When brother and sister meet again, when aunt and nephew meet again, there is so much to talk about.
It mainly revolves around the affairs between the second uncle Dazhong and the eldest brother-in-law Lin Xiucai.
Jia Liu basically understands these things, and even knows some of the inside information better than his aunt and eldest sister.
I just didn’t expect that my eldest sister Jia Yun’s suicide by throwing herself into a well was actually the intention of her aunt Jia Wu.
"Although your eldest sister has not officially married into the Lin family, she has already given a betrothal gift and is the daughter-in-law of the Lin family. Her husband has committed a serious crime of treason. As a wife, how can your eldest sister escape?"
Mrs. Jia Wu sighed softly, and pulled her eldest daughter over with some distress. If it weren't for her nephew, she and her daughter would have been separated by yin and yang.
"Even if this is the case, there is no need to ask my eldest sister to commit suicide."
Looking at his eldest sister, who was supposed to be a happy bride, Jia Liu couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
Among the several sisters, the one with the best relationship is definitely the eldest sister who is four years younger than him, because the other sisters are even younger. When he is at home, except for the eldest sister Jia Yun, the other four sisters are not even followers.
Not really.
I never thought that my eldest sister's marriage would be so bumpy, and she even almost lost her life.
"You are also from Banner. You must know what happens to women who are sent outside the customs to be slaves of armored men."
Mrs. Jia Wu touched her eldest daughter's hand, and then her nephew's hand. It was hard to say something too bluntly, but these two children were adults, so they knew what they were saying.
Jia Liu sighed in his heart. It might be a good thing for the prisoners to be slaves to the armored men in Fa Ninggu Tower, because they could save their lives.
But for women, it's hell.
If you are lucky, you can serve one or two armored men and give birth to children.
If you are unlucky, dozens of armored men will take turns to torture you, and the children you give birth to will not be private, but will be shared property.
The main reason why the imperial court sent the Han women who committed crimes to Ninggu Pagoda was to allow these Han women to give birth to offspring for the Eight Banners soldiers who were stationed in the bitter cold land.
Otherwise, how could the presence of the Eight Banners garrisoned in various places be maintained by relying solely on Manchu women outside the customs.
And the Manchu women inside the customs would not marry the poor people outside the customs even if they died.
Han women could only be transported outside the customs on a regular basis.
It can't be forced. Of course, the female family member who committed the crime will be gone.
In this way, for a hundred years, the population of the Eight Banners left outside the pass has never increased. Shengjing is better, Ningguta, Jilin, and Uliasutai are all big places where hundreds of people can live.
A few years ago, some ministers proposed opening up the Willow Border, which would allow Han people within the customs to move outside the customs. This would help to reclaim land outside the customs and increase grain production.
After all, there is extremely fertile land in southern Liaoning outside the customs, including Shengjing, and it is not a problem to accommodate a population of tens of millions.
Before the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass, a large area outside the Pass was developed by the Ming Dynasty, and millions of Han people lived here.
Although these Han people were purged during the reign of Taizu, the number of Han people was reduced to hundreds of thousands, and countless lands were abandoned because no one was cultivating them.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong, he changed Taizu's policy of purging the Han people and forcibly moved millions of Han people outside the Pass through five raids and plunders. This doubled the national and military power of the Qing Dynasty and was able to formally confront the Ming Dynasty in the Pass.
Outside the customs, people gradually recovered their vitality.
The problem is that after the regent Dorgon led his troops into the Pass and moved the capital to Beijing, it took him a year and a half to move all the people outside the Pass back to the interior, leaving only a few people to stay outside the Pass. This caused the population outside the Pass to drop sharply again, and the fertile fields were thousands of miles away.
The area outside the customs has become desolate again.
As of now, the total number of bannermen living outside the customs including Baoyi and Han people will not exceed 500,000.
This resulted in millions of square kilometers of land without troops stationed at all, and no resistance to foreign invasion.
Rather than saying that Tsarist Russia in later generations continued to encroach on the land outside the customs, it is better to say that the Qing Dynasty voluntarily gave up and gave it to others.
There is no one, so you are just trying to defend yourself.
And all of this is an extension of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's "anti-Chinese" policy.
Not allowing the Han people to leave the border was the idea of the Manchu nobles to leave a way out for themselves. That is to say, Aisin Gioro never regarded himself as a Chinese, but as a conqueror of China.
In this way, if the Han people in the pass resist strongly, they can quickly retreat outside the pass and maintain the situation as it was in the late Ming Dynasty, so that they can get a breather before it comes back.
If we let go of the border and allow the Han people to migrate in large numbers and multiply there, is there any way out?
The place where dragons thrive is also the place where dragons will die!
Jia Liu's impression was that a large number of Han people poured into Guandong after 1860, but the Qing government was still there at that time, so the Han people sneaked over. There is a term in history called "breaking into Guandong".
The reason why we broke through instead of passing through was because the first batch of Han people who went outside the Pass had to fight with their lives against the Qing soldiers in order to gain a foothold in the land outside the Pass.
Later, Zhang Zuolin used trains to pull people out of the country, and fully opened up the Northeast. This led to a sharp increase in the number of Han people in the Northeast, laying the foundation for the future.
Now, the area outside the customs is a restricted area for Han people.
Death forbidden area!
After the religious turmoil in Shandong last year, some people also petitioned to move refugees from Shandong, Zhili and other places outside the customs. On the one hand, it can develop the outside of the customs, and on the other hand, it can also alleviate civil unrest and land annexation problems in the customs. It can be said that it is the best of both worlds.
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However, they were all rejected by the Qing court, and the officials who proposed this proposal were dismissed from office by Qianlong.
It can be seen that the Fourth Japs have always regarded "preventing Han" as a national policy.
However, this incident reminded Jia Liu that he could also be like Zhang Zuolin.
Jia Liu understood what his aunt Jia Wu did. To be honest, if he had committed a crime, he would rather his wife and daughter commit suicide than live a life outside the customs where they are worse than pigs and dogs.
To put it bluntly, the girls in the building are happier than the women sent outside the customs.
Fortunately, everything is under control.
In order not to worry his aunt and sisters, Jia Liuliang revealed his identity as the governor of Zhili, which meant that the territory of Zhili belonged to his Jia family.
The aunt and sisters who heard this were each more shocked than the other.
"This case is an unjust case, and the nephew of the relevant officials will definitely deal with it severely,"
While he was talking, a report came from outside saying that the magistrate of Linqing County had come to apologize.
Jia Liu nodded slightly and asked his aunt and sisters to wait while he picked up his second uncle and dealt with Linyu County who had been randomly convicted.
When he came out, the Lin family father and son looked at him with the same respect as if they were worshiping their ancestors' statues on New Year's Eve.
When they arrived in front of the hospital, they saw Shuan Zhu and others escorting a young man who looked like a scholar. After asking, he found out that this man was Ma Xiucai, who had come to the Yamen to accuse Lin Xiucai of treason.
"Where's the second uncle?"
For the time being, Jia Liu couldn't care less about asking this Ma Xiucai why he wanted to harm others. He was only anxious to see his second uncle Jia Dazhong.
Shuan Zhu said it was at the back, and then a sedan came from the alley, carried by four bearers, followed by a group of county government officials.
No need to ask, the person in the sedan chair must be the second uncle.
Shuan Zhu also gave a positive answer.
Jia Liu immediately stepped forward to greet his second uncle. Unexpectedly, the sedan chair fell down and one of the bearers knelt down in panic and shouted: "Your Majesty, Mu Tian'en, meet the Governor!"
After finishing speaking, without waiting for the Governor to express his views, he turned his butt violently, crawled several steps on the ground with a "puff puff" sound, lay down on the side of the sedan and said respectfully to the people in the sedan: "Master Jia, Qiancuo"
It's all the fault of the small county. I would like to ask Mr. Jia to pay more attention to the small county. Seeing that the small county has its own share, I would like to say a few words for the small county! The small county is grateful for your great kindness, and I will repay you by working as a cow or a horse in my next life.
I can’t bear your old kindness!”
After saying that, "dong dong dong" was a burst of kowtows.
The sound was loud and bright.
"Woo?"
Jia Liu was thoughtful, then a sharp gaze shot at Shuan Zhu, who was trying to dodge next to him: "Did you teach him?"
"no no,"
Shuan Zhuda felt guilty and said helplessly in a low voice: "At worst, you and I will be fine."