Farmer's Little Girl

Chapter 2499

The reason why the Ministry of rites implied this is not only the reason of regulation, but also the hint of the emperor.

The emperor prepared a lot of dowries for the two princesses. No matter how much bride price the Bai family prepared, it would be too much beyond the ritual system. The emperor thought it was bad.

The reason why he is so guilty is naturally because he was wronged by Wei Zhi when he married his daughter a few years ago. Of course, he admitted his mistake, but he didn't change it.

This time he married two daughters in a row. The emperor asked the Treasury to prepare a lot of dowry. He stepped on the online and offline list of etiquette, and then he gave a little more private house. The queen also divided her dowry, which was a little more than accidentally.

Wei Zhi had been remonstrated last time. The Emperor didn't want to see him this time. Every time he saw him, he had to talk about it once. He was guilty.

Old Zhou tou didn't understand this. "Why does Lord Wei have so many things to do? What's there to say about the father's dowry for his daughter? This is the emperor's money. Who does he love to give it to? Why should he listen to what an outsider says?"

Man Bao said, "you can't say that. The heavenly family has no private affairs. Besides, it involves etiquette. It's not your Majesty's business, not just the Royal business. Mingda has refused such a high dowry twice, but it's the love of your majesty and the queen. She can't be too tough, or it will hurt your Majesty's heart."

Old Zhou tou didn't understand, "isn't it his own business to marry his daughter?"

Man Bao shook his head, while Bai Shan also shook his head and said, "the ritual system is to standardize people's identity and social relations. Your majesty also has sisters. According to the ritual, the princesses of the former Emperor are more expensive than your Majesty's princesses. Dowry beyond the ritual system will not only break this relationship, but also leave bad examples for future generations. What will someone do in the future?"

Bai Shan said: "Your Majesty's love for women is understandable, but Lord Wei is not wrong. He looks at this matter from the overall situation. Now your majesty just steps on the line of the etiquette system to let the Treasury prepare the gift list and subsidize the rest. But what if an emperor in the future is unwilling to take money from the private treasury or has no money in the private Treasury, but wants to give the married Princess a decent share? "

Old Zhou tou: "what should I do?"

"He will pass it on to the national treasury, and the bottom line is that he will be trampled down bit by bit," Bai Shan said. "Besides, his Majesty's private Treasury does not belong to him alone. In addition to him, it also involves other princes and daughters, not to mention the Imperial medical department and Taichang temple, which often need subsidies from the emperor. He has given more dowries to the princess, There are bound to be fewer things for the imperial medical department and the Taichang temple. "

At present, 40% of the expenditure of the imperial medical department is still from the emperor's private Treasury. It should take a long time for the national treasury to fully bear its expenditure.

Don't tell me too often.

Taichang temple is responsible for the construction of the imperial mausoleum, which is a large part of the expenditure. Of course, the money is from the Treasury, but now in order to alleviate the pressure of the Treasury, it has been independently bearing part of the expenditure. Otherwise, why is the emperor so poor?

On the one hand, such fixed expenditure is also a big reason.

Look at the Daming Palace. It has been built for 20 years. Half of it is wasteland. You can know how poor the emperor is.

So it's really not the emperor's business.

But the emperor also had an iron head. Wei Zhi and others scolded him. He listened honestly and turned around. What should be prepared for his daughter is still preparation, but he didn't change.

Wei Zhi was helpless. It was about to celebrate the new year. All kinds of taxes had to be integrated, and the places where money would be spent in the coming year had to start preparing plans. Moreover, this year was the time limit for the great inspection of the Ministry of officials. Important officials from all over the country had to return to Beijing to report on their work. Qin Tianjian was warning two months earlier that the cold came early this year, and there might be snow disasters in Zhongyuan and the south.

Yes, the snow disaster is not in the north, but in the Central Plains and the south, which happen to be large grain producing areas. It's really a headache.

So there are a lot of things to do. Wei Zhi doesn't want to get too stiff with the emperor on such a small matter, especially when they are about to become in laws.

Therefore, he wrote twice and advised twice to his face. When he found that the emperor admitted his mistake face to face and what to do behind his back, he ignored it with one eye open and one eye closed.

The emperor felt guilty for a few days and found that Wei Zhizhen didn't ask. He was very happy in an instant, so he was free and asked about the minister's dowry when preparing the dowry for his daughter.

It was mainly that Zhou man came to ask the queen for peace pulse. They were all children whose front and rear feet were going to be married. The emperor asked, "have your parents prepared a dowry for you?"

Man Bao nodded, "there are many ready."

The emperor smiled and asked, "I heard you earn a lot yourself. Will you put it on the dowry?"

Man Bao shakes his head.

The emperor frowned, "why do you want to leave your money to your parents and family?"

How can a father want his daughter's hard-earned money?

Man Bao said, "no, my father won't let me write down the money in the dowry. He told me to keep it secretly. He said it was private. If it was put on the dowry, it would be public. He should put some private houses on his body. It's more convenient. No one knows how much money I have."

In fact, she didn't know how much money she had unless she looked at the account books“

As soon as the emperor heard this, he thought deeply. Afterwards, he said to Mingda, "it's a pity that everything in our family is on the account book. It's impossible to leave it to you secretly. However, Zhou man's father said well. You should still have some private houses. Later, I'll find an excuse and ask for some money from the private Treasury. You can secretly take it to do private houses."

Mingda: "... Father emperor, didn't you and your mother prepare silver for your children's ministers? That's enough. "

"That's over Minglu, not a private house."

Mingda felt that Bai Erlang would not remember this, which might be a little difficult for him, but the emperor insisted that she had no choice but to say, "my daughter doesn't cost much. I can give some to my sister, so I'll be less."

The emperor nodded, reached out and touched her head and said, "you are weak. At that time, I'll ask someone to prepare more medicinal materials for you. Later, you will live in the princess's house. If the medicine is not enough, send someone back and say, I'll ask someone to find it for you."

Mingda smiled and nodded. Her father's mood has fluctuated a little recently. Forget it. Everything should be done first.

The emperor was gratified, grabbed his daughter's hand and sighed, "unknowingly, you are going to get married, especially remember that a few years ago you were still so small. Your hair was withered and yellow and loose. No matter how much food you ate, your mother and I were worried to death at that time. The Tai hospital said that you were empty and unfit, and your spleen and stomach were weak. Unlike your sister, you ate like a kitten, I didn't expect you to be so old now. "

The emperor looked at Mingda, who had only yellow hair at the tip of his hair. He reached out and touched it with satisfaction. His daughter's body was getting better and better. Just look at her hair.

Mingda doesn't want to talk to her father. She looks good everywhere, but her hair is not very good. Her father even mentioned it.