Outside the gate of the Imperial City Warm Pavilion, Zhu Yunxiu pulled the corner of Li Jie's clothes with a nervous look on his face and asked, "Will Grandpa Emperor really agree?"

"Don't worry, I'm all there is!" Li Jie patted Zhu Yunxi's shoulder confidently and said, then he pulled him into the warm pavilion together.

Lao Zhu sat behind the desk to review the memorials as usual. Zhu Biao was not here, but this happened. After all, it was easier to convince one person than to persuade two people. As long as Lao Zhu nodded, Zhu Biao would be no problem.

"See Your Majesty, Grandpa Emperor!" After Li Jie pulled Zhu Yunxi in, the two of them immediately saluted.

Lao Zhu looked up and saw Li Jie and immediately smiled, "You are here just now. The news that Lao Si just sent, the rebellious Jurchens have been suppressed, and he has sent people to contact the Jurchens to discuss recruiting people to Japan. The response I received was very good. It seems that this matter is indeed feasible!"

"The Fourth Uncle's actions are indeed fast enough!" Li Jie couldn't help but exclaim when he heard this. Zhu Di is definitely an action-oriented person and does not delay at all. The court has just made a decision and he immediately started to implement it. It is indeed a blessing for Lao Zhu to have such a son. Of course, the premise is that you have to control Zhu Di, otherwise you will only be backfired.

However, after admiring, Li Jie also thought of the important things he came today, so he looked at Zhu Yunxi next to him and immediately said to Lao Zhu again: "Your Majesty, I and Yunxi are here, and I have a happy event to report to you!"

"Happy events? What are you happy events?" Old Zhu also showed a kind smile when he heard this. Last time Li Jie and the others came to report the good news together, they brought a strange thing like cement, which made him very interested in the happy events they mentioned.

"Report to Your Majesty, this happy event is mainly related to Yun Xi. To be precise, Yun Xi fell in love with a woman!" Li Jie said openly, but Zhu Yun Xi next to him blushed at this time. After all, he was very reluctant to let go of his relationship with his family for the first time.

"Oh? My grandson has grown up!" Lao Zhu raised his eyebrows when he heard this and immediately said with a smile. This is not Lao Zhu's open mind and does not oppose early love. Instead, in this era, people have the idea of ​​having more children and good fortune. The elders also hope that their children and grandchildren will start skills and disperse their leaves as soon as possible. Therefore, when Lao Zhu knew that his grandson was interested in women, he would only think that he would soon have a great-grandson.

"Yun Yu, tell me what kind of prince's woman is. As long as the conditions are right, Grandpa Emperor will get engaged to you immediately!" Lao Zhu asked again impatiently. He wanted to get his grandson married today and hold his big fat grandson tomorrow.

"This..." Zhu Yunxiu hesitated for a moment and finally gritted his teeth, "Brother Qi, the woman's family's surname is Fan!"

"Submit Fan?" Old Zhu was stunned when he heard this. After he founded the country, he was awarded great honors, including more than 100 dukes and marquis, but he did not remember a single one with the surname Fan.

"Where is the other party's official position?" Lao Zhu asked again at this time, and the joy on his face was much more restrained. With his shrewdness, he felt something was wrong.

"Your Majesty, the other party is Fan Zhewen, the chief clerk of Honglu Temple. Yun Ying likes the daughter of this chief clerk!" Li Jie also stepped forward to help Zhu Yun Ying answer.

"Just a little chief clerk!" Old Zhu immediately showed displeasure when he heard this. The woman he wanted to make his grandson like was at least the daughter of a prince of a family, but he didn't expect that he was just a seventh-rank official. How could such a family deserve his grandson?

"Grandpa Emperor calms down. Yun'er and I fell in love at first sight during the Lantern Festival. We got along very happily later. I have already sworn that she would not marry her. I hope the emperor will fulfill her!" Zhu Yunxiu didn't know where to muster the courage, but he actually stood up to express his feelings.

When Lao Zhu heard these words from his grandson, he was stunned for a moment. If these words were said from Li Jie, he would not be surprised. However, it was a little different from Zhu Yunxiu's words. After all, Zhu Yunxiu's personality has been a little cowardly since childhood. Even though there was a big change later, it still did not change much in Lao Zhu's impression. It was not until today that he realized that his grandson seemed to be more and more similar to Li Jie.

However, after being surprised, Lao Zhu's face darkened and said angrily: "Absurd! How can you, a child, decide on the royal marriage?"

Facing Lao Zhu's anger, Zhu Yunxiu was also a little scared, but when he thought of the oath he had made in front of Miss Fan, he immediately stood straight, gritted his teeth and refused to say a word, and refused to admit his mistake, using his silence to fight against his grandfather's anger.

Seeing this, Lao Zhu became even more annoyed. He was about to scold him again, but he didn't expect that Li Jie next to him suddenly smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't rush to scold Yun Xi. I have a few words to report to you alone!"

"What should I report to you alone?" Lao Zhu's anger was not yet gone, and he also pushed the fire aside on Li Jie, because he knew that Zhu Yunxi's incident must be related to Li Jie.

"This...hehe, some words are inconvenient to let too many people hear it!" Li Jie smiled shamelessly.

"You go down first!" Although Lao Zhu was angry, he finally did not refuse, so he pointed at the stubborn Zhu Yunsheng and said.

"I...I won't leave!" Zhu Yunxiu didn't want to leave at this time because he was worried that after he left, Li Jie could not convince Grandpa the emperor alone.

"Yun Yu, go out first, I'm here!" Li Jie gently patted Zhu Yun Yu and persuaded.

Zhu Yunxiu looked at Li Jie with a puzzled look, and finally nodded in agreement out of trust in him, and then saluted Lao Zhu and turned away from the warm pavilion.

"Tell me, do you have any wrong reasons?" Lao Zhu asked Li Jie with a suppressed his anger.

"Your Majesty, what I want to say is not a fallacy, but the rules that Your Majesty personally set back then!" Li Jie stood up straight and smiled again.

"I have made many rules. Which one are you talking about?" Lao Zhu rolled his eyes and said. He is a person who likes to control everything, so he sets various rules and regulations. Sometimes he himself can't remember what rules he sets.

"Your Majesty once set rules in the palace that women in the harem strictly prohibited from interfering in politics. This is a decision made by Your Majesty to summarize the gains and losses of all dynasties. I also agree with it!" Li Jie said again.

When Lao Zhu heard that Li Jie was talking about the fact that women in the harem were not allowed to interfere in politics, he was stunned for a moment and vaguely guessed what Li Jie meant.

Li Jie then said, "But I think that to prevent women in the harem from interfering in politics, it is not enough to set up a rule, but to fundamentally solve this problem. For women in the harem, if they want to interfere in politics, they must rely on their relatives behind them, such as Lu, Wu and others. If they do not have strong support from foreign relatives, they can only be like Liu E of the former Song Dynasty, which is not enough to shake the foundation of the country!"

Li Jie's words also made Lao Zhu look thoughtful. He summarized the gains and losses of all dynasties and once established two iron laws in the palace. The first is that women are not allowed to interfere in politics, and the second is that eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics. Among them, eunuchs are suppressed by him, which has a very small impact on the government.

However, Lao Zhu himself did not do it because when Empress Ma was alive, he had advised him on the government many times. Not only did Lao Zhu not blame Empress Ma, he would adopt his wife's opinion. There were two reasons for this.

The first is of course that Lao Zhu and Queen Ma have a deep relationship. This country was won by Lao Zhu, but in his opinion, half of it also belongs to his wife.

As for the second reason, as Li Jie said, although Empress Ma had a great influence in the government, she was an orphan and had almost no foreign relatives behind her. This was almost exactly the same as Liu E of the former Song Dynasty, so Lao Zhu also had absolute trust in Empress Ma.

"According to you, if my children and grandchildren want to marry a wife, wouldn't it be better to marry a woman whose parents both died?" Old Zhu thought for a long time before finally speaking.

"It's a bit too harsh to die both parents, but in my opinion, if you get married and marry a virtuous person, you don't have to care too much about the other party's family background. After all, with the royal family background, what kind of woman can compare with the royal family in the family background? Another queen with a low birth background does not have any strong support from foreign relatives, so naturally there is no need to worry about what she does!" Li Jie explained again.

Li Jie's words are not nonsense. In fact, throughout the Ming Dynasty, only Lao Zhu's son would consider his family background when marrying a wife. For example, Zhu Biao's first crown princess was Chang Yuchun's daughter, and the second crown prince Lu, although the second crown prince, was a relatively low-born, was also the daughter of Lu Ben, the minister of Taichang Temple. Zhu Di married Xu Da's daughter, and other princes were also the daughters of meritorious marriages.

However, in the generation of Lao Zhu's grandson, the origin of the empress began to decline a lot. For example, Zhu Yunwen's empress was the daughter of Guanglu Shaoqing Ma Quan, and Zhu Gaochi's empress was the daughter of commander Zhang Qi.

When the fourth generation, Zhu Gaochi's son Zhu Zhanji, the father of the first queen was also the Minister of Guanglu Temple, but he was soon deposed, and the second queen became the daughter of a county chief clerk. Further down the road, the queen's origins became lower and lower, and some were not even the daughters of officials.

The reason for this situation was mainly because the rules set by Lao Zhu that women were not allowed to interfere in politics. It was only when the Ming Dynasty was established at the beginning, and he needed all the princes and marquis to do their jobs loyally, so he let his sons marry various nobles.

But when the Ming Dynasty stabilized, Lao Zhu not only began to weaken the power in the hands of the nobles, but also began to prevent these nobles from borrowing their identities as relatives to interfere in politics. Therefore, Zhu Yunwen and others of the third generation mainly married civil servants and used the civil servant group to suppress the nobles. However, later the conflict between the royal family and the civil servant group was aroused, so they simply stopped paying attention to the origin of the queen, which was also the fundamental reason why many empresses of the Ming Dynasty were humble.
Chapter completed!