The specific measure for private transfer to official offices is to legalize the trafficking activities in the city by Xinhui County. Of course, in the wording, the county government is definitely not a human trafficker, and Liao County Magistrate is not a **, but implements military marriage methods.

The so-called military marriage method, in short, is that the county government office will marry the daughter (women) of the people's family to the Taiping Army as their wives, and give these women a decent identity to ensure that they are not abused or resold after marriage. As for families with women who have married to the Taiping Army, they will be included in the Houchang and enjoy the same treatment as the Taiping Army's family. If no woman in the family married to the Taiping Army, the county government will coordinate with the Houchang and allocate some from the Taiping Army's public treasury to live. Although they cannot make them full, they can also ensure that they will not starve to death.

When the actual increase in rations did not increase much, Song Xiang Gong recognized this military marriage method. He was a scholar and was not willing to have a tragedy on earth in Xinhui City with hunger all over the ground. His previous hard heart was only forced by the environment.

The military marriage method based on the people being forced to choose is essentially deprived of the happiness of those women who were "married", but now it is the best way. Duke Xiang of Song made it clear that if the Taiping Army did not starve these people to death, once the Qing army broke the city, the fate of these people would be death, even more terrifying than death. Have there been fewer things for men and women in the Qing army camps in history? For those women who were pinned and abused by countless beasts, death is the happiness they want most. Relatively speaking, military marriage can be said to be a paradise life.

I can't give these people real happiness, nor can I guarantee their lives, so I can only give them a less bad life.

Zhou Shixiang comforted himself in this way.

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After the news of the military marriage was posted by the county government's list, the silent Xinhui City suddenly became lively. Every day, the five camps of the Qianying camps, the soldiers who were not on duty ran to the county government to register happily, and then chose their wives under the leadership of the temporary yamen runners.

Zhou Shixiang interfered less in the matters in the back camp, but the front camp was very tightly controlled. In order to prevent some unharmonious things, Zhou Shixiang issued a strict order. Any officer or soldier who had already married was prohibited from participating in buying a wife. Once discovered, he would be punished strictly.

In order to prevent soldiers from losing their duties because they were too happy to marry their wives, thereby weakening the power of defending the city and allowing the Qing army to get a litter, Zhou Shixiang formulated some regulations and set some rules. The first is to ensure that the number of soldiers on duty on the city will not be reduced. Others are based on previous methods. In case of unduly serving officers and soldiers can meet their families for half a day every three days. In addition, they must stay in the military camp at all times, and those who violate the situation will be punished seriously.

In order to make the parents who were forced to "marry their daughters" less sad. Zhou Shixiang asked Liao Ruixiang to do the military marriage as decent as possible, Duke Xiang of Song also allocated some red cloth from the public treasury to make the military marriage ceremony more prosperous and lively as possible.

The officers and soldiers who were willing to marry also went to the county government to pay their wedding fees one by one. It was said that it was a fee, but it was actually a bride price. Although the Taiping Army implemented a public treasury system, there were rewards for the soldiers who had made contributions in the battle, some were given silver, some were given grain, cloth, etc. Therefore, these soldiers who were married had more or less savings. Even those who had no money could borrow them from their companions. In this way, the people of Xinhui who would become father-in-law and mother-in-law naturally received the bride price and filial piety from their son-in-law. The county government did not dare to deduct it in this area, and they were all transferred to it truthfully. The bride price was not much, and they were all five taels of silver.

Although the silver is useless in the city now, the people have their own food supply to the Taiping Army, and the son-in-law also has subsidies in the army. Therefore, it is not so important to have an urgent need for food. Therefore, even though they know that the five taels of silver are useless, the "parents in-laws" still forced to accept the filial piety of their son-in-law with a smile.

According to all the procedures for marrying daughters among the people, the county government made a marriage letter for these new daughters-in-law and husband's family. The guarantee in black and white made many people feel relieved. There were no sedan chairs in the city, and even if there were one, they had been burned by the Taiping Army, so the brides could only walk during the military marriage. Zhou Shixiang only attended once at the first military marriage ceremony, and did not show up in the other few times. It was hosted by Duke Xiang of Song and Liao Ruixiang, and Ge Zheng and Zhao Sihai and others also participated in two sessions.

In addition to envying the people who did not have daughters, many people also had the idea of ​​the wife at home. They had divorced their parents for a while, and the woman who was originally a wife became the wife of the Taiping Army in a blink of an eye. This made Zhou Shixiang feel very moved, but he could not despise those men who sold women. There was no way. The whole family wanted to have a meal, and relying solely on the food sent by the Taiping Army was just barely hiding his life. What should I do if the little baby grows up? What should I do if the old man is so hungry?

Regarding what treatment their families enjoyed after these women who were retired joined the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang and Duke Xiang of Song started arguing again. In the end, Zhou Shixiang retreated and agreed to Duke Xiang of Song's opinion that they did not give the family members of the Taiping Army. However, the bride price was doubled, and they gave one-third more food than the previous ration. There was no way. If they really wanted to be included in the Taiping Army's rear camp, the food they had to allocate several times more than before, which made Duke Xiang of Song, who was always calculating how much food they had stored and how long it could last.

I have to admire the tenacity of the Han women. The women who were retired did not cry or even cried. Before going out, they just held the children reluctantly, kissed them constantly, and kept telling their husbands to raise their children well. After arriving at the new "husband's house", they were reluctant to eat the food given to them by their new husbands. They just hid the food when the new man was not paying attention, and then found an excuse, even if they were just a decent excuse, they would sneak out and hand over the food to the "old husband" who had been waiting for a long time.

In this regard, the "Xinfu" did not make a big fuss. Most of them turned a blind eye, and even took the initiative to ask women to get food back. Of course, a small number of "Xinfu" were very dissatisfied with the behavior of eating inside and outside, and beat and scolded women. The incident happened in the back camp, but the parties involved were from the front camp, and in the end they could only be dealt with by Zhou Shixiang. Zhou Shixiang's method of handling the matter was very simple. He summoned the men involved together and did not scold them. He only asked them about their origins, their life when they were at home, and what if they were not full.

After a while, the soldiers who beat and scolded women naturally felt guilty. They were all from miserable origins and were hungry at home. Their parents also tried their best to make them eat more and put their hearts in mind. How could they be cruel to beat and scold those miserable women?
Chapter completed!