Chapter 287: New Customs and Old Rituals (9)

Civilians have no surname, no name, only a first name.

And because there is a process of writing from scratch, and some non-directly descriptive words that require imagination to understand appear late, the names of the nobility are generally difficult to hear.

This is also true of the names of the princes and kings, and the names of the princes are easy to feed.

Jin Qinggong called to go to the disease, which is translated into the future life is not sick, and it is estimated that he should have had a serious illness when he was a child and almost died.

The Marquis of Jin Jing is called Yijiu, Yijiu is the pestle mortar, the garlic pounded at home, the thing that cooks rice in this era, this is a common thing at home, similar to the name of the child in later generations, the kettle, the rice cooker.

Jin Chenggong is called black buttocks, black buttocks are better understood, there must be a birthmark on the buttocks.

After the crown ceremony, it is indicated that it is an adult, and for the sake of respect, it is impossible to bark at each other, black belly, etc., and there are words.

Just like later generations, the name and name, the cheap name when I was a child is the name, and the name registered in the household registration book is everyone's word: plus everyone has a surname, it can be regarded as a gentleman and a nobleman in the name.

The Mo family is now in Sishang, and the matter of "grabbing lots to choose surnames" led by Shi Shi is doing this in advance, striving to be indistinguishable from the nobles in terms of identity: this matter does not interfere, and in the end everyone in Zhuxia will have a surname, because the cruel choice of mating and matching power will make it impossible for commoners without surnames and names in this era to leave descendants after a thousand years.

Sishang strives for women to have a surname, but Sishang has just done it again by drawing lots to choose a surname, and it is still very early here in Takayanagi, so this woman only has a very common name, called "Xing'er".

After looking at the woman's birthday, he guessed that the girl should have been born when the apricots were ripe. She already knew that this girl's name was Xing'er, so when she sang "You Mei" before, she used apricots as an analogy.

Using apricots as an analogy, that is, to say that girls are fleeting, and it is better to marry early, which is exactly what she wants to express.

Today, seventy percent is still hanging on the tree, and tomorrow is thirty percent, and the day after tomorrow can only squat on the ground and pull it with a dustpan, which is the original meaning of Youmei.

This song is also the time of the Shangsi Festival, when girls hate to marry and want to find a partner, they sing a song to a large number of young men, which means don't wait for me to become rotten plums and fall to the ground, and then you use a dustpan to pull it, and marry me quickly.

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

So when it was time to eat, the girl wore the best clothes generously, and showed her youthful body in front of everyone with a smile, which was regarded as a seer to see her husband's family.

Although it was not a relative on the other side, it was also the man's family.

After the meeting, it is time to have a formal meal.

With the popularization of wheat flour and mills, the staple food of Zhaodi also began to be more expensive than wheat, and wheat gradually changed from the original cheap food to expensive food, and squeezed out the original more noble millet and rhubarb rice.

There are many kinds of potatoes, buckwheat, oats, and corn north of Takayanagi, and there are not too many wheat growers, but if you want to entertain people to eat, you still have to eat wheat.

Takayanagi likes to eat sour vinegar, because after the Mo family took root here, productivity increased, a large amount of grain entered the commodity market, and the management was loose at first, and many people made wine privately, because they could sell it to Hudi for huge profits.

With the development of productive forces, the trade in cattle, horse, fur and alkali on the Hu people's side developed, and there was more wine. The more wine is brewed, the more vinegar that is not well crafted, and the more vinegar there is, the more people who drink it.

In ten years, wheat has changed from cheap food to expensive food, and Takayanagi has changed from not being jealous to liking jealousy, all of which are slowly changing.

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

Although this was the occasion for Na Cai to ask for his name, there were two people from the Mo family opposite.

Consumption tax is a large part of the Mo family's financial revenue, and it has been cracking down on moonshine since a few years ago, and many Takayanagi people have developed a habit: if they are drinking, the first thing they do when they see the Mo family is to take out the printed bills first.

Not to mention the issue of fines, if the moonshiner is really arrested, it is often very embarrassing to criticize it in public and talk about a bunch of contradictions and unity between public interests and private interests. Such a big person is educated in public by those hairy boys who check taxes and have to be fined, and it is really not worth it.

Nowadays, many cooperative villages and communities have also set up some slightly larger wine-making workshops on the basis of planting potatoes, and the Mo family has liberalized the private control of alcohol, only taxing and not directly selling. Because there are monopoly goods in their hands that are more profitable and have higher unit profits.

Both in terms of price and quality, it has an advantage over those moonshiners. With one hand and the other hand leading the joint cost reduction, Takayanagi's moonshine was finally controlled.

A simple subconscious answer, some words that didn't exist ten years ago, and some names that were not once available but are now accustomed to nature, made everyone laugh, and the atmosphere became much more lively.

By the time the steamed, fermented, and Xuanhu cookcakes were served, the meal had reached its climax.

The man, who had already drunk a little, said with a slightly wide tongue: "Two deerskins, two pairs of lambskin boots, two pairs of porcelain bowls, and an arquebus, this is the dowry." ”

"The dowry, of course, is a lot, and there must be a car together, of course my daughter hurts, but the dowry is indispensable. If he can't take it out, he can borrow it or wait for it to be sent at home, it is indispensable, this is the rule. No less, like what? ”

This meal is only a question of names, and it is not enough to talk about the preparation of the wedding, but it is necessary to talk about the dowry.

Women have a dowry and men have a dowry, which is a Zhuxia tradition.

Xing'er's parents were new industrialists and businessmen, and with the development of woolen production in the Takayanagi area and the use of the grassland as a franchised port for mutual markets, the parents could also foresee a gradual prosperity.

The situation of the captive is special, the family is in Sishang, and after Takayanagi gets married, he can also get a house, but when it comes to the abundance of money, it is definitely insufficient.

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

Two deerskins, two pairs of boots made of lambskins, two pairs of porcelain bowls, and an arquebus.

There are coal mines in Gaoyanagi, and there are also porcelain workshops, although the style and quality are far inferior to those in Sishang, but they are still much better than the original pottery.

The arquebus is the standard configuration of the people's homes near Takayanagi, one is to serve in the family, and the other is to go out to the grassland to sell cattle and horses, which is also necessary, and the third is to hang it at home to look good, indicating that this is the son-in-law's dowry.

The arquebus, as a dowry, is also a distinctive feature of the times at this time.

The development model of the Gaoliu region is the same as the routine of the Zhou Gong's eastern expedition to divide the feudal system and armed colonization.

As a large barracks, Takayanagi Castle is the main force of the Takayanagi Army in and near the city, similar to the Chinese before the Spring and Autumn Period, as the main armed force, the main field corps.

Outside Gaoliu City, a place suitable for cultivation and reclamation, there are about two or three hundred households as the main body, and the border fort is built according to the current "simple star fort" of the Mo family, and a large number of young people who have served for three years will be assigned there, and the guns and reclamation will be given by the Mo family, and the Mo family will give support to cattle and horses, seeds, and iron tools, and the border fort will be tax-free for ten years.

Whether this mode is good or not depends not on how strong the people on the grassland are, but on whether the main army in the city can fight. If the field can be fought, it can be maintained; Field battles cannot be fought, and no amount of means is useless.

A medium-sized border fort with two regular companies, four small cannons, and about 800 peasant soldiers can withstand the siege of more than 10,000 Hu people now, and maybe even more: because the Hu people had no artillery at this time, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, the siege of the city relied on artillery stronger than the Ming army in the later period, and the victory in the field battle also relied on artillery to open the phalanx.

The appearance of gunpowder, muskets, iron tools, and copper cannons has made the nomads who were still using bones at this time withdraw from the stage of the historical process in advance, and only the mixed groups of fishing, hunting and agriculture to be guarded against are left, in other words, the focus of vigilance is the farmable area.

In some border forts west of Takayanagi, in fact, there are often border fort farmers who go out to loot, and there are even attacks on their own caravans, and a group of them have just been shot not long ago - if you want the so-called pioneering spirit, the people's customs are strong, and you don't hesitate to do anything for profit, you can't just want the good, not the bad.

The culture of the land has always been like this, blocking the road and robbing, digging graves, and gathering crowds to fight, which are not customs brought by the Mo family, but originally existed here, and originally existed until the Han Dynasty.

In particular, some of the people who dared to flee from the fiefdom were a few timid.

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

Guns can't be used without gunpowder, and even if there are nomads, they can't play with muskets that require formations and queues to be useful, unless they can occupy part of the arable line and turn into semi-farming and semi-nomadic herding, and the Mo family this time seized Yunzhong, Jiuyuan, and Hetao; The instigation of the Qin state to the west was all so that they had no chance of becoming an empire at all.

The price of arquebuses is not expensive now, and the Mo family will not cast larger iron cannons now, so they can only use expensive bronze or brass cannons, but they are already very skilled in making iron pipe arquebuses, not counting the arsenal of the division of labor, and a professional blacksmith can make one alone in two months.

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

Xing'er's family proposed such a dowry, also considering the financial ability of the captive.

Not much, no less.

Shu prisoners are not serving soldiers, but professional soldiers, including some veterans who are over-age in Sishang.

The Wei state's Xihe military pawns, tax exemptions, and slaves, and the Mo family, without engaging in the military merit land system, had to financially ensure that the income of professional soldiers could be used as the "middle class" of Sishang.

The Mo family counted more than 50,000 or 60,000 service soldiers in Gaoliu, Nanzheng, Sishang and other places, and the number of professional soldiers was about one-seventh, which was not very much, but with the addition of those financial support personnel of various departments, the number was quite a lot.

Fortunately, industry and commerce were developed, Sishang ruined the aristocracy, and the aristocracy was less middlemen to earn the difference, directly collecting taxes, plus hidden consumption taxes and other income, sucking the blood of the entire Kyushu with goods, and in a completely different way from the Xihe of Wei State, Sishang and more than 10,000 professional soldiers were raised.

This set of dowry costs about one and a half to two years of time for the captive, and theoretically this must need the help of the family, otherwise life will be very difficult.

But the dowry can be made up, the dowry of the common people is called "bribe", bribe, property is also called cloth, cloth is money, silk is textiles, mainly as a dowry.

When it comes to the dowry, the witch can't be the master, but the last two ink writers who are counted as the captives of the Mi family need to make up their minds. After some calculation, it was not very expensive, so I agreed.

Finally, he talked about the time of "Najib", as long as he did "Erbul Zheng and no blame", then he needed to come again, signaled that this matter was done, informed the woman, and told the marriage date by the way, so that the woman could get ready.

Normally, it takes several trips, but in order to simplify the process, civilians really can't get so many gifts, so Najib, the next hiring, and the invitation date are all completed on the same day.

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