My Daming New Empire

Er Gouzi pretended to be calm, but he couldn't help but proudly said that their [-] student soldiers had completed the task of exploring and mapping Ezo Island and the northern islands with three old-fashioned warships.

Talking about his pride, he couldn't help but beam with joy, revealing a trace of youthful vigor.

Yang Zhangde hesitated for a while, and couldn't help but said: "Zifeng, although I know that joining the navy is the best way to have a bright future as a teacher, but this time, I have other considerations as a teacher."

Er Gouzi was stunned for a moment, looked at Yang Zhangde's face, and said solemnly: "Everything I have is given by the master, so I am naturally willing to listen to the arrangement of the master. Even if I am asked to guard the city gate, the disciple will have nothing to say."

Yang Zhangde shook his head and sighed: "As a teacher, I have been studying all kinds of literary and military strategies for the past few years, and I only hope to find another way. Now His Highness wants to entrust Nanzhou and develop Dongzhou. This is a good time for a teacher. Chance.

Now all the nobles in Nanzhou will send elite developers, and officials at all levels of the court also hope to share some credit.

On the other hand, His Highness in Dongzhou has remained calm and composed. As a teacher and commander, he naturally knows a little more than the others.

His Highness attaches more importance to Dongzhou than Nanzhou, so Nanzhou will be enfeoffed, but Dongzhou will not.

However, Dongzhou also needs to be developed, and more importantly, tens of millions of natives in Dongzhou must be included in the people of my Ming Dynasty. Therefore, if they are not enfeoffed, they must be managed by officials.

Now the Marquis of Yingzhou, Zhu Zhen, and the scholar Yang Rong will be sent to Dongzhou, and the internal supervisor will be in charge of supervision.However, according to Teacher Yiwei, there is still a lack of a direct monitoring agency and a balancing agency between civil and military.So as a teacher, I want to speak to His Highness and go to Dongzhou.

But your teacher's wife is weak, and Dabao and the others are still young. If I go to Dongzhou, I will have to go for at least three or four years. How can I rest assured of them? "

Er Gouzi glanced at the mistress who looked at Master with admiring eyes, and then looked at the children, and the disappointment in his heart was swept away immediately.He clasped his fists and said: "If His Highness allows Master to go to Dongzhou, the disciple will definitely stay in Yingtian Mansion and take good care of Master and the others for Master."

Yang Zhangde laughed happily, and was very satisfied with Er Gouzi's statement.He changed the subject, and said together in a disrespectful manner: "Actually, there is another purpose for keeping you in the capital as a teacher, and that is for your marriage. You are also nineteen this year, but because you are not high enough to be low, you are not good enough." Just, your marriage has not been resolved. Keeping you in the capital is also to give you a good marriage."

Er Gouzi was immediately ashamed, looking at the mistress who was still smiling so beautifully, thinking in his heart, who is the girl from?Is there any teacher who is so beautiful?

Their family is an ordinary family. Although Yang Zhangde is a master, Yang Zhangde can't change his family background.

He has a bright future now, and a girl from an ordinary family is obviously not good enough for him.But the real young lady may not be able to see his family background.

In this era, few people will break through the concept of a right family, and marriage is often a marriage between families.

After waiting for a long time, Er Gouzi still didn't see each other. Yang Zhangde couldn't help but secretly scolded him for not being enlightened, but envied his good luck. "You don't want to know which high school the teacher wants to climb for you?"

Er Gouzi lowered his head and said, "Everything is up to Master."

Although he intends to whet his appetite, this matter is of great importance. Not only does Er Gouzi need to be willing to cooperate emotionally, but it is also related to a series of subsequent arrangements.

So Yang Zhangde shook his head and sighed: "You boy is really lucky, His Highness has taken a fancy to you! Even the teacher is jealous of you now."

Er Gouzi groaned, not intending to come here yet, but Li Qing'er was exquisitely thoughtful, after thinking for a while, she was pleasantly surprised: "Could it be the princess of Jiaxing?"

Seeing Yang Zhangde nodding his head, Li Qing'er couldn't help being happy for this apprentice.Er Gouzi has been watched by Li Qing'er for the past seven years. Although he is an apprentice, Li Qing'er is still young and treats him like his younger brother.

Now hearing that His Highness intends to betroth the princess of Jiaxing to him, this is a step up to the sky.He smiled and said, "Look at this kid, he's so happy to be silly!"

Er Gouzi's heart hasn't turned around yet, or he doesn't dare to guess that such a good thing happened to him.

Looking at the smiles of his master and his wife, he couldn't help but recall the delicate figure he saw at the funeral of His Highness the Crown Prince last year.

After that, a group of their students often joked, saying that whoever marries the princess would reach the sky in one step, and now this good luck fell on him.

The Ming Dynasty is different from the previous dynasties. The princesses of the previous dynasties were all prince consorts.However, because Taizu was born in a humble background, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, this rule was deliberately changed.

Only the princesses of the Ming Dynasty were truly married, and after they were married, they almost lost the privileges of princesses.

In later generations, Zhu Zhanji had seen the anecdote about the marriage of a princess in the Ming Dynasty. It was an anecdote at that time, but now it is unacceptable when it concerns his relatives.

Before Zhu Zhanji, most of the princesses were married to the noble class.Like Zhu Zhanji's aunts and sisters, all of them married nobles.

But after Tumubao, the honorable class was almost wiped out, and the rules for princesses to marry did not change, but it became that they could only marry commoners.

The civil servants boast that they are not afraid of worrying about foreign relatives interfering in politics. In fact, they have already controlled the royal family and will not allow their own opponents to appear.

So in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, civil officials did not marry princesses themselves, and made a rule that if they married a princess, they could not be in politics, forcing princesses to marry ordinary people.

As a result, folk men competed to be son-in-law, which became a unique scene in the Ming Dynasty.As the royal family was blocked by the civil servants and separated from the people, the royal family was on top. How to understand and choose the son-in-law has become a big problem.

In history, there is no shortage of new stories of the royal family being cheated into marriages, and most of the time, the royal family can only swallow the bitter fruit.

In Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, there was a wealthy man named Yuan Xiang who cheated on marriage. He almost married a princess by relying on bribes.

In the sixth year of Jiajing, the royal family recruited a consort for Princess Yongchun.Through the strong recommendation of eunuchs and female officials, the royal family selected a man named Chen Zhao, but this Chen Zhao was a concubine.

Emperor Jiajing was furious, postponed the wedding, and personally presided over the national audition, wanting to temporarily pick a consort he liked.

After thousands of selections, a man named Xie Zhao was finally selected.This time, Emperor Jiajing didn't dare to trust people's words anymore, and insisted on examining the candidates for the son-in-law with his own eyes.

Unexpectedly, when he saw it with his own eyes, Emperor Jiajing was furious. It turned out that Xie Zhao was born bald!It was extremely ugly, obviously, this ugly monster did not know how many tricks he had used to get away with it.

It is not a big fault to be ugly, and the marriage date does not wait for anyone, so Emperor Jiajing had no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit and allow his daughter, Princess Yongchun, to marry Xie Zhao.

On the day of the wedding, the whole country was shaken. The flowery Princess Yongchun actually betrothed to a bald ugly monster.

The most bizarre thing is that in the tenth year of Wanli, Princess Yongning, the sister of Emperor Wanli, wanted to choose a son-in-law.A wealthy family surnamed Liang had a terminally ill son, but wanted to celebrate with a princess.

They bribed Da Feng Bao, and they were selected as a result.On the day of the wedding, the son-in-law had a nosebleed when he visited the hall, but the princess was sent to the bridal chamber by the eunuchs.

The man surnamed Liang was inhumane, and died within a month of getting married.But Princess Yongning could only be a widow, and passed away in a few years depressed.

Although Zhu Zhanji has already changed the fate of Daming, there will never be a civil fort change now.However, he is also worried that if the country is long-term and stable, the military generals and nobles will definitely become less able to fight in the future, and the power of civil servants is destined to flourish.

Therefore, he will definitely change the rules in this regard in the future.

This time, he awarded honors to the graduates of Habayashi School of Health. Seeing that Er Gouzi graduated with No.1 grades, he remembered the thin figure standing in front of his younger siblings seven years ago.

An older brother who can take such care of his younger siblings is trustworthy.

Jiaxing is his younger sister, who is already 14 years old this year. If her father hadn't passed away last year, she would have been married long ago.

Seeing Er Gouzi, he was a little tempted.He checked Er Gouzi's assessments over the years during his school years. With Yang Zhangde as his master, he can be called both civil and military.

Then when Er Gouzi was in the internship assessment, as the coach of the cadet soldiers, he acted with discipline, enforced the law fairly, and had the style of a general, so he was even more satisfied.

So he disclosed the news to Yang Zhangde, for fear that Er Gouzi would get engaged as soon as he graduated, and such a good brother-in-law would run away.

He doesn't value power, no one has more power than him, and he doesn't value money, no one has more money than him.

All he values ​​is character and ability, and Er Gouzi suits him in both aspects.

If you say that Er Gouzi was a little unwilling at first, but when he heard that he was able to marry the princess, he was not dissatisfied at all. Instead, he became grateful to this master.

He had seen that Jiaxing princess at the funeral last year, but she was a little beauty no worse than his teacher's wife, and she was still the eldest princess.

He finally came back to his senses, and looked at his master in disbelief. "Master, aren't you making fun of your disciple?"

Yang Zhangde laughed, and clasped his fists in the direction of the palace before saying: "How dare I dare to make fun of His Highness's own sister! You can go to the palace to work in a few days! However, these few days Take a good rest for a few days, go out to sea, and burn to black charcoal, if the Crown Princess and Princess Jiaxing don’t like you, then there will be no joy.”