Chapter 319: Rejoicing with the People
Early in the morning, in Chang'an (Córdoba), the capital of the Han Kingdom, there were several Chinese women standing in front of a pharmacy on the street.
The three Chinese women, all with heavenly feet, knocked lightly twice, and after a while, the door of the pharmacy opened, and a woman in her early thirties walked out of it, and she beckoned the three Chinese women into the pharmacy.
"Each person grabs two pairs of medicines, one for internal administration and one for application on the surface of the patient's skin, taking and applying once a day, remembering that one month before and after taking the medicine for treatment, and no intercourse."
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The three women are familiar with Langzhong and his wife, and a woman with a colorful headscarf on her head said worriedly, "The Royal Hospital is full of people, and our sisters have several diseases that are not visible, and it is good to go to the Royal Hospital to see a doctor, but from Nanyang to the Americas, the money that the sisters earned in the pigeon cage for two years has been spent, and each person is only left with a pair of silver jewelry given by Grandma when they went to Nanyang, and there is indeed no extra money." ”
"Sister, you and Xiangqiao are good sisters, Xiangqiao didn't have to take care of you when she was in Nanyang, if you don't have enough money, there is it in the pharmacy, and your illness has been dragging on, I asked Xiangqiao to take twenty taels of silver for you to see a doctor first, and then take it from here if the money is not enough."
After Lang Zhong finished speaking, he shouted to the courtyard behind the pharmacy, "Xiangqiao, go to the account room to pay twenty taels of silver, Alan and the three of them are in a hurry." ”
"Alas, the master, I'll go get it."
There was a sound of response in the courtyard, and later, the woman wrapped a few ingots of silver in a handkerchief and handed it to the three women, "Sister Qiulan, it is important to see a doctor, you and the two sisters have just been married for less than two months, and the most important thing is to take care of your body, and besides, this is not Nanyang, and few outsiders dare to grit their teeth and gossip." ”
"Alas, sister, you don't know our difficulties, the six sisters in the Nanyang pigeon cage, Sister Gui Chun married a Chinese worker Congliang in the Nanyang, and then her man listened to a few words of the neighbor chewing his tongue, beat Sister Gui Chun, Sister Gui Chun was ashamed, and committed suicide by running to the beam behind the pigeon cage alone, Sister Aju was weak, and on the way to the Americas, she was sick and gone, and the remaining four of our sisters went to the Americas, and they all found someone to marry, although the honest duty of the head of the family was born as a coolie, But I didn't beat and scold my sisters, I was afraid that I would finally become good, and then I would be gossiped by others and spread to the ears of the master, then I would have no face to live. ”
Listening to the other party's words in the ears of Langzhong's wife, her face couldn't help but show a bit of bitterness and sadness.
When the woman was more than ten years old, her family was poor, and her parents sold her to traffickers in Yangcheng, and later sold to Nanyang, and fortunately met her husband who worked during the day and treated the Chinese at night. But the fingering of some Chinese around, still made her feel ashamed and inferior, every day to see his wife depressed and depressed, Lang chose to sell a little land and house purchased in Nanyang, with all the property close to him, immigrated to South America by transport ship, South America Han is full of Chinese who have migrated from all over the country, changed a new environment, no one knows his wife's previous experience, his wife's mentality is slowly getting better, and with the wife giving birth to her first child, more and more Chinese people come to Lang Zhong for medical treatmentFrom groping and summarizing the experience of treating patients to becoming famous, Lang Zhong also came to Chang'an City with the migrated people not long ago, preparing to start a new stage of life at the feet of the Son of Heaven.
The influence of clan forces and traditional culture on the Chinese people is deep-rooted, and the stubborn feudal disease of favoring sons over women and disrespecting women is still left to a great extent in the Han Kingdom; in the 10 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, more than 100,000 Chinese have emigrated to South America every year, and efforts to correct and improve backward and bad habits have been going on, but there is still a big gap between Li Mingyuan and the ideal country that Li Mingyuan expected.
The ban on drowning and discarding newborn babies, and the fact that newborn female babies can receive government incentives of 5 acres of arable land or 30 acres of mountainous land like male babies, are all for several common purposes: to encourage childbearing, to change the traditional bad habits of preference for sons, and to eliminate the mortality rate of newborn female babies.
In order to enforce these policies, local governments have severely punished a number of families who have abandoned their girls without permission, ranging from ordering parents to take back abandoned girls and imposing a fine of considerable amounts, while in serious cases that lead to the death of female babies will be treated as criminal cases, and the parents and others involved will be fined and imprisoned for several years, or the land granted to them by the government will be withdrawn and assigned to the African colonies to reclaim the wasteland.
Compared with South America, the environment of the African colonies is harsh, and the two problems of high temperature and disease alone take at least 100 Chinese lives every year, and they are accustomed to the suitable and cool climate and environment of the La Plata area.
With the verdict of more than 1,000 similar cases in the first few years, the phenomenon of preference for sons over daughters in the Han State has been greatly improved, although the monogamy system has not been publicly discussed and implemented because it is too advanced, but the number of concubines is limited, wives and concubines are given equal status in the law, and ordinary people can only marry three women as wives at most. Except for a small number of businessmen like Lin Yaxiang, who did not know how to restrain themselves, and still violated government decrees and took more than three women as concubines, more than 90 percent of the families were monogamous, and the family structure of monogamy accounted for less than 2 percent.
The problem of female abandoned babies has been basically solved, the concept of equal rights for wives and concubines has gradually been recognized by the people, and only the stain of selling their bodies will still be pointed at by the Chinese.
Lang Zhong, Lang Zhong's wife and other five people opened the door, came to the street, pulled an acquaintance and asked, "It's not a festival today, why is it so lively?" ”
"Haha, a great event, Lord Li, who was in charge of our neighborhood just now, sent someone to announce that the British took the initiative to talk to us for peace, and His Royal Highness the King of Han, under the persuasion of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Imperial Court, officially announced the end of the peace talks, before the end of the year, change the Yuan to the emperor!"
The situation on the street was lively and illegal, and many people even did the kneeling etiquette that had long been abolished, and solemnly saluted in the direction of the Chang'an Palace.
"Hey, His Royal Highness the King of Han is called the emperor at the right time, our Han Kingdom is established overseas, and it has nothing to do with the Qing Kingdom, the old name of the rank of the vassal king is not right, now it's okay, the land area of the Han Kingdom is thousands of miles from north to south, the Chinese and whites add up to eight million, the Brazilians and Mexicans have all called the empire, and His Royal Highness the King of Han should also change the emperor!"
"His Royal Highness the King of Han is called the emperor, is that to give amnesty to the world?"
"It's not just an amnesty for the world, His Royal Highness the King of Han, no, it should be His Majesty the Emperor."
Xiao Yingying, the shopkeeper of the grocery store adjacent to the pharmacy, said, "His Majesty the Emperor is much more generous than the Tartar Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and it has spread on the street, and since His Majesty ascended the throne and changed the Yuan Dynasty, all South American Chinese, whether they have arrived a year ago or just now, have all obtained official Han nationality." ”
"Not only that, Master Li also said that after the Yuan change, each family will be exempted from five acres of land, and unmarried Chinese can also be given another one to two acres of land per person,"
"There are four people in my family, and then five acres of land, which adds up to 30 acres, I want to go back and discuss with my mother-in-law to see which wasteland outside the city is in a good location, and settle down early!"
It was the first time that the Chinese people had encountered the good thing of distributing land for free, and only Li Mingyuan had the determination and conditions to take advantage of the expansion of the new territory and the sparsely populated land of the Han Kingdom to distribute land as a welfare.