"it, quick, take all the eggs you have saved at home and boil them, and the duck eggs will be boiled together." As soon as Wei Shan's father entered the house, he immediately shouted to his old wife who was burning the fire in the kitchen.

"It's not a New Year's Day, what kind of eggs and duck eggs are boiled, you really can't have a good life, but in the future? These eggs and duck eggs were finally saved, and I was going to let the boss take them to the market in two days and sell them for money to exchange some cloth. ”

"The officers and soldiers are here." The old man said loudly.

When Wei Shan's mother heard this, she hurriedly wiped her hand on her apron, and said in a panic, "Ah, there are soldiers going to pass outside, so let's hide quickly." ”

"What are you hiding, it's our soldiers who have passed, the children of our big men." The old man said that he had gone directly to get the eggs. In the past, when they were still in their hometown in Shandong, they were very afraid of soldiers. A soldier is a bandit, and a soldier is a bandit. Not to mention the soldiers, even every once in a while, the above always has to send people over to send more, not to raise military salaries, or for ordnance money, in short, every time everyone has to take out three melons and two dates.

However, after living in Xinyi for a while, there was a military station next to it, a military fort was built, and a company of troops was stationed. But those soldiers never harassed the people in the vicinity, and sometimes bought them some vegetables, chickens, ducks, etc., and it was absolutely a fair deal, and they never defaulted.

With this military station and a company of troops there, Old Man Wei felt much more at ease, he didn't have to worry about any bandits, horse bandits, and he didn't have to be afraid of the Jurchens coming south.

Even after a long time, the nearby immigrants are still very familiar with the soldiers in the military station.

However, Wei Shan's mother is a little strange, his wife has always been thrifty, and she is even a little picky. The eggs laid by the chickens and ducks that are usually raised are even reluctant to eat one, and they have to take them to the market for money.

"Old woman. Where did you collect the pound of tea that was sent out in Tunli last time? ”

"What for?"

"I heard that when you boil eggs, you put some tea leaves in it and boil them, it's even more delicious, it's called tea eggs."

"Why are you so happy to be a soldier, and you still boil tea eggs?"

"What do you know, it's not a general army, it's an army of the imperial court. I'm going to fight the Jurchens by the Heilongjiang River. There are also Mongolian cavalry, which can be many. ”

But what really made Old Man Wei so excited was not just the soldiers.

This morning, everyone had a false alarm, and soon found out that it was the army of the imperial court. The great army passed by, but it did not close to the people, and marched in order. I heard that there were still many soldiers to pass behind, so the tun commander asked everyone to prepare something to reward the soldiers.

Of course, more important reasons. Or because everyone knows that behind this army, there is a rather special team. That is, there is a team of Japanese people coming.

There are not only Japanese men, but also many Japanese women. Those Japanese men were to be resettled in nearby mines and roads to build roads, embankments, and reservoirs. And those women, I heard that they are all young girls, and they haven't married yet. This time, I sent it over, and I was going to promise it to the new immigrants to be mothers-in-law.

Old man Wei has four sons, all of whom are not married. Wei Shan, Wei River, Wei Army, Wei Bing, four brothers, the eldest Wei Shan, is in his twenties. A family of four singles, this is not a good sound, for this matter, Old Man Wei is not less worried. When I was in my hometown, my family was poor and I couldn't get a bride price. No one wants to marry them deep in the mountains.

Now that I'm here, I'm seeing that life is better, and of course marrying a daughter-in-law for my four sons is the top priority. However, Heilongjiang Province now has a small population, all of whom are immigrants from Shandong, and most of them are young and strong. Among them, there are more singles. There are few women in immigrant families who have a suitable age to marry, and it is not easy for a family to marry a daughter-in-law among immigrants.

Or you can only go to Hung Yen Province and Mo Nan Province in the east to find Mongolian women, but it is too far away, and the gifts of those Mongolian women are not cheap.

Because of this, Old Man Wei was so worried that he often couldn't sleep.

And now, there are a large number of Japanese girls coming, and Old Man Wei can't be concerned. As for not a Han woman but a Japanese girl, Old Man Wei can't care so much, he has to have a daughter-in-law first. Japanese women, no, can also have a baby.

They have a population of 1,000 households, and almost every household has two or three young men who are almost at the age of marriage, so Daddy Wei Shan plans to be generous and see if there is a chance to grab one or two.

When Wei Shanniang heard this, she also fell in love.

"There's still some brown sugar at home, I'll get it too."

"Okay, let's go."

Wei Shan's parents were busy boiling tea eggs at home, while the four Wei Shan brothers, like many guys in Tunzi, were all crowded on the road outside the fort.

Everyone was excitedly waiting for the Japanese team to come.

The urgent need to have a woman and want to start a family as soon as possible overrides the fact that the other party is a Japanese woman. As long as it is a young woman, it doesn't matter if she is a Han woman, Mongolian, Jurchen, or even Sauron and other tribal women known as savages, everyone doesn't mind.

The tun chief also attaches great importance to this matter.

As the head of the tun, although he has no rank, he is already the lowest level of local administrative officials in Heilongjiang Province, and if he manages the tunpu properly, he will definitely be able to be promoted to the township when the term of office arrives. Now the population of the fort is very large, it is said that there are 1,000 families, but each family has a large population, and later each family called the brothers and parents who stayed in their hometown to come over, so their household registration in the fort is now 10,000, but in fact, the population has exceeded 10,000.

A family is often three or even four generations in the same household.

But each family often has many young men of the right age but have not married a daughter-in-law, the sooner they marry a daughter-in-law, the sooner they spread out, then they have a larger population, of course, more labor, and the young men marry a daughter-in-law and have a baby, so that they can take root here with more peace of mind.

"How many marriageable men do you have in your tun?" The township chief, who had arrived, was accompanied by several officers, and he asked the tun chief.

"According to the customs of our hometown in Shandong, the male baby can be said to marry a daughter-in-law even if he is an adult after fifteen, we have more people in Tunpu, although it is a thousand households, but the actual old and young, plus the second and third batch of immigrants in the back, now the actual population is 10,753 people, of which there are many young men over the age of fifteen who have not yet married, and there are more than 3,200 people."

This number frightened the township chief, who had already known that there were many people in Linshuitun, but there were more than 3,200 marriageable guys alone, and this number was still very scary.

"Township Chief. You know that we all moved from the mountains of Yimeng, Shandong, and we said that there are 1,000 households in the fort, but which family is not three or four generations in the same house, basically each family, there are many brothers, except for the older one or two. Most of the following have never been married, and there are hundreds of old singles who have not yet married after 30 years old. Township Chief, you must support our Linshuitun this time, the land we have reclaimed this year is the first in the township, and we have to be commended a little bit. ”

The township chief is a veteran of the army, and he also has some knowledge of the following situations.

But there are not many Japanese girls sent to Heilongjiang this time, and even fewer are assigned to their Xinyi County, where there are only 3,000 Japanese girls. And there are six townships in the county.

"Township chief, you see that there are more than 3,000 guys in our tun who haven't gotten married, don't you say much, how about giving us 1,000 Japanese girls first, and let one-third of the guys get married first, so that everyone will be more active in opening up the wasteland in the future."

The township chief shook his head helplessly, and he smiled bitterly.

"I also know the difficulties of immigration, and I am willing to immigrate to the northeast outside the border. They are all miserable families who can't get on at home. Poor families live hard, but they often have many children. Marrying is a top priority. Speaking of which, the matter of immigrants marrying relatives is also a task in our countryside and tunli, but you also know that it is impossible to give you a thousand Japanese girls at once. I'll tell you the truth, this time it was only given to 3,000 Japanese women in our county. Our township will be divided into five hundred. ”

"There is not just one Tunbao in the township, but there are five Tunbao, adding up to 5,000 households and tens of thousands of people. The palms and backs of my hands are full of meat, and I can't favor one over the other. Five tunzi, each with a hundred Japanese women, no more, no less, impartial. ”

When the tun chief heard that there were only a hundred, he immediately lowered his head.

There are more than 3,000 young guys, and 100 is enough.

"This time, you will help those who are old, and as for those under the age of twenty, we will not consider it for the time being. You can rest assured, this Japanese woman is only the first batch, the imperial court has just destroyed Japan, that is more than 20 million people, how can there be a few million young women, and there will be follow-ups in the future. Besides, we are still trying to find a way to discuss with the Mongolian side, as well as the attached Sauron, Jurchen and other tribes, to make some marriages and prepare for a few large-scale blind dates, and then we will organize young men to meet with the women of their various ethnic groups and marry them. ”

As for the marriage of immigrants, this is a big issue, and the imperial court also attaches great importance to it.

Now the opinion of the imperial court is to take a multi-pronged approach, on the one hand, of course, let the immigrants find their own partners, from the immigrants, or from the old home. On the other hand, it is necessary for the imperial court to come forward, for example, to marry with the Mongolian Jurchens, Evenks and other tribes, and to conduct large-scale blind dates, and the government will pull Lang matching. This can not only solve the problem of migrants becoming relatives, but also bring the Han immigrants outside the border closer to the minority tribes outside the border.

In the end, there are two other methods, which are to organize hinterland brides from the interior of the Central Plains and recruit girls from the provinces and localities of the Central Plains who are willing to marry in the border immigration areas. There will definitely be some people in the Central Plains who refuse to emigrate, but their families are relatively poor, if the immigrants can show good courtesy, maybe such a family affair can be done.

Of course, the imperial court also has a killer feature, that is, to force marriageable Japanese girls in the Japanese-occupied areas to Han immigrants by the government, and the same can be true for women from some tribes in the southwest and other places.

The general way of marriage is through group blind dates.

For example, this time, Linshui Township was allocated 500 Japanese girls, and according to the above requirements, it was given to the following five tunbao, each with 100 girls.

But there are more than 1,000 young unmarried men in each tun, who should they give it to?

The official method is to let the people in the tunzi sign up, and the marriageable and unmarried men who are willing to marry Japanese girls are tentatively stipulated to be unmarried men who have reached the age of 22, and after signing up, these applicants will participate in a blind date at that time.

All the applicants met with the 100 women to see their choices first. If both a man and a woman can look at each other's eyes, of course, it is the best, there is really no eye for each other, and the meaning of the man is also the mainstay, if there are several of them fancy a woman, then the woman's attitude is the main thing.

In short, try to avoid disputes.

In fact, this is also a way of marriage for many frontier tribes, especially those mountainous tribes or fishing and hunting tribes, they mostly live in clans as a unit, and then there will be some festivals every year, when the people of each clan gather together, everyone is not only a season of trading but also a season of celebration, and at the same time a season of blind date for young men and women.

Unmarried men and women who didn't know each other in the past took advantage of this occasion to find a person they liked. If you have the right eye, then tell your parents, and then the parents on both sides will discuss again, and basically as long as the children agree, the parents will not object. Say a good date, and then officially give gifts and get married, and then make an appointment to welcome the wedding day.

Now the government intends to do the same, instead of directly specifying it, and let them choose for themselves first.

After receiving the township chief's assurance that there would definitely be at least two such blind dates this year, and that the number of girls would not be less than two hundred, the tun chief returned to Tunzi first with satisfaction.

The people in the tunzi have been waiting for him for a long time.

The tun chief told the matter in detail in public, and everyone was very disappointed when they heard that there were only 100 girls. However, when the tun chief said the rules, everyone was still more acceptable.

So, everyone began to rush to sign up.

Father Wei was also disappointed, his four sons, but when he was twenty-two years old, only the eldest Wei Shan was the eldest. The second child is also twenty-two this year, but the tun chief said that it is not full yet, so it can't be counted.

In the end, more than 1,000 people signed up.

More than 1,000 people chased a hundred girls, and ten fought for one.

"When will the girl arrive?"

"It's going to be there at noon, and there's a special carriage and horse to send them over."

"What about their families, aren't their families with them?"

The tun chief explained to everyone that these Japanese girls have families, but now their families have other arrangements, so they are only single when they come over.

Hearing this result, many people are more happy, and they have no family and one less burden.

Immediately, someone asked another question that everyone was concerned about.

"If you fall in love, do you want to give a gift, how much, and is there a dowry?"

Tun Chang replied loudly, "Once the blind date is decided, according to the above opinion, a group wedding will be held, and then we will hold a wedding together with a hundred couples." After these girls go on a blind date, they will live in the township temporarily, and then we will go to the countryside to welcome their relatives, and then the court will prepare a dowry for them, some new quilts, new clothes, shoes, etc., you don't need to give the ceremony, but you can also take some money to the bride to buy some jewelry, new clothes and the like. After getting married, if you contact their families, and you want to give some New Year's gifts or something, of course, you are free. ”

Hearing this, everyone was very satisfied, but there were still many people who lamented that it was a pity that there were too few girls, and some people felt that setting the registration age at twenty-two years old was too high, thinking that after the age of fifteen, they should be able to sign up.

Wei Shan, who signed up, was pulled aside by his father.

"I've already asked your mother to go back to boil water, and you can take a shower in a while, wash it clean, wash it with that soap, and wash your head too, so that you can feel better. Put on your best outfit, and don't just pick the best-looking ones. Looking for a daughter-in-law, what's the use of picking such a good-looking one? You have to pick a long stout one, and the most important thing is that the butt has to be big, and the big butt is easy to grow. ”

Wei Shan nodded, "I remember." ”

In fact, he is not too anxious to marry a daughter-in-law, and he is not too interested in Japanese girls, but his parents are in such an urgency, and he is not good at disobeying his parents. He also knows that he is the boss, and his parents are even more anxious.

"Don't think that another girl is a Japanese girl, it doesn't matter which race or place she is from, she is a girl, it's good to be young. When I became a biological baby, after a long time, it was the same. ”

Mother also said on the side, "Shanzi, you must work hard, the opportunity is rare." There are few girls here, and if I missed this time, I don't know when it will be next time. (To be continued.) )