Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 942
It's late at night, but the heat of midsummer has not abated, and it's still hard to sleep.

No one knows how many people suffer from insomnia in the world, but there must be one of them named Zhu Yao.

She is the eldest princess of Yongning of the Ming Dynasty, with a noble status and golden branches and jade leaves. In the eyes of outsiders, rich clothes and fine food, wealth and glory will always accompany her, and happiness will always surround her.

However, the fact is that apart from these riches and splendors, Her Highness the Eldest Princess feels that she has almost nothing.

The person he likes doesn't like her, or even if he likes her a little bit, it is far from the point of giving up everything for her.

Perhaps, what men consider is always only power, only career, and only the world.

The world?

Hehe... The world of women is actually nothing more than a "he".

"Fourth princess, are you asleep?" A familiar female voice came from outside the door.

Princess Yongning suddenly sat up from the reclining bamboo and wood reclining chair, and replied: "No, is it Xiao He?"

"It's the servant girl, the fourth princess, the news from the Governor of Huang Factory."

Princess Yongning got up immediately, trotted to the door, opened the door for her, glanced behind her, and asked, "Where are the people in my palace?"

Xiao He laughed and said: "They know what the servants are here for, and who sent them, so of course they all went to 'sleep'."

Princess Yongning understood, nodded, and said, "Come in and talk." Xiao He stepped in.

After Chen Hong's downfall, the inner court hadn't appointed a supervisor of ceremonies for a while, but everyone knew that there were only two people who could do this palm seal, either Chen Ju or Huang Mengyu.

He was originally the admiral of Dongchang, and now he still has the opportunity to become the eunuch of the palm print. Naturally, no one in Princess Yongning's palace would dare not give Huang Mengyu face.

Xiao He entered the room, immediately took out a folded Xue Tao note from her closet, and carefully handed it to Princess Yongning.

Princess Yongning took Xue Tao's paper, and suddenly asked without raising her head: "What is written on it?"

Xiao He was taken aback for a moment: "The servant is illiterate."

The vigilant look in Princess Yongning's eyes faded away, she nodded, stopped talking, and opened the letter to read.

After reading it twice carefully, Princess Yongning's eyes suddenly became a little confused, she sighed, and sat back on the bamboo and wood reclining chair weakly, closing her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

Xiao He didn't rush, and waited quietly. After a while, she heard Princess Yongning ask: "Is Liang Bang... the son-in-law himself involved?"

"He believed in what Chongxi said. Factory Governor Huang said that the East Factory had interrogated it many times in detail, so there was no doubt about it." Xiao He replied.

"Then, what did he say? I mean...how did you say Jian Xinzhai?" When the word "Jian Xinzhai" was mentioned, Princess Yongning seemed to move her eyelashes with her eyes closed.

Xiao He said calmly: "Jian Xinzhai said that death is more than justified."

"He's going to Liaodong, what about the Liang family?"

Xiao He smiled slightly: "Fourth princess, don't worry, see Xin Zhai said that within a month, the Liang family will collapse, and all properties will be torn apart."

Princess Yongning said, "I'm afraid the emperor won't watch the Liang family starve to death on the street and lose face to the Tian family, right?"

Xiao He nodded, and said calmly: "Of course the emperor will give some money, but Huang Factory Superintendent said... If Liang's family can't see it and seek their own death, the emperor will not say anything."

"Oh?" Princess Yongning's tone was somewhat desolate: "Are you looking for death?"

Xiao He smiled, and said: "Yes, I wanted to die...Of course, the governor of the factory Huang also said that Liang's son-in-law has been terrified recently, and his condition has become more serious. Maybe he will walk ahead of the rest of the Liang family."

Princess Yongning opened her eyes, frowned and said, "Is this because of his own illness? Huang Factory Governor didn't...no..."

Xiao He bowed slightly: "Fourth princess, don't worry, no matter what, he has already assumed the title of Captain Consort, and the factory superintendent will not do anything to him."

Princess Yongning breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly said: "Just now about the matter of my palace, you don't tell the factory supervisor... No, you tell the factory supervisor not to tell Jian Xinzhai."

"Yes, the fourth princess." Xiao He seemed well-trained, and didn't ask half a word at all.

Princess Yongning nodded and said with relief: "You are very good, and the supervisor of Huang Factory is also very capable in handling affairs. When the matter is settled, the Palace will reward you."

"Thank you, Fourth Princess." Xiao He smiled slightly: "However, slaves...even Huang Factory Governor, I'm afraid they can't accept them."

"Why?" Princess Yongning was a little surprised.

"Jian Xinzhai has already rewarded her, and stated that Her Royal Highness's money is for other purposes."

Princess Yongning was stunned for a moment, then sighed again suddenly, her tone became desolate again: "Sometimes, I really don't know what he is thinking."

"Jian Xinzhai, who can see through his mind?" Xiao He smiled and said: "However, he still cares about the princess's affairs very much. I heard from the governor of Huang Factory that I heard that on the day of the wedding, Jian Xinzhai The one who even wanted to mobilize the cavalry from outside the city to enter the city, disturbed the matter of welcoming the bride, and was so frightened that the governor of the Huang factory tried to dissuade him again and again, so there was no big commotion."

Princess Yongning immediately sat up straight, and quickly asked: "Is this true?"

"Really, Factory Governor Huang was terrified when he mentioned this matter."

Princess Yongning stood up abruptly, rubbed her hands together a few times as if there was no place to rest them, and asked, "Did he say anything else?"

"Uh..." Xiao He thought about it carefully, and said hesitantly: "It seems that there are some old things about Princess Deqing and Princess Yongchun, but the factory supervisor didn't go into details, and the slaves don't know much about it."

Princess Yongning's eyes were complicated, and she smiled wryly, with sadness from her heart.

Maybe he just pities me...

It turned out that Princess Deqing and Princess Yongchun were also two poor wretches under the marriage of the eunuch Bao Office.

The outsourcing of the selection of the son-in-law did not start with Chen Hong. The eunuchs in the palace had already taken over this business a long time ago.

Among them, Princess Deqing's marriage was arranged by Li Guang, the internal official at the time. Although Li Gonggong had the same name as the famous general in the Han Dynasty, it was obviously not comparable at all.

As for him, he has no technical requirements, let alone quantitative standards, on how to choose a son-in-law, so the only standard is money.

At that time, there was a rich man named Yuan Xiang who spent a lot of money to bribe Eunuch Li, and he became the candidate for the son-in-law, which was tantamount to selling the princess.

The amazing thing is that the eunuch is not responsible for the princess's marriage, but the emperor is not responsible for the princess's marriage, and he doesn't ask in detail.

Fortunately, the emperor is not responsible, the eunuch is not responsible, but the officials of the court dare to be responsible. Seeing that the good deeds of Yuan Xiang and the princess are about to come true, some officials wrote a letter to expose Li Guang's tricks, saying that the son-in-law paid for it. He said: "The wedding date is over, let's make a statement for the official of the science and Taoism."

Xiaozong Zhu Youtang finally woke up this time. Hearing that the eunuch was so irresponsible to the royal daughter, he was angry, and ordered a new edict to re-elect the son-in-law.

But what's even more amazing is that according to ordinary people's understanding, Li Guang committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, so why should he lose his head?However, Li Guang was fine for committing such a serious crime. He just dealt with Xiao Jing, a eunuch with a lower status.Li Guang, the culprit, was safe and sound.

You must know that Princess Deqing is also an eldest princess herself, and she is the elder sister of Emperor Xiaozong. It can only be said that although Emperor Xiaozong made great efforts to govern, he was equally indifferent to his elder sister's marriage.

Princess Deqing was safe and sound, and finally married a good man.And Xiaozong's daughter, Princess Yongchun, was even more miserable.

After Xiaozong's death, Princess Yongchun was still young. After the reign of her brother Zhengde and the sixth year of Emperor Sejong's Jiajing reign, Princess Yongchun reached the age to get married.

Sejong was quite responsible at the time, and personally designated a husband-in-law named Chen Zhao for his cousin. This Chen Zhao was ranked No.3 on the list of candidates at that time.

However, Minister Yu Demin made a statement, revealing that Chen Zhao's family had a history of genetic diseases, and that Chen Zhao's old mother was not the original wife of the Chen family, but a concubine who remarried to the Chen family, with a low status.

Immediately afterwards, another minister defended that Yu Demin was talking nonsense.Then the public said that the public was right, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right, and there was a lot of trouble.

In this situation of being at a loss, for the happiness of his cousin, Jiajing had no choice but to use the method of elimination. No matter what happened to him, he might not be good anyway, so Chen Zhao should be removed from the list first, and then re-elected by order.

At this time, two more candidates surfaced, one was Xie Zhao and the other was Gao Gaoyuan.

Xie Zhao looks passable, Gao Gaoyuan is a handsome young man.

As we all know, Emperor Jiajing didn't play cards according to the rules. He asked Princess Yongchun to take a peek at the two of them. It turned out that Her Royal Highness, of course, fell in love with the handsome young man.

However, the empress dowager intervened in this matter again. She probably felt that the handsome guy was unreliable, and Xie Zhao was more experienced, so she appointed Xie Zhao as her son-in-law.

What was the result?On the wedding night, when he took off his hat, he saw that the son-in-law was an "extremely smart" person, and he couldn't even do a hairstyle properly.

Princess Yongchun thought about that tall handsome guy, so of course she was very dissatisfied with the one in front of her.

In the end, this matter spread to the people, and a nursery rhyme called "Ten Funny" came into being, one of which sang: "The son-in-law will change the world."

Of course, this is a kind of discrimination. Although this concubine of Xie Zhaoxie lacks some kindness, he is actually a good character and quite blessed. According to "Wanli Ye Huo Bian", he has been "rich and noble for 40 years".

As for whether Princess Yongchun is happy or not, uh... at least she must be dissatisfied in her heart.

Since "Jian Xinzhai" mentioned Princess Deqing and Princess Yongchun, there is no need to think too much about it, she must be comparing her Princess Yongning with the two.

Princess Yongning was very sad, but she didn't know who was to blame for this matter. Chen Hong naturally deserved to die, and the Liang family deserved to die if they knew that they deceived the emperor, but they were easy to deal with, but...

Maybe this is fate.

Princess Yongning thought foolishly, if I hadn't met him in the Buddhist temple back then, would I still be like this now?

I may be the most unlucky princess in the Ming Dynasty...

In fact, she didn't think so much, but the unlucky princesses of the Ming Dynasty in terms of marriage, in fact, she is not finished. There is at least one other in the original history, and that is Zhu Yijun's seventh daughter, Princess Shouning.

"Wanli Ye Huo Bian" records the story of Princess Shouning and her husband Ran Xingrang, which is also a tragedy.

It was said that it was on a moonlit night when Princess Shouning Xuanhu Jun Ran Xingrang met and forgot to report this procedure to the housekeeper Liang Yingnv.The housekeeper was drinking with the eunuch Zhao Jinchao at that time, when she heard the news that the princess and her husband had met privately without permission, she immediately rushed into the princess' room, dragged out the son-in-law Ran Xingrang, and beat her up violently.

The princess was eager to protect her husband and came out to persuade her, but she was also scolded by the housekeeper.Princess Shouning was "sad and angry", and was going to enter the palace the next day to appeal to her mother and concubine.As a result, the villain Liang Ying filed the complaint first, and she still filed the complaint with embellishment.

When Princess Shouning really went to appeal the next day, the matter had already been set, and there was no chance of turning over. Her mother was already "very angry" and refused to see the princess.It's really confusing that these imperial concubines believe in the words of outsiders all day long, but they don't even give a chance to explain to their own flesh and blood.

This way was impossible, and the son-in-law Ran Xingrang was also well prepared. He wrote a letter of appeal and prepared to go to court to appeal for grievances, and went directly to Zhu Yijun.

The naive son-in-law never thought that the eunuch named Zhao Jinchao, who drank with the housekeeper, had already set up an ambush on the road. After a violent beating, the son-in-law was "ragged and bloody".

Ran Xingrang ran out of Chang'an Gate in a panic, what happened?His bearers have also been dispersed by the eunuchs.Without a sedan chair bearer, the son-in-law had to walk back to the mansion with his hair disheveled and bare feet.

The young couple were about to appeal to their father Zhu Yijun again, but they lost the best strategic opportunity and were passive at every step. The next day, the emperor's imperial decree came down to take off the son-in-law's python robe and reflect on the three things. months without giving any opportunity for explanation - "no repeat".

As for Zhao Yingnv, the evil housekeeper, she was only dealt with elsewhere, while none of the beating eunuchs were dealt with.

In fact, it is hard to say whether Zhu Yijun made this imperial decree himself after he knew about it.

In addition, this Ran Xingrang was really unlucky in the end, and was later killed by Li Zicheng.

But history is sometimes so inertial. In the original history, Princess Yongning's marriage was arranged by Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng's full support. Empress Dowager Li was confused by the two of them, which caused the tragedy of Princess Yongning.

This time there is no Feng Bao, nor Zhang Juzheng, but Liang Bangrui still appears, still bribes the palm eunuch, and still becomes a son-in-law...

The only difference is that the former may make Zhu Yijun more dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao in his heart, which became the motivation for Zhu Yijun to pursue to the end after Zhang Juzheng's death and "criticize the stink", and by the way, he also insisted on disposing of Feng Bao.

Later generations wondered why Feng Bao was so favored by the Empress Dowager Li at the beginning, and why the Empress Dowager Li just asked a casual question after Zhu Yijun moved him and didn't mention it again. In fact, it is very likely that Princess Yongning was also the reason.
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