The Dream of the Red Chamber of Huanzhu is not a dream

Yong Cong let go of his promise to be the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager considered restarting the draft, so as to choose a famous lady for Yong Cong. She had already locked her sights on a few girls whose fathers and brothers either held real power or had Can be patient, in this way, Yong Cong can have less resistance when implementing reforms.It's a pity that Yong Cong is only willing to marry a queen, if he has more concubines, he will naturally get more help.

But Yong Cong finally let go, and the Empress Dowager didn't want to act too hastily, she was different from the previous Empress Dowager, she didn't want to manipulate her son as much as possible, and Yong Cong's vision and ambition were definitely not comparable to her, a deep palace woman.

It's just that the empress dowager's plan was shattered very quickly. Before making a decision, Yong Cong spread out the queen's candidate in front of the empress dowager.

This girl never appeared in the empress dowager's selection, which was completely beyond the empress dowager's expectation.It's not that this girl has any flaws, it's just that her family is not prosperous, there is only one grandfather who has achieved the position of minister of rites, and her fathers are all mediocre and mediocre people. Yes, it is only a position of fifth or sixth rank, and it is completely incomparable with those wealthy nobles who have produced military officials and frontier officials in history.

Yong Cong naturally has his plans, and he also took the trouble to pick out this girl.Since he only wants to marry a queen, the heir must come from the queen's belly, and his idea of ​​governing the country must be inherited by that child.He didn't want the road paved by himself and his companions to return to the original historical track because of the heir's greed for pleasure or self-righteousness, so he didn't want a tyrannical relative to interfere with his children at all.The aristocratic family, he can't completely abandon it all at once, but such a long-established family must actually have some feudal and conservative concepts, especially for its own interests. In the future, if the family's interests and When national interests conflict, it cannot be said that they would rather abandon the national interests and keep their own family.

It took Yong Cong a lot of thought to convince the Empress Dowager, and issued a decree, announcing the affairs of Empress Li.

Such a result, how can those aristocratic families who have long set their eyes on Yong Cong's throne as queen, be reconciled?What's more, the candidate for the queen was selected without passing the draft, which gave them an explanation.

Yong Cong had long wanted to abolish this drafting system. He first stopped the drafting twice every five years for the reason of Qianlong's filial piety, and issued a decree to allow the girls to marry themselves in order not to delay their youth.So after a few years, except for those who are within the draft range or have ambitions to become emperor's women, most of the girls have already married.

It's just that when he made a clear decree to abolish the draft system, it still caused a certain degree of backlash.The main reason is that those big families who expect their daughters to occupy a place in the harem and even give birth to dragon sons are unwilling to let go. After all, seeing that Emperor Zhenhua can start eating this piece of fat, they have no share. This feeling is really true. It's hard for them to accept.

However, the empress dowager hinted that even if the draft was held, the emperor would only keep the one person he identified, and all the others would put down their cards, and the empress dowager who was in charge of the draft would not Forcing the emperor to keep people he didn't want to keep.In this way, the noisy ministers stopped. After all, since you can't stay in the harem as a nobleman, why let your own girl enter the palace to suffer that crime?There is also a fate of putting down a sign.

It's better to hire and marry yourself, and hit the ideas of those young nobles who are in the heart of the emperor, such as Fu Erkang, Fu Long'an, Lin Mojue, etc., are all good candidates.

It's a pity that when they looked back, they found that Fu Erkang, Fu Long'an and others had already been divided up by those who had no ambitions for the emperor's harem when they were staring at the emperor's harem. Some even had children. He ran off to the ground, which made people sigh incomparably.

Fulong'an, Duolong and Fucha Haoxiang, the ancient aborigines, needless to say, the concept of "there are three types of unfilial piety is the greatest if there are no descendants" is still deeply ingrained, so they married daughter-in-law as soon as they reached their age.Fucha Haoxiang was Qianlong's favorite marriage, and after passing Qianlong's national filial piety, he married Xichun, and now they have a lively daughter under their knees.

In the past few years of their marriage, the relationship between Haoxiang and Xichun has grown deeper and deeper. Both of them have been humiliated and wronged because of their inconspicuous family members. Now they can live happily and peacefully together, and they both cherish it very much.

Perhaps under the subtle influence of Yongcong, Yongzheng, Forte and others, Fulong'an, Duolong and Haoxiang have never taken concubines in the past few years, and the backyard is stable, so they have more energy to devote to military training go.

Both Forte and Xue Biao were also married. Forte had never been able to start a family in his previous life. Now that he married a daughter-in-law, it hurts him even more. When they go home, the daughter-in-law is always pointing east or west, and doing whatever she is called, which makes the daughter-in-law of the second daughter of a fifth-rank petty official lose all anger.Women in this era are required to take care of their husbands and children, and there are even those whose husbands go out and take care of their parents-in-law at home, and even find a concubine to serve their husbands.Who, like Forte, felt that he owed her and tried desperately to make it up to her?The husband is making great achievements outside, and he is not fooling around. As a wife, she is not so unreasonable and wanting to mess around. It's just that her husband rarely comes home, and she deliberately plays tricks, makes troubles, and enhances the relationship between husband and wife.

Lin Mojue, on the other hand, is 19 years old and hasn't married a wife yet. It's not that no one is talking about Xia Qinglian behind her back. It's because she was harsh on the son left by the former wife, but there is still a 20-year-old emperor who has not yet established a queen. Words, just talk.

Lin Hai was also anxious. He was getting older and his health was getting worse day by day. He also hoped that he could have a grandson sooner, but to be honest, he couldn't understand Lin Mojue's son more and more.Although Lin Mojue won the second place in the list back then, what he did after he became an official had nothing to do with stereotyped articles. Instead, he was able to deal with a group of foreigners with red eyebrows and green eyes. Lin Hai didn't understand why the first How could the emperor who saw Lin Mojue for the first time understand his son's strengths better than a father like him?

Seeing Lin Mojue in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Security at such a young age, Lin Hai felt proud and worried at the same time, fearing that his son would not be able to go far if he became famous too early.But after a few years, Lin Mojue walked steadily step by step, and Lin Hai gradually felt relieved.However, regarding his son's marriage, he dared not deal with it casually. After all, Lin Mojue held an important position. If he married an inappropriate wife, it would be a minor matter if the husband and wife did not get along well. If it brought trouble to Lin Mojue's work, that would be a major issue. Woolen cloth.

Therefore, Xia Qinglian didn't dictate Lin Mojue's marriage, but Lin Hai was satisfied instead, and would not cause a rift between the husband and wife because of someone who cared about her.

But what Lin Hai is most worried about now is that Lin Mojue will marry a blond foreign daughter-in-law like Mr. Xue Biao from the Ocean Trade Department. After all, Lin Mojue and Xue Biao are close, and the two of them often contacts with foreigners.

Speaking of Xue Biao, most people think that this is a "strange person".

To be born as a merchant and to sit in the position of director of the Ocean Trade Department is not insignificant.However, the most surprising thing was the foreign daughter-in-law he married.

Although the Qing Dynasty is no longer xenophobic, and there are even embassies of Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries stationed in the capital, foreigners are no longer rare, and even ordinary people no longer treat foreigners as monsters, but this does not mean They can accept this kind of foreign marriage.

Xue Biao's mother, Xuanshi, had told Xue Biao a daughter-in-law before she was alive, but she fell into the river and drowned before she passed the door. Xuanshi died regretfully without being able to watch her son get married.Later, the family wanted to marry another concubine to Xue Bian to continue the marriage, but Xue Bian refused because he found out through investigation that the family doted on concubines and killed their wives, and this concubine was more favored than his previous fiancée. And the death of his fiancée was written by this concubine.

Xue Biao's refusal undoubtedly offended the family, and even let out rumors that Xue Biao had restrained his wife.Xue Biao was not a good stubble, so he turned his head and sent the evidence obtained from the investigation to the yamen. Those who were guilty were sentenced, and those who were innocent could not stay in the capital anymore.On the contrary, the mother of Xue Biao's fiancée asked her natal family to take her back, so she doesn't have to be bullied by an aunt.Xue Biao also gave her a few shops to ensure that her future life is safe, and it can be regarded as doing her best for her daughter who died in vain.

After this incident, Xue Biao's reputation improved, and many families were willing to marry their daughters to him.But Xue Biao surprisingly married a foreign daughter-in-law after his mother's filial piety. She was a German girl with a warm and outgoing personality, which was very unacceptable to the Chinese people.

Afterwards, it wasn't that no one said that Xue Biao was out of tune, and that he caused his sister Xue Baoqin to be divorced.

However, those who know the inside story understand that the reason why Xue Baoqin withdrew was because the Xue family looked down on the son of Mei Hanlin's family.

When the Xue family was not yet a dignified person, the old man of the Mei family who had made a marriage agreement with the Xue family passed away again, and the Mei family was vague and reluctant about fulfilling the marriage contract.Later, Xue Biao joined the Ocean Trade Department, and was even decreed by the emperor to continue working as an errand during his mother's filial piety. The Xue family obviously became an upstart and made a fortune. There is already a concubine and two concubines in the family son's house, and even the eldest son is in the concubine's stomach, how can Xue Biao bear it?

Xue Biao never minded others saying that he was "bullying others", but he brought someone directly to the door, and in the midst of the angry shouts of the Mei family's master, he forced the Mei family to send him back.Even if the Mei family made various promises to dismiss the concubine Ji and kill the fetus in the concubine's womb, Xue Biao would never let her sister jump into this pit of fire.

However, social concepts have not changed so quickly, and Xue Biao didn't want Xue Baoqin to be judged because of other people's mistakes, so he simply sent Xue Baoqin to England Xiao Jin's side.

Xue Baoqin was originally an open-minded personality, without this marriage, she was able to go abroad and fulfilled her original wish of traveling all over the world. Xue Baoqin even felt that it was a blessing in disguise.Everything abroad makes Xue Baoqin curious and fresh, but she is a knowledgeable woman. After the initial freshness passed, she began to absorb all kinds of knowledge desperately like a dry sponge to enrich herself and hone herself. Later, he became Xiao Jin's powerful helper, and also became the pioneer and enlightener of the women's movement in the Qing Dynasty.