The time soon came to March 26th, the wedding day of Princess Qingyang and Prince Tan Yang Yuanpu.
After all, Princess Qingyang was going to be the concubine of King Tan, and the funeral of the late emperor had just passed a few days, so it was not suitable to organize big events. However, on this day, the city of Yueyang was decorated with lights and colorful decorations, which after all added a lot of festive atmosphere.
No matter whether the prince, King Xin or Tanzhou accuse each other of treason, the rule that the whole country mourns the death of the king cannot be avoided anywhere in the Chu territory, and marriages are prohibited within three months.
Three months after the national mourning passed, the wedding day of Princess Qingyang and Prince Tan Yang Yuanpu was chosen as an auspicious day. There were also many ordinary families marrying their daughters and wives in the huge city of Yueyang.
In this sunny and warm spring day, the sound of suona, silk and bamboo is endless, and more and more people put on single shirts and thin trousers and go out for an outing in the city.
In the North Garden of the Chengdong Post House, servants and maids were busy running around. All kinds of gifts were packed in boxes with red paper on them, filling the whole yard, waiting for Lin Haizheng to lead the palace guards to pick them up to the palace.
In the inner house, this was used to announce the marriage between Princess Qingyang and Prince Tan.
Zheng Chang's wife Wang, her nephew's daughter-in-law Zheng Hui's wife Zhou and other women were ordered to come over early to accompany the newlyweds in dressing up.
Du Qiniang ran to the front yard to find Zhang Ping, the Prime Minister of the Prince's Palace, and asked again about the arrangements for worshiping after entering the Prince's Palace today, so as not to miss anything. When she returned to the yard where Princess Qingyang lived these days, she saw Zheng Zheng
Mrs. Wang, Zheng Hui's wife and other women were sitting there talking, but Princess Qingyang was not seen.
Du Qiniang looked around and saw Princess Qingyang wearing a bright red wedding robe, sitting on the pavilion in the west courtyard, staring at the koi in the shallow pond, her makeup had just been put on, her face was gorgeous, but
There was a touch of sadness locked in his eyes.
"Princess, ah, I have to change my name to princess today," Du Qiniang ran over and asked, "We are about to board the train, why do you have time to hang out here now?"
"I heard that Mr. Han is not good at Ci rhythm. Is there anyone else in Xuzhou or Han Qian who is good at Ci rhythm?" Princess Qingyang asked.
"Ah?" Du Qiniang didn't understand why Princess Qingyang asked this question inexplicably today. She was slightly startled and said, "When it comes to the rhythm of poetry, the second young master of the Feng family is the best at it. Lord Chang Shixi also admires poetry.
, but his performance was mediocre. My eldest brother Du Yijun also learned to write lyrics, but he was rejected by the adults as just piling up and not showing his talent. In addition, Mr. Xue Ruogu, the head of the palace, and Qiao Weiyan, the eldest son-in-law of Han Licheng,
Wang Lin, the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Wen Ruilin, the governor of the Privy Council, both seem to have pretty good lyrics..."
Although Jinling's poetry style was not as good as that of Shu, Du Qiniang thought about it and named a bunch of people.
However, Princess Qingyang has been working hard to study the personnel affairs of Chu State these days. The people Du Qiniang mentioned are all representative and literary officials from Jiuzhou, Hunan. She has some understanding of them, but there is no doubt that there is no one among them.
One person can write the majestic spirit of "going east across the Yangtze River to find all the romantic figures of the ages".
Of course, Han Daoxun didn't have any lyrics handed down during his lifetime. Could it be that the thief really had a flash of inspiration?
It's impossible. This thief has a gentle mind and a deep city. It's hard for him not to have such a majestic spirit.
At this moment, Zhang Ping came running over with two young eunuchs, urging Princess Qingyang to board the carriage so as not to miss the opportunity.
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Although Tanzhou is geographically the core of the eight states in Hunan, and the Ma family has been running Tanzhou for a hundred years, making Tanzhou a deep and vast city with a large population, but in order to prepare for the Jinling War and to take into account the control of Huangzhou and Ezhou, all
It was decided that the Shangshu Province should be placed in Yueyang City, where the Yangtze River and Donghuting meet.
Tanzhou is two hundred and fifty or sixty miles away. Once there is any new incident in Jinling, the main force will be concentrated in Tanzhou, so the response will be slower after all.
After the Shangshu Province was officially moved here, Yang Yuanpu also officially used the inner city where the official residence of the general's mansion was located, after simple reconstruction, as Prince Tan's Mansion.
The inner city is more than 150 feet wide from east to west and more than 190 feet long from north to south, covering 500 acres of land. The city wall is 2 feet 9 feet high, 6 feet wide at the bottom and 2 feet wide at the top. It has four gates.
There are more than 100 courtyards at the south gate of the inner city, which are used as offices for the Shangshu Province, the Privy Council, and the Imperial Palace and various ministries and departments to handle official business. The east and west gates are equipped with granaries, arsenals, and places for guards to station themselves. The north gate with the largest area is
There are three to four hundred courtyard houses at the gate, which are where the inner palace is located.
Although it was impossible to spend huge sums of money to build magnificent pavilions and pavilions at this time, the style of Jinling Chu Palace was still maintained, and the three to four hundred courtyards were divided into Chengyun Hall, Cunxin Hall, Tiren Hall and Cishou Palace.
Changxin Palace, Qingliu Palace and other architectural complexes.
The concubine Wang Chaner naturally lived in the Cishou Palace in Yueyang City. Today, the Cishou Palace is also decorated with lanterns and festoons.
Wang Chan'er was sitting in front of the window. The palace maid was holding an antelope horn comb to help comb her waist-length hair as black as a waterfall. Her beautiful face was reflected in the polished bronze mirror.
She is so youthful, so plump and beautiful.
Thinking about it, I was favored by Emperor Tianyou when I was fifteen, and gave birth to Pu'er when I was sixteen. I am now eighteen years old, and I am only thirty-four this year. The days when I was favored by Emperor Tianyou are still vivid in my mind.
It was a time when she could still feel the joy of life. Her body could fascinate an overlord, and this in itself made her intoxicated.
Wang Chan'er was in a trance, and a face suddenly flashed in the bronze mirror, as if that bitch Xu Hui was standing behind her, which made her startle, but the palace maid behind her came close to see if the hairdo she was combing was appropriate.
Appropriate.
Thinking that today was Pu'er's happy day, Wang Chan'er suppressed the anger in her heart and just glanced at the palace maid coldly.
The palace maid was glanced at by Wang Chan'er, and she woke up to the fact that she had shocked the concubine. Her heart was filled with chills, and she quickly knelt down to admit her mistake: "My slave was so reckless that I shocked the concubine."
"Get up, the Ai family is too lost in thought," Wang Chan'er waved her hand to forgive the maid's recklessness and asked, "Today is a happy day, where are Pu'er and others?"
"The Privy Council has just sent over the documents for the formation of the Five Tooth Army, and His Highness is looking at the documents in the Chengyun Hall." The palace maid stood up and answered with a small voice.
"What day is it? No matter how busy you are, you can't take a break today?" Wang Chan'er said angrily, "Call Yao Si Ji over and ask her to go to the front to call Pu'er over - forget it, you should still serve me to Chengyun Hall
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Yao Xishui and Chun Shisanniang were also busy inside and outside today. They saw several palace attendants following the concubine's phoenix chariot to the Chengyun Hall in front. When they came over to greet her, they realized that the concubine was going to persuade Yang Yuanpu to celebrate today's event.
Don't worry so much about government affairs when the day comes.
Together with the Zheng family and Han Daoming, they escorted the concubine into Yueyang City. In order to seize the central authority, they formed a pattern in Xingshangtai Province, Hunan, in which the concubine and the mother and son of Prince Tan coexisted. This would inevitably destroy the mother and son of the concubine and Prince Tan.
emotion.
However, they can also realize that King Tan has grown up. Especially in the past five years, he has been taught by Shen Yang and Han Qian, and has experienced the war between Jing and Xiang and the vassal reduction. His mind, calculations, and will are already above those of ordinary people.
They are also extremely tenacious. Their excessive struggle for power will only make King Tan more inclined to Shen Yang, Han Qian, Li Zhigao and others. It is not even ruled out that they may secretly conspire to launch another military revolt.
Although Zheng Hui initially cooperated with them in matters such as adding the Privy Council, Imperial Office, and Six Ministries, Zheng Hui's attitude became cold when they really thought about adjusting the commander of the Zuo Longque military camp and the generals at the Duyuhou level.
, even bypassed them and went to King Tan to state the reasons why some generals could not be easily replaced, which made them quite passive.
No matter whether Han Qian was behind the scenes or not, no matter whether Han Qian had sent Feng Liao to Yueyang City, and there were Du Qiniang, Lin Haizheng, Feng Xuan and others around King Tan, as well as his wife and concubine.
Realizing that it would not be beneficial for them to continue to have a stalemate with King Tan and Shen Yang, they had to slightly change their strategies and attitudes.
After Han Qian was awarded the title of Governor of Xuzhou, he still stayed in Longya Mountain to observe mourning. Even though Han Qian would continue to influence King Tan through people like Feng Liao, letting Han Qian stay in Xuzhou was better than letting him use such a trick.
They are ruthless and gloomy, and they have secretly colluded with Li Zhigao, Princess Qingyang and other people to return to King Tan, which will be more beneficial to them.
For the moment, they should do many things better, ease the relationship with King Tan, especially ease the relationship between the mother and son of the concubine and King Tan, and make Han Qian look less important.
In this case, in another year and a half, Han Qian will really become less important.
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Chengyun Hall was the original public hall of the Zhenjiang Mansion.
According to the regulations, the main hall of the prince's palace can be built with a depth of eleven rooms, and the main hall of the county prince's palace can be built with a depth of nine rooms. The ordinary general hall of the general's palace is only five rooms deep. The eaves are low, and the long desk in the deepest part of the hall can be sat in broad daylight.
After doing official business, it still seemed a bit cold and dim.
Hearing the news that his mother-in-law had come from Cishou Palace, Yang Yuanpu couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
Although Feng Liao and Cao Gan had been in Yueyang for ten days, his mother-in-law and concubine had not interfered with his handling of military and political affairs, and they were rarely present when convening ministers to discuss matters. However, Yang Yuanpu heard from time to time that his mother-in-law and concubine were venting their anger on the maids of Cishou Palace.
Worried that one day she would lose control and run up to him and make a fuss.
Thinking of this, Yang Yuanpu couldn't help but feel a little scared. He didn't know what she was doing here at this time. Was she dissatisfied with the etiquette of his wedding to Qingyang today and came over to complain.
With a gloomy face, Yang Yuanpu stepped out of the hall to greet him and asked, "Why did the mother-in-law come to the child at this time?"
Seeing Pu'er's face full of conflicting emotions, Wang Chan'er couldn't help but feel irritable, and she hated Shen Yang, Han Qian and others for teaching Pu'er bad.
"Today is a happy day for His Highness. The concubine learned that His Highness was still attending to official duties in the Chengyun Hall, and was worried that His Highness might be too restless, so she came here specifically to persuade His Highness to take a rest." Seeing the situation, Chun Shisanniang was a little nervous and was busy watching the opportunity.
said.
"Yes, you are such an old man, and the bride will be welcomed in soon. You can't neglect the bride." Wang Chan'er came back to her senses, her expression softened, she grabbed Yang Yuanpu's hand and pulled her just
I thought up some words on the way and said softly, "Also, you are getting married to Princess Qingyang today. Yao'er is gentle and virtuous. She won't be unhappy on the surface, but she is always empty in her heart. Why?
Mom is also here, you should take the time to say a few words to her, let her know that you are thinking of her, and she will not have so many problems getting along with Princess Qingyang in the future - In addition, I will give Qingyang County
The Lord has prepared all kinds of gifts, and you should go through them carefully for my mother to see if there is anything missing."
Yang Yuanpu was somewhat dissatisfied with his mother's attitude at this time, but the mother's thinking made him relax. He was stunned for a while, and then said: "I'll drop what I'm doing and go talk to Yao'er later."
——The privy envoy has just handed over the documents for establishing the Five-Tooth Army, and the mother-in-law also comes to take a look?"
"My mother is a woman who lives in a deep palace because she is favored by your father. How can she have the knowledge to make decisions on such military and state affairs?" Wang Chan'er said with a smile, "My mother lives in a deep palace and is surrounded by dangers.
, I live my life cautiously every day. When I first arrived in Yueyang, I was afraid that you, Pu'er, would be deceived by the traitor and not know it, so I was eager to help you do something. At this time, I see that you and the ministers have handled the matter properly.
Why do you need to take such leisure time for me?"
"..." The days of living in seclusion in the palace were deeply imprinted on Yang Yuanpu's heart. When his mother and concubine mentioned these things, his expression became sad, and then he said proudly, "Don't worry, mother, Pu'er will never ask her to come back again."