Although the road from Dasanguan to Fengxian is dangerous, the distance is not far, a total of thirty or forty miles. However, for Wu Sangui and his officers and soldiers, it was from one country to another. This is a land that is both familiar and unfamiliar to them, but also full of challenges and surprises.

And the first thing that appeared in front of them was an unexpected surprise!

When the Anxi Army Brigade led by Wu Guogui cautiously passed through the steep and unusually steep road built by the mountain, and arrived outside the town of Huangniupu in Fengxian County, where the terrain was slightly spacious. What appeared on both sides of the official road was not the heavily armed Dashun soldiers, but thousands of people under the rule of the Shun Dynasty who appeared out of nowhere, all of whom bowed down on both sides of the official road, crying, shouting, and singing to welcome the king, no, it was the king of Yingming!

"Eat his mother, wear his mother, open the door to welcome the king of Ming, the king of Ming does not pay for food when he comes, does not serve when the king of Ming comes, does not pay tribute when the king of Ming comes, opens the imperial examination when the king of Ming comes, and divides the fields when the king of Ming comes......"

Wang Youwen, an old Han man whose ancestral home is Huayang County, Chengdu Prefecture, is the organizer of this "Yingming King", and he has experience in this area!

The jurisdiction of Huayang County is in the city of Chengdu, Wang Youwen is a native of the old city, and his ancestors are the guards of the Shu Palace, but it has long had nothing to do with the palace in Wang Youwen's generation, but changed to open a restaurant. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all cooks for three generations, and they were also well-known in Chengdu. However, he did not learn to cook, but took the path of studying and progressing, wanting to take the exam to make a name for himself. It's a pity that he is not a good student for reading, and he began to take the Xiucai exam at the age of 16, and he didn't pass the exam until Zhang Xianzhong entered Chengdu at the age of 27......

It was in that year that he experienced the major event of welcoming the king for the first time - welcoming Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the great west!

But fortunately, this time when Zhang Xianzhong was not crazy to the extreme, he chose to go north to Shaanxi because Li Guo entered Sichuan. As soon as Zhang Xianzhong left, Ma Shiying, Zeng Ying, and Yang Zhan recovered Chengdu. Wang Youwenbian participated in the second time to welcome the king, and that time it was a pot pulp to welcome the king, which can be described as full of sincerity - the people of Chengdu learned Zhang Xianzhong's madness and began to miss the Ming Dynasty!

But the Ming Dynasty disappointed them again, and before Ma Shiying could gain a firm foothold in Chengdu, Dashun and Daxi converged at Yangping Pass, and the peasant army re-entered Chengdu Mansion and beat Ma Shiying away.

Wang Youwen had no choice but to follow the big guy to welcome the king for the third time, this time the requirements were too high, just to eat the pot pulp was not enough, and he also asked to sing, he had to sing the song of "Welcoming the King", and welcomed the army of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, who was still pretending to be alive, into the city.

Because of Zhang Xianzhong's experience, the big guy sings well on his lips, but his heart is hanging!

God finally opened his eyes, the new thief is much more normal than the previous thief, not only will he not kill people indiscriminately, but he is also disciplined, and the army has passed, it can be said that there is no crime in the autumn, and it is much more regular than Ma Shiying and Zeng Ying's Ming army.

However, this thief also has something that displeased Wang Youcai...... These thieves are too dirty, and they have too much control!

After pacifying Sichuan, he began to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, banned the people's two industries, and greatly reduced the population of various cities and towns in Sichuan - in the political ideals of Li Guo, Sun Kewang, Niu Jinxing and others, Dashun's domestic commercial activities should be reduced to a minimum, and the number of employees should be reduced to a minimum, and it should be under the strict control of the Dashun household government and local jiedu envoys!

In addition, handicrafts and agriculture should be separated from commerce as much as possible, and farmers and craftsmen should only sell their products in areas designated by the government at prices lower than the government's limits. And at any time, they must accept the government's "and buy order" - that is, sell products to the government of Dashun at a low price.

In this case, Wang Youwen's family, who had lived in Huayang County for generations and opened a restaurant, could only go out of the city to become farmers. After all, the restaurant industry is also second-class and third-class in business, and it is dispensable. Moreover, after the Dashun Dynasty came to Sichuan, the profiteers, landlords, and bureaucrats in Sichuan Province, who loved to eat Sichuan food, were all overthrown. The newly appointed Dashun Mansion soldier likes to eat meat buns, mutton in a water basin or something, and the Wang family's cooks can't do it, so they can only go to farming.

Of course, the Wang family has lived in Chengdu for more than 100 years, and they will not farm for a long time! Even if the Dashun court gave them land, they didn't know how to plant it.

So in the first few years of going to the countryside, the Wang family was basically eating their old books, if it weren't for some of the belongings they had saved from opening restaurants that could be sold privately to the villagers, their family might not have learned to farm, and they would all starve to death.

And Wang Youwen, who has never learned a craft and is focused on his career, still dreamed of taking the imperial examination of the Shun Dynasty in the first two years of farming in the countryside. It's a pity that his dream eventually came to naught...... The imperial examination of the Shun Dynasty was only possible for government soldiers!

Wang Youwen, who was not a government soldier and had no way to be a soldier, had to abandon literature and become a farmer and learn to farm from scratch.

However, his books were not read in vain, because his knowledge earned him a position as a tutor in the town's military academy (of course, there was no establishment, but a teacher in the name of conscription). And he also got permission, and also brought his eldest son in, and followed the children of the Fubing family to read and learn calligraphy - he was not completely dead, and wanted his son to realize his dream of being a showman.

At that time, in his opinion, the "kind of exam" thing will not be done forever, right?

But he thought wrong again, until the first year of Dashun's Dongping Daxing, Dashun's imperial examination was still only available to government soldiers!

And the Wang family's family background has also fallen again and again in the past ten years...... There are three reasons why the life of the Wang family is becoming more and more difficult, one is that the Wang family's land has been "equalized", and the land has been reduced from homesteaders to tenants of the government soldiers.

The second is that the population of the Wang family has doubled, Wang Youwen and his brother Wang Youcai married wives before Daxi entered Chengdu, and in the first ten years after going to the countryside, their family's life was relatively comfortable, so the two brothers gave birth to a bunch of children.

The third reason is that Wang Youwen has lost the "conscription" of the school teacher, and with this "conscription", the Wang family does not have to serve other conscription, and the students of the Fubing Academy will give him a little "restraint". But such a good day is gone with the growth of the "second generation of the house". Because the second generation of the government has studied, and there are many of them, not everyone has the opportunity to be a government soldier, so they began to occupy other good positions. The government military schools in various places bear the brunt of the crime, and they are occupied by the second generation who have studied and cannot become government soldiers.

Wang Youwen and his sons, who lost their position as tutors, had to bear heavier and heavier conscription from the fourteenth year of the reign of the co-ruler.

Later, when his eldest son served on the front line for fifteen years, he was knocked out of two legs by the cavalry of the Ming army, and he could no longer do heavy work, which made the already difficult life even more difficult. And because his third son was disabled, his family could not afford the cost of marrying his wife, so he had to become a son-in-law for others. Only the second son and the young fourth son, who were not in good health, were left to barely bear the heavy farm work.

And Wang Youwen himself, although he is a lot older, his body is still strong, and he can read and write, and he can keep (account) and calculate, so he has to serve on the front line in Shaanxi for a long time. As a result, he obeyed and bumped into the fourth king master in his life!

It turned out that when Li Dingguo's army retreated, he abandoned all the people on the way from Dasan Pass to Fengxian, and just took his own army and the government soldiers and their families in Fengxian County.

Wang Youwen was serving in a transfer station in Fengxian County at the time, responsible for bookkeeping and points, a little bit of power, and was a respected figure among the people.

Therefore, when he found that the Dashun Heavenly Soldiers were running away and the Great Ming Soldiers were pursuing, Wang Youwen, who was flexible, immediately organized the people who fell in Fengxian County and went to the cattle shop outside the city to sing "Yingming Wang".

Since these people are relatively poor, it is a problem for them to eat by themselves, so they don't eat pot pulp, but just sing in Sichuan...... Therefore, most of the Wu Jiajun who passed by did not stop, and no one understood why a group of Sichuan people would kneel on both sides of the official road and sing?

It wasn't until Wu Sangui's Chinese army arrived at the scalping shop, because there were staff members in the army who knew a little Sichuanese, that they figured out that the group of people in front of them turned out to be White Lotus disciples!