In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 176 Shi Miyuan Pays Attention

On the 1225th day of the first month of the first year of Baoqing (28).

The new emperor of the Song Dynasty got married.

The wedding will be held in the Xuande Hall, and then the officials will be entertained in the Daqing Hall, where the emperor and the people will have fun.

It was only then that Zhao Yurui found out that because the imperial city was too small in the Southern Song Dynasty, the plaques like the Daqing Palace were often exchanged.

When he ascended the throne, Daqing Hall was replaced by Wende Hall.

During the Zhuangyuan Palace Examination, the Daqing Hall was changed to the Jiying Hall.

When the emperor celebrated his birthday and entertained his ministers, it was changed to Zichen Hall.

When the emperor worshiped the ancestors, he had to change it into a Ming hall.

It can be said that the Southern Song Dynasty was probably the most frugal of the dynasties in the past, and the successive emperors did not change the layout and expansion of the palace.

Today, the Daqing Hall was changed into the Zichen Hall, mainly for banqueting ministers. Originally, it was civil servants above the seventh rank of the capital, and military officers above the fifth rank could enter the palace to celebrate with the emperor. In addition, the dispatched real positions are above the commanding level, including those above the Imperial City Secretary, and all are invited to enter the palace. On the wedding day, in addition to the banquet, the emperor also gave each person ten catties of snow candy, and at the same time encouraged everyone to buy more snow candy to support Qingyuan Prefecture’s Southern Song Dynasty’s domestic snow. sugar.

The emperor not only wanted a treat, but also found the most popular snow sugar, Shi Miyuan certainly couldn't refuse.

However, he was also more careful, leaving Peng Ren outside, who was fighting the rebellion, saying that he was in charge of Lin'an city defense.

Peng Renyu entered the capital when the city gate opened early this morning. It is said that after he came back from suppressing the rebellion, he would immediately hand in the military amulet, and then send the soldiers back to the battalions.

However, Shi Miyuan intentionally made a time difference and asked Peng Ren to continue to hold the military talisman first, and deal with it after the emperor got married. At the same time, he immediately ordered Peng Ren to be promoted to deputy commander. There was a time difference.

The advantage of doing this is that Peng Ren doesn't have to enter the imperial city, and he can stand by outside the imperial city with his soldiers and horses.

The Song Dynasty severely restricted military power. The Privy Council had the right to send troops, but not the right to command them.

Sanya has the right to command troops, but not the right to send troops.

According to the system of the Song Dynasty, whenever troops were to be mobilized, the emperor's decree must first go to the Privy Council, take the Privy Council's military amulet, and give it to the general in command before sending troops.

For less than 300 people, use one tiger and one leopard, for more than 300 people, and for less than 5000 people, use two tigers and leopards.

During Shi Miyuan's reign, he mobilized troops twice.

When killing Han Wuzhou, Xia Zhen only brought dozens of people with him, so he didn't need military talismans, and the imperial edict was made by Empress Yang and him.

In August, when Zhao Hong's palace changed, Shi Miyuan used the emperor's imperial decree when Ningzong was alive, and asked Zheng Fa to command three hundred troops in the name of protecting Wei Wang.

After Ning Zong died of illness, Shi Miyuan mobilized thousands of people together with Xia Zhen using military talismans. After entering the palace, he made up the false imperial decree, which was actually another illegal operation.

This time the emperor is getting married, and the generals in command will be entertained.

Shi Miyuan was very cautious in doing things, and kept an eye out for Peng Ren's promotion to deputy commander.

As mentioned earlier, at this time in the entire Lin'an City, there are only the Dianqian Division and the Infantry Division, and the Ma Jun Division is in Jiankang.

There are eleven armies in the Dianqian Division and four armies in the Infantry Division. The two armies have about 5000 people, close to 10 people.

The Dianqian Division has thirteen commanders and 21 commanders, and the Guard Infantry Division has five commanders and ten commanders.

Among them, Peng Ren was a general before he went to Huzhou to suppress the rebellion. He was Shi Miyuan's confidant and was single-handedly promoted.

Taking advantage of this counter-insurgency to brush up his achievements, he was promoted to deputy commander after he came back.

In addition to Wang Bin, Yang Yuehu, Fang Gang, and Xu Youzhong, who were promoted by the Imperial City Division, there are more than 50 military officers in Lin'an who are eligible to participate in the emperor's wedding.

Peng Ren had just returned with [-] soldiers to suppress the rebellion, and was temporarily stationed in the rear camp of the Infantry Division in the northern part of the imperial city, responsible for the guarding of Lin'an City, in case Zhao Mian's party would cause trouble that day.

He was the only military officer above the commander level who did not have to enter the imperial city. Except for him, all the important generals above the commander level in Lin'an were all in the imperial city that day.

At around six o'clock in the morning, the wedding ceremony had already begun in the imperial city.

In ancient times, it was very troublesome for emperors to get married. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, the empress had to hold the ceremony alone, and then marry other concubines after a while.

Fortunately, the Southern Song Dynasty was not so particular about it. Today, all the rituals are done at once.

The order is to salute with Empress Xie Daoqing first, and then with other concubines.

According to the discussion between Empress Dowager Yang and Zhao Yurui, Xie Daoqing was the queen, Jia Yuhua was the noble concubine, and Qin Nan was the concubine Shu.

For the three top concubines, Zhao and Rui have just met each other, and some have only met once or twice, such as Jia Yuhua and Xie Daoqing, while Qin Zhuo's daughter, Qin Nan, is only eleven or twelve years old, so young.

The Xiaotao who really has some feelings for him is Guiyi (one of the nine concubines).

Mrs. Xu was directly a court lady, and she didn't even give her a talent, but allowing her to serve the emperor with her was also considered a face for Zhao Yurui.

The wedding process is relatively cumbersome. The emperor and a group of relevant important officials, Shi Miyuan and others will first be in the Xuande Hall, and they have to read the summoning book for a while.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Mao Tong came to Li's main gate.

After Zhao and Rui ascended the throne, Mao Tong was promoted from commander to officer, which was a big step forward.

When he first met Zhao Yurui, he was just a small class monitor, and in a blink of an eye, he was already one of the ten officers of the Imperial City Division, second only to the one who raised points.

There are two teams of people at Lizhengmen today, about 50 people, half of Mao Tong's people, and the other half are all after Qian Bin's death. Division people.

Dong Songchen, the Inner East Gate operative, and Tao Sheng, a senior class, were also present at the scene, who were in charge of checking the entrance and exit of the palace gate, because there were more people entering and leaving the palace gate today.

"Ms. Du Te cheer up." Mao Tong was patrolling the imperial city with his two confidants, and when he arrived at the scene, he shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is sympathetic to the brothers. After you are on duty, each of you can receive five catties of white sugar." , Wuguan gift money."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Long live Your Majesty." The scene burst into laughter.

A small part of the crowd was transferred by the imperial army, because Wang Bin and Fang Gang, the infantry commander, both went to the Imperial City Division, and a lot of people came with them.

They were all stunned for a moment, and then they all cried out when they thought that there was a reward.

"I heard that there is a [-]% discount for the next ten days in the Café de Coral poker room."

"Your Majesty will have fun with the people and celebrate with the sky, hahaha, now we can have fun."

All the soldiers were whispering to each other, and Mao Tong was about to turn around and leave.

Suddenly there was a shout from outside: "Stop."

Everyone turned their heads.

"It's the Cuju team."

"so many people?"

"Back to the general, there are 25 people in each team, a total of 50 people. We are playing big games, with 11 people on each side." Someone outside smiled.

"His Majesty's Cuju team is here, open the door quickly," Mao Tong shouted.

With a bang, the heavy Li main door opened with a loud bang.

Brothers Zhao Mo and Zhao Ping stood at the front, looking very haughty, as if his two brothers were the protagonists.

The two represented a team today, and entered the imperial city to play an exhibition game, and they were quite ambitious.

After Zhao Yurui came to Beijing and ascended the throne, he did not forget these old brothers, and gave them to Wensan Guan's Cong Qipin Chaosanlang one after another.

At that time, Zhao Yurui also wanted to give real jobs, such as Menxuan Zansheren.

But after arriving at Shi Miyuan, he was indecisive, and then there was no news.

Zhao and Rui had no choice but to get a literary officer for each of them, and let's talk about it with their salaries first.

As soon as the two came in, the sergeants of the Imperial City Department on both sides came forward and searched them.

Li Kai, the new officer who brought Wang Bin up, originally wanted to take someone up for a body search, but someone took the first step and was already groping Zhao Mo and Zhao Ping.

Li Kai hesitated for a while, so he had to stand still and look at them.

"I'm sorry, you two Chaosanlang, it's a routine matter." The searcher said with a smile while doing the search.

"It's okay, it should be." Zhao Mo and Zhao Ping could have imagined what would happen.

Both of them didn't like Cuju before, but two days ago the emperor suddenly summoned them and asked them to bring a team to play Cuju, whose team won the game, and the official rank would be promoted by then, which made them very excited.

At this time, Zhao Kui's father, Zhao Kui, was serving as a conciliator for Huai'an. He had two armies under his command, Qiangyong and Xiongbian, with a total of 5000 people. Lu Wende and Yu Jie, two important generals in the late Southern Song Dynasty, were in his army.

Zhao Ping's father, Zhao Fan, was the deputy envoy to appease Huaidong, and he also knew Yangzhou (the prefect of Yangzhou). He was both an important local official in the Southern Song Dynasty.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Fan asked the imperial court to send his younger brother Zhao Kui to take 5000 troops from Qiangyong and Xiongbian to garrison Baoying to guard against the Jin army. Shi Miyuan planned to agree after the emperor's wedding and called Zhao Kui back for an interview.

The Zhao brothers respected Shi Miyuan very much, and they would report to Shi Miyuan any matters and documents, never to Ningzong.

After Ning Zong died, he never reported it to Zhao Yurui.

The young Zhao Mo and Zhao Ping obviously didn't realize what it meant for them to bring the Cuju team in today.

More than 50 people from the Cuju team rushed in. In addition to the two teams with more than 20 members each, there were also team leaders (such as Zhao Mo and Zhao Ping brothers), deputy team leaders, team doctors, and cheerleaders and guest performers behind.

It was Lan'er and the others from the Guanwen Academy. Everyone carried Qin and Zheng, and they loaded several carts with musical instruments.

The guards didn't expect a woman to come in, and there were no maids around to check, so they had to ask two servants Dong Songchen and the others to check.

"Miss Lan'er is going to sing in the palace, and now she will be famous all over the world." Mao Tong said with a smile.

Lan'er and Ling'er covered their mouths and smiled, "Thank you Your Majesty and Queen Mother for giving us a chance."

"When will the song be sung, I have to go and listen to it then." Mao Tong said again.

The voices of the two people were talking, and the gate of the palace was a bit chaotic. Someone wanted to go in from behind, and a body search was required from the front.

The Imperial City Secretary was a little annoyed, and some people became sloppy, anyway, they let them go one after another.

After a while, a team of six to seventy women, including singing and dancing women, entered the imperial city from Lizhengmen, and then led by Dong Songchen, who first arranged to wait in the attic on the left side of Daqing Hall.

The whole wedding ceremony was very long, and it was not completed until about eleven o'clock in the morning. Then the emperor changed his clothes and went off in person. Each team played a game of football in the left courtyard on the south side of the Daqing Hall with 11 people.

The venue was a bit small, but they played well and people were flying around. It was the first time for many officials to watch Cuju, and it was quite interesting.

The emperor played for about [-] quarters of an hour, and he finished work profusely. There were cheers from all around, saying that the emperor played well.

At about twelve o'clock, the Daqing Hall, which was changed to the Zichen Hall, began to hold a large banquet.

(End of this chapter)