Chapter 27 Royal Matchmaker
Ye Xiaotian hurried back to the inn. As soon as he entered the inn, he smelled the smell of barbecue. Ye Xiaotian was a little surprised. This was the place where the Ming Dynasty court set up to receive officials from all over the country to Beijing. Logically speaking, there was no reason to make it look like this, although the fragrance was quite tempting...
Ye Xiaotian casually grabbed a postman and asked. The postman snorted and said, "You can just leave by smelling the fragrance. The third lady is barbecuing in the yard. Alas! I really don't know if she will continue to live, will she have a 'Natam' in our postman..."
The postman shook his head and left. Ye Xiaotian was stunned for a moment and hurried... looking for the fragrance of barbecue. Ye Xiaotian rushed to the door of the mansion where the third lady lived. The fragrance became stronger and stronger. There were four tall and burly Mongolian men standing on both sides of the gate at the door.
Ye Xiaotian knew that he had found the right place and immediately stepped forward. When the four big men saw him hurrying to the gate, they immediately crossed the door, looked at him coldly with their arms in their arms, and did not speak.
Ye Xiaotian stopped and bowed, "I wonder if the third lady is having a banquet for a girl Xia Yingying Xia?"
A big man glanced at him and said coldly: "What's your business?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "I can't hide it from you. Miss Xia and I are...yes..."
Four pairs of bull eyes stared at Ye Xiaotian. Ye Xiaotian made up his mind and said loudly: "It's my wife. If Miss Xia is with you, please report it to me and I want to see her!"
"oh……"
Four bearded Mongolian men had a "so that's it" expression on their faces. One of them calmed down and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Please wait, I'll report to Ke Dun now!"
The third lady and Yingying were really barbecuing. Originally, the third lady wanted to invite her mother and her mother to have a banquet in the hall according to the customs of the Central Plains, but Yingying was very interested in the barbecue in the yard. The third lady originally liked to barbecue by herself, but because the Central Plains gentry had the tradition of "gentlemen staying away from the kitchen", hence the local customs. Now, seeing that Yingying has this interest, she simply moved out of the hall and drove away the chefs and they barbecue by themselves.
Yingying was holding a handful of meat skewers and grilling them with interest according to the guidance of the third lady. Seeing the skewers appearing in a seductive color, she was about to hand over a skewer to her mother to taste. A large Mongolian man had already walked over quickly and gave a gift to the third lady first. Then she said to Yingying with a rough voice: "Miss Xia, your man is here to find you!"
"ah?"
Xia Yingying was so shocked that her chin almost fell off: "I'm a man?"
Mrs. Xia immediately looked at her daughter alertly, and was shocked and angry: "Yingying. Have you met a man in Beijing?"
Xia Yingying hurriedly defended: "I don't have it!"
The third lady frowned and said, "What's that person's name? Why do you claim to be my little girl's man?"
The big man was stunned. He had never asked Ye Xiaotian's name. Ye Xiaotian said he was Xia Yingying's man, so he came in and reported. Xia Yingying stood up angrily: "I'll go and see!"
Xia Yingying grabbed a handful of fragrant meat skewers and headed straight to the gate of the yard. The third lady and Mrs. Xia looked at each other and hurriedly chased after her.
"Who said it was my man?" Xia Yingying stood at the door and pointed forward angrily with a skewer: "You, you, or you?"
There were four guards of Ye Xiaotian standing at the door. Xia Yingying didn't know any of them, and someone pretended to be her man. Of course, he was angry and asked without thinking.
Ye Xiaotian was talking to an official at the side of the gate. The official at the inn saw Ye Xiaotian leading four guards to stand in front of the gate to confront the Mongolian warriors. He recognized them as local officials from Guiyang and thought that there was a dispute between the two sides. This was a major incident, so he hurried forward to inquire.
Ye Xiaotian was explaining with him, suddenly he heard Yingying's voice sound and hurried back to the door. When Yingying put her hands on her waist, she saw Yingying put her almond eyes wide open, and her handful of meat skewers pointed forward, looking angrily, and her cherry-colored cherry mouth was shiny and there was a little greasy on her cheeks.
"ah!"
Suddenly, when Yingying's angry look disappeared, she opened her mouth in surprise, and looked disbelief. Ye Xiaotian walked up with a smile and said softly: "Yingying, are you okay?"
"You...you..." Yingying stammered and stretched out her hand and said blankly: "Do you eat meat skewers?"
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"Why did you go all night? You didn't come back until the morning court? Huh? You said!" Emperor Wanli looked at Xu Boyi and was furious!
Most of the eunuchs have problems. Even some eunuchs who have successfully performed castration in the uterus, because they lack an important part and a sphincter constraint, they still do it when they are nervous, urgency, etc.
If the castration process is not perfect, it will become a common flowing water. Therefore, even if many eunuchs take baths frequently and carry purses with a very strong fragrance, they still have a very unpleasant smell.
Although Xu Boyi's conditions were very bad when he was castrated, he recovered well, only when he was nervous and urgent. At this moment, he was nervous and urgent, so... he urinated again.
Because I was running around all night and was anxious and angry, the smell was quite big this time. Emperor Wanli held his breath and took a few steps back in disgust. Then he continued to roar: "I can't do this, I'm such a waste!"
Seeing that the hem was wet, Xu Boyi knelt on the hall, begging for mercy, and then hiding shame: "Emperor! Your Majesty, it's not that I'm too incompetent, but it's really hard to move forward in this palace..."
Xu Boyi talked about his hard work in this sleep with tears. Emperor Wanli did not have the leisure to listen to him complaining. Wanli waved his hand angrily and scolded: "One hundred kilograms of steamed pastries, waste snacks! Go, please invite the fifth emperor uncle!"
The emperor uncle mentioned by Wanli is named Zhu Xingshu. In the royal family, he is Wanli's uncle in his seniority. He is similar to Wanli in terms of age. When Wanli was a child, he once studied with the prince, so the two have a good relationship.
However, this five uncle is neither a prince nor a prince. Except for the prince, the prince is called a prince. Except for the eldest son, the other princes are called a prince. Except for the eldest son, the other princes are called a prince. Except for the eldest son, the other princes are called a general of Zhenguo. This Zhu Xingshu is the general of Zhenguo.
The royal family of the Ming Dynasty was different from the Han and Jin Dynasties, and the Tang and Song Dynasties. The Han and Jin vassals split the land and faced the people, just like the country. The royal family of the Tang and Song Dynasties did not leave the land, and their wise men all planned to be famous and officials, and they achieved their own achievements, and the country would also entrusted important tasks.
However, in the Ming Dynasty, the royal family divided the feudals but did not tin the soil, listed the titles but did not face the people, and did not control the affairs of the people with food and wealth. They could not participate in the affairs of the four people (scholars, farmers, industry and commerce). After Yongle reduced the vassals, they raised the royal family as pigs, so the power of the royal family was extremely weak.
Yongle did this to learn from the lessons of various dynasties in history and prevent the royal family from seizing power. However, the four pillars of traditional regimes - bureaucrats, royal families, foreign relatives, and eunuchs. He broke up all the three legs of the royal family, foreign relatives, and eunuchs, and the bureaucratic group was the dominant one.
No matter how the bureaucratic group beautifies itself, the harm of their dominance is even above the royal family, relatives and eunuch groups, because they are a group of people who directly govern the country and control government affairs.
When Emperor Jiajing was there, he wanted to save the country in a curve, let the royal family settle in Nanjing, and gradually move to Beijing, strengthen the influence of the royal family, thereby checking and balancing the increasingly powerful bureaucratic group.
Unfortunately, there were too many capable people in the bureaucratic elite group, and the emperor's thoughts were seen through at a glance. So they exercised the "veto power" and rejected the emperor's idea of depriving them of "veto power", which made most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty both interdependent and powerful with the ministers. When they could not bear it, they would let a few eunuchs come out to bite them and exude their anger.
Zhu Xingshu is not even a prince, his title is too low, and he is the emperor's playmate, so he is just such a person and cannot cause any storm, so he is rarely driven out of the capital.
Zhu Xingshu was a happy little pig at home: he slept when he was full, and he ate when he was full. He was so bored that he listened to the opera. Anyway, all major affairs of the country and politics had nothing to do with him, so he couldn't get involved at all. He didn't expect that the emperor suddenly sent a eunuch.
Zhu Xingshu was puzzled and quickly withdrew the opera troupe and asked someone to call the eunuch. When Xu Boyi saw Zhu Xingshu, he sent the emperor to ask him to meet him. Zhu Xingshu did not dare to be negligent, so he quickly followed Xu Boyi into the palace and asked Xu Boyi all the way to ask Xu Boyi for the reason for the summoning of the emperor.
Wanli sent Xu Boyi to summon him to the palace, with the purpose of letting him understand the situation first so that he would save himself from talking. In addition... the emperor has self-esteem, and some words are really hard to say. Zhu Xingshu is not a slave around him, so it would be better to let Xu Boyi speak for him.
After listening to Xu Boyi's story, Zhu Xingshu had a clue in his mind: it turned out that the emperor wanted to be a matchmaker himself.
Zhu Xingshu was very confident. In fact, every time the emperor forbids the people from marrying among the people and when he started choosing a concubine, the people all heard that he started marrying his daughter first, because the chance of becoming the emperor's favorite concubine after being selected for the palace was too slim. He was trapped in the palace and was alone for life, and the probability of not being able to reunite with his relatives in his life was more than 99%.
But the emperor clearly loved the girl Yingying. Xu Boyi also hinted that as long as she was willing to enter the palace, the emperor could immediately make her the imperial concubine. With such conditions, there were only women who refused to enter the palace. This trip was very easy.
It is not bad for him. After hearing this, all officials will definitely oppose it. Once the rice is cooked, all officials will not be able to obstruct him. But what does it matter? He is a royal family and lives with the emperor. As long as he pleases the emperor, even if he is driven to the place, he can still be a piglet who is more free and happy than in Beijing.
When Zhu Xingshu met the emperor, Emperor Wanli was a little shy when facing this playmate who had been young. After a while, he said, "Uncle, I am the emperor and the supreme emperor. However, there are only a few happy things in my life.
This girl Yingying, I fell in love with her at first sight, and I have been thinking about it day and night, and I can’t let it go! Now I ask the emperor’s uncle to ask for a marriage on my behalf. If I can convince girl Yingying and stay with me forever, I will have a regret in this life.”
As Emperor Wanli said, his eyes became wet, and Zhu Xingshu also moved his feelings. The emperor is really... not easy! Sometimes the situation is worse than the happy little pig. Zhu Xingshu said with a sigh: "Don't worry, my elders, I will definitely live up to the holy hope when I go here and convince Miss Xia to enter the palace!"
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(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!