The busy first month of Hongwu's three years has passed.
During this month, the Central Committee held an open-door meeting and five closed-door meetings, and agreed on many laws and regulations. Of course, they also dealt with several members of the Central Committee and purified the team.
The members dealt with included not only Chang Yuchun, but also several people who had been corrupted and fallen before Ge Ming succeeded.
With the national anthem "Burn my broken body, the sacred fire", the third meeting of the first Central Committee came to a perfect conclusion.
However, the members of the Central Committee who were always busy did not immediately go to various places and take up their posts. Instead, they all stayed behind.
Because on the second day of February, Emperor Ming will get married. He will marry Queen Zhou into the harem, and her mother will honor the world.
On the eighth day of February, the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty will also get married. He will marry his Mongolian wife Zhao Min.
The members of the Central Committee did not have too many opinions on the emperor's wedding, but they had more opinions on the prime minister's minor wedding.
After statistical analysis by gossips, it is hard to say whether Prime Minister Wei, who is in charge of intelligence, is adding fuel to the flames. Anyway, the people of the capital, no matter what your ethnicity, are aware of the statistical results.
Some members of the central committee believed that it seemed inappropriate for the Prime Minister to marry a foreign woman and the daughter of an enemy. In the future, the Prime Minister might be biased in his policy towards Meng Zheng.
However, the above is not the mainstream opinion.
The vast majority of the core members believe that the Prime Minister sacrificed his own ego to realize the Ming Dynasty. For the sake of the integration of various ethnic groups and to appease the restless Mongolian people, he would rather be blind than marry an ugly woman.
After hearing this, the melon-eating crowd sighed and said, "The Prime Minister is a true husband who sacrifices himself for others!"
"Keke" Zhao Min slumped down on the chair, clutching his stomach, and said out of breath: "Brother Haichuan sacrificed himself for others, and also sacrificed himself, hehe..."
After telling the story, Li Jiang spread his hands to express his innocence and said: "I didn't say this, it was really spread from outside."
"Hmph, you may not have gone to tell people in person. But your minion, Tong Derong, will help you pass it on."
"No, I have strictly ordered the Military Aircraft Department not to discuss this matter."
"That's Wei Yixiao! He has the most spies."
"How could it be? He has always been at odds with me."
"Haha, he is almost reaching the threshold of innateness, right? Why don't you flatter you quickly!"
"Madam, don't think nonsense. These are the voices of the people and no one is controlling them."
"Hmph, the voice of the people! In the eyes of the people, am I just an ugly woman?"
"Well, it is inevitable that rumors will be distorted. This involves the characteristics of public communication..."
"I don't care. Isn't Zhang Wuji getting married in two days? I want to attend and let the people see who is more beautiful, the Queen or me!"
"No, no, no, is there any unmarried wife who shows up?"
"Yes, we just need to beg people. If you don't let me go, I will go out to meet people and yell, 'Your Prime Minister asked me for it. I married him because I thought he was pitiful.'"
"Mei Min, don't make things difficult for me... come back and don't leave! Okay, I agreed, but I have a condition..."
"What?"
"Pretend to be my attendant."
"Don't even think about it!"
"Come, sit down. As clever as you are, tell me your conditions."
"When we get married, my father and eldest brother must come to watch the ceremony."
"Well... why are you standing up again? Okay, I'll think of a way."
"Brother Haichuan is the best, huh."
"Are there any rewards?"
"I think so, go back to your east wing."
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On the second day of February, the capital became noisy from early morning.
Countless idle people poured out of their homes, including many children, many young ladies and young wives, and they gathered together and headed for the imperial city.
For the first time, the main gate of the imperial city was opened. The energetic Ming soldiers, their armors shining, stood on both sides holding red tassel spears.
There are more and more people on the street, and they are gradually becoming crowded and crowded.
There was a lot of petty theft here, and of course there were also people who took the opportunity to eat tofu, which caused the crowd to scream in surprise.
Tong Derong, who was in charge of the ceremony, and the officials from the Ministry of Rites were so anxious that their foreheads were sweating. They did not expect that the people in the capital loved to watch the excitement so much. If one thing was not handled well, it would be a major accident. When a major accident occurred during the emperor's wedding, they wanted to punish the Nine Tribes.
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It was Tong Derong who had followed Li Jiang for a long time and learned a lot of his courage, so he immediately sent people to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion to ask for reinforcements.
Wu Jincao, who had been promoted to Governor-General, did not dare to neglect after hearing the news. While sending his deputy, Governor Zuo Yaya, with 3,000 troops to assist the imperial city, he set off to report to the military aircraft office.
It was a big deal to mobilize troops without orders. He had to go and explain the situation in person. However, the military aircraft would not blame him. It was a matter of safety for the royal family and the people, so it was reasonable to make a last-minute decision.
One day passed, and the Ming soldiers took two shifts, but no one in the capital moved.
Ming Bing looked at it out of curiosity, oh! It turns out that they had prepared food and drink with them, and they also had a clear division of labor. The family took turns. When one person went to the toilet, the others held hands and occupied their seats.
This shows how much people in the capital love watching heat... no, how much they love Zhengzhi.
When dusk came, two thousand soldiers rushed out from the imperial city. They forcibly separated the crowd and opened a human passage on Tianjie.
The people in the capital were very understanding and did not say a word even if they were beaten. Because they are knowledgeable under the emperor's feet, they understand that this is the queen's sedan chair coming, and we cannot block the way.
Crowds on both sides of Tianjie looked forward to it.
Soon, the sound of a quiet street gong sounded at the end of Tianwai. The people in Tianjie all stretched their necks and looked towards the sound of the sound regardless of whether they could see it or not.
Hundreds of Ming soldiers wearing mandarin duck red coats walked majestically in front with guns and swords, followed closely by court musicians playing gongs and drums.
Behind him is the principal, thirty-two people carrying a phoenix chariot surrounded by beautiful women like flowers.
Behind the phoenix chariot were those holding fans and signs, as well as people from the Emei sect of the Queen's natal family.
Jiannie didn't come. It was not appropriate for a nun to appear on this occasion.
Behind them were hundreds of Ming troops wearing red coats.
Amidst the playing and beating, the phoenix chariot crossed the Jinshui Bridge and entered the imperial city.
Ordinary people will not be able to see the following ritual process, and can only rely on their imagination to make up for it.
For example, someone said that he saw the queen's appearance from the tightly covered phoenix chariot. She was so beautiful that she was as beautiful as a fairy and could conquer the country.
Others were dissatisfied. She analyzed it logically, saying that because the maids surrounding the phoenix chariot were very beautiful, they could not escape from the natural law, that is, generally beautiful maids are ugly.
As soon as this statement came out, many women responded, "It's appropriate! This is called the beauty of contrast."
The opinions of the women were ignored by the men, who believed that people gather in groups and things divide into groups. Therefore, after careful and careful observation, they came to the conclusion that all the female disciples of Emei were like hibiscus from clear water, and they were extremely beautiful.
Logically speaking, their senior sister/sister is an ugly girl.
Opinionists on both sides were dissatisfied and believed that they were right. So the quarrel gradually turned into a group fight.
The final result of the fight was that when the Ming soldiers came up, a large number of men ran away shouting "It's insulting to be polite". The older girls and younger wives went home triumphantly.
That night, the capital was ablaze, and the whole city fell into a carnival.
Zhang Wuji led Zhou Zhiruo into the bridal chamber, while several military aircraft were waiting gloomily in the military aircraft hall.
They were waiting for Chang Yuchun's battle report.