Chapter 15 The Unfortunate Royal Family
Wei Liangchen determined that Xu Xianchun was the famous "hawk dog" in front of him, because Xu Xianchun was born as a martial Jinshi!
There can't be too many coincidences in the world, and it can't be possible that there are two Xu Xianchun, who are also from the Wu Jinshi.
The good minister decided that he would not admit his mistake. In fact, the tall, handsome and elegant young man was indeed Xu Xianchun, one of the "Five Biaos" of the eunuch party in the future.
Speaking of which, Xu Xianchun is a royal relative, and his grandfather Xu Congcheng is the son-in-law of Emperor Shizong and Princess Shang Jiashan.
The current Wanli Emperor is the grandson of Emperor Shizong, so from the perspective of generation, Xu Xianchun's grandfather is the uncle of the current emperor, and his father and the current emperor are cousins.
To put it in later generations, Emperor Wanli was Xu Xianchun's cousin.
With such a status, why did Xu Xianchun fall into the position of going to Beijing to take the martial arts exam? And he would also squeeze into the big car with the help of ordinary people?
Wei Liangchen couldn't understand this.
If the emperor was his cousin, the good minister would have to urinate three feet in the wind and shake it even if he didn't urinate.
In fact, the good ministers don’t know that Xu Xianchun, a “royal relative”, is not valuable, and can even be said to be indifferent.
The reason is that the princesses in the Ming Dynasty are no more than those in the Tang and Song dynasties. They have a very low status, so low that they are even bullied by eunuchs and palace maids, but the royal family and the court do not pay attention to this.
Take the current Emperor Wanli for example. His younger sister Princess Yongning married Liang Bangrui, a child of an ordinary wealthy family in the capital.
Liang Bangrui was suffering from a serious illness and had not had much time to go, so he thought of marrying a princess before his death, so he bribed tens of thousands of taels of silver from the eunuch Feng Bao at that time. So when everyone in the court knew about it, even the chief minister Zhang Juzheng knew about it, the sick ghost Liang Bangrui was actually elected as the prince consort.
The wedding night was really terrible. The groom Liang Bangrui bleeded in his mouth and nose, covered in his clothes, and could not salute. The heartless eunuch actually said that the groom was bleeding, which was a good red omen, a happy event!
Afterwards, the emperor's brother and the empress dowager's mother knew the truth, so what can we do?
Poor a princess of the Ming Dynasty, she didn't even have the same husband and wife after getting married. She died of illness after being depressed for several years.
This is true for my sister and so is my daughter.
Princess Shouning, the biological daughter of Emperor Wanli, did not ask for instructions from the female palace officials around her, so she privately announced that her husband Ran Xingrang would meet. As a result, the female palace and the eunuch found out, they rushed to the princess' room and dragged Ran Xingrang out and beat him up. Shouning was eager to protect her husband and came out to scold her, but was also scolded by the female palace.
Shouning was so angry that he went to the palace with his son-in-law to complain, but he was not allowed to enter the palace gate. The son-in-law simply wrote a lawsuit and was about to enter the court to complain. Unexpectedly, he was beaten by the ambushed eunuch in the middle of the road and almost failed to be beaten to death on the spot.
The younger sister of a mother and her biological daughter is still like this, let alone an aunt who had passed away long ago.
Therefore, perhaps Emperor Wanli didn't even know that he had a cousin named Xu.
Under such a background, the grandson of a mere princess is a royal relative.
His family is really worthy of being the emperor.
The princess has a low status and is not valued by others. She is naturally not much better with her prince consort.
In the Ming Dynasty, the prince-in-law was either from a noble family, otherwise, most of them were all the same as everyone else and had no influence.
This also led to many Jinshi not being proud of marrying a princess, but instead staying far away, fearing that they would be unlucky to get the emperor's daughter.
Just imagine, after studying hard for ten years, I was on the list of gold, but before I could show my skills, a princess fell from the sky and hit her body. It must be the head of the hat on the ancestral tomb that was kicked. The unlucky one can't be more unlucky.
There are three major hardships in life, marrying a princess is the first one.
Furthermore, Xu Xianchun's grandfather was the prince-consort, his father was not, nor was he himself. This prince-consort could not be hereditary. By his generation, the Xu family might have been said to have been a royal relative and had a wealthy family. At present, they are just ordinary families with wealth.
However, there is one thing that Wei Liangchen didn't know, that is, Xu Xianchun actually sneaked out of his home.
Like the protagonists of countless unofficial or orthodox novels in Chinese history, Xu Xianchun is also a young man who has made loyal and loyal to the country since childhood.
Perhaps, he was moved by the loyalty and kindness in the book, or he listened to the legend of storytelling outside. Anyway, when he was ten years old, Xu Xianchun decided to learn from the class of Dingpan to join the army when he grew up, and galloped across the borders of his motherland.
With ambition, Xu Xianchun studied hard and practiced hard. Not only did he study very well, he also secretly studied martial arts by an old military household near his home, and he practiced equestrians and other things even more proficiently.
All kinds of preparations were only for participating in the martial arts ceremony in the future and serving the country. However, Xu Xianchun's ambition was strongly opposed by his father Xu Mingyuan.
The so-called "I have walked more bridges than my son's roads". Xu Mingyuan knew that learning martial arts would definitely be unprosperous in the future, so he wanted his son to take the imperial examination and take the imperial examination in the future to be a Jinshi and glorify his ancestors.
One idea of being a father and another idea of being a son, so the relationship between father and son became extremely stale.
Last year, Xu Xianchun secretly ran to Shuntian Prefecture to participate in the martial arts provincial examination without telling his father, and won the fourth place. After returning home, Xu Xianchun thought his father would agree with his ambitions, but he was scolded and then kept his feet in the door.
In order to prevent his son from learning martial arts again, Xu Mingyuan asked his servant to watch it day and night, and was worried that his son had already passed the martial arts examination and would go to the capital to participate in the martial arts examination, so he simply did not give his son pocket money.
If you have no money, it depends on where you run!
However, the father underestimated his son. One night, Xu Xianchun finally sneaked out and stole a golden hairpin from his mother.
Because he was afraid that his family would stop him in Hejian Mansion, Xu Xianchun, who was familiar with military tactics, attacked the east and west, set up a maze array in Hejian Mansion, and then ran away from his orifices and ran to Suning.
Suning is a small place, and Xu Xianchun is not worried that his father would chase him here. As long as he enters Beijing and reports to the Ministry of War, even if his father takes people to the capital, he will never let him go home again.
As for the hardship on the road, Xu Xianchun doesn’t care. A man is a real man and has ambitions for thousands of miles, so what is this hardship?
Because of the second uncle, after Wei Liangchen learned about Xu Xianchun's identity, he naturally planned to make friends with this person, which could be regarded as an early emotional investment and forming a future eunuch party team.
But you can't be too hasty in this kind of thing. You have to have a chance, a suitable opportunity to bring the relationship between two strangers closer.
If you attack rashly, the effect will probably be counterproductive.
Liangchen was thinking about it, and the coachman shouted in front of him, asking everyone to get off the bus.
Liangchen looked up and saw that the cart was parked in front of a forest.
There were several pergolas in the forest, some selling water and some selling food. Some villagers even placed some local specialties there to sell.
Hey, isn't this the service area on the highway?
Liangchen was happy, and a familiar smell came to his face.
Unfortunately, there are no thatched cottages in this service area, and only a few holes were dug in the forest. For any convenient guests, it is convenient for them to go by themselves, for men and women. Peeking or not, it depends entirely on self-consciousness.
The fat man was a familiar person and could help him to pull everyone.
Xu Xianchun and Wei Liangchen both got out of the car.
After a group of men who were sitting in the car with their legs numb, they ejaculated the inventory in their bladders, they all walked back with satisfaction.
The fat man probably had a bad stomach, so he squatted while squatting.
Liangchen really wanted to ask about your uncle Xu Xianchun, but I'd better forget it and followed Xu Xianchun calmly. It took ten days on the road, and there were opportunities, so I didn't have to hurry up.
Back at the car, Liangchen was about to get on the car, but he didn't expect to meet an acquaintance again.
A carriage stopped, and the youngest person from the Zhang family got off.
The youngest person in the Zhang family was not a Beijing alone. There was also a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old next to him. He was gentle and dressed in a Confucian shirt. He looked more like a scholar than Xu Xianchun.
.........
Chapter completed!