Chapter 269: The Wedding Begins
The chariot originally referred to the car of Tianzi Cheng, and later developed into a special car for participating in important events.
According to the grade, the prince of the Tang Dynasty is the following chariot, the prince and the martial arts, like the chariot. Since the rest and the second grade, the third grade, leather. Four pins, wooden bridles. Five-pin, car.
Elephant chariot, Zhu liner, Baluan in Heng, left to build a flag, flag painting dragon, one up and one down.
The right carries the halberd. Leather, with leather ornamentation, left built, through the silk for. Yu Tong Xiang Rou. Wooden reins, decorated with lacquer, and the rest are the same as leather. Wheels, curved walls, bronze walls. All the wheels, the quality, the cover, the flag, are all Zhu.
(You can go to Baidu to search for a map, you can't find it, I can draw one for you)
Li Shen is the prince of Zhengyipin, so he uses a four-cart elephant chariot, that is, a four-horse horse-drawn chariot, and the emperor's golden chariot is six chariots and the prince's five chariots.
Li Shen actually sat on this thing for the first time, and this was rewarded by Li Shimin yesterday. But it's magnificent.
Li Shen's elephant chariot went through the west gate of the palace, and Li Shen needed to go to the Ganlu Hall and start the process from there.
Li Shimin had already made good preparations early on, and the court musicians had already set up a tent in the north of the East Dynasty Hall yesterday, set up a throne on the east steps of the Taiji Palace, set up a rest place for group officials on the court hall, and arranged a musical instrument stand.
As soon as Li Shimin came out of the west room, he began to play music, and Li Shen followed.
Today, Li Shimin wears a crown of heaven and wears a silk robe, which looks very solemn. According to the drill plan, Li Shen followed from the right hand side to Anyuan Hill, which is the place of sacrifice.
The sacrificial supplies here have already been prepared, first worship heaven and earth, and worship the ancestors.
Li Shen is like a puppet, he will do whatever the ceremonial official of the Zongzheng room shouts, for fear that if he accidentally does something wrong, Li Shimin will punish him.
After worshipping, Li Shimin began to comfort the ancestors again, and said a lot of words that Li Shen couldn't understand. It didn't end until noon, Li Shen knelt with a sore back, and then followed Li Shimin to the Taiji Palace.
Because the hundred officials and the envoys of various countries had been waiting here for a long time, Li Shimin entered the banquet and the hundred officials congratulated. After that, the monarchs and ministers had fun together, and Li Shen sat next to Li Shimin to stay up for time.
This meal will be eaten for at least two hours, after which he can go to greet him in person, and the ministers will transfer to King Ji's mansion to prepare for the wedding party.
At this moment, Lu Mansion, Lu's father Lu Shuang, took his daughter to the ancestral hall early in the morning to worship the ancestors. Then wait until dusk, the prince comes to greet his relatives, the Tang Dynasty respects the ancient ceremony, and the wedding must be at dusk.
"I heard that you set up a banquet with three thousand tables on Suzaku Street?" Li Shimin turned his head and asked Li Shen in his spare time.
"Yes, Aye, the eldest brother said that Aya wants to show the richness of my Datang, let them see today what kind of pomp and circumstance it is for a random prince of Datang to become married."
"Haha, good! is worthy of my Li family's son, courageous. Li Shimin laughed and praised Li Shen. It immediately attracted a lot of attention.
"In that case, you can go to the Suzaku City Gate and have a look, I heard that it is all your food, and you can't let them lose sight of your people." Li Shimin drank a little too much, otherwise Li Shen, a prince, would have to go to see the people below.
"It's Aya," Li Shen just didn't want to stay here, and replied.
Today's Suzaku Street cannot be described as lively, it can be said to be crowded. Not only to eat, but also to watch the excitement.
20,000 people came to guard the sixteenth guard of the Southern Ya just in case, and the generals, including the prison guards, were complaining about Li Shen.
You said that you would set up a banquet, but you had to hold a banquet at the gate of the palace, so that the soldiers and generals were all ready to wait, for fear that something would go wrong and cause some trouble.
Li Shen walked up to the gate tower of Vermilion Bird City, three thousand tables, occupying the entire street, and Li Shen couldn't see it in the distance.
Li Shen thought for a long time and finally didn't say a word, just stood and watched. He also wanted to say to the people below that they all eat and drink well.
But there were so many people, many of them were far away, and I couldn't hear what he said.
Wang Xuance saw Li Shen and made two gestures to Li Shen, meaning that everything was going well, and Li Shen nodded, indicating that he understood, and then went down the city tower and went back to the Taiji Palace.
Li Shen was bored and finally stayed up until the end of the banquet, and it was almost evening. Li Shimin stood up and said:
"Go to Ying'er, inherit my sect, and be handsome and respectful"
Li Shen knew that this was the rule, so he bowed his head and took the order.
Walked out of the palace and sat on the elephant chariot, and led the team to welcome relatives from Xirao to Lufu. Li Shen's welcoming team is relatively large, and more than 100 people who are related to Li Shen are in the team.
Li Shen assigned them a task, which was to throw money. Thrown from the palace all the way to the Lu Mansion. All the people along the way have a part.
King Ji's wedding was a grand event for the people of Chang'an, and the road from the palace to the Lu Mansion was lined with the people of Chang'an.
Li Shen pulled hundreds of carts of copper coins, and tens of thousands of dollars were used to scatter money along the way. Li Shen's words are called solitary happiness is better than public happiness.
The things that pretend to be uncles love to do, one person and one car, standing on the car, throwing one by one into the crowd, and going to the next car after throwing one car.
It's not your own money anyway, and you don't feel sorry if you throw it away.
The ministers also came out of the palace, as well as the envoys of various countries. Seeing the scenes of Suzaku Street is shocking,
Many envoys have not seen the wedding customs of the Tang Dynasty and choose to follow Li Shen's team to see the excitement.
When I saw the gentlemen throwing money desperately, their faces showed surprise, this Tang Dynasty is really rich, and a prince is so powerful when he gets married, and he throws money at will to have fun with the people.
Obviously, Li Shimin's goal was achieved as soon as he left the palace.
Although they heard that King Ji was rich, they couldn't imagine that a prince of the Tang Dynasty would be so rich.
Tens of thousands of people's banquets and tens of thousands of dollars thrown out tell them that Datang is now invincible in the world.
Especially a few very low-key Tibetan envoys, they arrived in Chang'an yesterday and lived together in Honglu Temple.
Today, I also followed a group of envoys to the palace, and the scene I just saw,
"Vice Minister, has this Datang been rich to this point?" They are all coming to Datang for the first time, and they have heard that Datang is rich before, but they are all nobles, and they think that no matter how rich they are, they will live almost the same as them.
didn't expect them to see this scene as soon as they arrived in Datang. When a prince becomes married, the money spent on the commoners is hundreds of thousands.
They don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"Alas, this His Royal Highness King Ji is indeed rich and rivals the country, and I still don't believe what the Prime Minister said before. This one prince can feed an army of more than 100,000 people.
I don't know how many princes like this in Datang are there? How can I, the Tibetan country, fight with it? It's a big mistake. ”
How did he know that Lao Li's family had such a lone seedling.
This is also the reason why Lu Dongzan took the risk to kill Li Shen, because of Li Shen's reasons in recent years, the economy of the Tang Dynasty has been driven.
In the news reported by Lu Dongzan from Chang'an, it was said between the lines that Li Shen was slowly changing Datang.
He also learned from his own channels about the Tang Dynasty's current policy towards Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, and in combination with what Li Shen did to Tubo, Lu Dongzan had already guessed Li Shen's plan.
It's just that now Li Shen's plan is too deep in Tubo, and he wants to stop it, but the tribal nobles who can benefit will not stop.
That's the scary thing about vested interest groups. That's why Lu Dongzan thought of a way to intercept and kill Li Shen.
As soon as Li Shen dies, all plans will stop.
But he miscalculated.