Chapter 317
(Thanks for the support of 18991899, thank you)
"The Supreme really plans to give Wu Chou'er a marriage to Sumeru?" Empress Dugu felt that the emperor was really too anxious. She had just looked in front of Yang Lin before, but the King of Zhao had not revealed any slightest voice. She originally planned to take advantage of the royal family gathering in the Zhao palace today, and meet the daughters of the princess's family who were not married and met with the grandson, and then asked about the grandson's feelings. Who knew that because Yuwen Yubo said a few words just now, Yang Jian decided that Wu Chou'er would give him marriage to King of Zhao. This was too casual. Even if he wanted to give him a marriage, at least he had to take a look.
"Empress, have you just heard Yu Bo say that Sumi and Wu Chou'er hit it off at first sight and took the initiative to talk to her for a while. Besides, Wu Chou'er is 16 years old and is still unmarried. Moreover, both character and appearance are the best choice. It's just right to betroth her to King Zhao. Sumi is our eldest grandson, and Wu Chou'er is also our niece. Their cousins are just right. Moreover, the princess of Xiangguo, Li Changya, also comes from a famous family. He is the grandson of Li Bi of the Eight Pillar Kingdom. King Zhao married Li Bi of the Eight Pillar Kingdom. It is a perfect match for the same family and is a pair of heaven and earth. I think, this matter is decided. My cousin marry my aunt's cousin, and we will marry her." Yang Jian said with a smile.
"Then you have to ask if Wu Chou'er is willing. We Wu Chou'er, regardless of population, appearance, or even female talent, are all of them, but there is one thing, a gentle outside and hard inside. If she doesn't want to, even nine-headed cows can't be pulled back."
"Is there any man in the world who is more suitable than Sumeru? How could she not want to? They were very happy to chat in the pavilion just now, and they were talking and laughing. I think they were very compatible. Although Sumeru grew up among the people, she knows better the warmth and heat, and she is better when she gets married. That is the dignified Princess Zhao. I love this niece, and we Sumeru will never treat her badly. Yu Bo said just now. Sumeru's cousin is very good.
Yes, if it weren't for Wu Chou'er's talk with Sumeru very well, she would want to marry Sumeru." Yang Jian laughed and didn't care about the queen's little concern at all. The marriage of children has always been a matchmaker's opinion, and the parents' orders. Although he is not Sumeru's father, he is Sumeru's grandfather or the emperor. Of course, he has more say in the marriage of the emperor. "What's more, the prince and the princess of Xiangguo are happy with this marriage in this matter."
The Princess Xiangguo replied with a smile: "My daughter also likes the child Sumi, who speaks witty and acts steadily. Although she has been wandering among the people, she reveals her royal demeanor everywhere. If Wu Chouer can marry Sumi, I will naturally like it with confidence." The Princess Xiangguo really agreed with this marriage in her heart. Her cousin married her cousin. Not to mention her relatives, but now King Zhao is deeply loved by the saints. The only one among the grandsons of the emperors who made an exception to be named king was already one of the five general managers under the age of twenty. Judging from this momentum, the emperor planned to make this nephew the heir to the Eastern Palace. After her daughter married, she would become a princess directly, and she might become a princess, and the queen might become.
"My son also thinks this marriage is good." The prince couldn't believe Yang Lin's goodness. However, he did not dare to object on such occasions, so he could only nod against his heart.
"But Wu Chou'er is still a little younger. It's only sixteenth after the Chinese New Year." Queen Dugu said. She actually likes Princess Guangping's daughter Yuwen Yubo. This niece is already seventeen. Next year, she will be eighteen. She is older and more lively. Her body bones look bigger than Wu Chou'er, especially Yu Bo's butt. She is already big and fat ass at the age of seventeen. She has a bit of blood from the Yuwen family, tall and plump, and will definitely be able to give birth to a child after getting married. Sumeru is the eldest grandson of the royal family, and the princess she married gave birth to a legitimate son. Of course, she hopes that she can have more legitimate great-grandsons.
"It's not too young. After the New Year, it's sixteenth. Tiankui has been here a few years ago." Generally speaking, women are just seventeenth and Tiankui arrives. They have menstruation around the age of fourteen. The menstruation means being able to conceive, which marks the entry into adulthood. According to the current customs of sixteen, girls of sixteen are of course fully mature and can get married. This is also the unification of the world and peace in the four directions, and the people will gradually marry later. If they were in troubled times, many of them got married at the age of threeteen or fourteen. Women are not married at the age of fifteen and are already late. In order to increase the population, some dynasties also stipulate that women who are not married at the age of fifteen have to pay more money at home, and even directly designated the marriage by the government and forced marriage.
The Princess Xiangguo also said: "You can get engaged first and wait until next winter to get married. Even if you get married at the age of 18, it will only be a year or two."
"That's it." Yang Jian said with a smile.
"You have to ask King Zhao what he means. If he has a favorite, he can't be wronged and Wu Chou'er."
"Then I'll summon Wu Chou'er to come and ask. If she is willing to marry Sumeru, it's the best. If she doesn't want to, I won't force her to press the bull's head. Then I'll ask everyone's women to promise Sumeru."
The daughter of the Princess of Xiangguo and the Princess Li Changya, Wu Chou'er, is named Li Liyi, and is named Sujun. The nickname is Wu Chou'er. This year, fifteenth, sixteenth, the year after the year. She is long and graceful, tall and slim, with clean skin and white face, black hair, two willow-leaf eyebrows, and a small cherry mouth. She is full of the lady's demeanor. She is summoned to her and stands in front of everyone.
"Wu Chou'er, the Supreme Lord wants to betroth you to King Zhao, are you willing?" Queen Dugu asked with a smile.
"Ah!" Wu Chou'er blushed to the bottom of her neck. She, a lady from a wealthy family, expected that she would be asked such a question in public, and she would not dare to speak for a moment.
"Sister Su Jun must be willing. The sister and King Zhao were bothered to separate just now." Yuwen Yubo smiled. In fact, she took the initiative to pull her aunt's cousin to find her cousin Zhao. The emperor and the empress wanted to choose a concubine for King Zhao. It is not a huge secret. Yuwen Yubo's mother, Princess Guangping, had already known about this and even wanted to marry her daughter to King Zhao to achieve a good marriage. Therefore, before coming today, Princess Guangping had already revealed her daughter to her and told her many benefits of marrying King Zhao as a concubine in front of her daughter Yubo, so that she could take the initiative to attack and leave a good impression in front of King Zhao first. Then she would come to the queen's mother and then go to the queen's mother.
Go and beat the side drum and try every means to make this matter come true. Yuwen Yibo was a little resistant to this matter at first. After all, I heard that the cousin of King Zhao was wandering among the people in his early years and had been a horse thief. Therefore, I felt that this cousin must not be in line with his husband's image. I originally planned to just do it perfunctorily, but who knew that after arriving at the King of Zhao, I unexpectedly found that King Zhao was handsome and elegant, and was even more than a little stronger than his two brothers, Li Yigong and Li Yi and two playboys. I was a little moved at the moment. However, I was embarrassed to go directly to talk to King Zhao, so I pulled Su Jun, the cousin of the second aunt, Princess Xiangguo family.
Who knew that as soon as they met, she reported her identity. After chatting for a few words, the cousin Zhao Wang immediately brought her to accompany her cousin Su Jun to chat with them. Listening to them talking about novels and poems about the Three Kingdoms West Chamber of the Red Chamber, Yuwen Yubo wanted to interrupt but couldn't find a chance. She usually doesn't like these poems, songs, and essays. She prefers sports such as riding horses, batting, hunting, and archery. At this time, she couldn't help but regret it. If she read more books, she wouldn't have to watch them at this time.
The happier the more she got. After she came back, she pretended to mention this matter inadvertently to the emperor and empress. In fact, she wanted to take the opportunity to sue her cousin and say bad things about her cousin. She destroyed her cousin's image and said that she was not as reserved as a daughter of everyone and was too casual. Who knew that when she said this, the emperor directly wanted to marry Wu Chou'er to King Zhao. She hated her in her foot. Now she was extremely unwilling to accept it. She took the opportunity and took the blame without hesitation. She was naturally happy that this good thing would be ruined.
"Sister is talking nonsense." Li Liyi didn't know how to tell the difference. She had always loved reading and could do some poetry and lyrics. When she had nothing to do, she would read and play the piano at home, or do some needlework by embroidery. She didn't like to dress up as a man with her cousin Yuwen Yubo and other wealthy daughters, often dressed up as a man, riding horses and taking her servants out of the city to hunt or play on the court, and indulging in love. When Yuwen Yubo pulled her to talk to King Zhao, she was a little unwilling. She just couldn't refuse and followed her with her. Who knew that after meeting, she actually talked about Huaihuang's newspapers, as well as the poems and novels published in the newspapers, and she couldn't help but get excited and let go and chatted for a while.
"Then are you willing?" Princess Guangping asked hurriedly. She did not expect that her daughter Yubo and her second sister's daughter Liyi met with King Zhao together. But the result was that the always introverted and shy Liyi had a great time talking to King Zhao, and her daughter became a foil. Now she wanted Liyi to be embarrassed and said she was unwilling. She could immediately introduce her daughter to the Emperor and Empress to replace her.
"I heard that King Zhao had already married Princess Gao of Northern Qi as his wife, and King Zhao also liked Gao of his family very much." Li Liyi lowered her head and looked at him left. She didn't know why. When her aunt asked her if she didn't want to marry Princess Zhao, she didn't answer directly and affirmatively. Instead, she said this by a silly miserable person. As soon as she said that, she couldn't help but blush, knowing that she had revealed her heart to everyone without realizing it. Sure enough, as soon as she said this, the emperor, queen and several princesses couldn't help but smile on her face, but Princess Guangping smiled very ugly.
Yang Jian was immediately happy. His niece's words were too obvious and he did not object to marrying King Zhao. He smiled and said, "There is no need for such worries as Wu Chou'er. I have issued an order to confer Gao and Murong as the king of Zhao, and six others including Chen and Xiao as the king of Zhao. If you agree to this marriage, then when you get married, you will be a good wife and the rest are just concubines."
The queen also said, "Wu Chou'er, if you marry, you will be Princess Zhao, the heroine, the eldest wife, and your child will be the legitimate son and the daughter. You don't have to worry about the rest."
"Now, do you have any other opinions?" Yang Jian asked again.
Li Liyi was shy at this time. No matter how she said that, she couldn't say anything. In the end, she had to lower her head and didn't dare to look at everyone. She just said softly: "Marriage matters must be done by the parents' orders. The matchmaker's words, how can you make your own decisions?"
Although this sentence does not directly agree, it is equivalent to agreeing.
Yang Jian laughed and said, "This matter has been done, I have decided for you."
In the study of King Zhao's mansion, Yang Jian summoned Yi Feng alone.
"Today, have you seen your cousins and sisters from your aunt's family?" Yang Jian asked casually.
Yi Feng nodded. Today was a royal party. There were more than a dozen princesses. Among them, four were the emperor's legitimate sisters, and five were the emperor's daughters. There were also many emperor's granddaughters. In any case, whether they were the emperor's sisters, daughters or granddaughters, they were all called princesses. At this time, there were no rules for the princesses as in later generations. What are the emperor's sisters called the eldest princess, the emperor's daughters called the princess, the emperor's granddaughters called the county princess, and the prince's daughters called the county princess. In fact, although they were all called princesses, there were still some differences. For example, the emperor's daughter was named the county princess, so it was also called the county princess, and the prince's daughter was named the county princess. The prince's daughter was named the county princess. However, in terms of name, they were all called princesses. Yi Feng saw many princesses, and of course, they also met many cousins of the princess and aunts' family.
"Then what do you think is ugly?" Yang Jian asked straight to the point.
"Wu Chou'er's cousin likes literature, is a talented woman with a gentle personality, and can be regarded as a model of a royal princess." Yi Feng's cousin with a very unique nickname is very gentle and beautiful. Not to mention that he is very gentle and beautiful, what is even more rare is that he is a literary young woman. When she met her, she could tell herself about the newspapers run by Huaihuang. The Romance novels written in popular language in the newspapers, which were very well-known, which really made Yi Feng sigh. It was difficult to find someone with similar interests in this era, and it was even more difficult to find a girl with a common language.
"Oh. It turns out that Yu Bo said that you had a very similar conversation, and I still don't believe it. Now it seems that this is true. Since that's the case, I plan to add the name of the princess of Wu Chou'er County and give it to you."
Yi Feng was not surprised at all. When he heard Yang Jian ask about his cousin, he probably wanted to say this. But what was a little surprised was that the emperor and the empress were so anxious. They only mentioned the issue of choosing a concubine a half day ago. It was only a little more time before they had chosen it for themselves and they were going to give it a marriage. This was simply a flash marriage than the flash marriage in later generations.
"Your Majesty, you can't have a joke about the marriage. Do you give me some more time to consider? Besides, my cousin has only just met me, so how could he decide on the marriage?"
Yang Jian stroked his beard, "Marriage, parents' orders, matchmaker's words, Wu Chou'er has seen you and talked to you, which means you are very destined to be. Su Jun, your aunt and uncle agree to this matter, and I and the queen have agreed. Why are you hesitating? Do you think Su Jun is not worthy of you?"
Only then did Yi Feng know that Wu Chou'er's cousin Xiao Zi Sujun, but according to the custom of this cousin's boudoir name, the name of the cousin is not well-known. He must pass the mouth of the matchmaker and only after getting engaged can he know her boudoir name. The emperor has revealed all the words of her cousin, and it seems that he has determined that this couple has made a point.
Yi Feng bowed and replied, "Wu Chou'er's cousin is both moral and knowledgeable, and has both talent and appearance. But his grandson is now full of affairs in Youzhou..."
"It is good to worry about national affairs, but it cannot delay family affairs." Yang Jian said and laughed, "Since you think Su Jun is good, then there is no need to be picky anymore. I will give Su Jun a marriage to you. Looking back, I will ask the Ministry of Rites to choose a zodiac auspicious day. I will book the wedding first this year and wait until next autumn before officially marrying."
Yi Feng saw that Yang Jian was just here to inform him, and there was no point in asking him for his opinion, and he could not even object or reject him.
"Su Jun is a very good child. He has a good temperament. Although he is my niece, the princess' daughter, and his father is the grandson of Li Bi of the Eighth Pillar Kingdom. He is a famous family in the capital of Li, but he does not have any arrogance. If you marry her back, your family will be peaceful in the future. Besides, you are now in Youzhou and you need help. There are no real people around you who are old subordinates in Huaihuang. This time, you will make a marriage with Su Jun first. Go back and let the Li family and Yuan family bring a group of capable people to help. The wife's family and uncle's family are trustworthy. Otherwise, just relying on the old family of Huaihuang, you can only use it.
How can the ministry control such a big stall in Youzhou Prefecture?" Yang Jian said carefully to Yi Feng. In fact, he was eager to marry Yi Feng. There was also a big reason why he wanted to find a strong support for his grandson. Although his grandson was named King Zhao and was appointed as the chief supervisor, there was no one around him. Apart from the old subordinates of Huaihuang, there was only one Yuan family who was used. Unfortunately, the Yuan family has been suppressed in recent years. For this reason, Yang Jian wanted to take Gao Qianxue's position as the official wife and choose a powerful wife family for him to help him. In other words, the strongest clan in the court at this time should be Li, Wei, and Yu
, Yangs and several families, but the Li family is too powerful. Even if they marry them, the Li family may not be able to truly help Yang Lin. Moreover, Yang Jian is actually unwilling to see the strong Li family marrying Yang Lin. Their alliance poses a great threat to the imperial power. The Wei family is similar, and the Wei family has already married a daughter to the second son of King Jin, Yuzhang, and is engaged to marry the daughter of Prince Yang Yong. They are even talking about promising a daughter to the prince and the son of Yun as a concubine. The Wei family is too entangled with the royal family and has too strong power. Yang Jian does not want Yang Lin to marry the Wei family daughter. The Yu family has no suitable woman, and the Yang family is because the royal family is also surnamed.
Yang, intermarriage with the same surname is not good. After all, Yang Jian finally chose the daughter of the Xiangguo princess for his grandson. Although the Xiangguo princess married the Li family, the Li family was the Li Bi family of the Eight-Pillar Kingdom, not the Li Mu family. Although in the Western Wei Dynasty, Li Bi was one of the Eight-Pillar Kingdoms, and the Li Mu family was just one of the twelve generals like the Yang family. However, by the Sui Dynasty, the Li Mu family was the most powerful family, and the Li Bi family was relatively weaker. The Li Bi family had many descendants, but lacked enough prestigious leaders. Letting the grandson Yang Lin marry Li Changya's daughter was just the right way to take advantage of the power of the Li family, without worrying too much about the situation and difficulties.
Yang Jian has put a lot of effort into this.
"I agreed to recommend Wang Bao to replace you as the general manager of Wuzhou. In addition, if you go back and draw a list, you can recommend some candidates you think are suitable to me, and I will seriously consider it. There are a large number of vacancies in the Youzhou General Manager Office. If the person you recommend is suitable, I will naturally select and appoint!" Finally, Yang Jian put forward another condition.
Faced with the condition that Yang Jian gave, he had no choice but to agree. This was a condition for Yang Jian to exchange with him, asking Yi Feng to agree to the marriage with the Princess of Xiangguo. Then Yang Jian agreed that Wang Bao would take over the position of Wuzhou General Manager, and that a large number of actual positions that are now vacant in the Youzhou General Manager Office can also allow Yi Feng to recommend a group of his people to choose some of these positions.
Yi Feng compromised, and he didn't have much say in choosing a concubine. Instead of doing so, it would be better to simply agree to Wu Chou'er's cousin who is pretty good in all aspects, so he can get a good exchange from Yang Jian.
"But arranged by the Supreme!"
Chapter completed!