In the six marriage rites stipulated by the Zhou ceremony, Nacai is the first ceremony, that is, the matchmaker comes to be a matchmaker, and submits a marriage request to the woman's family, if the woman's parents agree, the man's family can officially come to the door to propose, and the marriage proposal should be sent to the dowry, also called the wedding, generally to send a wild goose, or send a wooden carved goose, but the goose can not be less, whether it is the marriage of the royal relatives, or the marriage of the ordinary people, the goose must be sent, in addition to the wild goose, but also to send a few silk, a few pigs and sheep, a few jars of wine.

However, before the formal proposal, the woman's parents should arrange for the man and woman to meet, which is to give both parties a chance to choose, and it is not completely arranged by the parents, at least not in the Tang and Song dynasties.

If one party does not agree, the subsequent proposal can be cancelled, but generally the man will give the woman two pieces of silk or two pieces of cloth as compensation.

Once both young people agree, the second step of Nacai begins, which is to propose to the door.

The next morning, Guo Ying came to the door with more than a dozen gifts to propose, Xue Xun specially asked for half a day off, and he and his wife received Guo Ying in the house.

The gift is placed in the yard, a wild goose wrapped in red silk, put it in a basket, it is winter, there are no wild geese in Chang'an, so it can only be replaced by a precious wild goose carved with sandalwood.

Then there were two jars of wine, two pigs, two sheep, a sack of rice, and five horses of silk, all tied with rope and wrapped in red silk.

Although Guo Ying has no official position, he came to propose marriage for Guo Song on behalf of his father, Xue Xun was very polite to him, and Han was also very polite, but politely polite, he still had to ask.

Han asked with a smile: "When the two parties get married, I won't ask about various ceremonies, the family is almost the same, but can Guo Ye tell me, where is the groom's wedding room?" ”

This question is extremely important, they live in Guo Song's house, if Guo Song only has this one house, it means that they have to move out and find another house, Han seems to be asking about the marriage room, but in fact, he cares about his own interests.

Guo Ying smiled and said: "Guo Song is amazing, he has a garden house given to him by the first emperor, on the south bank of the Qujiang River, covering an area of forty or fifty acres, Ling Ai will soon become the mistress of that garden house." ”

Han Shi listened bluntly, obediently, it was actually Qujiang Garden House, she suddenly complained a little secretly about her daughter, her daughter must know, but she refused to tell herself, but her heart also landed, at least Guo Song would not drive herself out.

Xue Xun was not very interested in the house, he was more concerned about the status of his daughter, he groaned and asked, "I wonder if Guo Gongzi married first?" ”

There are two meanings of whether or not to marry first, one is whether there is a concubine first, and the second is whether you have ever married a wife, including whether you have an ex-wife, or whether you have a wife at home now.

This question must be asked clearly, just like the previous Lantern Festival, he kept saying that he wanted to marry his daughter, but he was actually marrying a concubine, not a wife, which is not the same thing at all.

Guo Ying has asked Guo Song in detail about this issue, and he said with a smile: "Guo Song has never married a wife, nor has he ever taken a concubine, this marriage proposal is the Ming media is marrying, marrying Ling Ai as his wife, there is no other idea, as for whether he will marry a concubine in the future, this is decided by Ling Ai." ”

Xue Xun nodded, and took the marriage book on the table casually, which contains the basic information of Guo Song, the date of birth, place of origin, parents' situation, his own occupation, and property situation, which is very clear, although Guo Song is seven years older than his daughter, he is still very young, and he will only be twenty-five years old next year.

Xue Xun handed the marriage book to his wife, "Do you have anything else to ask?" ”

Han read the marriage book and asked: "We all know that Guo Gongzi's parents died when he was a child, I don't know what other relatives he has in his family, or the family situation, can you introduce it." ”

Guo Ying knows more about this, he sighed and said: "Guo's five halls, Guo Song is a child of Lingwutang, and our family is very close to the bloodline, in fact, my father's great-grandfather had four sons, of which the third went to Lingwu County to serve in the army, and later married a wife and had children in Lingzhou, settled down, and gradually formed the Lingzhou Guo family, but the relationship between Guo Song and Lingzhou Guo was very bad, and an important clansman removed him from the family in order to seek his property, so Guo Song never recognized himself as Lingzhou Guo, and my father had no way to regard him as a grandson, But he was indeed my father's grandson. ”

Xue Xun frowned, "If this kind of thing happens, can't you take him back to the family again?" ”

Guo Ying smiled bitterly and said: "The problem now is that he himself refuses to return to the family, he is very stubborn, and we hope that Ling Ai will be able to persuade him in the future." ”

Xue Xun didn't ask about it anymore, why wasn't he like that himself?

"Then does he have any other relatives?" Han asked again.

"I seem to have heard that he has an eldest sister who is married in Fengxiang Mansion, and I don't know much about the specific situation."

Xue Xun saw that the time was almost up, so he gave his wife a look, Han took out his daughter's marriage book and handed it to her husband, Xue Xun smiled and handed the marriage book to Guo Ying.

Guo Ying was overjoyed, getting the woman's marriage letter meant that the marriage proposal was successful.

He hurriedly said: "There is a little dowry in the courtyard, be careful, please accept your mansion with a smile." ”

Xue Xun nodded happily and said, "We will accept the dowry, and next, I will wait for your news." ”

The next is to ask the name and Najib, these two processes are actually combined, the main reason for asking the name is that the two parties cannot have the same surname, which is very important, for example, the Zhang family is preparing to marry the Li family, and after seeing the woman's marriage book, it is found that the Li family was also surnamed Zhang a hundred years ago, and the surname Li was changed later, so it will not work, the marriage will be invalidated, and the woman will return the dowry to the other party.

Compared with the seriousness of asking for names, Najib is more formal, that is, whether the eight characters of the two are a match made in heaven, whether there are eight characters that are compatible, generally speaking, as long as you give the fortune teller a red envelope, the result will definitely be a match made in heaven.

It takes about three to five days to ask for a name and Najib, and if a name and Najib are successful, the next step is to ask for a sign and a date, these two steps are also combined, the sign is to give a gift, and the date of the invitation is for both parties to determine the date of marriage.

When the wedding date is determined, the woman will prepare the dowry and the wedding room, the Tang Dynasty is a thick marriage, and it is similar to today, and the man's family has to pay a lot of money.

The Song Dynasty was a thick dowry, similar to today's India, the man's family did not give much money, but the woman's family must prepare a rich dowry, and the richness of the dowry is related to the woman's status in the in-law's family in the future, so there are many people in the Song Dynasty who are afraid of their wives, the main reason is this, because the woman's family is rich, the woman's dowry is more, the economic status is high, and the family status is correspondingly high.

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At the same time as Guo Ying's successful marriage proposal, Guo Song officially accepted the appointment in the military department and will be the governor of Ganzhou, and at the same time he got the military talisman and took over the 10,000 troops who were about to reinforce Ganzhou.

At noon, Li Nan, the commander of the military department, accompanied Guo Song to the military camp located in Bashang.

"The soldiers of this 10,000 army are basically Longyou and Hexi soldiers, which is also the imperial court's consideration that the soldiers will be resistant, so try to select soldiers with relevant interests, Hexi soldiers needless to say, once Hexi is lost, Longyou will become a battlefield, so Longyou soldiers also have relevant interests."

Along the way, Li Nan introduced the situation of the 10,000 troops to Guo Song, and Guo Song asked again: "How is the situation of the generals?" ”

"The 10,000 army is divided into five battalions, with five lieutenant generals, ten lieutenant generals, and at present, Lang generals and lieutenant generals are vacant, and the soldiers are managed by the military department, which is the meaning of the Son of Heaven, and these fifteen generals are appointed by the governor."

"Is the appointment order issued to Toyosu?"

"Yesterday it was sent out with a pigeon letter, and the list is the thirty drawn up by the governor."

Guo Song nodded, turned around and smiled: "Lao Kang, you can also count a quota when you go back!" ”

Kang Bao grinned, "If the Hu Ren military camp is established, I can agree." ”

Guo Song saw that Li Nan's face was full of doubts, so he smiled lightly: "He is the leader of my personal army, and he also commanded an army of 100,000 in Kangguo back then, and there is no problem with his ability, I plan to promote him." ”

Li Nan glanced back at Kang Bao in surprise, and said to Guo Song: "You can report his merits to the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War will give him a military rank after approval, but his military position can be decided by the governor himself." ”

This is actually the power of the Hexi Jiedu envoy, at present, the Hexi Jiedu envoy is led by the king Li Lian in the capital, so the governor of Liangzhou and the governor of Ganzhou do not have a substantive boss, they are independent in power, and exercise the power of the jiedu envoy in their own jurisdiction.

At this time, a large camp appeared in front, and Li Nan pointed with a horsewhip, "The military camp in front is, we have arrived!" ”