Chapter 281 The 'Gaoluo' Incident of Returning to Japan (Xujiu)
The emperor's idea was obviously not feasible. It was impossible to falsify the prince's birth under the Ming Dynasty's court system. Zhu Yuanzhang had very strict regulations in this regard, which were later supplemented during the Jiajing period, and there was no loophole that could be exploited.
If you think about it, you will know that the time when the emperor visited the queen, concubines and even palace maids was clearly recorded. He even compared it with the menstrual cycle of the person to determine the time of pregnancy, and the rest of the correspondence
Systems are also available.
Zhu Yijun's whimsical idea of using his nephew as his son was obviously a temporary emergency and he sought medical attention. After all, it stands to reason that he himself is very aware of these systems.
Gao pragmatically thought that unless there was a prince born almost at the same time as this child, and the emperor was willing to play a trick, it would be impossible to achieve. But obviously, these two conditions were not met, and there was no such prince.
Secondly, it is impossible for the emperor to do this.
Oh, of course, if they are really born together, before the birth, you can still find a way to say that they are twins or twins, but since there is no such situation, naturally it cannot be done.
So the two of them could only continue to think of a solution. After a while, Gao pragmatically suggested, how about saying that the eldest princess Yongning lived in loneliness and adopted an abandoned baby?
As a result, Zhu Yijun still refused. This time it was not a matter of inoperability, but that the emperor did not like the word "abandoned baby" and felt that it was very unfair to give his nephew such a label, which made him very uncomfortable.
Gao Jingshi had no choice but to think again, and after a while he suggested that Princess Shouyang, Princess Yongning's third biological sister, and Princess Shouyang were also old to him. Could he ask Princess Shouyang for help, and say that the child was hers, and then adopt the child?
To Fourth Sister.
Zhu Yijun was quite excited at first, thinking that this idea was not bad. After all, it would get rid of the unfortunate term "abandoned baby". In addition, Princess Shouyang and Princess Yongning were born from the same mother, and the elder sister adopted a child for her younger sister.
It is a very common thing, and the foreign court will not raise any objections to it. It is simply perfect.
However, the two of them continued their discussion for a while and found that although the idea was good, the actual operation may not be successful - the eldest princess of Shouyang was not an ordinary woman, although her fertility issues did not have the same extremely strict system to supervise the concubines at all times.
, but it is still recorded roughly when she became pregnant and when she gave birth specifically.
The reason why Princess Yongning was able to secretly get pregnant and give birth was because Zhu Yijun personally opened the door in the early years, so that her princess mansion was different from other princess mansion systems, and she enjoyed huge autonomy...so that Gao Pragmatic could meet her more conveniently.
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In short, although the people around Princess Yongning are still palace maids and eunuchs in name, they have actually been bribed and fed by Gao Pingshi from top to bottom. Let's put it this way, as long as Her Royal Highness is not plotting a rebellion in the princess palace
, these people must not even fart one more time.
However, Princess Shouyang did not know that such a thing would happen before, so she not long ago accompanied the emperor and the queen mother to go to Tianshou Mountain to pay tribute to the late emperor's tomb. Was she pregnant for several months? Even if she was only blind.
can not tell.
In this way, even if Hou Gongchen, Princess Shouyang and his wife did have an old relationship with Gao Pangshi, they would definitely be willing to help, but since they could not get away with it, this idea had to be given up.
Gao Jingshi couldn't help but feel a little confused. At this time, Zhu Yijun said, otherwise, the child will still say it's your Gao Jingshi, but the mother will have to be changed to say it's your wife Huang Zhiting, and then
Another excuse to adopt Princess Yongning - the excuse is very easy to come up with. Zhu Yijun said that if it didn't work out, he would just issue the decree himself. All you have to do is obey the decree.
According to Zhu Yijun, Gao Jingjing's status and meritorious service are high enough. This child is still regarded as Gao Jingjing's son and passed to the eldest princess. No matter what, it makes sense.
Considering that the courtiers all knew about the relationship between Gao Jingshi and the emperor, on the one hand, the emperor felt sorry for his sister, and on the other hand, the emperor took care of the status of Gao Jingshi's legitimate second son, allowing him to receive royal tickets, which can also be regarded as
A pragmatic way to win over Gao, so that he won't be too aggressive about it.
The emperor's proposal was very feasible. The reason was that Huang Zhiting was not in the capital for a long time, but was sitting in southern Xinjiang. He usually returned to the capital around the end of the year to celebrate the New Year with Gao Pragmatic, and only stayed in the capital for about two to three months.
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So this brings up another problem, that is, when she gives birth, she is usually not in the capital, but in the so-called "Siam Palace" in Dingnan - of course, it is actually Gao Pragmatic and her mansion.
In this way, unless Gao Yingshi announced it himself, the courtiers would not know any news about Huang Zhiting's birth. So how would they know whether she was pregnant or not, one or two? Of course, what happened to Gao Jingshi?
Just believe it if they say it.
And it just so happened that Huang Zhiting really had a child in the near future, so as long as the news was spread "correctly" in Dingnan, it would be easy to cover up the matter and forcibly put Princess Yongning's child under Huang Zhiting's name.
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The two of them thought about it for a long time and felt that there should be no better plan than this. Especially Zhu Yijun insisted that Huang Zhiting must be the one to recognize the son - because she was the principal wife, so they finally decided to do it this way.
What Huang Zhiting thought after receiving the news was not very clear to Gao Pragmatic, but at least there was no complaint in her reply, but a detailed explanation of her various arrangements for the matter in southern Xinjiang. To be honest, these arrangements were more
High pragmatism: What you propose in general terms should be at least ten times more detailed, and all aspects have been considered. In the end, the number of people who can know the truth can be counted on one hand.
The only problem is that Princess Yongning’s children need to be sent to Dingnan as soon as possible. Otherwise, when Dingnan’s high-level advisory group, generals and the Siamese royal family come to congratulate her, she cannot clearly announce that she has given birth to twins but can only
Taking a child out to meet people? That will obviously cause a lot of inconvenience.
Although Princess Yongning is very reluctant to let such a young child travel by boat, even Gao Pragmatic is a little worried about whether the current sea ships are suitable for infant children. But there is no other way, this matter must be carried out, so only
We were able to mobilize the most capable medical staff and arranged for a second-class battleship to be used as a carrier to send the child to Dingnan.
In the end, this child was nominally the second son of Huang Zhiting, the fourth legitimate son in the family, and twin brothers with Gao Ji. However, after the news was spread back to the capital, the emperor actually issued an order to settle the matter of adoption.
After coming down, the fourth legitimate son was still Gao Ji, and he was taken back to Princess Yongning's mansion.
Logically speaking, this matter should have ended here, but it didn't, and something happened next.
The problem lies in the surname. There is no problem for the child to be "adopted" to Princess Yongning, but since ancient times, the child has taken the father's surname. Naturally, a dynasty like the Ming Dynasty that pays attention to ethics cannot mess with it, and it is impossible for him to change his surname to Zhu.
But the problem lies in the "father's surname". From which father's surname? As soon as Princess Yongning received the child, she immediately announced the child's name: Gao Luo.
Unexpectedly, many officials soon complained, believing that this matter was not in line with etiquette and the child should not be named Gao, but should be named Liang - that is, the Liang of the tuberculosis ghost Liang Bangrui back then.
They believe that the reason here is that although Liang Bangrui's family committed the crime of deceiving the emperor and was given the title of princess, and was later severely punished, the Tian family did not judge the marriage to be invalid, and the eldest princess Yongning has been the princess for so many years.
She lives alone in the name of Shuang Ju, so theoretically her husband is still Liang Bangrui.
In this case, now that she has adopted an adopted son, the adopted son should naturally continue to take the surname of Liang, and cannot skip Liang Bangrui and continue to take the surname of his biological father.
It is also an adoption. Gao Yan adopted Tokugawa Ieyasu. Gao Pragmatic did not care that he changed to Tokugawa Miao, because first of all, there was no Miao character in the Ming Dynasty, and making Miao "equal with the surname" was something that happened during Japan's Meiji Restoration in history. According to the current situation
As far as Japan is concerned, there are only five surnames: Minamoto, Taira, Fujiwara, Tachibana, and Toyotomi.
Theoretically, the Tokugawa family claimed to be "Minamoto court minister so-and-so", that is, Minamoto's origin, but coincidentally, neither he nor Tokugawa Ieyasu discussed this matter, and Ieyasu only mentioned the "Tokugawa Miao character". In other words,
Gao Yan didn't actually have to change his surname. In fact, he just concealed his surname and added the character Miao.
As for what he will do if he really succeeds as General Zhengyi in the future without the prefix "Source Courtier", that is another matter. Gao Pragmatic estimates that Japan will have it all under control by then. How should this thing be dressed up?
, or simply change the system, both are possible.
However, it would not work if Gao Luo changed his surname to Liang. It was actually Gao Jingshi who punished Liang Bangrui's family in the first place. Now if he wants to let his son have the same surname as Liang Bangrui, Gao Jingshi will not be able to get through this hurdle.
However, it was inconvenient for the princess to defend herself, so Gao Pragmatic had to take action in person. So the court almost had a second edition of the Grand Ceremony Discussion for a period of time. The Gao Party faction engaged in a verbal battle with the Confucian scholars, and Liang Banggrui's family was found guilty of deceiving the emperor.
Before, I had lost the right to bear my surname.
As for the emperor not issuing a decree to cancel the marriage, it was just because the Tian family wanted to set an example for the world, and it did not mean that he actually recognized his brother-in-law.
This matter was debated for a while, until something unexpected happened on the Korean battlefield, and the two sides reached a stalemate after the battle of Li Rusong's Bichi Pavilion. The court's attention turned back to serious government affairs, and what surname should be given to the adopted son of Princess Yongning?
The heat of discussion was suppressed.
At this time, the emperor personally came out and said that you all should stop arguing. The child will be named Gao from now on. However, considering your arguments, the child's current surname of Gao is not directly inherited from Gao Jingshi, but was given by me!
At this point, this matter has truly come to an end. What, Your Majesty, why do you insist on giving this child the surname "Gao"?
I can give you whatever surname I want, it’s none of your business! Do you have to take care of whoever I want to appoint? Come on, come on, whoever has this idea, stand up for me.
Today I will let you know what it means to be a king, a king, and a minister!
After the victory of the Battle of Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yijun's prestige was high enough, and this matter could still be suppressed. Once he assumed the posture of "I am determined to do it" and used slightly more fierce words in the edict, no one would jump at it again.
He came out and continued to make trouble.
In fact, it’s no wonder. Due to the system in the Ming Dynasty, none of the relatives were from ordinary families. At that time, Liang Bangrui’s family was just a small wealthy businessman in the capital with a little money. After the incident, Gao Pragmatic punished them and quickly destroyed them. Now everyone in the family has a grave.
How tall are you? Who would really go against Gao Pragmatic or even the emperor just to vent his anger on his family?
To put it bluntly, their main reason for hyping up this matter was to seek fame. After all, they were going against a Ge Lao who wielded huge real power like Gao Jingshi. That was not an opportunity that was usually found.
Of course, you can also confront Gao Pragmatic in ordinary times, but Gao Pragmatic usually has no other leverage to use, and it is unwise to go against him in government affairs and it is easy to get yourself involved.
But regarding the surname of Princess Yongning’s adopted son, these people think it’s okay to speculate. The reason is also very simple. The surname of the adopted child is not a serious matter in the Ming Dynasty. No one would think that the child will have to bear their own surname after being adopted——
Otherwise, are you going to adopt me?
Even if someone has the same surname and the same clan, although they still have the same surname after adoption, theoretically they will inherit the adoptive father's surname, and the family tree will be calculated according to the adoptive father's side.
Therefore, in the eyes of these people, Gao Pragmatic will not be really angry about this matter. So there is no big danger in hyping it up. It is a good investment with high returns and low risks, so why not?
It is nothing more than refuting the face of Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess! But so what, no matter how favored the Eldest Princess is by the Emperor, the princess of the Ming Dynasty cannot interfere in politics at all. As long as she does not conflict with the etiquette and law, then offending her is in vain.
As for Gao Pangshi personally standing up to challenge later, they did not expect this situation. However, they could not simply give in at this point. They always had to argue and argue. Of course, from that time on, many people
In fact, people had already given up, so after the news of the battle at Biti Hall came back, they quickly stopped.
Many people have also reflected on why Gao Pragmatism is so sensitive on this matter. Although they cannot find a very reasonable explanation, because the objective facts already exist, they can only forcefully explain that Gao Pragmatism is against
At that time, Liang Bangrui was still angry about the incident, and he had to prevent the Liang family from turning over at any relevant level in order to be satisfied.
This guess is not wrong, but it is not the real inside story, but... it doesn't matter anymore. In short, Princess Yongning was able to give her son the "justifiable" surname Gao. There was only one thing that seemed a bit regretful: he couldn't.
Entering the Gao family's genealogy can no longer be counted as a member of the Gao family in name.
This triggered another thing, that is, the eldest princess Yongning suddenly felt that her fiefdom was not enough, and she was worried that her son would not be able to hold his head high among the "Gao brothers" in the future - after all, how much wealth did Gao Jingshi have?
Her Royal Highness the Princess also knows roughly.
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PS: I was already extremely busy, but there was another local case in my city, and I had to start nucleic acid testing again. Queuing at three o'clock in the afternoon almost gave me a heat stroke. Suddenly, I recalled the closed month of military training before the start of my freshman year.
, every afternoon when the freshmen stood in military posture, they would faint from the sight of being carried directly to the infirmary for about a dozen times.