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Because Marquis Yi'an donated the wedding gifts, Your Majesty, in order to show his righteousness and serving the people, specially ordered that his wedding be carried out with the etiquette of a prince.

As a result, my eldest brother's wedding was entirely arranged by the Ministry of Rites, except for the 108 loads of dowry sent to the Chen family, especially the pair of wild geese in the lead, which were hunted by my eldest brother himself.

The rest of the expenses were all covered by the Ministry of Rites. Dong Su knew that when doing things, officials would focus on the big things and not the small things. Even if the big things were not wrong, there would always be omissions in the small details.

Xiaoman was specially asked to bring a team of female officials to the Shen family to help, hoping that the Shen family's relatives and friends would not be able to discover those details. Like Jiang, she was busy the whole time.

No one knew what she was busy with, but she was nervous all day long, walking around the house. In the evening, she complained to Shen's father that she was so busy preparing for her son's wedding that her legs were sore.

Father Shen asked, "What are you busy with? Aren't all the women officials and people from the Ministry of Rites doing the work?"

There were servants doing all the heavy and small work, and he really had no idea what Jiang was busy with.

Jiang said angrily: "There are so many outsiders coming in and out of the house, I have to watch them to make sure they don't steal anything!"

Father Shen:...

The day before the wedding was the day when the bride's side distributed her dowry. The dowry that the Chen family prepared for Chen Luoxue was carried by two people.

Chen Luoxue herself knew very well that how could her family prepare a dowry for a daughter like her who was abandoned by her family at an early age?

That's why she insisted on marrying from the female official's residence instead of the Chen family.

In addition to the dowry given by the Queen, there was also dowry from her female officials and colleagues, as well as her own accumulation of assets over the years, either through business or investment in maritime merchants, which made the Chen family extremely envious.

She used her dowry to whitewash it and officially registered it with her own dowry assets. From then on, neither the Chen family nor her husband's family would be able to get involved.

Therefore, the 108 loads of dowry prepared by the Chen family were first delivered to the women's courtyard. After Chen Luoxue added more dowries privately, the people who carried the dowry were the servants of the Chen family.

All of them were replaced by naval soldiers, all of whom were Shen Linzhong's personal guards.

And the number of people who carried the load changed from two to six, totaling 108 loads. It was so filled that the two shoulder poles were bent due to the weight.

Chen Jiabei's first dowry was a green jade ruyi, which was directly changed to the fifth dowry. The first dowry was a pair of gold and jade ruyi given by the emperor, which was large and magnificent.

The second load was a pair of blood-jade corals half a man’s height given by the Queen. The third load was also a gift from the Queen, 108 longan-sized oriental pearls.

To highlight the color of the Dongzhu pearls, they are placed in gold plates and bowls.

The fourth one was a gift from the Queen, a luxurious bed inlaid with gold and jade. Such a bed was very rare in the north, and the Queen had it custom-made in Jiangnan and shipped to Youzhou by sea.

Everyone who watched the ceremony said that the queen really loved her subordinates, and even her own sister could not be so generous. Of course, Ms. Chen married into the Shen family to be the eldest sister-in-law.

There are one hundred and eight of them, all of them are exquisite and expensive.

The Chen family had prepared only two pieces of soil for her to represent their fields. But when she added them up, there were dozens of them. She couldn't even count them at a glance.

The number of tiles representing the house also increased from two to more than ten. The silver box for dowry also increased from a small box that one person could hold to a huge box that six people could carry.

The neatly arranged gold and silver coins dazzled the spectators in the sunlight.

The Chen family gnashed their teeth. Chen Luoxue's heart was not towards the family at all! She actually had so much private property!

Previously, the Chen family had to pay a large amount of land tax due to the imperial court's land reform and asked Chen Luoxue for help. She even cried and complained that the salary of a female official was not high. Her family had not given her any subsidy in the past few years. How could she have the money to help the family?

Since the family is in such a difficult situation, the brothers should be allowed to enter the government and do business to earn money, instead of acting like sons of aristocratic families and spending their days eating, drinking and having fun.

The young master of the Chen family who came with me at the time got angry when he heard this. Do you want me to be like a bunch of smelly sea merchants? Or do you want me to take the civil service exam like those poor scholars?

Our family is a centuries-old prestigious family. How can we do the same things as those untouchables?

Chen Luoxue retorted directly: "Since you are a century-old family, you naturally cannot use your daughter's private money to pay taxes. In this case, brother, think of another way!"

The other way was to sell the property or land, or the treasures that had been passed down for generations. Because the imperial court was very strict about land reform, anyone who lied or evaded taxes would be severely punished.

The Chen family really thought she had no money at the time, and asked her to go to the Queen to plead for mercy, but Chen Luoxue still refused. She said that even if it was the Chen family, the Queen would not tolerate private matters.

Now I realize that she really didn't have much silver, but she had plenty of gold, jewelry, shops and land!

It’s such a waste to raise this daughter!

But no matter how angry the Chen family was, they didn't dare to embarrass Chen Luoxue at this time. In the future, Chen Luoxue would be the wife of the Marquis and the Queen's sister-in-law. They had to show respect when they saw her!

On the wedding day, Sister Yuan suggested that all the way from the court ladies' courtyard to the Shen residence be filled with flower baskets and covered with wedding paper.

There were imperial guards responsible for maintaining order in every place, and people from the Chamber of Commerce brought red envelopes to distribute to the people watching the ceremony.

Firecrackers and bands were of course indispensable. Li Nianyu also took a unique approach and led a group of Mo Men disciples to set off fireworks and colorful flares along the way.

When Dong Su heard about the excitement, she really wanted to go and see it, but she knew that if she went, it would only cause trouble for the wedding.

Her family of five had to wait until dusk for her eldest brother to pick up the bride and go to the Shen Residence to watch the ceremony.

But the day before, Dabao and Xiaobao were taken away by Shen Linzhong to be the boy and girl who pressed the bed.

According to Zhong Yang, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were not nervous at first, but when they saw that it was the crown prince and princess who were lying on the bed, all the officials of the Ministry of Rites arrived at the scene and additional imperial guards were dispatched for protection.

Seeing that the Queen and the Emperor were confident in letting the Crown Prince and the Princess stay overnight at the Shen Mansion, the officials from the Ministry of Rites broke out in a cold sweat and stayed outside the bridal chamber all night.

Dong Su thought a lot about this incident and said to Ling Moxiao with a smile, "See, when a royal family member goes out, all the officials think it's a big deal."

In this era, if the emperor wanted to know what was happening outside, he had to rely on reports from officials.

It would be too sad if after a few generations, our children and grandchildren have never even left the palace, rely on court officials to report everything, and know nothing about the true situation of Daxia.

Ling Moxiao didn't believe it at first. How could it be possible? No matter how powerful the officials were, they wouldn't dare to fool the emperor like this.

Dong Su turned the events of several generations of emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty in his previous life into a short story and simply told it to Ling Moxiao, who heard about such a big event as the Lianchun Festival.

The common people watching the ceremony were all pretended to be officials. A certain emperor had not left the palace for thirty years, did not attend court, did not offer sacrifices, and everything was done by officials on his behalf.

Ling Moxiao found it unbelievable, but these words were spoken by Dong Su himself, so they couldn't be false.

He couldn't help but think of the late emperor, who had spent his entire life trying to take back imperial power from the hands of the gentry, using every possible means and even allowing the empress to kill concubines and princes and princesses.

They tried to sow discord among the gentry, win over the powerful and influential to fight against them, and so on. But the result was that after decades, the people at the top were fighting each other to the death, and the people below were suffering.

All the small countries in the four directions dared to challenge Daxia, and the late emperor was unable to leave the palace except for offering sacrifices throughout the year.

Since he ascended the throne, he has never left the imperial city.

Ling Moxiao couldn't help but fall into deep thought.