[Comprehensive Wear] It's hard to be a princess

Before Fengyu could wait for this opportunity, she found that after the prince's marriage was settled, the people around her also began to make insinuations.

After a woman reaches Jiji, she can almost prepare for marriage, but normally before that, she can look at it.To put it bluntly, the right family and the opposite sex of the same age are not too rich resources. Don't think that the princess will not worry about marrying, just find the right person easily.It's easy to find someone to marry, like Emperor Qianyuan, now there are seven or eight princesses, this is just the beginning, like now, there are news that there are concubines in the palace who are pregnant one after another, these concubines are not high-born, The status is also average, and Emperor Qianyuan did not love anyone beyond the ordinary. At his status and age, there is nothing new about a good-looking girl. It is nothing more than a tool to solve physiological needs. Contraception, if you are lucky enough to conceive, then give birth, and the royal family is not short of these meals.

Regarding the marriages of other princesses, Emperor Qianyuan was actually not very concerned. For example, the eldest princess was the master of Concubine Xian, and Concubine Xian was the daughter of the eldest princess. Over the years, she had long given up the desire to have another child. Therefore, it is only for the sake of her daughter.Concubine Xian didn't have a son, so even if her natal family wanted her to support Tu Jingping and use the eldest princess to win over a nobleman so that the other party would stand by Tu Jingping's side, Concubine Xian resolutely refused.Just kidding, since Tu Jingping ascended the throne, could she still be the queen mother?She has her own mother here, what is she messing with like a concubine!As the eldest daughter of Emperor Qianyuan, although her own daughter is not as favored as Princess Changning, she is not so transparent.

After all, Concubine Xian is an old man in Qiandi, that is, because of Fengyu's special treatment, she was usually very low-key. It was a one-sentence matter, and he would not be stingy. Therefore, when Concubine Xian wanted to ask for a favor for the eldest princess's marriage, Emperor Qianyuan naturally agreed.Now is not the time for taiutaion, the world was not yet unified at that time, in addition to favored princesses can marry into the family of heroes, it is also common for some unfavored princesses to be sent directly to marry princes.Now the princess's marriage is actually much more free, after the choice is made, as long as you don't regret it in the future.

Concubine Xian does not intend to marry her daughter to a noble family at all. As a princess, if she is to marry into a noble family, at least it must be a Hou's mansion, and how many of these Hou's mansions can guarantee that they will not be involved in the battle for the succession in the future , If you stand on the wrong team at that time, even the princess will find it difficult to ignore it, so Concubine Xian thinks about it, and thinks that it is better to wait for Wu Xun, but if she chooses a Jinshi, it is not a good choice .Don't look at the playbooks, it's always about being the number one scholar and marrying a princess. There is a saying in the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty called "Thirty Old Ming Jing, Fifty Young Scholars".Nowadays, the rules of the imperial examinations are much more perfect than those at that time. Even if you are a genius, if you really get to the stage of the examination, you are usually in your 20s. The youngest Jinshi in history appeared in the Qianlong Dynasty. Zhu Gui was 17 years old. He passed the Jinshi examination.But even under such circumstances, Zhu Gui was engaged at that time.If you want to find a young Jinshi to be a son-in-law, if you don't inquire about the situation well, you may have to share with Chen Shimei, and then come with Qin Xianglian who recognizes relatives, and the royal family will lose all face.

Concubine Xian is a very smart woman. Since she does not choose Wu Xun and Xinke Jinshi, there are also families among literati. The families these days are definitely not as good as those in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties. During the Song Dynasty, these families were Because the maturity of the imperial examinations has declined, various academic tyrants have replaced these aristocratic families.However, having a good ancestor is still very useful after all. For example, a family of Yan Shenggong who has soft knees and always has various persuasive watches at home. Throughout the dynasties, their family has been sealed, and in modern society, they can earn money. To a system that can still be hereditary, how embarrassing are those other sages!

Of course, Concubine Xian is still indifferent to the Kong family. No matter how many times the dynasty changes, this kind of family can enjoy wealth and wealth through speculation. Concubine Xian would find such a husband's family for her daughter unless she was crazy.Therefore, Concubine Xian went to Cheng Anhou Mansion.Cheng Anhou, like the Zhang family, was also an earlier civil servant from Conglong.

In the last years of the Marquis of Cheng’an’s Mansion, he saw powerful officials and eunuchs manipulating the throne, and various warlords vying for power. He was disappointed or helpless, so he simply resigned and returned to his hometown. Later, taiu had a certain foundation and searched for talents everywhere. Hou Xuye was actually pushed out by the family at that time, there was no way, in this troubled world, in other people's territory, if you were to be a hermit with all your heart, then someone would come up with a few random ideas, and you would have nowhere to sue.Xu Ye is also capable, he is not good at military strategy, but at that time, he was in charge of the military and civilian settlements, resettling the refugees, and capable of doing things, he quickly gained the attention of the superiors, and then slowly became an important minister at that time, When taiu proclaimed himself emperor, Xu Ye was first conferred the title of Bo, and later served as Minister of the Household as an earl. After the unification of the world, the already aged Xu Ye was enfeoffed as Marquis of Cheng'an, and Xu Ye passed away not long after. Don't drop the title and attack the title.

The Xu family said they were honorable, but they were not in the same line as Wu Xun. Their family was still in the same group as civil servants, but their luck was better. Emperor taion went hunting once. I don’t know what happened. Taion, who was originally good at riding and shooting The emperor was startled, and it happened that Prince Cheng Anhou was there at that time, he insisted on using his body as a backrest, and saved the emperor, but he left the root of the disease, and became weak and sick after that.One who is an emperor cannot be ungrateful. Therefore, even though the title of the Marquis of Cheng'an could not be hereditary, it can still be inherited for three generations.

The lineage of Marquis Cheng'an is also interesting. Their family has always insisted on the imperial examination. However, most of the sons of the eldest son can pass the imperial examination, and then the other sons all rely on their own abilities. , There is also a Jinshi, two fellow Jinshi, and two or three Juren. With the support of the Houfu, the official career is quite smooth.

Concubine Xian's most important thing is the current son Cheng An, who is about the same age as the eldest princess. The best thing is that she asked someone before, and Cheng Anhou's lineage has always been relatively late to get married, so the son Cheng An has not yet engaged.Anyway, the branch of Cheng Anhou's main branch has always been relatively low-key. Although they also serve in the court, they are all selected in the Qingshui Yamen, so marrying a princess will not affect their future at all.Concubine Xian had the cheek to tell the emperor her plan, which shocked even Emperor Qianyuan.The main reason was that the Marquis of Cheng'an had never had much presence in the court, so Emperor Qianyuan almost didn't think of their family for a while, but now that he saw it, he was indeed a good candidate to be a son-in-law.However, at this moment, even if the emperor wants to bestow a marriage, even if it is for a subject, he must first ask the other party’s opinion. Generally, he must first ask whether the two parties to the marriage have reached an agreement before the emperor will issue the will of the marriage .Now that the princess is involved, Emperor Qianyuan naturally has to ask more clearly, and then don't make things bad and turn his daughter and son-in-law into a pair of resentful spouses.

Fortunately, the Marquis of Cheng'an is still very knowledgeable. The title of Marquis in their family can be passed on to another generation, and there should be a viscount in the next generation, but for the next generation, they have to continue to follow the imperial examination path. The identity of the princess is on the top, at least it can give Cheng Anhou's mansion more buffer time. Therefore, Emperor Qianyuan revealed this meaning without saying which princess it was, and Cheng Anhou immediately agreed.

After all, the only ones who are eligible to marry now are the Eldest Princess and the Second Princess. Neither of these two have brothers who share the same mother.

The eldest princess's marriage has been settled in this way, and the second princess, Concubine Chen, she is now Concubine Chen but she has made a fuss. Concubine Chen is raising the sixth prince Tu Jingyu under her knees. , but Zhao Jieyu is not a fuel-efficient lamp. After Tu Jingyu entered the prince's school a little older, Zhao Jieyu showed her presence in various ways, giving needles and thread, and food. My heart has been won over.Concubine Chen is not a fool, so she doesn't have to make wedding dresses for others for nothing, so she became more and more indifferent to Tu Jingyu, and Tu Jingyu was still young and didn't know what to do, so her heart turned more and more towards her biological mother, so, Tu Jingyu Yu, the adopted son, really has no sense of existence with Concubine Chen.Logically speaking, under such circumstances, Concubine Chen should treat her daughter well, but she feels that as a concubine, she doesn't even have a title because she only gave birth to one daughter. The princess isn't too fond of her, she cares more about her natal family.

Of course it's not the entire Duke of Qi's mansion, but the third house.The old Qi Guogong passed away before, and the third house was divided out. Concubine Chen's father was not a very capable person, so he became a sixth-rank official by relying on the favor of his father's generation.When he divided the family, he didn't get a lot of family property. This is also the normal operation of the Jue family. Many things in the Jue family can't be divided. Moreover, the rules of each family are generally [-]% for the eldest son of the Jue. The other legitimate sons and concubine sons add up to [-]%, and the private property left by the parents is divided according to the parents' will. Although Chen Concubine's father is a legitimate son, he is actually the second son, and there is a younger son below him, so there are really some grandpas. I don't care about my grandma's love, so the parents' private property is not allocated much, the rest is divided into a house, two land properties and a shop, and some furniture and decorations. The money he had was only a few thousand taels, and the family who were accustomed to the luxurious life of the Duke's Mansion soon became a little stretched after the separation, so that not only could they not support Concubine Chen in the palace, but they had to ask Concubine Chen for money.

Concubine Chen has indeed accumulated a lot of things in her hands over the years. When she first entered the palace, the Chen family gave her several thousand taels of silver at the bottom of the box, allowing her to use it as rewards and bribes for the palace servants. Bring it in, but when the old Duke of Qi passed away, the money would be gone.

Concubine Chen felt that her natal family's life was too hard, so she wanted to subsidize her family. However, in the palace, the concubine's annual salary is actually not much. Most of the concubine's supply is material supply. For example, The amount of meat, vegetables, rice and noodles per day, and the amount of clothing and jewelry in each season are not small numbers when converted, so the salary is not too much. Moreover, in the palace, you can’t rely on supply for everything. How much doting, so if you want to maintain the dignity of the concubine, you need to spend a lot of money. Among other things, the jewelry and clothing materials given by the Ministry of Internal Affairs are shoddy. If you want good ones, you have to pay the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In this way, how could Concubine Chen have a surplus of money? After much deliberation, she decided on her daughter. The daughter is a princess. Before she gets married, she will have a canonization, salary, and property. Have you supplied your natal family?

Emperor Qianyuan asked Concubine Chen what her plan was for the marriage of the second princess, and Concubine Chen said that she wanted to marry her daughter to her natal nephew and make her more intimate.At the beginning, Emperor Qianyuan thought that Concubine Chen wanted to marry the second princess to the Duke of Qi's mansion, but when he asked again, it turned out that she was marrying the third wife who had already been separated.After Concubine Chen's father is separated, it can no longer be regarded as the Duke's family, but it is just a side branch of the Duke's mansion, but he is the son of a sixth-rank official family, and he wants Princess Shang. But it was obviously not promising, Emperor Qianyuan almost didn't think that Concubine Chen had lost her mind and went crazy.

Concubine Chen is quite right about this, many nobles of Princess Shang are just white bodies, why can't her own nephew?Seeing Concubine Chen's determination, Emperor Qianyuan didn't bother to continue talking to Concubine Chen, so he called the second princess directly, told Concubine Chen's plan, and asked, "Your concubine mother wants to marry you?" What do you think, uncle's cousin?"

The second princess glanced at Concubine Chen timidly, licked her lips, then lowered her head and said, "My daughter will let her father, mother and concubine decide!"

Seeing the appearance of the second princess, Emperor Qianyuan immediately became angry again. He was used to Feng Yu's demeanor, and when he looked at the second princess again, he felt that the second princess was really petty. You are a daughter of the Tian family and your own. There is nothing to be afraid of, even if you act a little out of line, maybe I can still beat you!

Emperor Qianyuan glanced at Concubine Chen, wanting to scold a few words, but seeing the quail appearance of the second princess, Emperor Qianyuan was really worried that someone who accidentally killed this daughter, he sighed and said: "That's all, Since you said to let me be the master, then I will choose a son-in-law for you later, but if you don't change your temperament, you will be ruled by anyone you marry!" Saying that, he walked away directly.

Many times in the palace, there is no way to hide things at all. Emperor Qianyuan made a fuss at Concubine Chen, and the news came out later. After hearing this, everyone almost doubted life. I want to take my daughter's marriage into consideration. Although it is said that everyone who is a princess is married off, but a dignified princess, her son-in-law is the son of a sixth-rank official family. Compared with other princesses, wouldn't she be laughed to death?Can the second princess hold her head up in the future?

After Concubine Chen learned of the rumors and ridicule in the palace, not only did she not reflect on herself, but felt that the second princess was against her will, so she punished the second princess to copy the "Book of Filial Piety" in her own room, but she was thinking about how to do it. facilitate this marriage.

Emperor Qianyuan was also very embarrassed about the marriage of the second princess. This matter was widely circulated in the palace. If Concubine Chen did this, many people who were originally qualified to be the lord would inevitably stay away from the second princess. Brother really have any affair?In addition, with such a confused biological mother, the value of the second princess will drop a lot.The dowry property of the princess is only seen by the poor and settled households, and the real qualified ones are interested in the political resources represented by the princess.The second princess was originally considered the granddaughter of Duke Qi's mansion. Even if she wasn't a princess, she still had a lot of interests behind her, but now that she has the idea of ​​not letting her riches and water flow to outsiders, there is nothing to say!If you interfere here, maybe the Duke of Qi's mansion will think you are stealing someone's marriage!

After hearing about this, Tu Jingchen felt a sense of crisis. If a man doesn't marry a good wife, he can still take concubines, and even to the extreme, he can divorce his wife, but women don't have such convenience. , even if it is a princess, if she meets someone who is not human, her life will not be easy in the future.

After the second princess's marriage, it will be Fengyu's turn. Tu Jingchen thought that if his younger sister met an unkind person in the future and washed her face with tears, she would have the urge to kill someone. He calculated the people he knew, and then I found that among the people I know, there seems to be no one who is suitable for Feng Yu, either because of the wrong age or wrong status.After hesitating for a while, he ran to Yiyun Pavilion and asked tentatively, "Sister, what do you think about your future son-in-law?"