Chapter 449: Princess’s Marriage

On July 7, Zhao Xing returned to Hangzhou with a huge fleet. At that time, the newspaper reported on Guangzhou that reported his arrival had just been published in the world.

No one noticed that Zhao Xing arrived in Hangzhou in May, and he only stayed in Guangzhou for more than ten days, and there was a time gap of nearly two months during this period.

In addition to some reports of Zhao Xing's itinerary, he muttered inexplicably: "It took only three or five days to get from Guangzhou to Hangzhou, and the Taiwei actually walked for a month and a half."

But scholars did not care about the doubts of these maritime merchants. In their feelings, the imperial palace newspaper had just published the news that Zhao Xing had arrived in Guangzhou, and he returned to Hangzhou again. This was already fast enough. They did not care about the two-month gap in Zhao Xing's itinerary.

July is not the time from Guangzhou to Hangzhou. Most people attribute the delay of Zhao Xing's itinerary to the long sea route. The soldiers with the ship remained silent about their itinerary in the past two months. However, the intent people have guessed some inside information about the large amount of Nanyang cargo brought back from Zhao Xing with the ship.

Zhao Xing brought back a 500,000 flintlock rifle with the ship. After the new gun was made, the old flintlock rifle was ready to be suspended and eliminated. However, the Arsenal Bureau was surprised to find that the old gun was sold very hot. Zhao Xing placed a million order in one breath, and the price was not low. Subsequently, the Guangdong-Guangxi Business Department jointly announced the opening of the private firearm trade. The overjoyed arms dealers immediately reduced their resistance to Zhao Xing's "Rear-mounted Musket Control Order" and began to happily expand production. This batch of 500,000 flintlock rifle was their inventory for many years.

The warship full of flintlock rifles was very dripping. When Zhao Xing returned to Hangzhou, it was approaching the tide period of Qiantang tide. Since it took a certain amount of time to unload, the warship could only reach Xiaoshan Wharf outside Hangzhou Bay. When Zhao Xing got off the boat, it was already noon. His entourages pulled a few war horses and rushed over to catch several carriages. Zhao Xing waved his hand and refused the carriage, pulled a war horse on it, and rode it on, waving his whip easily, and walked towards his home excitedly in the bright sunshine.

The good public security situation in the Song Dynasty made people later disgusted. Even when Song Huizong promoted the Huashigang and ruined the people in great pain, the emperor was still wearing green hats and took two eunuchs with no power to tie a chicken to the streets of the capital Bianliang, looking for a "human teahouse" to help him convey the message of date. Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, there was no need to worry about the danger of assassins. Even if there were only fifteen armed forces in Wangxian County, there was no need to worry about personal injury when walking in such a city.

It was July 7th that day, and the summer harvest ended, and most parts of the south had already ended the autumn sowing. In ancient China, this time was "Praying for the Day of the Good Job". The landlords of the Good Job were women, who burned incense and worshiped the Weaver Girls, praying that they could be skillful. Therefore, the streets were all women wearing gorgeous clothes, and they went to the Weaver Girls temple to burn incense together. This kind of day of traveling together is a festival for women. Many women still carry baskets in their hands, looking at their appearance. It is obvious that they were praying for a day to rest from their husbands and fathers, and just to play.

Prayering for the day is not an official festival in the Song Dynasty, so local officials do not have holidays, but the factory is on holidays. On this day, factory owners still traditionally let female workers pray to God and Buddha. They also hope that their female workers can be clever and skillful.

The streets were filled with joyful women, so naturally the Tutuzi refused to let go of such festivals. They wore light shredded potato yarns, shaking golden silk folding fans imported from Japan, and swaying all over the streets, making the women giggle. Zhao Xing was urging his horse to stroll in this giggle, looking at him very happy.

There were 10 zhangqing and autumn in the carriage. They were exaggerated by the festival. They lifted the curtains, poked their faces out of the carriage, and watched the streets with joy. From time to time, they also commented on the clothes of women on the street, and praised them endlessly.

The Song Dynasty's Qi Qiaori has gradually evolved into the "Fighting Embroidery Day". On this day, women will wear their own embroidery works on this day and show off the streets. In the Song Dynasty's "Ningyu Guanyin" opera, the heroine wears her embroidered handkerchief on the streets on Qi Qiaori, and is attracted by the prince, and she has been taken into the mansion and becomes the royal embroidery girl in the royal palace.

This is a festival that prays for creativity. The modern July 7th has evolved into the "annual women's trafficking anniversary". On this day, the Cowherd kidnapped the Weaver Girl and coerced her to be her own wife. Then, using the Weaver Girl's weaver Girl's weaver girl to quickly get rid of poverty and get rid of her slavery. Therefore, this day is also called "Chinese Valentine's Day".

From a festival that prays for creativity to a "trading day", this may be the real sadness of "no China after Yashan" - foreign nations have come, and they enter the Central Plains to get rid of poverty and become rich by robbery and trafficking. Therefore, this festival that prays for creativity must conform to their national traditions and praise their national habits...

It was a happy thing to be born in the Song Dynasty. Zhao Xing rode his horse and looked around. From time to time, women on the roadside raised their embroidery handkerchiefs and swayed the corners of their skirts. These women did this attitude, not because they wanted to seduce men, but because they recommended their embroidery skills to Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing's group of people were furious and furious, following the brigade's guards. These guards were all new musketeers. When they saw this show, they were not ordinary people. Therefore, the girls tried their best to show off their intelligence and skill, hoping to be attracted by Zhao Xing and hired them to their homes, so that they can have long-term meal tickets.

Speaking of "popularity", this word comes from the days when Song Huizong went to date Li Shishi privately, so he called "popularity". It means that he doesn't have to go to court to handle government affairs. This national affairs are decided by Prime Minister Cai Jing and Cai, and he wants to go on a date.

Therefore, the word "possess" in the Song Dynasty has a different meaning from the modern one. Zhao Xing's current "possesses" in the Song Dynasty was called "official power". Seeing the servants huddled in front of each other, they were obviously an official. The new army was holding a new gun, and the official power was quite good.

Zhao Xing looked around the way, but he paid great attention to the embroidery skills presented by women on the roadside. Because Su embroidery and Hangzhou embroidery have always been famous, Zhao Xing also wanted to find a few embroidery girls with outstanding skills to embroider a few pictures to preserve them in the world. Maybe this thing can be sold at a high price in modern times, and future generations can make a fortune.

He forgot that the stone roads in his castle were actually jade stone slabs. This was also a wealth he prepared for the future and left to future generations. He always did this way, with the profound habits of modern people, and always spared no effort to collect some things that were called "national treasures" in modern times, hoping to leave a little thought for future generations.

However, no matter what collection is, it is not as good as the collection of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xing was immersed in the urban style of the Song Dynasty. Yuan Yeping urged his horse to catch up from behind. He talked about his dry official affairs boredly: "I didn't find any left-behind intelligence personnel on the dock, but I guess that even the Lord of Shuai Fan Shuaizi should have come back at this time, but this war is probably going to lose money. The Bohai people, Jin people, and Liao people are all very poor. They seem to have no valuables except war horses and cattle and sheep."

Zhao Xing shook his head: "The Bohai Kingdom captured the Linhai Army, which is more expensive than any treasure. From then on, the seas of the Liao Kingdom are no longer on our guard. When the merchants heard this news, they would jump up happily. What I am thinking about now is how to turn the demise of the Linhai Army into a dividend, so that all merchants in the war can share it."

Yuanyeping replied casually: "It is nothing more than establishing a maritime exclusive right, and only businessmen who are participating in the war are allowed to operate this trade route."

Zhao Xing urged the horse to rush to the road, and asked. When he was asking, he was still scanning the girls waving the embroidered sacks on the street: "Have our friends from the sea army withdrawn?"

Yuan Yeping lowered his head and replied humbly: "No Khitans in the Linhai Army were spared. But their Han army opened the city gate in advance, and many people were able to obtain high-ranking officials and generous salaries in the Bohai Sea for their military achievements, and many people were unwilling to withdraw. However, some people wanted to follow us, but they hoped to come to Song State to live in peace."

Tong Guan went to Shaanxi, which meant that Zhao Xing had eight years left. Eight years later, Tong Guan ended the war with Tubo and then became the intention of serving as a mission to the Liao Kingdom. He met Ma Zhi, a merchant from Bohai in Liao Kingdom, and then the Song and Jin "Sea Alliance" were formed. The two countries agreed to jointly attack the Liao Kingdom. Ten years later, the Jin people who won a great victory tore up the alliance. After destroying the Liao Kingdom, their army went south with the momentum and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.

Unfortunately, history has changed due to Zhao Xing. The Bohai people had subversive actions supported by Zhao Xing. They restored the country early, and they gained a firm foothold in the cracks between the Song and Jin Dynasties. This means that the chaos in Liaodong has opened up.

This is indeed a chaos. The Bohai people were determined to restore their old territory. They were short-sighted and attacked the Zhongjing Road area of ​​the Liao Kingdom while going to war with the Jin people. In this way, they were dragged into a full-scale war, and it was difficult to escape from the war.

This situation made Zhao Xing very satisfied. He replied with a smile of success in the conspiracy: "Yes, they can be arranged to enter the General Staff Headquarters. I plan to establish a pure Liao army in the General Staff Headquarters so that they can play the enemy in future exercises and enable our local soldiers to gain experience in confrontation.

Okay, Tokyo Road is vast and sparsely populated. The Khitans were not strict in governing this land. The Jurchens in the Hosuguan had privately traded horses with the Song Dynasty since the time of Shenzong. The Khitans did not know how to control it, but the Zhongjing Road was different. The Liao people could tolerate the existence of the Bohai people on the Tokyo Road, and they could never tolerate their power entering the Zhongjing Road. In this way, it would be difficult for the Bohai people to sit down and take a breath, and they would have to rely on our support.

I think about it and feel happy. Tokyo Road must be very lively now. Sometimes the Jurchens in the Hosu Pavilion fight against the Bohai people, sometimes the Bohai people join forces with the Jurchens in the Hosu Pavilion to deal with the Khitans and the Black Water Jurchens... The Three Kingdoms War, or the Four Kingdoms War, must be very lively and unrestrained. I really want to go and have a look."

When Zhao Xing said this, he waved to an embroidery girl on the roadside. The embroidery girl was particularly eye-catching among a group of female companions. Her face was filled with a smile, and her eyes were swept out, as if anything could arouse her joy. This joy infected Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing waved her over and pretended not to know the way home, and leaned over and asked: "Little lady, do you know how to get to Jasmine Garden?"

Zhao Xing raised his head and greeted Yuanye Hei for a long time, but finally couldn't hold it in. He asked quietly: "Are you preparing to conquer Japan? I wonder who the adults are targeting first?"

Zhao Xing glanced at Yuan Yeping, but he had not answered yet. The girl who was greeted by him replied with a smile: "Did the official go to find the Grand Tutor? Follow this road and keep walking, it is the East Garden of Jasmine Garden. If you see a village where the blond and blue-eyed foreign people live, that's it. Through this foreign village, there are two bridges leading to the north shore. That is the Blue Tile Terrace in Jasmine Garden."

After a moment of pause, the girl said quickly: "Official, look at the guns on your accompanying guards. You probably came from the Beiyang Affairs Bureau? I heard that Fang Jin only has two major affairs bureaus directly equipped with such fast guns. Are you a high-ranking official of the Beiyang Affairs Bureau? Do you know the Grand Tutor?"

While talking, the girl raised the embroidered handkerchief fan in her hand, as if she planned to bring a cool breeze to the embroidered handkerchief in the July sunshine.

July is the end of the summer heat. In such weather, the old dog is shrouded in the afternoon sun, and the wind brought by the embroidered handkerchief cannot relieve the heat. Instead, because of the hard waving, the girl seemed to be full of sweat.

Zhao Xing was attracted by the other party's embroidered handkerchief. He pointed out the embroidered handkerchief and asked: "Little Madam, you are embroidering the "Little Snow Picture of Fishing Village"? This is done by the famous scholar Wang Sheng. But he is a picture of green painting. You actually used silk thread to show the sparseness and lightness of ink color. What a wonderful method! I wonder if the little Madam's noble surname? What is the name of the boudoir?"

The girl covered her mouth with an embroidered slut and laughed: "My name is Li Cuilian, and the official has won the award..."

Before Zhao Xing could react, the woman immediately asked quickly: "Did the official go to find the Grand Master? I see how you look. But the first time I came to Hangzhou, so I don't know the way? Why don't I take you there?"

Zhao Xing nodded: "Thank you, my wife."

When Zhao Xing asked, the carriage that accompanied him did not stop. The carriage walked past Zhao Xing. When he passed by, two female girls in the car glared at Zhao Xing with a angrily look, while Yuan Yeping stopped by Zhao Xing, looking at Zhao Xing without his heart, as if he was waiting for an answer.

When Li Cuilian stepped forward to lead the way, Zhao Xing took advantage of the gap and replied lightly: "I heard that Beiqian Shouping Zhongsheng decided to open up trade with the Song State and allow Japanese merchants to go to the Song State to operate sea trade. But I heard that many Japanese merchants did not come to the Song State directly, and they drove their ships to the Liao State. In the past five years, the Liao State has recorded five tribute incidents, which shows that at least five groups of Japanese merchants pretended to be envoys to go to the Liao State to trade. I cannot tolerate this phenomenon."

Yuan Yeping retorted dissatisfiedly: "Nagatomian, you haven't said that Japan has rejected trade between the Liao Kingdom and the Jurchens. He ordered the merchants of these two countries to not be allowed to enter Hong Kong. Japan currently only allows Song merchants to enter and exit. Isn't that enough?"

Zhao Xing had not answered yet. Li Cuilian had already approached his horse and introduced it quickly: "Officials, this road was built by the vassals in the West Fort of Jasmine Garden. It leads directly to the dock and is dedicated to the loading and unloading of goods by the vassals. Later, Mr. Guishan, the magistrate of Xiaoshan County, asked for the right of road from them and opened it to the people of Xiaoshan, so we were able to walk on this road.

In fact, officials don’t need to worry. Follow this road and walk straight down the West Fort in Jasmine Garden... The official is here for the first time, I don’t know what the relationship between the official and the Grand Tutor? I heard that the Grand Tutor’s life is very luxurious, and the equipment used is perfect. I don’t know if he needs an embroiderer at home?"

Zhao Xing laughed: "What a little lady, you're so quick, I haven't said anything yet. You asked everything and said everything?"

Zhao Xing didn't know that "Quick-mouth Li Cuilian" is a symbol and a famous tragedy. The Song Rendi notes record the experience of Hangzhou embroiderer Li Cuilian. This Li Cuilian is skillful and has superb embroidery skills. The only bad problem is that she is quick-mouthed and says everything she should say or not. As a result, after she got married, her husband's family was not satisfied with her quick-mouthed and gave her a break.

In the Song Dynasty, after her married daughter was divorced, this was a very shameful act for her parents' family. Of course, according to Song Xingtong, because her husband's family did not return the dowry because her wife was not virtuous. Therefore, although Li Cuilian was skillful and skilled, her parents' family was unwilling to accept her again. As a result, she had to live in a nunnery, spend her days in a miserable life, and died suddenly when her youth was in full swing.

The Song people regretted Li Cuilian's life experience in their notes. From then on, the name Li Cuilian became a symbol of fast-pitched mouth. In the drama, the characters with fast-pitched mouths were arranged with a name, called "Li Cuilian".

Li Cuilian's mouth is famous in China. She talks quickly along the way and keeps talking. Unfortunately, Zhao Xing's team is quite dull and deaf about her questioning guards. When she turned her target to Yuan Yeping, Yuan Yeping looked at her as if she was transparent, and she thought she did not exist. Only Zhao Xing talked to her without saying a word.

"What, the mistress of the Zhao family is discussing kissing the princess... Well, it's interesting!" Zhao Xing answered absent-mindedly.

"Of course, the officials don't know. The Emperor's Princess (the title of princess in the Song Dynasty) has never been married. It is an exception for the Grand Master to marry a princess at the family of the Grand Master, which shows the importance the official attaches to the Zhao family. The officials don't know yet, and they have never married the same surname. This time, the official married the Emperor's Princess and the same surname, and they were surprised by it. I heard from others but didn't believe it. As a result, I agreed that the day I saw the ordering ceremony with my own eyes.

That day, Yang Zuren and Yang from Yangzhou led the men of Jasmine Garden to ship for five miles. Others gave the ceremony to the decree, and only one thing was in one box, not for anything else, just to make up a lot of boxes and look good. The Grand Master is a real person, and each box is full until it can't be filled. It's so envious. Unfortunately, the Grand Master's legitimate son Feng Yane was held in Guangzhou, and I didn't see it. I thought that the legitimate son's legitimate son should have the ceremony to be bigger than Yun Yane, and I don't know how lively it should be."

Li Cuilian just talked about the two obstacles that the princess married Zhao Xing.

First of all, the daughters of the emperors of the Song Dynasty were not married. The princesses of the Northern Song Dynasty married twenty-eight people, including twenty-one from generals, three relatives and only four descendants of civil servants. They were all powerful ministers at the prime minister level. For example, Wang Yiyong, grandson of the local prime minister Wang Pu during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song; Han Jiayan (brother Han Zhongyan); and the son of the prime minister Zeng Gongliang who wrote "The General Essay of Wu Jing", the son of Cai Jing, the last prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, etc.

There are only four cases, nothing else.

Therefore, when the time traveler arrived in the Song Dynasty, his father was not a strong prime minister and could become a prince consort, which basically did not exist.

Secondly, there was a folk custom of not marrying the same surname in ancient China. Although this regulation was little binding on the royal family, the royal family often gave the surname to the aliens who married the royal family and naturalized the "son-in-law" in their family. The notes of the Song people also recorded three examples of the royal family marrying the Zhao family. This shows that in order to reduce the dowry, the royal family princes sometimes did not care about the folk custom of not marrying the same surname.

However, it is different for Emperor Ji Changguo to marry a prominent official with the same surname like Zhao Xing. After all, this kind of thing is much more eye-catching than a royal family married woman quietly. The royal family ignored this constraint and insisted on Emperor Ji to marry him. This only shows that Zhao Xing is indeed powerful at present, and his military achievements in foreign countries also make the emperor unrewardable. In addition, his party is strong and the emperor has no choice but to do anything. Only by pulling him into the ranks of royal relatives can the people in the palace rest in peace.

For this purpose, the royal family resolutely decided to marry Changguo abroad, and even agreed that Changguo would not marry in the capital, and was directly escorted to Hangzhou by Dazai, accompanied by his brother Jian Wang...

Zhao Xing is the pride of Hangzhou people. The Hangzhou Township Party is very proud of the fact that Zhao Xing has given birth to a famous general like Zhao Xing in their hometown. Of course, during the development of Zhao Xing, they also enjoyed the dividends of the development of the Nanyang Affairs Bureau. Just Zhao Xing's two consecutive years of tax exemption has made them widely useful. Therefore, Li Cuilian just pointed out that Zhao Xing's marriage to Zhilan this time was also a kind of show-off. Even the royal family was determined to win over the big figure in his hometown.

Li Cuilian said along the way that Yuanyeping urged his horse to approach Zhao Xing, and specially reminded Zhao Xing in the rich dialect of Kyoto, Japan: "Namen Temple, this girl should not stay in the mansion, her mouth is too fast."

Zhao Xing nodded and replied in Kyoto dialect: "I understand, but her embroidery skills are really outstanding. I am going to let her embroider a pair of Hangzhou city scenery as a screen... Well, you might as well call this embroidery painting "Ten Scenery Satin". In this way, give her the work and let her go home to embroider. Only when she is allowed to enter the castle when she is handed over the place, so that she can avoid gossiping."

The official language in Japan is Song language now, but the Kyoto dialect is a mimicry and rigid Song language. Li Cuilian listened to it in a slight way and didn't understand what the two were talking about her.

As he was speaking, the village where Yici Leye people lived had arrived. This village built a low chest wall, but there were very high iron fences erected on the chest wall, which was a bit similar to modern villa buildings. This Yici Leye people land manor is not open to the public. At the gate, there were several strong men patrolling the tall golden mastiffs. Li Cuilian stood by the door, looking timidly at the tall mastiff dog at the door, and said, "Officials, I won't go in. The little lions in the hands of those farmermen are so scary, so I'll send the official here..."

Halfway through, Li Cuilian stopped abruptly. She looked at the strong man guarding the gate in shock and opened the gate. She stood at the door and bowed deeply to Zhao Xing, saying, "Welcome to go home!"

The carriage ripped into Yici Leye Manor first. Zhao Xing turned around and waved at Li Cuilian: "I hired you, Guo Silang teahouse, do you know? If you go to this teahouse tomorrow and wait for the 'human favor', there will be a Neizhi (steward) who will be admitted to the hospital and will explain your work. Who among your female companions has superb skills? I will also invite you together. I have a lot of work and need a lot of good people."

Zhao Xing walked into the manor, and Zhuang Ding, who was guarding the gate, immediately closed the gate. Li Cuilian opened her mouth and was stunned for a long time. She turned her head and shouted, and ran: "Ah, I actually told the Grand Master about his family for a long time. The Grand Master not only did not blame him, but also hired me. I have to tell the female companions quickly to make them happy too."

Behind Li Cuilian, a bronze bell rang in the village where the people of Leye people were given a gift. A cannon sounded a salute on the castle bell tower, which notified people from Dongyuan that Zhao Xing had gone home. After the cannon sounded, many people walked out of the house and bowed to Zhao Xing while greeting: "Da Lang is back home. What gift did he bring when he came back this time?"

Zhao Xing answered while walking: "Jerusalem has escaped thousands of your tribesmen. I have already picked them up from Guangzhou. They are on the boat. Go and send someone to receive them..."

When Emperor Ji Changguo, who was reciting poems, heard the sound of cannons in the East Garden, looked up in surprise. The smoke from the muzzle of the West Garden was very conspicuous under the blue sky. She lowered her head and thought for a moment, and asked with a smile: "Since Jasmine Garden suffered from a theft, is there anyone in the Hangzhou area dared to mess with Ahon?"

Li Qingzhao was chatting with Changguo. She stood up when she heard the sound of cannons and replied casually: "This cannon is not a warning. The park stipulates that the bandits are three cannons. Listen again, if only this cannon sound... Ah Ye, Ah Weng is back, I will inform you to welcome you."

Li Qingzhao said, leaving Changguo and trot away. Changguo muttered dissatisfiedly: "I don't say goodbye, it's really no rules..."

After a moment of pause, Changguo picked up the poem tag left by Li Qingzhao and praised: "But this word is very good...'I bought a branch on the flower selling pole and wanted to release it in spring. The tears were evenly dyed, and the traces of the dark dew were still on the verdant clouds. I was afraid that my husband would guess that the face of a slave was not as good as the face of a flower. I had to teach my husband to compare and see it."

In real history, this poem "Mulan Flower Reduced Words" is Li Qingzhao's wedding poem. Compared with the later poems of Li Qingzhao, it looks very immature, but this article vividly expresses the innocent and love of beauty by buying flowers, appreciating flowers, and comparing flowers. Her lively and playful appearance is vividly displayed on the paper.

Dazai Zheng Juzhong looked at King Lu who was sitting next to Changguo, which was King Jian of the past. King Lu immediately reminded: "Changguo, she is the legitimate wife, and she will be your eldest sister-in-law in the future. You must not be so arrogant."
Chapter completed!