Chapter 58: Back to Chang'an!
In ancient China, daughters were usually money-losers, unlike a daughter in later generations who were worth a house or a car. In ancient times, wars were frequent, and at the end of the Sui Dynasty, a large number of men were lost in Guanzhong, resulting in many boys and girls, and if you want to get married, you must first prepare a dowry.
The man's bride price is almost a drop in the bucket compared to the woman's dowry.
Therefore, in ancient times, many female babies were drowned, not only because they preferred sons over daughters, but also because poor families could not afford the dowry, so they had no choice but to do so.
If there are more daughters, even if it is the landlord's old wealth, it will be exhausted.
Because of this, the folk multi-line exchange system, that is, there is a boy and a woman in your family, and there happens to be a man and a woman in my family, and our two families will become in-laws, and the dowry will not be given.
The painting screen family (Zhou Laosan) and the Lin family in the same township are like this.
Anyway, people are not as good as heaven, and the painting screen entered the palace. The son of the third family of Zhou, that is, the younger brother of the painting screen, Zhou Cai, and the daughter of the Lin family have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and they have a deep relationship, and they married the daughter of the Lin family as a wife, and the Lin family took ten yuan as a dowry.
But now the problem is here, when the painting screen returns to his hometown, it stands to reason that the marriage contract should be fulfilled, but the Lin family thinks that they can't afford to climb high and gives up automatically.
However, the son of the Lin family has not yet married a wife? How can you live this loss-making business?
Ten yuan has stripped the Lin family up and down, and in winter, the new clothes for the cold have not yet been cut and made!
The Lin family is reasonable, even if the emperor Lao Tzu comes down, he has to give an explanation!
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Sanqing Hall side hall.
"What? The Lin family dared to rob my woman? Li Yuan uncovered the thin quilt covering his legs, shook off his usual lazy appearance, and stomped his feet angrily, even the poor road that was usually on his lips was replaced by a more domineering word.
"This is to treat the emperor as a bureaucrat!"
The little eunuch Liu Yuan fell to his knees on the ground, his body trembling uncontrollably, and the emperor was angry and bled thousands of miles.
Even if Li Yuan is an impostor, he holds amazing power in his hands, even His Majesty the Usurpping Emperor has to be a good baby in front of his father.
Even though his order did not leave Cuihua Mountain, as long as Li Yuan wrote a letter, Li Shimin, who claimed to be a "filial son", would issue an edict to transport carp from Linfen in the east of the river to the Yellow River.
"Your Majesty, you ...... Misunderstanding, the Lin family naturally didn't dare to climb high, but the marriage contract between the Lin family and the Zhou family was involved....... "Liu Yuan racked his brains and said in vain.
"It turned out to be like this." Li Yuan nodded, it turned out that the daughter of the Tang Dynasty lost money, the Zhou family earned ten yuan of dowry money, the Lin family lost the dowry, and the eldest son did not have a wife, it is really sad to think about it.
He also had a little secret hatred in his heart, why such a fine tradition was not passed down well, resulting in the high bride price in later generations, and the dowry was ...... But it's symbolic.
Traditions are reversed to give them a modern taste.
"How is the county order of Jingyang County punished? Although there is a reason for the incident, after all, the painting screen is a five-grade female history, and she is a personal female official of the poor road, and her status is noble. Li Yuan asked.
The grade of the picture screen is higher than the county order of Jingyang County, of course, foreign officials and internal officials are not the same, but after all, they are basically on the same platform, Li Yuan wants to understand this problem, how will the county order of Jingyang County be handled?
Is it to suppress the poor family of the Lin family, or to choose the other side?
"Back to Daojun, the county magistrate of Jingyang County believes that the female history of the painting screen involves Daojun, and the document has been prepared and transferred to the Criminal Department for processing, and it is not surprising that it will be tried in the near future?" Liu Yuan replied cautiously.
"Criminal Department..... The chief of the Criminal Department is Feng Deyi! "Li Yuan has been in the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and he has a little understanding of Zhenguan's court, and the official positions of the eldest grandson Wuji and Wei Zheng are probably clearer.
But he didn't sit down for long, and suddenly slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Oh no, Feng Deyi, Feng Deyi...... The situation is complicated with his involvement in the matter of the painting screen, and this old thing can do anything in order to invite pets. ”
Feng Deyi was an old minister of the Sui Dynasty, and later took refuge in Li Tang and became a minister, and then continued to move closer to Li Yuan to become the imperial party around "him", but after the change of Xuanwumen, the tree fell and the sun was scattered, and Feng Deyi also re-took refuge in the Qin Palace.
One minister does not choose two masters, Feng Deyi changes masters frequently, although Li Er uses him, but it is more of a decoration, as a mascot, to show the world that he is broad-minded.
This guy can change his master, and his moral character is not much better.
Feng Deyi became the Zhongshu Ling in the sixth year of Wude, ranked as the prime minister, and was quite courteous to Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and offered advice to Li Shimin several times. At the same time, he secretly attached himself to the crown prince Li Jiancheng.
Li Yuan had planned to depose Li Jiancheng and make Li Shimin the crown prince, but he stopped because of Fengde Yi's strong admonition. But these things were very secret, and many years after Feng Deyi's death, they were learned by Tang Taizong.
Until the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Tang Lin, the scribe and servant, impeached Feng Deyi for his treacherous behavior during his lifetime, and Tang Taizong ordered the minister to discuss.
Tang Jian said: "Feng Lun was deeply favored during his lifetime, and after his sins were exposed to death, he could not take away all the official positions he held, please take back the gift and change the title as a punishment." ”
Tang Taizong then deprived Feng Deyi of his official position, cut off the feudal food yi, and changed his name to Miao.
"If it is the Qin Wangfu line, seeing the painting screen, in order to alleviate the relationship between Yu and the poor road, it will definitely be relaxed, but if it is Feng Deyi, the old emperor, in order to prove that he has no second ......thoughts," Li Yuan wandered for a few steps, his eyes gradually cold, and shouted:
"Prepare to go, Poor Dao wants to go back to Chang'an, and see for yourself how Feng Deyi, the old dog, is disposed of."
If it is possible, Li Yuan doesn't want to go to Chang'an at all, but if he doesn't go, the picture screen will really be in danger, and Confucianism's mouth can speak, and he can say one, two, three if he is reasonable or not.
In addition to him, the backer of the painting screen is the eldest grandson queen, but the eldest grandson queen is the character of the "virtuous mother", when she encounters this kind of thing, she is not favoritism, but will wear a dress and say with a smile: "Prime Minister Feng really has a good demeanor, no favoritism, no cheating, although the picture screen is the maid of the palace, but the law does not tolerate private feelings......"
Very helpless, Li Yuan couldn't accuse Empress Changsun of this kind of thinking, after all, she was speaking for the Tang Dynasty Sheji and her husband Li Er.
Just like that day, Li Yuan fed Li Ke penicillin, and Concubine Yang tried her best to stop it for fear of danger, but in order to maintain the majesty of the emperor, the eldest grandson Wujian mercilessly scolded Concubine Yang, who had a good personal relationship with her, of course, she didn't know whether the medicine was good or poisonous?
Empress Changsun is a great woman who implements feudal etiquette to the end, but from another perspective, she is also sad.
"Slave... to obey the order. Liu Yuan kowtowed and shouted in a low voice.
Today is only two days away from the winter solstice dumpling reunion dinner, and the Emperor Taishang, who has lived in Cuihua Mountain for three months, came out for the first time, but this time it was for a little female official.