Chapter 79: The Festival of Beggars
The seventh day of the seventh month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.
Begging Festival.
This is the first traditional festival after the emperor entered Jinan, and the city of Jinan is naturally very lively.
On this day, every house in the city is lit up with lights and beggars.
This day is also a day of heartbreak for countless Jiangbei scholars, because today, the emperor wants to accept King Qianqian of Jinshu as a concubine.
As soon as the news spread that the emperor wanted to accept King Qianqian of Jinshu as a concubine, it injected new vitality into Jinan, a thousand-year-old city. In the evening, the ground is lit by thousands of lights, the sky is full of stars, and the whole city of Jinan is bathed in a peaceful and joyful atmosphere.
On this day, there is also a custom that the little girl hides the little spider in the box, and waits until the next morning to open the box, and judges the number of beggars by the density of the spider's web.
Of course, the little maids in the autumn willow garden will not let go of this auspicious day, and a few little maids just sneaked to the botanical garden and were discovered by Zhang's mother.
"The front hall is almost busy, you little girls don't go to help, what are you doing here?!"
The mother who spoke was also an old man in the Autumn Willow Garden, after the fall of the Autumn Willow Garden, she was forced to leave, and then Wang Qianqian remembered the old love, and invited her back, responsible for teaching these new maids rules and etiquette.
Today is the day of the emperor's wedding, and of course Zhang's mother is more strict than in the past, and she does not allow the slightest mistake.
"No... It's nothing, Mama Zhang, we'll go back now. ”
Zhang's mother's words frightened the little maids to quickly hide the small box behind their backs and hurriedly ran back to the front yard.
Officials of all sizes gathered in the Autumn Willow Garden and began a grand canonization ceremony.
Wang Jian's gaze crossed the lively scene in the hall, and looked at Zhang Ma in front of the hall with a smile and reprimanded the little maids.
"That's life."
He sat on the dragon chair, accepting the greetings of the ministers, a sincere, hypocritical smiling face dangling in front of his eyes, he could still deal with it with a smile at first, but after a long time, his cheeks were a little stiff, and he couldn't even squeeze out a smile, he simply stiffened his face, and the majestic and cold expression was daunting.
The ministers thought that the emperor was unhappy, for fear of frowning, they were too frightened to stay longer, and left quickly after greeting.
At this moment, the ceremony of the big wedding unexpectedly proceeded quickly.
The climax of the ceremony was Wang Chengen's reading of the canonization edict, and when Wang Chengen read Wang Qianqian's title, he couldn't help but pause: "Canonization... Feng Wang Qianqian is 'Concubine Chen'!
"Chin this!"
After reading the edict, Wang Chengen couldn't help but feel a little lost, he always wanted his righteous daughter Chen Yuanyuan to be good with the emperor, but the temperament and personality of the two always seemed to be on the wrong path, and when they met, they either pinched each other or quarreled.
After listening to Wang Chengen's reading, the entire canonized hall suddenly dropped a shock bomb:
"What! Concubine Chen? I heard you right! ”
"It's Concubine Chen, that's right!"
"Congratulations to Concubine Chen!"
"Concubine Chen's mother is a thousand years old!"
The officials were busy kneeling and bowing to Wang Qianqian, and Wang Qianqian also accepted it calmly.
The officials in the city of Jinan are as excited as if they won the Mark Six lottery, the most excited is Zheng Yuqiao, anyway, Wang Qianqian himself is cultivated by the Donglin Party, and he is a native of Jinan, if he wins the emperor's favor in the harem in the future, in the future, in the court, not only he Zheng Yuqiao, Jinan officials will gain great status.
"Chen" is the North Star, which is the representative of the imperial palace, Wang Jian gave this title to Wang Qianqian, which shows that he is extremely fond of her.
Wang Jian is using actions to tell them that I officially canonized Wang Qianqian as "Concubine Chen", which means that she is as radiant as the North Star!
On a summer night, the frogs in the pond of Autumn Willow Garden are full of croaking.
Wang Jian looked at the delicate and timid beauty under the red candle: peach-like pink cheeks and peach-like small lips, the more she looked at it, the better she looked.
Wang Jian held the little face of the beauty, and an inexplicable sense of intimacy surged in her heart, as if she had been identified in her previous life.
Wang Qianqian stretched out his jade hand to cover Wang Jian's big hand, and brought his little face closer to Wang Jian's palm.
"Husband, do you feel it? It seems that we have seen each other in our previous lives..."Wang Qianqian muttered.
"Well, not only in the previous life, but you were also my wife in the previous life!"
He looked at the shy beauty, and just wanted to pounce on it like a hungry tiger to pick it up, but unfortunately Yao'er's voice came from outside the door.
Wang Chengen came again, and waited outside for a long time.
Wang Chengen, as the factory supervisor of the East Factory, is responsible for the secret agent system of the entire East Factory, and he has always kept in mind Wang Jian's instructions: military intelligence is always the first and must be reported as soon as possible.
Wang Jian was helpless, so she had to pat Wang Qian's little face and say, "Be good, wait for me for a while." ”
Wang Qianqian blushed and nodded sensibly.
When Wang Chengen saw Wang Jian coming out, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this is the news from Cui Dazhuang, he moved to Laizhou according to the emperor's instructions, and the people of Dengzhou totaled 600,000, but when they arrived in Changyi, they got the news from the fishermen: Kong Youde led 30,000 thieves to land from the sea, and the vanguard had passed through Yu'er Town and came straight to them. ”
Wang Jian was taken aback, he sent Cui Dazhuang to relocate the people, and by the way, he exterminated the homeless thieves on the road, and Cui Dazhuang was also very competitive, coupled with the strategy of Confucius and Meng, the two complemented each other and exterminated Laizhou, and there were countless bandits in Dengzhou, which made the bandits in Erzhou fearful.
Wang Jian also knew that Cui Dazhuang's troops were not there, so he had always sent people from Dongchang to monitor the movements of Haoge in the direction of Cangzhou, but he didn't expect the disaster to come from the sea!
Wang Chengen said worriedly: "Your Majesty, Cui Dazhuang only has more than 3,000 people, I'm afraid that he can't hold it, why don't you send troops to help?" ”
Wang Jian nodded. Cui Dazhuang was brought out of Cuijia Village by himself, and he must bring him back alive!
Reinforcements must be sent, but who to send is a problem, Haoge is ready to move, eyeing Jinan, Ma Xiaomei's "Iron Blood Legion" must not be able to move, Qin Yiyin's "Zhennan Army" still has to deter the warlords in Jiangnan, and it can't be moved, and now only Li Yan's musket battalion has been formed.
The Firearms Bureau is the brainchild of Wang Jian, the gunpowder in it, the young thief love and the bubble dragon are even more secret, if it is lost or leaked, it will give the enemy a chance to imitate, even if Li Yan is experienced in a hundred battles, Wang Jian still does not feel at ease to send him.
"Go and call Li Yan and Zu Dabi to me."
Soon, Wang Chengen led Li Yan and Zu Dabi to come.
Although it was the emperor's wedding day, and it was already late at night, as long as the emperor summoned them, they immediately came in armor.
Li Yan and Zu Dabi are Ma Concubine's confidants, and the only imperial concubine they identify in their minds is only Concubine Ma Concubine.
As military generals, the two of them had little friendship with Wenchen, so they were not as carried away and drunk as Wenchen, but they were both energetic and full of energy.