Chapter 384: Feng Lin Yanling
Zhuge Yu is very strange whether a glamorous empress like Sima Hongyan will also recruit beautiful men from all over the world in the harem for her enjoyment in the future. Later, he learned that Sima Hongyan practiced monogamy, and it was still practiced throughout the country. It is said that Sima Hongyan once swore that a man marrying three wives and four concubines was simply an ungrateful beast, an abuse of women, and must be banned.
Zhuge Yu really didn't understand how Sima Hongyan came up with such a strange idea, but this decision received a strong response from women all over the world.
For this reason, officials and wealthy businessmen who had married many wives before were really worried for a long time, and later Sima Hongyan issued a special decree requiring those who had previously married multiple wives to take care of their own families. Any wife or concubine who was forced to leave can ask to leave and fend for herself. If you don't want to leave, you can keep the status quo, and the court will not pursue it. After all, these are issues left over from history, and the new law will not interfere without reason.
Although the law is good, it is not implemented by many people. After all, most women were reluctant at the beginning, but now they have given birth to several children, and now they can't bear it on their shoulders or carry it in their hands, and they have nowhere to go without their husbands, so they should accept their fate. Although the implementation of the decree is not high, the women all over the world are full of gratitude to Sima Hongyan.
On the contrary, the girls to be married rejoiced at this decree, because from now on they have completely bid farewell to the sorrow of being small to others.
Time is fleeting, and the wedding day of Sima Hongyan, the lord of Yanling Feng, has arrived.
On this day, as soon as the sky was bright, hundreds of civil and military officials brought their families into the palace one after another. Today they are fortunate to enter the court hall to watch the ceremony, this is a unique wedding ceremony designed by the phoenix lord for himself, I heard that the situation is novel and lively, which makes people full of conjecture and expectation.
In addition to the hundred officials and their relatives, many famous people in the rivers and lakes were also invited to the palace to watch the ceremony, and Xiao Zongyun, the head of the Xiao Ling Sword Sect, was one of them.
As soon as he heard that he could enter the main hall of the palace, the head of the No. 1 Sword Sect in the martial arts was like a child, and he was excited all night without sleeping. The next day, he was disgusted by his daughter Xiao Hongying and said that he had never seen the world.
The number of court officials and heroes is basically half and half, which shows that a lot of effort has been put into the arrangement of the audience.
In addition to this, there are some people who have received special invitations.
For example, Gu Junxi and several Xiao Ling disciples, the original guards of Sima Mansion, Xiahou Shuojie and his wife in the Western Capital, and a small lieutenant in Yan Yueguan, etc., are all partners and friends who have had a life-and-death relationship with Sima Hongyan.
The most surprising thing is that Gan Yunkai, the commander of the third battalion of the cavalry who met with the female army to fight in the martial arts training ground, was also among the specially invited.
Emperor Beiling Han Beiying was also invited, but he was busy preparing for his daughter's marriage, and the road was not easy to walk, so he did not come to watch the ceremony, but he sent the seventh prince Han Xuefeng over again to represent him.
The only women who could enter the main hall were the twelve red sleeves and the earliest veterans, but they acted as guards and palace maids, and they were good at hiding, so they didn't make others feel anything special.
It was not quiet outside the main hall, and the elites of the various armies of Yanling gathered in the imperial city to witness the happy moment of the Phoenix Lord outside the palace. And the people outside the imperial city set off firecrackers to celebrate the marriage of the Feng master, and the liveliness was far more than the year.
Sima Hongyan, the presiding officer of today's wedding ceremony, chose the presiding officer of the Five Nations Competition, because Sima Hongyan said that his voice was bright enough. At the same time, Sima Hongyan found a number of ceremonial officials with the same loud voices, and asked them to stand one person every hundred steps, and shouted the ceremony process in the hall to the people who could not see the ceremony.
Sima Hongyan is known as "live simultaneous broadcasting", this method has been cheered by the people of the whole capital, and it can be regarded as an indirect participation if you can't see it, how can it not make people happy?
Strange ideas emerge one after another, seeing King Hong and Zhuge Yu puff their teeth, and say in their hearts that this phoenix lord can really mess around, and she will change the rules of hundreds of years, and she will change them, and she will scrap them, and she will not take them into account at all. However, the civil and military officials still responded to mess around with her, and I really don't know what these Yanling people are thinking in their heads.
Their identities are special, so Sima Hongyan directly ordered someone to leave them in the post house and not allowed to come out, and if they wanted to see the excitement, they could only stand on the roof of the building to watch. After all, it is now the marriage of Empress Yanling, and it is better for outsiders like them to avoid it.
There are a lot of people in the capital, except for the army stationed outside the city, I am afraid that the whole capital will gather in the imperial city to see the excitement. While waiting, everyone was also discussing, saying that this Nan Guying was really a blessing to be able to marry a legendary woman like Lord Feng. Lord Feng is not only unparalleled in beauty, but also the Empress of Yanling in the world, the dignity of her identity is unmatched in the world, and Nan Guying can be regarded as having both wealth and color.
When the auspicious time was approaching, Nan Guying came out of the back hall to the top of the main hall, and everyone saw that the groom had come out, but they didn't know where the bride was.
Today's Nan Guying is dressed in a red cloth wedding dress, with flowers hanging on his chest, which is indescribably festive. Standing in front of people, the air is lofty and high-spirited. can be regarded as a rare pretty son, everyone is secretly praised, and only such a character is worthy of the Phoenix Lord Jinzun.
Nan Guying said loudly to everyone: "You came to watch the ceremony today, and I thank you here. Saying that, he gave a salute to everyone, and continued: "Lord Feng instructed that the ancient rites are too cumbersome, and they are all laborious and costly, so it is really inappropriate. The wedding ceremony is a happy event, but it is just a form of etiquette, so the wedding ceremony of the Phoenix Lord decided to use a new ceremony, everyone please move outside the hall, the ceremony is outside. ”
Everyone was shocked, not knowing what new tricks Lord Feng was going to do, and under curiosity, they walked outside the hall one after another.
Nan Guying was the last to come out of the hall, and everyone let go on both sides, leaving only Nan Guying standing in the center. Outside the hall, tens of thousands of Yanling elite soldiers saluted him at the same time when they saw Nan Guying, their movements were as neat as one person, and their momentum was extraordinarily grand.
Nan Guying smiled and nodded at the presiding officer, who understood and shouted: "The auspicious time has arrived, and the ceremony has begun!" ”
As soon as his words fell, he followed a person in the distance and said: "The auspicious time has arrived, and the ceremony has begun!" As soon as the second person's voice fell, the third voice immediately picked up. The simple seven words echoed farther and farther away, reaching far away.
"Boom! Knock knock! Boom! Knock knock! "A row of giant red war drums set up under the stone steps of the main hall made a slow and fast drum beat at the same time, which was terrifying and deafening.
And that's just the beginning, as the drums continue, more drums of war begin to echo each other. At some point, the same war drums were placed on all the high places of the city walls, including some makeshift platforms in the streets.
The movement of the response became louder and louder, completely covering up the noisy human voices, and the entire Yanling capital was filled with drums, such a huge noise made everyone's hearts beat faster, and their legs weakened, such a shock even the well-informed people were moved.
At the beginning of the ceremony, there was such an earth-shattering spirit, and people like Rao Shiwang, who had experienced the war and were used to seeing big scenes, were also in awe and awe. Not to mention Zhuge Yu, his face turned pale and trembled slightly by the sound of the earth-shattering war drums.
Although the sound of war drums is grand, it does not have the murderous atmosphere of Jin Ge Iron Horse, on the contrary, it makes people energetic and enthusiastic.
The drums sounded for a while, and the elite soldiers in the imperial city, under the command of the generals, took out a horn from their waists and put it in their mouths. When they heard the order, they all mustered up their strength and blew suddenly.
Accompanied by the low-pitched and majestic drums, tens of thousands of horns roared loudly, and the sound soared into the sky.
The sound of the drums and trumpets alone made people feel the urge to bow down, and no one understood why the wedding ceremony had to take the momentum first, but this very powerful opening was really impressive.
The sound of the horn stopped suddenly, and the drum beat began to become rapid from the frequency of one slow and two fast just now, and the sound of "dong dong dong" continued again and again, only knocking everyone's hearts with inexplicable nervousness.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd, as if it were an exclamation from the people, and many people stretched out their hands to the sky at the same time, and their faces were frightened.
It turned out that in the blue sky, I don't know when a black shadow suddenly appeared, even if it was far away, but the black shadow was too huge, and it could be seen from the appearance that it looked like a giant bird.
People were inexplicably a little frightened when they saw such a huge thing in the air, but when they looked around and saw that the soldiers around them were completely indifferent, they resisted the urge to escape, and stared at the black shadow curiously.
Everyone watching the ceremony in front of the main hall was also startled by the black shadow like a giant bird, but seeing Nan Guying standing still with a smile on his face, he thought that it should not be dangerous, so he also suppressed his curiosity and watched the changes.
King Hong and Zhuge Yu stood on the roof of the post house and naturally saw this strange scene, and the two looked at each other, neither of them knowing what kind of creature flew from the sky.
The shadow came quickly, and in a short time it flew above everyone's heads. Some of the people had already seen the appearance of the black shadow, and couldn't help but shout: "Yes, it's the red phoenix!" ”
Everyone's attention was on the giant bird flying in the sky, and they didn't even notice that the loud drums had stopped. So many people heard this shout, and after they heard it, they went to take a closer look, and it turned out to be a fiery phoenix.
The dragon and phoenix have always only existed in mythology, and their appearance only exists in the patterns depicted by the emperor's family.
The phoenix flew lower and lower from far to near, and people saw more and more clearly. I saw that the phoenix was red all over, with two huge wings spread out on both sides, but there was no fanning, and the back tail was flicking four long phoenix tails, swinging with the wind. It didn't look like a living thing, but like a giant kite.
People's horror gradually subsided, and the surprise increased greatly, although it was not a real phoenix that flew in, but such a big kite was unheard of, and today it was an eye-opener.
However, this huge phoenix kite is not the point, some sharp-eyed people have already discovered that there is still a person standing on the back of this phoenix.
The man was dressed in a red dress, with a golden hairpin and a phoenix crown, and the long skirt floated behind him in the wind, like a fairy flying down to the mortal world with the wind and clouds.
When I looked closer, the man was left behind him like a waterfall, with willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes, a high nose and cherry lips, and a smile at the corner of his mouth. The picturesque-like delicate facial features form a beautiful face, which is the current Yanling Phoenix Lord, the only empress in the world, Sima Hongyan.