The ancient book "The Book of Rites. Faint Rite uploaded! "Those who bow will merge the two surnames, go up to the temple, and go down to the future generations, so the gentleman is important. It is to dusk Nacai, ask for the name, Najib, Nazheng, please period, all the master feast a few in the temple, and greet outside the door, enter, let and rise, obey the orders of the temple, so respect and prudence is dusk also. In addition, the "Rites" says: "There are six rites in the evening, Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Najib, Nazheng, inviting the date, and welcoming in person." This is the traditional custom of "six rites of marriage" that was created in the Western Zhou Dynasty and followed by successive dynasties.

The wedding is the most important event, and it must be ordered by the parents and the words of the matchmaker. Even if Emperor Yang Guangxi is happy to give marriage now, the six-ceremony procedure of this wedding is also indispensable.

As soon as Chen Shen arrived in the Eastern Capital, he immediately invited the big media to go to Li Yuan's house to propose marriage, and the two families had already decided to marry, but now it is just a supplementary gift. After the Li family agreed to the big media's proposal, the Chen family officially prepared to go to the Tang State Mansion to ask for marriage. This preparation is carried out at the same time as Najib in the back, that is, to make a decision. Both men and women are prime ministers of the dynasty, and they are both families of the national princes, so this gift is naturally very rich.

The Chen family accompanied the red and green gold calligraphy "Dragon and Phoenix Calligraphy" written on the post, "Su Yang Hufan, Jiuqin Side, Qianjin Yinuo, Guangsheng Pengbi...,: Li Yuanjia replied: "One branch is fortunate to be attached, three lives are compatible, seven are ashamed, and nine are like celebrations."

Immediately followed by the invitation period, this has already been set, the auspicious day of the eighth day of the first month of the next year, as soon as this ceremony is over, the whole wedding is only a personal welcome gift. The completion of the wedding ceremony means the gift of marriage. Kissing is seen as the basic basis for whether the relationship between husband and wife is fully established. If the husband dies without welcoming her, the woman can remarry. However, once the husband dies after the personal welcome ceremony, according to the rules of etiquette, the new fù can only accept his fate" and "end from the beginning".

However, after the completion of the wedding ceremony, the wedding ceremony is not all completed, and the next day there is a ceremony of success: if the in-laws are deceased, they will go to the family temple after March to pay homage to the in-laws' shrine, called "temple meeting".

As long as Li Xiuning, who has joined the Chen family, worships her father-in-law Chen Shen, she will be the wife of Chen Kefu Ming Media from now on.

For half a month, Chen Kefu has been busy with such a major event, from the gift list of the courtesy, to the list of guests to be invited to the banquet at the end, and even the crown and dress to be worn in various ceremonies, there is a whole set of complicated procedures. This made Chen Kefu, who had already married three concubines, feel that his previous wedding in Liaodong was really like a child's family. It is no wonder that the status of the ancient wife and the concubine shì is very different, just by looking at the etiquette of marriage, you can already see the huge difference between them.

On November 1, the foreign envoy of the Imperial Assembly met with the household department and met with the officials in Shangshu Province. Shangshu Province's two servants shoot plus six Shangshu, collectively known as eight, Chen Kefu is now the right servant of Shangshu, this assessment naturally can't be assessed on his head, it's just a formality.

In December, the foreign ministers of Chaoji were left to attend the Yuan Conference on New Year's Day, and Chen Kefu now only waited for Li Xiuning to get married after the Yuan meeting, and then he could return to Liaodong to take up the post of generalissimo of the Mobei Road March.

Near Xindong, the city of Kyoto was full of joy, the border passes were stable, and the bandit rebellion in the Quartet suffered from the cruel suppression of the imperial army drawn from Liaodong this year, and basically turned into a low period. The canals and troughs are unimpeded, and the natural resources from all over the world are constantly transported into Beijing, and the prices continue to fall, so that the people of the entire eastern capital feel that this life is full of rush, as if they have suddenly returned to the prosperous times of more than ten years ago. Even the officials and noble families in Kyoto received a full amount of Dai Lu from the imperial court, and each of them also received a large red envelope.

There are countless visitors in the Liaoguo Mansion every day, Beijing officials and foreign officials, and even many noble families, and white-clothed Confucian scholars also throw themselves at the door, hoping to cling to them, and defecting to them. Regarding the thick request for an audience received by the concierge every day, Chen Kefu handed them all over to Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji to deal with. He didn't believe that among these people who came to his door, there were people he really hoped for.

In order to avoid suspicion, Chen Kefu deliberately confessed that everyone would not be seen, and those scholars and officials who came to defect, if they were really talented, they could secretly contact them and let them go to Liaodong. As for others, it is okay to be arrogant, and in the end, the more arrogant the better. Since arriving in the Eastern Capital, he was first assassinated by the man in black, and then Yuwen Zhihe and Pei Pin and others were killed by the man in black, and there was still a crossbow arrow with the mark of the Liaodong Army.

Of course, he knew that he didn't send someone to kill Yuwen Zhiji, and it was impossible for Yuwenshu and Pei Yun to kill their own sons to blame him. As for the other forces in Kyoto,

There are very few people in Kyoto who can make such a big deal. Chen Kefu already faintly felt that this was probably a ghost caused by Yang Guang.

When Chen Kefu is in their current position, what kind of corruption and lawlessness will not be taken into Yang Guang's eyes at all.

Yang Guang's continuous actions in recent years have made Chen Kefu understand him very well, and Yang Guang used to support Yu Wenshu, Pei Yun, Yu Shiji, and others, as if to suppress the old Que family of Guan Long. When Yang Xuan felt the opposite, he took the opportunity to clean the old valve on a large scale. Later, when Xinque finally overpowered the old valve, Yang Guang ruthlessly began a larger-scale purge, and even the strongest Li Lang fell down, and the other old valves were also recorded and seized the real power in their hands.

Supporting the new valve, suppressing the old valve, when the old valve was finally no longer his threat, Yang Guang set his sights on the new valve, whose forces had reached his warning line. Only then will he Chen Kefu and Li Yuan rise to prominence, and the saint Enlong. It is through this means that Yang Guang has never allowed any power to reach the point of threatening him. Knowing the essence of the matter, then it is impossible to guess why Yang Guang used the means of assassination.

There was a charcoal fire in the study, and it was extremely warm. Chen Kefu held a jade pendant in his hand and looked at it seriously. This is a jade pendant with a dragon, hold the jade pendant on the head, through the bright light, you can clearly see this jade pendant, the dragon that soars through the clouds. Such a piece of jade pendant was a thing of the Nanchen royal family back then, and it was absolutely valuable when taken out.

It's a pity that such a piece is good, but only half of it is left.

And such a half jade pendant, Chen Kefu has thirty-six pieces, if you look carefully, you will find that the divine dragon form in these thirty-six jade pendants is actually a complete set. The movements of the dragon in each jade pendant will be different, and they will be combined in the correct order, just like a set of comic books.

This was dug up for him by his father Chen Shen after he arrived in Kyoto, talked with him in detail, and understood his firm intention to restore the country, and finally dug it up for him in the Huā Garden of the Great Wall County Mansion in Luoyang City. Half of these thirty-six jade pendants were in Chen Shen's hands, and half were in the hands of the other thirty-six people.

This was the final arrangement made by the East Palace before the death of Nan Chen, and sent thirty-six loyal courtiers out of the palace with these thirty-six half-piece jade pendants, and went to various places to recruit loyal and brave people. Originally, it was to prepare for the training of a group of soldiers and horses, and in addition, to prepare enough supplies in various places to prepare a retreat if the war with the Sui State was lost. But no one thought that when Empress Chen faced the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Sui Dynasty, he could still sing the backyard huā across the river, and in the end, when everyone did not expect it, he was quickly destroyed by the Sui army.

At the last moment, Chen Shen only came and asked Mao Xi and other ministers to take their sons to follow afar, and sent a messenger to deliver a message to the 36th Road, so that they could hide it. originally thought that after being captured, there would be no hope of survival. Unexpectedly, after the Sui Dynasty razed the capital of Nanchen to the ground, and moved the Nanchen royal family, hundreds of officials and nobles and wealthy households in Beijing to Chang'an, they were not executed.

Many years later, Chen Shen, who was promoted to the Taishou of Qihan, was approached by his former subordinates, only to know that the 36 people of that year had not disappeared. These loyal courtiers could not accept the collapse of Nanchen, so they turned from the open to the underground and established the Jiangnan Society, the purpose of which was to restore the Chen dynasty and re-establish the Nanren Han Yiguan dynasty.

The Jiangnan Society is composed of thirty-six old ministers of the Southern Dynasties, each holding a medium-sized jade pendant, and for many years, they have been contacting the Jiangnan forces and have been pursuing the realization of the final goal. When the emperor opened that year, the great rebellion of the nobles of the family in Jiangnan was instigated by the Jiangnan Association behind the scenes, but unfortunately it was finally quelled by Yang Jian and Yang Su to lead the army. After that crushing defeat, the strength of the Jiangnan Society was greatly reduced, and since then it has turned from armed rebellion to seek forbearance and development. After many years, the Jiangnan Society is now more secretive and less known, and they have developed thirty-six different peripheral organizations, from the trough gangs on the canal and the Yangtze River, to the water thieves in the big lakes such as Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake, and the green forests and horses in the deep mountains. and then to the chambers of commerce in the major cities, the eighteen peripheral organizations of the Jiangnan Society include black and white, and even in the counties of Jiangnan today, many officials in the yamen belong to the peripheral organizations of the Jiangnan Society.

Not only these, but even many wealthy families in the south are also their peripheral forces, and after more than 20 years of development, they have formed a huge net in Jiangnan. And this net passed through these thirty-six peripheral organizations, and was finally controlled by the thirty-six Jiangnan Society. This is a huge force, a real underground kingdom in Jiangnan. Nearly thirty years have passed, and most of the first thirty-six former ministers of the Jiangnan Society have now passed away, and their positions have been taken over by their family descendants. It can be said that today's Jiangnan meeting is no longer the Jiangnan meeting of the past.

With such a big power in their hands, will they still obey the Chen royal family? Chen Kefu sneered a few times, the old man was still too optimistic...