Xuande

Chapter 19 Marriage
On the third day after Liu Bei returned home, Cheng Dazhi personally visited Liu Bei with some gifts. After some conversation, Cheng Dazhi knelt down in front of Liu Bei, willing to be driven by Liu Bei.

Liu Bei helped Cheng Dazhi up, praised him, and talked with him about some news about the contact between him and Taoist Taiping of Jizhou.

Through Cheng Dazhi's description, Liu Bei learned that Zhang Jiao was indeed planning the next uprising, and that he was planning to call more Taiping Taoists to join him in the uprising.

Cheng Dazhi traveled back and forth between Jizhou and Youzhou, doing some shady underground business, and had a lot of interpersonal relationships. He got to know Zhang Jiao through some channels and had a good impression of him, so he tried to do some things for him.

But Cheng Dazhi is still considering whether to join Taipingdao.

As a result, some of his subordinates were moved by Zhang Jiao's ambitions, and were impressed by Zhang Jiao's personal charm. They decided to follow Zhang Jiao, bypass him and issue orders to his subordinates, and made a big mistake. He was very angry and felt peaceful because of this. Tao is terrible.

Liu Bei said that again, Cheng Dazhi was afraid of being implicated and persecuted by Taoist Taiping, so he decided to ask Liu Bei to seek asylum.

Liu Bei accepted Cheng Dazhi as his younger brother, and asked him to choose a day to lead people to join Ji Jian, become Ji Jian's subordinate, and manage Liu's private armed forces in the cottage together.

As for the local landlord families in Zhuo County that were originally related to Cheng Dazhi, Liu Bei visited them one by one, and exchanged everyone's cooperation with a smiling face.

Cheng Dazhi will continue to be responsible for the matters that were originally handled by Cheng Dazhi, but Cheng Dazhi is already Liu Bei's subordinate, so all accounts must be passed by Liu Bei, and there must be no loss.

If anyone breaks the rules, Zhuo County will not tolerate him.

Intimidated by Liu Bei's prestige and power in Zhuo County, these families dared not go against Liu Bei's wishes.

Time passed bit by bit, and it was the third year of Guanghe, Yangchun March, when the grass was growing and the warbler was flying, Liu Bei would take the horses out for a gallop and outing whenever he was free, which was a great joy.

At the beginning of April, following the hope of Han Rong who had just recovered from illness, Liu Bei "followed his mother's order" to formally marry Han Rong's daughter Han Ning, who was only [-] years old, and married her.

Since the wedding system was restructured during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, even ordinary people's weddings have to be held in a big way, let alone official weddings.

On the day of the wedding, the entire city of Zhuo County was decorated with lights and festoons because of the marriage between the daughter of the prefect and the disciple of the Confucianism. There was no curfew at night because of the excitement of the wedding.

People in the county indulged to the fullest, drinking from dusk to early morning, and then helped each other back to sleep, ending the night of revelry.

Liu Bei, as the groom, is of course taken care of emphatically.

Gongsun Zan was a good drinker, and together with his good friend who came from his hometown to attend his wedding, he led a group of friends to force Liu Bei to this point, as if he would never let him have a good time, and insisted on pouring him down.

Gongsun Zan blushed and took the lead in pouring the wine, and he almost didn't mention pouring the wine jar into Liu Bei's mouth. Judging by his posture, he even seemed to want to put Liu Bei's head into the wine jar.

It is more straightforward to lead the move. Bring Guan Yu and Zhang Fei together to press Liu Bei on the wine table, open his mouth, and pour bowls of wine into Liu Bei's mouth. It is called "massive volume", and he is not afraid of choking Liu Bei die.

Liu Bei is considered a good drinker, but he couldn't stand such a fierce drinking action. He couldn't bear it anymore and pretended to vomit several times. In the end, Jian Yong persuaded everyone to let Liu Bei go and let him enjoy the wedding night in the bridal chamber. let go.

Then, amidst everyone's laughter and laughter, Liu Bei was almost carried into the bridal chamber. When he landed, he was top-heavy and almost fell, but was still supported by Han Ning.

"Lang Jun drank too much."

A soft voice rang in his ears, Liu Bei raised his head and looked at his bride.

There is no such thing as a red hijab these days, and the bride is just a face with makeup on, without much modification.

So under the candlelight, a delicate and slightly worried face appeared in front of Liu Bei.

This is my wife... so beautiful.

This was the only thought in Liu Bei's mind at the time.

Speaking of it, because of the inexplicable etiquette requirements, Liu Bei and Han Ning have not seen her for two years after they engaged in a marriage contract. He didn't even know her name before the matchmaker came to ask for her name. He knew everything about her very limited.

Instead, I learned from Han Rong that his daughter likes to read poetry and books, is good at female celebrities, and has also learned good cooking skills, etc., but these are the usual compliments of wealthy people marrying their daughters in this era statement.

Liu Bei didn't take it seriously either. Anyway, he had accepted the marriage. The most important thing was the political interests behind the marriage, and the others were not too important.

This is probably what the ancients meant by the so-called "virtue" in marrying a wife.

Just kidding, would the daughter of the prefect of two thousand stones have no "virtue"?

Full of all right.

As for color...

Isn't the concubinage system just a compensation system for this?
But it was really interesting when people got married in Han Dynasty.

Liu Bei still remembered that a few days after he visited Han Rong and received Han Rong's wedding invitation, an elderly woman came to the Han family. The woman brought a beautiful girl and said This is one of Han Ning's personal maids, who came to serve Liu Bei.

The little girl looked young, her baby face blushed when she saw Liu Bei, she stood still, she was even trembling a little nervously, which made Liu Bei think that she had a bad reputation and was afraid of others.

At first, Liu Bei didn't understand what it meant, and it was the housekeeper who was serving his mother whispering to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei understood what the Han family meant with an embarrassing face.

This is also one of the important processes of marriage in the upper class of this era.

Because these days are not so open and the news is not well-informed, people don't know whether men before marriage have enough manhood.

A political marriage is not just a matter of two people getting married and living a life. It requires children. Regardless of whether the relationship is good or not, you have to give birth to children.

It is probably because the predecessors suffered from this aspect, so they accumulated experience through continuous trial and error, and added this link before the wedding.

But when someone with a certain status talks about marriage, before getting married, they have to pull out a close maid or other reliable person who is close to their girl to test the man's ability as a man to make sure that the man is humane and able to be with her. The woman gave birth to an heir.

Sentence, it's really a punishment, these days are getting more and more severe.

Of course, on the woman’s side, there will also be someone from the man’s family who will ask someone to examine her body to make sure that the woman is not the legendary stone girl, whether her menstruation is normal, whether she can give birth normally, and so on.

However, these are the common rules among wealthy families, belonging to the rules of the game among the upper class, and have nothing to do with the common people.

In Li Shu's farmer's family, the family was a little better, and the girl got married at the age of twelve or thirteen.

If it is more poor, women will get married around the age of ten or eleven, and the family will be thrown away like a burden. After that, the fate of the family depends entirely on luck.

Liu Bei's previous status did not touch the threshold of the upper class, and in a broad sense he also belonged to the ranks of Li Shu. If he didn't have the determination and fierce will of a street fighter, he would probably have to live a life of marriage at the age of twelve or thirteen. Naturally, he didn't know anything about it.

It doesn't matter after you know it.

Some people come to your door to check your ability. If you have all kinds of scruples and can't show your masculinity, if people think that you are not humane and can't give birth to children, then you will really die.

Fertility is an important part of a man's social power these days. The more children he has, the more face he will have in his circle of friends. Men who pretend to be innocent and flirtatious will be abandoned by the market.

So Liu Bei showed off his majesty and eighteen martial arts skills, and that night he tidied up the little maid sent by the Han family.

The next day, the little maid was picked up by the housekeeper of the Han family, and the news that came later showed that the Han family was very satisfied with Liu Bei's ability.

A few days later, the mother-in-law sent by the mother to check the woman's body came the news that the woman's physical examination was all normal. The woman is a normal fertile woman, and the Liu family will not be left without heirs. The Liu family can rest assured .

And so the wedding process officially began.

It's that fast.

(End of this chapter)