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The emperor is not in a good mood. Now the ministers in the capital have young people of the right age at home. He had already picked up on Changyu before proposing marriage, and finally chose Wei Zhi's son Wei Yu carefully.
For the rest, he didn't even think much of them when he was choosing Changyu, let alone choosing Mingda now.
So there are only some big officials in the frontiers left.
But those officials took their family members outside all the year round, and the emperor had only heard of their children and nephews, and some of them had never even heard of them.
It is impossible to say how reassuring.
So recently the emperor asked Yin Li to investigate the family members of Jiedu envoys in various places. As a result, there are not many children who have both ability and political integrity. After checking three Jiedu envoys, there are two nephews who have done some bad things like stealing and bullying. .
The reason why he had disagreements with Mr. Tang last time was also because of his disagreement on how to deal with a son of an official.
Mr. Tang thought that the emperor punished people too much and violated the law, so he asked the emperor to change it.
At present, the emperor doesn't have much hope for the children of officials in the court, but wants to choose a son-in-law from the family's reserve talents.
So he recently wrote letters to the heads of several aristocratic families, and the emperor sighed: "It's a pity that Yang Changbo married early, otherwise he would be quite suitable."
Prince: ...
Why not only his sister, but even his father are now eyeing Yang Heshu
The emperor felt very sorry. He felt that among the children of the whole family, the only one who could match their understanding was Yang Heshu, who had both ability and virtue.
When the emperor heard the crown prince asked about Mingda's marriage, he asked casually, "Why, do you have a suitable candidate?"
The prince frowned, he didn't like Bai Cheng, even though the princess had said good things for him, he still felt that Bai Cheng's family background and talent were far from being enlightened.
But after listening to his father's recent selection of candidates, the children from several aristocratic families who were selected were politely rejected, and he immediately remembered what happened when he got married.
The crown prince said displeasedly: "Didn't the father swear not to marry the aristocratic family?"
The emperor was taken aback, and said shamelessly, "Did I say that?"
The prince then said: "Father doesn't remember, but my son still remembers, and the patriarchs of the aristocratic families and the wives of the back house probably also remember. If you marry Mingda like this, won't you make her be laughed at?"
The emperor's face turned cold, "Who dares?"
He snorted and said, "And it's not like you didn't have sisters who married into the family."
The prince said bluntly: "Second sister and third sister are the ones who seldom return to the palace. Although their lives are more beautiful than other sisters, they are much less comfortable."
The queen, who had been coaxing her grandson on the couch like an invisible person, finally said: "Mingda is weak, I don't want her to marry into an aristocratic family, the aristocratic family has complicated relationships, it's too exhausting."
Originally, the emperor still had a lot to say, but when the queen opened his mouth, he fell silent.
The prince looked at his father, then at his mother, and decided to side with his mother, so he said: "If you want me to say, it's better to choose one in the capital. The character and appearance are decent, and the one that Mingda doesn't hate is fine. From now on In the capital city, no one can bully her if she is attached to the royal family."
As soon as the prince opened his mouth, the emperor instantly said like a hedgehog: "No!"
He said: "My Mingda, not to mention being worthy of being number one in the world, at least her family background, talent, character and appearance should not be inferior, otherwise she would be too wronged."
Although the prince thinks so, he thinks that it is better to choose someone who suits him than to be angry with the aristocratic family.
He can't forget that when he talked about his marriage, he was picked up and picked up by several aristocratic families. Hmph, obviously he and his father had already lowered their attitudes enough. The family who married the Cui family also helped to choose.
After he picked Cui's daughter, Mrs. Lu even came to the door to promise marriage, saying that there were hundreds of daughters begging in his family. Mrs. Cui refused him, but turned around and accepted Lu's, but she mentioned another Cui's daughter to him. Mrs. Shi is here.
There is a lot of negligence in the words, and they look down on their Longxi Li family.
It was also because of this that the emperor and the prince gave up Cui's daughter in a fit of anger and chose Su as the crown princess. The emperor even said that he would never marry Cui.
In fact, his original words were that he would never marry a noble family.
After that, the emperor held back for several years. First, he revised the clan annals, downgrading the Cui family from the first-class family to the third-class family, and also reduced the number of people selected from the Qinghe area.
Therefore, if the children of the Cui family want to become officials, they can only get very few places through recommendation, so they can only take the imperial examination.
Originally, after assuming the throne, the number of places nominated each year has been reduced, and if the Qinghe area is further reduced, it may take three or two years to get one place.
Or why are there so few officials in the Cui family in the court now
Although it seems to be revenge, but the prince thinks of what happened when he was picked, and Mingda is weaker than him, and she is a girl.
If she wants to marry into a family and be ridiculed by others, how miserable is her life
When the prince thought about it, he was even more reluctant, "Anyway, father, if you can't choose one of the children of the ministers in the court, then choose an ordinary one, let's forget about the aristocratic family."
Hearing this tone, the emperor couldn't help but want to get angry. The queen watched from the side and stuffed the child into the prince's arms, and drove him away, saying: "The eagle slave misses his mother, you can take him to see."
Reluctantly, the prince took the child to find the princess.
When Ying Nu got into his father's arms, he immediately became excited, not only jumped in his arms twice, but also patted the prince's face with his hands, screaming.
The prince grabbed his hand and said: "Fly when you get back."
The concubine on the other side of the screen seemed to have heard her son's laughter, and immediately ran out to pick him up, and said to the prince, "Don't throw him into the sky, Zhou Man has said that this is not good for the child. , restless at night."
The prince snorted and said, "How can an orphaned son be so timid?"
The queen had nothing to say about the stubborn temper of the father and son. She patted the emperor's hand and leaned wearily on the pillow.
The emperor immediately put away his anger towards the crown prince, sat beside the queen, held her hand and asked, "Are you tired?"
The queen sighed and said, "There are too many things going on in the palace recently."
The empress seldom complained about the excessive palace affairs in front of the emperor. He couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, and then he felt even more distressed. He held her hand and asked, "Do you want to choose some female officials to help you?"
"You can't make the decision for me," the queen asked, "You wrote letters to the patriarchs of the big families, because you have taken a fancy to the descendants of their families?"
The emperor said as a matter of course: "Naturally, it is a descendant, and our Mingda is also a princess, how can a concubine be worthy of it?"
The queen asked with a smile, "Is there no eldest son?"
The emperor said: "There are only two of them. The others are either not suitable for their age or already engaged. One of them is..."
The empress interrupted the emperor's words with a sigh, she said: "The clan wife is not much more relaxed than me, an empress, is your majesty willing to make Mingda work so hard?"
The emperor frowned and thought about it.