The unsuccessful assassination in Xiyuan made Zhu Youxiao realize that he still underestimated the opposition forces in the country, and his ideas were too simple, thinking that everyone who was useful for this era would accept them, but he did not expect that the deep-rooted ideas had influenced the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and not everyone had Ye Xianggao's wisdom, and every step he took might be opposed by various forces.

However, this assassination case also has two benefits. First, he took the opportunity to clean up a group of stubborn old-fashioned officials who were very different from his own views, and second, Zhang Weixian's fate sounded the alarm for the nobles. Let everyone know that the emperor who is very talkative on weekdays is the emperor after all, and the Son of Heaven is angry, although it will not bleed and drift, but it is still easy to make many people's heads fall to the ground.

Wei Zhongxian gathered the young eunuchs who had no duties in the palace for the time being, invited the senior brother of the obscure Ming for training, and invited more than a dozen students from the Normal College to work part-time in the inner study hall. In the palace, you can often hear the sound of one, two, three, and four drills and the sound of reading books one by one, one by two.

After the Hakka family received the important task of being a matchmaker for the palace maid, he immediately devoted himself to the promising career of matchmaking. Under the guidance of Zhu Youxiao, she asked people to collect the marriage situation of officers above the director of the Guards, and selected those who had the intention of marrying palace maids among the unmarried, and then asked them to write out the mate selection conditions one by one, and at the same time wrote out their own situation and compiled it into a file.

She summoned the palace maids who had reached the age and failed to leave the palace, first mobilized them, praised the careers of these unmarried officers to the sky, and then collected the palace maids' own situation and mate selection criteria.

When the two documents were in hand, she handed them to Wei Zhongxian, who summoned the literate fans in the East Factory and began to match them on paper. A few days later, I finally got a preliminary intention to match.

These officers are basically in the military academy, the Hakka family is generous, in a corner of the imperial city specially opened a live matchmaking meeting, of course, and the modern difference, is a small room, by an old lady in the palace with a marriage request in the room, according to the previous matching information suitable officers outside the room, the two sides do not meet, but by the grandmother to communicate, the two parties understand each other on various issues. If both parties are satisfied, then they will meet each other, it is really just one side, and it is under the supervision of the grandmother, and if they are still satisfied at this point, then the officer can go back and prepare for marriage.

The officers did not go back to their hometowns, but to the newly built new village for officers in Wang Gongchang, which was a house built by Zhu Youxiao for the officers. There are two floors up and down, two in front and back, two rooms on the left and right, and a kitchen and toilet in the back, which is fully furnished, enough for a family of more than ten people to live.

The houses in the officers' new village were not given to the officers for free, but were bought at a cost, but they were very cheap, with a down payment of 500 yuan for a building, which could be lived in for ten years, and then from the eleventh year onwards, it was fifty yuan per year. But after you retire from the army, you can't live here anymore.

For officers above the director level, it is not easy to get 500 yuan out, but it doesn't matter, you can find a loan from the Daming Royal Bank. As long as you pay 100 yuan, you can live in, and then pay back 50 yuan to the bank every year, and you can pay it back in ten years. Of course, if you have been rewarded for your meritorious service, you can pay it back all at once, anyway, there is an interest rate there, and you will know how much money you will have to pay if you calculate it.

Now the salary of the officers of the Guards is not high, like the director, in peacetime it is fifteen yuan a month, but if it is wartime, the various allowances can add up to thirty yuan, if you make a meritorious service, maybe a few hundred yuan in hand, so although the house is indeed a little expensive, but if you really live in it, you can still afford to live it.

After returning to the officer's new village, the officers who have a marriage partner only need to write a letter to their families to report the good news. Because this time it was the emperor's marriage, there was no need to ask for the parents' orders, and the matchmaker's words were the holy lady in the palace.

The old lady in the palace can be regarded as making a lot of money, both parties will give happy money when they go on a blind date, and the marriage preparation will receive the man's happy money, and she is so busy every day that her feet do not touch the ground, helping to arrange the wedding room and teaching etiquette.

On the first day of June, Daji, Li married. The two hundred and thirty-two officers and court maids who were married by the emperor were married at the same time on this day. Zhu Youxiao originally wanted to hold a group wedding, but he gave up under the opposition of the Hakka family and the queen.

Such a major event is also the first time in the dynasty. The weekly newspaper published a special issue dedicated to the wedding, detailing the whole process. In particular, it is pointed out that every couple has met before marriage, of course, accompanied by the old mother. When they got married, each couple received a congratulatory gift from the emperor: a pair of concentric knots. Moreover, the newlyweds added a procedure of worshipping the emperor when worshipping heaven and earth, and bowed three times in the direction of the palace.

And the most exciting news is that every married officer voluntarily signed a prenuptial agreement: for five years of marriage, no concubines are allowed unless they have no children. After five years, if there are no more than two concubines. A woman born after marriage is not allowed to abandon or drown.

This agreement is indeed strange, in the Ming Dynasty, there were very few restrictions on men, and it was very common to take concubines and buy maids. Now there is such an agreement that is unfavorable to the man, of course, many people are dissatisfied. Everyone thinks that the so-called voluntariness is obviously impossible, and this kind of interference in people's private affairs is very bad.

But in the next issue of the weekly report, this matter is specifically explained. It was indeed voluntary for the officers to sign the agreement, and at the earliest times, it was already stated in the palace that such an agreement must be signed in order to carry out the subsequent marriage process, and it was not forced later. Moreover, His Majesty the Emperor now only has one queen and two concubines, so the officers feel that it is normal to sign such an agreement. Some people even offered not to take concubines.

In the editor's note, in some places, some people abandon girls, resell them, or even kill them directly, believing that this is a practice that is inferior to beasts.

This is what Zhu Youxiao has wanted to do for a long time, and the population growth of Daming is his favorite thing, he does not think that there is a need to engage in family planning now, but the more the population, the better. There are still a large number of uninhabited places in the world, waiting to be cultivated by the Ming people, and the mass infanticide of female babies restricts the growth of the population, and it is extremely inhumane, and it is necessary to use the law to limit this behavior.