A Lei and Zhu Zhanji have different "weapons" to persuade parents.
Arei knew that when it came to reasoning, no one who could defeat Hu Shanwei was born yet. She also knew that she was unreasonable, so she appealed to his emotions and won by feeling. Just calling him "mom" was enough to win over Hu Shanwei.
As a human hornet's nest, Zhu Zhanji knew that a calm interpretation of the interests involved would always be more effective than a passionate emotional confession of "I don't like Xiu Nu, I just like her and ask my mother to approve it."
Appealing to emotions is useless and can even have a counterproductive effect. So Zhu Zhanji explained the seriousness of the situation to his mother right from the start.
When the Crown Princess thought that the "child bride" she had carefully cultivated turned out to be the Crown Prince's woman, her love and trust for Sun immediately disappeared.
The Crown Princess even felt that her natal family, the Earl of Pengcheng, was unreliable.
And there is her biological mother, Madam Pengchengbo... She raised Sun Liuyi single-handedly, doesn't she know, or has she also been deceived
The Crown Princess began to doubt her life after hearing Zhu Zhanji's words.
Among the concubines in Chuxiu Palace, besides Sun Liuyi, who else is the prince's woman
The Crown Princess feels that every concubine is suspicious and wishes to force a re-election!
Thanks to the contrast with her competitors, Hu Shanxiang, the younger sister of Hu Shanggong, stood out from the crowd. First of all, Hu Shanxiang was definitely not the prince's person - the prince did not have the courage to extend his hand to the home of the three-chao Shanggong, unless he did not want to be the prince anymore.
Secondly, Hu Shanxiang was highly appreciated by Emperor Yongle.
Finally, Hu Shanxiang is actually a lady from a wealthy family. Her hidden identity is the eldest daughter of the Duke of Qian. Her parents are both ruthless characters with powerful forces behind them.
Having a daughter-in-law with such a strong background, isn't she much better than Sun, whose father is a minor official in charge of taxation in Yongcheng County
This will be a great help to the eldest son in the future.
Between her husband and her son, the Crown Princess would definitely favor the eldest son. This child had a difficult life since childhood and has matured in a way that is heartbreaking. With Hu Shanxiang as a helper, the eldest son's future might be easier.
After all, Concubine Hu had never failed in any of the Ming Dynasty's regime changes.
The Crown Princess decided to stand on the side of the eldest son and give him advice to marry Arei.
But the problem is that the Crown Prince's Consort has already been chosen, and A Lei didn't even participate in the selection. How can we convince the Emperor to agree? Also, Lady Hu and her husband may not agree!
Facing the Crown Princess's concerns, Zhu Zhanji answered his mother's questions and said, "Since Miss Hu has agreed to my proposal, she must have a way to convince Consort Hu and the others. As for the Emperor, I will talk to him. It's just that marriage is a big matter, and we must ask our parents. If mother welcomes Miss Hu, the Crown Prince will not be able to say anything. After all, in the eyes of everyone, Sun is from the Pengcheng Earl's Mansion, and everyone thinks she is mother's person."
Zhu Zhanji took advantage of this and used the power of the Crown Princess to make the Crown Prince reap what he sowed.
When the Crown Princess heard about the Sun family and the Pengcheng Marquis's Mansion, she felt uncomfortable. The Sun family looked honest, but they were secretly ambitious. They were paying homage to me on the surface, but they were secretly colluding with the Crown Prince. If Sun was the Crown Prince's Consort, would I, the Crown Princess, be just a decoration
Before I even got to the top, I was kicked out and I tried to climb up the prince's high branch! The Sun family is really greedy!
But people outside all think that Sun is my person. It's like swallowing a live fly. It's so disgusting that I can't spit it out.
The Crown Princess sneered, "You're playing tricks in front of me and don't take me, the Crown Princess, seriously. Do you really think that the dust has settled and I have to accept it even if I have to pinch my nose? I don't want her. I have a better choice. Don't worry, I support you and Miss Hu."
Zhu Zhanji dealt with the Crown Princess and the Crown Prince at the same time. The next step was to convince the Emperor to agree to let Arei take the position of Crown Princess.
The so-called right medicine for a disease, when facing Emperor Yongle, Zhu Zhanji's strategy was to appeal to his emotions. He knew too well the past between Emperor Yongle and Empress Renxiao.
"… This is what happened." Zhu Zhanji knelt on the ground. "My grandson and A Lei were childhood sweethearts, but Concubine Hu opposed A Lei marrying into the royal family and did not register her for the imperial concubine selection. A Lei wanted to leave here and follow the eunuch Zheng He to the Western Ocean, but she encountered Japanese pirates on the way and reunited with my grandson. She is kind and brave and saved my grandson twice. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Apart from her, my grandson feels that spending his life with anyone else would be a waste of time. My grandson begs the emperor to grant us a marriage."
Childhood sweethearts, no suspicion between the two, fifteen years old, began to raise eyebrows, willing to share the dust and ashes. From then on, they shared weal and woe, husband and wife were of one mind, the man went to war, the woman guarded the city, and they looked after each other.
This is the first half of the life of Emperor Yongle and Empress Renxiao.
Emperor Yongle listened to his grandson's story, but his mind was filled with the details of his past with Empress Renxiao. All of Empress Renxiao's wit, bravery, strength, and affection were present in Alei.
Even their backgrounds were similar. Both came from noble families. Empress Renxiao was the eldest daughter of Xu Da, Duke of Wei, and Are was the eldest daughter of Mu Chun, Duke of Qian.
I don't know how much time had passed, but at the top of the hour, the wooden boat that announced the time in the study set off on time. A pair of wooden figures popped out from the deck, vaguely resembling the emperor and empress when they were young. They held hands at the bow of the boat, riding the wind and waves.
This is Alei's work.
This girl is worthy of my eldest grandson.
Please help this young couple to be together, just like what happened to me and the Queen back then.
Emperor Yongle said: "Announce the couple to enter the palace. Even if we are members of the royal family, we have no right to forcibly seize a commoner girl without the permission of her parents."
Concubine Hu and Mu Chun entered the palace.
The couple looked reluctant and said, "I only have one daughter, and she has made her own decisions since she was young. I experienced a huge change in marriage when I was young and suffered a lot. Therefore, I have already told my daughter that we should respect her own choice in marriage. Whether she gets married or not, and who she marries, we will not interfere."
"The only thing I and my wife won't allow is for her to marry into the royal family. The royal family is rich, but it's also difficult. She's used to being free since she was a child. I'm a parent, and I'm worried that my child will not only suffer in the future, but also get into trouble, so I didn't sign her up for the talent show."
"However, marriage is destined by heaven. She and the Crown Prince had an adventure on the isolated island, saved each other, and worked together to overcome difficulties. Although my husband and I have doubts about whether she can adapt to the royal life in the future, young people have their own ideas. Since they have made a decision, I can only choose to support and bless them."
Emperor Yongle asked Mu Chun, "What does the Duke of Qian mean?"
Mu Chun looked at Hu Shanwei and said, "What Hu Shanggong said just now is what I really think. I wish this young couple a happy marriage."
I choose to follow my husband’s lead.
Emperor Yongle then arranged a marriage between the Crown Prince and A Lei, and the Crown Prince's wife, Sun, became a concubine.
Since A Lei was parachuted in and was not a concubine, in order to avoid bad rumors, Emperor Yongle also assigned Concubine Zhang's niece, the youngest daughter of Duke Yingguo Zhang Fu, to the prince as a concubine!
Why did Emperor Yongle do this
Dear readers, you should remember that Duke Yingguo Zhang Fu was a staunch supporter of Prince of Han Zhu Gaoxu, and they had a revolutionary friendship of life and death during the Jingnan Campaign. When Emperor Yongle had just ascended the throne and wanted to enthrone a crown prince, Duke Yingguo wrote a letter requesting that Prince of Han be made the crown prince.
Later, Zhu Gaochi was named the crown prince as the eldest son. The Duke of Yingguo was just as dissatisfied as the King of Han. Whenever he had the chance, he would write a letter to depose the crown prince.
Therefore, the Eastern Palace and the Duke of Yingguo’s Mansion were at odds with each other.
The King of Han fell from power due to treason. Although he was able to keep his title due to the pleadings of the Crown Prince, he also completely lost the chance to become the crown prince. The Duke of Yingguo was impeached as an accomplice in the treason because he had been friends with the Palace of the King of Han for many years.
The Duke of Yingguo quickly submitted a memorial to defend himself. Emperor Yongle expressed his trust in this minister who was the greatest hero in the Jingnan Campaign and that there was enough trust between the monarch and his subject. However, the relationship between the Duke of Yingguo and the Crown Prince remained at a stalemate.
Now, Emperor Yongle arranged a marriage, marrying the youngest daughter of Duke Yingguo (the eldest daughter, Zhang, was married to Mu Bin, the eldest son of Duke Qianguo Mu Ying, but died soon after the marriage. Mu Bin then married Xu, the daughter of Duke Wei. Mu Bin’s elder sister, Mu, was the Princess of Zhao, whom Prince Zhao divorced and married again) to the crown prince as a concubine.
Duke Ying had always looked down on the crippled prince, thinking that the prince had won by doing nothing and was not as capable as the King of Han. But now that the King of Han was plotting a rebellion, everyone in the court was in danger and distanced themselves from the King of Han.
The Duke of England also did not want to marry his delicate little daughter to a 300-pound fat man who was unable to walk and was his mortal enemy.
But British Duke Zhang Fu had no other choice.
Since ancient times, marriage has been the simplest and most effective way to break the deadlock and form an alliance.
Emperor Yongle's marriage was an opportunity for the Duke of Ying and the Eastern Palace to repair their relationship.
The Duke of England agreed, and his little daughter fainted from crying, but there was nothing she could do.
Instead, it was the aunt, Concubine Zhang, who summoned her niece, Xiao Zhang, into the palace and had her stay for a few days. She tried to persuade her for a few days, but no one knew what Concubine Zhang said, but after Xiao Zhang returned home, her demeanor had changed, as if she had been possessed by another soul. All her childishness was gone, and a forty-year-old soul now lived in her fourteen-year-old body.
If Xiao Zhang became the prince's concubine and married into the East Palace, the relationship between the Duke of Ying and the prince would be eased. Emperor Yongle was already old, and he did not want the prince to have an unpleasant relationship with the most capable general in the empire at this time, which would affect the future stability of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhang was a lady of a prominent family, not a commoner, and of course she did not participate in the selection of concubines. In this way, the sudden appearance of the Crown Prince's Consort Hu Shanxiang did not seem so abrupt.
Moreover, just because the Duke of Yingzhou was the most respected dukedom in the Hongwu Dynasty, others did not dare to criticize the two non-beautiful girls marrying into the royal family.
Faced with absolute power, everyone seemed to have collective amnesia and forgot the marriage rules of Emperor Yongle that required "selecting girls from the fields and marrying between commoners."
Therefore, marrying Zhang to the Crown Prince was a strategy that killed two birds with one stone. Emperor Yongle was as smart as ever, with a variety of methods that were steady and ruthless, and he played the mind of an emperor very well.
The Eastern Palace is about to welcome a concubine named Zhang who is of noble birth. Guo Liangdi will no longer be the only daughter of a wealthy family.
Concubine Zhang is half the mother-in-law of the Crown Princess and the master of the harem. How could the Crown Princess ignore Concubine Zhang
What's more, due to the conflict between the Crown Prince and the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince was still affectionate to the Crown Princess on the surface, but in fact he was somewhat distant from her. The Crown Prince always felt that the Crown Princess was biased towards the eldest son.
Therefore, Guo Liangdi had an opportunity to take advantage of. She was originally born into a high-class family, and now she had given birth to three sons for the prince, the number of sons being equal to that of the crown princess. Guo Liangdi's three sons were still young and devoted to the prince.
The prince saw Guo Liangdi's intentions and efforts. Originally, the Crown Princess and Guo Liangdi were equal in his heart, but now the balance is leaning towards Guo Liangdi. Except for the first and fifteenth days of the month when he rests in the Crown Princess's main room according to the rules, Guo Liangdi is basically by his side at other times.
The Crown Princess felt a sense of crisis, and became more inclined towards the Crown Prince.
Now, suddenly there was a young and beautiful concubine named Zhang in the Eastern Palace. The Crown Princess felt refreshed immediately and specially vacated the best room in the Eastern Palace to accommodate Concubine Zhang.
As for the Crown Prince, of course he didn't mind having a little beauty in the palace. What's more, behind this little beauty was the powerful Duke of Yingguo's Mansion. He had made peace with his former political enemy, and his position as crown prince was becoming more and more stable. As a result, he became more gentle and attentive to Concubine Zhang and doted on her especially.
Guo Liangdi's palace suddenly became deserted, and Concubine Zhang became the most popular person in the Eastern Palace.
The Crown Princess may be the biggest winner.
However, the Crown Princess had no time to enjoy the victory as she was busy arranging the marriage of the Crown Prince.
The wedding ceremony of the Crown Prince is below that of the Crown Prince but above that of the Prince.
Emperor Yongle ordered Song Hu, Marquis of Xining (also Princess Ancheng's consort) as the chief envoy and Zhang Xin, Marquis of Longping, as the deputy envoy, and issued a marriage granting document:
"When an emperor rules the world, he must respect the eldest son in order to establish a long-lasting foundation. He must be careful about marriages to establish the foundation of the king's rule. This is the norm of heaven and earth and the great code of state."
"My eldest grandson, the Crown Prince, is gifted, wise, filial and kind, and has reached adulthood, so he is suitable for a harmonious family."
"You are the daughter of Hu Rong, the Minister of the Imperial Household Department. You are a match made in heaven. I hereby grant you the Golden Book and appoint you as the Crown Prince's Consort..."
The author has something to say: The next chapter will be directly three years later, in the eighteenth year of Yongle, the capital of Ming Dynasty moved to Beijing, A Lei became a mother, Hu Shanwei became a grandmother, Mu Chun became a grandfather, and the generation was upgraded~~~
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