Chapter 232 : Intense death! Resolute suicide!(1/3)
Marrying Princess Xiangxiang was originally an important plan for Yun Zhonghe, and it was his bond with the Supreme Emperor.
Because only Princess Xiangxiang could enter and exit freely in the Shangqing Palace before, but what I didn’t expect was that so many things happened after that, Yun Zhonghe was too awesome, so there was no need to marry Princess Xiangxiang and the Supreme Emperor closely connected.
Now Yun Zhonghe needs the Supreme Emperor, but the Supreme Emperor also needs Yun Zhonghe.
But how could Princess Xiangxiang be so pure and cute and so beautiful, so how could she marry that beast Shi Guang?
Besides, Yun Zhonghe also needs the identity of the imperial prince consort.
He did not participate in the palace examination this time, so of course he could not hold an important position, and his title was also deprived, so the imperial prince consort was also a good starting point.
As long as you marry a princess, you will be directly enthroned as the prince-in-law, which is a position that can be up or down.
The princes of this dynasty are generally fourth-ranked. In this position, literary can be in charge of a county, and martial can be in charge of a military mansion.
The most important thing is that Princess Xiangxiang and him have made a lifelong decision. Although Xiangxiang regards him as Ao Yu, his brother Ao Yu is gone. Shouldn't he take care of this beautiful girl?
The enemy married Princess Xiangxiang to Shi Guang, and wanted to remove the firewood from the cauldron and completely cut off the relationship between Yun Zhonghe and the Supreme Emperor.
They did not expect that the situation would develop so quickly, and that the relationship between Yun Zhonghe and the Supreme Emperor had become so close that Princess Xiangxiang no longer needed to be a bond.
However, Shi Guang, the prince of the Zhenhai Prince's Mansion, was already drooling at Princess Xiangxiang, and marrying Xiangxiang to him could hit Yun Zhonghe.
Nowadays, as long as you can attack Yun Zhonghe, the enemy is willing to do it.
But doesn’t Shi Guang, the prince of Zhenhai, have a wife?
It happened that two months ago, his wife died of serious illness.
In order to marry Princess Xiangxiang, he was able to make his wife die of illness. It was Ao Ming's vicious plan.
Shi Guang is the prince of King Zhenhai, and his status is precious. Since his wife has passed away, she will have to rekindle her strings.
How many women can be worthy of Shi Guang in the entire empire? There are only a few women, Xu Xian is also a wife.
And it happened that at this time, the Great Zhou Empire had a request for the King of Zhenhai Mansion.
The tsunami in the sea of Langzhou caused the Langzhou navy to be damaged. The port of Langzhou was destroyed. The maritime trade of the Great Zhou Empire suffered a huge blow, and the maritime trade rights were greatly damaged.
At this time, maritime trade will rely heavily on the Shi family because they have the most powerful fleet.
Moreover, the national treasury was deficient at this time, the Langzhou earthquake and the collapse of the embankment, the country with thousands of miles of miles of land and millions of people were affected.
To provide relief to the victims and to rebuild Langzhou, all of this requires money, astronomical money and a lot of food.
Nowadays, only the Shi family of Zhenhai Prince's Mansion can make so much money. Only the Shi family of Zhenhai Prince's Mansion can make so much food.
The emperor was already trying to find a way to borrow money from the Zhenhai Palace.
At this time, Shi Guang, the prince of Zhenhai, died his wife and secretly asked a matchmaker to propose to the emperor, wanting to marry Princess Xiangxiang.
But the emperor also knew that he didn't make the decision on Princess Xiangxiang's marriage alone, and the Supreme Emperor also had the right to speak.
So at that time, he did not make a promise, but issued an order to enthrone another son of the Zhenhai Palace as a Marquis.
That's very obvious, I need money.
Shi Bian, the King of Zhenhai, was also very sensible and paid out two million taels of silver and one hundred thousand stones of grain.
Does the emperor want to marry Princess Xiangxiang to Shi Guang?
Of course he thought about it. At this time, he especially needed to win over the Zhenhai Palace. And as long as Xiangxiang was married to Shi Guang, the bond between the Supreme Emperor and Ao Yu would be cut off half.
But at this time, Princess Xiangxiang was also very clever. She stayed in Shangqing Palace and couldn't come out, and she would not give the enemy any chance.
Before, she would leave Shangqing Palace every seventh day of the month and return to the palace to meet the emperor and the queen mother.
But since she went on a blind date with Ao Yu, she has never returned to the palace.
The Empress Dowager called him sick and sent an eunuch to invite Princess Xiangxiang. Princess Xiangxiang said that she had also contracted the cold and was afraid of passing the disease on to the Empress Dowager. When she recovered, she would definitely come to the empress dowager to fulfill her filial piety.
In this way, the enemy has no chance to take advantage of.
But unexpectedly, something happened to the Emperor in the end. The Shangqing Palace was no longer a forbidden area. The emperor led all officials into the Shangqing Palace.
Princess Xiangxiang ran away immediately without saying a word.
The eunuchs and guards of Shangqing Palace also tried their best to cover Princess Xiangxiang to escape.
But she was just a little girl after all, and the entire capital was the emperor's territory. Where could she go?
He was arrested before leaving the capital and is now under house arrest in the palace.
So this time, Yun Zhonghe did not see Princess Xiangxiang in Shangqing Palace.
More than 20 days ago, the news of the Supreme Emperor's death was not made public. Shi Guang, the prince of the Zhenhai Palace, made a quick decision and sent a huge show, invited three princes to publicly propose to Princess Xiangxiang in the court.
In this case, let alone the emperor wanted to marry Princess Xiangxiang to Shi Guang, even if he didn't want to, it would be difficult to refuse.
The Shi family was the only vassal king of the empire, and at this time the empire had a request for the Shi family. In order to win over Wu Sangui, the Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty married his sister Princess Jianning to Wu Yingxiong.
But the incident that the Emperor was terminally ill at that time had already happened. This moment should be sad. Is the royal marriage unfilial?
As a result, several ministers immediately wrote a letter saying that giving marriage is a happy event, which just happened to cheer for the Supreme Emperor. Perhaps the Supreme Emperor would recover from the happy event. Moreover, from the Great Yan Dynasty, more than a dozen examples were found, indicating that this move did not violate filial piety.
So Emperor Wan Yun was overjoyed and formally gave the marriage, betrothed Princess Xiangxiang to Shi Guang, the princess of Zhenhai, and finished the marriage on a date.
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"Your Majesty, I object!" Yun Zhonghe immediately stepped out.
Everyone couldn't help but be shocked. Why should you, Ao Yu, object? What official position are you?
Suddenly, Prince Zhengsu of Dazong sneered: "Ao Yu, you are just the chief clerk of the Honglu Temple. You don't have the right to speak about this matter. You don't even have the power to go to court. This time you asked you to go to court, just to report your errand in Roulan City. The Minister of the Honglu Temple, who is in charge of yours?"
Suddenly, Lan Mengzhen, the Minister of the Honglu Temple, came out and said in a cold voice: "Master Ao Yu, please respect yourself."
The emperor said kindly, "Ao Yu, how are you doing your job in Roulan City?"
Don’t you know how it is done? Your plan to kill someone with a knife is not successful, right?
Yun Zhonghe immediately bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Great Xia Empire has sent envoys to recognize the Kingdom of Roulan and submitted a letter of state. Queen Roulan admires my Great Zhou Empire and specially invites me to send a letter of state, willing to guard the northern border for my Great Zhou Empire."
This is unclear. If you are willing to guard the northern part of the Great Zhou Empire, wouldn’t you surrender and become a vassal state of the Great Zhou Empire? As a result, you said you would submit a letter of state, which is the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, which is simply a confused lawsuit.
"Come on." The emperor still smiled.
The civil and military officials of the court did not have a good expression on Yun Zhonghe, except for the emperor.
The eunuch Hou Qing stepped forward and took over the letter of the country from Yun Zhonghe.
After the emperor took it, he opened it and read it again, and then smiled and said, "Ao Yu, you are doing a good job. The Minister of the Honglu Temple, have you talented people under your command."
The Minister of the Honglu Temple quickly bowed and said, "I dare not praise Your Majesty, but I still have a word that I have to say. This Ao Yu is just a juren, not a Jinshi, and just named him the seventh-rank chief clerk, which is a bit of a destruction of the court's etiquette."
Damn, even the seventh-rank official is not allowed to be a minister. The Minister of the Honglu Temple wants to drive him away Yun Zhonghe.
The emperor said: "It is necessary to subdue talents without any restrictions."
Emperor Wan Yun was also happy. This time, he sent Ao Yu to the country of Roulan delayed his imperial examination and palace examination, which made him unable to pass the Jinshi.
Otherwise, with Ao Yu's talent, not to mention the top scholar, there would be no problem to win the first-class Jinshi.
If you win the first league, you have to be arranged in the core department of the court. Ao Yu's ability to make trouble is too great.
Now that Ao Ming has become the top scorer, the result is very good.
Yun Zhonghe turned the topic back and said, "Your Majesty, I oppose the marriage between Princess Xiangxiang and Shi Guangzi."
The emperor still smiled and said, "Oh, why is this? Also, is this your opinion or the Supreme Emperor's opinion?"
When he said this, the emperor smiled, but his eyes were cold.
If Yun Zhonghe said that this was the Supreme Emperor's opinion, then it would be interesting.
When the Supreme Emperor, you could marry Princess Lanxi to the King of Xiliang as your concubine. This is a marriage.
How important is Zhenhai’s Mansion to my empire now? What’s wrong with marrying Princess Xiangxiang to Shi Guang?
Besides, King Zhenhai was the only vassal king in the court. He proposed to the court with great fanfare. If the royal family refused, wouldn’t that be a humiliating vassal king?
If your Supreme Emperor opposes, wouldn’t it be that the country ignores it? Besides, you have said that you will not participate in any political affairs, and the marriage between Princess Xiangxiang and the Prince of Zhenhai’s Mansion is a state affairs. If you oppose it, wouldn’t it interfere with state affairs? Wouldn’t it be a failure?
Yun Zhonghe said: "The Supreme Emperor has never said that he said he would not interfere in state affairs, so he would naturally not interfere."
The emperor said: "Since it is not what the Supreme Emperor wants, then what you Ao Yu means?"
Yun Zhonghe said: "Yes."
The emperor said, "Ao Yu, you are the chief clerk of the Honglu Temple. You don't know the court's etiquette. The royal princess's marriage is under the charge of Zongzheng's mansion. Honglu Temple has no say."
The emperor was still kind, as if the emperor's attitude towards him was particularly good after Yun Zhonghe forced him to issue an edict last time.
Yun Zhonghe said: "Your Majesty, I have two reasons for opposition."
The emperor said, "Tell me."
Yun Zhonghe said: "First of all, Princess Xiangxiang and I are in love with each other. I will not marry Princess Xiangxiang in this life."
As soon as this was said, the emperor said coldly: "Ao Yu, be careful of your words. Princess Xiangxiang is pure and flawless, and it is absolutely impossible to have an affair with anyone. Moreover, the marriage between Xiangxiang and Shi Guang has been decided, and the marriage ceremony of Xiangxiang and Shi Guang has been completed. This matter cannot be changed. Could it be that you want me to become the king who breaks his promise?"
Yun Zhonghe said: "Your Majesty, I have another second reason. This is why Princess Xiangxiang is determined not to marry Shi Guang."
The emperor said: "Say."
To be continued...