MTL - Chastity Layman-Chapter 71 courtesy

  Chapter 71 Exceeding the Rites

   Once Li Shimin was happy, he added another 100 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 3,000 households. And ordered the Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Households and other yamen to prepare dowry for Changle.

  Li Shimin even directly raised 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, 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 it is natural to buy a dowry for him more generously."

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

  Especially the four-year-old child, who is at the cutest time, afraid of melting in the mouth, afraid of falling in the palm of the hand.

   "Your Highness, this is not a family matter. There are no trivial matters in the Tian family, and 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, the princess and I are not engaged yet. There is no hurry to prepare the dowry. There are still ten years before the wedding. Let's prepare the dowry for the two princesses, Princess Danyang and Princess Linhai first."

  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 court to give Changle Princess a real land right away.

  And 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 300 households, and some eldest princesses may increase by 300 households. to six hundred households.

  In addition to closing households, there is often Yongye land, 10,000 mu for princesses, and 5,000 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 5,000 mu in full, but also added 3,000 mu to 8,000 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.

  Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, no matter whether it is Li Yuan’s sisters, the eldest princesses, or Li Yuan’s daughters, not everyone was born a princess.

  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 food town is given, that is, about 300 households.

  But Princess Changle is only four years old now. Li Shimin not only canonized her as Princess Changle, but also asked for 3,000 households to be granted real seals and 8,000 acres of permanent land, and he will give it now.

  According to the regulations of the imperial court, the princess's feudal households should have been handed over to the imperial court's rent adjustment 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 21,000 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, there are more than 42,000 shi for the rent alone. Even if one-third is given to the court, there are still 28,000 shi. There are more than 28,000 bolts of silk and more than 40,000 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 intentional bullying? He said that he would not let the owner of the house 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 interest 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 is still 10,000 to 20,000 Dingkou. An ordinary county has a population of only about 10,000 households, and many of them are unregistered households. The real number of Dingkou in a county is only 10,000 to 20,000. 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 10,000 to 20,000 letters? With so much tax revenue, how do you spend it?"

  Li Shimin snorted coldly, "Do you also care about how much the princess is entrusted to the princess alone? The income of the princess Tang Mu's fiefdom will naturally be arranged by Changle himself."

"Your Highness is thinking of using 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 doubled ten times. Counting the ten years, it will be twenty or thirty Wanshi’s grain, hundreds of thousands of pieces of silk! This amount of money, not to mention double the dowries 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.

   "Duke Wei, pay attention to your attitude. Even if you want to speak up, you can't lose your dignity. If you have something to say, why are you spraying your saliva so far?"

   Wei Zheng recovered a little bit of reason 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 3,000 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.

  Over there, Xue Wanche's complexion is not very good. He has already known that Princess Danyang was 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, now Li Shimin is still arguing with Wei Zheng about Changle’s dowry and fiefdom, so give as much as you can, why do you have to compare Danyang again, isn’t this disgusting?

   At the end of the quarrel, Li Shimin refused to withdraw his order, but said that the dowry of the princess of Changle would not be done for the time being, but the fief and Yongyetian of the princess would be given now, in real terms.

  The crown 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 real seal. Ten years. According to Wei Zheng's calculations just now, there will be at least two or three hundred thousand stone grains and hundreds of thousands of silk in these ten years. Yield, haven't all of this been brought to your Qin family in the future?"

  Old 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 bastard, how dare you make fun of your uncle."

   "That's right. Uncle is unwilling even if he misses my aunt. But if Uncle Cheng is willing, he can make 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, in fact, to put it bluntly, she 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, you have a good birth. If it weren't for Shu Bao's son, all kinds of good things would come to you, and you would be picky all day long."

  Qin Shubao is now Li Shimin's most important general, because he had a short history of leaving the Qin Palace before, so besides relying heavily on Qin Qiong, Li Shimin also has a certain 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 Highness the Crown Prince is really just interested in you, and thinks that you are so amazing that he insists on marrying the Princess Princess to you?"

  (end of this chapter)