In the afternoon of the next day, Jing Shao sent his concubine to Yiweilou, and asked Zhou Jin to take him to the monthly meeting of husband and wife in the capital. Zhou Jin didn't wear bright clothes today, and his dark blue robe looked much more stable.
"Brother Zhou, Junqing will take care of you." Jing Shao bowed his hands to Boss Zhou.
"Your Highness, don't worry." Zhou Jin was a cheerful person, and he was older than them. After getting acquainted with them, even Mu Hanzhang called him Big Brother Zhou.
Mu Hanzhang looked at Jing Shao, who was entrusting him with a long-winded look, and smiled helplessly: "My lord, just go back with confidence, can I still lose it?"
Jing Shao scratched his head and got on his horse. Most of the men and wives who attended this party in the capital were from noble families, but Junqing's wisdom should not suffer any loss. So he left the carriage and Yunzhu at ease, and rode Xiao Hei to find his brother for tea.
The scenery in the south of the city is good, and many princely families have their gardens here. The monthly meeting is mostly in the Mo Garden of the Maoguo government.
It is an unwritten rule that the second son and the concubine can marry a male wife, and they do not have to be obeyed. Therefore, there are the most male and female wives in the family of princes in the capital, and the palace of Mao Guogong.
Entering the ink garden, I heard a sound of silk and bamboo, passing through the layers of ink bamboo, and a wide water pavilion appeared in front of me. There were tables, chairs, refreshments on the water pavilion, and there were women playing music on the shore. Only bamboo flute, faintly in the ear, beautiful.
"It's an elegant place." Mu Hanzhang looked at the few people sitting quietly on the water pavilion listening to music. He was worried that the lively scene like a woman's visit would not appear, so he could not help secretly relieved.
"Big Brother Zhou is here." Seeing Zhou Jin, several people stood up one after another and bowed their hands politely.
"Who is this?" The man headed by the waterside pavilion was dressed in a light blue gown. He was about twenty-five or sixteen years old. He was similar to Zhou Jin. His facial features were handsome, but there were deep lines between his eyebrows. To.
"This is Princess Cheng, Young Master Mu." Zhou Jin smiled and introduced to everyone. Men and wives usually don't like being called madam or young grandma by others, so they call each other sons.
"I have seen the princess." Several people listened, looked at each other, and came forward to salute.
"On this occasion, you don't have to be so polite." Mu Hanzhangqian asked everyone to stand up politely.
"I heard that Young Master Wen Yuan has an extraordinary bearing. When I saw him today, he really lived up to his reputation." The leading man smiled gently and let them inside.
"It's just a young madman who got a false name at the poetry fair." Hearing this person calling his old name, Mu Hanzhang felt as if he had returned to the way he was when he participated in the scholar's poetry conference. This person also gave birth to a sense of closeness.
Zhou Jin introduced Mu Hanzhang one by one. The leader, surnamed Lin, was the husband and wife of the second young master of the Dingnan Hou family. The others are basically family members of court officials.
"Why didn't you see the Duke Mao's mansion?" Zhou Jin asked Young Master Lin.
"They and the son of Yongchang Hou's mansion went to fight cocks in the woods behind. We didn't want to join in the fun, so we listened to the music here." When Young Master Lin spoke, he would naturally frown, looking rather sad.
"What's the matter?" Zhou Jin couldn't help but ask when he saw Young Master Lin frowning.
"Second Young Master insists on marrying a young lady from an official's family as a side room," Zhang Gongzi, who was eating melon seeds, said on his behalf, "Bro Lin's life is already difficult, and then marrying a side room with a high birth...hey..."
Mu Hanzhang sipped the tea slowly, and quietly listened to a few people chatting with each other. These men had all read books, and their words were more subtle. , he could still hear that most men and wives were not doing well at home.
Most of the husbands are concubines, and sometimes they are forced to marry a male wife. Moreover, few sons were raised as male wives from childhood, most of them did not know how to manage the house, and once the concubines had children, it would be even more difficult to manage. So if it wasn't for the husband's preference, even a man who could treat each other as a guest and was trapped in the inner house would be very sad.
"I heard that King Cheng requested an decree to demote Mrs. Side to a concubine last month, how did Young Master Mu do it?" The talkative Young Master Zhang suddenly led the conversation to Mu Hanzhang.
"Everything is the intention of the prince." Mu Hanzhang put down the tea cup and said lightly, not planning to say much about his own affairs.
"Why are you acting like a woman now, always listening to these parents." Zhou Jin slapped Young Master Zhang on the head and stopped the topic.
Mu Hanzhang picked up the cup again, and found that although Zhou Jin's husband was only a young waiter, and he was also a restaurant owner, he was very prestigious among these noble men and wives, and everyone respected him "Zhou" big brother". In addition to his hearty and easy-going attitude, Xiao Yuan has been married for seven or eight years, and the reason why everyone really admires him is that he did not have a concubine. A male wife who can't leave a child, but can follow the example of the Hedong Lion, manage the husband and not allow concubines, it really needs some extraordinary means.
"Yo~ Who am I to think of this young man in fancy clothes, it turns out to be Hanzhang!" A yin and yang strange voice came from outside the water pavilion. When everyone looked up, they saw five or six men coming out from behind the bamboo forest, carrying Several entourages marched towards the water pavilion in a mighty manner.
Mu Hanzhang frowned and recognized that the speaker was Du Yinghao, his classmate for five years. The mountain chief of the Mu family studied was one of the uncles in the family who had passed through Tanhua. Because of his great reputation, other relatives in the family would also send their children to study. This Du Yinghao is the nephew of Mrs. Beiwei Hou, because he doesn't like Mu Hanzhang always being praised by his husband, so he opposes him everywhere.
"I haven't seen you for two years. I thought you were going to take the hometown exam. It turned out that I was married to the Duke of Mao." Mu Hanzhang sat still, glanced at the domineering Du Yinghao, and continued to drink tea indifferently.
"Hmph, even if you were chosen as a juror, didn't you get married by your aunt?" Du Yinghao snorted coldly. The Du family is not a noble family. Even if he is the second son, he was used to marry the public family of Maoguo. Three young masters.
"It's rude!" Du Yinghao was about to say something, but was stopped by his second sister-in-law.
There are only three male and female wives in the family of the Maoguo family, and they all took their seats after the salute.
"Yesterday, I went to Beiweihou's mansion to celebrate my birthday, and I saw something very interesting." Du Yinghao saw that even if Mu Hanzhang was married, he was still the object of others' pursuit and respect. two sentences.
The tired crowd chatted while drinking tea, and when they heard this, they asked him what was going on.
"King Cheng rescued a very beautiful woman under the horse's hoof of the fourth prince," Du Yinghao smiled and looked at the expressionless Mu Hanzhang, and said in a deliberately long voice, "I heard that King Cheng likes it so much, directly Raised in another courtyard as an outer room."
After hearing this, the lively atmosphere instantly cooled down, and everyone was awkwardly silent and didn't know how to answer. In his heart, he said that Princess Cheng was not very favored. He heard that King Cheng had demoted the side room for him, but in a blink of an eye, he found another outer room.
Mu Hanzhang looked at Du Yinghao, who was watching a joke, and only thought it was funny. Even after so many years, this person is still so naive. Looking at the sky: "It's getting late, I've been living in a different courtyard for the past few days, and I need to go back earlier." After that, he put down the tea cup and got up to say goodbye.
Chengwang's Courtyard is in the east of the city, and Mo Garden is in the south of the city.
"Third brother Xu is ignorant, please don't take offense to the princess." After they were sent outside the Mo Garden, the second son of the public family of Maoguo apologized to Mu Hanzhang.
Mu Hanzhang smiled, but didn't answer, Yun Zhu drove the carriage over and was waiting to get on the carriage when there were hooves not far away.
"咴~" With a clear neigh, the black horse hurriedly stopped in front of the crowd. The man on the horse was tall and straight, and he was very handsome.
When everyone saw the person coming, they knelt down and bowed: "I have seen His Royal Highness King Cheng."
Waving his hand to get everyone up, Jing Shao saw that his princess was already standing in front of the carriage, and said with a chuckle, "I'm afraid you'll be late and it's hard to leave, so I'm here to pick you up."
"I'm looking at the time." Mu Hanzhang hooked his lips, watching the man slowly drive his horse over and stretch out a hand to himself. I didn't want to be too affectionate in front of outsiders, but Yu Guang glanced at Du Yinghao's jealous expression, put his hand in his palm, and with the strength of the horseman, turned over and sat in front of Jing Shao.
"Yunzhu, you send Brother Zhou back to the other courtyard." Mu Hanzhang explained to the servant beside the carriage, said goodbye to everyone, and left with Jing Shao.
Du Yinghao's face flushed with anger, and Young Master Lin and the others also showed envious eyes. Only Zhou Jin was overjoyed to have a canopy carriage with no money.
From this day on, the news that King Cheng was very fond of the princess quickly spread in the upper circles.
Since that set of "Book of War" is too thick, it would take a month at the earliest to copy it alone. In order to be able to play and have a good attitude of admitting mistakes, Jing Shao and Mu Hanzhang began to copy together. Every morning, one practiced martial arts, and the other dealt with internal affairs. In the afternoon, we set up a table in the garden to enjoy flowers, copy books, and soaked in hot springs together in the evening.
Regarding Ge Ruoyi's matter, Jing Shao wrote a document and handed it over, but after three days of waiting, there was no news. Just had lunch that day, and was lying in the rocking chair with his princess in the sun, when Jing Shao was announced into the palace by a decree.
"What do you think about the southeast matter?" Emperor Hongzheng asked Jing Shao who was kneeling behind him while looking at the pictures of mountains and rivers in the imperial study.
Jing Shao said carefully: "The Ge family is not a big family. This matter may not have spread in the southeast area. It's just that the woman came to Beijing to report to the imperial court, and the son-in-law did not know how to deal with it, so he had to report everything to the emperor."
Emperor Hongzheng nodded, but did not let Jing Shao get up, but still looked at the map of mountains and rivers that took up the entire wall in front of him: "Do you know why Taizu wanted to seal the vassal king?"
"The previous dynasties were inhumane, Taizu and the three anti-kings conquered the world together, and the one who broke the capital first became the emperor," Jing Shao looked up at the map he had read countless times in his previous life. He fought for ten years to pacify the Nanman Rebellion. "Taizu Rende, after he gained the world, was named the three hereditary vassal kings of the Southwest, Southeast and Huainan."
"I don't want to take care of the fief." Emperor Hongzheng turned his back to Jing Shao and could not see his expression, but Jing Shao knew what his father was thinking, and said loudly: "Although the southeast is a fief, it is also my Dachen's. The land and the people of the southeast only recognize the father and one emperor.”
Hearing this, Emperor Hongzheng turned around abruptly and stared at Jing Shao, who was kneeling on the ground. Jing Shao lowered his head slightly and let him stare.
After a long time, Emperor Hongzheng suddenly laughed loudly: "As expected of my son! Hahaha!" He walked to Jingshao, patted his shoulder, and said solemnly, "Sanfan, it is my heart's trouble, just , now is not the time."
Jing Shao's pupils shrank suddenly, but his face was not obvious, and he kowtowed: "My son understands." The emperor's meaning was that now is not a good time to pacify the San Francisco, and this matter needs to be suppressed first. It's no wonder that in the previous life, Jingyu dared to blatantly detain her as Wang Ji, and finally forced her to take revenge with her own hands. But it turned out that at this time, he had already received a positive answer from the father.