If there are fewer people, there will be more land left, which is a good thing, but it also brings a problem, that is, it seems that all of a sudden, there are not enough women.

"What's that saying?"

"It is difficult for young people to marry a daughter-in-law, in the past, it was much easier to marry a daughter-in-law, although a bride price was also given, but the woman would have a dowry. But now in the past two years, it has become more and more difficult to marry a daughter-in-law, and it seems that there are many fewer young women all of a sudden, so the bride price is now higher in many places, but the dowry is less. ”

The old blacksmith pointed to the three sons behind him, "My third son, one of them has married and started a family by now, and those two are still singles, and now they have to ask for sixty-six or eighty-eight thousand to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

Sixty-six is sixty-six, and eighty-eight is as high as eighty-eight, which is indeed a lot of pressure for ordinary farmers, after all, it has just been stable for a few years, and many people's old debts have not been paid off, where is there any surplus.

"It's really expensive." Luo Cheng also said.

"So, now there are those kind of people's teeth, and they specially get some Turkic women, Goguryeo women, and Silla women, Baekje women, etc., which are much cheaper. Some of them only cost 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. ”

"These are slaves, aren't they?" Wei Zheng said on the side, "The court has laws, and the good and the poor do not marry." ”

"It's okay, those people will help to release the good ones, and they can do it for you for a few thousand dollars."

The people think relatively simply, in the case of not marrying a daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law being difficult to marry, they don't care whether the other party is a bearded girl or a slave, as long as it is a young woman who can give birth to children, it will be fine.

After all, the pressure of the bride price of 66,800,000 is too great, not to mention that in some places, I heard that it even costs 128,000, 136,000, etc., and I really can't afford to marry.

You can't watch your son beat a bachelor in his twenties, right?

In the past, the imperial court strictly forbade a good person to marry a slut, and violators not only invalidated the marriage, but even had to be sentenced to prison and labor reform.

But now the imperial court has also relaxed a lot in this regard, mainly giving workarounds.

As the old blacksmith said, it has not changed whether the good or the poor are not married, but now the restrictions on the good slave have been relaxed a lot, as long as the money is paid, he can register and apply in the government, as long as the slave is not guilty of any major crimes, it is generally possible to be exempted and repaid.

After obtaining a good certificate, it is natural that you can marry your beloved.

Now it has become a lucrative trade for the people, who select young female slaves from the major slave ports, whether she is from Goguryeo or Turkic, and then sell them to all parts of the Central Plains to those in the countryside who cannot find a daughter-in-law.

Originally, in the major slave ports, female slaves who did not have a skill, or who were particularly beautiful, were not very valuable, but those who were young and strong, and those who had a skill, or were very beautiful.

As soon as these people operate in this way, the worthless female slaves will be revitalized and increased, and they can make a lot of money when they change hands.

For others, it is simply simpler, they either go to the four borders, or in those remote places in the mountains, find those backward indigenous barbarian tribes, and set up matchmaking.

In fact, it is also a disguised buying and selling of human beings, such as Dabie Mountain, Bahan and other places, and even Lingbiao and other places, there are still a large number of barbarians, these people are still relatively miserable and backward, so some businessmen ran over and promised to find a good Han family for their daughters, in fact, this good mother-in-law is not good for the mother-in-law, the key is that these businessmen pay the gift money.

Give a lot of commercial goods from the Central Plains, or simply give money directly.

Sometimes, with 10,000 dollars, you can stun those brutes, and then you can marry a girl at the same time. These people took the woman away, turned around and remarried those bachelors, and repaid twenty or thirty thousand yuan, making a lot of money.

Luo Cheng could only be speechless when he heard it.

Although no official had reported these trivial matters to him before, he had no doubts about the authenticity, because even in later generations, such cases were very common.

People in big cities can't find their daughters-in-law, so they run to the countryside to look for them, and if they can't find them, they go abroad to find them.

As the saying goes, where there is demand, there will be a market.

In fact, there were many men who couldn't marry a daughter-in-law in the Sui Dynasty, but at that time, many people couldn't even eat enough, so there was no such urgent need to marry a wife, after all, food and clothing were the first.

But now everyone's life is generally better, and life is hopeful, even if they just have food and clothing, they urgently need to marry a wife and have children.

This is people's pursuit of good things and a better life.

Although the war also brought about the death of a large number of men, the imperial court's great immigration policy and now that life is better, so that the demand for wives is infinitely magnified.

For a time, a girl was hard to find.

Naturally, such a marriage intermediary market was born.

"I also asked several people to introduce these two boys to me, but I brought a few, but I was not satisfied." The old blacksmith said with some regret that his own boy is also good-looking, he is also smart and diligent, and he can also do his craft, and his life will definitely not be bad in the future.

But the girl brought by Renyazi is either too old, or too ugly, or she looks too thin, and most importantly, these people can't speak a word of Chinese, just like a mute, or even worse than a dumb, after all, although the dumb can't speak, most of them can understand.

But these Hu female slaves can neither speak nor understand, and spend tens of thousands of dollars to marry, so they can only give birth. The son does not have an official title, and he can't take a concubine, so if he is not satisfied with the marriage, he will be in trouble.

And he also heard that some people spent tens of thousands of dollars to marry, but later the woman ran away again, and the bamboo basket was empty, so the old blacksmith still hasn't seen one.

"It's really not good, just let the second and third pawn a woman come over first, give birth to a baby, and then slowly find it."

"Pawn one, pawn what?" Luo Cheng asked in surprise.

"A pawn woman," the blacksmith saw that Luo Cheng didn't seem to understand, so he explained that in the past, there had been a pawn wife for a long time. Some people can't marry wives, but some people have wives but they are poor, so some poor men pawn their wives to singles, make a contract, pawn them for three or five years, and after three or five years, the wives will be taken back.

Pawn wife, to put it bluntly, is a tenant wife renting a wife, and the singles pawn their wives because they can't afford to marry, so they can only rent, what to rent for, of course, to have children.

Generally, the pawn wife is two to three years, almost just to give birth to a child, and when it expires, the woman keeps the child and then returns to her original husband's house.

Luo Cheng was shocked, "Can it still be like this, isn't it against human ethics and the law?" ”

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