Chapter 205: A Private Interview with Weifu to Observe the People's Sentiments (Part 4)
In the middle of the hotel, there is a wooden platform that is square to a square foot, and a servant is standing on the stage and singing music. Around the wooden platform, more than a dozen tables are placed.
Gong Yonggu, the commander of the horses, was sitting alone at a table drinking sullen wine.
"He's a pony, how can he come to drink in such a place?" Zhu Youzhen sat down in the private seat by the window, looked at Gong Yonggu and asked softly.
Gong Yonggu, Princess Anle's husband-in-law, Zhu Youzhen's brother-in-law, in the previous life, was also one of the few people that Zhu Youzhen could trust, and he would consult with him when he encountered something. And Gong Yonggu did not live up to his trust, and when the Ming Dynasty died, he took his whole family to self-immolate and martyr the country.
Now, Gong Yonggu has just been Princess Anle for a short time, and it is the time of the newlywed Yan'er, why did he drink sullen wine here?
Liu Wenbing glanced at Gong Yonggu and said with a smile: "Otherwise, I'll invite him to sit together, and Gongzi can ask him face to face." β
Zhu Youzhen thought about it and nodded. Liu Wenbing came to Gong Yonggu's table in person and said something to Gong Yonggu, Gong Yonggu looked back at this side, with an excited look on his face.
"Your Majesty, Childe!" Gong Yonggu soon followed Liu Wenbing to Zhu Youzhen and bowed his hand.
"Sit, don't be polite outside." Zhu Youzhen casually ordered, took the dish with chopsticks and put it in his mouth to taste it slowly.
"Yes!" Gong Yonggu sat stiffly on the side, now he has just become a colt, and he is not familiar with the emperor.
"Brother Gong, why do you come to this kind of place alone to drink alcohol?" Liu Wenbing asked for Zhu Youzhen with a smile.
"Thisβ" Gong Yonggu hesitated.
"Is there anything else you can't say?" Zhu Youzhen said lightly.
Gong Yonggu gritted his teeth: "Hui Gongzi, there is nothing bad to say, it's just a little embarrassing to say it." β
"Shame on me, then I really need to listen to it." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile, looking very interested.
Gong Yonggu suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, looked at the left and right and no one was paying attention to this side, and said in a low voice: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just that when I went to the princess's mansion yesterday, I was humiliated by the grandmother of the princess's mansion and was driven out of the princess's mansion, so I was depressed." β
Zhu Youzhen said: "You are a concubine, it is natural to go to see the princess, why is Mama humiliated you?" β
Gong Yonggu sighed: "It's not that I don't have money to give her, and I was deliberately embarrassed." β
"What? How could there be such a thing? Zhu Youzhen's face sank.
Gong Yonggu was a little embarrassed, but he still told the whole story.
In the Ming Dynasty, the status of the horse is very low, although the name of the horse, in fact, and the princess live separately, one lives in the horse house, the other lives in the princess's house, and they are not allowed to see each other on weekdays. In the princess's mansion, there is a housekeeper sent by the palace to be responsible for the princess's mansion, and if the horse wants to see the princess, he must ask for the consent of the housekeeper, otherwise he will not be able to meet.
And these grandmothers were sent to serve in the princess's mansion, and they will never be able to be transferred back to the palace, and they have no future to speak of, so they can only think of making money. Therefore, if the horse wants to see the princess, he must bribe the housekeeper and give silver, otherwise he will not be allowed to see each other, which has become a bad example.
Gong Yonggu's family is also a rich family, otherwise he would not be a princess, but just last month, his family lost a lot of money in business, and he was a little nervous for a while, and he couldn't take much silver to bribe, so he was rejected by the housekeeper. Just got married, and it was the time of love, how could Gong Yonggu endure it? There was an argument at the moment, and the grandmother actually asked the servants of the princess's mansion to fork Gong Yonggu out of the princess's mansion and push him down on the street.
Dignified horse, suffering such an insult, but there was no way to ask for help, Gong Yonggu came to drink when he was depressed, but he didn't expect to meet the emperor.
Although Zhu Youzhen had been the emperor for seventeen years, he paid attention to major events all day long, and he really didn't know about such a thing. The grandmother of the princess's mansion, a subordinate, actually bullied the princess's horse, which is simply turned upside down!
"Princesses, concubines, are also human, no different from other ordinary people, I just hope that like other commoners, husband and wife live a normal life in harmony, and I will be satisfied." Gong Yonggu sighed.
After Zhu Youzhen was angry, he calmed down again, he knew that this kind of thing was probably not Gong Yonggu's case, but it had been like this for many years since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
The affairs of the princess's mansion are under the control of the Zongzheng government, and the rules are set by civil officials.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the dictatorship of foreign relatives, various regulations and restrictions were made, such as the queen concubine can only be selected from a small civilian household, the princess can only marry an ordinary rich family, and the concubine cannot hold any real position, etc.
It is said that it is the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, at the time of Taizu, the prince and princess did not marry the noble ministers, and there was no such restriction. It was only after the civilian officials took power that they made many restrictions in order to prevent the dictatorship of their relatives.
Of course, this system did have an effect, and in the Ming Dynasty, there was no phenomenon of foreign relatives dictatorship in the Han and Tang dynasties.
But this system also keeps power firmly in the hands of civil officials.
In order to prevent their relatives, the civil officials imposed a number of strict restrictions to suppress their relatives to the limit. The dignified concubine and the princess can't see each other all day, even the husband and wife have to report in advance, which shows how inhuman it is!
After Gong Yonggu finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Youzhen with anticipation, hoping that the emperor could solve his predicament and replace the grandmother who wanted money.
Zhu Youzhen thought more, it was easy for him to change to a housekeeper, a matter of words. But Zhu Youzhen wanted to completely change Gong Yonggu's situation.
In the last life, Gong Yonggu was martyred for his whole family, and Zhu Youzhen wanted to compensate him. And although Gong Yonggu is a colt, his ability is not bad, and he is very loyal, and he is a person who can be reused in the future!
"In this case, when you go back, you will write a note, and submit it tomorrow morning, and I will solve this problem for you." Zhu Youzhen said slowly.
"Your Majesty, is that good?" Gong Yonggu hesitated. Bringing family affairs to the court made him feel a little embarrassed.
"This is not only your family affair, but also a state affair, I don't want my daughter to be like Princess Anle and you in the future." Zhu Youzhen said coldly, "Tomorrow morning, I will completely solve this matter for you, and from now on, there will be no such thing that violates human ethics!" β
"Your Majesty......" Gong Yonggu choked up excitedly, and he was very grateful to Zhu Youzhen in his heart.
"Okay, wipe your tears, eat and talk with me." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.
"Obey." Gong Yonggu said in a low voice.
The monarch and the ministers all spoke softly, and the two tables around them were all Jinyi Wei secret agents, and they were not heard by outsiders.
After eating and drinking for a while and chatting a few words, Zhu Youzhen put down his chopsticks and looked at the situation in the hotel.
After singing the song, the servant had already gone down, and a storyteller in a robe came up to the wooden platform, patted the wood, and talked about a storytelling. Zhu Youzhen listened with relish at first, and soon frowned.