Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 112

There are evil soldiers in Yangzhou killing people at night, while Beijing is still sunny.

Chengxi Palace is bathed in the bright sunshine in the morning. This splendid palace of golden palace is shining with golden light, showing the extraordinary and refined of the Six Palaces.

It's just that the maids and eunuchs waiting in the courtyard were already trembling with fright, and suddenly their scalps became numb.

Bang!
There was another crisp sound of porcelain smashing to the ground, accompanied by the sound of the stool being kicked over, the mistress of the palace went crazy again.

"Daughter, calm down first, can we talk about it?" A middle-aged man's voice came from inside, seeming to persuade.

No one would have thought that because Zhu Youtang had not made her queen, she would go to the New Year's Day banquet and smash Zhu Youtang's wine glass, and show Zhu Youtang a face on the spot.

This kind of thing can be said to be commonplace in modern times, but this is the era of patriarchy after all.

Not to mention the emperor's family, even an ordinary official's family.If the wife dared to make such a move, the head of the family would beat and scold her, or even divorce her directly.

At that time, let alone Zhang Luan's heart directly raised his voice, even Xu Pu secretly rejoiced that he hadn't stood up to complain for the princess just now.

If Zhang Yujiao had a chance to fight for the queen's throne earlier, then she threw the cup to show her face under the eyes of everyone, but she had already broken the queen's way.

Just like what Zhu Youtang said: This palace path is so smooth that I no longer know how to kneel.

Zhang Yujiao was born in the bustling capital city, an out-and-out official family. Although her father was only a student of the Imperial College, her uncle was the governor of Shandong, so she was beautiful since she was a child, and she was loved by thousands of people.

It's just that some people are born self-centered and always like to blame other people for their mistakes.

After this accident, almost the whole Zhang family came today.

After encountering such a big change, Zhang Luan and his wife tried their best to persuade this savage daughter who accepted death, hoping that she could recognize the current situation.

"Why can't he canonize me as a queen?"

"From ancient times to the present, it is the etiquette for the crown princess to be conferred the title of empress!"

"How can I not be angry? It was because you said you could make me a queen that I married into Zhu's family!"

……

Zhang Yujiao seemed to be still in a fit of anger, and Zhang Luan and his wife couldn't listen to what they said, and even revealed a secret that no one knew, and yelled in the room.

Zhang Luan was an out-and-out student of the Imperial Academy, and he and Zhang Qi also worshiped under Zhang Zhangjin, the then Jiaocheng edict, and later entered the Imperial Academy with Zhang Qi in the name of Xiang Jin.

Although the imperial examination failed repeatedly, but last year, the father has officially entered the officialdom because of the noble daughter.

Zhang Luan knew that these were taboo words, so he begged directly: "My little ancestor, please be quiet, you will lose your head if you say such words!"

Regarding the matter of her daughter being selected as the crown princess, although it was said that the Empress Dowager Zhou personally selected it, there were only three candidates who could actually enter, and they could actually interfere behind the scenes.

Not to mention that the Empress Dowager Zhou will also be influenced by the Zhou family. If Zhang Yujiao is given two Feng sisters to accompany her in the election, the Empress Dowager will not cheat her grandson like that.

Although it has long been an open secret to push a woman with a civil servant background to become a queen in the palace, but it is a taboo thing after all, but it can only be secretly planned and cannot be spoken out.

Now if my daughter really wants to expose the matter, once His Majesty investigates it, the Zhang family will definitely be held accountable, and even end up in the same fate as Qing Yunhou.

"Get out! You all get out! You are not my family at all!" Zhang Yujiao yelled loudly when she saw that her parents were not on her side.

Zhang Luan saw that he couldn't persuade his daughter at all, so he couldn't help but blame his wife: "You spoil all women, I really want to divorce you!"

"You blame my old lady? Who was she considered a treasure when she was born?" Jin's eyes widened immediately, and Dang even asked tit for tat.

Zhang Luan didn't think it was his fault, but continued to blame: "It's only natural for me to spoil my first child. As a mother, you should teach her a lot!"

"When your daughter is three years old, you tell the fortune teller that she is a golden phoenix, and even touch her with a finger and scold her for a long time. How can you teach me?" Jin has a pungent temper, and immediately argued with her hands on her hips. road.

Zhang Luan is not a articulate person, but he choked out a word: "Slut!"

"You are a sour scholar. My old lady fell in love with you when she was blind! Back then, she said you were the number one scholar, but you failed the high school exams for most of your life. In the end, you still got a job by relying on your daughter!" Jin also said. After suffering for 20 years, he said angrily.

Zhang Heling, Zhang Yanhe, and Zhang Yuling all came here today, and they were used to their parents' quarrels, but they didn't expect things to turn out like this.

They thought that their elder sister had already eaten that stupid prince to death, but who knew that she played this game, and there was a strange thing about the first prince concubine not being canonized as a queen in this dynasty.

Now it is more than just my sister's queen being affected. If their father is not the head of the country, then they will naturally not be able to become uncles of the country, and in the end they are not even as good as the Wang family.

Zhang Yuling is only 15 years old now, and she is timidly looking at her parents who are already fighting.

She vaguely felt that the problem was the night the prince fell into the water, the prince's brother-in-law doted on her sister so much, but in the end the prince's brother-in-law fell into the water and didn't even get her sister's care.

Probably at that time, the prince's brother-in-law already felt chilled.

In fact, she is also clear that her elder sister is a proud and arrogant person, and she only wants to marry someone who is both civil and military, so she doesn't necessarily like the prince's brother-in-law very much.

It's just that now that things have come to this point, it seems that the prince's brother-in-law cannot be blamed.Just like her biological mother is very good to her father, but his father has always been indifferent to her, so she also hopes that her biological mother can be indifferent to her father.

After all, there was a deviation in history. The crown princess Zhang Yujiao failed to become the queen as she wished, and the Zhang family who did evil was missing in the capital. It seemed that the royal lineage would not die.

cough!
It was at this time that Guo Yong came to the gate of the courtyard and coughed lightly at the same time.

Zhang Heling turned around and saw Guo Yong. Although he didn't know Guo Yong, he could tell from his clothes that he was a eunuch delivering orders, so he immediately reported inside to report.

After all, she was not pampered into the perverse and domineering temperament of her previous life, and now she still knows the seriousness of the matter, so she immediately begged her sister to stop saying those outrageous things.

Zhang Yujiao gradually calmed down when she saw her parents quarreling and fighting.

Originally, her biggest support was Zhu Youtang's honest and easy-to-control temperament, but since Zhu Youtang ascended the throne, she seemed to be a different person.

As for the foreign aid that she has always been proud of, in the face of Emperor Hongzhi's practice of not canonizing herself as a queen according to the etiquette, she chose to keep silent, which made her realize that these foreign aids may only share wealth but not adversity.

Apart from hating Zhu Youtang for being a heartless man, Zhang Yujiao seemed unable to take revenge on Zhu Youtang at all, and even couldn't scratch Zhu Youtang's face like her mother did.

"Crown princess, please come out to receive the order!" Although Guo Yong didn't like this hot-tempered princess, he still stood at the door and said in a businesslike voice.

Although Zhang Luan felt sorry for the loss of the position of head of the state, he cared more about the lives of his family, and hurriedly urged Zhang Yujiao: "Quick! Quick! Receive the order!"

"Daughter, let's go out, I beg you!" Jin also appeared in the official's house, but she knew that the matter could not be delayed, so she begged.

Zhang Yujiao's pretty face was slightly cold, but she followed her mother to the courtyard.

Zhang Luan is an adult who understands the ways of the world, so he immediately asked Guo Yong for money, "Eunuch, what does your Majesty say? But you want to deal with the Crown Princess?"

"Your Majesty, remembering the past, decided to confer the concubine, but if he refuses to accept the order, I'm afraid he will have to move out of the Sixth Palace!" Guo Yong raised his head and glanced at Zhang Yujiao, revealing his tone.

"Isn't that going to enter the cold palace?" Jin said in shock when she heard this.

This……

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanhe have been relying on their sister's name to run rampant in the imperial capital recently. If their sister is thrown into the cold palace, they might be retaliated immediately, and they immediately looked at each other in fear.

Guo Yong did not answer, but he knew that this was indeed the last chance His Majesty gave Zhang Yujiao.

If Zhang Yujiao didn't know how to cherish it, and if she really wanted to continue to make trouble, then there would definitely be no imperial concubine.

In fact, he felt that His Majesty was still soft-hearted, and it was not an exaggeration to put her in the cold palace just because of the actions of the Crown Princess at the Zhengdan Banquet yesterday.

Of course, if His Majesty directly put the Crown Princess into the cold palace, it would be too ruthless to act like this, and it would also have a negative impact on personal reputation.

Now that His Majesty gave the Crown Princess the title of Noble Concubine, it undoubtedly showed His Majesty's magnanimity, and no one could fault it.

"Hurry up, take the order!" Zhang Luan urged his daughter, realizing that this would be the last chance.

Zhang Yujiao is a stubborn woman, but she directly stated her position angrily: "If it is not the canonization of the queen, the palace will not accept the order at all!"

what?
When Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanhe heard their sister's statement, they immediately felt that disaster was imminent.

Snapped!
At this moment, a loud slap came suddenly, Dang even shocked everyone present, and then everyone looked at Zhang Luan in disbelief.

Jin's eyeballs seemed to pop out, but she knew that since her eldest daughter was born, her husband, let alone beating and scolding, has never said a word loudly.

"You dare to hit me?" Zhang Yujiao said while touching her aching face and staring at her father in disbelief.

Zhang Luan's hands also trembled slightly, but he knew that this slap had to be slapped for the sake of the entire Zhang clan.

Not to mention that his daughter had done something wrong, but he had been witnessing Zhu Youtang's iron-blooded wrists, and even went to watch the execution of Marquis Qingyun that day.

Zhang Luan knew that he doted on his eldest daughter too much, so he said in the face of this hateful gaze: "Are you willing to kill our family because you really want to? The families of the two important officials copied it as soon as they said it. Qing Yunhou Kill it if you say it, there is still no explanation about the Four Seasons Restaurant!"

Jin originally wanted to protect her daughter, but she also felt the seriousness of the matter, so she began to coax her unruly and willful eldest daughter.

"Okay, for your Zhang family, I accept the order, but I will not have you as a father in the future!" Zhang Yujiao's tears fell, and she expressed her attitude somewhat coldly.

Zhang Luan heard two lines of tears fell unconsciously after hearing so many years of careful nurturing.Just for the whole Zhang family, for the lives of his whole family, he didn't feel regretful.

After accepting the kneeling ceremony, Guo Yong unfolded the bright yellow imperial decree in his hand and said: "The Emperor Chengyun, the imperial concubine said: The Crown Princess Zhang's family is relying on Roujia, respectfully and carefully bowing, and now canonized as Concubine Shu, hereby!"

From the crown prince to the noble concubine, although they are all concubines, the former is the official wife of the crown prince of a country, while the latter can only be classified as the emperor's concubine, so it is considered a downgrade.

It's just that things have come to this point, just for throwing the cup at the Zhengdan Banquet yesterday, it is already a blessing in misfortune that he can still be conferred the title of imperial concubine.

Besides, with the position of imperial concubine now, it is hard to say what will happen in the future.

Looking at the recent emperors of the Ming Dynasty, neither Emperor Chenghua nor Emperor Jingtai were descended from empresses, and even the orthodox emperors are said to have been adopted by Empress Sun.

"I thank you Long En, my emperor, long live, long live!" Zhang Luan finally let go of his hanging heart, and he also kowtowed politely.

Zhang Yujiao took the imperial decree, but the anger on her face did not change, she walked towards her room and said, "Come here, I will drive you all out!"

Guo Yong realized that he was going to be kicked out, but he didn't bother to care about it, so he followed Zhang Luan's courtesy.

When Zhu Youtang learned that Zhang Yujiao hadn't given birth to another moth, it was a matter of peace.

He knew that in the original historical trajectory, although Zhang Yujiao led to Zhu Youtang's extinction, she was the creator of the emperor's monogamy that the world yearned for, so he didn't want to make things too extreme.

Guochao has a five-day holiday for the Zhengdan Festival and a ten-day holiday for the Lantern Festival.

From the first day of the new year to the fifth day of the new year, it will be a holiday for the emperor and officials.

Although it was during the holiday, Zhu Youtang did not rest, but had already begun to plan how to change the dynasty, and planned to use the opportunity of changing the Yuan to start making a fuss about some things.

At the beginning of his accession to the throne, he had to do things timidly, and beware of excessive rebounds from other forces.It's just that now that he has the military camp in hand, he's tearing off the hypocritical mask of the civilian group, but it's time to promote the prosperity of the country and the people.

Zhu Youtang's focus is on the military, so the first measure is: "This is the year when I changed the Yuan Dynasty. In order to stabilize the country and continue the temple, we specially set up Wuen Branch, February Branch Township, and July Examination. Another license The county magistrates recommend those who can carry [-] catties of swords, and they will be checked and sent to the capital by all localities, and once they pass the general examination, the county magistrates will give them a first-class evaluation!"

(End of this chapter)