Chapter 320: Marriage

After Dai Yan officially ascended the throne, he officially became the monarch of the Song State and became one of the princes of the world.

As the monarch of the Song Kingdom, although he had previously established the Left Court and the Right Court to reform the Song Kingdom. However, in fact, because of the tradition of the entire Suiyang aristocracy ruling the Song State for many years, the power structure of the entire Song State has not changed much.

Take the domestic parliamentarians of the Song State as an example, although the number of members of the left court of the Suiyang nobles is only five, but they are through their years of experience in ruling the Song country, they strive for local votes in various parts of the Song country, and finally they can control more than 10 people, if you add the neutral nobles, and even the Pengcheng nobles have a preference for them, the Suiyang nobles can almost occupy an overwhelming advantage in the entire left court!

Although the right courtyard, which represents the interests of the common class, is basically occupied by the power of Taoqiu merchants, the merchants have no experience in politics after all, and when facing the Suiyang aristocracy, they also lack the confidence to face the noble bloodline. All these made Dai Yan realize that the reform of the Song Kingdom was not so easy to achieve!

However, for the deeper reform of the entire Song Kingdom, there is one major thing that must be conceded, and this is his commitment to the Qi State! He must complete his commitment to Qi and get the support of Qi in order to defend and clean up the nobles of the entire Song Kingdom!

In September, a month after his accession to the throne, he officially sent an envoy to the state of Qi to negotiate the marriage between Song and Qi!

When Dai Yan married Zhao Xue before, he experienced the wedding of this era. It is roughly the steps of Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Najib, asking for appointments and greeting relatives. And this wedding, although it is a marriage between two countries, the general steps have not changed much, which has reduced Dai Yan's sense of expectation a lot.

This time, because it involved matters between countries, it was basically arranged by subordinates. The steps of Nacai, asking names, and Najib, Dai Yan didn't even ask, and passed directly.

When it was the turn to pay the levy, that is, to give the bride price, Dai Yan was a little difficult about this item. When he married Zhao Xue before, his net worth was limited, so at that time, he asked Song Junzixi to help, and he barely managed to get together a levy gift. And this time, he is already the monarch of the Song Kingdom, not to mention that he has the power to mobilize the resources of the entire Song Kingdom, let's just say that his wealth in Taoqiu is already an astronomical amount that the world cannot imagine!

When he married Zhao Xue before, although as a feudal monarch, he had countless wealth compared to ordinary people, but in the face of a big country like Zhao State, he was out-and-out poor! So he also needs Zixi's help to slap his swollen face and become fat, and give a barely qualified levy gift!

However, this time, as the monarch of the Song Kingdom, plus he owns Taoqiu, the richest city in the world, he no longer needs to think about whether he can afford to pay the levy, but what needs to be considered is the question of how much.

This is like getting married, when it is worth 1 million, the bride price given is a level; When the value reaches 100 million, the bride price given is another level!

Gift-giving is a great science, and if you give less, others may look down on you; And if you give too much, Dai Yan will also feel heartache. After all, what was given out couldn't fall on him, and it would make Zhao Xue, who originally complained about him, even more resentful of him!

After thinking about it for a long time, and asking the old people and princes of the clan to accept the specifications of the levy, he finally determined the number: 600 carts of gold (copper), 2,000 carts of iron, including 500 carts of weapons, 1,500 carts of agricultural tools, 500 carts of silk, 500 carts of tea, 500 carts of porcelain, 500 carts of glass, 100 carts of whale oil, 50 carts of ambergris, 20 seagoing ships, and 100 bottles of holy water containing hyaluronic acid!

In terms of population, there are 3,000 armor soldiers, 2,000 slaves, plus more than 1,000 dancing girls, and 500 craftsmen (non-Taoqiu core craftsmen)!

Dai Yan thought about it and felt that such a gift didn't add much compared to when he married Zhao Xue, but it might not be able to impress Qi Guo. In the final list, he specially added two gifts: a 5% stake in Taoqiu Qianzhuang, plus a Donghai City!

These last two gifts can be said to be the real big heads. Especially Taoqiu Qianzhuang, now there is a faint trend of the world's central bank, even if Dai Yan himself has less than half of all the shares in it, he took out 5% of the shares at one time, which can be regarded as a hemorrhage!

Of course, he showed goodwill to the Qi State in this way, in fact, there was also a reason for hoping that the King of Qi would be able to support Taoqiu Qianzhuang!

And in order to appease Zhao Xue, and even the Zhao Guo behind him, Dai Yan also gave Zhao Xue 5% of the shares of Taoqiu Qianzhuang, plus part of the shares of Taoqiu Iron and Steel Plant and Giant Whale Commercial Bank!

Even if Zhao Xue himself did not accept his overtures, or even refused to accept these shares, he still transferred them to Zhao Xue's name!

Dai Yan's acceptance ceremony, Qi Guo is still very satisfied. What Dai Yan didn't know was that among all his levy gifts, the most important thing for Qi was the more than 20 sea ships and hundreds of bottles of holy water.

For King Qi, the wealth he himself has is even more incalculable, and there are not many things that can impress him. Although the shares of Taoqiu Qianzhuang are valued by Dai Yan, King Qi doesn't care too much! And the king of Qi owns the shares, but he has opened a protective umbrella for Taoqiu merchants, so that Taoqiu merchants can smoothly carry out money business in all countries in the world!

And it is not for nothing that King Qi likes sea boats and even holy water. With Tao Qiu's more advanced sea vessels, he was able to send envoys to the sea to visit the overseas immortal mountains. Although Dai Yan once refuted the sorcerers of Qi to his face and directly denounced them as liars, after Dai Yan left the Qi country, the sorcerers of Qi made a comeback and successfully persuaded the king of Qi to fund their overseas voyages!

Among them, there are even the best magicians who believe in Dai Yan's theory of the shape of the earth, and make a brief spherical map, intending to go all the way to the east, and finally return to the strange people of Qi by sea!

As for the holy water that can maintain its youth forever, it is completely too popular with the harem of the Qi Kingdom! King Qi found that when he had the right to distribute more than 100 bottles of holy water, the entire court went crazy to compete for these holy waters! In order to get these holy waters, his concubines spent all kinds of means on him, which made King Qi extremely satisfied!

And in order to repay Dai Yan for such a generous gift, when he sent his sister to the Song Kingdom, he also brought back a rich gift!

Nowadays, Qi does not have as developed industries as Taoqiu, such as ironware, glass, porcelain, etc., which are all things that Qi cannot produce, so they can only find ways to complete a breakthrough in traditional gifts. And what surprised Dai Yan the most was that the silk for the marriage exceeded 2,000 carts! For a long time, the entire Taoqiu and even the Song Kingdom have not been able to occupy an advantage in clothing, and the Qi State easily took out such a large amount of silk, which can be regarded as Dai Yan recognizing the strength of the Qi State!

In addition, the horses of Qi Country also surprised Dai Yan and even Taoqiu who like famous horses! The tradition of horse racing in the Qi Kingdom is much older than that of Taoqiu, and the royal family and nobles also have better horses, and the quality of these horses is far better than that of Taoqiu's horses!

As for the large number of people who accompanied the marriage and the two false cities, Dai Yan just smiled as an ordinary gift.

After the marriage with Zhao and the marriage with Qi this time, Dai Yan had to admit that marriage was really a good way to promote national integration! A marriage between countries like this not only connects the bloodlines of the upper classes, but also promotes the flow of tens of thousands of people at the bottom, which is really helpful to enhance the in-depth understanding between the two sides!

Of course, what Dai Yan wants to know more about is the princess of Qi who he once met!

Speaking of which, when he first saw this princess, he was still on the hunting ground of Qi Guotian Hunting, and at that time he had just been with Zhao Xue, hiding from the killers sent by Tian Ying. It seems that at that time, Zhao Xue had warned him not to provoke this princess of Qi Kingdom, and not to accept any kindness from Tian Si!

Now it's a good thing, this princess of Qi will soon become his other wife. He has broken his promise to Zhao Xue now, and it is no wonder that Zhao Xue has not paid attention to him until now, although this kind of thing was done under the coercion of Qi State.

is also a princess, Zhao Xue gives people the feeling that her natural body has a wild and untamable feeling. And Tian Si gives people the feeling of grace and atmosphere, as if she is a natural princess template!

Even if she is covered with a hijab and can't see her face and expression, just looking at the way she walks, it makes people feel extremely elegant! As Dai Yan, who is used to being a female princess, he felt extremely excited when he thought that such a princess would become his wife!

It seems that he is really a bastard, he forgets his old love when he sees his new love, Dai Yan can't help but think like this!

When all the wedding procedures were completed, Dai Yan didn't even have the idea of participating in the wedding banquet, so he hurriedly entered the cave like a monkey anxious first brother!

Dai Yan himself doesn't know why his determination for women has become so poor. However, when he personally disarmed Tian Si and brutally galloped on this princess of Qi Kingdom, he knew that this was the wonderful taste that power brought him!

What Zhao Xue brought to him was a kind of life and death feeling. And what Tian Si can give him is the incomparable pleasure he has when he becomes a prince, holds a country in his hands, and oppresses a princess! No matter how much he didn't like the forced marriage of Qi State before, but when he really rode on the princess of Qi State, the most coveted princess of the princes and nobles in the world, the feeling of excitement made him indescribable, but he was extremely happy!

He loves it!

This feeling of excitement lasted for three days! In the past three days, Dai Yan left behind all the troublesome state affairs, and galloped tirelessly on Tian Si! And in this process, Tian Si never refused his request, but always adopted a pandering attitude, all of which made Dai Yan extremely satisfied!

Dai Yan's "absurd" approach made the nobles of the Song Kingdom extremely worried, and also made the envoys of the Qi State who came to see off their relatives extremely happy!

It seems that no one in the world, no matter how wise they are, can refuse our princess of Qi Kingdom! With such a thought, the envoy of Qi returned to Qi with satisfaction and went to the king of Qi!