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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 321: Fighting Fire with Fire

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    "Sneeze!" Thousands of miles away in the study room of the West Prince's Mansion in Suzhou, Xiao Yungui sneezed heavily. He rubbed his big nose and muttered: "Who is talking about me? Saying that I am good and lucky, saying  I have bad luck."

    Hong Yun'er, who was behind the desk, stopped her writing and said with a smile on her pretty face: "You are still so petty, even if you sneeze, you won't suffer any loss."

    Xiao Yungui raised his head and looked at Hong Yun'er. He stood up and walked from his desk to Hong Yun'er's desk. He turned the kerosene lamp wick gear on the desk upward. The light of the kerosene lamp suddenly became much brighter.  He said in his mouth: "Honey, when will I be able to finish so many things? I'm just bored and venting a few words."

    Hong Yun'er raised her eyebrows with one hand, looked at the piles of official documents on her own desk and Xiao Yungui's desk, and sighed softly: "Yes, it turns out that when you govern the people, your life will be different."  It no longer belongs to you, it becomes everyone¡¯s. Take your time, husband."

    Xiao Yungui looked at Hong Yun'er's pretty face, and his heart felt hot. He came close to Hong Yun'er's delicate body, pressed his body tightly against Hong Yun'er's back, hugged Hong Yun'er from behind, and opened his mouth to Hong Yun'er.  Yun'er whispered in her shell-like jade ear: "Honey, why don't we take a rest first? We haven't been intimate for several days after knocking on the door."

    Hong Yun'er blushed, twisted her body slightly, pushed him away and said: "Stop making trouble, these official documents are very urgent, I'd better finish them first. You and I will also meet with each other tomorrow.  County guards, county magistrates and township official representatives, please save some energy to deal with them." Seeing Xiao Yungui's disappointed look, Hong Yun'er smiled charmingly, and then whispered: "Besides, I am not in good health, then, come on  Already"

    Xiao Yungui screamed miserably, slapped his forehead and said: "I hate your aunt, she is so punctual every time!" After saying that, he gently kissed Hong Yun'er's pretty face.  Then he turned back to his desk and said as he walked: "We really need to be well prepared for tomorrow. The resistance to the New Deal is still very strong. Although we can barely push it forward with the help of the violent machine of the government, the township officials and county officials in many places  Ling Ye petitioned many times and said that the local wealthy gentry were still very resistant to the New Deal, and some places in Suzhou and Shanghai were still resisting the construction of railways. There were also those scholars who were not deeply poisoned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and were restless. They spent all day in  It¡¯s a headache to gather in front of Suzhou Academy to cause trouble.¡±

    Hong Yun'er said while writing the official document: "Xu Shou has already gone to the local level to resolve the railway matter. The people occupying fields and houses can be easily solved, but the Shanghai and Suzhou railways also involve some people's ancestral graves.  The issue of relocation and burial is therefore more difficult. Coupled with the ignorance of the people, a few charlatans with evil intentions have spread rumors among the people, saying that the railway will tie up the earth's atmosphere. The people are superstitious and that's why they gather to make trouble. "

    Hong Yun'er kept the ink pen in her hand and continued: "I have told Qian Jiang to help Xu Shou deal with those charlatans."

    Xiao Yungui was slightly stunned and said: "How to do it? Kill them?"

    Hong Yun'er smiled faintly and stopped writing: "Kill them for their despicable tactics at that time. Qian Jiang has already figured out the details of several charlatan warlocks. What kind of deceptive tricks they played, Qian Jiang's capable people and strangers also know  Qianjiang will expose their charlatanism in public. Then Qianjiang will invite some highly respected eminent monks and Feng Shui Taoist priests to attend. The eminent monks will perform several rituals to consecrate and protect the railway, while the Feng Shui Taoist priests will find other places for the relocation of the common people.  We will pay for the relocation of ancestral graves in a geomantic treasure land, so I believe the people will not cause trouble."

    Xiao Yungui held back his laughter and said, "Thank you for thinking of it. Consecrating and protecting the railway is unprecedented and unprecedented. You have a good idea, since you can't let the people understand what science is and what is superstition for a while. Then.  Just fight fire with poison and use superstition to confuse the people. By the way, eminent monk, who did you invite? Do they also support building the railway?"

    Hong Yun'er said: "Senior Monk, we have invited Zen Master Lingzhi, the abbot of Yunyan Temple in Suzhou, to come forward. Several Feng Shui Taoist priests are also famous Taoist priests. Their reputation is definitely better than those of the charlatans. I want to see those common people.  Who do you believe? As for building railways, in fact, Zen Master Lingzhi doesn¡¯t care about these worldly things. Yunyan Temple has a good relationship with us. During the epidemic in Suzhou, we saved many people, but Zen Master Lingzhi still cares about us.  I admire it more. I went to Zen Master Lingzhi to talk about the railway in detail. He just believed that since our Taiping Army could save countless people, we would not do anything that would harm the people. He believed in us, not in the wonderful use of the railway.  . Several other Taoist priests also had the same idea. I also promised them that I would help them establish some kind of Buddhist or Taoist associations in the future, and I would also allocate some money to help them, so they were willing to come forward."

    Xiao Yungui nodded with satisfaction and said: "I can't tell, you have done a good job in the united front work."

    Hong Yun'er followed his words and then smiled and said: "Thank you for the compliment, leader." Then she added: "Actually, these ideas areJiang Jiang came up with this idea. He is a good man, with many evil ideas and a wide range of contacts. What is rare is that he is also thoughtful. I feel that he is becoming more and more like those underground workers like us during the Republic of China.  "

    Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "Qianjiang's Intelligence Department is in the open. In addition to collecting intelligence, the most important thing is to control the local area and hand over the united front work to him. It is better for him to control these things. These things cannot be  Let Bai Zetang do it, Tong Qiangsheng is more suitable to be a spy leader Dai Li-style figure in the dark, but this kid is not ruthless enough and needs to be tempered."

    Having said this, Xiao Yungui walked around for a few steps: "Those rotten scholars who are making trouble are easy to deal with. Aren't they just dissatisfied with the opening of new schools and the reform of the imperial examination? Let's fight fire with fire and win over a group of scholars and people who have good relations with us.  Enlightened people, we use these people to launch our New Confucianism movement and completely suppress the enslaving Confucianism of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. I don¡¯t believe that we have the backing of the government and the national righteousness, plus your New Confucianism theory,  We still can't deal with those poor people! Well, this matter can also be left to Qianjiang, and Wang Tao's newspaper can be used as a public opinion weapon. With the help of big scholars like Li Shanlan, I believe we can slowly turn this trend around.  .¡±

    At this point, Xiao Yungui frowned and said: "But there are still a few things that are difficult to deal with. The first one is the liberation of women. Women go to school, take imperial examinations, participate in politics, and there are even edicts to let women go.  The opposition voices from the people and the gentry are very strong, and it is really rare to see the gentry and the common people so unanimously opposed to something."

    As the leader of the women's liberation movement in Sufu Province, Hong Yun'er often hears these objections. The pace of women's liberation in Sufu Province is similar to that in Tianjing, but it is not as fierce and violent as Tianjing.  After Hong Xiuquan and others arrived in Nanjing, they issued a release order. The prohibition of harassment was too hasty and almost cruel.  It is said that after entering Nanjing, in order to promote Tianzu, women with small feet were forced to carry water barefoot. As a result, the women were so embarrassed and angry that more than 1,000 people committed suicide by jumping into rivers and wells.  In order to force women to relax,

    "Every time a slender foot is plundered, it will be untied, the belly of the sheep will be cut open, and the hot blood of the foot will be stretched out. In an instant, the new moon will turn into a lotus boat, but the blood will be as hot as boiling soup, and the pain will penetrate the bone marrow. There is nothing worse than this."  That¡¯s it.¡± There was even the atrocity of a radical person cutting off a woman¡¯s feet with a knife.  Later, Tianjing's practices became even more brutal. The Tianjing Taiping Army ignored the women's sense of humiliation and forcibly removed the shoes, socks and foot cloths of women with bound feet in public. In some places, all women with bound feet were released regardless of age.  But in fact, it is very difficult for an adult woman to put her feet back after wrapping them up.  In some places, it is unreasonably stipulated that women with bound feet are not allowed to walk on the road; in some places, confiscated bow shoes and foot cloths are hung in the downtown area to ridicule them, etc.  There are also some inspectors who have given free rein to violate laws and disciplines and engage in extortion.  At that time, many tragedies occurred in which women with bound feet were forced to death.

    Sufu Province is much better, because under the guise of the Sufu New Deal, although the West Palace Taiping Army also issued a release order, the West Palace did not adopt extremely radical punishment methods, but encouraged women to leave their jobs.  Hong Yun'er asked the Bigfoot sisters in the women's camp to go deep into the people to do women's work, let them boldly take to the streets, encourage women from poor families to go to women's schools, and call on talented women to participate in the imperial examinations, instead of blindly  Solve problems violently.

    However, despite this, there are still endless objections from the common people and the gentry. There have been dozens of conflicts in the female school. The families of the female students came to the school to take their daughters home forcibly, and some even beat them.  Teachers, there have been many lawsuits.  In the end, although the perpetrators of the lawsuit lost, those who deserved to pay were compensated, and those who deserved to go to jail, the entire class of civilian gentry was even more opposed to issues such as letting go, women's enrollment in schools, and women's participation in politics than those scholars who opposed Western learning.  The sound is even stronger and louder.  Even among the Taiping officers and officials, there are many people who believe that since ancient times, it has been a virtue for a woman to have no talent. Why should women be allowed to enter the house and where should the face of men be put?

    Faced with this fixed thinking pattern that has held that men are superior to women for thousands of years, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er have no good solution. In ancient times, women's status was low, and even in later generations, gender discrimination still exists. Naturally, the two of them will not have the illusion that they can  Changes can only be made slowly.

    Hong Yun'er sighed softly and said: "I am quite powerless in this matter of women's liberation. Some women even think that footbinding is what women should do, and some women even force them to die. We can't force them for the sake of liberation."  Dead people, even though it¡¯s for their own good.¡±

    Xiao Yungui consoled him: "This matter cannot be solved with the method of fighting fire with fire. We still have to follow the guidance and let some women relax first to influence other women. At the same time, we must let the Publicity Department and Wang Tao's newspapers build more momentum and cooperate."  There are some policy incentives, such as tax deductions and exemptions for women in the family who can relax enough. Let us rely on these to guide us and slowly change the status quo. I don¡¯t want this to lead to the promotion of the entire New Dealslow.  "

    Hong Yun'er sighed and said: "That's all. A few months ago, I asked many women who were relaxed and people from our women's camp to perform on the street, but I didn't expect that there were few praises and many curses.  Nowadays, many women cannot bear the abuse and have gone home, but there are still a few who persist."

    Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "This matter is difficult to handle. We can only rely on the sisters of the female camp to do the work slowly. Now there is an even more troublesome thing. We have underestimated the power of the rural clans before, and their existence also restricts the New Deal.  A big factor!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
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