"What about Zhongnan?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

The Central and Southern Battlefields have just achieved a series of victories, but they have not yet reached the point where they can already let go. Donghu and Annan have not yet been swept away, not to mention that Nanzhang, Dacheng, and Zhenla still maintain their complete strength.

"Over there in the south of the country, just leave it to the navy and mercenaries." Liu Jun waved his hand and said, of course the things he has decided will not change. At this time, the army was sent to the west, of course, to disrupt the course of the Central and Southern Battlefield, but there was no way.

The central and southern sides have already broken the backbone of those natives, so let's just move forward slowly. There is a navy as the mainstay, and a few towns of mercenaries, Liu Jun thinks it is enough. Even if this may slow down the process of requisition, it is not worth caring about this.

Dzungar is simply hanging, if he doesn't care about it anymore, no one will be able to control him at that time.

was disrupted, and Liu Jun was not happy, but it was difficult to think that everything would go as planned.

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now, I know that you just came back and entered the palace, I'm afraid that you will still be hungry, I have already asked the imperial dining room to prepare a meal, it just so happens that I haven't eaten yet, let's have some wine together." Liu Jun called the three of them and went outside together.

"This snow scene is good, just go to the pavilion outside to enjoy the snow, well, change the hot pot, warm a few pots of rice wine, and eat hot pot while enjoying the snow and drink wine."

When the imperial dining room heard the edict, the emperor wanted to eat hot pot instead, and the table of imperial meals that had just been prepared could only be put aside, and he hurriedly began to prepare hot pot again. Fortunately, this was not difficult for them, and soon around the pavilion in the snow, tents were set up, tables and chairs were placed, and stoves were set up.

"On a snowy day, eating some mutton shabu, stewing a radish, drinking some spicy soup, and tasting some wine, it's really annoying." Liu Jun picked up the wine jug and personally poured wine for the three generals, and the three of them hurriedly stood up.

"You don't have to pay attention to the etiquette of those monarchs and ministers today, just like when we were still in the nine-headed bird, just be more comfortable."

"Time is really fast, at that time, I waited with His Majesty to kill the Liukou and break the Xiyi, fight in the south and the north, and fight in the east and west, how happy." Liu Yunsheng said with emotion on the side.

Liu Jun put down the wine jug and picked up the warm Shaoxing rice wine, "Actually, it's not a few years, come, dry." ”

"Good wine." Fu Shan drank it all, put down the wine glass, and praised.

"It is said that Shaoxing's rice wine is the best, and the local people gave birth to a son and buried a few jars of new wine in the courtyard, and when the son won the champion in the imperial examination, he took the banquet to celebrate and called the champion red. If you give birth to a daughter, bury the wine, and dig it out when the daughter gets married, then you will become a daughter. ”

Zheng Zhilong said, "This imperial examination is held every three years, and only one champion is won in three years, and it is not easy to drink that champion red." ”

"It is naturally difficult for everyone to be the champion, so now, Shaoxing's daughter is more famous than the champion." Fu Shan said with a smile.

Liu Yunsheng poured a plate of fresh lamb slices into the boiling pot and poured another plate of radishes into it.

"Your Majesty, when it comes to getting married, this time I got 100,000 young women from Nanyang, and I will be able to send them to Beijing after the year."

Zheng Zhilong was not to be outdone, "We also got 100,000 girls in Donghu. ”

Fu Shan laughed, "Then you can't compare to me, we got a whole 500,000 young women in Annam, Champa and Zhenla." Ha ha! ”

Liu Jun scooped up a piece of mutton, and said with a smile while dipping it in the sauce, "Feihuang and Yunsheng are far behind." ”

According to the census statistics of the imperial court, there are more than 10 million young men and women among the Han people who are of appropriate age and unmarried.

In addition, the Han still allowed monogamy and multiple concubines, which led to a large number of men who could not marry wives.

How to make men of the right age in the Han Dynasty find women to marry and start a family has also become an important task of the imperial court. The court's solution was a multi-pronged approach, where nobles with titles could have multiple concubines per wife, and there was no restriction on concubines, but if they exceeded four concubines, they could be taxed.

And officials who do not have titles can take two concubines.

Ordinary merchants were allowed to marry only one wife, and at most one more concubine was allowed, but the concubine had to pay a heavy tax.

At the same time, the court also encouraged young widows to remarry.

Of course, the most important killer feature is that the imperial court is preparing to issue a decree to encourage foreign women to marry Han Chinese. Only those foreigners who have made military contributions to the Han Dynasty, or become outstanding talents needed by the imperial court, or whose women marry Han men, can they become Han nationality and officially enjoy the rights and treatment of the Han people.

The imperial court destroyed Donghu and South Vietnam, and the generals of all armies were given a task by the imperial court, which was to send those unmarried women to Beijing. Of course, these young women are not to be sent to the palace, but to be sent to various border immigration areas, and arranged to be wives for those unmarried immigrants who have expanded the border.

This is also a policy of the imperial court to stabilize the frontier, and most of the immigrants to the frontier are the poor people in the Central Plains, so the number of unmarried people is also the largest. Going to the frontier, it is more difficult to find a woman. The imperial court used this method to send a large number of young women from conquered areas directly to the frontier and betrothed them to the immigrants.

There have been many young Japanese women who have become immigrant brides, but the gap is still huge.

"The number of unmarried and marriageable women is really small." Zheng Zhilong said, "And there are a lot of native women, to be honest, they are short and ugly, I really can't bear to send them to the brothers in Tuobian, for fear of being scolded." ”

"Hahaha!"

Liu Jun and Fu Shan couldn't help laughing.

Zheng Zhilong's words are also true, the Japanese people, the Malays, and the indigenous people of all ethnic groups in Central and South China are indeed black, short and ugly, especially many soils and all kinds of strange customs, such as some indigenous people in Myanmar, women have a habit, they began to wear copper collars around their necks since they were young, growing year by year, and finally holding their necks long, the aborigines feel beautiful, but the Han people feel like a ghost.

There are many aborigines, and the custom is to tattoo the face, and the tattoo of a face is all blue and black patterns, which is more like a ghost.

In addition, there are those that wear nose nails, lip nails, and eyebrow nails, which are all difficult for the Han people to accept.

There is also a common custom among many natives, that is, early marriage. I got married in my teens, especially in the Indochina Peninsula and the Nanyang Islands, and there are many people who get married at the age of eleven or twelve.

This has led to the fact that there are very few unmarried girls of real age, and there are many unmarried under the age of ten, but many Han generals can't send these people to Beijing as marriageable women.

is only 1.41.5 meters, and he is completely a child.

Fu Shan was able to get 500,000 women at once, and that was because the population base of Annan was already large, and it was relatively civilized here, and many places were similar to the customs of the Han people, and there would be no such strange habits, and there would not be so many early marriages. There is another reason, that is, Fu Shan doesn't care if he gets married or not, he only cares about age.

As long as you are 14 years old and 30 years old, you basically look relatively young and can still have children, and whether you are married, a widow or a husband and children at all, they are directly arrested and sent to Beijing.

"We still have so many brothers in Dahan who don't have wives, anyway, these Annan barbarians don't need wives, they have to work for Dahan mining and road construction in the future, can they save their lives, give them a bowl of rice to eat, and give him some wages, it's already very gracious, and you still want a wife? At least young women can't continue to be left with them. ”

These words are very red and powerful, but they are also a universal concept in this era.

In the eyes of many Han Chinese, those foreigners are not human at all. In fact, not only the Han people think so, but which of the other ethnic groups is not like this, in the past, the Mongols would treat the Han people as human beings? Will the Jurchens treat the Han as human beings?

For those who are conquered, they will either become slaves or die. Even the lives of the vanquished belong to the conquerors, not to mention their possessions, wives, and children.

The Han Dynasty was also not polite to the conquered people of South Vietnam, and their land and their homeland belonged to the imperial court. Their young wives and daughters also belonged to the imperial court.

But the Han is still merciful, at least they will not sell their wives and daughters as slaves and use them as prostitutes, but just go to marry the unmarried men of the Han Tuobian, maybe life is better than in the past. As for human rights and personal wishes, they are really nothing in this era, at least they can't be eaten.

Those Donghu men and South Vietnamese men, their fate will not be too miserable, the imperial court will not let them stay in their homeland, will not give them fields, but will arrange jobs for them to support themselves, go to prospecting and build roads to work, and there will also be wages. If they have the ability, they can marry a better one in the future.

"Actually, there's another way to get a woman." Liu Yunsheng took a sip of wine, "In Nanyang, the slave trade is very prosperous, as long as there is money, whether it is a man or a woman, or a black or white person, you can get it. A young and fertile female slave girl is actually very cheap. In fact, the imperial court can buy it directly, and then give it to those older Han people who have not married, even if the imperial court charges a little more fee, I believe that there are many people who are willing to buy it. ”

Human trafficking

Liu Jun took a few bites of food, but did not answer immediately.

After thinking about it, Liu Jun said, "It's not impossible, it can be used as a supplementary means." However, you can also think of some other ways, such as building a special matchmaking company to go to Nanyang countries and even India and other places. ”

The kind of matchmaking company that Liu Jun said is actually no different from buying people in essence.

It's just that nominally it's not buying, it's giving a gift. Liu Jun believes that as long as the gifts are enough for the parents of poor families in those small countries, they don't care whether to sell their daughters or marry their daughters.

If you can build up your reputation, I believe that there are many people who are willing to marry their daughters to the Han to eat and drink spicy food, and by the way, they can follow the light, and one day they can follow the immigrant Han.

Now in the Han folk marriage, the etiquette is rising, and the average person wants to marry a Han woman, and the burden is really heavy. If there is a young foreign woman who can marry, there is not much money for the gift, and I believe that many people will not mind too much whether it is a foreign or not. Just like the Japanese brides before them, not all of them are doing well now.

Zheng Zhilong said, "When we destroy Dzungaria, we will be able to get hundreds of thousands of young women back, and then we will be able to solve the problem of hundreds of thousands of singles marrying wives." ”

"Don't say that, we went west to Dzungaria, as if we were just trying to rob women." Liu Yunsheng said with a smile.

Liu Jun said very bluntly, "Not only to rob their women, but also to rob their cattle and horses, and to grab their territory, which will also be the territory of the Han Empire in the future!" (To be continued.) )