After Zhao Xin heard about this, he asked the quartermaster of the Third Regiment to take several hundred kilograms of grain for these women and children. As a result, the villagers of Xiaogenzhan were very surprised by this move of the Beihai Navy, so they went to the Beihai Navy together.
Bow and say thank you outside the camp.
When the Beihai Navy set out again two days later, there were more than 20 women carrying children behind the team. They could not be persuaded to leave. After asking someone to ask, they found out that the husbands of these women had been killed in the previous battle, and now they were home.
It's also ruined. Even if you stay, you won't be able to survive this winter. Although those few hundred kilograms of food can solve the temporary emergency, what will you do after that?
The women felt that since the Beihai Navy was kind enough to share food with them, maybe there would be a way to survive by following them. As for hatred? Maybe there is hatred, but it would be good if they could survive and raise their children these days. It's all fate.
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In this era, rural women in island countries were very able to endure hardships. Their thin bodies could even carry a sixty-pound rice bag for two miles at a time, just to earn a penny per trip.
(If you are interested, you can watch the movie "Rice Riot", a group of tough women...)
The officers of the Beihai Navy's rear team felt that these women were pitiful, so they asked Zhao Xin for instructions. Zhao Xin said that since they were willing to follow, they should just follow. Isn't it just to order food? They can help the logistics with some chores every day, whatever.
Can eat enough.
Two days later, the thunder ship heading north arrived at the sea outside Oneji. This is the largest outpost of Osumi Kingdom. It consists of three villages in total and is guarded by the Toyama clan. There are more than 300 local villagers, who have gathered.
The number of troops is as high as a thousand.
After the leading troops of the Northern Navy landed, after a day of reconnaissance, they launched an artillery bombardment the next day. The highly motivated Satsuma samurai were so weak under the continuous artillery fire that they were quickly blown away and fled.
The Fourth Regiment dispatched two battalions, and after entering the village, they went house-to-house. The stone walls, which could withstand matchlock bullets and bows and arrows, were like window paper under the attack of grenades and explosives. The Satsuma warriors who were hiding in the courtyard to resist were killed.
Grenades and dense hail of bullets left no place to escape.
The local Toyama clan saw that the passive defense could only be beaten, so he had to organize his troops again for a decisive battle.
Facing the hundreds of samurai and warriors who launched the charge, the machine guns of the Northern Navy appeared. In order to resist foreign enemies, the street where horses could gallop suddenly turned into a Shura field, and the Satsuma troops who attacked one after another fell one after another.
At gunpoint, even the machine gunners of the North Korean navy couldn't bear to fight anymore and shouted loudly for the other side to surrender and stop attacking.
The surviving samurai and warriors were covered in blood, and they sat helplessly among the dead and wounded on the ground. They had been killed and lost their souls. When the soldiers of the Northern Navy came to collect the weapons, these survivors were like dolls.
Generally, they let themselves be tied up with an expressionless face.
Under the powerful offensive of the Northern Navy, the three villages in Onekan fell in one day. Knowing that they were outmatched, the Toyama clan had no choice but to surrender to the Northern Navy in order to save local women and children from being massacred.
Deng Fei is a very rational person, but he has no way to vent the century-old hatred he accumulated in another time and space in this time and space. This emotion is very complicated. He feels that if he orders the massacre of these prisoners, then he will be in conflict with those who have deep hatred.
What's the difference between people?
It has been almost five years since he arrived in the eighteenth century. Whether he stays here or goes back in a few years, at least in this time and space, he cannot let himself become an executioner; and this is also determined by the education he received since childhood.
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So Deng Fei just ordered these people to put down their weapons, and then imprisoned them in several courtyards near the port. He also sent military medical staff to treat the prisoners and injured villagers, and then made a decision after Zhao Xin and the others arrived.
Five days later, the coalition forces starting from Ogenzhan arrived at Tashiro Township. The local samurai who had already learned about the fall of Ogenzhan had nowhere to escape. Behind them was the Kyushu Mountains with high mountains and deep valleys. After letting women, children and the elderly hide in the mountains, Tashiro
The village warriors and warriors launched a desperate resistance.
Facing the artillery fire of the Northern Navy and the fierce attack of the Sendai Domain, the remaining Satsuma warriors withdrew to the local shrine to continue resisting. Date Murakusa did not want to keep these people alive, so he ordered a fire. One day later, Tashiro Township was captured
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At this point, the North Navy's first phase of combat missions have been completed.
As for Beihai Town, thousands of miles away, after two consecutive months of rescue operations, Beihai Town suddenly saw an increase of nearly 100,000 hungry people. The Civil Affairs Bureau resettled 30,000 people at Whale Bay alone.
Except for the 50,000 people who were transported to Fuldan City, the rest were scattered and settled in a dozen residential areas thirty miles north of Beihai Town.
In the past two months, except for those who were busy with the construction of several industrial projects, Chen Qingsong had captured other members of the community. He took a group of half-year-old children from the administrative school and primary school as assistants and was busy resettling the refugees, building residences, and collecting money.
tools, and distribute winter food and clothing.
Seeing a group of poorly clothed refugees finding a place to live with his help, Fan Tong, who had lost twice as much weight through hard work, felt that he had finally done something meaningful.
Where there is development, there will be obstacles. As the refugees who came to Beihai Town earlier had no worries about food and clothing, the clan consciousness of the ancient farmers began to rise, and the old social customs gradually came into conflict with the laws and regulations of Beihai Town.
The reason why all 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 Police Headquarters was manned all day long, so as soon as the stone-wrapped report letter landed on the ground, the two security policemen who heard the noise went out to check. After they discovered the foreign object on the ground, they immediately ran to the police station
I searched outside, but no one could be seen on the dimly lit street.
The police on duty returned to the house and opened the paper wrapped around the stone. It turned out to be a letter. The handwriting was crooked and there were many typos. But when they saw what was written, they were frightened.
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This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The person who wrote the letter reported that Li He from the No. 7 Resident Group of the No. 5 Residential Community in Beihai Town intended to poison her husband and parents-in-law, but the murder attempt failed.
.If this alone is just an attempted murder case, what follows is a bit sensational.
The family named Li came from a village in Zhangde Prefecture, Henan Province. Li He's father-in-law and husband felt that this was so embarrassing, so they did not call the police. Instead, they strangled Li to death and then transported her to a village outside the town.
She was 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 was recuperating at home.
The most critical thing is that the director of the police station in the fifth residential area is also from Zhangde Prefecture, Henan Province. After learning about this situation, he actually concealed the matter as if nothing was wrong.
The police officers were suspected of knowingly breaking the law. This was a serious matter! The two security policemen did not dare to make up their minds. They could only wait until they got to work in the morning and the director arrived.
At present, the boss of the police system in Beihai Town is Katayama from Matsushima Town. This upright police chief has no gray area in his eyes and cannot tolerate any illegal behavior.
public trust.
Early the next morning, Katayama saw the report letter and listened to the reports of the two on-duty personnel. His face suddenly darkened. He immediately sent several of his men to put on makeup and go to the fifth residential area to inquire about the news.
In the afternoon, several plainclothes officers came back to report that something was wrong with the Li family's situation. The plainclothes men first inquired about what happened to the Li family's neighbors, but those families remained silent. After that, the two
A plainclothes man went to the shop in the fifth district again. After some questioning, the shop owner said that he had not seen the Li family's daughter-in-law for several days. Usually the person who buys oil, salt, sauce and vinegar from the Li family is Li He, but
These days it is her mother-in-law who comes here.
Katayama listened to the report, and then called the security police chief of the fifth district to the police station during dinner in the name of holding an important meeting. The security police chief was once a "veteran" in Fuldan City.
During the battle, an arm was shot off by a Qing artillery shell. 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 from the Li family came to him and asked for help. For the sake of his fellow villagers, he
It was hidden.
After hearing this, Katayama slammed the table angrily and said angrily: "I think you have lost your mind! Why didn't you report what you knew? Do you know what this behavior is?!"
"Director, in my hometown, this kind of thing used to be a matter that was ignored by the people and ignored by the officials. Women who did not abide by their wives would be dragged to the ancestral hall and locked up to starve to death."
"How can you be sure that Li He intended to murder his husband and his parents-in-law?"
"Everyone in the neighborhood knew about this. When Li He was found poisoning that day, he chased his family with a kitchen knife like crazy and couldn't stop him. Later, her son came back from school crying and calling his mother.
, then he stopped."
"What kind of poison did she give?!"
"Rat poison."
Katayama thought for a while and felt that this fact was strange. Then why did Li He have such a hatred for his family? How could he kill his father-in-law and mother-in-law even if he could just live a good life?
"What's the conflict in the Li family?"
"I don't know about this matter. Director, Old Man Li saved my father's life, so when I was confused..." The director of the institute lowered his head before he finished speaking.
Katayama's face was livid with anger at this time. He asked the director to be taken down and imprisoned, and then ordered people to immediately arrest all four members of the Li family and several surrounding neighbors.
After a night of tossing and interrogation, the truth of the matter was finally found out, and the cause of all this surprised the security police responsible for the interrogation!
"What? Infant drowning!!!" Katayama felt like his scalp was going to explode. The phenomenon of infant drowning also existed in the rural areas of the island country during the Edo period, which was called "Mianbiki". This was mainly caused by insufficient food rations.
, it can also be regarded as a kind of passive resistance to the rulers by farmers under the hopelessness of life.
"Yes, Director. This is the interrogation transcript. Take a look at it. That woman is so pitiful!"
The security police officer in charge of the interrogation placed the interrogation transcript on Katayama's table. At this moment, his eyes were red, and he didn't know whether it was because he had not slept all night, or because he felt deep sympathy after knowing what happened to the victim.
In Chinese history, the custom of "baby drowning" has been popular for a long time. The method is cruel and seriously violates human ethics. Even the defenders of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties have denounced this behavior countless times.
However, in the society of the Qing Dynasty, due to various reasons, many people showed mental insensitivity towards the cruel act of drowning and killing newborn baby girls. Instead of condemning it, they imitated it, making the phenomenon worse.
It leads to people's behavior and spirit becoming increasingly erratic.
In the Chinese folk of this era, this style was not only popular in the families of the poor, but also in the families of the wealthy. For example, it was recorded in the notes of the Qing Dynasty that "if the husband comes from a rich family, or worries about having many daughters, it will be difficult to marry, or
If you worry about raising a girl, then the boy will be late. When a mediocre man and a foolish woman fall into the trap without knowing it, they do it secretly. Sometimes they are a scholar, but they don't know what is wrong and they do it again."
In the history of another time and space, this social phenomenon has continued to flourish with the substantial increase in China's social population and the increasing general impoverishment of society, resulting in a serious imbalance in the population ratio. As a result, marriage disputes have been litigated.
Abduction of women, child brides, destruction of traditional clan relations and marriage system, sexual assault, prostitution and even instability of social order and many other problems.
During the Qing Dynasty, infant drowning continued for more than two hundred years, and even continued into the Republic of China.
"The victim, Li He, was twenty-seven years old when she died. According to our investigation, Li He married into the Li family when she was eighteen years old, and later gave birth to her first child, the current boy of the Li family. Later, she
She gave birth to two children in a row, but she didn't keep the second one. The third one was a baby girl. She was drowned because she couldn't survive.
In the fiftieth year of Qianlong's reign, there was a great disaster in Henan. The Li family fled from Zhangde Prefecture 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. Old man Li and
Li Youcai and his son felt that the baby girl was useless and would only be a waste of food. When she was older, she would have to pay a dowry. As the mother-in-law, Li Zheng did not stop it..."
As Katayama told Chen Qingsong and others about the case, the faces of several time travelers in the conference room were all gloomy, especially Director Liu Siting and Liu Da, with tears streaming down their faces.
"Ever since Li Youcai and Old Man Li secretly buried the body, Li He's mental state has become abnormal. According to the results of the interrogation of several neighbors, Li He has become depressed since then, sometimes being alone.
When she went to call her children in the wild, her mother-in-law or Li Youcai would take them home every time.
On August 27, Li He went to a shop in a residential area and bought half a catty of rat poison. She told the shop clerk that there was a nest of rats in the house. There are indeed a lot of rats here, and people often buy rat poison, so
No one cares either.
On September 3rd, Li He took advantage of her son to go to school and cooked a pot of porridge for her family at noon. However, when she was pouring rat poison into it, her mother-in-law saw her, so she told Li Youcai. Li Youcai knew that his woman was not smart.
It was normal, but she still beat Li He and tied her up again. After that, Li He broke away from the binding, picked up a kitchen knife, and shouted that she wanted to hack all the Li family to death. Fortunately, her son came back from school to stop him.
Then he threw down the kitchen knife.
On the afternoon of September 5th, Li He made a fuss again, so Li Youcai strangled Li He to death in a rage. Afterwards, the father and son discussed and carried Li He to the wild to bury her overnight.
Already..."
"Pah!" Chen Qingsong slammed the table and shouted angrily: "Stop reading it!"
Hong Tao raised his head and asked Katayama: "Have you found out who wrote the report letter?"
Katayama said sadly: "It's Li Wang, the son of Li He. When he came home from school, he found that his mother was missing. Li Youcai lied to him and said she had sent him to the hospital. Li Wang quietly went to the hospital the next day and found no one, so he returned
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, and then he knew what was going on."
Chen Qingsong stood up suddenly, lifted the chair under him, walked a few steps in a daze, and said sadly: "If you don't move the daughter, the old habits will not change! It's just that you didn't have enough to eat during the famine years, why are you full now?"
Even though you’re dressed warmly, you’re still like this?”
After saying that, he took out a cigarette from the cigarette case in front of Wu Ping'an, lit it and took a few deep puffs, 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. Now some residents are afraid of spending money and dare not go to the hospital, so they give birth at home. It seems that in the future, residential areas and the medical system must jointly prevent and control everything.
Pregnant women must be registered, and medical personnel must be present during delivery.”
Lao You, the principal of the primary school, said: "The fact that Li Wang can write a letter to report shows that our education is still effective."
Chen Qingsong put out the half-smoked cigarette and said to everyone present: "It's far from enough! In fact, like everyone else, I didn't realize how difficult it is to transform an old era! Everyone, our enemies are not just full of people.
The Qing Dynasty, these ugly and bad habits that have lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years are our biggest enemy. Even if the Northern Navy sends troops into the pass and defeats the Qing Dynasty, if these ugly and bad habits are not overthrown, everything we do now will be in vain!
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A few days later, when Zhao Xin, who returned to the Thunderbolt, learned of the matter from the telegram, he thought hard for a long time and sent a twenty-five-word telegram to Chen Qingsong:
The imperial power does not extend to counties, but only to clans, and clans are autonomous. Autonomy relies on ethics, and ethics creates country gentry!