Chapter 21: Oh, the old Lu family is rich
Not only do you need to buy female slaves, but in fact, the old Lu family has too many things that you need to buy.
There are some things to pay attention to when buying female slaves.
For example, their age and have they had children?
The best female slaves are having children, which means that they are healthy and have been tested.
Too young or past the best age to give birth, they are generally considered inferior products.
As for the people who despise women who have given birth to children, there is nothing like this at all.
They will even be satisfied with the lord's "concern". If a woman takes a child, she will be so happy that she jumps up.
When Lu Wu first heard the above argument from Lao Zhuo, he was stunned.
He didn't understand the Spring and Autumn Period and was puzzled why he had such a concept.
However, they are all forced by reality.
In the era of underdeveloped medicine, women have children similar to passing through the gates of hell. The more women die because of giving birth to children, the more women they die.
Now, even the nobles do not pay much attention to blood.
And because the nobles are vested in interests, they need to take a good start in many ways, including arranging the widow's remarriage.
Some people may not believe it, but until the Song Dynasty, if a widow remarries, the government would give a dowry and serve as a backer, so that the widow would not be allowed to marry and be bullied.
Wars occur frequently, and a large number of men, as the main force of the battlefield, died in battle. Once a widow keeps its rituals, there is an additional group that is difficult to create output, how can the population increase?
Therefore, if anyone encourages widows to keep their qualities, they are simply unable to get along with them.
Encouraging widows to keep their qualities was advocated by Cheng Yi of the Northern Song Dynasty, but it was not the mainstream at that time.
It only became popular in the Yuan Dynasty, it was popular in the Ming Dynasty, and it reached the extreme when it came to "My Qing Dynasty".
As for why women should be encouraged to keep their integrity, it is actually hard to describe.
To put it bluntly, Confucianism, who have the power of national discourse, has their spine broken.
Confucian scholars lost their confidence as a man and promoted them in order to cover up their incompetence and mistakes. (Any era, the common people have no right to speak)
Furthermore, as long as you are a scholar or a great Confucian scholar, if the country is destroyed, you can still become an official in the next dynasty. The population is related to national defense or something, it is nothing to them.
Why did the "Qing Dynasty" develop to its extreme? Hundreds of thousands, up to millions of people, and rule hundreds of millions. I wish I could give birth to all of them. Natural extinction is the most ideal.
certainly!
Encouraging a widow to remarry is different from not caring about the wife planting grass on her current husband's head.
Lu Wu is still recalling the situation in various dynasties.
The warriors and the summoned people were gathered.
Looking at the warrior in front of you and the people who arrived, Lu Wu felt very relieved.
The old Lu family is really generous!
In the past, there was only one leather car with a wheel missing.
Now we can get three leather cars.
After Lu Wu's selection, the warriors increased to eighty.
Of course, the lord has the right to select samurai, but it also means that the lord has lost a group of taxpayers.
What warriors need not pay "tax", what they have to pay is "tax".
Simply put, they just need to work hard.
For example, follow the recruitment and work as a service, or enter the army and become a soldier.
Of course, Lu Wu would not take away all the warriors of the family, and only summoned thirty. The rest of the warriors needed to stay to ensure the safety of their territory, mainly to take care of the group of Hu slaves.
One hundred and ten people came to the people, and they knew that the lord was going to buy slaves.
There are rumors that the lord was worried about the single people and wanted to purchase a group of female slaves, and they were willing to follow them from the bottom of their hearts.
This time, Lu Wu did not bring the goods to be sold, but brought all the cars that the family could take away.
There were two wooden boxes on a car, and inside were neatly stacked shovels of coins.
At the same time, the car also piled up some cloth and covered it with a cover.
Another car is specially loaded with cloth and is also covered.
There are three cars in the convoy who are specially used to hold various food. They can be used as currency and ensure that the team will not be hungry.
It’s just that there is a car that specializes in carrying cooking utensils, which is really a bit of that.
When shoveling coins, cloth and food are actually money, which means that Lu Wu has many assets.
In order to increase safety, Lu Wu has made preparations in advance.
"Those who are good at shooting, take a step forward."
Five warriors came out.
The people hesitated for a moment and stood up thirty-seven.
Is there actually less proportion of warriors who are good at shooting than people?
This is nothing strange.
Unless warriors take the snatcher route, they will spend more time fighting and exercising their main combat weapons.
People can hunt when they have nothing to do. They have a lot of time to do in the year, they don’t know how to do it professionally, they don’t have the money to make weapons (copper). Making a bow by themselves is relatively simple, but the quality of the arrows is destined to be worrying.
Lu Wu lifted a large piece of cloth at his feet.
The bows placed on the ground and the arrow bags of pots were revealed.
The materials used in the bow are not consistent. Some are made of jujube wood, while others are made of squid or oak wood, while there is not a single bamboo bow.
It’s not that Lu Wu dislikes the bamboo bow, it’s that there are no bamboo forests in his territory.
Let the people conduct the test shooting in turn.
Lu Wu chose fifteen people as archers.
Whether it is a warrior or a citizen, he was stunned when he saw the arrows so straight.
Lu Wu, who needs to explain and explain every time he speaks, would really lose the desire to speak unless necessary after a few months.
To interpret retainers word verbally is mutual respect.
If you have no need to be with the samurai and the people, just save some saliva.
He arranged the distribution of the team's personnel, and with a wave of his hand, the team started with a chariot and set off.
Lucheng is in the northeast of the old Lu family.
Huocheng is located southwest of the old Lu family.
Whether you go to Lucheng or Huocheng, the same thing is that there is no ready-made road, and you all need to go to the wilderness.
He had thought about whether he wanted to build roads outside, but he just thought about it.
It’s not that you don’t want to do it, but that you can’t afford it.
Another very critical question!
Lu Wu had the power to seal his own throne. Whenever he did anything, he was either infringing on the rights and interests of other nobles or infringing on the rights and interests of the king.
Therefore, even if Lu Wu has the ability to build roads, he should have obtained permission from other nobles or monarchs.
They try to choose flat terrain to walk southwest, but some woods and mountains are not something they can avoid just by trying to avoid.
And when encountering the woods and mountains, the warriors will become nervous.
The few times nothing happened made Lu Wu feel a little nervous about the warriors, and he asked for instructions to send someone in to search first.
He was very forced to not issue unnecessary instructions and listened to opinions in a good manner.
Facts also prove that the warrior's caution makes sense.
For example, this time I was blocked by the woods again, and the warriors who went in to investigate came out to report that there were people in the woods and there were still quite a lot of them.
"Lord, here (meaning many) know that I am waiting to come and preparing for war."
Lu Wu blinked when he heard this.
Chapter completed!