Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 813 Princess Yongning
The "coincidental encounter" between Gao Yushi and Princess Yongning was after talking with Zhu Yijun about the price of the Wanli Type [-] musket.

This incident gave Zhu Yijun an excellent excuse—he asked Gao Wushi to go out for a walk, while he and Chen Ju stayed in the Bingzhan Bureau to discuss the pros and cons of this type of musket with the eunuchs in charge of the Bing Zhan Bureau, including price problem.

Because in this way, even if the Empress Dowager Cisheng finds out afterwards, he can still shirk that he was talking about business. The reason why Gao Yushi was allowed to go out for a while was because it was not easy to discuss this matter in front of Gao Yushi—the discussion reduced Price, isn't that the emperor and his courtiers competing for profit?Talk about how bad it will be.

All in all, it's best if things don't get leaked. Even if they leaked, it would be an accident. There is absolutely no inside story.

It can be seen that Zhu Yijun is really a talented player when it comes to pretending to be an ostrich.

When Gao Yushi "coincidentally met" Princess Yongning, she was watching the scenery of Zhonghai from the westernmost side of Chongzhi Hall (renamed Wanshan Hall in the Qing Dynasty) in Jiaoyuan.

It is an absolutely reasonable reason to come to this place to enjoy the scenery, because this is the place where the so-called "Taiye Autumn Breeze", the second of the Eight Scenic Spots of Yanjing, is missing the Shuiyun Pavilion built by Kang Mazi.

However, at this time, "Taiye autumn wind" is not used to describe the scenery here.

"Taiye Autumn Wind" refers to the autumn scenery of Taiye Pool.Later generations can watch the Shuiyun Pavilion on the Beihai Bridge, but cannot take pictures, and Tuancheng in Beihai Park is the best place to watch and leave the beautiful autumn scenery of Shuiyun Pavilion Taiye.

The scenery of this place was called Taiye Qiufeng in the Jin Dynasty, Taiye Qiubo in the Yuan Dynasty, and Taiye Qingbo in the Ming Dynasty. In the Kangmazi period of the Tartar Qing Dynasty, it was also called Taiye Qingbo. In Qianlong, this guy probably remembered the Jin Dynasty. It is also a Jurchen, so it is called Taiye Qiufeng again.

"Eight Views of Yanjing" said: "The weather is clear and bright, the sun and the moon are shining and the waves are clear and lovely, so it is called Taiye Qingbo." Wang Fu, a great painter in the early Ming Dynasty, once painted the picture of "Taiye Qingbo".

Gao Wushi only learned a little sketching in his previous life, and his skills in Chinese painting are not good. It is impossible to draw this beautiful scenery, so he can only pretend to walk to the fence, and then pretend that he just saw the graceful Princess Yongning over there.

He stepped forward and bowed, saying: "I have seen Her Royal Highness."

"I really hope you don't have to salute me like this." Princess Yongning, the little girl in Gao Pragmatic's memory, spoke very directly today, she said: "Is Mr. Gao very reluctant to come to see me?"

"Where did your highness come from?" Gao Wushi said with a wry smile: "the minister and the princess have only met each other a few times, and there is no conflict. Is there any reason why the minister does not want to meet the princess? It's just... The identities of the minister and His Highness are very different, the sky and the earth are very different, how can we see each other on weekdays?"

Princess Yongning is only fifteen years old, but she has already appeared quite fresh, but there is still a slight childish look between her eyebrows and eyes.She had a gloomy complexion, but after hearing Gao Wushi's words, she seemed to be better, but there was still some unspeakable pain hidden between her brows.

Regardless of whether there is anyone around here secretly watching, at least there are only the two of them in front of him, so it is inconvenient for Gao Yushi to look directly, so after a short glance, he lowered his eyelids and looked at the ground not far from the princess's feet.

"Why doesn't Mr. Gao dare to look at me?" After a moment of silence, Princess Yongning asked.

Gao Wushi said, "I'm afraid I might be rude."

"Hehe..." Princess Yongning smiled bitterly: "Yes, I'm afraid I'm being impolite. It's also impolite for me to ask the emperor to bring Mr. Gao here. I think Mr. Gao doesn't know how to ridicule and contempt in his heart."

"The princess is worrying too much, how dare the minister." Gao Wushi said, and then thought about it, it seemed too perfunctory, and added: "Actually, the minister just doesn't understand why the princess is doing this."

"Don't you understand?" Princess Yongning said, "I still don't want to understand?"

This... What's going on with this princess, isn't this embarrassing me?Can I still say that you came to me because you like me?I have a good head and don't want to move just yet.

Although the princess of Daming did not have any real power, and was even sad, but because of the ethics of Daming, as a courtier, if he dared to insult the princess, the crime would be very serious.

Gao Wushi sighed and said, "I am dull."

Princess Yongning laughed instead, and asked, "Are you stupid? Then tell me, what smart people are there in the world, and Yongning wants to see and see."

Gao Wushi said: "There are too many smart people in the world..."

"How many real leaders in the past 200 years?" Princess Yongning interrupted.

"Uh..." Gao Wushi hesitated for a moment, and said, "This is His Majesty's praise, and it cannot be taken seriously."

"Who can make a fortune from scratch and have a fortune of tens of millions in ten years, but still get the reputation of being a Buddha from all families?"

"This... has a lot to do with the status of the minister's family background, and it doesn't depend solely on the minister's personal ability."

"Who can single-handedly persuade the Guangxi chieftain who has always been obedient and disobedient to send out troops, with a mere [-] to [-] people, sweeping Annan without a single defeat, even more able to subdue Annan's army, and make Annan's heart frightened, Don't dare to cause chaos?"

"The situation in this matter is complicated, and it is not clear in a few words. One is that Annan may not be convinced, and will continue to be monitored in the future; the other is that the so-called sweeping of Annan is largely not due to the command of the minister, but that Annan is no longer the former Annan. If the surface of the wood is smooth and the inside is rotten, just push it lightly, and it will fall naturally."

Princess Yongning couldn't help smiling, and said: "Hearing what you said, it seems that these achievements are all driven by Baba... just like I want to see you?"

Gao Wushi almost choked to death, opened his mouth and said, "The princess is joking."

"After my sister got married last year, I kept thinking, would it be better if I wasn't a princess?" She said quietly: "But I also thought, if I wasn't a princess, I'm afraid I won't be with you in this life. See you, how could you think of these things?"

Gao Yushi couldn't answer, so he had to keep silent.

"The queen mother has ordered Chen Hong to be responsible for choosing a son-in-law for me." After a while, Princess Yongning said again.

"Congratulations, princess." Gao Wushi said: "Chen's palm print is mature and prudent, and he will definitely be able to find a mate for the princess."

"Sweetheart... Heh, if I hadn't refused repeatedly, I wish I could be accompanied by the ancient Buddha with the blue lantern, and it would be better than being a husband and wife of the emperor's family like me, Daming, who face each other across the river."

There is such a rule in the Ming imperial family's family rules: After the princess gets married, an older female official must be assigned to her to manage the affairs of the princess mansion with full authority.As for the princess who was already married in name, she actually only spent the wedding night in the princess mansion, and had to move back to live in the specially-designed palace in the harem. In the empty princess mansion, there was only one son-in-law living.

If the princess wants to meet the son-in-law, the son-in-law must rush into the palace to meet her.However, most of these old female officials are mentally distorted, and what I can't stand the most is the scene where the princess and the son-in-law are in love with each other.

Therefore, if the son-in-law wants to enter the palace to meet the princess and enjoy the relationship between husband and wife, he will definitely be made things difficult by this "housekeeper" old female official.

Under normal circumstances, if the princess and the son-in-law did not offer a large amount of real money to bribe, they would not be able to pass their test at all, and would not be able to see their husband or wife.

This is what Princess Yongning said about "seeing each other across the river" - she refers to the Cowherd and Weaver Girl meeting once a year, which is similar to the princesses of Ming Dynasty.

Because although the princesses are given land by the emperor as a rule, for example, Zhu Yao'e, the eldest princess of Shouyang, was given [-] hectares of land by Zhu Yijun last year. The converted money and goods should be handed over to the princess.However, this sum of money cannot be guaranteed to be fully received—a joke, the salaries of officials of the Ming Dynasty are often not fully received, so how can your princess' converted money be paid on time and in accordance with the amount?We don't say no to it, we just can't get it together for the time being.

Daming was in such a situation, and the emperor could only stare blankly when he heard this kind of thing.

Fortunately, Princess Shouyang was lucky. Her son-in-law Hou Gongchen was selected by Gao Pragmatically and lived in Gao's residence for quite a while.Relying on this face, the female officials in the harem don't know how close Hou Gongchen's relationship with Gao Shishi is, but they obviously know how powerful Gao Yushi is in the inner court—Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju in the inner court are very close to Gao Shidu. Old friend, this is a well-known fact. It is not a big deal to offend a foreign minister, Gao Yushi, but if you offend these two, it will be very bad.

Therefore, the female officials' blackmail of Princess Shouyang was relatively light. Although Hou Gongchen was poor, Princess Shouyang had enough money to meet Hou Gongchen two or three times a month.

But Princess Yongning does not have this blessing. The Empress Dowager Cisheng has decided to let Chen Hong take charge of this matter—it is said that Chen Hong himself volunteered—the eunuchs are only doing this to make money, so it will never happen again. A situation like that of Hou Gongchen appeared.

In other words, Princess Yongning's future son-in-law will not be able to make the female officials look at her differently. Only the devil will know how much her [-] hectares of converted land will be able to use.

However, in her heart she didn't want to marry the son-in-law she had never seen before, and this matter was not that important to her, it just felt aggrieved thinking about it.

But she couldn't change it, so she felt more and more miserable.

Gao Yushi couldn't help him, he was hurt enough last time, and now that the Empress Dowager Cisheng personally intervened, he didn't dare to come out to find him.

As for the broken system of the Ming Dynasty, it was a good thing done by Zhu Yuanzhang, the patriarchal emperor Taizu. His sons were messing around outside, and he mostly scolded them in the next imperial decree, but for his daughters. Strictly enough, for example, if there is a son-in-law involved in smuggling—if the son might scold him, the matter would be over, but the son-in-law would lose his head directly, no matter how much the daughter begged for mercy.

Moreover, the fundamental reason why he stipulated this system was to avoid some royal scandals like the princesses of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and even threaten the imperial power like Princess Taiping. mouth.

Princess Yongning saw that he was silent again, the bitterness in her eyes was even worse, she said: "I don't want to see that son-in-law anyway, after the big wedding, I will live in the palace, the land grant is useless, So... I want to ask Mr. Gao one thing."

Gao Wushi said: "Princess, please tell me."

Princess Yongning said: "Then convert the silver, I want to ask Mr. Gao to help me do some business, even if it is... well, in Jinghua's words, it is called 'shareholding'? I don't know how much money it will be, and I don't know how Jinghua's account is settled, but I have trust in Mr. Gao's character, so I will leave everything to Mr. Gao, how do you think?"

Ok?According to you, it is useless for you to ask for money, so what are you investing in?
Gao Wushi didn't understand, but he still agreed, saying: "This...promise is acceptable, but if it is a shareholding, I still have to say something."

"You say it."

"Usually, there will be dividends every year after investing in the shares, but in case of a loss, Jinghua will not compensate for the loss."

Princess Yongning didn't care at all: "Jinghua has lost money, it must be a huge sum of money, if I lose this small amount of money, I will lose it, at most it will be the end of the loss, I can't let me pay it back...... whatever. "

Oh?Girl, you are very open-minded.

"What's more, generally speaking, after buying shares, only dividends are paid. If you want to withdraw funds to get back the share capital, you usually have to explain in advance-of course, if the amount of your highness's shareholding is not large, I can call the shots and let you withdraw the share capital at any time .”

Princess Yongning said: "It's useless for me to ask for money. I just see that there are always disasters in various places in recent years. I plan to take advantage of Mr. Gao's east wind to make some money. In the future, when the harem donates money for disaster relief, I won't be unable to spend money. The queen mother often said, Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, and if I have some merits in the future by donating money for disaster relief, I will not be reborn in the emperor's house in the next life."

Gao Yushi was a little dazed, thinking that this is what you are doing?
But after thinking about it, there is some truth to it. Empress Dowager Li is a person who worships Buddhism, and this little girl is probably influenced by her mother...Of course, regardless of Buddhism or not, donating money for disaster relief is a good thing.

But Gao Wushi was suddenly blessed, and when he thought of something, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Ah, I suddenly have an idea, and Her Royal Highness might be interested."

Princess Yongning was taken aback, and thought to herself: I am only interested in marrying you.

She knew that Gao Yushi definitely didn't mean this, but she still blushed and asked softly, "Tell me."

Gao Wushi didn't realize that there was something different in her tone, and said with great interest: "I don't know how much His Highness's conversion is now, but after I work for His Highness and get a bigger amount, I can set up a fund."

"Chicken essence?" Princess Yongning had obviously never heard the word "fund", and immediately misunderstood: "Monster?"

Gao Wushi was taken aback for a moment, then understood, laughed, and waved his hands: "No, no, a fund... is a certain amount of funds established for a certain purpose, such as Your Highness, it can be called the 'Princess Yongning Disaster Relief Fund', It is specially used for disaster relief. Of course, this money needs to be operated by Jinghua. Generally speaking, the profit will be used for disaster relief without reducing the total amount of the fund... This is a great thing for the world, I believe When the time comes, even if the Queen Mother and the Emperor know about it, they will appreciate it."

But Her Royal Highness didn't seem to be aiming for this, so she didn't really care about it. She just sighed slightly and said sadly, "You can do whatever you want."
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