Wanli Xinming

Chapter 137 Jing Jia
In May of the fourth year of Wanli, the national draft begins.It is different from the old rule of drafting from the commoners' house in the northern Zhili area.In this draft, the imperial court dispatched a total of [-] imperial envoys to select virtuous, gentle, beautiful and moon-like beautiful women, and civil ministers below the fourth rank and above the seventh rank in the two Beijing and thirteen provinces in accordance with the four basic qualities of "Derong Language Work". The daughters are also among the candidates.

This time, the ancestral system of choosing the daughter of a commoner can be broken, which is the result of Zhu Yijun and Liang Gong's vigorous struggle.Zhu Yijun concluded that in the Ming Dynasty, the prince was difficult to raise in the palace, so that the emperor's heir had a difficult lesson. Taking Emperor Hongzhi as an example, he urged the Empress Dowager Chen and Li the necessity of choosing the daughter of an official.

The difficulty of being a prince in the Ming Dynasty was no greater than that of Emperor Hongzhi.Because her biological mother Ji was the daughter of a rebel chieftain, she had no status or skills in the palace. Concubine Wan, who was favored as soon as she became pregnant, was ordered to have an abortion. Later, under the protection of the guard Zhang Min, Zhu Youji was able to survive.

Because Ji's family didn't dare to keep his biological son by his side, Zhu Youji ate in the palace when he was a child, and he grew up safely after experiencing nine deaths.

Xianzong later found out about this son and made Zhu Youji the crown prince.Immediately afterwards, Ji Shi, who had just been named Concubine Shu, and Zhang Min, the guard who kept Zhu Youjie, died violently. Both were killed by Concubine Wan Gui, who was favored by Emperor Xianzong.

Empress Dowager Zhou, the mother of Emperor Xianzong, worried that Concubine Wan would attack the prince, and raised Zhu Youji in Renshou Palace.

Zhu Yijun changed some of the ancestral system in the draft. It is true that civilian women are limited by their education since childhood, and their vision and scheming cannot be compared with the daughters of officials. Although he is confident that there will be no Wan Guifei in his harem, But for the sake of future generations, it is better to break through the ancestral system.

The two empress dowagers Chen and Li were both daughters of commoners, and they were persuaded by Zhu Yijun based on her personal experience when she first entered the Yu Palace.But Empress Dowager Li has some political qualities after all, reminding Zhu Yijun to prevent foreign relatives from becoming bigger.

Of course, Zhu Yijun had to guard against this. The draft decree clearly stipulated that once selected as a concubine, the immediate family members of the family above the concubine position within three generations without papers and martial arts must not exceed the fourth rank for life, and they cannot lead troops.

In order to make up for the loss in the officialdom of the foreign relative's family, once Xiu's daughter is a concubine or above, her father or brother will be awarded the title of doctor; For the queen, the earl is granted.

The so-called "the gate of the palace is as deep as the sea", the ancient royal draft was deeply hated by the people.In any draft year, there will often be a large number of early marriages among the people.If there is no condition to get married early, they will rush to get married and send the marriage contract to the government for the record.

But once the draft edict came out, it also had a considerable temptation for officials and big businessmen below the fourth rank.Sipin, as the glass ceiling of Ming Dynasty civil servants, had to overcome all kinds of difficulties.Third-rank senior officials don’t care about the treatment, and fourth-rank to seventh-rank officials still have a lot of itching in their hearts.

The big businessmen have money but no status, and eagerly hope that they will have official body and body protection.

Because Emperor Longqing injured his kidneys in his early years, he desperately recuperated his body when he and his younger brother won the heirloom before giving birth to Zhu Yijun, which stabilized Emperor Jiajing's heart.

In the Ming Dynasty system, below the queen, there were twelve grades of imperial concubine, imperial concubine, concubine, concubine, Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Jieyu, beauty, talented person, noble person, elected servant, and lady.

Under the support of the psychologically shadowed Empress Dowager Li and the foreign DPRK, the national general election is grand in scale.First, [-] women were initially selected locally and entered Beijing with their parents.

After arriving in the capital, the royal family will send internal officials and imperial envoys to select 5000 from 50 people to enter the palace.After entering the palace, the queen mother will also organize a series of assessments, and then select [-] of the [-] beautiful women to prepare ladies and choose servants.

Among them, there will be the best nine girls, who will be canonized as nine concubines at the beginning.Then choose the best among the nine concubines and make him the queen.

Zhu Yijun didn't want to waste the people and money like this, but the representative of the harem, Empress Dowager Li, and the representative of the court, Zhang Juzheng, did not agree with the emperor's self-assertion in such matters and lowered the standard for the number of draft candidates.

After all, the queen who is the mother of the world will be selected from these 5000 people. The whole court, inside and outside the palace, all condemn Zhu Yijun for his wrong idea of ​​being easy-going. Except for his opinions, there is no room for him to comment on the rest of the draft.

In July at Qixia Village of Zhuangshi in Suzhou, it is the time when the sun is burning like fire.The noisy cicadas did not bring the opposite tranquility to the garden adorned with strange stones and bamboos. Only the occasional breeze blowing across the clear pond can bring a touch of coolness to the people in the Linshui Wooden Pavilion.

In the wooden pavilion, Zhuang Jingjia, who is wearing a light green gauze and a lavender horse-faced skirt, is holding a scroll and drinking ice-cold sour plum soup to relieve the heat.

When she put down the sky-blue Ru kiln soup bowl and shook the fan like a soft jade, her majestic beauty was hidden in the shadow of the pavilion. With a pot of blooming gardenias on the small table in front of her, this girl As if it can only exist in the spring dream when the son and grandson toss and turn, the beauty is unreal, but this summer garden is also intoxicated by it.

On the pebble road under the weeping willows by the pond, a little maid with a large lotus leaf on her head ran over in the hot sun.When she entered the wooden pavilion out of breath, one sentence called Jing Jia out of the book.

"Miss, listen to Jiangying next to the master, you are going to enter the palace!"

Jing Jia first opened her mouth slightly in surprise, her beauty made the heart of the caring little maid beside her also jump.In her superficial culture with only a few words, she didn't know that 2000 years ago, someone had already described the beauty of her young lady in this way: teeth like gourd rhinoceros, gnat head and moth eyebrows.

Immediately, Jingjia put the book on top of the table and smiled, "Dad hurts me so much, so can I still let me enter the palace? You silly girl, you were deceived by Jiangying."

Lu Yi heard what she said for sure, and was a little uncertain: "Miss, our family is not as good as before - or maybe someone in the clan wants to climb up the royal wealth."

After Jingjia heard it, she quietly shook her head with a smile: "Daddy loves me the most, he won't agree."

In the Tingyu Pavilion of the manor, Zhuang Yunchang, the actual helmsman of the Zhuang family, was frowning on the reclining chair and meditating. In the breeze brought by the banana fan that his concubine Jiangqian shook gently, his heart was like the noisy cicadas outside the Xuanxuan. , a mess.

The Zhuang family in the south of the Yangtze River all originated from the Mi surname of King Zhuang of Chu, which originated in Hubei.Zhuang Yunchang is not of the same family as the famous Piling Zhuang family in later generations, but after Zhuang Ji, a master of Ci Fu in the Western Han Dynasty, scattered leaves were distributed in Wu County, Suzhou and other places, and have been passed down for more than 600 years.But in the three generations of Ming Zhengde, Jiajing, and Longqing, the family has not been a Jinshi for many years, and the highest education is Juren.

At this time, the eldest son of the family, Zhuang Yunchang, with a word of Shouchang, passed the provincial examination in the 37th year of Jiajing, and he was premature. He was only 19 years old at the time.However, under the gold list, there are all tears.Until the second year of Wanli, Zhuang Yunchang's examination was still repeated.At this time, he was 37 years old and still a juren.

In the third year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun used the Xu Jie family in Jiangnan as a breakthrough, cooperated with the big killer of the newspaper, killed a few monkeys, and the banker was on the list.

Although Zhuang Yunchang was not the head of the clan, he was definitely a wise man.At the beginning, he was limited by information asymmetry and did not understand the emperor's intention to clean up Xu Jie, thinking that it was still the aftermath of Xu Jie's struggle in the Longqing year, but as soon as the newspaper came out, his mind immediately recovered.

Immediately, he defied all opinions and persuaded the elders of the clan to resolutely give up their fields and wealth and invite fame, and he succeeded in avoiding the difficulty of breaking the family.After Wang, Dong, Gao, and Thursday's homes were broken into, Zhuang Yunchang's status in the clan was like a rocket, soaring into the sky.

After this incident, as the chief son of the long house, in addition to the things he was originally responsible for sacrificing fields and clan sacrifices, he had already obtained the actual dominance of clan affairs.

In the past, he got married after winning the imperial examination, and had a son who unfortunately died young.Later, at the age of 23, I got a daughter-in-law, and love was like a pearl in the palm of my hand.After that, although his wives and concubines gave him three sons and two daughters, none of them were loved by him as the eldest daughter.

Zhuang Jingjia's name is "Book of Songs" - "It tells peace, Biandou Jingjia", which describes the girl's cleanliness and beauty, and Zhuang Jingjia is just like the name. She has the appearance of shy flowers and closed moon, and the posture of sinking fish and falling geese.

At this time, Jingjia was already 14 years old, and it is reasonable to make a marriage contract long ago.But Zhuang Yunchang, dominated by his reluctance to give up, has always wanted to find a husband who is impeccable in all aspects for his prostitute.After her daughter's good name gradually spread, Zhuang Yunchang didn't think of any of the young heroes who came to the Zhuang family to ask for marriage, whether they were rich, handsome or both - or both.

Last year, the emperor's pen tip lightly circled, and although the banker was saved from the disaster, it also sounded a deafening alarm bell to Zhuang Yunchang.Regardless of your family of thousands of years of accumulated good deeds, the famous poets and prose are useless in the face of imperial power.

Even if you become the leader of the literary world, but once you make a mistake, you will be in a situation of doom. Isn't Wang Shizhen the most obvious example?

However, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a kind of person who, as long as they did not rebel and joined the army less in politics, they would be able to live with the country and enjoy the riches and honors of their hairpins for many generations.And the draft decree that has recently spread to Jiangnan also proves this.

As a result, Zhuang Yunchang, who was reminded by the government to report his daughter's information, fell into confusion and entanglement-does he really want to push Jing Jia, who is regarded as a treasure, into the deep palace that can eat people without spitting bones for the sake of his family?Or from the backup son-in-law that you have already selected and selected, quickly choose one, and bookmark the wedding first?
　Lao Mo wrote a little on the train, and wrote it again when he got home. These two words are the meaning of being cheeky and asking for tickets.

　　
　
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