MTL - The Crown Prince Chases His Wife-Chapter 104 Nace
Imperial City, forbidden, imperial study.
After Emperor Hui sat on the imperial case, Prince Feng Zhan sat on a large sandalwood chair at the bottom, and the two of them read the books in their respective hands.
Feng Zhan read the book in his hand very quickly, put it down, and then took another book on the tray next to it, glanced at it, and frowned slightly.
On these books, according to the old rules, the Ministry of Rites listed the Nazai ceremony and the betrothal gift for the prince Nafei.
"Song Zhi."
Upon receiving his Highness's instructions, Song Zhi took two steps forward and handed a booklet that had been prepared to An Shifeng, a cabinet scholar standing in the middle of the study.
"Master An."
An Shifeng bowed slightly, took it with both hands, unfolded it, and looked surprised.
"His Royal Highness, this..."
The great scholar An Shifeng looked at the prince with some doubts.
Emperor Hui also looked up.
Feng Zhan said slowly:
"According to the system, prepare for the ceremony."
"To accept the dowry gift, follow the gift list from Gu."
An Shifeng was still a little hesitant.
"Show me." Emperor Hui instructed Li Fuquan.
Li Fuquan took the gift list from An Shifeng, turned around and handed it to Emperor Hui after the imperial case.
"His Majesty."
After seeing it, Emperor Hui also frowned slightly and looked at Feng Zhan,
"Prince is to be ordained after the specification, accept the princess?"
Feng Zhan picked up the tea cup at hand, took a sip, and then said:
"The dowry will be prepared by the private treasury of the Prince's Palace."
The great scholar An Shifeng originally thought that the Holy Master would refute such a disobedient request from His Royal Highness, but he never thought about it. The Holy Master just nodded and agreed:
"Forget it, at that time, the dowry originally scheduled to be prepared by the imperial treasury will also be sent to the Zhaoren County Master's Mansion. This is my intention."
An Shifeng was very surprised. The Holy Highness and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really attached great importance to Zhaoren County Master, the prospective crown princess.
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Emperor Hui looked at An Shifeng again:
"How is the preparation process for the prince and concubine?"
An Shifeng replied:
"Go back to Your Majesty, Qin Tianjian has chosen a date, and on the ninth day of this month, he will report the prince and concubine to the Tiandi ancestral temple."
"On the 11th, send an envoy to the Crown Princess's mansion, and perform the honorary ceremony."
"According to His Highness the Prince's request, on the 21st of this month, at the time of His Royal Highness's Qianqiu Celebration, we will perform the ceremony of Naji, levy, and due date."
"And on the same day, a marriage edict was issued, a golden book was given to the crown princess, and a ceremony of welcome and canonization was performed."
Hearing this, Emperor Hui nodded with satisfaction.
"Um."
An Shifeng asked again:
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness, the Crown Princess's acceptance of the honorary ceremony, is it in the Qin Prime Minister's Mansion, or in the Zhaoren County Main Mansion?"
The university scholar An Shifeng was a little helpless. If the Crown Princess was only in an ordinary family, he would not have the problem he has today.
How about a girl who didn't live in her father's house or her mother's house before leaving the court.
Du Zhaoren County Lord, as the County Lord who was proclaimed by the sage, gave the County Lord's mansion, but also did not have a close relationship with his father's family, and even did not communicate with him, so there was such a delicate and embarrassing situation.
Emperor Hui looked at the prince and seemed to be seeking the prince's opinion.
Feng Zhan raised his eyes, lifted his thin lips slightly, and spit out three words:
"The County Lord's Mansion."
An Shifeng said in his heart that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has repeatedly made exceptions for the Zhaoren County Lord, and he is really condoning Zhaoren County Lord.
An Shifeng was fortunate to have married Yan Xi into Duan Wang's mansion before, and Yan Xi had no chance of winning against Zhaoren County Master.
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An Shifeng thought of another troublesome thing,
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness, I have something to report."
"The official and deputy ambassadors of Nazareth have not yet been decided."
"As a rule, the deputy envoy can be served by a minister, but the main envoy should be the prince or the duke of the country. This person has to be decided by your majesty?"
Emperor Hui frowned,
"Recently, there have been some changes in the northern border. King Duan must guard Youzhou."
"And the Duke of Zhen Guo Shen Changshan..."
An Shifeng added:
"Your Majesty, Duke Zhenguo, on the day Nace asked his name, he should preside over at the Zhaoren County Lord's Mansion."
An Shifeng sighed again in his heart. Originally, it was Qin Wenzheng, the Right Prime Minister, who greeted the delegation at the main mansion of Zhaoren County that day, but to this day, His Majesty has not said that he would notify Prime Minister Qin.
An Shifeng has gone through two dynasties, and many things are vaguely known.
If he guessed correctly, His Majesty made this move because of the mother of Zhaoren County Lord, Shen Shiying.
Hui Di pondered, this is indeed a problem.
The envoys and deputy envoys he dispatched represent the face the royal family gave the crown princess, and people should be chosen carefully.
An Shifeng tried to say the only suitable candidate he came up with in the past few days:
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness, the only person in the capital with a suitable identity is King Ning."
In fact, this was not just An Shifeng's idea, Emperor Hui and the Crown Prince also immediately thought of that person.
It's just, King Ning...
"Master An, you go down first." Emperor Hui waved back An Shifeng.
"My minister retire."
An Shifeng bowed and retreated.
In the imperial study, after a moment of silence, Emperor Hui asked Xiang Feng Zhan:
"What do you think of the prince?"
Feng Zhan flexed his fingers, tapped the armrest lightly, and made a heavy tapping sound.
After a while, Feng Zhan spoke in a deep voice and made a decision:
"Then take this opportunity to put people in the light."
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According to the news from the Ministry of Rites, His Royal Highness meant that everything in the celebration of the Prince's birthday and Qianqiu should be kept simple.
But at the same time, the sage ordered the prince to accept the prince's concubine's ceremony, which must be solemn, and there must be no mistake.
It is enough to see that the royal family attaches great importance to the crown prince and concubine this time, or, in other words, attaches great importance to this crown princess.
Another surprising piece of news is that thanks to the prince's concubine ceremony, there is actually King Ning who has been trapped in Dajue Temple for a long time.
As the prince's uncle, Prince Ning, on behalf of the royal family, he will go to the prince's concubine's mansion as the official envoy of the sage's relatives to perform the honorable ceremony.
The former emperor once gave King Ning a mansion located to the west of the imperial city. It covers an extremely wide area, and the various parts of the mansion are exquisite and luxurious, which was once enviable.
But after the funeral of the late emperor, King Ning was sent to Wanning Temple by the queen mother, and the palace of King Ning was banned.
Only three days after the decree of the Sage was issued, Prince Ning's mansion was quickly repaired, and the Beiya Imperial Army went to Wanning Temple to invite Prince Ning out and bring him back to the capital.
After King Ning entered the palace to thank the saint, it was the first time in his life that he stepped into the mansion that should have belonged to him.
King Ning Fengsui was born in the forbidden city and grew up in a temple. Now he is sixty-six in his twenties, but this is the official start of his royal career.
The first moment Feng Sui stepped into Prince Ning's mansion, there was a sense of the passage of time.
Feng Sui twitched the corners of his lips, and his moment of freedom was actually because the prince married the prince concubine.
Feng Sui immediately stopped smiling, Crown Princess, could it be her?
When Empress Dowager Xiao learned that King Ning had been released from Wanning Temple, she immediately sent someone to notify Emperor Hui and the crown prince to see her, but they were both rejected by the busy government.
After I heard that, Empress Dowager Xiao burned all the portraits of the late emperors in Yongshou Palace. Although it was disrespectful, Emperor Hui and the prince also let her vent their anger.
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In the twenty-ninth year of Yonghe, on the ninth day of the winter lunar month, the Prince's acceptance of the Prince's Concubine was reported to the Temple of Heaven and Earth.
In the same year, the eleventh of the winter month.
The Beiya Forbidden Army set up the Luju Book at Danbi Danchi, the Ministry of Rites set up Caiyu, and the Jiaofang Division set up Dale outside Fengtianmen.
In the Fengtian Hall, all the civil and military officials were dressed in court clothes, including the King Ning Fengsui who wore a jade crown and a green uniform with a plain cloud edge.
All the ministers have received news from the Ministry of Rites. Today is the first step in the six rituals for the prince to marry the crown prince, and he will ask the name ritual.
On the day of acceptance, the elders of the woman need to greet the envoys sent by the palace in the mansion, so all the ministers and officials are observing whether there are any absent colleagues, and the prince concubine may come from his mansion.
The ministers saw Wang Xian, the left prime minister, and Qin Wenzheng, the right prime minister, all standing in the hall. It seems that the popular people who have guessed recently have all guessed wrong.
With all the ministers who can be named, everyone muttered in their hearts, could it be that the Crown Princess's mansion is not a Beijing official? Is it a local official? Or civilians?
Although some people noticed that several people from the Zhenguo Gongfu were not in the hall, one is that there have been frequent incidents in recent days, and military generals often have urgent orders to leave the capital; No one wanted to go in the direction of Zhaoren County's main mansion.
After the Honglu Temple has finished the deacon's kowtow, please ascend to the hall.
The saint went up to the Fengtian Temple, and the civil and military officials bowed and kowtowed.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty."
When Emperor Hui took the throne, Li Fuquan sang:
"rise."
Emperor Hui conferred the title of King Ning as the official envoy, and An Shifeng, a cabinet scholar and minister of ceremonies, was the deputy envoy, representing the royal family, and went to the Prince's Palace to accept and ask for the honorable ceremony.
The official envoy King Ning Feng Sui, and the deputy envoy, the great scholar An Shifeng, paid homage to the throne and paid four salutations to Emperor Hui.
An official of the system stood in front of the hall, and declared:
"I only store the second, the foundation of the world. Marriage is the outline of Wang Hua, the law of yin and yang leads to the relationship between people, the etiquette is first and the beginning is to be fit, to undertake internal duties, and to think about improving the virtuous. The eldest daughter of the right prime minister, Qin Yan, the lord of Zhaoren County, has a graceful and graceful childbirth, and is of a gentle and kind-hearted manner. Binzhi Wenxiang Fan Ye is used, and I hereby choose to be the crown princess, and order the ministers and others to hold the ceremony and accept the name ceremony". 【1】
Xie Changyuan stood with a saber on the right side of the front of the hall, and when he heard the passer say the name, there was an unstoppable pain in his chest.
Finally settled...
Everyone in the hall was a little surprised, and secretly glanced at the wonderful-looking Right Prime Minister Qin Wenzheng.
It would be a great honor for Qin Xiang to say that a prince concubine was released from Qin Xiang's mansion, but this accepted envoy was about to leave the palace.
Zuo Xiang Wang Xian was not good-looking, he thought that even if his daughter could not become the crown prince, there would still be a side concubine.
And he had not been informed by the Ministry of Rites in advance, and he already knew it. Seeing that Qin Wenzheng, the Right Prime Minister, was also in the hall today, I felt a little more balanced, at least it wasn't Qin Wenzheng's daughter.
However, it was still her, the Princess Zhaoren.
Ning Wang Fengsui lowered his eyes, hiding the stern look in his eyes.
It was actually her, the light that had arrogantly broke into his heart, the light that did not belong to him.
Feng Sui restrained his emotions, and with the great scholar An Shifeng, he made four salutations to the throne.
Honglu Temple finished the ceremony.
The chief and deputy envoys took the temperance book and placed them in the Caiyu, the honor guard led the great music, and the Caili followed them out, and went to the Zhaoren County Lord's Mansion to salute.
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When the holy car left, the officials immediately rushed to congratulate Qin Wenzheng:
"Congratulations Qin Xiang."
"Hexi Qin Xiang."
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Qin Wenzheng said a few words perfunctorily, pushed aside the crowd, walked out of the palace quickly, and returned to the Qin Prime Minister's mansion.
And the mission that went out from the palace to Nicai in the palace of the Crown Princess went straight out of the city and went west. And the news of Fengtian Temple also spread to the capital at an extremely fast speed.
Everyone confirmed their previous guesses.
The crown princess has been decided, and she is Qin Yan, the master of Zhaoren County.
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Xishan, the main residence of Zhaoren County.
King Ning, the main envoy of the royal family, and An Shifeng, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Rites, went to the gate of the county master's mansion.
The Duke of Zhen Guo, Shen Changshan, went out to greet him in court clothes.
The official sang:
"Following the system, I hired Qin Yan, the master of Zhaoren County, as the crown prince, and sent an envoy to take the name ceremony".
The main envoy, King Ning, and the deputy envoy, An Shifeng, held the festival and made the book first, and Shen Changshan, the Duke of Zhenguo, accompanied him to the main hall of the county master's mansion, and set the festival and made the book on the incense table that had been set up.
King Ning stood on the left side of the incense table, An Shifeng stood on the right side of the incense table, and Shen Changshan, the Duke of Zhenguo, came to the throne and made four salutations.
Shen Changshan, Duke of Zhenguo, handed over the Prince Concubine's Festival Form to King Ning, the envoy.
Then Shen Changshan ordered someone to bring out the wine cup to work as the deputy envoy.
After drinking, the envoys all left the county master's mansion, and Shen Changshan, the Duke of Zhenguo, saw the guests outside the gate of the county master mansion.
The mission returned to the city, and handed over the crown prince's festival watch to the supervisor of ceremonies.
At this point, the royal family's grand acceptance ceremony for the crown princess was completed.
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This happy event of the royal family made some people unable to eat it.
For example, the old lady of Qin Xiangfu; for example, Song Mei, Mrs. Qin; Wang Jingyan, the second lady of Zuo Xiangfu; and Qin Nian, the eldest daughter-in-law of Hefu.
Some people were saddened, such as Xie Changyuan, the prince of Yongding Houfu, Xie Zhao, general Mingwei, and An Yanxi, the prince of Duan Wangfu.
In Duan Wangfu, An Yanxi sat in front of the mirror blankly.
The maid came in and said anxiously:
"Prince Concubine, the slaves just heard the servants in the mansion talking, saying that the prince did not return to the mansion one night a few days ago. They said... They said that the prince raised the outer chamber outside."
An Yanxi still stared blankly at the mirror, she didn't hear a word of the maid's words.
"Prince Prince, Concubine Shi..." The maid called out repeatedly.
An Yanxi finally recovered.
"what?"
The maid worriedly repeated what she had just said.
An Yanxi's expression gradually became clearer.
Outer room?
An Yanxi's heart was cold, Feng Subei actually...
Did you leave him alone for too long?
An Yanxi suddenly hesitated in her heart. If the prince is destined to be out of reach, should she try to accept Feng Subei...
And Feng Subei, who was also in Duanwang's mansion, had just received a letter from his mother-in-law who was far away in Youzhou.
In the letter, the mother-in-law expressed her concern about Feng Subei's marriage, and the mother-in-law suggested that Feng Subei should accept the concubine.
Side concubine…
The elegant and intelligent woman flashed in Feng Subei's mind.
But the concubine?
She probably won't accept it.
The author says:
[1] "History of the Palace Code System in the Ming Dynasty", "I only reserve the second... The ceremony of accepting and asking about names." p. 290, Forbidden City Publishing House.
