Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 71
When Li Shimin was happy, he added another [-] Zhenfeng Shiyi to Qin Lang.Of course, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doted on his eldest daughter even more, and directly increased Changle Shiyi to [-] households.And ordered the Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Households and other yamen to prepare dowry for Changle.

Li Shimin even directly proposed the standard, which is to double the dowry prepared for Princess Danyang.

As soon as these words came out, Wei Zheng, a big fan who aspired to be the king of the new dynasty, immediately stood up and opposed it.

"Princess Danyang is His Royal Highness's younger sister, the aunt of Princess Changle. Now the aunt and niece are preparing the dowry together. This is a good thing, but His Highness requires that the daughter's dowry be twice as much as that of the younger sister. The order of seniority and inferiority is a disorder of etiquette. In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming divided the princes, and the princes lived in only half of the former emperor's sons. It is a good story, and I hope your majesty will think about it!"

Li Shimin usually doesn't drink much, but today he was happy to make an exception and drank two more glasses. At this time, he was already a little drunk. He is very unhappy now. He found that no matter what Wei Zheng said, he would always jump out and object, object, object again .

Now that he is buying some dowry for his daughter, this Wei Zheng actually wants to object.

"The princess of Changle is the daughter born to Gu and the Crown Princess, and even the first daughter born to Gu and the Crown Princess. She has always been fond of her. Now that she buys a dowry for him, it will naturally be more generous."

Although Princess Changle was not Li Shimin's first child, she was the longest among her first-born daughters, ranked fifth among Li Shimin's daughters, and was the most beloved among all daughters by Li Shimin and his wife.

Especially the four-year-old child is at the cutest time. He is afraid of melting in his mouth, and afraid of falling when he holds it in his hand.

"Your Highness, this is not a family matter. There are no trivial matters in the Tian family. It is a state matter. The dowry of Princess Changle is twice that of Princess Danyang and Princess Linhai, which is exceeding courtesy!" Wei Zheng did not back down.

Li Shimin's face was livid, and the cup was almost crushed.

Qin Lang hurried forward to round the field.

"Your Highness, I'm not engaged to the princess yet, so I'm not in a hurry to prepare the dowry. There are still ten years before the wedding. Let's prepare the dowry first for the two princesses, Princess Danyang and Princess Linhai."

Li Shimin snorted coldly, suppressing the anger in his heart.

"Then according to what Huailiang said, don't prepare a dowry for Changle for the time being, and buy it in two years." Speaking of this, Li Shimin changed the subject, but wanted the imperial court to give Changle Princess a real land right away.

Moreover, the three thousand households are all sealed.

You must know that under normal circumstances, although the number of fiefdoms of princesses is high, it often has a large imaginary number. For example, three thousand households in Shiyi are actually only [-] households, and some eldest princesses may increase by [-] households. to six hundred households.

In addition to closing households, there is often Yongye land, [-] mu for princesses, and [-] mu for princesses, but in fact, there are often only one-tenth of the granted land.

But now Li Shimin was upset by Wei Zheng. He directly instructed Changle Princess to grant land and land to Zhenfeng immediately. All three thousand households were really sealed. As a limit, the princess's Yongye land not only granted [-] mu in full, but also added [-] mu to [-] mu, and all of them were selected in the rich and fertile lands in the east of Henan in Guannei.

The most special thing is that Li Shimin asked to be sealed now.

And since the founding of Tang Dynasty, whether it is Li Yuan's younger sisters, the eldest princesses, or Li Yuan's daughters, not everyone is canonized as a princess at birth.

According to the system and practice, the princess's fief is not given until the princess is married, and basically only one-tenth of the Shiyi, that is, about [-] households.

But Princess Changle is only four years old now, and Li Shimin not only canonized her as Princess Changle, but also demanded that [-] households be given real seals and [-] acres of Yongye land, and she will be given it now.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the princess's fiefdoms and households should have been handed over to the imperial court every year, two-thirds to the princess and one-third to the imperial court.

There are at least ten years before Changle gets married, which means that Changle can get the income from the fiefdom ten years in advance. One household can count up to seven Dingkou, and three thousand households means that the princess can enjoy the rent adjustment income of 4 Dingkou every year. Zuyong adjusts the rent, pays two stones every Ding a year, adjusts two Zhangs of silk, and three taels of cotton.After one year, the rent alone is more than 8000 shi. Even if one-third of it is given to the court, there are still 4 shi.There are more than [-] bolts of silk and more than [-] taels of cotton in Tiao.

That's a pretty staggering amount of money, plus an extra decade.

Wei Zheng was also moved by Li Shimin.

Isn't this deliberate bullying?It was said that the owner of the office should not be allowed to double the dowry, but the crown prince doubled the owner's food ten times, and he started to enjoy the benefits ten years in advance.

Whose interests is this harming?
Is it Wei Zheng's interest? Of course not, it is the imperial court's interest.Originally, the people handed over the rent transfer to the imperial court, but now they hand over the bulk to the princess.

It’s still 2 to [-] Dingkou. The population of an ordinary county is only about [-] households, and many of them are unregistered households. The real number of Dingkou in a county is only [-] to [-]. They were all assigned directly to Princess Changle.

Even if it is calculated based on the minimum of three ding per household, there is still a full nine thousand ding.

Wei Zheng asked Li Shimin bluntly, "The princess of Changle is only four years old now, and she has not left the palace to open a mansion. All the expenses needed will be borne by the palace. May I ask your highness, the four-year-old princess of Changle needs three thousand real seals?" Is there any tax benefit from [-] to [-] letters? With so much tax revenue, how do you spend it?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly, "Do you still care about how much the county owner is entrusted with? The income from the county owner Tang Mu's fiefdom will naturally be arranged by Changle himself."

"Your Highness is planning to use the income of these ten years as the princess's future dowry, right? Your Highness has made a good plan. He got the real seal ten years in advance, and it has been doubled ten times. Calculated for the ten years, it will be 30 million. Shi’s food, 10,000+ pieces of silk! This amount of money, let alone double the dowry of the princesses, even several times is more than enough!”

Li Shimin was furious at Wei Zhengding.

"Can't you?"

He had an expression of thinking like this alone, so what.

Wei Zheng almost scolded Hunjun, but fortunately Qin Lang stepped forward and grabbed him at this critical moment.

"Wei Gong, pay attention to your attitude. Even if you want to speak out, you can't lose your dignity and speak up. Why are you spraying your saliva so far?"

Wei Zheng regained his sanity a little bit after being disturbed by Qin Lang.

His tone lowered a bit, saying that it is a bad rule for you, Prince.

But Li Shimin doesn't get in right now, I love Princess Changle the most, so what if you give him more seals now, can you stop a father from loving his daughter?

After all, there is no rule in the court code of etiquette that cannot give so much. On the contrary, in the court code, the fiefdom for the princess is originally [-] households, but it is actually a discount. Three thousand households, you can't control it.

The atmosphere, which was originally quite happy, was disturbed by Wei Zheng, and it became very tense.

Xue Wanche's complexion over there was already not very good. He had already known that Princess Danyang was actually given a marriage by the crown prince to Qin Lang before, but Qin Lang rejected it.

Qin Lang rejected Danyang but wanted Shang Changle. It was obvious that he felt that the daughter of the crown prince was better than the daughter of the emperor. Originally, it was none of his business, but now that the crown prince gave him Danyang again, Xue Wanche felt extremely honored before. Now I feel a little nauseous.

Not to mention, Li Shimin is still arguing with Wei Zheng about Changle's dowry and fiefdom, so give as much as you want, why do you have to compare Danyang again, isn't this disgusting?
At the end of the quarrel, Li Shimin refused to take back his order, but said that the dowry of the Changle princess would not be done for the time being, but the princess's fief and Yongyetian would be given now, in real terms.

The prince flung his sleeves and walked away, Wei Zhengqi's chest heaved unsteadily.

Qin Lang didn't like the way the officials looked at Qin Lang.

What does this have to do with me?

"Don't you understand, kid? Everyone is envious and jealous of you kid. You kid takes all the good things in the world. If you refuse to marry a girl with five surnames, and then reject the princess, nothing will happen. Now you can still do it." His Highness’s favorite princess of Changle. The princess is only four years old, and His Highness will give her a seal of approval. Ten years. According to Wei Zheng’s calculations just now, there will be at least 30 million stone grains and 10,000+ pieces of silk in these ten years. Haven't all of this been brought to your Qin family in the future?"

Lao Cheng patted Qin Lang on the shoulder and said earnestly, "In the future, you can keep a low profile as much as possible, otherwise you will become the target of public criticism. Not to mention them, even I am a bit jealous of you now."

"Uncle Cheng also wants to marry the princess?"

Old Cheng slapped him, "I'll beat you up, you bastard, how dare you make fun of your uncle."

"That's right, even if Uncle misses my aunt, he won't. But if Uncle Cheng is willing, he can let Chu Mo become a princess. Then you will become the prince's in-laws."

Old Cheng chuckled, "Chumo is the eldest son. Although it is a good thing for Princess Shang, it is generally not allowed for the eldest son Princess Shang."

Princess Shang, to put it bluntly, is really the same as a half-royal son-in-law. Normally Princess Shang is usually the son of a famous family, but most of them are the second son and the like, and they will never be the eldest son.This is the same as the door-to-door son-in-law of the folk family. To be the door-to-door son-in-law, it must be the second or youngest son. No family is willing to let the eldest son be the door-to-door son-in-law.

"Then let Chu Liang go to Princess Shang."

"Do you think your Highness's princess can be honored by anyone who wants to? Here, let me tell you, you are very knowledgeable. It's like marrying two princesses and one princess this time. That's the case." Old Cheng looked He looks rough, but he is a shrewd person. He already understood the logic behind this marriage. It contains the idea of ​​power distribution of the new prince Li Shimin, which is an important requirement for the status of the prince and the stability of the court. Otherwise, where would the prince be? It is necessary to marry the princess who is only four years old.

"You boy, that is to say, the birth is good. If it is not Shubao's son, all kinds of good things will come to you, and you will be picky all day long."

Qin Shubao is now the general that Li Shimin relies on most, because he had a short history of leaving the Qin Palace before, so besides relying heavily on Qin Qiong, Li Shimin also has a sense of winning over and being stable.This is also an important reason why Qin Qiong, Pei Ji, Li Yi, Chai Shao, Liu Hongji, the former emperor's veteran heroes and princelings, were first awarded the rewards before the generals of the Qin Palace. Cheng Yaojin saw it very clearly.

He believes that Qin Qiong is also very clear.

"Do you think that His Royal Highness is really just interested in you, and thinks you are so amazing that he insists on marrying the princess and princess to you?"

(End of this chapter)