Chapter 330: Patrolling the Border
[It's the Qixi Festival, I wish everyone, the singles are off the list early, there are people, whether they are married or not, they are all harmonious and beautiful, happy and happy]
One hundred and forty-two years of Ming Chongzhen, June 24. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The entire streets and alleys of Lushan were put under martial law, and countless soldiers with loaded guns appeared in the streets and alleys. In the morning, a whining trumpet sounded from the city, first a large group of soldiers of the Guards Brigade wearing iron armor opened the way, then a selected team of 100 horsemen, and then the second time after Chen Ming returned to Lushan, Lu Gong relied on.
The officers and soldiers of the Guards Brigade who were holding crossbows, swords and shields, bows and arrows, and ......, as well as my staff, ritual knives, standing melons, lying melons, bone flowers, golden round umbrellas, red round umbrellas, green round fans, red round fans, and other utensils, walked by in the middle of countless people with solemn faces. Although this guard of honor is seen from Chen Ming's own eyes, how do you look at it, it feels a little coke. This kind of thing really doesn't match the thinking of modern people.
Chen Han followed the Ming system, Chen Ming's style is the prince's son, the first time he put out the honor guard of Lu Gong was when Chen Hui was the king, this time the honor guard was put out, not for other things, but to inspect the battlefield.
Chen Ming is going to go around the northern and eastern lines, he is not going to inspect as the 'Governor of the World's Soldiers and Horses', this identity must be relegated to second place at this moment, and the first place is Lu Gong. Chen Ming went to the battlefield as Lu Gong to comfort the soldiers, accompanied by his main palace lady Li Xiaomei. Xiao Chen Ding was sent to Gao to take care of him for a few days.
This guard of honor mobilized hundreds of people, both front and back. Chen Ming rode on an elephant chariot, the prince of the Ming Dynasty took the prince of the same dynasty, and Chen Hui made himself a crown prince's golden chariot. The prince's golden bridle, one zhang two feet two inches high, eight feet nine inches wide. It is one foot nine feet five inches long. The seat is three feet two inches high. The prince's elephant chariot is six inches lower than its high-eyed golden chariot, and its breadth is reduced by one foot. Yuan Chang looked at the big wheel and reduced it by one foot. The seat is three feet high, and the rest of the decoration is the same as the gold bridle.
Chen Ming is actually riding a large four-wheeled carriage, pulled by four horses, there are doors in front, left and right, except for the gauze covered by the window is covered by movable steel plates, that is, the glass window can be covered with opaque gauze first, and then the steel plate pushed to the top of the window is put down inside, and there is a reverse buckle at the bottom, but in general, the degree of solidity is slightly weaker, which is worse than the three doors. In other places, there are iron plates that are an inch old under the wood.
In the 18th century, it was arguably the most fortified carriage in the world.
In Lushan City, it is impossible for Chen Ming to close the windows, otherwise he and Li Xiaomei will both wear crown dresses and dresses, and they will sit seriously, who will they look at?
Although they came out like this, they did not delay the Fu Han Army being scolded as a grass platform team at all, especially after Chen Hui became the king, which caused the 'whole world' to scold, and for a while, even the P picture of Old Master Kong was put in the limelight, and this 'Youyou Crowd' could not be ended because of Chen Ming's bright appearance. But if you don't show up when it's time to show up, that's not okay either.
Chen Ming is not very interested in this set, but in this environment, you have to adapt to it, and when you are not able to change it. Just like some of the episodes that were common in urban web novels in the previous life, the protagonist went to a Western restaurant wearing pants and a vest and big slippers, and then slapped his face, slapped his face, slapped his face, and slapped his face, that is because he is the protagonist, he can hit people's faces, he is very awesome, very awesome. He changed the 'rules' awesomely. But what if he didn't make a fortune? What about when he was still a pure ** silk? Can he slap someone in the face and force a supporting actor to find chopsticks for him in a Western restaurant?
In the final analysis, it is still a question of strength.
When you can't change the environment, you have to try to adapt to the environment, as long as you still remember the original belief in your heart, and don't be completely soaked by the environment you adapt to.
Chen Ming's guard of honor did not do much as a side car, such an elephant was useless except for bombarding with cannons, no matter how large-caliber the gun was. And in this big elephant chariot, Chen Ming hugged Li Xiaomei is enough to splash and roll.
The guard of honor went out of the north gate of Lushan, and there was a guard of honor playing the trombone standing on the city wall, and the trombone horn was tied with big red silk flowers. The escort troops that had been waiting outside the city immediately joined the guard of honor. There were no cannons in the ranks, six full old battalions, a water of musketeers, a guard brigade, two hundred guards, three hundred horses, plus the soldiers of the guards brigade and the accompanying servants who were added as honor guards, the whole team could have as many as 5,000 people.
Ten miles out of the county seat, Chen Ming changed his crown clothes, and the whole person was already sweating profusely, and everything in his middle coat was soaked with sweat.
Too many people gathered around the city, and each person was on a stove, and it was still very hot. The ice basin on the car could only be turned into ice water.
Li Xiaomei also changed out of her dress, and the whole person looked angry. Chen Ming could see that she was a little distracted, of course she understood that it was because she had left her son, so he brought her a thick stack of books from the drawer of Duobao Pavilion, "If you are idle and bored, just look at this." "This trip is less than half a month, more than a month, and today is the first day.
""Golden House Zangjiao", "Tanuki for the Prince", "Mulan Ci", "Liang Zhu", "Hairpin Phoenix", "The Legend of the White Snake", "Mother-in-law's Tattoo", "Qin Liangyu" ......"
Li Xiaomei saw the cover of the top of the stack of books for the first time with "Mulan Ci" printed on it, and spread out the thick stack of books: "These are all songs?" Picking it up, Li Xiaomei asked suspiciously. Chen Ming has so many things to deal with every day, do you still have time to read the music book?
No matter how thin this book is, it is not a new book that has just been printed, and some of the notes on it are obviously the words left by Chen Ming.
"You can't always act in braids and propaganda dramas every day, you have to mix in other things and adjust the taste." Chen Ming's eyes stayed on the Golden House Zangjiao and the Tanuki for the Prince, these two songs were carefully compiled by him, "The Golden House Zangjiao" was entrusted to historical facts, and then evolved, not scandalizing the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty at all, the scandalization was the princess Guantao, and the ambitious Wang Zhi, who abandoned her husband and daughter and went to the palace, which must have had a great impact on the people in the Manchu Dynasty. Chen Ming wants to set off the fact that Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty in the song book does not care about the fact that his little wife is wrong, so as to faintly stimulate the concept of 'widow observance', which has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow of modern China.
It's the same with "Tanuki for the Prince". That Liu E is also married, although the song is a folklore, but what stands out is also the 'stain' of the Empress Dowager Liu.
This is all Chen Ming's careful thinking. During his sweep of Jiangnan, he saw the so-called chastity archway in too many places, and heard more than one 'story': the man and woman were engaged, and then the fiancé died, and then the girl who did not marry in the past held the tablet and married to the dead fiancé's family, and since then she has been widowed in her husband's house and supported her parents for her dead fiancé.
But Chen Ming asked people to inquire about the details of those families, almost every family has more than one son, and the parents of that family are not short of people to support, but they just ruined a woman's life for a reputation.
This kind of thing makes people feel bad when they see it.
Chen Ming from the 21st century has too much conflict with the people of this time and space at this point, there is a saying in the previous life, it is good to say that virgins have to go to kindergarten to find them. Although this is obviously exaggerated and distorted. But if he didn't do something about it, he felt uncomfortable.
Chen Ming didn't say anything on his face, he didn't say a word of praise or disapproval, even though he definitely didn't like to see this kind of thing in his heart. However, things will not change just because he said a word, there is Jiangnan, the place where the literary style is at its peak, and it is naturally also the place where cynicism and patriarchal rituals are rampant.
Chen Ming later talked to Wang Huizu about this incident, and Wang Huizu told him a story, which happened in Jiangnan.
It was still the time of the Manchu Dynasty, not far from their home Xiaoshan, a town was pulled by the Qing army passing south to Fujian, and many men never returned, and the town was full of widows and unmarried women. At that time, there were few people, and the local government encouraged those women to marry, but many young widows who had no children and women whose fiancés had died committed suicide in order not to marry.
Chen Ming felt unbelievable, how could these women's 'consciousness' be so high? As a result, Wang Huizu told him that many of those who died were quietly killed by their parents and clansmen, and then reported suicide.
Whoever dies, all the families and clans rejoice; Whoever marries someone will never recognize each other again.
In the ponds or rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, there are all ghosts who have died unjustly. can hold the tablet to marry, but this woman is still alive. It has added glory to both families, and if they can endure it, most of them will have a good death.
So, there are too many things in this era that Chen Ming is not used to, tangible and intangible, and the latter is more troublesome and difficult than the former. It was so troublesome that Chen Ming didn't dare to touch those things easily, so he could only beat the side drum in some small and lax aspects.
Wang Huizu's words made Chen Ming's head at that time flood with a lot of old memories, he remembered where he had seen, "martyrdom", "festival woman", since ancient times, but in the Tang Dynasty there were less than 100 people, in the north and south of the Song Dynasty less than 300 people, in the Ming Dynasty there were 40,000 people, to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, only which county in Anhui, he forgot the name, there were more than 2,000 people in a county.
Think about it, the numbers here are only recorded by the government, and the real numbers of the people are much more than the official figures, and if there are three, five, and ten times as many women as many as they have not been recorded, how amazing this number is.
"Driving ......"
Coming out of the elephant's chariot, Chen Ming turned over the horse, beat the horse and ran for three or five miles, and let out a long breath of depression, and his mood improved. In this 18th-century China, there are too many things that are not satisfactory. In the future, Chen Ming's overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was just a battlefield, and sweeping away those invisible frames and breaking those invisible shackles was his second battlefield.
In the 21st century, countless people are saddened by the declining world in China, morality is declining, and everything is looking at money. It is natural to think that the 'simplicity' and 'high morality' of the Chinese people in ancient times are beautiful, but they will not see that the 'ancient style' is accompanied by the rules and regulations in ancient times.
If you just want to be a gentleman who eats, drinks and has fun, of course, it is easy, but if you want to be a great man who has achieved great things, you will inevitably touch all aspects of society. The time-traveler will have thousands of different choices when faced with this choice. If a person with a good heart is like Chen Ming, he will involuntarily substitute himself as a subversive to destroy this 'ancient' 'ancestral family law'. It's just that now he still keeps his brain clear, and he knows a lot of things that he has to endure for the time being...... (To be continued.) )