Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 658 New Order

However, Hua Lei felt that she was not good at this aspect. To be a matchmaker, one must be thick-skinned and good at speaking. One must be able to make a black person look white and an ugly person look like a fairy. With her own strength, she would definitely not be able to do the job. So, she found a few matchmakers in the town and asked them to join her team.

With the addition of professionals, Hua Lei felt much more relaxed. She just had to follow the matchmaker and say that the court encouraged widows to remarry and that marriage for older women was permitted by government decree.

It is quite easy to persuade older women to get married. In the Great Sheng Dynasty, older unmarried women were basically disabled. For example, they walked with a slight limp, had squinting or cross-eyed eyes, etc.

They are all left over women who have been picked and chosen. In their hearts, they also want to find someone to marry, but they are left over because of their own defects.

Now the court has issued a decree, and the room for selection has been expanded countless times, and these women are allowed to go to the thousand-household village in person to select people.

In addition, marriage can exempt half of the taxes, so even if the other party is a prisoner, they have put aside their prejudices and are ready to find someone they like to marry.

As a result, it is common to see unmarried older women walking in groups of three or four in Qianhu Village, all of whom are looking for someone they like.

The selected captives became excited one by one. Although the women of the Great Sheng Dynasty were not as beautiful as flowers, they were much more beautiful than the women of the Xiaowan tribe.

Petite, cute, and adorable... these captives showed their strong arms one by one and swung their hoes much faster.

If they were in love, the success rate would be quite high. Therefore, firecrackers were set off every now and then in Qianhu Village, and Hualei would give six kilograms of mixed flour to the married couple every now and then.

However, it is much more difficult to persuade widows to remarry. Although these people have basically completed the three-year mourning period.

However, many of them are widows who have not given birth and may have the idea in their hearts and are willing to remarry. However, they are embarrassed to bring it up themselves.

Then the husband's family agreed, but they did not take the initiative to ask the daughter-in-law to remarry, so both sides kept the same. For these people, it is actually very simple.

Hua Lei brought a matchmaker to the house to help poke a hole in the middle of the veil, and then seduce Yu Yili, and both parties were happy.

The daughter-in-law is willing to remarry, but her husband's family is not very happy about it. Hua Lei has a solution. She wears official uniform and goes to their house to show off her power.

I popularized the court's new policies with these people, and then lobbied them by saying that my husband's family could pay less taxes, and basically succeeded.

If the husband's family doesn't care, these widows will feel that their reputation is damaged, and they will have concerns and feel confused about the future.

Hualei quietly avoided her husband's family and described to her the new life they could lead after leaving her husband's family. The immediate benefit was that she could get six kilograms of flour immediately.

After getting married and having children, you can pay less taxes and grain. And from then on, you can live your own life.

You have to know that there is a big difference between a life where you have to be subservient to your parents-in-law and a life where you are the master of your own house.

Moreover, in the husband's family, you will be a slave for your whole life, and there is no one who cares about your warmth or coldness. If you find someone to marry, although you will also be a slave, at least there will be someone to warm your bed in winter.

In the future, I will have my own children who can take care of me and take care of me in my old age. This is better than living alone in my husband's family with no children and wasting time.

As for reputation, it doesn't matter at all. Whoever dares to laugh at it is laughing at the court. Do they dare? Therefore, no one dares to laugh at it in person.

As for the gossip behind your back, just pretend you don’t know. Compared to the happiness of the rest of your life, it’s nothing.

These childless women thought that it was right, raising their own children was better than supporting their husband's nephews and nieces. Moreover, the new policy encouraged widows to remarry.

There were so many people who remarried, so it didn't matter if I was one more. After comparing with each other, I could still make a choice, so I nodded and agreed.

The daughter-in-law nodded. Even though her parents-in-law were still reluctant, they did not dare to refuse in front of Hua Lei, an official appointed by the imperial court. Moreover, their family could pay less taxes, so they reluctantly agreed.

As a result, many couples were formed.

The ones who are more difficult to persuade are widows with children. Regardless of whether their in-laws agree or not, they themselves are unwilling to do so.

When the children are still young, or underage, these women are reluctant to give up their children, so they refuse to remarry. When the children grow up, they may have to arrange marriage in a few years.

These women were worried that if they married someone else, it would bring shame to their children and affect their children's marriage prospects, so even though they were only in their thirties, they shook their heads.

For these people, Hua Lei has no other better solution except to visit them many times to lobby them, explain the reasons to them and lure them with benefits.

Hualei's repeated visits to the door and lobbying helped many couples get married. If they really didn't want to, Hualei would give up. After all, even the imperial court couldn't force them to enter the bridal chamber.

During the year that Hualei led Qianhu Village to work hard, the provincial capital of the Ministry of Industry was finally completed. All the noble families who had purchased shops before got their shops. Hualei also got three shops.

Hualei opened a bookstore in the shop under her own name, and put all her own rabbit hair pens, charcoal pencils, etc. into it. She also sold reed paper produced by the paper mill.

For the two shops under the name of the Marquis' Mansion, Hualei referred to the model of "Fei Yi Ji" and put in some of the goods that could be put in.

Although several shops are relatively empty for the time being and business is not very good, it doesn’t matter. We can just follow the new state government and develop slowly.

In early October, Hualei got pregnant again. Compared to the last time she felt nothing, this time she vomited all over the place.

After finding Li Yuanpan to prescribe medicine, and after a period of treatment, the pregnancy reaction was much better. So, Hualei began to hand over the work to the officials who had just arrived in Mobei.

In mid-October, a new batch of officials from Shangjing City arrived in Mobei and will take over the follow-up work of the new state government.

Hua Lei and Rong Jin, who have been in Mobei for three years, are returning to Shangjing City. Zhenzhu and his wife and Rongyu and his wife will also go back with them.

Of course, except for a very small number of officials who voluntarily stayed, other officials who went to the capital would also go back.

Because Minister Zhang had given Hua Lei the message in advance, Hua Lei had already sorted out all the things at hand, including the situations of several villages in Mobei ahead.