In the middle of May of the sixth year of Xuande, the inside and outside of the Zhenwu Hou Mansion were full of lights, gongs and drums were noisy, a festive scene, and many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the capital came to visit with congratulatory gifts one after another.

Li Yuntian was dressed in a red groom's wedding dress, standing at the gate of the courtyard with a smile on his face to greet the distinguished guests who came to attend his concubine banquet.

Although it was only a concubine, all the high-ranking officials and magnates in the capital still came, which made the wedding seem unusually grand, if people who didn't know thought that Li Yuntian was going to marry a wife today.

In fact, Li Yuntian also wants to handle this family affair in a low-key manner, after all, this is a concubine rather than a wife, but Lei Ting invited the holy decree of Emperor Hong Xi to give her the marriage back then, and then asked Emperor Xuande to marry her, which made the specifications of the marriage change all of a sudden, and it should be done in a big way.

Back then, Lei Ting was fooled by Li Yuntian into Beijing to send Emperor Yongle to Emperor Hongxi's edict to ascend the throne, and Emperor Hongxi met Li Yuntian and Lei Ting in the Qianqing Palace afterwards, and asked Lei Ting, who had made great achievements, what kind of reward he wanted.

To Li Yuntian's surprise, Lei Ting made a strange request to Emperor Hong Xi, that is, he hoped that Emperor Hong Xi would marry her in the future.

Emperor Hong Xi agreed to Lei Ting's request, and gave her a holy decree, as long as she fell in love with the son of that family, then he would give her a marriage.

This holy decree of marriage Lei Ting has been properly kept, and she has not found a chance to take it out, and now since Zhou Yuting has taken the initiative to explain her marriage to Li Yuntian, then this holy decree of marriage should also come in handy.

Speaking of which, Liu Wenqing and Lian Xiang can be said to have been stained with Lei Ting's light this time, otherwise they would not have been able to enter the door of Zhenwu Houfu in such a beautiful manner.

The only regret for Li Yuntian is that because Lei Xiaotian is the leader of the Cao Gang and belongs to the three sects and nine streams, he is not suitable to appear at Lei Ting's wedding, and Lei Ting's identity is also kept secret.

Li Yuntian also felt very helpless about this matter, after all, the feudal society was hierarchical, and he was now an important minister of the Ming Dynasty, if people knew that they had dealings with the Cao Gang, they would inevitably be criticized, which was extremely unfavorable to him and the Cao Gang.

However, it is comforting that Lei Ting's second brother Lei Lie came to attend the wedding on behalf of Lei Xiaotian, because of his military exploits in Jiaozhi, Lei Lie has now been promoted from a hereditary thousand households to a hereditary guard commander, and now serves as one of the four commanders of the Xuanwu Legion, one of the four major legions of the Xiaowu Army.

After returning to Beijing, Li Yuntian reorganized the White Tiger Regiment, the Blue Dragon Regiment, the Vermilion Bird Regiment and the Xuanwu Regiment under the command of the Xiaowu Army into the White Tiger Legion, the Blue Dragon Legion, the Vermilion Bird Legion and the Xuanwu Legion.

The reason for this is that Jiaozhi already has the strength of an army of the White Tiger Regiment, so the specifications of the White Tiger Regiment must be raised, and Li Yuntian will upgrade it from the "regiment" level to the highest "legion" level.

In Li Yuntian's opinion, the four troops under the jurisdiction of the Xiaowu Army had equal status, and although the White Tiger Legion was now larger than the other three troops, this was only temporary, so he raised the specifications of the other three troops to the highest level.

When he returned to Beijing, Li Yuntian brought 20,000 people, except for 2,000 people who were from the White Tiger Legion, the remaining 18,000 people were all sergeants of the Blue Dragon Legion, the Vermilion Bird Legion and the Xuanwu Legion, and they were carefully selected soldiers by Li Yuntian from the troops in Jiaozhi to enrich the strength of the Xiaowu Army.

Today, the strength of the Blue Dragon Legion, the Vermilion Bird Legion and the Xuanwu Legion is about 10,000 people, which is the size of a division.

It is worth mentioning that in the past four years, the people of the Blue Dragon Legion, the Vermilion Bird Legion and the Xuanwu Legion have not been idle, the Blue Dragon Legion has established a training camp in Datong, the Vermilion Bird Legion has established a training camp in Liaodong, and the Xuanwu Legion has established a training camp in eastern Zhejiang, secretly accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity to rise.

Because Li Yuntian recruited and recruited a lot of people for the Xiaowu Army in Jiaozhi this time, he planned to set up a "military attache class" in the lecture hall, so that the military attachés in the Xiaowu Army who had not received military school education would take turns to go for further study.

As a matter of fact, as early as the time of Jiaozhi, Li Yuntian had already begun to gather those military attachés for training, first starting with literacy and then teaching martial arts courses, so as to improve the military attachés' military quality.

At the same time, when these military attaches retired, Li Yuntian could also place them in those industries under the name of Jiangwutang, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Li Yuntian's concubines this time not only did a good job, completely catching up with those big families to marry wives, but also his three new concubines are really envious and jealous, not only are they as beautiful as flowers, but they are also the wives of the imperial court.

Among them, Lei Ting was awarded the title for passing the edict twice and escorting Emperor Xuande into Beijing, while Liu Wenqing and Lian Xiang were awarded the title for their meritorious service in the rebellion of the Han Dynasty.

In this way, there are six wives with titles in Li Yuntian's concubine room, namely Lu Cao, Chen Ningning, Zheng Wanrou, Lei Ting, Lian Xiang and Liu Wenqing.

This is simply an unbelievable thing in the capital, you must know that it is already a royal grace for the usual powerful families to have a concubine to obtain the title, but Li Yuntian has six concubines to obtain the title, creating a precedent after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of Li Yuntian's joy of taking concubines, Emperor Xuande specially gave him a three-day vacation to accompany the three new ladies, this is not that Emperor Xuande is not sympathetic to Li Yuntian's newlywed Yan'er, but it is really that the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have reached a critical moment and Li Yuntian needs to go to deal with the aftermath.

After more than half a month of busyness, Li Yuntian has collected the evidence he needs, and the next step is to use a thunderous blow to completely end the turmoil in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell......

On this morning, a crisp bell sounded on a street in the capital, and after hearing the bell, the pedestrians in front of them gave way to both sides of the road.

More than a dozen knights surrounded a black four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses appeared in the sight of the people along the way, causing the people to point to the carriage with great interest and discuss.

Unlike the two-wheeled carriages that were common to the common people, this four-wheeled carriage had a wide carriage like a small pavilion and a door on each side.

What is particularly surprising is that there is a row of seats in the front and back of the carriage, and not only is there a driver in the front seat, but also two personal soldiers are sitting in the back seat, which looks very strange.

But not to mention, this four-wheeled carriage drove steadily, coupled with the tall and wide carriage, it looked very imposing, and at once compared with those two-wheeled carriages on the street, it was very eye-catching, and it looked extremely majestic and magnificent.

If you pay close attention, you will find that the word "Zhenwu" is written on the body of the carriage, which is not written casually to play, but indicates that the owner of the carriage is the Zhenwu Hou of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there is a small rectangular wooden plaque nailed to the back of the carriage, which is engraved with "B 30935", which is the license plate of this carriage, which is also the first in Daming.

In the past half a month, the four-wheeled carriage of Zhenwu Houfu, Zhongguo Mansion and Fuwangfu Mansion has been in the limelight in the capital, and it can cause a lot of sensation everywhere on the street.

At the same time, the "Ming Xin Pao" lost no time in publishing announcements on the sale of four-wheeled carriages, which not only looked like princes and nobles, civil and military officials, but also sold them to wealthy merchants.

However, it was not easy for those wealthy merchants to buy a four-wheeled carriage, because the four-wheeled carriage can be described as a symbol of rank and status, and it is not the turn of a merchant to touch it.

Even the four-wheeled carriages sold, their specifications and formats were strictly in accordance with certain standards, and the royal nobles and civil and military officials had corresponding regulations to show their rank.

But then again, Li Yuntian will not have a grudge against money, since he wants to promote the four-wheeled carriage, then of course, the more he sells, the better, and he can also make a fortune from it, and the businessman is not only rich but also has an extraordinary fanaticism for fame, and he will definitely buy the four-wheeled carriage to improve his status.

In order to allow those merchants to buy four-wheeled carriages justifiably and not be blocked by the court officials, Li Yuntian also thought of a solution and thought of a solution, that is, to sell them for rewards.

According to Li Yuntian's method, each merchant only needed to donate 10,000 taels of silver to help the people, then he could receive a reward from the imperial court and buy a four-wheeled carriage.

As for the 10,000 taels of silver, the Hubu treasury and Emperor Xuande's inner treasury each got half, so that both sides could fall a lot of benefits.

In order to make the four-wheeled carriage smoothly promoted, Li Yuntian has formulated a complete system, in addition to the specifications and standards of the carriage, the most eye-catching mark to distinguish its grade is the license plate on the back of the carriage.

According to Li Yuntian's setting, the license plates of the imperial family start with "A", the license plates of the nobles start with "B", the license plates of the imperial relatives start with "C", the license plates of civil officials start with "D", the license plates of military attaches start with "E", the license plates of meritorious people start with "戌", and the license plates of ordinary people start with "Geng".

By the common people, in fact, they also meant the merchants, because it was clear that the common people could not afford the expensive four-wheeled carriages.

Originally, Li Yuntian was the first person to use a four-wheeled carriage among the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, and it stands to reason that his license plate should be "B 00001".

However, the difference in rank among the nobles is a barrier that cannot be broken, so the license plate number can only be arranged according to Li Yuntian's ranking among the nobles, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

With the publication of advertisements for the sale of four-wheeled carriages in the "Ming Xin Bao", the Xuanwutang Division of Science and Technology successively received orders for the purchase of cars from the capital's civil and military magnates and wealthy businessmen, and according to Li Yuntian's prediction, the capital needs at least 500 four-wheeled carriages, which is really a big deal.