Chapter Eighty-Six: Choosing a Queen
"There is no need to disturb poor and small households in the selection of marriage, but only choose good daughters from meritorious families such as birthers and supervisors, and from small official families such as teachings and thousands of households."
"In addition, when you need to repair the palace due to a big wedding, remember to install lightning rods on the palaces, and remember that my Qianqing Palace and the future queen's Kunning Palace do not need to be repainted with cinnabar, just slightly repair and clean it."
Zhu Yijun instructed Zhang Hong shortly after the marriage selection edict was issued.
"Yes!"
Zhang Hong agreed.
Then, Zhu Yijun asked: "How is the relocation of Wang Gong's factory going?" ”
"Back to the emperor, I have moved most of the territory of Zhending Mansion."
Zhang Hong replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and then didn't say anything more.
He asked the inner court to relocate Wang Gong's factory, naturally to avoid a big explosion like the one in history in the future.
As for choosing concubines, only choosing a wealthy family with a meritorious name or a small official body is naturally to avoid the future harem concubines being too coarse, which is not conducive to the future harmony of the harem.
After all, the daughters of wealthy families are mostly taught some rules.
Although Zhu Yijun is only sixteen this year, it is indeed a big wedding year that cannot be delayed in this era.
What's more, whether he, the emperor, can get married, has very important political significance in this era.
Zhu Yijun did not deliberately postpone the wedding.
And he just tried his best to fix the shortcomings of the original concubine selection system in the process of choosing concubines.
Around July, the process of choosing a concubine has been almost underway.
And it has arrived, when the queen mother of the two palaces is Zhu Yijun and chooses three girls who can be concubines.
Empress Dowager Chen said: "This time, not only choose three, try to choose the twenty of them with better appearance, and then let Jun'er appoint them, so as not to be unsatisfactory for Jun'er, and feel that your biological mother is embarrassing her again." ”
"But what if Jun'er is so obsessed with beauty?"
Empress Dowager Li asked.
Empress Dowager Chen said: "Jun'er is young and old, so she will not be mistaken by beauty." ”
"What's more, if the appearance of the middle palace and the concubine is not as good as what the palace agreed, it is easy to make the emperor favor the palace maid, and make the emperor and queen out of harmony."
"I hope Jun'er won't be tired of his queen like the first emperor!"
When Empress Dowager Li heard what Empress Dowager Chen said, she agreed.
As a result, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces also selected twenty beautiful girls who could be queens for Zhu Yijun, and waited for Zhu Yijun to personally select the queen, concubine and nine concubines from these twenty girls.
When Zhu Yijun came to the twenty girls, he was dazzled at first, and he didn't know who to choose.
But not long after that, among these girls, a girl who made people forget to see the vulgar still attracted Zhu Yijun's attention.
Zhu Yijun walked over to him and took the jade Ruyi held by the eunuch in his hand.
But at this time, the Empress Dowager Li, who was sitting in the hall, couldn't help but stand up suddenly and wanted to stop it.
Empress Dowager Chen grabbed her: "Not intervening is the best intervention!" If you let Jun'er choose a queen you don't like now, then in the future, the entire harem and even the subjects of the world will have to bear the price of the emperor's dissatisfaction! ”
"But that person is too stunning!"
Empress Dowager Li said.
"People have already measured! Why should you worry! ”
"I asked, these girls are all from a virtuous family that reads and knows etiquette, maybe they know more about persuading the emperor than you and me!"
Empress Dowager Chen said with a smile.
Empress Dowager Li gave up at this time, looked at the girl who was so glamorous, and took the jade ruyi.
And Zhu Yijun finally determined his queen - Du Weirou.
is not the one in history, because she is not liked by the emperor, and often vents her anger by killing the palace maid with a cane.
History quietly changed at this moment.
This is something that is destined to change.
Because Zhu Yijun has long asked the inner court to pay attention to the education status of these selected people when selecting people.
And unlike in history, because Feng Bao controlled the inner court and only obeyed the orders of the Empress Dowager Li, he could not be the slightest master in his choice of queen.
Of course, choosing does not mean that you have to have a big wedding right away.
The emperor's wedding ceremony is very cumbersome, and it takes a long time to go through it from selection to formal marriage canonization.
The period of the big wedding alone needs to be chosen by Qin Tianjian, and it cannot be artificially determined.
But in any case, Zhu Yijun began to look forward to his future married life.
He is very satisfied with his queen and is willing to conclude a good relationship with him as an emperor and queen.
Of course, Zhu Yijun also knew that the fact that he was able to choose the queen he was satisfied with should be related to Empress Chen, because he had already hinted that Empress Chen wanted to prevent his biological mother from interfering too much in this matter.
From the fact that he could choose the queen directly from twenty girls, he knew that Empress Dowager Chen had successfully prevented his biological mother, Empress Dowager Li, from intervening excessively in this matter.
And this makes Zhu Yijun more willing to believe that the next Wanli prosperity is really related to him.
He, the emperor, wants to be the happiest emperor in the past, and his people must be the happiest people in the past.
Because the two complement each other and are indispensable.
"On the occasion of the Qingzhang in Jiaxing County and Xiushui County of Jiaxing Prefecture, the gentry bribed the officials of Qingzhang to conceal 33,500 mu of land, and did not lose grain, but let the neighboring county Jiashan County share the compensation!"
"In addition, some gentry deliberately recommended the ruffians and hooligans to serve as the secretary office, arbitrarily moved and concealed the number of Qingzhang, and the old one was destroyed before the new fish scale atlas was compiled, so that the inspection officials did not have the evidence to check the effect of the zhang!"
"In short, there are still all kinds of problems in the process of purging the zhang, the local gentry do everything possible to block it, and there are also officials who take the initiative to protect the people."
Therefore, Zhu Yijun is still seriously concerned about the affairs of Qingzhang Tianmu, and after learning from Zhang Juzheng that he still encountered various obstacles in the process of Qingzhang Tianmu, he said:
"Since the gentry in Jiaxing are not honest, then the scholars from Jiaxing are not allowed to start their careers in the next three years, and all the fame that has been recorded this year will be removed! Since the wealthy people of Jiaxing do not have the imperial court in their hearts, then go back and read the sage books for a few more years, and the same is true in other counties! ”
"The officials of the counties who actively carry out everything will be promoted by the officials, and the officials can also be appointed as the main officials. Those who died in the line of duty due to the execution of the Qingzhang were posthumously awarded the official titles of themselves and their parents, and their wives were killed. ”
"As for those who do not actively cooperate, or even those who disobey the yang and the yin, they must naturally be dealt with strictly, the exile who should be exiled, and the army that should be confiscated!"
Zhu Yijun was obviously determined to promote the Qingzhang Tianmu affair, so he was ruthless and directly punished the gentry who did not cooperate with the Qingzhang in the imperial examination.
Zhang Juzheng even said that he obeyed the order.
Bao Wenjiong, an official from Jiaxing, was shocked when he learned that his hometown had been banned from the examination for nine years because of his resistance to Qingzhang, and he was worried that this would greatly damage the interests of the township party, so he was busy pleading:
"The villagers are confused, and they have to bear the emperor's grace, so they do the deception, and then please forgive the villagers for the crime of ignorance, and don't abandon the villagers' heart to serve the country, woo!"
Zhu Yijun ignored it, and did not even send it to the cabinet, but intended to teach the local gentry a lesson.
And then, the number of people who concealed the number of Qingzhang and even deliberately destroyed the original fish scale map really decreased greatly, and no one dared to joke about the political future of their own clan and township.
The matter of clearing the acres of land has still been successfully implemented throughout the country.
It's just that on September 25 of this year, that is, on September 25 of the fifth year of Wanli, when Zhu Yijun was preparing for his big wedding and relying on Zhang Juzheng to implement the Qingzhang Tianmu affair across the country, a bad news from Jiangling reached Jingshi.
Zhang Juzheng's father has died of illness!