Chapter 142: The Eve of the Big Wedding
Lin Ping'an's wedding is naturally highly anticipated, mainly because the identities of the two parties involved in the marriage are too special.
Yan Xiaoxiao is the only daughter of the most legendary dean Hua Fangfang in the Ming Dynasty, and the leader of the Qingtian Sword, the golden cage in the night watchman, and the object of admiration in the hearts of many young men in the capital, so such a character is going to get married, which will naturally attract everyone's attention.
And although Lin Ping'an doesn't have any decent official position, and he is not an important minister in the court, this guy has an excellent personal relationship.
Both the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party attach great importance to him, plus the group of night watchmen and many students of Zhulin Academy, this support group can be described as huge.
Lin Ping'an's father died early, his mother's whereabouts were unknown after the Battle of Guangning, and his only sister also died tragically in Shengjing City.
Zhang Yan in the palace naturally attaches great importance to this matter, but after all, she is the queen's mother, and it is impossible for her to do it herself like Ye Yunshu, so she sent Gao Qiqian to handle this matter.
However, Gao Qiqian can do a limited amount of things, nothing more than to send a lot of gifts on behalf of the queen, as for other things, he can't do anything, after all, Lin Ping'an is just a lieutenant of Fengguo, although he is also the dean of two academies, but to be honest, these things are not on the table, so although this wedding is huge, it cannot be upgraded in terms of specifications.
Just when everyone felt a little regretful about this, the emperor's will came from the palace, and the Ministry of Rites was instructed to handle the matter, and the specifications were to be done according to the prince's specifications.
This will shocked everyone so much that they couldn't close their jaws, but if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with it, Lin Ping'an is the righteous brother of the queen's mother, isn't it a relative of the emperor, and the wedding is completely said to be in the past according to the treatment of the prince.
It's just that in this way, everyone suddenly understood the weight of Lin Ping'an in the heart of His Majesty the Emperor, and at the same time, they had to think a little higher about Lin Ping'an.
At this time, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites is Gu Bingqian, this person is also a wonderful, he is a Jinshi in the twenty-third year of Wanli, and the evaluation of him in history is extremely disdainful, the reason is that he deliberately flatters Wei Zhongxian, and the history is known as Renqu Fengzhongxian, if he is enslaved.
It is precisely because of his flattery to Wei Zhongxian that at this moment he is not only a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, but also a scholar of Dongge University, which can be described as a spring breeze.
When the Ministry of Rites received the emperor's will and was responsible for handling Lin Ping'an's marriage, Gu Bingqian immediately came to Wei Zhongxian.
In the handling of this matter, he is self-aware, because the Ministry of Rites is also very watery in organizing weddings, even if it is the same specification, it will vary from person to person, and the scale of this is naturally in the hands of him, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
At this moment, he looked at Wei Zhongxian and asked cautiously:
"Nine thousand years old, Your Majesty ordered the Ministry of Rites to handle Lin Ping'an's wedding, how to decide this matter, and ask Nine Thousand Years Old to make it clear."
In fact, Wei Zhongxian's attitude towards Lin Ping'an, most people can see it clearly, and Gu Bingqian is naturally no exception, but Wei Zhongxian's personality is changeable, if he doesn't ask him face to face today, if he turns against Wei Zhongxian and Lin Ping'an, he will inevitably be disliked by Wei Zhongxian because of this matter, so what he wants at this moment is Wei Zhongxian's clear sentence.
Hearing Gu Bingqian's question, Wei Zhongxian said without thinking about it:
"Of course, it is a big deal, Lin Ping'an was originally the director of the Guozi Supervisor, and he is a six-product, and his identity is special, so the Ministry of Rites naturally has to be cautious."
After getting Wei Zhongxian's words so clearly, Gu Bingqian knew what he should do.
So the next day, Gu Bingqian made an excerpt in the name of the Ministry of Rites, asking the court to give Lin Ping'an a house.
The reason is very simple and sufficient, that is, Lin Ping'an's current residence belongs to the night watchman, and if he still lives there after getting married, he will become a wealthy person, which is obviously not good.
The excerpt was sent to the palace, and there was a reply soon, in view of the proposal of the Ministry of Rites, the emperor gave Lin Ping'an a large mansion, the kind of five in and five out, the scale of which was no less than that of any prince and nobleman.
Therefore, led by the Ministry of Rites and cooperated with the Ministry of Works, the overall renovation of this big mansion was carried out, and in less than a month, this big house was completely renovated, and even the furniture and other furnishings inside were properly arranged.
In this regard, Lin Ping'an himself was a little flattered, but he was very busy at the moment, and he hardly had time to pay attention to his marriage, because he still had a lot of things to deal with.
That set of pinyin formulas has now been basically taught, and the rest is the proficiency of those people.
For this matter, Lin Ping'an himself felt ridiculous, but it is something that modern first-grade elementary school students must learn, and it has become a magic trick in the book of heaven here, and it seems that the gap caused by the times is difficult to overcome.
The second thing is the hot air balloon.
Because the first test flight was very successful, the military and night watchmen of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to this thing, so they asked Lin Ping'an to make a few more hot air balloons, and then train some soldiers to come out and master the take-off and landing of hot air balloons, as well as how to strike at the enemy on the ground during the flight.
The third thing to do is to make a telescope.
Because on the hot air balloon, if you have a telescope, you can detect the enemy's movements and the environment on the ground in the high altitude.
The rest is the production of cement and the improvement of the Daming Flame Gun, which are all in Lin Ping'an's plan.
Because according to the history of the Ming Dynasty, because Sun Chengzong built the Guanning Defense Line, within three or four years, the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty would not break out into a large-scale war, and in these three or four years, Lin Ping'an must improve the overall national strength of the Ming Dynasty, and produce more advanced weapons, so as to deal with the next large-scale attack of the Later Jin.
These things together gave Lin Ping'an a little headache, but even if he had a headache, he had to do it, so he was so busy that he couldn't even take care of his big wedding.
But Gu Bingqian is very good at doing things, and the Ministry of Rites will naturally be very thorough, and the three books and six rites and the like are all handled by the Ministry of Rites, and it is the woman's side, and the Ministry of Rites has also dispatched female officials to deal with the corresponding matters.
In this way, time passed quickly, and Lin Ping'an had already moved out of the previous courtyard and lived in the mansion rewarded by the Emperor of the Apocalypse.
At this moment, the entire mansion is full of lights, waiting for the Suzaku girl to marry back to the mansion tomorrow.
Lin Ping'an's cave room is very large, from furniture to placement, it is obviously a lot of silver, but there is one shortcoming that gives him a headache.
That is, this cave room is separated by a partition and a beaded curtain, and there is a bed in the room, according to Ye Yunshu, this is prepared by a maid through the room.
And she and Liu Ru have already discussed, because the woman Xiaoxiao was not ready to bring the maid over to the room, so the two of them volunteered to serve as the maid in the room.
For this request, Lin Ping'an directly refused.
He naturally knows what is going on with the maid in the room.
This kind of maid is generally brought by the woman, and they are all very close to the woman, the same age, and many of them are childhood sweethearts who grew up together, called the master servant, but they are actually sisters.
When the hostess gets married, the maid will also come to the man's house with the hostess, and her main job is to assist the hostess in serving the man, including but not limited to having sex with the man on behalf of the hostess when the hostess is inconvenient.
Therefore, most of the intercourse maids eventually became men's concubines.
Lin Ping'an is a modern person, so he naturally doesn't have this concept in his mind, and the maid in the room sleeps a few steps away from the big bed in the cave room, and there is no secret at all about the actions of the two people.
He even wondered if he would suddenly wilt under the gaze of other people.
So he shook his head without hesitation and refused.
But now it was like stabbing a bee's nest, Ye Yunshu and Liu Ru were crying a lot, saying that Lin Ping'an looked down on them, and Lin Ping'an was naturally unexpectedly surprised by such a result.
Later, after thinking about it, he could only nod and agree, because according to the convention, even if he didn't let Ye Yunshu and Liu Rushi come, there would be other people to serve as the maids in the same room, since this was the case, it was not as good as these two girls.
And at this moment, Yan Xiaoxiao stood in her boudoir, looking at everything here, her eyes were full of nostalgia and reluctance.
I'm going to marry him tomorrow, will he be good to me?
Yan Xiaoxiao thought in her heart, with a hint of apprehension in anticipation, at this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the boudoir, and I saw a female night watchman dressed in black quickly come to Yan Xiaoxiao, and said in a hurried tone:
"Oh no, Mu Bai from the sixth place took someone to find Lin Ping'an!"