In ancient times, polygamy was practiced, and anyone who had a little property would choose a wife and a concubine, or a polygamous concubine. Even the famous Qing official Hai Rui also had a wife and a concubine. As for the high-ranking officials, it is natural that there are many wives and concubines, but there is also a dynasty, and most people cannot marry wives, including the ministers of the most extremely popular subjects.
On May 31, 1855, under the water attack of the Qing Dynasty monk Prince Greenqin, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Army, which had been holding Feng Guantun for more than two months, ran out of ammunition and food, and under the leadership of the general Li Kaifang, surrendered. What puzzled the Qing army was that Li Kaifang, who had surrendered, also brought two young and handsome children with him.
What is a child prostitute is a young and beautiful teenager for the pastime of people with the habit of breaking sleeves.
As the official of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Kaifang went out to fight, so why did he take a child prostitute? This must start with the system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Originally, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had already implemented a system of separate camps for men and women from the time of the Jintian Regiment Camp, and this system was strengthened when Yong'an was crowned king. After occupying Wuchang, Tianjing and other places, men's and women's halls were established. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, whether it was soldiers or civilians, was separated and organized into men's and women's pavilions.
Even husband and wife cannot live together. When visiting parents and wives, they can only stand at the door, a few meters apart, and cannot enter the women's camp, so as not to mix men and women.
Why is there a male-female camp system?
It is said to be to improve combat effectiveness, but it is also said to be to promote egalitarianism. In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the low-level soldiers had no private property, and those who participated in the uprising had to donate all their family property to the Holy Treasury, and all the booty was also given to the Holy Treasury for unified distribution.
Regardless of whether they were father and son, husband and wife, who had defected to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they were all called brothers and sisters.
Even as a high-ranking official of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he also had to obey this order, so even some of the ministers did not have wives. But people's physiological needs cannot be suppressed, so taking a child to the expedition has become a helpless choice.
It should be pointed out that in other dynasties, the chancellor may have been the highest-ranking civil official, but in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was not. There were twenty-four ministers in the Taiping Army, under the kings. In the early days, there were only six princes, namely Yang Xiuqing of the Eastern King, Xiao Chaogui the Western King, Feng Yunshan the Southern King, Wei Changhui the Northern King, Shi Dakai the Wing King, and Qin Rigang the Yan King, and in the later period, due to the indiscriminate title of king, it reached several thousand.
Although neither the prime minister nor the common people could marry a wife, nor could those with wives and children live together, the princes were unrestricted.
According to the confession of the young king Hong Tianguifu, his father Hong Xiuquan had more than eighty wives, and there were not even eunuchs in the palace, all of whom were waiting for him. And the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing was also a group of wives and concubines, and even had a female title Fu Shanxiang. How many wives and concubines Shi Dakai had was unknown, but on the banks of the Dadu River, the fourteenth royal lady bore him a son, which showed that he should have at least fourteen wives.
Some people have countless wives and concubines, but some people do not even have wives, which is naturally unfair and suppresses human nature and instincts. As a result, couples have repeatedly violated the ban and dated privately, and have been severely punished for this.
In the TV series "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", chen Zongyang, a winter official and a prime minister, was caught by Yang Xiuqing because he and his wife Xie Wanmei were secretly dating, and they were beheaded in public.
The most exaggerated thing is that after occupying Chenzhou, Xiao Chaogui, the King of the West, led an army to attack Changsha, and Xiao Chaogui's parents accompanied him. On the way, Xiao Chaogui's parents secretly got together despite the ban. In order to rectify military discipline, Xiao Chaogui beheaded his parents in public. Although they are only adoptive parents, this kind of righteous extermination of relatives is obviously unreasonable. Because Xiao Chaogui himself had a wife, Hong Xuanjiao, as the King of the West, there was no need to divide the camp. It is a little unfair to be able to stay with your wife and not allow your parents to be together!
Fortunately, this inhumane system did not last long, and by the end of 1854, the system of sub-camps was finally abolished, and men and women who had been separated for several years could finally be together.