Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 13

Yesterday, he traveled through time and space to enter the yamen once, and today he entered again. Song Qingshu entered the palace for the second time, but compared with yesterday, he entered this Xi'an mansion, and today is more gloomy than yesterday, which makes people feel scared.

The beggar group, Xing's class, and the Zhao's restaurant were almost [-] people, and the county government office couldn't accommodate them, so a large group of people were directly pushed into the courtyard by Huang Mianhu.

"mighty!!!"

The yamen servants stood on both sides with water and fire sticks, and poked the ground with sticks just like on TV. Song Qingshu was still watching stupidly, but Xing Hongniang who was beside him suddenly bent his knees and kicked him, his legs went limp, Song Qingshu Then he knelt down.

At this time, a fat man in a blue official uniform with "duck" embroidered on his chest slowly moved out of the room. After drinking wine, his big, oily face is as red as if it is about to ooze blood, and the person with a distilled nose feels nauseated, and he is still picking his teeth while walking. This image is really terrible.

Song Qingshu, who watched this scene, also yelled in his heart, a good man kneels to the heaven and earth, his parents and teachers, and he is not seeing his old father-in-law, his mother-in-law, what's the matter kneeling on you fat boy!
But the situation was stronger than others, Zhao Yuanwai knelt down, looked at Xing Hongniang who was also kneeling in disbelief, Song Qingshu had no choice but to comfort himself in his heart, forget it!Just pretend that this girl has worshiped a godfather again, and today is her wedding visit.

Song Qingshu thought it was all right, but his "godfather" was not as "kind" as he thought, he burped stinkingly, and suddenly slapped his thigh, his fat face was as ferocious as a rotten tomato, Roared like a pig.

"Bold and unreasonable! How dare you not kneel when you see this county!"

I don't know how thick the magistrate's leg is, the crisp sound of this slap almost caught up with the gavel, it made everyone in the yard tremble, and Song Qingshu couldn't help but suffer The face cursed viciously in his heart: I made grandpa kneel down on you!You kid is already unfilial, you haven't knelt down yet!This is not talking nonsense with your eyes open, is it okay to find fault?

Just as he was thinking, an angry shout came back from beside him.

"Blind your dog eyes!"

Song Qingshu turned his head in astonishment, good guy, all the more than 100 beggars are pretending to be coquettishly holding their arms, and looking up provocatively, there is not a single one kneeling down, and a few beggars are like waiters. It was like a chicken coop, with a few vertical sticks inserted, and an old beggar with an old face that was about to look like a dryad in Warcraft was surrounded by a non-mainstream old beggar.

The sound just now came from the wretched beggar whose chrysanthemum was bursting with his foot when he was rescued by him. .

I rely on!Could this be the gang of beggars?
Just as Song Qingshu was amazed, Xing Hongniang beside her suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Isn't this the beggar who I kicked out from the ruined temple yesterday?"

"What is Huazi?" The old man Xing of the old Jianghu was startled immediately, and turned around urgently to ask.

Before Hongniang Xing could answer, the pompous old beggar had already produced a book with both hands, and held it high above his head like a messy chicken coop, he still hummed and said nothing, while the pompous old beggar was pompous again Shouted: "My grandfather is a descendant of Emperor Taizu! The Ming clan! King Qin's lineage, Fengguo Lieutenant Zhu Cunbiao is also!"

"Let the clan kneel down to you, do you want to rebel?"

Looking at the gleaming imperial clan's jade certificate, and then at the old beggar, Song Qingshu's eyes straightened. This guy is Zhu Yuanzhang's great-grandson?It's too miserable, right?

While Song Qingshu was still thinking wildly, Old Man Xing shivered suddenly.

The chubby county magistrate was not afraid when he heard that the old beggar was from the clan, but his expression was that of a headache, which surprised Song Qingshu.

In fact, the reason is very simple. In the late Ming Dynasty, the clan was like a mouse, which was too common!But it happens to be as troublesome as a mouse!
Especially in cities like theirs, which are heavily sealed off, sometimes a basin of footwashing water is poured on the street, and five or six clans can be sprayed.

Zhu Yuanzhang is a person who loves his descendants. In order to ensure a good life for future generations, he has sealed more than a dozen princes with real power throughout the country, and gave them a lot of salary every year. In order to prevent other brothers from learning to rebel by himself, he began to weaken the rights of the clan princes on a large scale, and in order to prevent the clan from rebelling, and not to lose the clan's face, the patriarchal clan also strictly forbids the clan to go out of the city and participate in the four people. .

The law clearly stipulates that you are not allowed to work, and you can only eat and wait to die. The clan of the Ming Dynasty has become the most unpromising dynasty. Apart from robbing women from the people to make people, few have big ambitions.

However, it was this clan policy that caused a heavy burden on the imperial court, and it could even be regarded as one of the important reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty!

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang’s generation had only 58 members of the registered clan, and they didn’t find it difficult to squander the world. In the Jiajing period more than 100 years later, the number increased by more than 100 times, but it was only more than 8000 people, but the speed of doubling was too fast. After more than 100 years, by the 23rd year of Wanli, the registered clan had reached more than 15 people. If Zhu Yuanzhang set Lumi, the annual income of the imperial court might not be enough. Daming could no longer afford such a large number of relatives. For the team, owed salary has become the norm.

Now that Lord Chongzhen is in power, there may be as many as 20 people in the clan. For example, Lieutenant Zhu Fengguo’s Lumi, who is a pig, has probably never received it from his grandfather. According to patriarchal law, the clan is not allowed to operate scholars, farmers, businesses, The only kind of income has been cut off, and it has become a big laughing stock in the officialdom to beg for food.

The trouble also lies in the identity of the clan. He is not under the control of the "Law of the Great Ming Dynasty". There is a precedent. A wise official put the law and order on the head of the clan, which caused a group of clansmen to go to the government to make trouble to ask for Lumi. The censor read a book about abusing the clan. When the emperor got angry, he dismissed the official and sent him to prison.

With such a precedent, this Chang'an County was eager to stay away from these plague gods, and immediately waved his hands: "You wait to step back! Let people go! Let people go!"

The urgent one seemed to want to coax them out immediately, and after finishing speaking, the county magistrate returned to the main hall as if avoiding the plague god.Hearing this, Lieutenant Zhu Cunfao proudly squeezed his dirty little eyes at Hongniang Xing, and staggered out the door just like a grandpa on a tour.

Seeing that the man was released, Song Qingshu was also relieved, stood up and followed him out, who knew that the yellow-faced tiger who had been staring at him just now stopped him with a stick with a wretched smile, asked with a wicked smile.

"Where is the idiot going?"

"Go home!" Song Qingshu replied inexplicably, but when he heard the yamen servants roared with laughter, Huang Mianhu's ugly face was also full of ugly smiles. After laughing for a long time, he suddenly turned pale. As soon as it changed, it screamed ferociously.

"Come on! Brothers, put this group of thugs who have the audacity to provoke trouble into prison!"

"Roar!"

Dozens of yamen servants smashed their water and fire sticks on the body, and Old Man Xing and his party were pushed and shoved in a panic. Song Qingshu's eyes suddenly widened.

Those who come here to fight and provoke are fine, but those who were beaten have become criminals, so there is no reason!
(End of this chapter)