Chapter 294: Preparations for the wedding

The emperor's sudden marriage soon detonated a hot topic in the entire Jingshi.

Gao Pragmatic himself is a legend of Da Ming Shilin and officialdom, and his wife Huang Zhiting was originally not well known to the people of Beijing, but after this incident, Huang Zhiting's background and past experience were also exposed.

Born into the 600-year-old Tusi family of the Huang family in Guangxi, she was actually in charge of the military and political affairs of Siming Mansion at the age of thirteen, and commanded the Battle of Lang Son in the war to recover Annam, winning the first major victory of the war. After the Annam War, she was also the first to respond to Gao Shishi's call to move to Annan and served as the envoy of Haidong Town, which made Guangxi's land reform and return to the river go smoothly.

In the just-concluded Battle of Yunnan and Burma, it was she who led the Annam Expeditionary Force to cross thousands of miles, hit the belly of Burma, conquered Bago, and restored the Dagula Xuanwei Division. In the battle, she defeated the main force of the 150,000 Burmese army (claimed) led by Mang Yingli in one fell swoop, and surrounded the Burmese capital Donghu, ranking first in the post-war speech.

Such a female general, of course, is a legendary figure, and the officials who have seen Huang Zhiting himself above the court have privately said that this woman is beautiful after the court meeting, and the news came out, Huang Zhiting's reputation amazed the entire Shenjing.

The people of Beijing compared her with the legendary Mulan, and the Shilin scholars and folk students who had nothing to do were even more poetic, and wrote many praise poems.

There are even those scholars who have been influenced by Li Zhen and other "rebellious scholars", who have gone to wander around outside the Annan Hall, hoping to meet this beautiful and intelligent deputy capital of Annan.

This really corresponds to Gao Pragmatic's previous judgment: Han men marrying "Hu Nu" will not be despised, but will be greatly praised by good deeds, if the "Hu Nu" itself is particularly good, it will be even more legendary.

This kind of thinking is of course a typical patriarchal social thinking, but the reality is like this, although Gao Pragmatic advocates equality between men and women in his heart, it is still a shadowless thing, and it is estimated that he will not be able to see that day in his life. So the current words...... Naturally, you have to make good use of it first.

It's just that the behavior of these rioters makes Huang Zhiting tired of it - she has a lot of things to say to Gao Shishi, but now she is so troubled by a group of scholars that she can't even get out of the door, and she can only be bored in the Western-style building of the Annan Hall all day long, and even the joy of being married by the emperor is diluted, which is really annoying.

Gao Shishi can't go to see her now, so he can only quietly send someone to communicate with Huang Zhiting about some urgent matters - especially some things related to the wedding.

Since this time it was the emperor's "sudden marriage", Gao Shishi and Huang Zhiting had to quickly contact their parents, first to determine where the wedding would be held, and then to arrange the dowry and dowry.

Other families are easier to do in these things, but the Gao family and the Huang family are not so easy. It stands to reason that the venue for the wedding should of course be Xinzheng's hometown, but Gao Pragmatic has just taken up his new position, and he himself doesn't really want Huang Zhiting to go to Xinzheng, so as not to say stupid things and do stupid things if there are people who don't open their eyes.

In fact, he prefers to hold the wedding directly in Jingshi, because in this way, it will be convenient for Jingzhong and many high-ranking officials to attend, which can minimize the complaints of the parents, so that they will no longer have to worry about the family issue - your son does not need to care about this anymore.

Similarly, Huang Zhiting must also contact Annan immediately, it is difficult to say whether it is convenient for Huang Chengzu himself to come to Beijing, but the Huang family must have someone to come on his behalf, otherwise how can this matter be considered perfect?

However, Huang Chengzu's problem is relatively easy to solve, and he must not dare to complain about his daughter marrying Gao Pragmatic. The real difficulty is still on the side of the Gao family, Gao Yan is still an official in the field, and the Zhang family may have been a little easier, but now that her grandfather is seriously ill, I don't know if she will have gone to Puzhou.

In addition to the location of the wedding, the dowry and dowry of this wedding are certainly not comparable to ordinary people.

It didn't matter before Gao Shifang's rise to prominence, and Liufang also divided a total of more than 1,000 acres of land - this is because Liufang is the eldest, and several brothers who are high-ranking officials, including Gao Gong, have given Gao Yang a little more.

But after the highly pragmatic Jinghua has already become the first consortium of the Ming Dynasty, the situation is completely different. At present, the pragmatic wealth is well known to the world, and his big wedding will definitely be watched by everyone, and this dowry must be something that can make the world sigh loudly.

And on the Huang family's side, the dowry cannot be ambiguous. Her family was originally a little worse in terms of family, and this dowry had to be taken out of her hands in order to block the mouths of people all over the world.

However, Huang Zhiting prepared this matter earlier than Gao Pragmatic, but she hadn't talked about it with Gao Pragmatic before.

More than ten days passed, and the officials suddenly received an official letter, and the prefect of Fengxiang Prefecture in Shaanxi Province asked for the bones of the beggars - that is, to ask for Zhishi.

Gao Yang originally served in Fengyang, the central capital, ten years ago, first as a general judge, and later as the governor of Shouzhou, and after completing the examination, he was transferred to the prefect of Fengxiang, Shaanxi. This is better than what he mixed in the original history, because of the fall of the high arch in the original history, he was hit by Zhang Dang, and simply begged for bones in advance, when he was less than fifty years old.

And now, he still resigned, but the reason is definitely different from what he said in the recital, in fact, he just feels that there is no need to continue to be an official.

The son is much better than him, what else does he have to fall in love with? An important reason for his resignation was also to be able to come to Jingshi to attend his son's wedding.

He knew that his eldest son was not close to him, but he didn't blame Gao Pragmatic, and even to some extent, he felt a little guilty about Gao Pragmatic.

In his opinion, this child has not had the experience of "Chenghuan's knees" since he was a child, he was taken care of by his mother in his early years, and after he was seven or eight years old, he followed the third uncle Gao Gong, and his father did not fulfill his responsibilities at all, so what is the blame?

Because of this reason, not only did he not object to Gao Shishi's idea of holding a wedding in Jingshi, but also wrote back to Xinzheng in person, hoping to bring more clansmen to Jingshi to participate in this wedding, which can be regarded as a little effort for his son.

When his sparse text came up, the officials did not immediately reply, but Yang Wei and Yang Tianguan immediately sent someone to see Gao Pragmatic and asked Gao Pragmatic how to deal with this matter.

At the beginning, after Guo Pu invited himself to the office, Zhang Siwei did not serve as the first assistant and the secretary of the ministry like Gao Gong and Guo Pu, and Guo Pu recommended Yang Wei, a sixty-four-year-old minister, to be the official before leaving.

Yang Wei's qualifications were very old at that time, he was the gold list of Jiajing for 26 years, and he was in the same category as Zhang Juzheng. This person himself has no faction, neither the Heart School nor the Reality School, but he has served in Xuanda, Shanxi and Shaanxi for a long time, and has a close friendship with Zhang Siwei.

Guo Pu considered that he and Gao Gong were both the first assistant and the secretary of the ministry, and the authority was indeed too heavy, and the emperor was already in power, and if the successor first assistant was still like this, it was possible to have a conflict with the emperor, so he persuaded Zhang Siwei not to concurrently serve as a heavenly official, and this heavenly official was given to Yang Wei.

Yang Wei has always been known for his "fair forgiveness" in officialdom, to put it bluntly, it is "two non-sticks" and "good temper".

Gao Yan asked for such a thing, without asking Gao pragmatic opinions, how dare he agree casually?

Don't look at him as a dignified official, the Jingguan wants to kneel down and ask for peace when he sees him, but his own family knows his own family affairs, and his own heavenly official is not as important as Gao Pragmatic, a young Sima, in the emperor's mind. What's more, Gao Pragmatic is not a lone man, behind him is the entire Gao Party and the entire Shixue, how dare you offend!

When Gao Pragmatic received the news, he was reading the file at the yamen of the Ministry of War - after all, he had already taken up his new position, and he couldn't stop "going to work" because he wanted to prepare for marriage, and his work habit had always been to figure out the situation first and then make plans, so in the past ten days, he did not burn any fire for the new official to take office, but honestly stayed in the military department to sort out the files and documents.

The news that Cheap Daddy was going to resign, to be honest, although he was a little surprised, it was not very surprising. Put yourself in his shoes, if he had exchanged situations with him, he would have resigned a long time ago.

The son wants to be an official, he wants money and money, and he still struggles as a father, isn't it good to go home and wander? This life is almost complete in advance - oh, maybe a few grandchildren or something, but that thing is not useful for his efforts, why not go home and wander the woods? And you can write an envelope to scold your son if you have nothing to do: What about Lao Tzu's grandson, why should you hurry up for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is in a hurry!

So Gao pragmatic thought about it, and simply replied to Yang Wei, and said something related to filial piety in a high-sounding manner, and the actual meaning in the end was two words: agree.

Yang Wei looked at it, and without saying a word, he directly agreed, and then submitted it to the cabinet to draft a vote - the Fengxiang prefect is a fourth-grade official, and the emperor has to approve it, so the cabinet needs to approve the vote.

A few days later, a large group of guests from Annan came to Tianjin Port, not only Huang Chengzu personally brought his two sons Huang Yinglei and Huang Yingzheng to come, but almost all of the Huang family's branches were personally led by the head of the family, and occasionally two seriously ill also sent their eldest son.

In addition to the Huang family, the Cen family also came with a large group of people, but Cen Ling himself did not come. He sent someone to send the news in advance, saying that he was worried that all the high-level leaders of the Cen and Huang families would go north, and some people would have to use their brains if they didn't do well, so he decided to stay and deter the local area, but he sent his nephew Cen Yunhan over.

This seven-year-old boy is the eldest son of Cen Ling's brother Cen Shaoxun, that is, the young master of the Cen family, who had previously been sent to Guilin by Cen Ling as a hostage, and the Cen family returned it to them after moving to Annam. Theoretically speaking, if Cen Ling has no queen, this son is the unshakable successor of the Cen family's foundation.

Cen Ling's worries are not unreasonable, after all, the Thang Long Garrison and the Jingang Garrison have been sent out a large part, although Gao Pragmatic has ordered them to replenish the staff, especially the establishment of the Jingang Garrison has been increased from 30,000 to 40,000, but after all, it will take time, recruitment, political examination (Jinghua characteristics), incorporation, equipment, training, etc., to form combat effectiveness at least half a year.

This period of time is equivalent to a "dangerous period", and Huang Zhiting herself returned to Beijing by sea, and her army is now under the command of Huang Leopard and walking on the way back to Annan, which makes Annan's troops a little weak. In this case, if Cen Ling, the "King of Cen Yama", goes again, Gao Jue and Gao Jin will definitely have a big head.

However, all of a sudden, such a group of people came, and the Annan Hall couldn't live there. Fortunately, although Gao Pragmatic himself only has two Beijing suburban courtyards (see Xinzhai and Sanshenyuan), he can't stand up to his many friends, and he doesn't even need Zhang Siwei's help, Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, the two grandfathers of the country, took the initiative to jump out, and without saying a word, put out a big Beijing suburb courtyard of their own house for Gao Pragmatic to pick by himself, saying that it was borrowed casually, and the housekeepers were ready-made.

Gao Shishi was really polite, and picked two large courtyards by the South Lake in the eastern suburbs of Beijing for Cen and Huang's high-level executives to stay temporarily.

A few days later, Gao Yang and Zhang arrived in Beijing. Gao pragmatic asked his old boss Liang Menglong, who had also just taken up his new position, to take a leave and go to the southern suburbs to greet him in person.

Although Gao Pragmatic has nothing to do in Beijing, Zhang's still deliberately brought several cars of newly fired superb Yu kilns over, intending to be a gift for the guests - this thing is not a joke, because the kiln change of Yu kiln is uncontrollable, so each set of Yu kiln is out of print, it is not easy to measure the price at all, and it is the most suitable to give it away.

Gao Pragmatic saw his cheap father for the first time in so many years, and he only felt that he looked quite similar to himself, but he looked a little old, and he was not yet fifty years old, and his sideburns already had a little gray hair.

However, it can be seen that he is very excited, although he tries his best to maintain his father's majesty, but his eyes are eager to hide people, and there is no arrogance in his words, which is a little unexpected by Gao Pragmatic.

Although he doesn't have much affection for him, his pragmatic acting skills have never deteriorated, kneeling in front of his father and hugging his thighs and crying, choking up and saying that he has not been able to fulfill his filial piety for so many years, every time he thinks about it, he is in great pain, and he really deserves to die. The surrounding onlookers couldn't help but wipe their tears, and many people sighed afterwards: Gao Gong Baozhen is loyal and filial, and he is a model in the world.

Therefore, it is not easy to be a good official, the culture must be excellent, the ability must be excellent, and the acting skills must be excellent.

But a good tease must have a clever compliment, and Gao Yang cooperated very well: he was cried by his son like this, and he couldn't help but burst into tears, and finally the father and son hugged and cried in front of a large group of onlookers, a moving scene of father and son's filial piety.

It's just that onlookers don't know that Gao Yan's crying is really crying, and Gao Zhengshi is just a show - of course, in the end, he was really infected by Gao Yan, and he cried a little moved.

After a performance, Gao Yan and Zhang's naturally lived directly in Jianxinzhai, anyway, Baiyulou was big enough to be able to accommodate it. People were busy with these things, and Gao Pragmatic discussed the wedding arrangements with them alone.

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