My father is Jiajing

Chapter 420 Trying on New Clothes
The Tatar wedding escort team was quickly determined, and Zamusu, who had been captured by Zhu Zaigui in the past, would be the bride's escort, and he would escort Qimuge from the grassland to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

While Zhu Zaigui was reading the memorial to select a princess for his younger brother Zhu Zaizhen, and at the same time looking at the new clothes sent by the Shangyi Bureau, he felt like a thousand horses were galloping in his heart.

Zhu Zaigui never dreamed that there would come a day when he would be forced to marry a foreign princess. Is this still the Ming Dynasty he was familiar with?
Didn’t they say that the Ming Dynasty didn’t allow marriage alliances?

Why is it different from what is said in the book?

But in fact, the saying "No marriage, no compensation, no cession of territory, no tribute. The emperor guards the national border and the king dies for the country" was fabricated by later generations.

It is not the so-called ancestral precepts of the Ming Dynasty at all.

Moreover, if the ministers had not stopped them and if it had not been for the stubborn desire to save face, the Ming Dynasty would have almost abandoned the capital and moved south twice.

So looking at the 276-year history of the Ming Dynasty, except for the fact that the princess did not marry out, other troubles actually happened to some extent in these three hundred years.

For example, regarding the clause "no cession of territory", when Prince of Yan rebelled and headed straight for the city of Nanjing, the cute Jianwen and his group of cute friends wanted to negotiate peace with Prince of Yan and come up with a Ming version of "divide the river and rule separately". They were willing to split the Ming Dynasty for the throne.

But at this time, the King of Yan was supreme if he took one step forward, and would fall into the abyss if he took one step back.

So the cute Jianwen’s attempt to make peace failed.

There is also the decision to abandon the Jiaozhi Provincial Administration during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, which was actually no different from ceding land. Moreover, in the hundreds of years of continuous Ming-Mongol war that followed, the actual territory controlled by the Ming Dynasty became less and less, and the Hetao area and the Nurgan Regional Administration were both lost.

Not to mention the snowy plateau and the old land of the Western Regions, none of these exist.

Therefore, if Ming fans want to advocate that the Ming Dynasty "will not cede land", that is more heartbreaking than ceding land, so just throw it away!

There is also the "no marriage" clause.

It is true that princesses in the Ming Dynasty never married outside their families, but that doesn’t mean the princesses in the Ming Dynasty were not necessarily happy?
Either she was tricked into marrying a tuberculosis patient, or she married an ugly bald man.

Moreover, the couple's life was closely watched by the palace maids and eunuchs who managed the princess's mansion. It was more difficult for her to see her husband than for Tang Monk to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

Therefore, adult princesses in the Ming Dynasty generally had short lives, and few lived long.

It is said that they were not as high-risk as the emperor and the princes, and they only needed to live a life of luxury, but they still died so early. This shows that it was not easy to be a princess in the Ming Dynasty!

Moreover, these princesses were already worshipped by the people of the world and were of royal descent. If they could shoulder their responsibilities like the princesses of the Han and Tang dynasties, with the level of science and technology and national strength of the Ming Dynasty, would it be necessary for them to fight the northern grasslands for more than two hundred years?

Maybe it had already been completely absorbed and integrated without any bloodshed.

You have to know that the reason why the Qing Dynasty after the Ming Dynasty was able to control the Mongolian princes and nobles on the grassland so well was that, in addition to its own military force, they also spared no effort to marry the princesses of the grassland nobles. Not only did they send their own princesses, but they also took in many daughters of grassland princes and nobles as concubines.

This time the grassland was gradually tamed and completely bound together.

If we just rely on hot-blooded fighting and killing, not only will we fail to solve the problem, but we will also drag the Central Plains dynasty into the quagmire of war from which it will never be able to escape.

So sometimes we really can't be too populist when it comes to politics. We should use gentle means and avoid using war, which is extremely harmful and costly, as soon as possible.

Because the damage and casualties caused by the war are almost all borne by the lowest-level civilians.

And those haters who ended up talking shit all over themselves are sitting in the back enjoying their good lives without having to go to war, and the war will not spread to their homes.

Therefore, if you are not smart enough and are fooled by these people to be cannon fodder, in the end, the people who fooled you may also accuse you of not having a big picture. These bastards said all the good and bad things, and in the end, it was others who got hurt.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui hated those bastards who used populism as nationalism, ignored the grassroots, hated some imaginary enemies who had no idea where they came from, and used this to divert problems, shift contradictions, and harm the grassroots.

Therefore, Zhu Zaigui was actually quite optimistic about "marriage alliance", a political tool that caused the least harm and brought the greatest benefits.

It’s just that this kind of thing doesn’t quite fit in with the values ​​that Confucianism has always emphasized.

Therefore, sometimes Zhu Zaigui could only daydream.

However, Zhu Zaigui never expected that the old man Altan had learned to do the opposite and wanted to send the princess from the grassland to the Ming Dynasty for marriage. This was a bit unexpected.

"Your Highness, please try on the dress. There is still time. If it doesn't suit me, I can ask the embroiderers in the clothing department to make some changes."

The eunuch in charge of the Shangyi Bureau carefully reminded Zhu Zaigui in a low voice.

Zhu Zaigui put down the memorial in his hand and looked up at the tall and thin eunuch from the Imperial Wardrobe. He also knew that there was no point in making things difficult for this eunuch, and the final result would be what it was.

He could only accept it passively.

And thinking from the bright side, this is also a sacrifice I made for the peace of Ming Dynasty, and it is my duty.

And if Zhu Zaigui remembered correctly, in the original historical time and space, after Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others completed the "Altan tribute" of great historical significance, the grasslands seemed to have sent several Western women to Longqing to enter the palace as concubines.

Later, after these beautiful Western concubines died of inexplicable illness in the harem, Zhu Zaigui also became depressed and was about to die.

From this we can see that if we are lucky, Altan might be able to send over a few beautiful women with exotic customs.

So Zhu Zaigui sighed and said, "Okay, let's give it a try."

Zhu Zaigui stood up, and the eunuch from the Shangyi Bureau who delivered the dress excitedly took the dress and let Zhu Zaigui try it on.

After some trouble, the eunuchs collected detailed size data based on Zhu Zaigui's current figure and the appearance of the dress.

After it was done, the eunuchs from the Shangyi Bureau bowed to Zhu Zaigui and thanked him profusely, and then went back to improve the size of the dress according to Zhu Zaigui's new size data, striving to make a new dress that would fit well and not lose its dignity and elegance.

Chen was also watching Zhu Zaigui trying on the dress in the side room, and she felt inexplicably jealous.

Because she entered the palace together with the princess as a concubine, at that time only the princess and Zhu Zaigui formally worshipped heaven and earth to complete the ceremony of marriage.

And she could only wait with the other selected concubines who entered the palace together until Zhu Zaigui's wedding was completed before she could receive Zhu Zaigui's favor.

Now a concubine is being sent from the grassland, but she is treated to a wedding by Zhu Zaigui wearing a formal dress. How could Chen not feel jealous?

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