A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 198 Wei Zheng will also be impeached one day

When the battle was in full swing, Fan Xuanfu came in directly.

In the hall, all the elders, relatives and friends of the man were present, so Fan Xuanfu was covered with a dark fence, and brought in a few maids with many cakes and fruits.

"Everyone, please drink tea and snacks."

Fan Xuanfu said the number, and the two families made a compromise, [-] pieces of silk as a gift money, [-] pieces of silk to accompany the money, and then eight pairs of cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, and eight pairs each, and eight loads each of rice, wheat, millet, millet, beans, etc. , eight pieces of silk and satin brocade, eight pairs of gold and silver jewelry, and one pair of slaves are enough.

It is the first time for the bride-to-be to say the number in person.

Cheng Yaojin added with a smile, "Ms. Fan is virtuous and generous, so we don't have to fight too much. I think there are eight pairs of slaves and maidservants."

Samurai Leng said, "There must be no shortage of fields, let's add two farms per [-] mu."

Fan Xing looked at his daughter, "Then it's settled, all these gifts will be added as dowry and brought back to the Wu family."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand, "I, Fan Xing, can't let my daughter down. I bought a dowry earlier, this time I added a dowry according to the martial arts etiquette in addition to the original dowry."

Although Fan Xing was called Fan Barbarian, as a top nobleman, he was definitely not short of money.

He bought a dowry of several thousand guan for his daughter earlier, and now not only does not keep a cent of the dowry gift from the Wu family, he will return it in time, and he has to double it and buy another dowry.

The gift set by Mrs. Fan is more than a thousand in total, and the Fan family will double it and return it.

"How does this work."

"It's all for this young couple. Erlang is also a Marquis now, but living in Chang'an is expensive. I also hope that my aunt can live a more comfortable life after she gets married."

Regardless of whether it was the gift from the Wu family, whether it was the accompanying money, or the dowry from the Fan family, they were taken to the Wu family together in the end, but after the money went around, it was nominally only Fan Xuanfu's personal rouge money and rouge land. Even if Wu Huaiyu's father, son and brother did not separate their families and did not enter the public account, the property would belong to her for personal disposal. Even if they reconciled in the future, it would still belong to her.

Even if the person is gone, if there are children, they will belong to the children, and if there are no children, they will belong to the natal family, and they have priority inheritance rights than the husband.

After everything was discussed, everyone immediately returned to smiling, drinking tea and eating snacks.

After writing the booklet and the gift list, when you go back, you will prepare all the money and things that you have negotiated today, such as the dowry gift and accompanying money, and then choose an auspicious day to deliver it to your door, and then you can agree on the date of welcoming the relatives and the big wedding.

Holding the book, Fan Xuanfu rolled his eyes happily.

Fan Xing also threw his arms around Huaiyu, and directly called out his son-in-law.

"Three days will be a good day, and then we will come to give gifts!" Huaiyu was also a bit impatient.

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Yongxingfang, Wei's family.

Mrs. Pei invited Huaiyu to come over for a drink, opened a jar of Wei Zheng's rare treasures, and made some appetizers with her own hands.

Today, Huai Yu succeeded in Xia Ping at Fan Xing's house, and Wei Zheng also completed the mortgage loan at the Chang Sheng Tang. The two thousand guan was delivered in cash and silk.

Now that large sum of money is piled up in Wei's house, and a room is piled up.

Wei Zheng has already picked an auspicious day, and he is ready to go to work.

"Erlang is really honest and forthright in his work. This time he really saved our urgent need." Mrs. Pei personally poured wine for Huaiyu, and Wei Zheng watched from the side feeling very uncomfortable.

Old husband and young wife, the wife poured wine for the young and handsome Wu Huaiyu, and even praised others, regardless of his feelings.Wei Zheng had no choice but to pick up a handful of green spinach and eat it, which was given by Wu Huaiyu.

"It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. If we can help neighbors, we will definitely help."

Huaiyu was in a good mood today, and brought Wei Zheng a bottle of wine, An Linna's home brew, which was sold well in her mother's wine shop.

Huaiyu drank Wei Zheng's home brew, and Wei Zheng drank Huaiyu's wine.

This red wine looks good and smells good, but it tastes sweet and sour with a bit of astringency, which Wei Zheng doesn't like very much.

"I heard that Erlang went to the Duke Ying's mansion today, congratulations."

"Happy together."

Mrs. Pei couldn't help gossiping about Huaiyu's betrothal gift, family wealth, etc., but Huaiyu didn't hide it, and just said it briefly.

Hearing that several princes were fighting for the dowry at Fan's house, she was surprised that Fan Xuanfu came out to determine the number in person, and she was even more envious that the man wanted to give more to the woman but asked for less. In the end, not only did the dowry come Add all the dowry, and double the dowry.

In contrast, Wang Xueshi's family asked for a dowry and accompanying money of 200 million. At most, the gift was transferred as a dowry, and the accompanying money would not be returned.

Although Wang Xueshi belonged to the Taiyuan Wang family with five surnames and seven families, he was also the younger brother of the famous Confucian Wang Tong, but both his father and brother died early. Wang Xueshi was praised as a child prodigy by Yang Su when he was 11 years old, but his official career was not smooth. The Longmen Wang family was also affected by the war, and the family business declined.

Wang Ji didn't even have a house in Chang'an, he rented them all.

He is good at drinking, and he doesn't own any property. He knows that Wang Xueshi has no money, so this accompanying family fortune is really subsidizing the Wang family.

Wei Zheng didn't want his wife to say these things, the Wei family had always liked the name of the Wang family, and the Wang family was willing to marry him because of Wei Zheng's current official career and their willingness to pay such a large amount of money.

"If you have something to do in the future, just open your mouth, neighbors, help each other."

Now Huaiyu has become Wei Zheng's creditor, and even his house deed has been pledged to Huaiyu. Although the relationship between the two is better than before, it's not much better.

On the contrary, the Pei family is quite nice, why did you marry Wei Zheng back then?

There is a twenty-year age difference between the two, and a flower was planted in cow dung.

The two sent Huaiyu to the door, and Wei Zheng began to complain that his wife was too enthusiastic about Wu Huaiyu, saying that she was snobbish.

"You say I'm snobbish, who am I for? If you have the ability to spend two thousand coins, do I have to be as polite as a young man? Look at him, he is also a Taoist priest who has been down the mountain for three months. Just seal the marquis, and still set up such a big business.

When people go to propose marriage, they don't even consider the dowry money to lose the family's wealth, but give more..."

Wei Zheng was very dissatisfied with these words, how do you compare me with other men.

What's the comparison.

I was young too.

After the quarrel, Wei Zheng went to practice calligraphy.

Leaving Pei to wipe tears alone.

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In Tianshui County, the butler of Quan Zhirang handed him a sealed box, "I don't know who sent it, but this box is specially sealed with wax, it must be important."

The imperial servant Quan Zhirang looked at the brocade box, and opened the wax seal. There was a letter in the box. He opened it to read, and the more he looked, the more surprised he became.

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Early the next morning, early morning.

Huaiyu is no longer in the position of Qianniu's body preparation, and he has also been removed from the position of general in the hospital town. Now his current position is the prince Zuo Zongwei leading the army in the suburban city, leading the commander of the north gate of Zuoying with a hundred riders, It is already a fifth grade job.

Go up again, and stand down again.

I received many congratulations early in the morning.

The emperor arrives.

From the beginning of the early dynasty, Quanzhi, the former Duke of Lu, who was conferred the title of Duke of Tianshui County, resigned from the class, "I have a book to play,"

Censor Quan Zhirang Dangdian impeached Ying Guogong, General Fan Xing of Youjianmen, Marquis of Shouyang County, and Wu Huaiyu of Zuoying, who was in charge of Baiqi.

"What's going on?" Li Shimin was also a little puzzled by Monk Zhang Er.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court has clearly issued an edict prohibiting officials from borrowing money from their daughters, accepting heavy betrothal gifts, and even accepting so-called compensation for family wealth. However, Fan Xing and Wu Huaiyu, as ministers of the imperial court, committed the crime knowingly and ignored the imperial edict. Ling, the two families got engaged yesterday, and Fan Xing's daughter's bride price was as much as one million dollars..."

The hall was very quiet.

In the past, scholars and common people did not marry.

As early as in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, under the system of gentry clans, the hierarchy was strict, and the noble families were at the top in politics, economy, and society. guidelines.

Families of the same family status intermarry with each other, which is the so-called right family.

But after the Hou Jing Rebellion, the north and the south were in turmoil, and the wars continued. The traditional gentry and common people were no longer so stable. Church upstart.

As a result, some run-down noble families began to marry the emerging common people. Through selling their daughters, one got money, the other got a name, and each got what he needed.

From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the north and the south were unified, and the dynasties changed.

Shang Guanmian's Guanlong upstart occupied a high position in the imperial court and gained a higher right to speak, while the old aristocracy, represented by the five surnames and seven families in the Kanto region, lost their original right to speak in the political change.
However, the whole society still follows the strong advocacy psychology since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. When it is developed, it is necessary to compile the ancestral tree, to have a distinguished ancestor, and even to find those rich families with the same surname in the prefectures, and find a way to link the genealogy. , even if it costs a lot.

Ever since, in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, marriages between the Guandong gentry and the Guanlong nobles were very popular. For example, Li Yuan, his younger sister married into the Wang family of Taiyuan, and he also married a daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang for his eldest son Jiancheng.

The eldest son married the Zheng family, the second son married the Changsun family of Henan, and Yuan Ji married the Hongnong Yang family. They were all top families at the time, but only the eldest son married women with five surnames.

In fact, the marriage between the old nobles in Shandong and the upstarts, and the marriages between scholars and commoners was not only for money, but also for political status by taking advantage of their official positions.

The aristocratic families developed rapidly in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and reached their peak in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, they were affected by the war. Especially in the Kanto, many families with five surnames did not even have officials, let alone prime ministers in the court. of.

They actively married upstarts, and after the early Tang Dynasty, they also quickly reached a peak in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

But right now, there are indeed many people with five surnames like Wang Ji who have to marry upstarts like Wei Zheng, and even collect compensation to ease their difficulties.

And Fan Xing, for example, is not an old gentry family, his family is from a local tyrant in the Southern Barbarians.

But Quan Zhi asked the palace to impeach the two marriages, accept heavy gifts in violation of the imperial edict, and even accept the family wealth, which is indeed against the edict issued by the imperial court before.

The edict issued by the imperial court was also because the social atmosphere was too strong, and the imperial court had to intervene, but the effect was not great.

The imperial court always turned a blind eye to this kind of thing. Even if an edict was issued, the courtiers did not strictly abide by it and no one deliberately pursued it.

Today, Quan Zhirang suddenly stood up to attack, which is really unexpected.

What's even more unexpected is that Quan Zhirang impeached Fan Xing and Wu Huaiyu's marriage for violating the imperial edict and exceeding the system, and then impeached Wang Ji, a scholar waiting for imperial edict, and Zuo Cheng Wei Zheng, the minister.

It is said that Wang Ji wanted more betrothal gifts and compensation for the family, and the betrothal gift and the compensation for the family each cost millions, so that Shangshu Zuo Cheng like Wei Zheng had to pawn his house to borrow money to get engaged.

"Your Majesty, is the edict issued by the imperial court just a piece of paper, like a child's play?"

"The imperial court decreed that all married women in the world should receive wealth. For families above the third grade, no matter if they have more than 200 bolts of silk, and below the eighth grade, no more than 5000 bolts. Fan Xing collected more than a thousand guan, worth [-] bolts of silk, ten times the edict. Wang Ji waited under the imperial edict, his position was no more than nine grades, and he could not receive more than fifty bolts of silk. However, it cost [-] million yuan, worth more than [-] silks, which was a hundred times the imperial edict. They blatantly violated the edict and despised the imperial court. , I ask you to punish me, to emulate you with respect!"

(End of this chapter)