After hearing Luo Peiyu's report, Xie Yuan was speechless!
Is this still a royal princess?
The aunt of Xinping next door, who was her own flesh and blood, had gone through several husbands and kept a large number of male concubines.
In fact, not only in the fiercely independent Zhou Dynasty, but throughout the history of feudal dynasties, except for a few dynasties, princesses often lived a rather repressed life for certain reasons.
Princesses in most dynasties were very unrestrained. (Reading...)
Women's virtues and such have no bearing on princesses.
Because a princess is not just a woman, she is also a "ruler".
The ruler is superior to the subject.
In ancient times, a princess who did not keep male concubines and treated her husband as a human being was considered to be very virtuous.
As for the prince consort wanting to take a concubine and have illegitimate children while the princess was still alive, it was simply insubordination and treason!
This Xinping, despite being born in an era where princesses could act with impunity, humbly groveled at the feet of Prince Consort Yang because of the word "love."
Of course, how a couple gets along is their private matter.
It's a wife's freedom to be love-struck.
As for Prince Consort Yang, he also relied on his own abilities to live off a woman.
However, Xinping was no ordinary woman, and her affairs were not merely private matters.
She is a princess, and her surname is Helian.
Her actions, to put it bluntly, tarnish the reputation of the royal family; to put it mildly, they set a bad precedent.
If there were to be another extremely pedantic and pedantic scholar like Jia Yi, who used male superiority and female inferiority to promote strict etiquette, Xinping would be a living "advanced case"!
He would use abnormal examples like Shinpei to attack normal royal ladies.
Xie Yuan also has daughters, and more than one.
In a decade or so, her sons, Ah An and Ah Le, will also grow up.
If having a terrible aunt tarnishes the reputation of the royal princess, leading the world to believe that all daughters of the Helian family are so "despicable"—
Xie Yuan originally just wanted to see if there were any other love-struck fools like Helian Yan in the capital.
She never expected that there would be such a "king-level" existence.
Xinping is much more capable than Helian Yan. At least Helian Yan has some sense of shame and knows how to be shy.
Xinping, on the other hand, had long been trampled underfoot by a down-and-out, who utterly humiliated him and was quite pleased with himself!
"Go and investigate further, and see if the Princess's residence in Xinping has engaged in any overstepping of boundaries or acts of great disrespect!"
Xie Yuan took a deep breath. Whether as a woman or as an empress, she couldn't stand such a love-struck person.
For someone like Xinping, whose mind is only focused on love, it's useless to give her a career or build her self-confidence.
Therefore, Xie Yuan would not treat Xinping in the same way he treated Helian Yan.
"yes!"
Luo Peiyu agreed and then withdrew.
As one of the leaders of the Embroidered Robe Envoys, Luo Peiyu was very efficient in her work.
In less than three days, she had thoroughly investigated Princess Xinping's residence.
Of course, besides Luo Peiyu's competence, Yang Fuma's unbridled behavior might also have been a factor.
This gigolo has probably been so flattered by Shinpei that he's forgotten his place.
He didn't even try to hide the various shocking things he did.
"Yang, the imperial son-in-law, has a favorite concubine who is said to be his own cousin."
When Luo Peiyu reported back, Leng Su's face showed a somewhat complicated expression.
She truly couldn't understand how a woman with such excellent conditions could still live such a humble life.
Is this what "love" is? But this doesn't make sense.
The Empress once said that the biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans can control themselves and be self-disciplined—they understand honor and shame, know reverence, have perseverance, and value human relationships.
If you can't even control yourself, then what's the difference between you and an animal that follows its instincts?
They're all beasts, what's the point of talking about "love"?
Ultimately, it all boils down to one word—selfishness!
Shinpei's love wasn't real either; she was probably just enjoying the feeling of "giving for love."
Oh right, the Empress also said that this is called "moral self-pity".
Everyone knows that Yang the Imperial Son-in-Law is worthless, and everyone knows that Princess Xinping's love is humble.
Xinping's "happiness" probably comes from other people's praise (or appreciation) that she is "a silly woman with a true personality"!
"The Prince Consort Yang is fond of the beautiful woman, but the Yang family has fallen into ruin, and his in-laws are not much better off."
They were all self-proclaimed noble families, but they were all so poor that all they had left was their surname.
If it weren't for Xinping, who, with her own dowry, went to the Yang family to carry out targeted poverty alleviation, the Yang family would have been unable to subsidize so many in-laws.
Without the Yang family's financial support, Yang's cousin would probably have had to resort to prostitution to keep her family from starving.
The term "selling marriage" refers to a marriage arrangement where an exorbitant dowry is demanded in exchange for the marriage.
For example, many once-powerful families have declined in the present day, but their surnames remain prestigious.
Some wealthy poor families, or even nouveau riche, would spend large sums of money to "marry" with impoverished aristocratic families.
The fallen aristocratic families gained money, while those from humble backgrounds and unsophisticated individuals who longed to achieve "class advancement" smoothly became in-laws of the aristocratic families.
The next generation can also produce children of "noble blood".
Over three to five generations, they might eventually rise to the ranks of prominent families.
For aristocratic families, "selling oneself into a trance" is an absolute disgrace.
Yet it was a path they had no choice but to take—being called a liar was better than their family starving to death.
There is hope as long as one is alive; once one dies, there is truly nothing left!
The fact that Yang's cousin had fallen to the point of almost being sold into prostitution shows just how bad the family's situation was.
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