The crown ceremony has ended, and what awaits Zhu Youzhen is the next big wedding......

Compared with the warmth and warmth of ordinary people, ordinary and lively, Zhu Youzhen's wedding is very different.

When he rode a horse and Yang Rushi and others came to the front of the Wuying Palace, he saw the civil and military officials on both sides of the road of Sanlong Bridge, all of them wearing court clothes, and saluted one after another while seeing Zhu Youzhen.

In front of the Sanlong Bridge, Sun Chengzong held a red satin, indicating that he was the official envoy in charge of the marriage this time.

"Please wait, Your Highness, the deputy envoy has already gone to greet the concubine......"

In Sun Chengzong's words, only the main concubine Yuan Xi was mentioned, and the other five concubines were not mentioned, and the reason was that the other five concubines were not in a good enough position.

Not surprisingly, except for the main concubine who can come to this Wuying Palace, the rest of the five concubines will wait for the last second worship hall in the hall of the Qi Palace.

Zhu Youzhen didn't have any idea about this, but bowed slightly, said that he responded to Sun Chengzong, and then looked down at Yang Rushi.

Yang Ru understood what Zhu Youzhen meant, so he explained:

"His Royal Highness is only pulling out the first-level regulations, so he can't all go according to His Majesty's wedding, such as now, normally speaking, the chief and deputy envoys need to bow to Your Majesty four times, and then take the case and the festival case, and go out from the middle door of the main hall, and the bride price will follow."

After that, the herald needs to tell the chief and deputy envoys about the work to greet them, and sing "I hereby select a certain official and a certain woman as the queen, and order the secretary and others to hold the festival and ask for the famous ceremony." ”

"After that, the main and deputy envoys set off from Fengtianmen with the case and the festival, and when they arrived at Fengtianmen, they also needed to put the case and the festival case in the color of marrying the queen, and then take off the court clothes, ride a horse, and set off from Damingmen with the drum troops, and went all the way to the house of the official who was married."

"There will be more after that, but it's basically the same as this big wedding."

"The palace sent a separate deputy envoy to the Yuan Mansion to greet the princess today, and probably when His Royal Highness performed the crown ceremony, they had already arrived at the Yuan Mansion and offered the bride price."

"If you count the time, it should be about ......"

Yang Ruye's words were not finished, because the music that went to greet the relatives had already sounded, and it was obvious that the team had entered the Xihua Gate.

Zhu Youzhen waited quietly on horseback for a while, and then heard the music getting louder and louder, until the gate of Xihua Gate opened not far away.

A group of red men and green women dressed in fancy costumes and playing various musical instruments entered the palace.

In the procession, you can also see a bell and drum cart pulled by a horse-drawn cart, and the musicians on it are constantly beating bells and drums.

The chimes of thousands of catties were pulled by a carriage of four horses, and the horse was tall and sturdy, and Zhu Youzhen was very familiar with it.

It was supposed to be a Sharma in the officialdom, but now it is being used as a horse for the wedding bell.

Zhu Youzhen did not pursue it, he knew that these four horses should be brought to the capital by Wang Chengen, and they would be returned to the officialdom after being used temporarily.

When he came back to his senses, he saw a "green wheel" slowly driving into front of the Sanlong Bridge in the Wuying Palace, surrounded by hundreds of welcoming teams.

When the cui reel stopped, Yang Ru took the two jade girls and turned to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Royal Highness can go to meet the princess......

"Hmmm......"

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he turned over and dismounted, and walked in front of Cui Lu behind Yang Ru is three people.

At this time, Yang Ruyi gently knocked on the car door three times with the jade ruyi in his hand, and the car door was also opened.

The two maids got out of the carriage first, and then Zhu Youzhen saw Yuan Xi's concubine wearing a phoenix crown, wearing a large-sleeved shirt, a xia veil on the dress, and a red Luo long skirt inside, that is, his legal concubine.

"It's a bit of the style of the Western Regions......"

After all, it is Zhu Youzhen, who has been baptized by makeup and beauty in later generations, and he is very satisfied with Yuan Xifei's appearance, but he is not as out of shape as others.

Yuan Xifei looks attractive, he already knows this, if she doesn't look attractive enough, a person like Chongzhen who is dedicated to state affairs will not do it when he is still in the palace.

Chongzhen is like this, not to mention others, it is the norm not to be able to grasp it.

"There is no red hijab, and sure enough, the Ming Dynasty looks down on the Southern Song Dynasty ......"

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand and helped Yuan Xi Concubine to get off the green wheel, and at the same time glanced at Yuan Xi Concubine who showed her face in front of everyone.

The red hijab only appeared in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Tang Dynasty was disgusted with this "Hu Feng" for a time, so that it disappeared for a while, until the Southern Song Dynasty suddenly appeared again.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang imitated the Tang system, and naturally there was no such thing as a red hijab.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, after the confinement of women increased, the red hijab began to appear again.

However, Yuan Xifei seems that the Ming royal family is still dominated by Tang Li, and Yuan Xifei only covered her face with a half-transparent fan after getting out of the carriage.

"I respectfully invite the King of Qi and Princess Qi to enter the Wuying Palace......"

Sun Chengzong turned sideways and gave way to the Sanlong Bridge, Zhu Youzhen glanced at Yuan Xifei, and Yuan Xifei also glanced at Zhu Youzhen cautiously.

The two watched each other's steps and walked towards the Wuying Hall together.

In this process, the gaze of the civil and military officials did not make Zhu Youzhen feel anything, but he always felt that the atmosphere was a little embarrassing.

Although his physical age is only 20 years old, Zhu Youzhen, who actually lived for nearly 50 years, is still married for the first time.

With a little embarrassment, the two entered the Wuying Hall under the leadership of Sun Chengzong, and after entering the Wuying Hall Square, the gold, silver, and jewelry and jade covered in the square instantly attracted everyone's attention.

Gold, silver, copper, jade, jewelry......

The existence of nearly three million taels of silver was stored in chests in this way, and they were laid out in rows, and there were thousands of chests.

Yuan Xifei couldn't help but glance at it, while Zhu Youzhen looked up at the high platform of Wuying Palace.

I don't know when Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan sat in front of the door of Wuying Palace, and there were two red futons in front of them.

Standing next to it are many high-ranking civil and military officials such as the Cabinet, the Six Ministries, the Six Sections, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Honorable Ministers.

Under their watchful eyes, Zhu Youzhen and Yuan Xifei walked up the steps step by step, and finally knelt on the futon.

Zhu Ciran and Zhu Shu'e played the role of a golden boy and a jade girl, standing next to them with a treasure seal symbolizing the princess.

Zhu Youzhen and Yuan Xiconcubine did not take the seal, but waited for the officiating official to read out the wedding message.

"Lonely inheritance of the heavenly order, Qin Shao Hongtu. The way of the country, the right family-oriented. The love of husband and wife, the righteousness of Qiankun......"

It was Gu Bingqian who read out the wedding words, and after he read out the cumbersome hundreds of words of the wedding words, the two Hanlin compilers left the scene, and they needed to send the wedding greetings to the celebrant to return to their lives.

"And crown ......"

Zhang Yan stood up, and Gu Bingqian sang beside him.

Wang An walked to Zhu Youzhen and his wife with Zhang Yan with a wooden plate, which held the Nine Dragons and Four Phoenix Crowns, and Zhang Yan took off the Phoenix Crown for Yuan Xi Concubine with her own hands, and then wore the luxurious Nine Dragons and Four Phoenix Crowns on her head.

"Princess Qi must know that etiquette and etiquette, King Qi is in charge of fighting outside, don't let him worry about the affairs of the inner court of the palace when he is outside."

"The concubine knows, Xie Zhonggong Niangniang mentioned ......"

Zhang Yan had a conversation with Yuan Xiconcubine, and the former reminded Yuan Xiconcubine as a passerby, and Yuan Xiconcubine also responded very politely.

Her actions satisfied Zhang Yan, and the reason why she chose Yuan Xiconcubine was that she felt that Yuan Xiconcubine was suitable for being a peacemaker.

Coupled with the identity of the princess, even if Zhou Sujie, Tian Xiuying, Wei Pingyang, Li Shaoxi, and Shen Xiangjun have different personalities, they will not disobey Yuan Xi's concubine in person.

In the final analysis, they are just concubines, unless Zhu Youzhen acquiesces, no one dares to contradict the concubines, not even Wei Pingyang and Li Shaoxi.

Zhang Yan didn't believe that her uncle would acquiesce to which concubine rode on the head of the concubine, after all, except for Wanli and Taichang, normal male hosts don't like chaos in the inner court.

"Fifth uncle, please......"

After explaining to Yuan Xi's concubine, Zhang Yan motioned for the two to enter the Wuying Palace, and at this time, the palace maids and eunuchs on both sides also moved the tables and chairs.

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs and Zhu Youxiao and others have entered the Wuying Palace, and the portraits of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Taizu and Empress Ma of Xiaoci Gao are hung in the hall.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan sat in front of their portraits, facing Zhu Youzhen and Yuan Xifei.

For them, these two portraits are only representative, but for Zhu Youzhen, he feels novel.

He looked at the portrait, and then stood on the hall with Yuan Xifei.

Next, the honor guard and female music and drummers performed one after another, and Yuan Xifei, like Zhu Youzhen, was called to change into more luxurious wedding clothes.

After she finally finished dressing, she and Zhu Youzhen walked to Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Yan to bow four times in a row, and then Gu Bingqian began to read out the edict of sealing.

Since it is not the real emperor and queen wedding after all, this process exempts the reward for hundreds of officials and officiating marriages after the queen's sealing.

Zhu Youzhen and Yuan Xifei received the treasure seal from Zhu Ciran and Zhu Shu'e, the two golden boys and girls, which also means that the ceremony has been completed.

However, after the ceremony, they still need to go through some cumbersome processes.

For example, after the canonization ceremony was over, Zhu Youzhen was asked to change into a crown dress, and Yuan Xi Concubine asked to change into a dress, and then they had to go to Fengxian Hall to pay homage to the emperor's family temple, and after the worship was completed, they could return to the house.

The wedding banquet or something has been prepared in the Qi Palace, but Zhu Youxiao obviously can't go.

He followed Zhu Youzhen and them from afar, dozens of steps apart, watching them worship the family temple, and then said to Zhu Youzhen when they walked out:

"My brother will go back today, and the wedding banquet won't be with him for too long, let Chengen and Huachun accompany him."

"The wedding of the other five concubines still needs to continue, my brother is working hard today, don't be too busy at night."

When Zhu Youxiao said this, he sighed inexplicably in his heart, or he felt a little sigh on this day.

He didn't expect that he would be able to see his younger brother's wedding with his own eyes, and for a while he was a little reluctant and a little jealous.

He only felt that after his younger brother's wedding, even if he was the emperor, he would not be able to enter and leave the inner court of the Qi Mansion casually, and Zhu Youzhen would definitely have to spend some time with his family.

Originally, there was less time between him and Zhu Youzhen, but now that Zhu Youzhen is married, he has six concubines in one go, so there is even less time for him.

"My brother and I, I'm afraid we won't have so many opportunities to play in the future...... Alas......"

Zhu Youzhen was sad in the school, but Zhu Youzhen didn't know what he meant, and after saying that he knew, he took Yuan Xi's concubine to the elephant chariot driven by Wang Chengen and others.

There were more than 1,000 eunuchs, officials, and maidservants in the inner court, the Ministry of Rites, and the palace of the King of Qi.

They stood in two rows, with hundreds of carts in the middle, carrying copper coins and red envelopes with red threads.

"...... Start"

With Wang Chengen's singing, the elephant chariot moved, and more than 1,000 entourages also set off one after another.

They needed to go around the inner city this time, and although it was not fifty miles, there were thirty miles.

After all, it will take at least two full hours.

It was a bit tiring for these attendants, but they were very happy in their hearts, because if the bounty on the car was not paid by the end, it would basically be divided equally among them.

However, this kind of thing cannot be done intentionally, so it is also a technical job to pay a reward.

You can't send more, you don't have more, you can't send less, and you will be scolded if you send less.

So when the elephant chariot walked out of the Xihua Gate, everyone was on the road under the arch guard camp, holding red envelopes, and handed them over to some onlookers.

This process never stopped, so even after taking three or four steps, they only gave out one or two thousand red envelopes, a few taels of silver.

"King Qi Chitose!"

"King Qi Chitose Chitose!"

The people on both sides of the road are shouting, some are sincerely blessing, and some are howling to get red envelopes.

Zhu Youzhen sat in the elephant chariot, next to Yuan Xi's concubine, who looked at the nose and the nose and heart.

Concubine Yuan Xi thought that Zhu Youzhen would talk to her, but to her disappointment, Zhu Youzhen actually took out five or six books from under the table of the elephant chariot, and began to read them in front of her.

"......" For a while, Yuan Xifei didn't know what to say, so she could only cautiously peek at Zhu Youzhen.

Later, after she found out that Zhu Youzhen was focused on playing the music, she began to look at Zhu Youzhen blatantly.

For Concubine Yuan Xi, who was born in Hexi, she actually prefers men with beards, especially beautiful hair, which is even better.

However, contrary to her liking, the old Zhu family has gone through generations of genetic screening, and it seems that the descendants of Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen have become a little sparse in the beard.

Compared with the bearded emperors of Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengzheng, Jingtai, and Chenghua, the emperors of the late Ming Dynasty basically only had short beards, or even none.

Zhu Youzhen may be young, or the old Zhu family's genetic improvement is too successful, in short, he has no beard.

It's just that although he doesn't have a beard, thanks to his mother Liu, he has a good appearance, no matter what era he is in, he can eat with his appearance.

Zhu Youzhen in the eyes of Yuan Xifei is actually similar to the evaluation of Zhu Youzhen by hundreds of officials, and the description of Zhu Youzhen by the living notes is the most.

[King Qi is about six feet long, beautiful and beautiful, so quiet, wide to listen to, good use of soldiers, fierce crown world. Although the crown is weak, the momentum is overwhelming, and the Xiang is like a person, who is seen by the people, he is full of heart, and he is happy to die. 】

The living note of the Qi Wangfu is actually a bit of a fallacy, because Zhu Youzhen is only five feet eight inches (186cm), not six feet, and the description behind it is also a bit exaggerated.

However, it can also be seen that in the aesthetics of everyone, Zhu Youzhen is indeed a good-looking and majestic person.

In other words, in terms of appearance and bearing, Yuan Xifei's original likes were thrown out of the clouds by her.

She originally thought that King Qi was a fat man or a martial artist, but now it seems that he is more like a young hero like Xin Qiji and Huo Quzhi.

Yuan Xifei looked at Zhu Youzhen's distraction, but Zhu Youzhen was dealing with these urgent notes in his hand.

His brows couldn't help frowning, because in the song in his hand, he saw some information on Jianyu's troop transfer.

Among them, Huang Taiji's transfer of Ji'er Harang and two white flags to Xishen City paid the most attention to him.

Xishen City is the Khabarovsk of later generations, that is, the three forks of the Asu River that flows into the Heilongjiang River.

Garrisoning troops here, in Zhu Youzhen's view, Huang Taiji may have only one purpose.

"Guo Sangdai ......"

Zhu Youzhen muttered Guo Sangdai's name, and after he thought of it, he also stretched out his hand and gently knocked on the car window.

His move made Yuan Xifei immediately withdraw her gaze, and Wang Chengen, who was outside the car window, also opened the car window in surprise.

However, when he saw the music in his Highness's hand, he immediately understood that His Highness might have something to order.

"Let You Shigong and the people from the Supervision Department remind Guo Sandai separately that Jianyu may attack him, let him be careful, if he is attacked, he can defend it."

"The slave and maid take the order...... Wang Chengen's heart tightened when he heard this, and he hurriedly responded, then closed the car window and found someone to explain.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he closed the music, put it away, and then closed his eyes to recuperate.

He was very sure that Huang Taiji would attack Guo Sangdai.

To put it bluntly, the Beishan Jurchen, who drank blood with mushroom hair, suddenly changed from a tribal system to a city-state system, which was originally strange.

The climatic environment and geographical environment of Beishan are destined to be impossible to gather one city-state after another without the entry of foreign food.

This is also why, in the middle and early Ming Dynasty, it has been possible to restrain the Nuergan region until the Wanli period.

To put it bluntly, it is to rely on grain to manage the Beishan Jurchen, so the Beishan Jurchen basically belonged to the object of pinching in the Ming Dynasty.

Even after the abolition of the Nuer Gandu Division, the commanders of the Northeast Guards had to gather in Nuer Gancheng, and then go south along the Heilongjiang River, go to Kaiyuan in Liaodong to assemble, and then go to Beijing to pay tribute, ask for attacks, and post posts.

Because the Beishan area was too poor, a large number of Beishan Jurchen leaders dragged their families to Guannei, and a large number of Jurchen officials requested to be transferred to Liaodong, Shandong, and Beizhili.

For example, in the third year of Jingtai, Wushan, the commander of Wushan, was transferred by the Ming court to Jinzhouwei, the capital of Liaodong in Shandong Province.

In the fourteenth year of Chenghua, six people, including Wu Dingge of Agu Hewei (now the Agu River valley area of the Russian Far East), were beheaded for violating the Ming Dynasty's decree.

In the first year of Zhengde, because of the command of Ge Linwei (now the Green River region of the Russian Far East), Tongzhi Ta Hazhu was promoted from the commander of the Cabinet to the commander of the Wei because of his excellent governance performance, and so on.

Compared with the three departments of Haixi, Jianzhou, and Donghai in the northeast, the Beishan Jurchen has always been the most numerous, but it has been the most ruthless, and the reason is because of the grain.

The other three can be self-sufficient in front of them, while Beishan can only rely on blood transfusions from the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, since the Wanli period, Beishan has been on the verge of running out of food, and many guards can only be relocated and split to hunt in the vast Nuergan area to survive.

This situation has not changed, and less than two years after the end of the Battle of Fuliao, the Beishan Jurchens were united, and more than 200,000 people were in one place.

Beishan doesn't have arable land that can feed so many people, Huang Taiji knows it very well in his heart.

Coupled with the strong maritime capabilities displayed by the Ming army before and after the Battle of Fuliao, Huang Taiji may have known in his heart that the Beishan Jurchen was likely to be a force supported by the Ming Dynasty, and even Nurhachi and Dai Shan and others knew it.

As for why this group of guys has not used force, I am afraid that the reason is the same as what Zhu Youzhen thought back then.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen felt that the national strength was empty and could not launch the Northern Expedition, so he thought that he would let Jianyu live for two years, and by the way, he would help reclaim hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land.

Now Huang Taiji and they also think the same, feeling that it is not advantageous to divide the troops, and attacking Guo Sangdai before the mountains and rivers are exhausted is obviously a loss-making business.

It is better to let Guo Sangdai rely on the blood transfusion of the Ming Dynasty to develop Nuergan, and when the Ming army really wants to go on the Northern Expedition, it will clean up Guo Sangdai in advance, give Dajin a greater strategic depth space, and get more than 100,000 acres of ready-made cultivated land by the way.

Huang Taiji's thoughts are the same as Zhu Youzhen's at the beginning, and this is indeed the case.

If Jianyu can conquer Nu'er Gancheng, it can indeed harvest more than 100,000 mu of cultivated land, plus hundreds of thousands of stones, rice and wheat.

But the problem is that Guo Sandai has long been prepared, and the tens of thousands of soldiers under him are basically trained according to the ordinary Gongwei battalion.

Although it is said that training is training, they have no actual combat, at best, they are the combat power of the Ming Soldiers and Horses, but the Soldiers and Horses Division can defend the city no matter how much they can.

What Zhu Youzhen needs is only for Guo Sandai to guard Beishan.

"It's already winter, he can't move troops now, and if he wants to move troops, it will be February at the earliest."

"From February to June, Guo Sandai only needs to stay for four months."

"But just in case, I'll have to get him something to defend the city."

Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes and got the answer, and he almost knew what to support Guo Sangdai in his heart.

To defend the city, all that can be supported is artillery and fire oil.

Jianyu's artillery technology is too poor, even if Huang Taiji reactivates craftsmen in Fushun and other places, the artillery that can be manufactured will not have a range of more than one mile at most.

In this situation, Yanshan's five-pound cannon is enough to deal with the scene.

Zhu Youzhen thought, and then waited for Wang Chengen to run back, he opened the window again and asked:

"How's the Ordnance Bureau's production?"

"The monthly output of five-pound guns is 3,000, 1,000 cannons are 10 catties, 500 cannons are 20 catties, 300 cannons are 25 catties, 9,000 rifles are fired, and 3,000 riding guns are produced." Wang Chengen was like a treasure, but at the end he added:

"This is the output of the fourth version of the steam engine after entering the Ordnance Bureau, and there are still more than sixty battalions that have not been reloaded, I'm afraid it ......"

"How much is the stock of five-pound guns and rifles?" Zhu Youzhen interrupted his report and asked.

"There are only 600 five-pound cannons and more than 5,000 rifles." Wang Chengen simply replied, and Zhu Youzhen also ordered:

"All of them were transferred to Guo Sangdai, and then a battalion of gunners from the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion was sent to support him, and by the way, 500,000 catties of artillery were transferred to him, so that he could prepare shotguns and stone shells by himself."

"The slave and maid take the order...... Wang Chengen responded, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly, signaling that he could leave.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen turned back and continued to explain his work, while Zhu Youzhen also closed the car window.

His conversation with Wang Chengen was all in Yuan Xi's ears, but Yuan Xifei was more concerned about Zhu Youzhen's demeanor in handling government affairs.

Looking at Zhu Youzhen's behavior in pointing out the country, she couldn't help but have some admiration and reverence in her heart.

"There should be a while left for the car, Your Highness, you should have a good rest first."

Yuan Xifei opened her mouth to care about Zhu Youzhen, and her voice was very good, and she heard the words of Daming's Jianghuai official.

"Hmm......" Zhu Youzhen bowed down, and then leaned back on the "sofa" full of cotton and goose down in the car.

Maybe he was too tired from dealing with government affairs last night, but not long after he got down, his breathing became even, and Yuan Xifei was also relieved and bold to observe him......

Second shift at 8 p.m

(End of chapter)