Chapter 579 Different Times
"Whether you are older or younger, just let us sisters go over and ensure that they are comfortable and comfortable!"
"That's good. The second requirement is to be careful and gentle, and to have a certain degree of culture... The cultural requirements are not very high, just be able to know a thousand words."
Old Mrs. Xu pointed to the women around him and smiled: "We are all knowledgeable and gentle and considerate!"
"You don't have to say this, it's up to your instructor."
Mr. Xu was a little puzzled: "We started training since we were young, such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, flower rituals, tea ceremony, and so on. Do we need instructors?"
Another woman with freckles on her face said, "Yes, brother, we are so familiar with these. If you don't believe it, you can just take one out and take the exam."
Liu Mingyu nodded and said, "Okay, since you are so confident, I will test you." He pointed to the petite woman with a fair baby face: "Come here, I'll give you a few questions to see if you can do it."
Old Mrs. Xu smiled and said, "Brother, are you going to take her test here?"
Liu Mingyu was puzzled: "If you don't take the exam here, where can you take the exam?"
"How embarrassed she is? Don't look at Miao'er's sister being seventeen years old, she is still a young man!"
Old Mrs. Xu pointed to the house behind the recruiting point and smiled meaningfully, "You should take her to your room to take the exam slowly... Look at your stupid look, you won't be a boy, you know nothing about these things, right? It doesn't matter, we can all help."
Liu Mingyu is not a chick, or he didn't think about this problem just now, but now he suddenly realized something was wrong. Looking at the women who secretly sent Qiubo to discharge electricity frequently, he asked suspiciously: "What are you doing?"
Old Mrs. Xu said suspiciously: "We? You are all responsible for recruiting such soldiers. Isn't you aware of what we are doing? Didn't your elders explain it to you?"
"No, what did you do before?"
Mr. Xu smiled very generously and said, "Take care for your men! You stingy, you are so stingy. You tens of thousands of soldiers, you can only recruit only 2,400 female soldiers... Alas, although it is a bit hard for one person to deal with twenty or thirty men, I have experienced many battles and can afford it!"
Nowadays, considering the issue of family style, women from wealthy families can stay away from the front door and stay away from the second door. Some women have never left their yard in their lifetime. This is not an exaggeration.
For example, Zhu Weiti, before she got married with Liu Ming, she had never gone out of the palace gate.
Liu Mingyu frowned and said, "Do you understand medical skills?"
Old Mrs. Xu shook his head: "I don't understand, I don't understand!"
"Do you know how to change the dressing and how to take care of people who are seriously injured?"
"What are we learning this?"
"What have you learned since you were a child?"
"Learn how to please men and how to serve men so comfortably!"
Liu Mingyu finally knew what the problem was. He wanted to recruit female soldiers, not battalions, because in this era, all armies had battalions, and even many armies carried more or less battalions in wars.
Although the welfare benefits of the Liu family army are good, how could a good woman apply for a camp? What's more, Liaodong is no longer the essentially poor people in the Ming Dynasty at this time.
Even any ordinary citizen in Liaodong has land ranging from 180 to 200 to 300 acres. Although it can only be planted for one season a year, its income is not low.
Any harvest of a year can be eaten for five or six years. In addition, the Central Plains has always lacked grain. Although the purchase price of grain in Liaodong is five or six cents per stone, their per capita income is not low.
How can I push my daughter into the fire pit if I can eat and wear a shirt?
Liu Mingyu waved his hand and said, "I made a mistake, it's all wrong. The female soldiers I recruited are not the kind of female soldiers you imagined!" "What kind of female soldiers is that?"
Old Mrs. Xu made a rumor: "A woman has entered the military camp, isn't she still serving men?"
“It’s serving…”
Liu Ming had a big encounter with him, and he couldn't explain it clearly. It was right for medical soldiers to take care of male soldiers, but it was not like this kind of care method.
However, when the misunderstanding was explained, Liu Mingyu knew what to do.
First of all, Liu Mingyu made an announcement in his own name.
The Liu family army recruited female soldiers, not camp records, but female medical soldiers who saved lives and helped the wounded. Their job responsibilities were to be responsible for treating and caring for the injured and sick soldiers. The best was the basis for trauma treatment. If you have family-born medical skills, it would be best. The age can be relaxed to the age of twenty-five.
It is best if you are unmarried. In fact, no one is willing to go to a married woman. In this era, there are no contraceptive measures. Basically, they get married in the first year and have babies the next year.
After this clarification incident, although the female soldiers recruited by the Liu family army were still concerned, many women came out secretly.
What Liu Mingyu brought to Liaodong was not only economic development, but also the women's liberation movement.
In fact, the imprisonment of women in the Ming Dynasty, such as foot binding, was mainly reflected in the gentry and wealthy families. Even Zhu Weiti was not popular in the palace and could not enjoy such wealth and honor.
Because wealthy families like foot binding, they won’t like women with big feet, so Liu Mingyu didn’t see Zhu Weiti having a pair of deformed feet.
Now Liaodong is no longer allowed to bind feet. If you force your foot binding, you will be fined. And you can be fined over time. For example, the woman started to bind her feet at the age of eight. The first year was fined one tael, two taels of silver in the second year, four taels of silver in the third year, eight taels of silver in the fourth year, and sixteen taels of silver in the fifth year.
If the woman gets married, then the cost will be borne by the in-laws and her parents, and each part will be borne by the other party. This way of adding more punishment is that the family has hundreds of taels of silver, which is not enough.
Later, Liu Mingyu learned that this was a brothel girl arranged by Cheng Jingxian. The brothel girl made much higher than the monthly salary of Liu Jiajun, so no one came to apply for it.
What surprised Liu Mingyu the most was the brothel woman. She was Miao'er, who was petite, fair-skinned, and had a baby face. Miao'er was naturally her name.
It is said that her family's name is Wang Qiaoyun, and her father is a doctor who saves life and helps the wounded. However, three years ago, her father Wang Yunyi cured a person while he was treating his illness.
That person was still a local clan, and the other party's family was unwilling to forgive him. Wang Yunyi had no choice but to sell Wang Qiaoyun to the other party as funeral expenses.
So, Wang Qiaoyun became the first female soldier of the Liu family army, and the second female soldier of the registered one was Gu Xiaoman.
This Gu Xiaoman is also a tragic background. She was ordered by her parents and said to her matchmaker and married her stupid son Zhang Caizhu as his wife.
But after marriage, I found that the fool could not act like a human being. But her father-in-law, Zhang Caizhu, was also a person with ulterior motives. Gu Xiaoman received education and naturally knew about etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame. Once this happened, she would have no way to die and would also bring shame to her parents.
So she fled and pretended to look for her relatives, boarded the immigration ship from Liaodong, and came to Liaodong alone. This is to talk about another inequality in Liaodong's policies.
Immigration in Liaodong is a man who can become an independent household, while a woman either follows her parents or her husband's family. She cannot become an independent household. This means that even if she wants to farm by herself, she has no chance and can only rely on working to survive.
However, the problem is that when her husband's family, Qiangzhu Zhang, heard that she had come to Liaodong, he had sent someone to find her. In desperation, he took the initiative to ask to join the Liu family army.
Liu Mingyu looked at Gu Xiaoman and said, "Don't worry, this marquis and the 280,000 brothers of the Liu family army are your strong backing. If he dares to come here, he will kill him!"
So, the female soldiers of the Liu family went from one extreme to another.
The female soldiers who joined the Liu family army were either because of rebellion, because of unsatisfactory life, or because of unfair destiny, and wanted to change their destiny.
There are also some women who are indeed brothels. Because they are tired of the life of brothels selling laughter, they make a certain amount of money and want to change their lifestyle.
Although men and women are not tired of working, problems will also arise.
This requires strict control. In this era, people generally cannot accept childbirth before marriage. Once this problem is discovered and a bad impression is formed, it will be difficult for Liu Mingyu to recruit female soldiers again.
Therefore, Liu Mingyu issued an order for the entire army: "Male soldiers are forbidden from having relationships with female soldiers. Regardless of whether they are voluntary or not, they will be treated as strong and traitorous, and will not be killed!"
Liu Mingyu first felt that the military uniform of the Liu family army was black, and there was no problem with the male soldiers wearing it, but the woman was wearing black, so she was a bit alternative.
In order to distinguish between medical soldiers and ordinary soldiers, whether they were doctors or ambulances, they changed their military uniforms to blue, Liu Mingyu even took out the cowhide armor from the original warehouse and sent it to female soldiers.
The standard configuration of female soldiers is cowhide armor and white coat. Although the defense ability of cowhide armor is far inferior to that of stainless steel armor, female soldiers do not need to go to the battlefield. The health workers in each squad and platoon are all male soldiers. Female soldiers will only be assigned to regiment-level health centers, brigade-level health centers, and division-level field hospitals.
Entering the army and becoming a soldier is not a joke.
At first, Wang Qiaoyun thought that she had entered the Fu Nest. Although the female soldiers had not yet been formally trained, the camp where they lived was the barracks of the former officers' teaching team.
Each house is about twenty-five square meters, and only four people live in each room. It has a separate bathroom, with large and bright windows, bedding and other things, brand new.
The most important thing is that the female soldiers were given special care everywhere in the military camp. The chef who was responsible for making food wanted to beat all the meat in the pot to Wang Qiaoyun and Gu Xiaoman.
Every day, there are dozens or hundreds of straight men in steel, and they are in different ways to show their attention. They become victorious generals in the military camp, and wherever they go, they are the focus.
Happy days are always too short, and the happy life of Wang Qiaoyun and Gu Xiaoman was broken in just a few days. As more and more female soldiers entered the military camp, although the original plan to have a scale of 2,400 people was not completed, there were hundreds of people.
In this case, they began military training.
Like male soldiers, they are armed off-road every morning. Of course, in order to take care of the physical strength of female soldiers, they run two kilometers less than male soldiers, which is only two thousand steps.
Then there is breakfast. After breakfast, you start queue training, change from all sides, organize housework, ideological education, etc. The female soldiers instructors were specially selected by Liu Mingyu. No one with high emotional intelligence should be chosen. Specially, choose the kind of iron-faced instructor who is not sympathetic and harsh.
Even Gu Xiaoman, who had suffered hardship, was so tired that he stuck out his tongue every day.
“One, two, three, four, one, two, three four!”
In fact, the intensity of training for female soldiers is far less than that of male soldiers, and it only makes them accustomed to becoming soldiers, not among the people.
Liu Mingyu thought that these female soldiers should be inadequate and needed long-term training. However, what Liu Mingyu did not expect was that these new female soldiers were very physically strong, especially armed cross-country training. They could follow male soldiers for five kilometers and ten kilometers, but some of them fell behind. After a long journey of twenty kilometers, more than one-third of the female soldiers could keep up with the team.
Chapter completed!