Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 689 Princess Psychology
Hearing Father's question, the pretty faces of the three princesses became even more blushing, and they all looked hesitant to speak.

Princess Kunxing:

"Father, what are you talking about! My son didn't see anything..."

Princess Jianwen:

"Father, my son didn't pay attention, everything depends on you..."

Princess Ziwei:

"Father, Ziwei's life is given by you, and the important things in life are left to the father to decide..."

To be honest, among Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo, and Xia Wanchun, none of them are handsome and talented.

Whether it is Princess Kunxing, Princess Jianwen, or Princess Ziwei, they are all very satisfied with their father's choice of son-in-law.

But the princess could only secretly rejoice in her heart, but could not express it directly.

At that time, girls couldn't even show their teeth when they smiled. As a princess of Ming Dynasty, of course she couldn't express her thoughts.

Seeing the three princesses like this, Zhu Youjian immediately understood what they were thinking.

However, he deliberately made a joke with the three princesses.

"Oh, what a pity. They are all meritorious ministers of my Ming Dynasty, and they are also young talents of the Ming Dynasty. If you don't even look up to such people, there is nothing you can do. Your father is planning to give you marriages. , since none of you have any intentions, then forget it."

When Zhu Youjian said these words, his expression was very regretful, and his heart looked very heavy.

After all, he turned around and was about to leave.

When the three princesses saw that their father was about to leave, they were anxious at the time, and they hurried forward to hold hands, and hugged their arms, anyway, to prevent their father from leaving.

"Father, don't you misunderstand? The emperor didn't say he didn't want to!"

Zhu Youjian was happy when he saw it:

"The meaning of the emperor is that you have a crush on the personnel selected by the father for you, right! Do you want to say it? The father thought you were unwilling! Haha..."

Seeing their father laughing at them, the three princesses took Zhu Youjian's arm and began to shake it coquettishly:
"Father, how could you do this..."

Speaking of the selection of consorts by princesses in the Ming Dynasty, something must be added here.

It's not that the three princesses are impatient, but that they know the rules for choosing a consort for princesses in the Ming Dynasty.

Once they miss the son-in-law selected by their father today, their life-long events will become extremely uncertain, and even become a great tragedy.

As the saying goes: The emperor's daughter does not worry about marrying.The political resources brought by the royal princess often make the dignitaries flock to them.

And the princess's marriage can win over a well-matched important minister for the royal family, which can be described as a win-win happy event.

However, the princess's marriage had a lot of changes in the Ming Dynasty.

During Zhu Yuanzhang's time, princes still had the opportunity to marry princesses.

After Zhu Di came to the throne, the conditions for the princess to choose a mate were restricted by household registration, among which Beijing household registration was the most superior.

It seems that the gold content of the ancient capital account has been crazy since the Ming Dynasty.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent foreign relatives from monopolizing power and threatening the rule of the Zhu family dynasty, the Ming court simply married the princess with the children of civilians or middle- and lower-level officials.

But in this way, a new problem arises, the son-in-law is someone who is not familiar with the royal family, how to ensure the princess's happy marriage?
In order to solve this problem, the Ming Dynasty formulated a strict screening procedure for concubines.

However, although this procedure is strict, it still selects many unreliable son-in-laws.

What is going on here?
Speaking of the unreliable son-in-law of the royal family in the Ming Dynasty, one has to mention the selection method of the son-in-law in the Ming Dynasty.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", "Where a son-in-law is selected, the Ministry of Rites will order officials in Beijing who are military and civilian children between fourteen and sixteen years old, neat in appearance, dignified in behavior, and educated to sign up.

If you don't win, then you will visit Ji Nei, Shandong and Henan.Three people were selected, one was appointed by the emperor, and the other two were sent to Confucianism in this place to serve as teachers. "

Coincidentally, another part of the process of choosing a son-in-law is added in "The Rites of Siling":

"Wanli selected three disciples of Lord Shang to attend the meeting, and presented them to the Empress Dowager in their names.

The Empress Dowager puts it in a gold vase, burns incense and prays to heaven, chooses one of them, covers it with a scarlet robe, and sends it to Chuncao. Those who accompany the other two will be given Jin Qi and then sent to Shuntian Mansion. "

It can be seen from this that the consort of the Ming Dynasty adopted the mode of audition.First of all, the Ministry of Rites will preside over ordinary officials aged 14 to 16 who have household registration in the capital and children from good families to participate in the election.

The selection criteria require candidates to be beautiful, dignified, clean and well-educated.

If no qualified candidate can be selected in Beijing, the scope of sea selection will be expanded to include the Gyeonggi region or even Shandong, Henan and other places.

After layers of selection, the final three winners will be recommended to the emperor, and the emperor or queen mother will decide the final winner.

Sometimes the concubine will also give the emperor some reference opinions in the final stage.

The prospective son-in-law who has passed five levels and killed six generals still cannot relax at this time.

Because he needs to attend the concubine study class arranged by the Ministry of Rites immediately, and then he needs to take the exam.

Only after passing the exam can he be put on the agenda to marry the princess.

The assessment of consorts in the Ming Dynasty was so strict, so is anyone willing to be a consort?
In fact, there are quite a few people who are willing to be consorts, because once they become consorts, they can enjoy corresponding preferential treatment.

This is really not a small temptation for the children of common people.

First of all, the dowry of princesses in the Ming Dynasty was very rich.The Ming court will not only prepare a large sum of dowry when the princess gets married, but also give the princess property every year after she gets married.

During the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the princess's yearly offerings should be: "Has been sealed, given a farm, and the annual harvest is [-] shi, and the yarn is [-]."

Such a generous income far exceeds the salaries of ordinary courtiers, not to mention that the princess has her own estate.

For example, in the tenth year of Chenghua, Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty bestowed "one thousand hectares and twenty acres of idle land" on Princess Longqing, the daughter of Yingzong.

Coincidentally, in the sixth year of Apocalypse, Xi Zong also gave Guangzong's daughter "590 hectares and 82 mu of Zhuangtian, the eldest princess of Suiping", and "190 hectares of Zhuangtian, the second princess of Ningde and Suiping".

Most of the estates given to the princess are in the area near Beijing, and the annual land rent income is quite rich, and the princess also has the right to manage the estates by herself, without paying taxes to the state, and owns tens of thousands of furniture alone.

Secondly, after marrying the princess, the son-in-law can get a high salary of two thousand Shilumi (equivalent to RMB 80) per year.

The state will also provide free mansions for the son-in-law, so that the son-in-law will once be among the richest clubs.

Finally, the son-in-law's family can also benefit from the princess's marriage.

The father of the son-in-law can be granted the vacant position of military commander and enjoy a salary.

The son can also be hereditary as the commander of the Jinyiwei. This kind of treatment is enough to attract the sons-in-law who were born in the common people to fight to the death to marry the princess.

It is precisely because of the countless benefits of marrying a princess that many people often use unscrupulous means in order to succeed in being elected as a consort, even bribing eunuchs to deceive the royal family.

In the eighth year of Hongzhi, a local tyrant named Yuan Xiang openly bribed Li Guang, the eunuch of the inner palace, in order to marry the princess.

Li Guang, who had benefited, praised Yuan Xiang as a flower in front of Emperor Hongzhi.

Successfully allowed Yuan Xiang to pass the examination of Emperor Hongzhi and become a quasi-consort.

Unexpectedly, just as the big wedding was approaching, someone reported Yuan Xiang and Li Guang's conspiracy to cheat the marriage.

Only then did Emperor Hongzhi realize that he had been cheated, and hurriedly abolished Yuan Xiang's title of son-in-law, and chose someone else to marry the princess.

However, although Yuan Xiang's son-in-law was not made, the official Li Guang was not punished.

This made some eunuchs realize that the risk of deceiving the royal family was not high.

So under the temptation of money, many eunuchs randomly recommended son-in-law.

It made the originally strict selection procedure for the son-in-law change.

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