Chapter 41: The lintel

"Actually, you don't know about it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Concubine Guo Ning remembered the past, so she said: "I, Concubine Hui, and Concubine Ding, are not the first people to accompany the emperor, after the emperor married the queen, he fell in love with the daughter of the Sun family, and did everything possible to ask for it, the Sun family is talented and good-looking, clever and delicate, at that time it was really favored in every way, this is nothing, the queen is originally a generous character, do not care about these." ”

"But the Sun family insinuated in the emperor's ear that he shouldn't have said it," Concubine Guo Ning said: "Say how long the queen has been married, and she has not given birth to children and grandchildren, although the emperor is a majestic husband, Sheng Mingcong listened, but he still took a picture in his heart, and then the queen saw it on his expression." ”

"What happened later?" Concubine Guo Ning is old, so she likes to tell some stories about the past, and the female official follows her wishes and listens carefully.

"What happened later, no one knows," Concubine Guo Ning said: "But the queen gave birth to the prince and Ning Guo, and then the emperor raised the queen's four sons by his side, when a few of us began to serve the emperor, the prince was the eldest, and every time I went to the queen, six or seven children surrounded me, not to mention how lively it was." ”

"I heard that the emperor once thought of writing all the four princes of Qin, Jin, Yan and Zhou under the queen's name," the female official said: "The queen did not agree. ”

"Yes, the queen told me," Concubine Guo Ning said: "After all, it is someone else's son, although Concubine Qi died early, but Concubine Shu is still alive, she gave birth to two sons but was driven out by the emperor to live, when the queen was there, she couldn't even be a beauty, and she didn't even see her son's face a few times - this was all arranged by the emperor, and the queen was not allowed to tell the prince about his life experience." ”

"The queen said," Concubine Guo Ning said: "The Song Dynasty Zhang dedicated the Empress Dowager Liu, and also raised Renzong, and no one dared to tell him who his biological mother was when he didn't grow up, and later found out, and he almost couldn't save the family." It's better to make it clear from the beginning, just like Empress Mingde of the Han Dynasty, she is also surnamed Ma, and the queen has a surname, and the queen often uses this person to show that Empress De has no son, and Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty raised the eldest son of the emperor for him, and told her that people do not need to have children by themselves, but they are only sad that they have sons but cannot be carefully raised. Later, the prince was raised under the knee of Empress Mingde, and the queen told him his life experience early in the morning, but there was no slightest suspicion between mother and son. This is enough for the precepts. ”

"Let's look at the history books," Concubine Guo Ning said: "In the Han Dynasty, before Empress Mingde, what was the end of the queen without a son? If you can educate, even if someone else crawls out of their stomachs, you can only be close to yourself. ”

"Alas-" Concubine Guo Ning sighed again: "It's been too long, so many years have passed since these things in a blink of an eye." The emperor disliked the prince's benevolent and weak temperament back then, but now he hopes that all his children and grandchildren will be the prince's harmonious and generous temperament. I think that in addition to the arrogant and rebellious son of King Qin, the eldest sons of the other kings of Jin, Yan and Zhou are all taught according to the character of the first prince, and they are also very friendly and harmonious. ”

The female official beside Concubine Guo Ning is actually very smart, because she heard something very strange - several princes who were raised under the queen's knees have grown up and have their own sons, and they all teach the eldest son to be like the temperament of the former prince, and they are indeed very benevolent, but why did Concubine Guo Ning skip the son of Prince Yiwen, the current grandson Zhu Yunwen? Could it be that the grandson is not more than the former prince in terms of benevolence and courtesy?

But she didn't ask, whether Concubine Guo Ning was intentional or unintentional, this was not a question she could afford to ask.

After that, Concubine Guo Ning said: "I heard that a few days ago, the emperor ordered Shang Bing, Ji Xi and Gao Chi to go to the palace gate to read the guards, and Gao Chi was the last to come back. ”

"Yes. The female official said: "The emperor asked him the reason, and the prince of Yan replied that when he went to the city gate, he saw that the soldiers had not eaten breakfast in order to meet the review, and the weather was very cold. ”

"Yes," Concubine Guo Ning said with a smile: "Gao Chi is a good boy, you don't look at who his mother is, among all the daughters-in-law of the queen back then, the most favorite is the princess of King Yan." I still remember that the Xu family has such a book, and every day I remember what the queen said to her and what she taught. After the death of the queen, the emperor missed the queen, so he summoned the Xu family over, she could say all the things the queen said one by one, and not a word was missed. ”

"Alas," Concubine Guo Ning remembered and couldn't help tears, and said: "The queen died, and we insisted on eating vegetarian for a year to accumulate blessings for the queen;

"Yes," the female official sighed when she thought about it: "Since ancient times, the lintel has been more prosperous than the King of Zhongshan." is that the princess of King Yan is so virtuous, so the emperor let the Xu family have a princess, a prince, a governor, and a second princess, the Xu family is among the heroes, this is the first one!"

Speaking of this, Concubine Guo Ning couldn't help but feel sad, because her niece was now also in the draft, she had asked these two nieces to be exempted from the election and directly marry the children of commoners, but the emperor did not agree, she couldn't guess what the emperor meant.

"Jue Bao and Jue Xiu," Concubine Guo Ning said: "They are all good children, but I would rather they all find ordinary sons and daughters to marry, the Wuding Hou family has already become a princess, and our Guo family has come out of the country, concubines, and concubines, if there is a princess again, wouldn't it be on a par with the King of Zhongshan?

"How can the merits of the Guo family be compared with the King of Kaiping and the King of Zhongshan!" Concubine Guo Ning said: "Do you know how my brother made the marquis? He does not have the credit of commanding the battle situation, he just takes the lead in every battle, and he is only brave, he has more than 100 battles in his life, and he has been injured by more than 70 people, he doesn't know anything else, he only knows how to fight to the death, the emperor just took a fancy to him for loyalty and bravery, so he gave him the title of marquis, more than ten years later than other marquis-"

Fortunately, what Guo Ying left to the emperor was a foolish and loyal image who was not afraid of death, not as brave and resourceful as Xu Da Chang Yuchun, so the emperor's courtesy to Guo Ying was still very grand, and Guo Ying also had a benefit, when other heroes bought land and sold land to take care of private property, only Guo Ying did not take care of it, and replied: "I am a commoner, relying on grace, fortunately having a knighthood, and my children and grandchildren have surplus food and clothing, what do I want these things for, but I will have a heart of luxury." ”

It is also because of this kind of caution that the Wuding Hou family finally avoided several implications safely, and was finally able to protect themselves, but now the lintel is lucky, if there are two more princesses, it will be too conspicuous, Concubine Guo Ning still doesn't understand after thinking about it, obviously the emperor means that he will no longer choose a noble princess for the remaining princes, but why do she have to leave her niece, as well as the daughters of the commanders from all over the world?

"There is still a month left, and it is the final selection of the show girl," Concubine Guo Ning said: "I'll just be a spectator, after all, the emperor wants to choose a concubine for his son, and the decision is still in the hands of the emperor." ”

"Niangniang," said the female officer, "don't forget that you are about to choose a guest of honor." ”

"Then I don't have to worry about it. Concubine Guo Ning said.

Yibin is the general name of the Ming Dynasty for the prince of the clan, the son-in-law of the prince of the county, the grandson-in-law, the great-grandson-in-law, and the great-grandson-in-law. Of course, now the edict is going to be chosen for the prince's daughter, that is, the emperor wants to choose a son-in-law for his granddaughter.

In addition to this restriction, there are also honorable guests who must be over fifteen years old, unified education selection, and the person who hosts this matter is no longer the female official or deacon in the palace, but the official of the Etiquette Department of the Foreign Court.