The back door of my house can last until the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 22
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, the earth returns to spring, and the weather in April is slightly warmer.But the late Ming Dynasty in the Little Ice Age was much colder than modern times.

Sun Jie walked out of Qin Xianglou, tightened his clothes, and entered the night.

Chen Hu led Sun Jie with the lantern Sun Chuanting gave him.

There was silence all around, and the farther and farther away, apart from the small lantern in front of him, it was just the stars in the sky.

Without modern noises and lights, this ancient city fell asleep.

In the streets and alleys, occasionally there are a few dogs barking, or a few cats meowing.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the alley, and finally stopped in front of the house.

Back home, Sun Jie lay on the bed, thinking about the future.

"The matter of household registration can be regarded as settled, and Sun Chuanting will lead the army to march soon.

At that time, Xi'an Mansion will have fewer things to do. This is a great opportunity, so we must seize it.

The matter of the shop is settled, and the next step is the fields.This is the foundation of one's life. If you don't have acres, don't think about expanding your strength or recruiting refugees.

The next step is Tianmu! "

Sun Jie looked at the ceiling in the dark, full of thoughts.

The land should not be too close to the Xi'an Mansion, because if it is too close, it will be easy to reveal your secrets, and your own small actions can be hidden from others, but cannot be hidden from Sun Chuanting.

This person is so wise that he is close to a monster, so he is not so easy to hide.

Most of the land around the Xi'an Mansion is fertile land, especially on the Baqiao side, which is even better paddy fields, whether it is the property of Prince Qin's mansion, or the property of gentry landlords, Sun Jie is not in his turn.

Qujiang Society used to be a royal garden, and the Qin Palace had a manor there. Although the land was good, it had already been taken over by the Qin Palace.

Qujiang, Sui and Tang Dynasties are royal gardens, Yuan and Ming are society, commonly known as Qujiang Society.

"In the south, there are many mountains and the road is difficult, so it is not suitable.

To the north is Fuping County, which we passed before, and Tongchuan, which is further north.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, Tongchuan was not called by this name. It seemed to be under the management of Xi'an Prefecture in Guanneidao, the chief envoy of Shaanxi Province, and it was called Yaozhou.

Yaozhou is rich in resources, especially coal, the reserves are not small.

That's it, Fuping County and Tongchuan, no, Yaozhou, after Sun Chuanting left, go there and have a look.

There is also Zhou Da, this person is the farm manager of Qin Wangfu, find a chance to ask.

There are also refugees, go outside the city to see the situation tomorrow! "

……

After one night, Sun Jie woke up early.

Chen Hu, who was staying at home, got up early and was playing military tricks in the yard.

With a strict look, he is vigorous.

After following Sun Jie for so long, he ate no less meat and fine grains, and his body became much stronger.

Seeing Sun Jie coming, he hurriedly stopped to greet him.

Sun Jie nodded and said, "Go and clean up first, let's go out to have breakfast today, and then go outside the city."

"My lord is going outside the city to do something? There are refugees everywhere outside the city, and people are hungry and eager to be robbers. If you have anything to do, leave it to the villain!" Chen Hu was a little worried.

He walked along this way, and this kind of thing is not uncommon. If a person is hungry, he is not a human being. He is a wolf walking on two legs, a tiger or a leopard walking on two legs.

"What is my identity? You don't understand? Just do as I tell you!" Sun Jie said indifferently.

Chen Hu was taken aback for a moment, and after thinking it over, he stopped worrying about these things and hurried to make arrangements.

After a while, Sun Jie took Chen Hu out of the house.

There are mostly restaurants in Dongcheng, and the expenses are not low. Although they have made money in recent days, they still need to save money in this province.

I randomly found a noodle restaurant in a small alley in the west of the city, and ordered a bowl of oily noodles.

Guanzhong is a good pasta, and there are no less than a hundred kinds of noodles.

For ordinary people, a bowl of steaming oily noodles is the greatest happiness.

It's not as refined as the breakfasts of those powerful and gentry, only a bowl of ordinary oily noodles.

Shredded brown pickles, Chinese cabbage stored last year, and shredded shallots were neatly placed on the lasagna.

Put some chopped garlic, ginger, pepper and some salt on the dish.

The chef will personally hold an iron spoon of hot oil and pour it on the noodles in front of the guests.

"Zi!"

The heat is overflowing and the aroma is tangy.

The aroma of Qinhua pepper "fried in August" was completely stimulated by this spoonful of hot oil, and the nostrils were full of the smell of pepper.

The oil-splashed noodles without Qin chili lacked some flavor, but it tasted different at this moment.

With the garlic, Sun Jie pulled the noodles.

Chen Hu, who was sitting next to him, was much faster than Sun Jie.

After eating the noodles, I asked the shopkeeper for a bowl of noodle soup and drank it slowly.This is called turning the original soup into the original food.

After eating and paying, Sun Jie took Chen Hu to the north of the city.

After checking the road guides and the switch to let them go, Sun Jie led Chen Hu out of the North City Gate.

As far as the eye can see, there are more refugees here at the North City Gate.

The porridge shed set up by the government is still there, but there is a gap in the big iron pot inside the shed.

The porridge cooker held an iron spoon in one hand and sprinkled sand into it with the other.

These refugees are not allowed to enter the city. It is the rule of all dynasties to prohibit refugees from entering the city.

No one knows the origin of these refugees. If there are people with ulterior motives mixed in, it will be a disaster.

Even if there are no people with ulterior motives, they cannot be allowed in.These refugees have nothing to live on, and they are extremely hungry. Once they enter the city, they will eat up everything they can eat, like hungry wolves entering a flock of sheep.

Besides, would the "princes" and "gentry" in the city allow these people to enter?

"My lord, this is more than what we encountered when we entered the city before!" said Chen Hu standing behind Sun Jie.

"Yeah, more than before!"

Sun Jie shook his head, depressed.

There are dilapidated shacks everywhere, dying refugees, and the air is full of stench.

The refugees were all skinny and skinny, like evil spirits in hell.

Really purgatory on earth!

This kind of phenomenon will only intensify in the next few years, and finally will be coerced by people like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and will become a withered bone on their way to become kings and hegemons.

"The peaks and ridges are like clusters, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are outside and inside Tongguan Road.

Looking at the western capital, I feel hesitant and sad, where the Qin and Han classics traveled, all the palaces and palaces have been made of earth.

Xing, the people suffer.Death, the people suffer! "

As he walked forward, he recited this little order by Zhang Yanghao.

At this moment, it is especially appropriate.

"Qin Prince's Mansion accepts only girls, twenty! Under 12 years old, in good health!"

A loud cry rang in my ears, and I saw several knights on horseback standing in front of a porridge shed, their whips crackling.

Not long after the sound fell, more than a dozen women hugged their children and knelt in front of the knight, and more people came from a distance.

The knight dismounted and chose among those kneeling before him.

The selected girl was put on the side of the official road.The girls who were not selected were randomly pulled to the ground.

Soon, [-] girls were selected.The knight on horseback was stuffed into a flatbed cart and taken away.

These girls sat blankly on the flatbed cart, their eyes glazed over and their eyes were slack.

They looked in the direction of their parents, didn't cry, didn't make any noise, and were so silent that it made one's heart shudder.

Whenever there is a famine, it is the time when the traffickers prosper.These girls were taken away by the palace, and if they looked better, they would be filled into the palace for the children of Zhu's family to play.

She looks a little bad, so I hope she can be trained and sold to a brothel.

No matter how bad the appearance is, he will reward his subordinates or sell him to be a concubine to a rich man with a little property, or sell him to be a wife to a poor man in the city.

The law of the Ming Dynasty expressly stipulates that human trafficking is a felony, and the harvesting and limbs are broken.But in this year of panic, the Zhu family's children took the lead to oppose the ancestor's family law.

Sun Chuanting is a good official, and he has also taken care of this matter.But the world is difficult, how to manage it?
Food and money are all obtained from those gentry and landlords. Where is there any extra money and food?

Sometimes, in the face of reality, we have to bow our heads.

The selected parents knelt on the ground with joy in their eyes.

A good death is not worth living, after all, it is a way to survive, and after all, one can still live.

Those who were not selected brought their children to kowtow to the knight, hoping to accept their children.

But the knight didn't even look at them, and left directly.

This situation is not uncommon.

"These people are really damned. Those officials who deducted the military pay of us big soldiers back then, and now they do this kind of unconscionable thing, really deserve to be struck by lightning!"

Looking at the direction in which the knight was leaving, Chen Hu kept cursing.

People at the bottom can better understand the hardships of people at the bottom. Chen Hu was no different from them before.

Turning around, he pulled Sun Jie's clothes, and said in a humble voice, "Master, you are a god, please show mercy and save these poor people!"

"I will save it, I will save it. We came out today for this purpose.

Find out the situation first, and then make a plan.There is no guarantee, and it will lead to backlash. "

Sun Jie answered seriously, his face full of seriousness.

Taking Chen Hu, wandering among the refugees on both sides of the official road.

After seeing Sun Jie and Chen Hu, those refugees involuntarily retreated and avoided.

Chen Hu's tall and bulky figure made people feel scared.

As night fell, Sun Jie returned home and recorded today's situation on paper.

The next day, when the genius was slightly brighter, there was a knock on the door.

Chen Hu, with a vigilant face, stood behind the door and looked out through the crack of the door.

After seeing clearly Zhou Da's unbeaten face and the absence of anyone around him, he felt relieved.

Carefully opened the door and let Zhou Da in.

The first thing Zhou Da said when he walked in was to ask if your master is there?
Chen Hu didn't answer, and after closing the door, he led Zhou Da to the back hall.

Just as Sun Jie walked out of the bedroom, he saw Chen Hu coming over.

"My lord, that guy surnamed Zhou is here again!" Chen Hu reported.

"It's a good thing. I said I was going to find him, but now he comes uninvited, so I can save trouble!"

Sun Jie walked towards the back hall.

Coming to the back hall, Zhou Da who was sitting inside hurriedly stood up and greeted Sun Jie.

"Mr. Sun, how have you been these days?" Zhou Da's face was full of smiles, and even a little flattering.

Sun Jie said indifferently: "It's okay, I just have a bite to eat!"

Pointing to the chair in the back hall, motioned for Zhou Da to sit down and talk.

Zhou Da is a person who is arrogant and respectful. When he first met Sun Jie, his arrogance was so strong.

Now being manipulated by Sun Jie's Ye Mingzhu, she began to flatter her again, looking like a monkey.

The purpose of Zhou Da's visit today is very simple, that is to test that luminous pearl.

This luminous pearl, Zhou Da almost misses it day and night, he can dream of it even in sleep and dream.

He didn't want to get this Ye Mingzhu into his hands all the time, and he basically did everything Sun Jie asked him to do.

So I wanted to test it out and see what happened to Ye Mingzhu.

"Well, I just want to ask, is Ye Mingzhu still there? Can I have a look?"

He still didn't hold back the thoughts in his heart, and said his purpose for coming today.

"The Ye Mingzhu is here with me, I didn't tell anyone. I didn't tell you all before, this Ye Mingzhu must belong to you, don't worry too much.

If you are worried, I can show you right now.I can even let you touch it with your own hands! "Sun Jie said with a smile.

Zhou Da's eyes brightened instantly, and the greed in the depths of his eyes became more intense.

"Really? Thanks a lot!"

Zhou Da kept rubbing his hands, looking eager to try.

Sun Jie took out the wild pearl from the bedroom and handed it to Zhou Da.

Zhou Da held the Ye Mingzhu in his hand, his eyes were almost glued to it.

It is still broad daylight, and the light of the night pearl is a little weak.

This couldn't help him, so he took off his coat directly, and put his head and Ye Mingzhu in the coat.

After a while, greedy laughter sounded from the coat.

Sun Jie sat on the chair and looked at him quietly.

After a long time, until the sun had risen to mid-air, he reluctantly returned the Ye Mingzhu to Sun Jie.

"This bead will be yours sooner or later. As long as our cooperation is sincere, this bead will always be yours, and no one can take it away!" Sun Jie said with a smile while holding the Ye Mingzhu.

Zhou Da knew very well in his heart that this luminous pearl was very valuable, and it couldn't be exchanged in just one store.

"That's true, but what should I do to get this luminous pearl faster?" Zhou Da asked resolutely.

Sun Jie smiled and was thinking about the field when Zhou Da came to his door.

Sun Jie said: "It's like this, as for me, I can now be regarded as having a firm foothold in the prefectural city of Xi'an.

But people often say that you have no land in your hands and your back is not straight.You can only get rich for a while by doing business, but if you want to get rich for a long time and benefit your children and grandchildren, you must have land.

I just thought, where should I get some land? "

How could Zhou Da not understand the meaning of these words?
He hurriedly said: "Land? I thought it was something, that's all?"

There was some disdain in Zhou Da's tone, he said relaxedly: "I am the farm manager of the palace, I have too much land in my hand, I have as much land as you want.

The dignitaries in the inner courtyard of the palace are usually not allowed to go out, and they have to report to the court when they go out. The land outside is basically managed by us stewards, and we take care of it.

Let me say something ugly, the tenants under the palace may not know who the prince is, but they must know us stewards.

The children of the clan only care about having fun, how can such complicated things bother them?We are basically responsible for the affairs of the acres of land, the rent of the land, and the management of the tenants.

To say a bold word, I'm afraid those dignitaries in the inner courtyard don't know how many acres there are in Prince Qin's Mansion and where they are located! "

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