Chapter 136: The Wind Blows Fengyang City

After the Li brothers got rid of the Salt Gang, they hid in a barren mountain and wild temple outside the city, set up two pots, and stewed dragon and tiger fights and fragrant meat.

The two brothers grabbed a bottle of drunk for a thousand years, ate meat in large pieces, and drank a lot of wine, so unhappy. Thinking of the Los Angeles Shuangjiao who was hacked by himself and hid like a mouse in the city, he was in a happy mood and couldn't support it.

"Two bastards in Los Angeles, you also have today, haha. Li Jia laughed.

L.A. Twins' side is a different story.

"Brother, we can't just admit it, we must find these two beasts and take their dogs' lives!" Luo Qianjia's eyes were red, and he shouted.

picked a salt gang to make a hall, for them it is not a problem at all, but it was put on the table by the Li family brothers, this is a great shame, it is spread out in the rivers and lakes, making people laugh, absolutely unbearable.

"If we let them go, we won't mess around. I have a way, aren't they cheating us? Okay, let's draw a gourd in the same way, and go find a target and put them together. Luo Wanjia gritted his teeth and said.

"If you want to do it, you can do it, but if you can't find a good target, you can pick the Yamen of Fengyang Mansion, loot the silver treasury, and let the court hunt down these two people who have suffered thousands of knives all over the world!"

Luo Qianjia set the target for the Yamen and the silver treasury of Fengyang Mansion, in fact, he wanted to make things bigger, you do the first year of junior high school, I will do the fifteenth. They pretend to be heroes of the White Dao, and they generally don't attack the government, but if they do it in the name of the Li family brothers, they naturally have no scruples. Not only does it have no scruples, but it also needs to be big, big enough to shake the rivers and lakes.

When the Salt Gang case came out, there was a rumor in the city for a while, and everyone knew in their hearts that those who dared to attack the Salt Gang were naturally not ordinary characters. The headhunters were holding iron chains and looking around, looking like they were about to arrest people at any time. The officers were dressed in civilian clothes, like eagle vultures that ate carrion, and they were hiding around for news.

The officers and soldiers of Fengyangwei immediately stabbed at the entrances of the streets, strictly checking the passers-by, and some soldiers carried out carpet inspections of all the inns, and the guests who stayed all asked, taking the opportunity to extort the merchants stranded in the city.

People in the rivers and lakes understand very well that the government is just going through the motions and showing it to the Salt Gang. After all, the forces of the Salt Gang still have to return to Fengyang Mansion, and if they lose face, they are very likely to commit crimes in the territory of Fengyang Mansion in a fit of rage. In that case, the life of the prefect of Fengyang Mansion will not be easy.

The residents of Fengyang Mansion did not panic, the men still went to the nearby teahouse to eat tea and Kan Dashan, but the women did not dare to go out easily, for fear of being molested by unscrupulous soldiers. No matter how ugly a woman is, she doesn't dare to go out, and those hungry soldiers can do anything, and beauty and ugliness don't matter to them anymore.

In the imperial era, there was no military and civilian situation, let alone what the army loved and the people supported the army, and the people were most afraid of the official army. The military system of the Ming Dynasty, the army of a province is composed of people from the province, so there are your army, the Sichuan army, the two Guangzhou army, etc., this is also a matter of no way, at that time the transportation was not developed, if the Hebei people were recruited to join the army in Guangdong, there was no way to the road for a few years, not everyone was qualified to use the post station of the imperial court. Recruiting troops across provinces is almost a journey of thousands of miles.

The composition of the army is the so-called military household, which was set in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, that is to say, these people have to be soldiers for generations, and being a soldier is their obligation, and their families are also registered with the government and the military department.

This is the system inherited from the Yuan Dynasty, forcibly dividing people into soldiers, salt households, artisan households, etc., and is not allowed to leave the country, Zhu Yuanzhang once proudly said to the ministers: I don't spend a grain of rice in Taicang, but I can raise a million troops, referring to this kind of military household system.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that only one member of the family could be separated from the military register, which was more difficult than ascending to the sky. In the entire Ming Dynasty, only one of Zhu Di's heroes was born in a soldier's household, and later because he followed Zhu Di to rebel and make meritorious contributions, he became the secretary of the military department and successfully got out of the country.

The most cruel and disgusting were the prostitutes, who were initially used as prostitutes by the wives and daughters of captured Yuan Dynasty generals or officials, and were stipulated to be prostitutes for generations, never allowed to escape.

During the Yongle period, Zhu Di decreed that the wives and daughters of Emperor Jianwen's loyal ministers would be used as prostitutes, give birth to daughters to continue to be prostitutes, and give birth to sons to be turtle dukes, for life, for generations, they are the untouchables of the untouchables, the untouchables of the untouchables, anyone can trample them under their feet and ravage them at will. Zhu Yuanzhang's father and son used this cruel and perverted way to torture their opponents, so that they could not live in hell with peace of mind.

The prostitutes of the Ming Dynasty were directly managed by the royal family, and the money earned was used as fat powder money for the harem concubines, and the dirty money obtained by the miserable prostitutes was smeared on the face of the concubine in a turn of face, which was very ironic.

This is a special case in all dynasties, the emperor is not only the monarch father of the country, but also the big boss and commander-in-chief of the brothels in the country.

This rule was not only used during the Hongwu Yongle period, but continued until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. After Wei Zhongxian was liquidated, his accomplice Xu Xiancun, the prison envoy of Jinyiwei, was also beheaded and his house was raided. The wives and concubines he forcibly seized were also punished as prostitutes, those who had been poisoned by Xu Xiancun, and many celebrities of the Donglin Party rushed to the brothel to prostitute them, and then they also made poems to show off, wanting to take revenge by ravaging these unfortunate women.

This can be described as an extreme manifestation of the flower of evil in human nature.

The government of the Ming Dynasty went to two extremes. On the one hand, it has established the world's first perfect civil government system, a perfect system of official evaluation and impeachment, the fairest examination system in the world, and the most complete talent reserve system, and the respect for intellectuals has reached its peak. On the other hand, systems such as prostitutes are too hurtful to yin and morality, and there are various systems such as military households, artisan households, and salt households, which almost directly regress to the dark Middle Ages.

The Ming Dynasty, which was supposed to be more prosperous and long-lived than the Han and Tang Dynasties, only survived for 276 years, which is worth pondering for future generations.

Besides, if the officers and soldiers are generally disciplined in this province, after all, they are their hometowns, and if they are transferred to other provinces, they will directly become bandits, and they will be hated more than bandits. The common people have a saying: bandits are like combing, and soldiers are like washing.

The people are not afraid of bandits, what they are most afraid of is that the provincial army will come to suppress the bandits, it is really a flood to wash the ground, everything does not exist, burning, killing and looting, all kinds of evil, anyway, it is not their own hometown, they will do the disaster. This is called a military disaster.

Women don't dare to go out, just wash clothes at home, every household puts a wooden basin in the yard, draws well water, scrubs the clothes once and then starts to beat with a mallet, Tang poem has "every household pounding clothes" is to describe this scene.

At that time, there were no washing machines, and washing clothes was to go to the river to find a smooth stone, and then beat it vigorously with a mallet, and the cloth at that time was generally coarse thick cotton cloth, woven by their own household loom. Although this kind of cloth is rough and too thick, it is durable and washable, and if it is a worsted cloth, it will be hammered with a mallet for a long time.

Folk textile has been the main mode of production of the textile industry until the Republic of China, and the mallet has followed to the later generations, and the word mallet has been left in the dictionary, which can be said to be the manual washing machine in ancient times.

After the clothes are washed by the dough hammer, they have to cook a pot of rice soup to wash the pulp, and then when they are about to dry, the two people tug-of-war like a tug-of-war to stretch the wrinkles open, this kind of pulp washed clothes are hard and crisp, which can fix the shape. The Chinese folk pulp washing method is affordable and top-use, which is actually very good.

When the GIs heard the sound of the mallet, they became much more honest, not because they were afraid of being beaten, but because they were touched by their feelings and thought of their hometown and relatives. This subtle stalemate can be regarded as a kind of folk wisdom.

In order to appear solemn, it was decided to temporarily close the city gate to prevent thieves from entering and leaving.

After this news came out, Lei Zhenwu was the first to find him and wanted to send him out of the city to avoid the wind. Lei Zhenwu means that Luo Cheng Shuangjiao provoked the Salt Gang Branch, which is equivalent to sending a danger signal, maybe they have more important actions, considering that they have intersected with the situation before, do you know that Luo Cheng Shuangjiao will not poison the situation?

Moreover, he rejected Lei Zhenwu's kindness, first of all, he knew that Los Angeles Shuangjiao had no ill will towards him, if he really wanted to attack him, he couldn't hide, and Zhenwu Dart Bureau was sandwiched in it was equivalent to death.

Besides, I didn't take this matter to heart, and still wrote and painted every day, sitting quietly and visualizing the image of the old man. As he visualized it, the image of the old man became more and more distinct, and the rainstorm pear flower nail on his wrist and the golden dragon on his back became more and more substantial, and half of the place was already lit up, but he didn't notice it, and outsiders couldn't see the mystery.

Xiao Nier couldn't be idle, she really couldn't find anything to do, so she took out a bunch of clothes, whether they were worn or not, they were all piled up in the yard and hammered and washed, but unfortunately she couldn't go to the river to wash them.

"Young master, this city has been closed for three days, and the money of rice, flour, oil, meat and eggs has risen. The coquettish cook muttered as she handed over a shopping list.

The cook seemed to be frightened by the thunderbolt-like means of rectifying the Li family, and she didn't dare to report to her handsome lover, she knew that if she was discovered, not to mention, even those ruthless stubbles in the dart game would not hesitate to divide her body.

Besides, where did he have the heart to take care of these things, he casually took a letter of twenty taels of silver and handed it over: "Spend as much as you want, everyone must eat and drink, and you are in charge of this matter." ”

Moreover, the Zuo family members and the dart masters of the dart board who are guarding here are two taels of silver per person per day, which is the price of the dart board. The hired cook and her family are five taels of silver per month, which is considered a high salary. The average private school teacher only pays 50 taels of silver a year, and few have more than 100 taels a year.

Silver was not uncommon in later generations, and even silver jewelry was generally looked down upon, just because silver did not serve as a currency in circulation. In ancient times, silver was a real currency in circulation. As for the fact that gold was only saved as a large amount of money, it never officially entered the monetary circulation system.

There is not enough silver, and there are copper coins, and if there is not enough copper money, they can only be exchanged for grain and cloth in kind. In the imperial era, there is a problem of insufficient money supply, to solve the problem of money supply can only issue paper money, Zhu Yuanzhang also implemented this method, but unfortunately there is no corresponding currency security system, no one buys the Ming treasure banknote, it became the gold yuan coupon of the Ming Dynasty, to the Jiajing period, the Ming treasure banknote basically died.