Chapter 23 The New Year

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The world outside the village was covered with snow and covered in silver, and the family in Luo Zhaoyun's mansion was beginning to clear the snow to prevent it from getting thicker and thicker and crushing the house.

In the main courtyard, Luo Zhaoyun wore a thin Hu clothes, insisted on practicing guns, three months have passed, he has stabbed a thousand shots every day, with uniform strength and strength to pierce the stake, angle, speed, strength control and so on are much more comfortable.

The Luo family's thirteen gun moves, hundreds of changes, he can also rehearse from beginning to end, in one go, but he can't pinch it easily, once it is interrupted, it will be incoherent, and he can't change freely, which is a manifestation that the heat is far from enough.

And Luo Zhaoyun found that even if his Luo family gun was all able to be used, it was not powerful, and there was a huge difference in charm from the Luo family gun played by his father Luo Yi.

Luo Zhaoyun asked Shi Danai, who told him with a smile that it was because his strength was not enough, the basic skills were too weak, and now the trace of heat and energy he had accumulated was just the most basic internal breath, and when the strength was integrated into the attack fist and weapon, it was the strength of the attack, which was the combination of external force and internal strength.

If you practice that strength thoroughly, twisting around, the joints and muscles of all parts of the body seem to be twisted into a strand, and there is a transparent feeling throughout the body, and even a series of crisp sounds will be made, which is also known as loud and bright energy, which is just a person who practices martial arts and really gets started.

Luo Zhaoyun nodded, he was taught seriously, and during the day he would spend the whole morning practicing martial arts, practicing guns, and practicing strength, and the maid Muhe learned a set of fist and foot kung fu suitable for women from Shi Danai, and the work and rest were soon the same as Luo Zhaoyun, getting up early every day to practice and reading together in the afternoon.

At night, Luo Zhaoyun secretly practiced the Luo family's spearmanship, and Mu He practiced a set of self-defense swordsmanship, whenever she wanted to relax, she gritted her teeth and insisted when she saw Ah Lang, who was three years younger than her, working so hard.

In a flash, the big housekeeper Feng took a group of domestic servants to start sweeping the dust, cleaning the yard, cleaning all kinds of utensils, because there were more owners in the mansion, and there were several military masters, whether it was cooking, serving handymen, etc., there were many servants, so they bought and signed two young maids, as well as five family members, and the manpower was a lot fuller.

These slaves, housekeepers, sweeping the house, clearing the dark ditch, preparing New Year's goods, chicken, duck and fish, oil sauce ingredients, Gebu silk, etc., on the door of each courtyard, all began to paste the spring couplets in red paper and yellow characters, and the door god and the word blessing.

Of course, during the Sui Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets were still called peach symbols, which originated in the Zhou Dynasty and hung on both sides of the gate with rectangular peach wood boards.

Of course, the door god is not Qin Qiong, Wei Chi Gong, these two people are only a few years older than Luo Zhaoyun at the moment, since the Han Dynasty, the door god is called Shen Tu, the other is called Yu Lei, the legend is in charge of the ghosts and gods, of course, there are also places to paste the big rooster with heavy pupils to drive away evil towns, until the Song Dynasty, it is two real appearance of powerful warriors, but there is no name, to the Yuan Dynasty, the door god was determined to be the left Qin Qiong, the right lieutenant Chi Gong.

Luo Zhaoyun looked at the door god on the sticker, and thought of Qin Qiong, he is now sure that he has no cousin relationship with Qin Qiong, not a cousin, and there is no Mrs. Qin in Luofu, it is all made up by Romance, according to the epitaph of Qin Qiong's father unearthed in the ancient tomb of Jinan in 1995, so that later generations of scholars finally figured out his genealogy and life experience.

That Qin Qiong's father is not Qin Yi, the general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but called Qin Ai, who served as a record officer in the Guangning Weifu of the Northern Qi Dynasty and joined the army, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Qin Ai took his family to his hometown of Licheng County, Qizhou, and did not die until the tenth year of the Great Cause, so Qin Qiong is not a folk miscellaneous saying such as 'father died early, filial piety and mother's dedication'.

Soon, on Chinese New Year's Eve, the steward Feng Yao took the family out to a banquet for tenants and long-term workers in several villages within a radius of ten miles, because some of the fields outside the Zhuangyuan needed these tenant farmers to cultivate, and then pay the rent on time and do their best to cultivate the fields, and with a good harvest, the Zhuangyuan could get more profits.

Since the Han Dynasty, the development of the Zhuangyuan economy dominated by the landlords of the clan has developed, and at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are often some wealthy families, who establish dock forts, lead hundreds of tribes and private soldiers, and defect to a certain prince. By the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the gate valve politics reached its peak, and the local rich and powerful families were numerous, and they became fortresses by themselves, and they did not pay taxes or accept labor rents.

By the time of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the place formed a suzerain, dock master, with a large number of clans, tribes, repair dock walls, armor soldiers, become large and small feudal landlords armed leaders, its dependent peasants often have hundreds, thousands, or even 10,000 households, for their private population, the Northern Wei Dynasty court in order to strengthen local control, so the implementation of reform, but little effect, and finally the state, county, county magistrate, had to rely on these dock lords to assist in governing the locality, forming a "suzerain" system.

Until the establishment of the Great Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui unified the Central Plains, so that the north and the south were united, the decree came from the imperial court, the local control was strengthened, and the local wealthy clans had declined, so the imperial court implemented measures such as the general appearance search, promulgated a series of measures, abolished the local suzerain, Haoqiang, demolished the dock fort, verified the population, the country reached more than 40 million people to the imperial court household registration, taxes increased, the national strength was rapidly strong, and finally the rule of the emperor was realized.

In the Great Sui Decree, there are regulations on the occupation of land by officials and clans, such as Jiupin officials or lower-level clans, can only have ten tilts of fertile land, not more, the higher the official position, the greater the title, and the number of acres of land can be increased.

In this way, the relationship between the tenants of the Sui Dynasty and the head of the village has undergone a great change, the household registration of the tenants in the past is attached to the household registration of the owner of the manor, and the government no longer levies taxes on the tenant farmers, on the other hand, the tenants are under the 'shade' of the owner of the manor, and have to be forced to plough the land, pay rent and serve all kinds of labor for the owner of the manor, forming the rule of "all guests are registered" in the system of giving guests, and the generations cannot get rid of the lowly status, and many of them have become slaves of the owner of the manor.

At present, the Sui Dynasty promulgated the "Kaihuang Law", which stipulated that the tenants belonged to the commoners of the Sui Dynasty, and were free from the dependency relationship with the manor owner and the wealthy family, unless they took the initiative to sign a contract of sale and were willing to serve as slaves and maids in the aristocratic mansion, otherwise, they could not forcibly change the identity of the peasants.

In order to ensure the harvest, the owner of the manor would feast on tenants and long-term workers to eat and drink during the New Year's holidays, and give them some New Year's goods, which gradually became the practice of the wealthy gentry landlords of the Sui Dynasty.

After all, it is impossible for the owner and the owner of the manor to supervise the land in person, and these long-term foremen and tenant heads take their subordinates to manage some of the working households in an orderly manner, farm the land steadily, and ensure the harvest in drought and flood, so they are very favored by the owner of the manor, and naturally have some additional rewards.

Like in many movies, there are very few bully landlords, and most of them are artistic processing of novels, because the notorious squire landlords will decay in a few years.

Therefore, many squires have some fame in the locality, such as paying for road repairs, dams, building city god temples, mountain temples, etc., and in the year of famine, there are not a few people who give porridge relief.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, there was a big feast in the manor, at least five or six tables, Luo Zhaoyun, Shi Danai, Mu He, Steward Feng of the inner courtyard, Steward Xue in charge of the kitchen, and the newly promoted steward of the outer courtyard Mou gathered at one table, Zhao Can, Liang Zheng and other ten guards and one table, two tables of tenant heads and chief foremen invited, and three tables of family members and servants, which was considered a lively time.

According to the rules of the Central Plains at that time, domestic slaves could not eat at the same time as the owner, but first, this is a frontier land, where Hu and Han are mixed, and the customs of the Central Plains are less spread; Second, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve Festival, only one day a year, Luo Zhaoyun is still a teenager, and his soul has crossed over, so he can't bear to treat the house slaves so harshly, even if he treats the family members for a day, they will have a banquet together.