Two hundred and twenty-four marriage
No matter what era, no matter who it is, even if it is just a small people, it is a very cumbersome thing to hold a wedding, especially in this thousands of years of man-ruled society, the term human affection runs through ancient and modern times, from ancient times to the present, enduring and enduring, as far as African cannibal tribes, as close as the aunts of the neighborhood committees in the streets at the door of their homes, which is unavoidable. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
And for Zheng Guang, who was an official in the Ming Dynasty, it was even more cumbersome, since it was a marriage, people must be in the first place, everything had to be decided by people, for example, the scale of the wedding should be changed with the number of people who came, because Zheng Guang's vacation was very short, so not long ago, Zheng Guang learned that the emperor set the national policy of first south and then north, and was ready to start in the southeast, he began to discuss the marriage with his family, and asked the teacher Tang Shunzhi to organize it, it happened that Tang Shunzhi was the prefect of Suzhou, near the water.
Some of Zheng Guang's relationships were formed under the guidance of Tang Shunzhi, especially the relationship with the students of the southeast heart, the earliest came from Tang Shunzhi, and it was naturally the best to hand over this aspect to Tang Shunzhi, Tang Shunzhi was naturally happy to help Zheng Guang to organize, all the big men of Xinxue, the disciples of Xinxue, etc., all sent invitations to inform them that Zheng Guang, the young master of Xinxue, was going to get married.
Red and white ceremonies are a good time for social communication, Zheng Guang was in the limelight during this time, and became the champion, ranking higher than the current co-master of the mind Xu Jie's original ranking, according to the news from Beijing, Zheng Guang won the emperor's appreciation, and soon became an official in the competition with Xia Yan to gain the upper hand, and successfully promoted the emperor to set the Ming national policy as the first south and then the north, first to solve the Japanese Kou, and then to solve the Mongols, and made great contributions to the southeast.
After that, he was also transferred to the cabinet by the emperor on an errand boy, and had close contact with the rules of operation of the power center of the Ming Dynasty.
Since the death of Wang Yangming, the heart students have been constantly suppressed and eliminated, many heart students have been driven down from their official positions, and now the highest-ranking heart students in the court are Xu Jie, in addition, Xu Jie's teacher Nie Bao was recently appointed as the governor of Fujian, which is also a big victory, and the rest, the most promising, is undoubtedly Zheng Guang.
And he also fulfilled his promise, at the beginning, he said that he could be admitted to the Jinshi, or even the second class Jinshi, and then everyone would support him to open a book club and create the "Bright Lantern" series of imperial examination counseling books, so as to occupy an unshakable position in the hearts of the world's scholars, and lay a solid foundation for the realization of great ambitions, and all students who have been blessed in the future will be grateful.
Zheng Guang has never let go of this plan, as long as he has the opportunity to start compiling some content, he used to worry that his level is not enough to compile the imperial examination guidance book, but now his title of champion is already a very good selling point, as long as this book comes out, plus the help of those famous eight-share articles, it will definitely be a big hit.
Therefore, this wedding is specially to determine the relationship with Zheng Guang, the heart of the bigwigs will all arrive, plus their entourage disciples, as well as the group of people who have business dealings with Zheng Guang in Yiwu will also come, and the people in charge of this part of their family will also follow, Zheng Guang is still the county of Yiwu, according to his prestige in Yiwu, Yiwu people will definitely listen to him, if they want to expand business with Zheng Guang in the future, this time is a must.
The number of people who came here was about 200.
Zhu Kun, the governor of Zhejiang, Fan Qing, the governor of Susong, Tang Shunzhi, the prefect of Suzhou and the deputy envoy of the Susong military garrison, and Zhang Jing, the governor of the three provinces, are all coming, and the county commanders of the counties under the rule of Suzhou Mansion are also coming back, and their entourage officials will also come, and there are about 30 people from the prefects of the prefectures and counties and county commanders who have received the favor of the Black Flag Army in Suzhou Prefecture and their entourage families, etc., and more than 400 people from this group of officials will come.
There is also a group of gentry who know that the official figures will come, and plan to make friends with them, and take this opportunity to get to know the gentry from all over the country will also come, many gentry in Suzhou Mansion and outside Suzhou Mansion, Zhejiang and Nanzhili have heard the wind and moved, this group of people has the largest number of people, and they will bring their children and families to come together, get an invitation early, prepare a generous gift and prepare to come, this group of people has more than 600 people, all of them are famous gentry from the two provinces.
A large number of scholars, including the Xiucai of Suzhou Prefecture, the people of Nanzhili, and a large number of Xiucai who admired Zheng Guang and planned to come to study, plus some officials of the education system, including those who had ordered the first mention of Zheng Guangyuan's examination, will also come, even if it is to celebrate Zheng Guang's fame or something, this group of people is also large, more than 600 people.
Yiwu local favored, representatives of the seven clans, Yiwu county people elected a group of people, the United Black Flag Army is also from Yiwu generals, this group of more than 100 people will also arrive on schedule, to their benefactor, the future parents of Zheng Guang Zheng Zhi County to offer the congratulations and joy of the people of Yiwu.
Finally, there are representatives of residents in Suzhou who have had a past with the Zheng family, probably a group of slightly famous families, who came to congratulate Zheng Guang on behalf of the whole city, with 200 households and more than 600 people.
Zheng Guang counted with his fingers, Nima, 2,500 people still want to run up, according to the standard of ten people sitting at a table, it takes two hundred and fifty tables to run up, nearly three hundred tables, this is a big feast, he is just a Yiwu county order, training troops and garrisons, seven-grade officials, can make such a big pomp, this Ming Dynasty's human feelings are really terrible......
Zheng Guang is a fan of the authorities, I don't know how special his current identity is, just a seven-grade county order sesame official is naturally not worth paying too much attention to, but the identity of the champion, the identity of Hanlin, the identity of the Hanlin Academy, and the identity of the 30,000 new army training garrison officers, this shows that the emperor sent to the southeast local experience and accumulation of experience to upgrade, and he will definitely be transferred back to the capital in the future, with such a merit, no matter what he says, the four-rank official is absolutely in hand, there is no doubt about it!
What everyone cares about is not his official position, but the power in his hands, and his future, of course, some people care about his past, such as those who lift people and show talents, they are very concerned about Zheng Guang's miracle of breaking through six levels in a row to get the first place in the Jinshi examination, and learn from him...... Anyway, they didn't care if Zheng Guang had time or not.
If you want to have such a big banquet, you must invite the restaurant to Zhang Luo, for the hotel in Suzhou City, the transaction is a good deal, but when the housekeeper in Zheng Guang's mansion told the owners of the hotels about it, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, stared at each other, and no one dared to follow.
The banquet of hundreds of tables is already the limit of a top hotel, and now it has tripled, and the number may rise, not only the people and gentry, but also so many dignitaries and nobles, and the old people like the governors of the three provinces must attend in person, who can afford to get out of the basket? How can it be a hundredfold more difficult?
So as soon as everyone summed up, the small restaurant directly and silently withdrew, we can't eat such a big order, this money is not easy to make, and there is no life to spend if you make it, so let it be given to your big hotel; The owners of the big hotel looked at each other, ten faces were confused, such a grand event, everyone knows that a single tavern can not be done, who has such a big appetite, first think about whether they have so many tables and chairs, so the three largest taverns in Suzhou City joined forces to host this unprecedented and endless event.
They elected an old man in his 60s who was said to have hosted the homecoming banquet of the champion 20 years ago as the person in charge of the central scheduling, and single-handedly supported all the responsibilities, and then they were busy, the most important thing was the problem of the venue, nearly 300 tables of banquets, and no one could open it.
Suzhou City is not big enough mansions, there is no abolished prince's mansion, although the area of each household is large, but the size is limited, absolutely can not fit nearly 3,000 people, so everyone has to temporarily empty the square in front of the City God Temple, where a banquet will be held, will be able to hold a big event, but also take care of many neighboring families to have a cup of wine.
Then the most basic tables and chairs are also a problem, 300 large round tables, you need 3,000 chairs, the three hotels are extremely poor all the strength can not do, so I had to pay a sum of money, from the taverns in Suzhou City to borrow a batch of tables and chairs that are not used, tableware or something is the same, the three taverns chopsticks and spoons are ready, but the dishes are not ready, so I have to borrow.
The dishes, chopsticks and spoons used by the guests are all together, but the tableware and cups used to serve the dishes, and the spatula for stir-frying are missing, everyone calculates and counts, borrows them everywhere, and after preparing them all, they find that there are too few cooks, and the three taverns get together, and there are only 50 chefs and more than 100 cooks who can get their hands on it, no way, it is definitely not enough, so I had to invite more than 100 chefs from the famous hotels in the four prefectures, and more than 300 cooks, which solved the problem of manpower.
The next is the problem of ingredients, the food in the entire Suzhou market is all sold out to get together the ingredients needed, what meat, vegetables, condiments or something are also needed, especially soy sauce, the soy sauce of the three soy sauce shops in Suzhou City is all sold out, so that the nearby residents have no soy sauce to eat, but everyone heard that it is Zheng Guang Zheng Xiaoxiang's official wedding, so they don't care, but they can't eat soy sauce for a day or two, and the number of people is not large, and most of the families can use a bottle of soy sauce for a few days.
Although rice is not needed for general banquets, it is enough for everyone to drink and eat, but Zheng Guang still asked his family to buy a batch of rice for later use, and when the time comes, it is good to cook rice into porridge, and many people will also come to prepare rice for them, and they will be very happy.