(007) The princess feast
After dinner, Jiang Qingchen did not stop at home and went back to the yamen directly.
Jiang Qingchen is the internal successor of the next marquis of the Jiang family, and it ultimately depends on the emperor's intentions. Objectively speaking, it is impossible for the royal family to spend money to raise a person who has not contributed to the imperial court.
The current Hou Ye Jiang Yannian is stained with some of his father's old Hou Ye doing things conscientiously, plus he also did some satisfactory things for the emperor when he was young, so when the old Hou Ye was not there, the emperor did not hesitate to issue an edict to let Jiang Yannian inherit the throne.
But it is very difficult to say in Jiang Qingchen's generation, if he is like his father, casually mixed, the succession of the candidate is not possible at all.
At present, there is no problem in keeping the waiting position, Jiang Qingchen is ***, and his official position is the commander of Jiumen, leading 30,000 forbidden troops to protect the safety of the capital. This position has a lot of power, but it is also the target of public criticism. Therefore, Jiang Qingchen often lives in Yamen, and he is also forced to do so.
The emperor gave this position to Jiang Qingchen, which was also the idea of protecting the prince.
The battle for the throne is inevitable, and when the emperor also experienced fierce competition, he finally came to this position, so he didn't like the previous emperor's approach in his heart.
The first emperor did not easily set up the prince, he liked to watch his sons fight, and the one who fought to the end was the prince, in the heart of the first emperor, the throne was not easy to do, and it needed strength, I will protect you to go up, and you will be beaten down by others, it is better to go directly to the most powerful one.
If that prince just wants to be an idle prince, then he can keep safe.
The emperor became the Son of Heaven after he took away the crown princess and his sister-in-law, and became a real loner, so he was very taboo about the struggle between his sons, and he set up the prince early in the morning, cultivated it carefully, and determined to make him a good emperor.
Who doesn't want a throne? It's just that the Son of Heaven's heart to protect the prince is too obvious, and he treats other princes equally. So many times, people who don't dare to attack the prince will attack Jiang Qingchen, once something goes wrong, the emperor will be angry, and the head of the Nine Gates Admiral will inevitably be replaced.
In that way, the prince will lose his arm, so that the prince's strength will be truly weakened, the opponent's strength will be weakened, and the change of direction will be equivalent to enhancing his own strength. Why not.
Jiang Qingchen's wife, who had not passed through the door before, was a victim of the struggle for imperial power, which was also the reason why Jiang Qingchen did not marry again, the prince's position was unstable, and his marriage was unstable.
Of course, if the powerful old marquis Jiang Hongze is still there, it will definitely be a different scene. Everyone's style of doing things is different, and the results will be completely different.
No matter how strong Jiang Qingchen is, he will not want to offend the emperor and queen, his plan is to change the name of the receipt handed over to the palace before, and say that Yun Xiangrong has just arrived in the capital and is not suitable for the banquet, and he will enter the palace with a relative who he thinks is more suitable.
The candidate himself has long thought about it, my grandmother gave birth to three sons in her life, and I was very sorry in my heart, so I recognized Yongtaibo's daughter as my goddaughter, Yongtaibo's family and his own family have a lot of contacts, and the Jiang family knows that the grandmother's goddaughter finally married into Qing'anbofu.
After marriage, she gave birth to a daughter and a son, and the eldest is a daughter. Because his father's official position in the court was not enough, he didn't get the queen's invitation card.
This is Jiang Qingchen's plan before he knew that Yun Xiangrong was going to enter Beijing, but to do things for the royal family, it is always appropriate, the daughter of the Qing'an Bofu family cannot become the crown princess, the identity is not enough, but the side concubine is always enough.
This person Jiang Qingchen had never seen before, and later found someone to inquire about this woman's appearance. Disappointed and returned, it looks average, it is said that I like martial arts since I was a child, and I don't learn the rules very well, and it is difficult to sit quietly for a cup of tea.
So, I gave up at that time. Now that I think about it, there is no more suitable candidate, just her. If the girl really wants to make a fool of herself in the palace, the queen blames it, and she is a crime of not investigating, anyway, this skin child is not raised by herself.
Changing the name is a trivial matter for Jiang Qingchen, there are people in the palace. The key is how to explain to the prince and the queen why they need to be replaced, which is really a bit difficult.
On the third day of Yun Xiangrong's entry into the capital, he was led by Jiang Xinxin to participate in an all-female banquet, and the host was the emperor's sister, that is, the princess of the dynasty, a princess who loves to be lively.
The princess is about forty years old this year, and the children in the family have long been married, but she loves to be a matchmaker, and many men and women of school age in the capital are matchmakers with princesses, and their reputation is still very good.
Therefore, when the princess said that she was going to hold a flower-viewing banquet, many official eunuchs with women of appropriate age actively signed up, hoping that people could enter the princess's eyes and help find a good family.
Yun Xue is a delicate person, she is the only untitled Mrs. Hou of the Jiang family. But it doesn't affect her status in the capital.
The wife of the old marquis Jiang Hongze has long been named the first lady, and that is because the old marquis has made great contributions to the country.
Although Jiang Qingchen's mother did not rely on her husband to seal her life, she was born in the Protectorate Mansion, and her sister was the queen of the dynasty.
After Yun Xue received the letter that Yun Xiangrong was coming to the capital, she immediately contacted the princess, hoping to get an invitation card to participate in the princess's flower-viewing banquet. If you want to talk about Yunxue's economic strength, there are few people in the capital who can compete with it.
The princess naturally has a lot of good things to collect Yunxue, and this little thing is a gesture.
Yun Xue began to think that her eldest brother had figured it out and decided to let her daughter marry in the capital. Therefore, he will actively prepare, and even arrange for Jiang Xinxin to accompany Yun Xiangrong to go together, which is also worried that Yun Xiangrong will be too rusty when he first arrives.
Later, Jiang Qingchen told Yun Xue about her investigation of Yun Xiangrong, and she learned that her niece's family affairs had been decided, and she came to the capital to avoid the limelight. But I have already greeted the princess a long time ago, and it would be rude not to go.
Yun Chengyuan and his wife really didn't want to deceive Yun Xue, but this kind of thing, it is really unclear to write a letter, and it is easy to misunderstand.
As soon as she settled down, Mrs. Yun told Yun Xue about Yun Xiangrong. Out of politeness, Yun Xue should have heard about it for the first time.
Yun Xue made her arrangements and previous thoughts clear to her sister-in-law.
Mrs. Yun didn't think it was bad, anyway, it was nothing to go to have fun, the princess's flower-viewing banquet was not just for anyone to go, and it was good for Yun Xiangrong to have a long experience. Besides, it can be so easy to participate in a flower viewing party? In that case, the threshold of the princess's mansion would have been broken long ago.
It's early summer, many flowers are just blooming, and the climate isn't very hot, so it's a good season to enjoy the flowers.
Yun Xiangrong didn't have any objections to her cousin's arrangement, of course, she didn't know that this was a blind date meeting with a change of direction.
If you want to talk about the flower viewing banquet, Yun Xiangrong has also participated in it a few times, that is, when the flowers are in full bloom in the garden at home, his sister-in-law will invite the ladies and ladies of the big families in the south of the Yangtze River, anyway, they are all female dependents and come to the gathering.
Those flowers are all seen since childhood, I don't think there is anything special and fresh, but I see that the guests are very happy, it is really not bothering.
In addition, my father and brothers don't like to show their heads, just to satisfy that they don't want to be polite, and they like the flowers and plants in the performance. So every year, I just have a meeting with my wife, who has a close relationship with my family, and I don't show up at the banquet.
The whole process is the mother and sister-in-law in the guests to talk and laugh, last year the mother was not well, do not want to hold a flower viewing banquet, actually some people still feel very sorry, come to visit the mother, hope to hold a banquet lively, the flower season is over, change the name of the banquet is OK.
At that time, Yun Xiangrong realized that the so-called flower-viewing banquet is really not to see the flowers, but a social activity between big families, and being able to hold and have the opportunity to participate indicates your family's status in the social circle.
Does my cousin want to enter the social circle of the capital? This is a bit difficult, she is just the daughter of an imperial businessman, and she has no special skills, how can the social circle in the capital accept herself.
Seeing that his mother agreed, Yun Xiangrong couldn't say anything to question. Anyway, Xinxin will go with him, so there's nothing to worry about. In fact, it may also be that he let himself accompany Jiang Xinxin, but it is just that people can't say it directly out of politeness.
Early in the morning, Jiang Xinxin and Yun Xiangrong went out after dressing up, although Yun Xiangrong came to the capital for the first time, he also saw that the fashion in the capital was different from Jiangnan, wearing dark clothes here, wearing heavy makeup, and bringing a lot of jewelry.
Light makeup is popular in Jiangnan, the more you can't see that you have put on makeup, the better, and the color of the clothes is mainly light colors. Wearing jewelry or not is a personal style, and some women look better without jewelry, but it is a burden to wear it.
Yun Xiangrong was dressed very low-key, wearing a lilac dress and not much jewelry. Others think that this is not suitable for the first time to meet too much.
The real reason is that Yun Xiangrong does not have the habit of wearing full of jewelry in Jiangnan, and today is already an extraordinary performance, and suddenly feels that women should learn some kung fu to strengthen their bodies, or they will be crushed to death by jewelry sooner or later.
Jiang Xinxin is also very satisfied with Yun Xiangrong's dress, it seems random, but it is definitely carefully dressed, conscience said, Yun Xiangrong's beauty, women are all excited when they look at it, I don't know which family will have such convincing in the future and marry such a beautiful beautiful girl.
The carriage at the gate of the house, Yun Xiangrong didn't notice, and someone was watching him in the dark.
This person is Jiang Qingchen, who is following a spy of Zhu Ziguo at the moment, that person has very high martial arts, and he got the news early today that Zhu Ziguo has a big operation, and the master of the Nine Sect Admirals has already arranged it. At this moment, in order not to startle the snake, Jiang Qingchen could only go out in person.
Unexpectedly, the spy walked near his house and suddenly disappeared.
Jiang Qingchen was looking around, and saw Yun Xiangrong going out, he didn't know that Yun Xue asked Yun Xiangrong to participate in the princess's flower viewing banquet, he thought that Jiang Xinxin took Yun Xiangrong out to visit the door, after all, Jiang Xinxin also had a lot of little sisters who had a good relationship in the capital.