Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 24 Unbalanced Population Ratio
As for his wife's weight, it is actually no less important than Bi Tian's.

Due to the influence of the traditional thinking of favoring boys over girls, China during the Qianlong period was the most imbalanced period in the ratio of men to women in ancient China.

It is conservatively estimated that the male population is one to two percent larger than the female population.

In addition, the high-ranking officials, gentry and landlords were greedy and possessive, and they had many wives and concubines.

Therefore, most of the poor people in this era cannot marry a wife.

There are countless bachelors among the people.

Even during this period, the bizarre behavior of renting out wives evolved.

The so-called wife renting means that the poor rent out their wives and rent them to others to give birth to children.

After giving birth to the child, the wife goes home with the rent.

It can be said that the three views are exploded!
It can also be seen from this that the ratio of men to women in this era has become unbalanced.

Under such circumstances, only if the poor can find a wife is there a ghost.

And such a bachelor, who is carefree and alone, is actually the biggest unrest factor in society.

Without care and ties, they are the group most likely to go to extremes.

The main force in the White Lotus Sect uprising at the turn of Qianjia was, to put it bluntly, a group of bachelors who could not find wives.

They have no worries to begin with, coupled with the unsatisfactory life and resentment towards society.

If given the chance, with a little prodding, they would explode.

A carefree bachelor would not mind taking a risk and risking his life for a prosperous and prosperous future.

Men with a family and a family have more worries. If they are not pushed to the extreme, they will most likely not do impulsive things.

And most of the soldiers of the Ming army were such poor men who couldn't get wives.

Now, Zhu Jingan is going to allocate fields and even wives to them. How can they not be excited and excited?
For many soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, since the governor was willing to give them land and wives, there was no harm in selling their lives to the governor.

It is nothing more than this for a scholar to die for his bosom friend!
Of course, Zhu Jing'an had his own selfish motives when he distributed land and wives to the Ming army.

To put it bluntly, those who have perseverance have perseverance.

Zhu Jing'an could only make the entire Ming army become permanent members of the Ming Dynasty, allowing them to have a family and a family to care for. Only then could Zhu Jing'an make them follow him wholeheartedly and carry out the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty to the end.

Otherwise, once the war goes wrong, the army will have no scruples and will be able to escape in an instant.

But if these Ming army soldiers were all divided into fields, they all married wives and had children.

When the Qing army's thieves-seeking army came over, even if they did not do it for the Ming Dynasty, they would have no choice but to risk their lives to fight the Qing army in order to prevent the Qing army from taking away the fertile land they had obtained, and to prevent their wives and children from being killed by the Qing army.

In this way, the Ming army marched out of Bauhinia Mountain with their heads wrapped in red scarves and singing the battle song of the Red Scarf Army.

Then, they began to march along the waterway and headed towards Jintian Town.

"Quick! Quick! Faster!"

"Capture Jintian Town, divide the fields, and give away wives!"

"The good farmland and the juicy wives are all in Jintian Town. Brothers, please work harder. If the brothers from other troops take the lead, it will be too late to regret."

"..."

The officers in the Ming army kept cheering up the Ming army while they were marching.

Zhu Jingan also followed the army all the way, wearing a large-brimmed hat to protect the sun and holding a saber. He shared the joys and sorrows with the Ming army and walked together with both feet.

Wherever the Ming army passed, there was a lot of chaos.

Seeing a large number of soldiers crossing the border, the villages along the way hurriedly closed the village gates, gathered the strong men in the village to prepare for war, and hid the women, children, money, food, etc.Be on guard against the burning, killing and looting of those soldiers!

These days, bandits are like a comb and soldiers are like a grate.

To be honest, in many cases the military discipline of our Qing soldiers is not necessarily comparable to that of the bandits.

At the very least, the bandits are all land tigers. They know the principle of cutting leeks and leaving the roots.

Looting is looting, but you won't take things too far and leave room for leeway.

Most of our Qing soldiers are guest soldiers from other places, and they don't pay attention to sustainable development when looting.

After finally sending out troops, if there is an opportunity to plunder and make a fortune, the people passing by will definitely break the bones and suck out the marrow, scrape them dry and squeeze them all, and get enough at once.

Anyway, there is a high probability that they will not come to this place a second time!
Naturally, they don't care what kind of harm the place will be like.

Because we are used to the corrupt military discipline of our Qing Heavenly Soldiers, when faced with this sudden mysterious army, all members of which were wrapped in red turbans, the villages along the way were on alert.

They are all afraid that the Ming army will harm the place when they pass through.

Fortunately, the Ming army marched in a hurry and did not have time to stop along the way. Naturally, they did not have time to cause harm to the place.

This shows that the Ming army had strict military discipline at this time and did not commit any crimes against local Qiu.

Otherwise, Zhu Jing'an was not sure whether he could control military discipline.

The current Ming Army is not so much an army as it is a group of gangsters composed of farmers, miners, craftsmen and other lower-class people who are dissatisfied with the current social situation.

These people generally have deep resentment towards the current social status quo. If they really let go and release the devil in their hearts, no one knows what they will do.

"..."

Zhu Jing'an wiped the sweat from his forehead and urged the Ming army to step up their march and keep marching towards Jintian Town.

……

Jintian Town, the Yang family mansion!

Butler Niu held up his hat, walked out of the Yang family's granary, turned to the counting house on the side and said.

"This time I organize a militia to suppress the bandits, we will need about [-] shi of food and grass. When the fifth or sixth day of next month, the teams from each village will gather in the town, and the army will set off immediately to suppress the bandits."

"You need to make arrangements in advance to ensure that as soon as the militia groups in each village are in place, food can be used at any time and the army can be deployed at any time."

According to the discussion, the Yang family needs to bear half of the food and grass needed to suppress the thieves alone, and the rest will be shared equally by each large family.

In order to reduce food consumption as much as possible, Mr. Yang is very anxious now and does not want to delay at all.

It is hoped that as soon as the militia is in place, it will immediately set out to suppress the bandits.

Because for every extra day of delay, he would need an extra day of food.

Now no one is more concerned about suppressing thieves than Mr. Yang.

Mr. Accountant heard this, nodded and said.

"Don't worry, Mr. Niu, this year's new rice has just been put into storage and can be used at any time. I guarantee there will be no problems."

When Butler Niu heard this, he couldn't help frowning and turned around.

"What kind of new rice do you use?"

"Don't you still have Chen Mi?"

"They are just a bunch of mud-legged people. Giving them some grains and old rice is considered a kindness. What kind of new rice should I use? Do they deserve it?"

(End of this chapter)