Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 564 The Big Wedding
Henan.

Yongseong, Daegu.

Today's Daegu is particularly lively, spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and the sun is shining brightly.

Chen Twelve was even more happy today. Today was his day of great joy. He finally got married and married a wife.In the early morning of the set, it was very lively, attracting countless people.

There will be a hundred couples getting married today, all of them are the children of Daqiu from Guide Tuan, and they will be married by Guo Xingye.

Chen Twelve just came back from Luoyang, Kaifeng. Since his elder brother came back from a pilgrimage and became the son of heaven and the surname of the country, he also brought back two thousand elite soldiers from the imperial battalion and brought back many armored guns. The most elite team in Henan.

Chen Twelve also put on a fine cotton armor, armed with a sword and carried a blunderbuss. After reorganization, Guide Town had a strong army, and Chen Twelve also became a sentry officer. , first opened the seal and then fought against Luoyang. After several months of siege and fighting, the two fortified cities and the surrounding areas were completely taken down.

After the beginning of spring, the plan changed, and instead of going north to Shanxi, several teams returned to Luoyang after receiving the awards from the envoy of the emperor.

Li Jiyu was in Luoyang, Xu Dingguo was in Kaifeng, Ding Qiguang (Ding Qirui's younger brother, a former general) was in Hanoi, Xu Anguo was in Weihui, Liang Min was in Zhangde, Li Huajing was in Caozhou, Ding Weiyue was in Dongchang,

However, Zhu Zhongyi was still stationed in Guide, and concurrently led Chen and Xu's two mansions.

After the First World War last year, the Qing army in Henan was left with Runing, Nanyang, and Yingzhou in Huaibei.

The generals in Henan were promoted to rank, and many villages also expressed their support for the Ming court. For example, Ding Qiguang originally surrendered, but later saw the Qing Dynasty entering the pass, so he immediately killed the Shun general and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Now that the Ming army has regained its momentum, it immediately turned against the Qing and embraced the Ming.

The imperial court's repetition of Ding Qiguang and other local tyrants did not ignore the previous suspicions. For example, Ding Qiguang also conferred the title of Huaiqing Tuanlian Headquarters, and the local gentry of various Tusai villages also conferred officials and posts, and asked them to use the Tuzhai to build up armor and practice regiments.

Guide Town performed very well in the battle between Kaifeng and Luoyang. Chen Twelve took the lead in every battle and made a lot of contributions. He also killed several Tartars and green battalion soldiers.

After returning to Yongcheng, the one who came to propose marriage even broke the threshold.

Finally, he married the daughter of Yuan's family in Suizhou.

This Yuan family is the great-granddaughter of Yuan Keli, the Minister of the Front and Back Departments. Although her father, Yuan Fucheng, the prefect of Nanning, is a daughter of a concubine and her mother is only a maid, she is also a daughter of the Yuan family after all.

The Yuan family was a top-notch family in Guide Mansion. Although they encountered national calamity at the end of Chongzhen and their father Yuan Shu died for the country, they still gained a firm foothold in the south and were reused by the emperor. Both brothers held fifth-rank official positions.

Of course, Chen Twelve had no chance to marry Yuan's daughter, even if she was a maidservant, but when Yuan Shu and his son fled Guide Mansion, some family members did not come and took them away, and Yuan's mother and daughter were still stranded in Guide Mansion , The past two years have also been hard.

Chen Twelve happened to rescue their mother and daughter before, so they finally got married. Yuan Fucheng was far away in Nanning, Guangxi, and he didn't even know that his daughter was still alive.

Although Miss Yuan is the daughter of a maidservant, after all, the Yuan family is a well-known family, so she was able to read and write since she was a child, but her status is low and she is not welcomed, but she has experienced two years of suffering, and her mother was born as a maidservant, so she is willing Marrying a prudent man like Chen Twelve doesn't require any wealth, as long as there is a reliable support in this troubled world.

"Uncle, you are so handsome today."

Agui and his brothers came to congratulate their uncle. Last year, Afu got Chen Twelve's help and married his sweetheart as he wished.After marriage, the households were also divided, and even with the support of Chen Twelve, their original surname was restored.

Guide, under the control of the Red Spear Society, was presided over by the old master last year, implementing various new government policies, and a large amount of unowned wasteland was cleared and granted land.

Chen Twelve, as an imperial army, was allocated [-] mu of land, and Ah Fu, who established a household after marriage, was also allocated [-] mu of land.

Although Agui is not an adult, as a teenager, he is also allocated a few acres of land under his name.

There are red guns that will attack bandits and bandits and maintain law and order, and the Guide Mansion is also more stable. Zhu Zhongyi organizes Baojia, trains regiment bravery, and encircles and suppresses those disobedient soil fortresses and thieves.

As a sub-inspector, the old master advised farming and mulberry classes and resumed production.

"Ah Fu, you have grown stronger and more stable."

Ah Fu smiled, he felt very hopeful in his current life, after marriage, he separated households and divided ten acres of land, although now he lives in three simple thatched huts, but there is hope.

Of the ten mu of land, one mu is planted with mulberry trees, and the remaining nine mu are divided into three parts, two types of land are rested once, and two types are planted every three years.

Although the man farms and the woman weaves, although it is hard work, he feels very at ease. When the farming is busy, he recruits some refugees to help with the farming, and usually goes to the fields by himself.

The wife raises ten baskets of silkworms, which can be raised by one person on one mu of land. After a year of hard work, she can reel eight catties of raw silk. Although silkworm rearing is hard work, day and night, raw silk is very valuable.

Basically, Ah Fu farms the land, and the harvested food can be used for the family's rations, and there is still a lot of surplus after paying taxes. However, because the father-in-law's family is refugees, there are many people and little land, and there are many old and weak in the Chen family. , he also needs to help out, after all the kindness of nurturing for many years.

But everything in the new home needs to be bought. They separated and bought everything with borrowed money, from farm tools to seeds, and even pots and pans.

The cost of clothing and quilts is mainly purchased from the income from his wife's sericulture and silk reeling.

"I'm too tired to plant ten acres of land by myself," Ah Fu said.

"I'm not of the same race. Usually, the Yue family often helps out. They also hire people during busy farming seasons. It's just that hiring people pay a lot of money, and they have to provide food and drink. Those people can eat. They have to eat three meals a day, a few bowls of rice. , I still have to see the meat." Speaking of this, Ah Fu felt very distressed.

Usually I am reluctant to eat meat, and I can't afford it, but when I hire people to work, I must have meat to eat, even if it is mainly pig intestines, pig lungs, pig hearts, liver and pig heads, etc., but it is still indispensable.

These days, hiring people to do work, especially farming work, is like this, otherwise those people would not be able to work hard.

Usually, the long-term workers of the landlords' homes even eat better than some small landlords. The landlords are reluctant to eat meat, but the long-term workers often have to eat some meat, especially during the busy farming season.

Ah Fu is reluctant, but he is too busy without asking for help. If he does intensive farming, a strong laborer can at most cultivate five acres of land. He has to ask someone to help him with ten acres of land.

It costs a lot of money to hire people, eat and drink, and rent cattle and seeds. This is provided by the Red Gun Club, and the rental fee is not high. Otherwise, after a busy year, there will not be a few left.

So these days, if you have your own land, after hard work, if you don’t encounter a famine, there will always be a few left, and you can barely eat and wear, and you have to grow mulberry and silkworms or even breed them.

If you don’t have your own land and become a tenant, you will have to pay rent for the harvest throughout the year. There are really not many left, so you will be poor year after year, and you will have to sell your sons and daughters when there is a famine.

People like Ah Fu, if it weren't for the chaos in the world, and then the Red Gun would control it, implement the new government policy, grant them land, and borrow seeds and cattle at low interest rates, etc., they would have no chance of turning over.

As a regiment training officer, Chen Twelve directly allocated [-] mu of land. Taking advantage of the chaos in the world, he himself bought some land with reward money, and now he has collected [-] mu of land. He is considered a middle-level landlord.

But he has no time and energy to farm by himself, so now he recruits those refugees to farm, and his brothers in the family help to take care of it. Now the imperial court temporarily waived the land tax, and the manpower of the refugees is still relatively cheap. After taking into account the expenses, there are still benefits, especially the price of food. High, and the income from farming is not bad.

One or two acres of land is not much profit, but adding up to one hundred acres is not bad.

Of course, compared to his hard work in the army, the captures, rewards, etc. are much worse.

Although the imperial court does not directly pay the Guide regiment, they all rely on self-raised funds, but they control such a large territory, and the salary can still be maintained for the time being, but it is not as rich as the imperial camp, but the gains from suppressing the bandits and breaking the village .

The world is in chaos.

Many rich and powerful families like Suizhou were knocked out of the dust, and poor people like Chen Twelve have finally turned around now.

Ah Fu, who fled with his mother back then, is now able to stand on his own, owning ten acres of property, married a wife, and even having children soon.

A young man like Chen Twelve, who used to be a helper in harvesting wheat all the year round to make ends meet, is now a sentry officer and a landlord with a hundred acres of land.

Today was his wedding day, and a hundred Tuanlian brothers got married together.

He married a young lady from the Yuan family.

In the past, the name of the Yuan family was only rumored by others, but now, they can marry this young lady.

"Uncle, I heard that you are going to be stationed in Xuzhou soon?"

"Well, after the wedding, there are still ten days off, and then I will go to Xuzhou Yancheng to be stationed."

Yancheng is in the south of Xuzhou, at the intersection of Chen, Xu, Runing and Nanyang, where Shahe River, an important tributary of Yinghe River, passes through.

The next goal of Guide Town is to control Yancheng, cut off the connection between Nanyang and the Qing army in Yingzhou, and then go south to attack Runing, cooperate with the Guanzhai of Dabie Mountain and the Huaixi imperial camp, and completely divide and surround Yingzhou.

Chen Twelve will move to Yancheng with his ministry.

"Uncle, I also want to be a soldier." Agui said.

"You are still too young, wait a few years."

Ah Fu is old, but he doesn't want to be a soldier anymore. He just wants to farm at home, accompany his wife, have children, men farm and women weave, and live his own life. He is already very satisfied.

In war, people will die.

He used to be a bachelor and wanted to join the Red Gun Club to make money, but now he has a wife.

Now in Guide area, the Baojia and Tuanlian system are implemented. Ten households are used as cards, ten cards are used as Jia, and ten Jias are used as insurance. There are a large number of Ding population, or one Ding from one household, or one Ding from three to five households. These Bao Ding are organized and trained, training in leisure time, and assisting in defense during wartime.

Then, from among these Baodings, two or 30-year-olds, who are physically strong, honest and brave, are selected as the group brave.

A security regiment is set up with the county as the unit to lead the Baoding, and the regiment is set up with the prefecture as the unit.

The regiment training camp was led by Zhu Zhongyi, the head of the regiment training camp, and officers sent by the emperor.

Baojia all over the country form a regiment with a security regiment head.

The regiment training camp is like an imperial camp. Five hundred brave men form the first battalion, with [-] auxiliary battalions.

The security regiment has no food and salary, only food and rations during training.

As for the regiment training camp, it is already half-time full-time, and there are pay and food in the camp.Usually do their own business, and concentrate on defense when they have something to do.Because of the current situation in Henan, the Guide regiment trained mainly with the backbone members of the Red Spear Club, and the imperial court dispatched [-] soldiers from the imperial battalion to form a standing army.

Compared with the group training in other towns, both equipment and bravery are much stronger.

"The auspicious time has come, we are married!"

Brothers Afu and Agui hurriedly embraced their uncle Chen Twelve and went to the ceremony, "Hurry up and pick up the bride and go to the church to get married."

One hundred Guide regiments trained soldiers, all wearing scarlet robes.

One hundred brides are all in horse-face skirts with phoenix crowns and xiapei.

Thousands of people watched and witnessed this lively and festive scene together.

"The Red Spear Club is so majestic!"

"Joining the group training has this benefit!"

"Being a soldier eats food and marrying a bride, and divides the land and grants the land to the emperor's soldiers!"

On the ceremony stage, Mr. Zhao presided over the witnessing of the marriage, and gave congratulatory gifts, including two silver dollars with dragon patterns, two quilts, and two pieces of cotton cloth for each couple, six kinds of congratulatory gifts for the new couple.

A hundred couples worship heaven and earth, respect their parents, and thank the Son of Heaven.

"Licheng, send it to the bridal chamber!"

(End of this chapter)