Hearing Chun'er's shouting, Zhang Yang followed Chun'er to the dining room. Seeing that his parents had already sat down, Zhang Yang also sat down and started to get breakfast with his parents.

After breakfast, after people packed up all the dishes and chopsticks, Zhang Yang's family began to discuss the matter of going to the palace to meet the Tang Dynasty's empress and Zhang Yang's future mother-in-law Changsun Wugui.

It is really hard to be the prince-consort of the Tang Dynasty, especially the prince-consort of the early Tang Dynasty. It is said that the princess of the Tang Dynasty were worried about marrying.

As the saying goes, the emperor's daughter has no worries about marrying, which means that if a woman has an emperor, she will become a top-notch seller in the marriage market. The stinky men in the world will get married even if they are squeezed. The reason is the consequence of the serious imbalance in the market supply and demand. There are hundreds of millions of men in the world, and there is only one emperor. Even if the emperor is not lazy, there are only dozens of daughters that can be born in his life. It is difficult for princesses not to be sought.

The ancients often lamented that "there are horses that are often found in thousands of miles, but the Bole does not." In fact, in the marriage market, there are also times when women are often found in women, but princesses do not." However, there are times when stinky men in the world are not stinky. For example, the men of the Tang Dynasty are particularly strong now. They regard princesses as dirt and would rather not marry for life than be a princess. This is because in their opinion, it is difficult to be eunuchs and even more difficult to be a princess. One of the wonders caused by this is that princesses in the Tang Dynasty are worried about marrying.

Let me first explain it with numbers. During the 290-year period of the Tang Dynasty, there were 210 princesses, and only 130 were married. Many emperors as fathers had thought of ways. For example, when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty reached the age of marriage, he entrusted the prime minister to choose one of the new Jinshis of that year to be the princess. The prime minister dared not be negligent, so he immediately began to inspect the household registration and secretly check the character of the person. After some screening, he finally selected Wang Hui, the new Jinshi who was the one who won the new Jinshi.

It is said that a large piece of stuffed cake fell from the sky, and Wang Jinshi should have swallowed it into his stomach without hesitation, not to mention that he was in his forties, he was a real leftover man. But unexpectedly, when he knew about it, he cried even more painful than his own father. He ran to the prime minister's house and snot and tears. He scolded his own problems with his body: I ​​am an old leftover man in his forties. Not to mention his age, he was still sick. He was really not worthy of the princess's daughter body. Finally, he bowed and kowtowed, begging the prime minister to help him plead for love, and pushed the marriage.

If the Jinshi did not want to marry a princess because they were afraid that they would not have a family backer and would be oppressed after getting married, then the attitudes of the ministers and ministers were worthy of fun. We know that the emperor and ministers often engaged in marriage to form political alliances between the monarch and the ministers to consolidate the country.

However, in the more than a hundred years before Emperor Xianzong of Tang, no children of aristocratic families had ever been the emperor's son-in-law. Even after Emperor Xianzong of Tang, there were only a very small number. For this reason, Emperor Taizong of Tang, who used martial arts to conquer the world and prospered the world with civil governance, has always been puzzled. He once said that although he was the emperor, people were unwilling to marry into our royal family and become in-laws. Why is this?

In this regard, a big liar decades later gave more or less answers. He was Mr. Zhang Guo, one of the famous Eight Immortals. Zhang Guo’s real name was Zhang Guo. He was a genius liar in the martial arts world. He fooled Emperor Minghuang of Tang with just a bit of denture and a handful of herbs to make him believe that he is not a human being, but a god.

In order to curry favor with this god, Emperor Minghuang of Tang decided to marry his sister Princess Yuzhen to be a witch. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhang Guo laughed and refused to agree. In his words to his friends, it is: marrying a wife will lead to a princess, and giving birth to a princess is awesome. What does it mean? Marrying a princess as a wife is equivalent to giving birth to an official in vain. How terrible is this?

Although Mr. Zhang Guo’s words make sense, they only explain one reason, and it is a common problem for princesses in all dynasties. In fact, the Tang Dynasty’s worries about getting married was the result of several reasons.

First of all, the princess of the Tang Dynasty was too powerful. After the princess got married, it was not a person who married, but a government team. In this government team, there was a "ordering one person, from the seventh rank: one person, from the eighth rank: one person, from the ninth rank: one person, from the ninth rank. The princess's county officials, each in charge of the family's wealth and goods, and the pastoral enthronement and sealing are all under the jurisdiction of the Zongzheng." (from the "Six Dynasties of the Tang Dynasty"). The government organization formed by this is called the Princess' Mansion. The large and small of the Princess' Mansion

The bureaucrats are responsible for managing the taxes of the fiefs granted by the emperor to the princess, the daily expenses of the princess’s house, the life of the princess, etc. These people completely obey the princess’ orders, and the princess is just a poor vassal and has no right to interfere. Just imagine that a person is playing against a government, and the former is definitely the former. Moreover, the house belongs to the wife, the land belongs to the wife, and the housekeeper belongs to the wife, and the servant belongs to the wife. For the poor princess, he is just a guest of this family.

Secondly, the Tang Dynasty royal family had a strict set of

The restraining system turned the horse into a veritable married slave. For example, the Tang Dynasty law stipulated that if the princess died, the prince-consort would have to stay for the princess for three years. If she remarried, the royal family would take back the land, real estate, and even the prince-consort's official position.

Again, the character of the Tang Dynasty princesses was generally poor. I don’t know if it was because of the poor family tutors of the Li Tang royal family. Most princesses often showed bad morals. There were many cases of deterioration after marriage. For example, Princess Yongjia, the daughter of Emperor Gaozu of Tang, married Dou Fengjie, but had an affair with Yang Yuzhi, a married man. Princess Hepu, the daughter of Emperor Taizong, married Fang Yiai. Fang Yiai was the son of Fang Xuanling, a close confidant of Emperor Taizong. Both families were well-known figures at the time, but Princess Hepu secretly had an affair with a monk monk Bianji. Princess Anle, the daughter of Emperor Zhongzong, married Wu Chongxun, the son of Wu Sansi, but also had affair with Wu Yanxiu’s cousin Wu Yanxiu. She also took off Wu Yanxiu’s lower skirt in front of Shangguan Wan'er and talked loudly, with extremely exaggerated behaviors.

In addition to having an affair with outsiders after getting married, some princesses have violent and illegal temperaments. In addition, the princess is the emperor's daughter and has a noble status. Therefore, after getting married, she often refuses to use the family rituals to show off her family rituals to her parents-in-law. Instead, she asks her parents-in-law to perform the ritual and ministerial rituals to her, that is, she asks her parents-in-law to come. Her parents-in-law dare not regard the princess as a junior, but instead regards the princess who marry into her as a filial piety like her grandmother. In the hearts of her parents-in-law, how does this actually feel?

Finally, if a man from the Tang Dynasty chose to be a prince consort, he would lose the opportunity to be a high-ranking official. As mentioned earlier, there were 130 princesses in the Tang Dynasty who got married, but later there were 20 or 30 people who got married again.

Therefore, the total number of prince consorts is about 160. However, among these 160 people, only two prime ministers will be the prime minister, and no more than 10 ministers will be the minister-level officials. So what are the remaining prince consorts? According to normal procedures, the prince consorts will immediately add the title of "third-rank official" after marrying the prince consorts. Although the third-rank officials of the Tang Dynasty are already the highest rank under normal circumstances, ordinary prime ministers, such as the famous Di Renjie, are only third-rank, but rank cannot represent everything.

The official positions in the Tang Dynasty were divided into two types: official positions and scattered officials. The former belonged to a formal organization and was a real power official, while the latter was generally a false title outside the organization, not a formal official, and had no effect. Unfortunately, the third-rank official happened to be a regular official, and was a random official among the regular officials. Other casual officials, such as the Kaifu only had the same salary and status as the third-rank official, but the third-rank official was different. The Tang Dynasty's official was also called "prosecutor" and "prosecutor" and "prosecutor" meant that this official position was just a vacant position, almost without even a salary, an office, and even a small county magistrate.

If Zhang Yang hadn't known that Princess Xiangcheng Li Mingyu had a good temper and had a good temper, and the two of them had a feeling of getting along with each other and had agreed to Li Mingyu, he wouldn't have been the prince-consort if he was beaten to death.

The reason why Princess Li Mingyu of Xiangcheng is an exception is because: First of all, Li Mingyu was born to his maid when Emperor Li Shimin returned to the King of Qin. He was not born in Changsun Wugui, and was not very popular with Li Shimin. In addition, Li Mingyu was always raised by his mother and did not learn the bad temper of those princesses and princesses in the Qin Palace. In addition, his mother has always taught Li Mingyu with female teachings and four virtues, which has caused Li Mingyu to be very different from other princesses.

Zhang's father Zhang Yue took the lead and said to Zhang Yang, "Baby, let me tell you clearly, your father, I didn't agree with you as a son-in-law. Although our Zhang family is not a family, it is not a commoner who needs to be a son-in-law to pass the imperial examination. You are not unaware that the princesses in this dynasty have few good qualities since Emperor Gaozu. If we all knew that the girl in Xiangcheng was good, you had already pretended to be a couple and logged in to the ancestral book. In addition, you agreed in front of His Majesty, otherwise your father would not agree even if I fought to death! Otherwise, my reputation of the Zhang family would be infamous for thousands of years. I'm sorry for the ancestors and ancestors...

"Yes, baby, I don't really agree with you as the prince consort! You have to know that after marrying me, my relationship with your wife's mother-in-law will be difficult to deal with. After all, she is a princess! But baby, if you really like the mother, you will support you." Zhang's mother and Wang Yun also said earnestly to Zhang Yang.

"Father, mother, don't worry, Mingyu is not that kind of person. I have discussed these things with Mingyu, and promise that those things will not happen. If Mingyu is that kind of person, do you think your son is that stupid? You will find a wife like that. Please rest assured that you have all these things. I have considered them all." Zhang Yang had already agreed to Emperor Li Shimin and Princess Xiangcheng Li Mingyu,

Even if you find Li Mingyu later

If there is really a problem, you must first calm your parents down.

I said, isn’t there still some time to get engaged? Even if you get engaged, it will be more than a year. In such a long time, you can see what problems Li Mingyu has. Even if there is really a problem, as long as I show excellent talents, Emperor Li Shimin will not pull me out and behead me, at most he will be a title. After all, the relationship between the monarch and the ministers in this era is quite equal. 1. The emperor and the ministers were sitting in the meeting. Thanks to the killer friend of Fengli for the previous article.) Wrong, yes, kneeling, ˉ After the demise of the Song Dynasty, it started from the Yuan Dynasty. So Zhang Yang is still sure of remorse, and maybe Li Mingyu found a more suitable partner in the middle and asked her to remorse.

Determined, after all, there are all kinds of wonders in the world.

"Since you have considered it clearly, I won't care about it as a father. Anyway, marrying a wife is your business." Zhang's father said after hearing Zhang Yang's reply.

"Yes, father, mother and child, I have already considered it clearly. This time I went to the palace to meet Empress Changsun. Do you think we should bring two jars of wine that we only brewed at home as a gift?" Zhang Yang suggested.

"You decide for yourself, I won't go this time..."

After hearing Zhang Yang's suggestion, Zhang's father didn't know how to answer.

Zhang's mother didn't know how to answer this question, so Zhang Yang took the initiative and brought two jars of "Qingchengcheng, Meijiu and her mother Wang Yun took a carriage to the palace to meet Zhang Yang's future mother-in-law Changsun Wugui.


Chapter completed!