Chapter 79 Mass Wedding
Fuqiang Fort left Li Guo and Li Ji two hundred households, and Li Zicheng prepared to lead Liu Yunshui, Zhou Bin, Xie Guangze, and Song Wen four hundred households, with sufficient grain and grass, to rush to the ruins of the triangle city as soon as possible.
Li Zicheng originally planned to have lunch at Fuqiang Fort, take a short rest to avoid the scorching sun at noon, and leave at about the right time, but after the award ceremony, Li Guo followed him to the official office, "My lord, the last time I recaptured Fuqiang Fort, the brothers captured dozens of women who were ruined by the Mongols......
"Oh, that's the case," Li Zicheng remembered, at that time, he asked the soldiers to send them home, and it seemed that there were still a few people homeless, "how are they?" Have you found your home? ”
"No, my lord," Li Guo shook his head and smiled bitterly, "more than twenty people have been left homeless - their families have been killed by the Mongols, and there are more than ten people...... Their men disliked them and refused to take them in, but there was no one left in their mother's house, and in addition, there were more than ten people who had been abused by the Mongols, although they were not captured by the brothers on the spot, but after hearing the rumors of others, they took the initiative to come to the barracks......"
"So, there are nearly fifty people stranded in the barracks?"
Li Zicheng had a thought at that time, and planned to let them join the army and set up a special women's battalion.
Naturally, they don't have to fight, they grow fruits and vegetables for the army during the day, wash and cook for the soldiers, and wait for the soldiers to sleep at night and night, so that they can at least eat in the mouth, and for the soldiers, it is also a reward, which can motivate them to compete for meritorious service on the battlefield.
Many of the soldiers had just reached adulthood, and no one could tell in which battle they would have lost their lives, and if they hadn't even touched a woman's hair, they would have been thrown into a human womb for nothing.
But then I thought about it and realized that it didn't work at all, so I forgot about it.
First of all, he is only a thousand households, and he can't control Xining Wei at all, let alone the Ming Dynasty's military department and even the imperial court.
Secondly, although these women are homeless, they are not necessarily willing to comfort the soldiers, after all, this is just a youth meal, and when they get older, they will lose their attraction to the soldiers, so how can they provide for themselves at that time? He doesn't have a powerful propaganda machine to brainwash these women, and if something goes wrong, it will also have a negative impact on the military.
"There are forty-eight people in total," Li Guo grinned, "My lord, they are temporarily placed in the barracks, although they are isolated from the soldiers, but after a long time, they will always meet, in case...... In case any of the brothers don't open their eyes......"
Put these young women under the noses of the soldiers with strong blood, they just smell but can't eat them, sooner or later something will happen, Li Guo's worries are not unreasonable, Li Zicheng frowned, "Then what do they mean?" ”
"They're already homeless, so what choice do they have? In addition to washing his face with tears every day, he is waiting for the army's ruling, my lord, can you ......" Li Guo said while observing Li Zicheng's face.
"If you have anything to say, just say it, don't spit out!" Li Zicheng saw Li Guo's anxious appearance, how could he not understand his mind?
If these women marry soldiers, it is not impossible to choose, don't look at the soldiers with knives on the battlefield is very powerful, but in the Ming Dynasty, a society where "only reading is high", the social status of soldiers is extremely low, "Shinong Industrial and Commercial Soldiers", soldiers are ranked last, and once they are in the military, they cannot retire, and can only live at the bottom of the society for generations.
In fact, the military household is not impossible to repay, but it must be signed and agreed by the military department, these ordinary soldiers, neither silver, nor back # view, let alone with the military department Shangshu, it is impossible to even meet each other, so this rule is basically a decoration.
"My lord, brothers...... Think...... Can you give them a reward for these women? ”
"Brothers, think? I think that's what you want, right? Li Zicheng glared at Li Guo, and then smiled: "Who does Shuangxi fall in love with?" ”
Li Guo was the same year as him, only four months younger, he not only married Han Jin'er, but also married Gao Yigong's sister Gao Guiying when he was recuperating from his injuries in Hulushan, and Li Guo didn't even marry his aunt because of his poor family and the fact that he had been muddy.
If Li Guo has a crush on any woman, Li Zicheng decides to fulfill him, the question is how to distribute these forty-eight women, and it is best to let them voluntarily marry the soldiers.
"Your Excellency...... subordinates ......" Li Guo can't say a complete sentence anymore.
"When a man gets married, it's not a shameful thing to fancy a woman," Li Zicheng decided to change the way, "Is that woman willing to be your aunt?" You are already a soldier, not a thief, you must not use force! ”
"Subordinates understand, subordinates understand!" Li Guo said repeatedly, "She is also interested in her subordinates, but she ...... It's just that without the permission of the adults, the subordinates don't dare to make a ......."
"Don't dare to make a mistake? Even Lang has the intention of concubine," Li Zicheng deliberately raised his face, "I went to Xining these days, and I neglected to supervise for a while, how many soldiers have secretly communicated with those women?" ”
"My lord, my subordinates should be damned, my subordinates are just ...... As far as the subordinates know, every day after the lunch break and afternoon exercise, there will be soldiers wandering outside the camp of those women, and there are probably not a few who look at them, so the subordinates only informed the adults to make plans early......
"You say that most of the women have found a home in the barracks? It's only been a few days? Li Zicheng was secretly frightened, dry firewood and fire, it has never been safe to put together, if you want nothing to happen, you can only let the dry firewood and fire be far apart, but Li Zicheng suddenly had an idea.
"Adult ......"
Li Zicheng turned around and instructed He Xiaomi: "Immediately convene all the hundred households and come to the official office to discuss matters." ”
In addition to Qin Danian, who was stationed in Zhenhai Fort, including Li Guo, six hundred households immediately gathered at the official office.
Tao is a matter of deliberation, but in fact, it is just Li Zicheng announcing a decision to let women choose their own beloved among the soldiers, and three conditions need to be met: military merit, no wife, and voluntariness.
"Military merit" is not a problem for the soldiers, the last time the Fuqiang Fort was restored, these soldiers all participated, and they all received a different amount of rewards, Qin Danian did not participate in the battle, but his subordinates are not in Fuqiang Fort now, and they have automatically lost the opportunity, this condition, most of them are still to motivate the soldiers, as long as they make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, they will enjoy various benefits.
Li Zicheng particularly emphasized that if a person who has already married a wife or is married, he will no longer be among the blind dates, and if there is any deception, once it is verified in the future, he will be beheaded and shown to the public.
"Voluntary" is to prevent the soldiers from having disputes, after all, there are more monks and less porridge, and the eyes of the soldiers will be fixed on these forty-eight women, in case of unfair handling, it is likely to be self-defeating, voluntary is basically to let the women choose, and a woman can naturally only choose one person as her lover.
In order to allow the two sides to have a certain amount of time to get in touch, Li Zicheng was particularly gracious: Today's drill will end one hour earlier, and before dinner, all the women will be paired in pairs, and tomorrow afternoon the training will be suspended for half a day, and these couples will hold a collective wedding in the barracks, and he will personally witness the marriage of these 48 couples.
The hundred households were amazed by Li Zicheng's whimsy, but the officers generally had no interest in these women who had been ruined by the Mongols, but the soldiers who could not marry their mothers-in-law and aunts were grateful to the Qianhu Lord for a while, especially the soldiers who had already met the women at that time.
The blind date will be particularly lively, in the boring military camp, even if anyone digs out the bird's nest can spread the news, not to mention the unheard of collective blind date, tomorrow there will be thousands of adults to hold a collective wedding for these women.
Even the soldiers who did not meet the eyes of the woman, also followed the crowd to cheer for a "human wave", and those who had already met the eyes naturally left the crowd and went to say a few whispers on the side, there is not much time for them, today is not a wedding, after they say a few words, they register with the quartermaster Sun Lin, even if the match is successful.
Women who don't have a crush can be temporarily matched, and the soldiers who are waiting for the match are all vying for the lead, but Li Zicheng is in charge himself, and no one dares to act rashly, mostly to say a few good words, or show her muscles to the woman, for the woman, it is not realistic to understand a stranger in such a short period of time, and those soldiers with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes have become fragrant and sweet.
If the soldier who is selected by the woman does not like the woman, he can also refuse, and the marriage is voluntarily between the two parties, and there is no forced marriage.
At dinner, Li Zicheng found that the soldiers' food suddenly increased greatly, and the soldiers who were successfully matched smirked alone while eating, and unconsciously, a steamed bun was gone, and those soldiers who wanted to match, but did not succeed, were biting and taking steamed buns to get angry, or thinking that eating more steamed buns would make them more handsome.
The next morning, the soldiers practiced as usual, and the quartermaster Sun Lin, under the instruction of Li Zicheng, prepared new clothes for all the women, and the soldiers did not need a bride price, and the women did not have a dowry, and a new dress was to announce the birth of a new pair to the whole world.
Finally after lunch, the newlyweds could meet to prepare for the next wedding, but it was not until Shen Shizhong that the sun had slightly restrained his domineering, and Li Zicheng came to the center of the training ground.
Forty-eight pairs of newcomers, divided into four horizontal columns, nervous and a little shy, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, envy, jealousy, hatred, disdain, what kind of expressions, whether women have visited the church before or not, in front of hundreds of thousands of eyes, are shy, the more nervous they are, the more they grasp the arms of their beloved, and this is the source of ridicule......
"Brothers, this is the first time I have officiated a group wedding for my brothers, and in the future, I hope to officiate weddings for more brothers......" The first sentence, Li Zicheng was sent to all the onlookers, "...... Some people are not very satisfied today, or because they have an aunt at home, or for some other reason, we will change these rules in the future," he suddenly raised his voice, "However, other things can be changed, but military merit will never be changed!" ”
"Smack!"
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
I don't know who started it, the applause was thunderous, and some people heard it: such a wedding will happen in the future, and even if you have an aunt in the family, you can marry again in the future.
The soldiers who were a little depressed because they did not succeed in matching were suddenly shaken by their spirits, as long as they have military merits, there will be a next time if they don't succeed this time! With the Lord of a Thousand Households, there will always be unexpected surprises, and maybe one day the happy event will fall on your head.
"Today, the soldiers of the whole army witnessed the day of the great joy of forty-eight brothers, I know that there are brothers who have been waiting for the monkey in a hurry, so to make a long story short, I bless all the newcomers at the same time, but also to all the newcomers and brothers at the same time, I also put forward two requirements, one is that the mother-in-law is chosen by yourself, the two are happy, they are all good women, if anyone is not good to their mother-in-law in the future......" Li Zicheng paused, and suddenly burst out with a foul language: "I will send him to the palace as a eunuch!" ”