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Chapter 893 Marry the fourth child first
After the provincial examination and before the palace examination, Zhao Zongquan wanted to stabilize his position.

He began to help his Yuzhou gang arrange marriages with dignitaries in the court.

The common people of the Great Zhou Dynasty kept mourning for the old emperor for [-] days, and they were forbidden to marry within [-] days.

Nobility, officials, etc., there is no fixed period like the folks.

After all, they are all holding the job of the imperial court, so it is understandable that the requirements should be higher. When the expiration date will depend on the attitude of the new emperor.

The emperor began to take the lead in arranging the marriages of the clan, imperial relatives, and foreign relatives, which meant that the marriages of noble officials' families could begin to return to normal.

It is a good thing for a family of honorable officials to keep their filial piety for half a year only for the old emperor.

But Zhao Zongquan was a bit merciless towards his cheap father like this.

Although Zhao Zongquan was known to the courtiers and consolidated his position, the Yuzhou gang had an urgent need to integrate into the court.

But after getting the throne for nothing, Zhao Zong was not willing to take advantage of his father. It would be a bit ugly to stay in power for a longer period of time.

Of course, lifting the ban on marriage as soon as possible will benefit everyone. There are sisters, daughters, and granddaughters who need to discuss marriage.

So it's just a slander in my heart, not many people put forward opinions to the emperor.

After the emperor married several clans, he began to reveal his true purpose.

The first is to let his brother-in-law marry the daughter of the British military boss.

Then he arranged for his own Yuzhou old man to marry different noble generals according to different grades.

The honorable generals can stand in the court hall, relying entirely on the trust of an emperor.

In order to continue to be reused by the new emperor, I don't mind getting closer to Zhao Zongquan.

After all, the nobles who didn't get closer to Zhao Zongquan were dealt with a lot by Zhao Zongquan's forced palace by King Yan.

Under the combination of grace and power, Zhao Zongquan successfully poached many corners of the queen mother.

The situation of one emperor and one courtier is still obvious, and the new emperor cannot adjust the civil servants for a while.

But on the side of Xungui generals, the adjustment of the new emperor is not so difficult, and the situation of the alternation of the old and the new is obvious.

When the old emperor was around, many of the nobles were implicated in King Yan. They either got wronged and succumbed to Zhao Zongquan, or lost their rights and retreated to the second line.

When the old emperor was in power, the nobles who were not reused, such as the Yuan family in Zhongqinbo's mansion, settled down.

However, he was favored by Zhao Zongquan.

Affected by this, Yuan Wenshao, Sheng Changbai's cheap brother-in-law, was directly promoted to two ranks and found a bargain.

Hua Lan's life in the past two years has been quite smooth.

The mother-in-law was busy fighting with the concubine at home and had no energy to embarrass Hua Lan.

Her husband was promoted to rank, gave birth to a boy, and now she has an heir. Apart from still having to use her own dowry to supplement the Yuan family, she has no worries at all.

The emperor of the old Zhao family had the art of balance engraved in his bones.

It's not just a balance between nobles, royal relatives, relatives, eunuchs, civil servants, and generals.

Even among the various groups, Emperor Zhao also likes to strike a balance.

In order to avoid the situation where a family grows bigger, it will not easily happen that a family has been dignified for generations and occupies a high position.

It doesn't matter whether it is aimed at civil servants or generals.

No matter how the emperor poachs the corner of the empress dowager, it will not affect the Sheng family.

The influence of the emperor on the Sheng family is that after the marriage negotiation of the three Lans of the Sheng family, the marriage can continue to move forward.

Although He Hongwen is very caring and proactive towards Ming Lan, the marriages of the three Lans still have to be done one by one.

Although there is no rule about getting engaged and getting married according to the age of the children in the family from oldest to youngest.

But Mo Lan is already sixteen, and she has reached the appropriate age in this age.

Ru Lan Fifteen, will soon reach the age of Ji, and also reach the age to marry.

Minglan is only fourteen, even if she decides to get married, she still cannot get married.

What's more important is that both Wen Yanjing and Li Yu have passed the provincial examination. If they fail to get into the top few in the palace examination, they will inevitably end up being exposed.

In a few years, even 20 years like Sheng Hong, it is more likely that he will never be transferred back to Bianliang for a lifetime.

Therefore, for marriage, of course, we must first focus on Mo Lan and Ru Lan.

Taking advantage of this time, both parties are in the capital, and the time is convenient, so the marriage should be settled as soon as possible.

After the two passed the provincial examination, they sent letters to their families, one to announce the good news, and the other to let the elders come to Beijing to make decisions about their marriage.

After the palace examination was released, Wen Yanjing's mother and Li Yu's parents also arrived in the capital.

Wen Yanjing and Li Yu's imperial examination results were actually quite good. They were both ranked in the top 300 of the more than [-] new scholars. It can be said that they still have some future.

Although this ranking is not like the top ten or even the top three in the imperial examination, it can give people a starting advantage in the officialdom.

But at least the ranking of the two people will not become a hindrance to their official careers.

It will not be because of a bad ranking in the palace examination that he will not be able to hold some noble positions above the court.

Because of the intention of the two parties, the first three ceremonies of the wedding, Nacai, Wenming, and Najib, all went very quickly and smoothly.

The harvest of the Sheng family is six pairs of wild geese. Fortunately, not all families insist on using wild geese after the sixth ceremony.

Otherwise, when a couple gets married, wild geese are needed for the first five items in the six rituals, and a couple needs ten geese.

If everyone really needs it, the wild geese can be caught and wiped out.

Mo Lan, Ru Lan's six rituals can basically be regarded as going at the same time.

The first three items of the Six Rituals do not require much money, and there is nothing that can be compared between the two.

But when it comes to the fourth item, when it comes to recruiting, the gap between the Wen family and the Li family is completely obvious.

"I'm really laughing myself to death, the Wen family has prepared such a little dowry, how can I get it!"

After sending the two families away, Wang Ruofu laughed triumphantly as he looked at the dowry gifts of the two families.

The Li family prepared a complete set of things, the "three golds" that everyone must have, gold bracelets, gold bracelets, and gold pendants.There are also must-haves for official families, such as large gold sleeves, gold skirts with yellow silk, long satin red skirts, special buns with emerald beads, round crowns with emerald beads, four-season crowns, rings with emerald beads, and finely colored satin. Scented tea and fruits, reunion cakes, sheep, wine and so on.

The dowry gift sent by the Wen family was a bit simpler. The necessary "three golds" were also in some duoduo editions, silver-plated bracelets, bracelets, and pendants. Thirty bolts of miscellaneous silk.

This standard is also a little less for ordinary citizens' homes in Bianliang.

Seeing the strength of the Wen family, Sheng Changbai somewhat understood Lin Xiaoshuang and Mo Lan.

Wen Yan respects the family conditions and lives solely on salary, and if he does not commit corruption, the family will not be able to live a good life if Mo Lan marries.

If there is corruption, there is a huge risk of being dismissed from office and ransacked.This is the situation that Lin Xishuang and Mo Lan don't want to face the most.

"Mother, brother of the Wen family, is from a poor family. To be able to give out so many betrothal gifts is already giving everything. Although the Li family has a lot of betrothal gifts, these betrothal gifts are not as good as the Li family's eleven. Between the two, it is clear at a glance who is more attentive. , Mother shouldn't laugh at you like this."

Sheng Changbai still hopes that Wang Ruofu can restrain himself and stop irritating Lin Xige's mother and daughter.

If it wasn't for Sheng Changbai's influence, it would be Wang Ruofu who received such a dowry, and Wang Ruofu wouldn't be in the mood to laugh at others.

"Come here, bring Mo Lan's dowry to Lin Xige. As a aunt, I don't covet the dowry of a concubine." Wang Ruofu restrained some of the pride on his face, and then said.

"Mother, since the two families have sent over for employment, it's time for the family to prepare the dowry for the two younger sisters."

Marrying a daughter is more expensive than getting married.

For a family of officials and eunuchs, marrying ten daughters-in-law is not as expensive as marrying one daughter.

And when they get married, although they give up a lot of dowry, when the bride comes in, she will basically bring back the dowry.

Although the gift given out will become the dowry on the woman's dowry list.

To be fair, the man has no control.

However, women in this era receive traditional education. If the man doesn't want to lose face, it is not difficult to control these properties through the woman.

Even if the woman keeps the property in her hands, it will be left to her children. According to the divorce rate in this era, this bride price will actually be passed on to the man's family in the future.

"Both of them are going to get married back and forth. How can I prepare to come over? The one in Lin Xige asked your father to prepare to go by himself."

Since the two families have sent over the bride price, of course they hope to get married as soon as possible.

When the gold list is listed, the wedding night in the bridal chamber is originally a continuous process.

After the two families came to give the betrothal gifts, they also agreed on a date to come and apply for a period.

The marriage of the two Lan, without much preparation, will come soon.

Although the Sheng family does not pay as much attention to marrying a daughter as the Hai family, they have to prepare all kinds of things.

Since the birth of my daughter, I have started to stock up on ten or twenty precious woods, and asked master craftsmen to customize furniture to prepare a complete set of supplies for my daughter from birth to death.

But there are also a lot of preparations for cloth, clothes, jewelry, various daily necessities, and decorations.

Wang Ruofu said he was not prepared for Mo Lan, which was just an angry talk.

Preparing the betrothal gift is a very complicated matter. Sheng Hong has to go to work in the Yamen, so it is impossible to prepare these small items for Mo Lan himself.

What Sheng Hong prepared for Mo Lan was heavyweight dowry, farms, pavements, gold, silver, and copper coins.

"Changbai, the Yaren who were looking for a house for Changwu before, do you remember, let them come to the house when you have time."

"Father, do you want to buy a house in the capital for Mo Lan?"

It's not that Sheng Changbai didn't think about Mo Lan's house, but he just thought that Wen Yanjing wanted a foreign job. At least in the near future, there is no possibility of being transferred back to the capital within ten years, and there is no need for a house at all.

Sheng Hong's dowry to Mo Lan is still limited.

After all, the Wen family is not the Li family. They have rich family assets. If the dowry is given to the house, other aspects will definitely be reduced.

Mo Lan married into Wen's family, so the economy was not well off.

Buying a house in Bianliang is not as good as investing in a farm, and the income from paving is large.

The Li family doesn't need to consider the income, it's simple, Li Yu has won the Jinshi, has status, and wants to marry the daughter of the Sheng family.

It's similar to the situation in which Mr. Sheng of the Sheng family got a chance to find a flower and asked to marry Mrs. Sheng.

Like the Sheng family back then, the Li family directly set up a house in the capital.

Although the location of the house is not that good, it is already close to the outer city, not far from Hualan's house, but the courtyard of the third entrance is quite spacious.

Even Li Yu's parents moved to the capital, and they can live there completely.

"Miss Mo Lan, I don't really want Mo Lan to leave the capital, so it is necessary to buy a house for Mo Lan."

"Father, Brother Jing's mother, but you want to move from Hebei to Bianliang?"

"Brother Jing's mother and brother naturally still want to live in their hometown in Hebei." Sheng Hong replied.

"Father, after the fourth sister gets married, she neither takes a job with her husband, nor returns to her hometown to serve her elders. Isn't this inappropriate with etiquette?"

After the women of the Great Zhou Dynasty got married, they either lived with their husbands or lived with their elders. There was no rule that they would not interfere with either side and lived near their natal home.

"Mo Lan and her little mother have been begging me for a long time. Originally, Mo'er was reluctant to marry, and I wanted to make her happy. A little bit of gossip, as a father, I can bear it."

Sheng Hong said with some embarrassment on his face, and he also knew that what he did was not in order.

"Father just knows what's in his mind. After a few days to rest and take a bath, I told them to call the toothman to the house."

After a little deliberation, Sheng Changbai still agreed to the matter, and he didn't plan to persuade him any more.

After Mo Lan gets married, Mo Lan will join the Wen family.

Even if Mo Lan wanted to make trouble, it would mainly affect the writers.

A married daughter is the water that is thrown out, and the Sheng family will not be so responsible for Mo Lan after she gets married.

If Mo Lan wanted to implicate the Sheng family, it would not be as easy as before.

It is not that difficult to buy a house for Molan.

In the case of not requiring to buy a big house, the circulation of the small courtyards in the outer city of Bianliang is quite large.

Before Wen Yanjing and Mo Lan's wedding date, Sheng Hong bought a yard for Mo Lan and arranged for craftsmen to start repairing the yard.

This courtyard is not so urgent.

Although the Sheng family will buy a house for Mo Lan, it is naturally impossible for Wen Yanjing to marry Mo Lan in Mo Lan's dowry yard.

Still rented a yard, and planned to marry Mo Lan in the small courtyard.

The sixth day of April is the day when Wen Yan marries Mo Lan.

Wen Yanjing's marriage to Mo Lan is roughly a replica of Sheng Changbai's marriage to Hai Chaoyun.

They are all civil servants who marry the daughters of senior civil servants.

In terms of some details, it may be easier for the Wen family, but there is still no difference in the process.

On the whole, Mo Lan's marriage is quite lively.

There are quite a few guests in the Sheng family, Wen Yanjing also studied in Bianliang for several years, and he was a Jinshi of new subjects, and there were not many literati in the same year when he got acquainted.

The number and status of the guests are not bad.

On Mo Lan's side, the Sheng family was not ashamed, and Sheng Hong did have a preference for Mo Lan's daughter.

Sheng Hong still prepared a dowry of 64 liters for Mo Lan, which was enough to prove that Sheng Hong's love for Mo Lan was not just in words.

The richness of this dowry has surpassed 90.00% of the women in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Sheng Hong also really invested a lot of money, which was enough for Mo Lan to be tough after she got married.

Mo Lan's dowry is not as good as Hua Lan's, it's because of the private subsidies from Wang Ruofu and the old lady. The Sheng family's father-in-law paid only more money for Mo Lan.

(End of this chapter)