Chapter 550: History's No. 1 Prince Consort Candidates
"Young Toast, please!"
At the Xiyuan Yulin Health School, in front of more than a hundred candidates who had passed Wang Bing's "interview", Yang Kedong, who was originally the most likely to be selected, was personally taken away by Yang Rong, the owner of the Dongchang factory, with his fanzi.
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"May I ask the champion, what crime did Yang Kedong commit that warrants trouble from Dongchang?"
When Yang Kedong was taken away, more than a hundred candidates for the Prince Consort were both happy and surprised. They were happy because there was one less powerful competitor, but they were surprised because Dongchang actually came to the Prince Consort screening site to arrest someone.
There is no way, as the saying goes, a person's name is like a tree's shadow. Since the establishment of Dongchang, its "reputable reputation" is no less than that of Jin Yiwei.
Therefore, all the candidates for the Prince Consort are afraid that they will be implicated accidentally.
"Everyone, please rest assured. The reason why Yang Kedong was taken away by Dongchang was because he concealed his identity as the young chieftain of Bozhou and wanted to deceive the royal family into marrying him. It has nothing to do with you."
Seeing the frightened expressions of all the consort candidates, Wang Bing naturally knew what these people were afraid of.
"However, in view of the negative impact this matter has brought, by His Majesty's decree, we have re-expanded the scope of candidates for the election of Prince Consort, and ordered all unmarried soldiers of the Habayashi Guards, aged 17 to 22, to sign up for the election!"
After explaining the reasons for Yang Kedong's arrest to all the candidates who had passed the interview, Wang Bing immediately announced the fat man's order to let the Yulin Guard's eligible officers to participate in the election for the prince's consort.
"What? Let our Yulin Guards officers stand for election as the Prince Consort?"
"Damn it, if I had known, I would have been born a few years later. Now we are over the age, hehe!"
"Old Wei, even if you are not older than the princess, you still look down on you? Look at your face and your fierce look. How can the princess not be frightened and have nightmares after seeing this? Hahahaha!"
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When they heard the news that the little fat man asked the Yulin Guards officers to run for the Prince Consort, even if they did not meet the conditions for the Prince Consort because of their age, all the Yulin Guardsmen were overjoyed.
If nothing else, as the emperor's personal army, if the Habayashi Guards can produce another consort, wouldn't it be closer to the royal family and have a higher status?
"General, if our brother from the Habayashi Guards is really selected, can he continue to serve in the Habayashi Guards?"
Soon, among the bursts of happy discussion, some people were worried about whether they could still serve in the Habayashi Guards after selecting the consort.
"Haha, don't worry! Although you can't hold a permanent position in the court as a consort, there are no rules that say you can't continue to serve as a soldier and serve the country! Of course, if anyone is really selected, he doesn't want to continue to stay in the Habayashi Guards.
If you become a soldier, Your Majesty and I will not blame you..."
As the saying goes, good things don't go to outsiders. Thinking that his niece's prince-in-law would have a high chance of being selected from among the Yulin Guards, Wang Bing naturally felt very happy.
"Excuse me, Lord Marquis, since His Majesty has asked Yu Linwei to run for election, then I will wait..."
Just as Wang Bing was explaining the doubts of the Yulin Guards, the hundreds of candidates who had passed the interview earlier looked at Wang Bing with some concern.
"Haha, you can rest assured. Although His Majesty has decreed that the Yulin Guards officers can also run for the election of Prince Consort, your qualifications have not been disqualified, so naturally you can continue and compete fairly with the Yulin Guards officers!"
Looking at these "social youths" who were worried about gains and losses, Wang Bing was very generous and allowed them to compete with the Yulin Guards.
In fact, although the little fat man did not disqualify these people, he did not say to let them continue to run. But Wang Bing, who has full confidence in the Yulin Guards, how could he regard them as a 'threat'? Let them continue to run.
They are just used as foils for the green leaves!
"The order is passed down. Including the new recruits who have just joined, all Yulin Guard officers and soldiers who meet the conditions and voluntarily participate in the election should quickly register with their respective commanders..."
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"I'm talking about Tai Tu, your partiality is too obvious, isn't it? We only have five thousand candidates for the Crown Princess. How many people did you have to choose a consort for your eldest sister? There are at least almost 20,000 people.
Come on..."
Two days later, when Prince Zhu Changluo, who saw the uniformed formation of Yulin Guards on the field of Xiyuan Yulin Guard School as if they were benchmarks, heard the news and came to see the excitement, he couldn't help but make a sour joke...
There is no way, although most of the 'veteran soldiers' of the Habayashi Guards are over the age limit and do not meet the conditions for election as Prince Consort, but of the more than 20,000 recruits just recruited this year, except for a small number who do not meet the age limit, the rest are absolutely
Most of them are just of the right age.
In addition, even if they are selected, they can continue to serve in the Habayashi Guards, so the recruits who have just officially joined the Habayashi Guards have no worries and have signed up enthusiastically. This has resulted in this situation since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
This is the largest selection of a prince-in-law in history.
"Partiality? You are so successful now that you are actually quarreling with your own sister. Do you have the ability to say this to your father? Haha!"
Glancing at Zhu Changluo, who was dressed in casual clothes, Wang Bing couldn't help laughing jokingly.
"Hehe, forget it, that's all I'm saying. Being able to choose a good prince-in-law for my eldest sister, I, as the eldest brother, will naturally be happy too!"
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"I say everyone, let's forget it! Look, compared with them, we are not even as good as green leaves!"
Just when His Highness Zhu Changluo, the Crown Prince, was joking with Wang Bing about this huge consortium of candidates, some of the hundreds of previous candidates for the Consort had no confidence.
There is no way, even if most of the Yulin Guards officers who came to run for the election at this moment are newly recruited recruits, how can their energy and spirit be compared to that of ordinary 'social youths' who spend their days leisurely wandering around?
What's more, with the precedent of Yang Kedong, anyone with a discerning eye can see the bias of Wang Bing, the marriage chooser.
"Huh, Brother Qian, why do we need to gain other people's ambitions and destroy our own prestige? They are just a group of rough warriors, why should we..."
Faced with this behavior of boosting other people's ambitions, some people immediately became dissatisfied and repeated the sour remarks about emphasizing civility over military affairs.
"Rough warrior? Brother Zhao, I'm afraid you've forgotten that this is the Yulin Guard, right? Don't you know the recruitment standards of the Yulin Guard? Who is not a literate person? I'm afraid there are some with honors among them.
There are also quite a few. I heard that when the Habayashi Guards recruited new recruits a few years ago, many people with a reputation as a civil servant applied for it!"
Looking away at the sour 'Brother Zhao', 'Brother Qian' who had been refuted earlier couldn't help but look mocking.
There is no way, as the Ming Dynasty's "No. 1 Army in the World", the Yulin Guards are famous for their strict recruitment standards.
What's more, with the completion of the rectification of the Beijing camp and the frontier army, and the reactivation of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that the Ming Dynasty's current pattern of emphasizing civility and neglecting military affairs is gone forever.
Therefore, now, not only some young people with scholar status have signed up to join the Yulin Guards, but also some candidates of the right age have begun to try to take the Yulin Guards as a shortcut to official career!
"Haha, today is the time to choose the prince-in-law, not the usual training time. Everyone, please relax!"
Chapter completed!