Chapter 106: The Big Wedding
Since it was a fateful thing, he simply was generous, and after thinking about it, Zhu Houzhao said directly: "One million taels, this million taels is the son's filial piety to his father, the emperor and the queen mother." After saying that, Zhu Hou took care of his father, and the meaning was obvious, this is all one million taels, let's almost do it.
Zhu Youzhu glanced at his son in surprise, a million taels? Is it so rich? Why didn't you find out before?
Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhu felt that this million taels seemed to be less, thought for a while and said: "Two million taels, just set up a Wenyuan Pavilion in the palace, didn't you say before that you wanted to get a Wenyuan Pavilion with a collection of books?" Let's just see each other. ”
Two million taels? Zhu Houzhao thought about it and nodded: "Okay, two million taels is two million taels, and it is just right to build a Wenyuan Pavilion." ”
Anyway, Zhu Houzhao has made up his mind, and after he goes back, he will let his mother have a royal old age, invite all the people who are in it, and then earn the money back. Not only wool, but also perfume and makeup boxes can also be sold, in addition to various products of Qiwei Zhai, which are sold anyway.
When I get married next year, my mother will have a royal dinner, and the princess can also have one here!
The mother has a banquet for the older generation, and her own crown princess can completely entertain the younger generation, the heirs of various mansions, which is another way to make a lot of money. In Zhu Houzhao's opinion, he only needs to earn the money of these nobles and relatives, anyway, they will go to all directions of the Ming Dynasty to make money, and then the money will gather to him.
The father and son didn't stay too long, and went back to the palace directly, and then Zhu Houzhao was kicked back to Xianyang Palace.
Dad wants to tell his mother what he has seen and heard about going out of the palace, show what he bought for the queen, and show off that he pit his son for two million taels, anyway, it is the two-person world of husband and wife, Zhu Houzhao can only go back to Xianyang Palace to play by himself. Zhu Houzhao doesn't care about this, what's the matter, this prince is about to get married, okay?
In the next few days, Zhu Houzhao has been agitating his mother's royal dinner, and then he has been encouraging Xungui and Xunqi to go to Liaodong to buy grassland sheep to raise.
The other is to raise mink, raise tigers, anyway, Zhu Houzhao portrayed this prospect very attractively, the nobles thought of the plush cloth that their families spent money to buy and the big plush cloth of Qiwei Zhai, and felt pain in their hearts, and then they felt that this thing had a big deal, so they didn't wait for the end of the New Year, and immediately sent people to Liaodong to grab the grassland.
Xungui is not stupid, he naturally knows that there are good and bad things in the pasture, and they don't care if it costs a little more money, but they must buy it well.
In addition to Zhu Houzhao's private affairs, the examination method promoted by the imperial court has finally caused a lot of waves in the court, but this matter cannot stand up and oppose it, you are an official, are you afraid of assessment? Is it because you don't do things? Of course, people can also find a more curious angle, such as the strict assessment will make you only busy with the assessment, what will cause redundancy and so on.
Zhu Houzhao scoffed at this statement, as if you would work without assessing you, anyway, it is better to let you do a good assessment, at least complete the things within the scope of the assessment.
With the promotion of Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Youjiao's father and son, the examination method was successfully passed, and it will be implemented in the capital and Shuntianfu after the New Year.
These things have been done, Zhu Houzhao is finally relieved, he has been busy for a long time, Zhu Houzhao can also take a break, and he has done a lot of things this year. Although it doesn't seem obvious for the time being, Zhu Houzhao knows that what he has done in the past year is definitely the cornerstone that can make Daming take off.
"Your Highness, the people from the Ministry of Rites are here." Liu Jin came to Zhu Houzhao's side and said cautiously, for fear of angering Zhu Houzhao.
The affairs of the imperial court and Qiwei Zhai are busy, but Zhu Houzhao's desire to rest is still in vain, because his wedding is finally decided, and the date is set on the ninth day of the first month, and then the people from the Ministry of Rites come to the door to teach Zhu Houzhao the etiquette of the wedding, of course, and prepare clothes for Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao officially entered the life of a marionette.
"Bring it in!" Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said, although he was a little depressed, he would not lose his temper with Liu Jin.
This is something he must experience, and Zhu Houzhao doesn't complain about anything, anyway, just this time, there is no need to be so troublesome in choosing a concubine in the future.
The days passed day by day, time was like water, the sun and the moon were like a shuttle, and the New Year was over in a blink of an eye, this was Zhu Houzhao's fifth year in this world, and he didn't feel bored. After the New Year, the crown prince was ready to get married, and other things were forbidden to participate. Zhu Houzhao didn't want to get involved in other things, because he was too busy.
On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Houzhao was manipulated as a marionette for a whole day, and finally he was busy and could enter the cave room.
Zhu Houzhao's crown princess is still Xia's, I don't know if this is a coincidence, or a correction of history, anyway, this matter is the same as the historical mountain, Xia Crown Princess is a native of Daxing (now Daxing, Beijing), and her ancestral home is Shangyuan (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), during the Yongle period, her family moved north to Daxing County, Shuntianfu, and she is the historical Empress Xiaojing Xia.
There are no children in his life, in the first year of Jiajing, Ming Shizong entered the succession, because of the relationship with Queen Xia as an uncle and sister-in-law, so Queen Xia could not be the queen mother, but she had to be different from Queen Chen of Sejong, so she was called Queen Zhuangsu.
What is the relationship between Emperor Zhengde and Empress Xia, the history books are secretive and vague. Yang Yi, a bibliophile of the Ming Dynasty, wrote in "Ming Liangji" that "Wu Zong has not been in the palace for a long time, since Datong returned, suddenly entered the palace, and the emperor cried after Xia." The emperor said: "Why is the queen too thin every day?" "Eat with Guanglu Si and add a pair of fat geese." It can be seen that the relationship between Wuzong and Empress Xia is still relatively good.
This Zhu Houzhao can also understand that in history, everyone was busy pouring dirty water on Emperor Zhengde, and the most important one was to sleep with all kinds of women.
What kind of woman sleeps at the entrance, what sleeps with the courtier, if it is recorded at this time that Emperor Zhengde and Empress Xia are very affectionate, wouldn't it be a contradiction?
There are not many records of this historical Empress Xia, and the current Zhu Houzhao naturally doesn't know either, and he doesn't even know what his crown princess looks like, tonight is the first time they meet, not to mention, there is really a little excitement in my heart. In the previous life, let alone meeting husband and wife, then you slept for several years before you got married.
The wedding night was tired, and there was nothing new, at this moment, Zhu Houzhao's mood was still very excited, and there was a kind of excitement about the wedding.