[Red Mansion] Biography of Empress Lin

"It's the first time I know that I have so many relatives. One is my aunt's niece today, and the other is my cousin's niece tomorrow. It's true that you are poor in the downtown area and no one cares about you, but you are rich in the mountains and have distant relatives." His Majesty just passed on With the news of the general election, Lin Miyan received a bunch of posts.

There were also many condolence gifts sent to the palace in the name of relatives, all of which were thrown into the Ministry of Internal Affairs by Lin Miyan without tearing off the seal, and sent back door to door after the general election.

"You! It's true that the more you live, the more you go back. You don't have a backache when you stand and talk. A few years ago, when she was choosing a concubine for the eldest prince, Li Guifei was eager to summon the wives all night, and even took the initiative to invite the daughters of those good families into the palace for a chat. You It’s only been a few days! It’s just receiving some posts, how can you be such a mother.” The same impatient Imakami shook his head helplessly, whispered a few words to Lin Miyan, and then continued to look at the show girl who sent it up. list.

"What's the use of choosing the best one now? If we like it, Cong'er may not like it. From now on! It's Cong'er who lives with those girls, not us. Besides, the husband and wife are birds of the same forest. Fly separately. For a while, I really can't think of a girl who is suitable for the East Palace." Lin Miyan casually flipped through those posts, and then asked: "Have you selected the second prince and concubine? What is Cong'er going to do?" The younger brother's position is higher than that of the second prince, but it is not easy to run ahead of the second prince."

It's good that Lin Miyan didn't ask about this matter, but when she asked, Jinshang laughed angrily: "Do you know who Concubine Shun picked?"

"It's nothing more than the daughter of the Longyou family."

"No, it's the daughter of the He family." I don't know whether to call Concubine Shun stupid or big-hearted, so I simply shook off the matter in front of Lin Miyan: "It's the He family of Queen Renyi's line. The eldest daughter, the niece of Princess Fuqin."

"If I remember correctly, the girl's grandfather and father have high official positions, and her mother is from the clan, so she sent a letter to the palace early, asking the daughter of the He family to put her name on it." Lin Miyan never considered asking her son Marry He's daughter.

To be precise, daughters of the Lin family, the Shen family, the He family, the Fu family, and the Xu family were not in their consideration.

Because of Lin Miyan's relationship in the Lin family, the queens of the two dynasties cannot come from the same surname.

The Shen family is the current mother family, and there is another Shenjun princess, so it is unlikely to compete for the crown princess.

The He family and the Fu family are too powerful in the army, the former is from Prince Fu's mother's family, and the latter has just adopted Princess Jingting.

As for the Xu family, although Xu Ling is deeply favored by the emperor, but with the influence of Empress Renshun, they are not likely to compete for the seat of the crown princess.

It's not good for Concubine Shun to choose anyone, but she chose one of the surnames that she least wanted to choose as her daughter-in-law.

For a moment, Lin Miyan really hoped that concubine Shun would get her wish. In this way, even if she chose the eldest prince, she would not choose the second prince.

"On the side of the second prince, I didn't intend to let the concubine Shun get his wish, so I wanted to choose the second concubine from the daughters of the He family. As for Cong'er, there are only a few who are qualified to be the princess. The Jiang family , Qu’s family, Zhang’s family, Gu’s family, Wang’s family, Zhao’s family, Zheng’s family, and Bo’s family.” Jinshang’s fingers clicked through these surnames one by one, and after much hesitation, he decided to ask Lin Miyan’s opinion: “What do you think? Which one do you like?"

Lin Miyan ruled out the Zhang family first.

Although the Zhang family is very noble, it is Mrs. Zhang's natal family after all, and the entanglement between the two families of Rong Guogong is not only well known, but it is not a hidden matter.

As for the Jiang family and the Qu family, their marriages have been too frequent in recent generations, and they are not the best choice.

From this point of view, it is still...

"I like daughters from the Zheng family better." Lin Miyan finally tapped her finger on the penultimate surname: "Although the Zheng family has not had any famous officials who can enter the cabinet of meritorious ministers in the past few generations, they can still find someone to support them. Besides, Zheng There are many upright officials and parents in the family, so the education of their daughter must be good."

"Not bad? Saying yes is easier said than done. You still have to call Mrs. Zheng's family into the palace to ask. At the same time, I will also arrange for people from Dongchang to check the girl of Zheng's family." The brochure was handed to Lin Miyan: "Don't bother picking the crown princess, you have to look at the candidates for the concubines in the East Palace."

"Why do I see this? Is it embarrassing my daughter-in-law?" Lin Miyan always felt that the figure of the present emperor seemed to coincide with the late emperor, and she sighed in her heart that these two people really deserved to be father and son.

Don't forget that before his death, the first emperor pointed out Xiao Ningyan and Zhen's family to enter the palace.Although the two have never been favored, the women in the harem are fighting not only for luck, but also for who will live the longest.

Not to mention anything else, there is no shortage of concubines in history.

When Zhen entered the palace, she was only a female imperial concubine, but after ten years passed, she gradually climbed to the position of Xiuyuan.If you are lucky, you may be able to become a concubine when Jinshang abdicates.

For the first emperor, even though his true love was Empress Renxiao, it did not prevent him from sleeping with beautiful women and taking concubines for his son.

Today he is better than the first emperor, and he has been guarding Lin Miyan for ten years, but this does not mean that he will not take concubines for his son.

"People like me who are sincere and dedicated are rare in the world after all." Jin subconsciously boasted a few words before persuading him: "Even if you don't give him concubines, if he likes you, you will I can't stop it!"

"Then let him take it by himself!" Lin Miyan has been a concubine and has experienced the suffering of a concubine, so whether she is a virgin or hypocritical, anyway, she doesn't want to pay attention to this matter, and even retorted. : "I've only heard about the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers. Why do parents have to take care of concubines?"

Today, I was speechless for a while, so I could only summon my two sons and ask them to talk about the selection criteria for their future daughter-in-law. Then I had a rough question with Lin Miyan in the general election, and sent someone to investigate several times in depth. After several times, the candidates for the two daughter-in-laws were decided.

The second prince appointed the second daughter of the third wife of the He family as his concubine, and then the unwilling concubines stuffed the daughters of several prominent families or concubines as concubines.

In comparison, the East Palace is much simpler, it just appoints the eldest granddaughter of Zheng's family as the concubine.There were no concubines like Liang Di Liang Yuan and Cheng Hui, which made the Zheng family feel surprised and relieved at the same time.

In fact, it is not terrible for the prince to take a concubine. What is terrible is that their daughter will like to be a mother as soon as she gets married.

In fact, if you really want to look into it carefully, the marriage of the two princes is the easiest, but the most difficult is the marriage of the princess.

Because sons-in-law cannot discuss politics, and men are afraid of entering the wrong profession and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, many princesses delay their marriage until they are 20, [-], or even [-] years old. It can be said that they are old leftover women in ancient times.

As the eldest daughter, Princess Jingting is not bad. After all, in order to appease the Fu family who are fighting against the Jin people in the frontier, she engaged Princess Jingting and Fu Jian, the eldest son of Fu's family, early on. Selected as the prince's accompanying reading, so that the childhood sweethearts of the unmarried couple will grow up, and their relationship will be a matter of course.

The second and third princesses who were born out of concubines were not so lucky.

The second princess is stronger. After all, she grew up under the name of Concubine Qi Shu, and Concubine Qi Shu chose her niece to study with her in order to match her with the Qi family, so the second princess did not object to marrying her best friend when she grew up. brother, nephew of adoptive mother.Today, the second princess was also betrothed to the third son of Qi's family, and the title "Jing Ning" was given along the way.

As for the third princess, she is not as easy to deal with as her compatriot sister.

Different from the two princesses who were raised in Kunning Palace and the twin sisters who were adopted by Concubine Qi Shu, the third princess who followed her birth mother, Concubine An, always felt humiliated by being inferior to her sisters, and Concubine An always chanted Let her marry into a wealthy family, so the three princesses are shoulder to shoulder with Princess Jingting in choosing a husband. Not only do they completely despise the idle son and the second son of a prominent family that Lin Miyan chose for her, but even the eldest aunt and Princess Xiaochang A big incident happened at the chrysanthemum banquet.

His eldest sister-in-law, future second sister-in-law and third younger siblings, as well as accompanying ladies and servants bumped into Tonghe and Princess Xiaochang's eldest son Gu Wenjun hugging each other, and the two almost fell into the lake. ,