Li Zhang always felt that the emperor was a very contradictory profession. On the one hand, the emperor claimed that he was the son of heaven, which meant that God ruled the people of the world. On the other hand, the emperor was a mortal body. He usually had to eat when he was hungry and drank water when he was thirsty. He had seven emotions and six desires like other people, which was a bit inconsistent with the title of the emperor, which was a bit inconsistent with the name of the emperor.

God’s son is going to marry a wife, which is also a great joy for all the people in the world. Especially in the Song Dynasty, the emperor’s birthday was a legal festival in the Song Dynasty. For example, the birthday of Emperor Taizu of Song was called Changchun Festival, Emperor Taizong of Song was called Shouning Festival, Emperor Zhenzong of Song was called Chengtian Festival, and Zhao Zhen's birthday was called Qianyuan Festival. Even the birthday of each year was so grand, let alone a wedding that only once in a lifetime.

However, no matter how grand the emperor's wedding was, the process still followed the "Six Etiquettes". Before the marriage, he sent important officials to Zhang's house to "Na Cai, ask for names, Najib, and Na Zheng". The first four steps are almost not much different from the marriage of ordinary families. The process is more grand and the scene is even more grand.

However, when the fifth step "invitation date" was reached, etiquette changed a few times, because the date of the emperor's wedding was not to discuss with the queen's family, but to determine the auspicious day by the Imperial Heavenly Prison, so the step of asking for an appointment was not to be a good time and auspicious day. The last step was to "grace the bride", that is, the groom went to the bride's house to pick up the bride's house in person, but the emperor was naturally impossible to go to the bride's house in person, so this step was to send envoys to the Zhang Mansion's house to welcome the bride on his behalf, and this envoy was Li Zhang.

Li Zhang did not expect that it was Zhao Zhen who married his wife, but he was the one who was the one who welcomed him. As a bride, he had to learn a complete set of bride-welcoming etiquettes, and he could not make any mistakes at all. So he lived in the palace a few days in advance just to learn this set of bride-welcoming etiquettes. In fact, the initial bride-welcoming person was not Li Zhang, but after Zhao Zhen's repeated insistence, Li Zhang finally took on this important position.

The wedding day finally came, and the whole city of Tokyo was decorated with lights and colors, which was even more lively than the Lantern Festival. Before dawn, Zhao Zhen was pulled out of the quilt by Liu E and Yang Taifei, and then applied makeup to him personally. After all, Zhao Zhen is today's groom, so he must dress up beautifully.

Li Zhang looked at Zhao Zhen, who was dressed up, and was a little gloating, but it was his turn to be unlucky soon. Several old palace maids rushed over and pressed him in front of the mirror, and then began to dress him up and apply makeup. It would be fine. Although it was terrible to see it from a distance, it was okay to look at it from a distance.

But what Li Zhang couldn't bear the most was that a big red flower was inserted on his head, because men from the Song Dynasty liked to arrange flowers on their heads. I don't know when this bad habit became popular. Anyway, men with various flowers on their heads were often seen passing by on the streets of Tokyo, making the streets of Tokyo look like a big garden.

However, Li Zhang had no right to resist at all. As a bride welcome, his words and deeds were strictly regulated, and he could not even make decisions on his own clothes, so he could only try not to look in the mirror. However, when the final dressing was completed, Miaoyuan next to him looked at Zhao Zhen and looked at him, and then covered his stomach and smiled so hard that he couldn't stand up. Li Zhang believed that if there was a camera in this era, Miaoyuan would definitely take pictures of the two of them forever.

The auspicious time has come. After dressing up, Li Zhang was immediately pushed onto the horse and led the bride-welcoming team out of the palace. On the surface, Li Zhang, as a bride-welcoming envoy, seemed to be in charge of the entire bride-welcoming team, but in fact he felt that he was more like a prop. The one who really controlled the entire bride-for-the-side was the officials of the Ministry of Rites. He only needed to do as these officials said. Li Zhang was also very happy about this because he didn't have to worry about making mistakes if he forgot a certain etiquette.

The wedding team left the palace and walked on the Imperial Street. The streets were surrounded by people, and there were special people on both sides of the team to sprinkle money. Yes, it was just a bunch of copper coins. This was also one of the emperor's evil tastes, because as Li Zhang knew, every year during the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor would make money down from the palace gate, and all officials would pick up money below. Today is the emperor's wedding, so the people also enjoyed the treatment of officials.

However, because there were too many people robbing money, they blocked the wedding team and finally had to go out to open the road, which allowed the wedding team to continue moving forward. Li Zhang was riding on the horse, holding an imperial edict in his hand, and trying to make a serious expression on his face. At the same time, he tried not to look at the crowd on both sides, because he was worried that seeing an acquaintance would make him too embarrassed. After all, the red flowers on his head and his current look were too shameful.

The Zhang family is also a noble family, and the mansion is not far from Li Zhang's house, so the wedding team also had to pass by Li Zhang's house. As a result, when walking past his own house, he immediately heard the sound of Li Er calling "Brother" from the crowd, which made him unable to help but turn his head to look. Sure enough, he saw Li Er, Xiuxiu, Douzi and others in front of the house. However, these people were laughing and bent down when they saw Li Zhang's appearance, especially Yan Niang was even more smiling and pointing at Li Zhang. He was so angry that he wanted to hit someone.

After finally experiencing this period at home, he finally came to the Zhang Mansion. The people from the Zhang family also greeted him in front of the mansion. After Li Zhang dismounted, he was immediately surrounded by people. The Zhang family had already set up the incense table, and then Li Zhang personally read out the imperial edict.

He entrusted this imperial edict from the palace to the Zhang family, and could not let go from beginning to end, because this imperial edict was the imperial edict to confer the empress of Zhang as the empress, which was also the first step to welcome the bride. After reading the imperial edict, the identity of the queen of Zhang was finally established. Li Zhang also clearly felt that the Zhang family breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the imperial edict.

There were many guests from the Zhang family. After the imperial edict was read, these guests also stepped forward to express their gratitude to the Zhang family. Then Li Zhang and other people who welcomed the bride were invited to the inner house. Zhang had already returned from the palace long ago. At this time, there were special people serving him, and then they were invited to take the chariot for the queen. Li Zhang rode on his horse again and drove the way in front. The group left the Zhang family in a mighty manner. Of course, the Zhang family immediately held a banquet to entertain the guests.

After Li Zhang sent Zhang to the palace, he had nothing to do. Then Zhao Zhen and Zhang held their wedding in the main hall in the palace, and the largest Daqing Hall in the imperial city. All civil and military officials also participated in the ceremony. When the wedding was over, a wedding banquet was set up in the hall to entertain the officials.

Li Zhang immediately washed his face when he returned to the palace, then pulled out the rosy flowers on his head, and then came to the hall to attend the wedding. In fact, it was mainly because he had been busy for so long and had been so hungry that he had been at the wedding banquet, so he came to find something to eat, and by the way he saw that Zhao Zhen was being tortured.

Because there are too many people attending the wedding, and it is probably the first time in the palace to deal with such a huge ceremony, the seats in the hall are messed up. Li Zhang knew not many people, so he just found a table without anyone in the corner to sit down and started eating. He has really exhausted him these days, especially today, just riding on the horse and maintaining a straight posture can make people exhausted.

However, just when Li Zhang was eating very much, he suddenly found someone staring at him, which made him turn his head and look. He found a middle-aged official in his thirties sitting behind the table next to him. Although the other party was no longer young, his facial features were handsome and handsome, with three long beards under his jaw, and his whole body was full of literary spirit, which made people feel good when they saw it.

"I don't know what my brother is calling me, why are you staring at me?" Li Zhang bowed to the middle-aged official at this time. Looking at the other party's official uniform, he should be a senior official of the fourth rank. You should know that Li Zhang's gunpowder supervision is only only a fifth rank, which is one level shorter than the other party.

"Li Quanjian is in a hurry. In the lower house of Yan Shu, he is currently the Minister of Rites, the Director of the Ministry of Rites. He heard that a young hero from the Song Dynasty had produced a great military achievements at a young age. He is also very curious. When he saw it today, he was indeed well-known!" The other party smiled and said to Li Zhang.

"Child Prodigy!" When Li Zhang heard the name of Yan Shu, these two words immediately burst into his mind. There were many prodigy in history, especially in the Song Dynasty. For example, the famous Kou Zhun passed the Jinshi at the age of nineteen, but it was much worse than Yan Shu, because Yan Shu passed the Jinshi at the age of fourteen, and he didn't write a single word at all during the imperial examination. He was directly recommended by the prime minister at the time to participate in the palace examination. It was unprecedented.

"It turns out that he is Minister Yan. I have admired you for a long time, but I have never had the chance to meet you. But I didn't expect that I would meet you by chance at Your Majesty's wedding banquet today." Li Zhang couldn't help but smile again at this time.

"It's not a coincidence. When you came in, Li Quanjian just now, I recognized you, and then followed you here. I also found an adjacent seat to sit down, with the purpose of meeting Li Quanjian!" Yan Shu replied sincerely at this time.

"Uh?" Li Zhang didn't expect Yan Shu to be so honest, but he had heard that Yan Shu was not only talented, but also very honest. Although he was proud of his youth, he was extremely self-disciplined in life. Other officials liked to drink and party when they had time. However, Yan Shu would go home to study every time. When Zhao Heng heard about it, he praised him and even wanted him to be an official in the Eastern Palace. However, Yan Shu said that the reason why he didn't go out to play was mainly because he was poor, and he choked Zhao Heng to death on the spot. To be honest, there was no one else.

"Mr. Yan is polite. Since we have the fate to meet today, why don't we sit together at the table?" Li Zhang also took the initiative to invite the other party and said, "He is a talented man, Yan Shu, has also known him for a long time. Now that he meets him, he will naturally have to have a chat."
Chapter completed!