Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 552

"Let's not talk about these things, let's see what else we need to buy?" Xie Jue took out a few scrolls from the desk, and smiled at Su Yue.

The scrolls are all high-quality silk paper with a length of two meters, and the names of objects are written in densely packed lines.

There is one volume for the field shop, two volumes for jewelry, one volume for furs, one volume for antique calligraphy and painting decorations, one volume for silk and satin, and another volume for furniture and odds and ends that must be included in the dowry...

Opening it casually, Su Yue's scalp felt numb. She pushed the scrolls away and said, "There are too many, I can't see it. Are there so many betrothal gifts?"

According to what Xie Jue said, anyway, since she has no immediate family members, those dowry gifts will naturally be turned into dowry. Now that the dowry is almost ten scrolls, the dowry can't be so much, right?
"Ah, my Yue'er wants to know the heart of the master?" Xie Jue laughed and pulled out a scroll.

According to the customs of the Song Dynasty, the amount of the dowry represents how much the husband values ​​the bride. Seeing Xie Jue's proud appearance...just one?
Su Yue glanced at Xie Jue suspiciously, took the scroll and opened it to read.

Well, indeed a scroll is enough.

This is really expensive and not expensive.

The first line at the beginning is, twenty-eight thousand catties of gold!
Twenty-eight thousand catties!The gold in the Song Dynasty is 16 taels per catty, and 44 catties is 8000 taels of gold! (One tael of gold is equal to 12 taels of silver)

The second line is 28 taels of silver.

The third line is eighty-eight thousand copper coins.

Don't look at the fact that the numbers below are smaller than the other. Given the respective ratios and weights of gold, silver, and copper coins, how many people will have to carry these three lines!
The fourth line, Dongzhu Yishi!
Dongzhu, at this time, generally refers to pearls of a certain size, that is, big pearls. Generally, people who have a box are rich, and those who can have a bucket are powerful and super rich.

One stone... is equal to ten buckets.

The fifth line, two gems of various colors!

The sixth line, two Grange.

Seeing that Su Yue's eyes stopped on the two [-]-acre manors, Xie Jue smiled and said, "This is what the emperor must add. He said, when a virtuous king gets married, the dowry should come from the royal family. Now I am personally willing to give more than the rules, and he has no objection, but the rules can't be broken. When King Anjun married Princess Anjun, the court gave him a ten thousand mu farm, so I have to give one anyway. Thinking about it, good things come in pairs, so I simply bought the one next to Huangzhuang and put it together, the two Zhuangzi are connected together."

King Anjun was the king of the second-rank county, but the emperor did not treat him badly when he got married. At that time, he asked the cabinet to draw up a dowry list and hand it over to the clan mansion to handle it. At that time, Cai Xiang gave a dowry list with a total value of 40 guan. It is twice as much as the emperor's dowry when he was a prince and concubine.

But for these dowries, Cai Bing only gave 20 dowries to his daughter.

It's just that the farm, Cai Bing, was too embarrassed to keep it in his hands, or let his daughter take it there. Now, it is also sealed up by Chang Baicheng.

Su Yue hummed, closed the scroll, and stopped reading it.

As far as the previous few things are concerned, the specifications of the queen's dowry far exceed the past...

"Well, there's nothing to read in the back, it's all things for the occasion." Xie Jue took the scroll and threw it on the desk, and said with a smile: "This dowry list will go to the clan's residence, and many people will be able to see it. I don’t want to go too far, so let’s do it this way, keep it simple, and save time and make people miss you.”

miss?

Su Yue frowned slightly and said: "Third Master, you are now a prince, what about your property?"

That's right, the dowry alone is such a huge sum of money, and most of it was paid out of Xie Jue's own pocket, and then think about the identity of the big merchant behind him.

If he were an idle prince, no one would talk about him, but if he wanted to investigate the case now, it would be tantamount to entering the whirlpool of power. It was inevitable that someone would criticize him with this, and everyone would use a magnifying glass to investigate him. To find his loopholes.

"It doesn't matter." Xie Jue snorted twice and said with a smile: "My lord is originally a maritime merchant. Last year, because of the flood in Fujian, he lost millions of dollars. It is normal to have money. Moreover, the laws of the Song Dynasty did not prohibit the royal family from doing business. As long as it is not Using power to suppress people, even if the master's fleet earns tens of millions a year, they can only watch."

This article was also written by Uncle Jun himself in the law.

Regarding the royal family, Grandpa Jun made it very clear at the time that the emperor’s son could be crowned king, but his son would be demoted to the county king, his grandson would be the first-class general, his great-grandson would be the second-class general, and his great-great-grandson would be the third-class general. It is to take away his title and be equal to the common people, and as long as there is a next generation to inherit, his salary mansion belongs to the official land and will be reduced to the standard of the corresponding title. There are only two hundred households. It can be said that even the emperor's great-grandson's salary is similar to that of a fourth-rank official. In the fifth generation, there is nothing.

Correspondingly, Uncle Jun made it clear that the descendants of the royal family can be engaged in business and agriculture. After three generations, they cannot rely on the official shade to be an official but can pass the imperial examination to enter the court. The annual salary and fief income are attributed to their private accounts. , the money earned from this is also owned by him, and the house bought with his own money will not be taken back.

That is to say, the country has supported you for five generations. Although the money is less than the next generation, it is your own ability to open the way for you to get money. You can make money by yourself with the money given to you.

It's a pity that the Jun family dynasty has been in existence for a hundred years now, and there are really few people who actually go into business and agriculture to make money. Most of them are trying to live longer and get more salary. The sons of these three generations died because of the struggle for power. It's almost the same, and the royal families three generations ago, except for the king of Heyang County, are almost in decline, and only a few are still living on some land and shops purchased by their ancestors.

Therefore, after the emperor crowned him king, he said that he didn't need the court to assign the prince's mansion to the official. He bought it himself and just listed it. As for the land, he wanted Qiongzhou.

The emperor didn't know where Qiongzhou was at all, so he gave it to him when he asked for it, and what the cabinet members knew about Qiongzhou was that there was only one county magistrate. Shit place, when they saw the emperor suggested Qiongzhou, Han Xiang and the others were very happy, thinking that the emperor made Xian Wang just for others to see, and this was to wear shoes for Xie Jue, so naturally they agreed without hesitation up.

Now that official document has been filed in the clan mansion and is in his hands.

With these two things, no matter how profitable his fleet is, no one can make a fuss about it.

However, with such a development now, for the sake of safety, he will still reconfigure the fleet.

The convoy to the northern ports must continue to follow a stealthy route, so that no one can detect it.

As for Fanwai's fleet, half of the score will be given to Satin to take it with him, and he will come to court as a Fanwai giant, so that he can save some taxes.

As for those industries scattered across the country, they will also be classified. Some farm shops and weaving workshops that are not at risk will be directly included in the account of the Wangfu, while those mines, iron workshops, salt wells and other places that are at risk will still be done according to the current practice.

If it weren't for the thought that the excessive dowry would cause some people to gossip and it would be bad for Su Yue, he would have wanted to get [-] catties of gold.

Anyway, he is now a first-rank virtuous king, a level higher than the prince and county king he originally thought.

I am self-willed when I have money, you bite me!
(End of this chapter)