Chapter 668
"Play music and give gifts to newcomers!"
The head of Zongzheng shouted, and the musicians of the Yuefu played the complicated rituals again. Chen Xu saluted Qin Shihuang and Concubine Yun again, and then saluted several princes of the royal family one by one, and then led Ying Shiman to board the wedding car for the wedding.
Prince Fusu, Prince Gao and several royal princes as teams to see off their brides, they all wore neat brocade robes and sat on the carriage with more than ten carriages of dowry gifts, which made the bride welcome team more lively.
"Fifth sister, we will often go to the Hou Mansion to find you to play~~"
The wedding car started, and a group of little princesses laughed and shouted from behind.
Sitting in the spacious and luxurious wedding car, Ying Shiman poked her head out of the car window while wiping her tears and waved her hand desperately. As the bumpy carriage went further and further, she was soon flooded by the lively Xianyang people. She could only hear the constant choking sounds of gongs and drums and cheers.
Seeing Chen Xu's wedding carriage walking away, Qin Shihuang's smiling face slowly calmed down, "Marquis Jiancheng, quickly send the media book to the Censor's Mansion, Xu today will marry the Meng family's daughter Wanniang and the Marquis of Jingyang as their wives!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhao Hai, a Marquis of Jiancheng, who was wearing a brocade robe, black beard and white face, quickly agreed, and then left in the car with the order.
"Zhao Wei, quickly prepare for the reward and send it to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion!"
"It's Your Majesty!" Zhao Wei, the young mansion commander of the royal family, stood up and left in a car with an order!
This wedding to marry a princess was very strange. It was originally going to go to Huayu Palace in Jingyang County to welcome the bride, but for some reason it was almost a few days before the bride, and the emperor ordered it to welcome the bride in the palace.
When a princess gets married, she usually has a fiefdom, and she will not leave her fiefdom after getting married. However, Ying Shiman did not have a fiefdom, but just hurriedly built a Huayu Palace in Jingyang County, but the emperor seemed to have no intention of letting Ying Shiman move over and live there.
In other words, Chen Xu married Ying Shiman, which is actually similar to marrying other civilian daughters. In the future, there will be no red tape that needs to be followed. When he does not need to be intimate with Ying Shiman, he will have to go to Huayu Palace specifically.
In this era, the status of a son-in-law in the family was very low, called a son-in-law, that is, a marriage partner. Even if he married the princess as a son-in-law, his status was not high. Apart from his identity as a royal relative, he was not very popular with the royal family, and he was not free. The princess could not leave the fiefdom, so the prince-in-law could only live honestly on the princess' fiefdom, which was equivalent to living with the princess as a marriage partner. Even if he wanted to sleep happily with the princess, he could only go to the princess's mansion.
At that time, Qin Shihuang married his eldest daughter to Wang Jian, but Ying Yuanman's fief was in Liyang. Therefore, Wang Jian had to complete Princess Ri's mission from his hometown in Pinyang to Liyang Palace to sleep with Ying Yuanman but could not marry her home to sleep with her. This is an ancient ritual, and it is the supreme right of the royal family, and no one can surpass it.
But this time it was Chen Xu's turn, and the emperor completely abandoned this set of ancient rituals. He first named Chen Xu as the Marquis of Jingyang, and then built Huayu Palace to Jingyang County. In fact, Ying Shiman married Chen Xu in disguise according to the habit of marrying a daughter from ordinary people, because Ying Shiman's palace was in Chen Xu's fiefdom, which was something that had never happened before.
For example, when Meng Yun married the Fourth Princess, he had to live in the Fourth Princess' palace. However, Meng Yun seemed to have a very ordinary relationship with the Fourth Princess. After all, it was the result of a forced marriage. Therefore, he did not go back often, so he bought a house in the city. The area was not large, only more than ten acres, and he raised several concubines to have fun. Now his subordinates are in charge of paper mills across the country. He is busy all day and doesn't return home. A handsome man like this, leaving the delicate princess in the fiefdom alone to guard the empty room. He heard that he had a daughter, Meng Yun was not happy, so he went back even fewer.
Overall, this is an era when men are highly superior to women and women are very low, especially for nobles, women have a very low status in the family.
Even if a princess gets married, the emperor will not be able to control her future life.
Even if the emperor knew that Meng Yun had left his daughter in the fiefdom and stayed alone in the empty room, and he was looking for joy outside all day long, he would not say anything. The princess's marriage was just a political need. Anyway, all the nobles of the married daughter dared not divorce. This is a recognition of the identity of the royal family. In other words, if the princess is basically the relatives of the royal family, their identity will be bound. In the event of trouble, these people will jump out to help. If they don't help, the royal family will be unlucky, and these relatives will also be unlucky.
But facing Chen Xu, a guy with a very special identity, Qin Shihuang was very concerned about marrying his daughter and was very urgent. Using one daughter to bind an immortal disciple was a super cost-effective deal. If one doesn't work, then two of them. He even forced his number one son Meng Yi to take advantage of his thirteen-year-old daughter. Anyway, he tried every means to stuff his daughter to Chen Xu, and he had to be lively and could be ruined.
Chen Xu was almost at ease with the emperor's extra kindness to him. After all, there was a loud public discussion on such unruly matters, but given Chen Xu's special identity, everyone expressed their understanding.
No matter how noble the emperor's identity is, he is not as high as Taiyi Immortal.
No matter how noble the princess is, she is not as tall as the disciple of the immortal family.
Therefore, after careful thinking, Qin Shihuang gave Chen Xu a title of another marquis, directly in Jingyang, and then directly built his daughter's palace on Chen Xu's fiefdom.
The meaning is very clear, that is, everything about this daughter is yours. You can sleep wherever you like. Anyway, it is in your fiefdom, so there is no need to abide by any ancient rituals and royal etiquette. I... want to let the people of the world see that the disciple of the immortal family, the Marquis of Qinghe married my daughter, he is my son-in-law, he is my relative of the royal family, and the son born to the princess in the future will be my grandson. Once this marriage becomes a fact, no one can deny it, including Chen Xu himself. If someone wants to rebel from the Qin Dynasty one day, all those who are plotting against the rebellion must first consider it. He can withstand the pressure of the ancient immortal Taiyi Immortal Lord and resist the threat of the immortal disciple Chen Xu Taiyi Divine Thunder.
Although not everyone likes the emperor's behavior of playing junglers to send his daughter, Chen Xu really likes it.
Chen Xu did not have much reason or courage to refuse the fifth princess who was well-educated, rational and gentle and beautiful.
He had already refused once. If he refused again, it would inevitably make Qin Shihuang feel grudges. Moreover, in order to achieve his wish, he also gave Meng Wan, who is known as the most powerful and beautiful lady in Xianyang, to him. It would be better to offend the emperor, but Chen Xu was actually worried about offending an old hooligan like Meng Yi.
Because this old hooligan is more difficult to deal with than Zhao Gao.
People like Zhao Gao are serious villains.
But Meng Yi is a serious hypocrite.
It is better to offend a real villain than to offend a hypocrite. This is a lesson learned from thousands of years of historical experience.
What's more, when traveling to ancient times, as a noble marquis, marrying three wives is definitely a simple version, because three wives and four concubines are the standard ones, and a group of wives and concubines is high-quality, while marrying hundreds or thousands of wives is... It is a rebellion. Only the emperor can open a harem, and it is almost enough for ordinary nobles to open a backyard, while ordinary people can only open a back door and marry a wife.
According to the wedding arrangement, Chen Xu followed the wedding carriage out of the east gate, then circled around the city and entered the south gate, and finally arrived at the Qinghe Marquis Mansion.
The Hou Mansion has long been decorated with lights and decorations, and the gate and courtyard wall have been painted and the inside and outside of the yard have been cleaned up again.
When the wedding convoy returned, Chen Jiangshi and Shui Qingrou led all the housekeepers and servants in the mansion to greet them outside the door, and carriages inside the door filled several nearby streets one by one.
Xu Fu led a group of people in the health center, Chen Ping led a group of people in the newspaper, Shi Xuan led a group of people in the Women's College, Sun Shujiong and Zhang Cang led a group of people in the Academy of Sciences and factories, Hu Kuan led a group of people in the School of Engineering, Song Yan and other bus companies, Yang Kun led a group of people in the Oriental Road Engineering Command, Fan Caiying led a group of people in the Huaxia Money House, and Qi Mao and other groups of Xianyang merchants who came to meet, there were at least 300 people. Except for most of the merchants who wore fur, almost everyone else had official positions, all of them were covered with Chinese clothes, brocade robes and jade belts. In addition to the people watching the fun, the streets at the gate of the Qinghe Marquis' Mansion were almost surrounded and could not be circulated. If it weren't for the imperial guards of a school lieutenant's mansion to help maintain order, the bride-welcoming convoy would not have come in at all.
"Here you come, the marquis is back from welcoming the bride!"
As people shouted at the intersection, and then listening to the sound of gongs and drums getting closer and closer and loudly cheering by the audience along the way, the family and guests in the Hou Mansion also began to stir up. Many people stood on tiptoe and looked around. Some children and young children climbed directly to the courtyard walls and trees on both sides of the street to watch.
"Set firecrackers and drum music!"
Seeing that the bride-welcoming convoy had appeared, with the butler roaring, the two servants of the marquis' mansion lit two strings of firecrackers hanging on the giant panda statue at the door.
With the crackling sound of firecrackers and the green smoke churned, two rows of gongs and drums at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion were also beaten by servants.
The whole street was bustling and jubilant. Many children were mixed in the crowd to pick up firecrackers that had not exploded, and some began to compete for the candy chestnuts and coins falling from their heads.
"The bride enters the house~"
With the host shouting, the carriage for weddings stopped at the door of the Marquis' Mansion. Amid the crackling sound of firecrackers, the four-wheeled carriage opened, and Chen Xu led the princess in auspicious suit and got out of the car.
"Oh~~ Princess is coming down~" Countless wild children cheered in the crowd.
"Wow, the princess is so beautiful!" Countless people couldn't help but exclaim.
Chapter completed!