The Taihang Mountains are very lively. Training and going down the mountain all have their own things to do.
Liaodong was very dull. The front army led by Guan Yu had repulsed Lelang's 20,000 barbarian soldiers. However, Goguryeo increased its troops at the Xuantu border. The Fuyu people also had an ambiguous attitude. Yang Qian's left army did not dare to go south in large numbers. Guan Yu's
The road back is unstable, so naturally we cannot go deep alone.
The Suli and Mika tribes in Eastern Xianbei have ceased fighting and are waiting and watching. The cavalry under Yan Rou can only stay on guard and cannot support Xuan Tu's front line.
The war situation fell into a confrontation.
Liu Xiang has ordered Ke Bineng to lead the Hu Cavalry Battalion to support Yan Rou. The left army has also been transferred to Liaodong. Wu Yan and Nan Lou are gathering troops and watching the movements of Xianbei Kui's head in the central part.
Now is the autumn harvest season, and Youzhou is busy harvesting crops, paying field taxes, and transporting and storing crops. The Black Mountain Army is busy borrowing grain, and they also have to pay attention to the government's transport routes and prepare to look for opportunities to rob him.
There was no time to launch an offensive.
Liu Xiang said: Brothers, please be busy first, wait for me to get married, and then I will take care of them later.
Hurrying slowly, he finally made it back to Zhuoxian on the second day of September. He would not delay tomorrow's wedding. Although he still could not appear in public, he still had to be there when the bride was welcomed. It felt awkward to let others greet the bride.
He may not be able to give his wife a happy life. The future is too far away and no one can predict what will happen in the future, but he can at least give her the most basic respect.
The character developed in later generations made him willing to respect everyone.
After putting away the flag, putting on his visor, and surrounded by guards, he returned to the office. After getting married for more than two months, Cai Yan did not change his residence. He seemed to have heard that he liked the location here, so he only hired a few rough guys.
The envoy's servant.
To be honest, their home is really shabby.
Looking at Miss Zhaoji standing against the door of the back house, Liu Xiang took two steps and hugged her into his arms. He whispered in her ear: "Zhaoji, I miss you very much. You miss me."
Is it done?"
Cai Yan blushed with embarrassment. She was so shameless in such a large public place. Her cheeks were hot and she begged in a low voice: "Husband, please let go, someone is watching."
"Tell me first if you think about me!" Liu Xiang hugged me ruthlessly.
Cai Yan didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Her husband was a little rebellious and too courageous. What should she do? He could only reply helplessly: "Think about it, think about it, let it go quickly, it will make people laugh."
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After Liu Xiang received a satisfactory answer, he reluctantly let go of his arms.
"Greetings to the Lord." It was not until this moment that the maids and servants found the opportunity to pay their respects.
"No courtesy, let's go and get busy." Liu Xiang nodded, held Cai Yan's hand and walked towards the backyard.
"Husband is always mischievous." Cai Yan complained softly, unable to withdraw his hand, and had no choice but to let him hold her hand.
"The war in the south is urgent, and troops will be sent out not long after the wedding. Zhao Ji has been wronged. I am willing to accept the punishment and let you vent your anger." Liu Xiang held Cai Yan's hand and walked in the corridor, smiling and apologizing.
Cai Yan said understandingly: "My husband has great ambitions, and I would like to wait at home for my husband's return. Tomorrow is the wedding, and today Xiniang has gone to the house to prepare the wedding room, and Mrs. Zhen's dowry has also been delivered. I have to go and see it."
look."
In Han Dynasty weddings, the woman would send her dowry one day in advance, and ask the bride to tidy up the wedding room, hang up red curtains, and hang sachets at the four corners.
"Don't look at it. I'm recovering from my injuries and it's not convenient for me to show up."
Cai Yan insisted: "Let's take a look at the gift list."
When Liu Xiang took the gift list, he finally understood why Cai Yan insisted on asking him to see Zhen Jiang's dowry.
In addition to the items commonly used for weddings, the gift list also includes a thousand hectares of fertile land in Zhongshan Kingdom, two manors, 1,200 households of tenants and slaves, 300 nursing homes, and two stewards. A shipping caravan and a hundred large ships.
Eighty ships, one land transport caravan, more than 500 carriages, 2,800 guards, men, and sailors, 120 accountants, four leaders, and one steward.
There is also the white porcelain monopoly document that Liu Xiang once gave him.
Zhen Yi is almost out of pocket. The dowry is worth tens of thousands of kilograms of gold. Liu Xiang's actions to suppress excessive luxury in marriage have failed, and it feels like he is marrying into another family. Who gives whom the betrothal gift?
Although the dowry of the head wife belongs to herself and only her children can inherit it, it is not given like this, right? Or is it that he is used to being poor and poverty limits his imagination?
In terms of family business, Zhen Yi is of course incomparable to Liu Xiang. In name, Youzhou is his family business, but most of his money is used to support the army, build workshops, and carry out infrastructure construction. He really has no money.
No matter how much you have enjoyed it, there is a lot of money in the treasury, but it is all used as a public treasury.
What does Zhen Yi want to do? Everyone knows that Liu Xiang is determined to win Jizhou. Zhen Yi's land in Jizhou cannot be kept by his servants. He handed over the land through the wedding. This is a very smart move, but he can even give it to the caravan.
, this has profound meaning.
What does he want?
Liu Xiang married his eldest daughter as his head wife. As long as the Zhen family did not seek death, nothing would happen to them. There was no need to pay protection money. If he committed suicide, paying protection money would be useless.
No matter how much I think about it, I can't understand it.
If you can't guess, don't guess. The recipient of the gift should not lose his composure before the giver. It will appear that his vision is too narrow and he has no magnanimity.
I took Miss Zhaoji back to the second courtyard, which is Cai Yan's residence. The first courtyard in front is Liu Xiang's study, as well as the hall for receiving guests and the reverse room where the servants live.
The third courtyard at the back is Zhen Jiang's residence, and a wedding room is currently being decorated.
There is also a small garden connecting the second and third courtyards.
These are not important at the moment, what is important is to express the pain of lovesickness properly.
Clouds on the temples, beautiful faces and golden steps,
The hibiscus tent warms the spring night.
The spring night is short and the sun is rising,
From then on, the king did not go to court early.
The next day, at three o'clock in the morning, Liu Xiang had the morning meal at noon and began to take a bath and incense.
Smoking incense is a very tedious project. Once everything is sorted out, it's time to go and welcome the bride.
Put on the armor newly made by the armor engineer, with 4,300 cold-forged fine steel armor pieces the size of fish scales, layered and riveted on the beaten cowhide armor, and braided with two vertical and horizontal steel wires, which can be easily expanded and contracted and tough.
abnormal.
The armor was painted with six layers of raw lacquer, making it dark black and moist, glowing with a faint light.
It is lined with silk armor, and the innermost layer is sewn with arrow-blocking silk. If there are arrows through the armor, they will be wrapped in special extremely flexible silk, which can prevent the barbs from catching the skin and make it easier to lift the arrow and heal the wound. Tailor-made
It was built with great flexibility, took two and a half months, and cost an equal weight in gold.
Riding on the white horse, surrounded by five hundred knights, he arrived at Zhen Yi's mansion.
After the motorcade sending the bride off went out, Liu Xiang saw those curious eyes again, just like the first time they met in Lu County three years ago, their eyes were wandering and looking forward to them.
The two of them looked at each other through the gap between their visors and the door of the van. Zhen Jiang smiled with crooked eyebrows, like a child who got the thing of his heart.
Hiss, isn’t this little girl shy?
On the contrary, Liu Xiang was a little shy, as if he had been caught peeping.
He blinked, and with the sound of the officer's departure, he turned the horse's head and moved forward slowly.
"I almost got scared. This little sister is extraordinary, don't you think so?" Liu Xiang cooed quietly while stroking Bai Xi's mane.