Chapter 661
The next day, the registration for the royal family's son-in-law was officially terminated, and the Dongyang royal family officially released the results. This time, His Highness Miko publicly selected her husband, and included 32 candidates, all of whom were elites from the royal family and children.
Once this news came out, the entire Dongyang Kingdom was shocked. Most ordinary people began to pay attention to the content of the son-in-law selection in the TV news after dinner. Generally speaking, a TV station should have a live broadcast column for such a big event, but the Dongyang Royal Family obviously reserved it and did not agree to the interviews and live broadcasts of various news media.
"Three days later, the process of choosing a son-in-law will officially begin."
"The mechanism for selecting a prince consort will first conduct physical fitness tests, eliminate the sick men, and then select the subject according to the traditional six arts of the royal family..."
In the mountain manor garden after the rain, Yumiko accompanied Li Jiangnan for a walk while telling him the mechanism for selecting a prince consort.
The traditional mechanism of the Eastern royal family's selection of princes is roughly imitating the ancient Chinese Qin and Han dynasties, and the princes and ministers elected excellent men who are suitable for marriage, and then competed and selected with the six arts of gentlemen.
The Six Arts of Gentlemen: Chess, piano skills, calligraphy and painting, sword skills, riding skills, and shooting skills. Of course, in modern times, few people have ridden horses and archery again, so the later royal son-in-law selection mechanism simplified the competition. The Six Arts of Gentlemen actually only have the symbolic four arts of Gentlemen, omitting riding skills and archery.
The so-called "physical fitness test" is to eliminate candidates who are physically ill or not strong enough. It is like choosing a stallion. Only by selecting a stallion that is strong enough can one be worthy of the chosen princess of God. Only in this way can the princess' lifelong sexual blessings and reproduce excellent offspring.
This has been learned in history.
Also in China, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a horrifying scandal about "selecting a son-in-law".
At that time, the emperor and princess of the Ming Dynasty were also hidden in the dark by the royal relatives and important officials. Everyone regarded the royal family's son-in-law as a business. After the last selection, the shortest-lived royal family prince-consort in history was produced.
This prince-consort was originally a tuberculosis man, but under the packaging of powerful ministers, he became a talented and highly respected noble prince.
It was not until the night of the wedding that the royal princess discovered that the husband chosen by the powerful and powerful was actually a patient who coughed up blood at any time. After uncovering the red veil of the bride, the prince consort of the tuberculosis coughed up blood and died of death before he had time to bridal chamber.
Such a scandal happened in the royal family, like eating a fly. Although it was disgusting, it was already a waste of time and could only swallow it.
The final result is conceivable. The emperor can only choose to cover up the ugly things and secretly kill a few ministers to deal with the matter. The newly married princess has been a widow all her life.
In addition to the Six Arts of Gentleman and the so-called physical elimination, Yumiko also introduced some other situations in the son-in-law selection mechanism to Li Jiangnan, such as the special power she possessed as the son-in-law princess, and the forces behind the scenes who were trying to fight openly and secretly in the royal family's son-in-law selection...
After hearing Yumiko said so much, Li Jiangnan felt that this royal family should not be careless in choosing a son-in-law this time. If there is a slight mistake, Yumiko would fall into a fire pit and would marry a man who didn't know what it was.
Such things are absolutely not allowed to happen.
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At the same time, at the home of Prince Shigeo Sagawa, Shigeo Sagawa was holding a roundtable meeting with several royal relatives and powerful ministers to discuss the situation of choosing a son-in-law soon.
"Prince Maoxiong, I have a suggestion. It is better for us to join forces for the time being, eliminate other opponents first, and then use our skills to compete fairly..."
The person who spoke was a middle-aged man with a mustache, named Ono Hiro, who was also a royal relative, but unlike Shigeo Sagawa, he could only recommend one person to choose a son-in-law.
The person he recommended was his nephew. If his nephew could choose the prince-consort this time, the Ono family would jump to two levels and become the most prominent family among the royal relatives.
Ono Hiroshi's relationship with Shigeo Sagawa is not good, and he often has disputes over interests. However, this time the royal family has to compete for the son-in-law, so he can only let go of the rift and hope to defeat other opponents first through the alliance, so that he can expand the chance of winning.
A powerful man said, "I agree with Ono Hime's suggestion."
"I heard that the two candidates elected by Prince Ji this time are very strong, and they are all-round and skilled in chess and swords. It was Prince Ji who joined forces with Yumiko's master Emperor Tu Sect and specially selected them from three thousand disciples under the Emperor Tu Sect."
"Prince Ji was supported by many ministers, and now he has joined forces with the Imperial Tu Sect. If the candidate elected by Prince Ji is made Yumiko's son-in-law, then there will be no more voices in national affairs in the future."
"I also agree with this suggestion. Prince Ji's power is too great. I can accept anyone who elects from each family to become the prince consort. But once Prince Ji's elects from the prince is the prince consort, with Prince Ji's arrogant personality, we will be overwhelmed by him..."
"Yes, yes, Prince Maoxiong, why not follow Onofei's suggestion, we will join forces first and eliminate the two candidates of Prince Ji. In the end, we will compete fairly..."
Seeing that everyone had expressed their opinions like this, Shigeo Sagawa agreed, so he decided to make a decision: "Okay, since you all want to unite, then we will unite and deal with our biggest opponent, Prince Ji first."
"My younger brother is so inappropriate. Over the past few years, I have not taken my brother seriously."
"This time, I must give him a good look in the royal family's son-in-law selection, and see if he dares to be arrogant in front of us in the future."
"Okay, that's it. Everyone must keep their promises and unite first..."
At this point, a roundtable meeting was held, and a preliminary charter was established. Shigeo Sagawa took the lead in raising the red wine glass. Several wine glasses clinked together, and several powerful people formed an offensive and defensive alliance.
Soon after, each family summoned their respective electoral candidates and discussed clearly that they should form alliances and formulate common tactics in the first physical fitness test to eliminate the candidates from Prince Ji first.
Ono Hiro remembered that Shigeo Sagawa had clearly recommended two people to run for election, but now he only called one person to tell the matter, so he walked over and asked, "Hey, Shigeo, I remember you also recommended a guy named Muzi Jiangnan to run for the prince consort, why didn't you call him over?"
Shigeo Sagawa was a little bored and waved his hand and said, "Don't mention him."
"A poor boy who has never seen the world has neither family reputation nor great ability. I have no hope of him. I guess he is a matchmaker and will be eliminated in the first game."
"If he hadn't been able to treat my son, how could I recommend him?"
"What I hate most is that I originally agreed to recommend the boy from the Noo family, but it was because of him that I lost a good opportunity to make a fortune, and I became a villain for nothing, and was jealous of the Noo family."
Chapter completed!