I want to be emperor

Song Erniu's wedding convoy went all the way from Shuangshan Village to Chen's Manor in the suburbs of the county. The luxurious wedding convoy composed of dozens of cars along the way shocked outsiders severely.

This kind of marriage reception scene has never happened before, and it can be regarded as an eye-opener for the locals.

At the same time, it also allowed outsiders to have a better understanding of Song Erniu's financial resources.

This is not a scene that can be staged by ordinary people with money, but a scene that can only be staged by being super rich.

In fact, this is indeed the case, with a net worth of more than 100 million Chu Yuan, this kind of net worth belongs to the wealthy class, not to mention overseas territories like America, even in China.

After all, Chu Yuan is still very valuable these days, and there is no inflation. Even because of the rapid economic development and limited gold production, there is a risk of deflation to a certain extent, which makes Chu Yuan stronger.

This is also an important reason why the income level of ordinary people in the Great Chu Empire has remained at a relatively stable level for so many years, and the economy has not developed as in later generations, and the income of ordinary people has also grown rapidly.

Because the currency of later generations is a credit currency, inflation will occur in most cases. It is also 20 U.S. dollars, but the difference in purchasing power between the [-] U.S. dollars [-] years ago and the current [-] U.S. dollars is huge. .

However, in the gold-standard currency system of the Great Chu Empire, the purchasing power of currency is very strong. Even because Chu State's gold production is limited, Chu Yuan's purchasing power will become higher to a certain extent in special periods.

Under such circumstances, Chu Yuan is very valuable, and more than 100 million Chu Yuan is a number that ordinary people can't even imagine.

But today, Song Erniu's huge and luxurious wedding gave these ordinary people a space to imagine!

And Song Erniu could also see the pointing of passers-by around him. Although he didn't know what they were saying, Song Erniu could guess... For this reason, he was in a good mood.

Going home to pretend to be big, this was the main thing for him to return to his hometown... Otherwise, why would he spend so much money?

So far, it looks like it was well worth the money.

We walked slowly along the way, and even walked around the city for the sake of the scene... Originally, the Chen Family Manor was not in the city, but on the outskirts of the city, so there was no need to go into the city... But the wedding reception team ran there specially After walking around the county town, I went to the Chen Family Manor.

When the wedding reception team arrived at Chen's Manor, the entire Chen family had already made preparations.

The Chen family manor, which seemed old in the past, has also undergone urgent repairs in the past month. In the past, it was reluctant to use and spend the money, so I reluctantly spent it.

This marriage is not only a marriage between the Song family and the traditional upper class, but also a declaration of the Chen family to the traditional upper class: My old Chen family has not yet fallen, and is still very firm!
So the Chen family gritted their teeth and raised a lot of money to organize the wedding. Of course, they don't need to pay the money at the end, because most of it will be subsidized from the dowry... Otherwise, such a large amount of money would be spent. It's not that the Chen family can't take it out, but they have to sell their flesh and blood if they take it out.

In the extremely festive Chen family manor, many people were looking forward to it. When the pick-up convoy arrived, someone immediately returned to the inner courtyard to report to the Chen family's daughter.

The daughter of the Chen family is wearing a traditional phoenix crown and Xiapei at this time, looking dignified and festive...

The Great Chu Empire continued some etiquette traditions from the Ming Dynasty. When folk women were allowed to marry, they wore special Fengguanxiapei, that is, the crown clothes of harem concubines and married women. The phoenix coronet and Xiapei are actually very different, the style and color are completely different, it is just a borrowed name, so it is called a borrowed dress.

Fengguanxiapei itself has strong political significance in traditional feudal dynasties. It is generally only worn by harem concubines and wives. There are strict regulations on style, color and pattern.

The same is true in the Great Chu Empire. Only the wives and mothers of officials of the seventh rank and above have to be specially canonized, that is, they can only be worn after they become officially recognized as "desires". The styles are roughly the same, but the colors and patterns are different, and there are obvious distinctions, so they cannot be worn indiscriminately.

It is impossible for ordinary women to wear such special clothes... Even the Fengguanxiapei worn on the day of marriage is actually just a name, and it is impossible to be exactly the same as the real Fengguanxiapei...

There is no way to be exactly the same, after all, there are many kinds of Fengguan Xiapei according to different grades...

But this is just a theory... But in real life, because the folk customs are gradually loosening up, and the official clothes of the Great Chu Empire are generally very loose, and they rarely interfere with what ordinary people wear...

As long as you don't blatantly play with the dragon robe and phoenix crown, shouting that the sky is dead, Huang Tian should stand, etc., the officials of the Great Chu Empire will generally not take it too seriously...

Even if you get yourself a set of phoenix coronets to wear in private, as long as you don’t make them exactly the same as the vermilion xiapei that can only be worn by married women, especially concubines in the harem, some patterns with special meaning, such as phoenix, don’t use them blindly. Even if someone reported it, the officials would not bother to talk to you... In this regard, under the influence of Luo Zhixue, the officials of the Great Chu Empire actually have very few restrictions.

In addition to a few very special costumes, mainly the politically-rich crown costumes, in fact, you love whatever you like, and even the yellow costumes that have always symbolized the royal family have turned a blind eye in recent years Eyes, you can wear whatever you like...as long as you don't put a dragon pattern on it, the officials won't bother to talk to you.

Therefore, the clothing trend of the Great Chu Empire has changed a lot in the past 30 years, and there are few official restrictions. The clothing of men and women has changed greatly, especially women's clothing is a trend for several years. Some are at the forefront of the trend. Fashionable women who don't care about old-fashioned gossip are even close to the original time and space in their clothes. The clothes pay attention to self-cultivation and smoothness... It has broken away from the category of traditional Hanfu.

Many of these slim long skirts will not look outdated even if they are placed in the modern society of the 21st century... Of course, this modern style of clothing is actually handed down from the palace, and the source is Luo Zhixue!

It's not just this modern-style slim long skirt. In fact, many costumes in the contemporary Great Chu Empire, regardless of men's and women's clothing, all have their origins in Luo Zhixue... For example, the popular professional attire, which was born out of military uniforms, and The military uniform of Chu State was made by Luo Zhixue based on the military uniforms of later generations... Then there are other things, such as gloves that people easily overlook!

You have to know, in fact, in the traditional Chinese era, people seldom wore gloves of the modern style of the later generations in their daily life. There is a small charcoal stove.

At the beginning, out of military considerations, Luo Zhixue first had modern-style gloves sewn with fur for use when going out in winter, especially when commanding operations.

The people at the bottom have followed suit, and each of them has also made gloves. After all, it is really convenient and warm to wear gloves to command and fight in winter... and even learned the color, almost all black!

Back then, Luo Zhixue wore gloves for no special purpose. On the one hand, the military uniform was not like the traditional Hanfu. It had wide and long sleeves to keep warm, but in winter, the fingers were really cold...so I made a modern style of gloves to keep warm. use.

On the other hand, he imitated some modern warlord leaders, wearing gloves and holding a saber to pretend to be aggressive... At that time, he was wearing the military uniform of modern warlord leaders every day!

Then it was learned by a group of generals under his command, and later became an important part of the military's standard military uniform.

Looking at ancient and modern China and foreign countries, regardless of seasons, regions, or ranks, there is no one except the Chu army who distributes gloves to soldiers...

Even the Chu army serving in the tropics of Nanyang, the hot summer is like dogs sticking out their tongues and panting. The tropical summer military uniforms on their bodies are sandals, big pants and short-sleeved tops...but they all wear gloves to perform tasks!

Of course, they usually wear half tactical gloves that are designed for summer, breathable and sweat-absorbent.

But some old-fashioned officers still stubbornly use black leather gloves to command operations...and they call it traditional...like neuropathy, they are not afraid of getting rashes from covering their hands.

Fortunately, the ordnance department of the Chu Army is not unkind, and has successively developed various functional tactical gloves, including half-cut tactical gloves that are breathable and sweat-absorbent in summer, and gloves that keep warm and cold in winter, etc. There are many, which can basically cover and meet the needs of different units of the Chu army and different regions.

So just talking about gloves, the Chu army can proudly say that it can instantly kill the army of a country in the 21st century... Even in the 21st century, soldiers in most countries don't even have tactical gloves.

But the Chu army only has one for everyone... Even if it is a civilian employee, there will be gloves in the uniform issued by him.

When the soldiers of the contemporary Chu army wear military uniforms to attend formal occasions, gloves are a must, because gloves are part of the military uniform... without gloves, it is incomplete.

To be honest, this is nonsense... But there are a lot of nonsense in human history, not less than Chu State.

Later, I don’t know when it started, gloves became one of the must-have clothing items for Chu people, especially in winter, many people wear gloves, especially in the middle and upper class, when men go out in winter , all black leather gloves... and women are gradually starting to use gloves, but the colors are very rich, there are all kinds of them!
Of course there is Luo Zhixue's trend here, but more of it is the modern style of gloves is indeed a magic weapon to keep warm...

The changes that Luo Zhixue brought to the Great Chu Empire were huge...even if he did it unintentionally, but because of his special status, as the emperor of the empire, he would still unknowingly affect the changes of the entire empire in many ways .

The influence and changes of clothing are very typical examples...Luo Zhixue never took the initiative to do anything, but it happened because of his many changes.

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Luo Zhixue's many influences on clothing, coupled with the imperial official's clothing policy, which in principle had almost no restrictions, led to great changes in the clothing of people in the Chu Empire... People could wear whatever they liked. No matter what to wear, naturally all kinds of messy clothes will appear.

Of course, limited by people's common concepts and the limitations of the aesthetics of the times, the contemporary clothing culture of the Chu Empire mainly prefers traditional Hanfu and partially improved Hanfu, as well as very special military uniforms and men's professional attire. .

For women, Hanfu is still the main form of daily wear...but many of them have been improved, and they are very different from the Hanfu in the Ming Dynasty. It is mainly reflected in more self-cultivation, simplicity and smoothness, without the complexity of the past...

At the same time, there is another feature, that is, it will involve some elements of clothing that were not used by the folks in the past, such as vermilion, yellow, and Xiapei.
Times are changing, and Hanfu is also changing.

Many women from middle- and upper-class families will wear a shawl when they wear traditional Hanfu to attend formal occasions... This thing is actually the early form of Xiapei... This is actually the Xiapei that imitates the official married woman.

The Hanfu, especially the combination of the improved modern Hanfu of the Chu State and the drape, is very beautiful, and it seems to have a sense of elegance and dust.

Of course, this thing is not used by ordinary low-level women, because this thing is basically made of silk, and it is made of high-quality silk, which is very expensive...

These things are temporarily limited to a clothing trend in the middle and upper class, and have nothing to do with the general public. However, with the progress of the times, the improvement of productivity, the sinking of consumer products, and the improvement of people's living standards, women at the bottom will Maybe I will wear it like this...

Of course, it was still the trend at that time in the early stage... But the trend of clothing culture in Chu State is changing too fast. After more than ten or twenty years, I don’t know if there will be people wearing silk.

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Today is the most important day in the life of the Chen family's concubine, and it can even be said that she is making the biggest gamble in her life.

Marrying a man who has only known each other for more than a month, and even got to know him from people around him. The two of them have only met a few times in total, and the combined time of talking alone is less than an hour.

Although the direct daughter of the Chen family knew that Song Erniu was a capable, mature and stable man from the collected information, he could not be the hero of the romantic novel... At least he didn't have the appearance of the novel. The male protagonist in the story spoke so well, and he didn't surround her with all kinds of attentiveness or anything like that.

But a storybook novel is a storybook novel, and real life is real life. According to the rational judgment of the Chen family's daughter, marrying such a man will lead a good life in the future, even better than the current one.

But these seemingly rational judgments still make her worry about gains and losses... After all, it is too difficult to really understand and judge a person.

Not to mention that her understanding of Song Erniu is actually very limited...

Marrying her under such circumstances... This is actually equivalent to betting half of your life.

And what the result will be, she doesn't know now, and she may not even know in the next few years... This is a matter of a lifetime, how can it be so easy to draw a result and draw a conclusion.

Under such circumstances, she naturally had to worry about gains and losses... And when she heard the maid said that the convoy to pick up the bride had arrived, she looked at her mother and father again, and immediately couldn't help crying.

She didn't know whether she was crying because she couldn't bear to leave her parents, or whether she was crying because of the uncertainty of the future, let alone whether she was crying because of compromise!
So many emotions rushed into her heart at once... so much so that even she couldn't tell why she was crying.

Seeing this, Chen's mother and Chen Yuanxiang's wife hurried forward to comfort them. They are all experienced, so they can somewhat understand the feelings of the Chen family's daughter at this moment.

After this reassurance, her makeup was already messed up, and she had to ask the maids to touch up her makeup immediately.

At this moment, Song Erniu also got busy outside, and then accompanied by Father Chen and Chen Yuanxiang, he met many guests.

Marrying a daughter of the Chen family is naturally a big deal. Although the Chen family has fallen, the signboard of a century-old scholarly family is still there, and the foundation is somewhat good. In addition, this time the marriage is a millionaire. Knowing that their Chen family is unlikely to be short of money in the future, many well-known people have come.

After finishing the work ahead, the auspicious time came, and Song Erniu and many people in the wedding reception team got ready immediately.

Song Erniu stood at the front of the crowd, and in front of him, the daughter of the Chen family, who was wearing a phoenix coronet and a red hijab, came slowly on the red carpet with the help of two maids on the left and right.

After a series of brief ceremonies, the bride got into the extremely festively dressed luxury carriage, and Song Erniu got into the luxury carriage behind.

It is still in the wedding process, strictly speaking, the two are not a couple, and naturally they are not riding in the same carriage.

And the wedding used a horse-drawn carriage instead of a traditional sedan chair. This is also a change in the Great Chu Empire in the past ten years.

In traditional weddings, the bride usually takes a sedan chair, and the groom rides a horse or a sedan chair. However, as the transportation mode of the empire gradually replaced the sedan chair with a carriage, the tradition of the sedan chair in weddings has also changed. Some areas still use the traditional However, in some areas, four-wheeled carriages have been used instead of sedan chairs... and these changes are more common in the upper class...

After all, the trend of using four-wheeled carriages instead of sedan chairs in the Great Chu Empire started from the government, then the upper class, and then gradually passed down... After all, the people who used the sedan chairs in ancient times were originally mainly the upper class, and ordinary people and sedan chairs If there is anything close to it, it is also the bearer who carries the sedan chair!
Therefore, the popularity of carriages and the disappearance of sedan chairs in the early days mainly appeared in the upper class society, and had little to do with ordinary people... Until the number of horses in the empire increased and the demand for transportation increased, urban public carriages appeared. After long-distance public carriages and carriages were rented out, carriages became associated with ordinary people.

And these changes have gradually affected some traditional etiquette occasions. For example, in weddings, I don’t know when it will start. In weddings in some areas and groups, the sedan chair has become a four-wheeled carriage... But it has not been completely replaced, and there are still people. Weddings in a large number of areas and crowds use traditional sedan chairs.

In contemporary times, wedding carriages and sedan chairs are used together, which is a typical transition period between the old and the new.

And when the bride boarded the luxurious wedding carriage and the motorcade began to return to Shuangshan Village, the size of the entire motorcade became even larger, because there was still a huge send-off team on the bride's side!

Some of the various dowries are directly loaded on the carriage, and some of the special traditional dowries will be taken off the carriage after they arrive at Shuangshan Village, and let specific personnel carry them in...

The team on the return journey became extremely large. When they walked around the county town again, the team was too large and there were so many onlookers. In order to avoid accidents, the county town had to send out patrols to maintain order...

Of course, Song Erniu also sent people to the police station early on, gave many small gifts, and sponsored a batch of police equipment.

After the huge wedding convoy arrived at Shuangshan Village, it returned a little early but the auspicious time had not yet arrived, so it circled around a few times to consume some time.

Finally, the auspicious moment arrived, and we officially returned to the Song family manor!

It was already evening at this time... The so-called wedding is actually a twilight ceremony, that is, a ceremony at dusk... Traditional weddings are originally held at dusk, and then the groom's official toasts, and then enters the bridal chamber...

After some visits, Song Erniu and the Chen family's daughter-in-law officially became husband and wife...Of course this is only in name, in fact, Song Erniu and Chen's daughter-in-law arrived in the county three days ago, accompanied by relatives and friends The yamen in the village has registered for marriage...

So legally speaking, they were married three days ago... now it's just a traditional wedding ceremony.

After all, weddings and legally registered marriages are two different things... Just hold a wedding without registering, and the official will not recognize your husband and wife relationship!