After that, Huang Qiong ignored the father and son who were completely frightened by his words and fell to the ground. Instead, he walked to the other cells and took a general look. Facing the horrified looks of some women, he turned to Zhang Qian and said, "You are escorting them. On the way from Lintao Mansion to Huanzhou, the officers and soldiers responsible for escorting did not do anything to these women." Bar."
In response to Huang Qiong's question, Zhang Qian's head was like a rattle, and he gave a thumbs up and said: "To return to the King of England, the 500 officers and soldiers handed over by Deputy Envoy He are all the elite of the Xijing camp. After all, They are from the Xijing camp. These officers and soldiers are strictly disciplined and have done nothing wrong along the way. They have never looked at these women. As long as they don't run away, they won't even look at them. "
Zhang Qian's answer made Huang Qiong extremely satisfied. Zhang Qian was a civil servant and had never had any dealings with the Xijing camp, so there was no need to hide it from these people. What Zhang Qian said should be the truth. But when he raised his head and looked at the group of warblers and swallows that filled the men's and women's cells, Huang Qiong frowned again. He pointed at the women and said, "These people will be under your control for the time being."
"Send someone to interrogate these women. The king has transferred the manpower to you from Qingyang Mansion. Those who are found guilty will be dealt with according to the court regulations. If it is true that there is no crime, you see Let's settle them first. But there is one request, they are not allowed to die or run away. After I come back from Ningxia, I will reward them to the meritorious soldiers who have not yet gotten married."
On the way to Longyou from Xijing, when Huang Qiong was talking to Ouyang Shan, he learned that many soldiers in the Xijing camp had not yet gotten married because of poverty. In this era when soldiers are just for food and pay, any wealthy family will not let their sons join the army. Although there are many children from aristocratic families in the military, most of them are military attaches with hereditary official positions of one kind or another.
Most of the ordinary soldiers who join the army are children from poor families. And these soldiers who came from poor backgrounds, because of family reasons. They are all old and many of them are not yet married. There are three unfilial piety, the most serious of which is not having children. Those soldiers who are not married naturally do not have the ability to marry them all. These women are all good-looking and would be good rewards for meritorious soldiers.
Giving them a home can also better restrain the military discipline of this group of field troops. Huang Qiong has made up his mind to deal with the party women captured during the counter-insurgency. Give them Han status and betroth them to meritorious soldiers as wives. Huang Qiong has made up his mind that the current tribe of the Party members is larger than the court's laws, and the concept that tribal leaders are more important than court officials must be completely changed.
We must let them get used to respecting the laws of the imperial court and getting used to the management of official officials in the imperial court. In a word, we want them to be completely Chineseized. As for the laws originally enacted by the imperial court that specifically targeted party members, it was time to change them. Huang Qiong knew that he could not kill all the party members who participated in the rebellion, including the Pingxia tribe, which was the main force of the rebellion.
But for Dangxiang people, the original living pattern must be changed. Once again, they must completely disrupt their original ethnic group. As for the Pingxia Department, although there is no need for its existence. But when you can't really kill them all, betrothing the captured women to the soldiers as wives and taking them away from the original tribe to Xijing is an effective way to deal with them.
Presumably after this rebellion subsides, there will not be many men left in the Pingxia tribe. By doing this, I also prevented the women of the Pingxia tribe from being helpless after losing their husbands, or starving to death, or falling into the world of prostitution, which can be regarded as a bodhisattva's heart. The Pingxia tribe must completely become a name in the history books and must not continue to exist as a tribe.
Zhang Qian, who was next to Huang Qiong, didn't know that the British king had already come up with a plan to deal with the Pingxia tribe. After hearing Huang Qiong's instructions, I thought this was a way to deal with it, but the identities of some of the women among them? Thinking of this, Zhang Qian hesitated a little, but he still said: "Your Majesty, when I ransacked my house, I was in too much of a hurry."
"So, these women were all brought to Huanzhou before they could be screened. Many of them were maids from the Li family, as well as wet nurses they recruited from various places. Do you think these wet nurses are interrogators? After the incident is over, send someone to escort them back to their place of origin? They were involved innocently, and they also have families. It is not appropriate to deal with them together with other women."
Regarding Zhang Qian's concerns, Huang Qiong just said lazily: "Since this matter has been left to you, you can just take care of it. You are now the prefect of Ningxia, and you are here alone, and your family members are not here. There are not even a servant around, so it’s hard for you. You choose two as concubines to take care of your daily life. As long as there is no sin, just take the one you like and take it back. "
Zhang Qian was slightly startled by Huang Qiong's words, and his expression moved slightly. He Zhang Qian is not the kind of person who sticks to etiquette, let alone the kind of ascetic monk. As a son of an aristocratic family, he also likes beautiful women. Once upon a time, he was surrounded by a cloud of darling wives and beautiful concubines. Those who were rewarded by the former prince were given to him by those who asked for them, and those who were favored and taken over by him also had more than twenty houses and concubines.
Since he was demoted to Yongzhou, his beloved wife returned to his hometown with his family and several children to serve his parents in his place. As for the other concubines, he sent them away because they had no children. Even if he had children and didn't want to stay in the Zhang Mansion, he didn't force it. Leave the child behind and do whatever you want. When he went to Yongzhou to take office, he only took one servant with him who had been with him since childhood.
Although he was unexpectedly revived by the King of England, the road was full of dust. When they arrived in the capital, as the Marquis of Wuchang returned home, the Marquis of Wuchang's Mansion, which was once full of guests, was already empty. In addition, since he returned to Beijing, he did not stay in Beijing for a total of two days, and then followed Huang Qiong to Longyou. At this time, except for the old servant, he was always alone beside him.
Among these women, he really fell in love with two. One is the wet nurse of the Li Mansion, and the other is the concubine of Mr. Li. He fell in love with these two girls as soon as they met. It's just that he was a Jing Zhaoyin, and he was from a noble family, so he naturally knew the crime of taking the family members of criminal officials as concubines. So even though these two women were very popular with him, he didn't dare to stay in private.
Originally, he thought that the King of England, who did not rub sand in his eyes, was the kind of person who controlled his subordinates very strictly. But I didn't expect that the King of England was not the kind of person who would never change his mind. He is not the kind of person who lets horses run without giving them grass to eat. He is actually a wonderful person who is considerate of his subordinates. Now that the King of England has spoken, he can get his wish and take the two women back to his temporary residence.
Seeing Zhang Qian's somewhat delighted expression, Huang Qiong smiled faintly. She just patted him on the shoulder and gave him a look that every man would understand. In fact, as soon as Zhang Qian came in, he kept glancing into a women's prison. How could Huang Qiong really not notice it at all? When he passed by the women's prison, he took a special look at the female prisoners held inside, trying to see who could get into Zhang Qian's eyes.
This look was indeed as he expected. The other cells were full of people, both men and women. In that room, only two people were locked up. Although they looked exhausted, their faces also looked frightened. But the tattered clothes on her body could not hide her gorgeous appearance, as well as the astonishingly plump bust of a beautiful woman. Judging from the clothes these two women are wearing, they should not be of high rank in the Li Mansion.
Therefore, Huang Qiong simply did a favor and rewarded both girls to Zhang Qian. Don't let this guy have any romantic affairs under the water tower, among the tens of thousands of troops who are almost all monks. As for Zhang Qian's problem, Huang Qiong had already found out. None of the children of these aristocratic families who were born to rely on red and green trees are honest, and it is common for them to be greedy for flowers and lust.
Just when Huang Qiong looked at it and wanted to leave the cell. In a cell that also held only a few women, a young woman rushed to the cell fence and looked at Huang Qiong and said: "Your Majesty, please stay. The guilty woman is the young lady of the Li Mansion and the eldest daughter of the Privy Councilor Hong Minghuang. Li The guilty woman is aware of what the family did after they were sent to Longyou, so they dare not plead for the Li family."
"My father's crime is unforgivable. The King of England wants to behead the entire Li family. The guilty woman has no shame to beg for mercy from the King of England, let alone delay His Royal Highness in handling state affairs. The guilty woman only dares to ask the King of England, the Li family This place has been raided. What does the King of England plan to do with my father in the capital? As my father and my father-in-law are the parents of their children, I am afraid they are involved in some things. Are they also implicated in this?"
Hearing that the young woman in front of me, who was more beautiful and plump than the two women Zhang Qian was interested in, asked what she would think of the Hong Privy Envoy who worked hand in hand with Li Jiedu to make money. Disposal. Huang Qiong looked at this woman with interest and saw that there was also a beautiful woman in her forties in the cell. He said in a calm tone: "Hong Mansion? They should have copied it by this time."
He reached out and raised his hand to the woman's chin. After looking at the woman carefully, Huang Qiong shook his head and said, "I'm sorry about your father. His crime is no less serious than that of your father-in-law. Even as Li Jiedu, As a recommender of the envoy, as well as a shielder and accomplice for so many years, his guilt is even higher than that of Li Jiedu. As for how he will be convicted, it depends on the trial of the three judicial departments. "
After Huang Qiong's words fell, the woman's face immediately turned pale, and she murmured: "Sure enough, this is the result. I have been trying to persuade him for so many years, but he never listens. Now, the Hong family and the Li family, these two All the members of our family have been ruined by this official position, and they have also brought in the whole family, and hundreds of families are buried with them. Why, why do they have to do this? "
Regarding this woman's despair, Huang Qiong sighed slightly and didn't say much. He just turned his head and said to Zhang Qian: "Pick two maids to take good care of the two Mrs. Li and arrange another place to live. Although this matter cannot be said to be less sinful than the wife and children, the two Mrs. Li's status is not high after all. The same, they all come from official families, so they can be regarded as judging others by themselves."
After explaining Zhang Qian, Huang Qiong left without looking back. Zhang Qian, who stayed here, looked at Mrs. Li in the cell, and her mother-in-law, who was still in her 40s but still very charming. After sending someone to bring it out, he said softly to the two girls: "You should serve the King of England well. The Li family is definitely doomed, but maybe there is a way out for the Hong family."
Several maids were selected from the prison to serve the two girls after they took a bath. Zhang Qian personally sent the two girls, who didn't know their fate and were probably numb at this time, to Huang Qiong's cabin and then to Huang Qiong's bedroom. Mr. Zhang obviously had some misunderstandings. Huang Qiong asked him to take care of him for the sake of being both officials' children, and regarded him as Huang Qiong's second daughter.
