Chapter 125: Temple Fair
At that time, Zhou Wanyan still had two small chirps, following behind his father and brothers, and his eyes would mostly stay on the sugar man, head rope and cloth, while his brothers looked at those butcher shops and drooled.
At that time, Zhou Kui, who didn't know that he would become Jiadingbo in the future, although he was stingy by nature, he would still pull a few pieces of fabric for his children during the New Year, buy two catties of meat, and celebrate the New Year's Day as a family.
In the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the descendants from interfering in politics, the empress was generally selected from among the commoners.
But there are pros and cons to everything, although the commoner-born queen does not have the hidden danger of her relatives interfering in politics, but it has left a big problem for the Ming Dynasty in the cultivation of the prince.
The empress has shallow political knowledge and has no experience reference for her father and brother in politics, resulting in the emperor who is longer than the hands of women in the deep palace also lacks the ability to fight with the ministers of the previous dynasty.
After becoming an ancestor, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were generally in a weak position in the face of the civil official group, and the queen's humble background was also one of the important reasons.
Although Zhu Youzhen knew the defects of the commoner-born queen, he was not ready to change, the emperor himself was not a weapon, and his relatives may not be able to rely on him when the time comes.
Relatives, civil officials, eunuchs, for the imperial power, none of them is a good thing, once the Son of Heaven does not become a weapon, these will all eat the lord.
Zhou Wanyan looked at the temple fair in the capital that had not changed much from ten years ago, and her mood when she was a child quickly returned.
In the carriage, he followed Zhu Youzhen to point this and that, and then said an interesting story about visiting the temple fair when he was a child.
The social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty is not completely male and female, everyone may be re-educated, and the door is not out of the door, but the small family jasper sometimes shows up because of the needs of life, as for the women of the common family, it is even more impossible to close the door.
Children of civilian families, everyone needs to run for the life of the family, and women are no exception, no civilian family can stand it without eating.
Therefore, at the temple fair, you can still see women from small families coming out to buy, and women from ordinary families even have to follow their fathers and brothers out to take care of their own business.
When he first arrived in the Ming Dynasty, under the influence of film and television dramas, Zhu Youzhen also felt that women at this time did not go out at first, but after walking around the street a few times, he found that this was not the case.
Not only do women go out on the streets, but some women also help their fathers and brothers with small businesses.
Zhu Youzhen thought about it later, and felt that those things that said that women in ancient times didn't go out were nonsense, and the deep house compound could still do it, how could a civilian woman just give birth at home, that is, she didn't want to go out, and life didn't allow it.
If any rule is contrary to the right to live, it will be broken sooner or later.
Zhu Youzhen, who is in another time and space, actually doesn't like shopping very much, especially shopping with women, which is a kind of torture.
However, since he came to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen likes to go out of the palace with nothing to do, whenever he sees the daily and trivial life of the people, Zhu Youzhen feels that he is living a real life, and letting these small people live with dignity is his mission to come to this era.
Zhu Youzhen accompanied his daughter-in-law, led Princess Changle, pretended to be an ordinary official eunuch, and played at the temple fair.
As in later generations, there are many official eunuchs in the capital, and a city brick is photographed and ten people are stoned to death, and there can be at least seven master books in it.
Therefore, there are not a few people of a family of Zhu Youzhen's age in the capital, and no one pays much attention to their business.
However, the royal guards of the Son of Heaven are still indispensable, turning into ordinary men and patrolling around.
The people of the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to have long-range weapons such as bows and arrows, so Zhu Youzhen was not very worried about security.
The pistol is on his body, even if the martial arts alliance leader comes, it is useless.
When Zhu Youzhen's family was happily visiting the temple fair, the new army in the southwest ushered in an encounter.
Earlier in the morning, the new army reached Shuixi, and as soon as they crossed a hill, a scout came to report that a rebel army had been spotted ahead, and the scout had scratched a tongue.
After interrogation, it was found that the new army had entered the hinterland of the Shuixian clan, and it was impossible for the three thousand new soldiers and horses to continue to hide.
The Forces nouvelles then sent a battalion to raid the rebels stationed at the foot of the mountain.
The battle went without incident, went very smoothly, and after a quarter of an hour it was over.
After learning from the captives the location of the main village of the Shuixian clan and the approximate strength of the troops, Lu Xiangsheng ordered the new army to set up camp.
Because An Bangyan took away most of the main force, the remaining troops of the Shuixian clan are not too many, and among the defenders of a total of 5,000 people, there are less than 2,000 elites.
However, there is a reason why Shuixi dares to leave such a small number of troops, there is a pass on the road leading to the main village of Shuixi, both sides are cliffs, and the narrowest part of the pass is also built a wall, even if there are a hundred elite soldiers staying here, the Ming army will not be able to attack it.
The pass was too narrow, the narrowest place was less than a zhang, and no matter how many troops attacked, it could not be spread, so it could only be sent to death in teams.
If the defenders have enough food and ordnance, it will not be a problem to hold for half a year.
In this part of Guizhou, if the officers and soldiers stay in the field for half a year, they are afraid that they will collapse without a fight.
And what the new army didn't know was that Yu Chongming had fled back to Shuixi, and An Bangyan's defeat in Yongping Valley was already known to Shuixi's mother and son.
An Bangyan's life and death are unknown, and the uncle of Yu Chongming has become the only person who can rely on Anwei's mother and son.
With the help of extravagant Chongming, the Shuixi clan who learned of the defeat did not cause chaos, but shrank their troops, stuck to the walled city, and asked the court to surrender, preparing to survive the crisis like last time.
And this time, all the charges have been put on An Bangyan, and An Bangyan, who asked the court to surrender, has been portrayed as a powerful minister who coerced An's mother and son to rebel.
Yu Chongming felt that there was nothing wrong with his plan, and the imperial court must still be the same as before, and issued an order to apply for a certain matter, after all, there are hundreds of Tusi in Guizhou, and it is basically impossible to exterminate them.
So, after getting on the table of asking for surrender, Yu Chongming was waiting for the court's application.
But at noon today, news came from the bottom of the mountain that the Ming army had attacked, and it was a new army equipped with firearms.
After Yu Chongming heard the news, he chuckled in his heart, it could be the Ming army.
The restless luxury Chongming hurriedly sent his guards down the mountain to investigate, and as expected, it was indeed the Ming army.
So, without waiting for the new army to start attacking, in the afternoon of the same day, Yu Chongming sent a Han official as a messenger and went out of the village to ask for surrender.