Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1139 Wedding Preparations

The emperor's sudden gift of marriage soon sparked a hot topic in the entire capital.

Gao Yushi himself is a legend in the Ming Dynasty scholarly circle and official circles, and his wife Huang Zhiting was not well known to the people in the capital, but after this incident, Huang Zhiting's background and past experiences were also exposed.

This woman was born in 600, a family of chieftains in the Guangxi Huang family. She has been in charge of the military administration of the Siming Mansion since she was 13 years old. She once commanded the Battle of Lang Son in the war to recover Annan, and won the first big victory in the war.After the Annan War, she was also the first to respond to Gao Pragmatism's call to move to Annan and serve as the guardian envoy of Haidong, which made Guangxi's reform and return to the country go smoothly.

In the just-concluded Yunnan-Myanmar War, it was she who led the Annan Expeditionary Force across thousands of miles, directly hit the belly of Burma, conquered Bagu, and restored the Great Gula Xuanwei Division.In the battle, she defeated the main force of the 15 Burmese army (so-called) led by Mang Yingli in one fell swoop.

Such a female general is of course a legendary figure, and the officials who have seen Huang Zhiting herself at the court all said in private after the court meeting that this woman is beautiful and incomparable. When the news spread, Huang Zhiting's reputation became even more amazing The entire Shenjing.

The common people in the capital compared her with the legendary Hua Mulan. Shilin poets and folk students who were full and had nothing to do were even more poetic and wrote many praise poems.

There were even those scholars who were influenced by Li Zhi and other "rebel scholars" who ran around outside the Annan Hall one after another, hoping to meet this beautiful and intelligent Annan Vice President by chance.

This is really in line with Gao Yushi's previous judgment: Han men who marry a "hu girl" will not be despised, but will be greatly boasted by good people. If the "hu girl" is particularly outstanding, it will be even more legendary up.

This kind of thinking is of course a typical patriarchal social thinking, but the reality is like this. Although Gao Pragmatism advocates equality between men and women in his heart, it is still a thing of the past. He probably will not see that day in his life.So the current words... naturally have to make good use of it first.

It’s just that the behavior of these poets made Huang Zhiting tireless—she had a lot to say to Gao Yushi, but now she was so disturbed by a group of scholars that she couldn’t even leave the house, so she could only stay in the small Western-style building of the Annan Hall all day long. The joy of being married by the emperor has been diluted a bit, which is really troublesome.

Gao Wushi couldn't see her anymore, so he could only quietly send someone to discuss some urgent matters with Huang Zhiting—especially some matters related to the wedding.

Since the emperor "suddenly bestowed the marriage" this time, both Gao Wushi and Huang Zhiting had to contact their parents as soon as possible. First, they had to determine where the wedding would be held, and then they had to arrange the dowry and dowry.

Other families are easier to handle these matters, but Gao's and Huang's are not so easy.It stands to reason that the wedding venue should of course be Xinzheng's hometown, but Gao Wushi has just taken up his new post, and he himself doesn't want Huang Zhiting to go to Xinzheng, in case some of the clan members who don't open their eyes say stupid things or do stupid things.

In fact, he prefers to hold the wedding directly in the capital, because in this way, it will be convenient for Jingzhong nobles and many high-ranking officials to attend, and this will minimize the complaints from the parents, so that they will no longer be entangled in the issue of family status—you guys His son no longer needs to care about this.

Similarly, Huang Zhiting had to contact Annan immediately. It was hard to say whether it was convenient for Huang Chengzu himself to come to Beijing, but someone from the Huang family must come on his behalf, otherwise how could 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 Yushi.The real difficulty is on the Gao family side, Gao Cai is still an official in other places, Zhang's might have been easier to deal with, but now that her grandfather is seriously ill, I don't know if she has gone to Puzhou.

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

It didn’t matter to Gao’s family before the rise of Gao Yushi. Liufang’s land was divided into more than 1000 mu in total—this is because Liufang is the youngest, and several elder brothers who are high-ranking officials, including Gao Gong, are more evenly distributed. Give Gao a little choice.

But after the highly pragmatic Jinghua had already become the No. [-] consortium of Ming Dynasty, the situation was completely different.At present, the high-practical rich man is well-known all over the world, and his wedding will definitely attract the attention of all.

As far as the Huang family is concerned, the dowry cannot be ambiguous.Her family was not good enough in terms of family status, so the dowry had to be paid out in order to stop the people in the world from talking.

However, Huang Zhiting had prepared for this matter earlier than Gao Yushi, but she hadn't mentioned it to Gao Yushi before.

More than ten days later, the Ministry of Officials suddenly received an official document, Gao Caishang, the magistrate of Fengxiang Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, asked to beg for the bones—that is, to ask for an official post.

Gao Xuan originally worked in Fengyang, the central capital, ten years ago. He first served as a general judge, and later served as the magistrate of Shouzhou as a general judge. After passing the examination, he was transferred to the prefect of Fengxiang, Shaanxi.This is better than in his original history. Because of the downfall of Gao Gong in the original history, he was attacked by the Zhang party, and he simply begged for his bones in advance. He was less than 50 years old at that time.

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

His son is much better off than him, what else is there to love about him?An important reason for his resignation was also to come to the capital to attend his son's wedding.

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

In his opinion, this child has never had the experience of "being under the knees of Cheng Huan" since he was a child. He was taken care of by his mother in the early years. After he was seven or eight years old, he followed his third uncle Gaogong. His father did not fulfill his responsibilities at all, so why blame him? ?
For this reason, not only did he not object to Gao Wu's idea of ​​holding a wedding in the capital, but he also personally wrote back to Xinzheng, hoping to bring more clansmen to the capital to participate in the wedding, which was considered a little help for his son.

When his essay came up, the Ministry of Officials did not reply immediately, but Yang Wei and Yang Tianguan immediately sent someone to see Gao Yushi and asked Gao Yushi how to deal with this matter.

After Guo Pu asked himself to be an official, Zhang Siwei did not serve as the chief assistant and minister of officials like Gao Gong and Guo Pu. Before Guo Pu left, he recommended Yang Wei, a 64-year-old veteran, to be the heavenly official.

Yang Wei's qualifications were already very old at that time. He was on the 26th Jiajing Gold List, and he was in the same subject as Zhang Juzheng.This person does not have any factions, neither the mind school nor the real school, but he has served in Xuanda, Shanxi and Shaanxi for a long time, and has a close friendship with Zhang Siwei.

At that time, Guo Pu considered that he and Gao Gong both served as chief assistants and ministers of the official department, and indeed they had too much power, and the emperor was already in charge. Persuading Zhang Siwei not to concurrently serve as a heavenly official, this day the heavenly official was given to Yang Wei.

Yang Wei has always been known for his "fairness and forgiveness" in official circles. To put it bluntly, he is "non-communication" and "good temper".

How dare Gao choose to resign without asking Gao for his pragmatic opinion?
Don't look at him as a majestic Minister of the Ministry of Officials. When the Beijing official sees him, he will kneel down and pay his respects like the old man, but his family knows his own affairs. In the eyes of the emperor, he is not very pragmatic. This young Sima is important.What's more, Gao Yushi is not a solo fighter. Behind him is the entire Gao Party and the entire Practical School. How dare he offend him!
When Gao Wushi received the news, he was looking at the file at the Ministry of Military Affairs—after all, he had already assumed his new post, and he couldn't stop "going to work" just because he wanted to prepare for the marriage. In the past ten days or so, he did not ignite any fire for the new official to take office, but stayed honestly in the Ministry of War to sort out the files and documents.

To be honest, although he was a little surprised at the news that Daddy Cheap was about to resign, it was not surprising.Put yourself in his shoes, if you exchanged situations with him, you might have resigned long ago.

A son wants an official and an official, and he wants money and money. As a father, he still struggles, so why not go home and relax?This life is almost fulfilled ahead of time—oh, maybe there are still a few grandchildren missing, but that thing is not useful for his hard work, why don't he go home and roam the forest?And you can write an envelope to scold your son if you have nothing to do: Where's my grandson, why don't you hurry up, I'm in a hurry!
So Gao Wushi thought about it for a while, and simply replied to Yang Wei, and said some words related to filial piety in a high-sounding manner, but the actual meaning in the end was just two words: agree.

Yang Wei took a look at it, and without a word, he directly agreed with the Ministry, and then submitted it to the cabinet for drafting - the prefect of Fengxiang is a fourth-rank official, and he needs the emperor's approval to become an official, so the cabinet's drafting approval is required.

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 Yingpin, but also a large group of Huang's branches were almost all led by the head of the Huang family. When they came, two of them who were seriously ill also sent their eldest son over.

In addition to the Huang family, a large group of people also came from the Cen family, but Cen Ling himself did not come.He sent someone to send a message in advance, saying that he was worried that all the top executives of Cen and Huang would go north, and some people might have to use their brains, so he decided to stay to deter the local area, but he sent his nephew Cen Yunhan over. up.

This seven-year-old boy is the eldest son of Cen Ling's elder brother Cen Shaoxun, who is also the young master of the Cen family. He was sent to Guilin by Cen Ling as a hostage before, and was returned to them after the Cen family moved to Annan.Theoretically speaking, if Cen Ling had no heirs, this son would be the unshakable successor to the Cen family's foundation.

Cen Ling's worries were not unreasonable. After all, a large part of the Thang Long Garrison and the Jingang Garrison had been sent out. Although Gao Yushi had ordered them to replenish their staff, especially the number of the Jingang Garrison had increased from [-]. It has reached [-], but it takes time after all. Recruitment, political review (Jinghua's characteristics), recruitment, equipment, training, etc., will take at least half a year to form combat effectiveness.

This period of time is equivalent to a "dangerous period". In addition, Huang Zhiting herself returned to Beijing by sea, and her army is still under the command of Huang Bao, walking on the way back to Annan, which made Annan's troops even weaker.Under such circumstances, if Cen Ling, the "King of Cen Yan", left again, Gao Yu and Gao Ju would definitely have big heads.

However, the Annan Guild Hall couldn't accommodate such a group of people who came all of a sudden.Fortunately, although Gao Yushi himself only has two other courtyards in the suburbs of Beijing (see Xinzhai and Sanshen Garden), he can't stand that he has many friends, and he doesn't even need Zhang Siwei's help. Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong jumped out on their own initiative. Apart from anything else, he put out a large row of other courtyards in the suburbs of Beijing for Gao Yushi to choose by himself, saying that he borrowed them casually, and the housekeepers and servants were all ready-made.

Gao Wushi was really blunt, and chose two large courtyards by the South Lake in the eastern suburbs of the capital for Cen and Huang's two high-level executives to temporarily stay.

A few days later, Gao Cho and Mrs. Zhang arrived in Beijing.Gao Wushi asked his old boss Liang Menglong, who also just assumed the new post, to take a leave of absence, and went to the southern suburbs to greet him in person.

Although Gao Wu did not lack anything in the capital, Mrs. Zhang deliberately brought several carts of newly fired top-quality Yu kiln as gifts for the guests. Yes, so every set of Yu kiln is out of print, and it is not easy to measure the price, so it is most suitable to give away.

Gao Yushi saw his cheap father for the first time in so many years, and thought that he looked quite similar to him, but he looked a little old. He was not yet 50 years old, and his temples already had a little gray hair.

However, it could be seen that he was very excited. Although he tried his best to maintain his father's majesty, he couldn't hide the eagerness in his eyes, and he didn't put any airs in his words, which was slightly beyond Gao Yushi's expectation.

Although I don't have much affection for him, Gao Pragmatic's acting skills have never degraded. I knelt in front of my father and hugged his thighs and cried whenever I said sobbing. Extremely, it is really a crime worthy of death.The crowd around couldn't help wiping away their tears. Many people felt afterwards: Gao Gongbao is really loyal and filial, a role model for 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 teaser must have a clever supporter, and Gao Xuan cooperated very well: he couldn't help crying when his son cried like this, and finally the father and son hugged their heads in front of a large group of onlookers Crying bitterly, what a touching scene of a loving father and a filial son.

It's just that the bystanders don't know that Gao Cho's crying is real crying, while Gao Yushi is just showing off—of course, in the end, he was really infected by Gao Choi, and he cried a little bit with real emotion.

After the show was over, Gao Xuan and Mrs. Zhang naturally moved into Jianxinzhai. Anyway, Baiyulou is big enough to accommodate them.The subordinates were busy with these matters, and Gao Wushi discussed the wedding arrangements with them alone.
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