The most talked-about thing is naturally that Yang Hongzhang, the chief soldier and prefect of Tianjin, is about to get married, only 20 years old is a third-grade military general, and a fourth-grade civil official, which in the Ming Dynasty In addition to those hereditary lords and princes and grandsons, only Yang Hongzhang can go to such a high position at such a young age.

And Yang Hongzhang's experience is even more impressive, relying on dozens of family members to rob the sea ships of the red-haired devils on the sea, and also snatched back the muskets and artillery that were later used to kill tens of thousands of Qing troops. What Yang Hongzhang did next in Zhili made people feel that there was only one reason that could be explained, that is, this young handsome man was the apprentice of Taishang Laojun, otherwise why would he even deal with things like the plague easily, so why did the tens of thousands of words of epidemic prevention regulations come out of thin air?

Of course, people are also very concerned that the woman in that family is so lucky to be Yang Hongzhang's wife. can marry with the Yang family, and this mother's family is afraid that it will also soar from now on.

Compared with the people in the city, the Xia family did prepare a lot for this wedding, just half a year ago when Yang Hongzhang returned from the sea with the fleet, the mentality of the Xia family was only reluctantly accepted by this son-in-law who can be civil and martial, almost everyone was wondering whether to wait for the two to get married, relying on Lu Xiangsheng's relationship to send Yang Hongzhang to the army, so as to be able to gain a firm foothold in the army, and then have more than ten or twenty years of polishing, hoping to become the general soldier of a town, or put it in the local government as a prefect.

However, after the Xia family hurriedly returned to Huzhou from Zhuozhou, the first news they got was that Yang Hongzhang accepted Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion and was retained by Sun Chengzong to stay in Gaoyang to resist the Qing army. To tell the truth, everyone in the Xia family felt that this kid was indeed affectionate and righteous, but they were all worried about him, after all, it was a Qing army whose combat strength even Lu Xiangsheng did not dare to underestimate, and the news was like a flood that opened the floodgates, which was not only sudden but also stormy. Yang Hongzhang was promoted from a garrison to the chief soldier and prefect of Zhengsanpin in just a few months, and his military exploits even surpassed Lu Xiangsheng, and Lu Xiangsheng was able to be the governor of Liaodong because of his strong recommendation.

For this reason, the Xia family could no longer underestimate Yang Hongzhang, but just when Yang Sheng brought the news back to Jiangnan, Yang Jiagou and the Xia family planned to go north to arrange a marriage for the two as soon as possible.

Everyone's hearts jumped again, especially Xia Yan, he felt that compared with the battle on the battlefield, the plague was more terrible, but fortunately, the omnipotent Yang Hongzhang defeated the plague again, and protected the people of Tianjin Mansion to the greatest extent.

Those businessmen who are good friends with the Yang family and the Xia family finally can't sit still, such a young prefect is going to build a new city in Tianjin, will train a new army, will build a wharf, and have business opportunities! All of them saw a huge business opportunity! So this time, in addition to the fleets of the Yang family and the Xia family, as well as the warships that accompanied and protected, at least more than 30 merchants with the largest number in Jiangnan were gathered, on the one hand, they came for the eighth-level officialdom upstart, and on the other hand, they were also looking for business opportunities.

The Yang family wanted to do a big job, Yang Hongzhang was helpless, and handed over all the preparations to the two old men in charge, in addition to taking Xia Yan around the Tianjin Acropolis, and after taking a turn in the newly planned new city, he devoted himself to work. Now there are many more things that need him. After half a month of preparation, the wedding day of the two was set for May 18.

What moved Yang Hongzhang was that after refusing the people of Tianjin Acropolis and all the refugees to raise congratulatory gifts for Yang Hongzhang, the people of the entire Tianjin Acropolis and all the people who had taken refuge here hung red lanterns at the door of their homes, and almost all the streets were covered with red colors, and the people of the city congratulated Yang Hongzhang in this way.

This made Song Yingxing, who had just arrived, and all the businessmen really see Yang Hongzhang's popularity and contribution to the city.

But what was really shocking was the wedding day, because early in the morning from the west gate of Tianjin Wei came more than Song Yingxing went to work. The soldiers defending the city stepped forward to inquire, and it was actually an envoy from the imperial court, who came to congratulate him!

So the people went out again to meet the angel.

When Yang Hongzhang came to the city gate on a high-headed horse wearing red and hanging colors, he found that the three leading people were actually Qian Qianyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Tian Hongyu, the national abbot, and Gao Keng, the great eunuch. Behind them, there were thousands of people carrying congratulatory gifts.

This made all the people who stood at the gate of the city and watched the excitement dumbfounded, saying that this young general was deeply valued by the emperor, but he didn't expect the pomp to be so big.

Gao Keng and Yang Hongzhang were old acquaintances, and he was the first to jump off the horse and said with a smile: "General Yang, the emperor has a holy decree, hurry back to the yamen to receive the decree." ”

So everyone hurriedly returned to the Yamen of the General Army, opened the incense case and knelt to receive the holy decree, Gao Keng cleared his throat, and sang loudly in the expectation of everyone: "Yang Hongzhang, the chief soldier of Tianjin, has a good way to deal with the plague and protect the people, and he is promoted to General Zhaoyi." , reward 1,000 taels of silver...... Today, I am glad to hear that Aiqing's wedding, Qian Qianyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and Rites, presided over the wedding for Aiqing on behalf of me, and rewarded Aiqing with a pair of eight treasure glass bottles, a night pearl of the East China Sea, and Hetian jade...... Canonized Aiqing's wife, Yang Xia, as the lady of the Sanpin Decree ......"

Although everyone had already been mentally prepared when they saw the pomp and circumstance of the team that came to congratulate him, Emperor Zhu Youzhen was really generous this time, from the dazzling jewelry to Xia Yan being canonized as the lady of the Sanpin, it all showed Zhu Youzhen's love for Yang Hongzhang. In fact, these are still secondary, just deliberately sending the waiter of the Ministry of Rites to come, this has surpassed the treatment of many important ministers, even if it is a minister of first and second rank who has a marriage in the capital, he may not have such treatment. Only princes, as well as foreign envoys, have ever had this treatment. It is estimated that Emperor Zhu Youzhen and Yang Hongzhang will be impeached by those imperial historians.

When Gao Keng handed the holy decree to Yang Hongzhang with a smile, Qian Qianyi, who is also from Jiangnan, smiled and took the task of the wedding host who originally belonged to Song Yingxing and started this luxurious wedding.

What Yang Hongzhang didn't expect was that the second person to send a congratulatory gift was Queen Zhou, it is said that this Queen Zhou and Emperor Zhu Youzhen are a family, and Yang Hongzhang has no contact with Queen Zhou and the Zhou family, but I didn't expect that after the escort, Niangniang personally sent someone to send a congratulatory gift, Queen Zhou's reason is a string of precious pearl necklaces, which is obviously more inclined to Xia Yan.

Immediately afterwards, the capital's Xungui and Chao Chinese Wu and Yang Hongzhang, such as Liu Yuliang, Ni Yuanlu, Chen Xinjia, etc., also sent their sons and nephews or domestic servants to send congratulatory gifts. Including Qian Qianyi and Gao Keng, who came today, there are congratulatory gifts.

Among all the congratulatory gifts, except for the emperor Zhu Youzhen, the congratulatory gift that belongs to Tian Hongyu is the most valuable, except for some Shu brocade, it turned out to be a contract, Tian Hongyu actually gave Sancheng shares of Linlang Pavilion to Yang Hongzhang, Yang Hongzhang insisted on not accepting, but Tian Hongyu said with a smile, now brother, you are the most popular person in the eyes of the emperor, I Tian Hongyu is thanks to you to have today, I will rely on my brother more in the future, this point of mind should not be shirked.

Yang Hongzhang remembered that Tian Hongyu should have made a lot of money when Tian Guifei was not dead, and now the construction of Tianjin City is the time when money is needed, so he smiled and said: "Lord Tiantian, since you have come to Tianjin, don't rush back to Beijing first, Hongzhang has a great thing for you to participate." ”

Tian Hongyu was overjoyed when he heard this, the last time Yang Hongzhang persuaded him to be the first to respond to the emperor's levy, and as a result, he fished out of thin air a Linlang Pavilion, and Tianjin Fu Yang Hongzhang was both a general soldier and a prefect, and he must have a lot of benefits for himself.

Compared with these congratulatory teams in the capital, the businessmen from the south of the Yangtze River can also get the congratulatory gifts, which are basically a thousand taels of silver, and the result is that Yang Hongzhang received a soft hand for a wedding just a congratulatory gift.

The two groups of people from the capital and from Jiangnan were actually surprised by each other's existence. And Qian Qianyi, Tian Hongyu and others couldn't help but muttered in their hearts when they saw that the Tianjin Acropolis was full of colorful lanterns, and when they knew that the people of Tianjin Wei were going to give Yang Hongzhang a shrine, they were all shocked, and when they heard that Yang Hongzhang refused the congratulatory gifts of almost all the people in the city, they were also amazed in their hearts.

Just when the congratulatory gifts of the people who came to congratulate were basically registered, a few horsemen flew from the west gate of the Tianjin Acropolis, and the soldiers guarding the city came to give congratulatory gifts when they asked. When these people came to the yamen of the General Soldier's Mansion, Yang Hongzhang recognized at a glance that the person headed by him was the eunuch who ran to his mansion to ask for help when Fan Fucui and others launched the palace mutiny.

Seeing him Yang Hongzhang naturally remembered Xiang Yunfang, there was still no Xiang Siwen in the congratulatory team from the capital today, although Yang Hongzhang didn't care about this gift, but he didn't expect this scholar to be such a person, thinking of Xiang Yunfang, and remembering the situation that day.

The congratulatory gift sent to Yunfang is even more expensive than that of Queen Zhou, which makes people value Yang Hongzhang even more, because Xiang Yunfang is now a concubine. However, Yang Hongzhang was not in the mood to look at the gifts, but looked at the direction of the capital. It was the eunuch who quietly came to Yang Hongzhang and whispered: "The noble concubine Niangniang left the capital at the beginning of the outbreak of the plague because she was pregnant, and led the cultivators in a nunnery thirty miles away in the eastern suburbs of the capital to pray for the blessing of the emperor and the princes. Niangniang also learned about the general's wedding today from the congratulatory team passing by, so she let the little one bring a little heart, but fortunately she didn't miss the good time, congratulating the general on his wife's love and a hundred years of good togetherness. ”

Hearing this, Yang Hongzhang looked lonely, I don't know what the beautiful girl is thinking at this moment, and she is still in the mood to congratulate herself, thinking that she should be strong.

The emperor sent a special envoy to preside over the wedding, and the queen and the concubine both sent people to send congratulatory gifts, which shows Yang Hongzhang's status in the eyes of the royal family, which is really envious of others.

When the wedding was going on, a loud song suddenly sounded outside the yamen, the wolf smoke rose, the rivers and mountains looked north, the dragon rolled, the horse neighed, and the sword qi was like frost...... It turned out that except for the people in the pro-military camp who were arranged to help inside and outside the yamen today, the soldiers of the other battalions were trained as usual, and of course the soldiers were not willing to miss the wedding of the marshal, so they used the special way of singing to congratulate.

Except for the people in the Tianjin Acropolis, most of the people present today heard this song for the first time, to be honest, this song is not very coordinated with the wedding scene, but it can't stand the large number of people, the song is good, and then the people in the pro-military camp present also sang along.

This made Qian Qianyi, who was still a little bit complaining about this mission to Beijing, also listened carefully, and when he learned that this song was written and composed by Yang Hongzhang, he was even more amazed, because Yang Hongzhang also showed talent in poetry and music.