Chapter 207 Thousands of Prosperity

At the end of April, the dust settled on the secret wrestling around the establishment of the Central Palace, and the Qian family, the daughter of the Chinese military governor and the commander of the Tongzhi Qiangui, finally won.

The emperor's wedding is scheduled for May 21, and for this extraordinary day, the entire Forbidden City is like a machine running at full speed, running at high speed, busy for the wedding of the Son of Heaven, which is only seen in a century.

Zhu Qiming temporarily took up his mind to carefully investigate Xining, and like everyone in the Forbidden City, he was immersed in the expectation of seeing the spectacular scene of the grand wedding.

As a prince, he naturally has the convenience of "getting the moon first near the water", and he learned about the emperor's marriage date very early, and he also learned a very ordinary and very mysterious news - Qian's birthday! In July, the new queen will usher in her first Thousand Autumn Festival. You must know that before the "Six Rites", generally speaking, Qian's name and birth date are only known to her parents.

In May, the Son of Heaven welcomed the queen, and then July was the Queen's Thousand Autumn Festival, in this regard, Zhu Qiming should be on the table twice in accordance with the regulations to show congratulations, which will test his pen power to do "official articles" for the first time.

"Well, it's still very beneficial to read Fu, I understand the techniques of laying out and rendering, and I still have so many gorgeous rhetoric in my stomach, it's time to take the opportunity to show off!" Zhu Qiming muttered to himself expectantly.

Although the queen mother suffered the first setback in her life, she still did not forget her nephew who lived in a secluded courtyard, so she sent a "knowledgeable" old chamberlain to come over and instruct Zhu Qiming and poured a scoop of cold water on his head: "The queen mother said that the prince's table has its own customization, and the content is mostly the same, but the title is different." ”

That is to say, there is a big copy of the world's articles! Zhu Qiming was immediately dumbfounded, and he could only comfort himself: That's it, don't let you play freely, it's okay to practice calligraphy!

He can only devote his mind to the emperor's wedding, who dares to make the Son of Heaven unhappy at this time! So I honestly stayed in the study and practiced calligraphy for several days, and finally put the results of my calligraphy practice next to the red note left by Lu Xiyu for comparison, and a voice in my heart was crazy to question: Is this calligraphy? Why does it look more like graffiti?

He finally understood that he didn't seem to have much to help with when it came to the wedding of the Son of Heaven, let alone show off! Maybe it's a big event, it's always okay to look at the excitement with your hands behind your back, right?

On the first day of the fifth month, the Ministry of Rites entered the big wedding ceremony. The so-called ritual note refers to the detailed arrangement of the procedures and details of the ceremonial activities, which in a nutshell is to answer the three questions of what to do, how to do it, and who to do it.

The Son of Heaven's wedding ceremony is not small, the procedure is very complicated, the emperor's time to move his hands and legs will be compressed to a minimum, and the hard-pressed internal officials, female officials, and hundreds of officials in the court are not so lucky, standing and walking for a long time, the buttocks can not sit down for a moment, and the posture must always be kept strictly organized, the taste is unspeakable, no way, you should always play the role enough, how can you live up to the people of a city and the beauties of the palace who are vying to watch?

According to the procedure prescribed by the ritual note, there will be so many unlucky internal officials with thigh cramps afterwards, and none of them will be able to get out of bed for three or five days. As for the female officials, I'm afraid the situation is even worse, who knows who has something to hide!

On the third day of the fifth month, with the British official Zhang Fu as the main envoy and Yang Shiqi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, as the deputy envoy, he went to the Qian's house to collect money and ask for two gifts. In ancient times, the "six rites" were to be carried out for marriage, that is, Nacai, asking for names, Naji, Naji, inviting the date, and welcoming in person, the wedding of the Son of Heaven could not be talked about in person, and the emperor was at most demoted in the palace to welcome the queen, so what does it mean to be stupid to run to the woman's house to marry his wife?

"Hey, hey, take a hundred taels of silver, otherwise don't want to enter the door!" Just think about this kind of plot, as for really putting it into action, you have to see the groom's official!

The invitation period is also a mere formality, and choosing when to get married is a national event, at most, it is a "notice date" after the auspicious date is chosen, and it is enough to officially notify it, how can the Qian family be qualified to bargain? Individuals obey the organization!

The auspicious day chosen by the imperial court is the "Wuyin" day of May 21.

In addition to the invitation and personal welcome, the other four gifts should still be realized.

The emperor gave the Qian family a mansion outside the Daming Gate, and a curtain was set up outside the house. Here, from the dialogue between the chief and deputy envoys and Qian Gui, the private affairs about the queen were finally revealed through official channels: Qian was sixteen years old, and she took a rather boring name, she is called the clan, the Qian clan? Alas, it's better not to call the name, why can't you have some literary fan?

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, with Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, as the main envoy and Yang Pu as the deputy envoy, he went to the Qian family to perform Naji and Nazheng gifts. Because this day is the Dragon Boat Festival, the emperor wants to give a banquet and a fan to hundreds of officials as usual, Xu is the wedding of the Son of Heaven is imminent, he is in a good mood, Zhu Qiming actually received the emperor's festival gift - three fans!

Mama Cui whispered to the female officer who sent the fan, and her face was not very good when she came back.

"Alas, the slave maid should not have said frustrating words on the happy day, but the queen mother has been saddened by this matter for the establishment of the middle palace, and it is difficult to live normally now. Your Highness, you should go over and have a look. ”

Zhu Qiming was gloomy, and after a while, he shook his head slowly, "The Empress Dowager is busy with a breath, just for the big thing of the Middle Palace, and now that the matter has been completed, the breath will be vented, but it doesn't matter, the Empress Dowager will still keep her eyes open and look at the emperor and the queen, this king should not go over to disturb the imperial grandmother, and wait for the imperial grandmother's mind to fall elsewhere." ”

Mama Cui hesitated a little, "There are some things that slaves and maids shouldn't talk too much, but the queen mother is like this, and some people may dare to let go of their hands and feet when they see it!" ”

"Who?"

"Earlier, His Highness heard about the grievances he suffered in Yongsu Palace, and now that the celebrant is becoming more and more proud, His Highness should be careful."

Wang Zhen? Zhu Qiming sat up straight, "What's wrong with that person?" ”

"I heard that there was a doctor named Wang Jing in Tai Hospital who pretended to be Wang Zhen's name several times last month, and asked for countless gold and silver treasures, and was sent to the Weiyuan garrison. It's only been a few days, a name is so valuable, how many people have to squeeze their heads to climb the high branch of Wang Zhen! ”

Zhu Qiming's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but look a little higher at Mama Cui. Mama Cui is very politically savvy and discovers the essence of the problem through the appearance of the case.

He originally thought that there would be some kind of balanced relationship between internal and external officials, and after going through a lot of things, he didn't have much expectations for the hundreds of officials in the court, didn't he still have the Empress Dowager? He didn't take the problem of the failure of internal and external checks and balances particularly serious before, because even if the Empress Dowager didn't do anything, as long as this great god existed for a day, Wang Zhen had to restrain himself. However, this great god was crumbling, and the ropes that bound Wang Zhen's hands and feet were gradually loosening.

The future is worrying!

"The slave maid also heard that Wang Zhen's nephew Wang Shan is about to be promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard."

Zhu Qiming put down the "Magical Secret Score" in his hand, walked to the window and stood by the window.

If the case of the Tai Hospital reflects Wang Zhen's rising power, then Wang Shan's promotion reflects Wang Zhen's increasing sainthood!

Wang Zhen is powerful and powerful, and the holy family is long, and there is this mountain in the way, I am afraid that when the assassination and abduction case is investigated in the future, the resistance encountered will be stronger, and the hope of success will become more and more slim.

I wanted to sing a few good plays to make Wang Zhen pay the price for his "righteousness" in Yongsu Palace, but now it seems that he still underestimated Wang Zhen's energy!

Thinking of this, Zhu Qiming turned his head and looked at Mama Cui casually, wanting to comfort the old man of Qingning Palace, and at the same time comfort himself.

"Mama doesn't have to think about it, the wedding of the Son of Heaven is coming, this is a day to celebrate with the whole world, you might as well take a look at the excitement, and think about other things after the middle palace has the master."

On the day of Wuyin, the capital was empty of thousands of people, along the line from Daming Gate to Chengtian Gate, crowded with men, women and children who were waiting for it, and the grand occasion far overshadowed all the festivals in Beijing.

"I bow to the mandate of heaven, the heir to the ancestral throne, dominate the world, the foundation of reason is from the family, but the way of the couple, the righteousness of the body, the ancient sage monarch of the ancient ancestors, the lord of the salty order, the virtue of the inside, to rejuvenate the beauty of the king, to the origin of the blessings. Shier Qian, born in Xunmen, pure nature, benevolence, benevolence, chastity, Shu, quiet, one, sincerity, Zhuang, respect for the teacher, constant etiquette, perfunctory Yide, Mu Bu Datong, today send an envoy to hold the festival, with the golden book Jin Bao Lier as the queen·······"

This is the content of the golden book issued by the orthodox emperor to Empress Qian. Zhang Fu, Yang Shiqi, Wang Zuo and others led the crowd to the Qian family to issue a book and greet the ceremony, and the internal and external officials surrounded the queen's public opinion into the Daming Gate, and walked slowly towards the Chengtian Gate.

The gorgeous public opinion, the greeting army for several miles, and the beautiful floats that follow the front and back of the public opinion, and countless surging heads, constitute a wonderful landscape.

The queen, in the words of the Empress Dowager, is "the six palaces of the table, the mother of the world", the emperor changed a word, it is "the six palaces of the table, the mother of the four seas", that is to say, the queen is the mother of the world, although the symbolism of this title is greater than the practical significance, but just look at such a grand scene, it will make many women have the urge to be addicted to the queen.

Among the women who dream of being queens, the strongest impulse is Zhou.

"Look, the queen's public opinion has entered the Fengtian Gate!"

I don't know who shouted, and a large group of young concubines raised their eyes to Fengtianmen. Others only care about the excitement, but Zhou is sad and indignant, wanting to cry without tears.

"That chariot should have been mine!"

Poor as an imperial concubine, a woman who wants to become an emperor has to find her own door, which is like a family, there is a huge team to welcome into the palace, there is a combination of wine to drink, and there is a good place to live in Kunning Palace.

No, this has to change!

Zhu Qiming was inconvenient to meet with the emperor's woman, so he took a long detour to Fengtian Gate, and waited for the wedding ceremony to enter the Fengtian Palace to congratulate the emperor.

"King Yue."

The early marquis of the Emperor was there, and he didn't look at the huge greeting team at all, and grabbed Zhu Qiming's sleeve with a heavy heart, "King Yue, Yu Qian has been demoted, and he has been reappointed from the military department to Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple." ”

Yu Qian's rank was downgraded by one level? Zhu Qiming was stunned. "Why was it degraded?"

"He was consulted by a group of imperial historians, saying that he returned to Beijing without following the order."

Zhu Qiming's heart sank, and he suddenly realized that the situation was getting worse and worse