Chapter 192
Zhao Peng left Qufu City with eighteen Jinyiwei. It was far away from Qufu and could no longer see the city wall. Zhao Peng took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. He saw the pointer pointing at 9:15 in the morning. He sighed in his heart: The team set off at 5 a.m., and he and more than ten brothers stayed and left until now. He set off for two hours late.
This team was not without horses. When they copied Yansheng Gong's Mansion, they found twelve good horses, but all the horses were handed over to the soldiers of the Falcon Operation Team, and they acted as whistle-free riders at night to protect the team.
So Zhao Peng and his nineteenth one could only chase their own team on foot, and set off more than two hours later than the others. The anxious Zhao Peng brought eighteen brothers and rushed over desperately. After about an hour, he actually caught up with the large team in front.
From a distance from behind, I saw a long queue in front of me walking slowly south under the push and pull of people. The team of more than 10,000 people was very long, and it was five miles long.
Zhao Peng caught up with Wang Quan, who was leading the team from behind: "The team is too long, and it is five miles long. If it is attacked by Jiannu or a horse thief, he will ignore his head and tail."
Qingzhu next to him pursed her lips and laughed: "Brother Wang, I have said a long time ago that your army is not good, right? Although I am a woman, I have also learned some skills of placing troops and formations with my sister (Wu Xiaomei).
Wang Quan blushed and didn't dare to talk much, so he could only lower his head awkwardly.
"Miss Qingzhu, brother Wang Quan is wrong. Why don't you stop him?" Zhao Peng asked looking at Qingzhu.
Qingzhu replied: "He is a man. Even if he knows that he is wrong, he can only say one thing and still have to listen to him."
This idea of superiority and inferiority of men is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Zhao Peng thought to himself. He said to Qingzhu: "Miss Qingzhu, this is your fault. There was Mulan in ancient times, and Qin Liangyu is now, all of whom are female. If women can only listen to men, how can General Qin Liangyu command his subordinates to fight?"
"But, but that's different..." Qingzhu blushed and lowered her head shyly.
Yumei next to her smiled and said, "The boss, Sister Qingzhu is so beautiful. She has long regarded Brother Wang as her husband. Even though her husband knows that what he said is wrong, he has to obey. You, the boss, do you think?"
"Three obediences, four virtues, three bonds and five constants, right?" Zhao Peng laughed, "I am a man who is marching and fighting. I don't pay much attention to these things, only talking about right and wrong. In fact, the Three Bonds and Five Constant Ones were also taken out of context by later generations, just like repaying grievances with virtue. Originally, it was Zi, repaying grievances with virtue. How to repay grievances with righteousness? Repaying grievances with righteousness with righteousness! The meaning is to use tooth to repay blood with blood. Later, the literati of the cowardly court took out of context! Similarly, the Three Bonds and Five Constant Ones were originally the ruler as the ruler, the ruler was not upright, and the ministers joined other countries; the father was the ruler as the ruler, the father was not kind, and the son went to another country; the husband was the ruler as the ruler, and the husband was not upright, and the wife could remarry. However, Zhu Xi and Mr. Zhu removed the part of each sentence, and this became what he is now. For women, it is not unconditional to follow the husband. If the husband is wrong, it can not only correct it, but if the mistake is too big, he can remarry."
Chunlan, Qingzhu, Qiuju and Yumei were all stunned: "Why didn't we know that there was such a thing?"
Zhao Peng smiled and said, "I was changed by Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism. Master Zhu Xi himself was a man who was a man who was scattered. In order to show that he was very moral, he came up with a double standard. Being strict with others and being lenient with oneself is simply shameless."
Chen Xinyuan next to him asked, "Entertainment Father, isn't Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism the standard of our Ming literati?"
"So I don't like Neo-Confucianism, and I admire Wang Yangming's mind study even more." Zhao Peng said. In fact, he himself didn't even know what Neo-Confucianism is and what is Mind study is. He couldn't even talk about half a bucket of water. He just simply hated Zhu Xi.
Zhao Peng felt that people who study philosophy were too double standards. They asked their subordinates and their women to treason, but they surrendered to the enemy and treason. This was already a violation of the first rule of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues. They could not do it themselves. What qualifications are they to ask others? If this is not a double standard, what is it? If you surrender to the enemy, you will also call it "Good birds choose trees to live in, and wise ministers choose masters to work."
If a loyal minister does not serve the two masters, even if there is a saying that the king is not righteous and the ministers who surrender to other countries, it would be too unlucky to kneel down to the barbarians.
It was almost noon, and the team stopped near a small river. Under Zhao Peng's command, all the vehicles surrounded the city and placed it outside, leaving behind a few more than 300 Jinyiwei guards guarding vehicles. On average, each person guarded three vehicles. The remaining Jinyiwei guards were responsible for watching the tenants in the middle. On the one hand, they protected the tenants, and on the other hand, they were also afraid that someone would steal things without clean hands and feet.
When preparing to make fire and make rice, the tenants were diligent. Some went to the river to fetch water, some picked firewood, some made fire water, some went to the river to wash rice, some cut meat and vegetables, and everyone was very busy.
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These tenants who followed the Jinyiwei south were very satisfied with their treatment. Wang Quan just told them that the main food for lunch was white rice, including braised pork, dried tofu, stewed with cabbage, eggplant, and steamed eggs.
Just when everyone was busy, Zhao Peng suddenly heard men's screams and women's and children's crying.
Zhao Peng took Wang Quan and Qingzhu and walked towards the direction where the sound came. He saw a thick man with a fleshy face beating and scolding his woman by the river. Although this man was strong, his face looked a bit vulgar. A pair of raised goldfish eyes were big and immature, with a big mouth, and a full of resentment. He knew at a glance that it was not a good thing.
Qingzhu walked forward and scolded, "Why did you hit your wife?"
The man saw that a woman was coming, and his nostrils snorted: "I am not a wife and I am flirting with other men. Do you think you should be beaten?"
Zhao Peng walked to the woman and saw that the woman looked pretty fair and honest. She looked like a kind woman, and she didn't look like she said. In her previous life, Zhao Peng had studied psychology and had studied observing words and expressions. Whether a person is good or evil can basically tell at a glance whether a person is lying or not can't escape his eyes.
When the man was talking to Qingzhu just now, his eyes flashed, and he was sure that he didn't tell the truth. So Zhao Peng walked up to Qingzhu and whispered in her ear: "This guy has an evil face and doesn't look good. What he said is not true. You can calm him first and I'll go find someone else to understand the situation."
Zhao Peng left, and Qingzhu was left alone to face the guy. She shouted sternly: "You guy said that your family is not aware of the wife's morality, is there any evidence? According to the Ming Dynasty, if you catch the enemy, you must catch the enemy. As long as you catch the enemy, you will be killed on the spot or be soaked in a pig cage, you will not be guilty of being guilty. If there is no evidence, you must not beat and scold the original wife at will. If the husband beat the wife, it will not be injured. If the person is injured or above, the second grade of the mortal will be reduced to the second grade. If the couple divorces as they wish, they will be divorced. If they do not want to divorce, they will be redeemed. If the person dies, they will be beaten and redeemed."
It means that the husband beats his wife for no reason, and the one who is not injured does not count. If he is injured and the wife reports it, the husband's crime is reduced to the second-class punishment. According to the Ming Dynasty, the beating wife can ask for divorce. If the husband does not want to divorce, he should atone for his sins in other ways. If he beats him to death, he should be hanged.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty's punishment for domestic violence was even heavier than the current punishment. Although men were superior to women, and domestic violence caused injuries, the husband was reduced to second-class punishment. If domestic violence killed him, the husband would be hanged. However, in the 21st century, the punishment for domestic violence was basically no. Even if he was beaten to death, he would be sentenced to several years to more than ten years.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty law only has a protective effect on wives who have certain power in their parents' home. If it is an ordinary person's home, basically, if the husband beats his wife, it will be useless. As long as he doesn't die, no one cares about it.
When Qingzhu said the Ming Dynasty Rule, the rambun not only wasn't afraid, but instead said with a smile: "I didn't beat up and hurt my family. What is the basis for this girl to cure my crime?"
After a while, Zhao Peng came back. He asked a lot of people and learned something: this boy was named Yang Erniu. He was a rascal rogue outside Qufu City. He only knew how to drink and gamble and was idle. His wife was Zhang, a daughter from a scholarly family. Unexpectedly, he was attracted by this guy. Once when he was going to the river to wash clothes, he was hugged and teased by the guy from behind, and he even touched his body.
Originally, Yang Erniu should have been given an official position in this way, but the Zhang family thought that their daughter was innocent and either committed suicide or could only marry this scoundrel. So a good daughter from a scholarly family was forced to marry a scoundrel.
After Yang Erniu got married, he was still idle. He drank and gambled every day, so he relied on his wife to support him. He lost his bet every day and got drunk, and when he got home, he beat his wife Zhang. Sometimes he even beat his daughter, and he scolded her while beating him, and his daughter cried and beat him even harder. His young daughter lived in fear since she was a child.
Once, when he was drinking and causing trouble, Yang Erniu was pressed to the ground and beaten up. The guy knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and called someone else's grandfather, but the other party let him go. As a result, when he returned home, the coward who was like a worm outside was like a wolf or a tiger at home, beat the mother and the mother and child again, and all the anger he suffered outside was on women and children.
After understanding these situations, Zhao Peng had already become murderous. The best way to deal with this kind of rat shit that was ruining the pot of porridge is to clean it up.
Such people are bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. They only play tricks on their wives and children at home, and they are just soft-legged shrimps outside. If they meet the Qing army during a marching and war, they will probably be the first one to run away.
Food is precious, and Zhao Peng is not willing to raise waste in vain, let alone such a bad sheep? A guy who only knows how to drink and gambling and does not do his job wants him to change his life after joining the army? An impossible thing is that the country is easy to change and his nature is hard to change. If such a person enters the army, he will only ruin the military discipline. When he goes to the battlefield, he is often the first person to escape. Once the army is defeated, many people will be killed.
Chapter completed!