Baoqin explained: "According to Tang law, women over the age of fifteen are allowed to marry privately, which is protected by the government and is a legal marriage contract, but not being old enough is a crime. It's just that private marriages are mostly in poor families, and private marriages of rich families are likely to not get dowry, which is very miserable. ”

Then, the dowry is actually a part of the husband's family, but the husband's family is not in a big trouble in the family and cannot be disposed of at will, and if the Tang nobles forcibly occupy the dowry, they will be looked down upon by others, which has nothing to do with Tang Law. Then, there are the three laws of harmony, righteousness, and outright. ”

"Harmony and separation, the woman takes away the dowry, and the husband's family cannot be forced to stay. Righteousness, depending on which side made the mistake, the wrongdoer will definitely have a lot of money loss, and finally the wife, not only can not take away the dowry at all, but the mother's family will have to compensate for it. ”

"Xiao Ling'er didn't know how much money we had in our family, and when I signed a contract with her before entering the door, she gritted her teeth and was willing to take out seventy percent of the income of the silk mill to subsidize the family's expression, and now I laugh every time I think about it. Also, when she proposed to have all the rights to dispose of the silk mill, her little face was nervous. ”

Baoqin said a lot in one breath, and he couldn't stop laughing.

Liu Mu looked sideways at Dugu Lanruo: "How much money do we have?" ”

"I don't know." Dugu Lanruo gave a very positive answer.

Liu Mu looked at Baoqin again, and Baoqin also shook his head: "I don't know, I have to check the big account for this, and besides, our family's coins are the smallest part of the family property." ”

"Okay, let's get down to business, I'm going to give Baoqin a dowry."

"I can't give it." Baoqin stopped Liu Mu: "Even if the princess agrees, this matter can't be hidden from Xiao Ling'er and Xie Xing'er, give me the family's property, they will have opinions, even if they go to the government to fight a lawsuit, Lang Jun will lose." ”

Baoqin is talking about Tang Lu, and it is impossible for her as a concubine to take away a piece of family property.

"And I'll help you make a lot of money?" Yanagi asked again.

Baoqin still shook his head: "It's not okay, according to the Tang Dynasty, Langjun wants to be fair, that is, to give New Year's dividends during the New Year's Festival, it must also be fairly distributed according to identity." Tang Law has several regulations to protect women, even if it is a concubine, it is also protected by Tang Law, even if she was once a slave, she is still protected by Tang Law after being a concubine. ”

Liu Mu really didn't expect that Datang would have such a thing as a women's protection regulation, and there would be a regulation for the protection of private property.

Baoqin said again: "Lang Jun knows why the rich businessmen in Jiangnan are crazy about the matter of widows as concubines? ”

"Why?"

"There are three out of the Tang law, any woman who does not go out of the iron law, except for the three out of the seven, ignoring the parents, adultery, and stealing, the rest can be avoided, but in fact, the Tang law only protects the two of ignoring the parents and stealing. Three people do not come out, those who have served three years of mourning for their uncles, those who were poor and lowly when they married and then rich, and those who left homeless. ”

Liu Mu touched his chin, leaned on the soft chair, and said slowly: "I have a big business, which was originally just an idea, but today someone sent the opportunity to come, and this business can only be done by holding the qin." Just before Xiao Ling'er mentioned her dowry, I thought that Baoqin didn't have her own way to get money. ”

Liu Mu's mood moved Baoqin very much, but the rules are the rules.

"Husband said, how big can this way to get money, if it is big enough, I can be the master and prefer to hold the qin, and then the two of them will not have an opinion, as the husband said that this thing can only be done by holding the qin, so it is not unfair, but it is not unjust to avoid the two of them, and the two of them are not the kind of uninteresting."

Dugu Lanruo also wants to seek some benefits for Baoqin, after all, Baoqin is the closest person to her besides Liu Mu.

Liu Mu gave Baoqin a look.

Seeing Liu Mu's expression, he hugged the qin and covered his mouth and just smiled: "Lang Jun rest assured, things that are bigger than rabbits in our place can't be moved without our permission." ”

Liu Mu then took out a piece of paper, made a pencil and quickly drew a picture.

This is a simple version of a map along the equator.

"This is the Guangzhou wharf, this is what I call the Strait of Malacca, I will give you a thousand Japanese people to occupy one end of this strait, and you can build a port here, Temasek Port. Then from crossing this strait, the first place of trade is the Lion Kingdom (Ceylon), and then continue west to Tianzhu, our goal is not Tianzhu. Further west. ”

Baoqin understood: "Then the trade with the Lion Country is just for friendship, and this is a supply port." ”

"Clever."

"And then to the west, there are two straits, one is the Persian Gulf, and the other is here......" Willow pointed on the map, "I will negotiate with Oscar Badi, he will send here to trade with us, there are ambergris, dragon's blood trees, and countless medicinal herbs that we have never seen before." ”

Baoqin nodded violently, just like ambergris, Baoqin knew that it was a big business.

That thing is ten times the value of gold.

"Remember, be sure to go around the Persian Gulf, because we are Don ships, and the Persians will not dare to do anything to us. There are many people in the green forest who are not skilled enough to enter the hidden guard, and some of them are old, and some of our people are injured and can no longer perform tasks. This sea route is done well, and five boats are a net profit of more than 10,000 yuan a year. ”

"Faster than robbing money?"

"That's it, this is still the early days, when you dare to go further southwest, there is another island here, this island is called Spice Island, the whole island is covered with countless flowers and plants, you are sending hundreds of thousands of people to dig every day, and the island is still growing."

The spice island of Madagascar is Madagascar, where the world's largest export of natural herbs has since begun.

"It's troublesome." Baoqin climbed on Liu Mu's back and said unhurriedly: "Although Su Wuling is just a cheap concubine, if we use Japanese people to do things, we can't help but give her a share." ”

Dugu Lanruo said: "There should be a share of her if you don't have to do things with the widows, and she is also one of the concubines, although the level is lower." ”

"This picture is not to be passed on."

"Yes!" Baoqin agreed to come down and rolled up the picture and put it away.

"The Three Treasures of the Ocean, in fact, you have seen them all, one is a compass, one is a sextant, and one is a can. Of course, you can take a few more cats with you, and watch out for mice on board. ”

Liu Mu explained carefully.

In fact, no one has seen such a thing as a sextant except for the Huayuan Workshop.

"What kind of business are you talking about with that guest?" Dugu Lanruo asked.

Liu Mu didn't intend to hide it: "This business can only be done by Bo Si, I want to find a kind of oil fruit." But there are hundreds or thousands of trees that look like them, so he asked him to bring some of them, and then we picked them all. The yield of that oilseed is more than 10 times that of rapeseed. ”19