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In the main hall, the wedding was held as scheduled.

Under the witness of Cai Yong, Li Dao, Kong Rong and Hua Tuo, five couples visited the church one after another and got married.

They were followed by a chapel ceremony for more than 100 newlyweds, and the scene was spectacular.

Such a large-scale marriage ceremony is the first time in the history of the Han Dynasty, which is the first of its kind and is destined to be widely recited.

As for the praise and disapproval of the rhetoric, there is no way to know at the moment, presumably there are different opinions, each holding the word, and the praise and disapproval are mixed.

However, the old ministers of the court who watched the ceremony in the hall saw many familiar figures from the many brides, but these women were covered with red covers and could not recognize their faces.

Even so, they were still suspicious, and from time to time they looked at Li Li, the general who presided over the wedding, with suspicious eyes and a very wonderful expression.

This situation makes the atmosphere of the whole main hall very strange, and the faces full of doubts are intriguing.

In fact, many of the close ministers of the Son of Heaven had already seen the clue and recognized that half of the more than 100 brides were once young maids and palace concubines in the inner courtyard of the palace. The other part of the women are also from "famous families", although the hundred officials in the court and the central government do not know where they come from, but the civil and military forces under Li Li know very well, because these women were the maids of the general's inner palace and the personal maids of the lords and duchesses.

Today, on the occasion of the wedding of Li Xian, Li Xuan, Guo Jia, Huan Fei and Xu Chu, hundreds of generals under Li Li's command who have not yet married held a wedding together. In fact. This is also Li Li's disguised reward for them.

Since ancient times, it has been customary for superiors to reward their close generals or courtiers who have made great achievements.

At first, Li Li was dismissive. But with the passage of time and out of consideration for the current situation in the army, he was not exempt from vulgarity after all, and gradually accepted the etiquette of giving marriage to the generals under his command. After all, the generals in the army have been fighting abroad all the year round, and most of them are from humble backgrounds, and there are no elders to arrange marriages for them, so that they are still alone after many years of fighting.

In the Xiliang Army, this situation is not uncommon. Because most of the generals under Li Li were from poor backgrounds, there were not many generals who really came from big families or the noble class. So, without the elders of the family to arrange the marriage for them. When many generals are idle, they often go in and out of the land of fireworks and willow lanes, find a singer and dancer at random to vent, and then go out with the army.

That's why. The early Western Liang Army was notorious and notorious. Every time a city is captured, there will be a lot of forcible seizure of people's daughters, adultery, plunder, and misconduct. However, Dong Zhuo, the commander of the army at that time, turned a deaf ear to this and laughed it off, so that everywhere the Xiliang army went, it was a mess, and many women from good families were ravaged. Afterwards, many young women became pregnant, but they did not know who their husband's family was. The bitterness of its fate is self-evident.

In view of this, since Li Li took over the Xiliang Army. Vigorously rectify military discipline, strictly prohibit the recurrence of the abduction of women, once verified, immediately beheaded. At the same time, when Li Li pacified the four counties of the Western Regions, he vigorously promoted the measures of his soldiers to marry Qiang women and prisoners of war, and promised tens of thousands of women to be married to his soldiers as wives, and encouraged Qiang women to marry Han people, and also formulated incentives for this. It is precisely because of the implementation of these measures that the evil habit of wanton plundering by the officers and men of the whole army has been completely eradicated, thus winning the strong support of the majority of officers and men and stabilizing the morale of the army.

It was also from that time that Li Li realized that in addition to winning people's hearts, the marriage of the superior was also a last resort. After all, the army fights all year round or guards the border, and ordinary soldiers can't get in touch with women of the right age at all, let alone love each other, which is the so-called free love. Therefore, many soldiers are married by their parents and clan elders, and if their parents are sick or have long passed away, then these soldiers can only start a family on their own.

And less than half of the soldiers who really relied on their own strength to start a family and start a business, and the rest of the soldiers could only fight singles, and with the salary, they went to the Qinglou to live happily all night, and then they were still singles, and one day they died on the battlefield. This phenomenon is by no means an isolated case, but a common phenomenon, so that after many soldiers die on the battlefield, they do not even have a single relative to collect their bodies, let alone wives and children.

Therefore, Li Li has done such a large-scale marriage giving thing as today. To this day, there are 80,000 soldiers who have been married by his order, and tens of thousands of families have been formed because of his command. Sometimes, Li Li himself feels that this is absurd and inhumane, and forcibly matches tens of thousands of soldiers and school-age women, so that the hastily formed family is doing and whether it can become a warm family, there is no way to know.

But one thing is certain, and that is that all the soldiers he ordered to marry were absolutely loyal to him. As for whether the family is doing well or not, it doesn't seem to matter, the important thing is that there is no "divorce". Because in this era, only men can divorce their wives, which is the so-called "divorce", and it is impossible for women to divorce. Even if the relationship between husband and wife is not harmonious, it really can't go on, as long as the man doesn't write a letter of resignation, he has to grit his teeth and persevere. There is no other choice.

Over time, a very unusual phenomenon has formed in the Xiliang army, whether it is a general or an ordinary soldier, they all hope to be married by the lord, as if only the lord gives marriage, they can live happily. At the same time, it seems that only the wife who has been married by his lord is the best and the most beautiful, and is much favored by the soldiers and regarded as a treasure. Nowadays, this phenomenon is becoming more and more common, so that Li Xuan, Guo Jia, Huan Fei and others are not exempt from vulgarity, and they have to ask the lord to consult the lord when they marry a wife, and ask Li Li to witness their marriage. And all the women who Li Li witnesses marriage must be wives, and the generals are like this, and the same is true for the soldiers, even if the wives are of humble origin or average appearance.

I have to say that this is all the fault of the cult of personality, and it is also the embodiment of the supreme power position of the superior. This was the case thousands of years ago, and the so-called modern society is still the same thousands of years later, where power has always exuded an incomparable light, and no one can ignore its existence.

In the main hall of the Zhennan General's Mansion, when the wedding ceremony of hundreds of people was completed, Li Li walked to the upper seat and sat down.

With his current status, who dares to let him preside over the wedding in person, it is already very face-saving to invite him to show up. However, today's grand wedding was officiated by Li Li himself, for no other reason, because it was the wedding of his younger brother Li Xian. He and Li Xian are brothers, and their parents died early, so the so-called eldest brother is the father, and it is his duty as the elder brother to take care of the marriage of his younger brother Li Xian.

In addition, Li Wei is their brother's uncle, and even if Li Li is in a high position, he cannot sit side by side with his uncle at his brother's wedding. Therefore, he simply presided over the wedding in person, which not only showed his trust in the generals under his command, but also avoided sitting at the same table with his father-in-law Cai Yong and uncle Li Dao, which violated the etiquette system. The best of both worlds, why not!

After the worship ceremony was over, Li Li took a sip of hot tea to moisten his throat while observing the faces of the hundreds of officials in the hall.

After seeing the suspicious expressions of the hundreds of officials in the hall, the corners of Li Li's mouth twitched slightly, and an unfathomable smile appeared on his face. He knew what these old ministers were thinking, but he saw some clues from the married women just now, and suspected that these women were all palace concubines in the royal inner court. This is exactly the case, the officials are not mistaken, more than 60 of the more than 100 women who have just been married in the church are palace concubines. It's just that these palace concubines have been serving as maids in Yiwu for more than two years, and now they are all married to generals in the army in the name of maids in the general's mansion.

Obviously, these women were some of the innocent palace concubines dismissed by Li Li during the Chang'an Rebellion when he renovated the palace. At that time, there were thousands of palace maids dismissed, and a large part of them had been distributed to the military generals of the Xiliang Army as wives and concubines, and only a small number of young but homeless girls remained in Yiwu as maids. Now these girls are all young and handsome, and when the Xiliang Army won the Eastern Expedition, Li Lili should reward the generals in the army, so there is the feat of hundreds of generals marrying together.

The only difference is that this time these former palace concubines were given to the wives of the Xiliang people, but they were unabashedly and married in public, unlike the last time they secretly rewarded beauties in Yiwu. There is a deep doorway between the light and the dark, and to put it simply, it used to need to be covered up, but now it is carried out with great fanfare, and there is no need to hide it anymore. What does this mean, presumably the officials in the hall already know it in their hearts, but no one will say it in public, but it can only be understood but not spoken, because now is not the best time to pick out everything. If anyone does not know the importance of the matter, or directly interrogates Li Li, then there is no room for the current situation to turn around.

And this is precisely the deepest taboo of the officials, because they are not ready to deal with emergencies, and they can't control the bad situation after they are singled out. Therefore, they could only pretend to be deaf and dumb at this time, pretending not to know, but they already knew Li Li's attitude clearly.

"Time is not coming, the Han Dynasty is about to change, and if you don't take action, you can only sit and wait for death!" This was the unanimous thought of the officials after observing the ceremony.

In the afternoon, when the hundreds of officials of the court and the guests who came to congratulate were feasting on the feast, a group of civil ministers and military generals of the Xiliang Army had quietly left the Zhennan General's Mansion and entered the General's Mansion through the west gate.

This is also the reason why the generals drank heartily early in the morning, because they had already received the general's order, and in the afternoon, the commander's mansion would order the generals, the army would be reorganized, the generals of each battalion would be rotated again, and three new main battalions would be added.

Therefore, when the wedding banquet began, all the generals of the Xiliang Army who were ordered to come to Chang'an came to the main hall of the General's Mansion one after another, even more than 100 groom officials such as Li Xian, Li Xuan and Guo Jia were no exception, and they all came to the main hall to discuss matters.

It is not difficult to see from this that this Shuaifu point will be a matter of importance, and it is directly related to the general trend of the Xiliang Army in the next ten years. And this is what Li Li once mentioned to Zhou Yu, "Regroup and fight again!" ”

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