The specific measure of the transfer of private to official offices is to legalize the traffickers in the city by the Xinhui County Ya, of course, in the wording, the county government is definitely not a trafficker, and Liao Zhi County is not **, but the implementation of military marriage methods.

The so-called military marriage method, in short, means that the county government will come forward to marry the daughters (women) of the common people's families to the Taiping Army, and give these women a decent status to ensure that they will not be abused and sold after marriage. As for the families with women married to the Taiping Army, they will all be included in the rear camp and enjoy the same treatment as the families of the Taiping Army. If there are no women in the family who marry into the Taiping Army, the county government will coordinate the rear camp and allocate some from the Taiping Army treasury to live, so that although they cannot be fed, they can also ensure that they will not starve to death.

In the case that the new rations did not actually increase much, Song Xianggong approved this military marriage method, how could he be willing to have a human tragedy full of hunger in Xinhui City, and the previous hard heart was only forced by the environment.

The military marriage method based on the people being forced to choose is essentially depriving those who are "married" of happiness, but now it is the best way. Song Xianggong made it clear, that is, the Taiping army did not starve to death these people, once the Qing army broke the city, the fate of these people was also death, even more terrible than death, there have always been fewer men and women in the Qing military camp, for those women who were pressed and ravaged by countless beasts, death is the happiness they want most. In contrast, a military marriage can be described as a heavenly life.

I can't give these people real happiness, and I can't guarantee their lives, so I can only give them a life that is not so bad.

Zhou Shixiang comforted himself like this

After the news of the military marriage was posted and announced by the county yabang, the silent Xinhui City suddenly became lively. Every day in the five major battalions of the front battalion, unworthy sergeants happily ran to the county government to sign up, and then went to choose their wives under the leadership of those temporary officials.

In order to prevent some unharmonious things, Zhou Shixiang issued a strict order, prohibiting any officer or soldier who had already married a wife from participating in the matter of buying a daughter-in-law, and once it was discovered, he would be severely punished.

In order to prevent the soldiers from losing their duties because they were too happy to marry their daughters-in-law. As a result, the defending force was weakened, and the Qing army picked up the leaks, and Zhou Shixiang formulated some regulations and set some rules. The first thing is to ensure that the number of soldiers on duty in the city will not be reduced as a result. In other cases, according to the previous system, officers and soldiers who were not on duty were allowed to see their families for half a day every three days, and other than that, they had to stay in the barracks at all times, and the offender was severely punished.

In order to make the parents who were forced to "marry daughters" less sad, Zhou Shixiang asked Liao Ruixiang to do the military marriage as decently as possible. Song Xianggong also allocated some red cloth from the public treasury to make the military wedding ceremony as lively as possible.

Officers and soldiers who were willing to marry also went to the county government one by one to pay the fees for their marriages, saying that it was a fee, but in fact it was a bride price. Although the Taiping army practiced the public treasury system, there were rewards for meritorious soldiers in battle, some of them were given silver, and some were given food, cloth, and so on, so these soldiers who married relatives had more or less savings in their hands, and even those who did not have money could borrow from their companions, so that they could borrow from their companions. Those Xinhui people, who would become fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law, naturally received the bride price and filial piety from their sons-in-law. The county government didn't dare to deduct it in this piece, they were all transferred truthfully, and the bride price was not much, all of them were five taels of silver.

Although the silver is useless in the city now, the people have become the families of the Taiping army and have their own rations, and the son-in-law also has subsidies in the army, so the urgent need for food is not so important, so knowing that the five taels of silver are useless, the "parents-in-law" still accepted the son-in-law's filial piety with a smile.

According to the procedures for marrying daughters in the people, the county government came forward to make marriage letters for these new daughters-in-law and their husbands. The guarantee in black and white has reassured many people. There are no sedan chairs in the city, and even if there is, they have already been taken to burn by the Taiping army, so when the army got married. The brides could only walk. Zhou Shixiang only attended the first military wedding ceremony once, and did not show up on the other several occasions, all of which were presided over by Song Xianggong and Liao Ruixiang, and Ge Zheng and Zhao Sihai also participated twice.

The people who don't have daughters at home are envious, and many people have the idea of their mothers-in-law at home, and for a while, the books are full of books. The woman who was originally his wife became the mother-in-law of the Taiping Army in a blink of an eye. This made Zhou Shixiang very emotional, but he couldn't despise those men who sold his mother-in-law, no way, a big family wanted to eat, and relying on the food given by the Taiping Army alone was just barely hanging on to his life, what should I do if the little doll grows into a body? What should I do if the old man is hungry and panicked?

Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong argued again about what treatment their families enjoyed after these retired women joined the Taiping Army, and finally Zhou Shixiang regressed and agreed with Song Xianggong's opinion not to give these people the treatment of the Taiping Army's family members, but the bride price was doubled, and instead of giving silver, they were given one-third more food than the previous rations. There is no way, if they are all included in the rear camp of the Taiping Army, the rations to be allocated will be several times more than before, which makes Song Xianggong, who is always calculating how much food there is still and how long it can last, be willing.

I have to admire the tenacity of the women of the Han family, the women who were divorced did not cry and scream, and they did not even wash their faces with tears, they just reluctantly hugged the children before going out, kept kissing them (them), and kept telling their husbands to raise the baby well. After arriving at the new "husband's house", they are reluctant to eat the food given to them by the new husband, so they only hide the food when the new man is not paying attention, and then find an excuse, even if it is just an excuse to be respectful, they have to sneak out and give the food to the "old husband" who has been waiting for a long time.

In this regard, the "new husbands" did not make a big move, most of them turned a blind eye, and some even took the initiative to ask the woman to take the food back. Of course, there are also a small number of "new husbands" who are very dissatisfied with this behavior and beat and scold women. The incident happened in the back camp, but the party involved was in the front camp, and in the end it could only be handled by Zhou Shixiang. Zhou Shixiang's disposal method was very simple, he gathered the men involved, and did not scold them, but only asked them where they were from, how they lived at home, and what if they didn't have enough to eat.

After some questioning, the soldiers who beat and scolded the women naturally felt guilty, they were all from a bitter background, they had all starved to death at home, and their parents had tried their best to let them eat more, comparing their hearts to their hearts, how they were so ruthless that they beat and scolded those hard-working women.

Just two days after the problem of the survival of the people of Xinhui was solved, Qi Hao brought back a bad news - Sun Kewang and Li Ding's domestic strife. (To be continued.) )