Before leaving for negotiations with the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Xin made a special trip to bring Director Liu back from another time and space to inquire about the progress of his wedding with Shen Xuan.

When a person reaches a certain social status, many private affairs become official affairs. Beihai Town is different from the past, and the marriage between Zhao Xin and Shen Xuan is no longer the relationship between them.

Last year, Zhao Xin was thinking about whether it could be done simpler, just a fun thing. As a result, before saying a few words, Chen Xuan's face became ugly, let alone Chen Jingdan, and shook his head and expressed his disagreement.

As the only descendant of the Shen family in Dongtai, Chen Xuan needs to comfort his relatives through a ritual marriage ceremony; and for the Chen Jingdan family, he ran here from afar and suffered from cold and hardship, and was in the name of rebellion, and wasn’t it the name of the human ethics? He wanted to have a meal and he got married, and did he think that my Shen family was married to his daughter as a concubine?

Alas, this is really unreasonable. Who told Zhao Xin to call himself Your Highness at the time? Now that the current situation is rising, the Shen family requires that at least the "prince's etiquette" should be done.

It was not until this time that Zhao Xin regretted that he was really stupid enough to build the banner of "Ming" and it was really a cocoon.

Later, Liu Siting, who heard about this, came to the door and volunteered to help. The man now called himself "to raise his body and prepare for children". By helping Zhao Xin's wedding, he only worked half a day since half a year ago, and the specific affairs in the hospital were done by a large group of subordinates.

Zhao Xin was still very grateful for someone who could help, so he entrusted Director Liu to help with it. So the "marriage preparation group" that asked the boss was established. The main leaders were three, Chen Jingdan, Director Liu and Wang Zhong. As for the miscellaneous things, there were many helping.

The problem is that both parties want to make it simple for the "Prince's Wedding".

According to the wedding rules of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a couple's marriage needs to be accepted by lottery, name, naji, enrollment, and requested (the emperor called "reporting"), and welcomed six items in person, which is the so-called six rituals. From the emperor to the common people, no one can escape. Each class has different rules in terms of details.

Chen Xuan's father Chen Chengzhuo was just a small squire in southern Jiangsu, let alone Chen Jingdan's family, not to mention it, was not even a wealthy businessman in Yangzhou. With their knowledge, they didn't know what the "prince's ritual" was.

Director Liu, let alone the pitiful historical knowledge of her and her husband, Dr. Hong, thought that they were just a ritual to worship the world in Hanfu.

However, when Wang Zhong heard Chen Jingdan's thoughts, he shook his head and said that Yu Li was not in line. Looking at Chen Jingdan with a confused look on his face, Wang Zhong, who claimed to be reading everything from books, took out a book called "The Ming Dynasty Collection", turned to the sixty-ninth volume "The Prince's Wedding", pointed to the text above and said to Chen Jingdan: "Brother Zhengtong, you can see what the prince's ritual is first."

Chen Jingdan was stunned after reading it, and Director Liu, who heard the news, was also stunned.

Chen Jingdan was anxious and in a hurry, he just asked Zhao Xin's horoscope for Wu Xianning to act as a charlatan and put it together. He felt that there was no big problem, so he accepted a simple bride gift and changed it to the red book and green paper. But now after reading the "Ming Dynasty Collection", he realized that the prince and royal family were not playing like this at all, and the rules were complicated!

Just the gift of engagement, the twenty pieces of silk, one box of Dongzhu, two gold rings, one pair of gold earrings, and two jars of white wine that Zhao Xin gave at the beginning was simply a joke.

Although the ancients' weddings were both adjacent to each other, the gifts had to be prepared twice. The gifts given by Zhao Xin were only enough to be accepted. As for the Na Zheng, there were many more than the first time.

Not to mention anything else, since it is based on the specifications of marrying a princess, a Yugugui must be available.

According to the "Book of Zhou": Gu Gui is seven inches, and the emperor hires a girl. This thing must be made of white jade as a material, and the whole thing is rectangular. There are no words or patterns engraved on the top and bottom. It is just inside a neatly raised edge, and there are a single raised dot with uniform size and neatly arranged convex dots.

Whether it is an emperor or a prince, shouldn’t you use dragons and phoenixes to marry a wife? Why is it a “gu”? The great scholar Wang Zhong gave a perfect answer: “Zheng Xuan of the Han Dynasty had long said that the so-called Gu Gui was also a lucky ceremony for the king to send him a fortune. Gu is good, and his decoration is like a millet Wenran. It means that the emperor should have the world in his heart when he gets married, and ‘gu’ meant ‘good’ in ancient times.”

In addition, there is also a Yanju crown and four sets of Yanju suits. This is the so-called phoenix crown and a red robe (see the physical objects unearthed from the Ming Dingling Mausoleum in later generations). The biggest difference between Yanju crown and a dress crown is that there are two strings of pearls on both sides of the crown of the dress. As for other jade belts, shoes, socks, and toe jewelry, there are a lot of them, not only the style is specified, but also the size is required.

The above is just for the woman, and the man is even more troublesome.

First, you need to prepare a leather suit, that is, court suits, also known as "white clothes"; then you need to prepare a mansion, which needs no more; third, you need to have an ancestral temple, if you change it to a royal family, you must have a Fengxian Hall; fourth, you need a band to play "Zhonghe Shao Music".

If clothes and music are relatively easy to solve, the ancestral temple and other things can be handled carelessly. The ancients talk about status and discipline. When getting married, they must report to their ancestors, and the new daughter-in-law must also go to the ancestral temple to burn incense and worship, so that they can enter the family tree and become famous.

The question is, even if you set up a Fengxian Hall, who will be offered to you? Put a large group of Zhu family members who cannot beat Zhao Xin’s eight-pointed horse in it, and then kowtow to them. Isn’t this a joke!

When Director Liu sent a telegram to ask Zhao Xin how to solve it, Zhao Xin said that this matter was too simple. It would be better to build a big Mingtang. Before getting married, we should also return to Zhenyuan Daxian. After getting married, we would put the tablets of those who died in Beihai Town over the years and change it to the Heroes and Martyrs' Temple.

Liu Siting later discussed with other time travelers, and everyone thought this trick was really good. As for Zhao Xin's style of charlatan, he really couldn't say anything if he wanted to say that it was only for the heaven and earth.

So five months ago, a large building covering an area of ​​5,000 square meters, with a steel and wood structure inside and a Chinese-style Mingtang that breaks ground on an empty field north of Beihai Town, and has now entered the internal tracing and painting stage.

The Fengxian Palace matter was solved, and the next one was the band. At the level of Beihai Town, it was very simple to build a 200-person drummer band, but the problem was that folk drummers couldn't handle "Zhonghe Shao Music" at all.

There is no place to learn this thing, unless you go to Taichang Temple in the Qing Dynasty to catch a few officials in charge of palace music... Oh, by the way! The eunuchs from the East Gate Shenmu Office of the Temple of Heaven have to catch a few.

Because in addition to seventy-two musicians playing Zhonghe Shao music, there must be more than one hundred and thirty people with civil and military dancers. The musicians return to Taichang Temple and the dancers return to Shenmu Office. In addition, more than 90 instruments have to be prepared, and only chimes and chimes have to be given one set.

Forget it! Let's play the recording, this is the most convenient.

Before leaving Boli, Zhao Xin sent Director Liu back to another time and space. He took a plane back to China to find a studio to customize clothes. Anyway, boss Zhao was rich and rich, so Director Liu went directly to the Yunjin Research Institute in Nanjing.

When I arrived at the place, I saw it. Wow, Director Liu was immediately overjoyed. This was too expensive and beautiful!

Liu Siting acted as if we were not short of money and placed an urgent order in a hurry. In addition to the ones specially customized for Zhao Xin and Shen Xuan, there were two sets for Director Liu and Dr. Hong himself.

After that, she found a jade shop and chose a piece of mutton fat jade. She asked someone to make a seven-inch-long Gugui based on the photos of the cultural relics unearthed in Dingling. Then she found several studios for Hanfu, and spent a lot of money to buy a "Six Dragons and Three Phoenix Crown" and a Tongtian Crown. In addition, she also bought a lot of various jewelry.

Shen Jingdan was not idle either. Before he went to Guangzhou, he passed by Jiangning and asked someone to spend a huge sum of 500 taels of silver to get a few pieces of cloud brocade from Jiangning Weaving Factory.

The output of ancient brocade was very low and the price was extremely expensive, mainly because its weaving process was very complicated and cumbersome. Two weavers were dizzy after a day of busy work, and at most they could weave about 5 cm of brocade.

Speaking of which, after Shen Jingdan went to Guangzhou, he successfully met the Cai family. Now, the Cai family has lost its status as the general merchant, not only has it been fined a large amount of silver by Guangdong Customs.

When he learned that Mr. Shen, who spoke Yangzhou dialect, was here to inquire about the progress of buying a ship, the boss of Wanhexing, Cai Shiwen and his son, quickly explained. Only then did Shen Jingdan realize that buying a ship was not that simple.

Zhao Xin made a big fuss in Guangzhou City, but then he went away with Liu Zheng. The Cai family wanted to communicate with him about the market inquiry from the shipyard, so the following was gone.

First of all, what Zhao Xin wanted was an English three-masted sailboat, but Siam could only build Tang ships, but British ships did not. The Macau shipyard actually inherited traditional Guangdong craftsmanship. If you really want to buy British ships, you can only buy them from India through the British or Portuguese, and the price will be much more expensive.

Cai Zhaoping told Shen Jingdan that he thought the Tang ships in Siam were very suitable. The largest one had a load of 1,000 tons, the medium one was 770 tons, and the small one was more than 500 tons. Moreover, the shipbuilders in Siam were all overseas Chinese, and their best skills were red-headed ships with three masts and hard sails.

As for the price, the Siam shipyard's construction cost is not expensive, only 15 taels of silver per ton. The total price of a 500-ton three-masted sailboat is between 7,500 and 8,000 taels of silver. At present, a 1,600-dan (95 tons) medium-sized seaship in Fujian Shipyard costs 3,000 taels of silver.

In addition to the very cheap price, the construction period of shipbuilding in Siam is also very short. A 580-ton Tang ship can be completed in only three months from laying the keel to launching the water.

So from the current situation, the load load of the Siamese ship can definitely meet Zhao Xin's requirements, but the Cai family dare not make decisions if the ship type is suitable. What if Zhao Xin doesn't want to do if he gets the order?

And in addition to this, there is another biggest problem. Once the ship is built, Beihai Town must send someone to drive the ship back. It is impossible to stop in Guangdong.

As a former overseas trader in Japan, Chen Jingdan knew this very well.

In the 42nd year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the Qing court stipulated that merchant ships built by coastal shipyards could be allowed to be bribed, but the beam heads of the ships could not exceed 18 meter and the sailors could not exceed 28 people.

This means that the 1,000-ton ship bought from Siam in Beihai Town can pass through Tingtanzai Island at most. How can there be so many berths on Ketanzai Island?

After a close discussion between the two sides, Chen Jingdan made the decision and bought the Tang ship from Siam, five for 1,000 tons and five for 770 tons. Zhao Xin had previously given the Cai family a deposit of 70,000 taels, and Chen Jingdan took out another 50,000 taels of silver notes issued in Yangzhou this time.

Seeing that Mr. Shen was so generous and understood the market, Cai Shiwen and his son were very happy and treated him very kindly. After finishing the work, Chen Jingdan took a boat to Liyumen to pay homage to Zheng Lianchang of the Hongqi Gang.

Since Zheng Yi followed Zhao Xin to the north, Zheng Lianchang has been in a bad mood, and even the number of times he went to the flower boat every month has changed from ten to eight times. Since he found out that the imperial court gathered in the north, he was even more worried, worried about his son's safety.

Chen Jingdan went to Liyumen. After some greetings, he first handed over a letter from Zheng Yi to his father, and then talked about the situation in Beihai Town. When Zheng Lianchang heard that his son was already an intern captain of a thousand-ton British ship, he couldn't help but feel relieved, but then he looked sad again.

Chen Jingdan comforted: "Brother Zheng, please rest assured. Wen Xian is smart and studious. Now he is mainly responsible for the trade and trade with Japan. He is familiar with the route and experience, and will be of great use in the future."

Zheng Lianchang sighed and said, "Mr. Shen, you are an old expert in running the sea. I am a rough man. Don't mind if you talk. My Zheng family is only the only one. Wen Xian's gangster doesn't even have a son. Although the ship in the North Sea is stable, the storm on the sea is really unpredictable!"

Chen Jingdan said: "Brother, don't worry, we are already very familiar with the needle road to Japan. When the weather is bad, and when there is wind, we have experience. Besides, Ayi's big ship is not driven by sails. With the mechanical secret skills of Beihai Town, we can only go back and forth in three or five days."

"Oh? Then I must see what I see the other day." Zheng Lianchang changed his tone and continued: "To be honest, Heiqi Help Xu's family has mentioned it to me several times. People must be loyal. Since they have made a marriage for children, they cannot keep their words."

Chen Jingdan said: "What are Brother Zheng's plans?"

Zheng Lianchang said: "Let A Yi come back and get married. When his daughter-in-law becomes pregnant, I will ask him to go back and help you with your work."

Chen Jingdan originally meant to propose to Zheng Lianchang that the Hongqi helpers take the boat back from Siam. But if Zheng Yi was asked to come back with Beihai No. 1, he would be more relieved to take the boat back.

Even if the Cai family sends people to Siam to inform them to place an order, it will take four months. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zheng Yi will come back and get married. He will take the boat back in February and March next year, killing two birds with him.

Thinking of this, Chen Jingdan said, "This matter is for me, and when I go back, I will speak to King Zhao."
Chapter completed!