The game starts with escaping from the famine and flipping the table

Yun Yaoyao looked at Kuang Yun'er who was singing, reciting, acting and performing a full-scale martial arts show, and suddenly smiled faintly. She opened her thin lips slightly, but the words she said made Kuang Yun'er freeze in place instantly.

It turned out that she really knew it.

The entire banquet fell silent amid Yun Yaoyao's words.

"Aunt, is my mother's dowry useful?"

Kuang Yun'er was trembling all over, her bloodless lips opened and closed for a long time, but she couldn't utter a word.

She wanted to say that these were all hers.

However, the Yao family members are still there.

The dowry list is still there.

This is also the fundamental reason why Kuang Yun'er did not dare to kill Yun Yaoyao and could only find ways to make Yun Yaoyao useless.

Only if Yun Yaoyao is alive can Yao Xuenniang's dowry remain in the Yun family.

This is probably the only humane law in Dayan Kingdom.

When a wife dies, if she has children, the dowry will be left to her children as a dowry or betrothal gift; if she has no children, the dowry will be returned to the woman's parents' home.

I heard that this law was promulgated personally by the founding emperor Taizu.

The reason is very simple. Emperor Taizu's family was originally the number one imperial merchant in the previous dynasty.

Yuwen Yuetong, the only legitimate sister of Emperor Taizu Yuwen Zhanghua, was plotted against by the last emperor. She married into the third prince's mansion with a grand wedding dress, full of longing for love.

As a result, the Third Prince put a sterilizing drug in the wedding wine on the wedding night, making it impossible for Yuwen Yuetong to have children of her own for the rest of her life.

Three years later, the Third Prince married his cousin Bai Yueguang as his concubine on the grounds that his wife Yu Wen Yuetong had no children.

Because Concubine Yu Wen Yuetong had no children for three years after marriage, Yu Wenwenhua's family could only watch the Third Prince marry a new concubine.

It's not like Yuwen Wenhua hadn't thought about bringing back his only legitimate sister. Even if they divorced, the Yuwen family was fully capable of allowing Yuwen Yuetong to live a rich and safe life for the rest of her life.

However, Yuwen Yuetong was unwilling to divorce and return home.

At that time, Yuwen Wenhua didn't know that Yuwen Yuetong had already discovered that he had been poisoned and would not live long.

Yuwen Yuetong had figured everything out and knew she had fallen into a trap. This marriage was a calculation from beginning to end.

Yu Wen Yuetong had foolishly entered into the game, and she didn't want to drag her family into the quagmire.

What the Third Prince had always wanted was Yu Wen Yuetong's generous dowry.

Lose money and eliminate disaster.

As the legitimate daughter of a merchant family, Yu Wen Yuetong understands the value of these four words even better.

As long as the Yuwen family can be saved, the material possessions, even her life, will not matter.

In the end, Yu Wen Yuetong died.

He died childless.

It was natural for the third prince to take Yu Wen Yuetong's generous dowry for himself.

The following year, the third prince made his cousin Bai Yueguang his legal wife.

In the third year, the third prince used Yu Wen Yuetong's dowry to successfully bribe two-thirds of the officials in the court and successfully ascended the throne as emperor.

In the fifth year, Yuwen Zhanghua rebelled.

In the tenth year, Yuwen Zhanghua overthrew the previous dynasty and ascended the throne as emperor.

The first decree after ascending the throne was:

A woman's dowry is her personal property.

The husband’s family shall not occupy or misappropriate the property.

If a woman dies and has legitimate children, the dowry will be used as a betrothal gift for the legitimate son or as a dowry for the legitimate daughter; if she has no legitimate children, the dowry will be taken back to the woman's parents' home.

Privately, there is a joking saying that summarizes the change of dynasties, and it is particularly joking.

I believe that if the old emperors of the previous dynasties knew that it was their own unfilial sons and grandchildren who tried to seize women’s dowries that led to the change of power, they would probably not be able to keep their coffin lids closed.

There is no way. These eight simple words peeled off the skin of the emperor of the previous dynasty and crushed him on the ground repeatedly.

"A dowry and a kingdom!"

Ha ha!