"Ahh Thousands of miles away in the study of Suzhou Xiwangfu, Xiao Yungui sneezed heavily, he rubbed his big nose, and muttered, "Who is talking about me?" Say I'm good luck, say I'm not lucky. ”

Hong Yun'er behind the bookcase stopped the red pen, and said with a slight smile: "You are still so cautious, just sneezing, and you still refuse to suffer." ”

Xiao Yungui raised his head and looked at Hong Yun'er, got up and walked from his desk to Hong Yun'er's bookcase, and dialed the kerosene lamp wick gear on the bookcase, the light of the kerosene lamp suddenly brightened a lot, and said in his mouth: "Wife, when will you be able to deal with so many affairs, I am just bored and venting a few words." ”

Hong Yun'er supported herself with one hand, looked at the piles of official documents on her desk and Xiao Yungui's desk, and sighed lightly: "Yes, it turns out that when you govern the people, your days will no longer be your own, and it will become everyone's." Take your time, husband. ”

Xiao Yungui looked at Hong Yun'er's pretty face, his heart was hot, he came to the side of Hong Yun'er's delicate body, his body was tightly attached to Hong Yun'er's back, he hugged Hong Yun'er from behind, and whispered in Hong Yun'er's shell-like jade ear with a big mouth: "Wife, why don't we rest first, I haven't made love for a few days by slamming the door." ”

Hong Yun'er's pretty face flushed, her delicate body twisted slightly, pushed him away and said, "Don't make trouble, these official documents are very urgent, I'll finish it first." And tomorrow you and I will meet with some representatives of county guards, county magistrates, and township officials in various places, so let's spare some energy to deal with them. Seeing Xiao Yungui's disappointed look, Hong Yun'er smiled coquettishly, and then said in a low voice: "And my body is not convenient, then, that one is here......"

Xiao Yungui screamed miserably, slapped his head and said, "I hate your eldest aunt, she is so punctual every time!" After speaking, he gently kissed Hong Yun'er's pretty face. Then he turned around and went back to his desk, and said as he walked: "Tomorrow's things really need to be well prepared, the resistance to the new deal is still very great, although we can barely rely on the violent machine of the government to promote, but many local township officials and county orders have also petitioned many times, saying that there are local clans and rich gentry who are still very resistant to the new deal, and some places in Suzhou and Shanghai are still resisting the construction of railways. There are also those scholars who are not deeply poisoned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they gather in front of the Suzhou School Palace all day long, which is a headache. ”

Hong Yun'er wrote an official document and said: "Xu Shou has gone to the local government to solve the railway matter. It is easy for the people to occupy fields and houses, but the two railways in Shanghai and Suzhou also involve the relocation of some people's ancestral graves, so it is more difficult. In addition, the people are ignorant, and a few ill-intentioned charlatans spread rumors among the people, saying that this railway will tie up the earth and the earth. The people are superstitious about these things, which is why they gather to make trouble. ”

Hong Yun'er kept holding the pen in her hand, and continued to say: "I have already asked Qianjiang to help Xu Shou get those Jianghu warlocks." ”

Xiao Yungui was slightly stunned and said, "How can you do it?" Kill them? ”

Hong Yun'er smiled faintly and stopped writing: "Kill their methods at that time." Qian Jiang has already figured out the details of several Jianghu warlocks. What kind of deceptive tricks they played, Qian Jiang's talented people also figured it out. Qianjiang will debunk their tricks in public. Then Qianjiang will find some highly respected monks and feng shui Taoist priests to be present, and the monks will do a few rituals, which can be regarded as protecting the law for the railway, and the feng shui Taoist priests will find a few other feng shui treasures for the people who are buried to move the ancestral tombs. ”

Xiao Yungui couldn't help but laugh and said, "You can figure it out." Enlightening the railway to protect the law is really unprecedented and unprecedented. You're a good idea, since you can't let the people understand what science is and what superstition is for a while. Then fight poison with poison and use superstition to deceive the people. By the way, who are you invited? Do they also support the construction of railways? ”

Hong Yun'er said: "Senior monk, we invited the host of Suzhou Yunyan Zen Temple, Lingzhi Zen Master, to come forward, several feng shui Taoist priests are also famous Taoist priests, and their fame is definitely stronger than those Jianghu warlocks, I want to see who those people believe!" As for the construction of the railway, in fact, Lingzhi Zen Master does not care about these worldly things, the previous Yunyan Temple and we have a good relationship, when the epidemic in Suzhou, we have saved a lot of people, Lingzhi Zen Master still admires us. I went to Lingzhi Zen Master to talk about the railroad in detail, but he just believed that since our Taiping Army could save countless people, we would not mess around with anything that harmed the people. He believes in us, not in the power of railroads. Several other Taoist leaders also meant the same thing, and I also promised them that I would help them set up some Buddhist associations and Taoist associations in the future, and I would also allocate some money to help them, so they were willing to come forward. ”

Xiao Yungui nodded with satisfaction and said, "I can't see it, your united front work is doing a good job." ”

Hong Yun'er followed his words and said with a smile: "Thank you for the leader's compliment." Then he said: "Actually, these ideas were all thought up by Qian Jiang, this person is good, there are many ghost ideas, and he has a wide range of people, and it is rare that he is also delicate, I feel that he is more and more like our underground workers during the Republic of China." ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "Qianjiang's intelligence department is in the Ming Division, in addition to collecting intelligence, the most important thing is to control the place and hand over the united front work to him, it is better for him to control these things." These things can't be done by Bai Zetang, Tong Qiangsheng is still more suitable to be a spy leader in the dark, but this kid is not ruthless enough, and he still needs to be honed. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Yungui paced a few steps and said: "Those troublesome sour and rotten talents are easy to solve, aren't they just dissatisfied with the opening of new schools and the reform of the imperial examination?" We also have a fight against poison with poison, and win over a group of scholars and enlightened people who have a relationship with us, and we use these people to start our neo-Confucianism movement, and completely suppress the enslaved Confucianism of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Well, this matter can also be handed over to Qianjiang to do, and Wang Tao's newspaper is used as a weapon of public opinion, plus Li Shanlan and other university scholars to help, I believe that this wind can be slowly reversed. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Yungui frowned and said: "But there are still a few things that are not easy to deal with, the first is the emancipation of women, women go to school, women take the imperial examination, women participate in politics, and there is even an edict ordering women to let go, the opposition from the people and the gentry is very strong, and it is really rare to see the gentry and the people oppose one thing so together." ”

As the leader of the women's liberation movement in Sufu Province, she also often hears these opposing voices, and the pace of women's liberation in Sufu Province is similar to that of Tianjing, but it is not as fierce and violent as Tianjing. After Hong Xiuquan and others arrived in Nanjing, they issued a full order, and the ban on entanglement was too hasty, so it was almost tyrannical. It is said that after entering Nanjing, in order to promote Tianzu, women with small feet were forced to carry water barefoot, so that the women were so ashamed and indignant that more than 1,000 people committed suicide by jumping into the river and well. In order to force women to put their feet,

"Every one who plunders the slender feet, he will be entangled, cut the belly of the sheep and absorb the blood of the feet, the fingers are stretched out, and the crescent moon will become a lotus boat in an instant, but the blood is hot in the boiling soup, and the pain is deep in the bone marrow, and it is miserable." There are also atrocities in which radical people cut off women's feet with knives. Later, Tianjing's practices became even more tyrannical, and the Tianjing Taiping Army, regardless of the humiliation of the women at that time, forcibly removed the shoes and socks of the foot-bound women in public; In some places, regardless of age, all women who bind their feet have to put their feet down, but in fact it is very difficult for adult women to put their feet after they have been wrapped. In some places, it is unreasonably stipulated that women with bound feet are not allowed to walk on the road; In some places, confiscated bow shoes and foot cloths were hung in the middle of the city, and they were ridiculed and so on. There are also some unrestrained inspectors who violate the law and discipline and extort money. At that time, there were many tragedies of women with bound feet being forced to die.

And Sufu Province is much better, because under the guise of Sufu's new policy, although the Taiping Army of the West Temple also issued a foot release order, the West Temple did not adopt extremely radical punishment methods, but encouraged women to let go of their feet. Hong Yun'er asked the bigfoot sisters in the women's camp to go deep into the people to do women's work, let them boldly go to the streets, encourage women from poor families to go to women's schools, and call on talented women to participate in the imperial examination, instead of blindly solving problems in a violent way.

But Rao is like this, opposition voices from the common people and gentry are still endless, and there have been dozens of conflicts in women's schools, all of which are female students' families who come to the school to forcibly bring their daughters home, and some even beat the teachers, and there are many lawsuits. Although the Zuihou lawsuit is lost by the beater, the one who should lose the money loses, and the one who deserves to go to jail is imprisoned, but the opposition from the entire class of the civil gentry to the foot, women's schooling, women's political participation, and so on is even stronger and greater than the voices of those talents who oppose Western studies. Even among the Taiping military officials, there are many people who believe that since ancient times, women are virtuous if they are not talented, so why make women enter the house, and where to put men's face?

In the face of this fixed mode of thinking that men are superior to women for thousands of years, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er did not have too many ways, the status of women in ancient times was low, and even in later generations, there was gender discrimination, and the two naturally did not think that they could change in one fell swoop, so they could only take their time.

Hong Yun'er sighed lightly and said: "I am also quite powerless about this woman's liberation, some women even think that foot binding is what women should do, and some women even force each other to die, we can't force people to die for liberation, although this is for their good." ”

Xiao Yungui comforted: "This matter can't be done by attacking poison with poison, we still have to follow the good path, let some women let go first, to influence other women, and at the same time, we must let the Public Opinion Department and Wang Tao's newspaper create more momentum, and cooperate with some policy encouragement, such as the women in the family can reduce some taxes if they are full, rely on these to guide and slowly change the status quo." I don't want to slow down the whole New Deal for this. ”

Hong Yun'er sighed and said: "That's the only way, since a few months ago, I let a lot of women and people from our women's camp walk on the street, but I didn't expect that there were few praises and a lot of abuse, and now many women can't help but hide home with the abuse, and a few are insisting." ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and said, "This matter is difficult to do, and we can only rely on the sisters of the women's battalion to do the work slowly." Now there is an even more headache, we used to underestimate the shili of the rural clans, and their existence is also a big factor restricting the new deal! (To be continued......)