Tong Yan held the dowry list in her hand, a little dumbfounded.

That's an exaggeration, isn't it?!

The whole six sheets of paper are full of writing, especially the last one, which is a box of hard-to-find antique paintings and calligraphy, all of which are extinct treasures.

There are more than a dozen Zhuangzi for marriage alone, and there are thousands of hectares of fertile land, as well as 100,000 taels of gold, not to mention all kinds of jewelry, silk, furniture, antiques and other bits and pieces of valuable objects.

Jing Si looked at Tong Yan's surprised appearance, pursed her lips and laughed, she showed the prince two or three times before deciding, each time the prince was too little, this was not the last praise for her, but also to add a sandalwood box, she went to open it to see, it was full of hard-to-find calligraphy and paintings.

She had never seen the prince fiddle with it, nor had she seen it taken out to dry, but she didn't expect it to be well preserved.

After Tong Yan was surprised, she was a little silent.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty.

is so ostentatious, isn't this for fear that the thief will not care?

Besides, with so much wealth, I'm afraid that half of the entire Yongwang Mansion has been hollowed out!

"County Lord." Jing Si saw that her smile faded, and thought that she was dissatisfied, so she asked tentatively, "But what else does the county lord like?" ”

Tong Yan came back to her senses and smiled, shook her head and said, "This is too much, will it be a little too ostentatious?" ”

This time, Jing Si was surprised, "Why do you think so, this is the prince's daughter, who dares to say more?" I'm afraid that the women in the whole capital will envy you! She swallowed the second half of the sentence, and I am afraid that even the Queen Mother and Her Majesty will not say anything.

Without waiting for Tong Yan to speak, she then took out two folded land deeds from her sleeve and handed them to Tong Yan, and whispered, "This is the title deed of a gold mine and an iron mine, both of which have not been mined." ”

Tong Yan was startled, hurriedly pushed her, glanced out of the door twice, and after making sure that no one was eavesdropping, she said, "You can return this to Daddy, what kind of gold and iron ore, if people know, how can this be good." ”

Salt and iron are state-owned monopolies, and if they are smuggled and traded privately, it is a felony!

Jing Si naturally knows it, but after following the prince for a long time, he also understands some truths, such as some regulations are dead, but people are alive, these important ministers and magnates are not clean in their hands, they have handles and interests with each other, and these mines are far away from the capital, and they are all covered up cleanly on the surface, and those officials who supervise are powerless even if they have the heart.

She thought for a moment and explained in a low voice, "Don't panic, the county lord, although the servant doesn't know much about the twists and turns, but since it was left to you by the prince, it must have been arranged, so you can rest assured that you can take it." ”

Tong Yan smiled bitterly, no wonder so many dowries are not too ostentatious, it turns out that the most ostentatious one is waiting here to be quietly stuffed to her.

So many dowries are really small compared to these two land deeds.

She took it and said, "I see." ”

In the evening, King Yong personally called her over and told her.

Only then did Tong Yan understand that what Jing Si said was not false at all, since Daddy dared to give it to her, it meant that everything was arranged.

It was also the first time she had a glimpse of the darkness and decay of these rights.

These families all have all kinds of ways to make money in their hands.

For example, salt is a piece of fertilizer, but it is closely related to the Jiang family. Although the iron ore is owned by the Son of Heaven, Sichuan Province has the largest iron mine, and it has almost fallen into the pockets of the Sichuan Chengxuan envoys.

It's not that the saints don't hear about these things, it's just that these families are too intricate, like vines that are intertwined and swirling, moving and affecting the whole body.

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Whether it is the Queen Mother or the Holy Lord, they all ask themselves that they don't have such an iron fist, let alone such courage, and they have more than enough heart but not enough strength.

Tong Yan looked at King Yong's heavy gaze, and a thought suddenly rose in her heart, if the person on the throne was not the current saint, but Daddy, would all this be different?

She suddenly remembered that in a small place in Feng County alone, the county order could almost cover the sky with one hand, and the collusion between officials and businessmen was no longer a secret......

She couldn't think about it, so King Yong let her go back.

Lying in bed at night, Tong Yan couldn't sleep over and over.

These greedy salt products, iron ores, and the filial piety of merchants from all walks of life seem to have nothing to do with the people, but when you think about it, they are actually closely related.

The money in circulation is limited, and if it all goes into the pockets of these powerful people, and they empty their accounts and are actually private, then the treasury will inevitably be empty, and there will be a shortage of food and wages, and the people will not only have their taxes higher than one day, but also the prices on the market will certainly be higher than one day, and then it will become a vicious circle.

If there is another famine year, it will not even be a few years in a row......

Tong Yan closed her eyes and sighed, she remembered that when she was eight years old, she was catching up with a famine year, the sky was stunned, there were not a few drops of rain in the whole spring, and when it came to summer, it rained desperately, and the entire crop field was almost unharvested.

Anyway, when the next year comes, Tiangong has a good heart, and the weather is smooth all year round, although it is not a bumper harvest of grains, but it can also pay taxes and grains, and the rest can be considered to be hungry.

If there is a drought and flood in the second year, the people really can't get by, Tong Yan still remembers that there is a family surnamed Liu, there are three girls and a boy in the family, and an old woman, the man is thin and weak, almost all supported by Aunt Liu alone, and he is not rich, because of the famine that year, he owed a lot of debts, or sold his daughter, only to pay off part of the debt, and it took three or four years to fill in the hole.

When Tong Yan thought of her dowry, she had 100,000 taels of gold......

That's a sin......

The dowry under the Duke of Wei's mansion is also a bloody investment, and it is estimated that the Duke of Wei also guessed that King Yong would spare no effort to accompany Tong Yan with all the good things.

200,000 taels of silver, 10,000 taels of gold, more than a dozen shops, more than a dozen Zhuangzi, and all kinds of antique ornaments, jade agate and gold hairpins, plus a rare Jiaowei qin.

Although it is still not as good as Tong Yan's dowry, I am afraid that no one in the entire capital can come up with such a dowry.

King Yong also said that only the antique ornaments and silver would be left, and the rest would be left to Tong Yan to take away.

Unexpectedly, in just a few days, Tong Yan suddenly became a rich and noble person, and I am afraid that even the princess will envy her, which is really like a dream.

But when the time comes, she will have the final say on all this money, and she deserves it, so she still has to think about how to make good use of it.

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The blue sky is like a wash, the sky is clear, and the people of Zhaoyang Garden come and go, so it is not lively.

Today is the day of Tong Yan's marriage.

She was woken up by Qingzhi early in the morning, and she still had two big black circles on her face.

Although she was not nervous at all, she lay in bed last night, and her head was empty, but she couldn't sleep for some reason.

Qingzhi said "oops", and quickly asked them to go to the kitchen to get two shelled eggs, pulled Tong Yan to sit in front of the mirror, and covered her eye sockets.

The bride is going to be beautiful, how can there be dark circles under her eyes!

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