Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2036 The imperial concubine and imperial concubine inside and outside the palace (round nine)
He said it was a handwritten letter, but Gao Yushi did not understand Spanish. His handwritten letter must be in Chinese, but a Spanish translation will be attached.

Translation is not a problem. Daming has always had a Tongwen Museum, and its job is translation.Of course, Gao Yushi didn't intend to find someone from Tongwenguan to translate, and he didn't need it either.

Jinghua has been engaged in overseas trade for so many years, how can a mere translation need to rely on others?The work done by the Tongwen Museum is not only done by people in southern Xinjiang, but also by the capital.

But one thing to say, the people Jinghua recruited were not professional translators, but all kinds of Western intellectuals, most of whom were architects and missionaries.

Not to mention missionaries, almost all missionaries these days are at the scholar level.Let’s talk about architects. When Gao Yushi built the Xishan Villa, he recruited many European architects to work for him. Although there are more Italians among them, there are also some Spaniards.

Besides, it doesn't matter if there is none, just find an Italian architect to write the translation in Latin.He is His Excellency the Duke of Spain. Considering that the Catholic faith in Spain is extremely devout, His Excellency the Duke must also be a devout Catholic. The Bible he read in childhood is naturally written in Latin, and it is impossible for him to understand Latin.

As for why not a missionary...well, a missionary is not the same as an architect. The latter is generally easy to negotiate with as long as the money is in place, but the former is hard to say. Maybe they have a special mission?On this issue, Gao Wu still maintains an attitude of being as cautious as possible to avoid accidents.

In short, this matter is nothing to worry about. There are relevant talents in the craftsman school, and there is no risk of news leaking. As long as you explain it, someone will do it.

After chatting with Huang Zhiting for a while, Gao Yushi, who was physically and mentally exhausted, went to bed early.Huang Zhiting sent the maid away and personally waited for Gao Wushi to go to sleep, but she apologized and continued to finish the unfinished letter.

Early the next morning, Gao Yushi went to the cabinet to be on duty.Because it had already been discussed yesterday, so when he arrived in the cabinet, a Jinshi Guanzheng sent a large pile of memorials, saying that all these memorials required a full investigation into the emperor who coughed up blood and fainted yesterday.

This is the proper meaning of the title. Gao Yushi didn't want to read a single word of the article, because the way the article itself chooses words and sentences has no meaning at all.He just asked: "How many memorials are there for the School of Reality and School of Mind, and how many are left?"

Guanzheng Jinshi said: "61 from the Real School, 49 from the Mind School, and 73 from the rest."

Gao Wushi nodded slightly, and ordered: "Understood, you can go and get busy." The Jinshi Guanzheng bowed slightly and retreated.

The data just now is basically in line with high-practical expectations, and it is roughly the same as the proportion of people from all walks of life in the DPRK.The Practical School has more people than the Mind School, but generally speaking, the two sides can still be regarded as "evenly matched", but the Practical School has a slight advantage.

It is not surprising that there are more "others" than the real school.It took nearly 200 years for the orthodoxy of Neo-Confucianism in the Zhu Ming Dynasty to be violently impacted by the School of Mind, and later by the School of Reality. But in the final analysis, the School of Mind and the School of Reality did not completely oppose Neo-Confucianism, but just put forward different "reasons".

Therefore, it can be said that both the science of mind and the science of reality think that their foundation is Neo-Confucianism in essence, but there is a problem with this foundation itself. It is necessary to remove the wrong and absurd part of it and replace it with the part that you think is correct, and then you can form a perfect Neo-Confucianism .

That being the case, it is not a big problem if there are more people who agree with traditional Neo-Confucianism. It is even a matter of course. This is the so-called inertia.

However, the school of Neo Confucianism has always been called the neutral school, of course there is a reason.The reason is that although many people still believe in traditional Neo-Confucianism, they are not "organized" and basically disorganized in the political arena.

If there were not some major events that impacted the fundamental concepts of Confucianism, it would be difficult for these people to reach a complete agreement on something on weekdays, and they would often talk differently and disagree with each other.

And this makes it difficult for them to make a fist even though they have a large number when facing the School of Reality or the School of Heart. In the end, most of them can only stand aside in the political arena, sharing the leftovers of power, and they cannot compete with them at all. The School of Reality or the School of Mind contends at the political level.

It may be precisely because of this reason that Wang Jiaping, as the largest neutral faction in the court today, faced Zhu Yijun's insistence on refusing to investigate Yikun Palace yesterday, the first way he thought of was to force him to resign.

On the one hand, this shows that Wang Jiaping is really strong-tempered. On the other hand, it must also be seen that this is also a helpless move, because he is not sure whether he can set off a wave of public opinion in the court.

Anyway, he is also the chief minister of the court, if he calls for a long time but only few people respond, how shameful is that?In this case, it is better not to call.And if he chooses to take the lead in the charge without saying a word, then even if he "die", at least he will "die" generously, and he may still have a chance to gain a reputation through the ages, which is a blessing in misfortune.

However, this did not happen after all, because Shen Yiguan and Gao Yushi jointly tried to persuade him.The combination of the two of them means that it is feasible and almost certain to succeed in setting off a wave of public opinion in the court, so Wang Jiaping doesn't have to worry about losing face.

Not only do you not have to worry about losing face, but he will be the leader of this wave of public opinion. Regardless of whether the outside world is like a mirror or not, at least face must admit that he, Wang Yuanfu, is the "leader brother".

Heck, that was the highlight moment of his life in terms of charisma.People who have already decided to sue their old age and return home in the near future, and still find such an opportunity, it is completely understandable for Wang Jiaping to devote himself to this matter.

Because of this, he actively contacted last night, and revealed to the outside world that the two schools of practical learning and mental learning had reached an agreement on this issue, and finally persuaded so many people to go to the Shushan today, asking the emperor to investigate thoroughly—of course, even if many people It has not been stated explicitly, but the point of the finger is a thorough investigation of Yikun Palace.

Gao Wushi looked at a large pile of memorials and pondered for a while, took out the tickets, and wrote "I know", "read", and "know" on each of them, but did not express any more specific expressions.

Here I want to talk about what is going on with the "bill draft" and how it is written.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a series of institutional reforms were carried out to strengthen the authority of the monarch. For example, "Hongwu eliminated Pingzhang in nine years and participated in political affairs. In the first month of the 13th year, Hu Weiyong, the prime minister, was dismissed, and then Zhongshu was dismissed." At the same time, Shangshu was revoked, It was changed to six parts directly ordered by the emperor.

However, the large-scale abolition of the central decision-making body has led to an exponential increase in the number of official documents directly submitted to the emperor himself. Even if the emperor is diligent in government affairs and eats clothes, it is difficult to maintain the time and energy for a long period of time.Furthermore, the emperor himself could not guarantee that he was familiar with all aspects of government affairs, which reduced the efficiency and quality of central document processing.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to buy a group of consultants in Da Nei for consultation.In the 15th year of Hongwu, following the old system of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Huagai Hall, Wuying Hall, Wenhua Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, and Dongge were set up. They are named because they often serve meals in the palace and serve the emperor and the palace. For "Cabinet".

However, the original cabinet was neither an official office nor an official name. It was just a simple civil servant who joined the cabinet and participated in the maintenance.In the reign of Yongle, seven people including Xie Xu and Huang Huai were first appointed to work in Wenyuan Pavilion.

At that time, the work of the cabinet ministers was only to be a counselor, and they were not allowed to interfere with the affairs of the Jiuqing and other divisions.In the Zhiren and Xuan dynasties, because the cabinet ministers were all senior members of the Yongle Dynasty and Weilong was powerful, the power of the cabinet gradually expanded, and the cabinet ministers also began to be drafted on behalf of the emperor.

Of course, at the beginning of the system of ticket drafting, the right to vote drafting did not belong to cabinet ministers alone. "Xuande Zhongzhao Shaoshi Libu Shangshu Saiyi, Shaobao Taifu Hubu Shangshu Xia Yuanji dropped out of the ministry. He served the left and right consultants day and night, and gave coral pens and grid jade inkstones, but they were not with the cabinet." It can be seen that the bill is proposed. It is also necessary to go through a development process by the cabinet.

Also in the Xuande Dynasty, the eunuch, the supervisor of ceremonies and the eunuch Bingbi, was given the right to copy and approve the red.As a result, the emperor, the ceremonial supervisor, and the cabinet formed a three-way force that constrained each other and checked and balanced each other, and the draft system that ran through the Ming Dynasty also took shape at this time.

So, what is the implementation process of the bill system?

The procedure is roughly like this: After the minister’s memorial is handed in, it will be sent to the document room of the Secretary of Rites by the officials of the General Administration and the guards of the palace gate. After registration, it will be submitted to the Secretary of Rites and submitted to the emperor for review; The Minister of Rituals submits the document to the study room and sends it to the cabinet draft. After the cabinet draft is drafted, it arrives at the imperial front after the above procedures. The cabinet sent it to the six departments, and the six departments reviewed it correctly, and then handed it over to the six departments for implementation. If there is any violation, it can be rejected.

[Note 1: The so-called Luodi Book, that is, the "Silun Book" used to record the draft text of the ticket, was established in the Zhengtong and Jingtai dynasties, and was abolished later, and was restored no later than the middle Wanli period. There is no information about its style. Test. ]
In addition, the emperor can also suppress the memorandum, neither send it nor send it back to the cabinet, but deal with it coldly. "Stay in China" is not often used, but Wanli is one of the exceptions. In history, he liked to stay in China very much.

There are quite a few points in the above procedure that need to be explained.

One is that Gao Yushi just drafted the question of "I know" - some people may be surprised, how dare you write "I know" in Gao Yushi's proposal? "I" is what you can call yourself?That's not the case.

The job of the cabinet vote draft is to "speech on behalf of the king" rather than speaking for itself, that is, "pick draft" is not essentially a cabinet minister submitting his own opinions on the handling of memorials, but a comment on behalf of the emperor.

Since the answer is made on behalf of the emperor, if the emperor has an opinion before issuing this chapter to the cabinet, he will send eunuchs to pass on the gist to the cabinet to determine the principles in advance;

Therefore, it is a wrong assumption that some novels and film and television dramas interpret "ticket drafting" as cabinet ministers putting their own opinions on the ticket for the emperor's ruling.

Gao Yushi is in charge of drafting the bill today, that is to write according to the tone of the emperor, because in theory, if the emperor reads it and agrees, he can ask the eunuch to copy the bill with a Zhu pen, which is not easy to write. The powerful eunuchs in the prison played some tricks on words.

Second, during the Xuanzong Dynasty, the Supervisor of Rites obtained the power to replace the emperor's approval of reds. "From the beginning of Xuanmiao... Zhongyi's red book approved it, whether it was written in person or not." Approved in regular script."

Here Xuanzong's original intention was to entrust some educated eunuchs to be responsible for copying the unanimous cabinet proposals, so as to reduce the burden of review.

Generally speaking, the right to appraise the reds is divided between the eunuch Bingbi and the eunuch Zhangyin.The Bingbi eunuch approved Zhu on behalf of the emperor, while the palm print eunuch was responsible for reviewing and stamping the red approval.

However, later facts proved that the actual actions of the eunuchs and eunuchs did not stop at "copying and transcribing", but injected their own opinions and influence into the central system of the imperial court, which will be discussed later.

Third, drafting drafts is not the only way for cabinet ministers to impose their own will on the emperor in the central document processing system. Even if the imperial edict issued by the emperor does not follow the words drafted by cabinet ministers, the cabinet still has the right to reject it. play".

The system of "returning the seal and performing the performance" is a way of expressing the cabinet's resistance to the emperor's inappropriate government orders.The process is basically this: the emperor orders the cabinet to draft an edict, and if the cabinet thinks it is "disorderly order", it can seal and return the edict, and at the same time attach a commentary to put forward what the cabinet thinks is correct.

There are precedents for this, such as Yang Tinghe's "Great Etiquette Controversy" in the first year of Jiajing when Sejong was granted back.

However, it must be explained here that "returning the seal" does not have a mandatory effect, and the emperor himself can bypass the cabinet and "get out of it".As I said before, when the emperor appoints cabinet ministers, the court recommendation is generally recognized as the most reasonable. When the court cannot recommend a suitable candidate or the emperor is still dissatisfied with the candidate recommended by the court, the emperor may directly appoint the "zhongzhi".

It's just that this method is often not recognized by the courtiers, and even the court will ridicule the appointed ministers, so that many ministers are not happy to be surprised after receiving the emperor's appointment to the cabinet, and they refuse to resign repeatedly, and even scare them. You have to go to the Shu and ask to resign and go home.

Of course, there are exceptions under the Zhongzhi. For example, Yin Shidan, Gao Gong's fellow cabinet member in the past, joined the cabinet under the Zhongzhi. Even though Gao Gong didn't say anything in person, he often ignored his existence.In the end, Yin Shidan lost his temper and almost staged a full-scale martial arts in the cabinet. After the quarrel was over, he felt ashamed to stay in the cabinet any longer, so he resolutely asked for his resignation.

Say it back and play it.In fact, the success rate of Feng Huan playing this method is not high, and whether the emperor adopts it depends entirely on the emperor's personal cultivation.Rashly using Feng Huan to refute the emperor would even lead to disaster for himself. Therefore, if it is not a matter of principle, or the conflict between the two parties is extremely sharp and difficult to reconcile, cabinet ministers generally would not choose to confront the emperor himself in public with this posture.

Don’t talk about the emperor, just say that in the unit or company, when the leader clearly expresses his opinion and gives the order, you jump out and publicly accuse the leader of being an idiot, and the decision made is purely mentally retarded... Do you think it’s because the leader has something to do or you something?If you run into a boss with a temper, I'm afraid the accountant will settle your salary on the spot and get out of here.

According to the procedures just mentioned, the memorials that Gao Wushi saw here should have been read by the emperor in theory, but the emperor did not send the eunuch who was in charge of ceremonies to explain the situation to him, which means that the emperor did not clearly express this matter. How to set the tone.

This is not surprising, after all, Gao Yushi was the only one who heard the emperor's opinion on the spot yesterday, and Gao Yushi did not agree to exonerate Concubine Zheng, but told the emperor that he believed that Concubine Zheng was murdered by others. Used it, and he himself has no ill will towards the emperor.

In other words, Gao Pragmatism is telling the emperor that the concubine Zheng Huanggui can be investigated, and it can withstand the investigation. At most, someone who uses Zheng Huangguifei to frame the emperor can be found out.

The emperor refused to investigate the Yikun Palace, mainly because he was worried that if a noble concubine Zheng was found out, he would really have to bear such a fatal crime as "regicide"-although he insisted that this was absolutely impossible.

Impossible?Perhaps the fact is indeed "absolutely impossible", but the final result may not be "absolutely impossible".

Why do you say that?

Just kidding, is Yang Yuhuan himself guilty of mortal death?However, when the Forbidden Army who fled to Maweiyi collectively clamored, thinking that not punishing Concubine Yang would not be enough to quell the anger of the three armies, let alone relieve the worries of the three armies, then Concubine Yang was guilty and should be punished for her crime!
What is the situation in the court now?The situation in the imperial court was that the whole court believed that the noble concubine Zheng Huang had interfered with the country's foundation, and intended to encourage the emperor to make his son Zhu Changxun the crown prince.

Where did Zhu Changxun's family come from?Of course the courtiers believed that it was due to the emperor's love for the imperial concubine Zhenghuang, otherwise how could it shake the 200-year-old ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty?

Even if there is an emperor's concubine now, the struggle for the foundation of the country is at most between the concubine and the elder. What qualifications do you, Zhu Changxun, the third son of the emperor's concubine, have to participate in it?Isn't it because your mother is the imperial concubine Zheng?
Therefore, the emperor would think that once the Yikun Palace is thoroughly investigated, the outer court will inevitably exert pressure. Even if Imperial Concubine Zheng "has no such intentions", she will be insinuated, and even blamed on others.And once the investigation results are confirmed, even he, the emperor, will be irreparable.That being the case, it would be better to insist on never investigating from the beginning.

And Gao Wushi tirelessly explained and persuaded that day, no matter what he said on the surface, in the final analysis, the subtext was just one sentence: I promise that the investigation results will be absolutely fair, and I will never wrong Zheng Huangguifei. Clear the suspicion for Zheng Huangguifei.

Of course, there is a deeper hidden meaning here, that is... Zheng Huang Guifei will still bear some responsibility, that is, "being deceived and used by others".And this point needs to be weighed by the emperor himself.

The emperor had to weigh at least two points: First, whether the guarantee of high pragmatism was credible.There are also two possibilities for this point: one is that the words of high pragmatism are simply not credible, and there will be no follow-up.

The second possibility is that highly pragmatic words are indeed credible, but is there any possibility of accidents?The so-called accident means that Gao Wushi did agree, and he did investigate with a fair standpoint, but due to other reasons, Gao Wushi failed to do what he promised...that would be the end of it.

The second point to be weighed is that Gao Wushi's implication is that Concubine Zheng Huang Guifei needs to bear the responsibility of "being deceived and used by others", but how big is this responsibility and what consequences will it lead to?
Concubine Zheng Huanggui is not a courtier outside the court, and there are no clear laws for some responsibilities.If the courtiers of the foreign court are "being deceived and used by others", according to the examination method established in the Gao Gong era, they should be classified as "incompetent", that is, incompetent.Generally speaking, the solution is usually a demotion call.

However, Imperial Concubine Zheng Huang was not a courtier, so this "demotion" seems inappropriate.If it is appropriate, how can the concubine be demoted?Remove the word "Huang" from the imperial concubine and reduce it to a noble concubine?
Zhu Yijun is not a naive person, he has long been a mature emperor, and he can understand the implication of high pragmatism: the responsibility of the imperial concubine is to be demoted.

Gao Wushi didn’t say clearly how to be degraded, or what name she should be degraded to, but Zhu Yijun was obviously unwilling to downgrade Concubine Zheng Huanggui several levels in a row. In fact, Zhu Yijun was very unwilling to let Concubine Zheng Huanggui suffer.

Of course, this "grievance" may not be said to be just "a little bit" when she was downgraded from imperial concubine to imperial concubine.

In the film and television dramas of later generations, the title of imperial concubine can be said to bloom everywhere.Famous such as Concubine Yang in the Tang Dynasty, Concubine Zhang in "Qing Ping Le", Concubine Zhao in "Crane Huating", etc. These characters either have prototypes or are purely fictional, but basically they all have a common attribute , that is the emperor's favorite concubine.

However, a noble concubine is just a noble concubine, such as Yang Yuhuan, who is so favored, is nothing more than a noble concubine, what is this imperial concubine, and where did she come from?

Coincidentally, the title "Huang Guifei" really came from the Ming Dynasty.

Let’s talk about “Grand Concubine” first. The appearance of the name “Grand Concubine” is the same as the positioning of it in many novels and film and television dramas. Yin's favorite concubine.

This Yin family was very favored by Liu Jun, and because of his love for the house and Wu, he wanted to change the Yin family's son Liu Ziluan as the prince several times, but unfortunately due to various factors, he failed in the end, and the Yin family also passed away full of expectations.

Liu Jun was deeply saddened, and made the Yin family a noble concubine, and also bestowed the posthumous title of "Xuan".Please note that "Xuan" is not a simple posthumous title, especially when it is a posthumous title for women.

why?Because the posthumous title of the first empress dowager in Chinese history is "Xuan", this also shows how much Liu Jun loves his concubine.Not long after his concubine passed away, Emperor Xiaowu passed away in grief.

After the death of Emperor Xiaowu, Liu Ziye, the later famous faint king, took the throne.This guy resented his father for not loving him, resented his father for doting on Concubine Yin and younger brother Liu Ziluan.How much do you hate?He actually wanted to dig his father's tomb, but after being stopped by his ministers, he threw dung on his father's tomb, and excavated the tomb of Concubine Yin and the temple commemorating Concubine Yin.

Not only that, he also ordered the killing of his younger brother Liu Ziluan without accident.The good news is that he was soon overthrown by his uncle Liu Yu because of his tyrannical governance.

Speaking of "noble concubine", from the Liu Song Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, except for the short-term reform of the Tang Dynasty, where the concubine Yuan was the head of all concubines, in most of the Chinese dynasties, the noble concubine was second only to the empress in honor position.

In the absence of a queen, the noble concubine is the actual head of the harem, such as Tang Ruizong's Concubine Doulu, Tang Xianzong's Guo Guifei, Song Gaozong's Wu Guifei, Song Xiaozong's Xie Guifei, etc. Among them, there are many who have succeeded as empresses or honored concubines. The person who sealed the queen mother.

For nearly a thousand years, the noble concubine has been a role that should not be underestimated in the royal family. It was not until the appearance of the imperial concubine that her limelight was suppressed.

It may be because the word "Huang" was so attractive in ancient times, no matter what, as long as the word "Huang" is added, it seems that it can instantly become taller.

The same seems to be the case with "Imperial Concubine", which is already noble enough, but the word "Emperor" needs to be added in front.But in fact, the generation of the imperial concubine is much more complicated than that of the imperial concubine.

"...Xuanzong ascended the throne and granted the title of noble concubine. Story: The golden book of empress gold treasures, below the noble concubine, there is a book but no treasure. "——"History of Ming Dynasty Biography of Concubine".

According to this, the origin of the imperial concubine can be traced back to the first successor Sun in the Ming Dynasty.Sun is the grandson concubine Zhu Zhanji accepted when he was the grandson. She and Zhu Zhanji have a very good relationship, but because the grandson concubine Hu was chosen by his grandfather Zhu Di, Zhu Zhanji can only let his lover live in the concubine .

When Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, although he did not directly appoint the concubine Sun as the queen as the emperor, he won a privilege for her.According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the queen canonization has a book and a treasure. The book is the canonized book, and the treasure refers to the queen's seal;

But Zhu Zhanji really loved the Sun family, so he asked his mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, to make gold treasures for Concubine Sun that only queens could have.Because of the seal, it is different from all the noble concubines in the past thousands of years, so Concubine Sun has the name "Huang Guifei"-after all, if the word "Huang" is not included, what is the seal ribbon saying? "?
But in fact, the actual title of the Sun family at that time was still imperial concubine, and "imperial noble concubine" was just a respectful title inside and outside the court, and did not form a complete system.

The first person in the Ming Dynasty to officially have the title of "imperial concubine" was Emperor Jingtai's concubine Tang.In the seventh year of Jingtai, Emperor Jingtai solemnly asked Shi Heng and Hu Wei, two important officials in the court, to confer the concubine Tang as imperial concubine.

This canonization lineup is quite luxurious, not to mention Shi Heng, who was the leading figure in the real power faction during the Yingzong and Jingtai years, and Hu Wei was from the Taizong Dynasty. ] To the veterans of the Five Dynasties of the Jingtai Dynasty.

In connection with the death of Empress Hang in February of that year, it is not difficult to find that Emperor Jingtai should have placed high hopes on the Tang family. If Emperor Jingtai hadn't fallen ill so early, the Tang family is very likely to be in the middle palace.

Of course, everyone knows what happened later. Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, etc. took advantage of Emperor Jingtai's serious illness to launch the Nangong Incident, and supported Zhu Qizhen to restore it. Queen Wang, who had been deposed, became Princess Tan again.

Soon after, Zhu Qiyu died suddenly and unexpectedly, Zhu Qizhen ordered the Tang family and other "nowhere to come out" concubines to be buried, so the Ming Dynasty did not recognize the identity of the Tang family's imperial concubine.

After Zhu Qizhen collapsed and passed away, Prince Zhu Jianshen came to the throne.At the beginning of his accession to the throne, when Zhu Jianshen honored the queen mothers of the two palaces, he called his aunt the empress and his biological mother the imperial concubine.

This shows that Zhu Jianshen's biological mother, Zhou, should have been an imperial concubine during the Tianshun period.Even if the Tang family is not recognized as an imperial concubine, the Zhou family should be the first imperial concubine of the Ming Dynasty.

But this incident is strange because there is a contradiction in Zhou's record in "Yingzong Shilu": she was only canonized as a noble concubine, but she was given a treasure--as I said just now, since there is a "treasure", then She should be canonized as an imperial concubine.

Thinking about coming here, although Zhu Jianshen called his biological mother the late emperor's imperial concubine, the truth should be the same as the Sun family in Xuanzong's time. It was just a verbal name, and Zhou Guifei's actual status was still noble concubine.

In this way, according to historical records, the first imperial concubine of the Ming Dynasty was Wan Guifei of Ming Xianzong.Concubine Wan Gui is a well-known favorite concubine in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Although she is 17 years older than Zhu Jianshen, she still has the love and affection of Zhu Jianshen all her life. The story of this has been mentioned earlier in this book.

The favorite is the favorite, but because of his father and mother's queen, Zhu Jianshen can't canonize the Wan family as the queen, but for such a favorite concubine, Zhu Jianshen naturally wants to give her extra honor.

Here we need to correct a point that is often misunderstood, that is, Concubine Wan Gui was promoted to imperial concubine from the imperial concubine in October of the 12th year of Chenghua, not Zhu Jianshen was canonized as imperial concubine as soon as she came to the throne.In addition, the Ming court released the first book of imperial concubines in history.

This booklet is fully recorded in the "Records of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty", so I won't extract more here, but only one key sentence: "Wei Yakunyi, the first concubine of Junzhi".

This sentence is the position of the imperial concubine in the Ming Dynasty. So far, the status of the "upstart" in the harem of "imperial noble concubine" has basically been settled.

But it needs to be pointed out that there is no limit to the number of imperial concubines in the Ming Dynasty. For example, in the Wanli Dynasty in the original history, the crown prince Zhu Changluo's birth mother Wang Shi and the blessing king Zhu Changxun's birth mother Zheng family were once the imperial concubine—including Zhu Yijun's Some kind of calculation, not much explanation.

In short, since then, among the emperors and concubines, the most honorable position under the queen is the imperial concubine, and the noble concubine is second.

Because of the addition of the word "Huang", the imperial concubine has a seal in her hand, so in the eyes of the world, the imperial concubine has undoubtedly become... how should I put it, probably the "deputy empress".

People with "deputy" names all over the world have an obvious characteristic, that is, if something happens to the person with "positive" name, the person with "deputy" name will naturally be the first to be qualified to take over.

This qualification is the reason why Zhu Yijun was hesitant and did not send the eunuchs to explain to Gao Yushi whether the emperor "had a conclusion" on these memorials.

In other words, even now, the emperor still hasn't made up his mind, but wants to see how Gao Yushi, as the chief writer of today's cabinet, will draft his proposal.

However, Gao Wushi's above-mentioned "I know", "I have read", "I know" and other drafts, in fact, did not "say on behalf of the king" what to do.

However, it’s not that Gao Pragmatism doesn’t intend to make it clear. After pasting all other people’s memorabilia on these ambiguous drafts, he found the memorabilia written by Wang Jiaping, the chief assistant, and read it carefully, and then took out a On the small ticket, write a line neatly and neatly in Guan Ge style:

"What Yuanfu saw is in line with my intentions, and the cabinet will discuss it."——What Yuanfu said is the same as what I mean. Your cabinet should hold a meeting to study it, see how to check the details, and then give it a charter I see.
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PS: two in one.Yesterday I found a mouse in the bathroom sewer, and it came out just as I was taking a shower. I was shocked on the spot, but I stepped on it with my slippers on.The mouse turned its head in pain, and I was a little panicked at the time, for fear that it would bite my foot, so I let go, and it slipped into the sewer again.

Then my wife and I talked it over, and she said that it is no wonder that I heard voices several times in the second half of the night recently, and I need to sort it out.As a result, the whole family moved a lot, and it turned out that there was rat droppings and food residues stolen by it behind a certain wardrobe that was not commonly used...not only last night, but also tidying up all morning today...Finally, the floor drain is a good thing , in the future, we must be as cautious as Gao Yushi, and never dare to forget to let go.

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