While Daming was waiting for Sony's message to return to Liaodong, the palace was also preparing a wedding to be celebrated by the whole country, the wedding of Fang Yuan and Princess Kunxing.

Because Fang Yuan made great contributions again, Chongzhen officially announced the identity of Fang Yuan's Daming horse to the world.

According to royal etiquette, the princess is to fast, bathe, and pray for a month before she gets married.

According to the wedding etiquette, there are six ceremonies for marriage, including acceptance, name questioning, najib, recruitment, invitation, and personal welcome.

The first gift is to invite a matchmaker to come to the door and offer the gift of Nacai. Fang Yuan's parents died, so he could only invite Ah Weng Cao Huachun, who was closest to him, as the man's elder. As for the hired personnel, Fang Principle arranged to go north in Suzhou Mansion, and together with Cao Song, a nephew of the Cao family, as a matchmaker, he went to the palace to propose marriage to Chongzhen. And according to the wedding customs, offer a goose, a lamb, wine, millet and rice noodles each as a gift.

As soon as the identity of Cao Huachun's elders was confirmed, a speaker began to play a fold, stating that the family of the horse must be innocent. Fang Yuan's parents are from the family of merchants, and businessmen value profit over righteousness, and they are by no means a good match for princesses. In addition, the elder who attended the man was a eunuch, which was even more absurd.

These officials are just picking bones in eggs, there is a reason to impeach, and there is no reason to create a reason to impeach, they are looking for a sense of existence.

Chongzhen endured his anger and issued an edict to make it clear that the Da Ming law did not say that the princess could not marry the Shang Jia family, and for example, there were many Ming Dynasty princesses in the Shang Jia family before. The outer court and the inner court are all one, Cao Huachun is highly respected in the inner court, and before he stepped down, he was the same as the first assistant of the cabinet, and he attended as Fang Yuan's elder, and it was not rude.

Chongzhen personally issued an edict to calm down the incident, and the officials retreated in disgrace.

The second ritual is to ask the woman's surname, as well as the eight characters of her birthday, and then divination to decide what the good luck and evil are, and whether to get married or not. The princess's name was originally a royal secret, but Fang Yuan had already found out in the history books that Princess Kunxing's name was Zhu Yujiao. In addition, this is Chongzhen's wedding, who dares to say that the two of them are incompatible? Naturally, it is all on the good side, and it is all auspicious words of a hundred years of good cooperation and great wealth.

This process is purely a formality.

The third rite is that the man decides to enter into a marriage based on the results of the divination. Fang was originally driven to the shelves, and the so-called divination results are empty words, and this process can also be omitted.

The fourth levy is the payment of the bride price by the man to the woman. Because it is related to the amount of money paid by the man for the dowry, in the civil marriage, this is also the most critical link in the six rites.

Because Kun Xing is the identity of Princess Daming, the dowry handed over by Fang Yuan is also related to the royal face, and it must not be shabby. Cao Huachun had long regarded Fang Yuan as his own son, and made a lot of gold, silver and jade treasures from the Cao family's collection, including 50 pieces of gold, 200 pieces of silverware, 100 pieces of jade, and a total of 30 pieces of precious treasures such as pearls, agate, and coral.

On the basis of these gold, silver and jewelry, Fang Yuan also paid 30,000 taels of gold and 1 million taels of silver out of his own pocket as a dowry and handed it over to Chongzhen.

These are not only dowry, but also Fang Yuan's tribute to Chongzhen.

The two million taels of silver that Fang Yuan handed over before, Chongzhen used all of them to pay the arrears of military expenses in Jiubian, and also to guard against the military expenses of the thieves.

As soon as Fang Yuan made a move, it was such a heavy gift, and rumors began to circulate in the palace and outside the palace that so much gold and silver were Fang Yuan's taxes in Jiangnan and forcibly won them. A few idle officials began to find a sense of existence again, and impeached Fang Yuan for looting the people's fat and ointment in Jiangnan, and squeezing the rich merchants and gentry.

Chongzhen knew this matter well, and he was furious when he saw the performance of the official. These officials don't do business, they don't talk about nosy things until the royal marriage, they even have to ask how much the dowry is and the source of the dowry, and they are about to issue an order to punish these officials, but they are dissuaded by Fang Yuan.

Today's Fang Yuan can be said to be in the limelight, and now he is married to a princess, he is really above 10,000 people under one person, and he is a very popular minister, and all kinds of rumors and rumors are inevitable. Fang Yuan's consistent principle is to let people speak, the sky can't fall, these officials are pedantic, or ill-intentioned, but they must not block the road to admonishment without authorization because of their own selfishness. It is better to make the big thing small, so as not to affect the festive atmosphere of the wedding.

Chongzhen agreed with Fang Yuan's suggestion and issued an edict stating that the levy silver paid by Fang Yuan was an expedition to Liaodong, and most of it was taken from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. There is also a part that was given to Fang Yuan by Chongzhen from the imperial silver treasury, which is completely open and legal.

The Imperial Silver Treasury was originally a secret, and since Chongzhen said that he was rewarded from the Imperial Silver Treasury, the officials had nothing to say, and the wind of impeachment was quelled.

The fifth ceremony is the invitation date, that is, the man has chosen the wedding date to welcome the marriage and inform the woman.

According to Chongzhen and Fang Yuan's thoughts, Fang Yuan has been away from Jiangnan for half a year, and he made a joke about the state funeral. Naturally, the wedding date was as soon as possible, so the nearest auspicious day of the zodiac was chosen, April 16.

The sixth ceremony is to welcome relatives, originally Chongzhen's plan was to get married in the capital, and after the cave house, Fang Yuan returned to Suzhou Mansion with Princess Kunxing. However, Fang Yuan considered that the closest brothers were all in Suzhou Mansion, and his wedding could not be without their congratulations, so he proposed to Chongzhen that the place where the wedding was held was in the Imperial Palace, and the place where the wedding was held was in Suzhou Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River.

Empress Zhou loved her daughter very much, and she resolutely disagreed to hold this marriage in Suzhou Mansion. But Chongzhen stood on Fang Yuan's side, and even Princess Kunxing came to persuade that the marriage between men and women was not held in the woman's house at all.

After the final negotiation, Empress Zhou chose to compromise and decided to carry out a grand send-off ceremony in the capital, and then the crown prince as the send-off envoy sent Princess Kunxing's phoenix to the junction of Gyeonggi and Shandong, and then returned to the capital. Next, Fang Yuan escorted Princess Kunxing back to Jiangnan, and then held a wedding, and performed the gift of the husband and wife's cave room.

Empress Zhou arranged for Princess Kunxing to have 20 palace maids and a wedding team of 20 eunuchs to go to Jiangnan together.

At this point, the entire wedding process has been basically determined, and the only thing that has not yet been determined is what the dowry of the woman, Princess Kunxing, is married.

Gold, silver and jewelry, there is actually not much left in the imperial silver inner hand, Fang Yuan's hand is richer than Chongzhen, so he naturally looks down on it;

Silver, Chongzhen is short of money, Ba looked at Fang Yuan to offer silver, how much can he take out as a dowry?

Chongzhen looked left and right, but found that there was no dowry that he could get his hands on to maintain the dignity of the royal family.

Chongzhen ordered Wang Chengen to talk to Fang Yuan in the middle, testing Fang Yuan's thoughts.

There were only three things that Fang Yuan wanted most.

One is the land, which can be used to grow hybrid rice and settle the displaced people;

the second is the Zhoushan Islands, which can be used as a naval base;

The third is the richest Jiaxing Mansion, Huzhou Mansion, Hangzhou Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion and Ningbo Mansion in Zhejiang. This requires a letter of appointment issued by Chongzhen to justifiably take over these state capitals.

Wang Chengen passed Fang Yuan's thoughts and intentions to Chongzhen, and Chongzhen came back to his senses at once, he was the emperor of the world, and the emperor's letter of appointment was worth more than any reward.

Chongzhen and the first assistant Wei Zaode, the second assistant Chen Yan discussed the matter of the letter of appointment, the two of them were mixed up, the master of the beard and the horse, and they couldn't come up with any opinions, so they agreed with Chongzhen's opinion, and decided to assign the Zhenjiang Mansion of Nanzhili, Jiaxing Mansion, Huzhou Mansion, Hangzhou Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion, Ningbo Mansion and other six prefectures in Zhejiang to Fang Yuan's jurisdiction, plus the previous four prefectures of Nanzhili, and appointed Fang Yuan as the governor of the ten prefectures.

These ten mansions, together with Yingtianfu, are the richest eleven prefectures in the Ming Dynasty, accounting for two-thirds of the Ming Dynasty's taxes. Chongzhen handed over all the ten mansions to Fang Yuan to take care of, hoping that Fang Yuan could make more money in the ten mansions to solve the urgent need of the Ming Dynasty's financial deficit.

In addition to the appointment of the governor of the ten prefectures, Chongzhen allocated 20,000 acres of imperial land in Nanzhili as the dowry of Princess Kunxing. The dowry of an ordinary princess is only one or two thousand acres, and Chongzhen's generous sum is 20,000 acres, which is not only the favor of Princess Kunxing, but also the return of the other party's original donation of millions of silver.

In this exchange of dowry, Chongzhen got a large sum of silver, Fang Zheng got Chongzhen's letter of appointment, and 20,000 acres of land, which is a win-win deal.

In the process of preparing for the wedding, the latest news came from the Manchu sonny, and the Manchu Qing agreed to Fang Yuan's conditions, and the two sides would take the Liao River as the boundary and not invade each other for two years.

Chongzhen was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately sent Chen Yan as an envoy to the Manchu Qing Dynasty with the letter of the State Party, and signed the final peace treaty.

This peace treaty is fair and equal, and it can be said that Chongzhen gave Chen Yan a great merit in exchange for his support in other aspects.

Before Chen Yanlin sent an envoy, there was also a letter from the official, bluntly saying that this peace treaty was a loss of power and humiliation of the country, and the Manchu Qing should be allowed to return the encroached land of Liaodong, and the emperor could only conclude a peace treaty.

Chongzhen couldn't cry or laugh at this kind of Yanguan who had nothing to do, only cared about his mouth and couldn't stop talking, and immediately issued an edict and drove this person back to his hometown.