my days with tyrants

Chapter 47
When Yang Feng set off again the next day, there was already a very large team, six carriages carried eighteen children, seven of them were men and six women were from Yanzhou Nursing Home.

all.

Not all orphans under the care of the nursing home are raised in the nursing home.

Those who have relatives are raised by their relatives, but the Nursing House is responsible for providing food, so it is definitely impossible for Yang Feng to take them away.

Those relatives are still reluctant!
Six stone meters a year!
Besides Zhu Yuanzhang’s system, these surrogate children are only separated out after they reach adulthood, but in fact these days children have to work, so for their relatives, it is a free labor force, and it is also free to pick up six labors per year. As for the subsidy of shimi, as for whether the six shimi can be eaten in a year, this should be a difficult account for a child.

So it is definitely impossible to give him something like this.

The ones that were really taken away by him were the ones that couldn't even find relatives to take care of them, so they could only be adopted in nursing homes.

As for the other three men and two women, the family has too many people to support them.

Then they could only ask Yang Feng to adopt them. Since they were adopted by Yang Feng, then Yang Feng and their parents were considered destined.

So poor, of course we have to help out!

The routine operation of my Ming scholar-bureaucrats, the gentry with thousands of servants in the late Ming Dynasty, most of the delicate little beauties in the family are adopted daughters, and similarly, a large part of the serfs on the land in the family are righteous men. At this time, there are already such Operation, so Zhu Yuanzhang hastened to announce that adoptive daughters can’t play with them. Playing with them is counted as adultery. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, they should be hung up, and the family property should be divided among righteous men, but it is absolutely impossible to prohibit this kind of adoption. After all, there are various natural disasters in this era. It is not uncommon to sell children and sell women. The legality of adoption at least ensures that these children will not starve to death.

others……

His Majesty the Emperor is not going to go that deep on this issue.

And protecting these carriages are seventy strong men on horseback, and they are all military households.

Of course, it's not Zhengbing, but Yu Ding from the military household, who is Zhengbing's brother, but also belongs to Wei Ji.

Equivalent to reserve.

Once their brothers are injured or killed, they will replace them.

Similarly, they also have military land allocated by the government, which is only half of the regular army, but if they have the ability to open up wasteland, then these wastelands are tax-free.

Open up wasteland and never get out of science.

Zhu Yuanzhang is more powerful than Ma Ge who doubled the fire consumption while shouting that he would never increase the tax, but Ma Ge is the lord and wise king, he can only be a tyrant. What if he skinned corrupt officials?In the final analysis, history books are not written by mud-legged people, and the evaluations of mud-legged people will not be handed down. They will be gone after they die. Officials and literati are the ones who write history, and their evaluations are evaluations.

Theoretically, there are certain problems in Yang Feng's employment of them, at least not very legal, somewhere between legal and illegal.

The key depends on the guard commanders they belong to.

However, the Yanzhou guards and the commanders of Ren Chengwei, who were caught by Yang Feng, could only turn a blind eye to this problem.

As for the big boxes of Ambassador Yang, the Yanzhou guards sent people to escort them to Jinzhou.

After all, he is now just a salt merchant who is going to Liaodong to start a business. Because he has a good relationship with the commander of Renchengwei, he is afraid that he will be hacked to death by bandits in Liaodong, so let him hire a group of Yu Ding in Renchengwei. I understand this identity They all understand that Ren Chengwei Commander must have a role, and there will be no problems at the checkpoints along the way.But if he brought a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, it would be difficult to say what would happen, because Zhu Yuanzhang had a strict order that gold and silver cannot be exported. A businessman brought a lot of gold and silver to the frontier?
What do you want to do?
Therefore, these gold and silver are in the name of Lu Wangfu, which is equivalent to Lu Wangfu's guarantee as his private property, and then sent to Jinzhou.

Then Ambassador Yang's itinerary is relatively normal.

They headed north along the canal, but this section of the canal was still unnavigable at this time. After the Yellow River broke through, it poured into Anshan Lake. The Yellow River water deposits quickly silted up.

The canal is blocked here.

The southwestern part of Shandong is the watershed between the north and south directions of the river. In order to maintain a canal through, it is necessary to maintain a river with sufficient depth and forcefully change the natural flow direction. From the Huanwen Northern Expedition, projects were carried out in this area until the Yongle period. The Nanwang water diversion project was used to solve this problem, but the price was that the entire southwest of Shandong had to serve this section of the river.

All the people in Southwest Shandong have to pay for the rice in the south of the Yangtze River for the dignitaries in the capital.

After the flood disaster, the canals had to discharge water to exacerbate their disasters, because the water was too high to easily form rapids, which would affect the safety of boats. closure.

What the common people want is the other way around!

But in turn, it affected the rich and powerful in the capital to eat.

So in the end, the southwestern area of ​​​​Shandong Province became a place full of bandits and bandits. Until the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was a scar that was difficult to heal in the Ming Dynasty, and then it continued to intensify in the Qing Dynasty.

But at this time, because Zhu Yuanzhang paid more attention to sea transportation, the value of the canal was limited to him. The inland water transportation volume to Beiping was not high. Water transportation refers to the transportation from various places to the capital, and Nanjing happens to be in the center of the water transportation network. Moreover, it is still downstream, no matter where the water transportation is from, it can be easily reached.Nanjing, as the capital, can be said to be the option with the lowest maintenance cost. Beiping is just a frontier fortress. There is no need to maintain such a costly river for this purpose, let alone dredging Anshan Lake.

After all, the north must first have enough population.

After crossing Anshan Lake, Yang Feng and his party can board the boat. Although their traveling speed by land is not slow, taking a boat is more comfortable than walking after all.

And to the north is downstream.

However, the population decreases as you go north. After passing Linqing, it can basically be said to be a barren area. That is to say, there are people living around the towns, but most of the places are barren, and even the population is mostly immigrated from the south. , most of which are military households.

It is very consistent with the poor population of Beiping Province at this time.

After all, there are only 150 million people, and they are men, women, old and children. It would be nice to be able to barely fill the route from Baoding to Henan in the west.

In this way until Tianjin, or the name Zhigu at this time.

Straight sell.

"Master Yang, are we going to Peiping or Yongping?"

The guide hired by Yang Feng asked him with a smile on his face as he was admiring the impact of the tide.

This guide named Li Fu is also a veteran, but now his son is taking over. He has injured his arm and can no longer fight. Yang Feng's employment is high salary, and he will give him ten taels of gold when he dies. Of course he is willing to come out with him. , even if he really died, he would leave ten taels of gold to his children and grandchildren. The other employed military households basically had the same mentality. Yang Fengming said that this trip was very dangerous, and they might die.

but……

He gave so much!

It's not that there is a possibility of death. These military households are already preparing to go to the battlefield, so they don't need to care about this issue at all.

"Is it easy to go to Yongping Road?"

Yang Feng asked.

On the Haihe River in the east, a large sea boat is coming with the tide.

At this time, the tide of the Sancha River in Tianjin was fierce, and it could reach Yangcun. Unloading at a series of official warehouses on the North Shore.This is the end point of sea transportation to Beiping. Next, the transportation to Beiping will be changed to small boats. This kind of transportation has been very prosperous since the Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, most of them starved to death. Hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation. Fortunately, Zhang Shicheng shipped 10,000+ stone rice to him every year for many years, so that Emperor Yuan Shun did not run away in advance.

Emperor Yuan Shun also specially sent ministers to Zhang Shicheng to collect grain and ship it to the capital. It can be said that Zhang Shicheng's supply by sea was the main reason why the Yuan Dynasty was able to support Xu Da to go north.

Otherwise, without waiting for Xu Da, they would have abandoned Dadu long ago.

So, Zhang Shicheng will do the most to fight against Yuan as agreed?

"It's not easy to go. There are other things to say to the north, but there are few people, and there are water and reeds everywhere. In some places, it is difficult to find a ferry. That is to say, there are some kitchen households drying salt along the coast, and there are no people until Luanzhou. .”

Li Fu said.

"What about going by sea by boat?"

Yang Feng said.

"It's okay to take a boat. After going out to sea, head north and stick to the coast to Jinzhou. It will take a lot of time. If the wind direction is good, if the wind direction is not good, then maybe it's late autumn and the north wind has blown. I don't know If there is a southerly wind, it will be even slower if you want to go, but the whole way to Beiping is a big road, even though it is a long way around, it will be faster."

Li Fu said.

"Then..."

Before Yang Feng finished speaking, he looked at the river in astonishment.

The sea ship was passing not far away, and a familiar figure on the deck was looking at him with a smile on his face...

"Ambassador Yang, why are you dressed like this, and what about your floral dress?"

Zhang Fu said with a smile.

Yang Feng looked at him angrily.

"Aren't you serving your king in the capital? Why did you come here?"

He said.

"Your Majesty has a decree to give my king one hundred new-style cannons, escorted by Zhang, and come by sea, and lead my king to lead troops to Liaodong with the new-style cannons. Go straight to Nuergancheng to break off the way for Can Yuan to escape to the east, and His Majesty also said in the imperial decree that you should lead the way for my king, and you must not return until Nuergancheng."

Zhang Fu said.

So, Zhu Yuanzhang just asked Zhu Di to wipe out the Jurchen?
Therefore, this is also the reason why he rewarded the Liaodong armies in advance. He really didn't have a grudge overnight, and only then did he know how his Ming Dynasty died, so he hurried to mop up in advance.

(End of this chapter)