The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 627 Enthronement and Marriage

On June [-]th, Li Gan, who had stayed in Bashu before, sent an envoy to surrender to Feng Ziying.

At this point, all the military power of the San Francisco had perished, and the short-lived Tianshun Dynasty was declared to be completely destroyed.

Regarding the handling of family members in San Francisco, it has become a relatively controversial matter.

Previously, Jia Min took away the family members of King Dongping and sent them to Beihai, which dissatisfied some veterans of the former court. Even Ji Mingluan complained about this, thinking that it was too cheap for the Song family.

However, this matter was decided by Jia Min, and the people had already been sent away, and they were traveling by water. Although they were dissatisfied, there was nothing they could do about it.

The handling of the Han family is relatively simple.

False Emperor Han Tiandou, Ningguta General Han Tiankui, Han Qi and other main men of the Han family are all dead, and the remaining female relatives will be sent into exile.

The leading figures of the Li family, Li Guozhong and Li Guoxin, are both dead.Because when Li Qian surrendered, he had an agreement with Feng Ziying that the Li family would hand over their property, leaving only the basic living expenses. All the men in the family would lose their titles, titles, official positions and fame, and be demoted to civilians.

Feng Ziying agreed to this condition.

This matter was also opposed by Lu Dashi, Yang Kui and others, but under the lobbying of He Jialin and Luo Xingshan, no one spoke up in the end.

So it didn't matter in the end that Jia Min waited for the people from Beihai to come forward, Chang'an made a decree, and the matter was considered settled.

However, the Li family wanted to leave their hometown in Guangxi and move to the northwest, the purpose was to cut off their connection with their old friends and prevent them from having a chance to make a comeback.

Although Li Gan was unwilling to move to the northwest, he dared not refuse.It is actually very lucky to get this result.

From this point of view, the Li family is still very grateful to Feng Ziying in their hearts.

A letter came from the Jia family in Beihai. According to the wishes of the old lady, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang, regarding Jia Min's marriage, due to the long distance, Jia's elders could not come in person, so they entrusted Jia Min's elder brother Jia Lian to take the place of the elders in the family. , to make arrangements for Jia Min's marriage.

What Jia Lian did was mainly the marriage between Jia Min and Chang'an.

Regarding this marriage, there were also ups and downs in the middle, and there were constant debates.

People have no objections to the marriage itself, and the disputes are mainly about the title and the date of the marriage.

Although there is a precedent for Wu Zetian becoming emperor in history, there has never been a precedent for a marriage like Chang'an and Jia Min.

This name is not easy to decide.Even if Chang'an became the official wife, the ministers also felt that it was a loss.

So Jia Min was positioned as the son-in-law.

Although this statement is somewhat reluctant, it is not entirely unfounded.

Because when Yuan Heng betrothed Chang'an to Jia Min, Chang'an was still a princess, not a queen.

The Beihai side is naturally dissatisfied with this positioning, but they can't come up with a better plan.

In the end, Jia Min waved his hand and said something.

"Oh, forget it, the son-in-law will be the son-in-law. Anyway, we will leave in a few days, and they can call them whatever they like. Even if they call me a cat or a dog, I can't hear them."

Seeing what Jia Min said, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

These things are really long-winded, and they are more strenuous than fighting.

Positioning Jia Min as a son-in-law, Lu Dashi and Ji Dashi thought they had achieved a huge victory.As for Jia Min's positioning of Chang'an, whether he is his wife or something else, this question is too complicated and difficult, so he avoided this question.

Jia Min also had a tacit understanding, so he didn't mention it, pretending it didn't matter.

The matter of title was settled, but something went wrong about the wedding date.

Beihai believes that they should get married as soon as possible, and then they can retreat to Beihai.

Chang'an insisted that they must wait for Chang'an to become the throne before getting married.In this way, Changan can appear stronger and Dade more dignified.

At the same time, when they got married, Chang'an announced by the way that he would make Jia Min the king of Beihai, and Beihai would pay tribute to Dade.

The two sides fought fiercely with each other for this, and finally reached a compromise, and Chang'an got married after ascending the throne.However, there is no need to designate Jia Min as the king of Beihai, Beihai is not a vassal state of Dade, and as for paying tribute as a minister, it is even more exempt.

After the marriage was finalized, Feng Ziying's first brigade also returned from the south.Earlier, Chen Yejun's second brigade had already arrived in the imperial capital. So far, all the soldiers and horses on the Beihai side have been stationed in the imperial capital.

When Feng Ziying came back, Jia Min became the shopkeeper.Hand over all affairs to Feng Ziying, assisted by Chen Yejun and Wei Ruolan, and let them negotiate with the Dade court.

The imperial court proposed that Jia's mansion could return to the imperial capital, and the titles of Rong Guogong and Ning Guogong that had been cut off before would be restored.

The three families of Feng Ziying, Chen Yejun, and Wei Ruolan could fill in the titles of Duke Zhen of Niu Jizong's family, Hou Guogong of Hou Xiaolian's family, and Shan Guogong of Shi Guangzhu's family, but they were all rejected one by one.

Because of the meritorious service in supporting Chang'an, the three families of Liu Fang, Chen Ruiwen, and Ma Shangde restored the title of Duke of the State, and the three were hereditary Dukes of the State.

Although the status has been restored, these three families have been slaughtered before, and now there are only these three people left. In fact, they have no strength.

Regarding the issue of South Wendura and North Wendura, it can be regarded as the smoothest negotiation.

Wendura proposed that the court pay for the military expenses of their dispatch of troops and provide compensation for the soldiers who died in battle.The imperial court will not set up prefectures and counties in the Wendula grassland for the time being. If they want to set up in the future, they must agree with themselves.

Wendula does not pay taxes to the court, and all previous taxes will not be pursued.

The court canceled the embargo and quota restrictions on various substances in Vendura, opened up trade routes, and free trade.

The imperial court proposed that after 20 years, a prefecture would be established in Wendula. In order to reflect the fact that Wendula belonged to the great virtue, the south and northern Wendula would each pay 2000 taels of silver tax to the imperial court every year.

The amount of 2000 taels was really insignificant to Wendula, but it was only symbolic.

Xi Mairui and Temir felt that the court was also sincere, so they readily agreed.

The Wendura people achieved their goals, leaving Ximailui and Temir to represent North Wendura and South Wendura respectively to participate in the enthronement ceremony in Chang'an, and the rest began to withdraw their troops.

The withdrawal route was the same as when they came, first to Tianjin Wei, and then withdraw by water.

When the troops were withdrawn, almost all the prominent figures from Jia Min, Chang'an, Beihai and the imperial court came to see him off, and Chang'an rewarded him with gifts, which was enough to save Wendul's face.

According to the auspicious day selected by Qin Tianjian, Chang'an's enthronement ceremony was held on June 26.

In the Beihai area and the imperial court, representatives from all walks of life, envoys from Koryo, Ryukyu, Java, Cochin, and Siam, and representatives from frontier tribes such as Mogu, Shatuo, and Tefan attended the ceremony.

The name of the country was restored to Dade, the name of the year was set to Chang'an, and this year's era is the first year of Chang'an.

Then there are a series of procedures such as offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors, announcing to the world, conferring officials and becoming nobles.

King Beijing, Bachelor of Lu University, Bachelor of Ji University, and Chu Yuanji are four members of the University of Military Aircraft Department.

There are four people in total, two less than before.

Yang Kui is the censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and is in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Xiu Tonggui is the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, so he can be regarded as an official reinstatement.

Zhou Tong is the commander of the Jinyi Army and the admiral of the Nine Gates.

Zuo Linliang was Minister of Internal Affairs, He Jialin was Governor of Zhili, and Luo Xingshan was Governor of Fengtian.

Zhao Dahai was General Ningguta, and Xu Mingtao was General Pu Kui and led the military and political affairs of Tongyuan Fort.Feng Kui was a general of Shanhaiguan, in charge of military affairs around Shanhaiguan.

Jiang Ming, the former Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, was the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Liu Fang, Chen Ruiwen and Ma Shangde, etc., also have their own appointments.

Because he knew that Ma Qingshan had the best relationship with Jia Min, Chang'an originally planned to ask him to go to Jinling to serve as the governor of Yingtian Mansion, but Ma Qingshan didn't want to go to the south and wanted to go back to the northwest, so he asked him to choose the post of inspector in Shaanxi.

According to Ma Qingshan's merits, he could have obtained a higher position than this position, but he himself was unwilling to do anything else, so Chang'an fulfilled his wish.

Taking advantage of the people from all parties being in the imperial capital, the wedding ceremony of Chang'an and Jia Min will be held six days later.

The arrangement of the wedding program is also a headache.After discussing and discussing, I finally came up with a nondescript program.

Taking Chang'an to the Rongguo Mansion first is like taking over the new daughter-in-law.The elders of the Jia family did not come, so Jia Daixiu, an elder of the Jia family, was temporarily invited to be the elder of the Jia family.

This position, if it was Lun, should have belonged to Jia Dairu, but because Jia Dairu's wife had passed away, Jia Daixiu and his wife filled the vacancy.

For this reason, Jia Dairu was quite brooding.

However, because the hardware is substandard, I had to admit it.

After worshiping in Jia's mansion, he finally returned to the palace and worshiped again.

The immediate family members of the royal family either fled and were killed, or were massacred by San Francisco, and there are no elders anymore.

Because Emperor Yuanheng had entrusted the marriage of Chang'an to Bachelor Ji, so on behalf of Emperor Yuanheng, Bachelor Ji acted as the elder of Chang'an.

On this point, no one has any objection, but they all praise it.People not only wished the emperor well, but also were moved that Master Ji lived up to the entrustment of the late emperor.

For a while, it became a good talk in the court and among the people.

After the ceremony was held in the palace, the banquet was held in the palace, and the bridal chamber was also set up in the palace.

Doing so actually has profound implications.

One is that this means that Jia Min is a son-in-law, deliberately emphasizing his status as a visiting son-in-law, so as to set off Chang'an.

The other is also to highlight the status of Emperor Chang'an.

The emperor is the master of the world, within the four seas, is it the land of the king.The imperial palace is in the world, on the day of the emperor's big wedding, how can he go to other places to go to the bridal chamber?

This was naturally the idea of ​​those ministers, and Jia Min didn't bother to care about it.

For him, as long as he can have a bridal chamber with a beauty, let alone a palace, it doesn't matter if it's just a hut.

As for what other people think and see, he doesn't bother to care.

Feng Ziying and others also felt that this wedding was a bit absurd, but they couldn't come up with a better plan.There is nothing wrong with the proposal proposed by the imperial court.

When Jia Min asked for their opinions, they acted stupid collectively, avoiding them one after another on the grounds that this was Jia Min's personal matter and it was not easy to interfere.

After all, Jia Lian is his brother, and finally accepted the plan on behalf of the Jia family.

The news of the wedding got out, and there were some discussions among the people.

Some said that they changed customs and customs, and they praised it.Some also said that it was impolite, but it was just a few private discussions.

When the Jinyi Army and Wucheng Bingma Division began to visit the folks and asked their opinions on the wedding, all they heard were overwhelming praise.

When the new emperor came to the throne, some officials were opportunistic and tried to curry favor with the emperor.So I wanted to make a fuss about this wedding.

Make some kind of Wanminzhang and get some people to sign it.There are not many literate people, so I got some people to press their fingerprints, saying that the emperor's wedding is so good, and it should be carried out all over the world.

Changan won the world at the beginning, then got married again, and finally got together with Jia Min. He was a little dizzy with joy, and when his head got hot, he was about to approve this book and promote his own marriage model across the country.

One of the most important procedures is that in addition to worshiping heaven and earth at the man's house, there is also a visit to the woman's house to worship heaven and earth.

In the end, under Jia Min's persuasion, the main ministers such as the King of Beijing, the Bachelor of Ji University, and the Bachelor of Lu University all opposed it, so it was considered a give up.

(End of this chapter)