"I want to discuss with you what gifts to prepare for Guining the day after tomorrow." Lin Xuan said.
Guining is also commonly known as the three-chao return home. "Chao" means morning, that is, on the morning of the third day, a married woman, accompanied by her husband, returns to her natal home to visit her parents. The man's family needs to prepare gifts and visit his wife's parents and relatives at the same time.
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After the woman receives the gift, she cannot accept it all. When she goes back, she has to return part of it.
Of course, it is not necessary to go back on the third day. According to the customs of various places and the distance of the marriage, the time for returning to Ning is also different.
Generally, it is acceptable on the third, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth day, or the full moon.
And Li Lizhi was married in Chang'an, so naturally she needed Guining as the third person.
"It's up to your husband to decide. The father, the emperor, and the empress don't need anything. All you have to do is give it a try," Li Lizhi said.
Li Lizhi was very touched that Lin Xuan valued Guining, which also showed that Lin Xuan valued her.
"How can that be done? When the time comes, you will not be the only one to return to Ning, but your two sisters will also go back. The gifts cannot be shabby." Lin Xuan waved his hand and said.
Comparisons have existed since ancient times. As the eldest princess, Li Lizhi was deeply loved by Li Shimin, and her dowry was far greater than that of other princesses. It is impossible for other princesses to say that they are not jealous of Li Lizhi in their hearts.
If the gift was shabby, the other princesses would not know how to laugh at Li Lizhi.
To laugh at Li Lizhi is to laugh at him. More importantly, he doesn't want Li Lizhi to be wronged.
Marrying a wife is just for pain. If there are no conditions, forget it. If there are conditions, you will naturally be as generous as you want.
We have so much money at home, but we have to keep it to get moldy.
Li Lizhi chuckled and said, "How come your husband is still like a child and loves face so much?"
Lin Xuan shook his head, looked at Li Lizhi and said, "It's not that I want to save face, I just don't want you to be laughed at."
Li Lizhi was startled, moved, and said with a smile: "Husband, you are too worried. I am the eldest princess, who dares to laugh at me?"
Although she is the eldest princess, she is not the eldest among all Li Shimin's daughters.
Not to mention there are two sisters at the top, but there are more sisters at the bottom.
Although Li Shimin loves his daughter very much, with so many children, a bowl of water cannot be equaled.
Based on Li Shimin's doting on his daughter, although the other princesses are not as good as Li Lizhi, they are much better than the princesses of other dynasties.
But what people fear most is comparison. Li Lizhi is the most favored by Li Shimin, so naturally many people will feel unfair and secretly resentful.
Li Lizhi herself is very clear about this.
It's just that no matter how unfair and jealous those people are, they are still not polite when they see her, and no one dares to speak coldly to her openly.
Many people may not have a clear idea of Li Lizhi's status in Li Shimin's heart.
Let's put it this way. Historically, during the ten years of Zhenguan, Li Shimin was preparing to enfeoff various kings. At that time, most of the ministers in the court opposed it and failed to persuade Li Shimin.
The enfeoffment mentioned here is not like adding a title to the prince and a titular governor like now, but the real title of king.
In other words, those princes will have the right to control their fiefdoms, which is equivalent to a country within a country and a prince.
Li Shimin did this because he felt that if the world changes and other descendants have strength, the world will still belong to their Li family.
At that time, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and other close officials of Li Shimin tried to persuade Li Shimin many times, but failed to change Li Shimin's mind. The person who finally persuaded Li Shimin to give up his idea was Li Lizhi.
This shows Li Lizhi’s status in Li Shimin’s heart.
Lin Xuan said: "Even if they laugh at you in their hearts, it won't do."
"Husband."
Li Lizhi looked at Lin Xuan affectionately.
Lin Xuan thought about her so much, how could she not dare to move.
Lin Xuan dragged his chin and said: "But as you said, Your Majesty and the Queen are in need of everything, and Duke Zhao Guo and Duke Su have a profound background, which is really hard to compare with our family."
Although he has money, there are many things that money cannot buy.
Changsun Wuji and Cheng Yaojin were both Li Shimin's confidants, conquering the world along the way, and with the Xuanwu Sect incident, countless aristocratic families were wiped out.
Li Shimin didn't know how many treasures he rewarded them with.
And what about Lin Xuan?
Baby, no.
The money is quite a lot.
But when he came back, he couldn't let anyone ask him to pay tens of dollars for the car.
At that time, the generosity will be arrogant, but afterwards, the whole of Chang'an will probably talk about him as a 'fool'.
"Husband, there are a few treasures among my dowry things. I can just send them over when the time comes." Li Lizhi said.
She knew the background of the Lin family. It was just a merchant's house before, so naturally it didn't have any treasures.
Lin Xuan shook his head and said: "No, how can anyone take the dowry as a gift to Guining?"
It's not that Lin Xuan has any masculine ideas. In ancient times, it was very shameful for men to use women as dowries, but Lin Xuan was not from ancient times, so he didn't care about that.
Others may not know that those things were Li Lizhi's dowry, but how could Empress Changsun, who helped Li Lizhi buy the dowry, not know?
Maybe Empress Changsun doesn't know everything, but she definitely knows the precious ones.
What will Queen Changsun think of him then?
Good guy, if I marry my daughter to you, you’ll just use her dowry, and you’ll use that dowry as a homecoming gift?
No matter how good-tempered Queen Changsun is, I'm afraid she won't let him go when the time comes.
"Then what should we do? Why don't we send someone to Chang'an to see if we can buy anything more precious?" Li Lizhi said.
Lin Xuan pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "It's not realistic to buy anything good in such a short time."
Li Shimin liked Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, and Empress Changsun liked Danqing. Influenced by them, Li Lizhi not only wrote good calligraphy, but also had very high painting skills.
Not many of Wang Xizhi's writings have been handed down, although there are certainly not many in the Tang Dynasty, but they are all in the hands of aristocratic families.
Not to mention that he has a bad relationship with the family, even if he has a good relationship, it would be very difficult to buy one.
For aristocratic families, those calligraphy and paintings were left behind by their ancestors, and they could not be sold unless they were forced to do so.
This is evident from the fact that Li Shimin has been looking for the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" for many years, but there is not even a sound of electricity or wind.
Lin Xuan's thin gold handwriting was superb, but he couldn't write some words himself and send them over.
"Yes." Lin Xuan's eyes lit up and he thought of a very good way to give a gift.
Li Li asked: "What did your husband think of giving?"
"Um."
Lin Xuan nodded and said with a smile: "There are more than a thousand kilograms of gold in the warehouse. I have people melt it down and cast it into twelve golden pigs. We will give away these golden pigs when the time comes."
If we do this in future generations, we will definitely be called a nouveau riche, even though we are rich, but very unsophisticated.
But now in the Tang Dynasty, gold is not circulated as currency.
Most of them have been collected by noble families.
Gold is not precious, but Lin Xuan gave it a lot.
One tael of gold is worth almost ten guan of copper coins, and one pound is one hundred and sixty guan. (A pound of sixteen taels in ancient times)
More than one thousand kilograms of gold, worth two to three hundred thousand pounds.
The slam mentioned here refers to the slam.
According to the official regulations of the Tang Dynasty, the standard currency is one thousand coins, but among the people, eight hundred coins are used for the currency. This is already acquiesced by everyone.
Even the imperial court's money was always based on eight hundred coins.
Calculated this way, more than one thousand kilograms of gold is worth three to four hundred thousand guan.
No matter how rich Changsun Wuji and Cheng Yaojin were, they would not be able to give Li Shimin something worth hundreds of thousands of guan.
Who can be more generous than him?
The more Lin Xuan thought about it, the more he felt that this method was very good.