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Chapter 346 Cumbersome Imperial Wedding

The queen's wedding was different from ordinary people. Because she was about to show up at the wedding ceremony, Zhu Cilang, wearing a red wedding dress, unveiled the red veil for the queen in front of Fengtian Gate.

The bride's red veil is a Chinese tradition, and Chinese red has always been a symbol of auspiciousness and joy. The red veil can make the bride not be confused in the public's eyes on the wedding day. The orderly completion of the wedding represents happiness after the wedding.

However, Shi Yuting will be the queen of the mother of the world in the future and needs to complete the ceremony in front of the main hall. Therefore, it is impossible to open the red veil after entering the bridal chamber. Instead, she will uncover the red veil in front of Fengtian Gate and then wear the Nine Dragons and Four Phoenix Crowns. Then the inner officer set up a guard of honor in the central hall, and there are also some female drummers who prepare under the central hall.

The female official took Shi Yuting to the back. After changing to the queen's crown and uniform, Shi Yuting came out and went to the incense table to worship four times. Then a special procurator came out to read the imperial edict. His Majesty officially appointed Shi Yuting as the Empress of the Central Palace.

After receiving the order, Shi Yuting officially became the queen of the Ming Dynasty. Later, under the guidance of the Xuanxuan official, she rewarded the hosts of the wedding Zhao Peng, Han Zanzhou, female officials, palace maids, and eunuchs one by one.

After the empress enthronement ceremony was completed, Zhu Cilang and Shi Yuting returned to the back to change their clothes. The two wanted to change their wedding clothes. Zhu Cilang changed into the crown and Shi Yuting changed into the queen's dress. Then, the two went to the Taimiao to worship and comfort their ancestors, accompanied by everyone.

After returning from Taimiao, Zhu Cilang and Shi Yuting had to change their clothes again, took off their crown dresses, and put on their bright red wedding clothes. Then a grand banquet began. The civil and military officials took their seats one by one. The emperor and the queen sat on the main seat in front of the hall, and the two sat opposite each other.

The grand ceremony was busy all morning, and Zhao Peng was already hungry, but facing the delicious food on the table, he could only swallow his saliva and did not dare to move his chopsticks. He had to wait until the emperor and the queen had three glasses of wine before the formal banquet could start.

The deacon held a large plate full of vegetables and placed it between the two. Then the female official poured wine for the emperor and queen with four pure gold glasses, calling Jinzun wine. She asked for a sip of dryness and brightness at the bottom of the glass. She first had a glass of one person, and after drinking a few sips of the served dishes, then drinking a glass of Jinzun wine thick, starting to serve the staple food, and having to eat a few staple foods. Start drinking the third glass of wine, and after drinking the emperor and queen, eating a few more sips of the dishes.

Then they changed their clothes. The emperor and the queen returned to the back and changed into their dresses and put on their regular clothes. Zhu Cilang changed into Yishan Crown, Blue Dragon Cannon, Shi Yuting changed into Yanju Crown, and Blue Zhai Yi.

The emperor and the queen who had changed into regular clothes returned to the master's seat. At this time, the emperor's wedding banquet officially began. However, after the official starts, all civil and military officials still dared not move their chopsticks, and they all looked at the emperor and the queen on the main table in front.

After the emperor and the empress started eating, the banquet officially began. The civil and military officials sitting in the square started eating with their chopsticks.

Although there were a lot of delicious dishes on the table, and there were also palace maids and eunuchs who came to serve the dishes on trays, everyone didn't move their chopsticks at the banquet, but they just picked up a few bites of the dishes and started drinking.

Zhao Peng didn't care about that much. He was already hungry and waved his chopsticks quickly and feasted invisibly, which made the officials at his desk stunned.

"The loyal and brave man is really a good meal." Zheng Sen smiled. In fact, the implication is to make Zhao Peng pay attention to his image.

Zhao Peng slowed down and looked up at the emperor and queen on the main table. However, he did not see Princess Kunxing and was embarrassed to ask. At this time, he did not dare to enter the harem to find the princess.

In fact, Princess Kunxing was the most pitiful person at this time. At this time, there were no other concubines or princesses in the palace, only she was a mistress, and the other women were slaves. Therefore, she could only set up a small table in the harem courtyard, and she and Fei Zhen'e sat on the same table to have dinner.

In fact, for grand celebrations like this, women in the Ming Dynasty Palace were not unable to show up. They could not only come out to eat mats, but also invite wives of the officials in the court, especially some high-ranking edicts, empresses, imperial concubines, concubines, ladies, and ladies to sit together to use mats. However, at this time, she was the only hostess in the palace and could not hold a banquet for women.

Although Princess Kunxing is a princess, she cannot come out as a woman and sit on the same table with a group of big men. In ancient China, there are two tables with men and women, and a table with women and women. Except for family banquets, few men and women sit on the same table. Especially when guests come, men and women cannot sit on the same table. The hostess is usually a female family member who accompanies the guests.

As for Ma Lian'er, she entered the palace through the side door and was a foil after entering the palace. There was no grand ceremony at all. But Han Zanzhou read out the imperial edict to her that she was named a concubine, and then arranged for her to go to the harem to sit at a table with Princess Kunxing to have dinner.

The banquet was not over from noon until evening. After dark, lights were decorated in the imperial city. In the capital outside the imperial city, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks were blooming, and it was a lively scene.

The grand celebration finally ended. Zhao Peng, who was impatient, called Han Zanzhou: "Eunuch Han, please stay, kid, I want to ask a question."

Han Zanzhou stopped and turned his head: "Zheng Yong waited but said it's okay. As long as we know, we will give you an answer."

Zhao Peng asked, "Eunuch Han, how do I propose marriage to His Highness the Princess? I want to enter the palace to propose marriage tomorrow morning."

Han Zanzhou smiled and said, "Do you really don't know or fake? The emperor's wedding is not over yet. It will take four days. Our family will have to accompany the emperor for four days. After four days, our family will go to your mansion to explain it slowly. Choose a good day to enter the palace to propose marriage."

According to the procedure, the next day the emperor would take the empress to meet the empress dowager in the empress dowager's palace and complete the change of words. However, the empress dowager and the empress dowager are no longer alive. The next day, Zhu Cilang would take Shi Yuting to worship in front of the spiritual throne of the empress dowager and complete the change of words. On the third day, he would pay homage to the Taihui, which means that the royal family held a wedding banquet again and presented gifts to all civil and military officials.

Zhao Peng also gave a gift, and Han Zanzhou read out the gift list: "Loyal and brave enough to wait for 100,000 taels of silver!"

The whole audience was in an uproar. Zhao Peng gave the most gift. He spent a lot of money to describe him as being very rich, but Zhongyong Hou spent 100,000 yuan! But no one questioned how his money came about. Anyway, everyone knows that Zhongyong Hou's money is from legal income and has not been greedy for a long time.

On the fourth day, the celebration ceremony was held in Fengtian Hall. On this day, foreign envoys came to congratulate. On this day, not only were the civil and military officials from the court coming to Fengtian Hall, but even princes from other places had to come to celebrate.

Before dawn, the two princes, Zhu Yujian, the King of Tang and Zhu Yihai, the King of Lu, were also standing outside Hongwu Gate and waiting with the ministers. In the future, the King of Fu, who was still guarding the tomb in Fengyang, also came. The King of Gui and Lu, who were deposed, were naturally not qualified to come. One of them was in Yunnan and was preparing to go to Myanmar in the future; the other one was thrown in Jiaodong and was preparing to go to Sakhalin Island in the future.

The once prosperous Ming vassal kings are now few, only the Tang King and Lu King, and the Fu King, Lu King, who have no salary from the court, which has saved the court a lot of expenses.

At the hour of Mao in the morning, the bell rang at Hongwu Gate and the palace gate was wide open. The civil and military officials lined up to walk into the gate in sequence just like they were on weekdays. However, the difference between them was that today there were three more vassal kings and many foreign envoys.

Walking to the square in front of Fengtian Gate, the three vassal kings stood at the front of the team, with civil and military officials behind them. But today is different from the past, civil and military officials stood on both sides of the two rows, and there were envoys from various countries in the middle.
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