Chapter 157: Propaganda

The liveliness of Wenfu is not inferior to that of Chengfu at all, all of them are operated in accordance with the specifications of formal marriage, and the door is full of guests, and the middle door is wide open (the daughter does not open the middle door as a concubine, does not invite guests, and does not worship heaven and earth). Except for the fact that she is nominally a flat wife, everything is comparable to that of a regular wife.

Wen Tianxiang and the three ladies were all overjoyed, this family affair only started with Zhang Shijie's flash of inspiration, and it was a great success, and his daughter was almost not wronged at all (except for Cheng Yue, who had the audacity to take Dingniang into the room first). Cheng Yue personally came to the door to marry, Cheng Mansion opened the middle door, worshiped heaven and earth, Wen Tianxiang's family, and there was really nothing dissatisfied.

Before Cheng Yue arrived at Wen's mansion, Wen Tianxiang also personally greeted him, and Weng and his son-in-law entered the mansion.

Dingniang phoenix crown Xia Wei, surrounded by her sisters and relatives and daughters. While boasting of her peerless appearance, he envied her good fortune.

Cheng Yue came to the door of Dingniang and first read a make-up poem through the door. Cheng Yue's door was too loud, and no one in the house dared to make things difficult, so she immediately opened the door, handed the red silk to Cheng Yue, and led him out.

Wen Tianxiang and Ouyang had to tell Dingniang a few words according to the rules, because Cheng Yue didn't have a father, they all asked her to serve her husband well, and then Dingniang covered her head, and then followed Cheng Yue into the sedan chair.

As soon as the sedan car set off, there was a "barrier" as usual, that is, a few people stopped the sedan chair and did not let it go, in order to show reluctance, Cheng Yue stepped forward to say a few words, and then handed over a few red envelopes, and the person who stopped the car got out of the way, and the car could move forward. Someone in the Wen Mansion poured a basin of water on Cheng Yue after the carriage and horse left, to show that the girl who married out splashed the water, and since then he has been a member of the Cheng family.

The sedan chair soon arrived at Cheng's mansion between blowing, blowing, and beating, and someone immediately sprinkled grain beans on the ground at the door. In this way, it is necessary to ward off evil spirits. The front of the sedan chair is covered with straw mats to prevent the bride's feet from getting dust. To be determined, the mother will get off the sedan chair. Immediately, a few people passed the straw mat that Ding Niang had walked on to the front of the cave room. This is called "passening". It means passing on the lineage.

Cheng Yue and Ding Niang worshiped in the green house that was built, and they joined the cave room. The two of them sat on the bed, and then a double girl spread the tent, sprinkled dates, chestnuts, money and other things on the bed, and sang the song of the tent.

After these were completed, Cheng Yue and Ding Niang each cut off a lock of hair and tied them together with colored threads as tokens. Then use the two cups connected with colored silk to drink a glass of wine.

All the rituals have been completed, and it stands to reason that it should be the night of candles in the cave room. But Cheng Yue didn't have his parents outside to greet him. I can only go out to socialize by myself. Leave Dingniang and Jin'er Yuer in the room for a while.

As soon as Cheng Yue arrived at the outer house, the banquet was already blooming everywhere. I don't know how many guests came, but there were certainly thousands of people.

Cheng Yue greeted them one by one and walked towards the flower hall of the banquet guests.

Not only Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and others, but also the civil and military forces under Cheng Yue, except for Jin Luxiang, who returned to his hometown to pack up and prepare to move to Cheng Mansion, did not arrive, and all those in Lin'an arrived. Even Lu Shimeng, Liu Qi, Gao Side, Du Hu, Wang Yinglin, Ye Li and others also arrived one by one, and Cheng Yue happily introduced them to each other. Many of the people saw Ye Li for the first time, but Cheng Yue attached so much importance to him. Put him in the same position as Wang Yinglin, there must be something outstanding about him, and they will all solemnly greet him. This is everyone's confidence in Cheng Yue, he has never missed people.

After Cheng Yue got married. In addition to Xie Fangde, Li Fu and others will go to Suzhou and Huaiyin to take office. Zhao Mengfu also went to Suzhou, first, as Cheng Yue's secretary to deal with relevant affairs. It is also necessary to protect the ministers. Second, Li Fu is not in Suzhou, and the affairs of Suzhou industry must be managed. Cheng Yue can't do without Yang Ting. The only way to do this is to send Zhao Mengfu. Su Rong bought two courtesans for him to take care of, and Zhao Mengfu reciprocated. He sent 50 calligraphy and paintings, including some of his treasured paintings and calligraphy. Su Rong was also generous, and gave him 500 yuan for the travel expenses and the settling-in fee.

Li Fu and others used this time in Lin'an to recruit many talents for Cheng Yue, and also selected many people from the people trained by Cheng Yue to take them away.

Lu Shimeng, Zhu Hua and Gong Xin will also set off tomorrow, although Cheng Yue's expedition to the south is still far away, but their time is very tight. The reason why Cheng Yue did not use his own people to go to the south was actually to avoid the disgust of the magistrates in the south, and he just sent some doctors and engineers to them in a low-key manner.

Guan Shen also wanted to leave immediately, the luggage at home had been packed, and this time he entrusted his two daughters to Cheng Yue in person.

I don't know when I can get together next time, Cheng Yue looked at the ambitious appearance of the civil and military forces under him, and he felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

The dishes were brought up one by one, and at this time, Shi Xiu came over to report, and Wu Jian, Xie Tang, Chang Mao and other high-ranking officials also arrived at the door.

Of course, Cheng Yue had to go out to greet him. After greeting these elders one by one, and then letting them in to sit down, Cheng Yue did not order the banquet to be held.

Although everyone felt strange, no one would urge Cheng Yue, and it would make sense for him to do so. Fortunately, they didn't wait long, Shi Xiu came in again to report, and Concubine Yang and Xiuwang Zhao and Wei, Rongwang Zhao and Rui, as well as Yang Liangjie and Concubine Yu Chongrong's brother Yu Ruqi came together.

Only then did the ministers know who Cheng Yue was waiting for, and just now they wondered why there was no one in the palace, it turned out that there was such a big battle, so they went out with Cheng Yue to greet him.

Concubine Yang's ceremonial drive and the two princes and two ministers together covered the entire street, and the magnificence was magnificent, but Cheng Yue was extremely impatient to see it. He is the thought of later generations, advocating light and simple obedience. When I went out, in addition to the escorts, the carriages and horses were very simple, and I really couldn't get used to seeing a large number of useless honor guards swaggering back and forth, showing the majesty of the officials.

Wen Tianxiang saw Cheng Yue's dissatisfaction and was very comforted. Although he was born rich, he could use all his family property to recruit strong men, and he did not think somuch of the extravagance of the Song family.

When the car came closer, a chamberlain stepped forward and shouted: "Concubine Yang, His Royal Highness King Rong, and His Royal Highness King Xiu are coming to Chengfu, and the ministers salute." ”

The ministers saluted the three carriages according to their status.

Zhao Yourui and Zhao Youwei got out of the car at this time, and they also bowed their hands to the ministers, which was regarded as a return of courtesy. Concubine Yang's carriage and horse had to gallop straight into the house and enter the back house, where they were received by Zhao Miaohui and Guan Shen's wife and Cheng Yue's four concubines.

Cheng Yue invited the two princes into the mansion again, and Yang Liangjie and Yu Ruqi took this opportunity to also come up to greet Cheng Yue.

Zhao and Rui and Zhao and Ju are respected, Zhao and Rui are still the biological fathers of Duzong, and they rarely go to the court, and they are all seeing Cheng Yue for the first time. Although he was prepared, he was still taken aback by Cheng Yue's youth. They are princes, but they don't dare to offend Cheng Yue easily, and when they saw Cheng Yue saluting them again, they hurriedly gently held him up.

Zhao Yourui smiled and said: "The Metropolitan Governor is the groom today, and I am grateful not to think that the two old men are troublesome, where can I afford the gift of the Metropolitan Governor?" To tell you the truth, I heard that the food in the Governor's Mansion was a must, and we didn't have a chance to eat it. The two saints are also doing it alone, and it is not our turn. So taking the opportunity of Concubine Yang Taishu to go to the Dadu Governor's Mansion to say goodbye, our two old men came cheekily and followed, don't be surprised, bother, bother. ”

Zhao Yourui was born poor, although he was a descendant of Taizu, but he could only barely survive in his generation, or because Shi Miyuan sent his cronies to select the heir of King Yi in the clan and picked his brother Zhao Heju, he accidentally returned to Lin'an. Later, Zhao and Ju were set up as Li Zong by Shi Miyuan, because there was no queen, so he was succeeded by his younger brother Zhao Mengqi, the son of Zhao and Rui, and he completed the fundamental transformation from the ordinary people to the emperor's relatives, which is like a fantasy. Because he was born poor and had no ambitions, he treated people very kindly, and as the king of Zong, he often gave some gifts to important ministers in the court, and the court had a good impression of him.

When Zhao Youwei heard Zhao Yourui say this, he also laughed and echoed. Cheng Yue said with a smile: "It is difficult for the two princes to be guests in the cold house of the little governor, so they should try their best to entertain and live up to expectations, come, the two princes are invited to come in and take a seat." ”

When the two kings saw that Cheng Yue was down-and-out and generous, and they didn't see arrogance and flattery, they secretly wondered in their hearts, and their evaluation of Cheng Yue was one point higher.

When he returned to the flower hall and sat down, Cheng Yue still didn't start the banquet immediately, but called a servant woman and gave a few orders.

The servant woman turned and left, and in a short time the servant woman came back to report that the man had arrived.

The two princes and the ministers were curious about who Cheng Yue was waiting for, only to see Cheng Yue clapping his palms three times, Lu Qi and other eight courtesans were wearing the improved brocade clothes of the later generations embroidered with a phoenix embroidered with gold thread prepared by Cheng Yue and Hu Xiuxiu, each holding a large glass tray, on which were placed exquisite tall glasses. At this time, the sunlight happened to shine into the flower hall, and the crystal clear glasses and trays shone dazzlingly in the sunlight, dazzling the princes and ministers who had never seen so many such exquisite glassware, plus the eight courtesans were as beautiful as flowers, and they were wearing beautiful clothes that they had never seen before, which made the ministers who had seen them before all fascinated, and they were drunk before before drinking.

These are all finished products that Ye Qian'er has brought back these days, and they are made by a few of the best porcelain masters. Ye Qian'er asked Cheng Yue how much she wanted to sell, Cheng Yue smiled and said a number in her ear, no matter how surprised she was, as long as she made more, put it in the specially opened store and prepare it, and sell it after today.

The courtesans smiled and placed the glasses one by one in front of the prince and the ministers. Because it was Cheng Yue's woman, although many ministers were itchy and wanted to do something to them, they could only hold back, and hated themselves infinitely with regret for why they didn't buy them back to the mansion earlier. There were also ministers who had some friendship with them before who tried to talk to them, but they only got a smile without exception, and did not answer half a sentence, which made these people stunned. The beauty they have taken a fancy to them has entered someone else's room, is there anything more frustrating for them than this? (To be continued......)