Chapter 604: A Trip to Xi'an (4)
Tianjin's reaction was somewhat beyond Qin Zheng's expectations. After just one day, the Executive Committee replied to Qin Zheng and agreed to Zhou Ping's proposal to send all the palace maids to Tianjin, and the Executive Committee organized and placed them. Instead, the Executive Committee also formed a special working group, consisting of female soldiers traveling through time and female locals who surrendered. A special train will be dispatched separately to transport palace maids, requiring Beijing to prepare for the organization of palace maids immediately, and once the special train arrives in Beijing, they will get on the train immediately.
After receiving the resolution of the Executive Committee, Qin Zheng couldn't help but be surprised. Is the decision of the Executive Committee a little hasty and whether it has insufficient consideration of the negative impact of the Time Travel Group. Therefore, Qin Zheng conducted a simple communication with Tianjin through telegrams and found out that the Executive Committee did not have considered the negative impact, but that this impact was not much for the Time Travel Group.
In fact, after Qin Zheng's telegram was sent to Tianjin, it attracted the attention of the Executive Committee. After all, this was more than 1,000 palace maids, which played a major role in solving the marriage problems of time travelers. Therefore, the Executive Committee was urgently invited to enlarge the meeting overnight. Everyone agreed with this suggestion, just worried about the impact of this matter on the entire time travel group.
However, Xia Bohai believes that there is no need to worry too much about this impact. At most, it is gossip news. In fact, the Chinese are quite tolerant of such things. After a few days, they will be stopped and will not have any substantial impact on the Time Travel Group. After all, this has nothing to do with the Chinese people's personal interests. Of course, a few literati or Taoist scholars may hold on, but firstly, the rule basis of the Time Travel Group is not this group of people, and they have never expected this group of people; secondly, if you really talk, you have to see who is better able to tell stories. The Time Travel Group can even turn over the land that forcibly confiscate the landlords, let alone the shelter of these palace maids. You can promote it from the sins of the Palace Maid system to defend yourself. After all, the Time Travel Group hosts these palace maids to let them get married and have children normally and live a normal life. From this perspective, the Time Travel Group's behavior is completely legitimate.
On the other hand, the ruling foundation of the Time Travel Group is ultimately a land reform, which has obtained support from farmers who account for the vast majority of China's population, established a grassroots administrative system, and improved the government's mobilization and execution capabilities. As long as these things are done well, the ruling foundation of the Time Travel Group can be unbreakable, and other aspects are second. Moreover, the domestic demand and interests of the Time Travel Group are also very important. To put it extremely, if the Time Travel Group eventually ruled China, then everything I did before would be correct.
After communication, Qin Zheng also believed that Xia Bohai's opinions were not without reason. His previous concerns were indeed a bit stubborn. After all, the ultimate goal of the Time Travel Group was to comprehensively transform China of this era, rather than succumb to China of this era. In this way, Xia Bohai is indeed more visionary than himself.
Since the resolution has been made, it will naturally be implemented immediately and cannot be delayed. Because according to the agreement, after Li Hongzhang arrived in Beijing, the palace should be handed over to the Qing army to take over, and then taking all the palace maids away will be much more troublesome. So Qin Zheng immediately recruited Li Songchen and * and others to negotiate.
Of course, women are the most suitable for this kind of thing, so this task naturally falls on Zhou Ping. There are now 23 female time travelers and 35 female local followers in Beijing. Zhou Ping gathered all of these people and set up another working group to take responsibility for this work.
Now the palace is mainly managed by eunuchs and palace maids. The People's Army only guards the exits of the palace gates of the palace, and guards a battalion of troops outside the Meridian Gate. Every hour every day, inspects the palace. The Beijing Provisional Management Committee has also established an organization for the palace management office, which is in the cabinet lobby inside the Union Gate on the right side of the Meridian Gate of the Palace. It mainly deals with the needs of the palace, maintains the order of the palace, and mediates and adjudicates disputes and contradictions in the palace.
Zhou Ping led the working group and a company army into the palace. The head of the Palace Management Office had immediately received the notice, so he immediately recruited several old eunuchs who were in charge of the palace and ordered them to immediately gather all the palace maids in the palace in the square in front of Taihe Gate.
These old eunuchs used to have no power in the palace. They served in the palace for a long time and had relatively old experiences, so they gradually reached middle-level positions. In fact, the same is true for palace maids. When Cixi and Guangxu fled from the palace, they took away all the eunuchs and palace maids who were usually valued, and those who remained were unsuccessful and unpopular. After the time travelers controlled the palace, they saw that they were older, so they were asked to be responsible for managing other eunuchs and palace maids.
Since they had never held power in the past, and the time travelers were very strict in the supervision of the palace, these old eunuchs did not use this to act as a mighty man in the palace, but were still cautious everywhere. Now, after receiving the order from the Palace Management Office, although they did not know what overseas Chinese were going to do, overseas Chinese went to the palace twice to check the palace maids and eunuchs, but they did not recruit them all, but came in batches. However, they did not dare to ask more questions and immediately followed.
About half an hour later, all the palace maids gathered in the square in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and more than 1,000 people almost filled the entire square. Zhou Ping stood on the stairs in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony and announced in public that the time travel group had made a decision to bring all the palace maids in the palace to Tianjin so that they could live an ordinary life. In Tianjin, the palace maids would be educated and trained so that they could find jobs, support themselves, and get married at will and form families.
After Zhou Ping finished speaking, a "buzzing" voice immediately sounded in the square. Most palace maids and the old eunuchs who helped maintain their support changed their faces. After all, the news was really amazing.
But although the palace maids were surprised, they were not panicked, and there was no one who shouted loudly. Zhou Ping had expected that the entire square would be crying, and had already prepared to use tough threats to suppress the palace maids, but all these methods were useless.
It turns out that the rules in the palace are extremely strict and must be kept quiet at all times. The palace maids are not allowed to speak loudly, and they can only grit their teeth and endure it. Because they are on duty, they cannot speak privately. The palace maids have long formed a way to use gestures and eyes to convey information and express their intentions. However, this method is not a silly and rude speech, so a large part of it requires personal experience and requires a long learning process. If you are a little stupid, stupid, stupid, and stupid, you can't be regarded as bad. However, this also made the palace maids develop the habit of being calm and not being confused, and no matter what happens, they will not lose their composure and shout. In the film and television dramas of the old time and space, the palace is always full of chaos, and the earth-shaking phenomenon will not appear at all.
Moreover, the palace maids who stay in the palace are not favored and are not valued. They have no good feelings for the life of the palace. They can live a normal life and get married and have children like normal people. The palace maids are the greatest hope for them. The age of the palace maids to enter the palace is 13-15 years old. According to regulations, they can leave the palace for 5 years to get married. However, generally speaking, the palace maids serve 6-7 years, because there are many rules in the palace, and the new palace maids need time to study, so the palace naturally hopes that they can I hope to use familiar skills, so most of the palace maids were over 20 years old when they left the palace. In this era, they were older leftover women, and it was difficult to find a suitable family for their husbands. They usually act as concubines or reunions. However, it is ironic that the more favored or more capable the palace maids will serve in the palace longer. They will generally serve until they are over 25 years old, and even to 30 years old. At this age, even if the palace maids leave the palace, it will be difficult for them to marry again. If someone wants to become a monk, they will be fine.
After hearing Zhou Ping's words, the palace maids couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope after being shocked. After all, leaving the palace to get married and live a normal life is very attractive to them.
In addition, after the People's Army controlled Beijing, the style of the Eight-Nation Alliance was completely different. They did not harass the palace or bully the palace maids. They also sent people to check the palace maids and see the doctors. This also made the palace maids have a good impression of overseas Chinese. Some palace maids chatted in private and joked that it would be better to find an overseas Chinese to marry than to stay in the palace.
Although several old eunuchs were also very shocked, they were also very wise to keep silent. Although these people were not successful in the palace before, they had served in the palace for a long time and experienced many things, so they could not have such a look. Now is not the time for the Qing Dynasty to be in power. The entire Beijing is controlled by overseas Chinese. Not to mention taking all the palace maids away, they even took all the eunuchs away. Even if the palace was demolished, they could not control themselves, so why bother looking for this?
Seeing that the situation was not as chaotic as he thought, Zhou Ping couldn't help but feel excited and immediately announced that all the palace maids would line up immediately to register their names, age, origins, and other information, and to group them. After hearing this, the palace maids had no intention of resisting. They were very consciously lined up and registered one by one, which seemed very orderly. As expected, they had received strict training in the palace, and were indeed very different from ordinary ladies and maids.
Now each carriage of the Crossover train can accommodate 117 people, and the seats are also 3322 opposite seats, but each carriage needs to leave a seat for managers, so there can only be 110 people. Therefore, the Crossover will place the palace maids in a large group, each 10 people as a group, and designate one person as the group leader, responsible for greeting the entire group of personnel, so that there will be no mess when boarding the train.
Chapter completed!