The cold wind continued at night, the beating window lattice kept ringing, the window paper was broken in many places, and the house where Min Yuan slept was as cold as the outside.

In the early hours of the morning, even if he was covered with a quilt, Min Yuanqi was frozen and cold.

There is no tradition of burning pits here, and those masons do not build pits, and they rely on hard resistance in winter. Decades ago, the winter in people's memory was not too cold, and in the past 30 years, it has been almost cold every year.

It's already from the first month to February, but it's still cold and evil.

Min Yuanqi knew that he was okay here, with this magnificent courtyard built by his ancestors, the ordinary flag ding's house was just a thatched house, it was difficult to protect against the wind, snow and cold, and the family shrank in a doghouse-like house, hugging and shivering.

In these years, there are many people who are frozen to death and are bruised, not to mention a big city like Nanjing, which is Huai'an Mansion, which day in winter will not drag away dozens of frozen corpses?

The weather was cold, and Min Yuanqi's mood was also cold.

Although Min Yuanqi's will is firm, and he has recognized it from the rich and developed later generations, the current situation is really too difficult.

Min Yuanqi was a land worker in later generations, working in the farming and protection department, and was regarded as a small leader. He is in charge of approving various land use projects, which is a fat shortage, but he has always been cautious and never dares to make any deviations.

Min Yuanqi came out of the welfare institute, and it took a lot of hard work to be admitted to the school and the civil service, so that he had a stable career and income. In charge of a department, he has to take responsibility, and even carries some black pots, which give him a lot of tempering.

However, some problems in work and life in the future generations are simply far from the current situation, one is heaven and the other is hell.

Min Yuanqi is a history novice, the historical knowledge that he has systematically learned all the way is quite shallow, and after graduation, travel has become the best way to relax, and reading books rarely involves history books.

At this time, Min Yuanqi was a little lucky, he had read a few popular history books of the Ming Dynasty, and now he would not be blinded.

And some of the things he knew were enough to make Min Yuanqi's heart cold.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the history Xiaobai also knew that in this year, the Ming Dynasty fell, the Qing army entered the customs, Li Zicheng was hunted down, and then the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was established, and then it seemed that it would not be long before it was destroyed.

The following history seems to be quite chaotic, and it was not until the Kangxi period that the Qing court recovered Taiwan and pacified the three feudatories as a symbol, and this dynasty established by foreign aliens was truly stable.

For the whole of China, this period of history is extremely chaotic, full of famines, epidemics, wars, disasters, and it can be said that countless people have died.

For an ordinary person and a family, the slightest carelessness will lead to ruin.

Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangnan, northern Shaanxi, Henan, hungry people everywhere, many years of disasters, countless deaths, war, even more corpses everywhere.

The land of Liaodong originally had a population of more than 6 million, and when the Qing army entered the customs, it plundered the Han people for many years, and the population was less than 600,000.

Although the place where Min Yuanqi is located is not the core area of wars and disasters, judging from Min Yuanqi's superficial historical and geographical knowledge, it should also be a must-kill place for the Qing army to go south!

Seventeen years of Chongzhen...... Min Yuanqi gritted his teeth, this damn bastard year!

His heart was anxious, Min Yuanqi felt that his body was also hot, he stood up, picked up the blue-rimmed bowl on the cabinet, and drank it happily.

It's no wonder that Min Yuanqi is like this, no matter how tenacious his character is, he is just an ordinary person in the future generations, no one can be completely calm when encountering such difficulties, his current reaction is the normal reaction of an ordinary person, complaining, unwilling, hating, and panic......

touched the hair on the top of his head, and took off the net towel when he slept, Min Yuanqi's mood was also extremely complicated. He didn't have too much obsession with his hair, and he had short and lean hair in later life, but at this moment, when he touched his hair again, it felt completely different. From the time of the hair tie marks adulthood and responsibility, the hairstyle on the top of the head is thousands of years of inheritance, if there is no Eight Banners to enter the customs, maybe the Han people will voluntarily cut their long hair short after a few hundred years to keep up with the trend of the times, but at this moment, the thought of being forced to shave off their hair and leaving only a small tail at the back of their head, Min Yuanqi felt a burst of disgust and anger in his heart.

It's one thing to be willing to be willing, it's another thing to be forced by others.

Min Yuanqi is like this, think about what will happen to those ordinary people?

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the world had been decided, if it weren't for Dolgon's arrogance, who successively ordered the Ming people to change their clothes and shave their hair, I am afraid that there would be no war in the next few decades.

After more than ten years of blind tossing in Chongzhen, the people of the world have completely despaired of the Ming Dynasty, only a few scholars still hold on to the idea of loyalty, and even the scholars have chosen to surrender to the Qing Dynasty even if they have changed slightly, and Shilin leaders like Qian Qianyi have surrendered regardless of the discipline, which shows how people's hearts are.

The shaving order was given, and the result was an uproar in the world.

Of course, Min Yuanqi was unwilling to shave his hair, let alone surrender to the Manchu Qing at this time...... The original owner of this body was also quite concerned about current affairs, and was full of hatred for the Jurchens, after all, he was also a Ming soldier, and he was full of righteous indignation against foreign enemies.

This kind of memory and emotion, of course, also affects the current Min Yuanqi.

No, of course not!

If you don't fall, of course, you have to find a way to survive.

Min Yuanqi frowned, based on the experience of his two lives, since the Qing army was truly unified several decades after entering the customs, it shows that there is room to escape, but the timing and route must be considered.

If the final defeat is inevitable, the only way to consider fleeing overseas is to think about it.

Before that, to accumulate contacts and money, running overseas alone was almost self-defeating.

With Min Yuanqi's current identity, he can't run at all, the Ming Dynasty has not yet died, the law is still there, and the military attache of the guard station like him fled from the station without permission, and after being arrested, he must be beheaded, there is no other possibility.

Besides, there was no cost of escaping, and there were still two stones of polished rice at home, ten stones of brown rice and wheat, and only more than 20 taels of silver, which was only enough for him to run to Nanjing or Hangzhou, and then he had to beg for food if he wanted to continue south.

The first step is to accumulate wealth......

Min Yuanqi's eyes lit up, and he was also seriously calculating in his mind.

The starting point of his own house is to try 100 households, and there are 100 households and deputy 1000 households, 1000 households, as well as commanders, fellow knowledge, and commanders. Dahewei and Huai'anwei have always had eighteen commands, that is, a guard has eighteen mothers-in-law with more than four grades, and more than fifty percent of the harvest of the military households every year is divided by these big shots. Although there are many mothers-in-law, the Min family has a lot of status here in Yunti Pass, and Li Kecheng and the Min family are not on the same page, but the clan uncle Min Qiande is a thousand households, which is enough to check and balance with Li Qianhu.

Yunti Pass is more than 200 miles away from Huai'an Mansion, and few officials come over, after all, it is too remote, and the hundred households where Min Yuanzhong is located are more than ten miles away from the yamen of the Imperial Palace, and thousands of households rarely come here to visit.

This is a typical Tiangao emperor far away.

Min Yuanqi's family background is the ten small banners under his command, the full number of banner troops is 120 people, more than 200 Yu Ding, and more than 400 women, children, children and the elderly, adding up to 767 people.

There are more than 4,000 acres of land, and more than 100 households have an average of 40 acres of land.

There is an extreme shortage of cows, horses, mules and donkeys, there is not a single horse in the entire hundred households, even Min Yuanqi's own family has no horses to ride, and he is a dignified six-grade master, and he relies on two legs everywhere, and at most he rides a donkey, which is also desolate when he thinks about it.

It has a total of three donkeys, two cattle, more than 4,000 acres of land almost all by manpower farming, agricultural tools are also lacking, iron tools add up to less than 50 handles, not to mention per capita, less than one per household.

The number of acres of land seems to be a lot, if it is fertile soil, the average yield per mu is two to three stones, such as Jiangnan, and the military households should live a good life, but Yuntiguan is near the sea and near Yancheng, there are many tidal flats, many saline-alkali land, and the average yield is less than one stone.

The output is low, and half of the harvest is collected by the big officials, two are traded for national taxes, two percent are divided into middle and low military attachés, and one percent is reserved for military households. Because of these acres of fields, the cultivation is cultivated by the military households, but the owners of the acres are from the commander to the hundred households, the general banner, and the original military fields have long been divided up by the military attachés.

These military households, who say that they are soldiers who defend their homes and the country with halberds, are actually serfs with the name of soldiers.

Boiling salt yields more than farming, but limited by manpower and material resources, the yield has not been able to rise.

And it's going to be stripped of layers of things......

Min Yuanqi Huo Ran got up, feeling that he had raised a fierce energy, and his chest and abdomen were full of anger. Yesterday he had already let go, and he had to settle the matter today, otherwise he would definitely lose his prestige in front of the banner army.

In a short period of time, Min Yuanqi finished putting it on, and after hanging the saber on the leather belt, he shook the handle of the knife with his right hand, and a sense of confidence arose.

Before this, Min Yuanqi never thought of fighting with others, he was cautious and serious in later generations, and in this life, he had a slippery temperament before, and he was still an undetermined young man, but he had his own young man's momentum and the ruthlessness of a martial arts family.

Min Yuanqi in this world is uncertain, because he does not know the general trend and has no ink in his chest, so he will go with the flow. Now the memory soul of the two lives is fused, and it is the current Min Yuanqi, who is assertive in case of trouble, and has a strong mind, and dares to fight!

Min Yuanqi took a deep breath and pushed the door out with a knife.

Outside the door is the courtyard at dawn, the light of dawn is faint, and the weather is cold.

As Min Yuanqi pushed open the courtyard door and stepped out, more than ten men squatting or sitting on the street all stood up, and their eyes immediately looked at Min Yuanqi.