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Mo Rongzhan's decree to appoint Ye Rou's marriage was like a stone thrown into the calm water. The whole capital was shocked. Since the new emperor ascended the throne, the famous families in the capital had shown a declining trend. The new emperor trusted those officials who had made great contributions to the throne, such as Tang Zhen and Lu Lingzhi, who came from poor families. Although they could not suppress the aristocratic families, their favoritism in the court still worried the aristocratic families. The latest chapter was:
It was not that those aristocratic families did not want to please the new emperor with prominent military achievements, but many people looked down on and bullied the new emperor when they were young. How would they dare to get close to him? It was not that they did not think of joining forces to make the new emperor admit defeat. Unfortunately, the new emperor was not the previous emperor of the Mo family. He did not give the aristocratic families any face at all.
If they wanted to have a good relationship with the emperor, the best way was to marry their daughter into the palace. However, the new emperor was different from others. There were few concubines in the palace, and he seemed to particularly dislike expanding the harem. Even if he had no children, he did not care. It was difficult to please the emperor.
Now the emperor suddenly wanted to appoint a marriage for the princess, which was great news for the aristocratic families.
Regardless of what the princess looked like, based on her recent contributions and the love of the empress dowager and the emperor, this was definitely a marriage that any aristocratic family wanted to fight for.
After Mo Rongzhan left the court, he went to the imperial study with a cold face. Ford followed him trembling with a pile of memorials. Behind him, a little eunuch was also holding a pile of paintings, which were all portraits of young talents sent by the minister of the Ministry of Rites today.
"Take them all and burn them!" Mo Rongzhan pointed to the paintings and memorials and shouted angrily.
Ford did not dare to question and immediately agreed.
"Come back!" When Ford walked to the door, Mo Rongzhan called him back, pointed to the side and said coldly, "Put it down and invite the abbot of Huguo Temple into the palace."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Ford responded, but he could not help but whisper in his heart. Since the emperor had decreed to appoint a marriage for the princess, he was so angry when he saw the candidate sent by the Ministry of Rites. Wasn't he looking for trouble? He didn't know how the Princess had misunderstood the Emperor. In short, Fu De felt that the Emperor still had a long way to go before he could win the Princess' favor.
Mo Rongzhan casually picked up two memorials and glanced at them. They were memorials from the Chen Family of Longxi. They wanted to propose a marriage between their eldest grandson and the princess …
He coldly snorted and threw the memorial to the side. He read a few more in succession, and the more he read, the angrier he became. Could it be that these people didn't discuss marriage before because they were waiting to marry the princess? None of them were young, but none of them were married. Mo Rongzhan picked up the paintings again and looked at them. "You guys are so ugly, yet you still want to marry Yao Yao!"
"What is that?!" Mo Rongzhan threw the scroll in his hand out, almost hitting the head of Tang Zhen, who had just walked in.
"Your Majesty?" Tang Zhen looked at the scrolls and memorials in the imperial study in surprise. Who angered the emperor?
Seeing Tang Zhen, Mo Rongzhan suppressed his anger and said, "Come in."
When Tang Zhen saw the portrait on the scroll, he immediately understood what was going on. He raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "Your Majesty, are you choosing a husband for Her Royal Highness?"
When Mo Rongzhan heard the word 'husband', his eyes became colder. "Do they deserve to marry Yao Yao?"
"Your Majesty, do you really want to marry the Princess? Then do you think … "Tang Zhen's eyes moved away from the handsome boy on the scroll and looked at Mo Rongzhan with a smile.
"Don't even think about it!" Before Tang Zhen finished speaking, Mo Rongzhan had decisively refused, "I called you here because I have something to tell you."
Tang Zhen smiled bitterly in his heart. He knew that the Emperor would not easily marry Yao Yao to others. Yesterday's imperial edict … was the Emperor's preparation for Yao Yao to enter the palace? "Your Majesty, please give me your orders."
"It's about Yao Yao's marriage …" When Mo Rongzhan said this, he gnashed his teeth. "If I directly issue an edict to marry her, the ministers in the court will not agree. Yao Yao's identity is also a bit difficult, so I can only use this method."
Tang Zhen listened carefully to the method the Emperor said and was stunned. He didn't know what to say.
He had always thought that he was the person who treated Yaoyao the best in the world. He knew that the emperor liked Yaoyao, but he never thought that an emperor's love could be deep, let alone that it would last. If possible, he hoped that Yaoyao would not enter the palace. It was so lonely to be a concubine in the palace. How could such a beautiful and exquisite girl die in the palace?
However, he never imagined that the emperor would go to such lengths for Yaoyao. In order to prevent Yaoyao from bearing any bad infamy in the future, in order to make it more justifiable, the emperor had really … thrown caution to the wind.
"Your Majesty, are you really going to do this? That will require the help of the abbot of Hu Guo Temple. " Tang Zhen digested the surprise in his heart and didn't know how to describe the Emperor's method. Probably no emperor was willing to do this for a woman.
Tang Zhen had a kind of helplessness.
Mo Rongzhan said lightly, "I have arranged this. You just have to let these people do as I say."
"Your Majesty, what if they don't want to …" Tang Zhen whispered, "There are many people who want to marry the Princess."
"I have given them a lot of benefits." Mo Rongzhan snorted coldly.
Tang Zhen had nothing to say. This should be the first time the Emperor was willing to make concessions to the aristocratic families, just for Yao Yao …
"Your Majesty, have you told the Princess about your original intention in doing this?" Tang Zhen asked in a low voice.
"She will understand." Mo Rongzhan said confidently. Although he ordered the marriage, he believed that the little girl must understand that this was his plan. How could he marry her to others?
Would Ye Rou understand? She did understand, but she didn't understand, so she silently added another black account to Mo Rongzhan's account in her heart.
"Yao Yao, look, these are all the invitations received this morning. Madame Chen's birthday banquet … Old Madame Xue's grandson's one-month birthday banquet also invited you, and this …"
"Mother, I remember that our family seems to have very little contact with these aristocratic families." Ye Zhen looked at these invitations, and the corners of her eyes twitched slightly. Didn't these aristocratic families look down on the Lu family the most before? Why are there so many invitations now?
Pei Shi curled her lips and said, "Isn't this all because of the Emperor's decree? These people have ulterior motives. They just want to see you. "
"Mother, why do you care about them? Do they still think that Yao Yao is a match for them? Our family doesn't like them. It's not their turn to point fingers at Yao Yao. "Lu Xiangzhi said angrily.
"Brother said it well." Ye Zhen blinked at him. "Mother, don't pay attention to these invitations. I won't go."
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