"You" The woman's words hit Zhou Shixiang like a heavy fist, causing him to stagnate in his chest and be unsettled.
The big green horse suddenly neighed, pouted his hooves and stood up, Zhou Shixiang was caught off guard, and almost fell off the horse, looking very embarrassed.
"Where did the lady come from, take her down" The blind man was furious and ordered the guards to arrest the poor woman.
Several wolf-like guards immediately stepped forward to lift the woman up like a chicken, and when they were about to drag it down, Zhou Shixiang shouted: "Slow" Zhou Shixiang turned over and dismounted, threw the whip in the hand of the blind man Li, and walked towards the woman.
"Dashuai" The blind man Li hurriedly followed, only thinking that the handsome man was going to kill this nonsense woman.
Zhou Shixiang stopped in front of the woman and asked her: "I give you a way to live, what's wrong?"
"It is better to live in such humiliation than to die" The woman bit her lower lip tightly, not afraid of Zhou Shixiang's official authority.
Judging by its appearance, he would really rather die than be humiliated.
Zhou Shixiang stood silently for a while, sighed and said: "If you can live, why do you want to die?"
The woman said sadly: "It is not the general who lives because of the humiliation. ” After another moment of silence, Zhou Shixiang shook his head and laughed at himself: "According to what you say, I shouldn't save you, nor should I give you a way to live, let you die is kind, virtuous and political."
The woman didn't answer.
Zhou Shixiang didn't need her to answer, he said to himself: "Actually, it's not wrong for me to save you, but there are some things that you can't blame me."
I ask you, why don't you blame me for not reinforcing your relatives?"
The woman still bit her lower lip and didn't say a word.
"Because your relatives don't accept you, I will take care of you, I don't want you to die of starvation, or become a miserable woman in the Qinglou, so I promised you to surrender to the army as a wife.
I know it's hard for you to understand, and you may think that you deserve better, at least you can have a home and a bite to eat.
I know that you are bitter, but this is all I can do, and if you are not satisfied, I do not know how to arrange for you. ” After Zhou Shixiang finished speaking, he didn't look at the woman, but pointed to the large group of women not far away, and said: "You tell me, if they don't want to be the wives of the soldiers, where are they going, where are they going to live, what to eat and drink, or do you really make up your mind to die?"
The woman was stunned and did not answer.
In fact, they wept at the gates of the city because they didn't know where to go.
Perhaps, in the end, there will be sisters who choose to die, but more I am afraid that they will choose to go to that point of no return due to hunger.
There is no better way to do that than to marry a soldier who insults them.
Zhou Shixiang put down his hand and looked at the woman again.
"You ask me, if it is my wife, sister and daughter who are humiliated, will I do the same I tell you, I will not treat my relatives the same as your relatives, because they are my relatives, even if they suffer greatly, I will not abandon them, so if you really want to blame, you blame the etiquette of this world."
Zhou Shixiang sighed, in addition to the Qing soldiers, it is also the cannibalistic etiquette of this era.
The former, he can manage it now, he can prevent this kind of tragedy from happening again; But the latter, he is really powerless to interfere, this is not something that can be changed overnight.
Only by destroying the privileges of the gentry and clans, and liberating the people from the clans and rituals, can we talk about change.
And this is obviously something he can't do at the moment.
Before defeating the army of Shunzhi in Jiangbei, what he wanted was stability in Jiangnan, and everything was as before, not chaos.
The woman finally spoke, and she said, "General, we don't want to die, we want to live, but we don't want to live in humiliation, we don't want to be the wives of those beasts." ” "That's what makes it hard for me."
The problem goes back to the beginning, Zhou Shixiang thinks that the arrangement is the best arrangement, but the women think that it is hell, that is a nightmare.
Zhou Shixiang couldn't let the Suzhou government come forward to set up an institution to accommodate these women, whether it was sewing and mending, or making some socks and cotton clothes for the Taiping Army, they could always keep them alive.
However, these women are no more lonely than widows, after all, they have families, and they have suffered the most unforgivable sin of this era, even if they are victims, they will be forced to die by the eyes of the world.
A woman's intemperance is something that can never be forgiven in this era, regardless of the reason.
If the government came forward to resettle them in a unified manner, Zhou Shixiang was sure that the people of Suzhou City would 100% think that these women were just prostitutes from the Qing army, and they had become prostitutes from the Taiping army.
At that time, their relatives might come to the government and strongly demand that they be taken home, and then force them to die, just to fulfill the so-called etiquette and preserve their so-called family customs.
The people will not believe in the government, they will only fear the prestige of the government, but will not believe in the virtue of the government.
Even if they see with their own eyes that these women are not what they think, they will still stick to their original opinions.
The more the government doesn't hand over people, the more they will think so.
If this matter is used by someone with a heart and causes public opinion to be unfavorable to the Taiping Army, at that time, it will not be released Therefore, the government must not come forward, and the consequences of this are even more tragic for these women.
They are different from the women and children in the old camp of the Taiping Army, they have families, and they are not from the Taiping Army.
Matching people to be demoted to wives is the most practical way at the moment.
Although it is unfair to these women, it is like forcing the raped person to marry the rapist, which was to be scolded by everyone in Zhou Shixiang's previous life, but in this era, it is the best virtue and politics.
No one will accuse Zhou Shixiang of messing up the mandarin duck spectrum, and even after these women get married, their parents and brothers will re-accept them and be grateful to Zhou Dashuai who led all this.
This is the absurdity of this troubled time, and it is also helpless.
For those who have surrendered to the army, the wives of those who have harmed others are the ones who have been adulterated.
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Zhou Shixiang will not back down, and will not do things with more unfavorable consequences because of soft-heartedness.
He was ready to use force these women to accept this fate.
Liu Ru didn't know when he helped Qian Qianyi to come over, what Zhou Shixiang said to the woman, and his husband and wife both heard it.
Qian Qianyi is a leader in the literary world, he can not be controlled by etiquette and law, and marry Liu Ruyi, who was born in a Qinglou, which is called a good story.
But he never dared to accuse the people who forced their wives to go out, because this is the moral concept that everyone agrees on, and it is the basic law that maintains this world.
Liu Ru couldn't bear it, she thought of her past, so she whispered a few words to Qian Qianyi.
Qian Qianyi was a little hesitant after hearing this, but seeing that Hedongjun was so resolute, he still nodded in agreement.
He stepped forward and said to Zhou Shixiang: "Yue Guogong, the old man and Humble Jing have discussed, and I am willing to set up a weaving and spinning in Suzhou with a monk's fortune, so that these women can support themselves, I don't know if Guogong thinks it is okay."
Qian Qianyi's proposal made Zhou Shixiang moved, and the nature of the people and the government was very different.
Moreover, Qian Qianyi is the leader of the Jiangnan gentry, and his wife He Dongjun is a heroine praised by the Jiangnan scholars.
The people trusted them far more than Zhou Shixiang and the new Taiping army, and they could question the government, but not the couple.
Zhou Shixiang agreed, asked Qiu Guoliang to arrange this matter, and asked the women if they were willing to marry the soldiers as wives, and they were willing to be resettled as before.
If they do not want to, they will be placed by the Qian couple.
Considering that the Qian couple may not have much wealth, Zhou Shixiang asked Qiu Guogong to notify Yan Shaoqing, the prefect of Suzhou, and the treasury allocated some silver to secretly support the matter.
"I haven't thanked Lao Zongbo and Hedongjun yet" Zhou Shixiang asked the woman to thank the Qian couple, she didn't have to marry a soldier who insulted her, and she could live a stable life, how could the woman be unwilling.
Hedong Junliu was worried that after she went to Nandu with her husband, she would delay these women, so she asked her husband to go to Nandu with Zhou Shixiang first, and she stayed in Suzhou to handle the matter.
Since Liu Ru married into the Qian family, all the affairs of the Qian family are taken care of by her, and there are some things that Qian Qianyi himself does not know, and the opening of a textile factory also involves too much, and someone must take care of it personally, so I also agreed.
The woman went back and told them that the Qian couple was willing to take them in and open a spinning mill to support themselves, and the women happily agreed.
Then Qiu Guoliang ordered the soldiers to take them back to the camp, and the Qian family's opening of a textile factory could not be done in a day or two, so these women could not be allowed to suffer from cold and hunger outside.
When the onlookers heard this, they all praised Qian Qianyi and his wife for their benevolence in unison, but no one said that Zhou Dashuai was good.
Zhou Shixiang smiled bitterly, seeing that those women had gone away, he wanted to ask Qian Qianyi to get into the carriage and go out of the city to Nanjing immediately.
I didn't want to, but a young man jumped out from the crowd and walked briskly in the direction of Zhou Shixiang.
This person's actions immediately attracted the attention of the guards, and the blind Li Zuoshi was about to intercept him, but Zhou Shixiang waved his hand to rebuke them, and many people around looked at it, if this young man was driven away, it was inevitable that he would have a bad reputation.
Besides, if he is so nervous about a common person, it will be his joke about Zhou Dashuai.
"Blind man, bring the man, ask him what is the matter, and if he complains, tell him to go to the yamen to deliver the complaint."
Zhou Shixiang only said that this young man was on the stage, and when he saw that he was a big official, he was going to come to complain, he was in a hurry to go back to Nanjing, but he didn't want to do anything Bao Qingtian, so he asked the blind man to persuade people to leave.
I didn't want the young man to kneel down a foot away from him, and then bowed to him.
This sudden scene surprised Zhou Shixiang, and someone came to worship him in broad daylight, which really made him very curious, and he walked a few steps forward in confusion, and asked the young man who was kneeling on the ground: "What are you doing to worship me decently?"
Suddenly, Zhou Shixiang only felt that an electric current seemed to hit him, because he found that the scene in front of him was so familiar. oshow7 t1706231537: