"Let me go, why are you arresting me? I, old man Huang, am an honest man. What kind of royal law have I committed?"
"What kind of royal law has been broken? Don't you know that the court has issued a new policy in the past few days and will arrest and imprison parents like you who do not consider your children?"
"Stop talking nonsense with him and take him away in the shackles!"
In a corner of the city, government officials from Chang'an County were dispatched to take away Old Man Huang, the head of a household with older children in the area.
"It's really tragic. This old man Huang has been honest for most of his life and ended up like this."
"Who told him that he was illiterate and didn't know that the government decree had changed?"
"So what if he's literate? It's not like you don't know about his stupid son. There's no one to marry him at all!"
"Yes, the government has gone too far... If their stupid son had the ability to marry a wife, would he deliberately refuse to marry? Anyone who is born to like to live alone and widowed is not forced by the world... "
"Shhh, keep your voice down, don't talk about state affairs, don't talk about state affairs."
The onlookers pointed and shook their heads when they saw Old Man Huang's son still giggling while watching his old father being taken away.
"Damn it, how can we two survive like this?"
Old Man Huang's lame old wife burst into tears and started wailing.
Seeing that his silly son was still giggling, he became even more angry and hit him with the broom beside the wall.
"It's all your fault, you're a pest, you've troubled us all our lives!"
She was so ruthless that she beat her stupid son until he cried.
Some people really couldn't stand it and quickly tried to dissuade them: "Sister-in-law, please stop fighting. It's better to go to the government to see if any other family's daughter is older and unmarried and will be listed on the red list. If that happens, your family will My son might actually have a chance to marry a wife."
"What, there is such a thing?" Mrs. Huang didn't care about beating her stupid son, she quickly threw away the broom and listened carefully.
"Really, the government will give you wives!" a neighbor said solemnly.
"Brother, please tell me what's going on."
"It's unheard of for the government to send a wife."
There are really many people who are looking forward to the stars and the moon these days, and they all surround him.
The neighbor didn't do it to show off, he was just a kind reminder.
Besides, this matter has already been made public, and after a while, everyone will know about it sooner or later.
So he talked about the new policies of the imperial court.
Before Mrs. Huang could finish hearing this, she hurried to the government. If she didn't run faster, her good wife would be snatched away by others.
They didn't know about this period, of course because those with better conditions had to be picked first by those who were well-informed.
…
Another day, Li Fan rode his horse to go to the yamen, but saw the sun setting and several families arguing at the gate of the square.
"I won't marry, I won't marry... The sons of that family are all fools, and I'm still lame. Why should I marry him?"
"Daughter, just do it and get married. If you don't get married, daddy and I will be caught and imprisoned!"
"Master, it's not like you don't know Yao'er's temperament, but you are pushing her into a pit of fire!"
"Go away, if this continues, I will fall into the pit of fire. Today she has to get married, whether she wants to get married or not!"...
He couldn't help but rein in his horse and stop, frowning.
"Little Marquis, that seems to be a government marriage, forcibly marrying the 20-year-old daughter of a merchant family to the son of a shanty family. I heard that he is still a fool..."
The boy who was following him told him the whole story in a very discerning way. He just sat around in the teahouse near Beiya all day long, waiting for his master to go to and from get off work, and kept abreast of all the news in the surrounding streets and rivers and lakes. .
"This new policy..."
Li Fan couldn't help but shake his head.
As the saying goes, some people are happy and some are sad.
For Mr. Huang's family, this new policy may be a good thing, but for businessmen, it may not be so.
The in-laws who are in such a bad condition will definitely not be harmonious and happy.
"Forget it, let's go."
It's not easy for Li Chuan to take care of this kind of thing, so he can only let it go.
Before they could get far, they suddenly heard the crowd exclaiming and then shouting.
"Dead people, dead people!"
"Quick, go and ask the doctor..."
Li Fan looked back and saw a woman in a wedding dress hitting the stone pillar next to the square gate under the sedan chair in the distance, surrounded by a dark circle of people.
Some people are panicked, some are happy and scared, some are elated, some are gloating...
"My son..."
The old mother of a married girl gave up and fell down as soon as her eyes darkened.
The father, a wealthy businessman, was so angry that he cursed: "You loser, it would be better if you died!"
The officials who were supervising this marriage looked at each other and were helpless for a moment.
…
As time goes by, it gradually comes to the end of March.
Li Fan once again attended the meeting to listen to the internal briefing of the department, but unexpectedly learned that good news had been sent by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
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"After half a month of hard work, the New Deal has been implemented...
Although there were some conflicts and setbacks, the marriage situation in every household has improved greatly.
Now in this holy city, men have wives, women have husbands, widowers and widowers match each other, and yin and yang complement each other!
Colleagues, the situation is great! "
Li Chuan: "..."
Well, based on the feedback from the two county governments of Chang'an County and Wannian County, in the past half month, the Holy Capital has indeed effectively reduced the population of adult men and women who are not yet married by more than 50%. .
Overall, the probability of the Holy Capital City being attacked has been greatly reduced.
Those who are extreme, obsessed, greedy, crazy...
A person with far more intense and sincere emotions than ordinary people...
All solved.
It's really gratifying.
However, everyone in the department was not stupid. They looked at each other in private, but quietly talked about the many troubles that would follow.
"There are still some people who don't want to get married..."
"The betrothal gifts in the Holy City are quite high, causing many disputes..."
"Some people are dissatisfied with the government's allocation and are making peace with each other."
"The son of a foreign minister was forced to marry an ugly woman. He killed his wife that night and became a widower again..."
"There are so many unlucky people in the prison that they are almost overrun. There are also those who are poor, displaced, and even refugees from other places. There is no way to check the marriage status and cannot deal with it..."
"There are more and more ridiculous things that are messing up the mandarin duck chart. Even before this weird evil comes, it has already caused several deaths."
Finally, someone couldn't help but asked: "Is there a possibility, and I'm just saying it's possible... that our strategy to deal with the weirdness itself is also a kind of weirdness?"
As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was silent.
At this moment, a petty official ran in out of breath and said with a panicked expression: "Oh no, ladies and gentlemen, Hujiazhuang... Hujiazhuang has appeared near Linjiang City!
The towns in the south were wiped out and turned into dead areas overnight, with only a hundred or so of the two to three thousand people left alive! ".
Don’t ask the common people, ask ghosts and gods
