Chapter 28 (2/2)
Chu Jinmiao quickly waved his hand and said, ”don't ask, second brother. Even if you ask, there's nothing you can do. Grandma doesn't like me now. Go and plead for me, and maybe she'll teach me a lesson. Forget it, anyway, I'm not a serious girl in the Marquis house. My father doesn't love my mother. If I can suffer some injustice, it's good for your family and Meimei.”
The second young master didn't like what she said. He frowned, slightly accentuated his tone and called out, ”Miao er...”
Chu Jinmiao lowered his head. After half a day, he whispered, ”don't ask me, second brother. I don't want to say this. My grandmother blamed me for gossiping.”
After hearing this, the second young master stopped talking and sighed at last: ”well, since you don't want to say it, forget it. Bear it for a few days. After a few days, my grandmother's anger will subside. I'll go and tell my grandmother to let you out.”
Chu Jinmiao had a bitter face. When she heard the second young master's words, she snorted, turned her worries into joy, and said sweetly to the second young master, ”thank you, brother.”
The second young master also smiled: ”you have the same temperament as when you were a child. By the way, I came here today, first to see you and second to speak new words with you. A few days ago, you said you wanted to borrow it. Have you finished reading it now?”
Chu Jinmiao thought of the book and asked strangely, ”why is the second brother so anxious? Is there anything urgent?”
”That's not true,” said the second young master, ”but my father said, let me have a good look at these. Maybe I can use them when the prince comes to Taiyuan in the future.”
Hearing the prince, Chu Jinmiao's ears suddenly stood up. She asked tentatively, ”prince?”
”Yes.” the second young master smiled gently and said, ”you should not know that the prince may come to Taiyuan to settle down for some time. The prince likes reading and speaking new words, and my father wants me to prepare one or two in advance.”
Chu Jinmiao said ”Oh” thoughtfully. She bought the girl around mother Deng. Knowing that mother Deng valued the book, she borrowed the book from the second young master in advance. Unexpectedly, the reason why mother Deng valued it was because the crown prince liked it.
Chu Jinmiao asked, ”how can the prince like these?”
”I don't know. The prince doesn't like the books often read in the imperial examination now, but likes the books of the Wei, Jin and previous dynasties. These are not secrets in the dynasty. You can find out with some thought.” in fact, the second young master is also very helpless. Because he is not healthy, he doesn't like the popular Bagu at this time. Instead, he likes the books about falsehood and Taoism in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. When others saw it, they always thought he was voting for the crown prince, which was really wronged.
Although Changxing Marquis house and huailing Prefecture house are in laws, their prospects and positions are completely different. The founding emperor of this dynasty, Cao mustard, was born and ascended to the supreme position of the ninth five year plan by virtue of his military achievements in troubled times. However, before the founding emperor developed, he was fed up with the suffering of rich businessmen and officials. After becoming the emperor, he especially hated corruption and the rich. He did not say anything about the restrictions on businessmen among the people, and the officials in the court were choked by his rectification. The eight princes and sixteen princes who followed the emperor to fight the world at the beginning of the dynasty fell most of the time in Gaozu's Dynasty. Many of them also had a friendship with Gaozu in open crotch pants, and it was very difficult to end well in the end.
Gaozu was cold and arbitrary. He hated officials to seize power, but he wanted his descendants to be rich and noble forever. Therefore, he wantonly killed meritorious officials, imposed heavy restrictions on ministers, eunuchs and the harem, and set rules for his descendants. He believes that as long as future generations follow the route he has arranged, they will certainly be rich and noble from generation to generation. He even stipulated the seniority for the naming of future generations. After emperor Gaozu left, the internal rules of the Qin family became more and more relaxed day by day, but the testimonies in the court continued in this way.
The most obvious one is the difference of the system of honoring the Lord. Changxing Marquis house is a foreign minister and a lord marquis. The title can be handed down for up to three generations. The third generation will be cut off. If the fourth generation wants to continue the title of the family, they have to go up and ask the emperor to see whether heaven's grace is mighty. The palace was different. Gaozu was very tolerant of his family. He enfevered his son into vassal kings and guarded all places. He was not allowed to return to Beijing without an imperial edict and asked his own people to guard the rivers and mountains.
After the death of the vassal, his eldest son inherited the palace and continued to be the prince. The other sons were granted the title of princess, and the concubines were one level lower than the sons. Until the next generation, the eldest son of the prince continued to be the prince, while the other sons continued to be enfeoffed. From generation to generation, it will be like a big tree with luxuriant branches and leaves. The king of the Qin family will only pass on more and more, while the nobles of other surnames, whether you are a meritorious hero or a famous general, will accept the fate of being cut off for three generations. The fate of Duke Xun GUI was firmly held by the royal family, and there was only one way to please the emperor.
Although the royal residence of huailing county is a king with a different surname, and the treatment can not be compared with the serious king of Qin, the inheritance system has been stained with light. As long as the Lin family does not rebel, their name of the royal residence of huailing can be passed on from generation to generation, and the Lin family can be king from generation to generation. But the Changxing marquis is different. After a calculation, Chu Jing is already the third generation of Changxing marquis. In other words, Chu Jing is still a marquis now, but when he passes it on to the second young master, it's hard to say whether he can keep the title. If you can't keep it, the whole Chu family will be demoted from the Hou house to civilians. If there are no disciples of the Chu family as officials in the court at this time, the Chu family in the Changxing Hou house will soon disappear completely on the stage.
This is the gap between the Chu family and the huailing palace. The palace can enjoy wealth forever, but the Hou palace is not necessarily. So it's no exaggeration to say that Chu Zhugao married. When the people from huailing palace came, the Marquis of Changxing should also be entertained. I'm not sure. In the future, they have to ask the people of huailing prefecture to intercede with them. The prefect is at least a prince. As long as he can see the emperor, many things can be said.
The Duke of Changxing has passed to the last generation, and Chu Jing leads the army in Taiyuan. His influence in Beijing is very ordinary. He has no sense of existence in the emperor, and the Duke of Changxing is not sure. When he asks the emperor to come and ask the second young master to assume the rank in the future, will the emperor give this favor to the Chu family. Therefore, the Duke of Changxing paid so much attention to the prince's affairs, and even asked the second young master to get familiar with the prince's favorite books in advance. Now your majesty has fun and likes to trust his close ministers. They have no possibility of coming out of the Chu family, so they can only work hard on the crown prince in advance.
”The crown prince likes such books...” Chu Jinmiao was surprised. A gentle, melancholy and thin figure immediately appeared in her mind, and this person was the crown prince of the east palace. It's really surprising that the crown prince likes to avoid the world. However, since the crown prince likes this kind of empty, mysterious and light books, it is no more than the same for women's taste.
Chu Jinmiao immediately felt that heaven helped her. She was the slimmest of her sisters and liked to wear loose clothes. Her brothers said that she had the posture of weak willow supporting the wind and was thin and depressed. If the prince also likes this type of nobody, isn't that right?