Chapter 36: Hit it off
Long Khoo, a village inhabited by Quang Nam people, has never been so lively, with colorful flags and gongs and drums on the trail from Bangkok to Long Khoo.
A group of tall men dressed in all kinds of gorgeous clothes, carrying large and small boxes, were happily hurrying.
The fields and rivers next to them were also full of Quang Nam people wearing Han-style robes, coarse cloth wrapped around their heads, and smiling faces, all of whom were Ruan Phuc Anh's most loyal supporters!
Today is the patriarch of the Pattanii Ye family, Ye Fulai, the day when he came to Longqiu to hire King Ruan in Quang Nam, and the Pattanii Ye family wanted to marry the fourth sister of King Ruan, Ruan Shiyuwan, for the eldest son Ye Kai!
This is a great event in the Siamese Chinese circle, although the Nanyang Chinese have always regarded themselves as the Chinese of the Celestial Empire, but there has never been a white body (the Ye family lives in a family, not a prince, so it can be said to be a white body) Tang boy can marry a princess, and this princess is not married, but a normal marriage according to Chinese customs.
So today, all the Chinese who live near Siam have come, from the big families like the Xie family and the Guo family, to the small families with dozens of hundreds of people, all of them have changed into the best clothes and come to Longqiu, and even King Rama I of Siam has sent his favorite concubine Wan Fei to congratulate
The King of Siam is so concerned, firstly, he wants to completely solve the Sultanates such as Pattani and Jeddah as soon as possible, and needs the cooperation of the Ye family, and secondly, he is here to support Nguyen Phuc Anh, who has been in a downward market recently!
In the palace of the Ruan family in Longqiu, Nguyen Phuc Anh also changed into a four-clawed python robe of a Ming-style county king, wearing a Vietnamese-style wrap around his head, and around him, the civil and military forces of the Nguyen Dynasty's government-in-exile were wearing Ming court clothes according to their grades.
However, unlike the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the official robes of Zhu, purple, blue and other colors, many of the officials of the Guangnan Ruan family are dressed in tender green official robes, which looks a little weird.
Ye Kai walked at the front of the team, he looked back at the braids of the Chinese people around him, and then looked at the Ming clothes of the Guangnan people from top to bottom, and suddenly felt inexplicably uncomfortable in his heart.
The Daming has disappeared for more than a hundred years, and the Chinese on the mainland have long forgotten the appearance of their ancestors' clothes, while outside China, Lee's Korea and divided Vietnam still maintain the Daming clothes.
Needless to say, North Korea has always been the number one little brother of the Ming Dynasty, and it is natural not to change their clothes.
As early as more than 100 years ago, the LĂŞ Dynasty of Vietnam ordered that the Vietnamese were strictly forbidden to wear Qing Dynasty costumes, requiring them to maintain the standing collar, collar, wide sleeves and bun of Hanfu.
Later, after the successful restoration of Nguyen Phuc Anh, he will issue a decree, ordering the civil and military officials to follow the system and system of the Han and Tang dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, and the use of the Shishu and the utensils, slightly like the Ming system, to eliminate the bad habits of the Northern Dynasty (Manchu Qing), and (Vietnam) to be a state of clothing and literature!
Not only did the Koreans look down on the pigtailed Manchus, but even Vietnam looked down on the Qing Dynasty, they saw themselves as a well-dressed and documented country!
After thinking about it, the team had arrived in front of the Longqiu Palace, and the people in front of them carrying dowry gifts such as wild geese, fat sheep, top tea, liquor, Xuan, Qi, and jewelry had already arrived at the door, and those who were carrying other gifts in the back were still in the fields in the distance.
This is a non-compliant hiring, without going through the procedures of Nacai, asking Ji, etc., and it was hired directly!
Because this is an extraordinary period, Ruan Fuying and Ye Fulai have directly ignored the cumbersome procedures, one has taken a fancy to money, the other has taken a fancy to power, since Ye Fulai has met Ruan Fuying once, this marriage has been quickly finalized!
A Guangnan chamberlain led Ye Fulai to Ruan Fuying, Ye Fulai rubbed twice and was about to kneel, and Ruan Fuying just rightly helped Ye Fulai, who had bent down, up!
"Liweng will be the father of my sister, but the elder, how can I let the elder do this great gift, please come into the palace to speak!"
I have to say that Ruan Fuying, this kid, Corporal Lixian, has done a good job of buying people's hearts, he affectionately took Ye Fulai's hand and signaled to the surroundings one by one, and there was a tide of praise around him, of course, they all praised him for his approachability!
"The King of Siam, the First King, His Majesty Rama Tiebodhi, the sister of the Ruan Lord of the Great Viet Kingdom, Na Zheng, specially celebrated the joy of the 100th anniversary with 300 pieces of silk, 3,000 pieces of silk cloth, 3,000 pieces of gold back money from the Kingdom, 3,000 silver coins of Tika, and 1,000 gold dollars of the Great Buddha Lang Ji!" The salute chant sang the congratulatory gift, and the first in line was, of course, Rama I.
King of Siam is the name given to Rama I by foreigners, King I is the title of King of Siam themselves, and Rama Tiebodhi is the title of Rama I.
In Thailand, people with low status cannot call people with high status by name, and must have a title, such as Wan Fei, who today represents Rama I to congratulate him, and the title is called Kun God.
Next, the Siamese military generals came to congratulate, including Rama I's younger brother Sura Sinhana, nephew Teparilla, and general Phiye Wichenaron all came to Longqiu to bless them.
Ye Kai also saw a rare cultural person among the Thai people - Phraya Lot, who is now the Minister of Foreign Trade of King Rama I, and is a famous poet and writer in Thai history.
His greatest achievement is the translation of China's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" into Thai, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was popular in Southeast Asia in later generations.
After the levy is completed, of course, there will be a big banquet, unlike the many rules on the mainland, it is much simpler here in Nanyang, and even Ye Kai can drink with the guests who came to the main hall to congratulate.
Nguyen Phuc Anh sat on the throne and looked at the guests with a smile on his face, although King Rama I of Siam did not come in person, his favorite concubine Wan Fei came.
And Siam's slightly high-grade civil and military forces, from Prince Sura Sinhana and below, almost all of them were present, and the rumor that the King of Siam no longer supported Nguyen Phuc Anh that had been circulating at this time was naturally dispelled!
And today Nguyen Phuc Anh also harvested a lot, just Rama I's congratulatory gifts received as much as 10,000 taels of silver, all over Siam, not only the Chinese in Bangkok, including the Chinese in nearby Chonburi and Thonburi, have come to congratulate, and the congratulatory gifts have exceeded 5,000 taels of silver.
And Ruan Phuc Anh also made an unexpected discovery, that is, after he decided to marry his sister Xu to Ye Kai, the attitude of the Siamese Chinese towards him suddenly became close again, and the long-lost title of His Royal Highness King Ruan also returned.
Usually, he was always hurt by the Tang 'profiteers' when he bought and sold, and suddenly found that the phenomenon of selling low and buying high was a lot less!
There was an exclamation in the hall full of guests, and a huge golden pig was carried in by seven or eight strong men, which was the most important gift in the Ye family's dowry!
The golden pigs hired by ordinary people are basically gold-plated, or simply wood glued with gold leaf, but this one of the Ye family is pure gold, and the value of this golden pig alone is more than 30,000 taels of silver.
This golden pig was originally stored in the Ye family Longsheng treasury, this is the treasure of the town number of the Longsheng, in this era when the currency is directly linked to gold and silver, this golden pig is the guarantee of the reputation of the Ye family Longsheng, the credit of the small bill of exchange of the Longsheng is that there are several such golden pigs in his treasury, and now the largest one has been sent to Ruan Phuc Ying!
"Nanyang Ye family, for the big family of the big year, now there is a golden pig, Foshan made four hundred shotguns, English brown bass spontaneous fire gun fifty rods, silver ten thousand taels, ask to marry the princess, please the lord of the country with the weight of the couple, plus Hui Ye's son Shuwu, follow the ceremony, there is not a shy coin, dare to accept the levy!"
The ceremonial official invited by Ye Fulai, the patriarch of the Huang family in the thirty-fifth capital, asked Ruan Fuying for acceptance in a loud voice.
Although the Ye family's dowry this time is not as much as the 100,000 taels Ye Kai said, there are more than 50,000 or 60,000 taels, and 100,000 taels of silver is not a small amount, it is impossible to get it together at once, and the Ye family has also spent a lot of energy to take out so much at once!
Of course, Ruan Fuying couldn't hold on to 100,000 taels, because he understood that as long as Ye Kai was there, the Ye family's assistance would definitely come in a steady stream!
"Accurate!" Ruan Fuying nodded happily!