Chapter 194

For Emperor Chongzhen's promise, Cheng Shijie did not take it to heart.

Because now he and Emperor Chongzhen belong to the honeymoon period, Emperor Chongzhen can tolerate everything about Cheng Shijie, the relationship between the monarch and the minister, in fact, is almost the same as the relationship between husband and wife, sometimes, sweet as honey, close as lacquer.

When a relationship is good, all shortcomings are advantages. As the so-called lover is in the eyes of Xi Shi, when the honeymoon period passes, even if it is an advantage, it will become a disadvantage, and it will be magnified countless times.

This is the nature of the emperor.

Just like Liu Wenjing in the Tang Dynasty, he joined Li Yuan's command as early as when Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan, and made a lot of contributions to the cause of the Tang Army, and once sat in a high position as prime minister. In order to commend Liu Wenjing's merits, Li Yuan specially granted Liu Wenjing two exemptions from death, however, because Liu Wenjing was reported as a rebel by his concubine, Li Yuan unceremoniously executed this wronged hero.

Li Yuan must have known that Liu Wenjing was wronged, but because Liu Wenjing was Li Shimin's number one sworn friend, above Fang Du, Wen Ke Anbang, and Wu Neng Dingguo, he led his troops to defeat Sang Xianhe in Tongguan and captured Qu Tutong, a famous general at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and he still has strong military ability.

However, when it was time to kill Liu Wenjing, Li Yuan was not soft at all.

Regarding Emperor Chongzhen's promise, Cheng Shijie became vigilant.

As the so-called eggs are not put in one basket, as the great victory of Haizhou, Baliwan and Liaoyang, in this series of battles, the strongest thing in the Ning Navy is its powerful and sharp artillery, as well as excellent armor.

But now it's not just Hou Xian, the secretary of the military department, who wants to buy a large number of artillery for the Changping Army, Lu Xiangsheng also wants to buy it, Hong Chengchou also wants to buy it, and Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, also wants to buy it.

Otherwise, Sun Chengzong would not have specifically reminded him not to hide it.

This in itself does not explain anything, when employing people, we must also guard against it, and Cheng Shijie himself is the same, just like Chen Dayong, the commander of the Shuangwei Division, even if he is under Chen Guodong, he is also a general from the supervision system, but Cheng Shijie did not establish an arsenal in Shuangchengwei, and the primitive people of the Shuangcheng Capital Division were transferred to the Guards Division.

The left capital division was reversed with the right capital division, and the Jeju capital division was transferred with the Phi Dao capital division, not because Cheng Shijie did not trust the generals of the Ning Navy, but to avoid the formation of a situation in which the tail could not be lost.

As soon as Princess Le'an's sedan chair walked to the street, she found that there were dense sergeants on the street, and these soldiers were not wearing the standard black military uniform of the Ning Navy, nor were they wearing black armor, but brand-new mandarin duck battle jackets, which were all fiery red.

Naturally, some of the elite soldiers of the Ning Navy also arrived in the capital, and this is enough for tens of thousands of Ning Haijun to follow Cheng Shijie to the capital to participate in the ceremony, of course, at this time, they naturally have to participate in Cheng Shijie's wedding.

In fact, Cheng Shijie is using these soldiers to strengthen the field, so as not to let someone come to have a wedding with him, in fact, Cheng Shijie thinks too much, looking at the whole Ming Dynasty, people with a higher status than Cheng Shijie are not nothing, but more than ninety percent of people are not young, even if they want to make trouble, they must have this energy.

The sedan chair came all the way to Chengfu, the alley outside the door of Chengfu has been emptied, and there are tables arranged one by one, melon seeds, candy and tea are placed on the table, because the weather is too cold, these open-air tables are also surrounded by cloth curtains into a U-shape, and then covered with mats, and there is a briquette stove under the table, which is not too uncomfortable.

The efficiency of the army was very efficient, and the soldiers who were responsible for taking care of the guests were all soldiers of the Ning Navy, who also changed into red wedding clothes and brought drinks and snacks from time to time.

Every table was full of people, and everyone was chatting and laughing. In the laughter, gongs and drums were noisy, firecrackers thundered, and the huge welcoming team returned.

The sedan chair stopped in front of Chengfu, and the official of the Ministry of Rites sang: "Get off the sedan chair!" ”

In Cheng's house, someone immediately brought out a copper basin, and according to etiquette, the bride and groom had to step over the fire. This means that after marriage, it can be prosperous, and it is also said that it is to drive away evil spirits, in the cognition of traditional culture, fire is something with magical powers, and people even believe that fire can dispel evil spirits.

The lobby of Cheng's Mansion has already been arranged on the spot.

Slightly different from ordinary weddings, everyone present, including people with the status of Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, also had to give the first gift to Princess Le'an Zhu Weiyuan.

"Meet the princess!"

"Meet the colt!"

From today on, no matter how small Cheng Shijie's official position is, there are not many people who can make him worship.

Because Cheng Shijie has no father and no mother, when worshipping heaven and earth, Sun Chengzong sat on the main seat with a smile on his face.

"It's auspicious!"

The celebrant of the Ministry of Rites sang: "Worship heaven and earth! ”

Cheng Shijie and Zhu Weiyuan knelt on the ground seriously to worship heaven and earth.

"Second worship high hall!"

Although Sun Chengzong is Cheng Shijie's teacher, he did not sit directly on the main seat, but a little sideways, and the two empty chairs in the middle represent Cheng Shijie's parents.

"Husband and wife!"

Cheng Shijie hurriedly turned around, Zhu Weiyuan bowed to him, and he also gave a big salute.

"Send it to the cave ......"

Of course, this is not to start the cave room directly, but to send the bride to the cave room, and Cheng Shijie needs to entertain the guests who came to attend his wedding.

As the wedding officially ended, the sound of firecrackers sounded and the banquet officially began.

The service staff of the Ning Navy soldier took the dishes and began to serve them, which was slightly different from the ordinary people's weddings.

That's right, this is exactly the vegetable basin for dining in the army, each dish is a pot, and the dish is very hard, just like a fish bar, two in each pot, weighing at least ten catties. If the amount of food is small, this table will eat almost one dish, of course, now the people live a hard life, even the small landlord can not eat meat several times a year. In the face of this kind of dish based on big fish and meat, everyone has long been impatient.

Eating meat and drinking wine, this wine is a specialty of southern Liaoning, that is, potato wine. The wine is clean and strong, with a slightly poor taste. However, the guests who participated in this banquet were not polite, and they poured a full cup of wine, or beef drink, or light tasting, and they were all amazed.

Cheng Shijie's wedding, as the soldiers of the Ning Navy who came to the capital to participate in the ceremony, also sat down, and they watched Cheng Shijie go out of the courtyard, as if a conditioned reflex, and got up neatly.

The admiral officer of Zhongning held a wine glass: "Respect the marshal!" ”

Cheng Shijie held the wine glass and said: "In the past two years, everyone has been coarse and hungry, hungry, side by side, in the same boat, and opened up the situation. Ben Shuai can give you not much, today is Ben Shuai's big day, everyone drink to your heart's content, come, Ben Shuai toast everyone a cup! ”

Thousands of elite soldiers of the Ning Navy raised their wine glasses and shouted in unison: "Congratulations to the general!" ”

The wild voice, the sturdy posture, and the uniform movements frightened many guests, and secretly said in their hearts: "These Qiu Ba are not simple!" ”

At a table near the door, although there were few people at this table, there were four governors sitting at a table, including Fu Zonglong, the governor of Jizhou, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Beizhili. In addition to Lu Xiangsheng, there is Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun.

Although Cheng Shijie is worried that because of the wedding, he will not be able to preside over the equipment exhibition in person, but the question is, knowing that Cheng Shijie is getting married, who will go to what exhibition?

Zhu Dadian looked at these neat and uniform Ning Navy soldiers, and said in surprise: "What a fierce and strong tiger and wolf army, Ning Hai elite soldiers, really deserves its reputation!" ”

Hong Chengchou looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said with a smile: "Jiandou, how does the Tianxiong Army compare to the Ning Navy?" ”

"Why do you want to ask knowingly."

Lu Xiangsheng was also smiling bitterly, whether it was equipment or training, the two were not in the same dimension at all, although the Tianxiong Army performed well in history, it was also a strong army. They were similar in nature to the White Pole Soldiers, just a local army bound together by clan and village parties.

Such an army has a characteristic, that is, it will be strong when it is strong, especially after suffering losses, it will fight to the death and never retreat. And he will not be like Guan Ningjun, abandoning his comrades and running away without permission. They are all clans, father and son soldiers in battle.

Because it is more familiar, and in terms of discipline, you can never compare it to Ning Haijun.

Hong Chengchou smiled faintly: "Hong heard that the infantry of the Ning Navy is alone in the world, and in the face of the Jiannu elite iron cavalry charge, it is as solid as a stubborn stone, I really don't know how Hai Guogong trained this elite soldier!" ”

Zhu Dadian lowered his voice and said: "I heard that the Ning Navy also suffered a lot of losses in this battle, with 20,000 casualties!" ”

"Not so much, plus the Guanning Army suffered five or six thousand casualties, the Dongjiang Army suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and the casualties of the Ning Navy were roughly eight or nine thousand!"

Hong Chengchou looked at the soldiers of the Ning Navy, many of these soldiers had injuries on their faces, however, there was an aura of giving up on others.

Cheng Shijie didn't know that he had a toast, which caused Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng to think about it.

Most of these Ninghai officers and soldiers are from Liaodong, many of them have suffered a cold reception in Shandong, during this time in the capital, they don't even have the capital, if it wasn't for the last time, this time Cheng Shijie's wedding, they still stayed in the barracks.

They are just like Cheng Shijie asked, the duty of a soldier is to fight, and the officers and men of the Ning Navy only do two things, fight and prepare for war.

Hong Chengchou observed very carefully, most of the soldiers in the Ning Navy are not very old, about 20 years old is the mainstream, young people in their twenties are the age of full of hard work, they have not been infected with all kinds of bad habits of military oil, strict military discipline has become their code of conduct, every move, every word and deed, there are rules to follow, and they will never dare to violate it in the slightest.

But seeing that these soldiers were still a little restrained at this time, Hong Chengchou secretly sighed that Cheng Shijie really had a set of soldiers to lead the soldiers, and these soldiers were all trained by him to be killing machines.

After this battle, the officers and men of the Ning Navy actually received benefits.

Cheng Shijie continued to implement the land exchange system in the army of the Ning Navy, that is, each soldier has 50 acres of military field, if the land in Jinzhou is only 50 mu per person, Gaizhou, Haizhou, and Fuzhou will increase accordingly, but now, if you want the land of Guangningwei, it is 100 mu per person, Liaozhongwei is 110 mu, and Liaoyang is 120 mu.

These elite soldiers who have participated in Liaoyang have been used by Cheng Shijie to win and cultivate strong self-confidence.

In this battle, it can also be said that in addition to the reward of military merits, the officers and men of the Ning Navy also experienced the dividends of victory in the war, they can buy cheap horses or ploughing cattle sold by Cheng Shijie, these trophies can be bought at a price of only 20% off, you must know that the cattle have always been lacking in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no time to meet the demand.

"Dashuai, a glass of wine is enough, good things come in pairs!" “

"Good things come in pairs!"

Cheng Shijie did not refuse the persuasion of the soldiers to drink, he didn't want to go to the house, getting drunk is the best excuse, of course, some people will say that drunk and disorderly, this is pure nonsense, after a man is really drunk, everything is soft except for his hard mouth.

Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun drank three glasses in a row, at least seven or eight taels of wine, Sun Zhili kindly reminded: "Dashuai, don't get drunk, let the bride stay alone in the empty room!" ”

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "This handsome massive! ”

Cheng Shijie's amount of wine was really good, and he began to toast table by table. Finally seized the opportunity, of course, these guests would not let him go, raising their wine glasses to launch rounds of attacks on him, and they had to pour him down.

Cheng Shijie does not refuse to come, every lamp must be done, and he is heroic and dry.

Wu Sheng and Sun Zhili can't be persuaded at all, just like you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep, and you can never persuade a person who wants to get drunk.

I don't know how many glasses of wine I drank, until Cheng Shijie finished drinking one cup and poured it directly to the ground.

Everything goes to the ball.

The candle flame was flickering, and the bride Zhu Weiyuan sat in front of the dresser, looking at the cold moonlight that came in from the window pane, listening to the sound of footsteps in the yard, her heart was a little expectant, a little shy, and a little anxious.

As Zhu Weiyuan's personal maid, Gu Ziyi hurriedly got up, walked to the door, and saw the only female concubine in the backyard of Cheng Mansion, Luo's family,

Climbing the stairs up the corridor, she asked anxiously, "Is there any news from the horse?" ”

"Not yet." Luo and Gu Ziyi walked into the house together, and said: "The marshal has tens of thousands of soldiers in the capital, and today they are all here, and there are many guests, and there are more than 6,000 tables of dishes prepared in the house, I heard that the people of nearby Daxing and Qinghe have come to eat, and now the people are in distress, and the handsome people are concerned about the people, and I want to use this aspect to let the people see the meat and blood, and they can't get out, and they have snubbed the princess, please don't complain about the princess." ”

"How could I complain about him?"

Zhu Weiyuan's face was anxious, and she sat on the edge of the bed and said, "It's just that the wine hurts the body a lot, so let the handsome drink less!" ”

As he spoke, two pro-soldiers carried the unconscious Cheng Shijie in.

It seems that he has drunk too much, but in fact, Cheng Shijie is not drunk, he is just pretending to be drunk.

Zhu Weiyuan didn't care about letting Cheng Shijie lift his hijab, in fact, in ancient times, when getting married, only when she was in the church, the woman could secretly observe her husband.

Before there is a cave room, the man will not be able to see the woman.

Cheng Shijie's eyes narrowed a slit and quietly looked at Zhu Weiyuan.

At this time, Zhu Weiyuan was dressed in a dress, but she couldn't see her figure, seeing her beautiful eyes under her long eyelashes with tears, her delicate little face was pitiful, her eyelids were red and swollen, I don't know how long I cried today, but I was pitiful and moved when I saw it......

However, right here, Cheng Shijie smelled the smell of ginger, and then looked at Zhu Weiyuan's red and swollen eyes, ordinary women will cry when they get married.

Cheng Shijie thought about this custom, it is estimated that a woman's marriage is equivalent to being born again, coming to a new family, adapting to the new surroundings, she needs to adapt, to accept, for fear that she will be blamed for not doing well in the future, if there is a conflict with her husband, everyone will be against her, no one will help her, she will feel very helpless, so she will cry.

Maybe because she thought of leaving the home where she was born and raised, although she will never come back, but what changes is changed after all, whether her parents' health is good or not, she can't know at the first time, and she can't rush back in time if there is any urgency at home, so she feels sorry for her parents' nurturing over the years.

It can slowly become a habit, and it is normal for a woman to cry when she gets married, which shows that she has filial piety and a sense of responsibility. On the contrary, if you don't cry, you will be considered irresponsible and unfilial.

In Cheng Shijie's mind, Zhu Weiyuan definitely didn't cry, so in order to prevent others from saying that she was unfilial, she used ginger......

Seeing Cheng Shijie's snoring like thunder, Gu Ziyi muttered with some dissatisfaction: "Princess, you have always slept shallowly, how can you sleep here?" ”

"I want you to talk more!"

"How much wine has the horse drunk, and this wine hasn't been drunk yet!"

The wine is what we often hear about "a glass of wine", the ancients are made of gourd divided into two, and the couple each throws half, meaning that the two are combined into one after experiencing this marriage, and they are officially combined. And the bitter taste of the gourd is also intended to remind the two to share weal and sorrow.

After the Song Dynasty, the vessel of the Hewu no longer uses a gourd divided into two halves, and the ordinary wine cup is popular, and the word "Hejia" is also replaced by "Jiao Cup Wine".

After drinking the wine, the next thing is the free time for the newcomers, and everyone knows what to do at this time.

Zhu Weiyuan took a towel, scalded it in hot water, wiped Cheng Shijie's face and hands, at this time, Zhu Weiyuan looked at Gu Ziyi yawning, and said, "You are not needed here, you go and rest!" ”

"I'll go to the outer room and sleep in the outer room, and if you have any business, call me up. I have to keep my duty as a maid, lest the new lady say that the people in this house don't understand the rules at all......"

"Go quickly!"

Gu Ziyi made a gesture towards Zhu Weiyuan to undress, signaling her to blow out the candle.

Zhu Weiyuan sat on the edge of the bed and hesitated for a while, then took off her clothes and pulled a quilt, she wanted to lie on the outside of the bed, but Cheng Shijie's body was lying on the outside of the bed, she worked hard for a long time, and pushed Cheng Shijie hard.

Cheng Shijie seemed to subconsciously turn over, he really wanted to be drunk now, smelling the virgin fragrance close to the end of his nose, and seeing Zhu Weiyuan's exposed shoulders like fat and tender, he couldn't help but feel sorry......

Cheng Shijie is in a fierce battle between heaven and man in his heart.

Is it better to be a beast, or is it better to be a beast?

Unconsciously, Cheng Shijie fell asleep deeply.

In the end, he was still inferior to a beast.

Waking up in the morning, looking at the jade in her arms sleeping sweetly, her long eyelashes were picked up, making her face look innocent and beautiful, Cheng Shijie sat up, and the brocade was slid down, so that the beautiful woman's fragrant shoulders were exposed, and in the morning light, it seemed to be an ice sculpture and snow brick, dazzling white.

Cheng Shijie wanted to get up quietly, but he forgot that it was the first month of the year, and the weather was cold, and the futon was just moving, and the cold was pressing, and Zhu Weiyuan woke up.

She opened her eyes and saw that Cheng Shijie was staring at herself, and she was just about to pull the quilt to cover her face, so that she could save herself from being a new wife and no longer ignorant of the world, and said in a coquettish voice: "The horse will sleep for a while, and wait for the slave to wait for you to get up." ”

(End of chapter)