Chapter 1048: Get the gold coins

Chapter 1048: Get the gold coins

Chapter 1048: Get the gold coins
Luoyang was bustling at the end of March.

The former Prince Fanyang's Palace was always filled with guests.

By the evening, a grand wedding took place as scheduled.

Tang Jian, a deputy minister of the imperial court, brought the court warriors with halberds to maintain order. When I revisited the old place, I felt a lot of emotion.

Thinking back then, His Majesty was right here - it seemed like it was just his little "mistake".

Princess Nanyang came from Guanzhong to ask for Sima Li's family property, but she didn't get the property and ended up getting pregnant with Princess Jingfu. This incident made...

Fortunately, everything is over.

Your Majesty and Liu Xiuyi loved each other deeply and had one son and two daughters (the son died young). At this point in their lives, they were much luckier than most people in troubled times.

After Tang Jian finished his inspection, he entered through the corner gate again.

In addition to the normal invited guests, there are also many more businessmen today.

They came uninvited, all saying that the emperor had done great favors to merchants all over the world, so they were willing to present gifts.

At this time, the music and dance next door was reaching its climax, with people playing flutes, shengs, drums, and pipa, and the noisy music almost broke the night sky.

Tang Jian watched through the window and chatted with the businessmen.

"The market will open in April, right?" he said.

"It opens in mid-April and ends at the end of April, once a year. I think that's still too little. Twice a year would be best."

"Now we only have the north, so once a year is enough. If we can recover Jiangdong, twice a year will be enough."

"Is there going to be a big fight this winter? Along the way, I saw many carriages and horses transporting food and supplies to Nanyang."

"Delivering grain six months in advance, what a huge undertaking that would be."

"You guys don't know, when I came from Nanyang and passed by Yongrao Ye, they said that after April they would stop making farm tools and focus on making armor, weapons and arrows."

"The southerners should know about this kind of commotion, right?"

"It can't be hidden. Tao Kan must know about it. I just don't know if Huainan and Xuzhou will take action."

Several businessmen simply sat down and chatted. They also had relatives attending the wedding, so they just sat there and waited for a while before going home together.

Tang Jian retracted his gaze and said, "Although the Wu people will know it sooner or later, you'd better keep your mouth shut."

"Exactly."

"As it should be."

"I just stored 80,000 hu of grain in Xinye Fort. If the news leaks out, it will be bad indeed."

"You have saved so much, where do you want to go? I have only prepared 40,000 hu of grain, and I haven't shipped it yet."

"I have my eyes on the fiefdom of Jiangxia Wei family."

"The Wei family also has high-ranking officials in the court, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to give it to you."

"Then we'll see. If it doesn't work, I'll gather hundreds of fellow villagers to grab a piece of good land. Anyway, I'm rich now."

Tang Jian listened for a while, smiled, and looked outside again.

The music and dance reached its climax, and the gorgeous wedding car slowly stopped.

The Huan family invited several scholar friends, and everyone recited poems and urged the bride to get out of the car.

After each person finished reciting, everyone in the room laughed.

After the last person finished reciting, the palace maids lifted the curtain and carefully helped the princess down.

The princess held a fan in her hand and covered her head with a red cloth, and walked slowly into the hall.

The businessmen also stopped talking, with complicated expressions on their faces.

After a long time, someone said, "I ran into Huan Yuanzi a few days ago. He was indeed very handsome and a rare handsome man."

"How can he marry a princess if he is not good-looking?" Someone sighed and said, "My sons are too young. Otherwise, they would have been dragged over to compete with Huan Yuanzi on Guang Chengze day."

"Haha." Several people made fun of him.

But it's hard to say. I heard that the emperor doted on his daughter and let her choose her own husband. With this clause, family background and family status are not ignored, but they are greatly weakened. To be honest, is the Huan family background very high? It's too ordinary.

The Longkang Huan family is a descendant of the Xing family. Although they are not from a poor family, they can barely be ranked among the minor families. Otherwise, why didn't Huan Yi get along with the people of the Hedong Pei family, Langya Wang family, Taishan Yang family, and Qinghe Cui family, but instead got along with Yu Yuangui?

To put it bluntly, the Yu family is not a big family.

If the Huan family can do it, then these families can also give it a try. As long as the princess likes them, nothing else matters.

You see, the Huan family had no mansion in the capital, so the emperor directly gave the former Fanyang Palace to Huan Wen as the "Qinglu" for the couple to get married.

You don't have to worry about anything, you can reach your goal in one step.

Tang Jian also felt a little sorry.

His legitimate sons got married too early, and since he was older than the emperor, he was unable to catch up.

Among the guests, Tang Jian seemed to have seen Wen Qiao, the governor of Qinzhou.

He went to Beijing to meet the emperor in December last year and should have left in February. Perhaps it was because of this wedding that he delayed it until now.

When Wen Taizhen laughed, he often frowned and stroked his face.

Tang Jian knew that he was suffering from toothache. Wen Qiao also intended to find a famous doctor in Beijing to treat his toothache.

When Wen Qiao entered the palace to meet the emperor, the emperor was very concerned and specifically told him not to extract the tooth easily.

Wen Qiao asked the reason, and the emperor said he was afraid of heavy bleeding.

Wen Qiao asked again what would happen if there was bleeding, and the emperor said that he was afraid of having a stroke like Zhang Gui.

Zhang Xiping was lucky. He was only temporarily unable to speak after the stroke and gradually recovered. But is it possible for others to be so lucky? It's hard to say.

The emperor specially asked someone to tell his fortune, and the person said that if Wen Tai really had his tooth extracted, he might have a stroke and die.

Wen Taizhen was skeptical, but he didn't dare to pull out the tooth for the time being and could only endure it.

The music next door was lively again. The whole wedding entered the worship stage, about to reach its climax, and also to come to an end...

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In late spring in April, the world is at peace.

The cuckoo flew across the sky, calling "cuckoo, cuckoo" continuously.

Shao Xun stayed in the palace with his parents, wife and children.

On this day, the King of Qi, the King of Chu, and Princess Jingfu and her husband all entered the palace.

After planting the vegetables, Shao Xun washed his hands and then held his granddaughter, who was less than two months old, with a complicated expression on his face.

The eldest daughter-in-law, Liu, gave birth to a daughter in February, who was Shao Xun's first grandchild.

Although he had made a lot of mental preparations, the 42-year-old still had mixed feelings. Why would someone call him "Aung"? How did time pass so quickly?
Looking at the chubby baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, Shao Xun handed her over to Queen Yu Wenjun.

After looking at it for a while, the queen handed it to the noble lady Le.

Le Lanji showed a gentle smile on her face and kept looking at her granddaughter while holding her.

The second daughter-in-law, Zu, is also pregnant.

Shao Xun glanced at Hu Lang. This brat was so unhappy when he got married, how come he succeeded in having a baby so quickly? Do you have to be so hypocritical?

Zu sat shyly beside the queen, with a slightly bulging belly. Well, the queen Yu Wenjun also had a slight bulge in her belly, but it was not so obvious.

Both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law were pregnant, and Shao Xun always felt a little embarrassed.

His sons all have children now, but he is still creating brothers and sisters for them, which always feels a bit weird.

However, Shao Zei will not let himself be wronged.

When it comes to women, he has tried his best not to compete with the people. What's wrong with having a few more children?
He is not convinced and he practices martial arts regularly, so he is in good health. How about you give me some condoms?

After a while, the sisters Chonghua Liu and Meiren Jin came again.

In Liu Ye's arms was Shao Xun's fifteenth son, Cui, who was born in April of the eleventh year of Shengui (327). He was now just two years old, or three years old in appearance.

Jin Yuehui gave birth to a son in September last year, but the son later died of illness.

Jin Yuehua gave birth to a daughter in February, and this is the baby she is holding in her arms now.

Jin Dao and Huan Lang were a little confused when they saw the new brothers and sisters. They thought their father was going to compete with King Jing of Han Zhongshan.

Huan Wen showed no sign of change.

The reason was simple. His father Huan Yi had given him a younger brother last year. Huan Yi was twelve years older than the emperor and was fifty-four this year.

"Xiao Chong..." Shao's mother Liu waved her hand. In her joy, she couldn't help but ask, "Can you afford to raise so many children?"

When Huan Wen heard the word "little bug", he was shocked. Just as he was about to look over, he was pinched by Fu Bao and immediately stood there obediently.

"Mother, Jiangnan is a big place." Shao Xun said indifferently, "If it really doesn't work, we can allocate a garden to each child and assign some gardeners to support them."

What I mean is that I have so many women in my harem, all of whom are spoils of war that I have worked hard to collect for half my life. How can I resist enjoying them? So what if I have many sons? I will give each of them an empty title of Duke, and in the future, I will buy gardens and parks in Jiangnan. I will give each of them one or two thousand gardeners, and let them develop Jiangnan for me.

There are so many aristocratic families with the surname Liu in the world, such as Pingyuan Liu, Zhongshan Liu, Pengcheng Liu, Wancheng Liu, Peijun Liu, etc. There are too many of them, so the same can be said for the Shao family.

After hearing this, Mother Shao felt relieved and turned to look at Fu Bao, saying, "Fu Bao, you have been making trouble in the palace for so many years, and now you are married in the blink of an eye. You must treat your husband well in the future. You are straightforward and have a bad temper, so you must learn to restrain yourself."

"Grandma, I get it." Fu Bao came over with a smile and said, "Grandma, where are the big boxes I hid at your place before? Are they still there? They are all the gold, silver, jade and stones I saved. They are very beautiful."

After hearing this, Shao Xun almost fainted.

Huan Wen lowered his head even lower, and his face felt a little embarrassed.

"You are already a married woman, yet you are still so frivolous." Liu said in dissatisfaction, "The boxes are all here. If they were missing, you would have set the house on fire. I will give these gold, silver, jade and stones to Yuanzi later. He is a man and needs money for his foreign travels."

Fu Bao was stunned, feeling as if the sky was falling.

Liu looked at Huan Wen again and said, "Yuanzi, my family has only been rich for one generation, so we lack many etiquettes. Fu Bao has been neglected since she was a child, so she has a bad temper and wild personality. You have to bear with her. She has no bad intentions. I heard that she scolded those vagrant children of the Chen family before, and she is still on your side. The Huan family has passed down the study of classics, and it is very famous even in the East China Sea. In the future, this family will still rely on you to support it."

"The princess has a straightforward and considerate personality. I am fortunate to marry her," Huan Wen replied immediately.

Fu Bao listened from the side and was a little dissatisfied at first, then he laughed secretly and blushed.

Liu was also very happy to hear this, so she looked at Shao Xun and said, "Xiao Chong, my grandson-in-law is working in Huangsha Prison, which is detrimental to his reputation. Please transfer him."

Shao Xun was speechless.

Damn it! He cheated my daughter away and wanted to promote him. So he wants to steal my gold coins, right?

Huan Wen was already a seventh-rank Huangsha Dianshi. If one counted the title of Fuma Duwei automatically granted after he married the princess, he would be a sixth-rank official. How could he be promoted further?
If Huan Wen was promoted, should Huan Yi be promoted as well? Although it is not uncommon for a father to hold a lower official position than his son, it is still a bit embarrassing. Should we solve this problem together?

But when his mother mentioned this, Shao Xun could only hold his nose and said, "Mother, I will go on a southern expedition this year, so I want to appoint a lieutenant general in Xiangyang. Yuanzi can stay in Nanyang and transport food, fodder and military equipment."

"Yuanzi has been studying since he was young and can calculate with a plank, so it won't be difficult for him to transport food and fodder." Liu smiled and said, "That's great. The officials in Huangsha Prison are scolded every day, which may hinder their socializing. Yuanzi should not go if he can avoid it."

After saying that, he stood up again and shouted towards the hall: "What is this old servant doing hiding in the room? Why don't you go pick some pickles? I don't know where Xiao Chong is all day long. Wenjun is worried to death. Today is a good day for us to have a reunion dinner."

Shao Xun looked a little unnatural.

Yu Wenjun glanced at him and felt much better.

Fu Bao covered his mouth and laughed secretly, then quietly came to Huan Wen's side and said in a low voice: "Old slave..."

Huan Wen was helpless and was about to say something, but when he saw Fu Bao glaring at him, he immediately shut up.

Fu Bao smiled even more brightly, and then took Huan Wen's hand.

Huan Wen looked around guiltily and quietly broke free.

Shao Xun looked up at the sky, then waved to Liu Ye and took the fifteenth child, Shao Cui, out of his arms. Unexpectedly, the child peed on his head, and the people around him tried hard to hold back their laughter when they saw it.

Shao Xun patted his son's butt and said angrily, "Even when I was surrounded by Xiongnu soldiers, I was not so embarrassed."

After fighting for so long, I want to lie down at home.

I'm lying at home with a bunch of troubles to deal with. I think I might as well go and play with Jin Bing.

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