On the third day after Liu Bei returned home, Cheng Dazhi came to visit Liu Bei in person with some gifts. After a conversation, Cheng Dazhi knelt down in front of Liu Bei and was willing to be driven by Liu Bei.
Liu Bei helped Cheng Dazhi up, expressed his approval, and talked with him about some news about his contacts with the Taiping Taoists in Jizhou.
Through Cheng Dazhi's description, Liu Bei learned that Zhang Jiao was indeed planning the next uprising and was preparing to summon more Taiping Taoists to join him in the uprising. In order to achieve this goal, he was making friends with "heroes from all over the world".
Cheng Dazhi traveled between Jizhou and Youzhou, doing some shady underground business, and had many interpersonal relationships. He got to know Zhang Jiao through some channels and had a good impression of him, so he tried to do some things for him.
But Cheng Dazhi is still considering whether to join Taipingdao.
As a result, some people under his command were impressed by Zhang Jue's ambition and were impressed by Zhang Jue's personal charm. They decided to follow Zhang Jue and bypassed him to give orders to his subordinates, which was a big mistake. He was very angry and felt peaceful about it. The Tao is terrible.
When Liu Bei said that again, Cheng Dazhi was afraid of being implicated and persecuted by the Taiping Taoists, so he decided to seek asylum through Liu Bei.
Liu Bei accepted Cheng Dazhi as his subordinate and asked him to set a date to join Ji Jian and become Ji Jian's subordinate, and together they would manage the Liu family's private armed forces in the village.
As for the local landlord families in Zhuo County who were originally related to Cheng Dazhi, Liu Bei visited them one by one and gained their cooperation with his smiling tiger attitude.
Things that were originally handled by Cheng Dazhi will continue to be handled by Cheng Dazhi, but Cheng Dazhi is already Liu Bei's subordinate, so all accounts must go through Liu Bei's side without any loss.
If anyone breaks the rules, Zhuo County will not tolerate him.
Intimidated by Liu Bei's prestige and power in Zhuo County, these families did not dare to go against Liu Bei's wishes.
Time passed little by little, and it was March in the spring of the third year of Guanghe. When the grass was growing and the orioles were flying, Liu Bei took his horses out to gallop and go for an outing whenever he had time. He was very happy.
In early April, following the wishes of Han Rong, who had just recovered from illness, Liu Bei formally married Han Ning, the 28-year-old daughter of Han Rong, and married her "according to his mother's orders".
Since the wedding system was reformed during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, even ordinary people's weddings have to be grand and lively, let alone weddings held by officials.
On the day of the wedding, the entire Zhuoxian county was decorated with lights and colorful decorations for the marriage of the prefect's daughter and a disciple of Confucianism. They celebrated the whole day, and even that night there was no curfew because of the excitement of the wedding.
People in the county town indulged themselves, drinking from dusk until early morning, then helped each other go back to sleep, ending the night of carnival.
As the groom, Liu Bei was of course given special attention.
Gongsun Zan had a good drinker, and together with Qianzhao, a good friend who came from his hometown to attend his wedding, he led a group of friends to get Liu Bei drunk. He had a strong attitude of not letting him have an easy time, and he had to get him drunk.
Gongsun Zan blushed and took the lead in pouring wine, barely lifting the wine jar and pouring it into Liu Bei's mouth. Looking at his posture, he even wanted to push Liu Bei's head into the wine jar.
The move was more direct. He took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to press Liu Bei on the wine table, opened his mouth, and poured bowl after bowl of wine into Liu Bei's mouth. He called it "massive" without fear of choking Liu Bei. die.
Liu Bei was a good drinker, but he couldn't withstand such a fierce drinking campaign. He couldn't hold it anymore and pretended to vomit several times. Finally, Jian Yong persuaded everyone to let Liu Bei go and let him enjoy the wedding night. Liu Bei was finally Let it go.
Then, amidst everyone's cheers and laughter, Liu Bei was almost carried into the bridal chamber. As soon as he landed on the ground, he was top-heavy and almost fell, but he was supported by Han Ning.
"Mr. Lang drank too much."
A soft voice rang in his ears, and Liu Bei raised his head and looked at his bride.
There is no such thing as red hijab these days, so the bride just has a face covered with makeup, without much modification.
So under the candlelight, a delicate and slightly worried face appeared in front of Liu Bei.
This is my wife...so beautiful.
This was the only thought in Liu Bei's mind at the time.
Speaking of which, due to inexplicable etiquette requirements, Liu Bei and Han Ning had not seen her for two years after they had been engaged. He didn't even know her name before the matchmaker came to ask her, and he knew very little about her.
However, I gradually learned from Han Rong that his daughter liked to read poetry and books, was good at female celebrities, and had learned good cooking skills. However, these were the usual compliments for married daughters from well-established families in this era. statement.
Liu Bei didn't take it seriously. Anyway, he had accepted the marriage. The most important thing was the political interests behind the marriage. The other things were not too important.
This is probably what the ancients meant by "virtue" in marrying a wife.
Just kidding, would the daughter of a two-thousand-stone prefect have no "virtue"?
Very good.
As for color...
Isn’t the concubinage system a compensation system prepared for this?
But people getting married in the Han Dynasty was really interesting.
Liu Bei still remembered that a few days after visiting Han Rong and getting Han Rong's wedding invitation, an elderly woman came to the Han family. The woman brought a beautiful little girl and said This is one of Han Ning's personal maids, here to serve Liu Bei.
The little girl looked young. She had a baby face and blushed when she saw Liu Bei. She stood motionless and even trembled slightly because of her nervousness. Liu Bei thought that people were afraid of her because of her fierce reputation.
Liu Bei didn't understand what this meant at first, but the housekeeper who was serving his mother whispered to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei understood what the Han family meant with an embarrassed look on his face.
This was also one of the important procedures for getting married in the upper class of this era.
Because these days are not so open and the information is not well-informed, people are not sure whether men before marriage have enough manly abilities.
Political marriage is not just about two people getting married and living together, it is about having children. Regardless of whether the relationship is good or not, you have to give birth to the child.
Most of the time, previous people had suffered losses in this area, so they accumulated experience through constant trial and error, and added this link before the wedding.
Whenever a family of some status talks about marriage, before getting married, they must bring in a maid or other reliable person who is close to the girl to test the man's ability as a man to make sure that the man can be humane and able to communicate with others. The woman gives birth to an heir.
It's a punishment, it's really a punishment, these days are getting more and more severe.
Of course, the woman's family will also ask someone from the man's family to examine her body to make sure she is not the legendary stone girl, whether her menstruation is normal, whether she can give birth normally, etc.
However, these are all common rules among high-status families. They belong to the rules of the game among the upper class and have no connection with the common people.
Among the farmers in Li Shu, those whose families were slightly better off, the girls got married when they were twelve or thirteen years old.
If the situation is even poorer, a woman will get married when she is ten or eleven years old, and the family will be thrown off as if it were a burden. What happens next depends entirely on luck.
Liu Bei's previous status had not touched the threshold of the upper class, and he belonged to the ranks of common people in a broad sense. If he did not have the determination and fierce will of a street fighter, he would probably have to get married at the age of twelve or thirteen, and he would naturally know nothing about it.
It doesn't matter after knowing it.
Someone comes to your door to check your ability. If you have all kinds of scruples and can't show off your masculinity, if you think you are inhumane and can't have children, you will really die in society.
Fertility is an important part of a man's social strength these days. The more children he has, the more respect he will have in his circle of friends. Men who pretend to be innocent and flirtatious will be abandoned by the market.
So Liu Bei showed off his majesty and all kinds of martial arts, and that night he made the little maid sent by the Han family obedient.
The next day, the little maid was picked up by the Han family's housekeeper. The news later showed that the Han family was very satisfied with Liu Bei's ability.
A few days later, the mother-in-law sent by the mother to check the woman's body received the news that the woman's physical examination was normal. The woman was a normal and fertile woman and would not leave the Liu family without heirs. The Liu family could rest assured. .
So the wedding process officially begins.
It's that quick.
