Chapter 468: More options
"Since Your Majesty has such an idea, I will be ashamed of myself." Yuntao cupped her hands and lowered her head in salute.
The idea of the title of eldest grandson is undoubtedly very trendy in this era. As an emperor, he does not just regard Dajin as his family property, but hopes that this land will have a brighter future.
Beyond gender, beyond time and space.
The eldest grandson also bowed back to Yuntao, "I cannot be where I am today without the help of my sister and the teachings of my uncle and aunt."
"You can't just live like this for decades in your life."
Since the eldest grandson had drawn up the list, he naturally had to show it to the ministers.
They can know who will pass the throne to the eldest grandson family, but it is not up to them to choose.
After Yuntao returned home, she told her parents about her eldest grandson title. Li Qianchen was also there.
It is a big deal for ordinary people's children to be unmarried and infertile, let alone an imperial family.
Yun Huachun's first thought was that the child was extremely bold, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that the child was sacrificing himself.
Sacrifice your own happiness and your own life to achieve an extremely great cause.
"Hey! It's not easy to hold a baby in your arms!" Wan Hongmei said with emotion.
If the emperor had asked them to do it, even if they had modern knowledge, they might not be able to do it for the title's sake.
Even if there are ready-made historical lessons, future generations may never learn from them.
Therefore, Yun Huachun felt that his eldest grandson was extremely smart.
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Just as the eldest grandson expected, she brought up the idea of adopting a child and raising it in the clan, but many ministers in the court disagreed.
What the ministers generally mean is that Your Majesty is still so young, why don't you have a child yourself and adopt it?
Although he is the child of a clan relative, he is generally not as good as his own child.
Besides, what should I do if Your Majesty, as an example to the people, refuses to get married, and in the future you teach the people so bad that they don’t like getting married?
The most important point is that the laws of the Jin Dynasty were written by the founding emperor.
Women can marry later, but it is against the law not to get married when they are old, and they need to pay money to redeem themselves. Of course, there are also people who do not need to get married, some women of high status, and women in Taoist temples.
Some of the women among them were slaves because of their low status.
Slaves are not even human beings. Life and death are decided by the slave owner. As for the issue of getting married and having children, it is not decided by the government.
Even those who serve Buddha and Taoist ancestors, and women who devote themselves to religion, do not need to get married.
The title of eldest grandson neither means that the former does not have freedom, nor does the latter give freedom.
Faced with the helplessness of the ministers, Chang Sunxian said calmly, "My dear friends, don't worry, I will pay the fine on time!"
How can they feel at ease?
How could your Majesty be so ridiculous?
In the eyes of the eldest grandson, it is more practical to select some clan girls to be trained in the palace than to stuff some strange men into the harem.
Since the eldest grandson ascended the throne, many families have been making secret preparations in private to cultivate handsome men of various styles and then send them to serve in the palace.
They waited like this, until the young men turned into young adults, and the young adults turned into middle-aged and elderly people, but they still couldn't wait for His Majesty's discouragement to change!
These people have never had such a headache!
But they thought about it and realized that if they prepared some men for their future little majesties and stuffed them into their backyards, it would definitely be easier than it was today.
The matter has come to this, and they can't persuade the person on the stage, so what else can they do?
Anyway, that's not all that worries them.
Compared with people from these big families, the clan members are more distressed. There are stories in history where emperors died without sons and needed clan heirs to take over, but the final endings were not very good.
How can a woman in the family take on such an important responsibility? What should I do if the child has an unstable temper and offends His Majesty?
There is also the question of who to choose in the family. Some granddaughters are twelve or thirteen years old, and some are only two or three years old. How can we send them to His Majesty? Who should we choose?
The elders think that it is definitely better to choose someone younger.
The elder's temperament has been determined, and he may not be happy with His Majesty after entering the palace.
Just when they were undecided, the White Dragon Envoy's people came down with the list.
All the children selected on the list will enter the palace and be raised by His Majesty. This is the list that was drawn up after the eldest grandson had people observe him secretly for several years.
It is their honor to become the heir apparent, but it comes with a price.
The parents and relatives of all the selected children must leave Beijing immediately. Those with official positions will be transferred to other places, and the eldest grandson without official positions will be sent to a special place to provide for their old age.
If the child is not selected to become an emperor, he can return when the child becomes an adult and reunite the family.
If you are chosen, you will never be able to return to the capital in this life.
Anyone who goes to Beijing privately to contact the child will have the child sent home immediately and will never be able to come to the palace again.
The eldest grandson considers herself not a domineering person. She added a list to give these clansmen a chance to choose. They can choose not to send their children to the palace, and their lives will remain as before.
If you make a choice, there must be sacrifices.
If one's own child can become an emperor, most of the clan members will be overjoyed when such a thing hits their heads.
A girl is no better than a man and cannot inherit the family business, but if she becomes an emperor, that is another matter.
Many families happily took the names and left the capital with their families, and had their children, and they were compensated by the title of eldest grandson.
Raising children is not an easy task, especially raising so many children.
The eldest grandson once heard his sister say in the academy that only children who are loved and cared for can grow up healthily. Caring is not a preference, nor is it arrogance.
For this reason, the eldest grandson carefully selected a group of people to take care of the children.
After she was raised, she was sent to a girls' school, and the concubines took care of her. When the time came, she would be able to teach some courses specifically.
The idea of the eldest grandson is very simple. These are the daughters of the eldest grandson's family.
Even if they can't be emperor, they can always hold important positions elsewhere. Let them love each other and help each other, and the Jin Dynasty will definitely become better.
The eldest grandson's move to establish the crown prince was not a small one, and had great repercussions among the people.
For the people and the court, there was one thing that surprised them even more.
It was Yuntao's gift to her eldest grandson, a frame that could move on its own without an ox-drawn horse.
On his birthday, the eldest grandson drove this car around the capital.
Although the aristocratic families have heard about it, hearing it and seeing it are two different things.
After seeing the car in person, they racked their brains and couldn't figure out how the car was made.
How can this wheel move by itself?
Is there someone hiding underneath? Is someone pushing a cart underneath?
The answer is of course no!
At his birthday party, the eldest grandson announced another piece of good news.
It was about building a railway track from the capital to the east.
Chapter completed!