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Chapter 294: The Emperor's wedding: Ma Cheng solved Ruan Dacheng's funeral and then stood up and took his leave. Zhu Lunkui did not expect Ma Cheng to be so straightforward. He thought that Ma Cheng would definitely mention the question of the candidates for the cabinet today.

In fact, Ma Cheng did not forget what Ma Shiying told him, but after Ma Cheng's careful consideration last night, he decided not to participate in the destructive affairs of the ministers in the court. The reason is very simple. Ma Cheng has been by Ma Shiying for a long time and has no good impression of the confidants around him. These guys shouted slogans one by one, and often left when they really encountered difficulties.

Even those loyal ministers who committed suicide and sacrificed their country in history. Although Nanjing was occupied, there were still several provinces in the south who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty still had hundreds of thousands of troops. However, those loyal ministers did not have the spirit of enduring humiliation and died of their country. On the surface, they seemed heroic, but they were foolish. So Ma Cheng decided to lead troops to fight after the emperor's wedding. After occupying Guangdong and Guangxi, he immediately became king, and then cultivated his own civil servant team and broke away from Ma Shiying and others.

When Zhu Lunkui saw Ma Cheng go out, he felt mixed feelings. He didn't have feelings for Ma Cheng. Back then, Zhu Lunkui was just the grandson of King Zhu Gongye of Zhou, not even the prince. Ma Cheng insisted on opposition to make Zhu Lunkui the emperor. It would be unrealistic to say that Zhu Lunkui had no gratitude to Ma Cheng in his heart.

However, Ma Cheng repeatedly offended Longyan in the future, and did not give Zhu Lunkui face in many occasions, so that Zhu Lunkui could not come to Taiwan. Especially in the case of the removal from office, Zhu Lunkui did not want to have such a stalemate with Ma Cheng at that time. As long as Ma Cheng was willing to bow his head and give the emperor a face, Zhu Lunkui would use the assassination to reappoint Ma Cheng as the governor of Jiangnan.

But Ma Cheng made a big fuss and finally caused a riot, forcing the emperor to kill Luo Bingran, who had just taken office, which made the emperor unable to get out of Taiwan. So after more than a year of consideration and Qian Qianyi and others were constantly putting bad medicines on Ma Cheng, Emperor Zhu Lunkui decided to take the final measures to deal with Ma Cheng.

Today, when Zhu Lunkui saw Ma Cheng leave, he felt a little reluctant, but Lu Jiude beside him saw the emperor's hesitation and whispered from the side: "Emperor, you must not hesitate at the critical moment. Now you have moved, and you have no turning back. If the news leaks, will the emperor think Ma Cheng and his son can let the emperor go?"

Zhu Lunkui was right when he thought about it. What's the use of thinking about these things at such moments? So Zhu Lunkui regained his confidence and asked in a low voice: "Okay, just do what Da Fan said, let Mei Chun and Lu Siye be prepared!"

Ma Cheng didn't know that the emperor wanted to deal with him at this time, so Ma Cheng left the palace and did not go to see Ma Shiying, but took the people back to his Duke of Wei's mansion. He would not see anyone in the future and hid in the mansion to live his own life with his wives, concubines and children.

It was soon the first day of the Lunar New Year in the fourth year of Shaowu. Today is the day for the emperor's wedding. The emperor's wedding is extraordinary. The emperor is the lord of the world, and the queen is the mother of the world. In addition, the Ming Dynasty is now internal and external troubles, so Zhu Lunkui also wanted to take this opportunity to demonstrate national strength and unite people's hearts.

Although the emperor's marriage was extremely grand, the steps were similar to those of ordinary people. They established six rituals such as Nacai, name-question, Najib, Nazheng, report on the period, and welcome the bride. The first five steps were prepared two months ago. Today is the last item to be held, and welcome the bride.

Ma Cheng got up early on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and took his authentic wife Gu Miaoyin and his famous son Ma Yuan and Ma Ying to put on their official uniforms early and went out to prepare to go to the palace.

Ma Yuan is better, after all, he is four years old, but Ma Ying is just three years old. She is very unhappy to get up so early, so she stood at the door and yawned.

Seeing his son like this, Ma Cheng felt very distressed, but the national ceremony was not allowed to be absent. There was no way Ma Cheng had to carry Ma Ying over and let him sniff in his arms for a while.

Gu Miaoyin was very unhappy when she saw Ma Cheng approaching her son. She chased Ma Cheng to Zhenjiang a year ago and wanted to continue the opportunity to conceive when they were alone. Perhaps because of her physical condition, the two of them had not become pregnant for half a month. So now Gu Miaoyin saw Ma Cheng approaching her son and was very angry. She was pretty good to Ma Cheng's eldest son Ma Yuan. After all, Ma Yuan's mother tribe was all slaves of his Gu family, but she was not so polite to Ma Cheng's second son Ma Ying and third son Ma She.

Now Gu Miaoyin saw Ma Cheng approaching Ma Ying and scolded angrily: "Boy who doesn't understand the rules, who made you do this? Why don't you come down and stand up?"

Ma Ying was still a three-year-old child. When she saw her mother scolding her, she was so scared that she was not sleepy. She quickly stood respectfully at the door.

Ma Cheng was very unhappy when he saw Gu Miaoyin making a tantrum. It was indeed a bit embarrassing to let the child come out so early in this cold weather, but Gu Miaoyin was the wife of the main wife after all. At the same time, the door of the mansion was full of guards. Ma Cheng also wanted to leave some face for Gu Miaoyin, so he snorted coldly without saying anything.

All those who had fame and fortune in the Ma family were ready. Ma Cheng rode a horse, Gu Miaoyin, Ma Yuan and Ma Ying were sitting in a sedan chair, and under the escort of three hundred personal soldiers, they left the Ma Mansion and entered the palace.

Today is the imperial court ceremony, and Chengtian Gate has been full of people. Ma Cheng took his family to the front. Seeing that Ma Shiying and Ma Luan had arrived, he quickly stepped forward and stood behind Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying glanced at Ma Cheng, then looked at Ma Yuan following behind, and then asked, "Can Yuan'er wear leg guards? Have you brought the hand stove too?"

Today is the first day of the first lunar month. Although there is no dripping water in Nanjing, it is not easy to stand outside. Ma Cheng has always cared about his son and was ready when he came out. Ma Yuan and Ma Ying were wearing three layers of fur in their dresses, and they also held a stove full of gold charcoal in their hands, so they naturally couldn't freeze.

"Thank you for your concern, Yuan'er and Ying'er are ready!"

After hearing Ma Cheng's words, Ma Shiying looked at Ma Yuan and nodded with a smile, but she didn't care much about Ma Cheng's second son Ma Ying.

Ma Cheng knew that Ma Shiying was very poisonous. He only cared about Changsun Ma Yuan. If Ma Luan had no son, Ma Yuan was the one who inherited Ma Shiying's family business. So Ma Shiying was very concerned about Ma Yuan. Although she was only four years old, she had to receive personal teachings from her side. As for the concubine's son Ma Ying, she was not so lucky. Ma Shiying only knew that he had such a grandson and could not remember what she looked like.

The ministers here at Chengtian Gate waited for half an hour before the officials of the Imperial Heaven Supervision came out slowly, stood in front of Chengtian Gate and shouted with a pride: The auspicious time has come!

Immediately afterwards, the four gates of Chengtian Gate opened wide, and the ministers and princes followed the ritual officials into the palace city and came to the Qianqing Gate to wait.

At this time, Emperor Zhu Lunkui dressed up like a man. He made a grand appearance with the inner ministers, guards and eunuchs. He walked into the main hall of Qianqing Palace amid the music, ascending to the seat, Qianqing Palace

The princes and ministers outside the door bowed to the ground and shouted long live.

The prosecutor of the Ministry of Rites followed the edict, stood on Danbi on the east side, proclaimed the edict loudly, appointing the two angels, went to Qian Qianyi's house to receive the title, and asked for the name. As the music was sounded, the two angels followed the etiquette and followed the edict. Zhu Qizhen retreated from the court.

The next step is to marry the queen. The two angel officials were in charge of the rituals. The deputy envoy held the edict of asking for fame. The guard of honor and drum band were in the front. The gift-giving officer followed the second envoy and came out of the Ganqing Palace, blowing and beating, and rushed to the Qian Mansion in a mighty manner.

Qian Qianyi kneeled at the gate to receive the angels, received the order, received gifts, and thanked him. At the same time, Qian Qianyi presented the angels with his daughter's name, resume, birthday, etc. and submitted it to the angels. After the ceremony, the Qian family feasted to entertain the angels. The guard of honor, drum band members, and some low-level officials accompanying him could only wait at the gate.

After drinking and eating, the angel led a team back to the Forbidden City. Entering the Meridian Gate, he stopped outside the Taihe Gate, and handed over the "Jing" and "Box" to the eunuch of the Silijian, even if the task was successfully completed. The eunuch of the Silijian held the "Jing" and "Box" and went to the Ganqing Palace to restore the emperor's order.

Next, Zhu Lunkui issued an edict to the princes and ministers to ask for the status of the name. Then Zhu Qizhen gave a tribute to the emperor and brought a hat called Tongtian crown, which means that Zhu Lunkui had grown up. In this way, he could formally hold the wedding.

At this time, Empress Qian Yuhe came to Huangji Hall with eighty-eight princes and wives. The Huangji Hall should be filled with the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and other royal elders to watch the ceremony on the spot. However, Zhu Lunkui's biological mother's status is not high, so how can he come out in such an occasion? Therefore, the Huangji Hall is seated with Ma Shiying's daughter, the concubine of Emperor Hongguang Zhu Yousong, and the current Empress Dowager Ma Hongning.

Zhu Lunkui took the queen to kneel in front of the empress dowager, and then the empress dowager Ma Hongning warned the queen to be virtuous and virtuous, to give birth to a noble son early, etc. Then the princes and ministers knelt three times and kowtowed nine times to express warm congratulations.

After the Huangji Palace was finished, Zhu Qizhen also took the empress and the princes and ministers to Xiaoling to worship his ancestors, telling Zhu Yuanzhang that the current emperor Zhu Lunkui had married and was already a grown-up. Finally, he had to go to the Empress Dowager Ma Hongning's bedroom and kneel down to thank the Empress Dowager for raising her.

Ma Hongning is not Zhu Lunkui's biological mother, and she is only five or six years older than Zhu Lunkui, but there is no way. Zhu Lunkui's banner is to inherit Zhu Yousong's inheritance, so he naturally has to regard Ma Hongning as the empress dowager. In this way, no matter how reluctant Zhu Lunkui is, the process that should be taken must be taken.

It took a day to complete all the process. Not to mention children like Ma Yuan, even Ma Cheng, an adult man, could not stand it. So after sending a team to welcome the bride, Ma Cheng asked someone to send Ma Yuan and Ma Ying home. Anyway, there were hundreds of people here in Ganqingmen, and one more or one less could not be seen.

After the final steps of the wedding were completed, the emperor would give him a banquet, but when the cold weather was frozen outside to eat, all the ministers had no intention of this, and they immediately left the palace.

Ma Cheng followed Ma Shiying and Ma Luan, just leaving Chengtian Gate and going home, when a small eunuch in the palace chased him out, he ran and shouted, "Duke of Shu, the Marquis of Guiyang, the Queen Mother will be ordered by the Queen Mother!"

When Ma Shiying heard this, he quickly stopped and bowed and asked, "Dare you ask me what's wrong with my father-in-law?"
Chapter completed!