The furnishings of Cishou Palace are simple and atmospheric, and everything is placed just right, giving people the feeling that it should have been placed this way.

The Empress Dowager is old, but her spirit is good, her gray hair is combed into a "two-handed" bun, her upper body is a light gray gown, and she wears a plain white Luo skirt, and the whole person is clean and elegant.

She sat in an easy chair and put some melons and fruits in a few cases next to her.

Zhang Fu sat on the lower rosewood official hat chair, and there was also a few cases next to the chair, and on several cases were exactly the same melon and fruit snacks.

"The old minister is entrusted by others, and there is one thing that asks the Empress Dowager for permission." After talking about political affairs, Zhang Fu touched the beard hanging on his chest and said with a wry smile.

The Empress Dowager was in a very good mood, and said kindly: "What's the matter?" ”

The matter of being able to ask Zhang Fu to come to her must not be a trivial matter, and the person who asked for it is not an ordinary person.

"An Xiangbo Daniel Zhang, as the deputy chief soldier of Datong, has guarded Datong for many years, and is actually a loyal and good general of the imperial court. The only son, Zhang Ning, has passed the school review and awarded the post of Jinyi Wei General Banner, and he is also a smart child. Now he begged the minister to come here, and asked the minister to be the matchmaker......" Zhang Fu said the key point and stopped.

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "I don't know whose daughter this child has a crush on?" ”

"Lord Anding." Zhang Fu's voice was neither high nor low.

The Empress Dowager was stunned for a moment, and said unsurely: "Has he taken a fancy to this child?" The mourning family said that they would keep this child by their side for a few more years. ”

She thought that after the words were released, no one would ask for marriage in a few years, but she didn't expect that there would be someone who didn't give up, so she actually asked Zhang Fu to come forward. How can the children of Anxiang Bofu be worthy of Yoyo? The Empress Dowager refused without thinking about it.

As expected. Zhang Fu said: "Zhang Ning, this kid is a little different, and he is the only one on the list in this school review." ”

This can prove that Zhang Ning is outstanding.

The Empress Dowager didn't want to save face on the old minister, thought about it, and said: "If he can be crowned a marquis within three years, the mourning family can consider it." "It's not about agreeing, it's about considering, whether you agree to this family business, and it depends on the child's performance.

Three years of marquis? Isn't that embarrassing? After Cheng Zujing succeeded in dividing the meritorious heroes, several generations of emperors never made a marquis, not to mention three years, even thirty years, and Zhang Ning had no way to be a marquis.

Zhang Fu slandered and said: "The Empress Dowager's words are inappropriate. Zhang Ning is still a fifteen-year-old child, and in another three years, but only eighteen years old, how can he be crowned a marquis with his own strength? ”

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "Then let him choose another famous lady." ”

Having said that, Zhang Fu said that it was not appropriate to say anything.

On the way out of the palace, Zhang Fu kept thinking that Zhang Ning was a good child, so it was better to marry his niece to him.

He has no children, but his younger brother has three generations in the same house, and his granddaughter is 14 years old this year, well-behaved and smart. Being able to marry the British government is a high climb for Anxiangbofu. He wasn't worried about Zhang Ning's refusal at all.

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"Three years of marquis?"

All kinds of flashes flashed in Zhang Ning's mind. Only the expansion of the territory or the vassals of the dragon can be feuded, and according to the original trajectory of history, the change of the civil fort did not occur until eight years later. It seems that only by speeding up the process of developing the economy, rearming the war, and cleaning up the war within three years can we have a chance to marry Youyou.

Zhang Fu said: "The old man has a niece and granddaughter......

Zhang Ning interrupted: "Three years is three years." ”

"......" Zhang Fu was stunned and said, "What the Empress Dowager said is a prevarication, you don't have to care." "People just give you an impossible goal and make you die.

Zhang Ning saluted: "Thank you Grandpa Guo, and ask Grandpa Guo to tell the Empress Dowager that the kid will be crowned a marquis within three years." Please don't break her promise. ”

"......" Zhang Fu was completely speechless.

Zhang Ning remembered another thing, the Empress Dowager had no one to control Wang Zhen, and Wang Zhen was powerful in Beijing, so there was a change in the civil fort. So, in which year did the Empress Dowager die? With her body, can she survive for three years?

Leaving the British Mansion and returning home in a carriage, Zhang Ning was thinking hard, hoping to search for the exact time of her death from the memory of her previous life.

After sleeping until midnight, Zhang Ning suddenly woke up and sat up. If he remembers correctly, the Empress Dowager will be in the next year. Regardless of whether I am wrong or not, I have to remind Zhu Qizhen, there are a lot of old people who say that there are no ones, so let the imperial doctor be diligent and enter the palace to ask for peace.

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"Grandmother refused?" Zhu Qizhen played with the fan in his hand and said with a smile, as if he was not surprised at all.

"It's not a refusal, it's a condition, as long as the minister is made a marquis within three years, she will agree to this family business." Zhang Ning said seriously, not thinking that the conditions proposed by the Empress Dowager could not be completed at all.

Zhu Qizhen said: "What do you mean? "I don't hit you, you just say what you want.

"Ministers should work hard." Zhang Ning's demeanor was still serious, and he was not discouraged at all.

"......" Zhu Qizhen was speechless. Is this something that can be done with hard work?

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Datong, Daniel Zhang, who received the letter, was overjoyed, walked around the room non-stop, walked for a long time, suddenly stopped, and said to himself: "A-Ning can be admitted, it is completely the blessing of the ancestors, and you have to write a letter to let A-Ning worship the ancestors." ”

He immediately replied, first praising his son, then asking him to worship his ancestors, and then telling his son that he would write a letter to King Zheng to propose marriage. Although his son said in the letter that the matter was up to the Empress Dowager, he still felt that King Zheng, as the father of the county lord of Anding, had a certain right to speak. What's more, the two of them are going to be in-laws, isn't it normal for him to show his attitude and show his goodness?

After writing the letter to his son, he immediately took up the pen and wrote the letter to King Zheng.

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When you learned that Zhang Ning's proposal was rejected, she just smiled and didn't take it seriously, there were too many people who were rejected within half a year. However, I heard that he would not give up, and he was full of confidence that he would be crowned a marquis within three years, so he couldn't help but have a complicated expression, thought about it, and instructed the green pothos: "Prepare the car and enter the palace." ”

She first went to Cishou Palace, talked to the Empress Dowager for half an hour, and made the Empress Dowager laugh, and then went to Zhu Qizhen.

The two chatted for a while, and Zhu Qizhen mentioned Zhang Ningtuo's proposal to Zhang Fu, and said: "I think that Zhang Qing has a temperament that does not admit defeat, and he is infatuated with you, so he is a good parent." ”

It was for this reason that you entered the palace and said, "Can the imperial brother make him a marquis within three years?" ”

"No, you can't. The ancestors made the law before, how can I allow favoritism? "Zhu Qizhen is rare to be serious.

"Won't he be busy in vain? Please also ask the royal brother to persuade him. "Whoever you marry is a political marriage, and Yoyo doesn't hope for his happiness, but he can't bear to work hard and be disappointed in the end.

Zhu Qizhen was overwhelmed: "I persuaded him, but he didn't listen." However, if he can make the people rich in three years, and make the soldiers a hundred, I can make him an uncle. ”