Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

Stir-fried soybeans with a little salt are the most readily available snacks. Almost everyone in Zhuangzi likes to eat them, but the cheeks hurt after chewing too much, and the smell is not very good, and you can’t eat much in a day, and you still feel full .

The 500 newcomers each get a small handful every day, and they cherish it very much, hiding it in their clothes, and sleeping with their arms around each other in the middle of the night, for fear of being stolen.

These 500 people came from all corners of the country, some were refugees who fled, some were people who sold themselves as servants, and some were servants who were not wanted by the master's family. They were all men, and only the [-] people sent by Jiang Guang were women. .

The men are all sleeping in the straw huts, and they have to wait for inspection and registration before they can get their things into the dormitory. They know the inspection, although they don’t know what they are checking. When they are lying in the straw huts, everyone wants to sleep in It's warm inside and in the middle, but the air leaks outside, and the people sleeping next to it must be cold.

They didn't take off their clothes and slept on the ground, so that the hay was spread on the ground to keep out the moisture.

Early the next morning, there was a commotion outside, and someone lifted the straw curtain and shouted at them: "Go out, don't sleep, it's too late to take care of your skin."

This group of people went out obediently and walked to the square, scattered sparsely.

Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to ask people to line up. Although these people didn't understand, they were obedient and did what they were asked to do. They shivered in the cold wind and dared not ask questions when they had doubts.

A total of 500 people were divided into three teams, one of which had fewer individuals than the other two, which was considered average.

Then the cross-examination began.

It was not suitable for Qiu Niang to come out on such an occasion, so Lin Yuan could only let Yang Zi'an and Zhu Yuanzhang go on top first - after all, these two are rare people in Zhuangzi who can read.

"What's your last name? What's your name? Where did you come from? What did you do before?"

"A carpenter before? Take this sign and go over there."

"A farmer? Stand on the opposite side."

"Walking around the streets? Stand behind me and hold the sign."

Zhu Yuanzhang and Yang Zi'an were exhausted enough. They used to think that marching and fighting were exhausting enough, but they didn't expect to be so tired just sitting here with a pen in their hand. Some of them spoke with a strong local accent. The official saying If the performance is not good, then you have to make guesses, and sometimes you may not be able to guess correctly.

It has to be sorted out for several days in a row, not only newcomers, but also previous people.

Zhu Yuanzhang and the others are preliminary screening, separating people according to their previous industries.

But because there are not many people who can read, Lin Yuan can only do it in person. Everyone will be given a small wooden sign with their name, date of birth, and more obvious features, such as where there is a mole, or there is a bruise on his face. A few grains, in short, are relatively obvious personal characteristics, and are unlikely to be altered or disguised.

In fact, it is equivalent to a modern ID card. After all, there will be more and more people in the future, and it will be inconvenient to manage.

The advantage of having this thing is that if someone from the outside sneaks in, the ID card alone will not be able to pass.

The trouble is a little troublesome, but the necessity is still there.

Entering and exiting Zhuangzi must also follow this brand.

There is also a number on it, which was compiled by Lin Yuan. According to the pronunciation of the surname, it is compiled alphabetically and recorded in the booklet in order.

As long as the number and surname do not match, it is useless to forge this brand.

Lin Yuan now feels that he really needs intellectuals, the more educated, the better.

However, there were few intellectuals in the first place, and most of the intellectuals who could be cultivated were landlords and officials, and there were more officials and officials. People had a family background. In this era, books are also a symbol of wealth and status.

Now he can have Qiuniang who can read and write by his side, Yang Zi'an, Jiang Gui and Zhu Yuanzhang would be great.

Like Yang, after all, he is an elder, and it is not easy for him to ask his elders to do things.

"Aren't there any scholars?" After the trouble was over, Lin Yuan sat in the room and talked to Yang Zi'an, "Not to mention scholars, is there no one who can read?"

Yang Zi'an shook his head: "As long as scholars are rich, their families are rich, and the troubled times can't be their heads."

Lin Yuan sighed.

What Yang Zian said makes sense.

Yang Zian: "There's no need to be in a hurry, when the time is right, someone will come to hear the news."

Lin Yuan looked at Yang Zi'an, and Yang Zi'an looked at him too. The two looked at each other speechlessly, but Lin Yuan suddenly understood that Yang Zi'an knew his plan early in the morning, and also knew that he was not content to stay in this village all the time.

Yang Zian suddenly said: "Fourth brother, a man looks at the world."

Lin Yuan thought about it carefully in his mind, but he didn't realize that the name Yang Zi'an was among the celebrities in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

"Jiang Shang is leaving." Yang Zi'an looked out the window, "Go see him off."

Lin Yuan walked to the gate of the city wall with Yang Zian, and saw that Chen Bosong and the others were ready to go. After nearly a week of cultivation in Zhuangzi, their mental outlook was much better than when they came here.

Because they brought back a lot of wild goats, the women in the kitchen made bacon jerky and asked them to take it with them on the road.

So when I came, I didn’t bring anything except people, but when I left, I brought a lot of things.

"There's so much dried meat." The younger brother rode his horse around, "It won't smell that bad after it's dried."

"Wild goats are more fishy than domestic sheep."

Jiang Guang also rode a horse. Although the mountain road was not difficult to walk, horse-drawn carts and ox carts always delayed time.

As soon as Jiang Guang and the others left, the newcomers had to be allocated a dormitory and received necessities.

They had to be lined up in a row, and they had to line up. They couldn't be crowded, and they couldn't jump in the line. There were people in the village watching next to them, with knives in their hands. This group of people was as honest as quails.

The collar is also simple, a set of underwear, a wooden basin, and a piece of coarse cloth and a cup made of bamboo tubes are placed in the wooden basin.

After checking his identity, he can leave after receiving it, and someone will show him the way to the assigned dormitory.

The newly built dormitory building looks ugly, but it is big enough for enough people to live in, and the beds in it are two floors above and below.

Yao Liusan was one of these newcomers. His family used to be a carpenter, but when they couldn't buy food in the city, they packed up their belongings and went to join relatives.

But as soon as I went there, I found out that relatives had also left, and they had nowhere to go, so they could only walk with the people around them. As they walked, the family members gradually dispersed. First, grandparents passed away, and then mother suffered from the cold. Fell down, fewer and fewer loved ones.

When Yao Liusan realized it, he was the only one.

He followed the people around him all the way, eating whatever he saw, and only thinking about what to eat tomorrow.

Later, they saw someone driving the refugees away, but not driving them away, but driving them into a certain range. Yao Liusan found that many people were running there like crazy. He asked an old beggar: " What is this doing?"

The old beggar told him: "Those who drive people away are businessmen. If they are selected, they can be sold by the businessmen."

Yao Liusan couldn't believe it, but he still passed.

After all, if he is picked by a businessman, no matter what, he will always be given one bean dregs cake a day?

It's better than the present day.

Yao Liusan ran over, and as expected, he was picked, and he continued walking with the group.

No one knows where they are going, and no one knows what they will do in the future. They only know that they will not starve to death now.

However, there are also many people who died of illness on the road, and they were thrown on the side of the road, and they didn't even bother to bury them.

Yao Liusan got the wooden basin allotted to him, and walked aside holding the basin in a daze, and then someone asked him, "What's your number?"

Yao Liusan: "Huh?"

The man was a little impatient: "Just now when you received your things, people said what room number you live in, do you remember?"

Yao Liusan hurriedly said, "Remember, I won number ten."

No. [-] is the tenth room on the second floor.

The man: "Okay, come with me, you are the last one in the middle ten, I will take you up together."

Only then did Yao Liusan realize that there were seven people behind him.

Although these seven people came with him, they didn't know each other, and their expressions were similar to those of Yao Liusan.

The past few days are like a dream. There is a place to sleep and something to eat. Although there is always a queue during the day, there is no need to worry about starvation and things. Although the shed is not warm, it will not freeze to death.

The man led them to the dormitory room.

The doors of the rooms are open, these rooms are not locked, they can be closed, but the doors cannot be bolted.

"Allocate the beds by yourself. If you can't allocate them well, come and find me. If you find anyone fighting, you will be kicked out on the spot. Do you understand?" the manager said.

Yao Liusan and the others nodded hurriedly.

When the steward left, the eight of them stood in the dormitory, all with the same bewildered expression, all holding wooden basins, standing motionless in place.

"I... who am I here." Yao Liusan was the first to speak, and he put the tub on the first bed when he entered the door.

The others seemed to finally react at this time, and quickly began to allocate beds.

"Won't it fall off when you sleep on it?"

"It's pretty high!"

"There is a barrier next to it, so it won't fall down?"

Everyone wanted to choose the lower bunk, but there was no way. If someone lived in the lower bunk, someone would naturally sleep in the upper bunk.

They also just came to this Zhuangzi, and they didn't dare to conflict with anyone, even if this person was bought just like themselves.

There is a straw mat on the wooden frame bed, which is thick and soft. It is woven, and you can sleep with just a quilt.

Even without a futon, sleeping with clothes is soft and comfortable.

The boss said that they can have a good rest today, and they will start working tomorrow, and if they don't work, they will have nothing to eat.

Yao Liusan touched his belly.

Although he can't be said to be completely full these days, he is much better than before, at least he has something in his stomach.

It's a good day not to wake up hungry at night.

The 500 people Lin Yuan planned to let them mix with the people from the original Zhuangzi for action and training. They could not be asked to form a group by themselves. They would break up at the beginning of the group, but there were more newcomers than the original ones.

Lin Yuan thought for a long time, and planned to spend a day asking them to train.

Walk for most of the day, then find a place to sit, chat, yell a few times, and cultivate friendship.

——Although Lin Yuan didn't know if it was useful or not.

There is also the class division system. Lin Yuan decided to assign ten of them to a class, and then appoint a class leader. According to the principle of the three-three system, three classes are in a platoon, three platoons are in a company, and three companies are in a battalion.

This makes the job much clearer.

It is also convenient to pursue accountability.

Li Da became a platoon leader inexplicably. He was in charge of three squads. He was in a daze for a long time. He pointed to his nose in disbelief and asked the people next to him: "I am a platoon leader? I am an official now." ?”

The people next to him were also very excited: "Yes! You have become an official Li Da!"

Li Da was so excited that he wanted to take off his clothes and run around Zhuangzi a few times in the cold weather.

"I...my family has never had an official!"

"Don't be too happy. You think this platoon leader is for nothing. If anyone in the class below you has a problem, you will be unlucky, except for the squad leader. If you find out, it's fine, but if you don't, If someone else finds out, then you are finished."

"There is no such thing as a pie in the sky. The boss has said that if you perform well in the class below you, you can get credit."

The newly released "officials" chatted together, and they all felt that although there was not much benefit, the name was still very famous.

Probably because of this, these "officials" were very strict during the training, but they didn't dare to be too strict. After all, there was Yang Zi'an patrolling the field next to him. If anyone took too much control, Yang Zi'an would send their chief offer to criticize.

The chief is criticized, and the next one must be unlucky.

The punishment is also very simple, that is to punish the hungry.

But these people were so hungry that they were frightened, and when they heard that the lazy ones couldn't eat, they all felt like they were getting bloody.

After the passion of being an official passed, Li Da and his colleagues gathered for dinner, and they were all chatting with sullen faces.

"Let's talk about Li Sijiu's class, the usual training is average, no matter how you say it, the movements are just not neat."

"I've said it, and I've trained it. I don't sleep at night and make time for training, but it still doesn't work."

"Because of them, I don't always have a share in the evaluation."

Colleagues are also full of troubles: "I have one over there. His socks are missing. They must have been stolen by someone who slept with him. He woke me up in the middle of the night and told me to settle the case. I will settle the case! A pair of Socks! Finally found them under his bed."

There are three fires for a new official to take office, and naturally there will be no initial excitement after the fire is over.

Lin Yuan has also been paying attention to these people who suddenly become "officials". If someone dares to take the lead, at this critical point, they can only make an example of others.

As a result, he took a look and found that these people were quite honest, not a single moth.

"Why is that?" Lin Yuan told Jiang Gui his doubts. Generally speaking, it is easy for a small person to sit in a high position and make mistakes.

Jiang Gui threw a bean into his mouth, chewing and laughing: "You are so timid, did you forget the one you kicked out last time?"

Jiang Gui went out for a while, and came back when winter came. Under the banner of a merchant, he really went to many places, or bought or exchanged some things.

For example, peppercorns are dried and have seeds.

But at this time, the Zanthoxylum bungeanum is used as a medicinal material, which can relieve pain, promote qi, kill insects, and can also cure vomiting and diarrhea.

In short, it is a very versatile medicine.

But Lin Yuan boiled the pot with peppercorns, cooking hot pot in winter like all the time-traveling predecessors.

But there is no chili, and the taste of peppercorns just makes the skin tingle, but it is enough to make you sweat.

Jiang Gui boiled a piece of mutton, put it in his mouth happily, and said to Lin Yuan: "Fourth brother, don't say anything else, just take a bite, and I will serve you."

Lin Yuan also rinsed a slice, but the rinse was a bit old, and it was like eating, so he had to rinse another slice.

Because of the beginning of winter, Lin Yuan, Jiang Gui, Yang Zi'an, and Li Congrong got together for dinner. They sat in the room with a brazier under their feet, cooking the mutton pot. The pores on their bodies stretched out, and they couldn't relax.

Li Congrong took a piece of meat with his chopsticks, put it in his bowl immediately after it was cooked, and ate the meat with big mouthfuls. After eating, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's cool! It would be better if there is wine!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "When the conditions are better in the future, I will ask someone to make wine for eldest brother."

Li Congrong patted his thigh: "This is what you said, I remember it!"

Lin Yuan said again: "The third brother went out for a walk, just in time to tell us, is there anything new outside?"

Jiang Gui said with a smile: "There are quite a few novelty things, but Fang Guozhen has gone the wrong way again."

Fang Guozhen rebelled against Yuan in the eighth year of Zhengzheng, and was later recruited by Yuan to surrender.

"It was reversed in March this year. I didn't know until I went out and looked around." Jiang Gui said, "He killed Tai Buhua, Marshal of Eastern Zhejiang Province."

"This person is capricious." Yang Zi'an said, "Even if he turns back and forth, it's not interesting."

Lin Yuan didn't speak. He knew that Fang Guozhen would find a way to bribe the court next year and continue to serve the Yuan Dynasty. In the 16th year of Zhengzheng, he would be ordered to attack Zhang Shicheng. He won seven battles and seven victories. Now Zhang Shicheng is not in Xinghua.

Maybe when the time comes, the one he's going to attack will be himself.

Jiang Gui: "Maybe, he has a lot of people in his hands now. I went out and heard that many businessmen are going to Huangyan, so I want to sell grain to him."

"Businessmen can't get up early without profit. If he didn't have some skills, the businessman wouldn't be like a smelly dog."

Li Congrong was a little confused: "Who is this Fang Guozhen?"

Lin Yuan could only explain a bit: "Did you know that Cai rebelled in disorder the year before last?"

Li Congrong: "I know this, it's quite a mess."

Lin Yuan also said: "Fang Guozhen rebelled at that time. They and their brothers gathered more than a thousand people to rob the seaborne grain."

"This man is really courageous." Li Congrong sighed with emotion.

Li Congrong said again: "If it were me, I wouldn't dare."

Yang Zian laughed at him: "The knife is already on the neck, so you have to dare if you don't dare."

"Why did it reach his neck? Someone forced him to rebel?" Li Congrong asked puzzled.

Jiang Gui said again: "I know, I know, let me tell."

"The year before last Cai Luantou returned to the Yuan Dynasty and was arrested by the court. Fang Guozhen had an enemy who sued Fang Guozhen for colluding with Cai Luantou. Fang Guozhen had no choice but to kill the enemy, and together with his brother, gathered more than a thousand people to rebel." Jiang Gui sighed, "If he hadn't turned back, everyone in the family would have died long ago."

Li Congrong was taken aback.

Jiang Gui added: "I heard that the White Lotus Sect and the Ming Sect are also making moves."

"In short, there is no peaceful place."

"There's another folk song, I'll sing it to you." Jiang Gui cleared his throat, "Mo Daoshi has one eye and stirs up rebellion in the Yellow River."

"What does this mean?" Li Congrong was puzzled, "Does it mean that a stone man with only one eye can provoke the Yellow River?"

"As long as it can be provoked, the world will be reversed?"

Jiang Gui also laughed: "The Yellow River has burst its embankment three times in four years."

Lin Yuan: "What if a one-eyed stone man is really gouged out?"

Everyone suddenly looked at Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan said seriously: "If someone accidentally finds a one-eyed stone man buried under the yellow sand."

Jiang Gui was taken aback for a moment: "Then this is Heaven's Rebellion!"

Lin Yuan: "What if the stone man was buried by someone?"

"Folk songs are naturally passed on by people, and they must have the meaning of passing them on." Lin Yuan, "It's just like the story of the white emperor's son and the red emperor's son in the Han Gaozu's uprising against the white snake."

Li Congrong: "Then where is the story? It must be true!"

Lin Yuan: "..."

Okay, I can't explain it to this brain.

At this time when feudal superstition is widespread, it is the brain that says science is sick.

Yang Zi'an then said: "The folk rumors have already spread. If there are stone men in the world, someone must rise up. Now that the people are miserable, hungry people are everywhere, and the sky is foretelling, there will naturally be people to follow."

Lin Yuan nodded: "Next year, the stone man will be born."

Jiang Gui answered, "What shall we do then?"

Only Li Congrong stood aside with a confused expression on his face, he understood every word, why didn't he understand when he rubbed it?

Lin Yuan: "It happened to be with you to talk about it. Last time I asked my second brother to go to Xinghua to find a man named Zhang Sijiu. This man was originally from Xinghua. , these three places are rich and prosperous places, and farther away, there are Changshu, Huzhou, Songjiang and other places."

Yang Zian rubbed his chin and said, "I'm afraid...the journey is long and difficult to attack."

Lin Yuan: "I'm not afraid of that. The people of Xinghua are miserable. Instead of attacking from the outside, it's better to disintegrate from the inside."

Jiang Gui clapped her hands: "Wonderful! This plan is very clever, but I don't know who to call to do it?"

Li Congrong finally came to his senses now, and he asked dumbfoundedly: "You...are you talking about going to fight Xinghua? Then, isn't that a rebellion?"

Lin Yuan, Yang Zian, and Jiang Gui looked at each other, and it was Jiang Gui who finally explained.

"If the stone man does not come out next year, of course we don't have to rebel." Jiang Gui almost broke into pieces and said to him, "But if the stone man really comes out, anyone who has the courage and courage will rebel. If we slow down, Just guarding this Zhuangzi and filling someone else's teeth?"

Li Congrong nodded in a daze, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Lin Yuan coughed: "Brother Dao, what are you thinking?"

Li Congrong didn't think about it, and said directly: "I didn't think about anything."

I was just frightened and in a daze.

Jiang Gui said: "I didn't dare to think about it before I went out! After going out for a while, I realized that everyone is talking about this now."

"Especially the merchants, many of them have joined the White Lotus Sect and the Ming Sect."

Lin Yuan thought for a while, and felt that the businessman was indeed the smartest person.

And they are very courageous, as long as there is interest, they dare to break into the dens of dragons and tigers. Give them a crowbar, and they can tilt the entire earth.