Chapter 285: The Crown Prince's Candidate
Emperor Meiji's dinner was simple and free of extravagance. If you look at this person from the standpoint of the country and the nation, he is also a rare monarch. During his reign, Japan fought frequently and spent the people on it. Although it did not bring much benefit to the Japanese people, it laid a solid foundation for Japan's future rise. To be sure, although Japan's subsequent development was the result of the joint efforts of the Japanese throughout the era, Emperor Meiji was the first person to be said to have contributed to it. However, it is also in response to a sentence, once it will be successful, good and bad, different people will naturally have different interpretations from different positions, so there is no need to unify the tone and be too harsh.
After dinner, it was already dark, and the palace lanterns were hung in the palace. Emperor Meiji's mood gradually calmed down from the anxiety of the day, and when he was about to read the official document, the maid said, "King, Prince Yoshihito of the Ming Palace has come to greet him. ”
Emperor Meiji nodded, a smile finally on his face.
Because the emperor has divinity in Japan, the fourth line of the imperial family itself does not have a surname, which probably highlights the difference between gods and humans, and the emperor has no citizenship rights. Beginning with Emperor Meiji, Japan established the one-lifetime monadia system, which means that the emperor only uses one era name for his or her entire life. Japanese Imperial Family Package. The royal family includes the Queen, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, the Prince, the Princess, the Prince, the Princess, the Princess, the Queen. There are no surnames in the imperial family, and the emperor bestows the title of "palace" on members of the imperial family. Under the Meiji Constitution, members of the imperial family, unlike ordinary subjects, did not register their household registration and were not subject to national laws, but were only bound by imperial decrees.
Prince Yoshihito of the Ming Palace, according to the literal interpretation, the Ming Palace is the palace number, and the Kahito is the name, and the prince states that he is the son of the emperor. If it's the inner prince, it's the princess.
Speaking of which, Emperor Meiji gave birth to a lot of sons in his life, but he could really live to adulthood, but there was only Prince Yoshihito of Meinomiya, and he was the later Taisho Emperor. The name comes from a sentence in the Book of Changes, "The tycoon is right, and the way of heaven is also." ”
However, compared with his short-lived brothers, the emperor was not lucky to live longer. She suffered from meningitis as an infant, and although she survived tenaciously, she left her with sequelae. Simply put, it is encephalopathy, that is, mental illness. Although some Japanese scholars in later generations believed that in fact, the adult Taisho Emperor had a normal personality and did not leave sequelae, but the strict education and etiquette system of the imperial family forced him into a mental illness. It is also said that he became mentally ill after he was 40 years old.
Regardless of the circumstances, the Empress was indeed mentally ill, and his most famous telescope incident humiliated Japan in front of foreign envoys, and the senators could not bear it anymore, and finally made the crown prince Prince Hirohito, who later became Emperor Hirohito, regent.
Accompanying Prince Yoshihito of the Ming Palace was his mother, Gondian Aiko Yanagihara.
The female officials of the Japanese imperial family are strictly hierarchical, and the senior female officials include "Shang Shi", "Warden Servant", "Right Warden Servant", "Palm Servant", "Right Servant", "Command Wife", "Right Wife", etc., among them, the female officials above the "Right Servant" are the people who are waiting to be sent by the emperor's side, and they are all unmarried virgins, in fact, they are an important source of concubines for the emperor, as long as the emperor thinks it is appropriate, he can accept them as partial houses. It was not until the time of Emperor Hirohito that the emperor began monogamy. The "life wife" is mainly responsible for handling transactional work. Lower-level female officials include "women and children" and "powerful women and children", who are responsible for clothing, food, utensils and other errands. There are also "miscellaneous" and "needles" who specialize in miscellaneous chores. Within the palace grounds, there is an area called "Female Gonojima", which is often called "Mizui", that is, the dormitory of female officials.
Because the royal family rarely canonized, it is basically regarded as a concubine, and it is no longer the position of a female official, so generally speaking, the largest female official in the Japanese court is a pawn. Of course, later, as the pawn gradually became a concubine, the head servant became synonymous with the highest female official.
When the emperor ascended the throne, there were two female officials who were in charge of opening the imperial tent in front of the throne, and because they often served Tianyan and had a respected status, they were called queen of tents. From the first Emperor Kanmu in the Heian period until the Meiji Emperor, Queen Kan accompanied the emperors of the previous dynasties, and it was a Shinto ritual that is much older than that of Isesaigu and Kamosaiin.
In the beginning, the queen was responsible for unveiling the curtains on the left and right sides (the daughter of the prince was called the queen, which corresponds to the lord of the Celestial Empire), but since the Heian Dynasty, it has become customary for the queen to take the position of unveiling accounts on the left side, and the position of taking accounts on the right side to be held by the valet. Of all the wardens, the tent attendant has a higher status.
Yanagihara Aiko brought Prince Yoshihito of the Ming Palace with him, but in fact, it was just an excuse. She is now over thirty years old, and it is ugly to say that she is old, but the emperor really rarely visits her. In the first two years, he was favored by a thousand kinds of Ren Zi, who gave birth to two babies, all of whom died young. Now the younger Sonoko is beginning to win the favor of Emperor Meiji. Men love young bodies, and the emperor is certainly no exception.
After asking for peace, Emperor Meiji rarely appeared very kind, and he and Yanagihara Aiko were also old husbands and wives, of course, more out of paternal love for Prince Yoshihito of the Ming Palace. Licking the calf is deep, not to mention a father like Emperor Meiji who died of a son. After talking for a while, Yanagihara Aiko left with Prince Yoshihito of the Ming Palace somewhat disappointed, and Emperor Meiji still had to go to Sonoshoko's side tonight, and there was no intention of letting Yanagihara Aiko stay in bed.
Looking at the back of Aiko Yanagihara and Prince Yoshihito of Ming Palace, Emperor Meiji sighed, to be honest, he also indirectly heard about his son's reputation. Don't look at him as quiet as a kitten, but on weekdays he is very arrogant and extremely irritable. The emperor once overheard that his son was beating his subordinates with a horsewhip for a trivial matter. The attack was so vicious that even he, the emperor, felt cold.
Today, the Japanese Empire was in crisis, politically chaotic, and economically rivaled by the Northeast Autonomous Region, and its regular revenues from the Qing Dynasty had plummeted, not to mention militarily. The bandits in the northeast are acting like gangsters, as long as Japan dares to make a slight disturbance, they dare to make a move against the Japanese civilians.
Emperor Meiji couldn't afford anything else now, and he was at the height of the Spring and Autumn Period, so he hadn't thought about the heir yet. But then he remembered the scene when he looked in the mirror this morning, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and the hoarfrost on his sideburns suddenly made him feel alarmed.
I'm no longer young...... But is Prince Yoshihito of Meinomiya the best candidate to inherit the throne? Emperor Meiji's worries have increased a little, and perhaps Sonoko Shoko will be able to give herself a better heir.
Sometimes the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
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