The old King of Jin was numb as he looked at the row of small jade animals arranged in a row, "Luo Ning, who do you think gave these to you?"
It's not that he didn't hear clearly just now, but it's just that he couldn't believe it.
I don’t know if it’s because there are relatively few jade on the continent here, or just because it hasn’t been discovered yet; not just the Qilin Kingdom, but all the countries on this side of the sea, jade mines have been discovered so far.
The total adds up to less than ten.
Two of them were in a small country located next to the Qinglong Kingdom. For this reason, that small country was in a miserable state. They were really attacking one after another, and the war almost never stopped.
Few jade veins have been discovered, so natural jade is extremely rare. Not to mention the few gifts given by Princess Anle, they are small objects of high quality jade at first glance. Medium quality jade can be found in the homes of many well-off families in Beijing.
I can't even get a few pieces out.
In the Qilin Kingdom, whether a family is rich or not is mainly based on gold, silver or inherent assets, such as shops and fields.
No matter how much the Jin Palace says that its ancestors are from an imperial family, even though the Jin family has no real power now, it is no different than retreating into seclusion. There is a saying that "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse". If the Jin Palace wants to say that,
If you come up with some treasures, there will still be some.
But the Jin Palace really couldn't bring out jade objects like this.
Jun Luoning repeated what he just said, "Grandpa, it was rewarded by Princess Anle. My grandson dare not hide it from you. Besides, grandfather, if Princess Anle hadn't rewarded it to us, we would have gone out for a while in the morning.
There’s no way to steal my son’s time even if you want to?”
The little sweet baby still raised his little head and answered cutely: "Grandpa, there are two more sweet babies."
She held the jade pendant in her arms and presented it to the old King Jin with both hands. Her long curly eyelashes trembled and she said anxiously: "Grandpa, this is a gift from the princess to Tianbao; Tianbao dare not
Yes, it was the eldest princess who forced it on Tianbao. The eldest princess said that she could not refuse the gift."
She did not confess that her eldest brother agreed, fearing that he would be scolded by her grandfather.
The old King Jin felt his whole body numb again when he saw the jade pendant, and with a speed beyond his age, he stuffed the jade pendant into his sleeve again.
Seeing the little sweet baby who was about to cry with grievances, he quickly picked him up on his lap and persuaded: "Grandpa is not trying to rob you, but is just temporarily keeping the sweet baby."
This looked like a token that represented a certain identity. He wasn't sure yet, but he didn't dare let the child hold it casually.
The little sweet baby still believed in his grandfather's words and immediately burst into laughter.
The old King Jin hugged the little sweet baby and said to the other children: "You can take what the princess gives you. This is a meeting gift from the princess. What the princess said about elders' inseparable gifts is not true at all.
Leave, in a month or two at most, you will have to call the eldest princess my aunt."
Then he warned uneasily: "Take it back and keep it away yourself. Don't lose it. These are fine jade. You can't buy them with more than a thousand taels. Even if you have more than a thousand taels, you may not be able to buy them."
nice one."
They are all good items that can be used as family heirlooms.
To put it bluntly, although their lineage has a hereditary and irreplaceable title, their ancestors were all very good at giving birth.
Even if there is a fiefdom and a title, there are so many mouths to feed, and not all of them are capable; no, the current Jin Prince's Mansion looks glamorous on the outside, but in fact everyone is living a tight life inside.
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….Originally, such good jade was only available in the Jin Palace. When these children grew up and could get married, the current capabilities of the Jin Palace would not be able to prepare such good things for them to save their face.
The only ones that are left must be passed on to the next King of Jin to save face.
Although the children didn't know much, they knew to some extent the truth about the lack of wealth in the Jin Palace. So after hearing their grandfather say that they could take care of their own things, they all happily took back their own and prepared to go back and hide them.
The male child prepares this to use as a betrothal gift in the future, and the female child prepares it to receive it as a dowry in the future.
On Qi Bao'er's side, after receiving guests all morning, he ate melon from Prince Jin's Mansion when he accompanied Old Man Qi and the others to dinner at noon.
——The first Jin King of Qilin Kingdom, the youngest son of Emperor Qi Yuan; he was named king at the age of five, went to the battlefield at the age of ten, became a general at the age of nineteen, and saved the then emperor at the age of twenty-five.
That is to say, his brother's life was rewarded by the emperor, "the position of King of Jin is hereditary."
In addition to this reward, the emperor at that time also awarded him as a fief the place where the first Jin king stationed his army, which is now Aizhou in the east.
Jiezhou is only one state away from the border with Linguo in the east. It is close to the sea and has dense mountains and forests. It is a place with a relatively humid climate. However, it is suitable for growing grains such as Shuidan, and the Jin Palace can get it every year.
The taxes are quite high.
But who makes the Jin Prince’s family particularly good at surviving and each successive Jin Prince is easier to ‘bully’?!
The first King of Jin gave birth to seven sons. There is no record of daughters now, so it is estimated that there will be many.
The second Jin Dynasty also had five sons; the third was more powerful, having nine sons; the fourth...
The current King Jin is the twelfth King of Qilin. He has more than a dozen brothers and sisters. He has four sons and seven grandsons.
These are only those who have inherited the position of King Jin. If the number of those who have not inherited the throne is added to the number, there will be hundreds if not thousands.
This is terrifying in terms of numbers.
Let’s talk about how every Jin king is ‘easy to bully’.
In a normal family in the Qilin Kingdom, the family property is passed down to the legitimate children, and the other children will be separated to live alone after they get married. From then on, the family will not interfere with your life unless you are in trouble.
Except for those who are passed on, the difference between the direct descendants and the concubines is the difference between what they get when they are divided and what they get when they are divided.
To put it simply, if it is normal, the old King of Jin only needs to take care of his own children and grandchildren; the next King of Jin also only needs to take care of his own children and grandchildren; as for other people, it is a duty to help or not to help.
But this is not the case for people from the Jin King's lineage. I don't know anyone else. From the first Jin King's annual tax on the Jin Prince's Palace in the Jiezhou fiefdom, everyone in this lineage can get a more or less share.
As for how this is done, outsiders don’t know the details.
But as we all know, there has never been a capable person in the lineage of King Jin since the second King of Jin. Most of them lived off the taxes from the fiefdoms, and many of them have now returned to the mountains and forests to live as farmers.
Life.
The old man Qi lamented: "His third son was an unfilial man. He took over their mansion in Jie City and drove the old King Jin and the eldest, second and fourth son to the countryside;
The old King of Jin was ill and had no money to treat his illness, so his eldest grandson borrowed money from the magistrate of Jiezhou. When the magistrate found out about this, he was very angry and gave it to the emperor. Then the emperor ordered someone to give the old king to Jin.
Take him to Beijing for treatment."
(End of chapter)
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