Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 322 The biggest enemy
After Zhao Xin heard about this, he asked the quartermaster of the third regiment to take hundreds of catties of food and leave it to these women and children. As a result, the villagers in Xiaogenzhan were very surprised by Beihai's move, so they went to Beihai's camp together. Bow and thank you outside the camp.

When Bei Haijun set off again two days later, there were more than [-] women holding children behind the team, and they couldn't persuade them to leave.After I sent someone to ask, I found out that the husbands of these women had been killed in previous battles, and now their homes were also destroyed. Even if they stayed, they wouldn't be able to survive this winter.Although the few hundred catties of grain can solve the emergency, what can we do later?
The women felt that since the Beihai Navy had kindly provided them with food, there might be a way to survive if they followed suit.As for hatred?Maybe there is resentment, but it is good to be able to survive and raise children these years, it is life!

Rural women in island countries in this era are very able to endure hardships. Their thin bodies can even carry a [-]-jin bag of rice for two miles in one go, just for a penny per trip.

(If you are interested, you can go to the movie "Rice Riot", a group of tough women)

The officers of the Beihai Rear Force felt that these women were pitiful, so they asked Zhao Xin for instructions.Zhao Xin said that since they are willing to follow, they should follow.Isn't it just some food, I can help with the logistics and do some chores every day, so I can eat enough.

Two days later, the Jinglei, which was heading north, arrived at the sea outside Dagen.This is the largest outer mountain city stronghold in the Osumi country. It consists of three villages and is guarded by the Toyama clan.There are more than 300 local villagers, and the assembled army is as high as a thousand.

After the vanguard of the Northern Navy landed, after a day of reconnaissance, they launched shelling the next day.The passionate Satsuma warriors were so weak under the continuous artillery fire that they were quickly blown up and fled in all directions.

The Fourth Regiment dispatched two battalions, and after entering the village, they went door-to-door to suppress them.The stone walls, which can resist matchlock iron bullets and bows and arrows, are like window paper under the attack of grenades and explosives. The Satsuma warriors hiding in the courtyard have nowhere to escape from the rain of grenades and dense bullets.

Seeing that the passive defense could only be beaten, the local Toyama clan had no choice but to organize troops to fight to the death again.

Facing the hundreds of warriors and Xiangyong who launched the charge, the machine guns of the Beihai Navy came out.And the street where horses can gallop to defend against foreign enemies suddenly turned into a Shura field, and the Satsuma army who went on to attack one after another fell under the guns, and finally even the machine gunners of the North Navy couldn't bear to fight anymore Shout to the opponent to surrender and stop attacking.

The surviving samurai and Xiangyong were covered in blood, and they sat helplessly among the dead and wounded on the ground.They have been killed and lost their souls. When the soldiers of the Beihai Navy came to collect their weapons, these survivors were like puppets, expressionless and let them be tied up.

Under the powerful offensive of the Northern Navy, the three villages occupied by Dagen fell in one day. The Toyama clan, who knew they were invincible, surrendered to the Northern Navy in desperation to save the local women and children from being slaughtered.

Deng Fei is a very rational person, and the century-old hatred accumulated in another time and space made him unable to vent in this time and space.This kind of emotion is very complicated. He felt that if he ordered the massacre of these captives, then what is the difference between himself and those who hate deeply?
It has been almost five years since he came to the [-]th century. No matter whether he stays here or goes back in a few years, at least in this time and space, he cannot make himself an executioner; and this is also determined by the education he received since childhood .

So Deng Fei just ordered these people to lay down their weapons, and then detained them in several courtyards near the port, and sent military medical personnel to treat the prisoners and injured villagers, and made a decision after Zhao Xin and the others arrived.

Five days later, the coalition forces from Dagenzhan arrived in Tashiro Township.The local samurai who have already learned that Dagenzhan and Dagenzhan have fallen have nowhere to escape. Behind them is the Kyushu Mountains with high mountains and deep valleys.After letting women, children, and the elderly hide in the mountains, the samurai of Tashiro Township and Goyao put up a desperate resistance.

Facing the artillery fire from the Northern Navy and the fierce attack from the Sendai Domain, the remaining Satsuma warriors withdrew to the local shrine and continued to resist.Yida Village Chang didn't want to keep these people alive, so he ordered the fire to be set on fire.One day later, Tashiro Township was captured.

So far, the Beihai Navy's combat missions in the first phase have all been completed.

As for Beihai Town, which is thousands of miles away, after two consecutive months of rescue operations, Beihai Town has brought nearly 3 hungry people to the rescue.Minzheng resettled 5 people to Whale Bay alone. Except for the [-] people who were sent to Fuldan City, the rest were scattered and resettled in a dozen settlements thirty miles north of Beihai Town.

In the past two months, except for those who were busy with the construction of a few industrial projects, Chen Qingsong had arrested the rest of the cross-travelers. He took a group of half-grown children from administrative schools and elementary schools as assistants, busy with resettling refugees, building houses, receiving tools, distribution of winter food and clothing.

Fan Tong, who had lost weight twice after hard work, felt that he had finally done something meaningful.

Where there is development, there will be obstacles. Those refugees who came to Beihai Town earlier had no worries about food and clothing, and the clan consciousness of ancient farmers began to rise. The old social customs and the laws and regulations of Beihai Town gradually conflicted.

The reason why all of this was noticed by Chen Qingsong and others was because someone threw an anonymous report into the Beihai Town Police Headquarters through the courtyard wall in the middle of the night.

The General Police Department is staffed all day long, so as soon as the report letter wrapped in stones landed, the two security policemen who heard the movement went out to check.After they found the foreign object on the ground, they ran outside the police station to look for it, but there was no one to be seen on the hazy street.

The policeman on duty went back to the house and opened the paper wrapped in the stone. It turned out to be a letter with crooked handwriting and many typos.But when they saw what they wrote, they were shocked.

The person who wrote the letter reported that Li He, a member of the seventh resident group of the fifth resident community in Beihai Town, intended to kill her husband and in-laws with poison, but the murder was attempted.If this is the case, it is just an attempted murder case, but what follows is a bit sensational.

The family surnamed Li came from a village in Zhangde Prefecture, Henan Province. Li He's father-in-law and husband felt that this fact was too embarrassing, so they didn't call the police. Instead, they strangled Li to death, and then transported them outside the town. Secretly buried in the field.In the next few days, when someone asked about Li He, the Li family said that she was weak and recuperating at home.

The most important thing is that the director of the police station in the fifth residential area is also from Zhangde Mansion, Henan. After he knew the situation, he acted as if nothing happened, and secretly concealed the matter.

It is a big deal for police officers to be suspected of knowingly breaking the law!The two security guards didn't dare to make up their minds at all, so they could only wait until the director came to work in the morning.

At present, the boss of the police system in Beihai Town is Katayama from Matsushima Town. This upright police chief has no gray areas in his eyes, and he cannot tolerate even the slightest illegal act. public trust.

Early the next morning, after reading the report letter, Katayama's complexion suddenly became clouded after hearing the reports from the two officers on duty. He immediately sent some of his subordinates to make up and go to the fifth residential area to inquire about the news.

In the afternoon, several plainclothes came back to report that something was wrong with the Li family.The plainclothes first asked a few neighbors what happened to Li's house, but those families kept silent.After that, the two plainclothes went to the shop in the fifth district. After some inquiries, the shop owner said that he hadn't seen the Li family's daughter-in-law for several days; Shi, but these days it is her mother-in-law who comes here.

Katayama listened to the report, and then called the head of the security police of the fifth district to the police station during dinner under the pretext of holding an important meeting.The chief of the public security police was once a "veteran". During the Battle of Fuldan City, an arm was knocked off by the Qing army's shells. After recovering from the injury, he was assigned to the public security police system.

Faced with Katayama's severe interrogation, the director finally revealed the truth. It turned out that the Li family came from the same village as him.After the incident, the old man of the Li family approached him for help, but he kept it a secret for the sake of his fellow villagers.

Katayama slapped the table angrily after hearing this, and said angrily, "I think you've lost your mind! Why didn't you report what you knew? Do you know what kind of behavior this is?!"

"Director, this kind of thing used to be something that the people didn't raise officials and didn't investigate in my hometown. Women didn't obey women's morals, and they were dragged directly to the ancestral hall and locked up to starve to death."

"How can you be sure that Li Ho intended to murder his husband and in-laws?"

"Several neighbors around knew about this. After Li He's poisoning was discovered that day, he chased his family with a kitchen knife like crazy, and couldn't stop him. Later, her son came back from school and cried and called his mother. , and then stopped."

"What poison did she poison?!"

"Rat poison."

Katayama thought about it, and felt that this fact was strange, so why did Li He have such a big hatred for his family?Let's live a good life, but why do you want to kill your father-in-law and mother-in-law?

"What's wrong with the Li family?"

"I don't know about this matter. Commissioner, old man Li saved my father's life, so I just..." The director bowed his head before finishing his sentence.

At this moment, Katayama was so angry that his face was livid. He ordered the director to be taken away and imprisoned, and then he ordered the four members of Li's family and several neighbors to be arrested and brought to justice immediately.

After a whole night of tossing and interrogation, the truth of the matter was finally found out, and the cause of all this surprised the security police in charge of the interrogation!
"What? Drowning baby!!!" Katayama felt like his scalp was about to explode.In the rural areas of the island country in the Edo period, there was also the phenomenon of drowning and infants, called "Jianyin", which was mainly caused by insufficient rations, and it was also a passive resistance of farmers to the ruler when they had no hope of life.

"Yes, director. This is the interrogation transcript, please read it. That woman is so pitiful!"

The public security police in charge of the interrogation put the interrogation transcript on Katayama's table. At this moment, his eyes were red, and he didn't know whether it was because he didn't sleep all night, or because he felt deep sympathy after knowing what happened to the victim.

In Chinese history, the custom of "drowning babies" has been popular for a long time.The cruelty of the means is a serious violation of human relations.Even those defenders of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties denounced this behavior countless times.

However, in the society of the Qing Dynasty, due to various reasons, many people showed spiritual insensitivity to the cruel act of drowning newborn girls. Instead of condemning it, they followed it, causing the phenomenon to intensify. Cause people's behavior and spirit to become increasingly perverse.

In this era of Chinese folk, not only families of the poor class are prevalent, even families of the rich class are also popular.For example, in the notes of the Qing Dynasty, it was recorded that "if a husband is in a rich family, if he is worried about having many daughters, it will be difficult to marry, or if he is worried about having daughters, he will be late in men. Lin, it’s not like he didn’t know what’s wrong and did it again.”

In the history of another time and space, this social phenomenon continued to prosper along with the substantial increase of China's social population and the increasing poverty of the society, resulting in a serious imbalance in the proportion of population.It has led to many problems such as marriage disputes, abduction and buying of women, child brides, destruction of traditional clan relations and marriage systems, sexual assault, prostitution, and social order instability.

In the Qing Dynasty, the behavior of drowning infants lasted for more than 200 years, and even continued into the period of the Republic of China.

"The victim, Li He, was 27 years old when he died. According to our investigation, Li He married into the Li family, and later gave birth to the first child, which is the current boy of the Li family. After that, he gave birth to two children. The second child was not kept, and the third child was a baby girl who was drowned because she couldn't survive.

In the 50th year of Qianlong's reign, a catastrophe struck Henan. The Li family fled from Zhangde Mansion all the way to northern Jiangsu, and arrived in Beihai Town in October of that year.In November last year, Li He gave birth to another baby girl at home. Li Laohan and Li Youcai father and son felt that the baby girl was useless and would only consume food, and would have to pay a dowry when she grew older.And as a mother-in-law, Li Zheng did not stop her."

As Katayama told Chen Qingsong and others about the case, the faces of the time travelers in the conference room were gloomy, especially Director Liu Siting, tears streaming down his face.

"Since Li Youcai and Old Man Li secretly buried the body, Li He's spirit has become abnormal. According to the results of the interrogation of several neighbors, Li He has become distraught since then, sometimes alone Going to the wild to call her own child, every time it was her mother-in-law or Li Youcai who brought her home.

On August 27, Li He went to a store in the residential area to buy half a catty of rat poison, and told the store clerk that there was a nest of mice in the house.We do have a lot of rats here, and people often buy rat poison, so no one cares.

On September [-]rd, while her son was going to school, Li He cooked a pot of porridge for the family at noon, but her mother-in-law saw her pouring rat poison into it, so she told Li Youcai.Li Youcai knew that his woman's mind was abnormal, but he still beat up Li Heshi and tied him up again.After that, Li He broke free from the bondage, picked up a kitchen knife, and yelled that he would hack all of Li's family members to death.Fortunately, her son came back from school to stop her, so she dropped the kitchen knife.

On the afternoon of September [-]th, Li He made a fuss again, and in a fit of rage, Li Youcai strangled Li He to death.Afterwards, after the father and son discussed it, they carried Li He to the field overnight and buried him."

"Crack!" Chen Qingsong slammed the table and shouted angrily, "Stop reading!"

Hong Tao raised his head and asked Katayama, "Who wrote the report letter, have you found out?"

Pianshan said sadly: "It's Li Wang, the son of Li He. When he came home from school, he found his mother had disappeared. Li Youcai lied to him and said that he was sent to the hospital. Li Wang quietly went to the hospital the next day, but there was no one there. The family asked his grandmother. No one in the family told the child, so the child became suspicious. A few days later, the child accidentally overheard Old Man Li discussing with his wife at night, so he knew what was going on."

Chen Qingsong got up abruptly, pushed away the chair under him, walked a few steps in a daze, and said sadly: "If the drowned girl doesn't lift up, the old habits won't change! It's all right if you don't have enough to eat during the famine, why are you full now?" Even if you dress warmly, it still looks like this?"

After finishing speaking, he took out a cigarette from the cigarette case in front of Wu Anan, lit it and took a few deep breaths, trying to calm down his terrible mood.

After a long time, Hong Tao said: "Speaking of which, our medical system is also responsible for this matter. Now some residents are afraid of spending money and dare not go to the hospital, and they just give birth at home. It seems that in the future, the residential area and the medical system must jointly prevent and control. Pregnant women are registered and medical personnel must be present when giving birth."

Lao You, the principal of the elementary school, said: "Li Wang can write a letter to report, which shows that our education is still effective."

Chen Qingsong stubbed out his half-smoked cigarette, and said to everyone present: "It's far from enough! In fact, I, like everyone else, didn't realize how difficult it is to transform an old era! Ladies and gentlemen, our enemies are not only full Qing Dynasty, these ugly bad habits that have lasted for hundreds of years or even thousands of years are our biggest enemy. Even if the Northern Navy sent troops into the pass and defeated the Qing Dynasty, if these ugly bad habits are not overthrown, everything we do now will be castles in the air! "

A few days later, when Zhao Xin returned to Jinglei and learned about it from the telegram, he thought hard for a long time, and sent Chen Qingsong a 25-character telegram:

The imperial power does not come down to the county, but only the clan under the county, and the clan is self-governing, self-government depends on ethics, and ethics creates squires!
　The rulers of the Qing Dynasty have paid attention to the issue of drowning women since the middle period of Shunzhi.Wei Yijie, the censor of Zuodu, once had four things about the prohibition of "vulgarity of drowning women": "The first is that "in Fujian, Jiangnan, Jiangxi and other places, there are many practices of drowning women, and it is cruel to destroy others. Rescue the strict and enforce the prohibition, so as to make a better life. "So Shunzhi issued an edict: "The vulgarity of drowning women is extremely detestable, and the ban on leather is strictly enforced." "This is the Qing government began to pay attention to the problem of drowning girls, and issued a ban for the first time. During the Yongzheng period, it was ordered that the Yuyingtang should be implemented in large cities and densely populated places across the country. On the [-]th day of May in the sixth year of Yongzheng, Zhu Gang, the governor of Fujian, wrote in Zhu's comments There are "different people who have heard about this wind in Hunan, and the prohibition of the covenant has not been extended to three times. In the Qianlong period, according to the request of the Ministry of Rites, Qianlong approved that the case of drowning an infant should be "handled according to the law of killing offspring", and "neighbors of the clan should not hinder it, and it should be punished according to the law of knowing that murder is not impeded." The regulations to deal with the infant drowning problem have the force of law. However, in the actual implementation process, it is difficult to solve the problem under the rule of law due to the constraints. Because "the malice of infant drowning is in the house, and it is inconvenient to investigate. "The drowning is either for the baby's close relatives, or with the permission and cooperation of the close relatives. It is impossible to prevent it. The specific environment makes it difficult to investigate and enforce the law.

　　
　
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