Chapter 133: The Ceremony of Choosing a Wife
Gongs and drums burst out, singing and dancing in unison.
The inside and outside of the Annam Palace are bustling.
Today's grand occasion is that the founding of the country of Annam is almost the most lively, and the ordinary people of Li who are hundreds of miles away from the Annam Imperial Palace have rushed to participate in this rare ceremony of choosing a wife for a thousand years.
Naturally, many people are selected into the top 500 because their sons or husbands are on the list, or their relatives and friends are lucky enough to read this time.
More are the countless melon-eating people who are interested in the appearance of these most beautiful women in Annan.
On this day, inside and outside this palace, many people gathered around the large-scale stage that Runzhiming people temporarily built with the fastest, simplest and most practical way, and no less than millions of people gathered in the square of this large palace.
According to Runzhi's instructions, this time, all the beautiful concubines who planned to marry outside the palace all reviewed and practiced their usual talents repeatedly during this week.
Each concubine is marked with their own serial number, and a wife selection ceremony is held immediately within a week of the announcement of the list.
These concubines are also happy to escape from this deep palace compound, and the long-term depression and happiness have accompanied these poor concubines for a long time, and the emperor's favor is even more distant.
Among the more than 810 concubines, there are only more than 30 people who can really get the emperor's favor, and these more than 30 people have already made the lord of Annan, Pang Huachen, unable to do anything, and the other more than 700 people can't even see the emperor's face.
These concubines were originally either wealthy families, or high-ranking officials and nobles, or they were carefully selected according to their beauty and talent among the many female dependents of the civil and military officials of the imperial court, and they were the best women in this Annan country.
Everyone gathered in the area specially arranged by Runzhi in advance, and lined up in a phalanx, each phalanx was not less than a thousand people, and there were so many phalanxes that they couldn't see the edge at a glance.
When the first rays of sunlight poured into this Annan Palace Square, Runzhi appeared in front of everyone with Annan civil and military officials.
Runzhi sat in a sedan chair carried by twelve eunuchs, wearing a royal robe embroidered with nine dragons, carrying a military talisman that could mobilize all the generals of the whole country of Annam, carrying a beautiful jade of Lantian on his waist, and countless rare gems in the world that can be called priceless treasures on the crown.
In front of the 12 Rao dragon sedan chairs of Runzhi are thousands of royal forest troops to open the way, followed by the main generals of the Eight Banners Army and the hundred civil and military officials of Annan, and behind are more than 500 sedan chairs made of pink silk.
These sedan chairs are like blooming flowers, and behind the five hundred concubines, they carry the five hundred of the best talents selected this time.
These special benevolences, according to the ranking, the top thirty, wear special official uniforms specially customized by Runzhi, each with its own different group pattern.
After that, everyone wore a uniform with a cyan crane embroidered on their chests, and a soldier in front of them held a large flag with their rank and name.
After these five hundred rao, there are also Xiucai from five hundred swords and one thousand.
The people outside, through the thin pink light veil, can vaguely see the peerless faces of the concubines inside.
That stunning face made the people with pork belly so surprised that their eyes were about to pop out.
Everyone looked at the pink light gauze sedan chairs floating in front of them, and they were all emotional, and they were glad that they did not miss this centennial ceremony.
Annan is also an excellent place to host this million-person festival, which is closely related to Annan's geographical location.
Although this Annam subject state was only a subject state of the Great Qing Dynasty, just like Goryeo in the northern part of the Great Qing Dynasty, and compared to Goryeo, Annam was a local county that was secessed from Kyushu, and Goryeo was a tribe that took the initiative to join the subject state of the Great Qing Dynasty.
In this way, they are both subject states of the two Qing Dynasty, and the two countries are still very different, and the land of Annam is more extensive than that of Goryeo.
To the north of Annam, and to the west of the south, there is a large mountain range that serves as a barrier to the other countries in the west.
The middle part of Annam is very narrow, like two balloons connected by a rope.
The northernmost border between Annam and the Qing Dynasty is a mountain range and many hilly lands, with good ecology and beautiful scenery.
In the middle and east of the northern and southern parts of the subject kingdom of Annam, there were large areas of plains.
These plains are the estuaries of many rivers, so the land is fertile, and it can be said that it is a hall for rice growth.
The vassal state of Annam is prouder than the location of its northern capital, which they consider to be an almost endless plain of river valleys.
This valley plain is ideal for growing rice, and can be harvested three times a year, so the value of the fields is much greater than the same area of arable land in the northern Central Plains of Kyushu.
It's a pity that after Wu Quan conspired to fight in the Ming Dynasty and divided Annan to one side, he tried to resist reunification by force.
Because the treasury was empty in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the late Ming Dynasty, including Emperor Chongzhen and other emperors, had to recognize its status as a vassal state.
The vassal state of Annam knew that it was a good reason, and every year it took the initiative to offer hundreds of thousands of stones of the best tribute rice like other surrounding countries of the Qing Dynasty, which satisfied the temporary dignity of these emperors, so it has not been vigorously raised to recapture it, and slowly many people of Annam gradually began to think that they were a unique country.
Because Annan was recognized as a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, whenever a foreign enemy invaded, troops had to be sent to fight side by side with the soldiers of Annan's vassal state.
Although most of the generals sent out in the end became the new lords there.
These new lords themselves fantasized in their hearts that their descendants were the true permanent emperors of this subject country, so they gradually removed the mark of the Qing Dynasty in the education of the children of many people in Annam, which once caused great anger among the people of Kyushu.
This time, pirates from a country on another continent in the west came to rob, Pang Huachen couldn't beat them, and he didn't want to flee far, so it was worth asking the Qing Dynasty to send troops in desperation.
Prior to this, he himself had been advocating the removal of the historical and cultural inheritance of the Qing Dynasty in the name of the "unique state" for the education of many private school children in Annam.
The vast plains of Annam's geographical location are very suitable for being used as a stage for the wife selection ceremony.
Runzhi first set up a herald in front of each phalanx, accompanied by many security guards.
At the beginning of the ceremony, it was naturally Runzhi's speech.
Runzhi first read out the top ten of the best talents of this time, and read out the main finishing sentences, many noisy voices, suddenly disappeared without a trace, a needle on the ground seemed to be heard, only Runzhi could be heard:
"Lang Qi Qing, Hui Feng is warm, Annan is a subordinate country, the whole country celebrates the talents who are expected to return, the following are the top ten talents in the Annan national examination, those who read their names will immediately go to the Jiuzhang National Talent Altar to wait for a public defense, in order to divide the official position."
Runzhi next, began to read the top ten names and articles publicly in front of this million rao, many people were still silent, listening carefully to Runzhi's speech, only to hear Runzhi read:
"First place, Wu Junjian, Kyushu belongs to the Hanoi people of the south of the country, three articles, 500,000 words, a total of 320 chapters, the most elegant sentence in the article is as follows: Since the Yellow Emperor vs. Chiyou, the same hooligan who opened up the land, to this day, it is very sad. In ancient times, there was the great rule of Yao Shunyu, after the turbulent times of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and even the disputes between the Qin and Han Kingdoms and the chaotic Jin Dynasty, all the poor people suffered. The five dynasties of the Sui and Tang dynasties all belonged to the ten kingdoms, which was the law of the Zhou Dynasty that was divided for a long time and must be divided for a long time. After the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the next unification, Kyushu Tonghe, is the rise and fall of the great merit of the husband's responsibility. Throughout ancient and modern history, it can be seen that Annam's reclassification into Kyushu is the great rule of the unification of Kyushu."