take a wife to support the family

Chapter 441
Today's Ming Dynasty's surname is "Zhu", and Baihe has only heard of "Guo Xing Ye", which is an honor that can only be obtained by those who have made great contributions. This is the first time she has heard of the term "Guo Xing Daughter".

Zhaoren came back from riding a horse, sweating all over from exhaustion. Now he drank some water to relieve his breath, and then told the origin of the "National Girls" in detail--speaking of it, the origin of these girls is still inseparable from a few of them relationship.

In terms of the source, it must be said that when Hezhen was abducted that day, the emperor was furious and rode out everywhere, smashing the human trafficking routes of the entire Ming Dynasty to pieces, capturing the kidnappers, and rescuing hundreds of women and children.

From the day of the rescue to the present, officials from all over the country are busy imposing sentences on the kidnappers and relocating the rescued women and children.

According to the imperial court's intentions, everyone is free to do so, and the government only needs to see that there are no mistakes.The number of women is relatively small, and a few are reluctant to part with their own children because they gave birth to the child in the buyer's house, and are willing to stay in the buyer's house.In this case, the guards must confirm that the woman is indeed willing to stay, not to be frightened, but also to teach the buyer a lesson, lest they get off this time and harm others in the future.

Some of the tougher ones used wooden hairpins on their heads and pieces of porcelain bowls hidden in the soles of their shoes to stab the abductee and the buyer to the heart on the spot.

Every abductee has a life in his hands, those abducted women, those who resisted violently, and those who were cowardly looking for death, have no business in what they do, and if they are killed, they will be killed, which is not a pity.The guards still need to retrieve the bones, and those who can be identified will be sent back to their hometown so that she can be buried.Naturally, most of these women's bones cannot be found, and those who can be found are rarely able to identify their identities.

As for those who are still alive, if the family is willing to let them go back, they will be sent home.Some family members were mean, disliked their embarrassment, and refused to support them, but they were able to support themselves, so they taught them one or two crafts and allowed them to set up female households in new places.

The most difficult thing to deal with is those who are weak-tempered and not very capable. They only know how to cry, and their family members refuse to take them back.

Fortunately, there are many smart people in the imperial court, and they wrote in the letter that although these women are weak but gentle, and they are rarely lazy, it is better to send them to Anjifang in various places and make them work in Anjifang. It also eased the shortage of manpower in Anjifang.

A few years ago, the emperor ordered Anjifang to be set up in various places to take care of orphans, widowed elderly, soldiers disabled in war, and children who were abandoned at birth.

It is one arrangement for women, and another arrangement for children.

Needless to say, boys are precious, as long as they can be found, the original parents and the buyer who bought him are all vying for it. They are not good people who can adopt the children of relatives, and then go to Anjifang to choose suitable children, and buy other people's children from kidnappers to fill their own children.

A few boys could not return home, so they were all sent to the Jinyiwei Youth Camp. In the future, they might become Jinyiwei, or do clerical work, or even learn a craft to be a craftsman.

Girls are a bit troublesome, those who can be sent home have already been sent back, and the rest who can’t go home, if they are too young to remember their relatives in their hometown, they can be sent by the guards to visit and post notices everywhere, and those who lose their children People can come to claim it.

Even if both parents die, as long as the relatives are honest and reliable, it is okay to return them to relatives for support.

In the end, there were a total of more than a hundred girls left, either their parents died, their relatives were unreliable, or they were disliked by their families and abducted by others. This group of girls had nowhere to go.

The matter of kidnapping was handled by the prince himself, and finally these girls were delivered to him. Although the prince is smart, he couldn't help but feel a little headache.

Later, the prince asked the concubine to choose some women of suitable age and disposition to serve as court ladies. They can also read and write in the palace, and they will be released from the palace at the age of 26 to marry. Who will remember their abduction at that time?Just because she has served the nobles in the palace, there are countless well-off families vying to marry her.

In the end, the remaining [-] children were really inappropriate. It happened that Princess Changping was selecting teachers for the Taiping County Girls School, so she said to the prince, "There is a shortage of female students in Zhaoren, so let's send them along."

In Changping's word, the gentlemen will delay for half a month. The Crown Princess and Princess Changping will send their personal female officers to enlighten these girls and teach them to look forward, so they will not always be trapped in the loneliness of the past.

The benevolent prince changed their surnames in order to make them forget the past of buying and selling by kidnappers, beating and scolding by buyers, and being disliked by their biological parents: "The most valuable surname in the world is the royal surname. No? From now on, everyone will take my surname Zhu."

The emperor heard that the word "compassion" was bestowed upon them, and these girls were ranked according to their age, and they were all renamed "Zhu Min".

After Zhaoren finished speaking, Lily couldn't help but sigh—after she became a mother, she became more and more soft-hearted in matters related to children, and she couldn't see the little baby suffer.

Zhaoren said: "Second sister-in-law, you don't know. I looked at them, and they all looked like little frozen cats with scorched fur. They just came here. There was no one I recognized around them. I was so scared that we all huddled together. One place. When I left, I separated them into four rooms, and I was afraid that some people would sneak into one place tonight."

"Second sister-in-law, you know my temperament best. Teaching them to read, write, ride horses and shoot arrows is enough, but I can't bear to see such cowardly temperaments. If I have the patience to deal with them, I'm afraid these children can also see the edge , no one dares to approach me. You are different, the most gentle and amiable, you will go with me tomorrow, and you will work hard to make them feel at ease."

Lily said: "What do you need to say? I am in vain to assume the title of presiding over the women's school. In fact, you are the one who does the work. I see the sky is lazy. Now that the husband is here and the students are here, how can I be lazy?" Don't worry, we'll go tomorrow and settle these children down."

On the second day, Baihe and Zhaoren went to the women's school, before they saw the girls, Xueniang greeted them first.Xueniang is still beautiful, but her eyes are a little dark and black. Baihe thought she was tired on the road, but Xueniang said: "They are afraid of crying in the middle of the night, and we all got up to coax the children. This morning, I almost couldn't get up."

Lily greeted her with a smile, and said: "You treat Mr. Xue well in Beijing, I just think you have forgotten us."

Xueniang glanced at Baihe: "After all, Beijing is not as comfortable as here. From now on, I will be your company every day, isn't it good? Even if you despise us, you won't be able to get rid of us."

It turned out that Xueniang was at the girls' school in Beijing, and although she lived a comfortable life, after all, she didn't see Chen Bin up and down, and it was always a little embarrassing to see each other.Princess Changping picked people to teach in Taiping County, and most of the noble girls in the girls' school were unwilling to leave Beijing, but Xueniang thought that firstly, she was familiar with Taiping County, and secondly, she was favored by the princess, so she couldn't leave Princess Changping there. The first to come forward and say she would.

With Xueniang taking the lead, several female gentlemen from commoner families also expressed their willingness to come, and several other noble girls who had let the wind out early that they did not want to marry were also willing to come.

Princess Changping asked them to discuss with their families, and offered generous conditions to recruit female teachers who were willing to go to Taiping Women's School.

Later, Chen Bin was ordered to send this group of women with the surname of the country to a women's school. He inevitably had contact with Xueniang twice. Hearing that Xueniang was going to Taiping County again, he thought she was going to hide from him. He felt very guilty and said to her: "You don't have to do this. , at worst, I will let it go outside, so as not to hinder your eyes."

Xueniang smiled and said: "My lord, don't be confused. With your current status, how can you let it out easily? I was thinking that Taiping County has extremely beautiful scenery, and the climate there is warmer than that in central Beijing. It is very good for our women's family. In my heart, I also want to get close to the wife of the Song family. I am happy to go to Taiping County, and my lord will treat me as if I go to suffer, so congratulate me."

With bitterness in his mouth, Chen Bin said in a shy voice, "Congratulations." He turned around and left.

Two days later, the Chen family finally sent someone to bring Cheng Yi, and Xue Niang generously accepted it.She led the errand sent by Princess Changping, took seven or eight female gentlemen, and thirty women with surnames, and meandered to Taiping County.

Xueniang also brought Princess Changping a word of advice: "These ladies are only for temporary use, and there will definitely not be enough of them before long. You have to find a way to recruit locally."

Lily said: "It would be great if you are willing to come and visit often. You are familiar with our place, and you probably know more people than me, but if there are those who are capable and can teach children, you can just invite them. The princess and I have seen them, and if they are worthy, we will hire them as teachers."

Xue Niang smiled and blessed, and then took them to see those girls.

Sure enough, many of them huddled together in the middle of the night and slept indiscriminately all night. In the morning Xueniang allowed them to sleep for an extra hour before arranging them to eat.

The cafeteria of the Girls' School is doing well. For breakfast, there are porridge, steamed buns, steamed buns, bean curd, both sweet and salty. These children have learned simple rules in Beijing, and lined up to receive their meals. , to give birth to some sense of practicality.

They knew ignorantly that they were arranged here by the imperial court, and they were afraid of some kind of bitter place. When they saw the food, they thought, if people here didn't like them, they wouldn't be able to give them such good food.The older ones among them remember the situation at home, and some of them still can't eat this well at home.

Thinking about it, there are still more good people. It would be great if they can stay here for a long time in the future.

After the girls had finished eating, Xueniang asked several female gentlemen to familiarize themselves with the surrounding environment with them, to see what the layout of the girls' school was like, and then went to welcome the princess and Mrs. Song's family by herself.

At this moment, the children were watching the goldfish around the pool, when they heard Xueniang laughing and saying: "The princess and the lady are here, everyone come to see them."

(End of this chapter)