imprinted you in my heart

As the Halloween of the Hua Dynasty is approaching, the missions of the vassal states arrived in Fandu one after another, and brought gifts to the court to pay tribute on the second day of arrival according to the procedure, except for the farthest Anguo, which did not arrive and Kangguo, which was blocked by the economy. , the remaining four countries have all arrived, and there are also missions from two small southwestern official countries.

In 614 of the Hengli calendar, on July 29th in the fifth year of Tianfu, the sky is clear and the weather is clear. It is suitable for offering sacrifices and praying for blessings.

After the end of the early dynasty, Shi Min conferred Shi Sihe as a sacrificial envoy outside the Chengtian Hall, and appointed his patriarch to order Shi Sihe to go to the Taimiao, Tiantan, and Ditan for her to offer sacrifices, burn incense, read the emperor's edict, and report to heaven, earth, and ancestors. I already have a sweetheart, and I will get engaged soon.

Fortunately, Shi Min was not the first emperor of the Hua Dynasty to get married, otherwise he would have to negotiate a charter first, and it would take energy and waste time.Daozong, as the first emperor of the Hua Dynasty who got married during his reign, is a living example. Not to mention the troubles, the money spent is like running water.

When the Palace Management Bureau and the Ministry of Etiquette presented the budget required for the engagement, she was taken aback. The Shang Management Bureau was mainly responsible for matters related to intrauterine procurement, which cost about 50 taels of silver, and the Ministry of Rituals was mainly responsible for external procurement. For other matters, about 70 taels of silver will be needed, and the two items will add up to about 120 million taels of silver. This is just the budget.

The annual income of the Hua Dynasty treasury is about 3000 million taels to 5000 million taels. When the year is good, it will collect a little more. The four emperors are still good at running the family. Besides the family has surplus food, it is considered good for the other emperors to be able to make ends meet. In addition to natural disasters and wars, they will be staged after a while if they cannot make ends meet. It is a ghost that she is not poor!

Fortunately, she has Moto Naoki, the chief financial officer, as the chief financial officer. In addition, in the past four years, God has been more generous, and there have been almost no major natural disasters. Coupled with the active "contributions" of nobles and merchants in the past half a year, the national treasury has finally been realized. Turning losses into profits, nearly 5000 million taels of silver have already been credited to the account. When the tax collection comes up in autumn, this year will definitely break the tax history of Hua Dynasty.

Since she came to the throne, except for the sharp drop in tax income under special circumstances in the first year and the exemption of common people's taxes in the first three years, the commercial tax that was not exempted in the first three years was at most more than 1000 million taels of silver. Last year's tax was the first The most complete collection is also the most collected by the imperial court in recent decades, reaching more than 5000 million taels of silver, but they were unable to turn losses into profits, and did not really have some money until this year.

The money is there, but there are many places to spend it. In the past, it was only necessary to support officials, forbidden troops, and frontier troops. Consumption, office loss, and construction of water conservancy projects, from her ascension to the present, have cost at least 4000 million taels a year. If she does more things, she will have to make ends meet.

She had a bad history in modern times, but that doesn't mean she has bad common sense. She still knows the truth that "the economic base determines the superstructure". Yes, and the end could be even worse.

Otherwise, why would she secretly instruct Chen Jiyuan to set up a dark word?Guo Fanqiu established Pingzhun Firm?People can't get up early without profit. If you don't have money, who will do things for you?How can you buy people's hearts if you don't have money?What's more, she also promised Xuan Changle to restore the country for her. Even if she has cannons, she still has to send troops. It doesn't cost money to support the troops?War without money?

Nowadays, it costs about 120 million taels of silver to get married. Isn’t it easy to get married? For an emperor whose annual salary is only 24 taels of gold and 1800 taels of silver, it is really a bit painful, even if it is spent on the treasury. money.

Therefore, she did not give an immediate reply, but went to Fengde Palace to find her mother, and then called the Minister of Rites to inquire about it. He still felt that it was too expensive, and wanted to save his mother a little bit, but she was scolded by her mother instead.

She said that she didn't care about Bu Qianxue, that getting married was a major event in life, and their getting married was already a matter of discretion compared to Daozong's big wedding, if they reduced it, there was nowhere to reduce it, and wedding money and the like were essential.

Why doesn't she care about Bu Qianxue?She is willing to do anything for Bu Qianxue.Do you have to spend a lot of money to care about it?She believed that Bu Qianxue was not that kind of person and would understand her.

What's more, she doesn't want to cut it by half, but just wants to control the cost within 100 million taels, even 100 million taels is fine, such an engagement cost is something that people look up to, even if they are honored nobles, how can they become indifferent to Bu Qianxue performance?

In the end, she couldn't convince her mother, so she went to Grandma Huang and said a few words. Grandma Huang spoke, what else could she do?I can only wait for the engagement with peace of mind as Grandma Huang said.

She was a little looking forward to tomorrow coming soon, and only left Chengtian Palace after watching Shi Sihe lead the team away.

The Taimiao where Shi Sihe went to worship is different from the Royal Ancestral Temple of Mingyue Hall. The Taimiao not only enshrines the emperors and empresses of the Hua Dynasty, but also enshrines all Mingjun and virtuous officials from ancient times to the Qu Dynasty. It also enshrines the meritorious officials of the Richen Pavilion. In the left hall, the military officials are in the right hall, and there are special personnel to manage and enshrine. There are 148 gods enshrined.

In ancient times, there was a saying that the east of the world is the most precious, so Emperor Hua Gaozu built the Temple of Heaven in the north of the suburbs, and the Temple of Earth in the south of the suburbs. They were not in the imperial city. east direction.

According to the etiquette of the Hua Dynasty, whenever the royal family has important matters, it has become a necessary procedure to go to the Taimiao, the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth to sacrifice in advance. Send high-ranking officials to sacrifice for themselves.

Later emperors also felt that this was a good way to save time and effort, so they inherited it and became a practice.Now only when the emperor ascends the throne will he personally go to sacrifice, other matters can be replaced by officials, and now the highest ranking official in the court is Shi Sihe, so Shi Min sent her there.

Although Shi Sihe has not inherited her mother's title, he has the title of son.In the Hua Dynasty, the heirs of the royal titles were collectively referred to as princes, and the other successors of titles were collectively referred to as nobles. After the emperor agreed, the patriarchal government conferred the title on the heir's first birthday ceremony. As long as he did not commit suicide or make serious mistakes, the title must belong to him.

If it is necessary to die, then the right of inheritance will be deprived, and the second child will be canonized as the heir instead. If the crime of treason is involved, it is not as simple as changing the heir. Cutting off the title and beheading are both light.

A timid person like Shi Sihe also has the advantage of being timid. If he keeps seeking security, he will be able to safely inherit the title and become the biggest winner in the future.For example, Wen Zhiyuan, who is under investigation, will definitely lose his title of nobleman, and he did it himself.

Although Shi Min didn't have to go to the outskirts of the city to offer sacrifices, she still had to go to the Sanqing Hall and the Mingyue Hall in person. After a set of cumbersome sacrificial rituals ended, she was also very tired. What's worse, she had to repeat it twice. .

This is just a prelude to the meeting. If this trend continues, she who was originally full of passion and joy about getting married is also a little worried, but no matter how tired she is, she can't resist the joy and excitement in her heart. Maybe this is just being tired and happy.

Compared with the cumbersome, solemn, and laborious sacrifices at Shi Min's side, the sacrifices at Bu Qianxue's side are much simpler, all you need to do is to go to the ancestral hall in the afternoon to make sacrifices.

Compared with the Bufu during the funeral period, the Bufu at this time is very different. The lanterns and couplets have changed from white to red. Red means that the first three months have passed, and the family will soon be engaged. After the period, they will officially get married, and then they will be replaced with bright red.

"Cough..." Ban Yue was holding a bowl of freshly boiled rock candy pears, and just outside the door, she heard the sound of coughing inside, and immediately took two steps at a time, "Young master, this is the mistress who asked me to stare at the kitchen. It’s good for cough relief, drink it while it’s hot.”

I don't know if it rained two days ago and the temperature dropped, or because I didn't sleep well with a thin quilt. Bu Qianxue has been coughing for the past two days. Fortunately, there is no other discomfort, and the cough is not severe. Just now during the sacrifice in the afternoon, I couldn't control it for a while, and coughed Twice, unexpectedly, it was recorded by her mother.

"Mother, where did they send it?" Bu Qianxue didn't drink it immediately, "I have all of them, I guess I have already drank it. I don't know what Xiao Zhang did wrong. I was scolded by Lao Zhang in the kitchen just now. If it weren't for us Persuading me, I guess a beating will be necessary." After Ban Yue finished speaking, she was quite proud, as if she had done a great deed.

Old Zhang and Xiao Zhang are the grandparents and grandchildren of beggars that Shi Min asked Bu Qianxue to take in. They have signed a three-year contract with Bufu, and they can sign again if they want to continue working after three years. If they want to leave, Bu Qianxue promises that they can leave at any time , can be regarded as one of the few day laborers in Bufu who are not like day laborers.

Most of the servants in Bufu are long-term workers who have signed the contract of selling their lives. Unless the owner is kind or dismissed for other reasons, they will have to work for a lifetime, and the children they give birth are also servants. The owner can let the servants do anything. Small punishments can be given, but killing at will is not allowed.

This was unthinkable in the previous dynasty, because the previous dynasty did not have any legal protection for servants, and the government would not care if they were killed. Hua Gaozu had experienced wars and knew the importance of manpower to the country, so he formulated the " In "Hua Law", the group of servants was also included in it, from signing the contract to how the family owner can be punished, and the degree of punishment is stipulated.

Ban Yue mentioned that Lao Zhang and Xiao Zhang gave in. Qianxue remembered something. Not long ago, Lao Zhang came to her, and she thought he was going to leave, but it turned out not to be. Beware of the young master of the hall, he was immediately baffled, and after careful questioning, he found out that it was only Lao Zhang who felt that Bu Lang's voice was very similar to that of a bad guy, and there was no substantive evidence for it.

She couldn't question Bu Lang just because of Lao Zhang's words and feelings. Either she was crazy or she was stupid.Especially now that Bu Lang has recovered his identity and reputation, the officials sent by Shi Min verified that her father was indeed wronged and the case was vindicated. .

What's more, she had suspected it before, but she didn't find anything. The court's redress and posthumous title officially proved that Bu Lang's words were true.Therefore, now she not only has a good impression of Bu Lang, a cousin, but also has feelings for her. God knows how much she wanted to have a sister or brother when she was a child, so why would she rashly doubt again just because of a word from a servant.

"Well done, although the elders should discipline the younger ones, but it's too much." Bu Qianxue praised Ban Yue with a smile after drinking the rock candy Sydney, which made Ban Yue even more proud, walking with her head held high.

"Let others put the bowl away. Go to the main room to see how the preparations for the evening's reception of the envoys are going?" Seeing that Ban Yue was about to go out, Bu Qianxue suddenly thought about it, "Okay, I'll go right away" Ban Yue As soon as he went out, he gave the bowl to the gatekeeper, and turned around and ran to the main room.

Bufu is the house of the juniors. Since Bu's family moved back from top to bottom, Bu Qianxue lives in the south house of the first house, Jiang Li lives in the main house of the second house, and the grandmother and grandfather live in the north house of the third house. Bu Lang was arranged to live in the east wing.

Now Bu Lang has not only recovered her status and reputation, but also has the status of a scholar. Bu Qianxue asked her privately as if jokingly if she had other plans, but Bu Lang was calm and said that her current life is good and she has no plans.

It was already afternoon when Shi Sihe returned to the palace after offering sacrifices, and Shi Min, who had been waiting for them to return to the palace, immediately rewarded them. The sacrificial envoy and his entourage each received a red envelope, and their mission was completed.

And the team that had already lined up and lined up neatly outside the Chengtian Hall waited for the emperor to come. After the ceremony, Shi Yan publicly canonized Zhao Chengfan as the post envoy, and Xing Boen and Wen Zhimian as the post envoys. Their tasks Just begun. ?