"Since Murong Qian is her husband, then Emperor Liang Shizong must be her son, right?"
Master, this matter is a bit complicated, and it's a long story.
"It's alright, we have plenty of time. Tell me slowly, I'll just treat it as listening to a story."
The people sitting behind Yue Fuguang nodded frantically in their hearts. The young master was right. The divine artifact should not be brief.
Tell the story slowly; they love to hear it!
Let's address the first question: Hong Yueling's desire to marry the Crown Prince was not motivated by a desire to climb the social ladder and enjoy wealth and luxury.
This was all because her mother, Fang, only gave birth to one daughter, and because she didn't have a son, she was looked down upon by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law in her husband's family.
It was her husband, Hong Yueling's father Hong Feng, a Hanlin Academy reader, who lost respect for Fang because he had no son to carry on the family line.
Hong Yueling wanted to marry into a higher social class to give her mother some respect within the Hong family, so that even after she married, she could still protect the only person who truly loved her.
"Hong Feng, as a Hanlin Academy reader, although not of high rank, was still a subject who was relatively close to the emperor."
Disrespecting his legal wife… Could he be favoring his concubine over his wife?
thump!
As Yue Fuguang finished speaking, one of the officials who was about to greet the emperor and his entourage in front of the Hongwen Hall suddenly knelt down in front of Emperor Mingxi's golden feet.
Since Yue Fuguang started teaching, many of the classes at the Hanlin Academy have been taken over by the adults with connections, but they still take charge of the daily work and the lessons of the princes next door.
So Hong Shidu was very lucky to be here today, and he happened to hear the gossip about his family along with everyone else!
The young master has accused me of favoring a concubine over my wife. Regardless of whether it's true or not, I'll kneel down first.
Hong Feng had one wife and four concubines in his harem. Apart from his legal wife, Fang, all the other concubines had children. It was impossible to tell which concubine he favored.
However, he did indeed favor the eldest son and third daughter born to Consort Mu, and treated her better than all his wives and concubines, including his principal wife, Fang. Her pillow talk was also the most effective.
Even Hong Yueling's marriage to Murong Qian was arranged by Aunt Mu, a member of a collateral branch of the Mu family in Xinzhou!
"You mean Hong Feng allowed a concubine to interfere in his legitimate daughter's marriage? This legitimate daughter's biological mother is still alive, and she wasn't born to or raised by the concubine. What right does she have to interfere?"
Isn't this a case of favoring a concubine over one's wife?
Knock knock knock!
As the moonlight shone, Hong Feng's kowtowing became the perfect background music.
A few days ago, Madam Mu did mention the marriage of her eldest daughter to him, saying that there was a good young man from her maternal family who would be very suitable for Yue Ling.
He initially refused when he heard that the family was from a military family.
However, the Mu family said that a great Confucian scholar had emerged from a branch of the Murong family. If the marriage between the two families were to take place, it might be possible for their eldest son, Hong Yulin, to become a disciple of that great Confucian scholar.
Hong Feng admitted that he was tempted. He was thinking of bringing it up with Fang Shi in a few days.
Seemingly remembering something, Yue Fuguang continued, "How old is Hong Feng's third daughter, born out of wedlock?"
Hong Yuefei is fifteen years old, two years younger than Hong Yueling.
"Is there something wrong with the Mu family's decision not to marry their daughter to Murong Qian, or are there other reasons?"
The master has seen Hong Yueling's portrait; to ordinary people, she is a rare beauty. This Murong Qian is the kind of person who values a woman's looks.
After being refused a request from the Mu family to have their son become Murong Wen's apprentice, they heard that the Murong family of Lancheng was looking for a wife for their youngest son, and the beautiful Hong Yueling came to mind.
"Is Hong Feng planning to sell his daughter to advance his son's career? He's really playing a clever game!"
Hong Feng was so dizzy from kowtowing that he prayed frantically in his heart, "Ancestors, please stop talking! He really knows he was wrong!"
Hong Feng couldn't understand where he had offended which two ancestors; it seemed that the whole thing was the work of the Mu family.
Why is it that every word the Junior Tutor says is directed at him?
Moonlight: Because the root of the problem is you! No matter how high Mu jumps, without your approval, all her schemes are just empty talk.
Hong Feng blamed heaven and earth for this matter, but dared not harbor the slightest resentment towards those two ancestors.
He knew that he could hear his own thoughts at this moment, and if he admitted his mistakes and had a good attitude, there was still hope. But if he harbored resentment towards those two people, like some unlucky guy, he would be unable to hear his own thoughts, and then he would really be doomed!
"Little Pearl, what kind of person is Murong Qian? How is Hong Yueling doing after marrying him?"
【Master, Murong Qian, is the complete opposite of his name. He is arrogant and self-important, and despite his limited knowledge, he is proud and considers himself extraordinary.】
He compared himself to a talented scholar or a banished immortal, and was dissolute and indulged in pleasure-seeking. He was a notorious playboy in the border town of Lancheng. Compared to him, even Wei Yan and Cai Bing could be considered good kids.
When it came to finding him a wife, the families that the Murong family liked were unwilling to marry their children to him. As for those who wanted to climb the social ladder, the Murong family either thought the other party's social status was too low, or Murong Qian thought the girl was not pretty enough.
The Mu family sought to curry favor with the Murong family, but the Mu clan learned of this, which led to the ill-fated relationship between Murong Qian and Hong Yueling.
"A tragic fate? Did they have a bad marriage?"
Hong Yueling was forced to marry for the sake of her mother, Fang Shi. Two years before the wedding, Murong Qian restrained himself because of Hong Yueling's good looks. Although he still went out to fool around and acted dissolutely, at least he didn't make a scene in front of Hong Yueling, so she pretended not to know.
However, as she gradually became more familiar with the Murong family, she discovered Murong Liang's secret, which could also be described as his rise to power.
The secret of someone who, without relying on family connections, rose from a low-ranking officer to become one of the five top border generals.
Outside the courtyard, Emperor Mingxi signaled to the imperial guards to drag Hong Feng aside and deal with him later.
He stroked his beard and fell into deep thought. As one of the five generals of the border army stationed at the southernmost part of Dayan, he was very familiar with Murong Liang's life.
Murong Liang was forty-three years old at the time. Before he was thirty, he was just a low-ranking general with only a few hundred men under his command.
After the age of thirty, he rose step by step to his current position through his personal bravery and repeated repelling of foreign invaders.
Is there something wrong with this promotion? Was it falsifying battle results or claiming someone else's victory?
Emperor Mingxi couldn't help but think of Zheng Feng, who was still in the Right Martial Guard's new recruit camp. Wasn't his experience the same as his superior's fraudulent claim of military merits?
"What secret? Little Bead, don't keep me in suspense, make it quick."
To put it simply, Hong Yueling discovered that Murong Liang was raising bandits to enhance his own power, killing innocent people to claim credit, and even raising mountain bandits to rob traveling merchants.
The initial capital that the Murong family accumulated began to grow gradually from that time.
"Raising bandits to enhance one's own power! Killing innocent people to claim credit? If Hong Yueling could discover this, did the rest of the Murong family know? What happened to Hong Yueling afterwards?"
When Hong Yueling discovered this, she had already been married to Murong Qian for more than two years, because Murong Qian had become acquainted with matters between men and women at a young age.
She ruined her health, so much so that the two had not had a child for more than two years after their marriage. As time went on, Murong Qian's feelings for her faded, and he often did not come home.
Hong Yueling used this as a pretext to report the matter to the imperial court under the guise of returning to the capital for medical treatment.
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