Early the next morning, the entire feudal lord's mansion was busy. Because Uncle Donkey Dan took a concubine today.
Madam was particularly gracious and allowed the newlyweds to get married in the central hall of the mansion.
This guy, Donkey Dan, has been grinning so much since morning that he almost laughed out loud. Everyone has never seen Uncle Donkey Dan so happy.
His only regret is that his parents are not here. However, this is not a marriage, and parents generally will not come forward.
Besides, he didn't know how to tell his parents about marrying a Japanese girl when he got home.
In this era, Chinese people are very ambitious. Only those who really can't find a wife will marry some Korean girl or Japanese girl. As for Vietnamese girls in later generations, they are even more looked down upon.
However, everyone still gave blessings to the newlyweds, and the master and his wife also came to have a glass of wine.
Soldiers are rough men. They all started making noises in the bridal chamber. The bride was so frightened that she trembled. He only calmed down after being scolded by the little girl.
Taking a concubine is no different than marrying a wife. It does not require tea and rituals, let alone worshiping heaven and earth. Just treat everyone to a drink and a meal.
"Lift the hijab and let everyone see. Mr. Lu has been keeping his integrity for so many years. How beautiful is the bride that can make Mr. Lu break his precepts?" Everyone started cheering.
The people in the navy were just looking at the joke and didn't come up to make trouble. It's all the servants who are making trouble. The officers of these thousand servants are all old men and know each other well.
The donkeys are so angry that they are yelling, these bastards, there is no good cake.
They make things difficult for the bride because they are jealous of me, yes, they are jealous.
However, this request is not too much. It is acceptable to have concubines to serve wine in public, and some are generous and even ask concubines to pour wine for distinguished guests.
Donkey Dan still lifted the lid and showed it to everyone.
If you marry a beautiful woman and don't show it off, wouldn't it be like walking in fine clothes at night?
The moment the hijab was taken off, it seemed as if the light in the room suddenly dimmed. A bright and charming face appeared in front of everyone.
"Oh," everyone took a breath and suddenly became jealous.
Donkey Dan, this bastard, is holding back his bad intentions. He always says that he needs to find a good one.
Unexpectedly, this boy was not joking, he was actually touching me.
Yang Fan was also stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but said: "This bastard, I told you how he looked scared yesterday, with a sinister look on his face, because he was afraid that I would see him and rob him. But this guy is lucky. This I can meet all kinds of beauties. It’s really…”
Yang Fan didn't know what to say. As the saying goes, a good man does not have a good wife, and a bad man marries a fairy. How else could Wu Dalang marry Pan Jinlian?
Before Mr. Yang could finish his emotion, he was pulled out by the ear by the girl who had already raised her eyebrows.
"Ah, madam, let go, it hurts."
"Stay here honestly, blow some air, and calm down. Hum." The little girl was very unhappy with Yang Fan looking at the beauty in front of her. Push Yang Fan to the corridor by the pond and let him reflect.
Yang Fan smiled bitterly, took out his cigar, and lit it with Zippo. Stand here and smoke one. Listen to the sound of everyone laughing in the central hall in front. Inside, it is for the newlyweds to pour wine for the guests.
"Sir, you said you snatched the donkey eggs, is that girl willing? Don't click the donkey eggs in the middle of the night." Xiao Niangpi said with some worry.
Yang Fan blew out a smoke ring. blown away by the wind.
The little girl frowned and fanned herself with her little hand. She didn't like the smell of smoke. This stuff is choking when you smell it, so what's there to smoke? However, the servants and retainers of the Yang family are extremely obsessed with this thing.
Tobacco can bring in a lot of money to the government over the course of a year.
"It's okay, you don't understand the Japanese." Yang Fan put down his cigarette and said, "The Japanese worship the strong. In their culture, there is no shame in succumbing to the strong. It is impolite to reject the strong. Rejecting the strong is tantamount to insulting him. . Therefore, it would be rude if she did not accept her fate and submitted to the person who robbed her."
The little girl was dumbfounded. This is weird logic.
"Master, what if they meet someone weaker than them?" Xiao Niangpi couldn't help but ask.
"Then they immediately transform into demons, extremely cruel and perverted."
The little girl said in disgust: "Aren't these just a bunch of bastards? After a beating, they pretend to be grandsons and give them face, and they won't know their last names. If they don't get beaten for a few days, they will always want to move up."
"A thousand years ago, Sima Guang had seen through the Japanese people. No wonder he commented in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian": He knows small etiquette but no great righteousness, sticks to trivial matters but does not have great virtue, pays attention to trivial matters but despises integrity, fears power and If you are not virtuous, the strong will be bandits and bandits, and the weak will be humble." Xiao Niangpi said.
She is a good reader, so naturally she has read Zizhi Tongjian. I didn't feel anything about this paragraph before, but now, when I look at it in light of the situation of the Japanese people, it turns out to be prescient.
This evaluation is really penetrating, and it describes the character traits of the Japanese people in a profound way.
The Japanese are polite and reserved on the surface. When you see people bowing their heads all day long, you are actually cold and cruel inside. Their politeness lacks the most basic sincerity, and over time this kind of *** becomes annoying.
They like to give small gifts when they meet, but they will do things that are against great virtue. These small favors seem even more false. For example, the recent sea discharge. In recent years, various industrial products have been counterfeited.
They surrender to the strong and bully the weak. On the one hand, he is a slave, and on the other hand, he is a ghost.
Yang Fan smiled bitterly and said: "They are like this, and I can't help it. But don't you think that such people are very suitable to be lackeys? Just like Bangzi, bullying others is a natural skill. Send Bangzi and Japanese to manage overseas territories, they can Make life worse than death for the natives in the colony."
Yang Fan continued: "We don't want to directly manage the natives in the colony, as that will easily arouse hatred. The best way is to let the Japanese become warriors as thugs, and let the sticks serve as civil servants to handle administration. Send our domestic slaves to manage money And intelligence, supervision, and justice. The trinity, mutual supervision and restriction is the best."
Xiao Niangpi nodded and said, "That makes sense. The people in the colony will only hate those who directly manage them. This transfers all the hatred to the Japanese and Bangzi. We mediate from above, so there is room for change."
By this time, everyone had had enough trouble, and they all sat down to eat, drink, and practice fistfights. Several maids and women supported the bride and came over. They go to the new house in the back.
See Yang Fan and Xiao Niangpi. The bride and the maids bowed and saluted,
"Asai Harumi, pay a visit to the Ming Dynasty's Shangyang and Godaisuo."
When Yang Fan heard what she said, he understood that she was a girl from a warrior family.
When Japan was undergoing Dahua reform, the Tang system was prevalent throughout the country, so many etiquette matters were learned from China's Tang and Song dynasties, including titles.
The Tang and Song dynasties were very complicated in terms of etiquette and titles, so Japanese courtiers and feudal lords were also very complicated in this regard.
Compared with the other two classes, the way of addressing the warrior class has its own uniqueness, which is similar to the etiquette of the Tang and Song Dynasties. In terms of status, warriors are higher than civilians, and in terms of etiquette, the etiquette of the warrior class is much simpler than that of ministers. class.
This is probably because during the Warring States Period, most of the rough and bold samurai class were too lazy to learn the red tape. The two main titles related to warriors are "Dian" and "Yang".
If you call someone "Dian" directly. This is a special title for the speaker's direct lord, and cannot be preceded by a surname, otherwise it will be extremely disrespectful.
Yang Fan is the head of the family, and Donkey Dan is the slave of the family. However, when Miss Qianjing met Yang Fan today, she was not able to bow to Yang Fan, so she could not call Yang Fan "dian". There are strict prerequisites for use. In addition, does this also mean that she does not recognize the marriage that was forced on her and that Yang Fan is her master? Yang Fan didn't know.
A simple sentence contained a huge amount of information. Yang Fan narrowed his eyes. This woman is not simple. I'm afraid my background is not ordinary.
Shangyang is the proper name used by the Japanese people to call the general who conquered the barbarians. It is specifically used to address the shogun. Yang Fan's general of conquering the west and the shogunate are far apart in terms of status and actual power.
This title has the meaning of compliment and special respect.
The general's wife is called "Oitaisuo" or "Oitaiyang". This is the abbreviation of the ancient saying "Odai Iwanso".
The prince's son was called by his official name, and his wife was called "Yu Lianzhong".
"I am just General Zhengxi, Uncle Dingyuan, and Imperial Guard of the Ming Dynasty. I am not worthy of being called such a title. Just follow Lu Dan and call me master."
"Hai, Asai Harumi, I have met the master. I have met the madam."
"This is my wife and I's intention, please accept it." Yang Fan waved his hand. Aunt Mei, who was following behind, took out an open-carved Kirin jade pendant made of Hetian suet white jade from the tray held by the maid. Leave it to Harumi.
Qingmei was shocked. She came from a wealthy family, so she naturally knew what to buy. This piece of mutton-fat jade is crystal white, delicate and moist. The white jade is almost flawless, like freshly cut sheep fat, and its luster is like condensed grease.
This kind of thing is priceless and rarely seen.
When she was a girl, she saw a piece of mutton-fat jade from Mrs. Ajiang, but it was far from this one.
It can be seen that Lu Dan's status in this master's heart.
Yang Fan could tell by looking at her expression that she was a knowledgeable person. This stuff isn't cheap. Not to mention the value of having a Yangzhou master carve this piece of jade pendant, just a piece of material would cost up to 200,000 yuan per gram in later generations.
Yang Fan also occupied the Komodo area with a large army and intercepted a batch of jade materials, so he was rich enough to use this as a wedding souvenir for his subordinates.
"Thank you, Master and Madam, for the reward." Harumi said with a deep bow. Qilin gives birth to a child, which is a very good meaning. Coupled with the hollow carvings on both sides, the preciousness of the jade material, and everyone's carving skills. This gift is not light.
"Your surname is Asai, who are you, Asai Nagamasa?" Yang Fan asked.
Asai Nagamasa was the last generation of family governor of the Omi Asai family. Regarding the origin of the Asai family, it is generally believed that it began during the Muromachi shogunate period and was Sanjo Nozuna, the eldest son of the Kyoto noble Sanjo Miya.
The Asai clan was a wealthy family in Kitanomi during the Warring States Period. However, his predecessor did not come from a famous family, but was just a local tycoon near Dingye Township, Omi Asai County in the north. When it was passed down to the generation of Nagamasa's grandfather Asai Ryomasa, it began to be revitalized.
Although his family is not even a feudal lord, they are just a city lord. His beginnings were also extremely disgraceful.
Asai Ryomasa's humanities, skills, and military strategies are all of the highest quality. As an important minister of the Kyogoku clan, Ryomasa saw the right opportunity and took advantage of Omi's opportunity to protect the Kyogoku clan's internal strife. He colluded with the national Ikaku (people's rebellion), successfully defeated his superiors in one fell swoop, and expelled his boss Kyogoku Hidori. And began to develop his own power with Xiaotani Castle as his base.
It is said that he could not be rich for more than three generations. When he reached Nagamasa, he was defeated by Oda Nobunaga. Although his family is just a drop in the ocean, this family is good at giving birth to beautiful daughters. And became famous all over the world. He married Oda Nobunaga's sister, the famous beauty Oda Kaki.
This shows the importance of choosing a good wife first if you want to be eugenic. All three of his daughters inherited their mother's beauty. The three Asai sisters became legends of their time.
The eldest daughter Asai Chacha was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's concubine, Mrs. Yodono. Chacha was the daughter-in-law whom Toyotomi Hideyoshi married in his later years, and she was also his sweetheart. Even when he was assassinated and ran away, he didn't forget to take Chacha with him.
The second daughter, Asai Hatsumi, is the head wife of Chang Gaoyuan and Kyogoku Gaoji. They are cousins. Kyogoku Takatsuki's mother is Asai Fuku, the daughter of Asai Hisamasa, and the sister of Asai Nagamasa. She was the poorest of the three sisters and married the feudal lord's cousin.
The third daughter, Asai Jiang, is Mrs. A Jiang, the wife of the second-generation Tokugawa shogun of Japan today. This one is more legendary. She became a widow in her first marriage and divorced in her second marriage. She was already twenty-three years old in her third marriage, but she actually married the unmarried Tokugawa Hidetada, who was only seventeen years old.
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