During the Qing Dynasty, there was a scholar who had a relationship with the daughter of a rich family in his hometown since childhood, and as a result, the scholar fell to the first time, and the rich man felt that he did not show up, and regretted marrying his daughter, so he used Yahuan to pretend to be his daughter to deceive Shusheng to get married, and later Shusheng Keju High School, after which his career was smooth, becoming the most trusted minister of the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and has been an official until the Governor of Liangjiang. So later this fraudulent marriage will definitely let him know, how did this fraudulent marriage end?
This student who was deceived into marriage was Tao Shu, the governor of Liangjiang during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, so how did Tao Shu deal with it after learning that the old man used a ring to wrap the bride to cheat on himself? In fact, the ending of this matter is very comfortable.
Tao Shu was born in Shuxiang Mendi, the family generations are Confucians, although the family generations are readers, but they are all White Ding, there is no examination in the examination to enter the career, Tao Shu's father Tao Biquan was quite famous in the literary circle at that time, poetry and theoretical works are very powerful, but they have repeatedly failed, and later Tao Biquan is getting older, he also gave up the examination, and then returned to his hometown of Changsha, Hunan Yuelu Academy to teach.
Tao Biquan also poured his life's efforts into his son Tao Shu, and he devoted himself to educating Tao Shu in the hope that Tao Shu could complete his wish to pass the examination.
Tao Biquan later in order to educate Tao Shu, with Tao Shu back to his hometown Ofhua County, because Tao Biquan has a good reputation in the literary world, so the Anhua County government specially hired Tao Biquan to teach in Anhua Palace, Tao Biquan can also be regarded as having an iron rice bowl, and coupled with Tao Biquan's profound knowledge, he was deeply respected by the fathers and villagers in Anhua County.
There is a rich man named Huang Chongbang in Anhua County, the Huang family has been doing business in the local area for generations, the family is rich, but the Huang family is just a local rich man, because the Huang family has not produced anyone who can study and get a meritorious name, and at that time, more attention was paid to the birth of the door, Huang Chongbang very much wanted to marry with the official eunuch family, but the Huang family was born in the eyes of the official eunuch clan but a local rich man, although the family is very rich, but in the heart also look down on him, so no official eunuch clan is willing to marry Huang Chongbang.
Therefore, Huang Chongbang wanted to make a political investment, and he could only put the plan of marrying with the official eunuch clan to the second place, and put it on those who had more potential to read, after all, they had not yet married them before they had passed the examination, and if they became an official in the examination in the future, they would also be considered to be married to the family of officials and eunuchs.
In Anhua local Tao Biquan is the most famous, profound learning, the villagers all admire and respect his learning, and Tao Biquan is extremely strict on his son Tao Shu education, in the future Tao Shu is very likely to be the title of the gold list, so Huang Chongbang thought of marrying Tao Biquan and marrying his daughter to Tao Shu.
So Huang Chongbang asked someone to talk to Tao Biquan about the marriage, Tao Biquan was a cheerful person, he did not have the discrimination and prejudice of the scholars against the merchants, so he happily agreed to the marriage. Huang Chongbang and Tao Biquan agreed to wait for Tao Shu to return to his hometown to get married in the future after Tao Shu went to Beijing to get married.
Later, Tao Shu gradually grew up, studied well, successfully passed the examinations at all levels, and also had the qualifications to go to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination, so the 23-year-old Tao Shu went to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination.
But the imperial examination is not so good, Tao Shu this time the imperial examination is named Sun Shan, unexpectedly fell off the list, although Tao Shu fell off the list, but he is not young, at that time should have been married and started a family, so the Tao family hopes to complete the marriage with the Huang family as soon as possible, and then continue to do the examination after Tao Shu gets married.
However, after the news of Tao Shu's fall on the list was known to Huang Chongbang, he began to hesitate, And Huang Chongbang was worried that Tao Shu would continue to fall off the list in the future, after all, their old Tao family had the genes to fall off the list, his father Tao Biquan was so well educated, not only was he still a lifetime without passing the examination, he had been a teacher, if Tao Shu and his father Tao Biquan could not pass the exam for a lifetime, and finally became a poor teacher, then his daughter would not be poor for a lifetime when she married.
Therefore, after learning that Tao Shu fell off the list, Huang Chongbang had the idea of repenting, but the two families were already engaged, and at that time, if they repented, the impact on reputation was extremely bad, Huang Chongbang was a businessman, extremely reputation and reputation, he was worried that the repentance would affect his business, so at first he was only hesitant.
As a result, later, another local rich man surnamed Qian also wanted to marry the Huang family, and Huang Chongbang wanted to repent and let his daughter marry into the Qian family. Therefore, Huang Chongbang told his daughter Miss Huang about this matter, he wanted Miss Huang to make her own decisions, but unexpectedly, this Miss Huang was also a person without opinion, all by her father's arrangement.
At this time, Miss Huang's side of the Yahuan saw the embarrassment of the old man and the miss, and saw that in fact, the old man did not want to marry the miss to the Tao family, so she thought to herself, after all, this Tao Shu is a scholar, reading and literacy, has a meritorious name, and no matter how bad it is in the future, she can also teach for a living and starve people, and her own Yahuan is not a long-term solution, it is better to marry Tao Shu for Miss now, and she can also find a home for herself.
So this Yahuan took the initiative to stand up to Huang Chongbang and expressed his willingness to marry Tao Shu for the young lady, so that Huang Chongbang was not remorseful, Huang Chongbang was very happy, so he recognized Yahuan as a righteous daughter and named her Huang Defen.
Huang Chongbang also felt that this method was very good, he had promised to marry his daughter to the Tao family, but he did not name which daughter it was, not to mention that the righteous daughter was also a daughter, so it was not a repentance.
Therefore, Tao Shu finally married Huang Defen into the door, the Tao family did not know about this matter at first, only when this was miss Huang family, Huang Defen married to the Tao family extremely virtuous, handling household chores, without the delicate physique of the big miss, helping her in-laws to share a lot of pressure, and actively supported Tao Shu to continue to study and take the examination.
Tao Shu's happy life after marriage also allowed him to have no worries, and he could devote his energy to the examination wholeheartedly, and soon the next year, the Jiaqing Emperor Tekai Enke, Tao Shu went to Beijing again with the expectations of the whole family to catch the examination.
This year is also the spring of the seventh year of Jiaqing (1802), this time the imperial examination Tao Shu lived up to expectations, and finally passed the examination, in the final imperial hall examination, Tao Shu was appointed by the Jiaqing Emperor as the 55th jinshi, Tao Shu also became the first jinshi in Anhua County in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
After Tao Shu passed the examination for the Middle Jinshi, he was appointed by the imperial court as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and the official position was not high, just a six-pin official, but this official position belonged to the secretarial work of the emperor's side, and he could often contact the emperor, and it was easier to be promoted.
Moreover, according to the Official System of the Qing Dynasty, the wives and mothers of officials with six pins or more could obtain the title of Imperial Court, wives could be awarded the title of Feng'an people, and mothers could be awarded the title of Tai'an people.
Therefore, Tao Shu's wife Huang Defen, after he became a Hanlin editor, he could obtain the imperial court's seal, and when the imperial court was sealed, he needed to report the family files of his wife and mother, at this time Huang Defen had to honestly explain to Tao Shu that he was not Huang Chongbang's biological daughter, in fact, Miss Huang's Yahuan, it was Huang Chongbang Kang Tao Shu who fell on the list, so he wanted to repent, he had to marry for Miss, and now the imperial court wanted to seal Tao Shu's wife, who was from a Yahuan background, from an extremely low birth, how could he accept the imperial court's title.
Huang Defen originally thought that and Tao Shu honestly confessed, Tao Shu must be angry, he may be driven out of the house, tao shu just laughed after listening to it, Tao Shu said that since she has married herself, that is, the wife of his own Ming media, and now the court wants to seal her own hair wife, since she is her own hair wife, it should be up to her to accept the court's seal, not to mention that she has never hated her from a humble origin.
In this way, Huang Defen finally accepted the imperial court's edict, and Tao Shu did not pursue Huang Chongbang's fraudulent marriage because of this, and he was still a gift to the Huang family.
Since then, Tao Shu has been diligent and conscientious in the official field, and in his later years he won the favor of Jiaqing and was promoted to supervise the imperial history of Jiangnan Province from Wupin, and during his tenure as imperial history, Tao Shu enforced the law impartially, dared to uphold justice for the people of Jiangnan, dared to correct the corrupt atmosphere in the official field after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and impeached and punished many corrupt officials, so Jiaqing once evaluated Tao Shu as one of the few imperial historians who dares to tell the truth and do practical things today.
After Jiaqing's death, his son Daoguang succeeded to the throne, Daoguang is a very famous thrifty prince in history, he has always wanted to govern by hand for the corrupt winds in the officialdom, and when he was a prince, Daoguang heard that Yushi Taoshu of Jiangnan Province was serious and responsible, dared to tell the truth, and had the courage to fight against corrupt officials, so after succeeding to the throne, Daoguang immediately summoned Tao Shu, and he wanted to see for himself whether this upright and honest imperial history was as upright and brave as his father Jiaqing evaluated.
After Daoguang summoned Tao Shu, he talked with him for four hours, and specially let Tao Shu eat with him, and in the four hours of communicating with Daoguang, Tao Shu's character and ability completely conquered Daoguang, so Daoguang promoted Tao Shu in a special way.
After that, Tao Shu was like a hanging in the Daoguang Dynasty, and his official position soared all the way, first from jiangnan province yushi was promoted to Shanxi envoy of Zhengsanpin, and soon promoted to anhui envoy from Erpin, and then promoted to the title of inspector of Anhui and shilang of Zhengerpin, and finally Tao Shu was even more official to the title of viceroy of Liangjiang and prince shaobao, becoming a high-ranking official from Yipin, after which Tao Shu served as the governor of Liangjiang for more than ten years, until he died of illness in office.
With the continuous promotion of Tao Shu's official position, Huang Defen's title was also higher and higher, and after Tao Shu became the governor of Liangjiang, Huang Defen was awarded the title of Lady yipin, the highest title of the imperial court.
Huang Defen eventually became the Lady of the Imperial Court's edict from a yahuan, which was probably something she did not dare to dream of at first, of course, this was also something that the rich man Huang Chongbang could not have dreamed of.
Since Tao Shu passed the examination, Huang Chongbang had a lot of regret in his heart, although Tao Shu was only edited from Liupin's Hanlin at the beginning, but it was to be a secretary to the emperor, sooner or later one day his career would take off, so Huang Chongbang regretted it at that time.
Later, after Tao Shu learned of Huang Defen's identity, although he did not pursue Huang Chongbang's fraudulent marriage, and the magistrate of Anhua also paid tribute to him on Tao Shu's face, Huang Chongbang's mood was very depressed, after all, Tao Shu's official position rose all the way, and even with Huang Defen's title grade, he also rose all the way, Huang Chongbang was remorseful in his eyes, after all, that Huang Defen was not his own daughter.
Huang Chongbang's biological daughter Miss Huang later married a rich man surnamed Qian, but her life was very bad, the rich man was rich and unkind, and he ran amok in the township with his own money, and later the money lord gathered the scoundrels to occupy a good land, which triggered a gunfight, and the usurped peasants were indignant and beat the money lord to death with a shovel, and the Qian family was also lost.
After the death of the rich lord, the people of his family drove Miss Huang out of the Qian family gate in order to seize the Qian family's property, Miss Huang had no choice but to return to her mother's house, Huang Chongbang watched his son-in-law being beaten to death, his daughter was widowed and was also driven out of the house by the husband's family, tao shu's officials over there became bigger and bigger, Huang Defen's title was getting higher and higher, Huang Chongbang was more and more angry and regretted the more he wanted, so Huang Chongbang soon died in depression and regret.
Huang Chongbang died and the Huang family also declined, Miss Huang's life was also very pitiful, Huang Defen learned of this news, she quickly sent someone back to her hometown to find Miss Huang, and placed her in the Tao family's old mansion in Anhua, at this time Miss Huang finally had to rely on.
However, the folk rumor that Miss Huang's ending is not good, and there are two versions of Miss Huang's ending, one is that Tao Shu returned to her hometown after becoming the governor of Liangjiang, Miss Huang heard that Tao Shu wanted to return to the Tao family's old residence, she felt ashamed of Tao Shu, so she committed suicide before Tao Shu returned to her hometown.
There is also a saying that Miss Huang heard that Tao Shu returned to her hometown and was a provincial relative, and she deeply felt that she could not face Tao Shu, so before Tao Shu returned to her hometown, Miss Huang ran into a nunnery in the deep mountains to become a nun, and has often accompanied the green lantern ancient Buddha ever since.
The incident about Tao Shu's fraudulent marriage is recorded in the "Records of the North East Garden" compiled by the late Qing Dynasty literary scholar Liang Gongchen, although it is not an official record, but the credibility is relatively high.
Because the author Liang Gongchen's father Liang Zhangju served as a political envoy in Jiangsu during the Daoguang period, and at that time Tao Shu served as the governor of Jiangsu, the two were superior and subordinate relations, because Liang Zhangju and Tao Shu were very upright and cared about the people, the two had cooperated and worked together to manage the flood of Hongze Lake, so the relationship between the two was very close, Liang Tao and Tao families also became family friends, Liang Gongchen was Tao Shu's nephew, and he also studied under Tao Shu's disciples in his childhood, so Liang Gongchen's record of Tao Shu's fraudulent marriage should be more credible.
Tao Shu was a famous scholar and official of the Qing Dynasty, he was known as the first person of the Huxiang Jingshi Sect, he advocated the application of the Classics, and had a relatively great influence on the political circles of the late Qing Dynasty, and the three masters of the Late Qing Xiang Army, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Hu Linyi, all intersected closely with Tao Shu, and all three of them also inherited Tao Shu's ideas.
Zeng Guofan studied at the Yuelu Academy in Changsha when he was a teenager, when Tao Shu would also go to Yuelu Academy to give lectures in addition to being an official, Zeng Guofan had listened to his lessons, so in terms of this relationship, he was also a teacher of Zeng Guofan.
Hu Linyi was even appreciated by Tao Shu from an early age, and Tao Shu even set up a doll kiss between his daughter Tao Xuanzi and Hu Linyi since childhood, hu Linyi lived in Tao Shu's Liangjiang Governor's Palace for more than a year after getting married, he witnessed Tao Shu's thoughts on politics, so later Tao Shu had a great influence on Hu Linyi, and Hu Linyi also took his father-in-law Tao Shu as an example.
Zuo Zongtang was tao shu's yearless friend, Zuo Zongtang and Tao Shu's son-in-law Hu Linyi became close friends, so he met Tao Shu at the recommendation of Hu Linyi, when Zuo Zongtang was extremely depressed, and Tao Shu had become the governor of Liangjiang, but after a conversation with Zuo Zongtang, Tao Shu encouraged Zuo Zongtang to think that with his talents, the future official achievements must be above him, so Tao Shu and Zuo Zongtang, who was 33 years younger than himself, were friends.
Later, Tao Shu gave birth to an old son Tao Shu in his later years, tao Shu took the initiative to ask Zuo Zongtang for his young son, asking Zuo Zongtang to marry his eldest daughter Zuo Xiaoyu to his youngest son, to know that Zuo Zongtang was nothing at that time, Tao Shu took the initiative to marry him, which shows that Tao Shu looks at people accurately.
Therefore, Tao Shu's achievements in the Qing Dynasty officialdom are very high, his ambitions are very far-reaching, and his mind is used on major state affairs, so things like this kind of change of women cheating marriage are just a trivial matter in Tao Shu's view, not to mention that although Huang Defen was born in a low place, he was very virtuous and had a very good character, Tao Shu was a person who paid attention to the inside, and he would not dislike Huang Defen's origin at all.
And Huang Defen also helped Tao Shu a lot, it is her control of the family, in order to let Tao Shu care about the worries and concentrate on the cause, and Huang Chongbang changed women to cheat marriage but achieved Tao Shu's beautiful marriage, so Tao Shu did not pursue the matter of cheating marriage.
Tao Shu's mind is so broad- and therefore his personal charm and ideological ideas can deeply influence the three famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, Hu Linyi, Zeng Guofan, and Zuo Zongtang.