sinovels Chapter 447 On Daming's Consort
Chapter 447 On Daming's Consort
Wantong accepted this idea.
The next day, Wantong went to find Ying Gong, and then went to meet Emperor Xianzong together. He didn't know what he said, but Emperor Xianzong was very satisfied anyway.
Then the eyes of the generals also brought a smile, as if they saw the brilliance....
In autumn and July, Ding Chou sent envoys to Japan to investigate.
Because of the news from the south, there seems to be a lot less Japanese pirates in Jinghai in spring!
"Isn't it good if it's missing?" Wu Youwei didn't quite understand.
"It's not good if it's missing." Wantong shook his head: "The Japanese pirates are the main source of miners in the gold mine. Those people don't have to pay wages, they just give them a stutter. Just let them work. The pirates are unruly, and their management is better than the Japanese pirates It's more difficult, and... the mines on each island are short of people!"
Wang Zhi, Grand Duke Wang, who has tasted the sweetness of the prisoners of war, has already set his sights on the coastal countries. Where is there no Japanese pirates and pirates?
He will not bully the subordinate countries without authorization, but those Japanese pirates and pirates... everyone will be punished.
It's okay not to kill them, but to "reform through labor". Anyway, the islands with mines are only allowed to enter but not to exit.
As for Jingzhong, because the eldest princess has passed her 14th birthday and will reach her birthday next year, there is a lot of panic.
In ancient times, women can marry and have children after they reach the age of ji, but royal princesses are precious, and they usually come out after two or three years after they are engaged (ancient women are called married, but because princesses are of royal blood and noble status, they cannot marry. It’s Jiang.), around the eighteenth or nineteenth year, I gave birth to a child.
This is also good, because if it is too early, the princess is too young, and it is easy to give birth to a child.
The Eldest Princess is the eldest daughter of Emperor Xianzong, born of a noble concubine, and a sibling with the Crown Prince, so her status is naturally more precious, but... the consort of the Ming Dynasty is a very sad profession.
The princesses of Ming Dynasty don't need marriage, but the princesses of Ming Dynasty are not so happy, their marriage is not as good as that of ordinary women in this era.
In the ancient royal family, the emperor's daughter generally did not worry about getting married, and there were many people who wanted to be concubines.
But there were some exceptions in the Ming Dynasty.
There are many men who don't want to enter the palace as concubines, why is that?
As the saying goes, "The emperor's daughter is not worried about marrying", but this is not always true. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, there were not many people who wanted to be concubines.
At that time, there was a ballad in Beijing called "Ten Funniest Songs", and the tenth piece was to laugh at the son-in-law, "Ten funny things, the son-in-law should change the present report."
To talk about the sad concubine of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply "a child without a mother, it is a long story"!
The Ming Dynasty had a set of rules for choosing a son-in-law: "The Tired Dynasty established a rule that when a princess grows up, she should choose a marriage match, and the imperial decree will be issued to the Ministry of Rites, and the list will be issued to officials, soldiers and civilians in Beijing." Every man between the ages of 14 and 16 has a neat appearance and parents. Anyone with a tutor can register at the Ministry of Rites.
After the primary selection, the supervisor of rites and the supervisor of Qintian will calculate the horoscope of the birthday, and Jin Yiwei will check whether there is any disease in the body and report it.
If no one is qualified in the primary election, the general election will be held in the capital, or the scope will be expanded to include Jinei, Shandong, and Henan.
The final decision of the son-in-law rests with the emperor, queen mother and/or concubine.
If the chosen son-in-law was already married, it must be annulled immediately and the woman should be married again.
Because it was carried out by region, most of the concubines in the Ming Dynasty were from the north.
It is a supreme honor to be able to marry the emperor's daughter as his wife.
Think about it, the father-in-law is the emperor, the in-laws are the emperor, or the grandfather is the emperor, how awesome!
In fact, not everyone wanted to rely on nepotism to get to the top, and men in the Ming Dynasty, especially men from scholarly families and aristocratic families, were generally unwilling to marry a princess as a son-in-law.
The mystery lies in the following points:
One is that being a son-in-law is equivalent to cutting off one's own future.
The Ming Dynasty stipulated that any family whose children were selected as son-in-law would no longer have the opportunity to become an official. "The son-in-law and Yibin are not allowed to be officials, and their sons are not allowed to be ranked in Beijing."
The son-in-law is the husband of the emperor's daughter, the princess, and Yibin is the husband of the prince's daughter, the princess.
If the son-in-law's father is already an official, he will immediately be promoted to one level and then retire immediately.
The starting point of this regulation must be to prevent in-laws from interfering in politics, but it undoubtedly makes many men regard it as tasteless.
The second is that a married consort has no status.
Before and after the princess gets married, according to regulations, the son-in-law must go to the Imperial College to study in order to learn civil and military knowledge and etiquette knowledge, so as to receive the grace of the saint.
Before marrying, the emperor will build the princess mansion in advance, "the general will accept the son-in-law, choose the day's bed in advance, and transport dowry, gold, silver, satin and other things into the mansion."
After the equipment is ready, the princess's "transfer" will start, that is, she will move from the palace to live in the princess mansion.
On this day, the princess bid farewell to the emperor's father and mother, and was led out by a female official from the east gate of the palace, and sat on a sedan chair at the east gate.There were also those sent by the emperor himself to Donghuamen, commonly known as "the bride leaving the pavilion".
As soon as the day arrives when the horoscope is confirmed, the son-in-law will be called into the princess mansion.
The son-in-law must enter the middle hall from the left door, wait for the princess to dress up, come from the back hall to the middle hall, and come to the incense table to worship the heaven and the earth and perform eight salutes.
After the ceremony, the princess' son-in-law sat facing east and west, the princess sat on the head seat, and the son-in-law sat on the guest seat. The son-in-law bowed four times to the princess, the princess sat down to receive two bows, and stood up to thank the princess twice.
After the ceremony is completed, the son-in-law can live in the princess mansion.
Husbands salute their wives, which is completely contrary to the traditional idea that men are superior to women.
In particular, the Ming Dynasty was the heyday of feudal ethics, and the concept of male superiority and female inferiority was deeply rooted in the bone marrow, but the princess was of royal blood, the emperor, and the son-in-law was the minister, which involved the etiquette of the emperor and ministers.
The third is that the parents of the son-in-law have no status.
According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, after ten days of marriage, the young couple must return to the palace.
On the day of returning home, the princess went directly to the palace to Fengxian Hall, and then met her father and mother.
The son-in-law must register at Honglu Temple the day before, thank you outside the Meridian Gate the next day, and then enter the palace to salute. The emperor will give a banquet, and the banquet must go home.
Only after returning to the door, the princess will meet her uncle, that is, her parents-in-law.
Still according to the rules: "Uncle sits in the east and faces west."
The princess stands in the west, facing east, bows four times, and uncles and aunts answer two bows.
The daughter-in-law bows four times to the parents-in-law, and then the parents-in-law bows twice to the daughter-in-law, which is already very inconsistent with traditional ethics.
However, even so, because the princess had to bow four times, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" recorded: "Although the notes on the rituals exist", the ceremony of the princess worshiping uncles and aunts "has never been practiced in the end of the Ming Dynasty."
In other words, in the Ming Dynasty, the princesses never met their in-laws!
The Ming Dynasty has been established for hundreds of years, how many princesses have titles!
How many are married?
There is no one who respects his in-laws?
That is impossible, but there is no princess to perform this ceremony!
Because "monarchs and ministers are different", if you receive a big gift from the princess, you are "offending"!
Heaven and earth are kings, relatives and teachers, "jun" is before "kiss".
The fourth is married life, where the husband has no status.
In daily life, the princess and her son-in-law are orderly, which is completely opposite to the traditional concept that men are superior to women. The princess is the king and the son-in-law is the minister, and the princess is respected while the son-in-law is inferior.
"The princess eats and drinks on top, and the son-in-law stands beside her."
"The son-in-law gives fruit and delicacies, which is called "chen"; the princess answers the gift, and the book 'gift'"
When a husband sends some fruit to his wife, he should say "a minister", and the princess expresses his gratitude.
This husband is really aggrieved....
The missionaries in the Ming Dynasty made such a description that after the princess got married, "the son-in-law had to perform normal salutes to his wife four times a day, and did not stop this ritual until she gave birth to a child, but there were many other restrictions and inconveniences for them. , so noble families do not want to be the son-in-law of the emperor.
The fifth is that it is risky to be noisy.
It is inevitable for a young couple to live their lives through bumps and bumps.
But because the wife is a princess, with golden branches and jade leaves, it is completely different.
During the Yingzong period, Princess Changde married Xue Huan, the son-in-law. Because of his wife's cold reception, Xue Huan "served as a private servant and argued with Princess Changde." The princess cried to her father. .I will be banned in the Jinyi Guard Prison."
Because honest men do not want to be son-in-law, some crooked people have bad ideas.
Princess Yongchun, Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, was personally selected by the emperor, but the chosen son-in-law Xie Zhao was born bald.
During the Jiajing period, Princess Yongchun married Xie Zhao, the son-in-law. Unexpectedly, Xie Zhao became bald and bald at a young age. She was ridiculed by her friends, which made the princess feel very ashamed.
The princess also heard that Gao Gong, one of the previously unsuccessful consort candidates, had passed the Jinshi examination, and that he was handsome and well-mannered. .
The son-in-law chosen by Princess Yongning during the reign of Emperor Shenzong was Liang Bangrui, the son of a wealthy man named Liang in Beijing.
After less than a month of marriage, Concubine Liang died.
Princess Yongning died of depression after being widowed for more than ten years.It is said that before he died, he still didn't know the love between men and women.
In the impression of ordinary people, it seems that being the husband of a royal princess should be a very happy thing.
Because after marrying the princess, he can be regarded as a relative of the emperor.
It is true that in some dynasties, being a son-in-law did have some power.
But in the Ming Dynasty, being a son-in-law was an extremely tragic thing.
In the Ming Dynasty, the princess and her son-in-law would live in the Ten Princes’ Mansion after they got married, but the son-in-law could not live in the Ten Princes’ Mansion all the time. There were only a few opportunities to meet each other a month, and the chances of meeting these few times required the permission of the housekeeper of the Princess Mansion. .
Don't think that this butler is just a decoration and has no power.
They have great power.
They even directly manage the daily life of the princess, even when the princess consort meets, she needs to take care of her and bribe her.
According to records, the son-in-law of Princess Shouning, the daughter of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, was Ran Xingrang.
On a dark night, Ran Xingrang and Princess Shouning couldn't bear the loneliness after their newlyweds, so they met without reporting to the housekeeper Liang Yingnv.
This can stab a hornet's nest.
At that time, Liang Yingnv was drinking and having fun with the eunuch Zhao Jinchao. When she heard the news, she immediately became furious.
Even when the princess came out to persuade her, she was scolded by her, which can be described as extremely arrogant.
The next day, Princess Shouning was so indignant that she went to the palace to file a complaint with the imperial concubine. As a result, Liang Yingnv had already entered the palace and the villain filed the complaint first, and it was an embellished complaint, and her mother refused to see her.
Then the son-in-law Ran Xingrang wanted to sue the emperor, but the eunuch named Zhao Jinchao had already ambushed dozens of thugs on the road, and beat Ran Xingrang violently.
Not only that, after becoming a concubine in the Ming Dynasty, he could not be an official, let alone take concubines.
Therefore, being a consort in the Ming Dynasty was no different from being a widow.
Don't think about the happy life of the consort of the Ming Dynasty, it can only be a nightmare.
As soon as I heard that choosing a son-in-law is more serious than picking a girl, no matter what kind of children in the family, even if they are only ten years old, they must get engaged immediately!
There are married people everywhere.
Wantong said to Wu Youwei: "Eldest sister wants to show her son-in-law to her eldest niece."
Wu Youwei was shocked!
Seeing his undisguised shock, Wantong asked him, "What's wrong?"
Wu Youwei told him the summary of future generations about the princess and consort of the Ming Dynasty, it was so sad!
The princess is sad, and the son-in-law is even more sad!
Wantong's face turned black when I heard it...