Great time travel

Chapter 71. The "Ordinary" Life of a Peasant Girl in Ming Chuan
In addition, the Confucian government also stipulated that the master should call the slaves by their baby names directly, and the slaves should call the masters "Grandpa" and "Miss", regardless of whether the slaves are gray-haired or the masters are wet, without exception.But if the servants are also surnamed Kong, and their seniority is much higher than that of "Yansheng Gong", this matter will be troublesome-many of the tenants and servants under the Confucian family were originally relatives, and they also flowed with the blood of Confucius. ——According to the principle of "Father, son, son" of Confucius, the master and son should not only call them by their baby names, but should call them fathers and ancestors!However, according to the same Confucianism's principle of "Only the superior wisdom and the inferior fools will not change", a master is born to be a master, and a slave is only worthy to be a slave.what to do?After all, the Confucian mansion is worthy of being a "sacred descendant", so it added another rule: all slaves with the surname of Kong must be forced to change their surnames; inside the gate of the Confucian mansion, only the master's surname is allowed to be Kong, and others must not offend!

Well, once the shabby Kong family settles down and works for the Confucius family, no matter whether it is selling themselves or working part-time, they have to change their names first...

Fortunately, Dai Erdong didn't need to change her surname, but no one called her by her surname in the Confucian Mansion, they just called her by her first name.

Then, because Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period was very particular about funeral rites, the Confucian family strictly followed the funeral rules of their ancestors when they held funerals, and forced all the tenants to mourn together, and they were not allowed to marry during the period.However, if someone died in the servant's house of the Confucian Mansion, no crying, no filial piety, no trace of mourning, or even death in his own home was allowed. Outside, so as not to wash away the "auspicious" spirit of Confucian Mansion.It is the same funeral, but the master and the slave are so different, this is Confucius's "propriety is not inferior to common people"

In addition, the Confucian government also stipulated that when a slave responds to his master, he must not complain about his own reasons, let alone "offend" in the slightest. Otherwise, he will be beaten lightly and seriously injured.When servants serve their masters, they must lower their eyebrows and be pleasing to the eyes, and must not look directly at the master, otherwise it will be a crime of disrespecting the master... There are countless, countless, at least similar to the maids serving the royal family in the Forbidden City.However, in the Forbidden City, the maids who serve the royal family are allowed to marry on their own once they reach the age of 25. Mother), but the maids of the Confucian Mansion have to follow so many stinky rules all their lives, and they must not go beyond them.

For the masters of the Confucian family, these red tapes full of "nobility" naturally meant the decency and demeanor accumulated in history.But for the inferior people who serve them, it means countless unnecessary troubles that only make people feel headaches and nausea.

Well, by the way, the object Dai Erdong served in the Confucian Mansion was a 13-year-old little beauty.

What, do you mean that the eldest lady of the Confucian Mansion is a little beauty?Hey, who told you that the object of her service is Miss Kong?
Let's use the story of "Dream of Red Mansions" as an example.

Does Qingwen next to Baoyu know?

Dai Erdong is the one who waits on Qingwen!
Qingwen serves Baoyu, and the little girl serves Qingwen!

——In a feudal society with strict hierarchy and rigid strata, even slaves and maidservants were classified into different classes.Among the servants of the Confucian Mansion, the most superior ones are of course the domestic servants who are deeply trusted by their masters—just like the big maids in "Dream of Red Mansions", who are luxuriously dressed, well-fed, and as delicate as "deputies". Not only are they well-clothed and well-fed all day long, but they are even qualified to have a special little girl serve them...

Although these domestic maidservants, in essence, like Dai Erdong, signed a contract of sale in Yanshenggong Confucian Mansion and became slaves.

As for the newly bought slaves like Dai Erdong, they can only be regarded as the lowest existence in the Confucian mansion biosphere, basically worse than the pigs and dogs waiting to be slaughtered in the kitchen - the pigs and dogs at least have to show the master a look qualifications, and they can't see the face of the master at all.

——If these newcomers bought from outside can serve their favored maidservants, it will be a blessed and easy job.

Even if they are lucky enough to serve the maidservants born at home, they are nothing more than a few old patched clothes of coarse cloth, and they can only eat half full of various coarse grains, plus leftovers from the host's banquet. Even the "monthly money" that existed in theory was never handed out to the hands once, and all of them were embezzled by the insatiable and greedy stewards.

However, compared with another group of more pitiful people under the name of the Confucian Mansion, the life of a low-level maid like Dai Erdong is not the worst.

That is, the tenants who have paid taxes for the Confucian Mansion in Qufu from generation to generation and have to undertake various errands.

Since ancient times, Chinese farmers have had to use their own labor to cultivate the land of landlords, nobles and royal families, and dedicate [-]%, [-]%, [-]%, [-]% or even more than [-]% of the harvest to the landlords, nobles and royal families.

The Confucian Mansion is a family of great aristocrats and landlords who have been hereditary for more than 70 generations.Under the banner of offering sacrifices to Confucius, it extracts countless rents of grain and silver from thousands of tenants every year. The amount of "statutory" exploitation alone accounts for 5.00% of the harvest, which is as much as [-]%.

The land rent of Confucian Mansion is known as "ten thousand years' rent".That is to say, the land rent of his family is used for worshiping Confucius, and it is related to the "blood food of the holy ancestors", so "it will not increase in a good year, and will not decrease in a bad year", and it will remain unchanged for thousands of years.In fact, "no increase in a good year" is just because the bones have been sucked out, and there is no more to increase, and "no decrease in apologetic years" is its original intention.What's more terrible is that the tenants paid rent to the Confucian government. In addition to the "positive" land rent, there were many additional exploitations.The most Confucian features are the "Doujian" and "Land" in Zuliang.The so-called "doujian" means that when the rent is overdue, the grain will stand out.Those that are so pointed that they can no longer be pointed and flow down to the ground are called "dipi".The tenants were not allowed to take back the tips and the land, but they were seized by the Confucian government and distributed to the dog legs as "grain" (salary).

And the tenants who pay the rent are also subject to many extortions other than the "positive amount".One is "increased consumption", which costs one and eight cents more for every tael of rented silver;The addition of various names brought troubles in calculation, and later they were simply added together, adding four dollars for every two.In addition to these extra extortions that are clearly stated, there are many other tricks and extortion.

In addition to the "ten-thousand-year rent" such as renting grain and silver, the Confucian government also forced some tenants to pay certain kinds of goods or provide certain kinds of labor.Among them are the so-called: radish households, vermicelli households, bean sprout households, Chinese toon households, peach households, apricot households, duck egg households, fish households, water chestnut households, plate households, dish households, cooking broom households, yam broom households, altar incense households, Nianhua households, firecracker households, Menko households, butcher households, salt transport households, boat households, trumpet households, cannon households, gangzi households, box households, pig-sacrificing households, cattle-sacrificing households, sheep-sacrificing households, mourning households, etc.There are so many names and surprises.Tenants have to do volunteer work for free in everything.

(About these unpaid labor, quoted from the propaganda materials of the Red Guards criticizing Lin Biao and Confucius, it can be called shocking, it is simply slavery.)
In addition to the above-mentioned exploitation, there are also various temporary additions from time to time.For example, if Duke Yansheng needs to pay tribute to the emperor in a certain year, all tributes will be paid by the tenants.When the emperor made a "pilgrimage" to Qufu, the tenants suffered even more.In addition to labor such as repairing bridges and roads, building sheds, weaving mats and weaving cattails, some money must be paid along with the food.In addition, during the weddings and funerals in the Confucian mansion, and the birth of a child, the property of the tenants was often expropriated, and the despicable tricks of exploitation and blackmail were widely used.Then, usury is also a way of exploitation by Confucian government.It is said that Confucius seldom talked about profit ("Zihan talked about profit"), and the Confucian government seldom talked about profit on the surface, and they always talked about "benevolence, righteousness and morality", but they were really cruel when they let usury !According to records; the Confucian government lent money abroad, and the annual interest rate was as high as 120%!Sometimes they distribute rotten wheat, borrow a bucket of rotten wheat, and return a bucket of good wheat.And planting grain is also borrowing one bucket and paying back two buckets.There is also a so-called "cattle rent" in usury, that is, the Confucian government pays for cattle and horses, plus 40.00% to [-]% as a price, and rents it to farmers. Farmers can use it for three years and pay off the rent in three years; but in the end The cattle and horses still had to be taken back by the Confucian government and handled separately.Under this kind of usurious exploitation, farmers often starve to death before paying off the cattle rent.

When the Confucian government used the guise of "benevolence" and the disguise of "benevolence" of the Confucian government, drained the last drop of blood from the farmers in Qufu, let them starve to death in the ravine, and exposed their bodies in the wilderness, but I was living an extreme life. Luxurious life-in fact, strictly speaking, Confucius himself was a nobleman who paid great attention to clothing, food and pomp.What about "never tire of fine food, never tire of fine meat", "don't eat if you don't cut it properly, don't eat if you don't get the sauce", what "don't sit if you don't sit upright", why wear a black lambskin gown, it must be matched with a black smock; If you wear a deerskin gown, you must wear a white smock; if you wear a yellow fox fur gown, you must match it with a yellow smock, etc., a pair of high-end and noble style.

And the "holy descendants" of the Yanshenggong Mansion in Qufu naturally followed the example of their ancestors and intensified their efforts. While singing the deceitful tune of "love others with frugality", they spent extravagance on the ostentation of clothing, food, housing and transportation. To show their "noble" status.

For example, the old lady of the Confucian Mansion spent 830 taels of silver on New Year's Eve, but only had a private banquet for her family and did not invite outside guests at all.If there is any great joy or funeral, the waste will be even greater.Moreover, not only the masters ate delicacies from mountains and seas, but even the cats and dogs, like their owners, lived a life of luxury.Cats need [-] Wen a day for food, and dogs need to be fed with pork liver, which costs [-] Wen a day.The cost of bird food was as high as [-] Wen.At the same time, the tenants outside the Confucian Mansion are selling their children for one thousand Wen each!

Generally speaking, things like "the wine and meat of the Zhumen stink, and the bones of the road are frozen to death" happen every day in the Confucian Mansion.Every day in the Confucian mansion, there are so many leftovers that can be piled up into hills, but they never refuse to reduce the rent of even half a bucket of wheat from the tenants...even though many of these tenants in the Confucian mansion also have the same surname Kong , and even has the same bloodline, and is a descendant of a certain bastard of a certain generation of Yan Shenggong, but he can't get the slightest forgiveness.

Thousands of people's blood are filled with fine wine in gold bottles, and thousands of household ointments are filled with delicacies on jade plates.The luxurious, extravagant, decadent and corrupt life of Confucian mansions, their clothing, food, flowers and grass are all formed by the blood and sweat of the working people.However, the tenants squeezed by the Confucian government lived a life that was not as good as a cow or a horse.

——So, during the ten years of turmoil when the Temple of Confucius was smashed, those tenants surnamed Kong were the ones who smashed it the hardest.

In addition to the exploitation of rural tenants, another means of exploitation by the Confucian government was to occupy the market and collect taxes.The rural markets where the villages and villages are located are all occupied by the Confucian government, and local bullies are appointed to act as collectors to forcibly collect taxes.In addition to obtaining huge collection taxes from these fairs all year round, the Confucian government also used the method of changing the collection heads from time to time, and often collected the "recognition fee" for the collection heads.In order to increase the price of Jitou, the Confucian government actually regarded Jitou as a rare commodity and called for public auction.In addition, the Confucian government also used its power to make a fortune by opening pawnshops, operating banks, and issuing money tickets.Whatever gangsters have done in ancient and modern China and abroad, the Confucian government will only do it more viciously and greedily.

So, after witnessing so many things with her own eyes, Dai Erdong, the time-traveling girl, finally came to an epiphany:
The so-called thousand-year-old family, the saint race... are actually just a group of the most corrupt, greedy, and cruel social parasites.

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Time and space at the end of Ming Dynasty, Sanya base, temporary office assigned to Wang Qiu

At this moment, Wang Qiu, Huang Shi, Wang Meiling and Ma Tong and other idlers who are free for the time being are studying the personal experience report of a peasant girl from the late Ming Dynasty who once worked as a slave in the Confucian Mansion of Yansheng Gong in Shandong. It can be said that every word weeps blood and shocks people.

"...Hmm, it seems that this time-traveling lady has finally awakened the simplest consciousness of class struggle!"

At the desk in the office, Wang Meiling held her chin in one hand and poured herbal tea into a porcelain cup with a silver pot in the other. At the same time, she said to her son, "...Then what's next? She really awakened from then on, and began to lead the slaves and tenants of the Confucian Mansion to quarrel. Is there a revolution?"

"...How is it possible? Not to mention whether she has such courage, besides, no one would listen to a little girl!"

Wang Qiu shrugged, "...she just discovered another fact later on, that is, even hateful people have pitiful qualities..."

——Half a year after being abducted and sold to the Confucian Mansion as a slave, Dai Erdong was horrified to learn that the person she was in charge of serving was luxurious in food and clothes, as delicate as a The eldest maid of the "Deputy Miss" is about to be taken over by a master of the Confucian Mansion!
Moreover, the other party is a master of the Kong family branch, who is already in his 60s!

This age is much older than the young girl controlling the old bachelor who wanted to buy Dai Erdong before!
Even so, this Confucian master is still old-hearted and superstitious in the art of cultivating Taoism-but the problem is, if he goes to live in seclusion in the deep mountains and old forests, of course he will not hinder anyone, even if he sits Under the waterfall, he realized the ultimate in martial arts, and everyone just admired him; if he started alchemy in his own house, it would be a waste of money, and at most he would poison his own body... But it is a pity that this The old man is practicing intercourse art, and he needs seven virgins to act as "stoves" to go to bed with him and practice both yin and yang together!

Therefore, the big maid that Dai Erdong served was honorably "opened" by the old man to take over the house, without even the status of a concubine!
——No way, no matter how you usually wear gold and silver, and eat and dress carefully, after all, these big maids are still slaves who have signed a contract of sale and have no personal freedom at all, and have no right to maintain their reputation at all.As for whether it will become a man's plaything, it depends purely on luck.

Take "Dream of Red Mansions" as an example, Baoyu is a rare good master who is considerate and considerate, and he is not in a hurry.So except for those who are willing to take the initiative to climb into bed, such as Xiren, other girls can still maintain their chastity.Jia Lian was watched closely by Wang Xifeng, so she would go out to hunt wild food whenever she had free time. If she was replaced by a weaker young mistress, which girl in Jia Lian's room would be able to keep her chastity?
It's a pity that the maidservant of the Confucian Mansion didn't have such good luck, but she had to sacrifice herself to an old man at such a young age.

But apart from a little bit of regret that she was not lucky enough to be favored by those young masters, the big maid didn't have any intention of resisting, and she didn't even think about running away from the house—after all, they The life of a high-level servant is much more comfortable than that of ordinary people outside. Those big maids in the Confucian mansion just serve tea and water, do needlework, and can write poems and tear fans. They don’t have to do any heavy work. Live the life of an official lady.If you become a housemaid, give birth to a child and lift up your aunt, you can be regarded as a junior master.Even if the housewife is not good at speaking and fails to become a concubine, and is assigned to a servant in the house to manage things afterwards, it is more dignified than marrying a butcher and farmer outside to kill pigs and farm.

So, that maid was sent to the Taoist temple where the old man of the Kong family "lived in seclusion" together with six other maids who were born as slaves.And as the servant girl serving this big maid, Dai Erdong, or Yaohan girl, naturally followed.

"...Then what? Then? Was it the old man of the Kong family who was playing double cultivation, who also OOXXed Dai Erdong? Or was it that the big maid she served was beaten to death by her master on the bed?" Wang Meiling said. His eyes sparkled, and he asked with interest (and heartlessness).

"...It's not that exaggerated! First of all, Dai Erdong's black and thin face can be regarded as an ugly woman these days. The old man has been rich and honored all his life, and his vision is very high. How could he like her? ?Secondly, that guy is an old man in his 60s after all, and he is not the kind of muscular man who is as fierce as a tiger or wolf. Even if a little loli can't handle his big stick, can seven loli be able to handle him alone? "

Wang Qiu rolled his eyes and replied, "...the real problem is that the old man in the Confucian Mansion, who practiced dual cultivation, will be too strong in a few years!"