Rebirth of Tang Dynasty as a dad

But I am really grateful to my mother-in-law in my heart. If it wasn't for the support of the mother-in-law, the queen, it might not be easy to talk to the emperor.

"Boy, we agreed to your marriage, but have you prepared the betrothal gift? Wu'er is the most honorable princess in the Tang Dynasty, and the betrothal gift should not be shabby." The queen asked, this was not a joke, she was serious.

"My family only has 3000 taels of silver. I wonder if it's enough to buy a bride price?" Du Shaoqing replied.

"That's enough for you to marry a girl from the Wu family, but Wu'er can't do it. You have to think about it carefully. It's not that my mother-in-law is picky. At least you can't let outsiders mock us for marrying our daughter poorly."

Du Shaoqing pondered for a moment, then asked with some helplessness: "Then do you know what the mother-in-law is lacking? Give me a suggestion, and the son-in-law will try his best to do it."

"What do you mean? This is the imperial palace, where all the treasures of the world are here. Is there anything missing in the imperial palace?" The queen covered her mouth and smiled.

At this time, the emperor Li Er came in from the outside, interrupted the queen and said: "I lack everything here, money, grain, salt, iron, cattle, weapons, if you can solve these things, I will promise to send someone to help." You paid the dowry.

I heard that you solved the problem of farming cattle in Hebei with a strange plan. I wonder if you can give me a surprise? "

Du Shaoqing turned his head to salute the emperor, and thought about what he would do. If it was as simple as wearing a cow's nose, it might not be so difficult.

After pondering for a moment, Du Shaoqing asked: "I don't know these things, what is the Tang Dynasty most lacking?"

"Salt, there is no doubt that it is salt. The output of the Tang Dynasty is extremely low. It is not easy to find a salt well or salt mine. Most of them are poisonous salt. So there is still no salt in some places in the Tang Dynasty. The people live every day. Barely eat with vinegar cloth." Li Er sighed.

Du Shaoqing really didn't know this. He knew that salt was expensive when he opened the inn, but it wasn't that he couldn't buy it. He just had to spend more money in Zheng County, but he didn't know that it was because Zheng County in Huazhou was not far from Chang'an. Salt can be purchased from Chang'an, so it is not a shortage.

But when it comes to making salt, Du Shaoqing really knows what he has learned in junior high school chemistry, "I thought it was food, but I didn't expect it to be salt. If it is poisonous salt, I have a way to improve it, turning poisonous salt into Edible safe salt.

Another method is to extract salt from seawater, which is called sun-salt method. The yield is huge and the method is simple, but the specific details require many experiments. "

real?Li Er exclaimed, and immediately asked Du Shaoqing to explain in detail. Du Shaoqing drew a sketch and briefly introduced the method. .

"Hahahaha, boy, what a foolish boy, why didn't you say it sooner when you knew this method? It should be fought! If this method of making salt is successful, it will be more credit than you blackmailing Goguryeo once." Li Er patted his son-in-law on the shoulder and praised , took the flow chart written by Du Shaoqing and strode out, and couldn't wait to try it out.

The queen and princess looked at all this and looked at each other. It seems that the dowry and bride price should be purchased by the royal family.

Today's Chapter 6, thank you for your support.

Chapter 1: The Purpose of Marriage

In Honglu Temple, Du Shaoqing was dressed in an official uniform and was chatting with Tang Jian, the minister of Honghe Temple, in the side hall. Tang Jian was easy-going and appreciated Du Shaoqing's talent, so he welcomed Du Shaoqing's appointment as his deputy .

"This time Tubo came prepared. Look, this group of people even brought the dowry. It is said that there are more than 1000 people in the escort team alone." Tang Jian handed Du Shaoqing a list of gifts. Presented by Tubo.

Du Shaoqing opened it and took a look, hey, he really spent a lot of money, with a total of [-] carts of wealth.

"However, no matter how busy they are, they are still busy. Princess Changle is my wife, so why don't they come to Datang to snatch her away?" Du Shaoqing mocked.

"No, no, you're wrong, the person here is Lu Dongzan, Minister of Tubo Kingdom, very tactful.

After he heard that His Majesty had married you and Princess Changle, he angrily wrote a letter denouncing the matter, thinking that His Majesty ignored Tubo and asked us to apologize.

I explained how old your children are, and that this matter is rude to Tubo, guess what the other party said? " Tang Jian was a little depressed and said: "The other party immediately changed his mind, saying that it is okay to not want Princess Changle, and change to someone who is of the right age to marry. I heard that there is also Princess Chengyang. Why did Songtsan Gampo only deserve to be Princess Datang? After the country.

It's really shameless. It was clearly written in their national documents that Songtsan Gampo admired Princess Changle of the Tang Dynasty and would not marry unless she was the only one. Now they can change it. "

Du Shaoqing didn't expect such a thing to happen, and teased with a smile: "Maybe it's because the barbarians in the west don't know how to be polite, and they are used to talking back."

"The most irritating thing is that there are still many people in the court who speak for them, talking about good stories about being friendly to foreign countries. Tubo Songtsan Gampo is a great man, and the Tang Dynasty's alliance with him can be sung through the ages, etc., old man I wonder if they were all bought off." Tang Jian said angrily.

Du Shaoqing nodded, and said in his heart that this group of veterans read it right. Isn't becoming a princess and getting married in history just a good story that has been sung through the ages?

"By the way, you just said that there are more than 1000 people in the transportation team from Tubo. Are these people in charge of board and lodging at Honglu Temple in the Tang Dynasty?" Du Shaoqing asked.

"That's not true. We only provide envoys, deputy envoys and envoys with a few entourages. The other non-staff personnel are not under our control. They will be settled by themselves, or we will arrange them for them after paying the fee. Otherwise, there are so many small countries around. If any country comes With tens of thousands of attendants, how can the Tang Dynasty afford to live there for half a year?"

Du Shaoqing looked down at the gift list, and then asked inexplicably: "This Tubo spends so much money, just to get a relationship with Datang? The king stretches his neck to be the son-in-law of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty? I always feel that there is something in it conspiracy.

If it is said that the other party is for beauty, but the replacement is so fast, it is not like it. Besides, Songtsan Gampo and Lu Dongzan are both heroes, and they will definitely not be obsessed with women. I don’t know about this. What's your opinion on being a noble? "

Hearing this, Tang Jian laughed loudly, "You child is too naive, their mere [-] carts of goods is the blood capital? Then you don't know that if Datang agrees to marry the princess, what dowry will the princess bring over?" How many.

Let’s put it this way, the Tang Dynasty is a big country, and it must not be as poor as the small country of Siyi, so the dowry must be more than the dowry, double or even double or triple. Lu Dongzan is smart, the more he sends, The more you take with you when you go back. "

Du Shaoqing was stunned, opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief: "Is Datang a fool with a lot of money? Knowing this, there are still so many people nodding in agreement? Not only do you want to give your daughter to others, but you also want to give them property. You want to lose face." Live and suffer?"

Tang Jian stretched out his hand to hold down the excited Du Shaoqing, nodded approvingly and said: "This Manchaowu is probably the only one who dares to say that about the court. I have been engaged in diplomatic work for almost 20 years, and I have seen countless envoys from Xiaobang. Get out of this circle, see these appearances clearly, but there is nothing you can do about it, Honglu Temple is just a Qingshui yamen to receive foreign guests, we people speak lightly, and the decision-making power is in the hands of the Six Departments.”

"How could it be? You are the Duke of the dynasty, and you have made great contributions to the destruction of the Eastern Turks. The court will not turn a blind eye to what you say." Du Shaoqing said in surprise.

Tang Jian smiled, and did not mention his past, but gave an example, "Three years ago, two blond and blue-eyed western barbarians claimed to be envoys from the powerful country of Qin in the west, and came to pay homage to our emperor.

Man Chaowu sang praises one after another, saying that the prestige of our Tang Dynasty has surpassed that of Emperor Xiaowu, a powerful man, and even attracted a powerful country from the far west to congratulate him. His Majesty Longyan was very happy, and rewarded these two with countless treasures, and sent someone to present them go west.

Do you know that the credentials submitted by these two people at that time did not even have an official seal, and they did not even hold the envoy's scepter in their hands. Apart from their looks, there was no evidence that they were special envoys of a great power.

In the end, the old man secretly sent people to investigate and found out that these two people were purely two businessmen from Daqin who went to the Western Regions to do business. They heard from people in the Western Regions that Datang people had a lot of stupid money, and they came here to cheat money on purpose. "

I'll go, what's next?Du Shaoqing was dumbfounded.

Tang Jian laughed at himself and said: "Later? I reported it to His Majesty, and His Majesty only said one thing. Some officials in the court ridiculed me for being ignorant of current affairs, and some deliberately alienated me. In short, the old man has seen it clearly, and nothing can stop me. Let others sing praises for His Majesty.

But fortunately, such absurd things have never happened again in the past few years, but how is the purpose of the Tubo people's visit this time different from those two Western Region businessmen?The old man can see through at a glance that they are all black-hearted wolf cubs. "

Du Shao knew the depth of the imperial court early on, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen, but he is no longer surprised, such as a gentleman staying away from the kitchen, repaying a grudge with virtue, etc. are all sung and approved by people. People are stupid and money likes to brag Not surprising either.

After talking with Tang Jian for a long time, Du Shaoqing had a general understanding in his heart, and then came to the post to meet the Tubo envoys.

Most of the Tubo envoys were still dressed in strange clothes, wearing sheepskin clothes, but the person in the middle was a middle-aged man dressed as a Central Plains scholar. If it weren't for the foreign hair accessories and the dark complexion irradiated by the plateau's ultraviolet rays, Du Shaoqing Everyone thought this was a pure Central Plains person.

Lu Dongzan was also observing the coming people. He didn't expect that the new son-in-law, Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, the fourth rank of the Tang Dynasty, would be so young. Is it because of the shortage of talents in the Tang Dynasty and the need for a doll to be in power, or because of the surplus of talents in the Tang Dynasty? Coming up?

"I don't know why Shaoqing invited us to meet us? But His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has already agreed to our marriage proposal from Tubo?" Lu Dongzan took the initiative to speak when the two parties sat down after seeing the ceremony.

Du Shaoqing smiled slightly, and explained: "Your Majesty has so much to do every day and has no time to spare. I heard that your country sincerely wants to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, so I specially ordered this official to come and discuss it."

Lu Dongzan was slightly surprised, to discuss?What are you talking about?Whether you agree to our begging princess, just give us a quick word. For a while, he didn't understand what Du Shaoqing meant by the negotiation.

Chapter 181 The Merchant and the Villain

Seeing that the other party didn't understand, Du Shaoqing deliberately showed a greedy face and slightly signaled: "Before I became an official, I came from a merchant background, so Your Majesty asked me to come mainly to discuss the wedding gift and dowry."

Oh, Lu Dongzan remembered it for a moment. The intelligence said that Du Shaoqing was a businessman with a mercenary nature. It was said that he had blackmailed Goguryeo a large sum of money in Hebei Province. Why?This time we take Tubo as the second Goguryeo?Ready to blackmail us?

"Oh, it should be. We have already presented the list of dowry gifts. I don't know if Datang has any objections? Do you think we gave less dowry gifts?" Lu Dongzan asked.

Du Shaoqing quickly waved his hand and said: "No, no, that's not true. Tubo is located in the bitter cold place in the southwest, fifty cartloads of wealth and goods have been transported thousands of miles, not to mention how much, this hard work is enough to show sincerity, what I want to talk about is not the bride price How much, but our dowry, I don't know what the Prime Minister thinks?"

Lu Dongzan shook his head with a reasonable look: "If the marriage is facilitated, the dowry is your country's business. Your country is the princess's natal family, as long as you want it. Don't let the surrounding small countries see the joke. We Tubo will not get involved. "

What he said was really tactful, Du Shaoqing cursed secretly, saying not to interfere, and at the same time saying not to let the surrounding small countries see jokes, isn't it obvious that there is no need?