Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 55
The young man nodded in response, but he didn't come over yet, but shouted towards the door: "Father, mother, my aunt is here, and my uncle is here too!"

Then he ran over, leaned into the car door, first turned his head to look at the layout in the carriage, and then took out a gift.

"Gu, no wonder you want to hire a carriage, why are you taking so many things?"

The boy laughed and shouted, the gifts this time exceeded his imagination, and his aunt had never been so generous in his impression.

The mother laughed and scolded: "What did you hire? This is our family's car! If you want to use the car in the future, just say hello, and I will ask Lao Zhang to pick you up."

There was a kind of pride in the mother's tone, and she did not shy away from showing off her wealth at all.

The boy was startled: "What? Our car! Auntie, you've made a fortune!"

The mother couldn't help but be afraid to hit the boy: "What are you talking about, what are you doing here? How can you buy a car and get rich? Good luck!"

The young man smiled honestly, his arms were full of gifts, and he greeted: "Uncle, uncle, brother, sister, all come in, all come in."

Only then did the mother smile, looked carefully at the ground, stepped forward, and turned around to tell Lao Zhang: "Lao Zhang, take the horse to the backyard later, remember to feed it."

Lao Zhang responded, got out of the car and began to unload the horse.

As soon as they got to the door, two middle-aged people, a man and a woman, were walking out of the big room at the end of the yard, and they had already reached the center of the yard.

Yang Chao walked unhurriedly, he walked side by side with his father, and his mother and sister consciously moved one to the left and one to the right, at a later position.

Seeing a pair of middle-aged people with smiles on their faces, they have already greeted them.

Everyone stopped, the father put on a show and cupped his hands, the mother bent her knees slightly, and arrived at the song in a decent manner.

The two shouted in unison: "Brother."

Yang Chao then cupped his hands, bent down, and respectfully greeted him: "My nephew has seen my uncle and aunt!"

These two were his uncle and aunt, and his mother's brother.

My uncle's surname is Zhao Dan and his name is Lei. It is said that Lei was born when he was born, so my grandfather gave him this name.

My aunt's surname is Yao, which is Zhao Yao's family.

Uncle and aunt smiled and paid homage to Yang Yong and his wife, and then uncle came over and helped Yang Chao up, and said with a smile: "After all, I am a scholar, my nephew is very courteous."

Yao shi smiled, didn't speak, very virtuous.

Uncle said again to Yang Yue: "The girl is getting older, it's time to find her husband's family."

Yang Yue stomped her feet in embarrassment.

The uncle laughed out loud, and then doubted: "Sister, how does this look like getting rich? This nephew and niece really look like the young master or miss of a rich family. Even the children of Zhou Baihu's family don't dress so well."

At this time, the little cousin was booing from the side: "Father, it's not that you got rich. My aunt's family bought a carriage, so grand!"

The mother immediately laughed and scolded: "You little bastard, what do you know?"

Uncle was stunned and said: "Feelings, I really got rich!"

Mother smiled and said, "Speak inside, let's talk inside."

As he said that, he walked towards the big house first, as if he had become the owner of the house.

Uncle was still in a daze, but saw a coachman driving a horse into the yard.

The coachman still shouted: "Uncle, where are the horses going?"

The uncle hurriedly greeted his son, but the son's arms were full of gifts, so he simply showed the way by himself and helped drive the horse. He also shouted to his aunt to bring out the tea leaves stored in Kaichun.

The family entered the lobby.

My uncle's family is actually not poor, and even a little richer, so my father felt a little bit embarrassed all these years.

So this is the first time my grandfather came to my uncle's house after three years.

My uncle's house has three large tile-roofed houses, and the courtyard walls are made of rammed earth, but it is better than other houses in Xiaolingwei.

Although Xiaoling Guard is also a guard of the Ming Dynasty, it also has the same disadvantages as other guards. A large amount of land is occupied by military officers, but the life of military households is much better than that of other guards. Almost all military households in other guards are coolies. Dressed worse than even a beggar.

And the military households in Xiaolingwei, although they are not rich, at least have food and clothing, and after a few years, they can save money to sell decent clothes.

The first is because this is the mausoleum guard for Zhu Yuanzhang and his wife. The cemetery of the founding emperor, the emperors of all dynasties have attached great importance to it. The military pay is higher than that of other troops, even higher than that of the Beijing camp. After coming to worship the ancestors, there are rewards.

Of course, the officers of the Xiaoling Guard will also deduct, but they dare not be as blatant as other guards. There are still a lot left for the soldiers. Often, a soldier guarding the tomb can get nearly one tael of silver a month, which is not considered an emperor. A reward after worshiping the ancestors.

Therefore, as long as he can join the Xiaoling Guard Army, a soldier can even save more than ten taels of silver a year.

Grandpa was such a soldier back then, so he built three big tile-roofed houses at home, and even married his son a wife early. Unlike other soldiers in the guards, some were single for the rest of their lives, and some could only come from other places when they were 50 or [-] years old. Begging for a fleeing daughter-in-law.

However, Yang Chao's grandfather was quite famous back then, and his craftsmanship was very famous in Nanjing, better than his father Yang Yong's.In addition, there is a blacksmith shop at home, and the supervisory bureau is not as corrupt as it is now, so life is quite good.That's why Yang and Zhao's families got married. At that time, they were regarded as well-matched.

But the blacksmith's shop was handed down to his father, and the operation was not as good as that of his grandfather. Not to mention, the bureaucracy of the supervisory bureau became more and more corrupt, so life was very tight.

In fact, the same is true of my uncle's family. Grandpa's mausoleum guards were not passed on to my uncle, because the number of mausoleum guards was very tight, and some people competed for them, but my uncle failed to get them.

However, Xiaolingwei is a guard army after all. One advantage is that there is land to plant. Of course, these lands have long been occupied by military officers. Most of the land owned by Zhou Baihu belongs to Zhou Baihu's family. Those military households who know how to farm by themselves are still the ones who cultivate the land. The Zhao family rented and planted four acres of paddy fields for Xu Baihu's family, and they were able to live a decent life.

"Hey, sister, how did you get rich?"

The uncle asked several times in a row, but the mother sloppyly changed the topic and rambled, but she couldn't help smiling, and her face almost turned up.

The government is corrupt, not only the Yang family is not as good as it used to be, but the Zhao family is also not as good as it used to be.

Although my uncle wanted his son to join the Tomb Guard, but in this world, it is very difficult to get in.

Moreover, in the past few years, the officers guarding the mausoleum have been blatantly deducting the military salary. It is said that the military salary sometimes does not even have a penny a month. After Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he never gave a reward.

Many military households in Xiaolingwei said that this mausoleum guard could not be a good soldier, and that the food of the old emperor Zhu was not good.

But my uncle didn't believe this, he thought he was a knowledgeable person, he felt that the world was not peaceful, so he didn't reward him.

That's why the emperor didn't have time to control those military officers, let the military officers make such deductions, and after a few years the world will be peaceful, and everything will be fine.

I heard from the old man that it was the same in the years when the Japanese pirates were troubled, isn't it all over?

So my uncle still made up his mind to send a son to the imperial tomb to guard the tomb.

But my uncle has two sons, and even if he can be sent to the imperial mausoleum through his relationship, at most he can send one in, so what about the other.

Even the one sent in, according to the current situation, can only make ends meet. In the future, he will have to help himself when he gets married and builds a house. Seeing that the two boys are getting old, especially the boss, they are all gone, and have nothing to do. Uncle can't help worrying.

Hearing that my sister's family got rich, I even bought a carriage. The carriage is nothing, but the horse doesn't have 20 taels of silver, so I can't buy it, so my uncle's mind became active, and he wanted to know how the sister's family got rich of.

"Oh, you said it, are you afraid that brother will steal your way?"

Seeing his younger sister gossip about him, talking nonsense back and forth, the uncle couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

Yang Chao sat aside and didn't speak. He is a scholar, and he has to look like a scholar outside. This is how he came here since he was a child. Whenever he went to a relative's house, he had to pretend to be gentle.

Seeing that uncle was in a hurry, the mother breathed a sigh of relief.

He smiled and said, "Brother, look at you, you are in a hurry again, and you still have this temper!"

Uncle snorted, sulked and stopped talking.

The mother laughed and said, "Brother, look at you. Well, let me tell you if it's okay, I'm not afraid that you will snatch it, and you won't be able to snatch it."

Seeing this, my uncle calmed down and listened carefully.

"Hi. It's also the Yang family. Smoke is rising from the ancestral grave. My son is now an official!"

The mother said lightly, with a calm demeanor, as if it was not a big deal at all.

Uncle was stunned, and blinked his eyes twice. This information exceeded the speed of his brain.

After a while of silence, my uncle blinked his eyes more than a dozen times, and then murmured a few times, as if he had regained the ability to speak.

"What kind of official do you become? What kind of official? How high?"

As he said that, his uncle seemed restrained, and looked towards Yang Chao with a firm face, his eyes were blank, as if he didn't know how to look at this nephew, the current official.

"It's just a petty official who doesn't have a high rank. The chief officer is from the water camp by the river."

My mother still spoke calmly, but her tone was flat, but her expression was extremely bright, almost beaming with joy.

Uncle breathed out: "Boss."

There was still a little disappointment in his tone, he actually thought of civil servants at the first moment, thinking that his nephew won the election and became the magistrate of the county.

I don't want to be a military officer. As a military household in the guard station, I know the army better and know that the military officer's business is not good.

Upon hearing the uncle's tone, the mother's high-spirited face suddenly changed, and she was rather displeased: "Yes, a small general military officer is worthless."

The uncle didn't know what my mother was thinking, and asked, "It's good to have a real job, and there are a hundred and ten people under him."

According to my uncle's understanding, those generals in the imperial mausoleum have some of their subordinates who work for nothing, and they can also deduct military pay, which is awesome.

The mother's face was a little better: "Of course it's a real job, and a false job is a fart!"

"It's still a real job!"

Uncle was amazed.

"That's good. The general manager of Xiaoling Guard is no worse than Zhou Baihu."

The [-] households in Zhou Baihusuo are all hereditary from the Zhou family, so they have become the big landlords here. The family has [-] mu of paddy and dry land, and the [-] families in the house are all tenants of his family.

But there is a real shortage of general managers in the imperial mausoleum, and the money that can be searched every year is no less than that of hundreds of households, and under normal circumstances, such general managers are also done by surrounding hereditary hundred households like Zhou Baihu. .

Mother nodded: "That's natural."

Uncle looked at Yang Chao, laughed out loud, and sighed, "It's a success, it's a success."

Finally stood up, and quietly pulled the younger son aside: "Go to the wine shop and call your brother back. And let him take a catty of shochu on credit. Hurry up, you will drink more with your cousin later, he It's the chief officer, I'm afraid you have no hope of entering the imperial tomb, and being a soldier with your cousin is no worse than guarding the tomb. Go!"

The youngest son nodded sharply, and then ran out. Being a soldier is the greatest hope of the Xiaoling guards, and they are overwhelmed by trying to curry favor with those hundreds and thousands of households.

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