Gan Qi is now rebellious, and his wife is not without opinions, but after a little inquiry, Gan Qi is furious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although the family and social status of women in the Han Dynasty was higher than that of all dynasties after the Tang Dynasty, the husband could only have the final say on the marriage of children. When Lu Gong married his daughter to Liu Bang, he didn't discuss it with Lu Yuan, so Lu Yuan asked: "Why do you want to be with Liu Ji?" Lu Gong reprimanded him: "This is not known to the sons and daughters." Then Liu Bang, a little gangster, got married. Of course, Lu Gong's vision is indeed accurate, and the Lu Hou family has been in power for a while, although it has not lasted long, but it has finally been enjoyed. More than 20 years ago, Cangwu was too Shou Gangong, and when his wife did not agree, he promised his daughter to Tao Qian. At that time, Tao Qian was also a gangster, and Shi Zai rode a bamboo horse to play, and the children in the city followed, haha, it's fun.

As for Ganqi's daughter, she was raised in the boudoir in the past, and she had the knowledge and courage to fight against her father, who was like the sky, so she could only make promises and follow her father's master.

Gan Qi also has no choice, Liu Hong died too early, and his family situation is so bad that he can only barely maintain it, I heard that Lou Sang's Liu family is also not as good as a year, and the Liu family is really not worthy of the thriving Gan family. Otherwise, how could he have done such a repetitive act? Isn't it reluctant for your daughter to marry and suffer? Fortunately, it was only a verbal appointment at the beginning, and Liu Hong did not take the initiative to exchange marriage letters.

Nowadays, it is popular in society that a rich man marries a rich wife, and a woman also gets a rich man. The Liu family is so poor, what kind of dowry can they get? Chen Ping, the prime minister of the year, couldn't marry a daughter-in-law when his family was poor. Gan Qi didn't want her daughter to marry aggrievedly, thus becoming a joke.

According to historical records, the Eastern Han Dynasty attached great importance to the culture of bride money, dowry and banquets, and the social impact of this extravagant and wasteful atmosphere was very bad. Of course, this bad atmosphere is driven by the royal family. After the emperor was established, the dowry was 20,000 catties of gold and 20,000 yuan for money. Take a concubine, madam, and the bride price is nearly 40 million. This is just the bride price, not other expenses.

So the princes, kings, and ministers below all did the same. Noble relatives and close relatives, extravagant, married to the end, especially extravagant. Later, Dong Zhuo married a wife, took a hundred chariots, twenty horses, and slaves and maids to fill the road. With the luxury car fleet of later generations, it is like putting countless cash, full of local tyrant appearance. If something is good at the top, it will be bad at the bottom, and this bad atmosphere has also affected the ordinary people. The emperor's dowry is 20,000 catties of gold, the princes and kings are 200 catties of gold, which is 2 million catties, and the high-ranking officials and relatives, wealthy businessmen, and powerful landlords are millions or hundreds of thousands of dollars, so what about the ordinary small and medium-sized landlords and small and medium-sized officials? According to history, the dowry is about tens of thousands to more than 100,000 yuan, while the dowry of ordinary people and handicraftsmen is more than 10,000 yuan or tens of thousands of yuan. This is just the bride price, and the other expenses are not counted.

Look at the officials at this time, the third prince is a 10,000 stone official, with a salary of about 100,000 yuan a year, and at the level of Taishou, 2,000 stone officials, the annual salary is almost 50,000 yuan, so let's not talk about the following. Gan Qi is a county magistrate of a large county, a thousand-stone official, and everyone counts how much his salary is a year. Think about it, isn't it too abnormal for this dowry to be so high beyond the official's salary? Like the housing prices of later generations, they are inflated.

What is the impact of this bad culture? It is that many men and women of appropriate age have no way to carry out normal marriage, and on the other hand, it also limits the growth of the population in the Han Dynasty. According to history, in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many people in Jiuzhen County could not afford to marry because of the bride price, and they were all single singles. After Ren Yan was the nine true guards, he ordered the officials below the chief to save money to help him, so he married more than 2,000 people at the same time. This kind of official is really the conscience of a big man. Of course, not only the common people were affected, but also some officials could not marry wives because of too much dowry. Ma Zishuo, who served as the captain of Langan in Tianshui County after Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo, is Ma Teng's father, Ma Chao's grandfather, such a person, he couldn't marry a wife because his family was poor and had no retainer, and finally married a Qiang woman as his wife. This is why Ma Teng and Ma Chao are in Liangzhou and can be mixed among the Qiang people. There is also a petty official Zhanyun, whose family is surrounded by walls, and his income is meager, and when he is fifty years old, he has not yet married a wife, and in the end, his boss came forward to ask his colleagues to help him, and only then did he make up enough dowry......

Gan Qi is now the official of the seal of a county, and of course he is afraid of others gossiping, so the first time he regretted his marriage was a verbal agreement, and he couldn't do it without a marriage certificate. made it clear that he didn't want to admit this family business. As for what Mrs. Liu said that Liu Hong had so many colleagues at the scene that day, it was because Mrs. Liu didn't know the truth that people in the officialdom went to tea and cool. A dead man, and a living county magistrate, do you need to ask anyone? Of course, it is inevitable that the kind of self-righteous fool is stunned. Gan Qi is also afraid of this kind of person. So the second time, he directly said that the Liu family wanted to cling to the Gan family. I heard that the Liu family is also good-looking, you are not afraid that others will say that you will continue to make trouble. Of course, it is best for the Liu family to retreat. The two settled peacefully. He also did not hesitate to fund some of the Liu family's property. The daughter is so young and beautiful, how can she be cheap for the Liu family? When this matter subsides, his daughter is still worried about getting married?

In fact, Gan Qi also regretted it a little. After all, Liu Bei has become famous recently, and he has heard a lot. Even worshipping famous teachers, and quite creative in learning. It is not without potential. It's just that Liu Bei wants to get ahead, when do you have to wait? Five years, ten years? There are tens of thousands of students in the Han Dynasty, and the empire has never lacked talents. It is even more difficult for the disciples of the cold sect to soar into the sky. He Ganqi can't wait that long, and what the future holds, is too elusive. So Gan Qi chose to be safe instead of gambling on a future. Moreover, he already has a good son-in-law. The other party seems to have this meaning too. Therefore, I can only be sorry for the Liu family.

After Liu Bei understood the situation here, he was immediately so angry that the three corpse gods jumped violently, and there was smoke in the seven orifices. Okay, you're a Ganqi, it's just treachery, I just don't think there is such a thing, there are so many beauties in the world waiting for me to take over, who cares if your daughter marries or not? But you deliberately made things difficult in the front, insulted my Liu family in the back, and the most unbearable thing was to put my mother's relatives sick in bed. If my mother has a good one, see that I don't destroy you!

Liu Bei's heart was full of anger and anger, and Liu Gong beside him also felt it, thinking to himself, where did this kid come from with such a bad spirit? Thinking of Liu Bei going south with Lu Zhi to quell the rebellion last year, he knew it in his heart.

Liu Bei, who had a black face, asked Liu Gong: "Uncle, my nephew is still young, why is my mother so anxious about my marriage?" I haven't even done the crown yet! ”

Liu Gong's face was casual: "Crown ceremony? If you hadn't been studying abroad for the past two years, you would have done your crown ceremony this year. ”

Liu Bei was stunned: "No, isn't it going to be twenty years old?" Liu Bei always remembered that the scriptures he read were all about the crown, and the beginning of the ceremony was also the man with twenty crowns.

Liu Gong tilted his eyes and looked Liu Bei up and down: "Wulang, where have you read all these books?" You scholars also say that a man marries at thirty and a woman marries at twenty, so that it is fifty, and what should be the number of great extensions? Are you planning to marry until you're 30? Pedantic! I can tell you, even if you can wait until you are thirty years old, Eleven Lang can't! ”

In fact, Liu Bei entered a misunderstanding, and always thought that what the book said was right. In fact, many people don't take some of the things advocated by Han Confucianism seriously at all. In the "Book of Rites", it is said that a man is thirty strong and has a room, and a woman is twenty strong and marries, and "White Tiger Tongyi" explains this sentence: "Men marry at thirty, and women marry at twenty?" The yang number is odd, and the yang number is even...... The man is thirty strong, and he is a father; The female twenty is full of skin and is a mother. Fifty should be the number of great extensions, and all things will be born. "In the Han Empire, from the emperor to the common people, no one took it seriously, and neither did Confucianism itself. As for the crown ceremony, in addition to the emperor and the princes and kings, there are also many people who perform the crown ceremony in advance for various reasons. I always know that our Han ancestors will be very flexible.

So when was it generally possible to get married in the Han Dynasty? Just look at how the imperial court collects taxes. The population tax is collected as follows: "The people pay from the fifteenth to the fifty-sixth in the year of the people." ”；“ From the age of 7 to 14, the people are given money for exports. "It's clear here that one is a poll tax for adults and the other is a tax for minors. It can be seen that in the official minds of the Han Dynasty, men and women can be regarded as adults as soon as they reach the age of fifteen. And "if a woman is over fifteen to thirty years old and does not marry, five counts." "If a girl is not married between the ages of fifteen and thirty, the tax will be doubled. It can be seen from this that there are basically a lot of girls who marry around the age of fifteen. Of course, the royal concubines were established even earlier, they were generally elected to the palace at the age of twelve or thirteen, and then one day when the emperor took a fancy to them, they were established as nobles, or concubines, or even queens. For example, Emperor Shun's queen Dou family, who is twelve years old in history, can belong to the literature, and is favored by the court with talent. Ban Zhao, who is famous in history, also married Uncle Cao Shi at the age of fourteen.

In the case of men, they are about fifteen to eighteen years old, and they get married. Of course, there are also those who keep the ancient rites until after twenty or thirty, after all, not the majority. Look at the royal family, the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty, except for Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, the others are almost between fourteen and eighteen years old; Not to mention the Eastern Han Dynasty, except for Emperor Ming and Emperor Zhang, Emperor He was fourteen years old; An Di was nineteen years old; Emperor Shun was fourteen years old; Emperor Huan was sixteen years old, and his son was fourteen years old today. Tao Qian was fourteen years old, Cao Pi was less than sixteen years old, Zhuge Zhan was seventeen years old, and Liu Bei's cheap son Liu Chan Shizai was only fifteen years old when he got married......

Seeing his uncle say this, Liu Bei didn't dare to propose that he was going to marry later and have children later. In fact, he doesn't care, anyway, his body has matured, and his psychology is an uncle in his early thirties. Just let him marry a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, he always felt a little unable to do it, and felt that he was too shameless? Moreover, Brother Cao's eldest son Cao Ang was born next year, Sun Jian's eldest son Xiaobawang Sun Ce was born last year, and Lao Cao and Lao Sun were both born in the first year of Yongshou (155 AD), so they also got married around nineteen or twenty. Why do you have to advance yourself?

He didn't want to think that the Cao family and the Sun family were both parents, and they were also official eunuchs. Naturally, the marriage can be brewed slowly. But he himself is in the absence of his father, and the family conditions are not good. Naturally, it's no wonder that his mother is in a hurry. And Liu also knows her physical condition, although she is now full of food and clothing, but after all, she has hurt her vitality, and she may not be able to hold it one day, what she is most anxious about and most concerned about is the marriage of her son Liu Bei. After giving her son a family, she will die without regrets, and she can calmly go to Jiuquan to meet Liu's ancestors and deceased husband.