After hearing what Shi Lidie said, the emperor's expression became even more helpless.

As the saying goes, a king never jokes. Since he said he would grant Shen Yanxi a marriage, he must do it. And Shen Yanxi is willing to marry into the Princess Zhenguo's mansion, and Shi Lidie herself agrees, so the emperor can only pair them up.

After all, an arranged marriage is a happy event, and the two people should be in love with each other. If you match them up randomly, they will end up becoming a couple of resentment towards each other.

Then the Emperor said:

"Since you two are so begging, I will grant you marriage."

"You are the Queen's adopted daughter after all. I will tell the Queen about this happy event later and let her arrange your wedding. No matter whether you marry into the Queen's family or marry someone else, you will be able to have a glorious wedding."

"Have the people from the Imperial Observatory arrived? Go and match the horoscopes of the princess and Lord Shen Aiqing, and choose an auspicious day to hold their wedding."

In the last few rows of the court officials' queue, the director of the Imperial Observatory stepped forward, bowed, and saluted, indicating that he would definitely act according to the orders.

After the emperor arranged the tasks, he looked at Shi Lidie again and said:

"Xiaodie, I'm sorry for wronging you."

"I am not wronged." Shi Lidie shook her head and smiled, "With my personality, I am not suitable to marry into a wealthy family as a daughter-in-law. It is best to have a son-in-law like now, so that I can be the master of the house."

"You..." The emperor shook his head lovingly, and the look in his eyes became more relieved.

The emperor's love for Shi Lidie was genuine. He naturally liked this junior who helped him unify the Central Plains and provided him with many new things.

But as a superior, he was also wary of such capable people.

Shi Lidie's marriage was a concern for him. She was not suitable to marry into the royal family. Both he and the prince were too far apart in age from her. But if she married someone else from the royal family, there was no guarantee that the man would not harbor ambitions.

The same goes for other noble families. If they marry Shi Lidie, with the bond of marriage and the support of Shi Lidie's fiefdom, they may become another major threat to the Dayin Dynasty.

Just right now.

Shi Lidie volunteered to marry a son-in-law, but the son-in-law was a low-class man with no parents, no relatives, no power, and even became a beggar at one point. This made the emperor feel a little relieved.

He knew that this marriage was unfair to Shi Lidie. With her status as a princess, she didn't have to compromise and marry a beggar, but she was willing to do so, and this was the reassurance she gave him.

Therefore, he would not let Shi Lidie down.

Since the choice of marriage partner cannot be changed, then her wedding should be held in a grand manner, according to the scale of the princesses who guarded the country in all dynasties, which should be half a level higher, so as to prove her status and honor.

This was also a way to tell the world that the Princess Zhenguo's marriage to a commoner did not mean that the royal family disliked her.

The marriage between Shi Lidie and Shen Yanxi was thus settled.

Marriage in ancient times was very complicated. According to the emperor's wish to hold a grand wedding, the royal family had to provide Shi Lidie with a dowry and customize a well-fitting and luxurious wedding dress for her.

Combined with the date calculated by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory, the wedding date was set for one year later.

After this reward, Shi Lidie left the capital with the new gold, silver and treasures bestowed by the emperor, and returned to her fiefdom with Shen Yanxi to continue contributing to the development of her fiefdom.

But their relationship has changed. They used to be superiors and subordinates, but now they are an engaged couple.

Everyone knew that in this marriage, the princess was the dominant one. After all, Shen Yanxi was just a son-in-law. Shi Lidie was afraid that Shen Yanxi would think too much, so she took the initiative to talk to him:

"In this era, a man's dignity is above all else. A son-in-law will be looked down upon. Have you been given a cold shoulder by the people in the mansion recently?"

Shen Yanxi smiled when he heard this:

"Everyone knows that you favor me, so why would you give me a cold shoulder? Even if he is a son-in-law, he is still the apple of the princess' eye. The people in this palace are all smart, and no one would make such a mistake."

"Princess, you don't have to worry that I will be unhappy because of my son-in-law. After all, it was me who proposed to the emperor to marry into his family. I am alone here and I don't know if I will have the chance to go back. Naturally, I will seize every opportunity to be with you."

"As long as you don't mind." Shi Lidie said with a smile.

"What's there to mind? I'm even looking forward to our wedding." Shen Yanxi said, "I never dreamed that you and I would have such a fate. In the past, I only hoped that you could wake up from the hospital, and then I would pursue you seriously again. But who would have thought that the person in the hospital was not you, and I fulfilled my dream in ancient times."

After they talked it out, there was no grudge between them.

Although they are an engaged couple, their relationship is just like it was in modern times, without any changes. They still have a tacit understanding with each other and often come up with new things.

As for the wedding, the palace will prepare it, so Shi Lidie and Shen Yanxi don’t need to worry about it.

Next, the fiefdom entered a period of rapid development——

After the Nanyi were conquered, the emperor asked Shi Lidie to lead a team to Nanyi to investigate new species and to bring back the so-called rubber and other things.

So Shi Lidie and Shen Yanxi led their men to the south.

In addition to rubber, Shi Lidie also found tropical fruits such as coconuts, jackfruits, durian, and lychees on the southern islands. In order to ensure the continued growth and supply of these fruits, she used favorable conditions to migrate a group of people to settle in the south.

The people who migrated here all had no property at home, so it would be the same no matter where they lived.

Shi Lidie promised them that if they moved to the south, they could get land and enjoy many welfare policies for land reclamation. Therefore, many people in the Dayin Dynasty who originally could not make a living were willing to go to the south to fight for a way out.

The people in the fiefdom live a happy life, but that doesn’t mean the people all over the world live a happy life.

There were always several poverty-stricken areas within the Dayin Dynasty, and there were also many poor people in the former Ye State, all of whom were the targets of Shi Lidie's migration. These people could not find a way to develop in their original places, so they thought about trying their luck in new places.

Therefore, under the leadership of Shi Lidie, many new maps were opened up in Nanyi.

Fruit growing bases, flower planting areas, natural scenery viewing areas, economic crop growing areas, mining areas, etc.

The people of the Southern Yi used to occupy this place. They had treasures but were not good at using them. Now that it is in the hands of the Dayin Dynasty, it has been revitalized and the entire Southern Yi has been given a new look.

After witnessing the development and changes of Nanyi day after day, the former people of Nanyi were willing to submit to the Dayin Dynasty.

The reason is simple, mainly because following Dayinchao, one can live a good life.

After all, they witnessed the changes in those poor people with their own eyes, and among those people there were remnants of the Ye State, so surely the old people of the Southern Yi could also get a chance.

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