Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Wang Jiachang patted his chest vigorously:

"Master Qingtian, don't worry!

I also checked every house in the village.

To be honest, it was just a coincidence.

If in normal times, all the labor force in our village is on the construction site, even if I want to find someone to repair it, I can't find a strong man.

No, it's been freezing cold recently.

No work can be started on the construction site, and all the young people in the village have returned.

It was sunny yesterday, so I organized them to take advantage of the rare good weather to quickly reinforce the houses of those families.

Although the tree trunks were simply cut down and supported under the beams.

However, it is definitely enough! "

Standing behind the Yamen servant, an old man in the corner also spoke:

"That's right, Mr. Qingtian, the three families you mentioned have a share in my family.

Every beam in the family's house has been reinforced with wood.

Don't worry, it won't collapse! "

"That's good, that's good!"

Chen Ding chuckled.

The tea in the bowl had become warm. Chen Ding drank the sugar water in one gulp and stopped the woman who was about to pour the tea:

"Chief Wang Jia, let's go and take me to have a look.

I really can’t let go without seeing it with my own eyes. "

"Sir, you are truly a blessing to the people of Song County!"

Wang Jiachang complimented him, stood up and put on his cotton coat:

"Let's go, then I will take you around."

As soon as Chen Ding stood up, the government servants sitting on the chairs hurriedly drank the sugar water and stood up.

Wang Jiachang led the way for Chen Ding, and the government officials followed behind them.

A dozen people standing in thatched huts with smiling faces also followed the team.

Grandma Liu’s house.

Grandma Liu's three sons were recruited into the city to resist when Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang City.

After Luoyang was captured, three brothers died in street fighting.

The three brothers are all dead...

As a result, the old man was so angry that he passed away after being bedridden for half a year.

Within half a year, her husband and son lost their lives one after another, and Granny Liu cried so hard that she almost went blind.

Suffering from this blow, Granny Liu, who was in her fifties, suffered from hemiplegia at a young age.

Although after acupuncture, it has improved.

However, work in the fields can no longer be done.

What's more, Song County is already sparse in land.

The average per capita is less than half a point.

Before Zhu Youjian had no Daxing construction site, most of the local people's source of income came from picking in the mountains.

Mountain products and traditional Chinese medicine were still the main source of income for local people until later generations.

Grandma Liu cried so hard that her eyes were broken, and she suffered from the sequelae of inflexible legs and feet.

These jobs can no longer be done.

Without men, even if the neighbors can help him for a while, how can they help him for a lifetime?

For people like her, in the real history of war and chaos, the only way out was to die of cold and starvation...

This is the reason why the early Qing Dynasty slaughtered the whole world and caused heavy casualties among the people.

The lack of prime-age labor force will be a disaster for any society!

In the same way, 500 million people died at the hands of Japanese pirates, but as a result, as many as 2.8 million people died!

……

Fortunately, Zhu Youjian jumped out of Beijing.

After the emperor built a large construction site, there were always young people going out to work.

The men went to the construction site to work hard to earn money. When they exchanged money, they broadened their horizons.

The Ming Dynasty was not the closed society of the later Manchu and Qing Dynasties. The status of women was the second highest after the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Which of these construction sites does not require women to cook?

Even when there were too many construction sites and insufficient manpower, and labor shortages began, supervisors at various construction sites began to recruit female workers.

In fact, for many types of effortless work, women’s unique meticulousness is more suitable than men’s.

Like planting trees!

The survival rate of men planting trees is definitely not as high as that of women!

Under the reality of insufficient manpower and the open atmosphere of Ming Dynasty——

Women also began to go out in droves to earn money.

Some families have parents who can help look after the children.

And some families whose parents died early are in trouble.

Fortunately, Granny Liu can still take care of her children despite her physical inconvenience.

In this way, she became the child king of Dayangou Village.

Several families without parents discussed it, and each family pooled some money and food and asked Granny Liu to help take care of their children.

When the times begin to undergo great changes, everyone is a grain of sand in the times.

The general trend, although invisible, can affect everyone.

Grandma Liu is starving to death!

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, there were many, many people like Granny Liu...

This is the dividend brought by the changes of the times to ordinary people!

however……

You will never die of hunger, and even, because of the changes in the times, you can still eat ingredients that you never thought of before!

but--

Granny Liu, who has no children at home and is physically handicapped, naturally has no ability to repair the house.

Most of the poor households that Chen Ding worried about were in similar situations to Granny Liu.

After all, no matter when it is, there is no male in the family...

Everyone will suffer.

In the news of later generations, it is not always the case that there are families with only one daughter, and it is not easy to raise them to go abroad and study abroad...

As a result, his parents died of illness and turned into withered bones, and were they discovered by others?

In any era, men are the backbone.

Maybe in the new era, women don’t make as much money.

However, in daily life, men's unique physique can still support many things.

When Chen Ding came to the wall of Granny Liu's house.

A teenage boy came to the dilapidated yard carrying a grain bag.

Although this child is small, children in the mountains are very strong.

But as a teenager, he actually carried dozens of kilograms of grain on his back.

(Don’t doubt this. One of my uncles had no sons and adopted a child from a mountain family. He was only eight years old at the time and could carry a basket of green grass on his back.

My uncle felt sorry for him and wouldn't let him carry it.

He said: "Dad, I can carry it on my back. I can carry it on my back when I'm at home hiking up the mountain!"

You know, many adults nowadays cannot carry this thing. )

……

As soon as the little boy entered the yard, he started chirping:

"Grandma, I am Winter Melon, and my father asked me to carry some rice for you.

My dad bought this from the town yesterday.

My mother asked me to bring you some so you can have a try.

My dad said, this is rice shipped a long way from Nanyang. Grandma, you must have never eaten it! "

In the smoke-filled hall, Grandma Liu's voice came out:

"Winter melon, grandma can't have it.

Baby, be obedient.

You carry it back, grandma has food to eat.

Your parents work exhaustingly on the construction site, and it’s not easy to make some money.

Be obedient and carry it back quickly. "

Granny Liu, who has inconvenient legs and feet, walks a little unsteadily.

But he still came out to stop Winter Melon.