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Chapter 689 New Customs and Old Rituals ([-])

Common people have no surname or family name, only first names.

And because there is a process of writing from scratch, some indirect descriptive words that require imagination to understand must appear late, so the names of nobles are generally ugly.

This includes the names of the princes and kings, and a humble name is easy to support.

Jin Qinggong called Qu Ji, which translates to no disease in later generations. It is estimated that he had a serious illness and almost died when he was young.

The Marquis of Jin Jing is called Yijiu, and Yijiu is pestle and mortar. The things used to pound garlic and pound rice in this era are common things in the house, similar to the names of children like thermos pots and rice cookers in later generations.

Jin Chenggong's name is black buttocks, and black buttocks are better understood. There must be a birthmark on the buttocks.

After the coronation ceremony, it is indicated that they are adults. For the sake of respect, it is impossible to call each other dog leftovers, black butts, etc., and there are words.

Just like the later generations, the first name, the humble name and nickname when I was a child is the first name, and the name registered in the household registration book is everyone's character: plus everyone has a surname, it can be regarded as the achievement of everyone's gentleman, Everyone is noble.

The Mohist family is now in Sishang, and the matter of "selecting surnames by lottery" led by Shi is to do this in advance, and strive to be indistinguishable from the nobles in terms of identity: if this matter does not interfere, everyone in Zhuxia will eventually have a surname , because cruel mating and allotment choices will make it impossible for civilians in this era to leave no descendants after thousands of years.

Sishang strives for women to have surnames and names, but Sishang has just started drawing lots to choose surnames. Gaoliu is still very early here, so this woman only has a very common name, "Xing'er".

The witch looked at the girl's birthday, and guessed that the girl should have been born when Kyoko was mature.She has long known that this girl is called Xing'er, so when she sang "You Mei" before, she used Xingzi as a metaphor.

Using apricots as a metaphor, it is to say that a girl's youth is fleeting, and it is good to marry early, which is exactly what she wants to express.

Today [-]% is still hanging on the tree, tomorrow [-]% is, and the day after tomorrow I can only squat on the ground and use a dustpan to pull it.

This song is also during the Shangsi Festival. When girls hate to marry and want to find someone, they sing it to a lot of guys. Hurry up and marry me.

The openness of men and women has always been like this in Zhuxia, and it is very early from the era when the door is not out of the door, and it is also very early from the era when you are often shy and bow your head and dare not speak.

So when eating, the girl wore the best clothes generously, and showed her youthful body in front of everyone with a smile on her face, which was the first time she saw her husband's family.

Although the person coming from the opposite side was not a relative, they could be regarded as the man's family member.

After the meeting, it is formal dinner.

With the popularity of wheat flour and mills, the staple food in Zhaodi began to become more expensive with wheat, and wheat gradually became expensive food from the original cheap food, and squeezed out millet and rhubarb rice, which were originally more noble.

In the north of Gaoliu, there are many varieties of potatoes, buckwheat, oats, and corn. There are not too many wheat growers, but it is still necessary to serve wheat when entertaining people.

Gao Liu likes to eat sour vinegar, because after the Mohist family took root here, productivity increased, and a large amount of grain entered the commodity market. At the beginning, management was loose, and many people made wine privately, because it could be sold to Hudi in exchange for huge profits.

With the development of productive forces, the cattle and horse fur and alkali trade on the Hu people's side developed, and there were more fermented wine.If there is more wine brewed, there will be more vinegar with poor craftsmanship, and if there is more vinegar, there will be more people who drink it.

In ten years, Mai has changed from cheap food to expensive food, and Takayanagi has gradually changed from not being jealous to being jealous.

When the wine was brought in, Xing'er's father said almost subconsciously: "Comrade, it's all regular wine, stamped with product stamps, not bootleg wine..."

Although this was an occasion for Na Cai to ask for his name, there were two Mohists on the opposite side.

I often eat at the wine shop in Gaoliu City, and from time to time, someone raids the passage of the wine. The consumption tax is a large part of the financial revenue of the Mo family. Since the policy was tightened up a few years ago, it has been cracking down on private wine. Many Gaoliu people have developed Habit: If you are drinking and see someone from the Mo family, the first thing to do is to take out the stamped receipt.

Leaving aside the issue of fines, if bootleggers were caught, it would be very embarrassing to criticize them in public and talk about the unity of opposites between public interests and self-interests.It's really not worthwhile for such a big person to be educated in public by those tax-checking brats and fined.

Nowadays, many cooperative villages have also set up some slightly large-scale winemaking workshops on the basis of planting potatoes. The Mo family has released the private control of wine here, only taxation and no direct sales.Because there are monopoly commodities that are more profitable and have higher unit profits.

Whether it is price or quality, it has an advantage over those moonshine wines.With one hand to pay close attention to and the other hand to lead the joint efforts to reduce costs, Gao Liu's private brewing has finally been brought under control.

A simple subconscious answer, some words that did not exist ten years ago, some terms that were not used but are now used to it, made everyone laugh, and the atmosphere became more active.

By the time the steamed, fermented, and flaky cooking cakes were served, the meal had reached its climax.

The hostess, who had drunk his eyes a little bit, said with his tongue wide open, "Two pieces of deerskin, two pairs of lambskin boots, two pairs of porcelain bowls, and an arquebus gun. These are the betrothal gifts."

"The dowry, of course it's quite a lot. It's worth a carload if you put it all together. Of course my daughter is in pain, but the dowry is indispensable. If he can't afford it, he can borrow it or send it home. It's indispensable. , this is the rule. If there is less, what is it like?"

This meal is just a matter of name, and there are not many things to be discussed about the preparations for the wedding, but there is a question of the dowry and dowry.

It is Zhuxia tradition that women have dowry and men have betrothal gifts.

Xing'er's parents are newcomers to industry and commerce. With the development of woolen production in the Gaoliu area and the exclusive trading port for grasslands, the parents can foresee that they will gradually become prosperous.

The concubine Pu Mi's situation is special, her family is in Sishang, and after Gao Liu gets married, she can be allocated a house, but the degree of affluence is definitely not enough when it comes to money.

Therefore, Myolie's parents chose a betrothal gift that is very characteristic of the times and can be seen by others when they come to the house in the future.

Two buckskins, two pairs of lambskin boots, two pairs of porcelain bowls, and an arquebus.

There are coal mines in Gaoliu, and there are also workshops for firing porcelain. Although the style and quality are far inferior to those in Sishang, they are still much better than the original pottery.

Matchlock guns are standard equipment in the homes of the people near Gaoliu. One is a military service, and the other is necessary for selling cattle and horses on the grassland.

The use of matchlock guns as a bride price can be regarded as a distinctive feature of the times at this time.

The development model of the Gaoliu area is the same as that of Duke Zhou's conquest of the feudal system and armed colonization.

Gaoliu City is a large barracks, and the main force of the Gaoliu Army is in and around the city, similar to the people of the country before the Spring and Autumn Period, as the main armed force and the main field army.

Outside Gaoliu City, the places suitable for farming and reclamation are mainly about two to three hundred households, and the border forts are built according to the current "simple star fortress" of the Mohists. A large number of young people who have served for three years will be assigned there, firing guns, For cultivation, the Mohists gave support to cattle, horses, seeds, and ironware, and the border fort was exempted from tax for ten years.

Whether this mode is easy to use does not depend on how strong the people on the grassland are, but whether the main army in the city can fight.If you can fight in the field, you can maintain it; if you can't fight in the field, no amount of means will work.

A medium-sized border fort stationed with two regular companies, four small artillery, and about [-] farmers and soldiers can withstand the siege of more than [-] Hu people, and there may be even more: because at this time the Hu people have no Cannon, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, relied on artillery that was stronger than the Ming army in the later period to attack the city and pull out the village, and won the field battle by blasting the phalanx with artillery.

The emergence of gunpowder, muskets, ironware, and copper cannons has allowed the nomadic peoples who are still using bones to withdraw from the stage of the historical process ahead of time. The only people to be wary of are the mixed ethnic groups of fishing, hunting and farming. In other words, the focus of attention is farming. Area.

In some frontier forts to the west of Gaoliu, in fact, there are often incidents of farmers going out to plunder, and there are even incidents of attacking their own caravans. Not long ago, a group of them were shot. Being tough and not hesitating for profit, you can't just want the good and not the bad.

The customs of the times have always been like this. Blocking roads, robbery, digging graves, and gathering crowds to fight are not customs brought by the Mohists, but they existed here originally, and they existed until the Han Dynasty.

Especially some people who dared to flee from the fief, how can they be timid.

This makes Gaoliu's folk customs so that almost every family has a gun.Moreover, Gao Liu's embargo on the grassland is mainly cold weapons such as swords and knives, and the control of muskets is very loose.

Guns can't be used without gunpowder, and even nomads can't play muskets that require formation and formation to be useful, unless they can occupy part of the arable line and turn semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic. Seize Yunzhong, Jiuyuan, and Hetao at one time; encourage Qin to go west, all in order to make them have no chance of becoming an empire at all.

The price of arquebus guns is not expensive now. The Mohists still don’t know how to cast larger iron cannons. They can only use expensive bronze or brass cannons. However, they are very skilled at making iron-pipe arquebus guns. A professional blacksmith can make one alone in two months.

The price of a good iron sword and a good set of cloth face armor is far better than that of an arquebus.

Xing'er's family proposed such a dowry because they also considered the concubine's financial ability.

no more, no less.

The concubine Mi is not a soldier serving in the army, but a professional soldier, including some veterans who have served over the age of Sishang.

Xihe military soldiers in Wei State granted land, tax exemption rights and slaves. The Mohists did not implement the military meritorious land system, so they must financially ensure that the income of professional soldiers can be used as the "middle class" in Sishang.

Including Gaoliu, Nanzheng, Sishang and other places of the Mohists, there are about 6 to [-] serving soldiers. The number of professional soldiers is about one-seventh, which is not a lot, but with the financial support personnel of various departments, the number is quite large .

Fortunately, the industry and commerce are developed, Sishang has destroyed the aristocratic class, there are fewer middlemen to earn the difference and directly collect taxes, plus hidden consumption tax and other income, using commodities to suck the blood of the entire Kyushu, and using a completely different method from Wei Guoxihe to support Out of the unique Sishang and more than [-] professional soldiers.

This set of betrothal gifts will take about a year and a half to two years for the concubine to save. In theory, this must require the help of the family, otherwise life will be very difficult.

But it can be made up in the dowry. The dowry of common people is called "bribery".

As for the dowry, the witch can't make the decision, but the latter two mohists who are counted as members of the concubine Mi's family need to make up their minds.After a bit of calculation, it was not very expensive, so I agreed.

Finally, I talked about the time of "Najib". As long as the "Irpur divination, no blame" is achieved, the witch will need to come again to indicate that this matter is over, inform the woman, and tell the wedding date by the way , let the woman get ready.

Normally, you need to come several times, but in order to simplify the process, the civilians really can't come up with so many gifts, so Najib, the appointment, and the application period are all completed on the same day.

(End of this chapter)