Wife, you didn't really drug me, did you?

Chapter 481 Chen Jiusi's Million-Dollar Gift (asking for monthly ticket)

Is the emperor a wise and holy ruler?

Even a fool would know that this question is definitely not the right one, so the question Chen Jie asked was very realistic. Prince Ruyang also knew that Chen Jie's question was very realistic, and his face showed helplessness.

Chen Jie looked at Prince Ruyang and said, "Prince, if Yaya marries me, do you want her to be happy or become a widow? It's not that Jiu Si doesn't give you face, but the emperor in the court and I are already at loggerheads. Even if the court offers generous conditions, I will never agree."

"Because even if the emperor really thinks so now, and I really make great contributions to the court in the future, when the country is peaceful and the horses are free, I am afraid that my life will not last long."

"The grace of having your wife taken away and the hatred of having your body killed are intolerable to ordinary people, let alone Your Majesty?"

"So, Your Majesty, it's not that I don't want to listen to you, but if I listen to you, I might really die without a burial place. Of course, my personal life and death are insignificant. For Yaya, I can give up life and death, but Your Majesty, if I die, Yaya will become a widow."

"Even if you don't think about me, you should think about Yaya!"

"You don't want your daughter to be alone and helpless for the rest of her life, do you?"

Chen Jie looked at King Ruyang and asked. King Ruyang took a deep breath and said, "You make me so angry!"

King Ruyang was extremely angry, but he couldn't say anything else. At this moment, he looked at Chen Jie with eyes full of anger and helplessness.

What Chen Jie said was right. Prince Ruyang didn't care whether he lived or died, but if something happened to him, Yaya would not be able to bear it. Moreover, with Yaya's personality, if Chen Jiusi died, Yaya would definitely not look for him again. Then, the rest of Yaya's life would be completely over.

I can't ruin my daughter's happiness for life!

Prince Ruyang thought about it, looked at Chen Jie, then looked at Zhao Ya and said, "No one cares about you!"

This already meant that he was powerless to change anything, but when Chen Jie saw Prince Ruyang like this, the corners of his mouth curled up, and Zhao Ya also breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Jie looked at Prince Ruyang and knew that he was very uncomfortable being caught in the middle. Moreover, as his father-in-law, he had to give him some face and could not make things too awkward with his father-in-law.

Thinking of this, Chen Jie looked at Prince Ruyang and said, "Prince, this is actually easy to handle. I will just agree to the imperial court's request for amnesty. After all, it will be difficult for you to do this in prison."

After hearing this, King Ruyang looked at Chen Jie and asked, "What do you mean by this?"

Chen Jie said: "I can accept the imperial edict, but the imperial court cannot control me. Of course, even if they want to control me, it is impossible. With the Laughing Buddha Peng Yingyu here, it is difficult for the imperial court's minions to enter Hubei."

"In other words, I can give him this title, but they can forget about the real power. This way, Your Majesty will save face and the court will be able to get by."

"This is my sincerity to Your Majesty. I wonder if Your Majesty is satisfied or not."

Chen Jie looked at Prince Ruyang, and his meaning was very clear, I can nominally surrender to the court, but remember, this is only in name, to give face to you, Prince Ruyang, otherwise I would definitely not do so.

Prince Ruyang also knew that Chen Jie was already giving him a lot of face, and it would be too much if he asked for more.

Prince Ruyang was not an idealist who thought that Chen Jiusi would obey his orders if he married his daughter and became his son-in-law.

Prince Ruyang has already studied Chen Jie. He is definitely a heroic figure. If he and Yaya were not really in love to a certain extent, and if Chen Jie had not traveled thousands of miles to save the princess last time.

He saw his true feelings for Yaya, and Zhao Ya seemed determined to marry him, so Prince Ruyang was absolutely unwilling to let Zhao Ya marry him.

But now the matter is done and there is nothing he can do!

Although Chen Jie's concession to this extent could not satisfy Prince Ruyang, Prince Ruyang could barely accept it. Chen Jiusi was at least willing to make concessions in name, which showed his love for Yaya.

After all, King Ruyang doesn't think that Chen Jiusi is afraid of him now. After all, Chen Jiusi is now in the first stage of the Melting Spirit Realm and is as powerful as him, and his Huangzhou Prefecture is also doing very well.

This also made King Ruyang see his ability. You know, Chen Jie is only twenty-one years old this year, and at this age he has already reached the first level of the Spirit Melting Realm. What a terrifying existence he is!
This talent.

Although Prince Ruyang didn't dare to believe it, he had a devilish idea in his heart. Do you think it is possible that Chen Jie could really succeed one day and become the emperor? Then his daughter could become the queen!
Of course, King Ruyang could never accept this idea. After all, Chen Jie really became the Emperor.

That would mean the collapse of the Borjigin clan's regime. How could he accept that?

But Yaya can live a happy life, this is also what King Ruyang wants!
What should I do when I’m caught in such a dilemma?

Prince Ruyang was really forced into a corner, so he looked at Chen Jie and said, "Now that things have come to this, there is no other way. So let it be, but you must not do anything to let the court down."

After hearing this, Chen Jie naturally said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. As long as the court doesn't cause trouble for me, I will definitely not cause trouble for the court."

When King Ruyang heard this, he was satisfied with Chen Jie's intention and said, "If that's the case, then let's do this."

After hearing this, Chen Jie looked at Prince Ruyang and said, "Prince, can I marry Yaya when I go back?"

Upon hearing this, Prince Ruyang looked at Chen Jie with a heavy heart and said, "Let's find Mr. Naji first."

Naji, the process of ancient weddings, there are six steps in ancient weddings, namely, Nacai, Wenming, Naji, Nazheng, Qingqi, and Qinying.

The first step is for the matchmaker to propose marriage, the second is for both parties to ask each other's names, and then the year, month and day. This is the third step, Naji, which is to find a fortune teller to read their birth dates.

Then comes the betrothal ceremony, which is the subsequent engagement, and after that comes the date setting.

The final wedding ceremony is the wedding ceremony of the bride and groom.

During this period, three books must be prepared, namely the engagement letter, the gift letter, and the welcoming letter. Only after the three books and six engagement letters are prepared can the bride be considered a formal marriage and have real status.

When Chen Jie heard that Prince Ruyang asked him to prepare for Najib, he knew that Prince Ruyang had relented and agreed to his marriage with Zhao Ya.

After hearing this, Chen Jie and Zhao Ya looked at each other. They felt like lovers finally got married, and their eyes were moistened.

This journey is really not easy.

As I was thinking this, I suddenly heard a voice outside.

"Haha, lovers finally get married, congratulations. The old blind man came uninvited. How about letting the old blind man take care of this Najib matter?"

Ok?
Hearing this voice, everyone in the field was stunned at first, and then they immediately reacted. Chen Jie's face immediately flashed with joy, and King Ruyang also looked at the door of the big tent and said to Wang Baobao beside him: "Why don't you welcome Mr. Yuan?"

After saying this, Wang Baobao immediately stood up and opened the curtain of the tent. Then he saw a thin old blind man standing outside. He walked into the tent knocking with a wooden stick in his hand.

At this time, Chen Jie immediately stood up and said with a happy look on his face: "Mr. Yuan, why are you here?"

That’s right, the person coming before him was none other than Yuan Sanjia, the man ranked third on that day’s list, who was known as the third best Yuan Sanjia in the world and also an old friend of Chen Jie.

When Yuan Sanjia entered the tent, even King Ruyang was very polite to him. After all, he was the third strongest person in the world.

In addition, this mysterious dragon is hard to find, so it is not easy to see him at normal times.

And now Yuan Sanjia actually appeared here, Chen Jie and King Ruyang were both very surprised, so their eyes were on Yuan Sanjia for a while.

Yuan Sanjia said with a smile on his face: "Haha, I was wandering around Hebei and was thirsty. I came here to find some wine to drink. I didn't expect to hear about a good opportunity. It just so happens that there are two divinations left today. How about giving you one in exchange for some wine?"

After hearing this, King Ruyang said, "It is our blessing that Mr. Yuan can give us a divination. Thank you very much, Mr. Yuan."

Everyone knows that Yuan Sanjia's divination is never wrong, and it is difficult to get him to tell a divination easily. The last time he told Liu Futong to be careful of his own people, Du Zundao and his men rebelled.

Therefore, Prince Ruyang felt that it was very precious that Yuan Sanjia was willing to put on a hexagram at this time. It just so happened that he was still unhappy about marrying Zhao Ya to Chen Jie.

This is a good time for Yuan Sanjia to make a break.

Chen Jie looked at Yuan Sanjia and felt that he came here on purpose, but he didn't say much.

Instead, he looked at Yuan Sanjia. Yuan Sanjia came to the crime scene and sat down. Wang Baobao brought him a cup of hot tea. Yuan Sanjia took a sip of the tea and said, "Give me the birth dates of the man and woman."

After hearing this, Prince Ruyang looked at Chen Jie and said, "Birth date and time."

Chen Jie opened his mouth and told out his own date of birth, and Prince Ruyang also told out Zhao Ya's date of birth.

After hearing the birth data, Yuan Sanjia raised his hand and copper coins and tortoise shells appeared in his hand.

Then the copper coin entered the tortoise shell, which was then shaken gently.

After a while, he scattered the copper coins on the table, then reached out and touched it, and said: "Qian is the sky, Kun is the earth, the interaction of yin and yang gives birth to all things."

"Today there is a couple, the man was born in the year of Renshen, the month of Xinhai, and the day of Wuzi, and his five elements are fire, and he conflicts with the horse and harms the south!"

"Female, born in Jiawu year, Dingmao month, Xinhai day, the five elements are wood, the conflict is chicken and the evil is west."

"Their fates match, fire and wood match, just like Qian is strong and Kun is soft, complementing each other. Their love journey encountered twists and turns at first, like wading through dangerous shoals and rough waves, but their hearts are as solid as rocks, their love is stronger than gold, and despite many obstacles, they have not changed their minds!"

"This is a match made in heaven, tied tightly together by the red thread of the matchmaker. Even with all the suffering and hardships, they can still move forward hand in hand. This is a match made in heaven!"

Yuan Sanjia pinched his fingers and reviewed the horoscopes of Chen Jie and Zhao Ya. Judging from their fates, the two were very compatible.

Yuan Sanjia then said, "According to the Book of Changes, Dui represents a marsh, Gen represents a mountain, and the Marsh Mountain Xian hexagram symbolizes induction."

"The love between the man and the woman is as deep and natural as the air flowing through the mountains and lakes. Looking at their fortunes and luck, although there are conflicts and harms, they can support each other and overcome dangers. This is a match made in heaven, destined by fate. The couple will love each other, grow old together, be together forever, and enjoy endless blessings."

"The two are combined into one. It can be said that the two are the marriage of heaven and earth. It is difficult to separate them even if you want to."

At this point, King Ruyang felt a little touched. Isn't it true? He had used so many methods, but in the end, he just couldn't separate the mandarin ducks. He didn't have any temper. King Ruyang looked at Yuan Sanjia with a strange expression, while Chen Jie and Zhao Ya looked at each other, and there was an emotion of eternal love in their eyes. Yes, their love was stronger than gold.

Prince Ruyang could only grit his teeth after seeing this. The beautiful girl he had raised with great difficulty was now sold to this fisherman.

At this time, Wang Baobao was the one who was most capable of finishing off the enemy. He said, "Mr. Yuan, one thing should not require two people. Since you have approved the death, why not give them an auspicious time and date so that they can get married."

After hearing this, Yuan Sanjia thought for a moment and said, "Time is a little tight. It would be best if we can get married within a month. However, given the situation in Jiangnan, it may take a long time to deal with it."

"It's okay, Mr. Yuan, just pick the best day and time for me, and don't worry about the rest, I'll take care of everything!"

Prince Ruyang dotes on Zhao Ya to the extreme. When she hears that there is an auspicious day within this month, she certainly cannot delay it. Besides, Yuan Sanjia said it is the best day.

Prince Ruyang wanted to give Zhao Ya all the best.

So when you hear that there is a best day in a month, you will immediately ask when the best day is.

Yuan Sanjia thought for a moment and said, "The 28th day of the month is a good day, and that's it."

King Ruyang said, "Today is the third day of the first lunar month. There are still twenty-five days to the twenty-eighth day, which is enough."

"Father, it will probably take twenty days to march from here to Jiangnan. It will be difficult to pacify Jiangnan in five days, and we also have to prepare for Yaya's wedding."

After hearing this, King Ruyang said, "As long as I am here, the people of Jiangnan can surrender to me. In a word, we must not delay Yaya's auspicious time and date."

Prince Ruyang looked at Wang Baobao and said, "Pass on my military order. Tomorrow morning, we should start cooking at the beginning of the morning hour, eat at the third quarter of the morning hour, and set out at the fourth quarter of the morning hour. There should be no delay."

"Yes!"

Wang Baobao immediately agreed. At this time, Zhao Ya looked at King Ruyang and said, "Father, you don't have to go to such lengths for me. It will make my brothers suffer and may cause mutiny."

After hearing this, Prince Ruyang said, "Yaya, you don't have to worry about the rest. Just be a good bride."

After saying this, King Ruyang immediately called out to the outside: "Find Master Wuxiang!"

As soon as these words came out, Master Wuxiang walked in immediately, bowed to Prince Ruyang and said, "Your Majesty, if there is anything I can do for you, please tell me."

After hearing this, Prince Ruyang thought for a moment, looked at Master Wuxiang and said, "I have something to tell you. Now you must sneak back to Longxing Mansion in secret."

"I understand. When the prince returns to Longxing Prefecture, I will definitely open the city gates and welcome him into the city."

"what!"

After hearing this, Prince Ruyang looked at Master Wuxiang and said, "Who told you to go into the city as an insider? I mean you sneaked into Longxing Prefecture. The Longxing Silk Shop in Longxing Prefecture makes the best wedding dresses. Please help me order a wedding dress with a dragon and phoenix pattern. I want the best one from their shop."

"This is!"

Master Wuxiang immediately agreed. King Ruyang said, "Wait a minute. It will probably take some time for the head of Longxing Silk to make this set. But you can tell him that this is what I want. Last time, he didn't have time to finish the set of wedding clothes for the emperor and empress that I ordered. It should be just finishing. If you rule, you can use that set of wedding clothes to make it. It should take about 18 days."

"I also want the best jewelry, jewelry and head ornaments from Liuhe Building. Buy them all for me, and also..."

As King Ruyang spoke, Master Wuxiang immediately agreed. King Ruyang talked for a long time and finally made arrangements for all matters.

In this way, we just need to wait for him to lead the army to Longxing Prefecture to accept it.

After everything was arranged, Master Wuxiang immediately agreed and set off with the mission. With Master Wuxiang's strength, there would be absolutely no problem for him to return to Longxing Mansion alone, because there were no strong people in the Rongshen Realm in Longxing Mansion.

The entire Longxing Prefecture only had the third of the Eight Guards of the Cumans, who was in the late stage of the Furnace. It was impossible for him to capture Master Wuxiang with his strength.

After Prince Ruyang had made all the arrangements, he immediately ordered people to prepare a new house in Anqing Prefecture, which was close to Hubei, because there would not be enough time if they set out from Longxing Prefecture.

Therefore, Prince Ruyang and his men could only carry the princess from Longxing Prefecture all the way to Anqing Prefecture, and then enter the territory of Hubei. At this time, Chen Jie would arrange inns in Huanggang and other areas.

In other words, the princess will go directly to Huangzhou Prefecture, and on the wedding day, the princess will stay in a temporary villa in Huangzhou Prefecture, and Chen Jie will go there to pick up the bride the next day.

This was the job assigned by King Ruyang. He looked at Chen Jie and said, "Chen Jiusi, do you have any questions?"

Chen Jie said, "I, I have no problem, but Your Majesty, when will the engagement take place? And how much betrothal gift does Your Majesty require?"

In this era, people pay attention to betrothal gifts, and they cannot be shabby.

Chen Jie has done special research on this aspect. In this era, you must never talk about giving a bride price, because the bride price in this era was specifically given to concubines, and once this money was given out, it was equivalent to buying out the concubine from her parents.

Only the most lowly concubines ask for a bride price.

The legal wife asks for a betrothal gift, and she also has to give a return betrothal gift.

Prince Ruyang looked at Chen Jie and said, "Since my daughter Yaya is following you, I won't ask for any betrothal gifts. You can give whatever you want. I don't mind a fool like you."

Prince Ruyang is very generous and looks like he doesn't care. If he marries his daughter, the dowry will definitely be so generous that you will never believe it.

After listening to Prince Ruyang's words, Chen Jie thought about it and realized that since Princess Zhao Ya was marrying him, he definitely couldn't be too shabby.

Thinking of this, Chen Jie picked up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table. Fortunately, he had quite a bit of wealth in his hands.

At this time, Chen Jie wrote directly on the paper: Thirty top-notch shops in Huangzhou Prefecture, three salt fields, five mines, and the fifth textile factory in Huangzhou Prefecture.

Chen Jie handed the paper to Prince Ruyang and said, "These are my betrothal gifts. I wonder if Your Majesty is satisfied."

Prince Ruyang took the betrothal gift list and asked, "Thirty shops?"

Chen Jie said, "They are all shops on the most central streets of Huangzhou Prefecture. The annual rent for each shop is no less than five thousand taels."

"Three salt fields?"

Chen explained: "These salt fields are located in Mianshui County, and their annual output value is no less than 100,000 taels."

"Five mines?"

"Three iron mines, one copper mine, and a small gold mine, with an annual output value of at least three hundred thousand taels."

Upon hearing this, Prince Ruyang took a deep breath. This amounted to five or six hundred thousand taels a year, and these could all be distributed as dividends every year. If the value was a single round, these would have been more than five or six million taels.

At this time, Chen Jie continued: "Your Majesty, the most valuable thing is the Huangzhou Prefecture Fifth Textile Factory."

Prince Ruyang was stunned and asked, "More valuable than a gold mine?"

Chen Jie said: "The annual output value is at least 500,000 taels."

"Sigh~"

Prince Ruyang took a deep breath after hearing this. If you count this way, not counting these things, the dividends for one year would be nearly one million taels. This...

Prince Ruyang was completely stunned. How much money was this?

You have to know that the annual income of Prince Ruyang is only 7-8 million, and Chen Jie gave so much to Zhao Ya all at once, this...

Zhao Ya also felt that Chen Jie was exaggerating a bit. The betrothal gifts were too valuable. Her husband still had Huangzhou Prefecture to govern, and he couldn't spend all the money on her.

Thinking about it, Zhao Ya said: "Nine four, it's too much, a few shops will be enough."

After hearing this, Chen Jie waved his hand and said, "Alas, it's not much. No matter how much you give to Yaya, it's not much."

Prince Ruyang listened to this and looked at Chen Jie and said, "Chen Jiusi, you better think about it. If you take out this much money, be careful that your Huangzhou Prefecture will collapse."

Chen Jie laughed and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I can still come up with this little money."

This is not Chen Jie bragging. Chen Jie currently owns more than 200 core shops in Huangzhou Prefecture. These shops were ordinary shops before. When Chen Jie bought them, he purchased them at one thousand taels per shop.

Later, Chen Jie attracted investment and prospered business, so the rent of shops in this core area rose sharply, and now the annual rent is three to five thousand taels.

As for the salt fields, there were more than one hundred salt fields in the Huangzhou Prefecture area controlled by Chen Jie, most of which were transferred to the government finances by Chen Jie, but there were still more than a dozen that were Chen Jie's personal property.

The same goes for the mines and the textile factories. Since Shen Wansan is good at making money, the textile factories are now overwhelmed with orders, so he expanded them by seven or eight more.

Five, six, seven, and eight of them were all Chen Jie’s personal property.

Some people may ask why Chen Jie kept so many private properties. There are two reasons. First, the government finances cannot be used for his own spending, so Chen Jie must have his own private property, similar to the emperor's inner treasury.

The second is: once these financial assets belong to the government, Hu Weiyong will plan them for administration. If Chen Jie wants to reward some meritorious officials and generals, he cannot use financial rewards and can only divide them from his own private property.

After all, these days if you don’t have some rice, you can’t even fool a chicken.

Therefore, Chen Jie had a lot of private property. Of course, Chen Jie also knew that the operation of the entire court should not be affected by the emperor's likes and dislikes, so there was one thing that Chen Jie did not touch, and that was land. Although Chen Jie spent a lot of money every year to encourage the people to reclaim the land, Chen Jie did not claim any land as his own.

The first national policy of Huangzhou Prefecture established by Chen Jie was: land belongs to the state and no private individual is allowed to hold it!

I caught a cold, so I'm a little late.
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