Chapter 148: Mass Wedding
Tong Zhi fell at the end, it is impossible for the Privy Council to be left unattended for a long time, Zong Ze and Li Gang are good candidates, both capable and knowledgeable, but they are too upright and honest, and they have to admonish officials to be diligent in political affairs, pro-virtuous ministers, and far villains. Don't pursue the ethereal Taoist Patriarchal Technique, Zhao Ji doesn't like them very much. has been suppressing the two of them and not promoting, but this time there is really no one, so let Zong Ze manage the affairs of the Privy Council with the right to follow the first grade, that is, the acting privy envoy. Zhao Ji thought, anyway, you are nearly seventy years old, and when you don't want to do it, let you go back to your hometown......
After Zhao Chongyang returned to Liangzhou City, he read out the holy decree. When the mayors of the towns heard this, sure enough, the court all carried out according to his performance. The 500,000 guan rewarded by the imperial court, plus more than 2 million guan in the treasury of the Xixia royal palace, were all distributed to each army as military pay according to the number of each army after the reorganization, except for Lao Zhongshuai, 10,000 guan was left in other places to buy corn seeds. In the spring of next year, after the ice and snow melt, horse-drawn carts will be sent to Liangzhou to transport 100,000 catties of corn seeds to be planted, so as to strive for self-sufficiency in grain after three years.
After the snowfall, the troops under the Northwest Governor's Office set off a new training project, which is skiing and skating training. This skill is first trained for the soldiers of the special combat unit, and after the soldiers of the special combat unit have mastered the skill, the special combat soldiers are sent to various units to serve as instructors and popularize it throughout the army. In this way, it is much more convenient to go out on special tasks in the harsh winter season......
In the blink of an eye, the New Year is over, and spring returns to the earth. The sixteenth day of the first lunar month is the big day of Shi Jin and Li Hongyan (to be precise, she has changed her name to Ye Hongyan with her mother's surname), and it is also the collective wedding day of Shi Wengong and other generals.
Zhao Chongyang held a wedding for everyone in Liangzhou City. According to the ancient system, Ye Hongyan's father died newly, and he should keep filial piety for three years before he could get married. But Ye Hongyan said that she was actually a woman from the Han family, and there was no need to guard filial piety for the king of Western Xia.
It turned out that her mother was very beautiful when she was young, and when she returned to her parents' house a month after her wedding, she met a group of bandits on the green forest road in the Central Plains, and did many things that were indignant to God, and were hunted down and killed by decent people in the Central Plains, so they had to flee to the northwest and take refuge in Western Xia. On the way, I saw the bride who looked like a fairy, and was worried about the bandit leader who had no meeting gift, killed the groom, took the bride and ran away.
At that time, the bride was also pregnant, and after being forced to marry the king of Western Xia for more than nine months, she gave birth to Ye Hongyan. Therefore, before her death, her mother told her daughter that she was actually a woman from the Han family, and she was pregnant before marrying Li Chengqian, and the surname Li was only her adoptive father. Therefore, when she heard that the Western Xia Dynasty was destroyed and Li Chengqian was executed, she was not very sad. The reason why she made a bet with Zhao Chongyang and wanted to revive Xixia with her own strength was that she wanted to repay the Li family's nurturing kindness, and secondly, she was arrogant and wanted to compete with Zhao Chongyang, who was known as a prodigy.
Although spring has begun now, the northwest is a bitter cold land, and it is still icy and snowy outside. Therefore, the marriage of the generals did not invite the mayors of the towns under the Governor's Mansion, and the guests were only the departments directly under the Governor's Mansion......
The newcomers of the other generals were the ladies and palace maids captured by the princes of Western Xia and the royal palaces. Zhao Chongyang gave them to the generals as wives or concubines, and they arranged them freely.
He specially selected Li Chengqian's Ming concubine Xin Qiniang as the master and servant for his second senior brother Shi Wengong, Xin Qiniang as his wife and two maids as concubines. Li Chengqian's virtuous concubine Yu Wuniang was selected for Chao Gai, Li Chengqian's second princess Li Hongyan was selected for Dai Zong, and Li Chengqian's third princess, Princess Mei Li Hongmei, was selected for Xue Yong. Yang Yizhong and Wang Da had wives at home, and each asked for two palace maids as concubines.
Li Chengqian's second daughter, Princess Qiong, was selected for Dai Zong, and Li Chengxun's third daughter, Li Hongyao, the county lord of Yao, was selected for Qiu Qionghu. Sun Li, Shi Qian, Bai Sheng, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, and Han Shizhong each chose a palace maid as a concubine, and Nangong Yongjie had wives and concubines in his family, and he didn't ask for it.
Wu Song, Yan Qing, Li Kui, and Shi Xiu also did not choose, and Zhao Chongyang was in charge, and gave Duanmu Xiu, the captain of Ye Hongyan's fifty iron guards, to Li Kui as his wife. This Duanmu Xiu has dark skin, is more than 1.7 meters tall, has wide shoulders and a broad back, and at first glance is a woman with a strong man, which is a perfect match for Li Kui. This Duanmu Xiu is happy, but Li Kui is most afraid of control, and he is unwilling in his heart, but it turns out that he lost the bet, and he did not dare to resist in front of Zhao Chongyang. Luda's wife and concubine are widows, and now she lives in Shuibo Liangshan with a son and a daughter, and she doesn't pick anyone. Bao Daoyi claims to be a cultivator and does not want to start a family.
Fang Tianjie and Pang Wanchun didn't dare to choose, but Duan Sanniang and Hu Jinfeng thought about it, and one of them asked Ye Hongyan for an iron guard to be a concubine for her husband......
On the same day, Shi Jin's wedding was given priority, and it was presided over by his master Wang Jin himself.
The group weddings of the others were presided over by their chief master Zhou Tong.
That night, more than a dozen pairs of newcomers spent candles in the cave room, and they did their best to enjoy the joy of fish and water......