Early the next morning, the entire feudal lord's mansion was busy because Uncle Donkey Dan was taking a concubine today.
Madam was so kind as to allow the newlyweds to get married in the central hall of the mansion.
This guy, Donkey Dan, has been grinning from ear to ear since morning, and he is almost laughing. No one has ever seen Uncle Donkey Dan so happy.
His only regret is that his parents are not here. However, this is not a marriage, and his parents usually will not come forward.
Besides, he didn't know how to tell his parents about marrying a Japanese girl when he got home.
In this era, Chinese people are very ambitious. Only those who really can't find a wife will marry Korean girls, Japanese girls, etc. As for Vietnamese girls in later generations, they are even more looked down upon.
However, everyone still gave blessings to the newlyweds, and the master and his wife also came to have a glass of wine.
The soldiers were all rough men. They started making noises and wanted to have a wedding ceremony. The bride was so frightened that she trembled. She only calmed down after being scolded by the little girl.
Taking a concubine is no different than marrying a wife. It does not require tea and six rituals, let alone worshiping heaven and earth. It just means treating everyone to a glass of wine and a meal.
"Lift the hijab and let everyone see. Mr. Lu has been keeping his body like a jade for so many years. How beautiful is the bride that can make Mr. Lu break his precepts?" Everyone started cheering.
The people in the navy just watched the joke and didn't come up to make trouble. The only ones making trouble were the servants. The officers of the thousands of servants were all old men and they all knew each other.
If you yell at Donkey angrily, these bastards will never have a good cake.
They make things difficult for the bride because they are jealous of me, yes, they are jealous.
However, this request is not too much. It is acceptable to keep concubines in public, and some are generous and even ask concubines to pour wine for distinguished guests.
Donkey Dan still took off his hijab and showed it to everyone.
If you marry a beautiful woman and don't show it off, wouldn't it be like walking in fine clothes at night?
The moment the hijab was taken off, it seemed as if the light in the room suddenly dimmed. A bright and charming face appeared in front of everyone.
"Oh," everyone took a breath and suddenly became jealous.
Donkey Dan, this bastard, is holding back his bad intentions. He always says that he wants to find a good one.
Unexpectedly, this boy was not joking, he was actually touching me.
Yang Fan was also stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but said: "This bastard, I told you how he looked scared yesterday, with a sinister look on his face, because he was afraid that I would see him and rob him. But this guy is lucky. This
I can meet all kinds of beauties. It’s really…”
Yang Fan didn't know what to say. As the saying goes, a good man doesn't have a good wife, and a bad man marries a fairy. Otherwise, how could Wu Dalang marry Pan Jinlian?
Before Mr. Yang could finish his emotion, the girl, who had already raised her eyebrows, grabbed his ears and pulled him out.
"Ah, madam, let go, it hurts."
"Stay here honestly, blow some air, and calm down. Hum." Xiao Niangpi was very unhappy with Yang Fan looking at the beauty in front of her. She pushed Yang Fan to the corridor by the pond and asked him to reflect.
Yang Fan smiled bitterly, took out his cigar, and lit it with a Zippo. He stood here and smoked one. Hearing the sound of everyone laughing in the central hall in front of him, the newlyweds were asked to pour wine for the guests.
"Sir, you said that the donkey eggs were stolen from you, can that girl be willing? Don't crack the donkey eggs in the middle of the night." Xiao Niangpi said with some worry.
Yang Fan blew out a smoke ring, which was blown away by the wind.
The little girl frowned and fanned her hands with her little hands. She didn't like the smell of smoke. The smell of this stuff was choking, so there was nothing good about smoking it. However, the servants and the Yang family's retainers were extremely obsessed with this stuff.
Tobacco can bring in a lot of money to the government over the course of a year.
"It's okay, you don't understand the Japanese." Yang Fan put down his cigarette and said, "The Japanese worship the strong. In their culture, there is no shame in succumbing to the strong. It is impolite to reject the strong. Rejecting the strong is tantamount to insulting him.
.So it would be impolite for her not to accept her fate and submit to the person who robbed her."
The little girl was dumbfounded. This is such a weird logic.
"Master, what if they meet someone weaker than them?" Xiao Niangpi couldn't help but ask.
"Then they immediately transform into demons, extremely cruel and perverted."
The little girl said with disgust: "Aren't these just a bunch of bitches? After a beating, they pretend to be grandsons and give them face, and they won't know their last names. If they don't get beaten for a few days, they always want to move up."
"A thousand years ago, Sima Guang had seen through the Japanese people. No wonder he commented in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian": He knows small etiquette but no great righteousness, sticks to trivial matters but does not have great virtue, pays attention to trivial matters but despises integrity, and is afraid of power.
If you are not virtuous, the strong will be robbers and bandits, and the weak will be humble." Xiao Niangpi said.
She is an expert in reading, so naturally she has read Zizhi Tongjian. I didn't feel anything about this paragraph before, but now, when I look at it based on the situation of the Japanese, it is indeed a prescient one.
This evaluation is really penetrating, and it describes the character traits of the Japanese people in a profound way.
On the surface, the Japanese are polite and reserved. They bow their heads to others all day long, but in fact they are cold and cruel on the inside. Their politeness lacks the most basic sincerity, and over time this formalism becomes annoying.
They like to give small gifts when they meet, but they will do things that are against great virtue. These small favors are even more fake. For example, the recent sea discharge. In recent years, various industrial products have been faked.
They surrender to the strong and bully the weak. They are slaves on one side and ghosts on the other.
Yang Fan smiled bitterly and said: "They are like this, and there is nothing I can do about it. But don't you think that such people are very suitable to be lackeys? Just like Bangzi, bullying others is a natural skill. Send Bangzi and Japanese to manage overseas territories, they can
Make life worse than death for the natives in the colony."
Yang Fan continued: "We don't want to directly manage the indigenous people in the colony, as that will easily arouse hatred. The best way is to let the Japanese become warriors as thugs, let Bangzi serve as civil servants and do administration, and send our domestic slaves to manage money.
And intelligence, supervision, justice. The trinity, mutual supervision and restriction is the best."
Xiao Niangpi nodded and said: "This makes sense. The people in the colony will only hate the people who directly manage them. This transfers all the hatred to the Japanese and Bangzi. We mediate from above, so there is room for change."
At this time, everyone had had enough trouble, and they all sat down to eat wine and have a fist fight. Several maids and women also came over supporting the bride. They went to the new house in the back.
Seeing Yang Fan and Xiao Niangpi, the bride and the maids bowed and saluted,
"Asai Harumi, pay a visit to Ming Dynasty's minister, Yutaisuo."
When Yang Fan heard what she said, he understood that she was a girl from a warrior family.
When Japan was undergoing Dahua reform, the Tang system was prevalent throughout the country, so many etiquette matters were learned from China's Tang and Song dynasties, including titles.
The Tang and Song dynasties were very complicated in terms of etiquette and titles, so Japanese courtiers and feudal lords were also very complicated in this regard.
Compared with the other two classes, the way of addressing the warrior class is similar to the way of addressing the etiquette of the Tang and Song Dynasties. It has its own particularity. In terms of status, warriors are higher than civilians. In terms of etiquette, the etiquette of the warrior class is much simpler than that of ministers.
class.
This is probably because during the Warring States Period, most of the rough and bold samurai class were too lazy to learn the red tape. The two main titles related to samurai are "dian" and "yang".
If you directly address someone as "Dian", this is a special title for the speaker's direct lord. You cannot add a surname in front, otherwise it will be extremely disrespectful.
Yang Fan is the head of the family, and Donkey Dan is the slave of the family. However, Miss Qianjing, when she met Yang Fan today, was not able to give a full courtesy, so she could not address Yang Fan as "Tian". There are strict prerequisites for this. In addition, is there something that she doesn't want to do?
Yang Fan didn't know whether she recognized the marriage forced on her, but didn't recognize Yang Fan as her master.
A simple sentence contained a huge amount of information. Yang Fan narrowed his eyes. This woman is not simple. I am afraid her background is not ordinary.
The above is a proper term used by the Japanese to call the general who conquered the Yi. It is specially used to call the shogunate. Yang Fan's general who conquered the west and the shogunate are far different in terms of status and actual power.
This title has the meaning of compliment and special respect.
The general's wife is called "Oitaisuo" or "Oitaiyang". This is the abbreviation of the ancient saying "Oitai Pansuo".
The prince's son was called by his official name, and his wife was called "Yu Lian Zhong".
"I am just the general of the Ming Dynasty who conquered the west, uncle Dingyuan, and the imperial guard. I don't deserve to be called such a title. You can just follow Lu Dan and call me master."
"Hai, Asai Harumi, I have met the master. I have met the madam."
"This is my wife and I's intention, please accept it." Yang Fan waved his hand. Aunt Mei, who was following behind, took out a Hetian mutton-fat white jade, open-carved unicorn jade pendant from the tray held by the maid and handed it over.
To Harumi.
Qingmei was shocked. She was born into a wealthy family, so she naturally knew what to buy. This piece of mutton-fat jade was crystal white, delicate and moist. The white jade was almost flawless, like freshly cut sheep fat, and its luster was like condensed oil.
This kind of thing is priceless and rarely seen.
When she was a girl, she saw a piece of mutton-fat jade from Mrs. Ajiang, but it was far from this one.
This shows Lu Dan's position in this master's heart.
Yang Fan could tell by looking at her expression that she was a knowledgeable person. This thing was not cheap. Not to mention the price of having it carved by a master from Yangzhou, this piece of jade pendant was just a piece of material and would cost upwards of 200,000 per gram in later generations.
Yang Fan also occupied the Komodo area with a large army and intercepted a batch of jade materials, so he was rich enough to use this as a wedding souvenir for his subordinates.
"Thank you, Master and Madam, for the reward." Qingmei bowed deeply and said. Qilin is sending a son, which is a very good meaning. Coupled with the hollow carvings on both sides, the preciousness of the jade material, and everyone's carving skills, this gift is not light.
"Your surname is Asai, who are you, Asai Nagamasa?" Yang Fan asked.
Asai Nagamasa was the last generation of family governor of the Omi Asai family. Regarding the origin of the Asai family, it is generally believed that it began in the Muromachi shogunate period with Sanjo Nozuna, the eldest son of the Kyoto noble Sanjo Sanmasa.
The Asai family was a wealthy family in Northern Omi during the Warring States Period. Its predecessor was not from a famous family, but was just a local tycoon near Dingye Township in Omi Asai County in the north. When it was passed down to the generation of Nagamasa's grandfather Asai Ryomasa, it began to be revitalized.
Although his family was not even a feudal lord, even if they were just a city lord, their beginnings were extremely disgraceful.
Ryomasa Asai is a man of the highest quality in both humanities and military skills. As an important minister of the Kyogoku clan, Ryomasa saw the right opportunity and took advantage of Omi's opportunity to protect the Kyogoku clan's civil strife.
He successfully defeated his superiors and expelled his boss Kyogoku HD. He used Otani Castle as his base to develop his own power.
It is said that he could only be rich for three generations. When he reached the age of Nagamasa, he was defeated by Oda Nobunaga. Although his family was just a drop in the ocean, they were good at giving birth to beautiful daughters. They were famous all over the world for this. He married Oda.
Nobunaga's sister, the famous beauty Oda Kaki.
It can be seen that if you want to be eugenic, you must first choose a good wife. All three of his daughters inherited their mother's beauty. The three Asai sisters became legends of that era.
The eldest daughter Asai Chacha was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's concubine, Mrs. Yodono. Chacha was the daughter-in-law whom Toyotomi Hideyoshi married in his later years, and she was also his sweetheart. Even when he was assassinated and ran away, he would not forget to take Chacha with him.
The second daughter, Hatsumi Asai, is Tsunekoin, the head wife of Kyougoku Takatsuki. They are cousins. Kyougoku Takatsuki's mother is Asai Fuku, the daughter of Asai Hisamasa, and the sister of Asai Nagamasa. She is the third of the three sisters to marry.
Yes, married to the feudal lord's cousin.
The third daughter, Asai Jiang, is Mrs. Ajiang, the wife of the second-generation Tokugawa shogun of Japan today. This one is even more legendary. She became a widow in her first marriage, divorced in her second marriage, and was already twenty-three years old in her third marriage.
At the age of seventeen, she unexpectedly married the unmarried Tokugawa Hidetada, who was only seventeen years old.
