My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 30 Ghost City
The Arhats were all imprisoned in the firewood room behind the ancestral hall. These guys were all idlers in the county, and they were all marginal people like bachelors and widowers with no family or reason.

Even if these people have relatives, the relatives would like them not to go home, and no one would care even if they disappeared for a few days.

The government of the Ming Dynasty has always paid attention to a person who does not raise an official and does not investigate. Even if no one reports the case, even if the person dies, no one will come to intervene.

Of course, Su Ze didn't have a Madonna attack. These arhats injured many young men in Changningwei. They bullied and dominated the city in the county on weekdays, so they deserved death.

But Su Ze has vague ideas of making money, and manpower is naturally needed to realize these ideas.

If he can subdue this group of arhats, maybe he can help him.

After dealing with these arhat's feet, the Changning Wei Ancestral Hall held a banquet in the square again, and celebrated in a lively manner. The old man took out another written note and said to Su Ze:

"Azezai, here is the written evidence of [-] acres of reed fields, which was rewarded to you by the ancestral hall."

Su Ze quickly took it over. Lutian is not a legally-designated field of land, and it is not listed in the fish scale list in Fujian.

Most of the ashi fields were occupied by private gentry or big clans, so this document is just an internal agreement of Changning Guard.

In the revised genealogy of the Republic of China, the Seventh Uncle of the later generations, there are many such written evidences. Although such an agreement is not a land deed issued by the imperial court, it has a strong effect within Changning Guard.

This is why the ancestral hall is the most important institution of the entire clan, and the old grandfather has such a great reputation in the clan.

In places where the government of the Ming Dynasty couldn't see, the ancestral hall replaced the government to control the order. Although this set of order is not very fair and reasonable, order is always better than no order.

In addition to Su Ze receiving the reward from Ashida, Weimin who participated in the battle also received corresponding rewards according to the previous agreement.

Backed away without authorization during the fight with weapons, and the Weimin who were disadvantaged in the battle were also fined soup money. Although these people were a little unwilling, but Su Ze clearly rewarded and punished them, and now with the power of a big victory, they could only bow their heads and accept the punishment, and in their hearts He secretly made up his mind that he must do his best in the next weapon fight!

[Rewards advance and punish retreat, "Art of War" skill +1, Lv2, 45/200]

comfortable!
If there were a few more fights with weapons, Su Ze's "Art of War" skill would be able to reach level five.

When the banquet was over, Lin Liangjun returned to the Baihu House with her round belly in her arms.

Most of the people in Changningwei went to the ancestral hall to have a feast. Lin Liangjun walked into the empty hundred households, but saw that the light in his bedroom was still on.

Miss is back?

Lin Liangjun rolled his eyes and tiptoed towards the bedroom.

The door was ajar, and Lin Mojun was sitting by the bed, holding a red wooden box in her hand, with a reluctance on her face.

Lin Liangjun opened the door and went in, and said loudly, "Sister! That's the dowry my mother left for you!"

Although the Lin family has hundreds of households for generations, Changningwei is a small guard, and the hundred households of the past generations have been upright, so they don't have much money.

The previous Lin Baihu died in battle, and the Lin family used a lot of the Lin family's ancestral property in order to pay for the deceased in the battle, so that Lin Liangjun cried every day that he couldn't have enough to eat.

Lin Liangjun has seen this wooden box many times. It is the last legacy left by their mother who passed away.

Lin Mojun touched the wooden box and said, "I heard you won a big victory today?"

"Sister! Great victory! Brother Aze is so majestic, the group of arhats who beat them are crying for their mothers!"

Lin Mojun touched Lin Liangjun's head with a smile and said:

"You guys have a great time fighting. The fines for this weapon fight are quite a lot, and the ancestral hall has no money."

Lin Mojun said again: "This fight is to fight for the reed field for the Changning Guard. The soldiers in the guard can't move, and now they have to pay fines. As a hundred households, I have to make some contributions."

"Mother left it to your sister, and left it for you to marry a wife. Just take my share and hand over the fine."

Little Carrot embraced the wooden box and said, "Don't let it be yours! This is the last thing our mother left behind!"

Lin Mojun's strength is naturally much stronger than that of Xiaoluotou, but she is not in the mood to snatch the box with her brother, and just sits on the bed in a daze.

"Sister! I'm going to find brother Aze! He is a scholar, so he must have a way!"

"You are not allowed to be that!"

After saying this, Lin Mojun rushed out of the Baihu Office and ran towards the ancestral hall.

The banquet in front of the ancestral hall had already dissipated, and Su Ze had brought Lin Cainiang back to the ancestral hall to rest. When he heard the knock on the door, he opened it and saw Lin Liangjun with tears all over his face.

"Being beaten by your brother again?"

She was fine when the banquet was just over, why did she cry like this all of a sudden.

Lin Liangjun pulled Su Ze and said, "Brother Aze, can you make money?"

"Getting money? Who do you owe money?"

Lin Liangjun gritted his teeth and said, "It's not me, it's a matter of fighting with weapons and punishing money."

It was only now that Su Ze came to his senses, thinking of the sad look on his old grandfather's face when he handed over the county government documents to his old grandfather.

"Is the guard so poor?"

Lin Liangjun pointed to the front hall of the family temple and said: "The third master's wife before Changningwei, the statue is gilded."

Su Ze couldn't help but fell silent when he thought of this dilapidated clay statue.

Lin Liangjun pulled Su Ze and said, "Brother Aze, you are a scholar, so you must have a way."

Su Ze raised his head and asked, "Could it be that the guard really didn't make any money?"

Lin Liangjun sighed and said, "When my father was here, I could still ask for some work from Qianhu. Since my father left, the love has ceased."

"What is that job?"

Lin Liangjun said: "Smuggle and sell stolen goods. All guards along the coast do this. As long as you don't get caught by the court, you'll be fine."

"But my brother said that our father died at the hands of these Japanese pirates. Selling the stolen goods to them would be a pity to our father. Changningwei will no longer do these things."

Su Ze didn't know whether to admire the integrity of the current Baihu, or to blame her for being too blunt. The Japanese invasion in the southeast has not been put down for a long time, and the corruption of the coastal guards is also a big reason.

According to Ming history data, smuggling has been common in coastal guards since the mid-Ming Dynasty, and some guards even used patrol ships to smuggle.

What's more, some officers and soldiers of the guard station were bandits when they went to sea as soldiers, colluding with Japanese pirates to rob merchant ships.

A guard like Changning Guard is definitely an outlier among the southeast guards.

However, one of the reasons why Changningwei could not be dragged into the water is that the place is remote, and Japanese pirates simply don't like the smuggling and selling of stolen goods here.

Speaking of selling stolen goods, Su Ze asked, "Is there an underground black market near Changningwei?"

"Underground black market? Are you talking about a ghost market?"

It opens at night and closes during the day, like a market open to ghosts.

Only then did Su Ze remember the name of the ghost market, which is the underground black market with the characteristics of Daming.

Merchants have to pay gate tax when their goods enter the city, and the market in the city has to pay store tax, gate stall tax, and even be caught by tax collectors to spread some special taxes such as irrelevant mining tax.

Merchants are unwilling to enter the city, so they will find a black market outside the city to sell their goods, which forms a ghost market.

In the ghost market, there are not only legal products, but also stolen goods sold by Japanese pirates after robbery, and some products with shady origins, all of which will be traded in the ghost market.

In fact, Su Ze was also thinking about ways to make money. He said to Lin Liangjun, "Is the ghost market open today?"

Lin Liangjun snapped her fingers and said, "Open! The ghost market is open every month at the end of ten days, and today is the end of ten days!"

"Take me to the ghost market to see if there is any way to make money."

(End of this chapter)