After Ma Cheng settled Ruan Dacheng's funeral, he got up and retired. Zhu Lunkui didn't expect Ma Cheng to be so straightforward, he thought that Ma Cheng would definitely mention the issue of cabinet candidates today.

In fact, Ma Cheng did not forget what Ma Shiying explained, but after Ma Cheng's careful consideration last night, he decided not to participate in these matters of the ministers of the DPRK and China. The reason is very simple, Ma Cheng has been by Ma Shiying's side for a long time, and he doesn't have a good impression of those henchmen around him.

Even those loyal ministers who committed suicide in history were the same, although Nanjing was occupied, there were still several provinces in the south that were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty still had hundreds of thousands of troops in its hands. However, those loyal ministers did not have the spirit of enduring humiliation, but committed suicide and martyrdom, which seemed to be heroic on the surface, but they were foolish and loyal. Therefore, Ma Cheng decided to wait for the emperor to marry and lead the troops to the battle, and after occupying Liangguang, he immediately established himself as the king, and then cultivated his own team of civil servants and dissociated himself from Ma Shiying and others.

When Zhu Lunkui saw Ma Cheng go out, he also had mixed feelings in his heart, and he was not without feelings for Ma Cheng. At that time, Zhu Lunkui was only the grandson of Zhu Gongyu, the king of Zhou, not even the son, it was Ma Cheng who made Zhu Lunkui the emperor against public opinion, and it would be unrealistic to say that Zhu Lunkui had no gratitude to Ma Cheng in his heart.

However, Ma Cheng has repeatedly committed dragon faces in the future, and he has not saved face for Zhu Lunkui on many occasions, so that Zhu Lunkui cannot come to the stage. Especially in the dismissal incident, Zhu Lunkui didn't want to have such a stiff quarrel with Ma Cheng at that time, as long as Ma Cheng was willing to bow his head and give the emperor a face, then Zhu Lunkui would also use the donkey to reappoint Ma Cheng as the governor of Jiangnan.

But Ma Cheng made a lot of trouble, and finally made a trouble, forcing the emperor to kill Luo Bingran, who had just taken office, which made the emperor unable to step down. Therefore, after more than a year of consideration, the emperor decided to take the final measure to solve Ma Cheng, and after Qian Qianyi and others continued to give Ma Cheng bad medicine on the side.

Today, Zhu Lunkui saw Ma Cheng leaving, and he was a little reluctant in his heart, but Lu Jiude, who was beside him, saw the emperor's hesitation, and whispered on the side: "Emperor, don't hesitate at the critical moment, now that it has been launched, there is no turning back from the bow, if the news leaks, does the emperor think that Ma Cheng and his son can let the emperor go?" ”

Zhu Lunkui is right to think about it, what's the use of thinking about these things at this moment? So Zhu Lunkui regained his confidence and asked in a low voice: "Okay, just do what your partner says, and let Mei Chun and Lu Siye prepare!" ”

Ma Cheng didn't know that the emperor wanted to get rid of him at this time, Ma Cheng went out of the palace gate and did not go to see Ma Shiying, but took people back to his Wei State Mansion, and did not see anyone in the future, and lived his own life with his wife and concubines and children.

The time soon came to the first day of the fourth year of Shaowu, and today was the day of the emperor's wedding. The emperor's wedding is extraordinary, the emperor is the lord of the world, and the queen is the mother of the world. In addition, the Ming Dynasty is now suffering from internal and external troubles, so Zhu Lunkui also wants to take this opportunity to show national strength and unite people's hearts.

Although the emperor's marriage is very grand, the steps are similar to that of ordinary people's marriages, and they are all in accordance with the national system regulations such as the Book of Rites and the Great Ming Law, and set up six ceremonies, such as Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Nazheng, announcing the period, and welcoming in person. The first five steps were prepared two months ago, and today is the last one, the welcome.

Ma Cheng got up early on the first day of the Lunar New Year, took his wife Gu Miaoyin and his famous sons Ma Yuan and Ma Ying, changed into official clothes early, and went out to prepare to go to the palace.

Ma Yuan is better, after all, he is four years old, but Ma Ying is just three years old, and he is very unhappy when he gets up so early, standing at the door and yawning.

Seeing his son like this, Ma Cheng was very distressed, but the national ceremony was not allowed to be absent, so Ma Cheng had no choice but to hug Ma Ying over and let him squint in his arms for a while.

Gu Miaoyin was very unhappy when she saw Ma Cheng close to her son, she chased Ma Cheng to Zhenjiang a year ago, and wanted to have the opportunity to conceive when the two of them were alone, probably because of her body, and the two of them tossed for half a month and did not get pregnant. So now Gu Miaoyin sees that Ma Cheng is close to his son and is jealous, and he is not so polite to Ma Cheng's eldest son Ma Yuan, after all, Ma Yuan's maternal family is his Gu family's house slaves, but Ma Cheng's second son Ma Ying and third son Ma Shi are not so polite.

Now Gu Miaoyin saw Ma Cheng getting close to Ma Ying, and scolded angrily: "Kid who doesn't understand the rules, who made you do this?" Don't get down and stand up? ”

Ma Ying was still a three-year-old child, and she was not sleepy when she saw her mother scolding her, so she quickly stood respectfully at the door.

Ma Cheng was very unhappy to see Gu Miaoyin splashing, it was indeed a little difficult to let the child come out so early on this cold day, but Gu Miaoyin was the lady of the main room after all, and at the same time, the gate of the mansion was full of family guards, Ma Cheng also wanted to save some face for Gu Miaoyin, so he snorted coldly and didn't say anything.

The meritorious and famous people in the Ma family are ready, Ma Cheng rides a horse, Gu Miaoyin, Ma Yuan, and Ma Ying sit in a sedan chair, and under the escort of three hundred personal soldiers, they leave the Ma Mansion and enter the palace.

Today is the imperial court ceremony, and Chengtianmen has long been full of people. Ma Cheng took his family to the front, and saw that Ma Shiying and Ma Luan had already arrived, so he hurriedly stepped forward and stood behind Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying glanced at Ma Cheng, then looked at Ma Yuan who was following behind, and then asked, "Can Yuan'er wear leggings?" Do you bring a hand stove with you? ”

Today is the first day of the first lunar month, although it is not said that the dripping water becomes ice here in Nanjing, it is not comfortable to stand outside. Ma Cheng has always cared about his son, and he was already ready when he came out, Ma Yuan and Ma Ying both wore three layers of fur in their dresses, and they also held a stove full of gold charcoal in their hands, so naturally they couldn't freeze.

"Thank you father for your concern, Yuan'er and Ying'er are ready!"

Ma Shiying listened to Ma Cheng's words, looked at Ma Yuan and nodded with a smile, but he didn't care much about Ma Cheng's second son Ma Ying.

Ma Cheng knew that Ma Shiying, the old guy, was very poisonous, he only cared about his eldest grandson Ma Yuan, because if Ma Luan had no son, Ma Yuan would be the one who inherited Ma Shiying's family business, so Ma Shiying was very concerned about Ma Yuan, although he was only four years old, he had to be personally taught by his side. As for the concubine Ma Ying, she was not so lucky, Ma Shiying only knew that she had such a grandson, and she probably couldn't remember what she looked like.

The ministers here in Chengtianmen waited for half an hour, and the officials of Qintianjian came out slowly, standing in front of Chengtianmen and shouting vividly: "The auspicious time has come!"

Immediately after that, the four gates of Chengtianmen were opened, and the ministers and princes followed the ceremonial officials into the palace and came to the Qianqing Gate to wait.

At this time, Emperor Zhu Lunkui dressed up like a child, surrounded by ministers, guards, and eunuchs, made a grand appearance, and entered the main hall of the Qianqing Palace in the sound of music, ascended to the seat, and Qianqing

Outside the door, the princes and ministers bowed to the ground and shouted long live.

The propaganda officer of the Ministry of Rites took the edict, stood on the east side of His Majesty, announced the edict loudly, appointed the main and deputy angels, went to Qian Qianyi's house to collect and ask for the name. In the sound of music, two angels are feasting and edicting. Licheng, Zhu Qizhen retired from the dynasty.

The next step is to marry the queen, the two angel officials are holding the festival, the deputy envoy is holding the edict, the honor guard, the drum band is in front of the road, and the gift-giving official follows the second envoy behind the fart, starting from the Qianqing Palace, blowing and beating, and running to the Qian Mansion.

Qian Qianyi knelt at the gate to receive the angel, obeyed the order, accepted the gift, and thanked him. At the same time, Qian Qianyi submitted a table with his daughter's name, resume, birth date and other items to the angel. After the ceremony, the Qian family feasted to entertain the angels. The honor guard, the drum corps, and some of the low-ranking officials who accompanied them could only wait at the gate.

After a full meal, the angel led the team back to the Forbidden City. Enter the noon gate, stop outside the Taihe gate, and hand over the "festival" and "table" to the celebrant and eunuch, even if the task is successfully completed. The celebrant and eunuch held the festival and the table, and went to the Qianqing Palace to restore the emperor's order.

Next, Zhu Lunkui issued an edict to the princes and ministers to inquire about the situation. Then Zhu Qizhen went to the middle ceremony and put on a hat called Tongtian Crown, which means that Zhu Lunkui has become an adult. In this way, he can officially celebrate the wedding.

At this time, the queen Qian Yuhe, accompanied by eighty-eight princes and wives, went to the Huangji Hall to sit in the palace. The Imperial Palace should be full of royal elders such as the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother, who are present to watch the ceremony. However, Zhu Lunkui's biological mother does not have a high status, where can he come forward on this occasion, so in the imperial palace is Ma Shiying's daughter, the concubine of Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong, and the current empress dowager Ma Hongning.

Zhu Lunkui took the queen to the queen mother to bow down, and then the queen mother Ma Hongning warned the queen to be virtuous and virtuous, give birth to a noble son early, etc., and then the princes and ministers knelt three times and bowed nine times to express warm congratulations.

After the Huangji Hall was finished here, Zhu Qizhen also took the queen and the princes and ministers to the filial piety tomb to worship their ancestors, and told Zhu Yuanzhang that the current emperor Zhu Lunkui had a big wedding and was already an adult. Finally, I had to go to the queen mother's bedroom Ma Hongning and kneel down to thank the queen mother for her nurturing grace.

Ma Hongning is not Zhu Lunkui's mother, and he is only five or six years older than Zhu Lunkui, but there is no way, Zhu Lunkui's banner is to inherit Zhu Yousong's inheritance, so he naturally wants to serve Ma Hongning as the queen mother. In this way, no matter how reluctant Zhu Lunkui is in his heart, the process that should be taken must be followed.

It takes a day to complete all the processes, so not to mention Ma Yuan's children, even Ma Cheng, an adult man, can't stand it. So after sending a team to greet his relatives, Ma Cheng asked people to send Ma Yuan and Ma Ying home, anyway, there are hundreds of people here in Qianqingmen, and they can't see one more or less.

After the final steps of the wedding were completed, the emperor still had to give a banquet, but this kind of cold and freezing eating outside, all the ministers did not have this mind, and they left the palace one after another.

Ma Cheng followed Ma Shiying and Ma Luan, and just left Chengtianmen to go home, a little eunuch in the palace chased him out, shouting as he ran: "Duke of Shu, the Marquis of Guiyang will be later, the Queen Mother Yizhi!" ”

When Ma Shiying heard this, he quickly stopped, bowed down and asked, "Dare to ask my father-in-law what's the matter?" ”

The little eunuch ran to the front and said, "The two grandfathers, as well as Master Ma, the Queen Mother, invite the three of you to the Qianqing Palace for a family banquet!" ”