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The first blind date conference organized by the Marriage Committee under the Fusang Affairs Office of the Tang Dynasty was relatively successful. More than 300 Fusang women who participated in the blind date conference all found their husbands.
As for why there were only more than 200 officers and soldiers participating in the blind date, but there were more than 300 Fuso women participating in the blind date, how could all the blind dates be matched when the number of people obviously did not match, this naturally is not a problem.
Because many officers and soldiers are not looking for wives at all, but lovers.
The organizers knew this very well, but they pretended not to see it. Anyway, their mission was to let the men of the Tang Dynasty take away these Fuso women. As for whether they were wives or lovers, they didn't care.
After the first blind date, the officials of the Marriage Committee were greatly confident, because this successful blind date allowed them to see a very important point, that is, the Fuso women's pursuit of the men of the Tang Dynasty.
Although they don't understand the language, they even know in their hearts that they are just lovers with no status and no guarantee, but this does not prevent these Fuso women from yearning for the Tang Dynasty!
In this regard, the Marriage Committee plans to increase its efforts and arrange blind dates for the remaining Fuso women, who number about a thousand people.
When recruiting Fuso women before, more than a thousand Fuso women signed up. In line with the principle of not letting go of the wrongdoers, the Marriage Committee would not reject any Fuso women who came to sign up and met the requirements.
The rules are actually very simple, that is, you must be at least fourteen years old, no more than thirty years old, and in good health!
In fact, another word can be used to better describe it, that is, ‘women of childbearing age’.
As for whether you have a good figure, good looks, and whether you have knowledge or not, these are completely outside the scope of consideration.
Therefore, although there were only more than 300 women in the first batch of blind dates, the remaining more than 1,000 marriage committees did not drive them back. Instead, they resettled them on the spot and prepared for the second blind date meeting.
For the second blind date conference, the people organized were not mainly officers and soldiers, but came from quite complex sources. In principle, any man from the Tang Dynasty could sign up, pay a certain introduction fee, and order a boat to return home in advance.
If you have a ticket, you can come to this blind date conference.
The introduction fee charged is not high and is mainly used to supplement the funds spent by the marriage committee to recruit Fuso women and organize blind date conferences.
There is also a provision for ordering ferry tickets, which is also necessary.
After all, these men of the Tang Dynasty will eventually return to their country. In order to prevent these men from wandering away after having fun and leaving behind a lot of Fuso single women, there is a mandatory rule. If you want to participate in a blind date, you must first be
These Fuso women ordered a boat ticket, and no matter whether these people would abandon these Fuso women, these Fuso women would be able to board the ship to Datang.
This scheduled ferry ticket does not clearly specify the time, but is only bound to a personal identity. At any time, this Fuso woman can find the marriage partner and get a ticket to return to her country.
Of course, in order to get this ticket, the Fuso woman must also find a suitable husband, or lover, at a blind date meeting.
The number of men from Datang participating in the blind date this time is expected to exceed a thousand. Basically, they are mainly people coming to and from Datang and Fuso, mainly employees of major trading companies, especially sailors.
The trade exchanges between Datang and Fuso are very frequent. Every year, a large number of ships sail on the East Ocean route, which brings a large number of people from the Tang Dynasty. Basically, these people from the Tang Dynasty who go to work at sea are unlikely to be raising children.
, often alone.
In the past, these people would actually find local Fuso girls as maids, concubines, etc. Of course, more of them would still hang out in the small blue buildings in major ports.
These single people also have a relatively strong demand for women.
However, these people are still not many in general, at least for the millions of women of childbearing age in the Fuso Islands, they are too few.
The truly large group is still dominated by the domestic single population.
The Marriage Committee is very clear about this, and the two blind date conferences they are holding are just for testing.
As they expected, the second blind date conference was relatively successful. Most of the more than a thousand Fuso women, except for a few with strange looks, found husbands and lovers.
Even for the remaining dozens of strange-looking Fuso women, the Marriage Committee has no intention of sending them home. On the one hand, this is for humanitarian reasons. If they are sent back, these women will probably end up very bad, because
These more than a thousand women, whether they came with the consent of their families or came secretly, are all in the same situation, that is, they can no longer survive.
On the other hand, even if these few Fuso women have strange looks, the Marriage Committee is not a beauty pageant committee and they don't care. What they see is that even though these women are ugly, they are still women of childbearing age.
All women of childbearing age are their targets!
Since no one wants them at the blind date conference, they are going to send these people directly back to the country and let them live in the mainland of the Tang Empire. As for how to live, there is no need to worry too much. The Tang Empire has been at peace for a long time.
If you are willing to work hard, even a single woman can survive.
In short, the marriage committee will not leave these women of childbearing age in Fuso.
The two consecutive blind date conferences successfully brought away more than a thousand women of childbearing age from Fuso, which greatly increased the confidence of the marriage committee. When they reported to Xia Xia Wuyan, they proposed to strive to reach 50,000 women this year.
human goals.
And by next year, this number will be expanded to more than 100,000.
The confidence of the marriage committee also made Xia Wuyan breathe a sigh of relief!
Implementing a specific marriage policy towards Fuso is a goal decided by the high-level officials of the empire. Although it is promoted to the outside world to strengthen friendly exchanges among people, many high-level officials in the empire know that the core purpose of this marriage policy is to reduce Fuso.
of the total population.
Otherwise, why does this marriage policy only one-sidedly encourage and support Fusang women to marry Tang men, but not encourage Tang women to marry Fusang men?
With their confidence greatly increased, the Marriage Committee is also preparing to make a big move. This time they plan to transport a large number of Fuso women directly back to the country, and then organize a similar blind date conference after returning to the country.
The initial number of people organized was two thousand.
It is difficult to operate with a small number of people, and it is also difficult to operate with a large number of people, because there is also a funding issue involved.
Although the empire has also cut off activity funds for the marriage policy, the total amount is not much, only one hundred thousand taels of silver in total, and this amount of money will not last long.
In addition, another very important thing is that the ticket is not cheap!
Most of the ships from the Tang Empire to Fuso were merchant ships, mainly transporting goods. There were basically no specialized passenger ships. Whether these merchant ships came to Fuso or returned, they needed to carry a large amount of goods.
If you do not carry a large amount of cargo on the return journey, you will suffer a big loss if you return empty-shipped. In order to persuade the major trading companies to free up cabins to transport Fuso women, the Marriage Committee specially signed relevant passenger transport agreements with them.
The marriage committee will pay the unified expenses and let them help transport them back to the country.
Naturally, it is impossible for the marriage committee to give out this money in vain. In the end, these Fuso women still have to bear this money themselves, but in the form of IOUs.
After returning to China, if they find a husband or lover during a blind date, their husbands will naturally pay for the relevant boat tickets.
If you can't find it, or you don't want to find it, then it doesn't matter. The Marriage Committee has entrusted relevant domestic enterprises to open several specialized labor-intensive industries for women, such as the textile industry, to specifically accept these fusangs.
Women work.
The salary is naturally very low compared to local women, but it is not a problem to survive. However, after working for a few years, the ship ticket debt can be paid off.
However, when it was first formed, the initial cost of transporting everyone back to the country was too high and the Marriage Committee could not afford it, so they planned to split it into two. Although the first batch was still two thousand people, only five hundred people were transported to Jiangnan.
And these five hundred people will be those Fuso women who are willing to get married immediately at the blind date meeting after docking, and whose appearance and figure are not too bad. This is to ensure that the transportation costs can be recovered quickly and avoid
any risk.
The remaining 1,500 people are preparing to be transported to the Koryo Peninsula.
The Koryo Peninsula and Fuso are only separated by the Tsushima Strait, and there is also Tsushima Island in the middle that serves as a transit station, so shipping costs are very low.
Although after reaching the Korean Peninsula, it was necessary to walk a long distance to the hinterland of the Central Plains, but the marriage committee did not care about this. Anyway, they only needed to transport these women back to the country, but they did not say that they had to transport them to Jiangnan.
after all.
The Koryo Peninsula is also the empire’s homeland!
At that time, these Fuso women who landed on the Korean Peninsula will also have blind dates with local Tang men. Some Fuso women who are unwilling to go on blind dates, or who are not wanted, will stay and work in a textile factory.
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The marriage committee is really worried about the new happy life of domestic singles!
However, although this caused some trouble, in order to avoid disorder, especially the possibility of large-scale human trafficking, the empire still insisted on using the purely official Marriage Committee to handle these matters.
Otherwise, it will easily lead to large-scale human trafficking problems, which will lead to a series of crimes.
He is not an official in other places, but in the empire itself and its colonies, this kind of thing is not allowed to happen.
In this way, under the organization of the Marriage Committee, the first batch of two thousand Fuso women took multiple ships, departing from several Fuso colonies and Osumi County, and then headed to Busan and Shanghai on the Korean Peninsula!
These two thousand Fuso women are basically the same as the more than a thousand Fuso women before them. They all signed up on their own, some with the consent of their families, and some simply ran away secretly.
With good expectations for their future life, they embarked on a ship to Datang!