The gift list was very long, trimmed with gold, and folded three times.
Then boxes, baskets, and various containers filled with gold and valuables were carried into the Li Mansion. There were also sixty horses, sixty camel armors, and countless other things.
Just what you can see with your eyes can really be described as Shili Hongzhuang.
Even Li Jing's eyes twitched when he saw it. His Majesty was really spending a lot of money.
But the King of Shu was just a concubine. He didn't understand why he wanted to mobilize troops and people like this?
This betrothal gift can be said to have surpassed the treatment of any prince in history.
Even if Li Jing didn't read the gift list, he could tell that it was a betrothal gift according to the prince's specifications.
The civil and military ministers in the entire courtyard were also talking about it, expressing their confusion.
"Lord Changsun, what does your Majesty mean by this?"
"Could it be that your Majesty wants to depose the crown prince and establish him as the king of Shu?"
Snapped!
From the window of a guest room, an official following Changsun Wuji whispered.
Changsun Wuji had a sullen face, and with a big backhand, he cursed: "Shut your stupid mouth."
Changsun Shunde said calmly: "Wuji, don't embarrass yourself here."
"Second uncle!"
"You are quite old, can't you be calmer? Since the last incident, my second uncle found that you are a little impatient."
Changsun Wuji bowed and said, "What my second uncle taught me is that Wuji was blinded by hatred."
Changsun Wuji quickly calmed down and sat down at the table. He stopped talking, but was thinking in his heart, why did your Majesty marry the King of Shu to the princess with the gift of a prince?
Fang Xuanling was also whispering to Wei Zheng.
"What does your Majesty mean by doing this? It is completely against the rules."
Fang Xuanling didn't speak, just stared at Li Jing.
"Mr. Xing, I'm asking you something!"
"Ah...oh!"
Wei Zheng: "..."
"I will go to the palace to find your majesty tonight about this matter and ask him clearly."
Fang Xuanling said: "Okay!"
Li Yuan and Xiao Yu were lying on the rocking chairs and talking. Liu Hongji stood at the window and told them about the betrothal gift that His Majesty had sent to Li Jing.
"Old Xiao, our grandson is getting married tomorrow. What gifts have you prepared?" Li Yuan took a sip of tea and turned to ask.
Xiao Yu smiled and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Shu is your great grandson. He is also a great brother to my great daughter-in-law and a great brother-in-law to my son. Naturally, my Xiao Mansion has prepared the best gift."
"How many?"
Xiao Yu: "..."
"Your Majesty, why don't you ask this? You will know tomorrow of course."
"Why can't we ask? What is our relationship? Are you treating me like an outsider?"
Damn it!
Gifts are light on affection but gifts are all based on personal ability. How can you be so shameless? This is where you start to steal!
"The Supreme Emperor, Lao Xiao, the people from the Ministry of Etiquette are here, and they have made a lot of gifts, hiss... this is too much!"
"Your Majesty, your Majesty has given a betrothal gift to the King of Shu in accordance with the prince's specifications!"
Li Yuan was very dissatisfied with Liu Hongji's surprise and said coldly: "Xiao Liu, what's wrong with the prince's standards? They are all sons, and the backs of their hands and palms are full of flesh. That is our great grandson."
Liu Hongji turned around and said with a smile: "The Emperor said that's right."
Xiao Yu stood up, walked to the window, looked at the betrothal gift, frowned and said: "It does not meet the standards of the prince, but it doesn't matter. When the prince gets married, the standards can be raised to a higher level."
Liu Hongji said with a smile: "I'm afraid your Majesty doesn't have any extra money or food. I heard that your Majesty also goes hungry three times a day."
Li Yuan also stood up, walked to the window, glanced at the betrothal gift placed in the yard, and said with a smile: "It is indeed a lot. When I married the princess for Shimin... Well, it seems that I didn't pay for it!"
"At that time, I was still in the entrepreneurial stage..."
Xiao Yu and Liu Hongji were speechless.
Then it was time to eat and drink. Li Jing and Li Desai went around toasting to the guests and asking them to eat and drink well.
Although there was a smile on his face, he was trembling in his heart. His Majesty hired him according to the prince's specifications, which would cost his life.
It seems that His Majesty is sending a very strong signal that the Prince of Shu can also sit in the position of Prince.
But the prince is not wrong, and the king of Shu is a concubine. What's even worse is that the mother of the king of Shu is a princess of the previous dynasty. Even if the prince is not good, then your majesty should choose Li Tai, the king of Yue, instead of Li Ke, the king of Shu who is incomparable with the prince's position. .
In fact, Li Shimin never thought about it that way at all. What he considered was that Li Ke was the Taoist Little Celestial Master. The state religion of the Tang Dynasty was Taoism. The Little Celestial Master was the leader of the Taoist family, and the Taoist founder was their family. Ancestor Li Er.
How can the Little Heavenly Master's wedding be shabby? Doesn't this make Taoists look down on him, Li Shimin?
What's more, the Buddhist talker also followed Li Ke to fight against the autumn wind, which he couldn't understand. Furthermore, the King of Shu had the ability to wipe out the Zheng family in Xingyang without any effort, shocking the five surnames, Qiwang and Shandong. Rich and powerful.
In an agricultural society, transportation and commerce are the foundation for revitalizing the entire society. Only when transportation and commerce are prosperous can society develop and a prosperous dynasty be created.
Li Ke destroyed the Zheng family in Xingyang, gained the say in transportation, and created a postal service for the court. Once the postal service was operational, the court could quickly allocate supplies, and the power of the central government would be greatly enhanced.
This was actually part of Li Shimin's idea, and he held such a grand wedding for the King of Shu that exceeded the standards, which was to make the King of Shu work hard to defeat the Li family in Longxi, control the northwest of the Tang Dynasty, and open up the golden Hexi Corridor. passage to prepare for taking over the entire Western Region.
As the sun set, Wang Gui, the Minister of Rites, took Li Jing's family's dowry and headed to the Prince of Shu's Mansion.
They were accompanied by the female relatives of the Li family. These people went to the Prince of Shu's Mansion to make a bed for Li Shuwan. In ancient times, making the bed was a matter for the mother's family, and making the bed could also reflect the wealth of the mother's family, so that her husband's family would not embarrass their daughter in the future.
Li Jing was really bleeding profusely. When he saw His Majesty appointing a princess as a princess, he knew that the dowry he had prepared was too small, and it was pitifully small.
Even though the King of Shu secretly sent those valuable items, they were still not enough in front of His Majesty's betrothal gift.
Generally speaking, it is in line with the rules for the dowry from the mother's family to exceed the bride price from the husband's family.
Once the daughter is missing, her daughter will be looked down upon by her husband's family, and she will suffer a lot in the future. Although Li Shuwan does not want to be offended, this has become a part of etiquette.
As a result, Li Jing felt cruel and immediately asked the housekeeper to use the deeds of 1,500 acres of fertile land that his majesty had rewarded over the years, as well as the deeds of the village outside the city, as well as several shops run by her wife, as dowry.
It wasn't over yet. He looked at the gifts he received today. A total of thirty thousand guan, plus the cultural toys, calligraphy, paintings and antique treasures, were all loaded on the carriage.
Then he loaded the carriage with ten thousand coins that his wife borrowed from the snake beauty.
Of course, there are also those priceless things that Li Ke secretly sent.
This scene finally convinced all the civil and military officials, and they all praised Li Jing for his magnanimity.
Even Changsun Shunde and Changsun Wuji were amazed. It turned out that Li Jing pretended to be poor on weekdays, but he turned out to be so rich.
Not to mention the tens of thousands of dollars, they could all come up with it, but the land deeds and house deeds were the lifeblood of the family and could never be given to their daughters as dowries, and those glazed treasures were simply too extravagant.
And this also makes people with daughters start to worry about their daughter's dowry.
What if his daughter marries a prince in the future, what will his family do?
I can only pray that their daughter will not be attracted by the princes or the queen!
When I return home this time, if my daughter is about to reach adulthood, she should quickly find a match and get married as soon as possible.
Biquge
