Chapter 72: The "ordinary" life of Ming Chuan, a peasant girl (Part 2)
After the eldest maid Dai Erdong served became the "double cultivation furnace" of the old man of Confucius, as the little maid serving the eldest maid, Dai Erdong's life became much more comfortable, at least in terms of food and clothing. The expenses are much better than in the past - I have an 80% new fine cloth dress to keep me decent, I can occasionally eat a few mouthfuls of fine food, and I rely on the masters' leftovers during the holidays, and I also have some cakes and meat dishes to make sacrifices to. .
Unfortunately, these "good times" did not last long.
——I don’t know if it’s because the seven maids are gifted and have great skills in bed, or because the old man is too weak, or because he’s taken too many pills for fun... In short, the old man from the Kong family is following everyone. After practicing dual cultivation for about two years, the maid suddenly became overly excited on the bed one day and had a violent diarrhea. Then amidst the screams of the girls, she died suddenly from the wind with her mouth and eyes crooked, and there was no time to save her!
Well, should this be said: "If you die under peonies, you will be charming even if you are a ghost"?
Speaking of which, this old man is already so old, and he should be considered lucky to die in such a romantic battle as ****.
But the masters of the Confucius Mansion never thought that this was the old man's fault. There must be something wrong with the seven foxy people who acted as the "furnace". They dared to charm the old man and ruined his body. All the credit belongs to the master. , the mistakes are all slaves'...this has been the virtue since ancient times.
As a result, the seven maids, who were still dreaming of becoming aunts, were immediately ordered to commit suicide. And the little maids who served them, including Dai Erdong, were also angered. After being severely beaten by the servants of the Confucius family, they found someone to sell them out... What a sudden and unreasonable disaster!
In this way, Dai Erdong left Shandong Kong Mansion with burning pain and resentment...
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"...It does sound very tragic, but the so-called beautiful maids from wealthy families, no matter how gorgeous they are, will end up like this."
Wang Meiling, who used to like watching the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", shrugged her shoulders and commented: "...Normally speaking, a maid who has signed a contract of sale like this, even a maid who is very famous in front of others and behind others, will not There are several endings: first, being adopted as a concubine by the master of the house. Tai or Tongfang girl. This path is probably the first choice for many girls who pay attention to reality. After all, being a legal mistress or a legal mistress of a wealthy family is a life path with great material security, like Xi Ren in "Dream of Red Mansions". The goal is to be Jia Baoyu's mistress
The second is to ration the servants in the house. Generally speaking, those noble families with many servants would release their old maids to serve as servants every year. Then the servants gave birth to servants again, adding new force to the service industry of their residence. It's just that this combination feels a bit messy. It is often the case that virtuous and beautiful women are forced to ration ugly men and libertines. This is a life path that many maids are afraid of and have no way to avoid.
The third is the most tragic ending, that is, the master directly calls Yazi and takes him out of the mansion to be sold. Then God knows where he will be sold, from poor valleys, bandit dens, to brothels and brothels. It's possible, maybe even sold into the army as a camp prostitute!
Obviously, these options are not good choices. It is probably much harder to find a compatible husband than to win a five million grand prize. However, at that time, let alone these maids, what about the ladies from the noble families? How much autonomy can we have in marriage, and how much confidence can we have in happiness? It can be said that men traveled through ancient times for the sake of ambition, but when women traveled through ancient times, wouldn’t they be looking for abuse? ”
In this regard, everyone could not help but be speechless. Wang Meiling lowered her head and took a sip of herbal tea, then continued to ask, "...What happened next?"
"...Later? After being taken out of the Confucius Mansion by human traffickers, she was dragged to the south of the Yangtze River for trafficking. It happened that Yu Guozhen was training his servants at the time. In order to reward the heroes and allow them to take root in the Yu family with peace of mind, he asked someone to search and buy them. A maidservant, ready to be given to servants who have made meritorious service to get married and start a family.”
Wang Qiu replied, "...Dai Erdong was sold from Shandong to the Yu family in Nanzhili. Then he discovered that the young master Yu Guozhen was teaching the servants to write simplified Chinese characters and arithmetic, and often muttered in Mandarin." future vocabulary '. Then he recognized that the new owner was a time traveler, and then the two parties knew each other... This time when he went south to Hainan Island to contact the Lingao Travel Group, Yu Guozhen brought her over... ”
Having said this, he couldn't help but sigh, "...Actually, compared to others, Dai Erdong's situation is pretty good. The Lingao Travel Group has collected information on several suspected single time travel girls, so It's called fighting on the street. Those girls who were born in small families, or even in tenant families, would never survive, even if they were born into wealthy families. Chang Ye all ended up miserable - because they underestimated the horror of feudal ethics and did not correct their mentality. If they were not careful, they would get into big trouble. Some were soaked in pig cages, and some were beaten to death by family law. Beaten to death. There are also those who were kept in cellars by playboy monks, and those who were forced to prostitute themselves by nuns after becoming monks... There are all kinds of weird things.
But one thing is common: none of them could find a way to save themselves, and none of them could survive until now. We can't even be sure whether they are real time travelers - maybe they are just some ancient aborigines with weird ideas... After all, the late Ming Dynasty was a very weird era, with all kinds of crazy and non-mainstream things. Yes, there may be some alternative existences in women..."
"...According to the information we have collected so far, even among single men who traveled through the late Ming Dynasty, few survived, and many died in obscurity. As for those who were able to start a career, there were even fewer. . The soul passes through, and the body passes through even more so.”
Li Wei, the representative of the "Australian People" who had just come to visit after the meeting, took up the conversation and at the same time glanced at Huang Shi who was sitting next to him - among the male travelers who traveled alone, this famous Liaodong general was already the best among the best. , "... I also mentioned before how the Confucius family exploited tenants. In addition to the Confucius family, it is estimated that other wealthy families are almost the same - in the East, the entire society has become rigid. The landlord Jin who monopolizes everything The gentry can be said to be a collection of nobles and priests. They control all means of production from land to workshops and the right to speak in public opinion. They regard farmers, businessmen, craftsmen and soldiers as humble servants and should not be treated as human beings at all. . Unless a time traveler joins the military and starts out in the war, there may still be some hope of success. If you just want to get ahead with a few skills, it is almost impossible."
"...The East is like this these days, and the West is not much better either. The French Revolution and the idea of human rights will have to wait another 150 years. European feudal lords are still playing with the wives of their serfs just like their ancestors. , hang the escaped serfs..."
Huang Shi snorted and replied, "... Of course, they seem to have some kind of free city system. Serfs will automatically obtain free citizen status after one year and one day after escaping into the city... But in fact, it is the same in the East, although the tenants are loaned out at usury Such means can be used to control the situation, but if the tenants have the ability to flee with their families to other places, the landlords will not let the government issue sea arrest documents for such a small amount of money - this will be a loss. "
"...Indeed, this is a problem of an entire era, not just a problem of a country or a nation."
Wang Meiling nodded in admiration and said, "...If the thinking of the leadership cannot be reversed, social progress will not be possible..."
——I think of a few typical scholars I came into contact with in the late Ming Dynasty. All of them were either smelly and hard like stones in a latrine, or they were full of daydreams and only wanted to become a high official immediately. Apart from a few bad ideas, Apart from that, they are unwilling to do any specific practical affairs... All the time travelers are shaking their heads and sighing - even Yu Guozhen, the mole who has successfully penetrated into the Donglin Party and won the trust of all Donglin gentlemen, is not interested in transforming the Ming Dynasty. The situation of the scholars was completely hopeless. The two crossing groups, Lingao and Far East, both prefer to select and train their own cadres from the bottom of society, rather than appoint these intellectuals who have high ambitions but low abilities and are unwilling to change their minds, so as not to create a big trap.
Of course, there were not no scholars in the Ming Dynasty who were truly flexible in thinking and willing to accept new things. There were two or three in Lingao and Vladivostok, but compared with the total number, they seemed rare - in terms of acceptance, there were even The owners of the caves in Li Village changed faster than them!
"...Their buttocks are already crooked, how can they correct their thinking?"
Wang Qiu put forward a new point of view, "...there is nothing new under the sun. In essence, the feudal landlords and Donglin Party members of these days were in litigation with the financial giants and lawyers of our time. Stick, it is very similar to the two combination models of modern financiers and. Like the ancient landowners and gentry, they all monopolized the largest capital, but despised industrial production. They never learned production management and technical management, but learned how to defraud, rob, and plunder. It’s just that the financiers relied on the stock market crash, and the landlords By violence. Certain future 'experts' and lawyer litigants, Just like the Donglin scholars in the late Ming Dynasty, as the spokesperson of the monopoly and exploiting class, they used the banner of petitioning for the people all day long to tell lies that confuse right and wrong, wholeheartedly put in good words for financiers, and protected them in public opinion and politics... …Don’t think that landlords and gentry sound rustic. In this era, , they are the proud sons of heaven! They are just like the future bankers, they are wealthy and idle people who have money rolling into their pockets while sitting in luxurious offices! If you let the landlords and gentry engage in industry and commerce, let the modern bankers change their careers. It’s just as difficult to run a factory as it is to open a supermarket!”
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——Indeed, the feudal landowners and gentry in late Ming Dynasty were the most knowledgeable, cultured and smartest group of people in Chinese society at that time. They did not sleep around doing nothing all day long, but they were also actively learning. But the problem is that in their eyes, the knowledge that is truly worth learning is limited to writing eight-legged essays to take the imperial examination and seek privileges as an official. In short, it is how to become an exploiter. As for production, whether it is industry, agriculture, commerce or war and plunder, they are not the "fundamentals" of the Jin gentry, they are all "miscellaneous studies" that are not doing their jobs...
Since the entire ruling ideology is "only exploiting, not producing", the accumulated wealth has been squandered needlessly. Agriculture and industry, which really produce wealth, do not receive the minimum financial support. Even if the water conservancy is in disrepair and the factory goes bankrupt, there is no one. Pay attention, this society can only be healthy if it is evil!
"... Put it this way, the United States of America, which relies on lawyers and financiers to govern the country in the 21st century, is quite similar to the Ming Dynasty, which is ruled by scholar-bureaucrats and landlords and gentry today! They are also dominated by the unproductive class After controlling the political power, there are also literati who confuse right and wrong. Well, in the United States, it is lawyers who control the political arena and public opinion. No wonder the national destiny has already declined just a few years after the victory over the Soviet Union..."
Ma Tong curled his lips and muttered, "...Okay, let's get down to business. Regarding the follow-up treatment of Dai Erdong, a peasant girl who has gone through many ups and downs, after arriving in Sanya, how did the relevant departments arrange it? After passing the inspection, she will Send her directly back to the modern world? ”
"...This should be impossible. In principle, we can only send back some people who have traveled through the body, but not those who have traveled through the soul."
Wang Qiu shook his head, "...she has been dead for a long time in the modern world, and her body has become different. Traveling back will only cause trouble. Who knows what her relatives in modern time and space will think? What if there is an inheritance dispute? What to do? This is all a headache..."
"...Then we can only let her settle on the spot?" Ma Tong frowned, "...need to arrange a job for her in Sanya?"
"...No, I think it should be placed in Australia." Li Wei, the representative of the Australian time-travelers, suddenly intervened and replied, "...the final resolution was just passed at the Global Travelers Conference and decided to establish the Global Chinese Travelers Alliance. Externally, it is called the Global Chinese Alliance, or the Chinese Alliance for short, and the Chinese Alliance was established. The first task after that is to build a modern new city in Australia, which will serve as the headquarters of the Chinese League and be promoted to the outside world as the 'Australian Song Dynasty Imperial Capital'... Don't all the traveler countries claim to be descendants of the Song Dynasty? Let’s build a ‘Song City’ in Australia!
Then, in the initial stage of building the city, in order to keep it secret, the new Australian city only allowed travelers to stay in the new Australian city, and they were required to undertake all the work. Therefore, all travelers in Sanya would have to move to Australia next. ...I can also take the opportunity to go back and see my wife and children. ”
Wang Qiu suddenly felt a little shocked - the "Australian Song Empire", which was originally purely fictitious, was really going to be "fake and real at the same time" this time!
However, this also seems to mean that he, the "travel logistics director", will become very busy in the future?
——After all, he has to find a way to transport everything from building materials to construction surveying and mapping personnel from the modern world. If you say that, will you have to ask Doraemon again soon? Why do you feel like you stole Nobi Nobita's role?