Chapter 109: After the election
Yan Song, enjoying the sweet love, brought his wife to Beijing.
And Zhu Houzhao, the Zhengde Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, will also be single.
Tang Ren was given a memorial advising Zhu Houzhao to immediately follow the election.
This was the first time after the Three Cabinet Ministers case and after a large number of Kedao Yanguan were killed that Yanguan began to discuss government affairs.
However, this memorial was immediately approved by almost all civil and military officials, including the chief minister of the cabinet, Ma Wensheng, and the British Duke Zhang Mao.
Even Liu Jin, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, joined in the fun.
Zhu Houzhao didn't understand why most officials in the civil service group and even this era always focused on things that didn't seem to be very important.
For example, the prince went out to study.
And the emperor should attend more morning dynasties, which have no practical meaning but only ceremonial meaning.
There is also the matter of the emperor marrying a wife.
But now Zhu Houzhao can understand the characteristics of this era. In this society that maintains ethical order, in essence, the family is the world, and the emperor represents the largest family.
Therefore, the emperor's marriage and children, as well as the determination of the throne and the training of heirs, are the biggest things!
The history of each dynasty is a family history.
Zhu Houzhao's Ming Dynasty was no exception at this time. Zhu Houzhao could not yet confront the ethics of this society, not to mention that he himself was also a beneficiary, so Zhu Houzhao chose to accept it.
After all, the Queen Mother Zhang in the palace also hopes that he will accept the queen as soon as possible, and she talks about it almost every day.
Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to issue an edict to the world and start the election.
As a senior single in his previous life, Zhu Houzhao did not expect that he would be single in the Ming Dynasty, and that he would only marry a little Lolita of thirteen or fourteen years old, not even one, but three!
Zhu Houzhao couldn't imagine what it would be like for his wife to be a little girl.
Although he is only fifteen years old in the eyes of others.
But Zhu Houzhao's inner age was already much older than his actual age.
However, Zhu Houzhao still had to accept this factual arrangement.
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In the severe winter ice and snow, Liu'er is covered with gauze, water and cotton.
When the emperor's decree to select a concubine was issued and became known to the people all over the world, Miss Xia, the daughter of Xia Ru, the governor of the Dudu Mansion, did not know that she would have contact with the royal family in the future.
At this time, the girl from the Xia family only watched the red plum blossoms through the window pane every day.
As for the emperor, she was a person she had never heard of before in her life.
And the so-called husband is the person she is curiously looking forward to but is not ashamed to talk about.
But at this time, a white face with a pink face appeared in front of the window at some point, with orchid fingers raised, and she said something like a daughter than the Xia girl herself:
"So beautiful! I'm afraid you must be the queen, selected!"
The Xia girl herself was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she turned around hurriedly, her heart beating fast.
This was the first time she had met someone outside her family, and the first person she was biased against was a male and female eunuch, which naturally left a very bad impression on the cardamom girl.
Immediately afterwards, her father informed her that she had been selected by someone in the palace and was about to go to Beijing to run for election.
Only then did the girl from the Xia family begin to realize that she might be getting married, and she also began to pay more attention to the current emperor Zhu Houzhao.
Not long after, this Jiangnan girl left Jinling, her hometown where she had lived for fourteen years, and headed north by boat. The Ming Dynasty did not choose the daughters of powerful people when choosing concubines, so the girls selected were all commoners. Even if they were not commoners, they were just from poor families with a good family background.
It is worth mentioning that the poor family in ancient times does not mean the same thing as the poor family in later generations. The poor family in ancient times is almost equivalent to the middle class.
Therefore, although the girl from the Xia family went to the capital with her father, she did not charter a big boat to go north. She also took a boat to the capital with other women who chose to go to the capital.
Since they all came to Beijing for the same reason and were almost of the same class, they naturally had many topics in common.
Although the girl from the Xia family is quiet by nature, she has also heard a lot of new things from other more lively girls, and most of these new things are naturally about the emperor.
After all, they are coming to Beijing now to be the women chosen to be the emperor.
Some people say that the rules in the palace are strict and people will be beheaded at every turn.
Some people say that the current emperor is cruel, that he kills ten clans and rips out their hearts and souls.
It is also said that the current emperor has had excessive sexual pleasure since he was a child, and is very dandy, so that he is weak and even sick. Once he becomes an emperor, a woman may be infected with the disease and will not be able to survive.
It was also said that the emperor ate human flesh and slept on human skin every day, which made him imagine Zhu Houzhao as a character in a horror movie.
In short, these girls to be selected are reluctant to leave their hometown and fear for the future, so they do not have a good impression of the mysterious palace.
After hearing this, the girl from the Xia family couldn't help but frown. She didn't want to marry such a murderous, ruthless and lustful playboy.
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At this time, Zhu Houzhao, who was in the Qianqing Palace, did not know that he had been imagined as a devil by the girls who were waiting for selection.
At least, as a new emperor and only fifteen years old, he was still secretly loved by the ladies in the palace. After all, he was the only masculine boy in the Forbidden City.
If Zhu Houzhao is willing, he can take possession of the palace people for himself at any time.
But the young man must be careful about sex, otherwise he will not live a long life. Zhu Houzhao had to take good care of himself for the sake of Ming Dynasty and his own life.
But he is still looking forward to the future queen.
He even had a dream about the queen last night because of this, and did something embarrassing in the dream, but he didn't see the queen's face clearly in his sleep.
Zhu Houzhao had such an experience in later generations, but at this moment, he still felt a little embarrassed.
Zhu Houzhao had to admit that the owner of his body had indeed begun to have secondary sexual characteristics.
Queen Mother Zhang finally gave the eldest palace maid Ruyi to Zhu Houzhao. The purpose was naturally very clear. She was to teach Zhu Houzhao about men and women before his wedding.
Ruyi also tried his best and was willing to devote himself to Zhu Houzhao's personal teaching of Dunlun.
However, Zhu Houzhao didn't need anyone's guidance, and he was self-taught in this matter. In order to prevent himself from eating his bones and marrow and falling into it once he was broken, even if he was restrained, it would be harmful to his body, so he would He only allowed Ruyi to sleep in the outer room, and did not allow her to warm his bed or even open the room.
Ruyi would get up earlier than Zhu Houzhao every day, and would come to help Zhu Houzhao change his clothes after washing.
"Remember to ask me for permission before coming in the future! You are not allowed to come in without my permission! Do you understand?" Zhu Houzhao asked.
Ruyi nodded: "I understand!"
Zhu Houzhao hummed and said, "Take a shower first! Also, ask Wei Bin who is on duty to ask Wang Shouren to wait a little longer!"
The only thing I mean when writing this chapter is that Zhu Houzhao has grown up! Regarding the birthplace of the queen, there are two theories according to the information. One is that she was from Shangyuan in Jinling, and the other is that she was from Daxing. The first theory is used here to facilitate future plot needs
(End of chapter)