Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 731 Anguo Gets Married
"Build a house and lay the foundation?" Li Xingguo rubbed his head and asked blankly.

Li Jing patted his forehead lightly: "I forgot that you are still young, and you don't understand how a house is built at all. Well... let me explain it to you through actual combat. I have been using troops abroad, so do you know what my purpose of using troops is?"

Li Xingguo hurriedly said: "My child knows that my lord father wants to include these places in the territory of Ming Dynasty."

Li Jing smiled and nodded: "Yes, that's the purpose, but how can we occupy these countries?"

"Destroy their army and make them completely lose their resistance, so they can only surrender." Li Xingguo said.

Li Jing nodded with a smile: "These are the most basic principles. Even you understand that the enemy's army should be eliminated. But after so many years of fighting abroad in Ming Dynasty, the enemy country has long understood our intentions, so they see that the frontal troops cannot To compete with our army is to no longer fight us head-on, but to break up the troops into pieces, disperse them among the people, and adopt tactics of harassment and attacks with the intention of dragging us down.

Hehe, so I issued a massacre order to the generals below. Anyone who is hostile to the Ming army will be killed. When they have no strength to resist, we can naturally occupy these countries. "

Gently touching Li Xingguo's head, Li Jing smiled and said: "Do you understand now? The essence of war is actually to destroy the enemy, or to make your enemy submit. No matter how you fight, you will be successful. The ultimate goal It's all this.

And Sun Tzu's Art of War talks about the most basic principles of using soldiers. You can see in Sun Tzu's Art of War that it is not a good man who wins a hundred battles.When Chu and Han fought for hegemony, Han Xin ambushed and surrounded the Chu army from all sides, but in the end he disintegrated the Chu army's will to fight with besieged on all sides, and finally caused the Chu army to collapse without fighting. "

Li Xingguo suddenly said after hearing the words: "My child understands, and I will study Sun Tzu's art of war carefully in the future."

Li Jing said with a smile: "Just reading is not enough, you have to understand the principles in the book. When you understand the principles and combine them with actual combat, my son will become a famous general of the generation."

Smiling, Li Jing continued: "And you, Anguo, you also need to understand the principles of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Don't think that this is just a book of war. In fact, what is said in the book also contains the way of governing the country."

"Yes!" Li Anguo and Li Xingguo hurriedly said.

Li Jing smiled and waved his hands and said, "Okay, after so much preaching, you must be bored, let's talk about something happy. Anguo, you will be 20 years old next year, and you should start a family when you reach the crown. You know her very well from the princess’s childhood sweetheart, so there shouldn’t be any objection, right?”

Li Anguo hurriedly said: "The child's marriage is naturally decided by the father, how dare the child object?"

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "Although it is for the father to make the decision, you are the one who gets married after all, so I still want to ask for your opinion."

Li Anguo hurriedly said: "The princess has been gentle and virtuous since she was a child, without any arrogance. It's very fortunate that the child has such a wife."

Li Jing smiled and said: "In that case, I will discuss with the emperor about your marriage with the princess in two days."

Hearing this, Li Xingguo smiled and cupped his hands to Li Anguo, "Congratulations, brother."

Li Anguo smiled back and saluted, "Congratulations, congratulations."

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In the history of Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that there is no princess whose marriage is as simple as Changping Princess Zhu Yuxi.

Not to mention how many young talents the princess has to choose from when recruiting a son-in-law, even the marriage of ordinary people's daughters is not as simple as Princess Changping.

We must know that the attitude of the ancients towards marriage is very serious, and the process is also very solemn. A marriage is divided into six steps from proposal to marriage, also known as six rituals.

The six rituals are:

Nacai, that is, the man's family sends a matchmaker to the woman's family to propose marriage. If the woman is interested, the man sends a matchmaker to formally propose to the woman's family and bring gifts.

To ask for a name, the man sends a matchmaker to the woman's home to inquire about her name and date of birth. After the man receives the "Geng Tie" with the woman's name and date of birth written on it, he uses it for divination of good and bad luck, which is combined with the eight characters.

Najib, the man will inform the woman of the auspicious omen of marriage and give gifts to get engaged.

Na Zheng, the man sends a dowry gift to the woman's family.

Please note that after the man sends the betrothal gift, the woman will be notified of the auspicious day after the ceremony, and sometimes the parents of both parties agree on the date of marriage.

Personal welcome, that is, the groom comes to marry.

But the marriage of Princess Changping was not so troublesome. When Zhu Youjian and Li Jing finalized the marriage between Li Anguo and Princess Changping, they didn't ask a matchmaker to propose marriage at all. Not talking about the princess's marriage.

At first, Zhu Youjian wanted Li Jing's daughter to be the princess concubine, and wanted to win over Li Jing. Unexpectedly, Li Jing asked Zhu Youjian to marry the princess to his son. Zhu Youjian had no choice but to agree. At the request of Li Jing, the princess was sent to Pingyang Mansion to be raised by Li Jing.

That is to say, the first three steps of this marriage were not taken at all, and there was not even a matchmaker. Only Wang Chengen made two trips back and forth in the capital and Pingyang Mansion to convey the meaning of Li Jing and Zhu Youjian, and the marriage was finalized.

It can be seen that this marriage is actually a political marriage, or a political contest.

But this moment, that moment, now there is no longer a power struggle between Li Jing and Zhu Youjian, and there is no need to use the princess's marriage to suppress Zhu Youjian's prestige.Moreover, this marriage is the marriage of Li Jing's eldest son, which involves the face of Li Jing and the Daming royal family, so it cannot be hasty.

Therefore, early the next morning, Li Jing invited Huang Daozhou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, to act as a matchmaker, and went to the palace with Zhu Youjian to discuss the recruitment and appointment matters with Zhu Youjian.

What Li Jing didn't expect was that as soon as he heard Li Jing's intention to come, Zhu Youjian hurriedly told Li Jing that he had already found someone to look forward to the date, and he was waiting for Li Jing to hire him.

Seeing that Zhu Youjian was so anxious, Li Jing couldn't help sighing secretly. Although he had explained his meaning to Zhu Youjian long ago, Zhu Youjian couldn't let go of his heart after all. In terms of children's marriage, Zhu Youjian actually followed Ordinary people are no different.

Without him, the princess has already passed the age of marriage.

Because in the Ming Dynasty, girls from rich families usually married after the age of 15, and ordinary people would not exceed the age of 16 even if they were later, and the princess had not yet married, which was related to the reputation of the Ming royal family.

Although the princess had already decided on the marriage, and the birth dates of the two had been exchanged long ago, but before the final step, the marriage was not considered complete. It can be said that because of his daughter's marriage, Zhu Youjian's marriage has not been completed in recent years. It's like a big rock is pressing on my heart.

It wasn't until today that Li Jing formally discussed with him the date of the child's marriage, and asked about the appointment, that the big stone in Zhu Youjian's heart could finally be let go.

Of course, being hired is nothing to the Li family. Does the Li family have anything?I'm afraid the Li family can take out what the palace can't take out.

However, Li Jing meant to send 32 dan dowry gifts, and when the prince gets married, he will give 64 dan dowry gifts, which can show the identity of the prince, but Zhu Youjian disagrees with anything, and must give Li Jing 64 dan dowry gifts, and said In the future, the prince's appointment will also be 64 Dan.In this way, neither of the two brothers will lose money, and neither will gain, so Li Jing had no choice but to agree.

Huang Daozhou was recruited by Li Jing to be a matchmaker, but he only mentioned one topic, and Zhu Youjian and Li Jing settled the next matter in a few words. It was really easy to be a matchmaker.

But the next thing will not be easy. After the wedding date is finalized, Zhu Youjian gave Huang Daozhou an errand to manage the wedding of Li Anguo and Princess Changping.

Huang Daozhou knew in his heart that although Zhu Youjian didn't care about these processes in the middle, the wedding ceremony was not sloppy.And according to the rules, after the princess gets married, she must have her own mansion. Although Princess Changping will definitely live in her husband's house, this princess mansion must be built in order to take care of the royal family's face.

The date Zhu Youjian chose was March of the next year. Huang Daozhou calculated with his fingers that there were only nine months in the middle, and it was not so easy to build a princess mansion in nine months.

Seeing Huang Daozhou's troubled expression, Li Jing smiled and said, "Brother Youping, if you have any difficulties, feel free to mention them."

When Huang Daozhou heard the words, he immediately expressed his thoughts.

Li Jing smiled and said: "What's so difficult about it, the address of the Princess Mansion is near my mansion, you don't have to worry about the cost, you just have to work out the specifications of the mansion, and then hand it over to the people in the Ministry of Industry. Now that you are a cabinet minister, you don't need to do these things yourself, and your energy should still be focused on national affairs."

Huang Daozhou nodded repeatedly when he heard the words.

Seeing that Li Jing didn't stop the matter, Zhu Youjian was in a good mood and insisted on Li Jing and Huang Daozhou having a drink with him to celebrate, but in the end Li Jing shied away on the grounds of preparing the dowry.

Li Jing did not lie to Zhu Youjian, and asked Shen Ying to prepare the dowry after returning home.

Needless to say, Shen Ying's efficiency in handling affairs, it took only half a day to prepare 64 packages of dowry gifts, and then Li Jing took the guards to carry the dowry gifts into the palace in a mighty manner.

Li Jing entered the palace to be hired in such a grand manner, in fact, he wanted to tell everyone that his son was going to marry the princess, so as to dispel everyone's suspicions.

Sure enough, seeing Li Jing enter the palace to be hired in such a grand manner, the doubts in the hearts of the people were immediately dispelled.

After arranging his son's marriage, Li Jing refocused on state affairs, and soon Li Jing made a series of personnel appointments.

Wu Tong, the former governor of the two lakes, was appointed as the governor of Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, Liu Lishun was appointed as the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Zhang Li was transferred back from Lusong to serve as the governor of the two lakes, Zhang Tongchang was transferred back to serve as the governor of Zhili, Wen Qing was appointed as the governor of Shandong, and Su Heng was appointed as the governor of Fujian. As the political envoy, Fang Yizhi served as the chief envoy of Shanxi... The former chief envoys of various provinces were transferred to Luzon, Malay Islands, Myanmar and other places as chief envoys.

This series of appointments seems to be just normal promotion and transfer of personnel, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the most important provinces of Ming Dynasty are all controlled by Li Jing's direct descendants, and many of them are between 40 and [-] years old.

Although Li Jing had appointed his direct descendants to important positions before, he never held all the important positions as he does now, and all the officials in the court were puzzled for a while.

(End of this chapter)