Chapter 88: Social Climate
Back in the room, Song Haiping couldn't help but think of today's social atmosphere, the atmosphere at this time is the thousand-year-old prime minister's seven-grade official system, although the status of the sedan chair man is not as good as the doorman, but he is also a person who can deliver words. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info for those adults, belong to the category of their own family or house slaves.
In this era, the term domestic slave is not a derogatory term, and Qing ministers are proud to be called slaves. Between courtiers and minions, the emperor is naturally more inclined to his own minions, like the famous Nian Qianyao in the Qing Dynasty, who was born as a slave in the Yongwang Mansion.
During the more than 200 years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the Mongolian and Manchurian people fought for themselves to be the emperor's slaves.
As for the Hanchen officers, their own soldiers, menzi, palanquin drivers, grooms, housekeepers, wet nurses, maids, etc. are also their own minions. Those who have a way out of the slaves have to reach out to make money, and those who have no way to have a monthly money and do not have to worry about food and clothing. It's no wonder that the five children in the Dream of Red Mansions are not born beautiful and are not under the attack, but they also want to break their heads to join the public institution of Daguanyuan as a slave.
At this time, women in society only have two chances to change their fate, the first is to reincarnate, and the second is to marry. In Dream of Red Mansions, Wu'er and Raider are trying to save the country from the upward path of the slave - the maid who fills the house - the aunt (half of the master), but unfortunately both of them failed in the book.
Song Haiping felt that it was not good to come up with a name, and you see that Miss Li Wanji was half the success, and now she is waiting for her belly to be an aunt - if her belly is big, it will be a tragedy, and everyone understands what happens to the hens raised in the farmhouse who can't lay eggs.
There is only one in ten thousand people in this world who can cast a good fetus, and it is no wonder that he said to Lord Yama in a joke that he wanted to cast in a family where there are thousands of acres of fertile land, and his father and brother are all high-ranking officials of the imperial court, and the mother and son are filial to the family. As a result, he was scolded by the king of Hades: If there are such good people, our family has already gone to reincarnation, and what is the king of Hades who is still here.
Like today's Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, although they also have Jinshi backgrounds, there are many people from Jinshi backgrounds, and the current status of these two people is really killed with one knife and one shot in the suppression of the peasant uprising -- according to folk sayings, it is the blood-red top of the corpse mountain and the sea of blood and real guns.
If you want to marry someone to change your fate, this thing is even more unsafe, although there are people who have a prosperous family in these years, and there are also those who have fallen. Although in the 21st and 22nd centuries, a large number of people began to advocate the benefits of blind marriage and dumb marriage in feudal society, but it was because of the feminist movement and the emancipation of women caused by some excessive elements that added a large number of green tea to the society - the first generation of green tea was originally a small star in Shanghai and acted in a few unpopular plays, but such a liberated green tea once took power, I don't know how many people in the world have suffered.
Not to mention, in this world, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, marriage and marriage are all about these four words. Although Lin Zexu and others are also known as the masters of the farming and reading heirlooms, they will not marry their daughters to the yeoman farmers near their hometowns, but they are all married to those officials who are also known as the cultivators and heirlooms, forming a huge network of in-laws.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the in-laws of the Han people were no less powerful than the Internet in later generations. Because of the imperial decree not to go to the countryside, it can even be said that the landlord army composed of these people is the real ruler of China. Even during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese could not ignore the local landlords' armed forces or pull or fight, and in the later stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were even examples in Shandong where Japanese soldiers had nothing to sell after selling their military funds because of insufficient supplies, and sold themselves to local landlords as long-term workers.
During the war, the troops were mainly concentrated on the front battlefield, and some counties in the large rear areas of China's ruling areas even had only one squad or even a squad of devils, and in terms of armed strength, they were really not the opponents of the local landlords' armed forces. If you want to rob by force, you can't tell who will rob whom.
That is to say, if you marry, the powerful will have a chance to have a happy life, and if a poor family marries a poor family, or even changes relatives, it is inevitable that you will still suffer from poverty.
Speaking of changing relatives, in the old society the bride price was high - there is a way to have a woman in a thousand families, if the unmarried woman's figure and face have a middle and upper level, the amount of the bride price at that time was also sky-high, although there is no specific number, but at that time the society was nothing more than a few cows - to the Americas people only know that there are many cattle here no one wants, and millions of bison in the American wilderness inhabit the land like this.
Therefore, the exchange of relatives is a very common means. However, it is conceivable how poor families who can't even earn a bride price are, so changing relatives is often the beginning of family tragedy.
The stubborn disease of the old Chinese society was the power of the monarchy, the power of the clan, and the power of the husband. Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang held the most advanced productive forces, and it took ten years for them to reluctantly overthrow China's monarchy with a group of representatives of the Han landlord armed forces and today's socialist Japan.
If you want to attack the clan and the husband's power, I don't know how many more people will die. The birth of clan power is because the officialdom of the old society is too dark - the gate of the yamen has been justified since ancient times, and it is not possible to solve the problem of satisfying the vampires of the yamen with a little legal fee.
The people of the clan huddled together for warmth because of their blood relationship, and it was also to fight against the dark forces of the government. Many small disputes were resolved by themselves in the clan, and it was better to go to the government to fight a lawsuit for everything, and it would be better for everyone to hang themselves together.
Of course, there is a dark side in the clan, but there is light and darkness in this world, and pure evil and pure justice have been proven to never exist - just like a certain web writer Dongfang Sheng, because he was educated since he was a child, he has always done good deeds without leaving a name, but he forgot to keep a diary. So no one has ever issued him a good guy card until now, and of course, the good guy card is no longer a commendable thing.
As for the husband's power, someone who has thousands of Chinese and foreign beauties as house-filling maids has selectively forgotten about it. In fact, the issue of women's liberation, historically, should start from the economy, and women can only have female independence if they are financially independent. Otherwise, the feminist movement becomes a pimp for the liberation of women's bodies.
This society requires women to starve to death rather than stumble, of course, this is a moral benchmark, and often few people can do it - that is, some gentry families are more strict, but these families are also hungry, and often forbid widows in the family to remarry and receive court rewards or other tax deductions. Otherwise, there would not be a large number of stumbling women in various places doing jokes and skin and meat business.
In the final analysis, it is for the sake of economic interests, and now the imperial court has no way to manage this part, and of course the governors and magistrates who spend money to take the throne will not reduce taxes for the sake of commending widows, so it is common for widows to remarry, and it has become a new thing for young widows to observe festivals.
Pushing down the unpleasant whole thing and starting over, although Song Haiping barely has this ability, the cost of doing so is too great, and the future is uncertain. I still decided to take it step by step, and besides, if someone is willing to be a slave, it is also their own business, and there are not a few cases of invisible dedication and white gloves in later generations.