"My lord, according to my opinion, this is not a bad thing for my lord, it is even a great joy."
Wu Zhizhong looked at Chen Shilang with a dark face, but the other party looked like he was smiling to please, and it didn't look like he was trying to seduce him.
"Sir, I am speaking from the bottom of my heart. First of all, if I think about it from your perspective."
"First, the official family is willing to adopt their beloved daughter into your lap, which shows how much the official family trusts you."
"Secondly, this girl will marry Xiao Gao, the number one scholar, in the name of your beloved daughter. In this way, Sir, you can be regarded as being married to Xiao Gao, the number one scholar."
"It can also bring the relationship closer between each other, and it will be easier for the boss to help Xiao Gao become the champion in the future."
"And in my opinion, Duke Zhuang Yuan has always kept his promises and kept his word."
"Presumably the official's beloved daughter has taken a fancy to Xiao Gao, the champion, and even the official himself is afraid of taking Xiao Gao's champion as his beloved son-in-law."
"But I can't bear to let an unparalleled talent like Xiao Gao Zhuangyuan lose the opportunity to become the pillar of the country and take charge of the court."
"That's why I came up with such a...a more tactful way to solve this problem."
"It's enough to show that Xiao Gao's number one scholar is as important in the eyes of the officials as he is above the Emperor Ji..."
Wu Zhizhong stroked his long beard and listened silently to Chen Shilang's analysis, and he was convinced that the other party's words had indeed spoken into his heart.
If it weren't for the fact that he knew the secret between Guan Jia and Xiao Gao, I'm afraid Guan Jia wouldn't trust him so much.
Moreover, if that day, if that little brat Xiao Gao hadn't been there, joking with him with a playful smile.
Maybe the official family would not have the idea to marry their daughter by adopting their beloved daughter to them.
In this way, I really want to be deeply bound to the official family and Xiao Gao.
When I think of Xiao Gao's talents and abilities, and how much he is so favored by the emperor, he even came up with such a saucy maneuver to save his future.
Although he has been clean and self-sufficient all his life, now that officials are willing to use such means to protect their future.
Could it be that I still can’t let go of this old face?
Importantly, in order to prevent the princess from intervening in politics, the Song Dynasty even stipulated that officials were not allowed to visit the princess's house privately, and it was illegal for the princess's consort to even make friends with officials.
As the saying goes, "If there is a ban on guests at home, there is no way to meet and hear from scholars."
Before Yuanfeng, Wang Shen, the consort of the Princess of Shu, had a good relationship with Su Shi, and they often exchanged favors and gave each other gifts.
In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), Su Shi was demoted due to the Wutai Poetry Case. After finding out the fact that Wang Shen was dating him, he was immediately demoted.
The purpose of such strict precautions is, of course, to prevent princesses and relatives from interfering in politics and to prevent the story of the Tang Dynasty from repeating itself.
But if Emperor Maode and Princess Zhenxin were to marry, Gao Zhang's career would be over.
"What I said makes sense, but I really don't understand how an official can cut ties with his beloved daughter, Emperor Maode."
Chen Shilang narrowed his eyes and considered for a long time. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he whispered in Wu Zhizhong's ear.
Wu Zhizhong's eyes widened instantly and he looked at the other party with disbelief.
"Ah this..."
"In this case, wouldn't it be equivalent to cutting off the secular world and cutting off the official family?"
"Hiss... This, this kind of operation is too..."
Wu Zhizhong sucked for a long time as if he had a toothache. If the officials really wanted to do this, the people in the world would really have no way to criticize the officials except complaining about their stupidity.
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Two days later, the beloved daughter of the official family, Emperor Maode, escaped into Buddhism for unknown reasons and entered Lingyin Temple in Tokyo to practice.
This news was quite shocking to the subjects of Tokyo in the Song Dynasty.
The important thing is that the princesses of the Song Dynasty did not become Taoists when they became monks, but entered Buddhism. This has to be said to be a very strange phenomenon.
The third daughter of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, the eldest princess of the Ping Kingdom, became a nun with the Buddhist name Master Yuanming. The sixth daughter, the eldest princess of the Wei Kingdom, also became a nun at Yunhua Temple in Kaifeng Prefecture and became a nun. Her Buddhist name was Master Baoci Zhengjue... …
Of course, these are not the main point. The main point is that Zhao Fujin, the Maode Emperor, is the beloved daughter of the official family.
The officials loved her very much and favored her better than other empresses. Many ministers had frequently expressed their nephews' admiration for the maode empress to the officials as early as a few years ago.
Even Cai Jing also made plans for his own son and asked the officials several times for marriage, hoping that the talented and beautiful empress would marry Cai Tiao, the fifth son of his family.
Forget about the sixth child, Cai Jing is still very self-aware. The sixth child of his family, who claims to be the Qilin son of the Cai family and the elder of the small pavilion, is really going to marry the princess. God knows what kind of trouble will be caused.
However, they were all declined by the officials, who said they wanted to keep their beloved daughter by their side for a few more years and discuss it later.
Now he suddenly escaped into Buddhism, which naturally aroused people's speculation.
There are all kinds of messy gossips, and there are even rumors that the Maode Emperor is in love with the eleven-year-old prodigy Gao Zhang, who is the top scorer in high school.
However, the emperor did not allow it, which made the Maode Emperor Ji Yi Leng become discouraged and determined to escape into Buddhism and guard the ancient Qingdeng Buddha.
Only when Wu Zhizhong heard the news, except that his face turned black and his eyelids twitched wildly, he said nothing about such things.
After all, he only has a groove in his heart and has no expression of opinions.
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Another strange phenomenon is that the Maode Emperor, who became a monk and her biological father, the official Zhao Ji, did not feel much sadness.
This made many ministers speculate that it was because the Emperor Ji had angered the officials and was left out in the cold. In desperation, she entered the family and was no longer stained by the worldly world.
All in all, these are various rumors widely circulated among the subjects of the Song Dynasty in Bianliang, Tokyo.
All of them had been put on the official case table by the Imperial City Secretary. The Emperor of the Song Dynasty was looking at the information with a calm expression, and even commented a few words from time to time.
XXX is too outrageous, XXX is quite realistic...
Yang Jian, who was standing by, saw his eyelids twitching wildly, but he could only say nothing and continue to pretend to be dumbfounded.
After turning over it for a long time, the official Zhao Ji casually put it aside.
"Yang Jian, when will the envoy to the Liao Kingdom return?"
"Guan Jia, the news we received before is that they will not go south until autumn."
"From Changchun Prefecture in the Liao Kingdom to Bianliang, Tokyo, I'm afraid it will be late autumn anyway."
"Well, in that case, there are still several months left. Since Xiao Gao has successfully completed his important mission as an envoy, there is no way he should not be rewarded for his merit..."
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(End of chapter)
