My father is Jiajing

Chapter 438 It turns out that the clown is me
Three days later, Zhu Zaigui and Qi Muge got married.

On this day, Prince Yu's mansion was decorated with lights and colors again, and the scale and scale were only slightly inferior to that of Zhu Zaigui's first wedding.

As a prince who was the regent, Zhu Zaigui had a noble status and naturally did not need to go to welcome the bride in person. Instead, Emperor Jiajing appointed a marquis and a minister of rites as wedding envoys, who brought a large wedding procession to Qimuge to welcome the newlyweds to the prince's palace.

As the envoy escorting Qimuge to the bride, Zamusu certainly could not be absent at this important moment.

Zamusu dressed in Tatar noble clothing and stood in front of Qimuge's bridal chamber, blocking the bride's envoys according to Tatar etiquette.

But this kind of rule was also agreed upon beforehand, and it's just a formality. They will never do the kind of petty price-raising and cheating that some unseemly scumbags in later generations do.

So this level was passed easily.

Zamusu looked at the Ming people's wedding, which was full of rules and excitement, and sneered in his heart. He was very familiar with Qimuge's military strength, and he also knew that the princes and nobles of the Ming Dynasty were all spoiled people.

When all the ceremonies are completed, I hope Qi Muge doesn’t beat your prince in the bridal chamber until his face is bruised and blue!
With such a mood, Zamusu also rode a tall horse and escorted Qimuge's wedding sedan with a proud look on his face, and arrived at Prince Yu's Mansion along with the wedding procession.

At this time, Zhu Zaigui was still wearing his wedding clothes according to etiquette. Meng Chong and the maids who served him were meticulously helping Zhu Zaigui to arrange every detail of the wedding clothes.

After all these details were taken care of, Zhu Zaigui stretched his body and asked Meng Chong, "Where are the princess and the others?"

Meng Chong replied: "The princess is also ready."

Zhu Zaigui hummed, "Let Qi Muge serve tea to the princess tomorrow and ask her to prepare a big red envelope. We can't let these grassland people think we are stingy."

Meng Chong followed with a smile and said, "Don't worry, my lord. I'm ready."

Zhu Zaigui also laughed when he heard this. He then asked, "How is the separate courtyard prepared for Qi Muge? She is a Tatar and will definitely not be content living in this palace. After the ceremonies before and after the wedding are over, I will arrange for her to move to the separate courtyard to live alone, so as not to affect the unity and harmony in the palace."

Meng Chong said: "According to the prince's instructions, I have already prepared a courtyard in the north of the city. The environment there is beautiful, there are not many people, and there is a large grassland, which can allow the queen to continue to enjoy her freedom and life on the grassland. But."

"But what?"

Zhu Zaigui saw Meng Chong hesitate for a moment and couldn't help but ask.

Meng Chong said, "But she is your concubine after all. Wouldn't it be considered a little too inhumane for you to send her to the North City Courtyard right after the wedding?"

Zhu Zaigui said nonchalantly, "Since she has married me, she is my woman. I can do whatever I want with her. Moreover, I will arrange her to live in the other courtyard in the north of the city. I will not treat her badly at all. I will still let her enjoy the honor and status of Prince Yu's concubine, and give her freedom that other concubines do not have. How is this inhumane? I think this is very humane."

After Zhu Zaigui finished speaking, he glanced at the clepsydra clock next to him. To be honest, this kind of timekeeping clock is really good as a furniture ornament or something like that, but it is really uncomfortable to use it to tell time.

Zhu Zaigui asked again, "How are the Western craftsmen I asked you to find? Are there any who can make watches?"

Meng Chong quickly replied, "I'm already looking for it. I heard there's a place called Macau in Guangdong. There are several red-haired barbarians from some part of the country who know some strange and ingenious Western crafts. I just don't know if they can make the clocks that Your Majesty mentioned."

When Zhu Zaigui heard the name Macau, he immediately had an impression of it. It seemed that this place was the earliest stronghold used by the Ming Dynasty to manage Westerners. It was just because their power was small and the officials of the Ming Dynasty had never taken foreigners seriously.

Therefore, the establishment of this place was decided by a local county magistrate. He simply had someone mark out a piece of land on the seashore so that these red-haired barbarians could have a place to rest on the shore, and it would also be a convenient base for the government to monitor and manage.

Therefore, the earliest Macau was not a colony as later generations said in order to stir up national sentiments and deliberately distort facts. It was at most a miniature foreign zone established in imitation of the Tang and Song dynasties to govern the Hu people.

The foreigners living there could manage their own internal problems, but if their problems involved the Han people, the government would intervene without hesitation. Therefore, the management of Macau during the Ming Dynasty was quite good, and there was no such thing as surrender and concession as in the late Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Zaigui pondered for a moment, "Send someone to investigate the situation in Macau, and recruit all the skilled craftsmen from the West. I also want to see what kind of culture and skills the people in the foreign land have developed that are different from those of the Ming Dynasty."

After instructing Meng Chong on these matters, Zhu Zaigui saw that it was almost time, so he finally came out of his room and went to the front hall to prepare to welcome the newlyweds.

At this time, all the guests had arrived. They were standing in the open space in the front hall of the palace, ready to watch the wedding between Zhu Zaigui and Princess Qimuge.

Yan Song was too old to come, so his good son Yan Shifan took his place and stood together with Xu Jie, Lu Ben, Li Chunfang and others.

Yan Shifan whispered to Xu Jie beside him: "Old Xu, do you think His Majesty has any other ideas? How to let Prince Yu marry the Tatar woman from the grassland? Is there something else going on?"

When Xu Jie heard Yan Shifan's question, he smiled and replied, "Dongluo, what can we do? The Tatars want to marry, and we certainly can't send a princess, so we can only ask them to send a princess. At that time, Prince Jing had not yet married, and His Majesty would definitely not be willing to let a foreign woman become the principal wife of the prince, so only Prince Yu was the most suitable."

Yan Shifan couldn't help laughing in his heart as he listened to Xu Jie's words. This old fellow was becoming more and more smooth in his words, without leaking a single word.

However, Yan Shifan insisted that there must be something wrong with the fact that Zhu Zaigui was arranged by Emperor Jiajing to marry a foreign woman.

So Yan Shifan was very excited at this time. At the same time, he was still imagining that if Prince Jing also had an heir, that would be perfect. Then he could think of a way to clear Luo Longwen's name and bring him back, and let him continue to visit Prince Jing's mansion to get closer to him. Then the outcome of the future would be unpredictable!
Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others also stood silently by and watched the festive Prince Yu's Mansion, and none of them said a word.

Although in their vague concept, the Ming Dynasty should indeed cease fire with the grassland to gain time to recuperate, the current situation is after the battle in the autumn of the 29th year of Jiajing.

The situation between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars changed. More than half of the Tatars' main force was annihilated in one fell swoop by Marshal Zhu near the outskirts of Beijing, making it impossible for them to even think of moving south.

In addition, the "Ming Dynasty Industrial Circulation Market" strategy implemented by the imperial court in recent years has gradually brought ordinary tribal herdsmen on the grassland into an environment of symbiosis and win-win.

So it is really puzzling that Prince Yu is now marrying a Tatar princess.

Therefore, the mentality of Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng was somewhat confused and could not be directly understood.

Of course, if Zhu Zaigui had told them about the Tatars' intention to move westward, they would probably have understood it instantly.

This is the sense of chaos brought about by information asymmetry, which is not a barrier of vision that can be directly broken through by IQ and vision.

"The new guy is here!"

Following the ceremonial officer's shout in front of the palace, everyone in the palace couldn't help but turn their attention to the wedding procession in front of the palace.

Since she was a concubine, even when Qi Muge's wedding sedan arrived at the gate of the palace, Zhu Zaigui did not move a step. He just stood calmly waiting in front and behind, and did not go to the front door to welcome the newlyweds out of the sedan.

However, even so, the court still gave Qi Muge very high treatment. For example, the main gate of the palace was wide open, allowing Qi Muge to enter the Prince Yu's palace through the main gate like the main wife. Therefore, it cannot be said that this wedding was reduced in many ways. In fact, the scale of this wedding was not much different from the wedding of Prince Jing's palace a few days ago.

As a relative of Qimuge, Zamusu followed Qimuge when he got out of the sedan chair and accompanied Qimuge into Prince Yu's Mansion.

Looking at the festive red decorations everywhere, Zamusu couldn't help but feel envious in his heart, because although they also had settled cities on the grassland, even the palace of his father Altan Khan was not so luxurious.

The Ming Dynasty was so luxurious for just a prince, not even the emperor. It was really enviable, and at the same time, one could not help but want to go back seven or eight years and try to grab it again.

Zhu Zaigui stood on the red carpet in the front hall, looking at Qimuge who was escorted by Zamusu. He also looked at the figure of this grassland princess. She seemed to be pretty good, not as big and strong as he had imagined.

However, even so, Zhu Zaigui could see that Qi Muge was "tall", at least about 1.7 meters tall, taller than the princesses and concubines in his harem, which really fits the impression of a tall northerner who often eats meat for nutrition.

However, even though he was 1.7 meters tall, he still looked a little short in front of Zhu Zaigui.

After years of training in Xiantian Gong, Zhu Zaigui is now about 1.86 to 1.88 meters tall, which makes him a tall man with an upright posture.

You have to know that in China's Ming and Qing dynasties, many nobles were corrupted after one or two hundred years of luxurious living, and they were brought up in pampered conditions. So no matter whether they were royal family members or ordinary noble families, their descendants were generally very weak, and few of them were of outstanding stature.

Take the Ming Dingling Mausoleum excavated in later generations as an example. The Wanli Emperor, whose coffin was opened for archaeological research, was measured by modern people and it was found that his height was only a little over 1.7 meters.

From this we can see that the descendants of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, after being pampered for one or two hundred years, are much less physically fit than their ancestors who had gone through trials and tribulations in the early days of the dynasty.

But now Zhu Zaigui is also an exception. Through his unremitting exercise and control of his diet, his height and physical fitness make him an outlier among the royal family.

Zamusu was shocked when he suddenly saw the tall man standing in the front hall of Prince Yu's Mansion. This man was several centimeters taller than him, and so tall and strong. His bright red wedding dress was perfectly stretched, as if he was a natural clothes rack.

Zamusu reminded quietly: "Qimuge, your man looks very tall, you have to be careful."

Qi Muge hummed softly and couldn't help but glance over secretly, trying to sneak a peek at Zhu Zaigui from the side of the wedding fan he was holding.

Soon when Qimuge was about to walk to the front hall, Zamusu could no longer follow him. He stopped where he was and looked at Zhu Zaigui who was standing in front of the front hall.

Zamusu suddenly felt that this Ming prince looked very familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember where he had seen him.

But when Qimuge walked in front of Zhu Zaigui, with Qimuge as a visual reference, Zamusu's eyes suddenly widened.

He finally remembered who Zhu Zaigui looked like. Zhu Zaigui looked very much like the great devil Zhu San who had captured him alive in the woods in front of Shixiaying!

At this time, Zhu Zaigui happened to see Zamusu, and he also gave Zamusu a friendly smile.

But when this kind smile reflected in Zamusu's eyes, he looked as if he saw the smile of a devil, and his heart began to beat wildly.

"Oh no! It turns out that the Ming Dynasty has been lying to us all along. That damn Zhu San is Prince Yu!"

Zamusu was screaming wildly in his heart, but he didn't dare to say a word.

Because he still remembered the scene of Zhu San slapping him, that cold and ruthless look, that extremely wanton action, he believed that if he moved again, he would surely die.

So, that was also the first time he surrendered to a Han Chinese.

Now when Zamusu saw the villain who had given him nightmares in the past and smiled at him again, he felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave, and if he was not careful he would die without a burial place!

Zhu Zaigui and Qi Muge walked side by side into the hall of the front hall of the palace, and completed the wedding ceremony of husband and wife bowing to each other according to the etiquette guidance of the ceremonial officer. Qi Muge was then led by her maid and the female official who had been arranged in advance in the palace to the bridal chamber in the back house.

Zhu Zaigui also left and changed into a casual wedding dress, drank and chatted with everyone, and accepted the blessings of the guests who came to his wedding banquet.

After Zhu Zaigui had a drink with the important guests at the main table and a group of nobles, he walked to the banquet for the Tatar guests, headed by Zamusu.

Originally, these Tatar guests wanted to give Zhu Zaigui some color and embarrass him, but as soon as Zhu Zaigui arrived, their leader Zamusu jumped up and bowed to Zhu Zaigui with an extremely respectful attitude, "Zamusu greets Marshal Zhu."

This confused everyone around. What was going on?

Zhu Zaigui laughed and patted Zamusu's shoulder, "Jiu Taiji, are you drunk? Why are you calling me by random names? Our Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette. The princes and princes are not like the children of your Tatar Khan who can lead troops and serve as generals."

Zamusu was so scared that he cried after hearing Zhu Zaigui's words. The voice was exactly the same!
Especially the pat that Zhu Zaigui gave him on the shoulder was surprisingly powerful, almost causing his knees to go weak.

Zamusu quickly replied: "Your Highness is right, I drank too much."

Zhu Zaigui laughed again and said, "Not bad, not bad. You speak Chinese much more fluently now. Keep it up. We'll keep in touch in the future."

Zhu Zaigui raised his glass slightly in a toast, but without drinking a drop of wine, he turned and left.

At this time, the other Tatars beside Zamusu became angry. They accused Zamusu, "Taiji, how can you be so servile to such a person? Where is the dignity of us grassland men?"

Listening to the noise of these people, Zamusu's momentum suddenly changed, and he shouted in a low voice: "Shut up! You must be respectful to Prince Yu in the future, because he is already Princess Qimuge's husband. What do you mean by this attitude? Do you want my Golden Family to embarrass myself?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. They never expected that Zamusu's attitude would change so quickly. He accepted her as his family member just after the wedding? And he even defended her?
It was really unexpected! You know, it was Zamusu who urged them to be more arrogant at the wedding banquet and embarrass the Ming prince.

As a result, Zamusu was the first to get scared, and he suddenly stood opposite and scolded them. At this moment, the Tatars who sat at the same table with Zamusu felt as if they were the clown.

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