Thousands of acres of fertile land, ten miles of red makeup.

Needless to say, many people know very well that this is the scene and pomp when the ancients married a daughter in a wealthy family, and the fact that "thick marriage" is not only popularized to rich families, but also to ordinary private families, and even if there is no dowry in the market, it is difficult to marry, and even the daughter of the royal family, if the family is poor, she will not be able to marry.

Dowry, as a woman's property brought to her husband's family as a result of marriage, is intended to compensate for the loss of a woman's right to inherit after marriage, so as to make up for the part of the family property that is not inherited due to customary inheritance law. In addition, it can also elevate the status of the new daughter-in-law, so that she has more voice and autonomy in the new family, and over time forms a high style of marriage.

High dowry was an extremely common phenomenon in the Song Dynasty, and its style spread to all levels of society, of course, there is another meaning behind the high dowry.

First, it can support the family's livelihood; Second, it can also expand women's autonomy in remarriage. In the Song Dynasty, when a woman got married, she brought her dowry to her husband's family, and this part of the property was not completely mixed with the property of her husband's family. Therefore? When a husband and wife divorce due to emotional discord or the husband deceases and the wife wants to remarry, the woman can take back the dowry. At this time, the woman has her own property? At the same time, he also has the autonomy to remarry.

Thirdly, the status of the family after marriage is improved. Is the dowry the economic basis for a woman's position in her husband's family? In order to ensure that the woman can not be angry or unable to raise her head because of the low dowry in her in-law's house, people compete for a generous dowry.

Because of the rich dowry, the status of women in the Song Dynasty was high, although there were "husbands abusing their wives", but women abusing their husbands also happened from time to time, and even the Southern Song Dynasty Xie Ximeng regarded the Song Dynasty as a period of yin and yang decline in history. He wrote in "The Story of the Mandarin Duck Tower": "The death of self-inferiority, resistance, machine, and clouds, and the heroic spirit of heaven and earth are not favored by men in the world, but by women."

It is precisely because of the abundance of dowry that the status of women has been improved, and the phenomenon of "not easy to make" for the wives of the Song generation is also difficult to count. The well-known Wang Dan, Zhou Bida and other important ministers of the imperial court and celebrities such as Yan Shu, Shen Kuo, and Lu You are all "afraid of the well-known" Shen Kuo, who is particularly pitiful, and he succumbed to his wife Zhang, who married in his later years.

According to the third volume of "Pingzhou Can Talk": "Shen Cun (Shen Kuo Zi Cun)...... Marrying Zhang? Brutality? Can it be saved? When he was scolded and fell to the ground, his children wept and picked it up. "And Zhou Bida? The concubine was "Mi Zhiting" by his wife? had to personally go to bring water to quench his thirst, and was ridiculed by his wife: "What a husband, to get water."

Even if it is a product, it has been the country for the longest time, and Wang Dan, the famous minister of the Renzong Dynasty, is also quite afraid of making a hall behind his house as the name of "three fears". Yang Yi said wittily? It can be changed to "four fears".

The well-known idiom "Hedong Lion's Roar" comes from a story of being afraid of his wife, Su Shi is both "full of Zen learning", and his friend Chen Jichang is often scolded by his wife for losing his soul and not knowing what to do, so he wrote a poem for Chen Jichang: "Longqiu monks are also pitiful, and they talk about sleepless nights." Suddenly, I heard the roar of the lion in the east of the river, and the cane fell into the palm of my hand at a loss." The fear of his wife is all on paper.

As the emperor, Maode's dowry is rich, and Zhao Ji feels that he has delayed Lotte's future, and he feels indebted, and he not only has gold and silver treasures, but also land, shops, and slaves, and of course, he also intends to let Emperor Maode not be bullied by Lotte.

However, what Zhao Ji didn't know was that Lotte had Dongying Silver Mine, and his family assets were far beyond his imagination, and even more so when he was a small family, gold, silver, jewelry, shops, and Lotte didn't see it at all.

This land is in a sparsely populated place in western Beijing, and it is also secluded, which is the most important place for Lotte. But there is one thing, the land given to the emperor by the royal family is to be taken back after the death of the emperor.

Tu Si was summoned, and Lotte pointed to the map and ordered: "Tu Si, you go, buy the land around the Emperor Villa, if those who hold the title deed refuse to sell, they will pay twice the money, but don't use my name, in the name of my sister Li Liang!" ”

Tu Si hurriedly responded, took a few more careful glances at the map, and said puzzledly: "Master Hou, although Emperor Ji Huangzhuang said that the land is fertile, and there is water and river irrigation around it, it is located in a remote area, and the land next to it is shallow and low-lying, and there are many high and low hills, so it is useless to buy it......

With a wave of his hand, Lotte interrupted: "Buy it, I use it for my own use!" ”

Tu Si hurriedly said yes, but he didn't dare to ask more.

Immediately after Lotte instructed: "After buying the surrounding fields, immediately fence them up, take high ground and build houses, and send people to find coppersmiths and blacksmiths who are proficient in casting, and be careful not to look for them in Biandu, and recruit them from other places." ”

I don't know what Lotte will use for these lands in the future, but Tu Si still obeys the orders one by one.

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Three days back to the door, the sixth day of the sixth month of June, and it is the aunt's festival when the married daughter returns to the door, Lotte takes the bride of the Mao De Emperor back to the palace, everything is in accordance with the etiquette, and the other emperors who go out are just that, Mao De returns to the door but three days back to the door, for this palace special banquet to celebrate, during which it is quite rewarding.

After the banquet, Mao De was dragged to the harem to whisper to the queen's biological mother, at this time Lotte finally found himself in an embarrassing situation after being a concubine, a courtier came to see, Zhao Ji went to be busy with court affairs, and an official who entered the palace saw himself, it was a very polite courtesy, and after seeing the ceremony, the horse avoided to the side to keep a distance, and did not talk to himself more, obviously there was a desire to avoid himself.

Entering the palace, it is inevitable to meet Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao and others, seeing Lotte, Liang Shicheng, Wang Hao and others are very polite, but they can't help but show a proud look of being a victor between their eyebrows.

At this time, Le Tiancai finally realized the embarrassment after being a colt, and everyone avoided it.

However, Lotte only smiled slightly, and didn't care too much, the future fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty are declining, and there will only be more and more things, which will make these people anxious.

Tu Si did his job effectively, and after getting Lotte's instructions, he rushed back in a few days and showed the title deeds to Lotte: "Back to the Hou Ye, the small things you told the small ones to do have been done, and the ten miles around the Huangzhuang have been bought by the small ones, which is the title deed for the purchase of land." ”

When Lotte looked at the land deed, Tu Si explained on the side: "Master Hou, in addition to the land under the name of the emperor, this land is as small as the small one said, the terrain is mostly shallow, and the terrain is extremely low-lying, which can only be suitable for planting some rice. ”

Nodding, Lotte then asked, "Are the tenants who cultivate the Imperial Village reliable?" ”

Tu Si replied: "The small ones have sent their men down to investigate, these tenants have been cultivating here for several generations, and most of them have never left here, and they are very reliable." ”

Lotte then asked, "I want the blacksmiths and coppersmiths you recruited, can you recruit them all?" ”

"Hiring!" Tu Si hurriedly replied.

Speaking of this, Tu Siyan's eyes were puzzled: "Hou Ye recruits coppersmiths and blacksmiths, forgive the little talk, could it be that Hou Ye wants to mint money?" ”

Shakuchi, who has been serving by Lotte's side, laughed, and said: "Our Hou Ye wants gold and silver and silver, and the ticket number has a good reputation, our Hou Ye only needs to fill in a number with a big stroke of the deed ticket, it is a lot of gold and silver, how can you care about what that Lao Shizi copper coin does?" ”

The reputation of the imperial court is not good, as the official currency of the Great Song Dynasty Jiaozi is depreciating every year, and the merchants and gentry like to save gold, silver and copper coins to maintain their value, in addition to trusting the deed of the Chinese ticket number, because the reputation of the Chinese ticket number is good, the deed has always been extremely strong.

"Don't ask more questions that shouldn't be asked, and don't say more things that shouldn't be said!" For Tu Si's goodness, Lotte's face was cold.

Hearing this, Tu Si hurriedly slapped himself and said, "It's a small one!" ”

"Forget it!" Lotte sighed lightly, looked at Tu Si, and said, "You'll know after a while!" ”

Recruiting blacksmiths and coppersmiths, Lotte naturally has its own plans, Lotte fights the idea of making cannons and guns, Lotte knows that the manufacturing principles and processes of artillery and muskets in modern times are more complex, but the theory of muskets and artillery before the eighteenth century is not complicated, but the requirements for manufacturing technology and manufacturing materials are very high.

The iron produced in this era of the Great Song Dynasty, due to the poor craftsmanship, was placed in later generations, and eight or nine out of ten were regarded as scrap, so only copper was the best material.

The Great Song Dynasty lacks copper, what is copper in the Great Song Dynasty, that is money, because of the Wutai poetry case, Su Shi, Wang Yu and others were fined copper, and it was called in terms of catties. The folk copper coins turned into bronze utensils, which could increase the profit by four times, so that the official Song Dynasty used copper to make money, while the folk used smelted copper coins to make utensils, one in and one out, and the loss of the imperial court was quite large.

Copper cannons, copper guns, to put it bluntly, are piled up with money, not to mention ordinary rich and noble families, even the royal family is afraid that they can't afford it, Lotte who owns the Dongying silver mine at first after some calculations, but fortunately, the silver production on the island side has gradually risen, and the quality and output are also very stable, so that Lotte stretched out his hand.

And he finally married Emperor Maode, eight years later, the upheaval, is something he can't avoid, remembering the tragic situation after the destruction of the Biandu City in the previous life and a series of encounters with the royal family, so that Le Tian made up his mind to make guns.

Using copper to make cannons was only a stopgap measure, and Lotte made up his mind to recruit skilled blacksmiths from all over the world to study the iron-making technique, and strive to improve the iron-smelting process and use cheap iron to make guns.

And although the simplest muskets and cannons are easy to make, there are many tricks that cannot be mastered overnight, and it will take a lot of time to perfect.

The real antiquity is completely different from the ancient times in the romance of later generations, in ancient times, the manufacture of knives and guns on a large scale in private, it is a forbidden thing, and it is also common for the strict family to ask and behead the nine clans, and Lotte wants to gather a large number of people not only to make artillery guns, but also to make gunpowder, which is a big crime of stealing the family and exterminating the clan.

What's the safest place? Lotte put his idea on the land where Maude got married.

Maode got married, the grange given by the Son of Heaven is the most undoubted place, it is Maode's is also Lotte's, how to use this land, Lotte naturally said, even if someone raised objections, Lotte also tried to make these people shut up or even disappear.

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