"I don't know -" Wan Lihui wondered, could that fifteen- or sixteen-year-old rural girl fall in love with me? What if Fu Buer proposes to marry his daughter to him? To agree or not to agree. [Full text reading] It seems that the Executive Committee has not stipulated whether you can marry an indigenous woman. Speaking of which, the appearance of this golden talisman is okay, but it is a black spot, but in this time and space, she must be a virgin...
"What are you thinking about?" Fu Xi's voice interrupted Wan Lihui's scattered thoughts, "Sister Yijin said that you work very hard and teach everyone a lot, so you are not a liar."
"That's right." Wan Lihui felt slightly disappointed, but this showed that his strategy was quite successful, and now everyone in the Fu family had a good degree of trust in him.
So the more he wooed the boys and children of Fu's family, knowing that they didn't eat well on weekdays, he kept the leftover rice wrapped in lotus leaves after every meal. After Fu Xi had collected the bowls and chopsticks, he found an opportunity to give the rice to She would often share the dry food she brought in her backpack with everyone when she was resting in the fields. Under his efforts to win over, Wan Lihui's reputation in the Fu family grew day by day, and he was very successful in everything he did.
However, Fu Fu'er's attitude towards him was still aloof. Although it did not violate his opinions at all, he was not very confident whether the intimidating effect of this time-traveling group would continue after he left.
Wan Lihui thought, the key is to do what he likes. What is Fu Buer lacking most now? Of course it's money - the Fu family is not waiting for money, but he seems to have a rather obsessive hobby of possessing more money. He knew that Fu Buer had tried to grow cash crops several times and now raised ducks, which showed that he had a great desire for money. One night when he was enjoying the cool air, Fu Buer mustered up the courage to ask him. Ask him to help get Fu Fu's military pay back.
"Chief, you don't know: Fu Fu is my domestic boy. I provide him with food, clothing, and snacks. I raised him until he was ten and a half years old, and he became his father. Now he is a soldier, but his monthly salary is nothing. I won’t take it back! This is one tael of silver a month! One tael of silver!”
Recalling Fu Fuji's angry expression when he mentioned silver, Wan Lihui thought this was his weakness. The effects of growing rice will not be visible until autumn. What can we do to generate income for him now?
Let him supply vegetables and ducks to the Time Travel Group? Now he is supplying it, and salesmen from Quanfu Vegetable Store drive ox carts to the village every week to buy vegetables, pigs, chickens, ducks, and eggs.
Wan Lihui thought about this vexing question all night but couldn't figure it out. Whether it is planting or breeding, it is impossible to generate benefits quickly. He had thought about helping Fu Fuji in the sericulture industry, which he knew relatively well, but there were very few local mulberry trees. If he had to wait to plant mulberry trees before he could raise silkworms - this would probably take too long.
It seems that if you want to get rich quickly, you have to be in industry and commerce. Wan Lihui came to the conclusion reached countless times by his predecessors.
This went on for almost half a month. After seeing that Fu Buer's second rice seedling production was basically finished, some key points of field management were explained before setting off back to the farm. Be prepared to take a few days off.
Wan Lihui returned to the farm and first wrote a report on the client's economic, demographic, and ideological trends, and then participated in a briefing on the guidance of the inspectors going to the countryside. After the meeting, he went directly to the General Staff Headquarters.
Originally, Wan Lihui wanted to find Ma Qianzhu, but he was not there. After wandering around for a long time, he found a person and asked: "Who is in charge of political and ideological work?"
So he came to the "Political Office". Wei Aiwen was talking to several recruits in the office, and Wan Lihui had to sit at the door for a while. Although the door was closed, he actually heard the faint cry of a man inside. What is this guy doing? Are you corporally punishing soldiers, or doing something else...
While I was thinking wildly, the door opened and two young men wearing the rank of education soldier came out. Although his eyes were red, there was a relaxed look on his face.
Wan Lihui walked into the political office. Before I could stand still, I heard someone shouting:
"Which team member, why did you come in without signing the registration report? Do you have any discipline?"
The speaker was a half-grown child. Wearing a uniform of the Army, he looked at him with a serious face and gestured firmly to ask him to go out.
"What?!" Wan Lihui almost turned his nose with anger - I am composting on the farm, fishing for river mud and planting seedlings in the fields at the risk of encountering bandits, and you are all pampering yourself in the office and making trouble. That's what the privileged class does.
"Hey, hey, this is the chief--" Although Wei Aiwen didn't know Wan Lihui, he knew that this person was a time traveler. Seeing that he looked unkind, he hurried over to smooth things over.
"You can't do it even if you are a senior. You are not allowed to enter the Political Department's office without invitation, and you must register if you want to see him..." This kid is very brave and doesn't take Wan Lihui seriously at all.
"This person has made an appointment with me. You should go out first." Wei Aiwen quickly pushed the meticulous young officer out of the door, closed the door, and then turned around and asked:
"you are?"
Wan Lihui saw that the man in front of him was only in his mid-twenties, and he was wearing a Yuan Dynasty-style Army uniform, neatly ironed. He was wearing a German officer's military belt and his leather boots were polished. I suddenly felt disgusted:
"Your place is an important military location. It would be better for me to go out and register first."
"Nothing!" Wei Aiwen said quickly. "I am Wei Aiwen, you are -"
"I'm Wan Lihui from the Committee of Agriculture." He sat down on the chair. "I have something to do. I originally wanted to talk to the governor. If he's not around, I'll just talk to you. It's political work after all." matter."
"There should be a soldier in the Army named Fu Fu..." As he spoke, he explained the situation of the Fu family and mentioned Fu Buer's desire for military pay. I hope that the Political Department can, under the coordination of the central government, allow Fu Fu to take home a little military pay every month.
"It doesn't have to be much, just a few hundred dollars is enough..."
"This thing makes no sense." Wei Aiwen disagreed, "Fu Fu is his master, not his father - not even his adoptive father, it is simply a master-slave relationship. Now that Fu Fu is our warrior, he is no longer His slave. His claim for part of the military pay is simply untenable."
"That's true. But Fu Fu'er feels very disadvantaged now, because Fu Fu was raised by him, and now he is serving as a soldier here. He has lost a labor force, and he still doesn't get any benefits. In this way I’m afraid it’s not appropriate.”
"When I joined the army, I should have been given 200 kilograms of rice as settlement allowance. This landowner is so greedy!" Wei Aiwen expressed contempt for this.
"Greedy is for sure, but I think we should satisfy him." Wan Lihui said, "Being able to gain the other person's favor is very useful for Tiandihui's promotion plan."
"No, no." Wei Aiwen shook his head. "It is a soldier's personal freedom not to remit military pay to his family. We have no right to interfere."
"That's why I ask you to do political and ideological work. Aren't you in the political department..."
Wei Aiwen was very disgusted with this matter, and suddenly he became suspicious: Wan Lihui was so vigorously fighting for the interests of the landlord Fu Buer. Could it be that he took some bribes when he went to the countryside? However, this landlord has to make up his mind about one tael of silver per month for military pay, and I'm afraid he won't be able to come up with any money, that is -
The word "sexual bribery" suddenly popped into his mind. Yes, that's definitely the case. Women had no status in ancient society, so they must use their daughters as gifts to build relationships... Wei Aiwen's imagination immediately began to run: Wan Lihui was eating and drinking in the hall of the landlord's house. The landlord's daughter came out to persuade her to drink, and then...
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but harden his tone: "The ideological and political work of speaking for slave owners is not the job of our political office."
"You!" Wan Lihui almost jumped up to look, but when he thought about it, Wei Aiwen's words made sense. He couldn't help but slow down and plead: "This is indeed unreasonable, but it will help us carry out our work."
"I don't see any use -" Wei Aiwen replied firmly.
"You don't understand the problem here!"
"Isn't he just a greedy landlord?"
"It's not that simple!"
The voices of the two people talking to each other became louder involuntarily, and the cadets outside the door quickly opened the door and came in.
"Get out, don't come in!" Wei Aiwen was afraid that the sergeant would do something outrageous in a hurry, and he would be blamed.
"Everyone, please be nice and stop arguing." Wu De's voice came from outside the door.
Wu De went to the Army Headquarters to coordinate labor deployment. The military is currently the most commonly used organized workforce in the labor distribution department that Wud oversees.
"You came just in time to comment." Wei Aiwen quickly pulled him in and explained the cause and effect of the matter.
Wan Lihui also explained the Fu family's situation and his thoughts.
Wu De smiled: "Xiao Wan, you are very enthusiastic. But this matter is indeed difficult."
"What's so troublesome? It shouldn't be bothered at all." Wei Aiwen said angrily, "In order to win the so-called 'favor' of a landlord, forcing soldiers to remit military pay to slave owners? Who have we become? The landlord's bastards? "
"Okay, okay, don't go online." Wu De pressed his hand down, "This matter is not big or small. We may encounter a lot of similar things in the future."
The Ming Dynasty was not a slave society, but the slave system existed widely. The deeper they get into this society and the wider the group of people they come into contact with, the less they can avoid this problem.
"If you want me to see it, just don't recognize this slave system at all..."
"Of course it's easiest not to admit it. But don't forget that immigrants are all indentured servants who cross the group - we are slave owners. Since we want to use this slave system to serve ourselves, we must treat everyone equally. We can't just be allowed to prevent fires. No one is allowed to light a lamp."
"Okay," Wei Aiwen slowed down, "You can tell me what to do, but I don't agree with this approach."
"Since we want to recognize the slave system, then Fu Buer's request is reasonable - Fu Fu is his domestic slave. Let him serve as a soldier and exploit his military salary as income, and let Fu Fu be free of charge It’s one thing to work for him and exploit his labor.”
"This can't be the same thing. Being a soldier has high risks. If you don't do it well, you will be disabled or die. This is not the same thing as farming and doing odd jobs."
"This is probably a high-risk, high-reward approach. It's just that the reward was taken away by his master. He was reduced to the status of an animal tool. Now that Fu Fu refuses to remit his military pay back, it shows that he has resisted. Self-consciousness is no longer something to be resigned to."
"How do we deal with this?"
"If we ignore it, of course there's nothing we can do about Fu Fu'er - although he is dissatisfied with this, it may not necessarily affect the promotion of Tiandi Hui..."
Wan Lihui was about to raise an objection, but was stopped by Wu De:
"Xiao Wan, your intention is good, but this is the icing on the cake, not a help in times of need. If you can help Fu Fu Er get Fu Fu's military salary, he will naturally be more convinced of you, and it will be easier to do work in the future; if you don't do it at all, If we ignore him, he may not necessarily be disgusted with us because it will affect the promotion of Tiandihui - he can still distinguish between the big and small interests."
"There was a lot of opposition in the village, and there were a lot of rumors..."
"Even if you help him get Fu Fu's military salary, you can't eliminate the rumors, can you? You want to use this matter to test Fu Fu'er's trust in you - the idea is good, but you have to think more comprehensively," Wu De lit a cigarette, "Of course it makes sense for the Political Department to come forward to do Fu Fu's work. But what will Fu Fu think? He will definitely think that we are biased towards the rich - after all, we are bleeding and sweating. It's him, not Fu Fuji. Besides, their relationship is between the master and the slave. Fu Fuji feels that he has been kind to Fu Fu in raising him. Fu Fu may feel that he was abused and exploited since he was a child. Full of hatred."
"Ah, right -" Wan Lihui thought that he had never thought about this.
"As the saying goes, you will speak for whomever you sit on. Now we have to win over landlords like Fu Buer, while poor people like Fu Fu are our basic strength."
"You mean you can't offend both sides..."
"Haha, what I mean is that you don't need to pay attention to Fu Bu'er at all." Wu De smiled, "I have already said the reason before - the benefits Fu Bu'er gets from us are far greater than the little military salary, so you just pretend not to Listen. As for how to deal with it in the future, we will come up with another plan."
"I understand." Wan Lihui nodded and left.
This incident also reminded Wu De that there may be more and more similar problems in the future. Since they have chosen to carry this historical baggage for the time being, they must find a reasonable solution.
"Xiao Wei, please do some research: How many soldiers are slaves in the army? What are their circumstances? Are they runaway slaves or are they sent by the family master? I see that among the strong men sent by each village, there are people like Fu Fu. I’m afraid there are quite a few people.”
"This has a political review form. I will ask the computer center to make statistics immediately." - In order to save the service life of computer accessories, the number of computers equipped in each department has been greatly reduced. In addition to individual departments and offices with a few people, each department has its own computer center to handle all matters centrally.
The computer center responded quickly. According to the registration on the political review form, there were more than 30 soldiers registered as slaves of a certain family in Lingao. There are even more registered as escaped slaves, with numbers ranging from three to four hundred.
"The information on the political review form may not fully reflect the situation. Someone may be hiding the history. It would be better for you to ask the squad leaders to investigate carefully - don't scare people by making it too formal."
After giving instructions, he went to find Ma Qianzhu and discussed the problem with him, hoping to find a solution to similar problems.
"Ade, you really need to think about this matter," Ma Qianxu said. "In the future, we will have more and more interactions with the natives of this time and space. There must be a formal document to regulate behavior. In addition to the slave issue you mentioned, There are also adoptions and apprenticeships, and someone also came to the executive committee and asked about the procedures for marrying an indigenous wife."
In fact, some people have asked if they can buy a slave to serve as a servant - the deeds of Chang Shide from Leizhou have spread throughout the entire Wenlan River, arousing the envy of otakus. Since you can’t wait for women to receive welfare benefits, it’s a good idea to buy one yourself, right? Suddenly, buying maids has become a hot topic among everyone recently.
Wu De's face turned slightly red. Chu Yu in his family is still "concubine whose identity is not yet clear" and continues to hold the title of "commune secretary".
"Why don't we just formulate a law - the "Relationships with Aboriginals Act"? The various relationships with the Aboriginals, rights and obligations, and how to deal with disputes should be fixed in legal provisions. You can contact the Judicial Office to do it. "
"Just leave it to Ma Jia. Doesn't he like to deal with legal clauses? Law Club, tsk tsk."
"There is no ready-made book to copy this law. We can draft a guiding document first."
How to guide? The relationship between Ma Qianjuxiang and the indigenous people is intricate and involves many aspects. It's not easy to figure things out at once. He asked someone to invite Watkins to consult him - he had been spending most of his time recently in the farm cafe, which was used as an office by the lawyers of the Law Club.
After listening to their briefing, Ma Jia said: "It is difficult to establish a written law immediately. I think it is better to adopt examples for the time being. Examples are flexible to use and can be modified, added or deleted at any time."
Make a list of the various negotiation incidents that the Crossing Group has encountered so far when dealing with indigenous people, and then write down the specific handling methods and reference opinions one by one, and then write down the guidance of the executive committee. . To use it, just look up examples. It is simpler and clearer than obscure legal provisions.
"Let's talk about the current issue of slaves in the army," Wu De told him what happened today. "This kind of thing is very typical: the master of the house sends the slaves to serve as soldiers and gets their military pay. We should stand on the side of Which side is it? After some research, there are more than thirty people in the army who are local slaves. The head of the family who thinks like Fu Fuji may not be an exception!~!
