The Ming Dynasty had strict regulations on marriage. For example, the person officiating the marriage must be a grandparent or a parent. If both grandparents and parents are deceased, other relatives can officiate the marriage.
Wang Yuan invited his eldest brother to come to the capital to preside over the wedding. Strictly speaking, it violated the Ming Dynasty Marriage Law!
In addition, marriage based on the fingertips is not protected by Ming law. Both men and women can regret the marriage, and the complaint will be valid wherever they go. Because Zhu Yuanzhang said that "men and women have their own time for marriage", marriage using the fingertips is pure nonsense.
Mongolians and whites can marry Chinese as long as they settle in China. However, same-race marriages between Mongolians and whites are not allowed. Once violated, all homes will be confiscated and cast into slaves. This is to promote ethnic integration and allow the Chinese to treat foreigners
Assimilate it.
If a scholar marries a clan member, he will not be allowed to serve as a Beijing official or be entrusted with important positions!
However, there is really no explicit rule that civil servants cannot marry the daughter of a chieftain. This is a legal loophole. Wang Yuan can exploit it, but he must have sufficient status and obtain the emperor's permission. Otherwise, his official career will be affected, let alone
Entering the cabinet, even becoming a minister is enough.
"Uncle Shi, congratulations, congratulations!" Wang Yuan cupped his fists and smiled.
Jin Lei's parents have come to the capital. If he hadn't waited for his parents to come to Beijing to preside over the wedding, Jin Lei would have gotten married to Miss Jin last year.
Jin Wanchuan was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear, bowed and saluted, "You're welcome, Scholar Wang, please come in!"
Today was the day when the imperial edict was issued to the daughter of a house official to get married. A large number of officials from all over the court came, and those who didn't come also sent congratulatory gifts.
Jin Wanchuan spent a huge amount of money to buy his son a wedding house in the capital, covering an area of 20 acres. There were special areas to entertain female guests, and male guests were also divided into different places. Wang Yuan's table was full of Hanlin Academy officials.
Naturally, Yang Tinghe did not come today. Real bosses rarely attend junior weddings unless they are family friends. Yang Shen should come because the groom is the same year as him and the bride's father is a colleague of his.
Yang Shen leaned over and asked in a low voice next to Wang Yuan: "Ruoxu, is that empress in the Leopard Room someone good at sword dancing?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said, "Guess."
"That's it," Yang Shen said with emotion, "Ruoxu has a good trick!"
Wang Yuan flatly denied: "This matter has nothing to do with me."
Yang Shen said: "No one blames you, so why bother to separate the relationship?"
Wang Yuan still refused to admit it: "It really has nothing to do with me. Can I still influence His Majesty's preferences?"
Yang Shen didn't answer any more, thinking: Apart from Jiang Bin, you are the best at pleasing His Majesty!
Concubine Zhuang's original identity has gradually spread, because her two brothers have returned to the capital, and they have also been given the position of guarding thousands of households. A good person can find out her origins with a casual search, and they can't hide it no matter how hard they try.
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After chatting with colleagues from the Hanlin Academy for a while, there was a noise outside, but it was the groom who took the bride back.
The newlyweds went to worship, and the guests began to eat and drink.
After a lot of excitement, Wang Yuan was invited by the groom's father-in-law.
In the secret room, no one disturbed him, Jin Gui said: "Your Majesty intends to let you be the examiner of the Shuntian Prefecture Township Examination."
"Am I not qualified enough?" Wang Yuan asked in surprise.
Jin Gui smiled and said: "As soon as your Majesty mentioned this matter, he immediately attracted opposition from the cabinet ministers. Now the two sides are getting angry."
Wang Yuan's qualifications are indeed insufficient. How can anyone take the first prize in this subject and take the Shuntianfu Provincial Examination?
Wang Yuan asked: "What recommendations does the cabinet have?"
Jin Gui said: "Lun Wenxu will be the chief examiner, and Jia Yong will be the deputy examiner."
Lun Wenxu was the number one scholar in the twelfth year of Hongzhi. It was very reasonable for him to take charge of the provincial examination, but he was related to the cabinet minister Liang Chu!
Jia Yong was regarded as the face left by the cabinet to the emperor. This gentleman was not Yang Dang, but someone whom Zhu Houzhao valued. He was devalued because he offended Liu Jin, but during Liu Jin's domineering period, he was personally transferred and promoted by Zhu Houzhao. After Liu Jin's death, Jia Yong
Yong not only resumed his official position in the Hanlin Academy, but was also immediately awarded the post of Zhan Shifu.
Although Zhu Houzhao usually doesn't care about anything, he has quite a lot of officials in his pocket!
Wang Yuan smiled and asked: "What do you mean, Your Majesty?"
Jin Gui said: "His Majesty wants you to be the examiner, and Jia Yong to be the deputy examiner!"
Yes, Zhu Houzhao didn't give the cabinet face, and he didn't even give Yang Tinghe the position of chief examiner.
Jin Gui added: "His Majesty asked you to prepare in advance. You must be the examiner. Also, take care of your family and don't make troubles by leaking questions and selling them. Don't be embarrassed like me last year."
Unbearable."
"Understood." Wang Yuan nodded.
In the following days, fierce conflicts broke out between the emperor and the cabinet, and Zhu Houzhao launched a major counterattack!
Why fight back now?
Because the border town had arrived in Beijing and the household department was taken over by Wang Qiong, the emperor no longer needed to look at the cabinet's face.
Zhu Houzhao first grabbed Liang Chu's pigtails. He couldn't explain the three hundred lives of the Liang family. Directly hitting the point, Zhang Zilin, who was responsible for hearing the case, had only been the Minister of the Ministry of Justice for half a year, so he could only take the blame and resign——
After the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of Rites, the Minister of Punishment also changed.
This is the emperor's first blow!
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Houzhao suddenly gave Shijie, the left minister of the Ministry of War, a salary increase of one level, pretending to want to replace him as minister of the Ministry of War.
Three of the six ministers have already been replaced. Where else can we replace them?
Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu and others immediately relented and requested that Lun Wenxu and Jia Yong be allowed to go to Nanjing as examiners, and the selection of examiners in Beijing would be done according to the emperor's wishes.
Once the emperor asserts his power, the powerful ministers can only give in, or at most they can only act in a positive and negative way.
In this regard, Wang Yuan became the examiner of the Shuntianfu Township Examination in the eighth year of Zhengde. In addition to his positions in the Hanlin Academy and Zhanshifu, he also had the status of being the top scholar in modern subjects.
Letting the top scholar of Jinke preside over the provincial examination in the capital was not only an exception in the Ming Dynasty, but also the first time since China established the imperial examination system.
The government and the public were shocked!
The officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology, who had already let Wang Yuan go, could no longer restrain themselves now, and frantically filed a memorial to impeach our Bachelor Wang again.
Wang Yuan feels particularly aggrieved. It’s not that I want to be the examiner, but that the emperor insists on forcing me to be the examiner. If you are so awesome, go and impeach the emperor!
Zhu Houzhao was very sinister and was used to playing tricks to lure snakes out of their holes.
He asked Wang Yuan to serve as the chief examiner of the Shuntianfu Township Examination. The deputy examiner asked Yang Tinghe to recommend him, and Yang Tinghe recommended Wu Yipeng.
Zhu Houzhao took a look and said, OK, it turns out that Wu Yipeng of the Hanlin Academy was also a member of the Yang Party! Still angry, he thought that after the provincial examination was over, he would throw Wu Yipeng to Nanjing to manage the Imperial College, in the name of presiding over the provincial examination and being promoted with merit.
Anyway, Zhu Houzhao's series of operations amazed Wang Yuan.
This emperor was not only bright-eyed, but also smart in political methods. As soon as he transferred Bian Zhen to Beijing, he used the resignation of the minister as a breakthrough to replace the Minister of Hubu and the Minister of Rites with his own people. After taking control of the Hubu, he completely escaped dependence on the Yang Party.
, so they focused on the chief examiner of the rural examination and took the opportunity to force the Minister of Punishment to resign.
Yang Tinghe, who was in charge of six movies before, suddenly lost three movies, and Yang Yiqing, who was still in charge of one movie, was not very obedient.
Yang Tinghe can only control the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry now, and the left minister of the Ministry of War is still the emperor's man!