Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 561: The Ceremony of the Six Ceremonies

Changsun Wuji continued to speak: "Then there are two special ones, the second concubine of a famous family and the first concubine of a famous family. Just say one person you know, Dou Shikuan. If he has no official position or title, he is even a descendant of the famous Dou family. No concubines are allowed."

"What will happen if you accept it secretly?" Liu Mu asked.

Changsun Wuji said: "You know why you haven't seen the daughters of Xiao and Xie who married into your house until now. There are two reasons. The first is that your first wife is a princess. Etiquette. Another reason is that, according to the etiquette rules, you are still two steps away from completing the formalities."

"What procedure?"

"One is a letter of approval from the elders in the family. This is just a process right now. Your parents are not here, so the patriarch of the Liu clan will write this letter of approval, and then formally file it with the Ministry of Rites. This estimate has already been completed. Then another one."

"Tell me quickly." Liu Mu didn't expect such a rule to exist.

"The other is that you haven't signed a contract with the bride yet. The three most critical items in this contract may still be under negotiation. One is the inheritance rights of the children. The other is the value of the concubine itself. In case you are halfway If you abandon it, you will be compensated according to your identity."

Liu Mu's eyes widened in surprise this time.

Changsun Wuji continued: "The last and most important thing is ranking."

"What is ranking?"

"I'm asking you." Changsun Wuji suddenly became very serious: "Tell the truth, what do you think of the Baoqin beside you?"

"That's my own family." Liu Mu didn't evade this.

Changsun Wuji nodded: "Let's put it this way, once you have the qualifications to become a wife in the future, you will definitely leave it to the girl Baoqin. This is the ranking. Today's ranking, and the ranking in case of adding new people in the future Impact."

"Does this have a big impact?" Liu Mu asked again.

"Very big, as far as saints are concerned. My younger sister is a queen, and her son is the prince of the Tang Dynasty for no reason. As for the other four wives, only one or two of their children are princes. Let's talk about the rest. If Xiangyang is not married to the eldest son of Duke Xiao, she is just a false name as a princess, but in reality she is only treated by the county lord."

"So much difference?" Liu Mu couldn't believe it.

Changsun Wuji nodded: "That's the difference, because Xiangyang's mother is just a low-class concubine. Moreover, she was pregnant first and then raised as a concubine. If she doesn't even have the status of a concubine, the saint may have to pay a lot. money."

"And why?"

"It's what you asked just now, the consequences of secretly taking a concubine. A businessman may have some money, so he secretly takes a concubine, but is not legally registered by the local government. Then what he faces is that he will be fined [-]% of his family property, and one of them will be fined." [-]% will be returned to the public, and [-]% will be used to compensate the private concubine."

"But……"

"No but singing and dancing girls are slaves or maidservants, and their children will still be slaves or maidservants in the future. This is not considered a concubine. However, businessmen are not allowed to own singing and dancing girls privately, so if they dare to touch the level of maids, they will be fined." The preparation of light family property."

"As for common people, such as peasants and workers. Our Tang Dynasty is still very humane. Farmers 29 can take concubines if they don't come out. Gong 34 can take concubines if they don't come out, but they are all alone. Of course, you have to have money to do it. This kind of concubine is called buying a concubine, and the price is very expensive. My Tian Jian didn’t have a son when he was 45, and it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a concubine.”

"One hundred strings?"

Liu Mu was really taken aback, this amount of money is already huge for ordinary people.

Changsun Wuji nodded solemnly: "Now it's up to you, tell me what exactly is that workshop?"

Liu Mu didn't answer, but stood beside the boat and shouted at the other boat.

After a long time, Baoqin threw a bundle from another boat, and Liumu took it and put it on the deck.

The boat was full of officials, and Pei Shiqing who was resting in the cabin ran out.

Liu Mu rummaged through the bundle, took out a piece of cloth two inches wide and six inches long, and gave it to Zhangsun Wuji.

Changsun Wuji still didn't understand what it was.

"This is a new type of menstrual towel for women. It's up to you to judge whether it's good or not. The biggest advantage of this thing is that it is super absorbent, because I use a sponge. I'll make some for you later on, Donggangbo The company has a specialized agency for picking sponges, and my third sister's workshop is actually [-]% members of the Donggang Shipping Company."

After Liu Mu finished speaking, he opened the bag: "There are sixteen different grades in total. The nobles use silk cotton fabrics, ordinary women use white velvet gauze fabrics, and the rest are ordinary linen fabrics."

"This..." Changsun Wuji became more and more incomprehensible.

"One-time use, this will not affect your work. You don't understand, because you are not a woman. Your wife does use it. You can ask when you arrive in Yangzhou in a few days. Datang is currently using it, less than 100 people , because it has just been trial-produced."

Then Liu Mu took out a small dress worn by women.

"This one also uses sponge as a cushion, which can make women look better after wearing it."

"And this, this is for bathing, this is for makeup, this is..." What Liu Mu showed was sponge products, piece by piece, these big men didn't quite understand.

But to put it in a modern sentence, it is not clear.

They believed that this would be the same as wool, and they had Feng An's warning in advance.

Changsun Wuji looked at everything and asked Liu Mu: "Then, why did Mr. Feng ask you to explain the etiquette to you?"

"I didn't understand it at first, but now I know. I originally planned to get [-] Japanese women from Wa Island to enrich the brothel market in Tang Dynasty. But now I have changed my mind. I can just sell one of Su to my family."

"don't know."

"Su's family made a not-so-special request to me. They wanted to borrow a seed."

"Borrowing seeds!!!" Changsun Wuji was stunned.

Liu Rengui also exclaimed: "Aren't all the men in Wajima men men?"

"Cough!" Pei Shiqing coughed lightly: "That's not the case, the Japanese are short in stature, and many of their nobles hope to use the men of the Tang Dynasty to make their descendants taller, and even hope to make their leaders taller. That's what Consort Liu meant by borrowing seeds."

"Yes. So I changed the plan. First, all 14 unmarried Japanese girls over the age of [-] will go to Datang. Countless businessmen are willing to spend money to take them in for a few years. In the future, they must have children. For those who return to Wa Island, how to distribute the rest is up to you, Uncle Guo."

Liu Mu laughed, and left the bewildered eldest Sun Wuji standing on the bow of the boat with Feng An.

Feng An gave Liu Mu a thumbs up, and Liu Mu said with a sneer, "The men from Wa Island will kill people for us, and the women from Wa Island will increase the population of our Tang Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)