readx;?Tangshan Hot Spring Palace, Imperial Garden. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info&&&{} A large glass-windowed pavilion built next to an artificial lake called "Lake Ijin" is filled with the melodious sound of the piano. The sound of this piano is peaceful, making people listen like a spring breeze, and occasionally a glissando, like a swallow picking up water, splashing a little ripple.

Outside the window, it was snowy and white. Inside the pavilion, there is a fire dragon with floor heating, which is as warm as spring. Emperor Zhu Jishi of the Ming Dynasty, accompanied by Empress Luo Xiangmei and two four imperial concubines, looked solemn and quietly listened to a young girl in a cardamom and skirt playing the piano there.

The girl's eyebrows are curved and her lips are light, her complexion is as white as jade, and her eyes are slender and long.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and the girl looked faint, stood up and gently bent down to salute several distinguished listeners.

Our eldest son took the opportunity to look back and forth on her a few times with his innumerable eyes. The girl has a good figure, not tall or short, not fat or thin, and can be described as well-proportioned. There is a slight bulge in the front chest, which seems to be very expected. Zhu Guoxiong should like it, right? Da Mingzi thought to himself. Yes, this is choosing a woman for Zhu Guoxiong.

It's easy to say, it's hard to say. The dignified Ming crown prince, the world's number one wealthy son, and the rich and handsome, of course, will not worry about no woman liking. According to the secret telegram sent back by Zhu Yisha, Zhu Guoxiong accepted seven attendants on the way to the west, and also rejected the "black beauty" (in fact, it is not very black, it is black and white) offered by the Abynesian emperor Theodore II -- it is not that Zhu Guojie does not look down on black beauty, but that he cannot accept it for political reasons. Because the girl was the princess of Theodor II. Once he became the chosen attendant of the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, it meant that the Ming Dynasty and the Abynesian Empire established a marriage. The Abynesian Empire was currently suffering from a British invasion. Britain wanted to turn it into its own protectorate. And the Ming Empire is beyond the reach of this. If you watch your in-laws being destroyed by the British, it will damage the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in Africa......

But the prince's choice of attendants and the crown princess are not the same concept! According to the "Ming Imperial Family Model", there can only be a maximum of three crown princesses, one on two sides. Among them, the crown prince and concubine are the ex officio queens after the crown prince ascends the throne, and the two side concubines are the ex officio imperial concubines and alternate queens. For the issue of royal succession, Zhu Jishi has always attached great importance to it. After all, he has a lot of heirs, and if everyone wants to covet the imperial power, wait for him to braid. The Ming Empire is about to fall apart.

Therefore, he did not give the princes the opportunity to compete for the throne at all, and used the "Ming Imperial Family Model" to strictly regulate the issue of royal succession at the beginning. Even the production of queens and imperial concubines is extremely strict...... Of course, it is strict with Zhu Guoxiong and his descendants, and Zhu Jishi's own harem pattern has been determined, and it cannot be changed because of the "Ming Imperial Family Model".

For example, "The Model of the Ming Imperial Family" puts forward requirements for the origin, appearance and academic qualifications of the queen, imperial concubine, crown princess, and prince concubine of the Ming Dynasty. Must be born in a noble family of the Ming Dynasty, must be dignified, must have a first-class university degree in the Ming Empire (can study in school), and must be proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting...... In addition, there is a very important unspoken rule, it must be pure Chinese blood! If you want to follow these standards, Emperor Zhu's harem is probably going to have a big change. So these regulations started from Zhu Guoxiong's generation.

In addition to the above conditions, there is also a just-promulgated "Daming Marriage Law" that also imposes some restrictions on the selection of the crown princess and the side concubine. Mainly by blood. Marriage is forbidden for blood relatives within five suits. A bunch of cousins of the Lan Fang Luo family lost the opportunity to compete for the rear position because of this rule, and Empress Luo Xiangmei Luo also sulked for a while.

Other than that. The Ming Marriage Law also limited the number of wives and concubines of the Ming Emperor and the crown prince and nobles, and also improved the status of concubines. Concubinage was no longer a lowly status such as "property" or "slave", but a "supplement to the wife", with a status "similar to that of a wife", and a man had to obtain the written consent of his wife to take a concubine. Well, it sounds a bit discriminatory against women, but the women's liberation movement of the Ming Empire still needs to be stepped up! Of course, in the Daming Palace, the queen still has the status of a king, and the rest of the concubines and servants are all vassals of the queen, so naturally there is no "relatively equal" status. The Marriage Law only regulates the number of concubines.

The Ming Emperor could have up to one empress, four imperial concubines, eight concubines, twelve concubines, twenty-four wives, and fifty servants. There were ninety-nine women...... That's a lot of words! However, this is only a theoretical number, that is, Emperor Zhu's women are only about fifty now, and many of them are enveloped by the following vassals (mainly Mongolian, **, and northern Burma) who have been included in the harem.

However, with the "Daming Royal Family Model" and "Daming Marriage Law", the two fundamental ones that guide the royal marriage, it does not mean that Zhu Guoxiong can immediately find a suitable princess and the prince's side concubine. Emperor Zhu had also heard of these two things about each other. So today's round of "draft" is not to choose a concubine for the crown prince, but to choose an alternate crown princess and side concubine. Of course, the people who came to be selected were the daughters of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty who met all the conditions - this matter is another difficult problem, not only must the prince be eye-catching, but also the willingness of these noble ladies. These aristocratic girls who went to college are all more thoughtful than the other.

"What's your name?" Zhu Jishi looked at the girl in front of him and asked with a pleasant face. "What school did you graduate from and where do you study now?"

"My name is Pan Susu." Girls are not called "concubines" or "slaves", and directly use the word "I". "I am a graduate of Huangcheng Public School Girls' School for 18 years, and I have just been admitted to the Department of Journalism of Yingtianjishi University."

She is also a future female journalist. Zhu Jishi nodded, and asked with a smile: "Listen to your accent is from Suzhou, right?" Who are you? ”

"It's my uncle." The girl replied.

In fact, Zhu Jishi already knew the answer, and of course he had to consider politics when choosing a concubine for his son. Al-Shabaab had just won the general election, winning two-thirds of the seats in the Constituent Assembly, as well as governors of 23 provinces and two governors. As the leader of the party, Pan Zuyin formed a cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister. It is very suitable for the girl of the Pan family in Wu County to be the crown princess or the prince's side concubine.

"I will say hello to Yingtian Jishi University and help you transfer to the law department, so that you can have more contact with the prince." Zhu Jishi said with a smile. The meaning of this sentence is that Miss Pan Susu has passed the pass of Emperor Zhu, and as for whether she can become the crown prince and concubine, it depends on whether she can hook up with Zhu Guoxiong - oh, it's just a side concubine, Emperor Zhu's arrangement is to let Zhu Guoxiong accept two side concubines first, and when one of them has a son, he will be promoted to the main concubine. And as long as that son is not stupid or stupid, and can grow up healthily, he will be the heir of the Ming Empire in the future. And as long as he reaches the age of 16, Zhu Jishi will canonize him as the emperor's grandson, and the throne is also very secure.

And there are not many girls competing for the places of these two side concubines, Zhu Jishi and Luo Xiangmei After repeatedly bargaining, they decided to let Zhu Guoxiong choose two out of four, with a 50% elimination rate. In the end, four candidates were set, one of which was a girl from the Pan family in Wu County, who was this Pan Susu; One is from the Miao family in Fengtai, named Miao Xiangning, who is Miao Peilin's youngest daughter; A Ying Jialuo surname who was born in the same clan as the Lan Fangluo family is the daughter of a small nobleman named Luo Lan, because the girls of the Lan Fangluo family are too close to Zhu Guoxiong and lost the election, so they can only choose from the Ying Jialuo surname; And the last one named Tao Jingyi is the granddaughter of Zuo Zongtang and the granddaughter of Tao Shu, a famous minister of Xianghu. When Prince Zhu returns from a visit to Europe, he will find that there are four more delicate little sisters around him...... (To be continued.) )u