Li Langjun chased the bride quickly, and Yan Zhizhou walked back again

———— the title of one of the chapters of a commentary in the "Selected Texts of the Late Ming Dynasty".

Yan Zhizhou and his wife have walked a lot of miles in vain, and although Li Meng is alone, the woman's parents are always present.

As a result, Yan Zhizhou's convoy and Li Meng's men and horses merged into a team and returned to Jiaozhou City together, after returning to Jiaozhou City, Luo Xi, who was inspecting the house in Yanzheng, finally breathed a sigh of relief, the New Year is a big event, every year as the housekeeper of the house is busy for a long time in order to prepare for the Spring Festival, but every time Li Meng is busy with something else, as the housekeeper of the inner house, he always feels that something is wrong, as if the responsibility has not been fulfilled.

In fact, the gentry in Laizhou Mansion and all over the country also have the same idea, every Spring Festival is the season to give gifts to please them, but the gifts are sent over, Li Meng is not in the local area, and there is often a feeling of punching down the empty place, there is no expected effect, and they are quite depressed, this time there is a chance.

Li Meng, the general of the Laizhou Mansion, married the daughter of Yan Zhizhou's family on the seventh day of the first month of the tenth year of Chongzhen, and the news spread all over Shandong in Layue.

Wu Tongzhi, who has already acted as an agent of Zhizhou, should come forward to handle it both in public and private, and Wu Tongzhi is naturally busy there.

The urgent letter to Eunuch Liu in Nanjing has already been sent, it is the elder of his own family, and he has to tell it anyway, but the other party is old, so urgent, it is estimated that he can't catch up.

The generals of the Jiaozhou battalion stationed in various places also have their own priorities, Liu Zeqing's side has just been defeated, and when he needs to be careful and guarded, Ma Gang and others are also stationed in place, and only sent messengers to congratulate, of course, this is Li Meng's arrangement.

All kinds of restrictions are there, Wu Tongzhi and several principals invited a few close figures in Jiaozhou City and colleagues from Zhizhou Yamen, and a leading figure in Fengmeng Town and Lingshan Weishu is naturally also invited, because he is about the same age, this Chen Liuzi was selected as the best man, which made him very excited for a long time.

Many people in the gentry and Haoqiang still don't know about this matter, and only the two families in Guting Town and Pingdu Prefecture received invitations, because these two are the first people to become the first to sell private salt in Jiaozhou, and they are loyal.

After receiving the invitation, these two heroes were really taken aback, they were completely unexpected, to put it in other people of Li Meng's level, marriage is a great event, from employment to engagement to marriage, there are all kinds of procedures, every time you can receive a gift, who would have thought that Li Meng would do it so quickly, and he didn't pay attention to any etiquette rules at all.

These two Haoqiang pondered, General Li got married, of course he had to prepare a generous gift to give, and then thought about it carefully, almost half of Shandong had to rely on Li Meng's care, he knew the news here, if his relatives and friends didn't know, if he didn't send gifts and post greetings, would he be hated by General Li, this is a big thing, General Li is angry but wants to kill, thinking of this, this Haoqiang also hurriedly sent a letter to people close to him, Haoqiang, who received the letter, thought the same way.

Li Meng returned to Jiaozhou 20 years ago, and the people in the Jiaozhou camp were happy, thinking that this time it was going to be a good year, but the whole Shandong except for Jinan Mansion, and Li Meng's landlords and heroes who had some relationship with Li Meng had a bad year, except for those who were close to Jiaozhou City, the rest of the people were in a hurry to handle the gifts, and rushed to Jiaozhou to congratulate them.

The innkeeper of Jiaozhou City was supposed to close the door on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, who would have thought that on the twenty-first day of the lunar month, he decided to open as usual for the New Year this year, because there were too many guests, and many large families were the first to send their children to come over to congratulate and send a gift to meet, which was regarded as a greeting, and then gave a heavy gift on the wedding day.

Wu Tongzhi was really anxious this time, where did he think in advance that there would be so many people coming to watch the ceremony and congratulate, but these people are also local gentry at the earliest, many people are the children of a certain person who are officials somewhere, and some people are big families for many years, they can't refuse at will, but he also has a lot of benefits, otherwise a small Zhizhou, where you can see so many prominent figures in Shandong, is also beneficial to the future.

After asking Li Meng, it can only be that all the guests who come are settled, and as a result, the pre-pondered plans of the Zhizhou Mansion to hold a banquet have been overturned, and the more lenient Yanzheng Patrol that house is used as the scene of the wedding, Gaomi, Jimo, Jiaozhou, Pingdu The chefs of several states and counties were invited, and many civilians in Jiaozhou City also made a small fortune because of this, and the small state city, how can there be so many places for people to live in the inn, and many houses with spare rooms are rented as temporary residences.

These powerful gentry in Shandong Province are usually in the local area, but now when they are in a place, they have to communicate with each other.

These people in Jiaozhou City are "not seeing the mountains in the mountains", they get along with the Jiaozhou camp and Li Meng every day, and they have some commonplace feelings about Li Meng's strength and prestige.

After those foreign heroes communicated with each other, many of the scaly claws that they knew before began to become complete, for example, a certain village was completely destroyed, what happened to Caozhou City, everyone was terrified, and the Jiaozhou battalion was so strong.

In the past, the local military leaders had to rely on the local gentry to support money and food, but now the situation is that the local gentry will be robbed by bandits without the protection of the Jiaozhou battalion, and without the private salt supplied by the Jiaozhou battalion, they will lose a large piece of wealth, and without the army of the Jiaozhou battalion, the children will have no place to get ahead.

Most of the civil officials in the world are literati from Jingxiang in the south of the Yangtze River, and the military attaches are those who are the sons of military households and nobles. The middle- and lower-class heroes have almost no way out, but they found that many of the sons and daughters of these powerful gentry in Laizhou Mansion have been promoted in the Jiaozhou camp because of their military exploits.

Don't say I don't know, after discussing it, I found that the way out and financial resources were all caught by Li Meng, and Li Meng's official position, Li Meng's territory, and Li Meng's strength are all expanding rapidly.

After the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, with the gradual determination of the incident in Caozhou, the congratulations of the military attaches from all over Shandong also arrived, and the military attaches could not leave their posts without permission, but the garrisons and the above generals in Shandong prepared gifts and sent messengers to Jiaozhou City to congratulate, including several subordinates of Liu Zeqing near Caozhou.

In addition to Shandong, there is also a general in Jinan Prefecture, and the rest is to guard Li Meng, the general of Laizhou, and Qiu Lei, the general of Shandong, Liu Zeqing's official title has "Caozhou" in front of it, and Li Meng's official title has "Laizhou" in front of it, which also shows that they are guarding the territory, Qiu Lei, who is stationed in Dengzhou, nominally has the function of being in charge of the entire territory of Shandong.

Dengzhou stationed the imperial army, Qiu Lei's army is much more than Li Mengjiaozhou's battalion, of course, don't mention the combat effectiveness, although Liu Zeqing is dominant, but this Qiu Lei is better, several times connived at his subordinate troops to rob the grain and silver allocated to Liu Zeqing by the imperial court, and the two sides fought all day long.

In fact, in the normal historical trajectory, Liu Zeqing imprisoned Qiu Lei and killed him in his military camp four or five years later.

Although Li Meng and this Qiu Lei are adjacent to the state capital, there is no conflict, and they are still peaceful, just an attitude that they treat each other as if they were each other.

Among the posts and gifts sent from all over Shandong this time, there was nothing sent by Qiu Lei, whether it was Wu Tongzhi or Master Ning, they all noticed this and reported it to Li Meng separately. Although there is a large army in the direction of Dengzhou, Li Meng has nothing to worry about, and the combat effectiveness of Liu Zeqing's troops has already allowed him to see what the real ability of the main force of the Ming Dynasty is like.

Around the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the Yamen of Shandong, the gifts of the civil officials of the various military garrisons and the state capital, and the messengers of the Dao He also arrived.

Originally, Li Meng was in a hurry to get married, Yan Ruoran was naturally willing to do it, and Yan Zhizhou also felt that it was not to be quiet, after all, his daughter married a military general who was born in trafficking in illicit salt, which was not a glorious thing in Shilin, but Yan Zhizhou and his wife, this old couple may not feel so quiet in their hearts, they really wronged their own daughter, and the girl's family married for the first time, and it still has to be a beautiful affair to have face.

But now they don't have this idea, looking at the crowded situation in the small Jiaozhou City, as well as the posts and congratulatory gifts from all over the country, this is all his son-in-law's face, and the scenery is enough

On the third day of the first month of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong's third brother Zheng Zhibao came to Jiaozhou City in a carriage, the head of the Zheng family was originally going to come to Jiaozhou by boat in February to discuss the specific matters of Shandong's private port with Li Meng, and after knowing the news of the marriage in Nanjing, he rushed to Jiaozhou in a carriage overnight.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, an earl of Nanjing City also came to Jiaozhou, he was the messenger of Liu Fulai, the eunuch of Nanjing, in addition to the wedding card and gifts, there was also a letter of reprimand, the old eunuch complained about Li Menghaosheng in the letter, saying that it was such a big event, why was it so hasty, how could his elder, not attend.

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