Chapter 198 Wei Zheng will also be impeached one day
Chapter 198 Wei Zheng will also be impeached one day
Author: Muzi Blue
Chapter 198 Wei Zheng will also be impeached one day
When the argument was getting intense, Fan Xuanfu walked in directly.
There were many male elders, relatives and friends in the hall, so Fan Xuanfu covered the fence and came in with several maids carrying many cakes and fruits.
"Everyone, please have tea and snacks."
Fan Xuanfu said the numbers, and the two families made a compromise, eight hundred bolts of silk as a gift, eight hundred bolts of silk to accompany the money, eight pairs each of cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, and eight loads each of rice, wheat, millet, millet, millet, beans, etc.
, eight picks each of silks, brocades, etc., eight pairs of gold and silver jewelry, and one pair of slaves are enough.
The bride-to-be said it in person, which was considered the first time.
Cheng Yaojin smiled and added, "Mrs. Fan is virtuous and generous, so we don't have to fight too much. I think the slaves can also make up eight pairs."
Samurai Lengze said, "There must be no shortage of fields. Let's add two to the 100-acre farm."
Fan Xing looked at his daughter and said, "It's settled then. All these gifts will be added to the dowry and brought back to the Wu family."
After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "I, Fan Xing, cannot afford to lose my daughter. I have already bought a dowry before. This time, in addition to the original dowry, I will double the dowry according to the Wu family's gift."
Although Fan Xing is called Fan Manzi, as a top nobleman, he is by no means short of money.
He had already purchased a dowry of several thousand qian for his daughter, but now not only would not a penny of the betrothal gift given by the Wu family be returned until then, but he would also buy an additional dowry that would be doubled.
The total amount of the gift ordered by Madam Fan was more than a thousand dollars, so the Fan family doubled it and returned another gift.
"How does this work?"
"It's all for this young couple. Erlang is now a marquis, but living in Chang'an is expensive. I also hope that the aunt can live a more comfortable life after getting married."
Regardless of whether it was the gift given by the Wu family, the money for accompanying the family, or the dowry from the Fan family, they were eventually brought to the Wu family, but after the money was transferred around, it was nominally Fan Xuanfu's personal rouge money and rouge land.
Even if the Wu Huaiyu father and son brothers are not separated from each other, this property will not be included in the public accounts. It will be her personal disposal and proceeds. Even if they divorce in the future, it will still belong to her.
Even if one person dies, if there are children, they will go to the children. If there are no children, they will go to the mother's family. They will have priority over the husband.
After everything was settled, everyone immediately returned to smiling, drinking tea and eating snacks.
After writing the letter and the gift list, prepare the betrothal gifts, money for the escort and other money and materials that were agreed upon today when you get back, and then choose an auspicious day to deliver them to your door, and then you can agree on a date for the wedding.
Holding the book in hand, Fan Xuanfu's eyes watered with joy.
Fan Xing also hugged Huaiyu and called his son-in-law directly.
"There will be a good day in three days, and we will come back to send gifts then!" Huaiyu was also a little impatient.
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Yongxingfang, Weijia.
Mrs. Pei invited Huaiyu over for a drink, opened a jar of Wei Zheng's rare treasures, and prepared several dishes to go with the wine.
Today, after Huaiyu successfully visited Fan Xing's house, Wei Zheng also completed the mortgage loan at Changsheng Hall, and delivered two thousand guan in cash and silk.
Now that large amount of money is piled up in the Wei family, filling a room.
Wei Zheng had already chosen an auspicious day and was ready to come to visit Xiping.
"Erlang is really honest and straightforward in his work. This time he really saved our urgent need." Mr. Pei poured wine for Huaiyu himself, and Wei Zheng looked on and felt very uncomfortable.
An old man and a young wife, the wife poured wine for the young and handsome Wu Huaiyu, and praised others without caring about his feelings. Wei Zheng had to pick up a chopstick of green spinach and eat it, which was a gift from Wu Huaiyu.
"It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. We neighbors will definitely help if we can."
Huaiyu was in a good mood today and also brought a bottle of wine to Wei Zheng. An Linna made it and her mother's wine shop sold it very well.
The red wine looked good and smelled quite fragrant, but it tasted sweet, sour and a bit astringent, which Wei Zheng didn't like very much.
"I heard that Erlang came to visit Duke Yingguo today. Congratulations."
"Rejoice together and rejoice together."
Mrs. Pei inevitably gossiped about Huaiyu Xia Ping's betrothal gifts, family wealth, etc. Huaiyu didn't hide it and simply explained it.
She heard that several princes were furiously arguing over the bride price at the Fan family. In the end, Fan Xuanfu came out to determine the amount in person, which surprised her. She was even more envious because the man wanted to give more to the woman but asked less for the woman. In the end, not only did the bride price arrive,
If you add a full dowry, you need to add a double dowry.
In contrast, the betrothal gift and the accompanying money required by Xueshi Wang's family are two million. At most, the gift is converted into a dowry, and the accompanying money will not be repaid.
Although Wang Xueshi is a member of the Taiyuan Wang family with five surnames and seven families, he is also the younger brother of the famous Confucian Wang Tong, but his father and brother both died young. Wang Xueshi was praised as a child prodigy by Yang Su at the age of eleven, but his official career was not smooth.
, the Longmen Wang family was also affected by the war, and the family business declined.
Wang Ji didn't even have a house in Chang'an, he lived in rented houses.
He is good at wine and does not own any property. He knows that Bachelor Wang has no money, so this family fortune is really subsidizing the Wang family.
Wei Zheng didn't want his wife to say this. The Wei family originally valued the name of the Wang family, and the Wang family was willing to marry his Wei family. That was because Wei Zheng's current official career was pretty good, and they were willing to pay such a large sum of money.
"If you have something to do in the future, just ask. Neighbors help each other."
Now Huaiyu has become Wei Zheng's creditor, and even his house deed has been deposited with Huaiyu. Although the relationship between the two is better than before, it is not much better.
The Pei family is quite nice, so why did you marry Wei Zheng in the first place?
There is a twenty-year age difference between the two of them, and a flower is placed in cow dung.
The two sent Huaiyu to the door, and Wei Zheng began to complain that his wife was too enthusiastic about Wu Huaiyu and said that she was snobbish.
"You say I'm snobbish, who am I for? If you had the ability to spend two thousand dollars, would I be as polite as a young man? Look at them, they are also Taoist priests who have been down the mountain for three months.
He was granted the title of Marquis, and he still set up such a big business.
When people go to propose a marriage, they don’t even consider the betrothal gift to compensate for the family wealth. Instead, they have to give more..."
Wei Zheng was very dissatisfied with this. Why are you comparing me to other men?
Is there anything comparable.
I was young back then.
After a quarrel, Wei Zheng went to practice calligraphy.
Pei was left alone to wipe her tears.
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At the Tianshui County Government House, Quan Zhirang's housekeeper handed him a sealed box, "I don't know who sent it. This box was specially sealed with wax. It must be something important."
Quan Zhirang, the imperial censor in the palace, looked at the brocade box and opened the wax seal. There was a letter inside. He opened it and read it. The more he read, the more surprised he became.
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The next morning, morning.
Huaiyu no longer holds the post of Qianniu Preparation, and has also been relieved of the post of general of the hospital town. Now his current position is that the prince Zuo Zongwei leads the army in the suburbs to command the army, and leads the commander of the north gate of the left camp of hundreds of cavalry.
Already a fifth-grade official.
He went to court again and stood down below again.
I received many congratulations early in the morning.
The emperor arrives.
At the beginning of the early dynasty, the former Duke of Lu, who had been demoted to the title of Duke of Tianshui, gave way to his post.
The imperial censor Quan Zhi asked the palace to impeach the Duke of Ying. Fan Xing, the general of the prison gate on the right, the Marquis of Shouyang County, and Wu Huaiyu of the left camp of Baiqi were escorted.
"What are you talking about?" Li Shimin was also a little confused.
"Your Majesty, the imperial court has issued an edict prohibiting officials from borrowing their daughters to make money, and strictly prohibiting the acceptance of heavy betrothal gifts, let alone the so-called loss of family wealth. However, Fan Xing and Wu Huaiyu, as ministers of the imperial court, knowingly violated the imperial edict and ignored it.
Order, the two families got engaged yesterday, and Fan Xing’s daughter’s betrothal gift amounted to one million dollars..."
It was very quiet in the palace.
In the past, common people did not marry.
As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, under the gentry system, there was a strict hierarchy. High-ranking families were at the top politically, economically, and socially. In order to maintain their special status, the scholar-bureaucrats of Shiqing Shilushi strictly abided by the rule that common people should not marry.
Criteria.
Families of the same family background intermarry with each other, as the saying goes.
However, after Hou Jing's Rebellion, the north and south were turbulent and wars continued. The traditional gentry and common people were no longer so stable. Some traditional gentry declined, while some poor landlords of the common people emerged and many rich people even became imperial officials.
Nouveau riche.
As a result, some declining noble families began to marry into the emerging common people. By selling their daughters, one got money and the other got a name, and each got what they needed.
From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the north and south were unified, and dynasties changed.
The newly crowned Guanlong nobles occupied high positions in the court and gained a higher say. However, the old gentry, represented by the Five Surnames and Seven Families of Guandong, lost their original say in the political change.
However, the entire society still follows the strong admiration for family history since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. As people become more developed, they have to compile ancestral genealogies and have great ancestors. They even have to find those big families with the same surname in the counties and find ways to join the ancestral genealogy.
, even if it costs a lot.
As a result, marriages between Guandong nobles and Guanlong nobles became very popular during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. For example, Li Yuan, whose sister married into the Wang family in Taiyuan, married his eldest son Jiancheng to a daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang.
The eldest son married the Zheng family, the second son married the Changsun family of Henan, and Yuanji married the Yang family of Hongnong. They were all top nobles at the time, but only the eldest son married a girl with the fifth surname.
The old gentry in Shandong married new nobles in the court, and the gentry and common people married intermarriage. In fact, they not only wanted to make money, but also wanted to use their official status to gain political status.
The aristocratic gentry developed rapidly in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, reaching its peak in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, affected by wars, many families with five surnames in Guandong, in particular, no longer even held official positions, let alone served as prime ministers in the court.
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They actively married new wealthy people, and after the early Tang Dynasty, they quickly reached a peak in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.
However, at present, there are indeed many people with five surnames like Wang Ji who have to marry upstarts like Wei Zheng, and even receive compensation for their family wealth to alleviate their difficulties.
Fan Xing, for example, was not from the old gentry family. His family was from a rich Southern Barbarian family.
However, Quan Zhi asked the palace to impeach the two families for marrying each other, accepting heavy betrothal gifts in violation of the imperial edict, and even accepting family wealth, which indeed violated the imperial edict issued previously.
The imperial court issued the edict because the social atmosphere was too strong and the imperial court had to intervene, but the effect was not great.
The imperial court would always turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. Even if an edict was issued, no one would pursue it specifically if the ministers did not strictly abide by it.
Today, Quan Zhirang suddenly stood up and launched an attack. This is really unexpected.
What is even more unexpected is that Quan Zhi asked Fan Xing to be impeached here, and Wu Huaiyu's family violated the imperial edict and exceeded the regulations by getting married, and then impeached Wang Ji, the bachelor who was waiting for the imperial edict, and Wei Zheng, the minister Zuo Cheng.
It was said that Wang Ji wanted more betrothal gifts and lost property. The betrothal gift and the lost property were each worth millions, which made Minister Zuo Cheng like Wei Zheng have to pawn his house to borrow money for the engagement.
"Your Majesty, are the edicts issued by the imperial court just empty words and child's play?"
"The imperial court decreed that married women should receive wealth. Households above the third rank should not exceed 300 bolts of silk, and those below the eighth rank should not exceed fifty bolts. Fan Xing collected more than a thousand guan, which was worth 3,000 bolts of silk, ten times the price of the imperial edict.
Wang Ji was under the imperial edict, and his position was no more than ninth rank, and his salary was no more than fifty pieces of silk. However, it cost two million yuan, which was worth more than five thousand pieces of silk, which was a hundred times the price of the imperial edict. They openly violated the edict, and Miao
I regard the imperial court and I ask you to punish me as a respectful example!"
