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Chapter 430 The County Honor Can't Save This Money
The conversation is over.

Li Chaosheng nodded to express his understanding, and asked Gu Zi to send them back home.

Soon a carriage appeared in front of the gate of Yuxian Tower, and Gu Zi personally drove the two guards to send the second daughter back. Li Chaosheng was told that it was not safe because there were only two guards left around him, and "forcibly 'Sent back to the Lantian County Government.

When he arrived at the county government, Li Chaosheng met Guo Bao.

"What are you going to do?"

After hearing this, Guo Bao said: "I told the county lord that I just had someone show the county lord and Princess Changyu the birth date. On the eighth day of the month, I don’t know which one the county lord likes? I think the tenth day of the next month is better, we have plenty of time, and we can prepare well..."

"What is there to prepare for? It's the fifth day of next month. Do you know if it's early or late for a big wedding?"

"Yo, that's a bit rushed."

Guo Bao scratched his head when he heard this.

A wedding in the Ming Dynasty was not simply a matter of holding a ceremony, but had strict rules and regulations, including, Nacai, that is, the man sent someone to the woman's home to propose marriage.

This step has actually been completed, and Guo Bao has already taken his things there.

Now even the second step of name asking is done, which is to get the horoscopes of both men and women, find an expert to see if the horoscopes match, and determine an auspicious date by the way.

Then the next step is Najib, which means that the man went to the woman's house for the second time to tell the other party that the horoscope is very good and can continue.

Followed by Nazheng, commonly known as Guoli, the dowry comes from here, that is, the man sends the dowry to the woman's home.

Then there is still an invitation period, the next three letters (ceremony letter, appointment letter, welcome letter) personally welcome...

Waiting for a series of things, but also to decorate the mansion, and to send invitations to all parties. You must know that even Chongzhen in the Forbidden City will be notified of Li Chaosheng's wedding, and no one should be exposed.

That's why Guo Bao said that the time was a bit rushed, because the process of sending invitations would take a long time, but it was a bit rushed, and it could be done at Lantian's speed.

After all, the Lantian telegram has already reached all corners of the country, and it is enough to send a telegram and let the local Lantian spy or representative send the invitation.

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao and said, "Hurry up as soon as possible, try your best, if you can't be notified, then you won't be notified."

After Li Chaosheng finished speaking, he hummed a little song and walked to his office.

Guo Bao looked at Li Chaosheng who was humming a ditty, looked at the two guards behind Li Chaosheng with a puzzled expression, and said, "What's wrong with the magistrate, is there a lack of women?"

The two guards looked at Guo Bao and said, "Master Guo, speak carefully."

After hearing this, Guo Bao said: "No, the county lord was not so anxious before, can't wait for a month and a half?"

After hearing this, the two guards said: "It's not that the magistrate can't wait anymore, but... Forget it, I can't explain to you, Mr. Guo will leave."

The two guards chased Li Chaosheng and left.

Guo Bao thought for a while and said: "This really can't be delayed. I have to go to the Ministry of Finance first. The county lord's wedding can't be too shabby, and they have enough budget."

Guo Bao trotted all the way to the Ministry of Finance. The matter related to Li Chaosheng was not a trivial matter. As long as it was related to Li Chaosheng, this was the biggest political event in Lantian, especially the wedding of the county lord, which represented that Lantian had a queen. Its political significance was that Quite important.

Guo Bao trotted all the way to the Ministry of Finance. When the Ministry of Finance heard that some county officials needed money for their wedding, this time the Ministry of Finance, which is known for being stingy, could be regarded as generous, directly allocating [-] silver dollars for the wedding.

Seeing the appropriation, Guo Bao frowned and said, "Isn't it a bit shabby for our county lord to have a big wedding with one hundred thousand silver dollars? I heard people say that the emperor's big wedding cost several 10 taels, or millions of taels of silver. It's not at the emperor level, the princes and kings should have it."

At this time, the Ministry of Finance said with a bitter face: "It's not that I don't want to give it, but there are too many places in Lantian that need money. There are nearly a hundred reservoirs to be built in northern Shaanxi this year, and any reservoir will lose 1 taels of silver." Construction costs, as well as arsenal allocations, education allocations, and people's livelihood allocations..."

The Ministry of Finance settled the accounts, looked at Guo Bao and said, "My lord minister, which one do you think can be moved lightly?"

Guo Bao frowned when he heard this, and said, "I'd better tell the county magistrate, after all, it's his old man's big wedding, it's too shabby, I'm afraid he will beat me."

After Guo Bao finished speaking, he turned and walked towards Li Chaosheng's office. After entering the office, Li Chaosheng took a sip of the tea he had just made for himself, and took the rest of the official documents to read.

At this time, Guo Bao hurried in.

"Xianzun is like this. Now our Lantian has a lot of waste to do, and the reconstruction of northern Shaanxi needs a lot of money, so your big wedding may only have a budget of [-] silver dollars."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said, "One hundred thousand silver dollars, this money is placed in ten large reservoirs in northern Shaanxi, and ten large reservoirs can support at least 10 people."

Li Chaosheng thought about this for a while and said: "What do I spend so much money on when I get married? The budget is halved, and [-] is enough. Our house is also ready-made here. How much can the sedan chair cost? As for the dowry, Qin The palace can still send me these three melons and two dates, just give me some meaning, the banquet doesn’t have to be too good, what should we do with ordinary wealthy people’s banquets, let’s do it, let Yuxianlou undertake it, and buy and sell by yourself. Can't make us money."

"As for the seafood feast that you said at the wedding banquet, what kind of seafood feast will we have as a group of old Shaanxi people? We can get more mutton. As for seafood, we don't want anything that is difficult to preserve. It must cost a lot to transport it from the sea to us. , It’s not worth it. If you want to eat, let’s order our Shaanxi specialties. The big carp in our reservoir is good, and there are also raised river crabs and river prawns. To be extravagant and wasteful."

Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said: "But the bride's head jewelry can't be sloppy. You can go change some gold and find the best goldsmith in Lantian to make a set for me with heart. You can't be sloppy with this one. As for the others, you can save money." Try to save as much as possible, from what I see, it is estimated that thirty or forty thousand is about the same.”

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao, and Guo Bao smiled wryly, "If the county lord is still willing to save a little from the bride, I'm afraid the twenty thousand silver dollars won't be needed."

Li Chaosheng shook his head when he heard this, and said, "He's going to play with us, we can't treat him too lightly."

Guo Bao was taken aback when he heard the words. Today is the second time that the county magistrate has spoken well for the woman. Could there be something wrong?

Seeing Guo Bao's curiosity so strong, Li Chaosheng said, "Okay, don't worry about useless things."

Guo Bao smiled, and looked at the bill again. If he followed what Li Chaosheng said, then the money would really be saved. Fifty thousand silver dollars must be enough, but...

Thinking of this, Guo Bao looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Although you are a county lord now, you are no less than a prince. With your status and the size of the wedding, isn't it too shabby? This is too embarrassing." .”

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao after hearing the words and said with a smile: "Face, face is all made with fists. As long as I make the farmers in Lantian rich, the army strong, and the technology prosperous, I will be in the farmyard." , put a pot of stewed pork ribs and get married, who in this world would dare to look down on me, I will give them my face!"

Li Chaosheng's words were so domineering that Guo Bao's eyes lit up when he heard them. The majestic aura on the county lord's body is really getting stronger and stronger, it's really domineering.

Thinking of this, Guo Bao looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "What the county lord said is true, but I was wrong. Then the county lord, everything is according to what you said?"

Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Well, just follow what I said, but remember, don't save money on the bride."

"Yes, I know."

Guo Bao went out, and appeared in the Ministry of Finance for a while, followed by a group of misers from the Ministry of Finance, looked at Guo Bao and said, "How much more will the county honor approve?"

After Guo Bao heard this, he slapped a approval note on the table and said: "There are more approvals, and the county lord will return [-] silver dollars."

"what?"

Hearing this, the misers in the Ministry of Finance were shocked. They all planned to stop the financial appropriation for several unimportant projects, organize the wedding for the county lord, and then get back the money from the money collected by the county lord.

But that thought, the county venerable returned [-] silver dollars. They really couldn't react at this moment. The county lord was comparable to the status of a prince at that time. A big wedding only cost [-] silver dollars. Isn't this too shabby? Well, this is too incompatible with the status of the county lord.

"Is fifty thousand silver dollars too shabby?"

The Ministry of Finance couldn't bear it, Guo Bao looked at the miser in the Ministry of Finance and said: "What kind of person is the county magistrate, is he a person who wants to enjoy himself? The county magistrate stopped all the live seafood that was originally planned to be shipped from the coastal areas We replaced it with mutton and our local seafood, which saved a lot of money at once, and..."

Guo Bao told the Ministry of Finance about this matter, and the eyes of all the people following the Ministry of Finance widened. There was indescribable reverence in their eyes. This is the county lord he should follow. He treated himself harshly for the sake of the people. , is simply too great.

Thinking of the people in the Ministry of Finance who put away the extra [-] silver dollars with tears in their eyes, thank the county lord.

After Guo Bao left, the news that the county lord was preparing for a big wedding and that the county lord spent only [-] silver dollars on his big wedding in order to quickly restore the people's livelihood in northern Shaanxi spread throughout the Lantian court team, and there were signs of spreading among the people.

After this incident spread, the problem was that a bunch of people came to see Li Chaosheng to persuade Li Chaosheng.

For this matter, Li Chaolong, who was suppressing bandits in northern Shaanxi, ran back to Lantian himself, as well as some other cadres and generals in Lantian who started with Li Chaosheng.

Soon Li Chaosheng's office was full of people.

Li Chaomeng was the loudest in the room at this time: "This can't be done, my brother Chaosheng, Lantian County Lord, only 30 silver dollars for the big wedding, what is this? I heard that the son of Prince Fu in Luoyang spent [-] taels for the full moon. Yinzi, isn't our county official even inferior to King Fu's son?"

"Li Chaomeng, shut your mouth."

Li Chaolong shouted angrily at this time: "If you express your opinion, express your opinion. Don't interrupt with the county magistrate. What do you mean the magistrate is not as good as the son of King Fu?"

Li Chaomeng also knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly apologized, "Isn't I in a hurry?"

As Li Chaomeng was talking, Li Chaosheng came out soon. When he entered the room, he saw that there were quite a few people in the room. Li Chaolong and Li Chaomeng came from the military, and Guo Bao and Yang Shubai from the political circles. Zuo Sansi, education circles, Li Chaowen, who is now the Minister of Education, Song Yingxing from the University of Science and Technology, the University of Medicine, the Armory Factory, representative Sun Dali, etc. A bunch of people crowded into Li Chaosheng's study room. Chaosheng is asking for money here.

At this moment, a bunch of people gathered together to make a noise, when Li Chaosheng came, everyone stopped talking, Li Chaosheng looked at the crowd and said: "I'm so busy today, can you come to me if you have time?"

After hearing this, Li Chaomeng said: "Brother Chaosheng, I've heard about it, are you going to marry the daughter of Prince Qin's family?"

Li Chaosheng said: "Yes."

"Brother, I don't care who you marry, but I heard that you prepare 30 silver dollars for your big wedding. It's colder than this."

Li Chaosheng's face turned black when he heard this: "You should listen less to people in the future. His old Zhu family has been in the country for more than 200 years and has a lot of savings. Our Lantian foundation is not stable. How can we spend money recklessly? Fifty thousand silver dollars, no not enough."

After hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "That's not okay, county lord, your wedding represents the face of our Lantian, even if you don't care, but when others mention this, they will say that you spent [-] silver dollars on your wedding. Are people laughing at me for being poor in Lantian?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaolong and said, "Cousin, it doesn't matter what others say. What we want is to live a good life. Our Lantian is in great need of money now. Northern Shaanxi has just been recovered. We have built a reservoir, helped the people build farm houses, and bought farm tools. They all need to spend money, you ask Guo Bao, is it okay to allocate less money to them this year?"

"There is also the secret spy department. The model of Chicken Fragrance Records has indeed saved the secret spy department money, but it still needs some financial support to open up relationships and fund activities."

"Not to mention education. A primary school has not yet been built in northern Shaanxi, and there are still a lot of children in northern Shaanxi who have no books to study. Save it?"

"There is also the Institute of Science and Technology. Now the steam engine is almost successfully developed. As long as we invest more this year, we will definitely be able to build a steam engine for us. There are also other scientific research projects that cannot be stopped. Technology is the primary productive force."

"The School of Medicine is going to open a branch of the University of Medicine in northern Shaanxi this year to treat the people in northern Shaanxi. The arsenal is developing the third-generation artillery and the thunder mercury project. These are all related to the safety of Lantian in the future. Can this money be saved? ?”

"So everyone, my wedding is not a big deal. It can be saved. As for face, face is not important. What we want is lining."

Li Chaosheng looked at the crowd and said, everyone was silent after hearing this, and at this moment there was a sudden voice from outside the door: "Okay, what the county lord said is good."

(End of this chapter)