Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 606
Li Jingjing said a little excitedly: "Longbei is extremely poor, and the people can't eat enough or wear warm clothes. In the past, in a big winter like this, hundreds of people in a county would starve to death and freeze to death. Jing Yan and I wanted to make the people We have survived, and now we are trying our best to make the people have food to eat and money to buy clothes. To put it bluntly, we all have to take advantage of the money.”

Deng Yun asked softly: "I heard that you put almost all the dowry in?"

Li Jingjing said frankly: "I used part of the dowry money as an initial investment, and I can get it back gradually in the future."

"You can't put in all of it, you have to keep it for yourself and your descendants." Deng Yun thought to herself, if she and He Yiyang went to Longbei instead, she didn't have so much dowry money, even if she had, she would do it. It's not as far as Li Jingjing.

A eunuch came in and knelt down, kowtow respectfully, and reported: "Crown Princess, Princess, just now Patriarch Hu and Master Hu asked His Majesty for an imperial decree."

Deng Yun asked: "What is the content of the imperial decree?"

In the past few years in the East Palace, she has not been in vain. She has eyeliner everywhere, and she can immediately know if there is any trouble in the court and the harem.

Every month she would write a letter to Deng Jing, talking about the situation in the court.

Deng Jing read her letter and sighed more than once, if only she were a grandson.

The eunuch replied: "The decree is to marry Miss Hu Yanran to Lord Tian Yefeng, the eldest grandson of Duke Tian."

Hu Yanran is the prostitute daughter of Hu Kai's cousin. She is beautiful and prettier than her cousins ​​Hu Xuelan and Hu Bingyue. When Hu Xuelan became disabled, the Hu family wanted to send her to the East Palace. She almost did what He Yiyang did. side concubine.

Tian Yefeng is Tian Susu's big cousin, and now he is the fifth-rank general of Tian's army.

This person is 27 years old this year. His first wife passed away three years ago. He has two sons and a daughter. The eldest son Tian Song is 12 years old, only one year younger than Hu Yanran.

According to the court regulations, Tian Yefeng can only renew his wife with the consent of his first wife's natal family. After Hu Yanran marries, he can only be canonized as his wife with He Dong's consent.

Li Jingjing wondered, "Why did the Tian family marry the Hu family?"

Deng Yun looked as if she had eaten a fly, waved her hand to make the eunuch retreat, and said: "Susu came to my place a few days ago, and she was so angry that she told me that Tian Yefeng was going to marry someone else. While drinking, I fell in the way of the Hu family, and I became a husband and wife with Hu Yanran, so I can only withdraw the marriage there and marry Hu Yanran."

Tian Susu is Deng Shiqilang's wife, also Deng Yun's cousin.She followed Deng Shiqilang on Hebei Road, and rushed back to Chang'an to attend the big wedding of her cousin Tian Yefeng.

Li Jingjing was very shocked, she shook her head and said: "The dignified daughter-in-law did such a thing before she came out of the cabinet, will the rest of the Hu clan marry or not?" She said in her heart: Has the Hu clan been reduced to this point?

Deng Yun said unhappily: "It's not that the Hu tribe came to ask the imperial father to grant marriage in order to silence everyone."

"Does he think that with the imperial decree he can silence everyone? Shameless." Li Jingjing couldn't figure out why He Dong would give such a marriage a marriage.

She then recalled that she had overheard Li Yunqing say that the sons and grandchildren of Tian's family had gone out to visit brothels secretly, and had fought with local officials for prostitutes.

This Tian Yefeng might have taken a fancy to Hu Yanran's stunning beauty, otherwise he is a military general and his skill is not low, how could he be a Taoist and willingly marry her as his wife.

In short, flies do not stare at seamless eggs.Neither Tian Yefeng nor the Hu people are good people.

She and Deng Yun had a tacit understanding and did not mention Hu Xuelan who had become a living dead in the corner of the East Palace a few months ago.

Deng Yun asked, "How long will you stay in Chang'an this time?"

Li Jingjing said: "After Xinlang's wedding and Miaoniang's wedding come back home, I will return to Jincheng."

Deng Yun said sincerely: "Before you leave, I will hold a banquet in the East Palace and invite the sisters sent by the military attache to gather to see you off."

"Okay." Li Jingjing also wanted to meet all the young ladies sent by the military attache in the past. There were many young ladies invited to the banquet, so she could meet all of them at once.

Deng Yun smiled and said: "Then it's settled, I will report to the crown prince and the queen mother tomorrow, and then I will post a post on a fixed date, and those who have children can bring their children along."

Li Jingjing held Deng Yun's hand and said, "This is you. From now on, you have to be like this."

Deng Yun gazed gratefully, and specifically instructed: "You have to hurry up and give birth to King Yan's son."

In the side hall of the Xuanzheng Hall, He Dong and Murong Ying listened to He Qing and Kong Ye talking about the wedding of their two sons and daughters.

"Except for raising tigers and running the army, the money Jing Yan earned from the war was used to subsidize the fiefdom." He Qing said: "My daughter added 2 taels of silver to Xinlang and Miaoniang for their wedding."

When Kong Ye talked about the excitement, tears welled up in his eyes, and said: "My daughter added a dowry to Miaoniang. The money alone is a total of 10 taels of silver, as well as two sets of head and face jewelry, four shops in Chang'an Jincheng, and a full set of red sandalwood. Wooden furniture, I also added a very precious antique in the betrothal gift I gave to the Li family back then."

He Qing shook his head and said, "Brother, I feel ashamed and flustered when I go to Prince Li's mansion to meet my in-laws."

Murongying thought about her daughter-in-law Deng Yun who hadn't adapted to life in the Eastern Palace, and she really envied He Qing and his wife. This is really a blessing for foolish people, and said: "Your family is so blessed to have married Jingniang."

He Jingyan kept a straight face and remained silent.

He Dong apologized, and said: "Before, I thought Jingyan and Jingniang were capable, and those who were able would work harder, so I gave them all seven cities as fiefdoms."

Kong Ye opened his elk-like eyes, and said loudly: "Brother, those who are capable work harder, so will more work be rewarded?"

He Dong only said: "Cousin, don't worry, I won't treat Jingyan and Jingniang badly."

He Qing and his family left the palace without even eating on the grounds that they had an appointment with Princess Niu.

He Dong felt very uncomfortable, so he went to Prince Li's mansion that day, and after discussing with Li Bing, he planned to issue an imperial decree on the fiefdom at the state banquet on the first day of the first lunar month.

The right to use the vassal's fief is ten years, and it will be returned to the court at the end of the ten years. The tax for the next 20 years will be deducted from the annual tax when it was taken over, and the surplus will still go to the vassal.

For example, last year the commercial tax in Longbei plus the annual tax on the Silk Road was about 22 taels of silver.

Ten years later, He Jingyan and his wife left Longbei. If the tax rises to 40 taels, the court only needs 22 taels, and the extra 18 taels will go to He Jingyan and his wife, which lasts for 20 years.

This decree will motivate the vassal kings to build fiefdoms, so that they will not have any resentment for investing a lot of money in the fiefdoms in the early stage.

In the hall of Prince Xia's Mansion, Old Princess Niu became a little excited talking to He Qing's family.

"The snow in the north was terrible. More than 300 people died of starvation in our fief. This is not counting the animals that died of froze and starvation. Qinglang and his wife came back a few years ago because they were afraid that the people in the fief would be short of food. Riot, don't dare to move, just stay in the fief."

(End of this chapter)