Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 182 Dowry
The Shen family did not agree with Yuan Zhong's proposal for the ceremony of saluting the time, so they could only negotiate with each other.

Because the name of the princess has been determined, Taichung issued an edict to make Pingyuan Huaheng the Taichang, and together with the Dazai and Zongzheng Xiyang King Sima Yi to manage the princess's wedding.At the same time, officials were selected to serve as the family minister and family order of Princess Danyang to assist in this matter.

Although the servants of the Princess Mansion have the attributes of retainers, they are also officials of the Shaofu. In particular, the princess is a super-standard feudal seal, close to Gyeonggi. The position of family minister is almost equivalent to that of Jiankang Order, so the positions of the servants are quite different. Hot.Taking advantage of the harmonious relationship with Yu Liang, Shen Zhezi simply took some action and won Ren Qiu a position as the family order of the princess' mansion.

Although Ren Qiu's reputation in Wuzhong is not low, but after all, he came from a poor family, so he can naturally maintain a detached posture after repeated failures, but once he wants to become an official, it is impossible to find any clearing.To be the chief official of Cao Cao, buried in the files at night and in the morning, if you make a small mistake, you will be blamed on yourself, but it is not as good as recluse and aloof.If he is allowed to work in the Kuaiji County Mansion of his father Shen Chong, he will not be able to take advantage of this person's connections in Danyang.

And the family order of the Princess Mansion is simply a position tailor-made for Ren Qiu.In this position, it is necessary to deal with the princes, relatives, nobles, and many trivial matters in the princess's fiefdom. It is necessary to be good at dancing with long sleeves and good at general affairs. What is needed is a compound talent like Qian Feng. .

But Qian Feng was a figure who followed the great general Wang Dun in the early days, and even an important minister and celebrity like Wen Qiao dare not underestimate him. It would be too good to be considered in this position, and his status is really shady.

Ren Qiu's family is from Danyang, where there are many relatives and friends, and a wide network of contacts. He also has the ability to communicate, and he is not a celebrity with nothing to do, but a simplified version of Qian Feng.It can be said that he can make the best use of his talents to serve as the order of the princess's mansion.

Ren Qiu was also quite satisfied with this arrangement. Although the position of family order belonged to the humble and the Qingliu gentry disdained it, it could not deny its importance.Princess Danyang's super-standard Dafeng, and her spouse is the Shen family, which has become a popular family in Wuzhong. It is conceivable that no one will dare to underestimate the person who will stay in this position in the next few decades.Although there are many things to do, there is also a lot of money, and it is close to home, so it is easy to take care of the family business.

Naturally, it is impossible for Ren Qiu to be willing to be a family servant for a lifetime. With such a starting point, he can work in the position of family order with peace of mind for a few years. If he seeks to serve as a border county, he has already been ranked as a high-ranking official in Qianshi.For a poor family like him, such an official career is already the most ideal fast track, which can pave a higher starting point for the next generation.

This is the huge gap brought about by family background. With the current family background and status of the Shen family, coupled with the status of the emperor's son-in-law, if Shen Zhezi wants to serve as a border county, he can do it within two years of becoming an official. It is up to them to choose, and this is advection and progress.However, someone from a poor family like Ren Qiu needs to work hard for most of his life, and he also needs a lot of luck to get the support of the nobles, so that he can get away with it.

Although Shen Zhezi felt quite guilty about the emperor's last wish, it did not prevent him from mixing sand into the princess's fiefdom. The dowry has not yet started, and he has already started to tamper with it, which can be described as shameless.Finding a family order position for Ren Qiu was only the first step, and then he selected a few outstanding children from the youth camp who accompanied him to Beijing, such as that Ma Mingma Xingzhi, and gave them to Ren Qiu together.

These youngsters are not low in talent and comprehension, if they are only trained as scribes at home, it will be a waste.Although the Princess Mansion is not as grand as the Outer Court, it has a wider range of knowledge than the Shen family, which is enough for experienced people.

At present, when there is no place of his own for people to practice, Shen Zhezi regards the Princess Mansion as a training center for reserve forces. Why should the husband and wife separate from each other, even though the princess has not yet started.

In addition to these things, it is to create various ritual vessels.The Zhangmu scroll that Yu Liang sent helped Shen Zhezi a lot. Nowadays, all kinds of ceremonial instruments are not the more luxurious the more luxurious. If you really want to spend tens of millions of dollars or a few hundred gold as a dowry gift, it is arrogance but arrogance. No, it doesn't take the whole Jiankang City to know that the Shen family is an idiot the next day.

In addition to luxury, there are also requirements of etiquette.For example, the brochures and banners for welcoming relatives, that is, the guard of honor, the number of people, the color and number of horses, the shape and specifications of the carriages, and the form of the ritual swords and swords.

There are also betrothal gifts, lacquer ware and jade ware in the dowry, shirts and skirts and jewelry, advocacy of Yu Bao, house furniture and furniture.Although part of it was rewarded by the royal family as the princess's dowry, the Shen family also prepared a part.

The price of Jiankang is much higher than that of Wu Xing. In addition, the materials and skills of making these utensils have extremely strict requirements, and some of them can only be made by specialized people.Although Shen Zhezi didn't need to do these tedious matters by himself, he had to pay for the money.The millions of dollars brought by Wu Xing's family were poured out like water. By this time, the money was no longer called money.

For all kinds of jewelry made just for the princess, although the Shen family can provide the materials themselves, professional craftsmen need to be hired, and the wages range from a few thousand to over ten thousand.In this aspect alone, nearly 200 million yuan was spent on labor and materials!

Of course, if it is an ordinary marriage to a princess, naturally there is no need for such a high cost.But Shen Zhezi was already determined to be perfect, so he no longer restrained himself in this regard, but made up his mind that all these expenses would be squeezed out in the future.As long as the money is still in Jiangdong, it will not go anywhere else!

What made Shen Zhezi more satisfied was that the princess's marriage in the garden was not a dime a dozen. The Shaofu had recently made a lot of purchases, and the cost was only a lot more than that of the Shen family.

In particular, a big house in Wuyi Lane was bestowed as Danyang Princess Mansion. Shen Zhezi made a special trip to visit his new home in Jiankang City in the future. The old house is even bigger, it is the old residence of a Sun clan king in Soochow, as long as it is slightly repaired, it will be a mansion.

Nowadays, prices in the capital are rising again, and even housing prices are soaring.In places like Xiaochanggan and Dongxiwaiguo, which are not considered prosperous, the price of an ordinary two-entry house used to be only tens of thousands of dollars and dozens of pieces of silk, but now it has more than doubled.And prosperous places like Suzakuheng Nanchangqianli have soared several times.

As for a place like Bird Clothes Lane where there are a lot of high-ranking families, even small households can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to open up, and the scale of the Princess Mansion is even more expensive!The only thing that makes Shen Zhezi a little upset is that the property right of this mansion is not in his own home, but is still kept in Shaofu. Once he and the princess die, it will be taken back for other purposes.

The advantage of letting Ren Qiu be the family order of the Princess Mansion is that he can know the property of the Princess Mansion like the back of his hand.In addition to the mansion in Niaoyi Lane, the garden also spent a lot of money on the princess's dowry. The two garden villas on the Qinhuai River and several royal manors in Changganli have all been put under the name of the Princess Mansion.There are also many good farmland and gardens in Langya County of Qiaozhi, and they are also generously rewarded.

Shen Zhezi was so moved by the extravagance of the emperor.The Eastern Jin Dynasty had not been established for a long time, and the situation had just calmed down. There was not much money in the inner treasury, and there were even fewer high-quality industries. Those given to the princess already accounted for a large proportion.

Compatible with the huge industry is a large number of servants and entourages. There are not many rewards on the roster, but there are hundreds of male and female servants sent privately.Shen Zhezi suspected that once the princess married, the prince might have to eat porridge with his family after he ascended the throne.

People often say that wealth can rival a country, but how can a family's financial strength compete with a country.Even though the imperial power is weak now, the dowry prepared for the princess in the garden moved Shen Zhezi, a rich man who was used to flamboyance.Although it is not an exaggeration to save half his life for his marriage this time, this dowry will definitely make anyone nowadays not take it lightly.

Originally, based on the Shen family background, Shen Zhezi had enough confidence and psychological advantages to face the princess, but seeing more and more properties under the name of the princess mansion, his confidence became less and less.They are married with people and money, so they don't need to rely on the Shen family to support them.Especially in addition to this dowry, there are also huge fiefdoms in Danyang and two counties.

However, for a person like Shen Zhezi who can put his face in his pocket at any time, the loss is only a moment. Since he can't overwhelm the princess financially, he should quickly change his mind and rely on his wife. strong.It should be noted that even if the son-in-law is in the door, not anyone can do it if he wants to.

But being so flattered by the emperor, Shen Zhezi couldn't help feeling a bit shabby when he looked at the dowry gift that his family was going to send to the palace.Originally, he was a little scrupulous about saying that his family was lucky to be the emperor's family because of their financial resources, so he followed the etiquette system everywhere and dared not go beyond it.But since the emperor ignored these things, he had nothing to spare.

So in addition to the customization of ritual vessels and clothing, Shen Zhezi also swiped his pen, and industries such as Yantian in Jiaxing and Wuxing's private ferry, dai, and storehouse were all placed under the name of the Princess Mansion.These dowry gifts do not follow the official ceremony book, so naturally they are not well known to outsiders.With such an addition, the book immediately overwhelmed the princess's dowry.

Shen Zhezi's doing so was actually somewhat inappropriate.Now that his father is still alive, he blatantly devours the family property to fill his small coffers. Fortunately, his father doesn't care about these family affairs at all, and the little brother Shen Jin who can compete with him for the family property has not yet been weaned. Will there be other things in the future? It is not known whether the brothers will share a share.Besides, these property accounts have long been held in Shen Zhezi's own hands, so doing so will not cause any human tragedy in which brothers fight against each other.

The reason for doing this is not because of his face. He is a person who has no shame, let alone make unnecessary comparisons.The main purpose, the first is to make the emperor feel at ease, and the family has invested a lot of money, so the emperor does not have to worry about his family treating the princess harshly in the future.On the other hand, the reason is somewhat difficult to say, Shen Zhezi is to avoid taxes.

He knew that after Yu Liang came to power, he vigorously promoted the policy of inspection.Like what the Shen family is doing in Wu Xing now, with Yu Tan protecting them, it is not a big problem at the moment, but in the future, after a change of Wu Xing County Sheriff who does not deal with the Shen family, such a scale will inevitably be punished severely.Every time the soil is broken, Shen Zhezi has to adjust the layout for a long time in a hurry.

It was also the Zhang family who collected evidence of the Shen family's crimes and reminded Shen Zhezi that placing these properties in the Princess Mansion would add an extra layer of protection and reduce many unnecessary disputes and troubles.

Thinking about it this way, Shen Zhezi felt that this wife was too worthwhile to marry, not only bringing political benefits to his family, but also a large dowry, and even helping him launder money.Princess Xingnan is really a woman worth protecting all her life!
(End of this chapter)