Zhang Zheng woke up early the next day.

Because he learned the news from the newspaper last night that his father came out for himself, Zhang Zheng let go of all the baggage in his heart and slept very soundly.

After looking at the sky, it was just dawn, the time was still early, and there was no hurry to see the Mo family.

Zhang Zheng decided to eat some breakfast first, and then he went to Wang's banquet last night, and Zhang Zheng didn't eat a few bites of dinner, and he was hungry and panicked when he got up in the morning.

As soon as he was summoned, a eunuch who accompanied him brought food for Zhang Zheng.

After Zhang Zheng devoured three big steamed buns and drank a bowl of millet porridge, Li Chengqian's figure also arrived.

Li Chengqian could not have missed such a historic moment as meeting with the Mo family.

"Morning, His Royal Highness the Prince."

"Good morning, Brother Sheng."

Compared with Zhang Zheng, Li Chengqian was thinking about the marriage with the Wang family in his heart, and he did not have the good spirit of Zhang Zheng.

At present, the marriage between the royal family and the Wang family is inevitable, and Li Er will not refuse the request for marriage.

Zhang Zheng was able to win this result, which was almost a risking of his life, and of course Li Chengqian would not drop the chain at a critical moment.

But his spirit was somewhat trance-like, he was only thirteen years old, and he was only fourteen years old after New Year's Day, and he was suddenly about to marry a daughter-in-law, and it was still a little difficult to accept psychologically for a while.

"Brother Sheng'er, you should be crowned after New Year's Day."

Li Chengqian also sat down and drank unhurriedly with a bowl of millet porridge.

"It should be, Your Royal Highness the Prince, you should be about the same, I wonder if the time of the crown ceremony between the two of us will not be very different."

Zhang Zheng replied, he remembered that Li Chengqian should be fourteen years old and crowned in history, so it happened to be the same year as himself.

Hearing Zhang Zheng say this, Li Chengqian felt that it was normal, and the time for the royal family and the crown would not be in accordance with etiquette to a large extent.

When necessary, the crown can be reached at the age of twelve.

In addition, he needs to marry the Wang family, so it is not impossible to go with Zhang Zhengyi next year.

"Then after the crown ceremony, Brother Zheng'er, you should also get married, has the Guogong Mansion found a good candidate for you to marry?"

Li Chengqian, who was eating millet porridge, suddenly asked such a question, and directly stunned Zhang Zhenggan, who was gobbling it up.

"Married, me?"

Zhang Zheng put down the chopsticks in his hand, pointed to his nose, and asked a rhetorical question in disbelief.

"yes, or else me? Oh, of course and me, or the matchmaker you gave me protection. ”

Li Chengqian replied.

Seeing Zhang Zheng's blank expression, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother Zheng'er, you have given me a matchmaker, haven't you thought about your life's events?" ”

"I didn't think about it."

Zhang Zheng shook his head and replied honestly.

Zhang Zheng really didn't think about this, because he was only fifteen years old, and he was only sixteen after New Year's Day, and he got married and had children at the age of sixteen, is this reasonable?

In the next generation, what are fifteen-year-old children doing, they are still carrying schoolbags to junior high school.

"Oh, then when I return to Chang'an, I can ask the queen mother to help you pick one, see if there is a woman you like, you have a matchmaker for me, and I will also protect one for you."

Hearing Zhang Zheng say that he hadn't thought about it, Li Chengqian said as a matter of course.

"Ah, His Royal Highness the Prince, don't use this."

Zhang Zheng was a little confused, okay, why did he talk about his marriage, and subconsciously refused.

"What's not necessary, are you still shy, you are not a small child, you have to get married when you are at the age when you should get married, this matter is decided.

I'll ask the queen mother to help when I go back, anyway, you also grew up with the queen mother, and it shouldn't be difficult to ask her to be an old man.

There are so many nobles in Chang'an, and there are many women in the boudoir, with your background and talent, it is not easy to find a woman with both talent and appearance. ”

Hearing Zhang Zheng's refusal, Li Chengqian made a decisive decision, and seemed to be really concerned about this matter.

I don't know if he is taking revenge on Zhang Zheng for protecting the media for him, or if he really wants to help Zhang Zheng from the bottom of his heart.

In fact, what Li Chengqian said is not wrong.

When the man is married, the woman should be married, and the parents are the matchmakers. It was originally the mainstream view of this era.

Why is it that in Datang, men have to perform the ceremony of the crown when they reach a certain age, and women have to perform the ceremony of the crown when they reach a certain age.

It is in order to announce to the outside world that there is a man or woman in the family who is an adult, and an adult means that it is possible to marry.

When you reach a certain age, if you don't get married, the official will send someone to urge you to get married.

If you can't find a partner because of family difficulties or appearance problems, the government will also make official matches or give money directly.

I can't find my wife's government to send it to you, and I don't have money to find my wife's government to give you money to find a wife.

found a wife who gave birth to a child, and the government couldn't afford to support you, and the government sent you money to help you raise the child.

What a humane system, this kind of system that sounds like a joke, but it is real in Datang.

It's just because the population of Datang is withering badly now, and the population is too small.

It has only been thirteen years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, but the turbulent times at the end of the Sui Dynasty directly caused nearly two-thirds of the entire Han people to disappear.

At the peak of the Sui Dynasty, the population peaked at more than 50 million, and after Li Shimin ascended the throne, when Fang Xuanling conducted a population count, there were less than 20 million people left.

The population is small, the land is barren, no one is a soldier, no one pays taxes.

No one means that there is no labor force, and how can a country rebuild after the war without labor to create wealth?

So what to do, we can only find a way to increase the birth rate of the population.

Therefore, the birth rate of the local population has also been included in the performance evaluation of the local government by Li Shimin, and it accounts for a large weight.

In the mainstream of the Tang Dynasty, take Zhang Zheng's media as an example of Li Chengqianbao.

Although Li Chengqian was in a bit of a trance, he did not resist in his heart.

That's why, and that's what the universal values of the world are.

Li Shimin will definitely agree to this kind of marriage, so Li Chengqian's opinion is insignificant.

In the same way, Zhang Zheng is sixteen years old, and in the eyes of everyone in Datang, it is the age of marriage.

So the courtesy is still exchanged, Li Chengqian said that he wants to protect a matchmaker for Zhang Zheng, and this matter is very reasonable.

It sounds strange that a thirteen-year-old boy is worried about his marriage for a fifteen-year-old boy.

But in Datang, such things are normal.

"This, let's talk about it when we go back to Chang'an."

Zhang Zheng drank the remaining porridge in the bowl in a few sips, and said a perfunctory sentence casually.

Although sometimes Zhang Zheng also thinks about women, but getting married, he really didn't think about this thing.

"Good!"

Li Chengqian did not continue to dwell on this issue, in his opinion, this is a natural thing.

With his status as the crown prince of the dynasty, protecting Zhang Zheng as a matchmaker cannot be regarded as wronging him in any case.