Under Suiyang City, Dai Yan looked at the welcoming team of more than 3,000 people, and his heart was full of excitement. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In this huge welcoming team, there are 2,000 soldiers he summoned from Fengyi, who are responsible for the safety of the way to welcome relatives this time.

The marriage between Zhao and Song was also very unfavorable to Wei and Qi, and no one could guarantee that these two countries would not send killers to ambush them on the way to welcome their relatives. In the history of the pre-Qin period, the use of assassination to destroy the marriage of other countries also happened from time to time.

Fortunately, this time the journey was extremely smooth. Before Dai Yan greeted his relatives, he had already borrowed from Wei and Wei through diplomatic means, and more than half a month later, he arrived all the way to Handan, the capital of Zhao.

In Handan, Dai Yan was warmly received by Zhao Guo.

He personally taught Zhao Yong in Linzi, and then when Zhao was facing a crisis, he also gave advice and competed with Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yi, which was a lifesaver for Zhao Guo! Although Dai Yan's experience of saving Zhao Guo, Zhao Yong did not want to tell Zhao Guoqun's ministers. However, he is a person who values love and righteousness, and remembers Dai Yan's love for saving Zhao Guo very clearly!

Zhao Yong's enthusiasm for receiving Dai Yan was not only unimaginable to Dai Yan, but also stunned Zhao Guoqun's ministers! Because Zhao Yong directly received Dai Yan with the attitude of receiving the princes!

Under the warm welcome of Zhao Guo, he began the final procedure of the wedding.

To marry the princess of Zhao State, you need to hold a grand banquet in Zhao State first. Zhao Yong invited Zhao Yong's ministers and wealthy businessmen at home and abroad, famous scholars, rangers, etc., and all those who were powerful in Zhao received invitations.

After the banquet is completed, it is time to count the belongings of the dowry. If it is compared with the afterlife, this is also another form of bride price return.

When the dowry was counted, Dai Yan happened to be fine, and he was also listening on the side.

"Princess wedding gifts: 500 cars of gold (copper), 100 cars of silk, 100 cars of pottery, 100 cars of lacquerware, 100 cars of gems and jade, gold beads and jewelry; a thousand head of oxen, fifteen hundred head of sheep, and three thousand horses; 500 knights, 1,000 armorers, 3,000 slaves, 1,000 singers and dancers, and 500 craftsmen; There are also five concubines of the Gong family, and two Lin Yi and Qiu You Chengyi! The ceremonial officer read aloud the princess's dowry.

As soon as Dai Yan heard about these dowries, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Zhao Guo deserved to be a big country in the world! As a big country in animal husbandry, Zhao's achievements in handicrafts are obviously not as good as those of a medium-sized country like the Song Kingdom, so the handicrafts of the marrying are much less than those of the Song Kingdom, but the livestock of the dowry is not an order of magnitude compared with the Song Kingdom!

Such a rich dowry directly made him, who was already on the verge of bankruptcy, become rich again! Of course, from a legal point of view, these dowries still belong to Zhao Xue, and Dai Yan wants to control these properties.

But in Dai Yan's heart, he doesn't think so! In his mind, his wife's is his own! These dowry possessions are already his personal property!

And there are five concubines who marry with the princess, and the status of these concubines is not a lowly slave, on the contrary, their status is very high. They are either the daughters of other clans of Zhao State, or the young ladies of Zhao State's important ministers' families, if they don't become the princess's concubines, they are very likely to marry important ministers from all countries!

And the concubines who marryed, Zhao Guo didn't fail to give more! According to the common sense of this era, there are generally seven concubines for princes to marry their daughters! It's just that Zhao Guo has repeatedly considered Dai Yan's identity, although he already has the richest city in the world, but his identity is the son of the Song State after all, not the monarch of the Song State. If there are too many concubines to marry, it will cause suspicion in the Song Kingdom, which is not good.

And the last two cities are themselves food towns that belong to Zhao Xue. Since she married into the Song Kingdom, these food estates are naturally her property, and they should naturally be included in her dowry with her.

However, in Dai Yan's opinion, among all these dowries, the most valuable is not those wealth, concubines, cities, etc., but a person! This person is the cavalry guard Chang Le Yi who reorganized the team among the cavalry who accompanied the marriage!

Le Yi would be the knight who accompanied the marriage, which Dai Yan did not expect at all. He couldn't have imagined that this famous man in history would be so down!

"I've seen Cao Gong!" As soon as Le Yi saw Dai Yan coming over, he immediately greeted him.

In this era, the princess's husband is not called a concubine, and the concubine is just an ordinary high-ranking officer in this era, and has no other meaning. And Dai Yan's identity is not an ordinary person, as the husband of the princess, Dai Yan can be regarded as his lord!

Dai Yan walked up to him and nodded to him in encouragement. Then he called Tang Ying and Xiao Xiang to the front and said to him: "Le Qing followed the princess to my Song Kingdom, I will definitely not treat you badly!" These two are my generals, Le Qing can get to know him, and I hope you can work together in the future! ”

Le Yi was still young at this time and had never seen much of a scene, and he was extremely happy about such a woo. Of course, he knew that he was loyal to the princess now, and Dai Yan and the princess were now one, and there was no conflict between Dai Yan's wooing of him and his allegiance to the princess.

Then Dai Yan went to see the princess who was dressed up and ready to set off to get married.

A woman is the most beautiful at the moment of marriage, and Zhao Xue who married today is the same. At this time, she was dressed in a dark silk dress, her hair was gathered on the top of her head to form a bun, all the bangs on her forehead were removed, and her face was painted with light makeup.

Even the princess, who usually has a detached personality, seems to be quiet and abnormal at the moment when she is about to get married, like the expressive lady in the lady's picture!

Regarding his sister's marriage, Zhao Yong was also a little sad. He even did not hesitate to send Zhao Xue out of Handan for ten miles with the respect of the princes, and drank a farewell wine with her before returning to Handan!

And the princess, who was about to leave her home country, also had a rare sad look on her face. She waved goodbye to the important ministers of Zhao State one by one, and then embarked on the journey to Song Kingdom!

Later, after a long journey, Dai Yanfang welcomed the princess back to the Song Kingdom.

At this time, the Song Kingdom was already a scene of national jubilation, a scene of national celebration!

Dai Yan was able to marry back to the eldest princess of the great country, which was a grand event that had not been seen in Zhao for more than a hundred years! Although the national strength of the Song State is not enough, it cannot give too heavy gifts when it is recruited, but it is hoped that it can be done perfectly in the celebration at home!

All the cities from the northern border of the Song Kingdom to Suiyang have been renovated in order to match this celebration! Everywhere the convoy arrived, countless people of the Song Kingdom came to cheer!

And the one who attaches the most importance to this wedding is none other than the businessman of Taoqiu. Although Dai Yan has been busy with the wedding since he was named Taoqiu Jun, he has not yet gone to Taoqiu to be sealed, but Taoqiu people have really taken great pains to please their lord and mother!

The whole city had been decorated by merchants before Dai Yan's arrival, and there were ribbons made of silk fluttering every few zhang, making the whole city look like a fairyland! And when the convoy arrived at Taoqiu, the whole city was also full of free performances such as singers, dancers, jugglers, and advocates invited by merchants, and all the taverns and restaurants were open for free within three days of the arrival of the convoy!

Such a lively scene obviously made Zhao Xue extremely useful, and when she knew that this lively and magnificent city would be her future home, she couldn't help but feel a little proud. Therefore, when the Taoqiu merchants proposed that the lord and the lord mother could drink a glass of wine together, Zhao Xue immediately agreed without discussing with Dai Yan!

Dai Yan was a little displeased with such a scene, in his mind, such an extravagant and wasteful scene, fortunately it was not ordered by him, the lord, otherwise the origin of the silk entwining tree of Emperor Yang of Sui in later generations would probably be counted on his head!

Dai Yan and Zhao Xue accompanied the merchants to drink a glass of wine in Taoqiu City, and then merchants of all sizes began to offer gifts. Not to mention the big businessmen, even those small and medium-sized businessmen gave thousands of gifts at every turn, and they didn't even blink their eyes, so that Dai Yan and Zhao Xue really recognized the wealth of this city!

When the convoy finally arrived in Suiyang, it was considered to have reached the end.

As soon as he arrived in Suiyang, there were officials from the Song Kingdom who came to greet him personally. Both of them were welcomed into the ancestral temple with the surname of the son, and under the witness of the clans and ministers of the Song Kingdom, the official wedding began.

When a newlyweds get married, whether they are nobles or commoners, they are almost the same in this regard, and they need to follow the three rites.

Of these three rituals, the first is the same prison, that is, the husband and wife eat a piece of meat together. This means that the husband and wife will eat the same pot of rice in the future.

The second ceremony is the union ceremony. That is, a gourd (gourd) is cut into two scoops, the handles of which are tied together with threads, and Dai Yan and Zhao Xue each drink a scoop and drink a wine together. This means that the bride and groom will share weal and woe in the future, which is the so-called "cup of wine" in later generations.

The third ceremony is the most solemn knot ceremony. The "deacon" of the wedding cut off a strand of Dai Yan and Zhao Xue's hair each, and then tied the two strands of hair together, tied them into a dead knot, and put them into the gourd that was cut. This means that the husband and wife will be together for a lifetime and will not be broken up in the future!

After the completion of the three ceremonies, the deacon and the elders of the clan threw five-colored concentric flowers and fruits, and Dai Yan and Zhao Xue had to use their skirts to pick them up. The more fruits you get, the more children you have in the future! Both of them dare not slack off and receive as many fruits as possible!

After sowing the fruit, it is the third prostration. Unlike the worship of heaven and earth, parents, and husband and wife after the Song Dynasty, the three worships in this era are to worship heaven and earth, ancestors, and parents. Ziyan's father is long gone, and the object of worship can only be Song Hou Zixi, who is like a brother and father.

At this point, the etiquette of the wedding is over, and the deacon of the wedding needs to introduce the bride into the cave room, and the wedding banquet begins.