Chapter 116 Ten Miles of Red Makeup Marrying a princess of the Great Song Dynasty is very expensive.
This is the consensus of all people in the Great Song Dynasty.
It wasn't like this before, at least not in the Taizu period, the rewards for Taizu's marriage have always been extremely rich, at least when the Cao family married Zhao Kuangyin's daughter Lu Guo's eldest princess, they also received 10,000 platinum from the emperor, two white jade sides, 60,000 silk, 100 acres of land, 10 good horses, 50 house slaves, and countless rewards for color forging.
It can be regarded as the Cao family's flat acquisition of a lot of wealth.
There have been great changes when I arrived at Emperor Taizong, after the candlelight and axe, Taizu died, and there were still three concubines and four non-concubines.
After Emperor Taizong disposed of his nephews, he immediately sold his nieces to rich people in the southeast at a good price.
It is clear from the annals of history that 600,000 yuan of silver was collected that year!
Since Emperor Taizong sold the daughter left by Emperor Taizu for a high price, he also dug a big hole for his daughter.
Although those courtiers who are loyal to Taizu dare not say anything about Taizong replacing his nephew as emperor, they are extremely tough on the matter of the princess marrying, since Emperor Taizong can use his niece to sell his niece for money under a high-sounding excuse, when it comes to his own daughter, he must follow the old practice.
I have to say that Emperor Taizong is a very decisive emperor, and seeing that the voices of the courtiers accusing him have formed a trend, he sold several of his unimportant concubines for a good price at the first time.
If people are shameless, they are invincible in the world, since Taizong has already done this, although those courtiers know that there is something wrong with doing so, they can't continue to accuse Emperor Taizong of partiality.
As a result, the emperors of later generations generally follow the old calendar for those princesses who are not important!
In this way, people who want to marry a princess can't afford to marry a princess if they don't have a family fortune of 100,000 yuan.
Especially in the era of the Great Song Dynasty, when everyone had fixed assets but very little money, taking out 100,000 yuan at a time was almost a fatal thing for a family.
Only those salt merchants and giants in the southeast have this strength.
The Commander of the Horse is a Qingliu official, and there is still a big difference between this Qingliu official and the pavilion official.
Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, they have carried out a strict division of the duties and powers of the Commander of the Horse, not only does he not have the right to participate in politics, but if he asks about the military privately, it is a big crime, even if he can get an official position, he can only be an attendant of the emperor's family.
Responsible for helping the emperor raise horses, manage carriages, or manage the inner treasury, almost the same as the royal family slaves.
For those arrogant scribes of the Great Song Dynasty, such an official position bordered on humiliation!
Not only do the people of the Great Song Dynasty know that the princess of the Great Song Dynasty is delicate and expensive, but even the surrounding countries also know it. can't afford to pay the expensive bride price, which is also the reason why the princess of the Great Song Dynasty rarely goes out.
The regulations in the Lanyuan Alliance are very clear that the Great Song Dynasty needs to give the Khitans 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk every year.
After the peace agreement between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia Qingli, the Great Song Dynasty gave the Western Xia 50,000 taels of silver every year.
No emperor would be so stupid as to return the money he had already received to the Great Song Dynasty by marrying a princess.
Therefore, the emperor of Western Xia generally likes to marry the Khitan princess and then die, as for marrying the princess of the Great Song Dynasty, he is reluctant to die, the price is too expensive.
Zhao Wan's bride price was drawn up by Tie Xinyuan himself, and the silver money was not very important in the Western Regions, and the most important thing in that place was the materials.
What's more, Hami itself is a place rich in gold, and it is common in Hami to take silver money and not be able to exchange it for materials.
The tribes of the Western Regions were more concerned about food, salt, cloth and all kinds of daily necessities, and even the ropes woven from cowhide were much better than gold and silver in the Western Regions. 500,000 pieces of gold and silver sounds like a terrifying number, but although these gold and silver are said to be a dowry for the emperor, ah, the emperor still has to be faceless anyway, although it is impossible to return all the gold and silver, and some materials will be rewarded more or less.
Generally, it is folded in half, and the mountains of cloth and silk in the Great Song Dynasty market are just good things to reward.
Tie Xinyuan knew that Zhao Wan had already hoarded a large amount of materials in private, and if the emperor could reward some more, it would be much better than buying them in the border market with 500,000 yuan of silver.
In the Silver Star and the market, a gold ingot may not be exchanged for a silk silk!
That place was the place where the Great Song Dynasty sucked the blood of foreign people, and selling things was like killing people, and Tie Xinyuan would not go to those places to be abused by the Song people no matter what.
"Twenty sheep, twenty pots of wine, and forty horses of color were to knock at the door.
Dingli needs sheep, wine, color each plus ten, tea 100 catties, hair scarf section, silk, silk 30 horses, four pairs of gold hairpins, a pair of strips, pearl tiger Po Yingluo, real pearl jade hairpin each two pairs, a pair of gold and color clothes, gold and silver in two, three hundred splendid silk Luo, fruit plates, pollen, flowers, sleeping sheep and deer flower cakes, silver sheng, small color gold and silver coins and other things.
To pay for wealth, you need to use 100 taels of gold, 1,000 horses, 500,000 money, 300 pieces of Jinqi, Aya, Luo, and Silk, 10 gold embroidered clothes, 3 pairs of real pearls, emerald hair, and jade hairpins, a bundle of letters, 20 horses, 50 sheep, 50 pots of wine, 100 pieces of red silk, 100 pairs of pollen, flowers, fruit plates, Yinsheng, Luo Sheng, etc.
Greeting relatives should be painted with gold and silver to dress the shoulder, one obstacle and one obstacle respectively, four square group palm fans, ten trees to lead the obstacles, ten colored candle cages, high hairpin inserts and eight children ride to guide the fan left and right.
The gift of his clan was sent to the envoy for five thousand taels of silver.
In addition, 430,000 taels of silver ......"
It took Zhao Wan a long time to calculate the cost of Tie Xinyuan to marry her, sighed, and reached out her fingers to rub her swollen temples, although she knew that her father would definitely sell her for a good price, she didn't expect it to sell for so much money. 500,000 guan, at least it can support the Khitan army assistance expenses and the Western Xia coins for three years......
This sum of money is a huge amount of money that the Song people cannot refuse.
Zhao Wan knew that the Great Song Dynasty had suffered disasters in the past two years, and Bao Zheng was responsible for disaster relief matters all year round, and he stayed in Beijing for no more than two months in a year.
Half of the money in the treasury was only used to support 2.6 million troops, and then another 30 percent was used to support the officials who were densely packed with beds and frames, and only 20 percent of the money that could really be used for state affairs was gone.
In these two percent, it is necessary to deal with disaster relief, pacification, and river work, which will be ......
The father's internal palace is now supported by the income of the glaze, if there is no glaze manufacturing technique offered by Brother Yuan'er back then, the concubines in the inner palace can only wear clothes, how can they have today's scenery?
After writing the gift list, Zhao Wan's heart suddenly became empty, and she suddenly found that her relatives had no resistance in front of 500,000 yuan of silver.
She can even imagine that once the envoy of Khotan will send this gift list to Honglu Temple tomorrow, and finally fall into the hands of the deacons, even if the father and the emperor are reluctant, and the mother concubine is complaining, under the insistence of the Manchu Dynasty, it has become a foregone conclusion that she will marry the king of Khotan!
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A princess in exchange for three years of peace in the border village of the Great Song Dynasty......
It's a great deal.
Mama Zhang walked in from outside, and when she saw Zhao Wan looking at the gift list in front of her, she reached out and grabbed Zhao Wan's shoulder and chuckled: "It's just some dead objects, what's there to be reluctant to."
When the old man came, Mrs. had already spoken first, she didn't care what country she was, as long as her son was happy, it was worth it even if the family was bankrupt. “ "500,000 guan......
Mama, do you think I'm really worth the money?
Is it really worthy of Brother Yuan'er's love?
Just marrying me alone has cost a country decades of savings, am I really not a demon girl who has brought disaster to the country and the people?
” Mama Zhang saw Zhao Wan's tears rolling down, helped her wipe away her tears and smiled: "What are the decades of savings, the Hami Qingxiang Kingdom has only been established for less than a year, Brother Yuan'er is much stronger than the God of Wealth, and his ability to make money is much stronger than the rest of his skills." used the money earned in a year to marry the pearl of my Great Song Dynasty, and he took advantage of it.
What's more, this money can at least be exchanged for as much material as the mountain, don't you know, silver money can't actually buy much in the Western Regions, it's more of a barter, you may not know, the people in the Qingxiang Valley Market are all red copper money, and the green money can't be taken at all.
People can earn 100 red copper coins by selling buns for a day, and you carefully calculate how much money that sells buns in a day. ” Mama Zhang's explanatory words finally made Zhao Wan stop crying, she still asked Mama Zhang a lot of things uneasily, until Mama Zhang proudly told the prosperity of Qingxiang City, and after confirming that the money was not Tiexinyuan's fake public and private interests to marry herself at the cost of harming the country, her heart slowly settled down.
In fact, she still didn't understand why the people there had to barter instead of money, which was definitely an unreasonable thing in the city of Tokyo.
She decided that after she went to Qingxiang Valley, she must teach her people well, and such stupid things should not be done again.
When the palace gate was about to close, Mama Zhang returned to the Honglu Temple Post Station with the gift list drawn up by Zhao Wan.
Zema is not there as usual, she is glamorous these days, frequently going in and out of various noble parties, with a bold attitude, unfathomable amount of alcohol, so that the dignitaries in Tokyo love and respect her.
Zema herself fell in love with such an occasion, with the fierce and vicious Iron Three Hundred and the cold statue-like Rahman, with these two people, even the Khitan prince who coveted her beauty did not dare to make a mistake.
Wei Chi Zhuozhuo held the gift list drawn up by Zhao Wan in his hand, and sighed and said, "This is really ten miles of red makeup!"
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