On May 28, the third year of Tianfu, Zhao Kuangming, the assassin of Dengzhou, as the marriage envoy, arrived in Nanyang to negotiate the wedding with Shi Zhoukuan, the head of the Dewang Mansion.

According to the marriage procedures of the Tang Dynasty, the six rites were to accept the lottery, ask the name, ask the name, accept the sign, invite the date, and welcome in person.

The first procedure is to accept the lottery.

Nacai is to propose marriage, to perform a memorial goose ceremony, this is to be done by a matchmaker.

The second procedure is to ask for names.

That is, the man sent a matchmaker to the woman's house to ask the woman's name and birthday. After retrieving the Geng sticker, Bu Ji is eight characters.

Li Yu really didn't know who to hand over this matter to, but his heart was moved.

He suddenly thought of Wang Shifan, who was far away in Qingzhou.

At this time, Wang Shifan was fighting against Zhu Youning in the stone building, on the seventh day of the first month of June, Huainan Wang Maozhang's reinforcements arrived, and the two sides attacked, Zhu Youning accidentally fell off his horse when he met the attack, and was killed by Zhang Shi, a young general in Qingzhou.

Li Yu knew that in July, Zhu Quanzhong began to exert his strength, and the general Ge Congzhou surrounded Yanzhou, stalemate with Liu Yan, and used his silver spear to defeat Huainan's 20,000 reinforcements to the south, chasing them to Futang County; and annihilated Wang Shifan's more than 10,000 main forces head-on to the east, capturing 80 people; In the end, he surrounded the point to send reinforcements, and then annihilated 5,000 Laizhou reinforcements from Wang Shizhu further east, and captured Wang Shike, the younger brother of Wang Shifan.

Attacking from three sides, Wang Shifan was defeated one after another, and did not dare to fight, his defeat and surrender were close at hand, and finally Wang Shifan's family was killed within a few years.

It's a bit tight now, but it's still too late.

Li Yu immediately asked Wang Qian to write a letter, asking Wang Shifan to come to Jingxiang to be a matchmaker for him.

And wrote in the letter, Wang Jieshuai is the pillar of the country, Yulai Nanyang is poor and white, there are still more than 10,000 mountain bandits, Yuli is not caught, I hope Wang Jieshuai to help, or send 5,000 Qingzhou elite soldiers to help, grateful Yunyun, and finally repeatedly admonished, if Qingzhou is surrounded, strictly guard, do not surrender, a procrastination is the king's road, otherwise the catastrophe is imminent.

This letter was sent to Qingzhou in a hurry.

At the same time, an invitation letter was sent to Changshui County, Luoyang, which was addressed to former Prime Minister Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun has a mixed reputation, and some people in later generations commented that this talent is ambitious, exaggerated, and has no overall view, which has ruined the last vitality of Datang.

Li Yu doesn't see it that way.

Because, at this time, people who have a big picture view abound. In other words, anyone can see that the Tang Dynasty is coming to an end, so many ministers are protecting themselves in Mingzhe, and it is okay to move their mouths, but they don't do the same thing, and only Zhang Jun and Kong Wei dare to say and dare to do it.

In the late Tang Dynasty, what was needed was people who helped the court with practical actions, not people who had the so-called overall situation and stood by.

Of course, Li Yu needs someone like Zhang Jun to help him.

The reason why he came to be a matchmaker for himself was to save him.

One is that Li Yu really needs a matchmaker, and Zhang Jun is close and has a certain identity, so it is just right to be a matchmaker, and the other is to let him avoid Zhu Quanzhong's assassination of him at the end of the year.

As for letting Wang Shifan be the matchmaker, it is just a rhetoric, he is in Qingzhou, Shandong, thousands of miles away, it is best to come, if he can't come, Li Yu can be regarded as doing his best.

The third procedure is Najib.

It is the etiquette for the man to ask for his name and combine the eight characters, inform the woman of the auspicious omen of the marriage, and give a gift to express the etiquette of the engagement.

The fourth procedure is to pay for the levy, also known as the acceptance of Cheng or the currency, that is, to give a bride price.

The fifth procedure is the invitation date, where both parties discuss and set the date of the wedding.

According to the five procedures agreed upon by Zhao Kuangming and Zhou Kuan, the five were combined into one, waiting for Zhang Jun in Luoyang to do it together.

The last is to welcome relatives, also called welcome.

Li Yu is the prince, and he can't go to the woman's house to greet his relatives like the folk custom, but waits for the woman to send the bride at home.

After the bride comes, she should sprinkle grain beans when she gets off the sedan chair, and then cross the brazier at the door of the house, put the cloth bag on the ground, and the bride walks on the cloth bag, and the cloth bag is moved to the front, passing it one by one, taking the homonym of "bag" and "generation", passing it from generation to generation, passing it on from generation to generation, and passing it on from generation to generation.

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Changshui County, Luoyang.

Zhang Jun's family is in their own manor, enjoying the idyllic life.

Zhang Jun, a native of Hejian. It was already a flat chapter at the time of the Emperor's reign, and it was also a few ups and downs.

After Li Ye ascended the throne, in order to get rid of the threat of the feudal towns, Zhang Jun proposed a plan to reduce the feudal domains, and finally united the troops of several feudal towns to pull the only tens of thousands of forbidden troops to the battlefield.

After several battles, he finally lost, was defeated and degraded, and he returned to Luoyang and lived in seclusion among the mountains and wilderness.

Although he failed, but he was concerned about national affairs all the time, as long as he heard any changes in the court, he would splash ink and distract himself, although there was no response, but he was still doing his courtier's heart, and I am afraid that no one can say that he is not a loyal minister.

At the beginning, when he heard that Li Ye was imprisoned and the crown prince Li Yu ascended the throne, he called on the feudal town to send troops to rescue him, and it can be said that he did not have a good impression of Li Yu.

A few months ago, when Wang Shifan sent troops to attack Zhu Quanzhong, he sent a letter inviting him to give advice, but the matter was not confidential and could not be made.

Two days ago, he suddenly received a letter from Nanyang, and he was invited to be a matchmaker for Li Yu, which surprised him.

Through the relationship in Luoyang, it turned out that in the first month of this year, King De had already fiefdomed Nanyang and left Beijing to become a vassal.

It kept him from sleeping well all night.

He was pondering what Emperor Li Ye's arrangement meant.

Could it really be that Luoyang passed on, Li Yu was demoted to Nanyang?

How could this degraded person dare to marry Zhao Kuangning with Jing Xiang Jie with great fanfare?

This marriage is said to be the emperor's finger marriage, what does this mean?

As an old fox in politics, he had to think more.

At the beginning, several towns joined forces to suppress Li Keyong, although it failed, but the reason was too complicated, and it was not the reason of a certain person.

But I had to bear this charge.

Now, regardless of his past suspicions, King Li Yu sent a letter to let him go to Nanyang to be a matchmaker, no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't look like a belittled person.

It is said that when he left Fengxiang, Li Maozhen and Zhu Quanzhong both gave him money for the beauty, ostensibly to let him go to Nanyang to live a good life, but in fact, they wanted to exclude him from the power center!

Could it be that King Li Yu is not reconciled?

Zhang Jun thought a lot.

Now Luoyang is building a large number of buildings, and Zhang Quanyi told him that as long as the repair of the imperial city of Luoyang is completed, the sage will move the capital to Luoyang. How does this work?!

He had long seen Zhu Quanzhong's wolf ambitions, and if he really moved the capital to Luoyang, the Tang Dynasty would probably be really finished.

Could it be that King Li Yu was deliberately arranged by the saint?!

Zhang Jun had all kinds of thoughts in his heart.

"Father, the invitation of King Toku......"

The eldest son, Zhang Ge, stood in front of his father and asked what to do.

"Go. So, explain it, and come with me. ”

"Yes, father."

Zhang Jun knew that Zhao Kuangning was a bookworm, and his biggest hobby in life was collecting books, so he sorted out the collection of books at home and pulled a cart of out-of-print books, which was his gift to the Jingxiang boss.

Zhang Jun and Zhang Ge, father and son, took the servants to drive the carriage to Nanyang.

Changshui to Nanyang, the best way to go is to Luoyang first, from Luoyang to Ruzhou Liangxian, Longxing, Lushan, through Luyang Pass, you will enter the territory of Dengzhou, and you will go to Nanyang after Xiangcheng.

Walking to Yongning County, Zhang Jun also went to visit his friend Ye Yan, who was a Cheng of Yongning County, stayed here for one night, and left for Luoyang the next day.

Along the way, Zhang Jun has been pondering with his son, what does King Li Yu think, not only does he have no friendship with King De, but when he ascended the throne, he also wrote a letter to ask other feudal towns to send troops to rescue him, it is said that Li Yu should hate himself, why did he think of himself for such a big thing as a marriage? !

Although I don't understand, but the saint's face still has to be given, and King De had better not offend, he is now a country man, and people can afford it, so let's go and talk about it.

Zhang Jun and his son traveled from Changshui to Luoyang, and then from Luoyang to Nanyang, and it was already June 20.

In fact, the people of King De's Mansion have been waiting near Luyang Pass for a long time.

Because there were soldiers and horses of the Xuanwu Army disguised as mountain bandits in this area, which was not very safe, Li Yu was afraid of accidents, so he asked Fang Xing to take the five hundred tooth troops to this vicinity for training, which was not only to train the troops but also to supervise the "mountain bandits" in the nearby Yinshaling.

The 500 newly recruited tooth army has just been trained for two months, and they still haven't seen blood, most of them are the children of local farmers in Nanyang, and some of them are homeless people, all of them are simple men who have endured hardships, and they are happy to know that they are the tooth army of King De.

They didn't come to serve as soldiers just to be fed, but they heard that King De was a martial artist from the sky, who could destroy the world with his hand, and follow such a master, he would be honored!