Chapter two hundred and eighty seventh old and new rituals (nine)
Common people have no surname or clan, only names.
Moreover, because the text has a process from nothing to something, some non-direct descriptive words that require imagination to understand appear late, so the names of nobles are generally very unpleasant.
This is also true of the names of princes and kings, which are easy to support.
Duke Qing of Jin called Qiji, which translated as "I'm not sick in later generations. I guess I'm almost dead when I was a child.
The Marquis of Jin Jing was called Yijiu, and Yijiu was called a pestle and mortar. He pounded garlic at home. The thing that pounded rice in this era was a common thing at home. It was similar to later generations who named the child a thermos, and the rice cooker was similar.
Jin Chenggong called it black butt, so it would be easier to understand. It must be that there is a birthmark on his butt.
After the ceremony of the ceremony, they signaled that they had grown up. In order to respect, they could not be left with each other, and they would have the words "Black ass" and "Black" yelled.
Just like later generations, names, the name of a child was a name, and the name registered in the household registration book was everyone's character: plus everyone has a surname, it can be regarded as a gentleman and a nobleman in name.
The Mohist family is now in Si Shang. The "grabbing lots and choosing surnames" led by Shi is doing this in advance, striving to see no difference between the nobles in terms of identity: if you do not interfere in this matter, in the end everyone in the Xia Dynasty will have a surname. Because of the cruel intercourse and the choice of mating rights will make it impossible for civilians who have no surnames or clans in this era to leave their descendants after a thousand years.
Si Shang strives to have a woman with a surname and a name, but Si Shang has just done the matter of drawing lots and choosing a surname. Gao Liu is still very early here, so this woman only has a very ordinary name, called "Xinger".
After looking at the woman's birthday, the witch guessed that the girl should have been born when the apricot was ripe. She had known that the girl was called Xing'er, so when she sang "The Plum Blossoms", she used apricots as a metaphor.
Using apricot as a metaphor, that is, girls’ youth are fleeting, and getting married early is better, just like what she wants to express.
Today, 70% of them are still hanging on the tree, tomorrow, 30% are the same. The day after tomorrow, I can only squat on the ground and use a dustpan to pull it. This is the original meaning of the plum blossom.
This song is also during the Shangsi Festival. When girls hate to marry and want to find a partner, they sang songs for a lot of young men. They meant that they should not wait until I turned into a rotten plum, and they fell to the ground. You can use a dustpan to pull it off and marry me quickly.
The opening of the atmosphere of men and women has always been like this. It is still early to go without leaving the door, and it is also early to go when the age of shyness is shy and dare not speak.
So when eating, the girl was wearing the best-looking clothes openly and showing her youthful body in front of everyone with a smile, which was the first to see her husband's family.
Although the person who came from the opposite side was not a relative, he was also considered a family member of the man.
After meeting, we will have a formal meal.
With the popularity of wheat flour and mills, the staple food in Zhaodi also began to become more expensive. Wheat gradually changed from the original cheap food to the expensive food, and squeezed away the original more noble millet and yellow rice.
There are not many kinds of potatoes, buckwheat, oats, corn, and wheat cultivation, but there are still wheat foods to entertain people.
Gao Liu likes to eat sour jealous because after the Mohist family took root here, productivity increased, a large amount of grain entered the commodity market, and the management was loose at the beginning. Many people brewed wine privately because they could be sold to the land for huge profits.
As productivity developed, the trade in cattle, horse and fur and alkali on the Hu people developed, and more wine brewed. As more wine brewed, more vinegar with poor skills became more vinegar. As more vinegar, more people drank.
In ten years, wheat has changed from cheap food to expensive food, and Gaoliu has changed from being jealous to being jealous, all of which have gradually changed.
When the wine was moved, Xing'er's father almost subconsciously said: "Comrades, they are all regular wines, with printed goods, not private wine..."
Although this is a time when Nacai asks for names, there are two Mohist people opposite.
I often eat in the wine shops in Gaoliu City, and from time to time, people will suddenly check the passage of wine. The consumption tax is a large part of the financial income of the Mo family. Since the policy was collected a few years ago, I have been cracking down on private brewing. Many people in Gaoliu have developed a habit: if they are drinking, they will see the Mo family, the first thing they do is to take out the printed bills first.
Not to mention the issue of fines, if you are caught brewing wine in public, criticize it in public and talk about the principle of unity of opposition between public interests and selfish interests, it is often very embarrassing. Such a big man is educated in public by those young men who are tax-checking and fined, which is really unpaid.
Nowadays, many cooperative villages and communities have also planned some slightly larger winemaking workshops based on the cultivation of potatoes. The Mohist family has already relaxed the private control of alcohol, only taxes but not direct sales. Because they have monopoly commodities that are more profitable and have higher unit profits.
Both the price and the quality are more advantageous than those private brewing wines. They focus on one hand and dominate the joint cost reduction, which finally makes Gao Liu's private brewing wines be controlled.
A simple and subconscious answer was that some words that were not available ten years ago, some names that were not used to become natural now made everyone laugh and the atmosphere became much more lively.
By the time the steamed, fermented, and thriving pancakes were served with Hu alkali, the meal had reached its climax.
The male owner, who had already drunk a little, said with a slightly widened tongue: "Two deer skins, two pairs of lambskin boots, two pairs of porcelain bowls, and a medley gun, this is the betrothal gift."
"As a dowry, of course, there must be a car together. Of course, his daughter is in love with him, but the betrothal gift cannot be missed. If he can't take it out, he can borrow it or wait for his family to send it. This is the rule. If it's less, what's the point?"
This meal is just a name, and there is no question about preparing for the wedding, but it is about the issue of betrothal gifts and dowry.
Women have dowry and men have betrothal gifts. This is a tradition in the summer.
Xing'er's parents are emerging industry and businessmen. With the development of woolen production in Gaoliu area and as a specialized trading port for grassland management, their parents can also foresee the gradual prosperity.
The situation of the gang captive Mi was special. His family was in Si Shang, and he could also get a house after Gao Liu got married, but the level of wealth was definitely insufficient.
So Xing'er's parents chose a betrothal gift that is very distinctive to the times and that others will see when they come to their homes in the future.
Two deer-skin, two pairs of lambskin boots, two pairs of porcelain bowls, and a medroop.
There are coal mines and porcelain-burning workshops in Gaoliu. Although the style and quality are far inferior to those in Sishang, they are still much better than the original pottery.
The convex gun is a standard configuration for people near Gaoliu. One is the one who serves every family, the other is the one who goes to the grassland to sell cattle and horses. The third is to hang it at home and look good, indicating that this is the son-in-law's betrothal gift.
As a betrothal gift, the mezzanine is also a distinctive feature of the times at this time.
The development model of Gaoliu area is the same as the feudal system and armed colonization routine when Zhou Gong advanced to the east.
As a large barracks, Gaoliu City is the main force of Gaoliu Army in and around the city, similar to the Chinese people before the Spring and Autumn Period. As the main armed force and the main field army.
Outside Gaoliu City, about two or three hundred households are the main ones. Border forts are built according to the Mohist current "Simplified Star Fort". A large number of young people who have served for three years will be assigned there, fired guns and reclaimed them. The Mohist family provides support for cattle, horses, seeds and iron tools, and border forts are exempted for ten years.
Whether this model is useful does not depend on how strong the people on the grassland are, but on whether the main legions in the city can fight. If you can fight in field, you can maintain it; if you can’t fight in field, you can’t fight in field, and no matter how many methods you can do, it will be useless.
A medium-sized, stationed with two regular companies, four small cannons, and about 800 peasant soldiers, could withstand the siege of more than 10,000 Hu people now, and perhaps even more: because the Hu people had no cannons at this time, just like the Qing Dynasty in later generations, the attacks on cities and villages were based on artillery that was stronger than the Ming army in the later period, and winning field battles was also based on artillery soldiers to break through the square formation.
The emergence of gunpowder, muskets, iron tools and copper cannons can already make nomads who are still using bones withdraw from the stage of the historical process early. Only the mixed groups of fishing, hunting, and farming are left. In other words, the focus of being on guard against is the farming area.
In some border forts west of Gaoliu, there are often incidents of border fort farmers going out to rob, and even attacking their caravans. Not long ago, a group of people were killed - if they want to be so-called pioneering and enterprising, the people are strong and do not care about their own profits, they cannot only use benefits or harm.
The customs of the country have always been like this, blocking the road, robbing, digging graves, and gathering crowds to fight. These are not customs brought by the Mohist school, but one that existed here and has existed until the Han Dynasty.
Especially some people who dare to escape from their fiefdoms, there are no timid people.
This made Gaoliu's folk customs so that almost every family had guns. Moreover, Gaoliu's embargo on the grassland was mainly cold weapons such as swords and swords, and the control of muskets was very loose.
Guns cannot be used without gunpowder, and even nomads cannot play with muskets that require formation and queues to be useful. Unless they can occupy part of the land that can be converted into semi-agricultural and semi-nomad can be considered a threat. This time, the Mohist family seized Yunzhong, Jiuyuan, and Hetao and encouraged Qin to go west, in order to make them have no chance to become an empire at all.
The price of a mesh cannon is not expensive now. The Mo family does not yet cast larger iron cannons, and can only use expensive bronze or brass cannons. However, they are already very skilled in making iron pipe mesh cannons. They are not considered as division of labor arsenals. A professional blacksmith can shoot one alone in two months.
A good iron sword and a good set of cloth armor are far more expensive than a cotspew.
Xing'er's family proposed such a betrothal gift, which was also considered as the financial ability of the gang captain Mi.
Not much, not much.
The sanctioned captive Mi is not a soldier, but a professional soldier. Some veterans who served over the age of Si Shang all use this as their profession.
The Wuzhu in the Xihe Kingdom of Wei was given tax exemption and slaves. The Mo family did not implement the land system for military merits and titles, so they must ensure financially that the income of professional soldiers can be used as the "middle-level" in Si.
The Mohist family included Gaoliu, Nanzheng, Si Shang and other places, and the number of professional soldiers was about one-seventh, not many, but with the financial support staff of various departments, the number was quite large.
Fortunately, industry and commerce were developed, Si Shang destroyed the aristocratic class and lost the middlemen to make a difference and collect taxes directly. In addition, the hidden consumption tax and other income, they used goods to absorb the blood of the entire Jiuzhou, and provided unique Si Shang and more than 10,000 professional soldiers in a completely different way from the Xihe River in Wei State.
This set of betrothal gifts requires about one and a half to two years to save for the prisoner Mi. In theory, this must require family support, otherwise life will be very difficult.
However, it can be made up for the dowry. The dowry of the common people is called "bribe". Bribery and property, which is also called cloth. Cloth is coins and silk is textiles. This is mainly used as dowry.
The betrothal gift was not decided by the witch, but the two Mo people who were considered prisoners of Mi's family needed to make an idea. After that, it was not very expensive, so they agreed.
Finally, I talked about the time for "Naji". As long as I do "the divination of the brute, the body is free of blame", I need to come back to the witch to indicate that the matter is done, inform the woman, and tell the wedding date by the way, so that the woman can prepare for it.
Chapter completed!