The news that Princess Nanyang wanted to marry Liu Qing, the younger son of Liu Jin, the former chief minister of the cabinet, soon spread throughout the capital.
Suddenly, young and old men throughout the capital began to discuss this matter.
"Did you hear that?"
"What if Princess Nanyang, the crown jewel of the emperor, is going to marry the youngest son of Liu Jin, the former chief minister of the cabinet?"
"real or fake?"
"Isn't this princess not allowed to marry the children of princes and ministers?"
"It's not that you won't get married. There are some special cases. This Nanyang princess is the emperor's heartthrob. She is the only princess who can't be treated normally at that time. She must be married to a young talent. Ordinary people from a small family are small.
The one who lives in a household will definitely not be able to survive.”
"This Liu Jin is really favored, and he is constantly favored and honored."
"Isn't that right? As the only daughter of the current emperor and the prince's biological sister, this Nanyang Princess has an extremely noble status. I heard that what's more important is that the Nanyang Princess is both talented and beautiful, and she also knows how to write and be polite. I don't know how many people will envy her.
Woolen cloth."
"These are not the most important things. Do you know what is the most important thing?"
"This time, when the emperor marries a princess, the dowry may be worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver!"
"Hundreds of millions of taels of silver? Just brag as hard as you can. Do you know what the concept of hundreds of millions of taels of silver is?"
"You do not believe?"
"Now it is no better than before, especially since the property under the Emperor's command is so huge that its value is difficult to estimate. It is nothing to just give out hundreds of millions of taels of silver as a dowry."
"And the title of the Nanyang Princess is Nanyang, did you know? In the Nanyang region, there are hundreds of large islands that belong to the Nanyang Princess's fiefdom, and they will all be married together when the time comes."
"It was reported in the newspaper last time that there is a small island in Nanyang that is sold for more than 100,000 taels of silver. Think about how much silver these hundreds of large islands are worth."
"If this person marries a Nanyang princess, he will not have to worry about food and drink for ten or a hundred lifetimes, let alone this life."
"If you say that, wouldn't Liu Jin become rich again?"
"For Liu Jin, this is actually nothing. Liu Jin has a lot of money, hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and Liu Jin can get it. When Liu Jin married his daughter a few years ago, it was also a dowry of tens of millions of taels of silver.
Yes, I directly made a poor boy cheaper and became rich overnight."
"Tsk tsk, this really makes people envious and jealous. Why don't we have this fate?"
"Wake up, do you think just anyone can do it?"
"Either your father is awesome enough, or you are awesome enough, or your ancestors are capable of smoking. If you don't have any of the three, you'd better just go to sleep."
"..."
Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang were also worried about the marriage of the Nanyang Princess. They had ordered people to build a huge mansion in the capital in advance. This will be the princess's mansion in the future, and it can be regarded as one of the dowries.
Then Liu Qing was directly granted the title of Nanyang Bo, and could be hereditary. An iron rice bowl fell to Liu Jin's family, which made Liu Qing's biological mother, Li Zhen, happy from ear to ear.
Then the orderer carefully calculated the birth dates of Princess Nanyang and Liu Qing, and chose the eighth day of October to hold the wedding.
Then there was a decree requiring all businesses in the capital to be clad in red and colorful and look festive. The main streets, squares, commercial streets and other places in the capital were even re-decorated and decorated in a very festive manner.
At the same time, Emperor Hongzhi once again issued a decree to grant amnesty to all the people in the world. Except for the most heinous people, all others were pardoned for their crimes so that they could reform. This was considered a celebration for the whole world.
Preparations for the wedding had begun two months before the wedding. The entire palace was decorated and turned into festive red. It was even more lively than when Prince Zhu Houzhao got married.
On the day of the wedding, Emperor Hongzhi directly opened flowing water banquets in the palace, Imperial Plaza, football and other places for three days.
The flowing water banquet here in the palace is prepared for the princes and ministers of the court. As long as they are officials of fifth rank or above in the Beijing-Tianjin area, they can come to the palace to participate.
At the same time, vassal states, vassal states, colonies, foreign ambassadors, etc. can also come to participate.
As for the Imperial Plaza, the flowing seats in many football stadiums were prepared for the people of the Ming Dynasty. Anyone can go and eat at the seats for free.
All these fees, expenses, etc. were all taken out of Emperor Hongzhi's internal funds. There were thousands of tables of flowing seats in the Imperial Plaza alone, and a huge team of chefs were busy from beginning to end.
In order to prepare this huge flowing banquet, almost all the famous chefs in the Beijing-Tianjin area, as well as the cooks, waiters, etc. in the restaurants were recruited by one order. Of course, everyone also received a big red envelope.
I won't let them work in vain.
On an auspicious day, Liu Qing, wearing a crimson groom's suit, came to the palace under the witness of all the civil and military officials of the capital, as well as the princes and ministers. After a complicated ceremony, he took the princess out of the palace.
Liu Qing was riding a bay-red horse in front, followed by a huge procession of sending off relatives. The mighty procession stretched from the palace to Liu Jin's house. It was very long and huge, as if there was no tail at all.
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This time, His Highness Zhu Houzhao, the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, came to see her off. He was the only sister he had, so naturally he loved her very much. In addition to the dowry given by Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao also gave his sister a huge dowry.
Well, Zhu Houzhao is also a super rich man. He is richer than his father, Emperor Hongzhi. His industry is even larger. He was also the first to do business in partnership with Liu Jin, involving almost all walks of life and various fields.
The dowry he gave was more than the dowry given by Emperor Hongzhi.
The prince personally gave the wedding, followed by hundreds of Zhu Houzhao's sons.
There is no way, Zhu Houzhao has many sons, and now he has more than 200. This is only less than half of the time. Hundreds of princes are getting married, which shows that the emperor and prince dote on the Nanyang princess. She is really holding it in the palm of her hand.
Everything inside is melted.
Of course, for these princes, this Nanyang princess has played with them since childhood. They are all about the same age. She is their playmate since childhood and is their biological aunt. This relationship is also very deep.
This aunt is going to make a bid, and it seems normal for this nephew to marry, but there are hundreds of princes at once. Looking at thousands of years of history, this is probably the only one like this.
This emperor who has been able to give birth to hundreds of sons since ancient times still has some princes, but there are none who can raise them and support them.
Zhu Houzhao also caught up with a good era, with the rapid development of Ming Dynasty's medical technology. He gave birth to many sons, and all of them were able to be raised into adults, so he could have the grand scene of hundreds of princes getting married.
Zhu Houzhao, who was riding the horse, was very proud. Apart from anything else, he would definitely not be able to escape this most saving title.
There is no other way, he is good at this aspect of things. There are more women, so naturally he will have more children.
Zhu Houzhao, who had no children in history, now has a large number of children and grandchildren. The Ming Dynasty royal family has never been as prosperous as it is today.
Following the hundreds of princes were dozens of palace maids and maids, all of whom were beautiful and fragrant. They were selected to be brought into the palace and raised with the princess from a young age, and some were slightly older.
The palace maids who are more than ten years old, these are talented girls who came from Korea and Japan as tribute.
The Korean and Japanese countries would almost always pay tribute to beauties to the Emperor of Heaven, but Emperor Hongzhi didn’t need them. Many of them were taken advantage of by Zhu Houzhao, or they were working as maids in the palace. This time, some of them were carefully selected.
Got married.
Then comes the dowry that is the highlight.
A box of pearls, agate, jade, jade, exquisite porcelain, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., all of which are oversized specially made boxes, filled to the brim, and are all open. When you look at them, they are pearly.
The treasure is extremely dazzling.
Because there are so many of them, the whole street is shining with dazzling and charming light.
Then there are boxes containing various land deeds, house deeds, stocks, share deeds, etc. Although these are paper, they are only packed in a dozen boxes, but they are the most valuable among all dowry items.
Yes.
Not to mention anything else, there are dozens of oil fields for dowry alone, which cannot be measured in money.
After the precious things, there is a box and a box of gold.
This time the dowry amounted to one hundred thousand taels of gold. This 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 build pyramids every year. In the end, most of the gold and silver fell into the hands of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, half of which
They all went into the internal funds of the Crown Prince and Emperor Hongzhi.
So if there is gold, just move it out directly from the internal funds. In this move, one hundred thousand taels of gold was moved out.
A box of gold, a box of gold, shining brightly. The eyes of the old and young men in the capital were all opened when they saw so much gold. This was definitely very rare to see. This was an eye-opener for everyone.
Then there was a box and a box of silver.
Silver is very abundant in the Ming Dynasty now. Gold and silver from all over the world are flowing to the Ming Dynasty. Especially during the Golden Week, the amount of silver mining is very large. The amount of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty is extremely huge. Ordinary people can
Take out hundreds or thousands of taels of silver.
Emperor Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao directly ordered people to load tens of millions of taels of silver, box after box, so heavy that the people carrying the boxes sweated on their foreheads.
