Chapter 432: The so-called dowry
"Hiring, dowry?" Sun Lin's earth-shattering words directly caused the petite and lovely princess of Xiqin to enter a sluggish state. As a "trading item" used by the Western Qin Empire to form an alliance with the sunset, as early as Yue'er decided her own future, she had already thought that she might become extremely dim in the future, and might eventually become a so-called "vent" like those so-called "vents" in the palace of the Great Empire of the Central Continent, but after getting acquainted with Sun Lin, she found that this was not the case at all. This noble emperor who never sets the sun treats himself like a true lover, takes care of himself and loves himself, even if he loses a little temper, this emperor who never sets the sun has never put on a face to himself, but smiles and tolerates himself, although this is nothing for the kind of information explosion in later generations, but it is different here, and Sun Lin's approach makes Yue'er gradually have a good impression of it. But good feelings are good feelings, this does not mean that Yue'er can get out of the psychological barrier of "I am a trading product", so she never thought that when she married Sun Lin, the emperor who never set the sun would give her a dowry before this, you must know that Lu Dao is clearly his father, that is, Sun Lin's father-in-law, who came to hug Sun Lin's thigh, and Sun Lin himself agreed that the sun would never set on the empire and the Western Qin Empire to become allies, and it was enough to provide material help.
"What? Don't you want a dowry? Or are you going to stop being my wife? Looking at Princess Xiqin, who had been in a sluggish state for a long time, Sun Lin looked at Yue'er's face with a puzzled expression and asked, "Or are you not ready?" But don't you Xiqin people have to get engaged before getting married, and after a process of dowry and return gifts, you still have to wait for more than 1 year before you can officially get married? Isn't a year enough time for you to prepare? ”
"No, it's not, it's just that you were scared when you suddenly said this." Yue'er, who finally reacted, found that Sun Lin's face was only a few centimeters away from her own Lianjian, and immediately blushed and said, "That, how did you get the customs of the Western Qin people?" I don't think you asked me before, and you know what this does? ”
"Huh? You're my fiancée, of course I'm going to know about your customs? Isn't that so? Sun Lin scratched his head, then picked up the pen and paper in front of him under the gaze of Yue'er beside him, wrote something on it, and handed it to Yue'er: "You should have a way to contact your father directly, right?" Can you give this to him as soon as possible? ”
"Yes, you can." Saying that, Yue'er summoned a Xiqin maid, and after saying a few words to it in Xiqin, the Xiqin maid immediately ran towards the place where Yue'er lived in the Atlanta Palace, and brought back a cage, which contained a very small bird with emerald green feathers, and after getting the cage and the cage bird, Yue'er immediately folded the paper given to her by Sun Lin to the minimum, tied it to the bird's leg with silver wire, and whispered a few words to it, and the bird immediately spread its wings and left the Atlantan Palace.
"This is the silver silk emerald feather bird, which is a small bird specially captured by our Western Qin royal family to transmit information, she is characterized by extremely fast speed, and the amount of food is amazing, plus its foraging time when performing the task, it only takes more than 10 days at most, this bird can write a message from you to my father to my father, but unfortunately although this bird can adapt to the environment of various places, they can only be caught in the Eastern Continent, and its number is very rare, and it is not aggressive, You can't deliver information like the eagles in your hands, you can carry out various reconnaissance missions, and even capture birds with confidential letters that the enemy uses to transmit messages. Looking at her fiancé curiously at the bird that flew away, Yue'er immediately explained softly.
After Sun Lin pondered for a moment, he suddenly asked a new question to Yue'er. "Oh......... By the way, Yue'er, I heard before that your Western Qin Empire has driven away all those invaders, and forced them to cede land and pay compensation, right? ”
"Yes, thanks to the three weapons you provided us: the Giant Crossbow, the Throwing Bow and the Scorpion Crossbow!"
"Really? Then my father-in-law should accept this dowry, after all, post-war reconstruction will require a lot of money. ”
14 days later, Xianyang, the capital of the Western Qin Kingdom, was in the Baichen Hall in the Western Qin Imperial Palace.........
"Aiqing, what do you think of the dowry gift from the emperor who never sets?" On the top of the hall where gold and red intersect, a middle-aged man from Western Qin with a Chinese character face and wearing gorgeous clothes sat on a hot gold chair, and after looking around at the civil and military ministers in front of him, he said to everyone in a tone of non-prestige and anger, but this middle-aged man of Western Qin always had a faint sense of helplessness in his tone.
"This ........." After exchanging words for a while, the civil and military ministers introduced two Western Qin officials to come forward and answer, one of them was a young and vigorous Western Qin general wearing battle armor, who looked like he was in his early 20s at most, and the other was an old man with a long beard.
After the two elected representatives glanced at each other, the first to speak was not the young general who seemed to be in the lead in everything, but the old man of Western Qin beside him: "Your Majesty, although the warriors of our empire have just repelled the invaders, judging from the amount of surplus money and grain in our current treasury, our Western Qin Empire is not out of crisis at present, and the previous battle to defend the territory has destroyed all the construction in all the inland border areas of our Western Qin Empire. It has also led to the emergence of nearly a million refugees within the empire, and these problems require a lot of money to fill in the final analysis, so if the empire wants to survive this crisis now, it must arrive at a way to raise money quickly, and the dowry sent by the emperor who never sets is exactly what we need at present, although accepting this condition means that we have to invest in a few combat legions before obtaining financial resources, but the minister believes that this effort will reap more rewards, so on behalf of the civil officials, I hope that Your Majesty will accept this dowry. ”
After the old man of Western Qin finished speaking, the middle-aged man on the throne focused his eyes on the young Western Qin general again: "What about you?" General Wu. ”
As soon as the middle-aged man's words fell, everyone present also focused their eyes on the young Western Qin general.