Han’s Son is Not a Slave

The specific measure for the transition from private to government-run is to legalize human trafficking in the city by Xinhui County Government. Of course, in the wording, the County Government is definitely not a human trafficker, and neither is Liao County, but military marriages are implemented.

The so-called military marriage method, in short, means that the county government will come forward to marry the daughters (women) of the common people's families to the Taiping Army as wives, and give these women a decent status to ensure that they will not be abused after marriage, and will not be resold. . As for families with women married to the Taiping army, they are all included in the rear camp and enjoy the same treatment as the Taiping army family members. If there are no women in the family who are married to the Taiping army, the county government will coordinate the rear camp and allocate some from the Taiping army public treasury to live on, so that although they cannot be fed, it can also ensure that they will not starve to death.

In the case that the new rations did not actually increase much, Song Xiang recognized this military marriage method. He was a scholar, and he was willing to have a tragic human tragedy in Xinhui City. The previous hard-heartedness was only forced by the environment. .

The military marriage method based on the fact that the common people are forced to choose, essentially deprives the happiness of those "married" women, but now it is the best method. Song Xianggong made it clear that the Taiping army would not starve these people to death. Once the Qing army broke the city, the fate of these people would also be death, even more terrible than death. For those women who have been ruined by countless beasts, death is the happiness they most want. In contrast, military marriage can be described as a heavenly life.

I can't give these people real happiness, and I can't guarantee their lives, so I can only give them a less bad life.

Zhou Shixiang so comforted himself.

After the news of the military marriage was posted on the county government bulletin, the quiet Xinhui city suddenly became lively. Every day from the five battalions of the former battalion, non-duty sergeants went to the county government office to sign up happily, and then chose their wives under the leadership of the temporary government officials.

Zhou Shixiang interfered little with matters in the back camp, but the front camp was very tight. In order to prevent some unharmonious things from happening, Zhou Shixiang issued a strict order. It is forbidden for any officer or soldier who has already married a wife to participate in the purchase of a daughter-in-law, and severe punishment will be imposed upon discovery.

In order to prevent the soldiers from being too happy to marry their daughter-in-law and lose their duty, thereby weakening the strength of the city defenders and letting the Qing army pick up the leaks, Zhou Shixiang formulated some regulations and set some rules. The first thing is to ensure that the guards in the city are on duty. The number of soldiers will not be reduced. Others follow the previous methods. Officers and soldiers who are not on duty can meet with their families for half a day every three days. In addition, they must stay in the barracks at all times. Violators will be severely punished.

In order to make those parents who are forced to "marry daughters" less sad. Zhou Shixiang asked Liao Ruixiang to make the military marriage as decent as possible, and Song Xianggong also allocated some red cloth from the public treasury to make the military marriage ceremony as prosperous as possible.

The officers and soldiers who were willing to marry also went to the county government to pay the fees for their marriage. Although the Taiping Army implemented the public treasury system, there were rewards for meritorious soldiers in battles, including money, food, cloth, etc. Therefore, these married soldiers had more or less savings in their hands. Even those who have no money can borrow it from their companions. In this way, those Xinhui people who will become father-in-law and mother-in-law naturally receive the dowry and filial piety from their son-in-law. The county government does not dare to deduct in this area, and it is all transferred truthfully. There are not many betrothal gifts, they are all five taels of silver.

Although the silver is useless in the city now, the people have become the family members of the Taiping army and have their own rations, and the son-in-law also has subsidies in the army. Therefore, the urgent need for food is not so important, so knowing that these five taels of silver are useless, the "parents-in-law" still forced a smile to accept their son-in-law's filial piety.

In accordance with the procedures of civil marriage. The county government came forward to sign the marriage certificate for these new daughter-in-law and husband's family, and the guarantee in black and white made many people feel at ease. There were no sedan chairs in the city, and even if there were, they had already been set on fire by the Taiping Army, so during military weddings, the brides could only walk. Zhou Shixiang only attended the first military wedding ceremony once, and he did not show up for the other times. Song Xianggong and Liao Ruixiang presided over them, and Ge Zheng and Zhao Sihai also attended twice.

In addition to the envy of the people who did not have daughters at home, there were also many people who took up the idea of ​​a mother-in-law at home. In a short time, the book was flying everywhere, and the woman who was another wife became the mother-in-law of the Taiping Army in a blink of an eye. This made Zhou Shixiang very emotional, but he couldn't despise those men who sold their wives. There was no way. The whole family wanted to eat, and the food distributed by the Taiping Army was just barely hanging their lives. What if the little baby grows? What should the old man do when he is so hungry?

Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong quarreled again about the treatment of these divorced women after they joined the Taiping Army. In the end, Zhou Shixiang regressed and agreed with Song Xianggong not to give these people the treatment of Taiping army family members, but the betrothal gifts were doubled. And no money is given, but one-third more food than the ration previously allotted. There is no way, if they really want to be included in the Taiping army rear camp, the rations to be allocated will be several times more than before, which makes Song Xianggong, who is always calculating how much food left, and how long he can last, can agree.

I have to admire the tenacity of the women of the Han family~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The women who were taken off did not cry or even wash their faces in tears. Before going out, they just held their children reluctantly and kept kissing With him (she), he kept asking her husband to take good care of the baby. After arriving at the new "husband's house", they were reluctant to eat the food given to them by the new husband. They only hid the food when the new man was not paying attention, and then made an excuse, even if it was just an excuse to go out, to sneak out and hand over the food. To the "old husband" who has been waiting for a long time.

In this regard, the "new husbands" did not make a big deal. Most of them turned a blind eye, and even took the initiative to ask women to take food back. Of course, there are also a small number of "new husbands" who are very dissatisfied with this behavior of eating inside and out, and they beat and scold women. The incident happened in the back camp, but the parties involved belonged to the front camp, and in the end, it could only be handled by Zhou Shixiang. Zhou Shixiang's solution was very simple. He called the men together and didn't scold them. He only asked them where they were from, how they lived when they were at home, and what if they didn't have enough to eat.

After some questioning, the soldiers who beat and scolded women naturally felt ashamed. They all came from hardships, and they all starved to death at home. Their parents also tried their best to let them eat more and compare their hearts. How are they? It's hard enough to beat and scold those hard-working women.

Just two days after the problem of the survival of the Xinhui people was resolved, Qi Hao brought back bad news—Sun Kewang and Li Ding were in domestic strife. (To be continued..)

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