Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 542 Huang Zongxi (VII)
One month later

Autumn of the eighth year of Yan State 330 (548)
Pyongyang City

The parliamentary army expanded as it marched along the way. When they arrived in Pyongyang, the number of troops had reached [-].

The total population of Yan State is only a little over 100 million, but on the territory of Yan State, a battle broke out with a total of nearly [-] troops from both sides.

Whether it is the rebel army or the parliamentary army, they are all working hard, and they will not give up until they eliminate each other.

Although the parliamentary army has fewer people, they have better weapons and equipment, while Hou Jing's rebel army has a large number of people, but most of them are Goguryeo people, and their weapons and equipment are very poor.

Moreover, the parliamentary army and overseas plantations continue to provide food and grass logistics supplies. On the other hand, Hou Jing can only rely on burning, killing and looting in Liaodong to maintain logistics. If it is consumed for a long time, Hou Jing will lose.

Considering the complex composition of the parliamentary army, it is not suitable to divide the troops when facing a strong enemy, and it is easy to be defeated individually, so Yan Ji's style of attack is to gnaw hard at each city, step by step, and fight steadily.

The parliamentary army rested in Pyongyang City, preparing to cross the Yalu River (Yalu River) and attack Dahang City (Dandong).

There was a lot of noise in the barracks, and recruits from all over the country reported each other to the Unity Society and were hostile to each other.

Just like the regional factions in the Central Plains, as the Yan Kingdom has been established for a longer period of time, various regional factions have also begun to appear within the Yan Kingdom.

For example, the Liaodong faction, the Korean faction, the Sanhan faction, the South Que faction, the North Que faction, the Ryukyu faction, the North Spice faction, the South Spice faction, and so on.

In comparison, because Liaodong is the capital of the country, and has been in business for the longest time, and it is also a place where rich and powerful businessmen gather, people in Liaodong naturally look down on people from other regions.

Just like in the later Han Dynasty, Yingchuan people looked down on Kanxi people.

Regional discrimination has really existed since ancient times. Basically, rich and educated places look down on poor and uneducated places.

Just now, a fierce quarrel broke out among the chief soldiers of different factions, which eventually turned into a fight.

"What's the matter with them?" Huang Zongxi frowned and asked an officer.

"General, it's like this. Yesterday, a group of soldiers from the Sanhan faction captured more than a dozen young girls in the countryside outside the city and returned to the barracks for lust. As a result, at night, those dozen girls were captured by the Liaodong faction. The officers were conscripted and wanted to be used by their Liaodong colleagues, and early this morning, the soldiers of the Three Hans were not convinced, thinking that the Liaodong soldiers had robbed their women, so they came to quarrel."

The neutral officer spoke truthfully, and there was a sense of gloating in his words. It seemed that he had long been dissatisfied with the overbearing and unreasonable Liaodong soldiers.

Those girls were originally acquired by the soldiers of the Three Hans who went all the way outside the city to snatch them, but the Liaodong soldiers took advantage of their gains and directly recruited them, which is too unfair.

During the march of the army, it is very common in this era to capture women for sexual pleasure nearby.

In the past, Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Zhou Yafu, Wang Mang, Lvlin Army, Red Eyebrow Army, Liu Xiu, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Sima Yi, Shi Le, Shi Hu, Murong Chui, Huan Wen, Liu Yu, Xiao Yan, etc. During the march of the army, whether intentionally or unintentionally, girls from the surrounding countryside would be taken into the barracks along the way to appease the soldiers and officers.

Don't use the moral concepts of later generations to set this era. For the army of this era, it is normal to do this kind of thing, and it is abnormal not to do it.

Don't think that there are really human rights in this era because the monarch occasionally cuts and exempts taxes a few times.

Even during the reign of Wenjing, a famine of small-scale cannibalism would occur every few years, and if it was the late period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty or the period of Wang Mang, it would be even more so every year.

The occasional outpouring of kindness by the shepherd to ease the pain of the lambs does not mean much.

When we feel that corruption is very dark, have you ever thought about such a question, that is, in the Han Dynasty, corruption was not a big deal, and county guards and county magistrates wiped out families and families at every turn.

On the contrary, the Wang family was too honest and cowardly. After serving as the magistrate of the Han Dynasty for so long, they never dared to use their privileges to eliminate other families in Liaodong, only dared to engage in petty theft such as corruption.

When the people of later generations are still complaining about the noise of the army marching and disturbing the people, the army of this era has already begun to burn, kill, loot, rape, torture and kill.

Huang Zongxi reported the matter to Yan Ji, and Yan Ji stood up and dealt with it fairly.

First of all, the Liaodong soldiers forcibly recruited the young girls who were laboriously captured by the friendly army, so each of them took a whip.

Secondly, the soldiers of the Three Hans left the barracks without permission and went outside the city to act alone, which is already a violation of the military order. According to the military order, each of them was whipped three times.

In the end, since the seventeen girls who had been taken captive to the military camp had all come, they might as well be incorporated into military prostitutes and become the public property of the military.

This treatment was very fair, and it was done in full accordance with military law and customary law, so most people were convinced, and the officers also praised Yan Ji's ability to run the army well, with the style of Wu Qi in ancient times.

Yan Ji can live and die with ordinary soldiers, wear the same clothes, eat the same food, eat and sleep with ordinary soldiers, and compete with ordinary soldiers every night. It is a very standard star.

When the soldiers of the State of Wei snatched young girls from the countryside and wanted to give them to Wu Qi, Wu Qi flatly refused, and even used the girls taken by the soldiers as military prostitutes, so that the soldiers could enjoy them, not just the generals. Enjoying the privileges of girls, this kind of fair and just coach who considers the bottom soldiers will naturally bring out a powerful army that can kill all directions.

"The wealth, beauties, and status that everyone wants will naturally be rewarded to you after you have made military achievements, but before that, I need everyone to strictly abide by military orders, not to act without authorization, so as not to be ambushed by the enemy, and not Fighting hurts harmony, we have only one goal, and that is to win!"

Yan Ji gave a speech to the soldiers, and promised that as long as he made military achievements, there would be plenty of rewards, even the beautiful maids around him, could reward meritorious soldiers.

Several maids who were only seventeen or eighteen years old were even pregnant with Yan Ji's child, but they were still promised by Yan Ji as a reward.

This is the same as the aristocratic families in the Central Plains who give their concubines to others as gifts. It is normal in this era. For them, giving a concubine is actually no different from giving a sheep.

The reason why you feel abnormal is that you subconsciously believe that women in this era have human rights. If you understand that they are actually in the same status as pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, you will naturally understand the custom of giving concubines as gifts in this era .

Some people may think that a certain woman is very favored, and her husband and father love her very much, and use this to prove that women in this era have human rights.

This way of proof is inherently wrong. I like my dog, and I don’t want the dog to be injured. Do dogs in this era have human rights?

It is not true freedom to rely on the favor of the superior to be free. It is true freedom to be independent and free from the favor of the superior.

Women's freedom needs to wait until they can devote themselves to public labor and support themselves independently by relying on their own labor. This is the real liberation and freedom, because she can already support herself independently and does not need to rely on a superior By.

The high-ranking person mentioned here refers to the source of authority/economics such as dignitaries, rulers, parents, husbands, etc.

The kind of so-called freedom that relies on the favor of the superior is not free, because once she loses the favor of the superior one day, she will instantly return to the situation of pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, everything about her is others What is given, but cannot be obtained through the production of one's own labor, may naturally be taken back by others at any time.

The same principle applies to ordinary people. He is a complete person when he can rely on his own labor to live. If he can only rely on the rewards of the superior to live, once he is completely separated from the superior, he cannot be independent and free. He is no longer a complete person.

(End of this chapter)