In July, the mood of the people of Nanjing is as hot as the weather, and every day they are happily talking about the upcoming wedding ceremony in the teahouses, restaurants, streets and alleys, and the barbarians from all over the world, and the capital has not been so lively for a long time.

The auspicious day of the wedding, July 28, came unconsciously, and the atmosphere of the capital also reached its peak on this day.

Then in the sound of music, the heavenly temple was enshrined. The festivals, certificates, and gold seals used to welcome relatives and canonize queens are placed on temporary tables in the main hall.

Qian Qianyi, the official secretary of the Ministry of Ceremonies, and other ministers who served as the master of ceremonies for the big wedding were already waiting in the palace wearing auspicious clothes.

The palace is full of lights, each major palace is hung with red brocade curtains decorated with bright yellow tassels, plastered with red bronzing double happiness words, in the daytime, also lit a lot of dragons' big red candles, the royal road is paved with red carpets, gold helmets and gold armor of the Han generals, holding the axe of the vermilion lacquer rod, the golden melon, standing on both sides of the royal road, the eunuchs and palace maids in colorful clothes are in groups, it looks like a colorful cloud.

Zhonghe Shaole is located in front of the Fengtian Palace, and the Dan Majesty Dale is located in the Fengtian Gate. The Dharma Driving Book is displayed in the Fengtian Palace, His Majesty and the courtyard.

The queen's guard of honor is displayed outside the noon gate, among which there is an apricot-yellow satin curtain outside the queen's ceremony, and a large phoenix is embroidered with gold thread on the drapery.

"Female music" is set up behind the Qianqing Palace and in front of the Provincial Bow Palace. The princes and ministers stood happily in the courtyard of the Fengtian Hall and the Fengtian Temple.

The silent whip sounded three times, and in the sound of drums, the princes and ministers marched to the emperor

"Three kneels and nine knocks" ceremony

The sound of "Hooray" shook the mountains. Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and Rites, presented the gold book and Jinbao read out the book and treasure text; Then the festivals, books, and treasures are given to the messengers of greeting.

Princes and ministers say goodbye. Zhu Youxiao drove back to the Qianqing Palace to wait for the beautiful woman in the sound of music. The greeting messenger put the gold book and the gold treasure in it

In the "Dragon Pavilion". The guard of honor, the drum and band were in the center of the greeting envoy, followed by the officials, eunuchs, and guards who welcomed the relatives out of the noon gate, and the queen's guard of honor carried a large number of gifts and went straight to the Qian Mansion.

A group of people and horses are colorful and green, stretching for several miles, and the queen's honor guard alone has 36 people: Huang Lu, two halberds, five-color embroidered flags, six five-color embroidered flags, six five-color brocade flags, six small pheasant fans, four red miscellaneous flower fans, four brocade curved covers, two purple umbrellas, and four red umbrellas.

There are 58 people in the Danqi honor guard: four swords, four golden canes, four standing melons, four lying melons, four ritual knives, four stirrup canes, four bones, four axes, four rings, twelve brocade flower covers, two gold chairs, one gold foot pedal, one gold water basin, one gold water jug, one side fan.

There are 20 guards commonly used in the palace: eight internal envoys, two gold embroidered flags, two gold axes, two gold bones, two gold chairs, one gold footrest; There are 12 palace maids, a golden water basin, a golden water jug, a golden incense burner, a golden incense stick, a golden spit pot, a golden spittle, a whisk, two square fans, and a pair of red sticks.

As soon as the greeting team came out of the Chengtian Gate, the lively people surrounded it, of course, everyone could only stop outside the warning circle of the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and watch the road of the capital has been cleaned by the personnel sent by Ying Tianfu, and a lot of water has been sprinkled on the way to welcome the relatives, all the houses that hinder the view have been demolished, the trees next to the road have also been tied with red ribbons, and the shops and houses on the street are all lit up, that is really a celebration of the whole world.

The welcoming procession drove to the Wei Mansion in the sound of drums, and there were special people along the way to the people who were watching on the roadside, and the copper coins were even more aroused, and the cheering team was thunderous, and after the welcoming procession, a large group of ordinary people were still unfinished, like a tide, followed until they came to the Guogong Mansion.

The Duke of Wei's mansion has already been decorated, the door of the mansion is covered with a long red felt, the door is covered with a sea of red, the red satin alone does not know how many horses are used, even a pair of stone lions at the door are about to be wrapped in red satin.

When the welcoming team arrived, Xu Yuanhui had already dressed up, stopped fasting for seven consecutive days, and after bathing, she repeatedly rubbed her face and wiped her body with skin care agents and perfumes imported from the West; Then use honey, rose petals and other raw materials to make a facial cleanser, and gently wipe the face with a high-grade paper film; It is also repeatedly applied with skin cream made of mutton fat, white frangipani and other raw materials.

The last process is to apply incense powder on the face, apply eyeliner, eye shadow, green eyebrows, and red lips; Then rub two more pieces on both faces

"Cheek red" comes. The head is combed into a flying bun according to the queen's specifications to prepare for wearing a phoenix crown. After dressing up like this, Xu Yuanhui, who was originally lively and smart, was dressed like a porcelain man.

Wei Guogong Xu Zengshou led the whole family to kneel at the gate to receive the welcoming team. The greeting messenger shouted the edict.

In the sound of drums, the sedan chair man in brocade clothes carried the queen's rites and dragon pavilions into the front yard, and then the eunuchs carried them to the backyard

Before the "embroidery building", it was designated by the officials of the Qin Tianjian Prison

"Geely Direction" parking. Miss Xu wore a phoenix crown in the queen's dress, and appeared on the stage, kneeling to receive the gold book and the gold treasure

"Building" waits for auspicious times. When the auspicious time arrives, the bride will start driving. The team of people and horses swept through the Daming Gate into the Chengtian Gate, the end gate to the Wumen Gate, and the bells and drums rang in unison.

The procession entered the Forbidden City from the middle of the noon gate, and passed through the Fengtian Gate to the Qianqing Gate. The queen's honor guard entered the Qianqing Gate, and the eunuchs and palace maids lined up to applaud and welcome.

In His Majesty Dan, the envoy returned to his life. According to the ancestral system, the queen will live in Kunning Palace after the wedding, and the wedding ceremony will also be carried out in Kunning Palace, but the queen mother is used to living in Kunning Palace, and she is unwilling to move out, so the queen's bedroom is changed to the Chunhe Hall of the West Sixth Palace, and the ceremony is held in the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youxiao and Xu Yuanhui sat opposite each other in the Qianqing Palace. After drinking and handing over a glass of wine, even if the wedding is completed, Zhu Youxiao will take the queen to Fengtian Palace

The "edict" wedding was completed, and the congratulations of the princes, ministers, and foreign envoys were accepted, and the Fengtian Hall at this time gathered all the top magnates of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor sat on the dragon chair, the empress sat on the lower left of it, and then on either side of the throne there were also two wide thrones of dragons and phoenixes, namely the Empress Dowager Li and the nine thousand years old.

This pair of former allies and current opponents also wore auspicious clothes and ascended to the throne surrounded by the left and right.

The civil and military ministers of the first rank are divided into two teams in the Fengtian Palace, and the officials below the second rank and foreign envoys are lined up outside the hall and wait to take turns to go to the temple to congratulate.

Tossing to this hour, it was already close to noon, and the ministers and envoys who had been standing in the palace since the morning were already dizzy from the sun, and they were so hungry that they couldn't wait to end the royal banquet quickly.

Liu Ziguang, the admiral of Nanchang, was wearing a python robe, standing in the corner of the Fengtian Palace, with a soft sword wrapped around his waist, and a 64-type rifle pistol in the holster under the two armpits, with a dagger inserted in the boot barrel, which can be described as fully armed.

Qian Qianyi saw that the Queen Mother and the Nine Thousand Years Old had arrived at the scene, and glanced at Bai Wenyuan, who was waiting outside the hall, who nodded lightly and walked away, and then Qian Qianyi cleared his throat and took out the proclamation that had been prepared long ago and read it......***************************************************************** The people in the palace were waiting for the banquet to open, but the banquet outside the palace had already been opened, and the current identity of Wei Guogong was more respectful, and he had become a newly baked uncle of the country, who would dare to refuse his post?

Who would dare not give him face? All the intermediate generals of the Beijing army who are not qualified to go to the palace are almost all invited to the mansion by him, the huge Guogong Mansion has become a crowd of people, hundreds of jars of good wine and wine, let everyone quote the best dishes, and send it up in general, the grandfather of the country is personally toasted from table to table, everyone drinks happily, in the end, there are too many guests, it didn't take long for Xu Zengshou to be too strong to drink, and he vomited a mess in public, and the housekeeper hurriedly came over to help everyone, explaining to everyone that the grandfather didn't eat in the morning, and now he drank so many catties of wine on an empty stomach, and the man who was beaten with iron couldn't hold it, and everyone also expressed their understanding, saying that it was not good to drink on such a good day, and it was not good to let the housekeeper quickly help the grandfather of the country to rest。

After the drunken Xu Zengshou was helped into the back hall, he immediately sobered up, took off his auspicious clothes, changed into an inconspicuous clear cloth shirt, and went directly out of the back door, riding in the east of the city.

Outside the city, although the Xiaoling Guard camp on the Purple Mountain also set up three hundred tables of sumptuous meals, but there was meat and no wine, and when Xu Zengshou's fast horse came to the camp gate, the three thousand men and horses had already eaten the war meal, put on the armor, and the queue was completed, Xu Zengshou also changed his armor, swords, bows and arrows hung on his waist, and the big gun hung on the victory hook, without half a sentence of nonsense, only five words: "Soldiers, Forbidden City!" "Xiaolingwei's 3,000 men and horses, although they are only guards, but over the years by Xu Zengshou's practice of the order prohibited, pointing to which to fight, which pair of orders, absolute obedience, as soon as the order came out, immediately opened the door, and walked neatly towards Chaoyangmen, Xiaolingwei is not a field army, there are no siege equipment, only knives, guns, bows and arrows, these ordinary weapons, but the officers guarding the city of Chaoyangmen have long been invited by the grandfather of the country to drink the wine, most of the officers and soldiers have also taken a holiday to go into the city to play, at this time only dozens of old soldiers left at the door on duty, see a biao under the banner of Xiaolingwei people and horses drove over, these old dizzy guys were suddenly at a loss, how can the soldiers under the grandfather of the country carry weapons to drink the wine, did not wait for them to react, XiaolingweiIt was not difficult for these people to have already entered the city gate, but they left five hundred soldiers to control the city gate and then continued to drive away, and then the old soldiers guarding the city noticed that the spirit guards of these filial piety guards were different from the previous attire, that is, each of them had a red silk tied around their necks.

Not only the people of Xiaoling, Weinan Factory and Donglin Party who wore red silk around their necks were divided into a triangular red silk cloth each

"The left press right right buckle is like this, right? It's complicated, I can't tie it well. Sun Gang clumsily tied a red silk scarf around his neck while chattering to Peng Jingwei.

"Stupid! You're eighty percent pigs, aren't you? Seeing that Sun Gang tied a dead knot again, Peng Jingwei really couldn't tolerate it, so she snatched the red scarf and helped Sun Gang tie it.

Sun Gang, who deliberately pretended to be stupid, grinned and said

"Thanks". Pick up the whip and go.

"What are you doing here, why do you everyone have a scarf?" Peng Jingwei saw that the other staff of the South Factory were also wearing red scarves and walking out of the house with weapons, and suddenly felt a little wrong.

"At night, you know that if you stay here and don't go anywhere, it might be chaotic outside." Sun Gang left a sentence and went out with hundreds of brothers pushing gun carts and ballistas.

The task of the South Factory is to provide fire support for the Donglin Party Army's attack on the Yamen of the East Factory, and the Red Shirt Regiment Artillery Company led by Zhao Zhangcheng has secretly entered the city, two steam cannons and an internal combustion engine powered machine gun are respectively mounted on the carriage, and ten ballistae are used to support the use of such strong field firepower.

Qi Zhenming's Donglin Party army also went out, these people are the strength accumulated by the Donglin Party for many years, except for some of the people who wear Jinyiwei clothing, the rest are civilian warriors wearing a variety of clothes, weapons are even more chaotic, Jinyiwei's standard equipment, embroidered spring knives, small flower guns, folk machetes, long swords, whistle sticks, axes, iron rulers, everything.

The two streams of people met at the gate of the Dongchang Yamen, there were not many Dongchang Fanzi stationed in the Yamen today, some of them followed the factory governor to the palace to guard, and some of them went to drink and prostitute on vacation, so the defense was very weak, and the Fanzi standing guard at the door saw a large number of armed men rushing over, so they were frightened and hurriedly fled into the courtyard, and closed the gate to death, no matter how hard the gate was, it could not stop the bombardment of the steam cannon and the solid iron ball, and the two cannons went down, and the vermilion gate became a piece of broken wood, and a large number of Donglin party soldiers with bitter hatred for the Dongchang shouted loudly, raised their weapons, and swarmed in.

The soldiers of the South Factory followed and rushed in, and after that, they did not search for the East Factory Fanzi, but went straight to the library building, and Liu Ziguang confessed that he must get the information files of the East Factory and put the murder and money robbery away.

After welcoming the queen into the palace, the task of the five cities of the Terracotta Division has come to an end, and the officials of the various Terracotta Divisions have been invited by their subordinates to drink in the restaurant from hundreds of households in Shandong, and in recent times, these Shandong gentlemen who do not understand human etiquette have suddenly opened their minds, not only obedient, but also learned to send silver to Shangguan, and in just half a month, they have sent more than 1,000 taels of silver, so that the commanders who originally raised their noses and raised their eyes were much gentler when they heard that there was a wine field, and they naturally went happily, but as soon as they stepped into the private room of the restaurant, they were pressed down by a few strong men, and the entourage was also controlled, and the soldier rune seal letter searched out five soldiers and horses from the body, except for Li Hongjie's Dongcheng Soldiers and Horses, the other four were controlledLive.

On the north bank of the river, ten huge hydrogen airships started their motors and flew slowly in the direction of the capital, because each airship was towed behind them, with a few or four or more than five or six hot air balloons, and a large number of secretly developed bombs were contained in the cabins under the airships, as well as thirty heavily armed soldiers, and the gondola of the hot air balloon was relatively small, and could only hold four soldiers.

These soldiers all wear maroon soft hats, wearing leather armor and rattan armor, maroon soft hats are a kind of special military caps for airborne troops designed by Liu Ziguang according to Jiading's corrugated hats, the front of the hat is decorated with copper sun, moon and stars, and the rank symbol of the sun, moon and stars, and pompoms of different colors on the top indicate the different types of troops, red represents infantry, blue represents the flying soldiers who control the aircraft, and black represents the weapon operator.

When he wore the hat, the left side was raised, and the right side was depressed, and a smell of bohemian ruffians came out immediately.

As for the armor worn on the body, it is also specially made of officers' leather armor, which is made of hard rhinoceros skin, and the rattan armor of soldiers is woven with old rattan produced in Yunnan, which can defend against bows, arrows, knives and guns, and there is also a reason why iron armor is not used, on the one hand, iron armor affects the tactical mobility of the airborne troops, and on the other hand, the mass is too heavy, and the airship balloon cannot bear it.

Standing in front of the leading airship cabin, Zhamuhe used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the magnificent capital in the distance, with the blue waves rolling at his feet, and the slowly advancing airships and hot air balloons on both sides of the Yangtze River, the roar of a motor mixed with the constant commands of the signal soldiers: "The left rudder is three hundred and twenty zhang high, keep the distance between ......." Although it is not the first time that it has taken off, such a large-scale air combat operation is still the second time, and Zamuhe, as the commander-in-chief, can't help but be very excited: Genghis Khan's descendants have finally become eagles in the blue sky, and the immortal sky must bless us to win this battle. On the powered parafoil hanging under the airship, the pilots put down their goggles to shield them from the harsh sun and the wind, and their white silk scarves fluttered in the wind, and they were as excited as Zamuhe, and the parachute troops would appear as the first wave of air strikes, firing the first shot of this air raid with bombs hanging from the parachute supports.

The fishermen and boatmen on the Yangtze River stood on the deck in shock, looking up at the strange flying machine that covered the sky and the sun, slowly moving towards the huge cigar-shaped airship, painted with a vicious beast's mouth and face, a blood-red mouth in front, sharp teeth, and hideous strange eyes, and colorful scales and claws in the back; The hot air balloon is also painted with colorful bull heads and horse faces, ten halls of Yama and so on, as long as it is a scary thing, all of them are painted on it.

"Mom! 100,000 heavenly soldiers have descended to earth. An old fisherman said dumbfoundedly, and the cigarette bag and pot in his mouth fell off, and he didn't even notice it.

In the Fengtian Palace, Qian Qianyi finished reading the announcement of the wedding, and estimated that Bai Wenyuan's subordinates had been arranged in place, so he put down the edict and smiled at the ministers of civil and military affairs in the palace and said: "According to the ancestral system, after the emperor's wedding, he will be in power, and today in front of the ministers of various ministries and governors of various provinces, the official also has a holy decree to read." The Queen Mother's face was stunned, obviously she didn't expect this hand to sweep towards Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the dragon chair, and the little emperor avoided his eyes like a child who sat on the wrong thing under the power of the Queen Mother for many years, and immediately saw Liu Ziguang's firm eyes, so he sat up straight, and looked at the Queen Mother without fear, as for the nine thousand years old, the elders of the Three Dynasties were used to seeing the wind and waves, and at this moment there was no expression and said slowly: "The emperor is so anxious to pro-government?" Qian Qianyi glanced at the unknown ministers below, took out a scroll of holy decree from his sleeve, and read aloud: "The emperor has a decree, the ceremonial supervisor holds the seal, the eunuch Huang Jinrong and the governor of Dongchang, Yang Bo and others, and others have always deceived the king, disturbed the people's morality, and the court was guilty of being a baht, and the Jinyi guard was specially ordered to capture the traitor!" Chin this. After reading it, he exclaimed: "Where is the warrior of His Highness?" The eyes of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all looked outside the hall, but they saw Dongchang Yang Gonggong walking in with a human head, throwing the bloody human head on the golden palace, rolling the human head all the way to Qian Qianyi's feet, and the two godless eyes were looking at Qian Qianyi, it was the head of Bai Wenyuan, the general of the Jinyi Wei Han Dynasty!

"Qian Shangshu, is he the person you are looking for?" Yang Bo asked.