Chapter 256 Palm Thunder, the Han Tiger Guard
Princess, Princess Ordinary, Princess County... These are the ranks of titles bestowed upon women of the Ming Dynasty royal family.
The county princess must be the daughter of a prince.
The only way for an ordinary woman to win a title is to marry well. For example, if she marries an official or a noble, she can be granted a title according to the official's rank. As for the wife of a noble, as long as the noble does not commit suicide, the emperor will not be stingy with a title.
Don't underestimate this title. With this title, the carriage and ceremonial guards when going out will be different, and the seating arrangements when visiting guests will also be different.
A man lives by his face, a tree lives by its bark. Doesn't this face come with the title?
But how could the daughter of a minister be granted the title of county princess?
The first thought of the officials in the Taichang Temple was that the Taoist priest had gone crazy.
Has Your Majesty taken too many pills recently and become unconscious?
But looking at Huang Jin's kind smile, it was clearly not the case.
Li Huan slowly looked at Qin Yue, "Did I... hear something wrong?"
Qin Yue's cheeks trembled, "Old Li, you...your second daughter, your second daughter."
What the hell!
County Princess!
Li Huan shuddered, "Are you sure?"
Huang Jin's face was full of black lines, "The person who went to confer the title should have arrived at your house by now."
"My little girl... the county lady..."
Li Huan slapped his thigh and said, "Oh no, I'm afraid the family is..."
Whoosh!
Li Huan disappeared in a flash.
"Hey! Lao Li, you didn't even ask for leave!" Qin Yue shouted.
Chen Mo, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, finally woke up from his confusion at this moment. "It's okay, it's okay, just go!"
Chang has been showing signs of becoming a nagging woman lately. She often sits down and starts nagging, starting from the moment she became pregnant with Li Tian and continuing until Li Tian got married and had children.
Li Huan couldn't stand it anymore and hid in the study as soon as he got home.
Li Tian has two daughters. The eldest daughter is married and the other is waiting to be married. She has endless embroidery to do all day long.
As for her son, his face changed drastically when he saw her and he ran away.
My daughter-in-law has a lot of things to do and doesn't have time to listen.
Fortunately, there was a maid in the house. Chang looked at the dowry list that she had read hundreds of times and said...
"...Don't underestimate Tian'er because she is quiet and gentle. When her sister bullied her that year, she looked silly and just cried. When I went out for a while, I came back and saw the lady crying. When I asked her, she said that she was beaten by her sister."
The maid had heard this story several times, her ears were calloused, but she was still somewhat fascinated, "Second Madam is really amazing!"
"Yes, she is powerful. She is silent and never makes a fuss when she wants to punish someone. Unlike the eldest lady, she started to make a fuss before she even started to do anything, and ended up getting beaten up by the second lady..."
The maid couldn't help but laugh, "Second Madam usually looks quiet and gentle, but I didn't expect her to be so fierce."
"The more fierce they look, the weaker they are." Chang sighed, "Why? They lack fierceness, so they pretend to be fierce to scare others."
The maid laughed and said, "Are those scoundrels the same?"
"Most of them are like this." Chang said, "If a person really has something, how could he show it to others easily? Just like the dignity of an emperor, an emperor would shout about it all over the world for no reason, but I am full of majesty!"
The maid couldn't help laughing.
"But I think the second uncle doesn't need this."
"He!" Chang was a little melancholy. "He has the ability, but his ability is too great, which can easily bring disaster."
The maid comforted her, "It must be a blessing."
There was a commotion outside the door, and someone shouted, "You've come to the wrong place, haven't you? My master is not at home, what canonization... There is no noble daughter in my family."
"What a mess! What's going on? Go and take a look."
Chang took her maid and went to the front.
I saw two officials standing in the yard, and the servant who opened the door looked confused.
There were actually some people outside the door, they seemed to be minor officials.
"What's going on?" His son was not at home, and the person who came was an official, so Chang had to go in person.
"But Mrs. Chang?"
Li Huan was the Minister of the Imperial Household, a sixth-rank official, and Chang was still far from being a second-rank official. But this was just a title, just like in later times, men were called Mr. and women were called Ms.
"It's me." Chang lowered her eyes slightly, "What's the matter?"
The official smiled and said, "Is your second wife here?"
"Yes, but please forgive me for being rude, but may I ask..." Mrs. Chang seemed normal, but she was a little anxious in her heart and wished she could pull her husband back immediately.
"Please come out, young lady." The official smiled, but with a majesty that could not be refused.
"Go and ask the second lady to change her clothes." Chang ordered.
When Li Tian arrived, the official looked stern and said, "There is an imperial decree!"
The incense table had already been set up, and Chang and her daughter were waiting.
Chang felt dizzy after hearing all the flowery embellishments and compliments.
"…I am the Princess of Huating County. Princess, I bow four times."
what?
County Lord?
Chang was completely stunned.
A eunuch was watching all this.
Li Tian bowed calmly, and after four bows, there was another round of etiquette.
After finishing, Li Tian walked to her mother, "Mom."
Chang looked at her blankly, "My daughter!"
"Ok!"
"Pinch your mother."
"Really?"
“What a pinch!”
"Ouch!"
Li Huan entered the house and just in time saw his wife screaming, then clapping her hands, "Tian'er is actually the county lady?"
There were neighbors outside watching, and Chang said with a smile, "I'll treat you guys to a drink another day. I'm sorry for offending you today."
The door was closed, and the couple huddled together and whispered nervously.
Why was Tian'er canonized as the county princess? Did you do something to make His Majesty happy?
"Not at all!" Li Huan swore that he had been living as quiet as a quail and as mediocre as cattle and sheep recently.
"Why is that?"
The couple had a vague idea.
Li Tian was in a daze for a while and said, "Dad and Mom, it must be him."
"Who?"
"Ye Qing... No, Jiang Qingzhi."
At this time, someone knocked on the door. The servant opened the door and said with a smile, "I am Hu Zongxian, an idler from the Changwei Marquis's mansion. I want to see the madam for something."
Li Huan had met Hu Zongxian, "But does your son-in-law have anything to say?"
"Is Lord Li here too?" Hu Zongxian bowed. "Lord Li sent me here to tell you that you should just handle the matter of the county lady and not worry about anything else." "Why?" Li Huan felt uneasy. "If we don't figure out why Tian'er got such a benefit, my husband and I won't be able to sleep peacefully at night."
Hu Zongxian smiled and said, "My Lord is still young. Your Majesty values him, but it is not easy to confer a higher title on him."
Li Huan understood, and Hu Zongxian immediately said goodbye.
"Love the whole house and love the whole dog!" Chang couldn't help but be excited.
"No, there is nothing to reward." Li Huan was more sober than her.
"You mean...what great achievement did your son-in-law make?"
Li Huan nodded.
Chang sighed, called her daughter over, took her hand and said, "You are already a county lady before you even get married. I'm afraid your sister will be jealous."
But such happy events must be notified to the married woman.
When Li Xuan heard the news, she was stunned.
Until the husband Xiang Cheng returned home and saw that his wife did not come to greet him, he went in to look for her.
"Why are you dazed?"
Xiang Cheng was an inspector in the Ministry of Revenue. He had a lot of things to do all day and was exhausted when he got home. Seeing that his wife didn't care about him, he couldn't help but feel dissatisfied.
Li Xuan looked up, her dull eyes brightened up. She grabbed Xiang Cheng's wrist.
"What are you doing?" Xiang Cheng frowned. "By the way, the day after tomorrow we have a day off, and several colleagues will come to our house with their families. Those women are the best at judging people and will take advantage of them. You should be careful."
"My sister...she...she is actually the county lady."
"What?" Xiang Cheng was stunned.
"Tian'er is now the county lord."
The younger sister who had fought with her since childhood has now become a golden phoenix, but she is still the black chicken.
……
A Taoist priest is a Taoist priest. Even when he is performing a favor, he does it quietly.
The news of Li Tian's appointment as county lady was conveyed by someone from Zhu Xizhong's side.
The person who came was Zhu Shitai, who was running out of breath. Jiang Qingzhi quickly asked someone to get a bowl of hawthorn water for the kid.
"It helps to digest food and relieve gas. Bring back a few bowls of braised pork with sauce." Jiang Qingzhi has been a bit greedy recently and asked the kitchen to make a lot of braised pork with sauce. Whenever he wants to eat it, he can have a bowl of it.
This method won't work after a while, as it will go bad in two days.
Jiang Qingzhi originally thought that Zhu Xizhong came specially after leaving the government office as a reward for curing the prince's heart disease.
"I was there when those people went to the Li family to report back. From what His Majesty said, it was not to reward them, but to make the bride do something..."
Zhu Xizhong thought back to what the Taoist said at that time.
"Your Majesty said that others underestimated my family."
As for whether it is inappropriate for the county lady to marry the emperor's cousin, that is not the case. There is no blood relationship at all. If anyone dares to criticize it, I can kill him with a palm thunder.
Jiang Qingzhi was stunned.
Zhu Xizhong patted his shoulder and said, "This is His Majesty trying to help you get married! Qingzhi, His Majesty treats you... To be honest, I am really jealous."
Jiang Qingzhi understood that his so-called contribution of curing the prince's heart disease was taken for granted in the eyes of the Taoist priest.
But he was not sure in his heart, but he wanted to be sure very much. Then he asked Hu Zongxian to go to Li's house to inform his father-in-law and his family about the cause of the matter, so as not to make them panic.
Lying in bed at night, Jiang Qingzhi couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
He was alone and somewhat out of tune with this world. The only person he could trust was Sun Chonglou.
He felt that he would be lonely for a long time until he had his own children.
"Family?" Jiang Qingzhi whispered in the darkness.
……
Early the next morning, Jiang Qingzhi entered the palace without even having breakfast, thinking that the Taoist priest was still asleep.
"You are his cousin, and you still want a reward?" The Taoist looked like he was ready to slap him to death.
Jiang Qingzhi scratched his head, "It's right, but the county lady..."
"Is there anything else?" asked the Taoist priest.
Jiang Qingzhi shook his head, and the Taoist cursed: "You idiot, you made another trip just for this matter?"
"This is not..." Seeing that Taoist Master had an unfriendly look on his face, Jiang Qingzhi quickly slipped away.
Jiang Qingzhi walked out and suddenly turned around, "Your Majesty."
"Say!"
"I haven't had breakfast yet."
Jiang Qingzhi had a hearty breakfast in the palace and left the West Garden while picking his teeth.
Not long after I got home, someone came to report.
"Your Majesty summons you."
I just got back!
Jiang Qingzhi returned to Xiyuan with a frown on his face.
The Taoist priest had an even worse temper and was cursing people in Anlu dialect.
When he saw Jiang Qingzhi coming in, he pointed at Yan Song.
Yan Song coughed dryly, "An Da sent a messenger saying that since the two sides have made peace, in order to eliminate the past estrangement, An Da is preparing to invite the Ming Dynasty... to go hunting."
"This is a test, but also a deterrent." Jiang Qing subconsciously said, "Altan will certainly send out his elite troops. He wants to reverse the negative impact of Datong's two defeats."
The corners of Emperor Jiajing's mouth curled up slightly.
Like a proud old father.
Look how smart this kid is.
Several close ministers discussed for a while before reaching this conclusion.
In fact, it’s not that they are not smart enough, but that they don’t have Jiang Qing’s experience in his previous life.
In the past, in order to intimidate anti-government forces, the government forces held military parades, exercises, and displays of advanced weapons, which were broadcast to all directions via television in order to intimidate anti-government armed forces such as Jiang Qingzhi.
Jiang knows everything about this matter!
"The court means that we cannot bow our heads this time," Yan Song said.
"This is a battle of momentum. Whoever bows down is a wimp. The blow to the people's morale is self-evident." Jiang Qingzhi's eyes turned, "Who is the court going to send?"
No one spoke.
They were all looking at him.
But am I not preparing to get married?
Yan Song said in a deep voice: "After our discussion, we decided that you are the best candidate."
"Huang Jin has already gone to the Li family and brought my apologies." Dao Ye said, "Let's get married in advance!"
The Taoist looked at Jiang Qingzhi, hoping to see complaints or dissatisfaction.
Jiang Qingzhi took a deep breath.
There was only one thought in his mind, "I will let Altan see what a tiger soldier of the Han Dynasty is!"
(End of this chapter)
