Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

It is not easy to build a city wall. Bricks and cement are needed. Now you can’t buy green bricks, let alone cement. Nowadays, most of the houses are built with a mixture of yellow mud. This kind of thing is not strong. It is just a prestige project. It looks good. That's all.

Lin Yuan, a liberal arts student, really doesn't know the formula of soil cement. Even if he knows, where can he find the raw materials?

There is no plaster in this wilderness.

He sighed here and there, Yang Zi'an happened to pass by and sat on the ridge of the field, Yang Zi'an was different from Brother Dao and the others, he was literate, although he had never read the books of sages, he was out of the range of illiteracy, a few days ago because of Lin Yuan taught the farmers simplified characters, and never paid any attention to Lin Yuan.

But fortunately, Yang Zi'an was not a son of a noble family, he was born as a landowner, and he disappeared within two days of being out of breath.

Anyway, those peasants would not be officials or butchers, and it doesn't matter if they know a few typos.

"Fourth brother, why are you sighing? Are you in trouble?" Yang Zi'an asked.

Lin Yuan scratched the back of his head: "Thinking about the city wall, although we are surrounded by mountains, it is not safe, and the weapons are only a dozen or so hoes. What if people really come? Don't talk about exiles, they are exiles. We're screwed too."

Yang Zian: "The city wall?"

Lin Yuan didn't think about what Yang Zi'an could come up with, so he said directly: "You can't buy green bricks, even if you can buy them, the money is not enough."

"What am I doing?" Yang Zian waved his hand, "Isn't it just burning bricks? I understand that."

The bricks in his house used to be fired by his own parents. The clay bricks are not as good-looking as the blue bricks, but they can still be used.

The way Lin Yuan looked at Yang Zian changed instantly, becoming extremely earnest.

Yang Zian rubbed his chin, feeling a little complacent. When he was a child, he often went to the brick-burning place to play, and when he had nothing to do, he would follow the brick-burning. Naturally, the long-term workers knew everything.

"Let's set up a brick-burning brigade!" Lin Yuan said, "Second brother, you will be the captain!"

Yang Zian is quite happy. Brother Dao has recently become the captain of the hunting team. Although the big guys don't know what the captain does, but after a long time, they also know that being the captain is good. Yang Zi'an is now in charge of farming , but he doesn't want to keep farming, the captain of the brick-burning brigade sounds quite impressive.

After all, he is a "big" captain, which is different from a "little" captain.

"We still need to get some people." Lin Yuan said, "We are still too few."

Now there are more than 100 middle-aged men in Zhuangzi, and there are more than 100 elderly women and children.

The children are the least, and with Gouzi, Erliang and Guoer, there are less than ten in total.

Lin Yuan didn't want these bachelors to make trouble for the women, they usually work separately.

But things between men and women can't be controlled. At this time, I don't pay much attention to etiquette and morality. If men and women see each other, something will happen. Now three women are pregnant.

At this time, people don't have any entertainment activities, and when it gets dark, they have nothing to do, and the little thing in the bed becomes the only activity.

Lin Yuan also understood why the ancients gave birth to so many children.

There is no contraceptive method, entertainment activities are basically just a matter of bed, and it is strange that there are not many children.

But because these people are physically weak now, they don't conceive many.

Especially the women, most of them are yellow and thin, and they haven't raised them well after raising them for so long.

Yang Zian: "I'll take people to buy people."

It's better to buy people peace of mind and find refugees. As long as there are one or two people with bad intentions, it will be a big trouble.

Some refugees had their lives on their hands.

As long as the murder is started, people will become more and more distorted as soon as they start without awe.

Therefore, modern soldiers have to do psychological surveys after going to the battlefield.

In ancient wars, it was not uncommon for soldiers to disobey orders and massacre cities.

"Okay." Lin Yuan knew that he couldn't buy people with money now, and the banknotes had lost their purchasing power. He whispered, "Use grain to buy."

Yang Zian nodded: "I know."

Lin Yuan: "Take some people, go there in a bullock cart, and take a few hoes. It would be best if you can buy kitchen knives and iron pots."

After all, it is iron, and it can be turned into a weapon when melted.

Yang Zi'an also thought of this. Unlike Brother Dao and Jiang Gui, Yang Zi'an also felt that they had to have weapons and walls. His family was also a landlord back then, but when the bandits came, they had no power to resist.

After all, whether it is a servant or a long-term worker, they all have families and dare not work hard. The family has lost its strong labor force, and it is difficult for the whole family to survive. The gangsters are different. Their heads are tied to their belts. They live a life without tomorrow day.

Even if the bandits don't live as well as they do, no one can match them when they try their best.

"Okay." Yang Zi'an, "I'll try to get as much back as possible."

On the day Yang Zi'an left, he took twenty brothers with him. These twenty were all middle-aged men with no family. In addition, they hadn't been hungry this year, and there was oily food in their food—after all, there was soybean oil, so one All of them have grown some flesh, so they can still bluff people by standing out.

Lin Yuan also gave a mobilization speech.

"If you encounter bandits, fight them if you can beat them, and run if you can't." Lin Yuan said, "It's not ashamed to run away!"

Lin Yuan: "But you can't attract people, you have to run around and spread out, understand?"

These people shouted: "Understood!"

Yang Zian left with his people, and he left for two months.

Things became less and less, Lin Yuan put his attention on Zhu Chongba. Now Zhu Chongba was going to the fields every day, tanned, from the appearance, he was just an ordinary farm boy, he lived in the dormitory, and soon He mingles with others, is smart, and can eat anywhere.

Lin Yuan has no doubts about this, after all, he will be Guo Ziyi's righteous son-in-law in the future, and Zhu Chongba at that time had nothing.

Zhu Chongba thinks that life is pretty good now, he doesn’t need to wander around, and he rests every day after work, but there are also women who see that he is young and in good health, and works quickly, expressly hinting several times, but Zhu Chongba ignores it .

He still remembered the enmity of the imperial court in his heart, and he remembered it clearly.

Lin Yuan sometimes chatted with Zhu Chongba, and found out Zhu Chongba's uniqueness while chatting.

He is sharper and more daring to challenge conventional thinking.

But also more extreme.

"Corrupt officials harm people." Zhu Chongba said, "All of them should be chopped off."

Lin Yuan asked: "What if there is not much greed?"

Zhu Chongba: "If you are greedy, you are greedy. How much difference is there?"

Lin Yuan was silent for a while, then he asked, "Do you know how much their salaries are?"

Zhu Chongba was taken aback, he didn't know this, but the salary of an official must not be low.

Lin Yuan: "Let's talk about you Jiang Ge. He used to be a small official in Wucheng, in charge of land. I only met him when I wanted to buy land."

"He wanted to support his mother-in-law, son, and his own parents, and later brought his father-in-law and mother-in-law into his home. Think about it, how much salary does he have to support these people?" Lin Yuan said, "Is this common? If you want to visit relatives and friends, you have to buy things during the New Year and holidays, relying on your salary, then the family will drink northwest wind."

When Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, about 15 heads were chopped off to fight corruption, but he was still repeatedly prohibited. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the amount of corruption and bribery by officials in the Ming Dynasty was the highest of all dynasties.

He himself suffered from official corruption, so his methods were extreme. However, during Zhu Yuanzhang's period, the salaries of officials were very low, and some officials' family wealth was even lower than that of ordinary people, let alone compared with landlords.

Even if they know that they will beheaded if they are greedy, officials are still greedy. If they are not greedy, they will not be able to support their families, and they will not be able to maintain their dignity.

It is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand why so many corrupt officials came out after he beheaded so many corrupt officials.

Aren't those people afraid of death?

Zhu Chongba said seriously: "That shouldn't be greedy!"

Lin Yuan: "When I bought the land, I gave Jiang Ge Shiliang the usual bribe."

Zhu Chongba: "..."

Lin Yuan: "Do you think Brother Jiang is a bad guy for the fish and meat people?"

Zhu Chongba: "I..."

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said: "People's desires are endless. When they are poor, they want to eat and wear clothes. After eating and wearing clothes, they want to eat big fish. After eating big fish, they want to be respected by others. Then there is Take power."

Zhu Chongba didn't speak.

Lin Yuan said: "It is better to block than to block."

Zhu Chongba suddenly asked: "Boss, if you were sitting in that seat, how would you punish corrupt officials?"

Lin Yuan thought about it, he is not a politician, and he only knows superficially. Before he crossed over, the country was carrying out vigorous anti-corruption operations. It can be seen that corruption has been banned repeatedly since ancient times.

So Lin Yuan spread his hands in a very bachelor way: "I'm an ordinary person, what can I do?"

Zhu Chongba fell into deep thought.

If it was him... what would he do?

On the day Yang Zian came back, the weather was gray, neither the sun nor rain, but it just made people feel gloomy. Yang Zian walked at the front of the team, and out of the twenty men who went out with him, only one came back intact. Twelve people, two more wounded, lay in the cart.

"I encountered bandits on the road, and half of the people who bought it died." Yang Zian said, "Six of our people died."

Lin Yuan almost couldn't catch his breath.

"I applied herbal medicine to those two injured." Yang Zi'an frowned tightly, with a gloomy expression, "Whether you can survive it depends on fate."

Herbal medicine is the medicinal herb on the roadside. It grows in the mountains and fields. After it is crushed, it can be applied to the wound to stop bleeding.

But those two people have already started to have a fever.

Once fever, even hovering on the verge of life and death.

The people who came back were all tired, and each of them had injuries. When they met the bandits, they were afraid and wanted to run, but they couldn't. There were so many bandits, and the eyes they looked at them were so fierce .

Fortunately, these bandits were hungry, otherwise they would not have survived.

The people who were bought back were very thin and had to be raised for a period of time before they could gain strength.

Yang Zi'an said to Lin Yuan: "There is a pot in the bullock cart, and I have brought back all the weapons of those gangsters."

Those bandits were originally farmers, and most of their weapons were axes, hoes and kitchen knives.

Lin Yuan asked Yang Zi'an: "The bandits ran away?"

Yang Zian smiled at Lin Yuan: "They're all dead."

Lin Yuan sighed, the world is like this, either the other party dies, or they die.

The author has something to say: Zhu Yuanzhang hated corrupt officials very much. When he was in power, he cut down a lot of them, but he was banned repeatedly. After Zhu Yuanzhang’s death, there were more and more corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, which soon surpassed all previous dynasties. The corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty did not can catch up.