After the emperor is elected, it is a big event, not every draft after ascending the throne, or the princess's choice of a son-in-law. All parties are looking at it, if there is the slightest mistake, someone will inevitably come out to speak, and it is true that only the Queen Mother comes forward to host it, and this specification is enough.

Several emperors of the dynasty so far, in fact, the selection of queens is relatively informal, Empress Renxiao and the empress dowager are all selected as vassal princesses, using the rules of the vassal king's draft, as for Emperor Zhang, there is no need to say more about the bumpy road to marriage. Today, when it was the turn of the bolt draft, it was not selected according to the standard of 'a good family from a poor family', and the queen mother's request was to choose a well-informed lady in the official eunuch's house, but it overturned the general rule that when choosing a concubine, people with six grades and above are not selected.

In this way, there will naturally be no objections, but the Empress Dowager has no intention of completely breaking the ancestral rules, she first excluded all the incumbent eunuch families, but also excluded the families of high-ranking officials such as famous ministers and Shangshu, and the main target of selection is placed in the military general sequence, there have been high-ranking officials, but now the family has no one to work in the court, and at the same time she is a famous woman with a solid family background and a strict family style. The specific requirements are as follows: 13 to 15 years old, clean appearance, pure posture, and moderate etiquette.

Needless to say, the age requirements must be the same as the bolt's age, the appearance does not need to be too beautiful, the focus is on the last two, the posture is pure and beautiful, the etiquette, that is, the level of moral education must be passed, in order to be generous and generous to be a good palace mother.

The queen mother's request is obviously inspired by the past, first of all, the queen's background is higher than that of the concubines, and the educational resources should be better than them.

Secondly, they get married early, and the relationship between young couples is also deeper. There is no personnel yet, and there is no opportunity to develop pet maids, and all resources are prioritized towards the queen. It also avoided the situation that Emperor Zhang was not the queen and the concubine was not a concubine. Anyway, judging from the old man's request, whether it is Hu Xianshi or Empress Dowager Sun, as the queen, she can't be completely satisfied.

It's all in the past, and there's nothing to worry about, the Queen Mother has long been used to the rubbing of the Queen Mother, that is, Hu Xianshi, since Ah Huang got married, she only wants to serve the Queen Mother, and she doesn't care about these things for a long time. However, outsiders sighed well, and when Mrs. Xu entered the palace, she couldn't help but say a few words to Xu Xun, "I can't see it when I'm usually amiable, but at this time, I will see the real chapter, and the old man has a good heart to count it, but he usually has a good temperament, so he doesn't say it." ”

Xu Xun rarely talks about the secret affairs of the palace to his family, and Mrs. Xu actually seriously thinks that the empress dowager is a generous and benevolent character, and there is a harmony between the two mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law on weekdays - Xu Xun can only smile bitterly when he listens, "You still care about these things?" I'll hold my grandson with all my heart. ”

Back then, Xu Xiaodi and Xu Xiaomei, either they had some activities in their hearts, or they were instigated by the clansmen, they were somewhat restless, and they were suppressed by Xu Xun's strong bullets for all these years, but they also developed an honest temperament, and after Liu Zhien became the eunuch of the East Factory, he didn't even dare to breathe - what Liu Zhien did in Yuhuatai back then, how could the Xu family not remember? Therefore, in the past few years, they have lived and worked in peace and contentment in the capital, relying on Xu Xun's face, and no one dares to bully them. Living his own small life behind closed doors, relying on the fields rewarded by Emperor Zhang back then, is already more than enough, not to mention that when he was promoted to concubine, he was also rewarded with money and land as usual, and his life was very nourishing. Now that she is married, Mrs. Xu often goes to the princess's mansion to visit her granddaughter, and she has one more place to go.

"Now it's not just about hugging grandchildren, it's about hugging great-grandchildren." Speaking of this, Mrs. Xu's eyebrows fluttered, "If you are in good shape, you can give birth and raise by looking at it, I heard that it is late this month, and I don't know if there is good news." ”

The two gossiped a little, and Xu Xun saw that Mrs. Xu was shining, and it seemed that there was always something that had never been spoken, so he said, "If there is anything, you just say it, what are you hiding from me?" ”

"It's not a cover-up," Mrs. Xu has nothing to do in front of Xu Xun, her daughter is too strong, she has suppressed her mother's family for so many years, and she has already established an unbreakable authority. "It's not that your brother and daughter-in-law are worried, I heard that in this draft, the daughter of someone with official status can also be selected, so I moved my mind to her family and went to the ...... in person."

Brother Xu got married back then, and the daughter-in-law he said was actually very similar to the standard of this draft, Zuihou was looking for his grandfather to be a thousand households, his father was a hundred households of Jinyi Wei, the population of the family was simple, and his mother was a scholarly Jiangmen lady Xiu as his wife, and the position of this thousand households was hereditary, but Brother Xu's father was the second son, so he was born. Speaking of which, he is also a general in Nanjing, in line with the geographical conditions of this draft, a hereditary general, and a good family style, if there is a daughter who meets the standards and wants to send the selection, it is normal to come and greet Xu Xun. Let's just say that the current queen mother, didn't she just follow the path of the queen mother's family, and she didn't even choose, so she became the future wife?

However, this kind of thinking is generally impossible for Xu Xun to have any good results, and she gave it back in a word, "If you don't say that it's my relative, you can still be selected, and if you say it's my relative, I'm afraid it won't work, and it's better not to go this way." ”

Mrs. Xu was shocked, and she didn't dare to argue, so she resignedly agreed, and after a while, she asked, "Son, you and the Queen Mother, are they still - "

"Where did you think of it?" Xu Xun was angry and funny, seeing that Mrs. Xu's face was really a little worried, and her heart was also a little warm, she shook her mother's hand and said softly, "Just because the Queen Mother came in like this, she had a quarrel with the Queen Mother......

Mrs. Xu is not a fool, she just knows almost nothing about the situation in the palace, and after listening to Xu Xun's words, she also understood, so she said in a loud voice, "In this way, I will naturally talk to my daughter-in-law when I go back." ”

Xu Xun asked a few more words about the family's well, and asked if the younger brother-in-law was sick, so he never entered the palace together, and the two elders had a good relationship with their son and daughter-in-law, so they were relieved. Seeing that the hour was not early, he sent Mrs. Xu out of the palace, and then he went to Renshou Palace to ask the Empress Dowager for peace.

Last winter, the Empress Dowager had been sick, and she didn't recover from the spring this year. She is really grasping this matter, not just a name, although she doesn't have to do everything herself, but she often has to ask Liushang about the progress of the selection. When Xu Xun passed, Liu Shanggong had just resigned, the Empress Dowager was already so tired that she yawned again and again, and Xu Xun said a few words, then closed her eyes to recuperate, the Empress Dowager and Xu Xun did not dare to disturb her, seeing that she had the intention of sleeping, they all relaxed their steps and slowly retreated from the house.

"Mrs. Shicai came in to talk, did you refer any famous ladies?" The Queen Mother gossiped with Xu Xun as she walked.

Xu Xun also smiled, "Why not?" He also said that I had no one to ask for it, but no, someone came to the door in a blink of an eye. -- No matter how closed you are, you can still get it. ”

is different from the low-key Xu family, the Sun family is in the circle of relatives, but they have a wide range of friends and are quite popular. -- You must know that the honorable relatives and the military generals coincide to a large extent. This time, the attitude of the Queen Mother was slightly revealed, and I don't know how many people want to take the route of the Queen Mother back then, anyway, now they are selected to get married, and they don't have to wait for a few more years, and they don't have to worry about being inserted into a bar. is to all the relationship to the Sun family, since the beginning of the draft, every time someone enters the palace, there is no stop, and there are famous ladies who are recommended to the left of the capital, or they are the good daughters of a certain guard...... The Sun family is also a bachelor, anyway, they are all favors, whoever comes to the door to beg, they will write it down and tell the Queen Mother.

When the Queen Mother was annoyed, Xu Xun was quiet here, and the two laughed first, saying that this time Qing'an Palace could be enjoyed exclusively and leisurely, but today, Mrs. Xu's entry into the palace still disappointed Xu Xun's expectations. "It's my brother's daughter-in-law's cousin, and now I'm an official in Nanjing--if you see someone with a surname, you have to pay a little attention, and if you see that your place of origin is right, you have to cross it out."

Although the Empress Dowager is old, she is not too confused, she herself has walked the route of her mother's home, how can she not know the possible reactions of all the relatives now? First of all, a sentence blocked the Zhang family's recommendation - Xu Xun also heard about this matter in private, saying that the old man said at that time, "I don't want to see what kind of person I sent back." On the Queen Mother's side, I don't know if I have heard of it, and it is estimated that even if I hear about it, I will not show it - and then, I declared with the Queen Mother and Xu Xun that anyone who has a relationship with each other will not be selected to go to Beijing, and will not even be given the opportunity to enter the palace. Although she has made changes to the rules of her ancestors, her thoughts are also obvious: she is not ready to let the queen of the middle palace have anything to do with these existing relatives, and the hand of the old minister is best not to be inserted into the harem.

The Queen Mother doesn't seem to be disgusted by this matter, at least she has reported a lot of names happily, and whether she has left a hand in private is up to Xu Xun to know. In short, during the draft, all the relatives, chamberlains, and female officials who praised Haode were almost all dethroned. Those who are related to the nobles and relatives were also hooked off at the first level, and those who can be left to Zuihou to enter the palace to read are all official ladies who really meet the requirements of the Empress Dowager's "rich family background, strict family style, and no collusion with the officials of the dynasty". -- It is also because the criteria are so strict, although this selection is a rare large-scale election by 13 provinces, but only six people enter the final selection.

"This is the Qian girl, right? This is Wan's daughter, Liu's daughter-well, it should be the one in the corner, it's really beautiful," Xu Xun was ordered by the Empress Dowager to personally go to the side palace to check on a few show girls, she didn't say anything at first, just stood far away in the corridor, watched a few show girls in the courtyard learn the palace ceremony, peeped for a while, and couldn't help sighing: "Compared with when I entered the palace that day, after all, they were from official families, and their manners were really incomparable." ”

Hua'er naturally has to support the scene for the master, "I just can't, I can learn to teach when I come in." When Niangniang arrived at Taisun Palace, wasn't she already serene, dignified and generous? These little girls are just one step ahead......"

As he spoke, he couldn't help sighing, "However, this Wan Clan girl is really noble and outstanding-she is so beautiful, I am afraid that she is the only one who is in the main palace." The rest of the people are just competing for a concubine. ”

Xu Xun couldn't help but bow his head slightly-this Wan woman's appearance and temperament are all higher than others, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is one in a thousand. Even when she was young, the Queen Mother and the Immortal Master, I am afraid that she could not be compared with her, even the concubines who were famous for their beauty back then were far inferior in temperament. As long as you read these people, the choice of the Empress Dowager or even the bolt should not have any deviation.

"That's not your business." But he didn't agree, "Let's go, let's get closer and listen to what they have to say." ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh. --Look at these charming little girls, look at their wicker-like posture, flower-like faces, look at their almost vigorous vitality, can't hide the 'little lotus only shows sharp corners', look at this shijie young and curious girlish demeanor, look at the innocent smile on their faces-

Think about it again......

Alas, think again about those days.

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