Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 1
"Brother, you're done now, don't dare to be like the past."

"Brother, it's not easy for your parents to support you to study. You have been smart since you were a child. We don't ask you to take the exam to be a master, just a scholar."

"Brother, don't hang out with those rascals in the future. What can you do if you run to the Qinhuai River all day long?"

"Brother, let's talk about it, they all talk about the sky and the earth, and when you fall into the water, no one will go down to save you."

"Brother, we are different from other people. Dad is looking forward to your examination. If you work hard, you may be able to become an official in the future. At that time, what kind of woman did you want? Those women on the Qinhuai River, Not a single good thing!"

……

Yang Chao was lying on the bed, listening to his younger sister Yang Yueer's rebuke, but he couldn't refute a sentence.

Because "myself" was really a jerk in the past.

It's just that Yang Chao couldn't help but secretly feel aggrieved, because he is obviously not the brother the other party said...

Let's start with the background of the guy he possessed after crossing over.

This scholar named Yang Chao was the son of a craftsman in the south of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty. His father, Yang Yong, was a skilled blacksmith.A craftsman household was a type of household registration in the Ming Dynasty. As a craftsman household, not only had to pay formal taxes, but also worked as corvee for the government, spending ten days a month working in the government workshop.

It's not a big deal to do things for the government, and you don't have to do it, as long as you pay the commission money, but now the officials are oppressing more and more. I have to do all kinds of private work for them. Not only do I have no money to take it, but I also have to pay a lot of money for materials.

So Yang Yong has always had a wish, hoping that his son Yang Chao can get a good reputation, so that he can get rid of his identity as a craftsman, and become a commoner in the future, without the oppression and blackmail by corrupt officials, his life will be better.

This is the Yang family's greatest hope for the future, very humble and pitiful.

But this scholar named Yang Chao did not live up to expectations.

As the only son of the Yang family, Yang Chao showed a different kind of intelligence since he was a child. This gave his father Yang Yong an idea, and he gritted his teeth and sent him to a private school to study.But Yang Chao got a whole lot of bad habits in the private school. He hangs out with those ignorant and uneducated prodigal children all day long.

The Lantern Festival night a few days ago was the most lively.There was no curfew that night. Yang Chao went to the Qinhuai River to watch the excitement with a few rogues on the street, but was accidentally squeezed into the river. There is no air coming in.

The doctors who were invited were told to prepare for the funeral, but the Yang family did not give up. They kept calling out their names, pouring soup and medicine, and persisted for three full days. Only then did Yang Chao spit out a mouthful of muddy water, miraculously. came alive.

only……

This Yang Chao who came back to life is no longer the previous Yang Chao, but an international student from the 21st century with the same name and surname as him.

In another memory of Yang Chao, he had just returned from studying abroad in the West, and was full of enthusiasm, planning to start a career in the hot land of China. One day, he met a girl who fell into the water by the lake.So Yang Chao jumped into the river to save the person without thinking, and the person was rescued in the end, but he himself did not know where he bumped into, suddenly his head became dizzy, and he sank directly into the water.

After that, his consciousness was dizzy and drifting for an unknown amount of time. When he woke up slowly, he found that he had become another person, a young scholar who was ignorant and incompetent in the Nanming period.

He used to be a top student, but now he is a scumbag. This comparison makes Yang Chao feel the impermanence of fate.

"Brother, take the last bite, and go to bed obediently after eating, so that I can help mother with work."

Due to malnutrition, the younger sister, who looked sallow and emaciated, held a rough porcelain bowl and fed the last mouthful of porridge into Yang Chao's mouth, then stood up to help Yang Chao tuck in the quilt and went out.

Yang Chao lay down peacefully, feeling a warmth in his heart.

To be honest, if he had a choice, he would not want to come to this backward world.In my time, I also had a home and relatives, which were equally warm.But now that this is the case, after the grief and pain in my heart, I have to rejoice, because this family is really good.

Although he is poor, his family loves him very much. Needless to say, his parents, even this younger sister is very sensible. Although she often mutters in her mouth, she always carefully serves her brother to eat and sleep on time every day, without any impatience .

The only thing that made it difficult for Yang Chao to adapt was that after he came to this world, he turned into a scumbag!
An ignorant scoundrel!

All day long with the boys who are as old as in private schools, hang out in Qinhuai for ten miles, and don't have the consciousness to study hard at all!
But now that Yang Chao has become another person, naturally he can't go on like this.

Yang Chao neither wants nor has the interest to continue ignorantly, but what should he do?

Honestly study and take the imperial examination?
Thinking about stereotyped prose, Yang Chaotou is as big as a bucket. Although he used to be a top student, his skills in ancient prose are really not good.

Yang Chao couldn't help complaining about the lack of traditional culture in modern society. It would be great if he had studied classical Chinese and passed the imperial examination before time travel.

……

Nanjing Chengnan Iron Workshop is an ancient alley, which was established in the early Ming Dynasty. The government settled most of the blacksmith households in Nanjing here. Therefore, almost all the blacksmiths lived in this two-hundred-foot-long alley.

In a blacksmith shop at the entrance of the alley, a strong man was sweating profusely beating a kitchen knife-shaped iron plate.

This blacksmith has been making iron for generations. As early as when Zhu Yuanzhang first became emperor, he was compiled as a craftsman household in the Ming Dynasty.Further, even in the Yuan Dynasty, their family was a craftsman household.

This blacksmith was Yang Chao's father Yang Yong, a blacksmith family at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty.

Craftsman households are not a decent status, just a little better than military households who are "good men who don't serve as soldiers".

Military households have to send out soldiers to serve in the military, and they also have to farm for officers at all levels. They are called military households, but they are actually similar to serfs.

Although craftsmen are not required to perform military service, they are required to perform hard labor. According to regulations, they must serve ten days in the government's workshop for ten days a month.

If you don't go, you have to pay a penny to the government, which is used by the government to hire craftsmen to work, which is called acting silver.

A penny is not too much, and the various regulations formulated by the Ming government must ensure that the people can survive, but it seems that the taxes borne by the people are not heavy, but after adding layers of exploitation by corrupt officials, Many people were forced to sell their sons and daughters, and finally rebelled altogether. The blacksmith's agent silver does not seem to be much, but there are many additional exploitations.

The monthly surrogate silver of the Yang family is one qian, but they still have to pay the taxes of ordinary people. The most serious thing is that they are often asked to help by the low-level officials of the Ministry of Industry. Material money.

Often in a month, the Yang family would be stripped of more than one tael of silver by these officials.

Fortunately, Yang Yong's craftsmanship is very good, and has been passed down for hundreds of years, many of which are unique family skills that have been passed down from male to female.Therefore, the Yang family's blacksmith shop is well-known in the south of the city, and there are many people who come to him to work every day, so they can barely make ends meet.

Originally, with Yang Yong's craftsmanship, he could not only support his family, but also lead a good life.But because of his identity as a craftsman, he not only had to undertake the labor of the government, but also worked as an official for the craftsman, and the eunuchs of the Supervisory Bureau worked for free, and he was extorted from time to time.

Therefore, the income of the Yang family is not high. After paying more than one or two taels of silver every month, the only thing left for him is three or four taels of silver. In recent years, the world has been raging, and the smoke of the peasant uprising has burned to the north and south of the Yangtze River. The price of goods in the city has risen a lot, and this amount of money sometimes can't even cover food and clothing.

So Yang Yong wanted his son to get rid of his status as a craftsman, and he insisted on taking a small part of his small income to provide for his son's education and progress. get a name.

In this way, not only will their family's servitude be exempted, but they can also be converted to citizenship.

To be a dignified, ordinary citizen is the greatest wish of blacksmith Yang Yong.

(End of this chapter)