Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 687
As the royal son, after the crown prince accepted the imperial crown, the emperor and empress began to search for the crown prince for him. Although 13 years old is still young, many children of wealthy families and relatives have almost started to seek relatives and matchmakers.

Marriage is a matter of marriage, first of all you have to be of the right family, and then you have to be suitable in terms of appearance and personality, which is not easy to find.For example, there are seven families with five surnames in Shandong, namely Shangyanya. They are married to each other for marriage, and rarely lower their status to marry with other families.

Although it is said that in the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was no such thing as the Silla people's bone product system to maintain class, or even the blood marriage of close relatives, but it is true that class differentiation is serious, and this class barrier is rarely broken.

Confucianism has always attached importance to marriage, and believes that marriage is a very important thing. Husband rituals begin with crowns, originate in marriage, focus on funerals and sacrifices, respect in court and engagement, and in shooting and township.

Royal marriages throughout the dynasties also have their own characteristics. For example, during the Han Dynasty, from Liu Bang to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the concubine was elected at this time regardless of her birth height, and did not even pay attention to chastity. Those with several children also have the opportunity to marry into the royal family. For example, the mother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Queen Wang, was first married in the private sector and gave birth to a daughter. She was later sent to the East Palace of the Crown Prince and named a beauty. , became the queen and queen mother.

Another example is the Empress Dowager Bo, the mother of Emperor Han Wen, who also remarried into the palace. She was originally the concubine of Wei Wang Wei Bao, and even the wife of the founding hero Chen Ping. up.

Wei Zifu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Mrs. Li, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who were later posthumously named Empress Xiaowu, and Empress Zhao Feiyan, Emperor Hancheng, were even born as humble singing girls. As for the princesses of the Han family, many remarried or even married three times.

However, from the beginning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the royal marriages of the Western Han Dynasty have changed greatly since then. The scope of accepting concubines has gradually narrowed, and most concubines were born in the families of heroic nobles.

Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the concept of family status has become more and more important.

The Shandong gentry has a profound cultural background. Even after the split of the Northern Wei Dynasty, they mostly supported the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty. Finally, after the Guanlong Group unified the world, they were temporarily frustrated politically. Some families even lost their official titles. However, their academic monopoly , and with their good family traditions, they are still able to maintain and develop, and maintain an unchangeable inheritance from generation to generation. Therefore, they are respected and recognized by the society, allowing them to continue their family status.

These talented young men from aristocratic families, as well as dignified and graceful ladies, became the marriage targets that the government and the public were chasing after each other.

In order to maintain the status and noble lineage of the noble family, the noble family represented by five surnames and seven families advocated family marriage and liked to increase their relatives in order to maintain their social status.On the other hand, they have also begun to adapt to the new form, and they have chosen to marry with the upstarts in the DPRK and China in order to compete for political status. .

And Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Zhang Liang, Li Ji, etc., who were born in Shandong, but most of them were from common clan landlords, are eager to use the reputation of these famous families to consolidate their reputation. own status, and fancy the good family style and education of these famous children.

But this kind of marriage actually deeply hurt the emperor and damaged the emperor's core interests.Li Tang was born in the Royal Guanlong Group, which has continued the Guanzhong standard system for several dynasties. These big gentry families represented by the five surnames in Shandong have their own family status, which seriously affects the authority of the court and the royal family.

What Li Yuan and his sons were trying to establish was a new order centered on the Li and Tang royal family, and the standard of this new order was to be divided according to the rank of court officials.

However, this new standard will inevitably make many poor families and even the landlords with low status rank above the traditional gentry clans by virtue of their official titles in the new dynasty. Naturally, it is not easy to be accepted by the people. , and even more opposed by the gentry.

Although the nine-rank Zhongzheng system was abolished in the Sui Dynasty, the gentry as a privileged class has disappeared, and it is no longer the kind of aloofness in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but the social atmosphere of advocating the prefect and family status has been deeply rooted for hundreds of years, and it is impossible to change it overnight. Change.

Li Shimin ordered the revision of the clan chronicles. It has been several years, and the drafts have been changed several times. It has not been completed yet, and Li Shimin has not been satisfied. The standard was changed to the current official rank standard, but this change was too big, and even the officials he selected as the editor-in-chief were always difficult to reach a consensus.

It is also under such circumstances that Li Shimin is now quite dissatisfied with the top gentry of the five surnames and seven families, especially the gentry from Shandong. seven.

A rain suddenly turned the already warm weather down again.

People rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and took out all the jackets and furs that had been put away, and put them on again.

It was cold and windy outside, with slanting wind and drizzle.

Qin Lang began to miss eating hot pot, and asked someone to choose a fat sheep to slaughter, and went to the village outside the city to bring a cow back to kill.In the past few years, the Tang Dynasty conquered the Turks, Tuyuhun, and Dangxiang, and let the Khitan, Xi, etc. belong to them, so that now from the northwest to the northeast, basically no one dared to bark their teeth, and a large number of cattle, horses and alpacas poured in.

Although the Farm Cattle Protection Law is still unshakable, private slaughtering of farm cattle is prohibited, and horses and mules are protected, but a large number of beef cattle brought back from the northern frontier are not included. Ordinary people can occasionally eat beef, which is very cheap in winter.And as a top nobleman, who doesn't have a hundred and eighty heads in the farm now, so they kill them right away if they want to eat them.

Specifically confessed to make a table of tofu.

The kitchen is also quite quick to make. The soaked beans are stone-milled, then boiled, filtered, stewed after the slurry is released, and then put into the box for pressing and filtering to form.

If you want to eat old and tender, you can also have a bowl of fresh and tender tofu nao first.

Cheng Qian added a lot of frosting sugar to the bowl, but Qin Lang added soy sauce to his own.

There are two masters and apprentices, one eats sweet and the other eats salty, Cheng Qian can't understand why they eat salty, but Qin Lang says that he doesn't like too sweet and greasy things anymore in his old age.

"Isn't teacher only 22?" Cheng Qian wanted to roll his eyes.

"I asked someone to inquire about the girl from the Su family."

When Cheng Qian heard it, he didn't care to dislike Qin Lang's old-fashionedness, so he quickly regained his spirits, and when he was excited to ask, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"My grandpa sent me back from Songzhou some local specialties, sweet pine, mother-of-pearl, Chinese caterpillar fungus, shiitake mushrooms, prickly ash, walnuts, yak jerky, ghee, etc., and I sent them to the Nanchang princess's house. Click to go."

Yu Xiao and Yu Xuanji also followed him to the Su Mansion as guests, and were entertained by the eldest princess of Nanchang. The eldest princess also specially invited Su Xu's brother, Su Quan's family, and Yu Xiao and the two met Su Erlang's Aunt Su.

"He is twelve years old, tall and slender. It is said that he is very smart, with extraordinary conversation, knowledgeable and polite, and he is indeed a lady of everyone."

Qin Lang didn't know the name of this Su family. Everyone is a lady, and the name will not be passed on to the outside world. Generally, the elders at home often use nicknames. It has been a custom since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Many people marry their daughters with Buddha names, such as Vajra Slave, Avalokitesvara Maids, pharmacists, etc., are just like ordinary people's children marrying dog leftovers, stones, and pillars.

After the Ji ceremony is held on the fifteenth day of the new year, the elders will also give the watch characters.

"You're only twelve, and you're still a child who hasn't grown up yet. How can you know the book and be polite, just a little girl." For some reason, Cheng Qian seemed very dissatisfied with Aunt Su.

"I haven't met Mrs. Su, but Su's famous family, since both Xiao and Yu said she is very good, it should be really good."

But Cheng Qian was in low spirits, sitting there, even the delicious sweet tofu nao he ate just now, didn't move for a long time.

"what happened?"

Qin Lang asked strangely.

"I don't want a little girl to be a princess."

"Then what do you want?"

Cheng Qian blushed, and murmured that he wanted a more mature one.

He seemed very embarrassed to mention this. Qin Lang wanted to laugh after hearing his stammering words. A girl with a big butt and a 12-year-old really doesn't understand anything, so she doesn't attract much attention to him.

Men are sometimes so strange. When they are teenagers, they will always be confused by those mature and sexy women, especially those young women are the most attractive and hard to resist for teenagers. Began to be obsessed with those young girls, especially those who are young and pure.

Although Qin Lang said that he was a man in two lifetimes, he also liked mature women in their 30s and [-]s. They were mature and sexy, full of real femininity.

He didn't know how to comfort Chengqian.

"Actually, you can have many women. You won't have only one woman in this life. The Su family is the concubine chosen by His Majesty and the Queen for you. If you marry a wife to be a worthy one, you also marry a well-matched family. Concubine, do you understand?"

Cheng Qian didn't expect Qin Lang to say this, the teenagers were ignorant and impulsive, but they still harbored happiness, he seldom thought about Qin Lang's direct and explicit words.

"Can't I just find one I like?"

"Marriage has always been the order of the parents, and the words of the matchmaker. How can I choose this." Qin Lang patted him on the shoulder, "Look at me, when I was 16 years old, I was married by a sage. When I married Princess Changle, the princess was only four years old. Now five years have passed, and the princess is only ten years old."

Cheng Qian seems to have just come to his senses, and his teacher Qin Lang is still his brother-in-law.

Looking at Qin Lang, Cheng Qian curled his lips, "But who in Chang'an City doesn't know that there are countless beauties in the backyard of Duke Wei's mansion, the three most famous prostitutes in Pingkang Fang back then, and now you have two of them hidden in the golden house, accepting beauties from all ethnic groups, Enjoy the exotic customs and enjoy the blessings of all people!"

"Your Highness, what's the hurry? It's still early, even if I give you a beauty, you won't be able to enjoy it now."

"Fuck!"

Qin Lang couldn't help being surprised

This development is a little too good.

No wonder he was not interested in the 12-year-old Su Shihao, it turned out that he was really enlightened.

"His Highness wants to enjoy the beauty?"

Chengqian is eager to try, but he is too embarrassed to admit it.

"Hahaha, it's simple, His Highness will stay at my residence tonight, and I'll make arrangements for you!"

Cheng Qian blushed, his eyes full of anticipation.

(End of this chapter)