The time gradually came to June, and more and more scholars came to Chang'an to participate in the imperial examination, but the initial hustle and bustle disappeared, and the scholars studied behind closed doors and began the final sprint.

Another major event has aroused great interest among the people of Chang'an, that is, the marriage between Cao and Liu, as the time enters June, the marriage also mentions the link of marriage.

Liu Jing and Cao Cao's envoy Chen Qun set an approximate time, but the specific details were discussed with the Ministry of Rites of Shangshu Province, and the two parties agreed that Sima Yi of Shangshu and Zhao Lan of the Ministry of Rites would be the representatives of the Han King and go to Yedu to marry Cao Cao's daughter Cao Xian.

As the day of marriage approaches, not only the people of Chang'an are looking forward to it, but even Ye has become lively, and the streets and alleys are talking about the daughter of Duke Wei marrying in the west, in fact, everyone is more concerned about whether because of this marriage, Liu Cao's two families will strike from then on, forming a situation where the two countries stand side by side.

However, many discerning people can see that this marriage of Liu Cao is actually of little significance, but only a reconciliation method adopted by the Han State in order to unify the south, and it can only be exchanged for two years of peace at most.

Moreover, Liu Cao's marriage has been discussed for several years, and it has been interrupted repeatedly for some reason, and this time it is just to complete the previous agreement.

Chen Qun played an important role in this marriage, not only because his envoy finalized the date and details of the marriage, but also because he also served as the wedding envoy, and he was extremely busy inside and out during this time.

Early this morning, Chen Qun came to the Deputy Prime Minister's Mansion, which is also the residence of the prince Cao Pi, at present, Cao Cao basically does not ask about daily government affairs, and the daily affairs of the army are also handed over to the prince Cao Pi.

The daily government affairs of the Wei State were basically carried out in the deputy prime minister's mansion, and the palace was extremely busy, and the staff who handled the documents, and the work of sending documents and approvals were busy from morning to night.

Chen Qun walked all the way to the courtyard of Cao Pi's official house, and a guard arched his hand and smiled: "The prince is waiting for Zhongcheng, please come with me." ”

Walking into the courtyard, a guard immediately went to the lobby to report, and then came out and said to Chen Qun: "The prince invites Chen Zhongcheng into the house." ”

Chen Qun walked into the lobby, only to see Cao Pi sitting at the table to review the text, Chen Qun hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Weichen see the prince!" ”

Cao Pi put down his pen and said with a smile: "Zhongcheng, please take a seat!" ”

Chen Qun sat down, Cao Pi flipped through the thick stack of inscriptions sent from the place on the table, and asked Chen Qun: "This time Zhongcheng went to the Han Kingdom, did he talk to the other party about the Ding Order?" ”

"Wechen did talk to Xu Shu about it."

"What do they say?"

Chen Qun thought for a while and said: "Xu Shu said that it is not an ordinary difficulty to get the wealthy and powerful to hand over the land and population, and it is useless to rely on an order from the Duke of Wei, and there must be practical means. ”

"Like what?" Cao Pi asked anxiously,

The reason why Cao Pi was very concerned about this matter was because the promulgation of the Ding Decree by the Wei State encountered great resistance, and the counties and counties wrote one after another, if it was forcibly implemented, it would provoke the rebellion of the major wealthy families, which would affect the safety of the Wei State, and in fact, it could not be implemented.

Cao Pi is helpless, more importantly, the land and slave situation of Wei is extremely complicated, there are rewards from the former Han Dynasty, there are rewards from his father Cao Cao, and there are also private purchases, to implement the Ding Order, it will definitely violate the interests of most people, especially the interests of the Cao clan in the military, his father promulgated a Ding Order, and then let himself implement it, how can he get it?

Now Cao Pi is overwhelmed by this incident, his father is waiting to see the result, and he has nothing to do, can he tell his father that his prestige and ability are not enough, how will his father see himself?

Cao Pi also heard that similar measures were taken by the Han State and that they had been implemented quite successfully, and he was also very interested, hoping to learn from the experience of the Han State.

Chen Qun smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to implement the means Xu Shu said. ”

"That's it, what kind of means?"

"Xu Shu said, first of all, we must find out the situation, who occupies how much population and land, these specific circumstances must be clarified, and then targeted, find the breakthrough point, the Han State is to use the Cai family in Jingzhou and the Fei family in Yizhou for the breakthrough, followed by the upward and downward effect, the Han king himself did not have land and slaves, and the major generals also took the initiative to return the land and population, and finally the establishment of a reward system, so that the Han officials have losses and gains, so that it can be implemented."

Cao Pi nodded again and again, he had considered these methods, in fact, the people below didn't buy it at all, and the Cao family and the Xiahou family occupied the land at most, could he take them under the knife?

Cao Pi sighed helplessly and said: "Sometimes I also hope that this is the Han Kingdom, there are not so many complicated interests, and everything is easy to do, but we can't!" First of all, the military is not included in the order, but if the military general does not implement it, how can you convince others, naturally no one will do it, and it has been implemented for less than a month, and all counties have retreated, and the total number of people released is less than 10,000 households, so how can I explain to my father? ”

Chen Qun thought for a while and said: "As long as the prince reports according to the truth, I believe that Duke Wei is also very aware of the difficulty of this matter, and he will not be too embarrassed by the prince." ”

"That's all it can be."

Cao Pi stopped asking about it, and said with a smile: "I came to Zhongcheng today, in fact, I wanted to ask about my sister's marriage, does Zhongcheng think there will be any changes in this matter?" ”

Chen Qun said with a smile: "This time is different from before, it was the other party who took the initiative to mention, I believe that if Liu Jing wants to attack Jiangdong and Jiaozhou and unify the south, he must stabilize the north, so Weichen believes that this marriage will be successful, and in the past two days, Sima Yi should be in Yedu." ”

"Didn't Liu Jing come to greet him personally?"

"Duke Wei also hopes that Liu Jing can come to Yedu to welcome his relatives in person, and promised his safety, but the Han Kingdom is opposed, so Liu Jing can only greet his relatives at Pujin Pass, I think this is fine, both sides don't have to worry too much."

Cao Pi pondered for a moment, and said to Chen Qun: "It is estimated that in the past two days, my father will discuss the dowry with Zhongcheng, the last time the two younger sisters married the Son of Heaven, my father's dowry gift was 50,000 horses of silk and satin, I am very worried that my father will continue to be the same this time, to be honest, we can't afford such a high dowry, the last time I married the Son of Heaven was the left hand to the right hand, it doesn't hurt to take out more, but this time it is given to the Han Kingdom, I am worried"

Cao Pi didn't say any more, and looked at Chen Qun meaningfully, Chen Qun then woke up, it turned out that the prince was looking for him for the dowry, Chen Qun smiled and said: "I understand the meaning of the prince, please rest assured, I will persuade Duke Wei to be as low-key and simple as possible." ”

Cao Pi smiled bitterly and said: "It's impossible to be low-key, try to be as simple as possible!" ”

Chen Qun got up to say goodbye, Cao Pi sent him out, walked back to his official room, and paced back and forth in the room with his hands, Cao Pi was very much in favor of Cao Liu's marriage, and he didn't know the price of firewood and rice if he didn't have a family, since he was a family, he knew better than anyone what Wei needed most, Wei needed time to recuperate, two years was not enough, it was better to be five years, so that Wei could gradually recover its vitality

Sure enough, as Cao Pi expected, Cao Pi was called by his father Cao Cao to Tongquetai in the afternoon to discuss the dowry with him, of course, Chen Qun was also sitting, with Chen Qun here, there was no need for Cao Pi to say a lot of words.

"The most disadvantaged thing for me is my daughter, who has been at home for so many years, and finally got married, I don't want her to be wronged again, Liu Jing's wife Tao doesn't need to say, that is the richest daughter in the world, the dowry caused a sensation in the world, I heard that even Sun Quan's sister got married, and the dowry was enough to have a boat, so my daughter's dowry must be the same as Liu Jing's wife, and she must marry with the gift of marrying a wife."

Cao Cao spoke very directly, there was almost no room for negotiation, he looked at Cao Pi and said: "I still have a little savings, if it is not enough, it will be made up by the treasury!" ”

Cao Pi lowered his head and didn't dare to refute, so he had to respond: "The child obeys!" ”

He was anxious in his heart, hoping that Chen Qun would hurry up to relieve him, but Chen Qun said unhurriedly: "Wei Gong's love for his daughter Weichen is deeply admired, but Weichen feels that marrying a generous marriage may not be a good thing for Miss Xian. ”

"Why?" Cao Cao's gaze turned to Chen Qun again and asked puzzledly.

"This time Weichen visited the King of Han first, during which the Princess of Han also came out, she clearly told Sù Weichen, the Han Kingdom advocates simplicity, and the Han Wangfu is even more set an example, whether it is the princess or the second concubine, she must live a simple and low-key life, she hopes that this marriage will not be too extravagant."

"What about Liu Jing's attitude?" Cao Cao asked a little unhappily.

"The attitude of the Han King is basically the same as that of the Han Princess, he said that the ceremony can be grand, but the wind of marrying can not be long, once the marriage of Concubine Cao is too luxurious, it will be effective, which is not conducive to the Han State advocating simplicity, and will also increase the burden on the two countries."

"Is that what he said?"

"Back to the Duke of Wei, Weichen didn't dare to hide it, this is the original words of the King of Han."

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, then turned back to Cao Pi and asked, "What is your opinion?" ”

"The child wants to listen to his father, but the child needs to clarify something."

"What do you want to clarify?"

"It is about the dowry of the princess Tao and the second concubine Sun, not as the father said, as far as the child knows, Tao's dowry is war horses and grain, that is actually Tao's use of the dowry as an excuse to support Liu Jing's army, and Tao's own dowry is not much, as for Sun's, there is no dowry in a boat, just one of the floors of the ship, and most of them are Sun's own collection of weapons, Sun's real dowry is only forty boxes, this is recorded, as for the father wants to give his sister's dowry, In fact, the child doesn't want his sister to be wronged, especially he doesn't want his sister to be wronged after she gets married. ”

Cao Pi's last sentence was to implicitly remind his father not to exceed the dowry of the main concubine, otherwise it would cause the dissatisfaction of the Han princess, and her sister's life would not be easy in the future.

Cao Cao just loves his daughter and wants to earn face for himself and his daughter, but under the reminders of Chen Qun and Cao Pi, he also figured it out a little that his daughter's happiness does not lie in the scenery of marriage, but in living after marriage, especially with the princess and the second concubine.

If the dowry is too shabby, it will make others despise and ridicule, but if it is too extravagant and luxurious, it will inevitably cause hostility in the inner house of the Han Dynasty, and the daughter will be sad in the future, so the dowry can not be more, but it cannot be less, and the key is to meet the identity of the marriage.

Of course Cao Cao understands this kind of human feelings, he thought about it and said to Cao Pi and Chen Qun: "That's it! The ceremony of marriage should be as grand as possible, at least in the territory of Wei, and the dowry should be the same as that of the second concubine Sun, and I will leave this matter to you, and I am not allowed to wronged my daughter. ”

Cao Pi was secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Please rest assured, father, the child will discuss with his mother again, and he will definitely handle this matter and let his sister marry in a beautiful way!" ”

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