Chapter 59: The North-South Dispute
The flying fish suit, the python suit, the unicorn suit, and the bullfighting suit are known as the four major costumes of the Ming Dynasty, and they rank second among them.
Strictly speaking, this thing does not refer to a specific type of clothing, but a patterned ornament that can be overprinted on various types of official clothing.
At the beginning of the founding of the country, only the Jinyi Wei Zheng 'commander' in the factory guard system would be given flying fish clothes, and they could only be worn when sacrifices, major court meetings, and escorting the emperor on patrol.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the discipline gradually relaxed, and the number of people who were given flying fish suits in the factory guard system increased day by day, and the restrictions on wearing occasions were also relaxed a lot.
In the last years of the Jiajing Dynasty, most of those who had more than three grades were given flying fish suits, and even from the four grades, some people from the four grades had won this honor - such as Zhou Huaien, the head of the sub-character.
But even if the flying fish suit has been 'devalued', like Wang Shouye, he was given the flying fish suit as a mere six products and hundreds of households, which can be called the only outlier in the Jiajing Dynasty.
Of course, since the flying fish suit has been given, it is estimated that he will not be able to do it for long.
Get back to business.
On the way back, Wang Shouye turned over and over, carefully looked at the flying fish suit, and found that this thing said to be a 'flying fish', but it was actually a dragon with wings, only the tail part, and still retained some fish shapes.
This red background, the over-the-shoulder flying dragon with teeth and claws, and the cloud pattern embroidered with gold color, is really a coquettish mess.
Look at yourself again, the Dongchang suit with a strong sissy breath......
Wang Shouye didn't hesitate, and put the flying fish suit on his body.
When the car stopped at the back door of Zhao Wenhua's old house, as soon as he picked up the curtain and appeared, the four brocade guards guarding the door hurriedly came up and knelt down to say goodbye.
When he saw that the person who came was Wang Baihu, he was shocked again.
When he Shi Shiran found the front yard, it caused an uproar.
Among them, the most shocked, naturally Shen Changfu and Shen Baihu, circled around Wang Shouye seven or eight times on the spot, envious, jealous and glad - glad that he did not offend Wang Shouye at the beginning.
Count further down, it's Zhao Kui.
originally decided that his daughter would be a concubine, but he felt like a large piece had been dug out, and he felt uncomfortable.
But the red and bright gold flying fish suit instantly filled the hole in his heart!
It even overflowed, and his blood and qi surged up with red light-although he had long determined that Wang Shouye had a great future, how could his vain expectations be worthy of this real reward?
Li Gao, Li Wei, father and son, also surrounded Wang Shouye and admired, looking like they wanted to touch but didn't dare to touch it.
Even Wang Laohan, who didn't know what he was doing, was happy for a while.
It's a pity that the festive scene of 'returning home' was interrupted not long after - according to the report of the bolt sentry, the Sanskrit singing really came as scheduled.
The tragedy of Beizhen Fusi is still vivid, Wang Shouye, Shen Changfu and others did not dare to slack off, hurriedly changed into regular clothes, and began to patrol around.
During this period, Zhao Kui also reported to Wang Shouye the latest progress of the efficacy test - the initial batch of bone powder, after being placed for nearly eight hours, the effect of the medicine began to decline.
At present, if the dose is increased, it can barely have the effect of exorcising evil spirits and curing diseases, but it is estimated that after a period of time, it will be completely ineffective.
In addition, Zhang Guoyan, who had been in a coma for a day and a night, had also woken up before, because he heard that the third session of the township test would be postponed for two days, so he was busy going back to the inn to prepare for the exam.
In this way, while inspecting, while asking about the big and small things that happened in the house, it was not until the Sanskrit singing stopped at five o'clock in the afternoon that the sentry in the inner courtyard was rearranged, and Wang Shouye finally got free.
But before he could drink a few sips of tea, someone from outside reported that the old man of Xiaoge had sent an invitation and invited Wang Shouye to attend the wedding in Yan's Mansion seven days later - the wedding of Yan Hongqian and Xu Jie's granddaughter.
That Yan Hongqian was made an idiot by himself, who would have thought that the marriage was not only canceled, but it was even advanced!
This Xu step is really ......
Wang Shouye was speechless, and after the old man saw the gilded invitation, he immediately remembered his son's marriage.
So he hurriedly pulled Wang Shouye to the back of the person, and went to Zhao Kui to propose marriage, but he inexplicably became a concubine, and carefully explained it.
No wonder Zhao Hongyu didn't show up after coming back for so long!
This news is really happy for Wang Shouye.
He was already struggling with how to further finalize this 'good thing', who would have thought that the old man would save himself trouble by mistake.
In addition to being overjoyed, Wang Shouye wanted to find Hongyu to talk to him.
But not far away, he turned back the same way - if he did, he really didn't know what to say.
Coax her with words of love and love?
It may be okay to leave it in the past, but Zhao Hongyu has obviously realized her true intentions, and then such empty nonsense, how is it different from a clown who jumps off the beam?
Forget it, anyway, there is a rule of avoiding suspicion before marriage in these years, so simply leave everything to the old man and Zhao Kui to arrange, and when it is time to spend candles in the cave room, I will communicate with her openly.
In the days that followed.
The medicine was in full swing in front of the Zhao Mansion, and the house was racing against time to prepare for the marriage.
Among them, the biggest contribution is not the 'in-laws' of Wang Laohan and Zhao Kui, but Li Wei and Li Gao's father and son.
Not to mention, they even took out all the money they got from reselling bone meal and bought a small courtyard nearby, which was used as Wang Shouye's wedding room.
Although there is also the meaning of clinging, the two of them can do this, I am afraid that it is not just for clinging.
This made Wang Shouye's perception of their father and son also slightly changed - it is impossible to change it greatly.
In short, with the help of the Li family's father and son, there is no need for Wang Shouye to worry about the preparation of the wedding.
So he put most of his mind on finding out the news - to find out when the new yamen would be ready to be established.
But......
Recently, the bigwigs in the DPRK and China seem to have no spare time to discuss the preparation of the new yamen-mainly the proposer Zhu Xizhong, the prince of Chengguo, is not as enthusiastic as he was at the beginning.
Occupying the front page of Di Bao is basically one topic: food.
In fact, the food issue is not the first time that it has become the focus of the court's discussion, and it will always be hot for a while every two or three years, after all, the people regard food as the sky.
But this time is different, because the discussion is no longer about food shortage relief, but about what to do with the productive food.
It is said that in the beginning, the princes of the DPRK and the Central Government only regarded this as a "happy trouble", and even since August, grain prices in various parts of the north have plummeted, but they have not attracted much attention.
However, after a certain Shaanxi imperial historian took the initiative to write a book and provoked the dispute between the north and the south, the contradiction was quickly intensified.
In the notebook, this imperial historian almost sprayed the officials of the cabinet and even the six ministries.
He said that it is precisely because most of these officials were born in the south that they will sit back and watch the people in the north sell grain at a low price in the bumper year, and on the other hand, buy rice from the south at a high price.
In these years, people value the most local friendship - especially in officialdom, it seems that even if they don't care in their hearts, they must pretend to care.
Therefore, this dispute between the north and the south was dealt with by Yan Shifan and Xu Jie, and it was difficult to suppress the voices of the northern officials one after another.
I also caught up with the talents from all over Beizhili, who had just completed three township examinations and were waiting for the results to be announced by the imperial court.
For a while, the government and the opposition were really boiling.
It was in this atmosphere that the wedding banquet between Yan Hongjian and Xu Jie's granddaughter was held as scheduled.
[There are still two chapters in the evening.] 】