Wind rises time and space gate

Chapter 385 Purpose
In the side hall of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Zhao Guangyuan and Zhao Gang were sitting opposite each other. The two were silent. Zhao Gang looked confused, while Zhao Guangyuan was expressionless, but he was struggling in his heart.

He and Xia'er were related to the imperial mausoleum. If they wanted to find a way to get back, the only way was in the imperial mausoleum. Who knows the imperial mausoleum best is none other than Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang was wondering about the purpose of King Yue's visit. The mistake was made ten years ago, and the former prince could not live again. If the King of Yue asked for anything, he was willing to do everything for the King of Yue and make up for the shortcomings.

"What does the prince need from his subordinates?"

"I want my brother to come back to life."

Zhao Gang lowered his eyes, "I can't handle this matter."

Eighteen years ago, the emperor came to the Ancestral Temple to worship his ancestors. At that time, the court was in turmoil. The prince was scolded by the emperor for not doing things well. The emperor asked his ancestors whether the prince was worthy of the great responsibility. He quickly told the emperor what Master Zhiyuan said.

Being exploited by someone with ulterior motives, the prince was killed. Over the years, he wished he could take his own life as a replacement.

Zhao Guangyuan stood up. He had decided to swallow his words. This was his and Xia'er's secret and would not be known to anyone else.

"I heard that the dragon energy in the imperial mausoleum broke out. I am worried that it will disturb the peace of the late emperor and empress Zhenshun, so I came to ask. I hope the high priest will take notice."

Zhao Gang was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and responded, "I will leave immediately to inspect the imperial mausoleum to ensure that everything is safe."

Seeing that Zhao Guangyuan had taken a step, he took a step closer and said, "The prince's letter mentioned last time about the matter of suppressing the mausoleum beast in the northeast corner..." The last secret letter from the King of Yue said that it was not appropriate to suppress the mausoleum beast in the northeast corner of the sacred mountain of the imperial mausoleum, and also said that it had returned to its place. I don’t know…

Thinking of the Zhenling Beast that he had accidentally dug up, Zhao Guangyuan's eyes flashed, "That place has been properly placed."

"Yes. I understand." Zhao Gang didn't know what Zhao Guangyuan was going to do, but he had no intention of stopping it.

After Zhao Guangyuan left, Zhao Gang thought about it and couldn't figure out the intention of the King of Yue. The King of Yue came today just to talk about the collapse of the Dragon Qi in the imperial mausoleum?
Previously, when the King of Yue was in the imperial mausoleum, he detected that the energy of the dragon in the northeast corner was vented. He wanted to go to the imperial mausoleum to place it in person. However, he received a secret letter from the king of Yue, saying that he had accidentally discovered the mausoleum beast in the northeast corner and that it had been properly placed. Zhao Gang then Did not go to the imperial mausoleum.

The night he received the letter, he watched the stars at night and found that the guest star was so dazzling that its light had already covered the crape myrtle star. After several days of divination, it was a good omen, so I held back.

Now that the King of Yue has mentioned this matter again, what is the profound meaning?
In the afternoon, Zhao Gang, who was doing divination in the main hall, was summoned into the palace by Emperor Zhengzheng.

"See your Majesty." Zhao Gang lowered his eyes and felt uneasy.

"Pingshen." Emperor Zhizheng took his eyes back from the folding paper handed over by Qin Tianjian, "The auspicious days chosen by Qin Tianjian for the King of Yue were one on the tenth day of the next month, one on the twenty-ninth day of the next month, and another three months later. Finally, which day does Aiqing think is better?"

Zhao Gang was stunned. The emperor summoned him into the palace to ask this? Isn't this a matter for Qin Tian Jian?

"Back to the emperor, I heard that the King of Yue asked Qin Tianjian to choose the nearest day. I must hope it is the tenth day of the next month."

"The tenth day of the lunar month next month is also an auspicious day, but there are not many days left. The Ministry of Rites said that we are short of time and may not be able to do everything carefully."

"Back to the emperor, if the Ministry of Rites is short of manpower, the emperor can send more people from the palace to support it. This will satisfy the King of Yue."

Emperor Zhizheng looked at him and said, "You speak for him."

Zhao Gang's expression remained unchanged, "I am thinking about how difficult it has been for the King of Yue in the imperial mausoleum these years. I heard that His Royal Highnesses, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth, are talking about getting married. The eldest son of King Jin is also one year old. I think the King of Yue wants to marry his concubine as soon as possible. Yes. And the end of winter will come after March. There will be many big and small banquets in the capital, and there will be many palace banquets. The King of Yue probably wants to marry the princess back home as soon as possible to support the family. "

Emperor Zhengzheng nodded, "Then I think it's auspicious for the King of Yue to get married? Can I ask the ancestors? What instructions do you have?"

Zhao Gang was in charge of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, offering sacrifices and sweeps every day, burning incense and adding lamp oil to the ancestors. If the King of Yue's marriage went against God's will, Emperor Zheng felt that the ancestors would take action.

"Back to the emperor, I have made a fortune in front of my ancestors, and there is nothing abnormal. The king of Yue's marriage has been blessed by his ancestors. They are a match made in heaven, and they will definitely be happy in the future."

Is it going to be a good time? "That's good."

Zhao Gang breathed a sigh of relief. The king of Yue's marriage was granted by the late emperor's imperial edict. The emperor had no objections, and the ancestors had no objections. He didn't dare to say anything.

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the emperor ask casually: "I heard that the King of Yue went to the Ancestral Temple today?"

Zhao Gang shuddered and lowered his head, "Back to the emperor, the King of Yue went to the Ancestral Temple to pay homage to his ancestors, to tell him about his upcoming wedding, and to worship and make sacrifices in front of the sacred tablet of Queen Zhenshun."

Emperor Zhizheng looked at him intently, looked away, and snorted, "He was very polite. He just came back from the imperial mausoleum, and rushed to the Ancestral Temple. He bothered his mother again and again, and he was not afraid of his mother." Blame.”

"The king of Yue is pure and filial."

snort. Emperor Zhizheng snorted and was noncommittal. After asking Zhao Gang a few more questions, he asked him to leave.

When Zhao just came out of the palace, he felt the early autumn wind blowing, and a layer of chill spread down his back. He tightened his clothes and hurriedly left the palace gate.

In the evening of that day, Emperor Zheng arrived at Fengzao Palace.

The empress greeted her with a smile at the entrance of the hall, and Emperor Zhengzheng was helped into the hall by her. He looked at her with a smile and said, "Is the queen's goose-yellow autumn clothes newly made? She looks a few years younger."

The queen said coquettishly: "Your Majesty, you are making fun of me again. I already have grandchildren, and you are still young." Her steps were a little brisker. "It doesn't matter if you have grandchildren, the queen looks just like she did when she first entered the palace." Then he talked about how the queen looked when she entered the palace in the dormitory. Listening to this, the queen recalled old things with the emperor, and there was something on her face. The charm of youth.

"I learned that the emperor was coming today, so I asked the kitchen to prepare the emperor's favorite dishes. The emperor will eat a few more bites at a time."

"Okay, okay, the queen still knows my feelings."

The two of them finished their dinner happily, and then the emperor started talking about his intentions, "The Qintian Prison has chosen three days for the King of Yue, and the queen helped to check the details..."

The queen looked at the three days and said, "At this glance, I know that the King of Yue is more satisfied with the tenth day of the next month. But there are only more than twenty days left, and I am afraid that the Ministry of Rites will be too busy. Is it too hasty?"

"It was quite hasty. I remember King Jin's wedding, which took two and a half years."

The Queen tightened her veil when she heard about Prince Jin. It took Prince Jin so long, and it wasn't Liu Guifei who was in charge of everything. She only took half a year to select the candidate. How many noble ladies were recruited into the palace before and after, as if Prince Jin was the crown prince, he wished he could bring all the noble ladies in the capital to see him.

Emperor Zhengzheng glanced at the queen out of the corner of his eye and said, "Not only King Jin, I remember when the prince got married..." He thought of something and stopped talking.

When the prince got married, the previous prince was still there and he was not crowned king at that time. The prince's wedding was held according to the rules of the prince.

Not to mention compared with the princes born to Empress Lu at that time, not to mention the later kings of Jin and other royal brothers who held weddings under the prince's rules, even compared with the king of Qin and King Chu who also did not have a king at that time, the prince's marriage was also slightly inferior. One chip.

At that time, the status of the concubine De was higher than that of the successor. Concubine De not only paid for the king of Qin and King Chu from her private treasury, but also took a lot from the emperor, so the prince's wedding at that time was much worse than that of King Qin and King Chu.

Not only that, when it came to the selection of the prince's concubine, the status of the second prince's concubine at that time was also much inferior to that of the daughter-in-law whom Concubine De had chosen for her two sons.

The queen has been feeling sick all these years until now.

Every time I see the Crown Princess looking helpless, I get very angry.

The emperor naturally thought of this, so he just spoke and then swallowed his words. "I see that the prince has made a lot of progress over the years. It's because of your good teaching. Thank you for your hard work, queen."

The queen's turbid aura immediately dissipated, "Look at what the emperor said. The prince was born with hard work during the ten-month pregnancy of my concubine. Naturally, he must be careful. Besides, I don't need to be careful. The one who should worry about it is the emperor. Let the emperor worry about it. , I’m not a concubine anymore.”

They say thirty years to the west of the river and thirty years to the east of the river. It didn't matter that Concubine De stepped on her. Now that she is the queen, Concubine De is still concubine De. Doesn’t Concubine De obediently come to pay her respects every morning and evening?
The queen felt proud. His face showed a little bit.

When the emperor saw it, he kept his expression and only said that she had worked hard these years.

The queen was so happy that when the emperor told him about the betrothal gift of the King of Yue, in order to establish a better image of her aunt in front of the emperor, she also said that she would add some betrothal gifts to the King of Yue from her private treasury.

"Sister left early. Now I will naturally have to worry about Lao Qi's marriage. Then I will open my private treasury and pick out a few stones for him."

Emperor Zhizheng clapped her hand and said, "Okay, okay, I know it was right to appoint you as the queen. I feel relieved that the king of Yue has you to help manage it. Then I will also choose a few for him like the queen." Stone is good.”

The two agreed on the marriage of the King of Yue and went to rest.

The next day, the Ministry of Rites received the news from the palace and hurriedly went to the King of Yue to discuss it.

When Zhao Guangyuan saw the three auspicious days calculated by the Qintian Supervisor, he chose the tenth day of the next month without hesitation.

Du Zhili smiled, "The emperor also said that the King of Yue would definitely choose this date, and also said that the day was too hasty, so he sent 20 chamberlains and female officials from the palace to help in the etiquette department. The emperor asked the supervisor of Shangyi to do his best to rush to the wedding of the prince and princess. The dress, don’t worry, Your Majesty, it won’t be delayed.”

Zhao Guangyuan thought about the wedding dress order he had received from Xia'er at that time, and said that he would personally design his and Xia'er's wedding dress in the future. After thinking about it, "I have some ideas about the wedding attire. I will give you the style drawing later. You go into the palace and hand it over to the clothes supervisor and ask them to make it according to the drawing."

ah? "Well, there are rules for the prince's wedding attire..."

"It won't violate the rules. Moreover, the style and pattern of the prince's wedding clothes are not static. Just take it and discuss it with the clothes supervisor. If you have any questions, come back to me."

"Yes." Du Zhili hurried into the palace with the clothes style. I feel bitter in my heart. He broke his leg while running for the wedding of the King of Yue and was so busy that he couldn't even sleep for two or three hours a day these days. Now the prince is still making demands for this and that.

Du Zhili pinched the thick wallet in his sleeve. Well, it wasn't him doing it anyway, he was just talking.

Then he ran to the palace in a hurry.

Zhao Guangyuan chose a wedding date, and the next step was to make an appointment.

Although the Ministry of Rites had regulations on the number of betrothal gifts, and he did not need to worry about betrothal gifts, Zhao Guangyuan still spent a day in the warehouse, carrying out several large boxes of pearls and jade, waiting to be carried to the Jiang Mansion.

During a prince's wedding, in addition to the betrothal gift carried by the Ministry of Rites, the emperor, queen and empresses in the palace also have rewards, which will be added to the betrothal gift together. To show that the palace attaches great importance to it, it will also select many pearls and jade to add to the betrothal gift to show that it values ​​​​it. .

Zhao Guangyuan naturally didn't want Lin Zhaoxia to be looked down upon, and wished he could fill up the entire treasury of Prince Yue's palace as a betrothal gift.

But he had just returned to the capital for the first time, and the rewards he received were limited, and the pearls and jade treasures were not comparable to those of other princes. I chose a day and went to Dongsheng Pawn Shop again.

Lu Ye met him in the backyard.