"Princess, this king has no objection to the little girl's marriage to Penglai Hou, but this king is a national vassal and his daughter is married, so this matter of protecting the media cannot be neglected, since it is your decree, then how about you being the big matchmaker? The king also heard that Penglai Hou's parents died, if the court can have an auxiliary minister to be the matchmaker of the man, then the king's marriage to the daughter is naturally a matter of course. ”

In the flower hall, Zhu Changxun, the blessed king, looked at Wang Chengen, who was drinking tea as a guest, with a straight face.

"Your Highness's words are very reasonable, you are Your Majesty's own uncle, this matter of marrying a daughter naturally needs to be organized by a member of the court, the old slave is just a slave, is it a little inappropriate to take on this big task rashly?"

Although Wang Chengen pretended to push back, the smile on his face betrayed him, our family has traveled back and forth for 2,000 miles, who else can there be in our family if this big media is not our family?

"Deserved, deserved, who in this world doesn't know that his father-in-law can be half of His Majesty's family, who else in this world can be a matchmaker for the widow's daughter besides you? It's just that when is this wedding date, although the widow is an idler, but I also heard that Jinzhou is about to break out, is this wedding date before Penglai Hou goes out on the expedition or after the expedition? ”

Zhu Changxun's meaning is very clear, it is best to wait until the end of the war in Liaodong when his daughter marries Li Xingzhi, although Li Xingzhi is a fierce general, but the soldiers are fierce and dangerous, who knows if there will be any accidents on this battlefield, if Li Xingzhi dies in battle after marriage, his daughter will not become a widow.

"Your Royal Highness is thoughtful, and the emperor also means this, if it is a great victory in Liaodong, then marrying Princess Kunyi can be a great contribution to Penglai Hou."

Wang Chengen's face was proud, he didn't want to say anything about the rest of the words, if Li Xing was defeated and died in this battle, then this marriage talk would naturally have to be stopped.

Of course, in order to motivate Li Xingzhi to fight bravely to kill the enemy, and also to eliminate the possibility that Li Xingzhi would repeat the matter of Xue Guoguan, the marriage procedure should still be followed.

After Wang Chengen returned to Beijing, Chongzhen ordered Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites and Fan Fucui, a scholar of Dongge University, to be a matchmaker for Li Xingzhi, and Li Xingzhi prepared a gift for Li Xingzhi.

The bride price is also the bride price, and the traditional folk wedding bride price of ordinary families generally has a different amount of bride price: this means that the man acknowledges and thanks the woman's parents for their nurturing grace to their daughter.

Wedding cake: about 70 catties per load

Seafood: There are four, six or eight styles, and the style and quantity depend on the economic situation of the man's family.

Each dish is usually divided into two packs, of which fat cabbage is a must to take the meaning of wealth, while other seafood are abalone, oysters, scallops, shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimp, squid, sea cucumbers, shark fin and fish maw.

Three animals: two pairs of chickens, two males and two females (if the parents are incomplete, this pair is enough);

Fish: large fish or dace; It means fishy (sound) smell; It also means that there is a head and an end, and there is more than every year.

Coconut: two pairs (parents are not all available for one pair), that is, there is a father (coconut) and a son.

Wine: Four sticks, indicating strong love.

Sijing fruit: that is, dried longan, dried lychee, dried walnut and shelled peanuts, in order to bless the prosperity of the descendants, but also contain the meaning of perfection and blessings, and the meaning of endless life.

Shengguo: That is, the meaning of being vigorous and vigorous

Four-color sugar: that is, rock sugar, orange cake, winter melon sugar and golden cocoon, which means like sweet and dense, white-headed to old.

Tea and sesame: Because seeds must be used to plant tea, tea is used as a gift, which is a metaphor for a woman who must be trustworthy and have no regrets once she signs a marriage contract, that is, "oil hemp tea ceremony".

Gift box (gift box): There are lotus seeds, lilies, green wisps, cypress, betel coconut two pairs, sesame, red beans, mung beans, red dates, dried walnuts, dried longan, as well as red bean rope, lai, dowry, gold, dragon and phoenix candles and a couplet

Incense cannon bracelet gold: incense (boneless through foot green), cannon (large firecrackers and large artillery), bracelet (dragon and phoenix pairs of happy bracelets).

Dou two rice: The man prepares twelve catties of glutinous rice, three catties and two taels of sugar, which is made for the woman's family to make glutinous rice balls, in order to take its complete, sweet and satisfying meaning.

However, Li Xingzhi is a marquis of the imperial court, and the daughter he married is the lord of Fuwang, so the specifications of the bride price required are naturally much more expensive than those of the people.

Preparing for such trivial matters as the bride price, Li Xingzhi neither understood nor wanted to ask, so he simply handed it over to Qian Tianxi with full authority to deal with, the court wanted to use a woman to make the Jingbei Army work hard, and Li Xingzhi also used the matter of marrying the lord of Fuwang in order to confuse the court, and the two sides had their own ghosts.

Sure enough, after Chongzhen barely scraped together two million taels of money and food by relying on the salary, Hong Chengchou quickly made the decision to march into Jinzhou.

There was news from the imperial court that the war in Liaodong was urgent, and it was hoped that the Shandong army would immediately come to the aid of Liaodong after the war in Jinzhou began, and cooperate with Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, to defeat the Dongyu in one fell swoop and restore the whole Liao.

As for Penglai Hou's marriage to the lord of Fuwang County, Qin Tianjian has already calculated, the 26th day of the first month of next year is an auspicious day of the zodiac, and it will be auspicious to go up.

On the fifth day of the seventh month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Xingzhi knew that he could not wait any longer after receiving the holy decree of the imperial court for the third time to enter the army.

The supply line of the imperial army is long, the advantage is in the quick battle, Hong Chengchou is old and heavy, and strives to be stable, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have once again broken out a fierce party struggle in order to defend the strategy, the emperor has no choice but to ask Li Xingzhi to march quickly, and hurriedly ordered Huang Wenchang, the general soldier of Baoding, to move to Shanhaiguan for backup.

For this reason, Li Xingzhi immediately ordered all the civil and military generals in Leiden to immediately rush to the Penglai Pavilion Marshal's Mansion to listen to the order, except for the first town and the new town of Jinan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Jinzhou is about to start, more than 100,000 troops of the imperial court are gathering in Ningyuan, and Jinzhou will be reinforced in the near future, according to Ben Shuai's estimate, Hong Tai's side will inevitably take measures, this battle is actually a decisive battle between the two sides, and my Jingbei army naturally can't be a watcher, so this marshal intends to follow Mr. Xu's plan to train Liaozuo to save Yan Shenggong, Qian Zhifu, how much grain does my Jingbei army have now?"

In the main hall of Penglai Pavilion, Li Xingyi glanced at Qian Tianxi, the prefect of Laizhou, who was sitting on the right, with a straight face.

"Qiyu Marshal, after the prefect of Sun appointed Qingzhou, he tried his best to restore the population and cultivated land of Qingzhou, and Qingzhou has been destroyed by the Dongyu for nearly two years, and there are a lot of food, seeds and cattle materials needed, so the military marshal's mansion does not have much food to call, but in the southern capital, the sincerity of Bo Liu Kongzhao has raised 300,000 stone of grain, and if 10,000 soldiers consume 200 stone of grain every day, these grains can be used for ten months of 50,000 troops, and if you count the people, it is not a problem to maintain eight or nine months."

"Well, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, you can extract 100,000 stones of these grains and transport them to Jiaoao as soon as possible, so that they can be used by the army to go on the expedition."

"My subordinates have received orders, there are about 300,000 catties of cement stored in Ziyang Reservoir, do you want to transport them to Dengzhou together?"

Qian Tianxi also knew that this battle was very important, and when Li Xingzhi did not open his mouth, he put forward the idea of transporting cement.