Chapter 173 Marriage is never easy "Papapa......
The streets of Fumin Street, Minqiang Street, Pine Forest, and Binhe Street in Quanjiazhuang Town are full of firecrackers, and these firecrackers, which have been banned in later generations, were purchased by Quanxu at the price of the bottom.Tens of thousands of firecrackers began to be lit one after another, and the entire family town was plunged into gunsmoke.Adults, children, and people danced excitedly around the firecrackers.These firecrackers were set off for more than two quarters of an hour, and then they slowly stopped, and the whole town of Quanjiazhuang was plunged into a sea of red, and the red cannon skins, like snow, were scattered everywhere.As the sound of the cannons stopped, the children rushed to the pile of cannons, looking everywhere for firecrackers that had not exploded.Lu Xiangsheng was faintly distressed: "How much does this cost?"
”In Quan Xu's words, there are not many of them, that is, half a bed.More than 300 carpenter masters such as Guo Fugui joined hands to build, and it took nearly half a year to build the golden silk nanmu thousand-worker stepping bed, which was sold at a sky-high price of 18.88 million yuan in later generations.Of course, this bed is not used to sleep, but is used by local tyrants to collect.As the sound of firecrackers ended, the sound of gongs and drums gradually weakened.Quan Xu picked up the iron horn again and looked at the people: "Fathers and fellow villagers, guests and friends, squires, businessmen, Quanjiazhuang Town has developed well this year, it is more energetic and hopeful than any surrounding state and county, and a vibrant and hopeful place must have a future."
Our grain has been harvested, all of us don't have to worry about going hungry again, our kiln factory has produced tens of millions of bricks and tiles, we are working hard to build houses to protect us from the wind and rain, our blacksmith workshop has made tens of thousands ......of pressurized water wells, and there are enough to count countless fertile fields in the Daimyo Mansion alone" Until this time, Lu Xiangsheng finally understood that Quan Xu spent a lot of money to hold a group wedding for the villagers, attracting people from all over the world to come to watch the ceremony, free wine, food, and new clothes......
It turned out that Quanxu was advertising on it.Quan Xu talked on the stage about the industrial production capacity of Quanjiazhuang Town, as well as the external sales price, how much discount there will be, etc., but when Quan Xu was promoting his advertisement, he added the discounts from time to time, so that people didn't dare to miss a word.Although he did not take the lifter, Quan Xu took the way of manpower relay, Quan Xu said a word, and practiced it.Quan Xu's investment in this group wedding seems to be very large, but it is really not big.The largest of them is a house, but whether it is a prefabricated house or a brick house, the cost is actually very low.The main reason is that the kiln factory is his, and now the craftsmen of the kiln factory spend about 6,800 taels per month, including the salaries of craftsmen, masters, and stewards, as well as the food, drink and Lazar of the workers.The per capita salary is about one or three cents of silver.But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this already belonged to the high-paid people, but the kiln factory produced about 60 million bricks and tiles every month, and the average labor cost of a brick and tile was about one or two more silver, that is, ten bricks and tiles, which was equivalent to a penny.Ordinary farmers cost the same size of the courtyard, and the cost of bricks and tiles alone needs twenty or thirty taels of silver, but the production cost of Quanxu is about ten taels, which is nearly half cheaper.As for prefabricated houses, the price is cheaper.Quan Xu's speech is similar to the work report, which is to tell everyone how much grain has been produced in Quanjiazhuang Town this year, how much money can be earned by non-Zhuang households in a month, how much grain can be earned, how many sets of new clothes can be received, and so on.Ordinary people don't understand things that are too profound, but the numbers are very intuitive.Quanxu is not only advertising businessmen, but also attracting high-quality talents.The development of Quanjiazhuang Town has actually fallen into a bottleneck.He can use the Liaodong people who are fierce and good at riding and archery to arm into an army, but there is no way to solve some problems, such as the strength of the teachers of the Golden Ladder Academy.When Quan Xu announced that teachers like Niu Jinxing and Sun Zuwang could get ten taels of silver every month, share a house, and have 30 catties of meat, 60 catties of white flour, and 50 catties of rice every month.The talents who were in the audience suddenly became sour."
What kind of thing, if you don't learn and don't know how to do it, you dare to mislead people's children, I'll go, I'll be strong with them!"
At the same time, they were thinking in their hearts, should they try their luck with Quan Ye?
At the same time, Quan Xu announced on the stage that the Jinti Academy in Quanjiazhuang Town would expand in the future, and when it was established with 26 classes and more than 800 students, the audience began to boil again.From how much money can be taken by various craftsmen, masters, small masters, and apprentices every month, and how much food is left, plus the appearance of those newlyweds.The people who came to watch the ceremony were all alive with their hearts.Quan Xu has built many roads and given money to many lonely and widowed old people.As soon as he said how many good things he had done with the money, the people all cheered loudly, and the applause was like a tide, interrupting Quan Xu's speech several times.Lu Xiangsheng, who was standing in the audience, sighed slightly, these ordinary people respect and love Quan Xu from the bottom of their hearts."
Next year may be even more difficult, and natural disasters may befall us, but I believe that as long as we all work together, no matter how big the difficulties can be overcome!"
Quan Xu continued: "There is no way for the collective to show any customs of welcoming and receiving relatives.However, each bride sat in a sedan chair, and the groom rode a horse, and for this collective wedding, Quan Xu rented the entire daimyo's mansion, including the surrounding sedan chairs.The groom rides a horse, the bride sits in a sedan chair, and a new couple begins to parade through the streets.The crowd cheered and jumped around this huge procession.As the newlyweds start from the wedding scene in the easternmost part of Minqiang Street, go all the way south to west, enter the intersection of Minqiang Street and Fumin Street, and then go south, walk along Fumin Street to Binhe Street, and walk from Binhe Street to the wedding site.Quan Xu ran down from the stage and came to Lu Xiangsheng's side: "Lord Lu, how is it, let's be lively!"
”Lu Xiangsheng nodded slowly: "It's very lively!"
”"By the way, I am going to ship the tax grain tomorrow, a total of 18,000 stone of wheat, and the task will be completed!"
According to the regulations, Quanxu only needs to pay 15,000 stone of grain.But Lu Xiangsheng asked for corn and potatoes, Quan Xu was really sorry.Corn is dried at least 30 to 40 percent of its moisture, and as for potatoes, it's even more.Lu Xiangsheng looked at Quan Xu and said, "Are you going to plant winter wheat?"
”"yes!"
Lu Xiangsheng finally sighed and said: "If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world, and now the rest of the Daimyo's Mansion is still very poor, this is not good, you have to think of a way." ”Quan Xu looked at Wang Yulang, Li Shan, Zhao Deyou, Liu Defa and other security chiefs of the Daimyo Mansion behind Lu Xiangsheng, and suddenly understood: "What does Lord Lu mean, to run a collective farm?"
”"Yes, there is an idea!"
In the past, when Quan Xu had just arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, Wang Yulang and the others still looked down on Quan Xu, a foreigner, and before he arrived in just one year, Quan Xu needed all their daimyo locals to look up to."
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Quan Xu said: "Let's hold a wedding today, everyone eat and drink well, let's talk about it in detail later, this is not a matter of one sentence or two sentences!"
”"Yes, yes!""
The six arts of Confucianism, etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics.Farmers have six arts, they can farm, fertilize, dig ditches, build mausoleums, build cities, and fight.In fact, don't brag that Da Mao is a fighting nation, the Han people are a real fighting nation.The bridegroom had a bow and arrows, but of course there were no arrows, otherwise he would have died."
The first arrow shoots into the sky, thank God for the good fate, pray that God will bless the newlyweds with happiness and safety, and the second arrow shoots the ground, wishing the newlyweds happiness and longevity!
The third arrow shoots the sedan chair, bless the newcomers to take care of each other, look dead, and stay united forever!
”I'm afraid of many things.When more than 400 couples returned from a cross-horse parade through the streets, they took bows and arrows wrapped in red silk and began to draw their bows and shoot arrows.Of course, there were a lot of jokes in this link, and some of them used too much force and shot the sedan chair through directly.There are also ejaculation on other people's sedan chairs.The crowd burst into laughter.After the bow salute.Like walking rice bags, the meaning is passed down from generation to generation.Across the brazier, the bride stepped over the charcoal brazier, indicating that the bad luck and ominousness before entering the door were washed away, and the wedding day was prosperous.Crossing the saddle represents peace and security after marriage.In fact, this set of wedding procedures has been almost simplified and clean in later generations, and it is estimated that many people don't even know what is a bow and arrow ceremony, what is a rice bag, and what is a cross saddle.In the end, the group wedding entered the most critical link.Parents and elders of both sides were invited to play, and of course, Lu Xiangsheng, the parent official, was also invited to the stage.Begin the preparation of the chapel.However, in this era, there is a lot of crying on and off the stage.Almost nine out of ten of the people who can participate in Quanxu's collective wedding are because they are poor and can't afford to buy a wedding by themselves.It seems that marriage is not as simple as just two people falling in love with each other.Before today's people get married, girls require the man to have a car and a house, and the bride price is two or three hundred thousand.Such a wedding is quite "luxurious" for ordinary people.Many young people will spit out how expensive the dowry is in the future, in fact, it was the same in ancient times, before getting married, there must be six ceremonies, that is, Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Nazheng, invitation, and welcome.It's all about the same process.In the Song Dynasty, people paid more attention to the bride price, because the more bride price, the stronger the man's background, so that the daughter was worry-free in the second half of her life, and for her mother's family, she also found a backer for herself.In the Song Dynasty, ordinary people accepted it, which is pure gift money, about 10,000, that is, 10,000 copper coins, according to the purchasing power of the Song Dynasty, equivalent to about 150,000 yuan.Getting married is never easy.