Ouyang Xuan and Cao Ergou are not much different in age, and they also regard each other as brothers with different surnames, and they have a close relationship on weekdays.

It's just that today Cao Ergou changed his old grinning appearance, behaved awkwardly, asked him to sit down, but only half of his body fell, and refused to speak for a long time.

This made Ouyang Xuan more and more anxious, and said angrily in a hurry: "If you have something, just say it, if you have nothing to do, get out, I'm still busy."

At this moment, he was doing an important chemical experiment, and the white coat he was wearing was stained with glycerin and dilute hydrochloric acid.

His voice startled Cao Ergou, and also made him turn back into the general Cao who was not afraid of danger on the battlefield.

He said with a straight face: "Brother Xuan, I want to get married, and I want to ask for your consent." It turned out that Cao Ergou was on the way to escort the Qian clan to Hengyuan Fort, and he knew a handsome Qian girl, and he secretly inquired that this Qian girl was the fourth daughter of Qian Lao'er, whose nickname was Qian Yimeier, so he moved his mind.

If you want to say that this Cao Ergou is also a chicken thief, I heard that Qian Er was not married yet, so he went to make peace before finding Rude.

can marry the young and promising General Cao, the eldest Qian and the second Qian are naturally very happy, and the Qian sister is also full of joy.

The words of the matchmaker, the life of the parents! Cao Ergou's parents died early, and now he is alone in the army, without relatives and no support, and Brother Xuan'er is also his boss, so he is now coming to ask him for consent.

In the past year since he traveled to this world, Ouyang Xuan has also actively or passively thought about marriage issues. After Pan Luo Huan robbed the daughter of Yanfeng Village, everyone woke up Brother Xuan'er to be old and alone, so they pushed Lu Dezhi to talk about his marriage euphemistically.

From Ouyang Xuan's own point of view, his twenties are actually not very old, and when he came to this troubled era like Shura Field, he really had no interest in falling in love, so he deduced that although he was already vulgar, his parents were far away in the Jinghu area, so it was not appropriate to talk about marriage.

Later, seeing that everyone refused to give up on this issue, he said that he would follow the example of Huo Quai, the general of the Western Han Dynasty

"The Huns have not been destroyed, why should they be at home", if the Mongols were not driven out of Shu and vowed not to talk about marriage, this made everyone break the idea of pulling the strings for their marriage.

It's just that he doesn't talk about marriage, but he can't object to everyone's marriage, so he agreed to Cao Ergou's marriage at the moment.

Cao Ergou's marriage reminded Ouyang Xuan that this marriage system is the foundation of social stability, and he had to take advantage of the initial period of his career to set principles and rules, so he convened a joint meeting of the military and the government to discuss the matter.

At the meeting, Ouyang Xuan put forward four principles and requirements for the marriage system, one is the voluntary marriage and the freedom of divorce, the second is that both men and women must be at least 16 years old, the third is premarital inspection and marriage registration, and the fourth is monogamy.

These terms, which seemed reasonable to Ouyang Xuan, unexpectedly attracted opposition from everyone, especially Lu Dezhi and others were the most fierce, and Du Fu, the person in charge of the newly established medical center, also cited scriptures and euphemistically expressed their objections.

In particular, there are many opinions about the first and fourth articles, and in the eyes of Ruud and others, it is natural that the marriage of children should be decided by their parents.

Freedom of divorce? Is there a reason for a woman to leave her husband in the world? As for monogamy, it is also inappropriate, since ancient times, it has been said that the royal family is noble, and the high-ranking official and rich businessman does not have three wives and four concubines?

Ouyang Xuan was really speechless about this kind of patriarchal thinking, but he also knew that marriage customs were closely related to the level of development of productive forces, and the inertia of traditional forces was huge, and it would not be an overnight thing to change, so he explained again and made concessions on the relevant terms, before reluctantly passing the new marriage system.

The new marriage system remains at four. For the first clause of voluntary marriage and freedom of divorce, it was reluctantly passed at Ouyang Xuan's insistence, and a clause was added to protect military marriage, and the woman was not allowed to file for divorce without the consent of the active duty soldier, which won the support of most people.

Although most of the people in the agrarian era pursued the concept of early marriage and early children, and they were engaged at the age of 10 or even earlier, they were mostly officially married at the age of 14 or 5, and it was okay to wait for an extra year or two.

After Ouyang Xuan explained the principle of eugenics, everyone actively supported it, and it was agreed that those with serious genetic diseases, congenital disabilities, and intellectual disabilities should not marry and have children, so as not to increase the burden on society and families.

The current level of productivity simply cannot afford to support idlers. The controversy over monogamy, the number of opponents was completely unexpected by Ouyang Xuan.

In addition to Rude's reason, the rest of the people raised a question that he could not answer: that is, the long-term war has caused serious losses to young and strong men, and now there are many boys and girls, if polygamy is not allowed, how can weak women without marriage survive?

This question made Ouyang Xuan speechless for a while, and he also knew why there was a preference for sons over women in the agricultural era, because land needed labor.

In desperation, he had no choice but to make compromises and concessions. Therefore, Article 4 was amended to be monogamous in principle, and the main wife must be Han Chinese, and the latter sentence was added at the request of Du Fu.

He had seen too many interracial marriages in his business for many years, and he explained to everyone that there might be interracial women under the rule of the Perak army in the future, and the interests of Han women must be guaranteed.

Unexpectedly, this explanation annoyed Dang Shijian and other mountain elders who attended the military and political meeting, and made them widen their eyes with anger.

If it weren't for Ouyang Xuan's presence, they would inevitably scold and even make a move, you must know that this mountain was originally inhabited by Han and Qiang, and there were even remnants of Shatuo.

In their view, this clause proposed by Dufu was a blatant discrimination against the mountain people. Seeing this, Lu Dezhi quoted the Huayi debate in the pre-Qin period to defend Du Fu

"As long as you speak Chinese and wear Hanfu, you are Han", this statement was strongly supported by Ouyang Xuan, and everyone stopped arguing.

In Ouyang Xuan's mind, all ethnic groups under the rule of the Thunderbolt Army are equal and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race and blood, but the premise is that the cultural customs must be the same.

The issue of marriage is not a trivial matter, it involves the governance structure and political balance of the Perak Army. Huaxia has always attached great importance to the family, and many famous families have emerged in thousands of years of inheritance, and many gate valve families have emerged, and these are mostly achieved through marriage.

The intertwined power of the clan-lord families severely restricted the movement of social classes, and the resulting class solidification upset the political balance and accelerated the collapse of various dynasties, as was the case in Southern Song society.

When Cao Ergou told him that he was going to marry the Qian family, Ouyang Xuan had the idea of standardizing the system, which in his opinion was very crucial to the future development of the Thunderbolt Army, even more important than winning a few battles.

When discussing the issue of marriage this time, Lu Dezhi proposed another system of marriage at the meeting-the inheritance system, which was deliberately ignored by Ouyang Xuan, in fact, this system is more important.

There are three types of inheritance systems, namely primogeniture in Western Europe, Shouzao, the youngest son of the Mongols, and the equal division of sons among the Han people.

Ouyang Xuan prefers the primogeniture inheritance system, which will make the children without the right to inherit more adventurous, and the society will also have more vitality to expand outward.

In Ouyang Xuan's view, the Thunderbolt Army is still in its infancy, and it is not the best time to discuss the inheritance system.

He was prepared to discuss the system of awarding land for military merit and the system of equalizing land when there was a stable area of governance in the plains.