Ming Dynasty: Every day, Zhu Yuanzhang is in trouble

Chapter 11 Settling down and setting sail in the small life

Shuangshui Village is under the jurisdiction of Yingtianfu and is nearly a hundred miles away from Yingtianfu City.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was great chaos, and rivers of blood flowed from everywhere.

Yingtianfu used to be called Jiqing Road, and it has always been a battleground for military strategists.

So the population loss here is also very serious.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he began to immigrate.

Move people from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places with large populations to Yingtian and Fengyang, which are under construction.

Ease the pressure on other places and promote the development of Yingtian and other places.

Although by this time, large-scale immigration near Yingtian had ended, there were still small-scale immigrants in various places.

Therefore, Mei Yin's arrival did not cause any sensation in Shuangshui Village...

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"This is the vegetable garden, and here is the five acres of land you allotted."

Accompanied by Chief Jia of Shuangshui Village, the subordinates who came down from above showed Mei Yin the vegetable gardens and fields assigned to him.

And that dilapidated house.

The Hongwu Dynasty carried out immigration and provided many preferential policies.

For example, immigrants will be provided with fields, seeds, houses, farm tools, and even cattle.

Of course, the imperial court did not have that many large items like cattle.

Only a few people can get it.

The rest was replaced with other livestock and poultry.

For example, in Shuangshui Village, where Mei Yin was divided, every household was given pigs.

This is why he smelled the smell as soon as he entered the village.

This is also the reason why he was assigned here.

After explaining these things to Mei Yin, the subordinate staff left in a hurry.

He actually didn't want to stay in Shuangshui Village for a moment longer.

There is no other reason than the taste.

Mei Yin seriously suspected that the people in the pro-military Duwei Mansion did not come down to arrange these matters in person. They just came to the county and gave the formalities and let the county officials handle the rest. They were not worried about their identities being exposed. , but don’t want to come over and smell the smell above.

After the subordinates left, Zhao Jiazhang took Mei Yin with him and told Mei Yin the location of the well and the place where clothes were washed. He also mentioned some precautions and left.

He didn't treat Mei Yin too enthusiastically, nor did he seem unfamiliar, he just looked businesslike.

In the eighth year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet implemented the Lijia system on a large scale across the country.

But Yingtian Mansion and Fengyang and other important places have already implemented it.

Specifically, ten households constitute one jia, and ten jia constitute one li.

The commander Zhao just now is the commander of Shuangshui Village, and Mei Yin is under his jurisdiction.

Of course, Shuangshui Village has a large population and has several Jia Chang, and Zhao Jia Chang is just one of them.

The junior staff and the commander-in-chief all left, and Meiyin became quiet.

In the dusk, he looked at his belongings.

There are three thatched houses in total. There are also missing doors and windows. I don’t know whether it was in disrepair or was taken away by those who came first.

Don't even think about the wall. It seems that there was a wall before, but it has collapsed long ago, leaving only some traces.

Some seeds, farm tools, bran for pigs and other things.

In addition to these, there are some rations and some bedding that belong to him.

Of course, there are also three pigs, one big, two small and three small.

This is Mei Yin's entire property.

The conditions are really tough.

On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted him to endure hardship, and on the other hand, it was also because Mei Yin came too late.

Good houses and other things were all taken away by a large number of first comers.

After taking a look at his belongings, Mei Yin hurried to the house to tidy up before it got completely dark.

Tie the pig first, it is his important property.

It was cold at this time, and Mei Yin had no other place to stay except these three thatched cottages without doors or windows.

So go ahead and tie the three pigs in the westernmost room.

As for why it was tied rather than locked, it was because the room was empty and there was not even anything that could be used for isolation, so there was no way to lock it.

In order to avoid opening her eyes the next day and finding the pig sleeping with herself, Mei Yin had no choice but to tie it there. These are all easy to talk about, but the most difficult problem to solve is the problem of missing doors and windows.

If it were summer, it would be easier to make do.

But now is the first month of the year, and the weather is very cold at night.

There were no doors or windows, and the cold air penetrated into the house at night, making me so cold that I couldn't sleep at all.

Mei Yin was picking and choosing among his belongings, trying to see if there was anything he could make do with.

In the end, all he could do was take out the somewhat tattered straw mat and block the window of the east room where he slept.

As for the window openings and doors at the west end, there is really nothing we can do. We can only make do with it for one night and find a way to solve it tomorrow.

After all this work, Mei Yin was also hungry and thirsty, but in the end she didn't even have water.

He found a small bucket and carried a rope to the village well to fetch water.

After the water was brought back, another fatal problem was discovered: there was no firewood!

Everything is precious these days. If you don’t have firewood, you won’t be able to make a fire.

It seems that the desire to have a hot meal has also come to nothing.

Mei Yin sighed, took out a hard dry biscuit from his pocket, took a small bite of it, chewed it slowly in his mouth, and thought about how to quickly break the situation.

No matter how good it is, at least the living environment needs to be improved as quickly as possible to satisfy the most basic needs of eating, drinking and eating.

But now he is penniless and has no friends here. It is not easy to break the situation quickly.

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"What are you doing? You're such a stupid bitch, you're on your last legs?!"

Zhao Jiazhang looked at the two extra bundles of firewood and a bowl of hot porridge in front of him, and glared at the woman in front of him to scold him.

"Well, the little brother from the Mei family just came over, and he's the same as us and has nothing. It's right for us to give him something to help him out.

From now on, fellow villagers will get along with each other for a long time. With this relationship, it will be easier for you to manage them. "

As Aunt Zhao spoke, she took out another hot pancake and stuffed it into Chief Zhao's hand.

"Besides, in the past, when our A had new people moving in, didn't you always do this?

This time it's Brother Mei's turn, why is it different? "

"It's not like you haven't seen it. Brother Mei is not made for work at first glance. If he can't bear the hardships of work, his life will soon be a mess.

Then when I send these things away, aren’t I just a meat bun beating a dog? "

Zhao Jiachang gave his reason.

"Master, why do I think you are wrong?

That little brother Mei looks handsome, with thin skin and tender flesh, and he doesn't show any strength at first glance.

This kind of person must come from a wealthy family. Even if he is in trouble, he may get up again in the future.

Not much to say, as long as you go up a little bit, it will be far beyond what we people can compare with.

A good relationship is better than anything else right now! "

With that said, he urged Zhao Jiachang to go quickly.

Zhao Jiazhang had to carry two bundles of firewood, hot pancakes in the other hand, and hot porridge to Mei Yin...

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Mei Yin took two bites of the dry pancake, then put the rest down and started feeding the pigs.

On the one hand, this is because the pig is also grunting to express hunger, and on the other hand, it is because he thinks of his reward of becoming stronger by feeding the pig.

I want to see if I can get some rewards by feeding pigs, so as to break the current dilemma as quickly as possible.

Pour out some bran, get some ingredients, add warm water from the well, stir vigorously, and soon the pig's rice is ready.

Mei Yin brought it to the pigs, and there were three pigs, one big, two small, and they immediately started to eat.

Mei Yin watched the pigs eating while paying keen attention to her own system.

Looking forward to receiving rewards.

As a result, there has been no movement above.

This made Mei Yin feel cold.

I kept wondering if I had been deceived by the system.

It wasn't until the pig finished the bowl of pig food that the system finally responded.

[Congratulations to the host for completing the pig feeding. Feeding the pigs will make you stronger and trigger, and you will get rewards...]

(End of this chapter)