Chapter Nineteen Your Majesty's Wedding
After all, Toya was the princess of the Dayue clan, and the marriage of a princess should not be taken lightly. While Wang Zhu sent people to propose marriage to the king of the Dayue clan with a generous dowry, he also ordered people to prepare for the marriage ceremony.
These works were carried out for about two months, and all military affairs and national affairs were put on hold for the time being. Time flew by in a flash and came to early summer in April.
Da Yuezhi has long been interested in the prosperity of Da Qin, and has always wanted to do business. When he heard that the emperor of Da Qin wanted to marry a princess to be his queen, Aesabaijia was extremely happy. Plus the dowry Wang Zhu had someone bring, it was enough to make him dumbfounded.
, agreed almost immediately.
According to regulations, the queen's betrothal gift is generally about 30,000 gold and fifty pairs of jade bis. Wang Zhu gave double the amount of 60,000 gold and one hundred pairs of jade bis. Naturally, Essebaka was very satisfied with these.
Wang Zhu is almost ready here. He is just waiting for the envoys to come back and the formal ceremony can be held immediately. Wang Zhu has visited Yu Ji in the past few days. Although Yu Ji's attitude towards him is much better than before, she still has some problems.
They were not overly intimate, and he just treated the matter of him killing the queen and setting up the queen as a show. He didn't take it seriously at all. He even blessed Wang Zhu with a few words, which made Wang Zhu somewhat depressed.
The ceremony for the establishment of the Queen was held in the Dazheng Palace. Gongzi Ying and Chun Yuyue were familiar with the Confucian pomp and ceremony, so naturally they took care of it from beginning to end. In order to highlight the majesty and wealth of the Qin Dynasty, gold was naturally not spared, even more than when Qin Shihuang appointed a queen.
Luxury. Gong Ziying and others have a lot to do.
After repeated calculations by Qin Tianjian, who was in charge of the astronomical calendar*, April 16th was an auspicious day for the 'marriage'. Prince Ying then started making dresses for the emperor and empress.
It's okay to say that the emperor's dress has not changed in style. All he has to do is ask the weaving bureau of Afang Palace to make a new one. But the queen's dress needs to be redesigned and custom-made. This kind of dress is like a modern wedding dress, which is the most worn by the bride in her life.
It was only worn once. After repeated discussions, it was finally decided that the queen's crown would be made of ten gold crowns, and the dress would have six meters of silk covering the floor.
On the day after the establishment of the Empress, the whole Xianyang was lively and festive. Someone originally suggested that Xianyang City should be decorated. Wang Zhu scolded him and ordered not to disturb the people. He also sent brothers Qin Ao and Qin She, who hated corrupt officials the most, to guard the city.
Patrol to prevent anyone from disturbing the people on a large scale in the name of the emperor's wedding.
After the ceremony and music, Wang Zhu led Heicou and the foreign queen Toya into the hall. Of course Toya didn't know anything about Chinese etiquette. She had been taught by Gongziying's ladies beforehand. She felt very uneasy.
, even though he was wearing a black hijab, he could still feel how grand and spectacular the scene was. At this moment, he had become the focus of thousands of people.
After going through the complicated Confucian "Chaoyi" ceremony, Wang Zhu and Toya knelt down to worship their ancestors, became husband and wife, and then turned around and left the palace. The civil and military ministers on both sides of the court announced from near to far: "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor."
Long live the Queen, a thousand lives, a thousand years, a thousand years!”
Wang Zhu took Toya's hand and moved forward slowly and in time, just like the camera on the stage. The palace master of ceremonies guided the ministers and generals to read out the well-recited congratulations one by one in order of their official positions.
At this time, the two-hundred-foot-long palace was silent and solemn, and everyone was respectful.
Wang Zhu walked to the door, and the voice of congratulations spread to the wide white stone square in front of the Dazheng Palace. In the square, along the central axis, there were 20,000 red-tasseled tiger soldiers and 5,000 imperial guards infantry wearing red cloaks.
People knelt down uniformly on the ground and sang loudly with extremely pious voices: "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor, and the empress will live a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand years."
Toya probably couldn't understand other words, but he could still understand these words of "Long live, thousand years old". This kind of movement like a frenzied wave, she had never felt it in Da Yuezhi before. She felt a lot of pain in her heart
The wealth and power of Da Qin had another impression.
Similar to a modern wedding banquet, Wang Zhu and Toya changed into casual clothes while being served by countless servants, and then returned to the hall to entertain the guests.
Toya soon discovered a big problem. The ministers here were very different from those of Da Yuezhi. He even suspected that the doctors in the Central Plains were all hunchbacked.
The reason is that after the banquet started, the ministers and generals all leaned forward and looked up. No one could straighten his spine and look straight up.
During the banquet, the ministers would toast and congratulate the emperor and empress in sequence, lie down on the ground, and then raise their necks and raise their eyebrows to look. Toya thought this obscene posture was ugly and gave him goosebumps. He thought, what if
If you ask me to do the same, I would rather die, my God, it's so ugly.
But this is what Confucian Gongzi Ying and Shusun Tong, Chun Yuyue, Zhou Qingchen and others spent more than ten days and nights, racked their brains, and had a head of white hair to come up with. It is suitable for Zhou Li to shoot the emperor.
The ultimate trick of fart must be carried out to the end.
The civil and military ministers toasted in sequence over and over again. It took almost two hours and a total of nine toasts were made before the ceremony was completed.
Finally, the master of ceremonies announced loudly: "The banquet is complete!" Several Confucian doctors stood up under the instruction of Shusun Tong, drove the ministers and generals who acted inappropriately out of the palace one by one, and accused them of committing "disobedience"
For the crime of ', he proposed impeachment and demanded punishment. And even the punishment items were drawn up. Those with lighter punishments would be given a hundred gold coins, while those with more severe punishments would be dragged out and beaten up.
Wang Zhu couldn't help but feel angry. On this big day, everyone was here to drink wedding wine with others. How could they be kicked out? What kind of plane was this?!
But Wang Zhu also had another feeling. Damn it, no wonder these messy Confucian talkative guys would be so reused by future generations of monarchs. Only today did I realize that being an emperor is so majestic.
These things were mainly caused by Shusun Tong. Shusun Tong had already made great achievements in the battle against the Xiongnu. Wang Zhu had not yet had time to reward him. Now is the time.
Wang Zhu smiled and said, "Today is an auspicious day. I will waive the penalty. If there must be a penalty, then let each of them be punished with three glasses of wine. Lord Shusun Tong, I am very satisfied with the etiquette arranged. Please add
In recognition of your original military exploits, I will grant you the title of 'Fengchang' and a reward of five hundred gold, and Lord Wang Wan will be renamed 'Yushi Dafu'."
Shu Suntong was originally an ordinary reporter for a newspaper, a doctor who received a salary but did not work and had no rights. Suddenly he became Feng Chang, the "head of the nine ministers". Naturally, he was happy, and the matter of punishment was no longer involved.
Persisted.
Wang Wan was naturally very happy when he was promoted from Feng Chang to the imperial censor, one of the three princes. The awkward atmosphere was finally turned around by Wang Zhu's few words.
Shusun Tong's promotion is not his problem alone. There is Wang Zhu's problem here, and there is also the problem of the entire Confucian school.
Those Confucian disciples who had been living in poverty and despair for a long time could not help but praise their teacher Shusun Tong loudly: "What a great saint, our Confucianism has hope to wake up again."
As a modern man or a feudal emperor, Wang Zhu couldn't resist the temptation of Confucianism's complicated etiquette to enhance monarchy, so he gave in. He had been deliberately suppressing the rise of the Confucian school.
Wasn't the Confucian leader Kong Yu unceremoniously kicked out by him last time? But it was only at this moment that Wang Zhu realized that future generations of monarchs may not be as smart as Qin Shihuang, but they just don't have Qin Shihuang's foresight and domination of the world.
It's just that he can't resist the attack of sugar-coated bullets. Don't laugh at others, he himself won't be able to resist.
History turned from here. The era of the Warring States Period, in which monarchs and ministers sat face to face and had long talks with knees touching knees, no longer appeared in China. The difference between Western autocratic monarchs and Eastern autocratic monarchs has since been divided.
Wang Zhu felt that he was much more noble than Qin Shihuang, who unified the six kingdoms. This is the miraculous effect of Confucianism on the king's flattery.
The ceremony went on until dusk, when Wang Zhu was drunk and tired, so the ministers filed out one by one.
Hundreds of maids like flowers and jade surrounded them, and the fragrance was carried by the wind. Wang Zhu took Queen Toya and took a human-drawn chariot from Dazheng Palace back to Wangyi Palace.
The eunuchs and officials from the inner palace came one by one to see the ceremony and presented gifts. During the ceremony, the Liyuan musicians played new songs, and the newly delivered water chestnuts from Shanglinyuan were tasted. Under the strict guard of the eunuchs and eunuchs, the maids invited the emperor and empress to have a meal.
, the female official in a light gauze performed a graceful song and dance, and then Wang Zhu officially entered the bridal chamber.
In the bridal chamber, red candles were burning high, surrounded by colorful ribbons, and jewels were shining. The maids were kneeling, and their rings were jingling. Wine and food were placed on the two low tables facing each other. After the queen and the emperor drank the wine, they could go to the bridal chamber to spend time with candles and flowers.
Young Master Ying was afraid that Princess Toya would not know how to serve His Majesty, so he asked several ladies to conduct a few days of surprise training on Toya. This was a normal thing. In the country, every woman who wanted to marry the emperor,
They had to receive a series of instruction. But what surprised the ladies of Gongzi Ying was that Princess Toya didn't need any education at all. She seemed to have heard everything.
Of course, after some gynecological examinations, it can be basically confirmed that she is a virgin.
If she had not been a virgin, she might have been returned by Gong Ziying at that time. The Great Qin Empire could not bear such an insult, even if it meant falling out with the Da Yueshi.
Wang Zhu hurriedly drank the quilted wine and wanted to carry the bride into the bridal chamber. But Toya immediately rejected him with a series of fluent foreign languages that Wang Zhu could not understand. Judging from his expression, he seemed quite unhappy, but Wang Zhu did not
The manager had no choice but to endure the enthusiasm of boiling water and bring in the foreign language translator. After some in-depth analysis by the foreign language translator with a sad face, Wang Zhu began to understand. It seemed that there was a custom in Toya's hometown that one had to worship the moon before entering the bridal chamber.
If it was really Qin II who married a wife, he, who has always been arrogant, would definitely not agree to this rude and excessive request, but Wang Zhu would not. What Wang Zhu was thinking about was that he was later honored as 'Heaven' by all the ethnic groups in the grassland.
Khan's Tang Taizong Li Shimin. The reason why Li Shimin ruled the grassland ethnic groups obediently was because the Tang Dynasty had many fierce generals, the country was rich and the people were strong, and the force was tyrannical. It was also very important for him to respect the customs and traditions of ethnic minorities.
Worshiping the moon means worshiping the moon, letting everyone on the grassland know that the emperor of the Qin Dynasty can become the Khan of the grassland. Wang Zhu originally planned to hide it from those Confucian figures, but then he thought, there is no need, this matter has become a big deal
It's okay, I just put my attitude here, let the people below do things in the future, and put down the airs of a great power in China, so I have a reference.
Tuoya watched Wang Zhu worshiping the moon devoutly and became more and more satisfied with her husband. She was originally a passionate Hu girl. When she was deeply in love, she would talk about the metaphors of dividing love into many.
Today I married Wang Zhu, so I didn't even care about it. In front of many maids and eunuchs, I came over to kiss Wang Zhu.
Wang Zhu didn't care about this kind of thing at first. He had seen many hugging and kissing couples on the road, at the train station, and on the bus. But the maids and eunuchs were secretly winking and sticking out their tongues, thinking that this new queen was a little bit...
Too frivolous.
After Toya kissed Wang Zhu, she looked at him affectionately and said something tenderly——
This passage must have been deeply affectionate, but unfortunately, Wang Zhu didn't understand a word of it. Foreign-related marriages also have the pain of foreign-related marriages.
Wang Zhulan picked up Toya, returned to the bridal chamber, threw her on the couch, pulled off the black curtain, and said to the servants in a deep voice, "Let's all go, I want to rest."
The maids were a little confused. Under such circumstances, they were generally not allowed to leave, which was against etiquette. Although the Qin Dynasty abolished the Confucian codes of the Zhou Dynasty, it was only politically speaking.
There are still some shadows of dross.
This was not the first time that Wang Zhu slept with the queen. He knew the rules in the palace, but he was a little uncomfortable with them.
According to the rules in the palace, Wang Zhu sat on the bed and chose the earrings of the concubines in the harem to choose the person who would sleep with him. This is a bit similar to the brand-making in the Qing Dynasty.
When it was officially time to go to bed, there would be a group of beauties supporting each other in front and back, and some on the left and right. Then the concubines would kneel down and offer their white buttocks to the emperor, who would sway their bodies continuously. As the emperor indulged in his lust, the concubines
The concubine only has the role of welcoming people from the top to the bottom.
During this period, in addition to assisting the emperor in completing his actions, these beauties also played a very important role, which was to clean the emperor and empress in time after the work was done. They also watched the battle. The emperor and empress basically only moved their lower bodies.
Everything that should be done at hand is probably done by the palace maids. If you catch up with the perverted emperor, you can't be prepared, so you have to find a few eunuchs to watch the battle.
Thinking about it, these eunuchs faced such scenes of blood and flesh every day, and it was pitiful that life would be worse than death.
Wang Zhu had succumbed to etiquette in the past and found it quite stimulating. He had been in this kind of "big public" a few times, but he was always not very happy. Mainly because he was a little shy and embarrassed to move. At that time, Queen Liang Yu was very excited.
Take it easy and think about it, she has received this kind of education for many years.
However, Wang Zhu was sure that Toya would not allow this. This wild Hu girl was not a man's plaything. She had her own way of enjoying the pleasure in bed, so Wang Zhu ordered her to be driven away without hesitation.
These beauties are waiting for you.
Chapter completed!