Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2061, Century Wedding

The news that Princess Nanyang is going to marry Liu Qing, the youngest son of Liu Jin, the former chief minister of the cabinet, quickly spread throughout the capital.

All of a sudden, young and old in the entire capital began to discuss this matter.

"Have you heard?"

"So today's princess Nanyang is going to marry the youngest son of the former cabinet minister Liu Jin?"

"real or fake?"

"Isn't this princess not married to the sons of princes and ministers?"

"It's not that you don't want to marry. There are some special cases. This Nanyang princess is the heart of the emperor. Just this princess, she couldn't be treated normally at that time. She must be marrying a young talent. Generally speaking, she is from a small family. It’s definitely not going to work.”

"This Liu Jin is really favored, and the grace is endless."

"Isn't it? As the only daughter of today's emperor and the younger sister of the crown prince, this princess of Nanyang has an extremely noble status. I heard that the more important thing is that the princess of Nanyang is both talented and beautiful, and she is well-educated. Woolen cloth."

"These are not the most important, do you know what is the most important?"

"This time, when the emperor marries the princess, the dowry may be worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver!"

"Hundreds of millions of taels of silver? Just brag about it, do you know the concept of hundreds of millions of taels of silver?"

"Do you not believe it?"

"Now it's not like before, especially the property under the emperor's command is so huge that it's hard to calculate its value. It's nothing to take out hundreds of millions of taels of silver as a dowry casually."

"And the title of Princess Nanyang is Nanyang, do you know? In the Nanyang region, there are hundreds of large islands that belong to the fiefdom of Princess Nanyang, and they will all be married together when the time comes."

"It was reported in the newspapers last time that a small island in Nanyang was sold for more than [-] taels of silver. Think about how much these hundreds of large islands are worth."

"Whoever marries a Nanyang princess, let alone this life, even ten or a hundred lives will not have to worry about food and drink."

"If you say that, doesn't Liu Jin get rich again?"

"For Liu Jin, this is actually nothing. Liu Jin has money, hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and Liu Jin can also get it out. When Liu Jin married his daughter a few years ago, it was also a dowry of tens of millions of taels of silver. Yes, it directly made a poor boy cheap and became rich overnight."

"Tsk tsk, this is really enviable, why don't we have this life?"

"Wake up, do you think any random person is fine?"

"Either your father is good enough, or you are good enough, or your ancestors can smoke, if you don't have any of the three, you should wash up and sleep."

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Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang were worried about the marriage of Princess Nanyang. They ordered people to build a huge mansion in the capital ahead of time. This will be the princess mansion in the future, and it can be regarded as one of the dowry.

Then Liu Qing was directly granted the title of uncle of Nanyang, and he could also be hereditary. An iron rice bowl fell to Liu Jin's family, which made Liu Qing's biological mother, Li Zhen, grin from ear to ear.

Then, he ordered people to carefully calculate the birthdays of Princess Nanyang and Liu Qing, and chose the eighth day of October to hold the wedding.

Then it was ordered that all the merchants in the capital must wear red and colorful decorations, and be festive. The main streets, squares, commercial streets and other places in the capital were re-decorated and decorated in a very festive manner.

At the same time, Emperor Hongzhi made another decree to pardon the world, except for the heinous people, all the rest of the sins were pardoned, so that they could reform their mistakes. This is also a universal celebration.

The preparations for the wedding had already started two months before the wedding. The whole palace was completely decorated and turned into a festive red color. It was even more lively than when the prince Zhu Houzhao got married.

When it came time to hold the wedding, Emperor Hongzhi directly set up running water seats in many places such as the Imperial Palace, Imperial Square, football, etc., for three days.

The running water banquet here in the palace is prepared for the princes and ministers in the court. As long as they are officials of the fifth rank or above in the Beijing-Tianjin area, they can participate in the palace.

At the same time, vassal states, vassal states, colonies, foreign ambassadors, etc. can also come to participate.

As for the running water seats in the Empire Square and many football fields, they are for the common people of Ming Dynasty. Anyone can go to the seats and eat for free.

All these expenses, expenses, etc. were all taken out of Emperor Hongzhi's internal funds, and there were thousands of tables in the Imperial Square alone, and a huge team of chefs was busy from beginning to end.

In order to prepare this huge running water banquet, the famous chefs in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, as well as the chefs and waiters in the restaurants, were almost all recruited by an order. Of course, everyone also got a big red envelope. Not letting them do it for nothing.

On the auspicious day, Liu Qing, who was wearing a crimson groom's suit, came to the palace under the witness of all civil and military officials, princes and ministers in the capital. After a tedious ceremony, he brought the princess out of the palace.

Liu Qing was riding a bay red horse in front, followed by a huge procession of seeing off relatives. The mighty procession stretched from the palace to Liu Jin's mansion. It was very long and huge, as if the tail could not be seen at all. .

This time, His Royal Highness Zhu Houzhao, the Crown Prince of Daming, who came to see off his relatives, naturally loved his younger sister very much. In addition to the dowry given by Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao also gave his sister a huge dowry separately.

Well, Zhu Houzhao is also a super rich man, richer than his father, Emperor Hongzhi, and his property is even bigger. He was also the first to do business with Liu Jin in partnership, involving almost all walks of life and fields.

The dowry he gave was more than that given by Emperor Hongzhi.

The prince personally delivered the marriage, followed by Zhu Houzhao's hundreds of sons.

No way, Zhu Houzhao has many sons, and now there are more than 200 of them. This is only less than half of the time. Hundreds of princes are married off, which shows that the emperor and prince love the Nanyang princess. It is really in the palm of his hand The inside is terrified.

Of course, for these princes, this Nanyang princess has also played with them since they were young, and they are about the same age. She is their playmate since childhood and their aunt.

This aunt is going to bid, and it seems normal for this nephew to marry, but there are hundreds of princes at once. Looking at the history of thousands of years, this is probably the only case.

Since ancient times, there are still emperors and princes who can give birth to hundreds of sons, but there are no ones who can raise them and support them.

This Zhu Houzhao also caught up with the good times, caught up with the good times of the rapid development of medical science and technology in the Ming Dynasty, and gave birth to many sons, all of whom could be raised to adulthood, so there was a grand scene of hundreds of princes marrying off.

Zhu Houzhao, who was riding a horse, was very proud. Among other things, this most economical title must not be lost.

There is no way, he is good at this aspect of things, if there are more women, there will be more births.

Zhu Houzhao, who had no children in history, now has a house full of children and grandchildren, and there are already a lot of grandchildren. The Ming royal family has never been as prosperous as it is today.

Immediately behind hundreds of princes are dozens of court ladies and maids, all of whom are beautiful and beautiful. They were selected into the palace from childhood to be raised with the princess, and some are slightly older. Court ladies in their teens, these are talented women who came from Korea and Japan as tributes.

North Korea and Japan would pay tribute beauties to the Son of Heaven almost every now and then, but Emperor Hongzhi didn't need them, and many of them were cheaper than Zhu Houzhao, or they were maids in the palace. married.

Then there is the dowry of the highlight.

A box, a box of pearl agate, jade, jade, exquisite porcelain, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., are all oversized special boxes, full of them, and they are all opened. Treasures are extremely dazzling.

Because there are so many of them, the whole street is shining with dazzling and charming lights.

Then there are all kinds of land deeds, house deeds, stocks, share deeds, etc. in each box. Although these are paper, they are only packed in a dozen boxes, but they are the most valuable among all dowry items. that's it.

Among other things, there are dozens of oil fields in the dowry oil fields alone, which cannot be measured in silver.

After expensive things are boxes and boxes of gold.

This time the dowry gold was a full one hundred thousand taels of gold, which was not an imaginary number, but a real one hundred thousand taels of gold.

Since the Ming Dynasty conquered the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire, these two Indian kingdoms have used gold and silver to pile up pyramids every year. In the end, the gold and silver basically fell into the hands of Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., half They all went into the internal funds of the crown prince and Emperor Hongzhi.

So there is plenty of gold, just move it out of the internal funds, and move out one hundred thousand taels of gold.

Box after box of gold was so shiny that the eyes of the young and old in the capital were all straightened up. It was definitely very rare to see so much gold, and it was an eye-opener for everyone.

Then there are boxes and boxes of silver.

There is a lot of silver in Daming now, gold and silver from all over the world are flowing to Daming, especially during the Golden Week, the amount of silver mined is very large, and the amount of silver flowing into Daming is so huge that ordinary people can Take out hundreds or thousands of taels of silver.

The Emperor Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao directly ordered people to pack tens of millions of taels of silver out. One box after another was so heavy that the foreheads of those who carried the boxes were sweating.

PS: Should such a wife be married?
(End of this chapter)