, so I can only make do and raise my daughter-in-law for three or four years."
"It can be regarded as another kind of child bride. In fact, I prefer to raise the girl when she is six or seven years old."
A matter that was obviously very serious and involved a wide range of things was said by the emperor in such a joking tone. The Queen Mother was immediately choked. And Zhu Ying was even more angry and protested: "What nonsense is this, Your Majesty? When will A Shou
Is he my father’s adopted son-in-law? At most, my father only contributed some money. He was self-taught by relying on Grandpa Ge’s books. My family originally owed it to his mother and son!"
"Okay, your son-in-law is not your son-in-law...he is your fiancé, okay?" The emperor stroked Zhu Ying's head as he did when he was a child, and then said with a smile, "Yingying is coming tonight.
The second child who complained and knew that he was in trouble has already gone to Kunning Palace to cry to the Queen, but his eldest brother has also gone, because I am afraid that the Queen Mother will not sleep well tonight."
Do you still have the nerve to say it?
When the Queen Mother was getting angry, the Emperor said calmly: "Send the order and seal the door of Qingning Palace. I will chat with the Queen Mother tonight. If the sky falls, we will wait until tomorrow! Yingying go to the East Nuan Pavilion of the Queen Mother to sleep. It is not good for girls to sleep late.
.”
I remember that he respected his wife and did not touch other concubines in the first two years of marriage. Even when the queen was pregnant with Liujia, she often accompanied him in Kunning Palace. However, after the queen gave birth to the second prince, she seemed to feel that her status was stable. After that, the concubines
She was always offended, and the palace servants were even more frightened. When she finally ordered the palace servant to be killed with a stick because of a trivial incident, he who rushed after hearing the news could no longer bear it.
After the Chief Supervisor of Ceremonies interrogated the palace man, he finally expelled him from the palace, but the imperial physician he sent to treat the queen was kicked out by her. After that, he rarely visited Kunning Palace and often went to those once-in-a-lifetime palaces.
There are concubines who stay alone in the empty room. Among them, Concubine Yu, who likes martial arts and horse riding, is the most popular with him.
Now, the two princes have been raised by the queen as if they were lifeblood for many years. Although he often calls people to talk to him about his fate, it can be seen that there is another plan behind them. But the teacher was also chosen by her with great pains, and then he turned around.
He was asked to be recommended by the ministers, and he looked like an old scholar and agreed with his eyes closed, but he ended up like this!