Chapter 85 Princess Title
Although the days when the three princesses descended are all at the end of the year, considering that they have to go to the palace to escape the summer heat, it is not impossible to talk back and forth for two or three months. Although it is not impossible to arrange this in the palace, it is not as convenient as coming in the palace city. , after all, it's better to be fully prepared right now.
Chunjia's affection for the three step-sisters is probably the kind that does not prevent him from being a good brother.
And because he forcibly interfered in the marriage of the three younger sisters, he felt a little guilty, so he was extra generous in the dowry rewards.
Not only is it several percent higher than the example of the princess of the previous dynasty, but he also plans to open an internal treasury to subsidize some of them.
Naturally, Yun Fenghuang would not be disappointed in such a matter, especially one of the golden branches and jade leaves was still married to her cousin. She responded to Chunjia's requests with a smile. According to the rules, the sisters of the emperor should be crowned as the eldest princess. Earlier, His Majesty said that the princesses should be canonized before they descended, but it is time to plan a date?"
"Then let Qin Tianjian do the math, and choose a date to bestow the emperor's sisters." Chunjia mused, "The title will not be changed, after all, it was specially granted by the late emperor before his death."
But he intentionally let the three imperial sisters retain the titles given by their biological fathers, but not all the biological mothers of the princesses thought so.
In the evening after the news spread, a maid from the side hall of Mianfu Palace came to see Yun Fenghuang at the beginning of night, claiming to be sent by Shen Taipin, the biological mother of Princess Jinyun and Princess Penglai, specially for her. The title of their family's princess came from Jinfeng.
The meaning inside and outside the words is that although the title given by Xiaozong is worthy of commemoration, it is an unwritten rule of the dynasty that the title will be changed when the title is granted by Jin Dynasty.
The two concubines thought it would be better to follow the rules.
Anyway, it will be recorded in Qing History that the two princesses were conferred first and then conferred again, not to say that Chunjia changed their titles at this moment, and everyone didn't know that Xiaozong had conferred conferred titles on his daughters.
"I'm sorry for the loving mother in the world." This is not an embarrassing thing. Yun Fenghuang very readily agreed to help deliver the message, and also politely declined the "little thank you gift" brought by the maid. , Mrs. Shen is Xie Wuzheng's future mother-in-law, how can she take advantage of her own people with little effort?
Sending the court lady away, Yun Fenghuang lamented to the Qing people, "Xiaozong died young, and before his death, because of the crying of his mother, the empress dowager, he forced himself to be promoted to the three princesses. Don't the concubines and the princesses themselves not want it?" Do you want to keep this title as a souvenir? It’s just because you’re afraid that your majesty’s title will be assigned to you if you don’t deserve it!”
Although Chunjia treats these three younger sisters very generously, the emperor's kindness is unreliable after all—a good brother who has been kind and considerate for eight years does not delay him from forcing the princesses to betroth the poor scholars he is optimistic about, right?
Wu Taipin and Shen Taipin came from humble backgrounds, and now that Emperor Xiaozong is gone, they can only try to get closer to Chunjia, who is now the head of the family, and try their best to win some affection for their daughter.
"It's just that the two concubines can't hide the empress dowager's behavior from the empress dowager." The Qing people reminded, "If the empress dowager's temperament is known, it is likely that they will not let it go."
Yun Fenghuang said: "The two imperial concubines have been with the empress dowager for so many years, how can they not be counted? Now your Majesty and the Ji family have torn their faces. It is safe for them to show kindness to His Majesty now."
Because whenever the Empress Dowager Ji did something to them, maybe Chunjia would take advantage of the issue and make a big move to further attack the Ji family.
In this way, even if they are wronged, Yu Chunjia has credit, which is also good for their mother and daughter.
And if you think about it a bit more darkly, regarding the current relationship between the Ji family and Chunjia, the Empress Dowager Ji would definitely not tell her daughter not to keep the title given by Xiaozong—this is equivalent to her showing weakness to Chunjia as the empress dowager—then When Chunjia needed to sacrifice the princess, would he choose Jinyun and Penglai whom he had given titles to, or sacrifice Minghui?
Of course, Princess Minghui is not the future Xie's wife anyway, and Yun Fenghuang doesn't care about the future of this princess.
She told Chun Jia who came over the matter the next day, and Chun Jia said that the two concubines were thinking too much: "My throne was left by the late emperor, how can I not treat the late emperor's flesh and blood well? Retaining the title was proposed by me, and then How could you have a grudge against the imperial sisters because of this?"
Yun Fenghuang smiled and said: "This concubine also told the visitor. The visitor said that he knew that His Majesty is considerate, but firstly, the rules are the rules; Your Royal Highness, if they don't agree, I'm afraid they will feel uneasy."
Chunjia pondered for a while, then said: "After all, it is the titles of the imperial sisters themselves, or, please invite the two imperial sisters to come over and ask."
So Princess Jinyun and Princess Penglai, who hadn't met for a long time, were invited over.
Their biological mothers even took the risk of offending the empress dowager to seek concubine Xian, so how could they not convince their daughters?
So after the two princesses came, they both said that they listened to their mothers and were willing to accept the title bestowed by the emperor's brother.
The three-resignation and three-resignation charter passed, and Chunjia just "reluctantly" agreed to it, and also said that he would definitely choose a few good titles, let the concubine and the princess review it before making a decision-wait for the two princesses to leave Now, Chunjia couldn't hide her good mood: "In a blink of an eye, the two imperial sisters have grown up. I still remember the moment when I first ascended the throne. After the grand ceremony, the mother, empress, and empress dowager brought them to see me. They were so tall and timid. After coaxing with the fruit for a while, I dared to come out and speak."
This was the first time he mentioned the past of the princesses with Yun Fenghuang in such a homely tone since he took office, it can be seen that what the two concubines did really made him happy.
In fact, Chunjia really didn't care about retaining the titles given by Xiaozong for the three princesses. He was a little grateful to his stepfather whom he had never met. After all, did he inherit the throne?
However, the two concubines insisted that he draw up a new title for his daughter, even if he did so out of fear that he would treat the princess badly and hoped to win more recognition for his daughter. He's backed up.
For Chunjia, who is not of Xiaozong's flesh and blood, but only inherits the throne as an heir, this kind of support is very important both emotionally and in the temple.
As soon as he was happy, he asked Yun Fenghuang to give the two princesses more benefits in private, and let him take the private treasury he inherited from Xiaozong, which was not included in the list.
It is true that he thought hard about several good titles, and sent people to Mianfu Palace for the two concubines to choose.
The direct change caused by the emperor's actions was that Princess Jinyun and Princess Penglai began to take the initiative to visit Xuanqing Palace.
The banner they played was to visit the nephews and nieces of the eldest prince and Princess Zhaoqing, and they even made some small things for the two children by themselves. mind.
Of course, Yun Fenghuang would not reject such quasi-allies who had already joined the team, and entertained them very kindly, and privately revealed a lot about Xie's situation to Princess Penglai.
Princess Penglai is actually not very opposed to the marriage of descending to Xie Wuzheng. The main reason is that her biological mother Shen Taipin told her daughter in private that her biological mother came from a humble background, and the emperor is not a real brother. Even if you are a princess, if you marry The favored son of a famous family, especially the kind of powerful minister that the emperor relies on very much, if the son-in-law is not good, he will inevitably be angry.
Instead of living with respect like ice, it would be better to choose a poor family like Xie Wuzheng.
Of course, it's mainly because of Xie Wuzheng's kindness...
Let Princess Penglai, who has never had a sweetheart in her heart, look behind the screen and feel that she is quite satisfied with her appearance. In addition, the age of the title on the gold list seems to be similar. Compared with a perfect consort, the only thing lacking is her family background.
But the first cousin of the family is a good concubine who is favored and has means. Based on this, the convenience of being close to the water and getting the moon first is unmatched by many aristocratic families.
The most important thing is that this kind of son-in-law of low birth, the whole family can't put on airs in front of the golden branches and jade leaves, so they must coax her to make offerings to her. The life after marriage is probably more comfortable than in the palace.
After all, Penglai is not a direct princess. Although the Empress Dowager Ji did not deliberately feel sorry for their mother and daughter, the mother and daughter have always watched the empress dowager's face come over. How dare you treat Shen Taipin the same way you treat concubine Ji?
The two princesses were kept in the deep palace when they were young, because Xiaozong was gone when they were sensible, so they haven't seen much serious palace fighting... Therefore, in Yun Fenghuang's view, although he can't help being a little cautious, in the end Still simple.
After chatting for several times, Yun Fenghuang felt relieved after finding out what the future sister-in-law-to-be was thinking.
Although she sought out this marriage for her brother because of her status as a princess, she didn't want her sister-in-law-to-be to care about Cao Ying and make all kinds of things happen after they got married.
Princess Jinyun, on the other hand, didn't know if she was still thinking about Ji Minggan, she was much more silent than before.
In the past, when the three golden branches and jade leaves came to look for Yunfenghuang, Jinyun was the one who talked the most and made up his mind, but Penglai was the quietest, hardly speaking.
Now that the sisters came over hand in hand, it was Penglai who spoke a lot, and Jinyun basically didn't speak, at most he smiled along.
The Qing people told Yun Fenghuang in private: "Her Royal Highness Princess Jinyun doesn't seem to want to come here, but she was pulled over by Princess Penglai."
Yun Fenghuang said indifferently: "Never mind her, we'll greet her when she comes. As for what's on her mind, that's a headache for Mrs. Zheng."
And she didn't feel that there was someone in Princess Jinyun's heart who was sorry for Zheng Fengli. "After Zheng's eunuch, you should be thankful for being able to have the gift of the Lord Shang. What else is there to talk about? If you want to blame, you can only blame Zheng Fengli for not being able to win over her." I can't hold back the heart of the princess."
Anyway, it's not her brother, and it doesn't hurt my back to stand and talk.
She Yun Fenghuang is such a double standard, um.
However, she was too happy too early, because Chunjia knew the thoughts of the two sisters from nowhere, and when she came over one day, she said to Yun Fenghuang: "If my concubine has time, I would rather have a good life with Jinyun." Let’s talk? After all, he’s about to descend, he’s always so unhappy, it’s really uncomfortable for me to see.”
What else could Yun Fenghuang do?
Although Chunjia made this request in a negotiating tone, how could she not agree?
Sure enough, the imperial concubines came from Xiaozong's dynasty after all, and they have vicious eyes. This emperor brother who personally worried about the title is different--Princess Jinyun's attitude is not a day or two. Why did the emperor a year and a half ago? I didn't care about it before, so now I'm worried about people's unhappiness?
She complained, taking advantage of the two princesses coming to visit her nephew and niece, she secretly called Wei Hengyan and dragged Princess Penglai to gossip, but invited Princess Jinyun to the inner room to talk.