Zhao Xu sat in the main hall of Funing Palace.

In the previous two hours, he seemed to be a mohora in the hands of a child, being groomed, dressed, and put on this red court robe.

At this time, Zhao Xu was arranged to sit in the right seat and waited quietly.

It was his big wedding day, but there was only an irritating wait.

Zhao Xu had been waiting for half an hour, and finally heard a different voice coming from outside the hall.

"Are the officials ready?!"

Immediately, someone replied urgently: "Okay, it's already done." ”

But Zhao Xu still saw someone poking his head at the door of the hall, and after confirming it, he heard the voice of the visitor: "Then please ask the official family to leave." ”

A crowd of people poured in and knelt down in the hall, "The auspicious time is coming, please leave." ”

This is the first thing someone said to Zhao Xu in many days.

The daily meals in Funing Palace are all ringing bells on time.

Zhao Xu can't afford it in the morning, no one will urge him, and Zhao Xu doesn't sleep at night, and no one urges him.

The imperial meal was placed in front of him without moving the chopsticks, and no one came to persuade him, so he took it down and replaced it with a new dish when the time came.

In seclusion, Zhao Xu has been living such a quiet life. Once someone makes a mistake, it will soon stop appearing, and now, no one will say half a word to him except to himself.

If you can go to the newly renovated Cishou Palace, you can also have a few conversations. However, since he was imprisoned, even the morning and dusk provinces were dismissed by the Queen Mother, and Zhao Xu has not even left the palace gate of Funing Palace these days.

In fact, since he was a child, Zhao Xu can count the number of times he can go out of Xuande Gate a year, and compared to the secluded residence in the Funing Palace now, the previous life has only expanded the scope of the secluded residence a little.

Today, Zhao Xu can finally go out to Xuandemen again to meet his future partner.

But now, Zhao Xu has to visit his queen mother before going to meet his bride.

Although it was the first meeting in a long time, the malice between the two sides was still too strong to dissolve.

After Zhao Xu knelt down, his eyes quickly swept over his mother-in-law.

The fat powder can't hide the haggard caused by a long illness, and the phoenix crown robe is worn on the body, but it is empty, as if the clothes are supported by only a shelf below, and the original round face is also thin and out of shape.

The whole person looks like seeing a candle that has burned to the end, even if it is still alive, it is only a lingering breath.

The cycle of heavenly reason, retribution is unpleasant.

Regarding the Queen Mother's condition, Zhao Xu did not have any sympathy at all, only gloating excitement.

It's just that the realization of that moment is staggered, and Zhao Xu feels that the Queen Mother has discovered his thoughts, just like Zhao Xu saw disgust in the eyes of the other side.

Before the son goes out to welcome the bride, according to the number of rites, his father should teach a few words, and when the father is absent, he should be replaced by the elder of the nearest branch. And the Empress Dowager Xiang is in accordance with the first emperor to listen to the great government, and the etiquette can be from the man.

In order to avoid being tired to the Queen Mother, the Taichang Rite House formulated a gift for her, only a few words.

But the Empress Dowager Xiang threw away the works that the ceremonial officials racked their brains, put down the words that should be read out in her hands, looked down at the current day, and said coldly: "Official, be a good person." ”

Zhao Xu's body was shocked, he raised his head, and the eyes of the two sides were staggered again, and there was no trace of warmth in his eyes.

Zhao Xu knelt down and bowed, "The son respects the teachings of the queen mother. ”

Raised his sleeves to the Queen Mother, closed his eyes tiredly, "Go ahead." ”

Zhao Xu bowed out and turned to the Daqing Palace.

The hall was silent, and after a while, the Queen Mother reopened her eyes, "That's it?" ”

The courtier, who stood beside the Queen Mother like a wooden stake, bent down, "There is nothing to do today, and tomorrow morning, the official family will bring the saint to pay homage." ”

Zhao Xu now went to the Daqing Palace, boarded his car, and went out of the palace to greet the bride. When Zhao Xu came back, he had to change into a crown dress, and then go out with the queen to the Taimiao Temple to worship the ancestors and ancestors, and then come back again, change back into court clothes, and accept the congratulations of the ministers in the Daqing Palace. After that, it's time for the ceremony. Tomorrow, when the newlyweds come out to pay homage to their aunt, they need to show the Queen Mother again.

"Oh." Xiang Xiang replied to the Queen Mother and closed her eyes again.

"Are you tired?" The courtier bent down and asked cautiously.

"The heart is too tired." After a while, the Empress Dowager Xiang opened her eyes again, sighed, handed her hand out, and stood up tremblingly with the support of the courtiers, "This emperor, like his own mother, is not worry-free." ”

There is another person, Zhao Xu didn't ask, and he didn't mention it to the Queen Mother. But everyone knew that Concubine Zhu was not there.

Concubine Zhu was claustrophobic in the Shengrui Palace, and she was already crazy in less than a month. Can't come to my son's wedding at all.

In fact, she could already be regarded as crazy before, and she used the emperor to take poison to frame the queen mother and the prime minister, and in the eyes of most people in the outside world, she was already regarded as a madman.

Everyone was submissive, and only the personal courtiers sighed and said, "It's all the Queen Mother's benevolence that makes it so hard." ”

"Really?"

The Queen Mother Xiang was supported and slowly moved towards the apse.

"If it is a folk mother-in-law, the mother of the concubine has already been sold, and the son has been raised by his side since he was a child, how can he not be intimate? Not filial? Even if you are not filial, there is still Wang Fa, and if you are not filial, the court will help your mother to get angry. ”

"The Imperial Court? Wang Fa? The Queen Mother laughed like this, "The royal law does not involve the emperor, and the court dares to seriously hurt the Son of Heaven." In the end, it can only be so muddy. ”

Now even the courtiers don't dare to answer the phone, and now the power of the prime minister is still more powerful than that of the emperor, and they, eunuchs,

"Luckily, they only dare to be with the mud. The number of gifts for this big wedding, I don't worry about any shortcomings. The old body still has to be face-saving, and he doesn't want to be said that his mother treats his concubine harshly. ”

The courtiers laughed with him, "After the Emperor Song Dynasty was hired by the Emperor and Song Dynasty in the past, this set of etiquette was supervised by the ministers. Since there is the queen mother's orders, where will the ministers be stingy and finally make the queen mother embarrassed? ”

The Great Song Dynasty only canonized concubines as the old practice, even before entering the palace, it was determined that she would become the queen's Cishengguang Offering Cao, it was nearly a year after entering the palace, and in September of the following year, she was canonized as the queen. And she is still a continuation, which is far from the original match.

After sitting on the throne, it was the first time in the history of the Great Song Dynasty that he got married.

To quote the old example, the emperor who ascended the throne at an early age, only the Later Zhou Gong Emperor Chai Zongxun was seized in one year after the five dynasties. There were no young masters in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and further back, the young masters were the most numerous in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it was not enough evidence. In the earlier Han Dynasty, the young lords were one after another, but at that time, the literature had long been fragmented, and even in the two Han books, there was a lack of records about marriage ceremonies.

Yiqiē can only rely on a few words excavated from historical materials, as well as the classics of the three rites, to fabricate and fabricate.

Therefore, this time the big wedding, from the emperor's personal welcome, to worship the Taimiao, to be congratulated by the ministers, the etiquette of a qiē mainly comes from the ceremonial officials of the Taichang Rite Academy.

The first version of the wedding ceremony process took ten days for the ceremonial officials. During these ten days, the gates of the temple were open day and night. In the courtyard, even when the night leak is deeper, it is still brightly lit.

The results of a dozen or so ceremonial officials, who were familiar with the classics and were good at etiquette, stayed up for many days and nights to produce results that fully met the requirements of the classics, were recorded in historical materials, and were adapted according to the current situation.

But when they sent their thoughts and efforts to the political hall, they were immediately beaten back. Every Zaisuke has his own ideas, and every politician wants to reflect his power.

Zaisuke and the councilors raised many contradictory opinions, and sent them back to the House along with the version submitted by the House.

The ceremonial officials could not resist the high-ranking Zaifu and the government, so they could only modify it according to their ideas. After painstakingly summing up and deleting, after paying the price of nearly half of the exhaustion, I finally got the second version of the Son of Heaven's wedding ceremony after discarding some contradictory and unrealistic opinions.

Then it was reported, then it was called, and then it was revised, back and forth several times, and finally it was passed - the main reason was that it was too late to make any more changes.

After the version approved by Zaifu and Yizheng, it was finally presented to the Queen Mother. But the Queen Mother, although she is full of trust in Zaifu and doesn't have much energy to deal with these trivial matters, she still stands in the position of her mother-in-law and expresses a little opinion.

And then there was the month of the night battle that the ceremonial officials were familiar with and could no longer be familiar with, making crazy changes to the process that they had seen and wanted to vomit.

In the end, the big wedding ceremony they came up with was not much different from the wedding of the outside people, but it was modified accordingly according to the identity of the newlyweds. There is no ancient style and ancient charm of the first edition, nor is there the delicacy and meticulousness of the second edition, which has nothing to do with the classics of history and history, and the only evaluation that can be given is mediocrity.

But mediocrity or not is not a big deal. Anyway, the people who participated in the discussion and revision were not the people involved. Everyone was satisfied that their opinions had been upheld, and the rest of the issues were irrelevant.

Of course, the smart people who have the opportunity to handle it are as smart as ever. When others are not paying attention, they will cleverly try to leave a back door for themselves in it to avoid being burdened by hard work.

Just like Han Gang now, there is nothing else to do except to congratulate the Son of Heaven later, which makes Zhang Dian and other colleagues who are also important positions look resentful.

"How? Go and ask Xianggong Zhang. Han Gang took the pu fan and yawned, the weather was too hot, and the court clothes on his body were too heavy, making him lazy and unenergetic, "The big gift envoy is Zhang Zihou, although he has worked hard." ”

Han Gang even looked a little smug when he laughed, but Huang Sheng glanced outside the house, there were twenty or thirty people dressed in martial uniforms, old and young.

Han Gang is the second minister, and he only needs to show his position at the wedding. But in fact, the armed forces of the entire city of Jingshi are now controlled by him.