At the beginning of the civil castle, the Ming God of War was a little panicked

Chapter 544

Surrounded by water on three sides, Constantinople is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It controls the traffic arteries of the Eurasian continent, and its geographical location has extremely high strategic significance.

Since the Ming army settled in, Zhu Qizhen immediately dispatched troops to control the roads that must be passed around, and then organized manpower to repair houses and roads, and posted notices that the Ming court would treat them equally and would never engage in caste system. , regardless of men, women, old or young, regardless of scholars, farmers, craftsmen, everyone is equal, there is no distinction between high and low.

The local people don't know why, anyway, they do whatever they tell them to do.

It was later discovered that these orientals were not as scary as imagined, nor were they the legendary devils. They were in strict order and never disturbed the people, nor did they plunder.

On the contrary, the former nobles, whose family property was confiscated, did not dare to trouble the Orientals, and turned their heads to sharpen their knives at the common people.

Because in their eyes, the status of civilians is no different from cattle and sheep.

"stop!"

A group of Ming soldiers patrolling the city heard the quarrel ahead, and hurried over to check. As a result, they saw a group of people grabbing food.

This is a civilian area, similar to the slums of later generations, the houses are dilapidated, and most of the people living there are poor people.

From the clothes of the people in front of us, it can be seen that this family is a father and daughter. The old man is holding on to a sack, and his daughter is trying to push the other people away. However, she is too weak and thin to push move.

It was three men who started to grab the food, all of them looked like big and three rough. The man in charge kicked the old man away, picked up the food bag and left.

The sudden appearance of the Ming army made them stop immediately, and their faces turned pale.

"Stop, what are you doing?"

There are seven or eight people in the team patrolling the city, led by a general.

This person's name is Er Hu, and he was originally an ordinary soldier, but for some reason, he was suddenly promoted to general manager.

What's more, his eldest brother, that is, Dahu, has also been promoted.

Today is Erhu's first time leading a team. When he saw someone committing a crime in the street, he immediately stepped forward to stop it.

Due to the language barrier, the other party seemed a little confused, and did not dare to act rashly on the spot.

Erhu raised the knife in his hand and shouted: "Put down the food, get out!"

Seeing the gleaming knives, those burly men immediately understood, threw down the food, turned around and ran away.

The father and daughter at the scene cuddled together, their four eyes fixed on the sacks containing grain, but they dared not move.

Their thinking has long been fixed, the dog legs of the nobles rob food, and the soldiers also rob, there is no difference.

Erhu stepped forward, grabbed the grain sack, opened it and took a look, it was filled with flour, but the texture was extremely rough, black and yellow, it seemed that Fukang was mixed together during grinding.

He put away his waist knife and walked over with his pocket.

The two women were even more at a loss, curled up together like two quails.

"Next time someone robs you, come and find us on the street!"

Erhu handed over the sack, and the other party took it carefully, his eyes full of disbelief.

"thanks, thanks!"

The father and daughter finally came to their senses, tears filled their eyes with excitement, they knelt down and kowtowed.

"What are you doing, you don't need to perform such a big gift!"

Although Erhu couldn't understand, he knew that the other party must be thanking him, and it was from the bottom of his heart.

For some reason, I suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of pride in my heart.

At this time, the old man grabbed Erhu's hand, then grabbed his daughter, and pushed Erhu hard.

"Hey, what is this... for?"

Erhu was stunned, what do you mean?
And take your own daughter as a thank you gift?

Besides, I, Erhu, am such a casual person...

"Don't be like that, I'm not that kind of person, I'm so kind..."

Erhu pushed back and was about to leave, but the old man was holding on to his clothes, no matter what he said, he would not let go.

"You...you are boring. I, Erhu, am not a casual person. Let go. If you don't let go, I...I will treat you as a disturbance of public order..."

The old man didn't pay attention to it at all, or rather, he couldn't understand it even if he wanted to pay attention to it. He just grabbed Erhu's clothes tightly and kept repeating this sentence in his mouth.

However, Erhu couldn't understand, but felt that things were getting weirder, so in desperation, he ordered someone to go back and find an interpreter.

After about a quarter of an hour, two soldiers led Kalai and ran over quickly.

As the new instructor, Carleigh was already busy, but he was dragged by someone, panting, and asked, "General Erhu, what happened?"

"This old man insists on giving me his daughter, so hurry up and help me refuse!"

Callie squatted down, chatted with the old man, and then nodded.

"General Erhu, he really wants to marry his daughter to you, or in other words, give it to you."

"No, no..."

The two tigers waved their hands again and again, subconsciously dodging backwards.

"General, don't worry!"

Calle quickly explained: "The old man said that his daughter has been betrothed to the son of Baron Langrich..."

"Since you're all betrothed, what are you talking about?"

"Unknown to the general, this Baron Longledge is not a good person, and he has done all the bad things. Therefore, the wrath of the gods fell on his son."

"What do you mean?"

"His son is a fool, with the intelligence of a six-year-old."

"That's not okay, since we have already made a marriage contract, how can we go back on our word?"

"No...their family was forced!"

"Forced?"

After Erhu heard this, he immediately reacted and said angrily, "That baron, is he still alive?"

"As far as I know, since the Heavenly Army entered the city, Baron Langlich has donated a large amount of gold and silver property on his own initiative. Therefore, he has been included in His Majesty's list of pardons."

"Since it's not a good thing, it shouldn't be forgiven!"

Erhu was angry, but when he thought that the list was made by the emperor, he didn't dare to say anything.

"Next month is the wedding date. If General Erhu refuses, this girl will have to marry that fool."

After Kalai finished speaking, he shut his mouth and quietly waited for Erhu's reaction.

Through this period of contact, he has become very clear that the Orientals do not kill brutally, on the contrary, they are a very friendly nation.

They fought unstoppably because there was only one life and death on the battlefield. If the Ottomans won the victory, they would never let the prisoners or walk out of the camp.

Back then, the Ottomans captured Constantinople and killed all the Eastern Romans in the city.

Both nobles and civilians cannot escape the bad luck of being tortured and killed.

Look at how the Easterners did it. Their soldiers took the lead in repairing the city walls and houses, distributed relief food to the people in the city, and distributed severance pay to the captured soldiers.

Their army never bullies civilians, and even helps them out.

Calle could imagine that if such behavior happened to the Ottoman soldiers, they would definitely be considered out of their minds.

As for the weak woman in front of her, it is not that she will end up marrying a fool, but will become a plaything of the nobles, and the rest of her life will be a tragedy.

Her father knew this very well, so he desperately pushed her on Erhu.

With an oriental backer, Baron Longledge will give up this idea.

"General Erhu, I have something to say, please move."

Calle pulled Erhu aside and said, "If this girl gets married, she will definitely not live for half a year."

"Isn't he just a fool? At most, he is a widow. How could it be as serious as you said?"

"no!"

Calle shook his head and said, "Baron Langledge is a pervert, he is...a beast. His stupid son has married three wives, and none of them can live beyond half a year."

Erhu realized that something was wrong and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Baron Langrich will send out his own women in order to curry favor with other nobles, including his stupid son's daughter-in-law, of course, don't mention it..."

Kalai didn't want to explain too much about these dirty things, but Erhu raised his eyebrows and turned back to the father and daughter.

"What's your name?"

Carleigh hurried over to translate, and then said: "This old man's name is Guzak, and his daughter's name is Lisa."

"Why is one surnamed Gu and the other Li?"

"It's not Li, it's Lisa, which means God's oath..."

Erhu didn't finish listening, so he said impatiently: "That's not right, are these fathers biological?"

"They're untouchables, they don't have surnames, just first names," Calle said.

"Not even a last name?"

"Untouchables don't have surnames."

"Damn it... no wonder the emperor has repeatedly emphasized that all the people of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of high or low, that's what it means!"

Kalai added: "The Ottomans have always been a caste system, and the untouchables have the lowest status, and sometimes they are not even regarded as human beings."

Erhu made up his mind and said, "Li Sha, right?"

"It's Lisa."

"Okay, just Li Sha, I, Erhu, are willing to marry you, whether you want to marry me or not, please tell me!"

Calle translated these words, and the other party was stunned again.

Guzak only wanted to give his daughter to others, even if he was a lowly maid, at least he could survive.

However, people are talking about marriage, which is different.

When my daughter married, she became the wife of an oriental man, and her status changed drastically. Wouldn't she also change her status as a pariah?
Guzak's eyes were shining, but he was very worried. He didn't know if the other party was sincere, or was he making fun of himself?
Seeing this, Erhu stretched out his hand and took out a few gold coins from his pocket. These were recently paid, and they were all gleaming gold.

Of course, they were all snatched from the Ottomans.

As if it wasn't enough, he begged for some from the seven or eight people behind him, a total of twenty gold coins.

"This is a bride price, do you see enough?"

Guzak looked at the gold coin and wanted to reach out to pick it up, but he kept trembling and couldn't use his strength.

Erhu simply put the gold coin in his hand and said, "From now on, your daughter will be my wife, don't worry, from now on, no matter what bullshit Baron, no one will dare to touch her!"

After finishing speaking, she took a peek at Lisa. She looked pretty good, but she was too thin, but... she had the charm of a skinny horse...

Within a long time, rumors about Erhu marrying a foreign daughter-in-law spread.

When he got home, Duhu immediately called him over.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

With a straight face, Du Hu asked, "I heard that you married a foreign daughter-in-law?"

Erhu nodded: "Yes!"

"Right what?"

Du Hu glared at him angrily, and said: "Marrying a wife is a lifelong event, what matters is the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker. Our father and mother are gone, but your elder brother and I are still here!"

"It's not...it happened suddenly, I wanted to come back and tell you..."

"Humph!"

Du Hu snorted coldly, and continued to ask: "Tell me, what's going on?"

At that moment, Er Hu narrated everything that happened during the day, and finally said: "I was also excited at the time, but after thinking about it, we brothers will not go back in the future, and if we don't marry a foreign wife, we will be single."

"I'm not against it. For such a big matter, you should at least discuss it with me!"

"It's not too late to discuss..."

"Stop talking to me!"

Du Hu glared at him, and said: "Tomorrow, I'll find someone, so I'll let him be a matchmaker and bring a dowry to propose a marriage. It should be more formal."

"Brother, there's no need to be so formal, right?"

"Of course it is necessary!"

Dahu laughed suddenly, and said: "You are really a fool, you are lucky to be a fool, you caught up with such a good thing!"

Erhu hurriedly said: "He's just an ordinary person, not some beautiful woman..."

"I'm not talking about women!"

Du Hu said in a tone that was almost roaring: "Do you know that this mistake happened to meet the emperor's wishes!"

"what?"

Erhu was stunned, I married a foreign daughter-in-law, how could I have anything to do with the emperor?
"Brother, what do you mean, can you be more direct, I don't understand!"

Du Hu then said: "The emperor may be going back. Before he leaves, he will issue an imperial edict to encourage interracial marriages. Now that the edict has not been issued, you have just made a start. Isn't this a stroke of luck?"

Erhu didn't understand, and asked, "Why do you want to encourage interracial marriage?"

"His Royal Highness will lead the soldiers to stay behind. If interracial marriages are not encouraged, where can we find wives for soldiers like us?"

"So that's how it is..."

Du Hu continued: "Not only that, the emperor also said that if you want to teach people here to learn Chinese and write Chinese characters, the fastest and most effective way is to intermarry."

Erhu nodded thoughtfully, the reasoning is a bit profound, but not obscure, if you think about it carefully, you can still figure it out.

"Then my side..."

"You don't need to worry about it. I will arrange it tomorrow. Let me tell you that you are famous now. Even the emperor knows about you!"

"what……"

Erhu was completely stunned, at a loss.

"The emperor said, you are too horny, you started looking for women just a few days after the war!"

"No, I didn't mean that..."

"Okay, listen to me!"

Du Hu glared at him angrily, and said: "The emperor also said, when you get married, let His Royal Highness King Yi personally witness the marriage, you boy is really developed!"

Erhu looked bewildered, but also somewhat happy.

His Royal Highness King Yi will marry me?

What a fucking honor it is!
(End of this chapter)