Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 362 Fighting for the Prince Consort
"The new son-in-law is exempt from punishment!"

This news was published in the Di newspaper and spread all over the world, and people all over the world immediately started talking about it.

"The officials were so kind-hearted that they even pardoned the son-in-law!" Many people sighed.

The adopted son-in-law is at the bottom of society. Not only is he subject to discrimination in the bride's family and endures cynicism from the world, but he also has to bear a lot of labor and military service. Unless he is desperate, no one would be willing to take on the role of the adopted son-in-law.

It is precisely for this reason that the quality of the husband-in-law has seriously declined, and the woman who originally wanted to recruit a husband-in-law cannot find a good match. Such a vicious circle makes the reputation of the husband-in-law become worse and worse, and eventually becomes a social evil. Ground floor.

But now that the imperial court has decided to exempt the adopted son-in-law from punishment, the adopted son-in-law all over the world can’t help but cheer and cry with excitement.

"Thank you, the official!"

After hearing the news, countless sons-in-law cried with joy.

They are also law-abiding citizens. They have not committed any crime. They are just married once. They have to bear such a heavy punishment. Naturally, the world's son-in-laws are dissatisfied.

Now they are finally exempted from punishment, finally redressed, and can live their lives with peace of mind.

At this moment, the sons-in-law who were doing corvee or military service were released one after another and returned home.

And for families all over the world who want to recruit a son-in-law, it is also a joy.

Families that can recruit a son-in-law generally have some wealth, and their daughters are in better condition. However, due to secular prejudice, many men are extremely resistant to a son-in-law. They are either crooked, broken, or broken, and their quality varies. , in short, He and Manman are even rarer.

However, now that the official government has abolished the penalty for the adopted son-in-law, it will reduce the discrimination against the adopted son-in-law among the people and make it easier to recruit the adopted son-in-law. Even the adopted son-in-law can find a good match.

As for the court, the officials and powerful families are even more sensitive. Whether it is the change in folk customs for the son-in-law or the official reform of the prince-son-in-law system, the prince-son-in-law has gone from being unpopular to being very popular.

Especially this time, the person who recruited the consort was the official's own sister, Princess Xu. Once she became the consort of Princess Xu, her status would naturally be extraordinary.

Not only did he have a prosperous official career, but he also won the emperor's heart. Although he could not be an official, the treatment of the highest third rank was enough to make many officials' hearts flutter. After all, most officials could not reach the height of third rank after a lifetime of hard work.

"Forensic doctor Su Dun!"

Many wealthy families sneered in their hearts. Although these conditions were tailor-made for forensic doctor Su Dun, it was still unclear who would be the consort in the end.

At present, under the operation of the court, many outstanding young men from wealthy families are interested in marrying the prince-in-law. The prince-in-law of Princess Xu has become very popular from the original no one.

"Who said it's hard to marry a royal princess!"

Faced with the sudden wave of marriage proposals, Princess Zhu immediately beamed with joy.

I think back then, when Princess Xu was preparing to choose her husband-in-law, it was a mess. But now that Zhao Xu has shown favor to her husband-in-law and reformed the system of husband-in-law, the royal princess has once again become popular, and this time everyone who came to propose marriage. He is a rare young talent!
Zhao Xu sneered and said: "In my opinion, these people are just coveting glory and wealth, trying to use the consort's worth to rise to the top!"

As an emperor, Zhao Xu naturally has a very thorough understanding of people's hearts. These people originally sneered at the consort and regarded it as a shame. But now that he has just reformed the consort system, these people pounced on him like wolves smelling blood. Come up.

"So, the officials still like Su Dun!" Concubine Zhu nodded slightly.

Zhao Xu nodded slightly. Among the people, only Su Dun was the most suitable candidate. He did not come to be the consort for promotion and wealth.

"Officials wait a minute!"

Just when Zhao Xu was about to give the order, Queen Mother Xiang suddenly spoke up to stop Zhao Xu.

"What does the Queen Mother mean?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but wonder.

Empress Dowager Xiang frowned and said: "Officials, don't worry. Since there are many young talents who want to be the prince-in-law, if the officials insist on going their own way and choose Su Dun, wouldn't it make all the officials dissatisfied and follow the truth!"

Zhao Xu frowned and said, "Can't the Queen Mother see that these young talents may seem to be excellent, but they have bad intentions and are not really loyal to the consort?"

Queen Mother Xiang shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter whether he sincerely pays homage to the consort, as long as he is willing to pay homage to the consort. However, even Su Dun had only met Rou'er once before, how could it not be for the identity of the consort. "

Zhao Xu suddenly fell into silence. To be honest, when he first heard that Su Dun was interested in marrying the consort, he had some doubts in his heart.

"What does sister mean?" Zhu Taifei's ears softened and she asked immediately.

The Empress Dowager Xiang immediately said: "Rou'er is a royal princess. Naturally, the more young talents she has for the position of consort, the better. In this case, why not let Rou'er choose it herself? It just so happens that the Song Dynasty has just changed the law of household marriage, and men and women should avoid it. Arrange marriages and avoid blind marriages, so that Rou'er and the consort can live in harmony and grow old together."

Zhao Xu couldn't help but paused. He naturally knew that the Empress Dowager Xiang's move was to allow others to participate in the competition for the Prince Consort, but Empress Dowager Xiang's words were well-founded. After all, he personally decided to change the household marriage law back then, and it was already established among the people. atmosphere, and the implementation effect is quite good.

"Just what my sister said!"

Concubine Zhu glanced at Zhao Rou, Princess of Xu State, and nodded immediately. In her opinion, it would be great if her daughter fell in love with her. As for whether it was Su Dun or not, that didn't matter.

"I will obey the orders of my mother and concubine!" Zhao Xu nodded helplessly.

In this era, parents' orders were highly valued in marriages. Shenzong died young, so the opinions of Empress Dowager Xiang and Concubine Zhu were the orders of their parents, not to mention that Empress Dowager Xiang's opinions were also well-founded.

At that moment, Zhao Xu immediately ordered the selection of candidates who were interested in becoming the consort.

Of course, Su Dun is one of the candidates, and there are also three legitimate sons of wealthy families in Kaifeng City. Unexpectedly, the playboy Pan Mei and Pan Yi are also among them.

Palace!

Princess Xu’s Palace!
Su Dun, Pan Yi and three aristocratic families from Kaifeng City gathered together. From the outside, each of them looked upright and a temporary choice, but they were more than a little bit better than Wang Shen and his ilk.

However, apart from having a better family background, Pan Yi was an out-and-out playboy.In terms of talent and learning, compared with Su Dun and the others, they were not even worthy of carrying shoes. None of them considered Pan Yi as their opponent, and they all focused on their strongest competitor, Su Dun.

Pan saw the complaint and snorted in his heart: "This time the identity of Princess Xu's consort must belong to me, Pan Yi."

If other people fail to accept the consort, they still have a way out, but if he, Pan Yi, fails to accept the consort, there may be no way out, let alone the heavy responsibility for the prosperity of the Pan family.

The Pan family was indeed a powerful person in the Song Dynasty, and their ancestors were high-ranking officials. However, by Pan Yi's generation, they had already lost their power and their family fortunes were in decline.

Coupled with the imperial court's reform and the implementation of the shareholding system, the Pan family, which has many acres of land, was severely damaged. Today's Pan family seems to have a great business, but it is just an empty frame.

Only then did the Pan family intend to favor the consort, and were prepared to sacrifice Pan Yi's future in order to stabilize the Pan family's wealth. Of course, Pan Yi himself did not have the ability to become a high school scholar.But who would have thought that Cheng Yaojin would show up halfway, and the famous forensic doctor Su Dun suddenly wanted to be the consort, causing the Pan family's wishful thinking to fail.

However, a blessing in disguise was a blessing. Su Dun's joining allowed the government to reform the system of consorts. The consorts were enough to reach the level of third-rank officials, which made the Pan family even more determined to win.

For this reason, the Pan family did not hesitate to ask for favors and asked the Empress Dowager to come forward. This led to today's selection of the consort, which was to let Pan Yi give it another try.

"Pan met Brother Su!"

Seeing Su Dun arriving, Pan Yi took the initiative to say hello.

"I've met Brother Pan!" Su Dun nodded in response.

Pan Yi's eyes flashed, and he stepped forward and whispered: "Among the five of us, only Pan and Brother Su sincerely want to be the prince's consort, while the other three are just people who follow the trend! Such little people How can a person be worthy of Princess Xu?"

Su Dun's eyes flashed, he was not an inexperienced young man, and he immediately understood that Pan Yi was planning to join forces with him to squeeze out the other three competitors.

Su Dun shook his head and said: "Brother Pan can think of this, how can the officials not think that the three of them can come here, it must be the official's permission, and this time I come here not to win the competition, but Whether Princess Xu is interested or not, it doesn’t mean much for us to compete!”

Su Dun followed Fan Zheng's evil advice and came to be the Prince Consort. Firstly, he wanted to obtain a golden body for the Reformers. Secondly, he also needed to get married, but he did not need to use conspiracy to obtain the position of Prince Consort.

Pan Yi frowned and was disappointed when he saw that Su Dun did not fall into the trap. If Su Dun was tempted, this must be a stain on Su Dun that could be exploited by him.

"The Queen Mother and the Dowager Princess are here!"

"Princess Xu has arrived!"

Suddenly, a notification came, and the two most noble women in the harem of the Song Dynasty came hand in hand, interrupting the evil intentions of the five people.

Princess Xu was sitting shyly behind the curtain. Everyone still felt a pair of deer-like eyes looking at the three of them, and they couldn't help but straighten their bodies.

"I have met the Queen Mother, the Dowager Princess, and Your Highness the Princess!" The five people took the lead and saluted.

"No courtesy! You are all rare young talents! No need for more courtesy." He raised his right hand to the Queen Mother.

Concubine Zhu nodded. Although Pan Yi was a bit inferior among the five, the other four were all rare talents, especially Su Dun. Concubine Zhu was quite satisfied with both his talent and his family background.

"I have met the Queen, Cao Yun, and I have admired Princess Xu for a long time." Among the three, Cao Yun was the first to come out.

Pan Yi was immediately alert. Cao Yun was not an ordinary person, but the natal family of Empress Dowager Cao. After Cao Guogong Cao Bin, his family background was even higher than that of the Pan family.

He did not expect that after the official reform of the consort system, even the Cao family was very moved and sent their legitimate son Cao Yun to honor the consort.

"It turns out that he is a descendant of the Cao family. The Cao family has always been married to the royal family, so they are a good match!" The Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction.

Pan Yi couldn't help but frown. He didn't expect that Queen Mother Xiang would actually speak to Cao Yun. He must have received a favor from the Cao family.

The Cao family is better than the Pan family in all aspects, and Cao Bin's reputation is also higher than his own. He must solve the hidden danger of the Cao family.

"Queen Mother Cao!"

Pan Yi was moved in his heart and said: "For the Queen Mother and Princess Qi, Brother Cao is indeed very good. However, the Cao family and the royal family have always had marriages. The blood relationship between the two families is too close. I am afraid it will be suspected of being a close relative."

"A consanguineous marriage?"

There was an uproar in the princess palace. The harm of incest marriage was the famous work of the evil doctor Fan Zheng. It has now been confirmed by the world. There have been almost no examples of incest marriage among the people. If there is another scandal about incest marriage in the royal family, I am afraid it will Let the world be in an uproar.

Concubine Zhu suddenly frowned, and her opinion of Cao Yun dropped greatly. Empress Dowager Cao was the empress dowager of Renzong. According to this calculation, Cao Yun was indeed very close to the royal family.

When Cao Yun saw this, he said anxiously: "That's nonsense. I am the second wife of the Cao family, and I am no longer a third-generation descendant of Princess Xu."

The Cao family has a great cause, and Enyin is not qualified to be an official at all. It just so happens that the consort is a shortcut, and it is Cao Yun's only way to success. How can Pan Yi ruin his good deeds?

Concubine Zhu breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Su Dun frowned and said: "Queen Mother, Dowager Concubine, I am a doctor. The reason why we marry three generations of collaterals as close relatives is because the probability of getting genetic diseases within three generations is very high. If it exceeds three generations of collaterals, it is just a probability." It's relatively low, but compared to ordinary marriages, the probability of getting genetic diseases is still very high."

"Forensic doctor Su Dun!"

Cao Yun suddenly felt as if he was struck by lightning. He did not expect that the position of the consort in his pocket would be destroyed by the joint efforts of Su Dun and Pan Yi.

"However, the Yingzong official is the adopted son of Empress Dowager Cao. Although they are called mother and son, they are not related by blood. There should be no danger of incest marriage." Su Dun defended Cao Yun as expected.

But Cao Yun's expression changed. Su Dun's last explanation was of no use. What the royal family valued most was status. Although Yingzong was the adopted son of Empress Dowager Cao, even a nominal collateral lineage was a stain in the eyes of the royal family. , nor can it be tolerated.

Not surprisingly, Cao Yun was quickly eliminated.

After Cao Yun was defeated, a civil servant son came out proudly and said: "He Changrui, a junior student, is a new scholar this year. He admires Princess Xu very much. He wrote a poem specially and asked the princess to correct her!"

At the moment, He Changrui wrote a poem, which can be described as a flowery poem. Although it is not a masterpiece, it is still very lethal to a princess who has never seen the world.

Concubine Zhu nodded slightly. The Song Dynasty paid the most attention to martial arts. He Changrui was a new scholar, and he had already beaten other competitors in terms of starting out.

Pan commented on the complaint and snorted: "Brother He is very talented in literature, but Pan admired Brother He's other song "Die Lian Hua" more. It is said that when Brother He was a high school scholar, he entertained his classmates at a brothel and it was highly praised by the oiran. He even recommended himself as a pillow mat, which became a favorite story in Kaifeng City."

"What, a banquet in a brothel, and the oiran recommended himself to serve as a pillow!"

In an instant, the expressions of Empress Dowager Xiang and Concubine Zhu changed. He Changrui was indeed from the best family and had talent. Just the fact that he stayed in a brothel overnight was unacceptable to the royal family. I am afraid that Wang Shen and his ilk would be indispensable in the future.

He Changrui's expression changed. He didn't expect that Pan Yi would reveal all the things he did impulsively and impulsively back then. What's even more fatal is that there was evidence from his poems at the time, leaving him unable to defend himself.

"Banquets in brothels are an elegant affair for scholar-bureaucrats! He has never been to a brothel since then!" He Changrui suddenly felt regretful and could only forcefully excuse himself.

However, seeing the hesitant expressions on the faces of Empress Dowager Xiang and Concubine Zhu, she immediately understood that she had no chance and could only retreat sadly.

(End of this chapter)