Since the old emperor has decreed the marriage, no matter how reluctant the fourth child or Yuzhu is, they must accept this reality.
After consultation, Lao Si and Yu Zhu agreed on a time to meet, and the location was chosen at Lao Wu's palace.
With this arrangement, neither party suffers, and no one takes advantage of the situation.
However, Yuzhu went alone, and the fourth child actually brought Hongyun with him.
Under normal circumstances, the conditions for getting married need to be passed through a powerful matchmaker or an official matchmaker.
The fourth child was a cheerful person and was impatient to go back and forth, so he simply made an appointment with Yuzhu and explained everything clearly in person.
In the West Flower Hall, the fifth child sat at the bottom of the round table, Yuzhu and the fourth child sat opposite each other, and the first seat facing the door was empty.
Since we are negotiating terms in person, the emphasis is on equality, and you must not lose first in terms of momentum.
Lao Wu said with a smile: "Fourth Brother, Brother Zhu, I never thought that your two families would get married."
The fourth child nodded and said with emotion: "Oh, Khan Ama asked Yuzhu's legitimate son to marry the county prince of our family. A bowl of water is served very evenly, and no one suffers." It was a little bit more.
acid.
According to the rules of the Qing dynasty, the prince's direct daughter of Fujin was granted the title of princess, the daughter of the prince's direct descendant of Fujin was granted the title of princess, while the daughters of concubines were not granted the title and were collectively called the clan daughters.
To be honest, the old emperor's appointment of Song Gege's daughter Wan Jun as the county prince was already considered a special favor. He was mainly afraid that the unequal status would make Yu Zhu have thoughts in his mind.
Yuzhu's eldest son, Tongjia Xuanyu, is the third-class uncle of Xu Xi three times, and is of the highest grade.
Xu Xi three times means that when these three generations of Xuanyu's sons, grandsons and great-grandchildren ascend the throne, they will not be demoted.
By the generation of Xuanyu's great-great-grandson, he could only be demoted to the first-class Jingnihafan (viscount). After that, he was demoted to the rank of viscount successively.
When a third-class uncle marries a county prince, there is no question of who has the upper hand between husband and wife.
Yuzhu's die-hard brother, First Class Ashanihafan (Baron) Sun Chengyun is different.
Sun Chengyun, the consort of Heshuo, belongs to the category of being a master, rather than marrying a princess and entering the family.
Princess Heshuo Jing does not live in the Sun Mansion, but has a separate princess mansion.
According to etiquette, the princess is the king and Sun Chengyun is the minister.
To put it bluntly, before Sun Chengyun and the princess could make out on the couch, they had to kneel down and salute.
Even in the era of evil imperial autocracy, any man with any ambition and ability would avoid the Lord's affairs for fear of doing anything!
The fifth child deliberately ignored the sour taste of the fourth child, and still said with a smile: "We have three brothers, two princes and a prince, and they are all respectable people. Today, you might as well open the skylight and speak frankly, and prepare your own flowers.
How much silver?"
Among the people, weddings are naturally organized by people according to their financial ability.
However, when both of them are great nobles, we have to pay attention to basic face.
The fourth child knew it well, and the fifth child opened his mouth and asked for money, because he knew that he was much poorer than Yuzhu.
"Alas, my family has a weak foundation and I am not good at running the business. I can only count on the small harvest from Wangzhuang." The fourth child frowned and said, "However, no matter how tight my money is, I still have to raise five yuan to borrow money."
A dowry of ten thousand taels of silver."
These days, my daughter is a loser.
Even if the county king gets married, the dowry will basically be less than ten thousand taels.
The fourth child's money was indeed very poor. He was able to come up with a dowry of fifty thousand taels of silver in one go, which was already considered a huge feat.
Lao Wu nodded and sighed: "Fourth brother is really a caring person." In his words, he quite recognized Lao Si's generosity.
According to the rules, the prince's annual salary is ten thousand taels of official silver, and his salary is ten thousand dendrobium (hu).
The fourth child enjoys the double salary of a food prince, so his annual cash income is 20,000 taels of silver.
As for Lumi, the current unit of measurement is: one dendrobium is five dou, one dou is ten liters, and one liter is one catty and eight taels.
Lao Si’s 20,000 hu of rice is equivalent to 1.8 million catties of grain.
Silver and lumi may seem like a lot, but they are not enough to spend.
There were hundreds of guards, servants, grooms, bearers, maids, wives and other servants in Prince Yong's palace.
Due to the serious shortage of oil and water, these people eat an astonishingly large amount of food. It is common for a girl to eat half a catty of rice in one meal.
Yuzhu knew Lao Si very well. He knew that Lao Si did not like corrupt officials, let alone guys who showed off their wealth.
"I can't let my fourth brother suffer, so I will also pay a betrothal gift of 50,000 taels."
Only by waiting for the blood to bleed can Lao Si feel comfortable in his heart.
The fourth child can only afford 50,000 taels. If Yuzhu can afford 500,000 taels, is this looking down on the impoverished prince?
At this time, Lao Wu knew that it was his turn to speak.
Lao Wu coughed lightly and said carefully, "Brother Zhu, your family got a good girl for nothing when marrying their daughter-in-law. Only fifty thousand taels is too little, isn't it?"
When the fourth child saw Yuzhu, he didn't say a word and just looked at him with a smile. How could he not know that Yuzhu was afraid that he would be careless?
"Brother Zhu, I know you are a rich man. You only offered 50,000 taels of silver. Even if you agree, it is impossible for your younger siblings to agree. Even if your younger siblings agree, it is impossible for my uncle to agree."
It must be admitted that the fourth child, who has not ascended the throne, still knows the importance of worldliness.
After the fourth child became the emperor, he no longer had to look at anyone's eyes and could naturally do whatever he wanted.
To be honest, Yuzhu didn't care much about getting married.
More than two years later, no matter whether Yuzhu can turn things around, the boat of friendship between him and Lao Si will definitely overturn.
There is a 100% chance of in-laws turning into enemies!
With thousands of years of history, the law of struggle is just four words: the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit!
Yuzhu has won, and if the fourth child refuses to accept it, he has only two options, either to be imprisoned or to lie in the princess's tomb.
On the other hand, if Yuzhu loses. After all, the old Tong family is a relative of the descendant clan. Even if the five clans are not destroyed, it is certain that the men in Longkoduo and Qingtai will not only lose their heads, but may even lose their heads.
Thousands of cuts.
"Fourth brother, to tell you the truth, your siblings and I will only pay fifty thousand taels of silver as a betrothal gift. However, if your uncle doesn't like it and gets furious and insists on adding more money, I am a junior and have no courage.
Disobey your elders."
Yuzhu's words were very clear: Lao Si, my cousin, a parallel importer, can treat you as an equal.
However, if Longkodo insists on increasing the betrothal gift, I can't stop him.
The fourth child knew well that Yuzhu did not lie, but spoke the truth.
With Longkodo's arrogance and arrogance, if Xiao Xuanyu marries his granddaughter-in-law, no matter what happens, he will reward him with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and make a big deal out of it.
In addition to Longkodo, Li Si'er is also a lively master who is not afraid of causing trouble.
It's just that Yuzhu deliberately didn't mention the women, and only used Long Ke to talk about it.
"Oh, I appreciate it already. If my uncle likes to have fun, then we juniors can only go along with it."
The fourth child never blunders in important matters.
In today's world, the fourth child would dare to offend anyone, but he did not dare to offend two people.
One is the old emperor, and the other is Uncle Longkodo who holds 30,000 soldiers.