It was getting late, and the sky was already full of stars overhead, and Min Yuanqi, under the entourage of two family members, rushed to the east of the shop.

The road in the village is a rammed earth road, uneven, but fortunately, there is a lantern illuminated by the front and back, plus the starry sky is bright, and the gentle moonlight spreads all over the earth, Min Yuanqi can move freely and not walk in the dark.

Min Yuanqi also used dinner before going out, when he went out, the original lively village has been quiet, look around, only one or two are still on the lights, Min Yuanqi knows that these two families have children who study, usually study hard at home, every once in a while to study in several large private schools in the city, if you want to take the exam, but not to go to which county to take the county exam, but to Huai'an Fucheng in the health school to take the exam.

According to Min Yuanqi's knowledge, these two families do not have middle school children, and it is still too difficult for the children of these extremely poor families to pass the county and government examinations.

They are able to read, and they also showed their talents when they were young, such as remembering their eyes and writing, and if they didn't have the slightest hope, these families would not tighten their belts for the children of their families to study.

When Min Yuanqi passed by, the figure of reading cross-legged on the pit was revealed under the dim oil lamp, and the sound of reading was not loud, but it was quite clear in the silent village.

The food after training caused a boil, but it soon passed, after all, it was four liters of food, which made people a little excited, and soon calmed down.

When Min Yuanqi and the three of them passed by, one of the two families was unmoved and continued to read under the lamp, but the other interrupted, glanced at Min Yuanqi, and then continued to read aloud.

Min Yuanqi knew that one of the two people was surnamed Ding and the other was Guan, both of them were about twenty years old, and they both had passed the county exam, but they did not pass the government exam.

This is not surprising, the children of the destitute families in the township, even if they have talent, there are no good teachers, and there are no connections, the county school is not very difficult, and they can still pass the test low, and when they go to the government to learn, there are only two mansions in Jiangbei, although Huai'an is not as prosperous as Jiangnan literature, it is also quite a prosperous mansion in the end, densely populated, and talents are prepared, and it is not as easy as you think about the government test.

The annual government examination is in April, and now it is February, less than two months away from the government examination, and it is no wonder that these two scholars are still studying hard after the change.

If you can pass the government exam, you can be regarded as a child, and you can open a museum as a teacher to teach apprentices, although you are inferior to Xiucai, you can still be regarded as a scholar.

Min Yuan didn't glance at it and didn't pay much attention to it.

In the Ming Dynasty, everything is inferior, only the reading is high, and the reading seeds are looked at everywhere, and they are said to be officials, but there is no need for scholars to flatter themselves, but they have to look down on them.

In his previous memories, Min Yuanqi's father would occasionally send someone to send a few buckets of food to these two families, which could be regarded as respecting and valuing scholars.

Now, there's no need...... During the Chongzhen period, the last Jinshi examination was passed, and it was not until the Shunzhi period that the Qing court would continue to hold the examination, so as to win the hearts of the people and stabilize the local order.

The influence of Confucianism is equal to the influence of religion, coupled with the influence of the gentry to the students and ordinary scholars in the hearts of ordinary people, as well as financial, human and material resources, the opening of the imperial examination is the best way to stabilize people's hearts, and it is necessary to give scholars room to go up, otherwise it will lead to chaos.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was not able to attract new talents, and the imperial examination was stopped, and the support of the old bachelors and gentry was lost, so that the world was lost in a short period of time.

When the people were back, it was said that it was mysterious and mysterious, in fact, it was in some simple governance measures and heritage, when it was popular, Zeng Li Zuohu actually controlled most of China, but no one held power like Yuan Xiangcheng, forcing the Qing emperor to abdicate, that is, the general trend was actually still in the Qing Dynasty, and the people's hearts were not lost.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the west wind was gradually moving eastward, and new learning was all over the country, and it was no longer possible for new talents to support the Qing Dynasty after opening their eyes to the world, and the people of the old school could not keep up with the times, so they could not use it, so they could only give up, and the old and the new were lost, which was the loss of people's hearts.

Min Yuanqi didn't mind the attitude of these two readers, smiled slightly, and continued to move forward steadily under the light of the lantern.

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The shop is in the middle of the official hall, along the path in the village all the way to the east, through a small river at the head of the village, through the stone bridge, in front of you is a large open space, that is used to dry grain, on the other side of the field, is more than 20 thatched houses that have been dilapidated, there is the former shop of the barn.

In the early years of Jiajing to Wanli, the imperial court set up a general manager in the Dahewei Yunti Pass, and later generations thought that the general was a petty official who did not enter the stream, but in fact it was not.

The commander of the battalion is nominally at least a thousand household officers to be qualified to take on the role, but in fact, many of them are military attaches at the level of the guard commander and the general officer, and the level of a thousand households can only be a sentry officer.

If you want to think of Qianzong, you must at least be a commander and a fellow knowledge, or even a commander.

If you want to become a guerrilla general and a general, it is estimated that you will have to add a governor.

To the deputy general, the chief soldier, is the governor of the governor's mansion, the governor of the left and right governors.

At that time, the preparation of the Japanese was stationed in the city of Yunti Pass, and there were also some battalions stationed in various places, and the twenty or so rooms in front of him were garrisoned by a sentry officer with more than 100 battalions of soldiers, which was the main force of the preparation of the Japanese soldiers in those years, and the banner soldiers under the hundred households of each guard were protected by these battalions, which was also extremely humiliating.

At that time, the hut was built quite solidly, and the house is still there after decades, but there are many places that are damaged and crooked, and the thatch on the roof is old and damaged, and it cannot stop the wind and rain without adding new grass and thickening it.

"Tomorrow, you talk to Han Zongqi." Min Yuanqi looked at the dilapidated house in front of him, frowned and said to Li Junsun: "Bring some more people over, and carefully repair these houses with these craftsmen, since they are called to live, they will not live in such a house." ”

"Yes, sir." Li Junsun hurriedly agreed, and his attitude was already very respectful.

"The cost of work and food is almost a dozen taels of silver, and I am afraid that it will take a few days." The grass house in front of him was really dilapidated, and Min Yuanqi said lightly: "Tell Han Sen, write down the accounts, and the expenses will come from me." ”

Han Sen's original attitude, I am afraid that it will be done with some straw at will, Min Yuanqi asked Han Sen to repair it seriously, to strengthen the walls of the house, re-plaster the mud, repair the pit, repair the kitchen, add straw, the amount of work is not small, just the craftsmen themselves do it too slowly, and Min Yuanqi wants to use their place, of course, the matter of repairing the house is as fast as possible.

Li Junsun hugged his fists and agreed, these errands should have been done by a family member like him, and now the head of the family trusts him, even if he runs ten times a day, Li Junsun is willing.

As the two spoke, the original sound in the thatched hut opposite gradually stopped.

There used to be the cries of children and the voices of adults, but now suddenly there was silence.

After a while, a few middle-aged craftsmen walked out of the hut tremblingly, and knelt down more than ten steps in front of Min Yuanqi, and said: "The villain has thanked the hundred households for their great kindness." ”

"Wait a minute." Min Yuanqi walked over and helped everyone up one by one.

"The villain Liu De is a big wooden work."

"The villain Zhang Fengshan is Fang Zuo."

"The villain Li was born and made of stone."

"Villain Zhang Fengnian, small wood."

"The villain Li Tianyang is a tile work."

"The villain Li Tianfu is made of mud."

"The villain Shen Nian is made of iron."

The people standing on the ground in front of them were all men, and most of the women were hiding in the house with their children in their arms, and did not dare to come out.

These artisans were generally thinner than the military households, their eyes were darker, and although the oldest was no more than forty years old, they had gray hair and wrinkled faces.

They are military craftsmen, lower than the civilian craftsmen, under the guard, work non-stop every day, what they get is food that can not make ends meet, they can only keep doing private work, trying to earn an extra liter of food, so that the whole family can survive.

They are penniless, and they have no land, and like the military households, the artisan households can only intermarry from generation to generation, one generation is a craftsman, and the generation is a craftsman, and their own lives are unspeakably miserable, even if they are descendants and descendants, they will suffer from generation to generation.

This kind of life is simply headless, because of the low status, the military households can bully these craftsmen at will, even if they want to use them, they are just called as slaves.

When standing in front of Min Yuanqi, these craftsmen were all trembling, but they were afraid that if they were not, they would be punished by the adults of the hundred households, and their families would be affected.

The woman hiding in the house was also cautious, covering her mouth with the crying child, lest she anger the bullish and tall officials.

Min Yuanqi's size and figure, coupled with his age, give people the impression that he is martial and violent, which is a common characteristic of young military attachés.

For Min Yuanqi, there is only joy at the moment.

It's really easy to do things if you have a relationship, and it's been an unbreakable truth for hundreds of thousands of years.

There is a deputy thousand uncles, plus the deep-rooted relationship of the Min family in the Yunti Pass, although it is only to be a craftsman, but in front of the stone, iron, big wood, small wood, square, round, and clay are complete, according to the Song Dynasty to create the French rules, the collection of so many types of craftsmen, even if you want to build a large Buddhist temple or palace is enough, the difference is the painting, the stone can do stone carving, you can make any pattern you want.

These types of craftsmen are all big workers, small workers are not qualified to call what stone to iron and big wood, small workers are just to lay hands on these big workers, and when they accumulate enough experience to be able to stand alone, they are qualified to be called big workers, can master a certain field, this is the real craftsman.

In terms of carpenters, it is divided into several kinds such as round work, square work, large wood work, small wood work, etc., Min Yuanqi's demand for carpenters here is not very strong, but it is a good thing to have enough craftsmen, and it is still worth being happy.

It is a pity that there is only one iron family, and Min Yuanqi feels that the blacksmith is more important.

At present, stone and clay work are more important.