"I ordered the ceremonial institute to formulate the ceremony for the queen as soon as possible."
Seeing that the officials had decided on the candidate, Liu E quickly summoned Mrs. Xu and asked her to quickly supervise the ceremonial court and draw up the procedures.
The emperor's wedding this time is different from the previous three dynasties. Taizu, Taizong, and Zhenzong all performed the posthumous ceremony.
The nature of being a queen and being a queen are different.
The former was promoted from a concubine to a queen, and the ceremony was a canonization ceremony. For example, Taizu canonized the Wang family of Langya as his queen, Taizong canonized the Li family of Longxi as his queen, and Zhenzong canonized the Guo family, the wife of Qin State, as his queen.
And these don't apply now.
After all, when the official family was the crown prince, they did not accept a princess, and until now, the official family is still unmarried.
Failing to perform rituals is the basis of rituals.
During this period, there were a lot of arguments within the ceremonial courtyard about how to perform posthumous rites.
One group advocates restoring the Tang system based on the "Kaiyuan Rites of the Tang Dynasty" and performing twenty-two rites for accepting the queen, first predicting auspicious days, and then offering sacrifices to heaven and earth.
After setting an auspicious day, the emperor came to Xuan and ordered envoys to carry out matters such as accepting gifts, asking for names, and accepting auspiciousness.
The other group insists on following the stories of the previous dynasty, using the rites of the queen as a reference, and also adopting the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty to formulate the rites of the present dynasty.
Compared with the Tang Dynasty's rites for accepting a queen and naming a queen, the procedures for the emperor's wedding in the Song Dynasty were much shorter. In terms of procedures, there were nearly ten items reduced.
However, the reduction of procedures does not mean that the content is lost, such as reporting to heaven and earth, ancestral temples, emperor Linxuan issuing certificates, accepting gifts, etc. These necessary processes still exist.
While the two factions were arguing endlessly, two edicts were issued from the ban.
One is an edict from the Queen Mother urging the Court of Ceremonies to come up with the procedures as soon as possible, and the other is an edict from the officials ordering them to be frugal in everything.
These two edicts also put an end to the controversy.
The simplicity faction headed by Livy gained the upper hand.
The world is vast, and the official family is the largest.
Since officials advocate simplicity, everything is naturally centered on frugality.
As the saying goes, what goes up and what follows leads to action. Since Li Jie intends to make it easier for people to marry richly, and the custom of marrying richly, of course he himself must set an example.
Liu Taiwei's Mansion.
Wang Mengzheng, who lives in Bianliang, couldn't help but be disappointed when he learned that Qinghe Zhang's daughter was elected as the queen.
Wang Mengzheng also hoped that his daughter would be able to honor the world as a mother, but as a result, his daughter did not become the queen.
It has to be said that the greed of human beings is endless.
At first, Wang Mengzheng just wanted to use the Liu family's channel to send his daughter to the palace. Even if she could not become a queen, she would be better off as a concubine.
But as things progressed, he gradually felt that it would be great if he could become a queen.
Seeing his daughter reach the finals, only to lose the last place, this feeling is even worse than killing him.
Although this dynasty strictly limits the rights of relatives, she is the queen!
If you can give birth to a prince for the official family, as long as the prince does not die unexpectedly, then the next prince will have half of your own blood.
In the future, when the new emperor ascends the throne, will he treat his mother's family badly?
Just like Wang Mengzheng, Yingzhou Guo family was also disappointed.
Although the Guo family is also a related family (the wife of Guo Chong's son Guo Shoulin is Taizong's empress Li's sister), today, the Guo family has long since declined.
For the Guo family and the Wang family, those wealthy families looked down upon the position of queen, but they flocked to it like ducks.
Although someone from a later clan cannot hold the position of an important minister, there is absolutely no problem in maintaining wealth for two generations.
If a prince is born, the minimum is Fukuzawa III.
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Sifang Pavilion.
"Minister, I have heard from you that the number of envoys for this trip to Khitan has been decided."
Yuan Ying rushed to the small courtyard with a happy face to announce the good news.
"oh?"
"who is it?"
Upon hearing the news, Han Zuo grabbed Yuan Ying's arm and asked quickly.
"The envoy is Feng Yuan, a direct scholar of Longtuge."
Yuanying immediately reported the news she had learned.
"It's actually him?"
Han Zuo had heard of Feng Yuan's reputation.
Starting from Feng Yuan's great-grandfather, the three generations of the Feng family were all astronomical and calendar judges in the Southern Han Dynasty. When Liu Yuan surrendered to the Song Dynasty, the Feng family also entered the Song Dynasty.
After arriving in Kaifeng, Feng Yuan's father Feng Bing was still employed and was awarded the title of Tianjian Baozheng by the Song Dynasty (observing the changes of the sun, moon and stars, and measuring fortune and misfortune).
Astronomers are not only high-risk, they are also technical officers and their room for advancement is extremely limited.
Feng Bing did not want his son Feng Yuan to continue to take over the ancestral business, so he asked Feng Yuan to learn the classics from Sun Shi.
Feng Yuan lived up to expectations. He first studied under the famous Confucian Sun Shi, and then became friends with the erudite Cui Haozheng, studying the Five Classics together.
In the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Feng Yuanzhong, who was thirty-four years old, was a Jinshi. He successively served as Linjiang County Lieutenant, Imperial College Lecturer (Teacher), Jingyan Official, Prince Zhongyun, East Palace Official, Longtuge Direct Bachelor and Attendant Lecturer.
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"Well, it's this person!"
Yuan Ying nodded repeatedly, and then changed the topic.
"Servant, do we want it?"
Saying that, Yuanying made a gift-giving gesture.
"Are you related?"
Han Zuo glanced at Yuanying without leaving any trace, saying that he might try giving gifts.
After all, Feng Yuan's mission to the Khitan was for Goryeo affairs, and Feng Yuan was stingy and greedy by nature. If he could really give a gift, it would indeed be a good choice.
(When Feng Yuan was sentenced to the Imperial Academy, during an office banquet, he held a banquet with the wine he was given, and then took the money for the wine home.
In addition, after Feng Yuan's death, his family fortune was huge. The huge wealth means that based on his income, it should not be that much at all. The source of the huge wealth is unknown, and corruption is inevitable)
"The Imperial College has said that Guo Zhen has always been on good terms with Feng Yuan, so we might be able to give this a try."
Han Zuo and Yuan Ying's mission to the Song Dynasty was not only to beg the Song Dynasty to mediate the relationship between Goryeo and Khitan, but also to obtain scriptures.
During the Second Liao-Li War, the Liao army burned the capital of Goryeo to ashes, and countless scriptures were burned to the ground.
Although Goryeo later re-collected private collections of books, some parts were inevitably missing.
To this day, Goryeo still finds many lost classics every year.
In order to obtain scriptures, it was natural to have to deal with the Imperial College. Yuanying took this opportunity to get acquainted with Guo Zhen.
"Guo Zhen?"
Han Zuo looked puzzled. Obviously, he had never heard of this name.
"What's the connection between him and Feng Shidao?"
Yuan Ying bowed slightly and said: "Guo Zhen once studied under the famous Confucian Sun Xi. At the beginning of the year, it was recommended by Sun Xi and Feng Yuan that Guo Zhen became the direct lecturer of the Imperial Academy."
"What's this person's reputation like?"
Han Zuo's expression changed. With this relationship, he could take a walk.
"Maybe you can give it a try."
In fact, Yuanying is quite sure about this matter, otherwise, he would not bring it up.
There is a saying in the Song Dynasty that the Bianliang Bureau was not easy to deal with. Guo Zhen just arrived in Bianliang this year, and his life was very difficult.
After discovering this, Yuanying immediately asked someone to inquire about Guo Zhen.
Guo Zhen lost his father when he was young. Not long after, his mother Bian remarried, and Guo Zhen had no uncles and few brothers.
In short, his family could not provide much help.
After collecting this information, Yuan Ying gave Guo Zhen a small gift.
Sure enough, Guo Zhen accepted it.
With the "little gift" as a guide, it shouldn't be a big problem for Guo Zhen to come forward and make an appointment with Feng Yuan.