Xiang Yanran, the great-granddaughter of former Prime Minister Xiang Minzhong (here Lao Yu wants to apologize first, I always thought that Queen Xiang was Xiang Minzhong's granddaughter, but today I checked the information and found out that it was my great-granddaughter. That is, the elegant girl selected by Zhao Yan, which was not only in Zhao Yan's expectations, but also in his expectations, it seems that although his arrival has changed a lot of history, but some history is still developing according to the original trajectory, such as this Xiang Yanran still became Zhao Yan's wife and the future queen of the Great Song Dynasty.

"I see, I didn't expect that in the end, it was Sister Yanran who got the queen's position!" Zhao Yan went home and told Cao Ying about the matter, but Cao Ying whispered to herself.

"What, lady, do you know that little lady Xiang?" Zhao Yan couldn't help but ask strangely when he heard Cao Ying's words, Xiang Yanran has not officially married Zhao Yan, so she is not Zhao Yan's sister-in-law.

"Giggle~, of course I know, Sister Yanran is a member of our late marriage club, and she has some friendship with me, but in our family, I am not the one with whom she has the best relationship." Cao Ying said with a smile, and when she said the end, she deliberately stopped to look at Zhao Yan, as if she wanted to hang Zhao Yan's appetite.

"Oh, could it be that there are still people in the family who have a better relationship with the little lady Xiang?" Zhao Yan couldn't help but ask in surprise when he heard this.

"Of course, Sister Wanling and Sister Yanran are close friends in the boudoir, and the husband also knows that Sister Wanling is the main leader of the Late Marriage Club, and she also pulled Sister Yanran () into the Late Marriage Club, and the two used to go in and out together, and the relationship was very good." Cao Ying said with a smile, among the celebrities in Tokyo City, there is some connection with each other, but some have a good relationship and some have a shallow relationship.

"Hehe, I didn't expect the new crown princess to be a member of the Late Marriage Society. It seems that the influence of your late marriage club is really not small! Zhao Yan couldn't help but smile in surprise when he heard this, the establishment of the Late Marriage Club was just a joke for Zhao Yan, but he didn't expect Cao Ying to take it seriously, and really set up the Late Marriage Club. Many women have recognized the theory promoted by the late marriage club and delayed their marriage for a year or two, although this is still an early marriage in the eyes of later generations, but it is already a big step forward from before.

"Of course, didn't my husband come up with a new newspaper, and a few little sisters with good writing in our Late Marriage Club are all gearing up and preparing to publish articles in your newspaper to promote the purpose of our Late Marriage Club!" Cao Ying smiled and said again.

"Huh? I didn't expect you to be so well-informed that you even know about the newspaper. And I can think of using newspapers to promote your purpose, and it seems that I really underestimated you. Zhao Yan couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, the newspaper has not yet been officially released, and Cao Ying and the others already know how to use this public opinion tool, which is a great decision.

"Giggle~, that's natural, Sister Wanling is in charge of the girls' school, and she has been helping me maintain the operation of the Late Marriage Club in her free time. When she learned about the newspaper, she immediately thought that it could be used to promote the purpose of our late marriage club. Seeing Zhao Yan's surprised look. Cao Ying covered her mouth and let out a crisp laugh.

"It turned out to be Wanling, no wonder you would know about the newspaper in advance." Zhao Yan also showed a sudden expression when he heard this, when he and Ouyang Xiu talked about the newspaper before, Ouyang Wanling was next to him, and Ouyang Xiu was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, plus the relationship between the Late Marriage Club and Zhao Yan. Publishing some articles in newspapers is naturally a breeze.

"Husband, I have been wronged during this time, not only let you and Yuru have a round house, but also have to hold a wedding for you and Sister Wanling, it is said that this wedding should not have been held. But I still agreed, outsiders still don't know what to say about me, how do you think you can compensate me? Cao Ying suddenly rolled her eyes at this time, and then came to Zhao Yan's side with an aggrieved face.

Although Cao Ying's words had a somewhat joking tone, Zhao Yan still felt a little guilty after hearing it, after all, from Cao Ying's point of view, she did suffer a lot of grievances, especially the wedding with Ouyang Wanling, originally there was no need to hold such a grand wedding for concubines, but Cao Ying not only agreed, but also personally helped to prepare, which is not an easy task for any woman.

"What compensation does the lady want, as long as the husband can do it, she will never shirk!" Zhao Yan said with a stern face.

"Puff~" Seeing Zhao Yanyan's appearance, Cao Ying burst out laughing, and only after a moment did she speak again, "Husband is still serious, I can marry my husband, and I will have a son soon, and I will have nothing to ask for in the future, but the son's name has not been decided yet, should my husband have a nice name?" ”

Hearing that Cao Ying asked him to name his son, Zhao Yan couldn't help but have a headache, most of the ancients were one-word names, that is, the surname plus one word as a name, even before the Song Dynasty, two-character names were very discriminatory, such as Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, the reason why he was scolded as Hu'er, their brother's name is one of the reasons why they were criticized.

However, the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty was an orthodox Han Chinese, and the names of the men in the family were all one-word names, and the names of the men of the same generation were very regular, such as Zhao Yan and their four brothers, and the names of the four people were all next to the word "page", such as Zhao Ji and Zhao Yan, as for their next generation, according to the rules of the family, everyone's name should be next to "亻", that is to say, Zhao Yan's son can only take one of the words next to "亻" as a name.

The word next to "亻" is relatively common, maybe it is not difficult to take a name from it in the eyes of others, but you must know that after hundreds of years of development of the Zhao family, there are more and more men of the same generation, and Zhao Yan has many cousins who already have sons.

"Lady, you are a famous talented woman in Tokyo City, or you will choose the child's name!" Zhao Yan thought hard for a while, but finally said to Cao Ying with a smile, he really couldn't think of any nice names, and it had to be a single word.

Seeing Zhao Yan's scoundrel appearance, Cao Ying couldn't help laughing out loud again, the entire Great Song Dynasty knew that Zhao Yan was talented, but only their families knew that in fact, Zhao Yan couldn't even write a brush hand, and even some remote words he didn't know, so he made a lot of jokes about it, and now let him give the child a nice name, which is really a very difficult thing for him.

"Husband, the girl's name is okay, but the boy's name is only qualified by the father or the elders in the family, not to mention that my son is still the son of the king, and this name can't be sloppy, so the concubine doesn't dare to take this name." Cao Ying finally smiled and said, what she said is also the truth, and choosing a name is a matter of great significance, especially for the boys in the family, even she, the mother, is not qualified to choose a name.

"The ancients were really troublesome!" Zhao Yan muttered in a low voice here, he had been in the Great Song Dynasty for a few years, and naturally he knew that the ancients attached great importance to names, and now he couldn't escape if he wanted to.

"By the way, why don't I go and ask my father for a name?" Zhao Yan's eyes suddenly lit up at this time and said, he had a headache in choosing a name, so he simply handed it over to someone else, for example, Zhao Shu is his son's grandfather, and it is only natural for him to name his grandson.

"Giggle~, the concubine knows that her husband will say this, but it's okay, our son can get the name of his father, and he will have face when he says it in the future." Cao Ying couldn't help but smile happily again when she heard Zhao Yan's words, Zhao Shu usually has a lot of opportunities, and even Zhao Yan's children don't have time to pay attention to it, let alone meet the grandson of the next generation, the last time Siyue was born, Zhao Shu was able to send someone to reward the title of county lord, which is already very rare.

"That's it, isn't it just a name, I'm going to ask my father to give me a reward, so that I won't be able to sleep for this matter anymore!" Zhao Yan patted his chest and assured at the moment, if he has never done a father's business, I am afraid it is difficult to experience the pain of naming the child, but fortunately, there is also Zhao Shu, as the grandfather of the child, he should also choose a name, plus Zhao Yan has made so many contributions to the Great Song Dynasty during this time, as long as Zhao Yan asks, I am afraid he will be embarrassed to refuse.

A few days later, the results of Zhao Ji's selection of concubines finally spread all over the capital, and neither the Cao family nor the Gao family expected that Zhao Ji did not choose the crown princess from among the women in their family according to the tradition, but chose Xiang Yanran, who was inconspicuous among the five alternative girls, which made the two families also shocked, and even Cao Ping and the head of the Gao family entered the palace overnight, they did not dare to ask Zhao Shu directly about it, so one went to find the Empress Dowager Cao, and the other went to find the Empress Gao, but unfortunately the final result was personally selected by Zhao Shu, This made them powerless, and finally had to acquiesce to this result.

Compared with the Cao family and the Gao family, the outside world also has different reactions, most of the people in Jiangmen are all in their hearts after hearing the news, although they may usually be jealous of the status of the Cao family and the Gao family, but after all, they all belong to the same line of Jiangmen, and they also have deep entanglements of interests with each other, but now these two families have lost their marriage with the royal family, so does it mean that the imperial court is going to carry out a new round of suppression of Jiangmen, especially the new queen is the great-granddaughter of Xiang Minzhong, who belongs to the high-level of the civil official group, This made Shomen even more uneasy.

Compared with Jiangmen, the civil officials are greatly celebrating, they think that this is a signal that the royal family is biased towards civil officials, and if even the inner palace is controlled by women from the civil official group in the future, then the country of the Great Song Dynasty will also be more stable. In addition to this incident, there is another recent matter of great importance to the civil official group, that is, the imperial court once again recruited Wang Anshi into the court. (To be continued......) R1292