Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 240 Marquis Wuding Acknowledges His Daughter, Concubine Qi Zhu Qiyu Pays Salute to Her Majesty
December [-]th, early morning.

After having breakfast and dressing up carefully, Zhu Qiyu took the concubine, concubine, and the whole family neatly, and came to Wu Dinghou's new residence.

The old Wudinghou's mansion was given to the second room and became Wenxinhou's mansion.

The new Marquis of Wuding's mansion is located in Huanghuafang, Dongcheng, near Chaoyangmen. It was originally one of Wang Zhen's luxurious mansions. Zhu Qiyu confiscated it and handed it over to Marquis Wuding as a gift of recognition.

Although Zhu Qiyu's family got up and left early, when they arrived at Marquis Wuding's mansion, it was already very lively inside and out.

There are many others who came earlier: Liu Chang and Zhao Yu got up before dawn, and with three thousand personal guards, they surrounded the entire Hou's mansion tightly.Those who haven't received the invitation today don't even think about coming in.

However, Marquis Wuding's Mansion set up porridge sheds and held wedding banquets at farther street intersections.

Whether it is the passing monks, beggars on the street, or ordinary people, they can all feel the joy of the Hou Mansion.Daming treasures, tea and snacks, fragrant porridge and steamed buns, wine, meat, vegetables and fruits, were given out desperately.

Not only that, the Marquis of Wuding attaches great importance to today's happy event, and even distributes warm cotton coats to poor families, street beggars.

As long as there is a congratulations and congratulations, everyone can use it as much as they want.

On the day of rejoicing in Marquis Wuding's Mansion, even if it is just a helpless beggar, he can enjoy the day happily like ordinary people during the New Year.

The civil servants, nobles, and generals of the emperor's confidantes came earlier than Zhu Qiyu. Those who were on errands were busy working around, while those who were not on errands drank tea and chatted.

Chen Xun and Wang Wen were appointed as the master of ceremonies for the recognition ceremony.Duke Ying, Duke Anguo, Duke Cao, and Duke Dingguo are witnesses on the side of the emperor; King Min, King Shu, Hou Wangtong of Chengshan, and Marquis Li Yu of Fuyang are witnesses to the side of Marquis Wuding.

There were also eleven eunuchs in charge of the inner court recently promoted by the emperor, all of whom were present, helping out around.

Even Jin Yiwei, most of the generals with a thousand households and above came.

Although Zhu Qiyu didn't wait to see Jin Yiwei, it was hard to say anything today.After all, my father-in-law, Marquis Wuding Guochang, is now in charge of Jinyi guards. It is only natural that the subordinates come to congratulate the Shangguan's family for a happy event. Even the emperor has no reason to drive him out.

There are so many people working, and Guo Chang and his wife, Zhu Qiyu and his wife are the masters today, they don't have to take care of things, they all go to the back hall to chat with Princess Yongjia.

Today's front yard manager is Wenxin Hou Guocong, who is responsible for entertaining male guests.The managers of the backyard are Mrs. Wenxinhou and Princess Xuanyi, who are responsible for receiving female guests.

Now Marquis Wuding and Marquis Wenxin have no conflict of interests, and they have become a loving family again.

Zhu Qiyu dragged Lin Xiangyu into the back hall, where Princess Yongjia, Princess Hanshan, King Min, King Shu, Guo Chang and his wife were sitting in the back hall.Zhu Qiyu bowed and Lin Xiangyu kowtowed.

Princess Yongjia is the twelfth daughter of Taizu, and King Min is the eighteenth son of Taizu. These two are compatriots.Princess Hanshan is the fourteenth daughter of Taizu.

These three are the only remaining children of Taizu.

King Zhu Chun of Shu, Taizu's eleventh son, and Princess Yongjia are also one-milk compatriots.But he has passed away, and the King of Shu sitting here today is Zhu Chun's fifth son, Zhu Yueshao.

Princess Yongjia has persuaded King Min and King Shu to fully support the emperor.

The remaining princes all supported the Supreme Emperor.

As for these princes, why they were so devoted to the Supreme Emperor, Zhu Qiyu himself was also puzzled.

From the matrilineal side, the Empress Dowager Sun is a concubine. When Zhu Qizhen was first born, he was definitely an undisputed bastard.Then Sun used extremely bad means to overthrow his first wife, Queen Hu.

It is said that if the princes want to support the system of first-line elders, they should also support Queen Hu.

From the perspective of the paternal line, the Jianwen lineage is the orthodox direct line.Even if the princes want to support the system of first-line elders, they should support Jianwen's lineage.

From Taizong and Renzong to Xuanzong and Zhengtong, they are all rebellious officials and thieves.

You princes shouted to support the eldest son, but at the same time stood firmly in line with the Sun family and Zhu Qizhen. The contradictions in this behavior and the confusion of logic are really puzzling.

Since it doesn't make sense to reason, Zhu Qiyu also broke the jar.

Today, apart from King Min and King Shu, none of the other princes invited them, and they didn't even send invitations.

Even King Xiang, whose reputation spread far and wide, was directly ignored by Zhu Qiyu.

Zhu Qiyu had already made up his mind that he would not waste even a sliver of energy on persuading the feudal lord.Trying to persuade the vassal is purely looking for anger.

If you have that energy, it is better to save more.In the spring of next year, he will work hard to try to give birth to the eldest son by the next year at the latest, and let his cronies put their hearts in their stomachs as soon as possible.

The two sides chatted for more than half an hour, and waited for the guests to arrive before going out to the main courtyard together.

Under the witness of everyone, the ceremony of acknowledgment of relatives was performed.

At the beginning, everyone who watched the ceremony was just amazed. This scene is really magnificent: all three living children of Taizu were present, the first assistant and second assistant presided over the ceremony, and the four princes, two princes and two princes were witnesses.The civil servants and generals of the third rank and above were also present, too many to count.

Then the emperor personally accompanied the princess, and first kowtowed to Princess Yongjia.That's all, after all, the eldest princess of Yongjia is the daughter of Taizu, and the eldest emperor has three generations. According to family etiquette, kowtow is not too much.

But the emperor's next move surprised everyone present: the emperor continued to kowtow with the princess, and gave a big gift to Wu Dinghou and his wife.

Now no one dared to underestimate Marquis Wuding Guochang anymore, the emperor used the most convincing way to bluntly show to everyone present that this confession of relatives was definitely not a joke.

There is no doubt that the emperor really took Wu Dinghou as the head of the country, and Wu Dinghou ranked third in the degree of courtesy among the heads of the Ming Dynasty.

Taizu must have kowtowed to his father-in-law, there is no doubt about it.

Taizong should have also kowtowed to the old man, so it's not a big problem.After all, Taizong was still the King of Yan when he got married, and his father-in-law Xu Da was Wei Guogong at the time, so he should kowtow.

After that, the birth of the queens declined, Renzong, Xuanzong, and Zhengtong certainly did not kowtow to the old man.

Arriving at Zhu Qiyu's place, the absurd energy broke out again, which greatly shocked the officials.

However, Guo Chang and his wife were also in a difficult situation. After accepting the gift tremblingly, Mrs. Wu Dinghou's wife, Yi Shi, put the family heirloom jade on her daughter personally, and said to the emperor: "Today is the day of great joy for recognizing a daughter. Your Majesty's gift is ours. I have the courage to accept it, but only this time, but it will never be an example."

Zhu Qiyu nodded, agreeing to just bow in the future.

The next step is to officially record Lin Xiangyu into the family tree of Marquis Wuding under the witness of the four princes, two princes and all the guests present.From then on, Lin Xiangyu's official name became Princess Qi Guo.

After the marriage recognition ceremony was over, close family members and distinguished guests went to the back hall for a small gathering, while others feasted in the front hall.

After the meal was in the afternoon, the guests dispersed one after another.Those who were lucky enough to witness this grand event went back and spread the news everywhere.

So far, Princess Qi's position has been completely stabilized.And the emperor once again won the support of a large number of people.

There is still a big difference between the emperor marrying the daughter of a military general, and then forming a connection with the Xungui Group through the general's relatives, and directly marrying the daughter of an Xungui.

Now that the emperor is directly marrying the daughter of Marquis Wuding, the position of the former nobles who remained neutral has been greatly shaken.

(End of this chapter)