Red makeup against the world

Chapter 542 Princess' Marriage

Autumn goes, winter comes and spring comes again, everything revives, and the greenery dyes the streets and alleys of Luoyang City.It has been a full year since the Xu family came to the capital.

The Xu family was silent when they first arrived in Beijing, but now the Xu family has become a legend among the people in the capital.In the past, there was Xu Wanzhen who made outstanding achievements repeatedly, and later, there was Xu Wenmin who miraculously made a fortune.

In the past half a year, with the rapid expansion of Jinxiuji, half of Gaoman can buy silk flowers and silk fans produced by the Xu family.

The Second Young Master He personally visited the Xu family and discussed the closer cooperation between the two.And reported the good news that Tu Fangyan successfully gave birth to a daughter weighing seven catties in the twelfth lunar month, and he loved it like a treasure.

Liu Qiran got used to it more and more during his time in the Imperial College.Although he still hasn't made any progress in his knowledge, he can be called a good man from the looks of his behavior, leaving out those cronies and friends.

Zeng forced Ping Guogong to ask Liu Qiran for a errand in the Ministry of Rites, and invited an official media to go to Tu's house to hire him.

After accepting the lottery and asking about the name, I took Liu Qiran and Tu Manzhen's birthday horoscopes to the eminent monks of the Dabei Temple to get married. After Naji, Nazheng, and asking for a date, we set a good day to get married on the eighth day of September in the second half of the year.

At the end of this spring, what the common people in the capital talked about most was that Princess Chunhe married Su Liangzhi, who had no official position.According to the rules, it should be Princess Su Liang Zhishang, but Chunhe admired his medical skills and did not want to wrong him.

Concubine Fu Xian strongly agrees with her daughter's decision. She knows very well that dominating the other party in terms of identity will not guarantee Chunhe's happiness, but will hurt Su Liangzhi's manly self-esteem.Therefore, under her management, all the etiquettes are carried out according to the civil marriage of daughters.

It's just that Chunhe got married from the imperial palace and married into the princess mansion in the city.

For this wedding, Mrs. Su and Mrs. Su came to the capital in early spring.Accompanied by Su Liangzhi, Wu Zhengxiang personally went to Mang Mountain to catch a pair of live geese as the first dowry gift.

Immediately afterwards, there are seals of Kaishu, double seals of betrothal gold, seals of box ceremony, seals of training instrument, couplets of Jinlin, double blessings of birthday handkerchiefs, heads of immortals, heads of golden pigs, heads of happy sheep, and eight candy screens. Pick up, a hundred lucky pills, a box of dream candy, double brilliance of dragon candles, etc., and send them to the palace.In order to marry the princess' daughter-in-law, the Su family tried their best.

On the day Chunhe got married, she was full of red makeup.A total of 120 eight lifts of the dowry, the first lift has already entered the princess mansion, and the second lift has not yet left the Xianfei's Chunling Palace.

The two old men of the Su family were free and easy, and they didn't lose their balance because of this. They drank the wedding wine toasted by the newcomers, and after a month of lingering, they returned to Changzhou.

The married life of Chunhe and Su Liangzhi can be described as a husband and wife.There are often patients who receive a pack of medicine in Baicao Hall for consultation, and listen to the woman's detailed instructions on how to use it. When they look up and meet, they suddenly find that it is Princess Chunhe, and they kneel down and salute in fright.

After a long time, Chunhe felt that it would inevitably cause trouble to the patients, so he stopped appearing in the front hall.But she has developed a strong interest in medicine, and she often studies medicine and observes the properties of medicine with Linger, without the slightest airs of a princess.

Just after the wedding of Princess Chunhe, it is the auspicious day for Princess Zhaoyang to marry Khitan.

When winter came last year, the second Khitan prince seized the royal power and killed his brothers and uncles who opposed him. Only one cousin was left to gather the remaining soldiers and flee to the northerly ice field.

The second prince, Sun Huo Sidan, became the new king of Khitan, known as Yingwu Weiyuan Khan.Leading the tribe through the harsh winter and consolidating the kingship is a time of high spirits.

Before the beginning of spring, a proposal envoy was sent to Gaomang to continue the previous agreement to marry Princess Zhaoyang.The proposal envoy brought a thousand fine horses, 5000 taels of gold, and countless luxurious betrothal gifts.

Compared with the lively and festive wedding of Chunhe, this sending-off team is solemn, solemn, and even somewhat tragic.

In the front is the phoenix chariot of Princess Zhaoyang, the canopy and hairpin tassels, and the bead curtain made of [-] round pearls, which hides Princess Zhaoyang's delicate face, making it hard to see her face clearly.

The banners were flying, and the military appearance of the Shenwu Army in charge of escorting was neatened up, and the tip of the red-tasseled spear glistened in the sun.

The hundreds of carts that followed were full of the princess's dowry.In addition to the common dowry in the folk, there are also medical poems and books, cooking seasonings, dozens of varieties of grains, hundreds of craftsmen from various walks of life, dozens of musicians and doctors, and dozens of literati.There are also 50 court ladies and 50 eunuchs, and the entire convoy stretches for dozens of miles.

The last wing is the convoy composed of major caravans.Once the Khitan's fur, horses, and ironware are transported back to Gaomang, there will be huge profits.Khitan has been in chaos for several years, no one dares to do business in Khitan except for the powerful bodyguard team.

Now there are two elite escorts, Princess Zhaoyang's marriage and the Shenwu Army and the Khitan Royal Court's army, which can be said to be safer than ever.How can businessmen easily let go of such a good business opportunity?

There are several large commercial houses in Beijing, such as the old Hejia caravan and the newly emerging Xujia, etc., have organized silk, tea and other goods, and are preparing to go to Khitan.Small commercial firms were also unwilling to give up this opportunity, and they bought goods in groups of three or four, or in pairs, and went to Khitan to sell them.

Standing on the Duanmen Gate, Empress Cao saw Princess Zhaoyang's marriage caravan meandering away, and silently shed two lines of tears.She hid her hands in the wide sleeves, her palms were red from being pinched by herself.

Emperor Qinglong stretched out his hand, separated her fingers from his palm, and said with a long sigh: "Hua Ying, Gao Mang has internal troubles, so he had to leave Zhaoyang. It's my fault that he couldn't protect us. daughter."

Only with Zhaoyang's ability can Khitan be stabilized, and maybe it can accomplish a lot.Among the hundreds of people who followed, dozens of shadow guards were hidden, and when they arrived in Khitan, they only listened to Zhaoyang.This is the most essential part of the dowry.

Emperor Qinglong's ambition was not only to make peace, but to divide and assimilate Khitan, and finally bring them into Gaomang's territory.

After Zhaoyang left, the crown prince and King Qi gradually became evenly matched.No matter how rough the bottom is, Chaozhong seems to have regained its calm.

This year is the year of the Grand Competition, and Emperor Qinglong appointed Liu Bocheng, a master of the literary world and Minister of the Ministry of Officials, as the chief academic officer to take charge of the imperial examinations in the world.There are twelve states in the world, hundreds of state capitals, and they are in the midst of intensive preparations.

At the end of summer, a passenger ship slowly docked at the Suzhou Wharf.

Sun Zhitao walked out of the cabin with his hands behind his back. Compared with half a year ago, his eyes were more vicissitudes and loneliness than those of his peers.After studying in Songxi Academy for more than a year, he is very familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and writes incisive theories. Master Tu Shan has read it and applauded it.

The so-called poetic and bookish temperament, his melancholy and lonely expression, coupled with his increasingly restrained and refined temperament, has attracted the admiring eyes of countless young daughters-in-law since he got off the pier.

Mo Zhu followed behind him, only he knew how much the young master had put in and how hard he had worked.

(End of this chapter)