Li Zhang has always felt that the emperor is a very contradictory profession, on the one hand, the emperor declares that he is the son of heaven, representing the heavens to rule over all the people in the world, on the other hand, the emperor is a mortal fetus, usually hungry to eat, thirsty to drink water, and other people have the same seven emotions and six desires, which is really a bit inconsistent with the title of the Son of Heaven, which is a bit of a myth.

The son of heaven is going to marry a wife, which is also a great joy for all the people in the world, especially in the era of the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor's birthday every year is the legal festival of the Great Song Dynasty, for example, Song Taizu's birthday is called the Changchun Festival, Song Taizong's birthday is called Shouning Festival, Song Zhenzong's birthday is called Chengtian Festival, Zhao Zhen's birthday is called Qianyuan Festival, and even the birthday of the year is so grand, not to mention the big wedding that is only once in a lifetime.

However, no matter how grand the emperor's wedding is, the process is still in accordance with the "six rites", and before the marriage, important ministers are sent to Zhang's mansion to "Nacai, ask the name, Naji, and Nazheng", the first four steps are almost not much different from ordinary people's marriage, but the process is more grand, and the scene is more vast.

But when it came to the fifth step of "invitation", some changes were made to the etiquette, because the date of the emperor's wedding was not to be discussed with the queen's maiden family, but to be presumed by Qin Tianjian to be auspicious, so there was no step of the invitation, and the last step was "personal welcome", that is, the groom personally went to the bride's house to pick up the bride home, but the emperor was the son of heaven, so it was naturally impossible to greet the bride in person, so this step was changed to send an envoy to Zhang's house to welcome the family on behalf of him, and this envoy was Li Zhang.

Li Zhang didn't expect that it was Zhao Zhen who married his wife, but the person who greeted him turned out to be him, and as a greeting envoy, he also had to learn a full set of greeting etiquette, and he couldn't go wrong at all, so he lived in the palace a few days in advance, just to learn this set of etiquette, in fact, the original candidate for greeting was not Li Zhang, but under Zhao Zhen's repeated insistence, Li Zhang finally held this important position.

The day of the big wedding has finally arrived, and the whole city of Tokyo is also full of lights on this day, which is even more lively than the Shangyuan Festival, when the day is not yet dawn, Zhao Zhen was pulled up from the bed by Liu E and Concubine Yang, and then personally smeared him with grease and powder, after all, Zhao Zhen is today's groom official, and he must be dressed up beautifully.

Li Zhang looked at Zhao Zhen, who was dressed up as a man and women, and was still a little gloating, but soon it was his turn to be unlucky, and several old palace maids rushed over and pressed him in front of the mirror, and then began to dress him up, just apply grease and powder, although it was miserable up close, but it was okay to look at it from a distance.

But what made Li Zhang unbearable the most was that a big red flower was inserted on his head, because the Song Dynasty man likes to arrange flowers on his head, and I don't know when this vice became popular, anyway, I often see men with various flowers on their heads passing by on the streets of Tokyo, and the streets of Tokyo are like a big garden.

However, Li Zhang has no right to resist at all, as a greeting envoy, his words and deeds have strict rules, and he can't even make his own decisions about how to dress up, so he can only try not to look in the mirror, but when the final dress is completed, Miaoyuan next to him looks at Zhao Zhen and then at him, and then covers his stomach and smiles and can't straighten his waist, Li Zhang believes that if there is a camera in this era, Miaoyuan will definitely take a picture of the two of them for permanent preservation.

The auspicious time has arrived, Li Zhang, who has finished dressing, was immediately pushed on the horse, and then led the welcoming team out of the palace, on the surface, Li Zhang, as a welcoming envoy, seems to be in charge of the entire welcoming team, but in fact, he feels more like a prop, the real leader of the entire team is the officials of the Ministry of Rites, he only needs to do what these officials say, Li Zhang is also very happy about this, because he does not have to worry about forgetting a certain etiquette and making mistakes.

The team of greeting relatives went out of the palace and walked on the royal street, and the streets were also surrounded by people on both sides, and there were special people on both sides of the team who were responsible for scattering money, yes, it was a lot of copper coins, which was also one of the emperor's bad tastes, because as far as Li Zhang knew, every year during the Shangyuan Festival, the emperor would go down the palace gate to make money, and the hundred officials were picking up money below, today is the emperor's wedding, so the people also enjoyed the treatment of officials.

However, because there were too many people robbing money, in the end, the team of greeting relatives was blocked, and finally had to dispatch the forbidden army to open the way, which allowed the team to continue to move forward, and Li Zhang rode on a horse, holding a holy decree in his hand, and tried to make an unsmiling expression on his face, and at the same time tried not to look at the crowd on both sides, because he was worried that seeing acquaintances would make him too embarrassed, after all, the red flower on his head and his current appearance were too shameful.

Zhang's family is also a noble family, and the mansion is not far from Li Zhang's house, so the team to welcome relatives also has to pass in front of Li Zhang's house, but when he walked in front of his house, he immediately heard the voice of the raccoon dog calling "brother" from the crowd, which made him can't help but turn his head to look, and sure enough, he saw the raccoon dog, Xiuxiu, Douzi and others in front of the house, but these people also smiled and bent over one by one when they saw Li Zhang's appearance, especially Yan Niang pointed at Li Zhang while laughing, and he was angry that he wanted to beat someone.

Finally survived this part of the family, and finally came to Zhang's mansion, the people of the Zhang family also greeted in front of the mansion, Li Zhang was immediately hugged into the mansion after getting off the horse, the Zhang family had already placed the incense case, and then Li Zhang personally read out the holy decree.

He entrusted this holy decree from the palace to the Zhang family, and he couldn't put it down from beginning to end, because this holy decree was the holy decree of canonizing the Zhang family as the queen, which was also the first step to welcome relatives.

The Zhang family also came to a lot of guests, after the decree was read, these guests also stepped forward to say hello to the Zhang family, and then Li Zhang, these people were invited to the inner house, Zhang had already returned from the palace before, at this time there were also special people to serve, and then was invited to the queen's special car, Li Zhang then rode on the horse again in front of the road, a group of people left the Zhang family, of course, the Zhang family also immediately set up a banquet, entertaining the guests.

After Li Zhang sent the Zhang family to the palace, there was nothing to do with him, and then Zhao Zhen and the Zhang family held a wedding in the main hall of the palace, which is also the largest Daqing Hall in the imperial city.

Li Zhang returned to the palace and immediately washed his face, and then pulled out the hated red flower on his head, and then came to the main hall to attend the wedding, in fact, the main reason was that he had been busy for so long and had long been hungry, so he came to the wedding banquet to find something to eat, and by the way, he also saw that Zhao Zhen was tossed.

Because there were too many people attending the wedding, and it was estimated that it was the first time for the palace to deal with such a huge ceremony, the number of seats in the hall was chaotic, and Li Zhang didn't know many people, so he casually found a table with no one in the corner to sit down, and then began to eat, which really tired him these days, especially today, just riding on a horse and maintaining a straight posture can exhaust people to death.

However, just when Li Zhang was eating, he suddenly found that someone next to him was staring at him, which made him turn his head to look, only to find that there was a middle-aged official in his thirties sitting behind the table to his left.

"I don't know what Brother Tai is called, why do you keep staring at it?" Li Zhang bowed his hand to this middle-aged official at this time, looking at the other party's official uniform, it should be a high-ranking official of the fourth grade, you must know that Li Zhang's gunpowder supervisor is only the fifth grade, which is a big level worse than the other party.

"Li Quanjian is in a hurry, in Xia Yanshu, the current position of the Ministry of Rites and the Judge's Court, I heard that my Great Song Dynasty produced a young hero, and he made a lot of military achievements at a young age, and he was also very curious in Xia, and he really lived up to his reputation when I saw it today!" I saw that the other party also smiled and saluted Li Zhang back at this time.

"Prodigy!" When Li Zhang heard the name Yan Shu, these two words immediately burst out in his mind, there are many prodigies in history, especially in the Song Dynasty, such as the famous Kou Zhun won the Jinshi at the age of nineteen, but it is too much worse than Yan Shu, because Yan Shu was awarded the Jinshi at the age of fourteen, and he didn't write a word at all during the imperial examination, and he was directly promoted by the prime minister at that time to participate in the palace examination with an official position, which is simply unprecedented.

"It turned out to be Yan Shilang, and I have admired you for a long time, but I haven't had a chance to see each other, but I didn't expect to meet you at His Majesty's wedding banquet today." Li Zhang couldn't help but laugh again at this time.

"It's not a coincidence, I recognized you when you came in just now, and then followed you here, and I also deliberately found an adjacent seat to sit down, just to get to know Li Quanjian!" Yan Shu replied with a sincere face at this time.

"Huh?" Li Zhang didn't expect Yan Shu to be so honest, but he had long heard that Yan Shu was not only talented, but also very honest, although he was a proud young man, but his life was extremely self-disciplined, and other officials liked to drink and carnival when they had time, but Yan Shu went home to study every time, and Zhao Heng also praised him after hearing about it, and even wanted him to serve as a subordinate official of the East Palace, but Yan Shu said that the reason why he didn't go out to play was mainly because he was poor, and choked Zhao Heng half to death on the spot.

"Yan Shilang is polite, since we have a fate to meet today, why don't we sit at the table?" Li Zhang also took the initiative to invite the other party at this time, Yan Shu, a great talent, he has also been known for a long time, and now that they meet, they naturally have to talk.

It's just that after Li Zhang's invitation was issued, Yan Shu showed a hesitant expression, as if he was worried, and Li Zhang didn't notice that since Yan Shu sat next to him, the surrounding officials didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and kept a certain distance from Yan Shu, so that there was a blank space around them.