The fall of Hangzhou, an important town in the southeast, shocked the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Ji was forced to issue an edict to revoke the Bureau, abolish the Huashi Gang, and announce the exemption of the revolted area from the three-year field endowment, in order to clean up the people's hearts and disintegrate their fighting spirit. At the same time, Tong Guan was ordered to urgently transfer 150,000 healthy soldiers from the northwest to Zhejiang. In the first month of the third year of Xuanhe, the leader of the rebel army, Fang Qifo, led 60,000 troops to attack Xiuzhou, the official army stubbornly resisted, and Tong Guan's general Wang Yu led the army to arrive, becoming a two-sided attack, and the rebel army suffered heavy losses and was forced to retreat to Hangzhou. The territory of the rebel army was shrinking day by day, and the following month, Hangzhou was finally lost, and Fang La had to lead the remaining more than 200,000 troops to defend the source cave of the Qingxi Gang.

After receiving the good news from the southeast, Zhao Ji was overjoyed, and Jin Feng Tong Guan was the prince, knowing the affairs of the Privy Council, so that the old eunuch could reach a new peak, and Zhao Ta's marriage was scheduled for the eighth day of April and reported to the whole country.

Zhao Ta finally waited for the arrival of this day in anxiety, as the wedding date approached, the mood was even more melancholy, the door did not go out of the door, and even the five-day court meeting was also sick again and again, and he was not in the mood to accompany the tie-up, his head was not combed, his face was not washed, he did not ask about the world, he hid in the backyard every day and drank alcohol, and within ten days, the whole person collapsed, and he was really sick.

"Second master, don't drink anymore, eat something!" Zhao Xin took the bowl of noodles and said softly.

"I can't eat it, you can stay with me for a while!" Zhao Ta shook his head and pointed to the seat cushion on the side and said.

"Second master, the Ministry of Rites and the Etiquette Department in the palace have sent people to ask you to learn the wedding ceremony." Zhao Xin sat down and removed the wine glass in front of the prince, and gave it a bowl to speak.

"Fuck it. Tell them to get out of here. Lao Tzu is not that interested! Zhao Tan snorted and said.

"Second master, the big thing has been decided, don't think about it too much, marry Miss Zhu home as soon as possible, don't do anything again." Zhao Xin stuffed the chopsticks into the prince's hand and persuaded.

"I don't want to marry her, I want to marry you, I will enter the palace tomorrow, report to the mother, explain everything, and marry you into the house!" Zhao Ta looked at Zhao Xin and said.

"Second master. Don't, now that the emperor's decree has been issued, if you repent of your marriage at this time, not only will the royal family lose face. And it will ruin your future, everything you have fought for for years will be lost! Zhao Xin hurriedly dissuaded.

"So what's the matter, the country, wealth, and power are all clouds of smoke for me, all of this shouldn't belong to me in the first place, it's all made by God." Zhao Ta said with a wry smile, all because of a sudden assassination, the damn comet, which brought him to this era of decay, and it was precisely attached to this unlucky prince.

"Second master, I know that you are not greedy for power. Wealthy, but you also have to think about everyone, it is because of you, the people on the Xiangyi Zhuangzi have today's rich life, the brothers can live, the official shadow, Hedong can be calm, the people can live and work in peace and contentment, if you leave, they will soon lose all this. Don't you feel guilty? Zhao Xin said.

"Hehe, yes, it's not a ridiculous thing that I changed their lives and yours, but still can't change my own fate!" Zhao Ta smiled sadly.

"Second master. Maybe this is just creating people! Zhao Xin said in a low voice, although she was persuading the prince. But her heart is as miserable, after the master mother enters the door, it is impossible for her to be so close to the prince, but according to the temper of the prince, she will definitely snub the master mother, so her life is also sad.

"Zhao Xin, let's escape, get out of here, and stay together!" Zhao Ta said suddenly.

"Running away from marriage?!" Zhao Xin was taken aback when he heard this, and the prince wanted to elope with him.

"Yes, let's leave immediately, in the future, wandering the rivers and lakes, happy and revenge, isn't it more free than being this prince!" Zhao Ta said, his face glowing.

"Second master, can you really let go of all this, and give up everything for my little girl?" Zhao Xin looked at the prince and asked. …,

"Yes, I've been thinking about it for a long time, I originally came to this world with nothing, this world will still exist without me, the sun will still set and rise, and history will still roll forward!" Zhao Ta said affirmatively.

"Second master, have you really thought about it, do you not hesitate to abandon this power, wealth and relatives for me?" Zhao Xin asked again.

"Well, I've figured it out!" Zhao said.

"Okay, since that's the case, then I'll leave here with the prince and wander the rivers and lakes!" Zhao Xin looked at the prince and said, "But after all, we still have these brothers, your sudden departure, I'm afraid it will cause chaos, and even cause the saint to be angry, the second master also has to have a safe aftermath strategy, don't be ashamed of them!" ”

"Well, you still think about it thoroughly, today is March 25th, and there are more than ten days left in the divorce period, so there should be enough time!" Zhao Ta nodded and said, I was really carried away by love, I still have an invincible army and many secrets in my hands, if I don't deal with it properly, once it falls into the hands of others, I don't know what will happen to Lu Dao...

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The invitation period, that is, the man's family chooses an auspicious day to marry and sends someone to tell the woman's family to ask for the consent of the other party, which is commonly known as 'urging makeup'. The date is set for three days before the wedding, and the man sends bridal supplies such as makeup and gold hijab, and the woman reports Luo Huaqi and other clothes, and of course, a large number of dowries.

The Song Dynasty was prevalent in dowry, and at this time, things seemed to show that it was natural that marrying a woman would cost more money than marrying a woman, regardless of wealth or poverty, as far as possible, parents took the dowry for their daughters as a major event, and tried to do it as richly, expressing their love for the daughter of the marriage, and preparing the dowry for their daughters early. This includes not only jewelry, gold and silver, pearls, treasures, movable assets such as tents, but also immovable property such as land, houses, and pastorals that accompany the marriage.

The dowry soon rose to the point where she had to borrow money to pay the dowry for her daughter. Later, the marriage was not an heir, and it evolved into seeking wealth by this, and when marrying, he did not ask about the other party's family status, and only stared at the thickness of the dowry. Once the dowry is delivered to the bridegroom's house, 'he will be asked for one and the other at dusk.' The husband abused his wife and begged for it. If you are not satisfied, you will cut off the love of men and women, and abandon each other. The custom is long, and it is not terrible. ’

The parents of the daughters are willing to invest in the dowry because the property factor will become stronger and strengthen the bond between the in-laws, because it can become the joint property of both parties for a long time. Just as brothers who have separated can hold each other in check by serving as heirs to cemeteries and ancestral halls, in-laws can maintain their bonds by sharing the common interests embodied in the dowry. After the bride's parents spent a lot of money to marry her off, they could count on more help from their daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. Some people even advised the Yin Shi family to give some of their property to their daughters, because in the future, if they find that their sons are not useful, the second elder can take refuge in their daughters, and they can even rely on their daughters to send funerals and worship their ancestors...

The wedding date was set by the emperor, and of course the Zhu family would not have any objections, but they worked hard to raise the dowry. The Zhu family is also considered an official eunuch, and according to customs, they naturally prepared a dowry, but they didn't expect to marry into the royal family, and they were a serious prince of eight hundred, so the things prepared earlier naturally seemed insufficient. At this time, the Zhu family has gone out of their way for both face and future wealth, and has done their best to prepare a private account for their daughter, and this fashion is obviously insufficient, but there are examples to follow in this regard, the platinum given by the emperor is 10,000 taels, which is nominally a dowry given by the man, but in fact it is an auxiliary fee to fund the woman to complete the wedding steps, and the two are combined to finally make up a decent dowry! …,

Zhao Ta looked at the size of the cages, makeup boxes, and horses of silk and satin sent to him, and didn't care, he just glanced at the gift list and ordered someone to carry it into the warehouse and lock it, at this time he was no longer a miser who was scheming when Xiangyi was first established, but a rich man with tens of millions of fortunes and making money every day, and he would not care about the dowry of tens of thousands of yuan.

"If you want it, I'll have someone prepare it for you tomorrow!" Zhao Ta looked back and found that Zhao Xin beside him had a look of admiration on his face, and he knew that this scene had stirred up Zhao Xin's mind again.

"The second master prepared for me, is it a dowry or a dowry? If it is a dowry, where will it be sent, and if it is a dowry, to whom will I be married? Zhao Xin tilted his head and asked.

"This..."Zhao Xin's question stumped Zhao Ta, she was an orphan bought in the house, she had no family, the palace could be regarded as her maiden home, and there was really nowhere to give this dowry; If it is a dowry, I have prepared it for her, and I will earn it back before I even go out, which is no different from fooling people.

"Hehe, second master, I'll tease you, the private money I have saved over the years is not less than the dowry of the Zhu family, if the second master is not too little, take it away!" Zhao Xin was amused when she looked at the prince's confused appearance, and said with a smile, she was just touching the scene just now, thinking that if she had a family by her side, things might be another result.

"Oh, I also said that I am loyal to this king and will never give up, it turns out that I have already saved a dowry for myself!" Zhao Ta said suddenly.

"Of course, if the prince doesn't look down on me as a little handyman, then he can only find someone to marry, if he doesn't have some family resources around, he won't be bullied!" Zhao Xin said 'seriously'.

"Okay, don't laugh, I've already prepared the aftermath, just wait for the day we leave and secretly hand it over to the joy, you just need to prepare the horses and bags the day before the wedding, and we'll leave after I come back from the palace!" Since Zhao Xin promised to 'elope' with him, Zhao Ta has returned to normal, followed the ceremonial officer to learn the wedding ceremony, arranged some wedding trivia, and even thought that the prince had recognized his head, and no longer angry with the emperor, he was really relieved, but he didn't know that the prince had secretly written more than a dozen letters a long time ago, and arranged the affairs in the palace and the army, and he was going to prepare to escape with Zhao Xin... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )