The night is already deep, but the midsummer heat has not weakened, making it still difficult to sleep peacefully.
No one knows how many people in the world have insomnia, but there must be one among them named Zhu Yaoyu.
She is the eldest princess Yongning of the Ming Dynasty. She has a noble status and a wealth of wealth. In the eyes of outsiders, she is always accompanied by wealth and splendor, and happiness always surrounds her.
However, the fact is that apart from these wealth and glory, Her Royal Highness the Princess feels that she has almost nothing.
Even if the person you like doesn't like her, or even if you like her a little bit, it's far from enough to give up everything for her.
Perhaps, what men always think about is only power, only career, and only the world.
The world?
Haha... The world of women is actually nothing more than "he".
"Fourth Princess, are you asleep?" A familiar female voice came from outside the door.
Princess Yongning suddenly sat up from the bamboo recliner she was leaning on and replied, "No, is it Xiaohe?"
"It's your slave, the fourth princess, and there is news from Governor Huang Factory."
Princess Yongning immediately stood up, trotted to the door, opened the door for her, glanced behind her, and asked, "Where are the people in my palace?"
Xiao He smiled and said: "They know what the slaves are here for and who sent them, so of course they all go to 'sleep'."
Princess Yongning understood, nodded, and said, "Come in and talk." Xiao He stepped in.
After the fall of Chen Hong, the inner court had not yet appointed the Chief of Ceremonies to be the palm sealer, but everyone knew that there were only two people who could do this palm seal, either Chen Ju or Huang Mengyu.
He was originally the admiral of Dongchang, and now he still has the opportunity to become the eunuch of the palm seal. At this time, naturally no one in Princess Yongning's palace would dare not to give Huang Mengyu face.
Xiaohe entered the room and immediately took out a folded Xue Tao note from his body and carefully handed it to Princess Yongning.
Princess Yongning took the Xue Tao note and suddenly asked without raising her head: "What is written on it?"
Xiaohe was stunned for a moment: "This slave is illiterate."
The wary look in Princess Yongning's eyes disappeared, she nodded, stopped talking, opened the letter and read it.
After reading it carefully and repeatedly, Princess Yongning's eyes suddenly became confused. She sighed, sat back weakly on the bamboo couch, closed her eyes, and didn't know what she was thinking.
Xiaohe didn't rush him and waited quietly. After a while, he heard Princess Yongning ask: "Liang Bang...is the consort himself also involved?"
"He believes Chong Xi's theory very firmly. Governor Huang said that Dongchang has interrogated this in detail many times and is sure of it." Xiao He replied.
"Then, what did he say? I mean...what did Jian Xinzhai say?" When the word "Jian Xinzhai" was mentioned, Princess Yongning, who had her eyes closed, seemed to move her eyelashes.
Xiaohe said calmly: "Jian Xinzhai said, I will die without mercy."
"He is going to Liaodong. What will happen to the Liang family?"
Xiaohe smiled slightly: "Fourth princess, don't worry, Jian Xinzhai said that within a month, the Liang family will fall and all the properties will be torn to pieces."
Princess Yongning said: "I'm afraid the emperor won't watch the Liang family starve to death on the streets and embarrass the Tian family, right?"
Xiao He nodded and said calmly: "Of course the emperor will give you some money, but Factory Supervisor Huang said... If the Liang family can't look away and seek death themselves, the emperor won't say anything."
"Oh?" Princess Yongning's tone was a little cold: "Are you seeking death?"
Xiao He smiled and said: "Yes, I am seeking death... Of course, Factory Supervisor Huang also said that Liang's 'consort' has been extremely frightened in recent days, and his condition has become more serious. He may be ahead of the rest of the Liang family."
Princess Yongning opened her eyes and frowned: "Did he become so ill because of his own illness? Factory Supervisor Huang didn't... didn't..."
Xiaohe bowed slightly: "Fourth princess, don't worry, no matter what, he has already held the title of Prince Consort, and the factory supervisor will not do anything to him."
Princess Yongning breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly said: "Don't tell the factory supervisor about my problem just now... No, ask the factory supervisor not to tell Jian Xinzhai."
"Yes, the fourth princess." Xiao He looked well-trained and didn't even ask a single word.
Princess Yongning nodded and said happily: "You are very good. Supervisor Huang Factory is also very effective in handling things. When the matter is resolved, I will reward you."
"Thank you, Fourth Princess." Xiao He smiled slightly and said, "But I'm afraid I won't be able to accept you as a slave...even from the Director of the Huang Factory."
"Why?" Princess Yongning was a little surprised.
"Jian Xinzhai has already given the reward and stated that Her Royal Highness the Princess' money is for other purposes."
Princess Yongning was stunned for a moment, then suddenly sighed again, her tone becoming desolate again: "Sometimes, I really don't know what he is thinking about."
"Who can see through Jian Xinzhai's thoughts?" Xiao He smiled and said, "However, he is still very concerned about the princess's affairs. I heard from Huang Factory Governor that on the day of the wedding, Jian Xinzhai
That person even wanted to mobilize cavalrymen from outside the city to enter the city and disrupt the wedding ceremony, which frightened Factory Superintendent Huang and tried to dissuade her again and again, so that no big fuss was made."
Princess Yongning immediately sat upright and asked quickly: "Is this true?"
"Seriously, Factory Supervisor Huang is still terrified when he mentions this matter."
Princess Yongning suddenly stood up, rubbed each other a few times with her hands nowhere to rest, and asked, "Did he say anything else?"
"Uh..." Xiao He thought about it carefully and said hesitantly: "It seems that they also talked about the past events of Princess Deqing and Princess Yongchun, but the factory supervisor didn't go into details, and the slave doesn't know much about it."
Princess Yongning had complicated eyes, a wry smile on her face, and sadness from her heart.
Maybe, he just pities me...
It turns out that Princess Deqing and Princess Yongchun were also two wretches under the eunuch's arranged marriage.
The outsourcing of the selection of consorts did not start with Chen Hong. The eunuchs in the palace had long taken over this business.
Among them, the marriage of Princess Deqing was arranged by Li Guang, the internal official at the time. Although Eunuch Li had the same name as the famous general of the Han Dynasty, he was obviously not comparable at all.
As for him, there are no technical requirements for how to choose a prince-in-law, and there are no quantitative standards, so the only criterion is money.
At that time, a wealthy man named Yuan Xiang spent a lot of money to bribe Eunuch Li, and he actually became the consort, which was equivalent to selling the princess.
The amazing thing is that the eunuch was not responsible for the princess's marriage, but the emperor was not responsible for the princess's marriage and did not inquire about it in detail.
Fortunately, the emperor was not responsible, and the eunuchs were not responsible, but the officials of the imperial court dared to take responsibility. Seeing that good things for Yuan Xiang and the princess were about to come true, some officials wrote to expose Li Guang's tricks, saying that the prince-in-law was paid to do it.
's: "The wedding is about to happen, and it's for the officials to report the matter."
Xiaozong Zhu Youtang finally woke up this time. Hearing that the eunuch was so irresponsible to the royal daughter, he became angry and issued an imperial edict, ordering a new consort to be selected.
But what’s even more amazing is that according to ordinary people’s understanding, Li Guang committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, so it should be a matter of losing his head, right? However, Li Guang committed such a serious crime and was fine. He just took someone with a lower status.
Eunuch Xiao Jing took care of the matter, but Li Guang, the culprit, was safe and sound.
You must know that this Princess Deqing was also an eldest princess and the sister of Emperor Xiaozong. It can only be said that although Emperor Xiaozong worked hard to govern, he was also indifferent to his sister's marriage.
Princess Deqing had a near-miss, and finally married a happy man. But Princess Yongchun, Xiaozong's daughter, was even worse.
After Xiaozong's death, Princess Yongchun was still young. After her brother's Zhengde reign, and then during Sejong's Jiajing reign, Princess Yongchun reached the age to get married.
Shizong was quite responsible at the time and personally selected a husband-in-law named Chen Zhao for his cousin. Chen Zhao was ranked third on the list of candidates at the time.
However, minister Yu Demin submitted a memorial and revealed that Chen Zhao's family had a history of hereditary disease, and that Chen Zhao's mother was not the original wife of the Chen family, but a concubine who remarried to the Chen family, with a low status.
Immediately afterwards, another minister defended Yu Demin and said that he was talking nonsense. Then the father-in-law said that the public was right, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right, and it made a big fuss.
In this situation of being at a loss, for the sake of his cousin's happiness, Jiajing had no choice but to use the elimination method. No matter what he was like, it might not work anyway, so he would first remove Chen Zhao from the list and then choose again.
At this time, two more candidates surfaced, one was Xie Zhao and the other was Gao Gao Yuan.
Xie Zhao looks pretty good, and Gao Gao Yuanze is a handsome boy.
As we all know, Emperor Jiajing did not play by the rules. He asked Princess Yongchun to take a look at the two of them secretly. The result was that of course the princess fell in love with the handsome boy.
However, the Empress Dowager intervened in the matter. She may have felt that the handsome boy was unreliable or that Xie Zhao was mature, so she appointed Xie Zhao as her consort.
What was the result? On the wedding night, when I took off my hat, I found that my husband-in-law was an "extremely smart" man who couldn't even style his hair properly.
Princess Yongchun was thinking about that tall and handsome boy, and of course she was very dissatisfied with what she saw in front of her.
Finally, this incident spread to the people, and a nursery rhyme called "Ten Funny" was produced, one of which sang: "The prince-in-law will be rewarded in another life."
Of course, this is a kind of discrimination. Although Xie Zhaoxie's consort lacks some grace, his character is actually good and he is quite blessed. According to "Wanli Yehuobian", he has been "rich and noble for forty years"
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As for whether Princess Yongchun is happy or not, well...at least she must be dissatisfied in her heart.
Since the "Jian Xinzhai guy" mentioned Princess Deqing and Princess Yongchun, there was no need to think too much. He must have been comparing Princess Yongning with them.
Princess Yongning felt sad in her heart, but she didn't know who should be blamed for this. Chen Hong certainly deserved his death, and the Liang family deserved to die as they clearly deceived the emperor, but they were all easy to deal with, but...
Maybe this is life.
Princess Yongning thought crazily, if I had not met him at the Buddhist temple, would I still be like this now?
I may be the unluckiest princess in the Ming Dynasty...
In fact, she was not wrong in thinking so, but in fact, she was not the end of the list of unlucky princesses in the marriage of the Ming Dynasty. There was at least one other princess in the original history, which was Zhu Yijun's seventh daughter, Princess Shouning.
"Wanli Yehuobian" records the story of Princess Shouning and her husband Ran Xingrang, which is also a tragedy.
It is said that on a moonlit night, Princess Shouning announced her husband to meet Jun Ran Xingrang, and she forgot to report the formalities to the housekeeper Liang Yingnu. At that time, the housekeeper was drinking with the eunuch Zhao Jinchao. When she heard the news that the princess and her husband had met privately without permission, she immediately
He rushed into the princess's room, pulled out the consort Ran Xingrang, and beat her violently.
The princess was eager to protect her husband and came out to persuade her, but she was also scolded by the housekeeper. Princess Shouning was "so sad and angry that she didn't want to live" and planned to go to the palace the next day to complain to her mother and concubine. As a result, Liang Yingnu complained first, and she complained even more jealously.
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By the time Princess Shouning actually went to appeal the next day, the situation had already been decided, and there was no chance to turn around. Her mother was already "very angry" and refused to see the princess. I really can't understand these princesses, who always believe what outsiders say, and
He didn't even give his own flesh and blood a chance to explain.
This road was impassable, and Prince Consort Ran Xingrang was well prepared. He wrote a letter of appeal and prepared to go to court to complain, and go directly to Zhu Yijun.
The naive prince-in-law never thought that the eunuch named Zhao Jinchao, who was drinking with the housekeeper, had already laid an ambush on the road. As soon as the prince-in-law appeared, dozens of thugs rushed out and dragged Ran Xingrang to the inner court.
After a violent beating, the prince-in-law's clothes were in tatters and his flesh and blood were in a mess.
Ran Xingrang ran out of Chang'an Gate in embarrassment, but what happened? His sedan bearers had also been dispersed by the eunuchs. Without a sedan bearer, the consort had no choice but to walk back to the mansion with disheveled hair and bare feet.
The young couple were about to appeal to their father, Emperor Zhu Yijun, but they lost the best strategic opportunity and became passive every step of the way - the next day, the emperor's imperial edict came down, and the consort took off his jade robe and reflected on the three things.
months without giving any opportunity for explanation - "no more playing".
As for Zhao Yingnu, the evil housekeeper, she was only dealt with another placement, while the eunuch who beat the person was not dealt with at all.
In fact, it is difficult to say whether Zhu Yijun issued this imperial edict himself after knowing it.
In addition, this Ran Xingrang was really unlucky and was later killed by Li Zicheng.
However, history sometimes has such inertia. In the original history, Princess Yongning's marriage was arranged by Feng Bao and received full support from Zhang Juzheng. Empress Dowager Li was confused by the two of them, which resulted in the tragedy of Princess Yongning.
This time there was no Feng Bao, no Zhang Juzheng, but Liang Bangrui still appeared, still bribed the eunuch, and still became the consort...
The only difference is that the former may have made Zhu Yijun even more dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, and became the driving force for Zhu Yijun to investigate and "criticize" Zhang Juzheng after Zhang Juzheng's death. Incidentally, he also had to deal with Feng Bao.
Later generations wondered why Feng Bao was so favored by Empress Dowager Li, and why Empress Dowager Li only asked casually and didn't mention it again after Zhu Yijun moved him. In fact, it is very likely that Princess Yongning was also the reason.
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