PS: I recommend this novel of the same genre "Warring States Heroes", and then the second chapter is in the evening

"As early as the beginning of January this year, after the three-year funeral of Lebo, my father asked the Emperor of Song to be a matchmaker, went to Le's Nacai, and asked Lingzi's name and birth date to report back. My father asked about the marriage in the ancestral temple of Wenxian County, and got the auspicious omen, so he sent a messenger to report the good news to Le's......"

As Zhao Wuxian spoke, he couldn't help but feel overwhelmed when he thought of those lengthy pre-marital procedures. He had never been married in his previous life, but he also knew that it was not easy, and after returning to the Spring and Autumn Period, he was even more staggered by the cumbersome customs of this era.

Marriage events, parents' orders, matchmakers' words. In the pre-Qin period, because people attached great importance to marriage, they took the marriage relationship between the two parties very seriously. Therefore, a set of marriage etiquette with fixed rituals and solemn forms was gradually formed, which was called "Shi Dusk Ceremony".

"Wei Feng" said: I am scared, and there is no good match. There is no anger in the general, and the autumn is for a period of ...... Erbul Zhen, no blame. Bring the chariot with me, and bribe me to move.

This poem is about a series of wedding procedures from finding a matchmaker to Najib, inviting and greeting, which is only for the commoners, and the nobles are more complicated.

Zhao Wuxian can't make his own decisions about these things, he has to listen to his father Zhao Ying. So the matchmaker and the messenger ran back and forth between Shangqiu-Qufu-Wenxian-Jinyang, and half a year passed accidentally, and finally completed the first three things.

After that, you have to complete the two items of "levy" and "request".

Nazheng, that is, the man's family gives a dowry to the woman's family, which is equivalent to the engagement ceremony of later generations. You don't need to put too much thought into the dowry, you only need to prepare a formal coin silk. It is generally five pieces of black or light crimson silk and two pieces of deerskin.

And the please period. Then the man's family sends a messenger to inform the woman's family of the choice of a good marriage date, and the marriage date can be set after the woman's parents smile and accept the dowry. The woman is officially waiting for the bridegroom to greet her.

At this point, the preparations for marriage are over.

"I don't know when the general will set the wedding date?" Chen Dingguo, a retainer sent by the Le family, asked earnestly.

Chen Dingguo watched Zhao Wuxian rise in the East with his own eyes, and he also knew very well whose support Sicheng Leshi could have today. His brother Chen Yin has told him many times that the relationship between the two families must be maintained, and the means to rely on it is naturally marriage. Recently, there have been rumors outside that the general's concubine is pregnant, and he will soon have an heir. Although it is not until after birth whether it is male or female, it is also a threat to the status of the monarch.

Therefore, the sooner Zhao Wuxian and the gentleman and daughter got married, they could feel at ease as soon as possible.

After groaning, Wuxian said: "The wedding date is set for next year, and the spring is ......."

"Until next spring!?" Chen Dingguo couldn't accept it for a while, doesn't this mean that it will have to be delayed for another seven or eight months? What the hell is Zhao thinking, isn't this kind of thing as soon as possible?

Wuxian explained: "That's right, after my father asked Shi Mo and Shi Zhao, two erudite gentlemen, to calculate the good fortune and evil, he thought that the tenth day of the third month was an auspicious day. So it was decided...... And the place of marriage will not be chosen in Lu State, my father plans to let me return to Jin and get married in front of the ancestors and ancestors in the Zhao ancestral temple in Wen County. ”

He said sincerely: "It is my blessing to be able to marry Lingzi. It must be treated with the most solemn etiquette, hoping that Ziming can understand and Lingzi can understand. ”

Chen Dingguo thought about it, and it made sense. Before he left, his brother Chen Yin had instructed him that everything was arranged by the Zhao family. Le's needs Zhao's. It is not only an honor to have such in-laws to support outside. And it can also ensure that the position of Zhengqing is permanent.

So he said: "The matter of the marriage date is naturally determined by the man, and the general can send a messenger to inform the head of the family after sending the dowry, and the woman will not beak." But there's one more thing ...... else."

He groaned slightly and said, "The head of the family asked me to ask, is the wife to marry the general choose, or let the Le family choose?" ”

……

"Is there a must?" Zhao Wuxian asked after being silent for a while.

"There must be." Chen Dingguo is very serious, and the princes and princes must have concubines when they marry, which has been a rule for thousands of years.

The so-called concubine is a marriage system in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, that is, when the bride marries, she also has to marry a woman with the same surname as her. The former who marries in this way is a wife, and the latter is a concubine. The status of concubines is much higher than that of concubines, they have a formal status, they can attend formal banquets, and so on.

"Let me think about it." Zhao Wuxian has a headache, it is really troublesome to get married in this era. He asked Chen Dingguo to go down first, anyway, the envoy who was going to send to the Song State to give the dowry was Zigong, he should be in the side room to observe, and I don't know how the affairs of Ju Guo were handled.

When Chen Dingguo left, Zigong happened to come in from the side, the two greeted each other, Chen Dingguo didn't dare to slack off, he could listen in the side room, Zigong's status among the Zhao family was self-evident, and Fang Cai's conversation was all in his ears, right?

After Zigong went to the court, he walked a few steps away from Zhao Wuxian's case, saw a salute, and continued to sit down on the seat within three steps, and bowed to the end: "Congratulations to the lord." ”

Wuxian smiled: "Zigong has worked hard, I don't know how to congratulate him?" ”

Zigong said: "Not only is the wedding date set with the lady of the Le family, but also the affairs of Ju Guo have achieved a great victory without swords, which can be described as double happiness!" ”

……

"Sure enough, as the lord expected, Ju Jun was overjoyed when he saw the head of his uncle Gengyu, believed in our sincerity, and was willing to sign a secret agreement with the Lu State."

Wuxian asked: "How much is Ju Guo willing to pay?" ”

Zigong smiled: "A lot." ”

He presented the silk book in his hand to Zhao Wuxian's case and unfolded it, pointed to the terms on it and said: "First of all, the state of Lu and the state of Ju have secretly made a contract, if the state of Wu invades Ju, the state of Lu will give support. If the Lu State and the Qi State go to war, the Ju State will pretend to help Qi, but in fact the two will not help each other......"

Wu Zhen said: "This is beneficial and harmless to the country of Ju, they will naturally agree." ”

Zigong hesitated for a while and said: "It would have been a good thing for the Qi State to lose the Ju State, but if the Wu State attacked Ju, would the Lu State really have to be an enemy of Wu?" I'm afraid some of them can't do it. ”

Zhao Wuxian was not worried at all, he said: "Wu State is just a tiger shadow I use to scare Juzi, although the Wu people seem terrible, but their national strength is limited, the west and Chu State compete for Chen and Cai, and the Yue State in the south is behind it, and they are not able to go north at all." The last time the Song Rebellion, the husband only brought a division of people to come, which is the proof. Wu's current strategic direction is to destroy Yue, but the Yue people are brave, if I don't expect, at least in six or seven years, Wu's energy will be concentrated on Yue, and there is nothing to worry about. ”

Zigong thought for a while and nodded: "That's true......"

There is a basis for Wuxian to be so sure, if I remember correctly, the old Wu Wang Lu will soon die in the battle of Huayue, and then the husband will take the throne, in order to avenge his father, and Gou Jian started a pair of cp love and killing. Although his little butterfly from later generations made the history of Jin, Lu and Song unrecognizable, it did not affect the dispute between Wu and Yue, and he only hoped that Goujian, the king of Yue, could give full play to his resilience in history and sharpen the people of Wu.

Speaking of Yueguo, Zhao Wuxian thought of three people again, that is, the three heroes of Xingyue: Ji Ran, Fan Li and Wen Chong!

Last year in the Song Kingdom, I met with a fisherman who was suspected of Ji Ran, and after the beginning of spring, I sent people to visit many times, but I always found no trace of him, and it was rumored that he went to Chu to travel. As for Fan Li and Wen Chong, these two people are the unambitious Chu people, and they don't know if they went to take refuge in Yueguo?

Zhao Wuxian blinked, and decided to send a few Heavenly Taoist witch blessings in a few days to go to Chu State in the name of travel to fool those pious ghost and god believers, and by the way, look for these talents.

He continued to ask: "The outlet to the sea that I want the most, did Zigong earn it for me?" ”

Zigong pointed to the map attached to the secret covenant: "However, the land of fish and salt in the south of Ji Barrier City is the Tang Muyi of the lord from now on!" ”

"At what cost? What does Ju Guo want? ”

Zigong said: "Ju Jun wanted to exchange this place for the place south of Muling Pass, but the minister refused. ”

Wuxian said: "It's good to refuse!" It was a dangerous place for the Lu State to cut off Qiju's land transportation, and I even specially asked the Dongdi doctor there to move away and be guarded by the shogunate officials, how could I just give it? ”

"Therefore, Ju Jun retreated and asked Lu to exchange Ju Father City for it."

Zhao Wuxian glanced at the map: "Jufu City was brought over by the doctor of Ju Guo more than 20 years ago, it is very close to Judu, only separated by a mountain range, not to mention that there is also the mausoleum of the Duke of Ju in it, if you can exchange it for this city, Juzi will be able to feel at ease." I won't seek it in the short term, I will take what I need from them, this is a fair deal, just give them it! ”

He asked the key point with great interest: "What is the topography of that land of fish and salt, and what is the transportation?" ”

"This place is located in the south of Jijiao City, north of the border of Juwu, the terrain is flat, facing the East China Sea, thirty miles wide and ten miles wide. The two countries are sparsely populated in that area, and there is no city and capital, but there is a road to the east of Lu, and the fish and salt produced can enter Lu within a day! ”

Zhao Wuxian was very satisfied with this, of course he knew Ju Zi's idea, that is, to let Lu Guo set up a stronghold there and block between them and Wu Guo. However, Zhao Wuxian was not worried about the Wu State, the Wu people's rule in Huaibei and Zhongwu was very weak, and even many peasants in the eastern part of the Lu State crossed the border and went there to open up the wasteland and plant rice, but the Wu lords knew nothing.

It is the people of Qi who need to be worried, but it is said that the Marquis of Qi is getting sick recently, and the energy of the secretaries of Qi is all focused on protecting Yiyi and defending the country, and they are all interested in the drastic changes that occurred in Song and Lu, not to mention the trivial things in the corner of Ju.

Zigong happily looked forward to the future: "Although the country of Ju will move away the people in that area, but there are people in the country of Lu, it only takes a year and a half to encircle the land of fish and salt in the thirty miles of sea into a small seaside town with fences and sentry posts on the outside and a salt cooking workshop inside, and there is no shortage of salt in the country of Lu!" ”

Zhao Wuxian shook his head and pointed out a mistake of Zigong: "Boiling salt? No, boiling salt is too expensive to be worth it. ”

Zigong asked suspiciously: "The sea salt of Qi and Wu is also boiled, except for this method, how else can you get salt?" ”

Zhao Wuxian smiled: "Of course it's salt!" ”

(To be continued.) )