The concept of "filial piety" was first proposed by Confucianism. Confucius once proposed: "A mourning in three years is a mourning in the world." So from the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the system of mourning in officials gradually became legal.

Three years are not appropriate, to be precise, twenty-seven months, and the emperor is different from ordinary people, simplified to twenty-seven days. Therefore, the day when Jiajing ascended the throne, it should be a pre-selected draft. However, the emperor

He insisted on keeping his own father filial piety, but it was hard for others to stop him. Zhu Houn, the left and right, was young, and there was no hurry to do this.

As a result, as soon as he showed filial piety, someone couldn't wait to pop out.

Zhu Houyan said calmly, "Mrs. Xie is concerned about it, but I am only seventeen this year and have not yet won the championship. Don't worry."

"Why are you not in a hurry? Which man married me just after I got the crown? Your Majesty, as the emperor, should do his duty and spread the branches and leaves for the royal family early." Empress Dowager Zhang said earnestly, and then brought out Zhengde to give an example

, "Look at the late emperor, although he was deeply in love with his father and son, he had just ascended the throne a few months ago and was appointed as the queen under the supervision of the Ministry of Rites. Your Majesty should do the same."

Zhu Houxiang almost made him happy. He suddenly wanted to ask, did the late emperor finally spread the roots for the royal family? However, considering that Xian Ruxing always persuaded him to "slap people in the face", he finally held back.

Coughing twice, he replied, "Cousin is of course good, but the situation here is much more complicated. The Queen Mother also knows that the Shoufu Yang has retired now, and many official duties in the court are not handled. Even if the harem is filled, I may be short of

I don’t care about them, so I’ll let them go for the time being.”

Logically speaking, Zhu Houcan has already said this, and any normal person should stop talking, but Empress Dowager Zhang is the abnormal one.

In fact, it is also interesting to have a closer look at her life. Although Zhang is the only queen in the harem, she has not had any evil things. All the negative news related to her basically comes from her two younger brothers. And Empress Dowager Zhang herself,

Perhaps it was because the first half of my life was so smooth that I always gave people a feeling that I was not very good at it.

Just like now, Zhu Houcong has repeatedly ruling, and taking into account her identity, her attitude is respectful throughout the process. However, when she saw that her wish had not been fulfilled, she actually provoked the emperor's sting. She said bluntly that although she was the emperor, her parents ordered her to match her.

Yes, now she is nominally the other party’s mother, so she can decide on the draft.

Zhu Hou looked at her coldly, his eyes calm and indifferent. At this time, he seemed to have returned to when Xian Ruxing first met, treating anyone like an ant, mean and cruel.

After a while, he suddenly laughed, "The elder sister is still in the boudoir, so it's hard to go over her. There is no need to hurry to get married. However, I have just sat in Renshou Palace for a while and felt a little chill. As the saying goes, "Flowers

The sun is foggy, and the willows turn into shade the next year. I think it is because the flowers and plants are planted incorrectly. I will find someone to remove all these things that are in trouble and replace them with another batch for the Queen Mother."

Empress Dowager Zhang's face turned pale in an instant.

The two lines of poems read by the emperor were written by Li Mengyang, a civil servant of this dynasty. Li Mengyang once impeached the Zhang family and pointed out sharply. He hoped that Xiaozong could directly punish the Zhang brothers. Empress Dowager Zhang ran to her husband and cried and said bluntly that she would not deal with him.

I can't get up. Hongzhi had no choice but to lock Li Mengyang up for a few days. After that, all the officials avenged him, so Hongzhi let him go. The first thing Li Mengyang did when he was released from prison was to find Zhang Heling and punch him

The other party had two teeth, and the emperor did not pursue it in the end.

It is obvious that Jiajing was warning him that even her husband could not protect the Zhang brothers, but now it is easy for him to deal with the Zhang family.

When talking about his younger brother, Empress Dowager Zhang was a little panicked and forced herself to cheer up and said, "I am used to living in Renshou Palace. I thank Your Majesty for your kindness, so I will maintain the status quo for the time being. What Your Majesty said makes sense, since Princess Yongjing has not yet

If you get married, then she will come first and the talent show will be put on hold."

Zhu Houcan nodded and said warmly: "Empress Dowager, I still have government affairs to deal with, so I won't bother you." After saying that, he took off and returned to the palace without responding.

Outside the hall, Gu Dayong knelt on the ground. When he saw the emperor, he quickly kowtowed.

Zhu Houxiang has always been a little helping with his relatives and is not helping him. He sighed in secretly that Zhengde is willing to use him. He is indeed a person with vision. Now he has no one in his hands and can still use it for the time being. So he spoke, "Get up, and go with Huang Jin in the future.

If you rotate on duty, ask him if you have anything to do.”

"Yes," Gu Dayong was respectful and waited for Zhu Houcon to walk away before he got up and humbly said to Huang Jin, who was a little younger than him, "Eunuch Huang, I will give you some advice in the future."

Huang Jin still looked honest and honest, and said with a silly smile, "Where is, the father-in-law of the Valley of Qualifications is far superior to me. He is always serving His Majesty. We will work together and do our jobs."

"That's it, it's like this," Gu Dayong nodded, disdained in his heart. The stupid man from the countryside dared to stand on his head, but fortunately everything is going well now, and it's not in vain that he has planned for so long.

Looking at the majestic Qianqing Palace in the distance again, Gu Dayong was full of passion. Even if he fell, I could get up again! Xian Ruxing and the crooked scholars in the court, you all wait for me

Then, one day I will settle the score with you!

Regardless of how Gu Dayong is planning, just say that when Jiang's side learned that Empress Dowager Zhang had consulted Jiajing about the draft, she was so angry that she broke the teacup, "Okay, I respect her three points on weekdays, but she thought

We are both easy to bully! The lord of the harem? My son married his wife, but I didn’t even say that she was a thing!”

Empress Dowager Jiang pulled Zhu Houhuang and said bitterly: "Child, you have only been in the throne for more than a year. Although you have been able to manage the throne, your foundation is still shallow. Now, you are holding a talent show to let all forces openly squeeze people in and then choose them.

The queen is not what you like, both of them suffer.”

"Aren't the talent show chosen from the public? In this way, they can still stuff people into it?" Zhu Houcong was a little curious.

Empress Dowager Jiang sneered, "Of course not, but in fact, there are many private matters in it. If you don't care, I will not care. But I'll watch you ascend the throne and work hard for you, obviously, just to work hard for the wise king.

With this ambition, Mom can never let anyone drag you down. That's why I keep pressing on this matter. Wouldn't you blame Mom, right?"

"How could this happen?" Zhu Houguang comforted his mother, "Of course I know that my mother is for my own good, and I don't want to give a draft now."

"That's right..." Jiang nodded thoughtfully, and then changed the topic in Jiajing's confused gaze, "But there is one thing that the Renshou Palace said is right. Fu'an is indeed here, and he will be able to stay any longer.

It's an old girl."

After becoming emperor, Zhu Houcheng not only asked his parents for status, but also immediately named his sister Fu'an Princess Yongjing, and his sister Shoujie'er named him Princess Yongchun. Not only did he equipped everything the princess should have, he also gave him

The palace allowed them to walk freely in the Forbidden City. Empress Dowager Zhang once raised objections, believing that the two of them were so unethical that they were not etiquette, but they were both fine by the emperor's family.

Yongjing is nineteen years old this year. To be precise, she is already an old girl in the Ming Dynasty. Before, Xian Ruxing was dissuading her and did not discuss her marriage, but it was unreasonable to delay her. So although she couldn't bear to let her go, Empress Dowager Jiang still called her to her side.

My daughter told this.

Princess Yongjing didn't say anything after hearing this. She knew that this day would be sooner or later, and she just said that everything would be decided by her mother and brother.

Choosing a son-in-law in the Ming Dynasty was a tedious job. In the early days of the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di and others chose husbands for their daughters and had the purpose of marriage. They were often the youngest sons of nobles and military generals. However, when the imperial power was stable, in order to prevent foreign relatives from interfering in politics, the son-in-law was the son-in-law.

They are usually from ordinary people.

So where did the royal family know so many ordinary people?

It's funny, the final choice is to let the people register. Whenever the prince talks about marriage, the court will post a royal list near the capital, selecting a man with a family background between the ages of fourteen and seventeen, first

The local yamen was auditioned and sent to the capital to select three people by the Silijian. Finally, the emperor chose one of these three people as his son-in-law or brother-in-law.

There is a big problem with the chosen prince consort in this way, that is, it can only be judged by appearance, and there is no way to understand it in depth. Furthermore, because the middle has to be passed by the eunuch, there will be many bribery and bribery. In the eighth year of Hongzhi

Once, the eunuch accepted a gift from someone and helped the other party conceal his illness. As a result, the man died suddenly less than a year after becoming the princess, and the princess was in trouble and became a widow.

Although some generalize it, because of the strict control of foreign relatives in the Ming Dynasty, most of the slightly aspiring men respected the prince-consort and were not very grateful to the prince-consort. As a result, the prince-consort was selected. There was once an emperor who wanted to improve the prince-consort.

Their cultural level was sent to the Imperial College for the Imperial College, but the teachers who taught them could not stand these idiots and collectively resigned and returned to their hometown to farm.

Zhu Houcong naturally heard about this, so he made a decision that he must strictly control the choice of a husband for his sister. If it really doesn't work, he can send factory guards out to monitor for a period of time.

However, just as he had discussed with Empress Dowager Jiang and planned to draw up the imperial list of fortunes and rituals, news suddenly came that Princess Yongjing was seriously ill. This scared Zhu Houguan and hurriedly ordered the Imperial Hospital to treat it. However, no matter how it was treated, the fever would be relieved.

If he couldn't come down, there was no way, Zhu Houcon could only invite Xian Ruxing over again.

Although Xian Ruxing and Fu'an have been together less recently, their relationship is still very deep. He heard this and hurried to the princess's residence. Looking at the friend lying on the bed with his eyes closed, he couldn't help but reach out and touch the other person's forehead.

At this moment, Fu'an's eyes suddenly turned, Xian Ruxing was slightly stunned, and then he reacted and said to the emperor and empress dowager behind him: "I have to check it carefully for the princess, please leave the left and right."

Although the two of them were anxious, they still obediently did it out of trust in Xian Ruxing.

After everyone was exposed, Xian Ruxing sighed and said, "Okay, get up and talk about what's going on."

Fu'an opened his eyes and said embarrassedly: "I'm so troublesome. Fortunately, you can help me, otherwise I don't know how to continue."

She struggled to support herself, revealing the hot water bag pressing on the back of the bed.

"Ah? Isn't this the one I gave you?" Xian Ruxing was stunned for a moment. Fu'an was afraid of the cold. At this time, Tang Pozi was not very convenient to stuff it into the quilt, so Xian Ruxing gave his hot water bag to the other party.

"You don't bother you in the summer, oh, you use this thing to increase your body temperature and pretend to be sick!" Xian Ruxing suddenly realized, and then gave a thumbs up in admiration. He was a cruel person!

Fu'an lowered his head shyly and whispered: "I have no choice. If you just say that you don't want to get married, your mother will definitely not agree."

Xian Ruxing also heard a little about choosing a prince consort. He originally wanted to come over to ask after he finished his work, but now he sees this thing that is obviously not necessary.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Fu'an bit her lower lip and said softly: "You don't ask me why I don't want to get married?"

"Do you need a reason if you don't want to get married?" Xian Ruxing wondered. She had a brief understanding of the marriage of the Ming Dynasty princess before, and found that the princess still had to live in the palace after getting married, leaving the princess's mansion to the princess and the princess' concubine. She usually wants to meet her.

While the prince-consort had to pass the message through the female official, many princesses were bullied by the female official. She thought that she would be so angry that she would not marry herself. But since the other party said that, she still honestly asked: "Okay, okay."

, Why don’t you want to get married?”

Fu'an said depressedly: "Actually, it's nothing for me to marry. I can still be with my mother in the palace, but if I get married, I will inevitably have to have children later. Look at my body, like

Can you give birth to a baby?"

Although Fu'an has been exercising more and has become much harder in his body over the years, he has been plagued by his womb before, so he still gets sick from time to time. Xian Ruxing is about 100 kilograms tall, so he is already thin.

The size of the mother is smaller than her. At this time, the mother has no advanced medical assistance as well as the later generations. She almost always fights her life. Fu'an has become a good doctor after years of illness, and has also found some books to study by herself.

, Maybe because of her talent, her current level is not bad as the average imperial physician. As a result, she found in despair that if she was pregnant, she would definitely be the only one corpse and two lives.

"I'm not afraid of death, but my mother is still here. Since her father died of illness, she has been much less energetic. Last time she had a dispute with Queen Mother Zhang, she was so angry that she slapped her son when she came back. Now she just has to hold on. If she lets her go, she will let her go.

She gave her a white-haired man to a black-haired man, so I would be too unfilial to be my daughter!" Fu'an was so angry that he burst into tears.

Xian Ruxing quickly comforted her and said to herself, "Oh, blame me, I'm just busy with other things, I'll forget you here." The main reason is that she is beside the Taoist priests and eunuchs, and no one gets married and has children, so she didn't expect this for a while.

aspect.

After wiping his eyes, Fu'an shook his head and said, "What does it have to do with you? I'm just not doing well. But please help me keep it a secret. Don't tell others how long I can delay it."

"That won't work," Xian Ruxing shook his head, "Your Majesty is going crazy, and you can hide it from this hot water bag until when can you hide it? I'll let your brother help solve it."

"But..." Fu'an was always hesitant, worried that Jiajing would force himself to get married after hearing this.

Xian Ruxing shook her head, "Don't worry, I understand him, he won't."
To be continued...