It is said that during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan Province had jurisdiction over a prefecture, which was called Guidezhou, and a county under the jurisdiction of Dezhou, named Yongcheng County, was one hundred and eighty miles southeast of the prefecture. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info North Mangdang Mountain, and the south straight Dangshan County boundary, and Suishui, muddy water are in the south of the county, and there is soaking water in the south, it was originally a place where people are thick and things are gathered, and the place where the earth spirit is brilliant.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius traveled around the world, passing through Yongcheng, sheltering from the rain and Mangdang Mountain, leaving behind Confucius Mountain and the book drying platform. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, rebelled against the snake in Mangdang Mountain in Yongcheng and founded the 400-year-old imperial industry of the Han family.

It's a pity that this good river and mountain, after the funeral turmoil at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, accumulated into mounds, and there were few people. Even on the fertile soil of thousands of miles in Henan, since the Bingxie, it has been turned into a ruin of hazelnut. The natives, the exiles of the army, there are no eleven.

As a result of natural disasters and man-made disasters, there were too many households in the prefectures and counties under Henan's political division, so Emperor Hongwu changed the prefecture to a county, and the prefecture was changed to a county by 12, and the county was merged into a county, and the 30-odd prefectures with less than 3,000 households were reduced to counties -- and the Guide Mansion, which had been more than 230 years since the establishment of Shaoxing in the second year, was also reduced to the state of Guide and incorporated into the Kaifeng Mansion.

In Yongcheng County, which belongs to Kaifeng Prefecture and Dezhou, there is another village, so most of the villagers are surnamed Zhang, so the place is called Zhangjia Village. The voices of chickens and dogs in every household are heard, and the folk customs are simple and kind, and they make a living from farming. There is a family in Zhangjia Village, the man's name is Zhang Qi, he begged his mother-in-law Wang, and has two sons, the husband and wife are harmonious, and now Wang is pregnant again, and he is about to give birth, Zhang Qi will come back early every day, except for today, until the moon reaches the middle of the day, Zhang Qi hurried back from outside.

Just bypassed the big banyan tree next to the ditch, and when there were only three or five steps left from home, I heard a "squeak" The door was pushed open, revealing a round head, and he hesitated to probe out, and saw Zhang Qi suddenly pounced.

Zhang Qi grabbed his collar and lifted it up, and said, "Sneaky, what bad things have you done?"

The child in his arms shook his feet and broke free from Zhang Qi's hands, flashing his innocent eyes and said seriously: "I didn't do anything bad, my mother said that it was too late, and I didn't see my father come back, so let me go to the aunt's house next door to ask if her family has come back." Saying that, he vividly learned what Wang had instructed him, so that Zhang Qi knocked on his forehead with a smile and took the door with his hand.

As soon as Zhang Sheng entered the courtyard, he shouted, and before he shouted two words, he was stopped when his father came back, and a half-old boy came out of the house and grabbed his ear and said: "When Dad comes back, you howl like killing a pig, if you startle the neighbors, Ming'er won't chase you and ask you for the lamp oil money you want to consume——"

Zhang Qi dusted the dust on his body with a large cloth in the courtyard, laughing at them. This half-grown boy is his eldest son Zhang Chang, who is not yet ten years old but has a straight waist and a strong body, and can already help him share the labor; the younger one's name is Zhang Sheng, who is five years old, and his body is a little weak, but he is usually really noisy, jumping up and down without stopping.

The mother-in-law over there, Wang, also heard the voice coming out, and Zhang Qi couldn't help but be a little frightened when she saw her holding her stomach trembling, and hurriedly went up and helped her back to the house.

"Why are you so nervous?" Wang smiled: "We are not a daughter who has not suffered hardships, now that we have a peaceful birthday, this baby is pregnant smoothly, you don't have to worry." ”

Zhang Qi sighed slightly when he heard this.

No wonder he was worried, the news he heard today and the words of relief from the Wang family in front of him reminded him of the scene back then.

This is to start with Zhang Qi's life experience, his ancestral home is Yongcheng, but at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Qi migrated all the way from Henan, stayed in Shandong and Hebei for a short time and then moved to Shanxi. Shanxi has not been beaten by soldiers, and it is rich, Zhang Qi with a handful of strength, not only mixed food here, but also courted his mother-in-law, not long after giving birth to his eldest son Zhang Chang, life gradually got better.

When Zhang Chang was five years old, he encountered a policy issued by the imperial court, ordering exiled people from all over the country to return to their hometowns for production, and those who returned to their hometowns were exempt from taxes for three years to reclaim the land according to their ability. According to this immigration regulation, Zhang Qi could not escape, so he took a certificate at Guangji Temple and embarked on a journey back to his hometown with his wife and children.

Needless to say, the difficulties along the way are not to be recounted, Wang is also pregnant with a second child, and it has been six months, and he is even more tormented. Their emigration team was escorted by the officers and soldiers who were going to Kaifeng Prefecture Juntun, although these people were still quite reasonable, and lent the military horse to the Wang family for a long time, but due to the limited conditions along the way, the Wang family did not eat anything good, and it was bumpy and difficult, Zhang Qi's second child Zhang Sheng was born on the way early, and he almost didn't feed him.

It is also owed to him by his parents, Zhang Chang has lived a good life for a few years, Zhang Sheng died a few times when he was a child, and when he was a little more than three years old, Zhang Qi's new life here in Yongcheng was only slightly better, especially last year, in addition to the forty-five acres of land that was allocated before, five more acres of land were divided to plant mulberry, cotton, and hemp, and the days finally passed gradually.

is also for this reason, Zhang Qi and the Wang family are both naughty and mischievous by Zhang Sheng, who told him that he suffered such a big crime as soon as he was born, but Zhang Sheng raised him even more playfully, and it would be uncomfortable not to cause trouble for a day.

"I sometimes think, is this baby coming at the wrong time," Wang served Zhang Qi a hot meal, and said: "It's going to start next year, I don't know if it will be the same as the amount in my hometown, if it's the same, then we have worked hard to plant the land for a year, and it's not enough to hand it over." ”

"Don't talk nonsense," Zhang Qi shaved his meal, glared at the Wang family slightly, and said: "What is not the right time, no matter how sad the life is now, can it still be sad in the year when you first migrated?"

When they first came to Yongcheng County, because there were a group of immigrants in front of them, they did not get cattle and farm tools, they only got seeds, and only relied on manpower to reclaim the famine, but fortunately, the government at that time for the convenience of jurisdiction, divided the people with the same surname to settle together, and their village was the surname Zhang People lived together, everyone had the same fate and sympathy, and when they opened the official fields and opened the wasteland, they all worked together to help each other, and it was easy to pick up these wastelands.

God didn't give food, and relying on the government's relief, everyone survived the second year of coming to Yongcheng. It is barely worth rejoicing that Emperor Zhu took pity on the people of Henan and postponed the three-year non-tax collection to five years.

The next three years can be regarded as smooth weather, Zhang Qi's forty-five acres of land are harvested, and his family has surplus grain. Zhang Qi told Wang that he could have another baby, and Wang always remembered the appearance of the famine year, and also remembered that he would have to pay taxes after the New Year. Wang's hometown is in Shanxi, Shanxi is rich, and at that time, grain had to be levied, and the starting department was higher than other places, if Yongcheng was the same as Shanxi, it was no wonder that she was worried, it was indeed impossible to save any surplus grain.

"Today, the grain chief called us over, and that's what he said," Zhang Qi pulled out the rice at the bottom of the bowl and said: "Explain that the summer tax next year, the tax per mu of official land is five liters of three in five spoons, and the tax of private land is reduced by two liters, which is three liters of three in five spoons." The tax is light, and our land is cultivated by ourselves, and we pay less. ”

Wang knew how much five liters was, but she didn't know how much forty-five acres of land would be paid in total, but Zhang Qi estimated a number, and Wang breathed a sigh of relief after hearing it and smiled: "That's really not heavy." ”

"When you saw that I didn't want official land and wanted wasteland, didn't you still complain about me, now you know, right?" Zhang Qi laughed, the people in their village who were tuntian together all rushed to ask for official land, Zhang Qi gritted his teeth and reclaimed the wasteland, and now he pays less taxes than others.

"At that time, I wasn't afraid that I would tire you to death, and our mothers all had to eat—" Wang's heart ironed, she knew that her man has always been capable, when he was in Shanxi, he was just a miscellaneous shop, in order to understand the account book, he was stunned to steal teachers everywhere, I don't know how many white eyes, and finally I really knew some words, and the account would also read, if there was anything that would not, that is, writing, that is, by virtue of this, he married the daughter of a small landowner in the countryside, and after coming to his hometown Yongcheng, he also made the local grain chief a little impressed.

At the mention of the grain chief, Wang sighed again and said: "What do you say the grain chief thinks, seeing that he is not bad to us on weekdays, why is he unwilling to teach a few words to Ah Da Ah Er?"

"It's okay if you don't teach, it's best to farm honestly," Zhang Qi said: "I'll teach them a few words, just don't call it coaxed, what's the use of reading?"

"Scholars are valuable!" Wang was anxious when he heard this, "There are prisoners in my hometown, and if I go to Beijing to study, I can become a big official when I come out, and every county we have there is under his control." ”

"Do you want our son to become a prisoner?" Zhang Qi said: "Come on, I learned two words back then, half of my hair fell out, the son of a mouse was born to make holes, our Zhang family is afraid that there is no ability to read, do you still want our family to fly out of a golden phoenix? ”