Chapter 70: Overture to the Eastward Expansion (2)
"This brother, didn't these twenty women remember to give it to me because I reported to the East King this time, right?" Wei Ze asked the officials of the East Royal Mansion with a smile at the banquet. There is this advantage at a young age, even if the status is very high, but it can always be called someone else's brother very smoothly. As long as it is not a case of clear generation, this title is also very appropriate.
The officials of the East Palace's Mansion also replied with a smile: "King Qi is really smart, these women are what King Dong has prepared to send to King Qi a long time ago." It's just that this time it was just in time for the king of Qi to send the chapter to the king of the east, and the king of the east asked him to send it to the king of Qi. ”
"Oh. What does that mean to fill the uterine chamber? Dongwang won't let me find a woman to be a wife from here, right? Weese's slightly nervous expression was not faked, but real. With Wei Ze's level of classical Chinese, of course, he fully understood what it meant to fill the palace room. However, Wei Ze had no confidence in Yang Xiuqing's literary skills, so he had to figure out this very important issue.
Seeing Wei Ze's sincere inquiry, the officials of the Dongwang Mansion immediately explained to Wei Ze in detail, "This word is the words spoken by those literati recruited by the Dongwang, and the Dongwang said that these women were rewarded to the King of Qi, and the King of Qi has done so many things, so he can't even have no one to serve by his side." These women were not given to the king of the east to be the queen's wife. ”
As soon as he heard that he was not marrying Mingmei, Wei Ze breathed a sigh of relief. Although in such an era when a man can marry many wives, Wei Ze also feels that he has the opportunity to play with the harem. However, this does not mean that Wei Ze is willing to find a random woman to marry. In any case, Wei Ze felt that the marriage that Ming Media was marrying was a very serious thing, and he didn't want other people to ruin the important feeling of marriage to Wei Ze.
After identifying the most important issues, Wei Ze had a drink with the official of the Eastern Prince's Mansion and chatted about the movements in the capital. At least in the eyes of this official of the Eastern Palace, the situation in Tianjing City is very good. The grain and materials transported from Anhui to Tianjing City have always been very stable, and although there have been various ups and downs in the wars in various places, the overall direction is still very good. Especially in the north where Wei Ze is located, it seems that there is no big move, but in fact, the entire army of the three prime ministers has been completed in an extreme time, which has greatly exceeded Yang Xiuqing's imagination. And Wei Ze annihilated 12,000 Qing troops in one fell swoop this time, which made Yang Xiuqing like it even more.
If there is one thing that has changed, it is that the Wing King Shi Dakai finally left Tianjing City and went to the Western Front to preside over the war in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. In addition to the East Palace, there are no other princes and generals in the current Tianjing City, and the East King Yang Xiuqing's East Palace is increasingly able to act as the central government, giving orders to various troops and forces.
After drinking, Wei Ze ordered someone to give two hundred taels of silver to the officials of the East Palace. When the official heard this number, his originally smiling face suddenly became a little less happy. Wei Ze immediately raised the number to five hundred taels, and the official continued to smile and grin.
Wei Ze couldn't help but think: It turns out that the benefits of doing things have reached five hundred taels. I don't know if this is against me, the King of Qi, or for everyone?
It seems that the officials of the Dongwang Mansion are also busy, and he didn't stop here in Wei Ze, but went directly to Huaiyuan, where Lin Fengxiang was. As soon as the official left, the generals who learned that Wei Ze had been assigned to women had already come to Wei Ze with a little shy but enthusiastic.
Wei Ze knew what these bear people were thinking, so he was not polite, and said directly: "You guys came just in time, I haven't even seen twenty women sent this time." These women are handed over to the logistics department to manage, and everyone who wants a woman will sign up first, and then draw lots. Drawn ones will be available on a first-served basis. ”
The generals all wanted to come over and join in the fun, but they never expected Wei Ze to divide women for everyone without saying a word. And Wei Ze didn't show favor, and didn't say anything else, his attitude was very hearty, as if these women were originally given to the generals by Yang Xiuqing, not by Yang Xiuqing.
"Chief of the General Staff, this ......, this is not appropriate." Even a cronie like Wei Changrong only said such things in the face of the opportunity to divide women.
Wei Ze said in his heart, what is this inappropriate, right? Anyone who says it's inappropriate to others is actually expecting others to respond with "what's wrong with this?!" Then the two sides can happily save each other's face, and then do what they should do.
Now that he knows this, Wei Ze can only do things according to the rules. He shouted, "The king of the east just gave me these women, and what I do is my business." You don't have to talk nonsense, just do what I say! ”
Since Wei Ze's attitude is so firm, the generals "can only obey orders".
After determining the general direction first, Wei Ze then gave the details, "But in my words, these women can't follow the army. And if you want to get a woman, you have to marry them. Our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom prohibits adultery, and if you violate the rules of heaven, it is a great crime to kill your head. Three days after you got married, you will send the people you have assigned to Luzhou for resettlement. If you just want to have fun, don't get involved in it too soon! ”
When he said this, Wei Ze felt that this was too nonsense. As the saying goes, the upward line is effective, just like Hong Xiuquan's eighty-eight wives, and he still has the face to say that others are not allowed to "commit adultery". The most nonsense thing is that Hong Xiuquan brought women just to decorate his dignity and prove that he is a heavenly king who is qualified to get eighty-eight wives. Whatever the reason, Hong Xiuquan himself actually played the trick of abstinence among hundreds of women. If Hong Xiuquan is a really womanizer, maybe it can be regarded as more humane.
Until now, husbands and wives in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not live together. According to the regulations, only officials at the level of prime minister can live with their wives. Naturally, the army is not allowed to bring family members, and the same is true for Weese's troops. However, the civil service system did not prohibit husbands and wives from living together at all, and the social unit of the family was not destroyed in the central Anhui region controlled by Wei Ze.
Perhaps it was "the mountain is high and the emperor is far away", Yang Xiuqing has never had any opposition to Wei Ze's practice of resisting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom system. Hong Xiuquan, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who only cares about the etiquette of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, has no chance to care about Wei Ze. Therefore, Wei Ze can also ensure that the generals in the army who have drawn wives can live with their newlyweds for three days.
Knowing that he was finally able to marry a wife, except for a few generals who already had wives, the other hairy boys were extremely happy, and even couldn't help but feel shy.
"Hurry up and find the people in the logistics department and let them prepare for the lottery!" Wei Ze ordered. After saying that, Wei Ze suddenly frowned, and after pondering for a moment, he actually laughed.
No matter how strange this move is, it will not stop those who are in a hurry to get married. They flocked to the logistics department, leaving Weeser in the General Staff.
The reason why Wei Ze laughed was because he originally thought that maybe he could sneak a sneak peek at the women first. But when he thought about facing twenty women, just like when he traveled to Japan, he went to the maid café in the Akihabara Holy Land, and as soon as he entered the door, there was immediately a girl wearing a maid costume who looked very cute and bowed her luggage and said, "Welcome! Dog repair kinsama! ”
This association made Wei Ze feel very good, so he couldn't help but laugh. This good mood lasted for nearly a day, and I knew that in the evening, Wei Ze's good mood did not disappear. And the guard came in and asked, "Chief of General Staff, do you know a bibliophile in Tianjing City, and his name is Qi Yuchang." ”
"Well, I do know such a person. What's wrong? Weese replied.
"Then Qi Yuchang sent someone to our military camp, saying that he wanted to send a letter to you." The guard replied.
At this time, Wei Ze was in a very good mood, and Qi Yuchang was also one of Wei Ze's few "personal friends", so he ordered someone to bring the letter in. When the guard brought the letter in, Wei Ze opened it and was immediately surprised.
Qi Yuchang's letter said that Tianjing City recently got a draft girl affair, and it is said that it will be done again soon. Qi Yuchang has a baby daughter, who is now in her early twenties and has not yet married. And now the draft girl is going door-to-door, and she can't avoid it, and she can't escape from Tianjing City with her family and books. Qi Yuchang wanted to ask Wei Zeke if he had been married. If Weeser has any questions, he can ask the person who sent the letter directly.
In addition to not directly writing "Wei Ze, have you married a daughter-in-law, and are you interested in marrying a daughter-in-law", Qi Yuchang had already said everything in the letter. Wei Ze remembered what he had heard, and there were also draft girls in the capital during the Manchu era. The families who are qualified to choose nuns are not ordinary people, they have to have some status, they have to have some background. As a result, every time it is time for a draft girl, these big families rush to marry their daughters. For wealthy and status-rich families, the happiness and well-being of their own family members are much more important than the so-called "glory" of serving the emperor. It seems that this Qi Yuchang is also such a person.
Although he appreciates Qi Yuchang's attitude towards the world, Wei Ze also likes Qi Yuchang a lot. However, Wei Ze had no intention of satisfying Qi Yuchang. After staying in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for so long, Wei Zexian likes one thing about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom very much, whether it is the system or the implementation, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is against foot binding.
Wei Ze had seen photos of foot binding, and was frightened by the abuse of his deformed feet. In Guangxi, the source of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the practice of foot binding was not prevalent in the first place, and most of the rebels who joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were poor. This is something that the poor people cannot accept. And in Hunan and other places along the way, a large number of poor people also joined the Taiping Army, and the women in them did not have any foot binding. On the contrary, in Anqing, a place with a "very prosperous literary style", women generally bind their feet. Weeser's administrative system has put a lot of effort into anti-foot binding, but it has not been effective.
For this reason, Weser was already extremely angry. The proportion of women in Nanjing City is extremely high, and Wei Ze feels that the daughter of Qi Yuchang's family is really pitiful for Hong Xiuquan to be a show girl, but Wei Ze has no intention of wronging himself and marrying a foot-binding girl.
Calling the person sent by Qi Yuchang outside to deliver the letter in, Wei Ze said with a pleasant face: "I am Wei Ze, I have read Mr. Qi Yuchang's letter, and I understand Mr. Qi's kindness." However, he will never marry a woman with bound feet, and ask this gentleman to go back and inform Mr. Qi about it. ”
The person who sent the letter was originally a little uneasy, but after listening to Wei Ze's words, he was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly said: "King Qi, my young lady is Tianzu!" It's not footbinding. ”
"Huh?" Wei Ze was stunned when he heard this answer. His first thought was, this can't be that Qi Yuchang deliberately found a guy who is more adaptable to deceive himself in order to marry his daughter, right?
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