Chapter two hundred and forty second wedding room flower candle night
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, his mouth showed a bit of surprise, he glanced at the queen and said quietly: "I never thought that the queen would still think about this matter!"
When Queen Xia heard this, she rolled her eyes at the emperor and said with a sweet voice: "Li Qing has a life-saving grace for your majesty, and he is your most trusted minister. I naturally have to pay a lot of attention to you."
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said: "In the Queen's opinion, what should you and I, the Queen, reward Li Huan for his wedding?"
Mrs. Xia nestled in Zhu Houzhao's arms, and said with a strange look in her phoenix eyes: "I think Li Huan is not short of precious things of gold and silver. From my perspective, I am not as good as giving Li Huan's two wives a piece each."
A royal decree."
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "What the queen said is true, and I actually think so too. Li Huan's net worth is not bad at all. In the past two years, he has confiscated as many as tens of millions of taels of gold and silver.
What kind of rare treasures have I not seen before? From what I know, Li Huan has benefited from it no less than hundreds of thousands of taels."
After hearing the emperor's words, Queen Xia couldn't help but widen her eyes, spread her red lips, and her face was full of astonishment. She subconsciously said: "Ah, Li Huan is also a corrupt official?"
Hearing Queen Xia's words and seeing the Queen's reaction in his eyes, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing. He laughed and nodded: "Yes, Li Huan is a big corrupt official."
Queen Xia couldn't help but look at Zhu Houzhao with some doubts, and Zhu Houzhao reached out and tapped Queen Xia's nose and said: "Is the Queen strange that Li Huan has embezzled so much property, why do I ignore it?"
The queen subconsciously said: "I think your majesty thought that Li Huan had saved your majesty's life, so you condoned..."
Zhu Houzhao shook his head, but did not say anything more. Instead, he changed the subject and said to Queen Xia: "Tomorrow, in the names of you and me, I will issue an edict to confer Zhang Jin, and Zhu Lin and Zhu Lin will be conferred as first-grade imperial concubines, and they will be rewarded with two dragon, phoenix and jade pendants."
Yes, hundreds of pieces of Shu brocade..."
Although no gold or silver was given as a reward, even Zhu Houzhao himself felt a little embarrassed if it was just to confer a royal title to his wife, so he rewarded a lot of property more or less. Of course, the quantity of property was not large, but more of making up the number.
That’s all.
The eighth day of the first lunar month
The entire Maoyan Alley is hung with red lanterns, red silks and satins are spread out, and red makeup is used all the way, showing a festive atmosphere.
As a favored minister of the emperor, Li Huan married two major princes, the British Duke and the Chengguo Duke. This can be said to be the most sensational event in the capital.
On this day, the central gates of the British Duke's Palace and the Chengguo Duke's Palace, two of the top palaces in the Ming Dynasty, were opened.
Groups of servants dressed in red makeup carried boxes one after another, and filed out in an endless stream.
In the British government palace, one after another servants dressed in red festive clothes walked out with the dowry brought by the British government. The momentum was huge.
After the first servant carrying the dowry walked out, a full incense stick of time passed, and there were still servants walking out of the British mansion one after another.
The people in the city who originally came to see the excitement after hearing the news were amazed at the beginning, but now they can be said to be stunned.
The dowry scene in the British government palace is really astonishing. Just looking at the scale and posture, the number of servants alone is probably no less than a few hundred, and the dowry items are being carried out one box after another.
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Someone in the crowd saw this scene and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Shili Hongzhuang, is this the legendary Thousand acres of fertile land, Shili Hongzhuang? No, even the legendary Thousand acres of fertile land, Shili Hongzhuang cannot compare with it.
ah."
Legend has it that when a wealthy family marries a daughter, the dowry is so luxurious and rich that the wedding procession stretches for ten miles. Not only dowry gold and silver jewelry and other items, but also thousands of acres of fertile land, so people often use the word "thousand acres of fertile land" as a dowry.
Ten miles of red makeup is used to describe the grand occasion of marrying off a girl in a certain family.
But that kind of scene may be the biggest scene that can be seen for private married women, but compared with the huge momentum they see now for British public married women, there is simply no comparison.
The British Duke's Palace is known as the most noble person in the Ming Dynasty. The British Dukes of all dynasties have been the first noble people deeply trusted by the royal family. You can also imagine the background of the British Duke Palace.
Of course, although the married women of British princes also pay a lot of dowry and the momentum is not small, it has never been as grand as this time.
On the one hand, it was because the person getting married this time was Li Huan, an important minister of the emperor, and on the other hand, he had the intention of competing with the Duke of Chengguo.
After all, Li Huan not only wants to marry Zhang Jin, but also wants to marry Zhu Lin from the Chengguo Palace. If the two major palaces marry their daughters, even if the two families don't want to compete with each other, they may be behind the scenes by the common people.
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In this case, Zhang Lun, as the British Duke, directly ordered that the British government do its best to make this marriage event with enough fanfare that no matter what, it cannot be suppressed by the Chengguo Duke.
This is a matter of face for the British government, which is why such a huge scene has arisen.
The distance from the British Government Palace to Maoyan Alley where Li Huan lives is less than ten miles. However, the dowry delivery team sent by the British Government stretches for nearly ten miles. It can be said that from the British Government Palace to Maoyan Lane, it is like a long red dragon.
, it can be said to be the real Shili Hongzhuang.
The movement from the British Duke's Palace was astonishing, but the Chengguo Duke's Palace was also not bad at all. The Chengguo Duke's Palace also wanted to overwhelm the British Duke's Palace in the wedding ceremony from the very beginning, so it was said that
The wedding procession from the Duke's Mansion was also huge and impressive.
It is also a wedding procession that stretches for ten miles. If you look at it from a high altitude, you will find that on this day, two long red dragons, with infinite joy, lie between the British Palace, the Chengguo Palace, and Maoyan Lane.
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It can be said that such a scene is something that the common people in the capital have never seen before. After all, few companies have ever experienced a situation like this.
Even when the prince Zhu Houzhao got married, there was no such big commotion. After all, the royal family pays more attention to solemnity, and it is impossible to create such a big momentum, otherwise it will be suspected of extravagance.
But the British Duke's Palace and the Chengguo Duke's Palace are not afraid. They are the families of princes and princes for a hundred years. They made such a big noise and movement that even the officials in the court could not say anything.
I can secretly sigh that the two princely palaces are indeed the homes of princes and princes that have been passed down for centuries, and their heritage and wealth are astonishingly deep.
On this day, Li's Mansion was full of celebrations. That is to say, the predecessor of Li's Mansion was the residence of Ge Lao Xie Qian. It occupied a large area. Even so, the wedding processions sent by the two princes' mansions also covered the entire Li Mansion.
The house was almost packed.
A large amount of dowry was carried into the two courtyards of Li Mansion.
These two courtyards were the two courtyards that were built by Feng himself to welcome brides.
Others would marry at most one person at a time, but who made Li Huan so special? The emperor personally granted marriage to two daughters at once, regardless of age, and they were all legitimate wives.
This made Ms. Feng a little worried. Although they were both head wives, they were two people after all. They couldn't marry each other back, so they could just arrange them in the same place.
If we really do this, who knows what trouble will happen.
So Feng immediately sorted out two yards and tidied them up separately. The layout of the two yards was almost exactly the same, and even everything in the new house he prepared was exactly the same, without the slightest hint of favoritism.
Now, the wedding personnel from the two major government houses carried the dowries from the two families into the two courtyards respectively. At the same time, the maids and maids sent by the two families also began to place the dowries in their respective courtyards.
in the yard.
Soon the two courtyards were decorated, adding a sense of celebration, and people couldn't help but marvel at the generosity of the two families.
Just looking at the dowry on the surface, I'm afraid it's not less than tens of thousands of taels. If you include the gold and silver jewelry, acres of land and other things that were given as dowry in private, I'm afraid that the two major government offices will really lose money this time, and the value will be very high.
There are nearly one hundred thousand taels.
In such a huge capital, it is true that marrying a daughter will bring so much wealth with you. Even if the emperor marries a daughter, he may not necessarily bring so much wealth with him. After all, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were famous for their frugality starting from the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Li Huan was awakened by the bright sky and the crackling sounds of celebration, and was urged to change into a groom's suit and prepare to welcome the bride.
Under normal circumstances, Li Huan, the groom's official, should set off and lead a wedding team to welcome the bride. However, because this time Li Huan was marrying two newcomers at once, how to welcome the bride became a problem.
After all, if Li Huan went to the British Duke's Palace first, the Chengguo Duke's Palace would definitely be dissatisfied even if he didn't say anything about it. By the same token, if he went to the Chengguo Duke's Palace first, the British Duke's Palace would also be quite dissatisfied.
This problem obviously fell on Li Huan. At this time, all eyes fell on Li Huan, waiting for Li Huan to decide which one to go to first.
After all, Li Huan only had one person, and it was impossible to split the person in half. He could only greet one person first, and then the other person.
Let alone Li Huan, anyone else would be worried about this kind of thing.
Just like now, Li Huan was fully dressed and riding on a horse also wearing red silk, but there was a look of embarrassment on his face.
This choice is not that easy to choose. Once he makes a choice, I am afraid that one of them will talk about him before the two women have even entered the door.
Li Huan smiled bitterly in his heart, everything was the emperor's fault. In order to win over the Xungui Group, he had to marry two families at once, but now it's better. The emperor only cares about killing and not burying, leaving him with such a big problem.
At this time, there was a commotion not far away. Li Huan looked around and saw a group of people approaching. The leader was none other than Qiu Ju, the eunuch who was serving the emperor.
Qiu Ju walked over quickly with a smile on his face. From a distance, he could hear Qiu Ju laughing and saying, "Congratulations to Brother Li, congratulations to Brother Li on your wedding."
Li Huan raised his hands to Qiu Ju and said, "Brother Qiu, why are you here? You can't be His Majesty..."
Qiu Ju couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this. At the same time, among the group of people behind Qiu Ju, a figure came into Li Huan's eyes. Who could it be if it wasn't Zhu Houzhao?
No wonder Li Huan guessed that Zhu Houzhao might be among the people behind Qiu Ju. In fact, based on Li Huan's understanding of Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao could definitely do such a thing.
So after just a little careful search, Li Huan immediately found Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao noticed that Li Huan's eyes were on him, but he didn't mean to dodge. Instead, he raised his head and smiled at Li Huan and nodded.
Li Huan subconsciously wanted to get off his horse, but Zhu Houzhao shook his head slightly at Li Huan, pointed outside, and opened his mouth to signal Li Huan to welcome the bride.
Li Huan was just wondering whether he should go to the British Duke's Palace or the Chengguo Duke's Palace first. Suddenly a figure came over. Li Huan looked and saw that the person who came was Zhang Wei, the British Duke. This man was Zhang Lun's brother, and it could be said that he was the British Duke.
The core lineage of the government.
At this time, Zhang Weixing approached Li Huan and whispered to Li Huan: "Master Li, my aunt has something to say. Please don't be embarrassed. You can go to Chengguo Duke's Mansion to welcome the Zhu family girl first."
Li Huan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this. He obviously didn't expect that Zhang Jin would be so understanding of justice and be able to sense his difficulty and send someone to help him out.
But just when Li Huan was about to take people out, another figure came over. It was none other than Zhu Lin.
Zhu Lin was the young prince of Chengguo Palace and Zhu Lin's elder brother. He saw Zhu Lin glance at Zhang Wei, cupped her hands towards Li Huan and said: "Brother-in-law, my sister said that you don't need to be embarrassed, but you can go first."
The British government welcomes the bride, and then goes to welcome her."
Li Huan looked at Zhu Lin, then at Zhang Wei, and couldn't help laughing and said: "How can Li be so virtuous and so capable that he is so loved by two good wives?"
After speaking, Li Huan pondered for a moment and then said: "That's all, Jin'er is three months older than Lin'er, so the order of birth will be in order of eldest and youngest."
Li Huan immediately led the team to welcome the bride and went straight to the British government palace.
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Zhang Jin, who is dressed in a phoenix crown and harem, is sitting in the boudoir at this time. Several sisters-in-law in the family, the sister who is married outside and even several nieces and nephews of the direct lineage are looking at the dressed-up clothes with smiles on their faces, as if they are banished fairies.
Ordinary Zhang Jin.
As the mistress of the British Duke's mansion, Mrs. Su was sitting next to Zhang Jin, and together with an elder sister-in-law, she was whispering something in Zhang Jin's ear.
Zhang Jin, who had always been cold and cold, now had a blush on his delicate and pretty face.
The eldest sister-in-law coughed lightly and said with a blush on her face: "Have you remembered Jin'er?"
Su Shi stuffed a booklet into Zhang Jin's hand and said with a chuckle: "Little aunt, don't be shy. The husband and wife are giving this gift. According to you practitioners, it is the way of nature. If there is anything you don't understand, just ask
Look through this booklet."
When the women next to him saw this, their pretty faces turned red and they laughed secretly.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside.
I saw several little maids running over quickly, shouting as they ran: "My aunt is here, my aunt is here to welcome the bride."
Zhang Jin, who was sitting there, couldn't help but be stunned, and subconsciously said: "That shouldn't be the case. If Li Huan goes to the Duke Cheng's Mansion first..."
Su smiled when she heard this and said: "Then there's no need to guess. It must have been the Grand Governor who came to my British Duke's residence to welcome the bride first. It seems that the Grand Governor still values you more, my little aunt."
Zhang Jin shook his head and said: "Li Huan is not a fool. He cannot show obvious favoritism in this kind of matter. Rather than saying that he values me, it is better to say that he values me and Zhu Lin in the order of age.
Come."
When Su Shi and others heard this, they were startled for a moment. Then Su Shi smiled and said, "No matter what, the groom is here to welcome the bride. It's business for us to send you off to the sedan chair, little aunt."
After a lot of trouble, Li Huan finally welcomed Zhang Jin, who was wearing a phoenix crown and a red hijab, into the sedan chair. Then, accompanied by the shouts of the etiquette officer, the sedan chair carried by thirty-two people slowly rose up.
Duke Cheng's Mansion
The entire Duke Cheng's Mansion had already made preparations, and the huge Duke's Mansion was filled with joy.
The old Duke Zhu Fu was sitting there, looking at the panting steward who came to report the news, and said with a smile on his lips: "You said Li Huan went to the British Duke's mansion to welcome his bride?"
The steward nodded and said: "Not only did the young lady show humility, but the young lady from the British government also showed humility. In the end, my uncle decided to welcome the bride in the order of their age."
Hearing this, Zhu Fu couldn't help stroking his beard and laughing loudly: "It's hard for him. It's rare in ancient times for him to marry two wives at once. It's not easy for him to have a bowl of water balanced."
The wedding team welcomed Zhang Jin into Li's Mansion and into the courtyard prepared for Zhang Jin. Li Huan immediately took the original team to Cheng Guogong's Mansion to welcome Zhu Lin back without stopping.
After running back and forth these two times, Li Huan was still very tired even if he practiced Hengfu.
Lin Pingzhi, who was accompanying Li Huan in the process, had a look of exhaustion on his face. He looked at Li Huan and whispered, "Cousin, I didn't expect getting married would be so troublesome."
When Li Huan heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Lin Pingzhi and chuckled: "Why, Pingzhi, do you want to get married?"
Hearing what Li Huan said, Lin Pingzhi shook his head repeatedly and said: "No, no, I'm still young, there's no rush for this kind of thing, there's no rush."
Li Huan couldn't help but chuckle.
However, Li Huan had no intention of teasing Lin Pingzhi. Welcoming the two brides did not mean that the wedding was completed.
Now the sky has set in the west, the mountains are about to set, and the sky is gradually getting darker.
As the ceremony official sang loudly, he saw from two courtyards on both sides, a grandma in festive attire carrying two brides dressed in phoenix crowns and harems, each walking over.
When he came closer, Li Huan looked at the hydrangea held in each of their hands, took a deep breath, stepped forward and grabbed the other section of the hydrangea in their hands.
Many guests and friends around saw this scene and found it very interesting.
They had seen a lot of couples worshiping heaven and earth, but this scene of three people worshiping heaven and earth together was the only scene they had seen in their lives.
Although Li Huan's status is valuable, those who are qualified to attend Li Huan's wedding also have extraordinary status.
Many of them can be said to be the homes of nobles. After all, nobles are married to each other and are related to each other.
Li Huan married Zhang Jin and Zhu Lin, and then he naturally integrated into the Xungui group, and many people even whistled on the sidelines.
Even if the emperor was present, under such circumstances, he would subconsciously forget the emperor's identity, and it was impossible for Li Huan to stop those people from making noise at this time.
The singing officer looked at Li Huan, Zhang Jin, and Zhu Lin who were standing still, and then at Feng who was already sitting there. He took a deep breath and said loudly: "The newlyweds pay homage to their ancestors."
Originally, the wedding process was very complicated. It is said that the wedding process started from the moment the bride got off the sedan chair, but who made Li Huan's wedding so special?
So after discussion, many processes were changed, thus eliminating a lot of red tape.
At this moment, Li Huan, Zhang Jin, and Zhu Lin only need to worship their ancestors first, offer incense to their ancestors, and then proceed to the familiar process of worshiping heaven and earth.
Li Huan and the other three took the incense candle and lit it, then bowed respectfully to the spiritual place of the ancestor of the Li family. After three bows and bows, they presented the incense candle.
The singing officer then said: "The ceremony is over."
At the same time, someone on the side shouted with some hope: "Quick, quick, the newlyweds are worshiping heaven and earth."
There was so much noise that Li Huan couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
But when Li Huan saw Zhu Houzhao, who was standing nearby and blinking at him, Li Huan almost couldn't help but silence himself.
This emperor really has a young mind.
Many officials watching the ceremony may have already recognized the Emperor. For example, Wang Yangming, Liu Yu and other officials would not be able to recognize the Emperor unless they were blind.
Although they were deeply shocked to see the emperor appearing at Li Huan's wedding in casual clothes, no one dared to come forward and disturb the emperor.
However, many officials who recognized the emperor naturally focused most of their attention on the emperor.
Seeing the emperor winking at Li Huan there, the harmony between the emperor and his ministers, as well as the trust and favor shown by the emperor towards Li Huan, only made these people envious.
Let's look at Li Huannian, who was only over 20 years old and had already become a Taifu, a Grand Governor, in charge of the Royal Guards, won the favor of the Emperor, and was granted a marriage by the Emperor. He married the daughter of the British Duke and the Chengguo Duke.
Marriage between the princes of great powers.
At this point in life, what else can I ask for?
It can be said that if you look around the world, who else can compare with Li Huan.
"Worship heaven and earth!"
Accompanied by the shouts of the ceremonial officer, Li Huan, who calmed down, followed the ceremonial officer's guidance and bowed respectfully to the four directions.
"Two thanks to Gaotang!"
Sitting there, Mrs. Feng couldn't help but her eyes turned red when she heard this. Looking at Li Huan, Zhang Jin, and Zhu Lin who were standing in front of her and bowing down, Ms. Feng couldn't help but shed tears of joy in her eyes, and said with a trembling voice:
"Okay, okay, I will go as soon as possible to see my son get married and start a business. You can also go see the ancestors of the Li family."
Feng Yongguo and Feng Yongbang brothers, who were standing next to Feng, saw this and hurriedly comforted them: "Sister, today is Huan'er's happy day. You must not cry."
Li Huan and the others bowed respectfully to Feng.
"Couple greetings!"
Zhang Jin and Zhu Lin stood side by side, while Li Huan stood opposite the two women. Following the shouts of the singing officer, Li Huan and the two women bowed to each other.
"The ceremony is completed and sent to the bridal chamber!"
When Li Huan sent the two girls into the bridal chamber and changed into clothes and came out, the sky had darkened, and the guests and friends from all around were sitting down and drinking wedding wine.
Li Huan naturally came for the emperor.
At this moment, Zhu Houzhao was sitting there in his regular clothes, and at the same table were Wang Yangming, Liu Yu, Yang Tinghe, Li Dongyang, Zhang Wei, and Zhu Lin.
However, it can also be seen that the people at the same table with Zhu Houzhao are somewhat unnatural. After all, even if Zhu Houzhao doesn't care, they can't let go of sitting with the emperor.
Seeing Li Huan coming over, Zhu Houzhao laughed loudly and said: "Li Qing, I'm so happy that you can bring two beauties home today, but don't forget me, the great matchmaker."
Seeing this, Li Dongyang couldn't help but cough violently, as if to remind Zhu Houzhao to pay attention to the identity of the emperor. Unfortunately, Li Dongyang's cough caused Zhu Houzhao to roll his eyes and said: "Li Qing's family, there are no monarchs and ministers at the moment, you just treat me as me."
I just came to congratulate Li Huan."
Li Dongyang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. The emperor had said so, what else could he say? Do he really want to continue to remind Zhu Houzhao to pay attention to his speech and behavior?