Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 19
Amid the comprehending eyes and smiles of everyone, Gu Yunniang blushed and followed Huang Laifu and Yang Butler out of the Qianhu House.Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu hurriedly pulled out their horses.

Gu Yunniang also has a little red horse, and when she followed Gu Qianhu to Wuzhai Fort, she rode like everyone else.In the Ming Dynasty, when women go out, those who are capable usually use car bridges, etc., and when it is cold, they usually use warm sedan chairs, even some women from military families are no exception.

Gu Yunniang rode horses with the others, obviously, she was quite different among the women at this time.She still looks like a good baby in front of everyone in the hall.After leaving the thousand-household house, the original shape appeared.

She looked at Huang Laifu with pretty eyes, with a smile that was not a smile, and she said to Huang Laifu in a tender voice: "Hey, Huang Laifu, are you really going to check the fields? Don't you use this name to play somewhere? I just want Remember you can dance with guns and clubs, when have you ever done something serious? Tell me, where do you want to go to play, and it happens that I am also idle and bored, so let’s go together.”

As usual, when she said this, Huang Laifu had already ran to her side dryly, trying to flatter her and explain to her as much as possible, not to mention the sarcasm in her tone.When the two were together before, Gu Yunniang always said that Huang Laifu was a rough man, vulgar and nameless, and she was even more dissatisfied that Huang Laifu bullied the military families in Wuzhai Fort at every turn, which was also the result of reading too many idle books.

But at this time Huang Laifu just smiled slightly and said: "Of course I'm going to check the fields, otherwise you think I have nothing to do and go outside the castle to blow some air?"

He got on his horse and said to Gu Yunniang: "In this weather, you'd better accompany my mother and sisters to warm up and talk in the house. What's the matter with running around?"

Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, so they quickly got on their horses.Both of them knew that this young lady of the Gu family was not a good person to get along with, and if she was annoyed, the two of them couldn't bear to walk around, so they had to hold back their smiles and turn their eyes elsewhere.At the same time, I wondered, the former young master was not like this in front of Miss Gu's family. They felt uncomfortable looking at that trembling look, did he change his appearance after going out?
Butler Yang also rode on the horse. Looking at the two young children as children, he just smiled and said nothing. At the same time, he was a little surprised at Huang Laifu's change in front of Gu Yunniang. After all, he watched Huang Laifu grow up. It is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change.

Gu Yunniang was taken aback for a moment, but she didn't expect Huang Laifu to be completely different from before, and ignored her, she couldn't help but snorted angrily, and felt that it was embarrassing in front of the servants, she called out: "Huang Laifu, you...you are so heartless. I came all the way to see you, but you look like this. I'm going to tell my aunt that you bullied me." Eye sockets turned red, and she looked like she was about to cry.

Huang Laifu laughed, and said softly: "I don't see you coming all the way to see me, and I can't bear you to blow the wind outside. Since you want to come, let's follow together." In the case of his youngest daughter, he used to The more you see, the more you can control yourself.

Gu Yunniang blushed, and whispered: "Who wants you to bear it?" Seeing that Huang Laifu agreed to her request, she also turned from anger to joy, and quickly got on the horse, but unconsciously, the control of emotions had been transferred to Huang Laifu. .

Huang Laifu took the lead, and rode his horse towards the outside of the castle, and several people hurriedly followed behind.When the people on the street saw Huang Laifu and others coming on horseback, they all hurriedly dodged and shouted at their sons and daughters for a while.

Gu Yunniang rode her horse and walked side by side with Huang Laifu. She said, "Huang Laifu, look at you. Once you come out, the people on the street are afraid of you. I heard that your reputation in Wuzhai Fort is so good that I can't stop the child from crying at night." ,Is it real?"

Huang Laifu smiled and said nothing, Gu Yunniang snorted uninterestedly, flattened her mouth, and ignored Huang Laifu.My heart is depressed, Huang Laifu used to be obedient to her, how could he dare to neglect her like now?I don't know what's going on with this person, but when he went out for a while, he seemed to have changed his personality.All of a sudden, she didn't know what to do.

Gu Yunniang and Huang Laifu have been married since childhood, and have known each other since childhood. The two families have frequent contacts, and they can be regarded as childhood sweethearts.It's just that Gu Yunniang liked to read some legendary novels or dramas about talented scholars and beautiful ladies since she was a child, such as "Yujiaoli", "The Legend of Haoyu", "The Story of the Qin Heart", "The Story of Luan", "The Story of Chen Qing" and so on.This was the fashion in the Ming Dynasty at that time. Not to mention her, even the current Emperor Wanli is a lover of legends and dramas.

Girls' minds, if you read too many books like this, you will inevitably have fantasies.It’s just that fantasies are fantasies, and reality is always disappointing. The former Huang Laifu looked rude, not only not like those talented scholars in the book, but also not like "The Story of Fortune", "The Story of Shuanglie", Those who resist foreign aggression and are loyal, filial and righteous in dramas such as "The Story of Loyalty and Filial Piety" and "The Story of the Big Sword".On the contrary, it was very similar to those villains in the book, which made her disgusted.

It was just the orders of her parents and the words of the matchmaker. In the Ming Dynasty at that time, there could be no other ending. She was destined to be with Huang Laifu in this life.The gap between reality and fantasy, coupled with the fact that she is doted on by the two families and has a temper, made her never give him a good face in front of Huang Laifu.

However, she is a very scheming girl, and she always looks like a good baby in front of the two adults. When she is with Huang Laifu in public, she is also shy, graceful, and well-behaved, which is very popular with the adults. Only then will the original form be revealed.As for Huang Laifu's Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu who knew her style, they dared not say anything in front of others.

I don't know if Huang Laifu in the past was ashamed of himself or something, no matter how Gu Yunniang treated him, he was always accommodating and forbearing, and he was willing to let Gu Yunniang make Huang Laifu more arrogant in front of him.

I was used to Huang Laifu's obedience to her in the past, but today's indifferent look, this contrast made Gu Yunniang very uncomfortable, so she had to keep silent and angry. After all, she is only a 16-year-old girl. Who is Huang Laifu's opponent?

Huang Laifu took a look at Gu Yunniang, he didn't want to spend more time paying attention to this little girl's behavior, he was busy planning big business, how could he waste his energy on such entanglement?

In addition, he has always liked the kind of gentle and cute girl who is like a little bird. Although this Gu Yunniang looks like a good baby in front of adults, but he knows her stubborn temperament, no matter how old Huang Laifu was. Unbearable, Gu Yunniang was so dissatisfied that she didn't want to spend more time on the emotions of this little child.

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Soon, the group left Wuzhaibao City and went northwest to the Qinglian River, where some military households of Wuzhaibao lived.For a hundred years, the military households and their families here have made a living by this, combining soldiers with farmers and guards, and the same is true for the entire border town.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the military station of the Weisuo was implemented.Generally speaking, frontier guards are divided into three parts for garrison and seven parts for farming; inland guards are divided into two parts for defense and eighth for farming.

Generally speaking, each hereditary military household in the guards can be allocated 15-50 mu of land, and at the same time, cattle and farm tools are also distributed.

Generally speaking, the grain harvested by the sergeant in the field every year, he keeps six shi (one stone in Ming = 188.8 catties), and pays 12 shi for the grain, which is stored in the granary for the army to control. About 70% of it is half of the monthly grain of the sergeant. Salary, etc., and the remaining 30% is officer salary.

In the monthly rations distributed by military households, regardless of the number of mouths, the horse army gave 2 shi for rice, 1 shi for 5 dou for the infantry general flag, 1 shi for 2 dou for the small flag, and 1 shi for the sergeant.However, there is still a difference here. For example, the soldiers who defended the city were given full monthly rations, and those who garrisoned the fields were given half of their monthly rations.8 dou for civilian craftsmen, 1 stone for horse herding for thousands of households, and 1 stone for training the army of civilian Ding.Those who have more than 4 members of family will be given 1 shi, those with less than 3 members will be given 6 dou, and those who have no family members will be given 4 dou.As for monthly salt, sergeants who have a family are given 2 catties a month, and those who have no family are given 1 catty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, farming achieved good results, and the army was basically self-sufficient.Only after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, especially after Xuande, the military settlement system began to be destroyed, resulting in the abandonment of military fields, and the Ming government had to reduce the collection of grain.In the early Ming Dynasty, the five towns of Yansui, Gansu, Ningxia, Xuanfu, and Datong had 154 million shi of grain in their original salaries. By the early years of Jiajing, the grain had dropped to 57 shi, a drop of 53%.

In the late Jiajing period, the amount of grain collected became more and more limited, and the government had to exempt the grain from the military fields and return it to the warehouse, and also tried to raise wages.Especially after the Little Ice Age, the military rations of the town guards of each army depended more on the allocation of the treasury.

The Wuzhai Fort Qianhu Station has a quota of 1120 banner troops, including sergeants and officers. It originally had more than 6 mu of farmland and 72 mu of gardens. It is located near the Wuzhai Fort.

According to the regulations of the military settlement system, military households in Wuzhaibao had to turn over two buckets of grain for each mu of farmland they garrisoned.In this way, the total income of Wuzhaibao’s annual grain storage is about 2000 buckets, calculated on the basis of 1 catties per bucket, which is about 20 catties, or 24 tons, in later generations.

However, this was all in the early Ming Dynasty. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, most of the irrigated parts of Wuzhai Fort near the water source have been occupied by Huang Sihao, a thousand households, and some officers of Wuzhai Fort. Yes, most of the military households have become The tenants of the officers, coupled with the continuous drought and cold these years, the grain production of this Wuzhai Fort is not as good as every year.

Especially in recent years, with severe drought and severe cold, the annual grain production of the entire Wuzhai Fort is only tens of thousands of catties, and most of it comes from the officers' fields.This is far from the annual demand of millions of catties of food for the entire Thousand Households of Wuzhaibao, not to mention that the population reproduction of the military town guards is not comparable to that of the early Ming Dynasty.

There was not enough food in the store, so the monthly food had to be allocated from above, but as a rule, it was deducted layer by layer. The monthly food went to the ordinary sergeants of Wuzhai Fort, and the rest was no more than one third. Every sergeant had a wife and children at home. How can children survive on this meager monthly ration?No wonder the whole Wuzhai Fort looks like a den of beggars.

(End of this chapter)