The Heavens: From Knowing Whether You Rule the World

Chapter 60: A letter from a young minister? (Today 6k)

Princess Pingning's standards were too high, and she cared too much about the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children.

In Princess Pingning's heart, among the three remaining girls of the Sheng family, Sheng Rulan, Sheng Molan, and Sheng Minglan are obviously not in the same league.

Sheng Rulan's grandfather is Grand Tutor Wang, who can barely make it into the high-end game in Bian Jing.

The relationship between Sheng Molan, Sheng Minglan and Old Tutor Wang needs to be maintained by the mistress Wang Ruofu, but they have no blood relationship with Wang Ruofu.

With this calculation, Sheng Minglan and Sheng Molan are actually just relatives of Old Master Wang.

That's pretty much it.

In the eyes of Princess Pingning, Chu Hong is Sheng Rulan's "real brother-in-law", but not Sheng Molan and Sheng Minglan's "real brother-in-law".

After all, Sheng Rulan and Sheng Hualan have the same mother, while Sheng Minglan and Sheng Molan are born to a concubine. There is a big difference between the two if you calculate carefully.

There is more than one layer of separation between the two sides.

Therefore, Princess Pingning, who could see the Queen every day when she was a child, looked down on Sheng Minglan, a concubine's daughter.

Even though Sheng Minglan was raised as the only daughter of Marquis Yongyi, Princess Pingning still looked down on her.

It just so happened that at this time, Qi Heng forced her mother to go to the Sheng family to propose marriage.

Although Princess Pingning looked down on Sheng Minglan, she also knew that with Chu Hong as a son-in-law, the Sheng family would definitely develop substantially in the future.

Although the Qi family is a duke's mansion, they are actually a fool of the modern Duke of Qi.

The contemporary Duke of Qi was just an ordinary dandy young man in his youth, so naturally he could not control the power of the Qi family in the army.

Now, the situation has changed, and decades have passed, and the Qi family's influence in the military has long been exhausted.

The Duke of Qi's Mansion had long been in decline. If it weren't for the fact that Princess Pingning grew up next to the Queen and had a little affection for her, the Qi family would have long been in decline.

Therefore, relying on the favor of the Queen, the Duke of Qi's Mansion was barely able to maintain its dignity under the auspices of Princess Pingning.

Even so, the decline of the Duke of Qi's Mansion was inevitable.

After all, if there really was a military force, which duke's legitimate son would focus on imperial examinations?

Compared with the declining Duke of Qi's Mansion, the development of the Jiangnan Chu family is now booming, and Chu Hong has also earned the reputation of "Little Prime Minister".

Chu Hong is destined to be extremely powerful.

Princess Pingning also hoped for such power.

However, she was too proud and couldn't humble herself at all.

She admired Chu Hong's power, but looked down on Sheng Minglan's status as a concubine's daughter.

She also didn't want people to say that the Qi family let her son Qi Heng marry a concubine just for Chu Hong's power.

In other words, he was clearly planning to find someone with power, but he acted arrogantly.

Therefore, when Qi Heng asked her mother, Princess Pingning, to go to the Sheng family to propose marriage, Princess Pingning went to propose, but did not propose it completely.

In the eyes of Princess Pingning, his Heng'er was worthy of even the princess and there was every chance for him to marry her. If he married Sheng Minglan, a concubine's daughter, it would feel like he was taking a disadvantage and marrying for less.

Since we are at a disadvantage, we naturally have to do something else as compensation.

When visiting the Sheng family, Princess Pingning also praised Sheng Minglan, saying that Qi Heng had some admiration for Sheng Minglan.

Then, when the Sheng family and Sheng Minglan were both happy about this, the princess, feeling that she had suffered a disadvantage, implicitly made a small and rigid request.

an article.

An article by Chu Hong.

An article of the same level as Chu Hong's "Preface to Sending Off Changbai in Youyang".

One article helped her son rise to prominence.

Perhaps because she was used to being arrogant, she always maintained an arrogant attitude.

He said this with a very arrogant attitude, as if saying, "If you don't give me this, it won't be accomplished. You, the Sheng family, should quickly ask someone to make trouble for it!"

This request, this attitude, even the usually kind and peaceful Mrs. Sheng almost cursed on the spot.

Do you really think articles of this level are worth a lot of money?
An article titled "Preface to Sending Off Changbai of Youyang" almost made Sheng Changbai, a young scholar, rise to fame overnight and become a well-known figure in the world.

No one could imagine how much of an impact this reputation had on Sheng Changbai's ranking as the third place in the imperial examination.

Which of these articles is not a natural creation that can only be achieved by chance?
This small request is not small at all.

Not to mention whether Chu Hong can write such an article, even if he can, why should he give it to Qi Heng?

Even if Qi Heng really married Ming'er, he would at most be Hong'er's brother-in-law.

You should know that the poem "Preface to Sending Off Changbai to Youyang" is about sending off Changbai.

He is the younger brother of Hongge's wife, and the article was sent on the day when Hongge was getting married. It was sent at Hongge's own wedding.

Qi Heng, at least in terms of close relationship, is far from enough.

It is natural to say that brothers-in-law are close, but in reality, they are just like that. Brothers-in-law with average relationships will just greet each other when they meet, and then live their own lives.

That's it! You ask people to send you articles of this level?

Moreover, even if such an article was written, why would anyone give it to the Sheng family as a dowry?
For your Sheng family’s marriage, you want the Chu family to provide the dowry?
For the sixth daughter’s marriage, let the eldest son-in-law provide the dowry?
Moreover, this specifies actively asking for something?

Where in the world is there such a saying?
In order to marry off one daughter, one has to ask the husband of another daughter to write an article as a dowry?
This is looking down on people and also mistreating them.

He looked down on the son-in-law who wrote the article, and used the son-in-law's article to please the husband of his daughter who was about to get married.

If this story gets out, wouldn't people laugh to death if he mistreats his daughter who is about to get married and makes her look like she is begging to marry him?

It is impossible for a son-in-law from an ordinary family to do this to please another son-in-law who is about to get married.

What’s more, he is the young cabinet minister who is already famous all over the world?
After all, Mrs. Sheng had some manners and did not scold on the spot.

Sheng Hong, who had been smiling the whole time, suddenly changed his expression and no longer treated Princess Pingning well.

At least the old lady could have some relationship with Princess Pingning, but his Sheng family and Princess Pingning were strangers.

It is said to be a matter of an article, but in fact it is not easy at all.

Not to mention the high level of this article, just thinking about how to get a good son-in-law to write an article is a huge task.

After all, although Chu Hong is his good son-in-law, the Sheng family and the Chu family are two clearly separate families.

Regarding the marriage of their daughter by the Sheng family, should the Chu family provide a dowry?
Moreover, these are designated dowry items. What is required is specified?
With the protection of a virtuous son-in-law, the Chu family has flourished over the years and has become a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River.

Since the family is wealthy and has a relationship with Sheng Hualan, when the younger sister gets married, if the elder sister likes her younger sister, she will naturally send a valuable gift as a congratulations.

In fact, if you are happy and have a literary and elegant temperament, it is not uncommon to send an article.

But if you specify an object, the properties are completely different.

If this kind of thing is not handled properly, and if Chu Hong loses his temper, the Sheng family and the Chu family may even break up.

After all, this kind of designated matter itself has the nature of an instruction from a higher level to a lower level. It would be strange if there wasn't a big fight.

Just like that, on this seemingly small but big request, the Sheng family and the Qi family failed to reach an agreement.

When Chu Hong learned of this request, he couldn't help but marvel at it.

Is Princess Pingning so arrogant?
The princess is amazing?

When the new emperor ascends the throne, all of his daughters will be princesses.

Want an article?
Do you know who the young minister sent his articles to?

When I got married, I gave one copy to my brother-in-law Sheng Changbai.

When the teacher reached the pinnacle of his career as a civil official, he gave a copy to Han Da Xianggong.

When the power of the prime minister was handed over, Prime Minister Fu Da gave a gift when he left and the tea was cold.

He impeached the Duke of England and caused a fight between him and the royalists. He took the opportunity of the Duke of England's birthday party to send a gift to express his gratitude.

Just these four!

You can send me the article written by the young minister.

Yes, no!

You, a poor Duke's Mansion, not only want it, but even dare to specify the level?
Whether the marriage with the Sheng family is successful or not has nothing to do with Chu Hong.

But, you either refuse politely or agree.

Doing this kind of assignment-based thing?

Moreover, even if you want to ask for an article, you are not even willing to ask for a meeting?
Let the Sheng family tell me, and then let me write the article?

Is this an assignment?
When you ask for help, you need a middleman. Does that also mean your request is passed through a middleman?
Is there anyone who asks for help or articles like this?
Chu Hong didn't like Princess Pingning's attitude.

The power of a Duke's Mansion, which is so impoverished, is not even comparable to that of an Earl's Mansion. What right does it have to be so arrogant?

People give you face because of the queen behind you, not because of your own interpersonal relationships and power.

This Princess Pingning cannot see her own position clearly.

Who are you showing your arrogance to?
The young cabinet minister really disliked it and was very unhappy!
If the young minister is unhappy, then Minister Han will be unhappy.

If Mr. Han is unhappy, the Han family will be unhappy.

If the Korean faction is unhappy, half of the civil service group will be unhappy.

It’s a big deal!

Sheng Minglan was also extremely disappointed and felt very disappointed.

Although there was no such cool move as "recognizing a sister" this time, Sheng Minglan was still very angry.

Firstly, she was a smart person and could naturally see the big picture behind Princess Pingning's seemingly small request.

Qi Heng didn't realize the complexity of this "small request" and didn't react.

Secondly, Qi Heng seems to care about the difference between legitimate and illegitimate children.

She found that when Princess Pingning said, "If it was Rulan, her status would be equal to Heng'er. But Sheng Minglan is a concubine's daughter, and her status is a bit mismatched with Heng'er. In order for Sheng Minglan to marry in glory, can you ask for a piece of calligraphy from the young minister?", the young master was actually filled with joy that he was about to marry her.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with the statement "Sheng Minglan is a concubine's daughter, and her status is a bit incompatible with Heng'er."

Although this is true, one of the reasons why she admired Qi Heng in the first place was that Qi Heng did not care about the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children.

Now, I suddenly realized that Qi Heng also subconsciously looked down on concubine's daughter.

The filter in Sheng Minglan's heart was broken.

In the past, she always thought that the young master did not care about the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children, and that he was a gentle and elegant person.

But now, she found that something seemed wrong.

Qi Heng is elegant and gentle, but he also cares about the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children.

Once the filter is broken, you will naturally recall some details and remember some things that were concealed by the filter.

For example, when Zhuang Xuejiu was teaching, there was a debate about whether to establish the eldest son as the legitimate heir.

Qi Heng is the unwavering eldest heir.

Sheng Minglan was very sad, her heart was as dead as a tree.

It happened that the second branch of the Sheng family had a marriage arrangement, so she went south with her grandmother and headed straight to Youyang.

Just a few days after Sheng Minglan and Old Lady Sheng left, Duke Qi was impeached in the court for dozens of consecutive days for embezzling salt taxes.

The censors collectively petitioned the emperor to conduct a thorough investigation and dismiss the Duke of Qi from his post as Salt Commissioner.

Well... the young cabinet ministers and the civil service group suppress the military generals on a daily basis.

There is absolutely no favoritism!

Princess Pingning did not expect this result, and immediately went to ask the Queen for help.

So, the Queen rarely expressed her opinion, which strongly supported the Duke of Qi's opinion.

Then the censors’ memorial became that the harem was not allowed to interfere in government affairs.

Seeing that the impact of the incident was about to expand, the old emperor expressed his position.

The Duke of Qi has worked hard and made great contributions. In order to let the Duke of Qi rest and recuperate, I'm going to adjust the Duke of Qi to a nominal position.

I have to say that the old emperor is really good at smoothing things over.

The Duke of Qi achieved his goal of adjusting the nominal position and making the civil service group disgusted with him, and the Queen also achieved her goal of saving her reputation to protect him.

There was a little dispute in the court, and Sheng Minglan completely gave up.

The two of them broke up.

PS: From the polo club in episode 16 of the TV series, there are only a few things to do until the 30th episode. The main thing is that Minglan goes to her hometown in Youyang and Gu Tingye saves her heroically.

At that time, I was planning to arrange a trip to Youyang later in this chapter, and say, "You have brought shame upon all eighteen generations of your Sun family's ancestors by marrying a prostitute."

"Standing in front of you is a young juren, a jinshi, a champion, a Hanlin Academy editor, a Hanlin Academy Yingfengzheng, a Zuochunfang Shuzi and a Shidu Bachelor."

This is just pretense.

But! If I go to Youyang, there will definitely be someone who wants to take Shulan in, but Shulan is not a virgin.

The second branch of the Sheng family had an ordinary background. Given Chu Hong's status, these people would not dare to let Shu Lan become his concubine unless Chu Hong personally proposed.

If these people dare to give it to us voluntarily, it would seem a bit disrespectful!
As a junior cabinet minister of the second rank, it is difficult to deal with a concubine who is not a virgin.

Besides, the protagonist already has two concubines, so it’s better not to have Shulan.

Okay, let’s get back to the topic. Should we go to Youyang?
go with!
Don't go!

Whether you go or not, Shulan will not be accepted!

(End of this chapter)