Lao Qian's real name is Qian Guigang, and after Wang Zezhi asked him to go back to the coal mine to smelt iron, he couldn't wait to select ten apprentices that day and planned to go to the coal mine immediately.

Wang Zezhi ordered him to eat the celebration banquet before leaving, and Lao Qian took the order, so he stayed.

After eating the celebration banquet, early the next morning, Qian Guigang hurriedly took ten apprentices to smelt.

He was accompanied by 50 sergeants selected by Wang Zezhi, and after careful consideration, Wang Zezhi decided to establish a sub-base in the coal mine.

These fifty men were just the beginning, and when the camp was fully manned, he planned to repair and arm it and make it a veritable sub-base.

"My lord, Ma Fu asks to see you."

As soon as Wang Zezhi sent Qian Guigang away, the herald came to report.

"Let him in."

"Yes."

A moment later, Mafu pulled a squirming girl in.

"My lord, this is my mother-in-law." Ma Fu twisted for a long time and blushed to introduce Wang Zezhi.

Wang Zezhi stared at the girl he pulled, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it felt.

"My lord, she... She's mine. Ma Fu thought that Wang Zezhi had taken a fancy to the girl who was rudely blocking in front of her, and looked at Wang Zezhi vigilantly.

"Go, go, what do you think? I saw that she was familiar, and I thought I had seen it somewhere. ”

Wang Zezhi knew that Ma Fu had misunderstood, and quipped.

Ma Fu breathed a sigh of relief and introduced: "The cousin of my aunt's family in Yuxian County is not yet married, and I have already said that the dowry is given by myself, and I don't bother with it."

I brought her back to show the adults, and my old horse didn't rob the people's daughter.

Come, I've seen the adults. ”

"Thank you for saving your life that day." The woman saluted Wang Zezhi's blessing body.

"Oh, it turned out to be you, remembered, remembered, okay, okay." Wang Zeyi patted his forehead and remembered that this woman was the one he saved when he caught the loach.

No wonder he always thinks he's seen it.

"Ma Fu, I said that I would marry your mother-in-law, and you gave this dowry by yourself, don't I want to break my word and get fat." Wang Zezhi said reproachfully.

"Hey, hey... My lord, the dowry is not much, and one stone of rice is enough. ”

Wang Zezhi was puzzled and inquired.

He remembered that when Lao Langzhong married a wife, it was a bankruptcy.

After Ma Fu's statement, Wang Zezhi understood.

Ordinary people live a difficult life, and it is good to use rice as a dowry, and individual families can exchange two buckets of rice for a woman.

The old man spent so much money to marry a wife, and he should marry the daughter of a large family.

Now the reason why Yuxian is so cheap to marry a wife is that loaches and others ravaged Yuxian, causing the people's surplus food to be robbed, even with the help of the old men of Yuxian, their lives are also difficult.

Second, the women of ordinary people's families are not worth much, and when the times are good, five buckets of rice and one tael of silver, plus one sheep are enough.

Now the situation is not good, all the rice and grain, Ma Fu said that when he went to talk to the matchmaker, a bunch of people in Yuxian surrounded him, and they wanted to marry their daughter to him.

The cheapest one only costs a bucket of rice.

"No, isn't it true that every household has distributed rice grain? When I was in Yuxian, I bought 50,000 stone of rice grain from the local gentry and merchants. ”

Wang Zezhi asked puzzled when he heard this.

"Your Excellency, do you know that these people have saved up some of their grain as seeds, and they will plant it in September, so that they will have food for the coming year.

However, as a result, there were not many food rations at home, and the people had to save money.

Marrying a daughter is just enough to exchange for some food, and the wealthy families naturally don't need to do this, but the people need it.

The asking price of the best ones is higher, and these ordinary people can't eat, so naturally they can't ask for much food.

Before I came back, several sergeants had already said that they had become matchmakers, and I guess they were all about to arrive. ”

After Ma Fu finished speaking, he waited for Wang Zezhi to make a statement, but Wang Zezhi fell into self-blame.

He thought that the people needed food, but he did not expect that the people needed seeds.

Now that he has more and more soldiers and civilians in his hands, he can't be willful and spend money and food casually.

Otherwise, he really wanted to allocate another batch of grain. Butterfly

In the end, Wang Zezhi could only sigh helplessly.

Ma Fu's face changed, and he thought that Wang Zezhi had repented.

"My lord, my subordinates' parents died early, and I have to worry about my lord's marriage."

"This is what I promised you, and I will do it.

Well, you wait, and when the sergeants are all back, I'll give you a mass wedding. ”

"What is a group wedding?" Ma Fu asked puzzled.

"It's the big guy who marries his wife on the same day, this wedding ceremony, I'll discuss it with Staff Officer Shan, you go down first."

"Yes."

Ma Fu took his cousin and went down, but Wang Zezhi was thinking about another thing.

Inbred marriage, there are too many times in this era.

If he forbade the marriage of his close relatives now, I am afraid that the soldiers would think that the king had repented and was looking for an excuse not to give them a wedding.

This matter cannot be done in a hurry, it can only be done slowly.

Put this matter down, Wang Zezhi went to find a single Tongshan.

He thought that Shan Tung Sin Association would not agree to the practice of holding a group wedding, but he also showed an interested look and began to make suggestions and arrange various matters.

The three days passed in a flash, and most of the sergeants brought the girl back, and a few were afraid that the king would not be at ease.

brought the woman's parents over to prove that he did not rob the people's daughter.

Since most of the soldiers' houses are in Yu County, most of the families they are looking for are the daughters of Yu County people.

A small number of them are looking for the families of military families in the camp, and some daughters of displaced families.

However, these people are all in the minority, and they are not as many as Yu County.

To Wang Zezhi's surprise, these guys all gave dowry gifts, which saved Wang Zezhi a little expense.

After inquiry, some of the rice and grain were given, some promised out their own fertile land, and some took the woman's family into the house they had assigned.

Among this group of people, the only one who paid the silver was Li Changhe, and this kid quietly said that he was the daughter of a merchant surnamed Li in Yuxian County.

One hundred taels of silver was the bride price, and the rest of the money was used to buy three livestock, tea, sesame seeds, fish, cloth, quilts, and so on.

In addition, there are 12 catties of glutinous rice, 3 catties of 2 taels of sugar, lotus seeds, lilies, green wisps, cypresses, betel coconuts two pairs, sesame, red beans, mung beans, red dates, dried walnuts, dried longan, as well as red bean rope, lai, ornamented gold, dragon and phoenix candles and a couplet made of gift gold boxes.

Among these people, Li Changhe's dowry was the most complicated, and he was also the only sergeant who did not bring the girl back to the camp.

Because he had worked hard to rehire and did not bring back the girl, the sergeants could not help but laugh.

Li Changhe knew that everyone was just having fun and joking, and he didn't mind at all.

Instead, he happily took the housekeeper of Master Li's family to report to Wang Zezhi.

After Wang Zezhi knew that he was married to the daughter of Shangjia surnamed Li, he was also surprised, this kid is not simple.

After the people were complete, Wang Zezhi announced that they would hold a group wedding.

The general process is like this, starting from the barracks, going to the woman's house to greet the relatives, and then returning to the barracks to hold a wedding ceremony and a feast in the barracks.

Finally, at night, it was sent to the cave house in Yuxian.

Considering that the sergeants were newly married and had to return to the door after the wedding, Wang Zezhi arranged three days to handle the marriage, plus three days off to give the sergeants time to accompany the bride and return to the door.

For a while, there was thunder in the camp, and most of the sergeants had no opinion.

Only Li Changhe met Wang Zezhi in private.

Because Master Li is a wealthy family in Yuxian County, he can't lose etiquette, so he can't participate in this group wedding, and he hopes to hold the wedding alone.

Wang Zezhi thought for a moment and agreed, after all, Li Changhe took the daughter of Master Li, if he insisted on forcing him to hold a group wedding, he would not only hate Master Li, but also evil Li Changhe, and he would offend two people for no reason.

One is a sergeant with outstanding military achievements, and the other is a big family, and the gains outweigh the losses.

When Li Changhe left, Wang Zezhi specially rewarded him with one hundred taels of silver and told him not to make a noise.

Li Changhe was overjoyed, thanked him again and again, and withdrew.

Master Li paid too much attention to etiquette, he just went to say that it took three days to say that the matchmaker had spent a lot of money, and he had to sell all the rice and grain he had obtained from his military exploits, which was enough.

Wang Zezhi privately gave him a hundred taels of silver, which gave him the urge to die as a confidant.

This hundred silver is simply timely rain for him.