Rong's mother's face was a little distorted: "Empress, if you could consummate your marriage with the emperor as soon as possible, your relationship would be different! Those people don't dare to look down on our Kunhua Palace like this anymore!"
"Well, that makes sense." Min Yiyi turned and walked away.
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In less than an hour, Shen Huaian came back and everything was ready.
Min Yiyi checked it over and confirmed that everything was fine. All kinds of embroidery threads were also of high quality. She nodded with satisfaction.
Shen Huaian handed her a page of paper with detailed information: "Madam, these embroidery threads add up to 520 and a half taels of silver. Look..."
"Silver?" Min Yiyi was puzzled, "Do I still need to pay for these?"
Shen Huaian smiled: "Your Majesty, you may not be very clear about the procedures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If you follow the normal procedures, you will report to the Imperial Concubine, and after a step-by-step review, and the Emperor's approval, you can leave the public account. But the Empress If you are in a hurry and cannot follow the normal procedures, you have to put these in place first."
Min Yiyi: "...but do these embroidery threads cost more than 500 taels of silver? What thread is so expensive?"
If one tael of silver is exchanged for a thousand copper plates, 500 taels is equivalent to 50! Shen Huaian: "Madam, ordinary embroidery thread is not worth much, but the gold thread itself is made of gold, the silver thread is made of silver, and the colored silk thread is made of the best silk through 49 520 processes. These threads, converted into In silver taels, it is [-] five taels."
The original owner was a non-commercial person and had no idea about the price level of this era. It was obviously not suitable to delve into it, so Min Yiyi ordered Dongqing to get some silver for him.
Just after Shen Huaian was sent away, Xiaotang came to tell her again that she had told the imperial kitchen to send more snacks and snacks in the past few days, but they actually said that these would require extra money.
"How much more?" Min Yiyi asked.
Xiaotang: "It is said to be no less than 50 taels."
Min Yiyi: "So many?!"
Xiaotang: "Yes! They are just like lions! The most delicious snacks in Jufuzhai. Five coins can buy such a big bag. The snacks in the imperial dining room are not as delicious as those made in Jufuzhai! Actually Dare to ask for 50 taels! They are robbing money!"
Min Yiyi waved her hand: "That's all, let's finish the embroidery first. Then I'll go and ask my mother about the situation. Dongqing, please pay Xiaotang."
Dongqing agreed, went to carry a box out, first gave Xiaotang 50 taels to go do the work, and then said to Min Yiyi: "My Lady, the money in this box you gave to this slave has been basically spent. There are only three or four taels of silver left. Look..."
Her meaning was quite obvious, she was asking Min Yiyi for money.
Min Yiyi searched the memory of the original owner, and then started to break out in a cold sweat.
She discovered that the original owner only brought 500 taels of silver when he entered the palace! That 500 taels was secretly given to her by the fifth aunt!
The fifth aunt told her not to tell anyone. She didn't have the financial resources to give an extra 500 taels to the more than [-] girls in the family's seven rooms. If anyone found out, they would definitely say that she favored one over the other.
The original owner always felt that she was about to become the most noble woman in the entire Great Xia, so she didn't take the 500 taels of silver seriously at all.
But she enjoyed the feeling of being favored by others, so she accepted the fifth aunt's money and took it directly into the palace without telling others.
After entering the palace, she gave the 500 taels of silver, plus the monthly money as a queen, to Dongqing for safekeeping and accounting.
There was no big expense before, so I just exchanged some scraps of silver to reward the servants. The monthly payment of 100 taels was enough to cope with ran into spending money today, and in the blink of an eye I only had a few taels of silver left in my pocket...
Dongqing probably thought she still had some private money and asked her for money.
But she didn't.
Min Yiyi was silent for a moment and said, "Dongqing, show me the dowry booklet."
The original owner was a fool, and all he could think about was Emperor Hanxin, and he didn't care much about other things.
She didn't even know whether there was any cash in the dowry.
As the Queen of Daxia, her dowry was naturally very generous.
There are more than 300 pieces of ready-made clothes, including dresses for major celebrations, auspicious clothes for ordinary auspicious festivals, and daily casual clothes made by the queen!
Including various headwear, jewelry, furniture ornaments, daily necessities, bedding, etc., it contains a total of more than 600 items and more than 2000 minor items, making it a thick book.
However, these things cannot be realized.
Because when a commoner's daughter gets married, her natal family pays the dowry, but when a queen gets married, the royal family prepares the dowry.
The imperial court established a special wedding ceremony department to prepare for the wedding of the emperor and them, preparing the queen's dowry is an important task of the wedding ceremony department.
The dowries owned by Min Yiyi were all made within the royal family and registered in the register. They are not allowed to be sold to outsiders. At most, they are some jewelry and clothes without bright yellow and ceremonial decoration. They can be given to other concubines in the palace and are generally not allowed to be circulated. Go outside the palace.
From beginning to end, there was no cash in the dowry booklet.
Cash in hand, as well as a Zhuangzi shop that can provide continuous expenses in the future, as well as important gifts for the Queen Mother, the Emperor, princesses, princes, and other relatives of the emperor during festivals, birthdays, and other royal relatives should all be brought from the natal family. of.
But the original owner... brought only 500 taels of private property from home! While at home, she had not saved any money spent two or two silver dollars every month, and she spent them all.
Before getting married, her stepmother showed her the dowry booklet and told her that when she entered the palace, there would be so many good things for her to use. She would no longer need the clothes and jewelry she had when she was a girl, so she should give them to her sisters at home.
The original owner was so fascinated by the dowry book that she no longer cared about mundane things, so she gave all the valuable jewelry, fine fabrics, and valuable objects she had obtained since she was a child to her three best friends. younger sister.
Except for a set of ancestral jade heads and masks.
When her biological mother passed away, the original owner was only two years old. Rong's mother told her that when her own mother passed away at that time, she told her family to leave the jade headband to her as a dowry.
Otherwise, I would probably give this away as a gift.
The stepmother asked her again. Her relatives had also sent some extra makeup. Would she like to take it into the palace?Or, why not just give it to the third sister together? The original owner had seen other sisters in the clan add some extras when they got married, which were fabrics, pillows, jewelry and the like. She thought that what she received was the same, so she didn't take it seriously. She opened her mouth and said: "Mom, just do whatever you want!"
With her arrogant and arrogant aura, it was as if she was already the queen of the world, and ordinary people could no longer look down upon her.
Now think about it, how lovingly the stepmother smiled at that time, how wrong the original owner was! (End of this chapter)