Hidden golden branches

"Oh?" Chen Youyu raised his eyes and looked at Yun Man, nodded and said, "Well, Duke An Guo has rules and understands etiquette."

It's not the Pingbohou Mansion, it's not Taoist at all.

I can only blame my precious daughter for choosing her own son-in-law and for chasing him on a pole.

They say that when you marry, you marry not just your husband, but the entire family.

"Man Niang, have you agreed?"

Although his daughter was disowned by Sun Yi, he did not want to marry her off yet.

"No, it's just that Mrs. Zheng will come to visit us in three days. If we don't agree to come down then, it will look like we are being pretentious." Yun Man said helplessly.

"Yes, but we can just postpone the date of getting married." Chen Youyu suggested.

"Eh? That's right," Yun Man stood up from the golden nanmu armchair, walked behind Chen Youyu, stretched out her hand to squeeze his shoulders, and asked, "Husband, I must be busier with official duties these days than before."

Chen Youyu closed his eyes comfortably and rested his mind. After hearing this, he said: "Yes, the emperor should issue an edict to establish the crown prince next month. He needs to reorganize the cabinet and select officials in the East Palace. How can he not be busy?"

In addition, Xiao Xuan was a diligent emperor, and officials of third rank or above participated in the daily small court meeting.

There is a dynasty in five days, when all officials of fifth rank and above attend the dynasty.

Therefore, Chen Youyu, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Finance of the first rank, had to get up early at the fifth watch every day to go to the morning court in addition to taking a rest.

This is because the higher the official position, the greater the responsibility and the harder it is.

Power is the pursuit of every official. No matter how hard it is, it is always rewarding.

Every morning after court, I have to go to the study to tutor the prince in his studies. Even though there is the chief minister of the cabinet, the prime minister Meng Heting, even so, the past two hours are all time!

Then he had to go back to the government office to handle official business. Therefore, Chen Youyu never had the easy life before. It would be good to come back every day to have dinner with Yun Man.

In addition, the emperor will take his ministers to the royal hunting grounds in the suburbs to hunt in a few days.

Needless to say, official duties are even busier than ever.

Chen Youyu couldn't bear Yun Man's hard work. He stretched out a hand and gently pressed Yun Man's little hand that was squeezing his shoulder and said, "Okay, you should sit down and take a rest."

"Hey, it's just that our Zhao'er doesn't want to discuss marriage yet, but what should we do?" Yun Man took his hands from Chen Youyu's shoulders and sighed.

Chen Youyu was also worried about the marriage of his only eldest son, and echoed: "Yes, he is already twenty-one years old, and his marriage is still blocked. In more than a year, he will soon be married. If the marriage is not decided, it will be really worrying. ."

Chen Zhao is currently observing politics in the Ministry of Rites. If he does not have a father who is a high-ranking official, and if he is not outstanding himself, he will not be released as a local official after three years of observing politics.

This provision has been a policy established since the founding of the Wei Dynasty.

Think about it, you can't have a father-son family, where both brothers are high-ranking officials in the court, plus marriages among aristocratic families, so that everyone in the court becomes a family of eight relatives?

The advantage is that the officials can protect each other, but the disadvantage is that the arms and tendons are broken. If one person commits a crime, the others will not be able to escape the connection.

On the other hand, if someone commits a crime, others will help cover it up.

In that case, if there is no country, the world will not be in chaos?

How do you ask the emperor to manage the court and the world?

Unless he is like Ji Yuxian, he does not have to do this. Although An Guogong currently holds military power, because he has been guarding the border for a long time, he has no party members in the court.

After returning to Beijing, he was sent by the emperor to train at a military school in the suburbs.

Ji Linyuan, who was injured all over, would reach the peak of his officialdom in a few years. Therefore, the emperor did not have to worry about Anguo's great achievements and his huge power in the court. The two bastards in the family did not have much future. An Guogong himself was a military general, and now the most capable son became a civil servant.

Ji Yuxian was a hereditary prince, so logically speaking, there was no need to worry that the emperor would let him go.

Moreover, he is now the Young Minister of Dali Temple. In time, the position of Minister of Dali Temple will not fall to him properly?

Because Li Juzheng, the Minister of Dali Temple, has passed the age of knowing his destiny, how many more years can he stay in the position of Minister of Dali Temple?

Chen Youyu also planned to wait for his son Chen Zhao to serve as an official in a county after his three-year term as a political observer, and let him return to Beijing to report on his duties after a few years of experience. At that time, he would resign and go home to live in peace and prosperity. .

However, the emperor must have considered the imperial concubine's face and would not send Chen Zhao to a remote and desolate place to serve as an official. Chen Youyu was relieved about this.

"Someone mentioned to my husband before that the legitimate daughter of Commander-in-Chief Cui Yun and the legitimate daughter of Youdu Censor Zhang Ren Zhong. Both families are interested in getting married to us. What do you think, Madam Man?"

Yun Man pondered for a while and said: "Both of these two families are good, and they are well matched. However, I seem to have heard someone say that General Cui's daughters are all illiterate?"

In fact, Yun Man quite likes the daughter of a military general as her daughter-in-law.

The children of military generals should have outgoing personalities and not be pretentious. Children from non-literary families are almost always gentle and delicate.

Moreover, some literati hold themselves aloof, adhering to the principle of speaking with caution and seeing through things without telling them.

When something happens, I ask you to guess

The straightforward Yun Man hated these things the most, so Chen Rongcai was nurtured by Yun Man to have an outgoing personality.

However, it cannot be generalized.

There are exceptions to everything.

She thought that she was unwilling to marry Chen Youyu, the number one scholar, but after getting in touch with him, she found that he was elegant, steady and responsible in dealing with problems. Different from other literati.

However, if you marry an illiterate daughter-in-law, no matter how cheerful and generous she is, she won’t even look at the accounts, who will be in charge of the middle income of the family in the future?

She is Chen Zhao, the only one.

Yun Man thought for a while and said: "It would be better than the youngest daughter of Ren Zhongzhong, the royal censor of Youdu, who is well versed in writing and writing."

Chen Youyu nodded and said, "Yes, Man Niang will take care of it."

"No matter what, I must find a wife for him before he leaves the capital." Yun Man said with certainty.

Chen Youyu could only nod her head in agreement: "Yes, then I'll have to trouble Man Niang to do a lot of good looks for him."

Chen Youyu and Yun Man both planned that the influence of their son's future wife's natal family would not be too high, as long as the future in-law's family was not too unbearable and would not hold them back.

It would be even more desirable if the future Yue family had an upright family tradition.

The reason is of course that the Chen family are relatives of the emperor. For the sake of the imperial concubine and the fifth prince, they cannot do anything for the sake of being well-matched. Finding a future in-law is a family with evil intentions. No matter how high the official is, it is easy to cause trouble and hinder the imperial concubine and the prince.

At this time, Yun Man saw that the two mothers-in-law had already carried several buckets of hot water in, so she stood up and said to Chen Youyu, "You'd better go take a bath first, and I'll get you some pajamas."

Chen Youyu was still wearing the purple official robe. He nodded and said, "That's fine."

Chen Youyu: The marriage of children is not only about being well-matched, but also about having a clear family background. Otherwise, it will hinder the family.

Yunman: Yes, that’s the truth.

Xiao Zi: Yes.