Chapter 449: The Princess's Marriage

On July 7, Zhao Xing returned to Hangzhou with a large fleet.

No one noticed that Zhao Xing arrived in Hangzhou in May, while he only stayed in Guangzhou for more than ten days, a time gap of nearly two months.

Except for some maritime merchants who were keenly aware of the report of Zhao Xing's itinerary, they muttered unknowingly: "From Guangzhou to Hangzhou, it only takes three or five days, and Taiwei actually walked for a month and a half." ”

But the scholars did not care about the doubts of these maritime merchants. In their feelings, the Imperial Court Newspaper had just published the news of Zhao Xing's arrival in Guangzhou, and he had returned to Hangzhou, which was fast enough. They didn't care that there was a two-month gap in Zhao Xing's itinerary.

July was not the time to sail from Guangzhou to Hangzhou, and most people attributed the delay in Zhao Xing's trip to a long sea journey. And the soldiers accompanying the ship also remained silent about their two-month itinerary, but someone who was interested in the large amount of Nanyang cargo brought back from Zhao Xing with the ship guessed a little bit of the inside story.

Zhao Xing also brought back 500,000 flintlock pistols with the ship, and after the new guns were manufactured, the old flintlock pistols were ready to be discontinued and eliminated. But the agitation of the Ordnance Bureau was pleasantly surprised to find that the old guns were actually selling very well, and Zhao Xing placed a list of one million in one go, and the price was not low. Subsequently, the two Guangxi Economic and Strategic Divisions jointly announced the opening of the civilian firearms trade, and the overjoyed arms dealers immediately reduced their resistance to Zhao Xing's "Rear Loading Musket Control Order" and began to happily expand production, and this batch of 500,000 flintlock pistols has been their inventory for many years.

The draft of the warship full of flintlock pistols was very deep, and when Zhao Xing returned to Hangzhou, the time was already close to the tide of Qiantang. Since it takes a certain amount of time to unload, the warships can only dock at Xiaoshan Wharf, which is on the outskirts of Hangzhou Bay. By the time Zhao Xing got off the boat, it was already noon, and the entourage pulled over a few war horses. also rushed over a few carriages, Zhao Xing waved his hand and refused the carriage, pulled a war horse to ride, waved the whip easily, and walked home in the bright sunshine.

The good law and order situation in the Song Dynasty was outrageous to later people, even when Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty greatly promoted the Huashi Gang and brutalized the people to the point of misery. The emperor was still in a green coat and a small hat, so he took two powerless eunuchs to shuttle through the streets of Bianliang in the capital, looking for a "favor teahouse" to help him pass on the dating message. Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, there was no need to worry about the danger of assassins, even if the armed forces of a Wangxian county only had fifteen foot archers, there was no need to worry about personal injury when walking in such a city.

It was the seventh day of July, which happened to be the end of the summer harvest, and the autumn sowing had already ended in most places in the south. In ancient China, this time was the "Day of Prayer". The main force of the Prayer Day is the women, who burn incense to worship the Weaver Girl, praying that they can be dexterous. Therefore, the streets are full of women dressed in colorful costumes, and they go together to offer incense in the Weaver Girl Temple. This kind of day of traveling together is a festival for women, and many women carry baskets in their hands to see what they look like. Wherever I went to worship the gods, it was clearly an excuse to pray from my husband and father for a day of rest and to have fun.

Qiqiao Day is not an official holiday in the Song Dynasty, so the magistrates do not have a holiday, but the factory has a holiday, and on this day, the factory owners still traditionally let the female workers go to pray to the gods and worship the Buddha. They also want their female workers to be dexterous.

The streets were full of jubilant women, and the disciples naturally refused to let go of such a festival, wearing light potato yarn and shaking gold silk folding fans imported from Japan, swaggering all over the street, causing the women to let out a giggle laugh. Zhao Xing urged the horse to stroll amid this giggling laughter, and looked at him very happily.

On the carriage sat a zhang qing and autumn, and they were rendered by the festival. Lift the curtain. Leaning his face out of the carriage, he watched the streets full of festivities. From time to time, he also commented on the clothing of the women on the street, and his mouth was full of praise.

In the Song Dynasty, the day of prayer has gradually evolved into the "Dou Embroidery Day", a local custom in Hangzhou, on which women will wear their embroidery works and swagger all over the streets. In the song "Jade Guanyin" of the Song people, the heroine wore her embroidered handkerchief on the street on the day of prayer, so that she was favored by the prince and included in the palace, becoming the royal embroiderer of the palace.

It is a festival of praying for creativity, and the seventh day of the seventh month in modern times has evolved into the "Annual Trafficking of Women Memorial Day", on this day, the Cowherd kidnaps the Weaver Girl, coerces her to be his wife, and then uses the Weaver Girl's weaving skills to quickly lift himself out of poverty and become rich, and get rid of slavery. So this day is also known as "Chinese Valentine's Day".

From the festival of praying for creativity to the "day of abduction", this may be the real sadness of "there is no China after the cliff mountain" - foreign nationalities are coming, they enter the Central Plains to get rid of poverty and become rich by robbery and trafficking, so this festival of praying for creativity must conform to their national traditions and eulogize their national habits......

Born in the Song Dynasty is happy, Zhao Xing rode on a horse and looked left and right, from time to time there were women on the side of the road to him with embroidered handkerchiefs, shaking the corners of their skirts, these women made such a gesture, not to seduce men, but to recommend their embroidery skills to Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing's group of people were freshly dressed and angry, and followed the team of guards left and right, these guards were all new-style musketeers, and when they saw this pomp, they were not ordinary people, so the girls tried their best to show off their ingenuity, hoping to be favored by Zhao Xing and hired into the family, so as to have a long-term meal ticket.

Speaking of "pomp", this word comes from Song Huizong, and when Song Huizong privately asked Master Li for a date, he called it "pomp". It means that he doesn't have time to go to the court to deal with government affairs, and this national affair is decided by Prime Minister Cai Jing Cai, and he is going on a date.

Therefore, the word "pomp" in the Song Dynasty is different from the modern meaning. Zhao Xing's current "pomp" was called "official authority" in the Song Dynasty. Look at the servants hugging each other, and at first glance they are officials. The new army has a new gun, and this official authority is not small.

Zhao Xing walked all the way and looked, he paid attention to the embroidery skills of women on the side of the road, because Suzhou embroidery and Hangzhou embroidery have always been famous, Zhao Xing also wanted to find a few embroidery girls with outstanding skills, embroidered a few pictures to survive in the world, maybe this thing can be sold for a lot of money in modern times, and future generations can make a fortune.

He forgot that the stone pavement of his castle was actually an emerald slate. This is also a wealth that he took precautions and left to future generations. He is always like this, with the habits of profoundly modern people, and always spares no effort to collect some things that are called "national treasures" in modern times, hoping to leave a little thought for future generations.

However, no matter what the collection, it is not as good as the collection of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xingzheng was intoxicated with the urban style of the Song Dynasty, and Yuan Yeping urged the horse to catch up from behind. talked about dry official affairs boringly: "I didn't find the intelligence officers left behind on the dock, but I estimate that Shuai Fan Shuaizi should come back at this time, but I am afraid that this war will be a loss." The Bohai people, the Jin people, and the Liao people were all very poor, and they didn't seem to have much value except for war horses, cattle and sheep. ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "The Bohai Kingdom has captured the Linhai Navy, which is more expensive than any treasure, and from now on, the sea area of the Liao State will not be defended against us." When the merchants heard the news, they jumped for joy. What I'm thinking about now is how to turn the demise of the Navy into dividends that all the merchants who participated in the war can share. ”

Yuan Ye replied casually: "It is nothing more than the establishment of a maritime monopoly right, and only merchants who participated in the war are allowed to operate this trade route." ”

Zhao Xing urged the horse to hurry. While asking sideways, when he asked, the corner of his eye was still scanning the girls waving embroidered handkerchiefs on the street: "Have all our friends in the navy withdrawn?" ”

Yuan Yeping bowed his head and replied humbly: "None of the Khitan people in the Linhai Navy were spared. However, their Han army opened the city gates in advance, and many of them were able to gain high official fortunes in the Bohai Sea because of their military exploits, and many were reluctant to withdraw. There are also some people who want to come with us, but they want to come to Song to live in peace. ”

Tong Guan went to Shaanxi, which means that Zhao Xing still has eight years to go. Eight years later, Tong Guan ended the war with Tibet, and then moved the idea of sending an envoy to Liao. He met Ma Zhi, a merchant from the Bohai Sea, in Liao, and then there was a "maritime alliance" between the Song and Jin dynasties, and the two countries agreed to jointly attack Liao. Ten years after the "Maritime Alliance", the Jin people, who had won a great victory, tore up the covenant, and after the destruction of the Liao State, their army marched south and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.

It's a pity that history has changed because of Zhao Xing. The Bohai people have subversive actions supported by Zhao Xing. The country was restored ahead of schedule, and they gained a firm foothold in the gap between the Song and Jin countries. This means that the chaos in Liaodong has opened.

This was indeed a chaotic situation, and the Bohai people were bent on restoring their old territory, and they were short-sighted enough to attack the Nakyodo region of the Liao State while waging war with the Jinren Tokyo Province. As a result, they were dragged into a full-scale war, from which it was difficult to get out.

Zhao Xing was very satisfied with this situation, and he replied with a smile that had succeeded in his conspiracy: "Yes, you can arrange for them to enter the staff headquarters." I intend to build up a purely Liao-Chinese army at the General Staff Headquarters so that they can play the role of the enemy in future exercises and give our soldiers the experience of confrontation.

Okay, the land on Tokyo Road is vast and sparsely populated, and the Khitan people's control of this land is not strict, and the Jurchens of the Hosu Pavilion have privately smuggled horses with the Great Song Dynasty since the time of Shenzong, and the Khitans don't know how to control it, but Zhongjing Road is different. The Liao people can tolerate the presence of the Bohai people in Tokyo Province, and they must not tolerate their forces entering the Zhongjing Province, so it will be difficult for the Bohai people to sit down and take a breath, and they will have to rely on our support.

When you think about it, you feel happy, the current Tokyo Road must be very lively, for a while, it is the Jurchen of the Hosu Pavilion who fights the Bohai people, and for a while, the Bohai people join forces with the Jurchens of the Hosu Pavilion to deal with the Khitan people and deal with the Heishui Jurchen...... The Great War of the Three Kingdoms, or the Great War of the Four Kingdoms, must be lively, I really want to go and see it. ”

Zhao Xing said this, beckoning to an embroidery girl on the side of the road, the embroidery girl smiled particularly eye-catching in a group of female companions, with a smile on her face, her eyes swept out, as if anything could cause her joy. This kind of jubilant infects Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing beckoned her to come over, pretended not to know the way home, leaned over and asked, "Little lady, do you know how to go to Jasmine Garden?" ”

Zhao Xing raised his body to greet him, Yuan Yeping endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't hold it back, and asked in a low voice: "Are you preparing to conquer Japan, I don't know who the first target of the adult is?" ”

Zhao Xing glanced at Yuan Yeping, he hadn't answered yet, and the girl who was greeted by him replied with a smile: "Did the official go to find the Taishi, follow this road all the way, it is the East Garden of Jasmine Garden, you see a village where blonde and blue-eyed Fan people live, that's it." Passing through this village, there are two bridges leading to the north bank. That is the Jasmine Garden Blue House. ”

After a pause, the girl said quickly: "Official, look at the guns on your accompanying guards, probably you are from the Beiyang Affairs Bureau, right?" I heard that only the two major bureaus are directly equipped with such fast guns. You are a senior official of the Beiyang Affairs Bureau, do you know Taishi? ”

As the girl spoke, she raised the embroidered handkerchief in her hand and called the fan, as if she intended to let the embroidered handkerchief bring a cool breeze in the July sun.

July is the end of the summer. In such weather, the afternoon sun burned the old dog, and the wind brought up by the embroidered handkerchief could not relieve the heat, but because of the hard wave, the girl looked sweaty.

Zhao Xing was attracted by the other party's embroidered handkerchief, he pointed to the embroidered handkerchief and asked: "Little lady, you embroidered "Little Snow in the Fishing Village", right?" This is what the celebrity Wang Shu did. But he is a picture of Danqing, you actually use silk threads to express the sparse shade of ink, what a wonderful means! I don't know the little lady's surname? What do you call your name? ”

The girl covered her mouth with an embroidered handkerchief and laughed: "The slave's name is Li Cuilian, and the official has won the award......

didn't wait for Zhao Xing to react. The woman immediately asked quickly: "Did the official go to Taishidi, the slave family looked at you, but it was the first time to come to Hangzhou, so you didn't know the way?" Why don't you take you there? ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "Thank you, little lady." ”

When Zhao Xing asked. The accompanying carriage did not stop, the carriage walked past Zhao Xing all the way, and when passing by, the two female concubines in the car glared at Zhao Xing with disgust, and Yuan Yeping stopped his horse beside Zhao Xing, looking at Zhao Xing with a distracted mind, he seemed to be waiting for an answer.

When Li Cuilian stepped forward to lead the way, Zhao Xing took advantage of this gap. To put it mildly, he replied: "I heard that Bizen Morunei Tadamori decided to open up trade with the Song Kingdom, allowing Japanese merchants to travel freely to the Song Kingdom and operate maritime trade. But I heard that many Japanese merchants did not come directly to the Song Kingdom, and they sailed their ships to the Liao Kingdom. In the past five years, the Liao State has recorded five tributary incidents, which indicates that at least five groups of Japanese merchants went to the Liao State to trade under the guise of envoys. I cannot tolerate this. ”

Yuan Yeping retorted dissatisfiedly: "Nagato Palace, you haven't said that I, Japan, have rejected the trade between the Liao State and the Jurchens. Merchants from these two countries were ordered not to enter the port. Isn't it enough that only Song merchants are currently allowed to enter and exit the whole of Japan? ”

Zhao Xing has not yet answered. Li Cuilian had already approached his horse and introduced quickly: "Official, this road was built by the group of feudal people in the West Fort of Jasmine Garden, and it leads directly to the wharf, which is specially used by the feudal people to load and unload goods. Later, Mr. Guishan asked Mr. Guishan to cross the right of way from them and open it to the people of Xiaoshan, so we were able to walk on this road.

In fact, the officials don't need to worry, and go straight down this road, which is the West Fort of Jasmine Garden...... It's the first time the official has come, I don't know what the relationship between the official and the Taishi is? I heard that Master Taishi's life is very luxurious, and the utensils used are all excellent, I wonder if he needs an embroiderer at home? ”

Zhao Xing smiled: "What a little lady, you fast mouth, I haven't said anything yet, you asked everything, said everything?" ”

Zhao Xing didn't know that "fast-mouthed Li Cuilian" was a sign and a famous tragedy. Song Rendi's notes recorded the experience of Li Cuilian, an embroidery girl in Hangzhou, this Li Cuilian is ingenious and has superb embroidery skills, but the only bad problem is that she has a fast mouth and says everything that should be said and not said. As a result, after she got married, her husband's family was dissatisfied with her quick talk and divorced her.

In the Song Dynasty, after the married daughter was divorced, it was a very humiliating behavior for the mother's family - of course, according to the Song Dynasty criminal system, because the woman's morality was divorced, the husband's family did not return the dowry, so although Li Cuilian was ingenious and skilled, her mother's family was unwilling to accept her again, and as a result, she had to live in a nunnery, lived in desolation, and died suddenly when she was in the prime of her youth.

The Song people regretted Li Cuilian's life experience in their notes. Since then, the name Li Cuilian has become the symbol of Kuaizui, and all the characters in the play are arranged with a name called "Li Cuilian".

Li Cuilian's mouth is famous in China, she is quick to talk along the way, and she keeps talking, but it's a pity that Zhao Xing's team is relatively dull, and she is deaf to her questioning guards, when she turns her target to Yuan Yeping, Yuan Yeping looks at her as if she is a transparent person, all as if she does not exist. Only Zhao Xing didn't say a word to talk to her.

"What, the junior of the Zhao family has a kiss with the princess...... Well, interesting! Zhao Xing replied absentmindedly.

"Of course, the officials don't know, the emperor (the name of the princess in the Song Dynasty) has never been married. The princess can be married in the Taishi family, which is a special case, which shows that the official family attaches great importance to the Zhao family. The officials don't know it yet, they have never married with the same surname. This time, the official family not only married the emperor, but also married someone with the same surname, and the whole Hangzhou was surprised. The slave family heard what people said, but they still didn't believe it. As a result, on the day of the agreement, the slave family saw the engagement with their own eyes.

That. Lord Yang Zuren of Yangzhou led the people and horses of Jasmine Garden and discharged five miles of land for a long time. Others make a gift, a box only contains one thing, not for anything else, just to make a box more, good-looking. Taishi is a real person, and every box is full until it can't fit anymore. It's enviable. It's a pity that the ceremony in the Taishi's sister-in-law's Fengya was held in Guangzhou, and the slave family didn't see it. If you want to come to your son-in-law to make a decision, it should be bigger than the scene in Yunyan, and I don't know how lively it should be. ”

Li Cuilian just talked about the two obstacles for the princess to marry Zhao Xing.

First of all, the daughter of the emperor of the Song Dynasty was not married. The princesses of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty married 28 people, including 21 people from the Jiangmen, three children of relatives, and only four descendants of civil officials. and they are all prime ministers. For example, Wang Yiyong, the grandson of Wang Pu, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty; Han Jiayan (Han Zhongyan's brother), the son of Han Qi, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty; There are also the sons of Prime Minister Zeng Gongliang, who wrote the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", the son of Cai Jing, the last prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, and so on.

These are just four examples and nothing else.

So when the traveler arrived in the Song Dynasty, his father was not a strong prime minister and he could be a concubine, which basically did not exist.

Secondly, in ancient China, there was a folk custom of not marrying with the same surname, although this regulation was rarely binding on the royal family, and the royal family often gave surnames to the alien naturalized "concubines" who married clan girls. The notes of the Song people also recorded three examples of clan daughters marrying families surnamed Zhao. This shows that in order to achieve the goal of reducing the number of marriages, the princes of the clan sometimes do not care much about the folk customs of not marrying with the same surname.

However, it is still different for Emperor Ji Changguo to marry a eunuch with the same surname like Zhao Xing, after all, this kind of thing is much more eye-catching than the clan girl quietly marrying. The royal family ignored this constraint and insisted that the emperor marry him, which can only show that Zhao Xing is indeed powerful at present, and his military exploits in foreign countries have also made the emperor unrewarded, plus his party is strong. The emperor was helpless. Only by pulling him into the ranks of the emperor's relatives can the people in the palace sleep in peace.

For this purpose. The royal family resolutely decided to marry Chang abroad, and even agreed that Chang Guo would not marry in the capital, and was directly escorted to Hangzhou by Dazai, accompanied by his brother King Jian......

Zhao Xing is the pride of Hangzhou people, and the Hangzhou Township Party is very proud of the ability of such a famous general as Zhao Xing in their hometown - of course, in the development process of Zhao Xing, they also enjoyed the dividends of the development of the Nanyang Affairs Bureau, and Zhao Xing's tax exemption for two consecutive years has made them universally useful, so Li Cuilian just pointed out that Zhao Xing's marriage to Zhilan this time is also a kind of show-off, showing off that even the royal family is determined to do whatever it takes to envelop the big man in his hometown.

Li Cuilian said all the way, Yuan Yeping urged the horse to get close to Zhao Xing, and specially reminded Zhao Xing in the rich dialect of the Kyoto region of Japan: "Changmen Palace, this woman can't stay in the mansion, her mouth is too fast." ”

Zhao Xing nodded, and also replied in the Kyoto dialect: "I understand, but her embroidery skills are really good, and I am going to let her embroider a pair of Hangzhou market scenery as a screen...... Well, you might as well call this embroidered painting "Ten Scenes of Satin". So give it to her, and let her go home and embroider, and only allow her to enter the castle when she is in the place of work, and save her from gossiping. ”

Japan's official language is now Song, but the Kyoto dialect is a blunt imitation of Song, and Li Cuilian listened to it speciously, completely ignoring what the two were talking about her.

As he spoke, the village where the people of Ichi Leye lived had arrived, and this village had a low breastwork, but on top of the breastwork was a high iron fence, somewhat similar to the modern villa architecture. This manor is not open to the public, and at the gate, there are several strong men holding tall golden mastiffs to patrol. Li Cuilian stopped by the door, timidly looked at the tall mastiff as a calf at the door, and said: "Official, I won't go in, those little lions in the hands of Zhuang Ding are too scary, so the slave family will send the official here......"

Halfway through the words, Li Cuilian stopped abruptly, she watched in astonishment as the strong man guarding the gate opened the gate, and stood at the door and bowed deeply to Zhao Xing, saying in her mouth: "Welcome home!" ”

The carriage sparkled first entered the Yici Leye Manor, Zhao Xing turned around and waved at Li Cuilian: "I hired you, Guo Shilang Tea Shop, do you know, you go to this tea shop tomorrow to wait for 'favors', there will be an insider (housekeeper) to lead you into the hospital and give you a job, who is skilled among your female companions, also invited, I have a lot of work, I need a lot of good hands." ”

Zhao Xing walked into the manor, Zhuang Ding, who was guarding the door, immediately closed the door, Li Cuilian opened her small mouth, was stunned for a long time, turned around suddenly, shouted in her mouth, and ran: "Ah Ye, I actually talked to the Taishi about his family for a long time, and the Taishi not only did not blame, but also hired me, this good news has to be told to the female companions quickly, so that they can also be happy." ”

Behind Li Cuilian, a bronze bell rang in the village of a happy people. A cannon salute was also fired on the bell tower of the castle, which was to inform Zhao Xing, a person from the East Garden, that he had gone home. After the sound of the cannon, many people walked out of the house, bowing to Zhao Xing while greeting in their mouths: "Da Lang is home, what gifts did you bring with you this time?" ”

Zhao Xing replied as he walked: "Thousands of your people have fled from Jerusalem, I have already picked them up from Guangzhou, they are on the ship, you should send someone to receive ......"

Hearing the sound of cannons in the East Garden, Emperor Ji Changguo, who was reciting verses, looked up in surprise, the smoke from the cannon in the West Garden was very conspicuous under the blue sky, she lowered her head and thought for a while, and asked with a smile: "Since Jasmine Garden suffered a robbery, does anyone in this Hangzhou realm dare to provoke Ah Weng?" ”

It was Li Qingzhao who was chatting with Changguo, she had already stood up when she heard the sound of cannons, and replied casually: "This cannon sound is not a warning, the garden stipulates that the bandits are three cannons, and then listen to it, if there is only this cannon sound...... Ah Ye, Ah Weng is back, I will go to inform to greet you. ”

Li Qingzhao said, leaving Changguo and trotting away, Changguo muttered dissatisfiedly: "Don't say goodbye, it's really unruly......"

After a pause, Changguo picked up the poem signed by Li Qingzhao and praised it: "But this word is really well written...... 'Sell flowers and buy a branch of spring.' The tears are lightly stained evenly, still with the traces of dawn and dew. I'm afraid Lang guessed that slave noodles are not as good as flower noodles. The cloud sideburns are oblique hairpins, and the disciples want to teach Lang to compare and see. ’”

In real history, this "Magnolia Flower with Reduced Words" is Li Qingzhao's newlywed poem, compared with the later Li Qingzhao's poems, it seems very immature, but this one vividly expresses the young lyricist's innocence and love for beauty by buying flowers, appreciating flowers, and comparing flowers, and her lively and playful appearance is also on the page.

Dazai Zheng Juzhong glanced at King Lu, who was sitting next to Changguo, who was King Jian in the past. King Lu immediately reminded gently: "Changguo, she is your son-in-law and wife, and she will be your eldest sister-in-law in the future, so you must not be so presumptuous." ”

Changguo pouted: "I don't marry Zhao Feng, it seems that I am really lucky, that stuffy gourd, I can't ask a reason for a few words, that is, this Nizi is willing to take that stupid melon as a treasure, look at this poem, very good!" ”