Another year is approaching, and the southern capital of the Dashun Empire, Kunming, although it is still in the midst of national mourning and has encountered imported inflation, the upcoming second battle into India still makes people inside and outside Kunming full of expectations. But around Chongqing, the northern capital of Dashun, it is a different scene, and the meaning of depression can be seen everywhere.

Located outside Shizhu City in the valley of Sanjiangxi, a group of bachelors living in the mountain village indiscriminately ploughed the terraced fields that were idle in winter, and gathered together to chat about meat jokes.

The area around the stone pillar was originally the Shizhu Tusima family, that is, the territory of Qin Liangyu's mother-in-law's family. Although there were many famous figures in this area in the decades from Wanli to Chongzhen, there was also a very capable white pole army. But the stone pillar warriors have been loyal and fought for the Ming Dynasty for decades, and they can't change the poor mountains and bad waters around the stone pillars. Perhaps it is precisely because of the terrain around the stone pillar that the people here are particularly hard-working and willing to join the army and risk their lives to fight for prosperity.

However, in the last years of Chongzhen, under the repeated onslaught of the Dashun army, Shizhu Tusima Wanchun still had to give up the homeland where he had lived for generations, and moved west to Zunyi Mansion with most of the Shizhu people and the two major families of Ma and Qin - Zunyi Mansion is the last territory of the Ming Dynasty in Sichuan Province, and it is also the current residence of the Xichuan Jiedu Envoy.

After the evacuation of the Ma family Tusi, the area around Shizhu was firmly occupied by the Dashun army. Because there is no flat land here, only some terraced fields that are difficult to cultivate, so ten years before the Dashun co-rule, the soldiers of the Dashun Dynasty had no interest in the land of Shizhu, but moved farmers from Chongqing and Chengdu, where there were many people and land, and cultivated terraced fields on the slopes on both sides of the Sanjiang River.

Most of the bachelors who get together to talk about meat jokes now moved here with their parents when they were teenagers.

When I first came, because there were few people and many fields, and the Dashun court also gave a little discount, the life of the big guy was quite good. But since the outbreak of the Shaanxi War, the life of these new Shizhu people has become more and more miserable......

The long-term war with the Ming Dynasty did not take much land for the Dashun Dynasty, but it did fight more than 300,000 Xinfu soldiers!

These Xinfu soldiers could not seize the land of the Ming Dynasty farmers, so they could only seize the land of the peasants in Sichuan and Yunnan. The flat land in the Sichuan Basin has been divided by them, and mountainous areas such as Shizhu have also come into their eyes. In the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth years of the co-governance, there were land inspectors from the Dashun Dynasty government who came to Shizhu, first to clear the household and inspect the land, and then to enclose the land. The slightly fertilized terraced fields on both sides of the Sanjiang River were circled and distributed to the Xinfu soldiers who moved to Shizhu City from elsewhere!

The peasants, who had originally belonged to yeoman farmers, were all reduced to tenants of the new government soldiers.

Heavy land rents, forced labor, and household cloth also followed, which made these carefree men in their youth fall into hardship and hardship at once.

What makes them feel even more depressed is not the days when they are getting poorer and poorer, but the lack of a mother-in-law!

To some extent, the military system of Dashun is even inferior to the caste system on the Indian side, because under the caste system, intermarriage between different castes is more difficult. Although a man from a higher caste could marry a woman from a lower caste, the latter had to pay a large dowry, which was often unaffordable for families of the lower caste, ensuring that the higher castes did not overdo the plundering of young women from the lower castes.

The rulers of the Dashun Empire did not think of this problem, although they established a society in which people were born unequal, but after all, they were the beneficiaries of "princes and generals Xiangning have a kind of", so they did not think that the "species" of those soldiers under their hands was so noble - in the eyes of the Dashun Empire of Li Guo's generation, the country they established was still a peasant regime that helped the bitter people......

And this kind of misunderstanding and the excessively expanded government military system have brought "the suffering of no wife" to the bitter people who are "helped" by them.

In the current territory of the Dashun Empire, there are at least 600,000 "Huang Shiren" with high martial arts! How many "Yang Xi'er" did they have to take away? How many singles will be created with nothing?

Therefore, the bachelors in the Shizhu countryside gather together, and the most talked about is usually women...... But there are exceptions, I don't know who suddenly talked about the "King Yingming"!

"Did you hear that? King Ming is coming, come and make decisions for us wretched people! ”

"It's all nonsense, where will the Emperor of the Zhu family make decisions for us poor people? When his family was in charge of Sichuan, the poor had no way to live......"

"That's different, the emperor of the Zhu family still allows the poor to be motivated, and Zhu Ming doesn't need a government soldier status to take the imperial examination...... Haven't you heard of Chaowei Tian Shelang and Twilight Tianzi Hall? ”

"Where is it so easy to get into school? I heard the old people say that the Jinshi of the Emperor of the Zhu family is difficult to test, and in Sichuan Province, there are only more than 20 Jinshi in three years......"

"Then there are also people and talents! My grandfather is a lifter, my father is a showman, if I can take the test with my ability, I will definitely be able to be admitted to a show! And if you can't be a showman, you can still join the army...... With your ability, you can fight for fame from the battlefield with a knife and a shot! ”

"You are mistaken, the king of Ming who is coming this time is not the king of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Not? Why not? ”

"Haven't you heard the ballad of 'King Yingming' sing? When the king of Ming came, he did not pay food, when the king of Ming came, he did not serve, when the king of Ming came, when he came, he did not pay tribute, when the king of Ming came, he opened the imperial examination, and when the king of Ming came, he divided the fields...... The king of the Ming Dynasty would give the land to the poor? ”

"Then who is this Ming King?"

"It seems to be the ...... of the White Lotus Sect"

"It seems?"

"Whatever! It's better for someone to make trouble than for no one to make trouble! ”

"That's right! It's good to make a fuss, we don't have anything anyway! ”

Speaking of "nothing", everyone sighed, and then they saw several old men and healthy women in blue cloth walking from the foot of the mountain, they all hung swords at their waists, held pikes, and carried bows and arrows, murderous!

This is the stone pillar in the township soldiers in the routine patrol of the mountain!

Shizhu here is close to the Ming Dynasty's Shizhou Wei, belongs to the frontier area, the Dashun Dynasty in this area of the control is more strict, even in the township soldiers, must maintain combat readiness, must strictly guard the fortress where they live, but also send armed personnel to patrol the surrounding mountains and forests.

Recently, there have been rumors about the demons of the White Lotus Sect in the Shizhu area, and some have been killed, and the government soldiers in the Shizhu countryside have also become more vigilant, not only the veterans in the township participate in the patrol, but even the women from the second generation of the mansion (all of them are big women) have also come out with swords.

The peasants, who had just said that it was good to make a fuss, saw that these government soldiers and their families patrolling the mountains were all silent, and they did not dare to gather in one place again, but dispersed quietly......

The rule of the Dashun regime in Shizhu is still as solid as a rock!

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There are people here in Sichuan who are looking forward to King Ming, and here in Huguang, there are also people who are looking forward to King Chuang!

Yang Sanbao, who lives at the foot of Huya Mountain in Jingzhou Mansion, and his brother Wang Sihu are in Panchuang Wang!

Both of their fathers were beneficiaries of Li Zicheng's Jingzhou Juntian, and each of them was given ten acres of fertile paddy fields, which also changed their respective lives - they were originally hired farmers who had nothing, because Li Zicheng's Juntian became a homesteaders. Later, Emperor Zhu succeeded in attacking Jingzhou Mansion, and did not let them return the allocated land to the original owner, but only asked them to make up some "redemption funds". Father Yang and Father Wang, who owned 10 acres of paddy fields, later married wives and had children, and lived a fairly well-off life.

Yang Sanbao and Wang Sihu are the second sons of Yang's father and Wang's father, they were born and had a good family when they were young, so they both studied in private schools in the village, and went to Jingzhou Mansion to take the primary school and academy exams, but they were not admitted, so they went home to farm.

At this time, because the family did not have much land, it was difficult to afford the two sons to get married and start a family, so the father and brother of Yang and Wang both started the idea of borrowing money to rent land to expand their business. They mortgaged their 10 acres of paddy fields to Qianzhuang and lent their capital to expand production, but as a result, grain prices continued to fall...... This drop in grain prices was caused by the increase in grain supply after the recovery of the north and the development of the South Seas, which was originally a good thing, but for the Yang and Wang families, who blindly expanded their operations, it was a bankruptcy disaster!