In February, the spring breeze blows in the north, the ice and snow melt, and the earth rejuvenates. The willow trees by the pond have sprouted new green shoots, but the spring is cold and the night is cold.

After five or seven days of busy work, Ding Dingming, the postman of Yuncheng Post Office, was finally able to go home to take a breath, which was not the time for the change of season, which was the busiest time for post offices around the country. It's busier than during the Chinese New Year.

Every now and then, the soldiers in the army would pack up their changed winter clothes and mail them home. The army is issued a set of winter clothes every year, the latter is thick for its own use, and strong and wear-resistant, how can it be worn out in a winter, even if it is broken, the cotton inside can be used by taking it home and playing it. The surface of the outer clothes can also be changed into short clothes, and the rags can also be used to wear the soles and uppers.

And the winter clothes of the military model are sought-after goods among the people, and the real military uniforms are even more sought-after than them. Especially the military uniforms that were stained with blood and could not be washed. It was like a kind of glory, shining, and sought after by countless young and young people in the people.

Ding Ming caught up with this encounter this time, he was busy and turned straight to the axis, and now he can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and drive a flatbed carriage back to his hometown in Tang Temple slowly.

Ding Ming is a countryman, although he is an employee of the county post office and has a small residence in the city, this does not mean that his home is in the city.

His brother Ding Wei was one of the many little minions in Shangliang Shanbo in the early years, even if he had a friendship with Tang Wu and Tang Jiu, he was not very useful. The opportunity is not as good as the Tang family brothers, but the fate is big, several injuries but not death, mixed up to this day can not be said to be rich and noble, but serving as a deputy envoy of soldiers and horses somewhere in the Central Plains, for a family like them, it is already a success.

Ding Ming is not as bold as his brother Ding Wei, and because the two brothers are still in the family, their father and mother and even their grandmother, the two brothers went to Liangshanbo together and folded in together, but the Ding family is even broken, and it is over. Therefore, he always served his father and mother at home. It's not been hard in the past few years.

The Tang Temple is on the edge of the water, and it has always been shrouded in Lu Qian's sphere of influence. The Ding family can only be regarded as worried, not guilty. Even because of Ding Wei, the food consumption was quite generous in the first few years. After Lu Qian swept Qilu, that day was even more enjoyable. Ding Ming was also arranged to go to the post office because of his brother's relationship and ate a public ration.

His family had already bulldozed the original adobe square, and three years ago he built a two-hall blue brick and tiled house. There are three rooms on the front face, and there are ear rooms on the left and right. There are east and west wings, as well as an inverted seat on the side of the main door.

Enough for a large family, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.

This is the case with the house that Lu Qian built in Shuibo at the beginning, and later built a row of hooded houses after the second entrance. It's a three-in.

But such specifications are the only one in the water, and there are more small courtyards with two entrances and small courtyards with one entrance.

This kind of arrangement is different from the folk architecture of the Song Dynasty, but now this kind of arrangement has become the most popular style for the people of the north, especially the people in Qilu and the Central Plains. In the city and in the countryside.

There is also no teacher who has evolved the four-entry and five-entry courtyards, that is, the cover room at the back of the second courtyard is enlarged to the same as the second entrance, and the back head is then covered.

Nowadays, almost every family in the Tang Temple has a brick house, and the size pattern of each family is almost the same, seventy or eighty percent is a small courtyard, and the rich, such as the Ding family, is a two-entry courtyard. It is the most developed Tang Wu branch, and the ancestral mansion is also a small courtyard with two entrances. Because Tang Wu and Tang Jiu brothers were unwilling to 'trespass', they exceeded or reached the yard where Lu Qian lived when they were in Shuibo.

Looking down from the sky, it can be clearly found that this building complex is like the houses built by Pai Yao among the Yao people in Lingnan, and the arrangement is not ordinarily neat.

The layout of the entire Tang Temple building is no longer what it looked like when Lu Qian brought people in the middle of the night. The wall of the wall was not pushed, and the wharf on the shore of Wenshui was larger. It becomes the inside. The small courtyard houses are arranged in a rectangle, and the roads inside are two zhang wide and clean and tidy.

The carriage entered the alley and stopped at the first door. This is not Ding Ming's home, but the home of the bereaved family of a fallen soldier. Not everyone is as lucky as Ding Wei to survive until now. But when he jumped out of the carriage and knocked on the door of the house, an old man soon came out of it.

"Uncle, is Brother Tang Ping here?" Ding Ming carried a bag of cooked meat in his hand, and a jar of wine entered the door as he spoke.

"Oh Erlang, come to the house to sit down, and mention this, I have it all at home." Relying on his son's pension, this family is also living a good life.

The old man hurriedly let Ding Ming into the house.

His eldest son was thirty years old, and he was a man who worked in the field, and the younger son died on the battlefield, and his only son-in-law was also fed public grain and became a small official in his hometown.

Whoever called his family a big man who couldn't read a single word, and who was also a good teacher, was not the material for eating official food at all.

In this way, he didn't give it to his nephew, but insisted on giving it to his son-in-law, who didn't have a father, so it caused a lot of turmoil in the clan. But this is irrelevant, and there is no need to say more.

The people in the stove heard the movement, and two women, one old and one young, came out to see. The older one is the sister-in-law, and the younger one is the granddaughter who is already talking about marriage. The sister-in-law put her watery hand on the apron around her waist, and looked at Ding Ming and smiled.

"Sister-in-law, niece, and cooking." Ding Ming greeted the two women familiarly, and handed over the wine and meat in his hand.

"There are still at home. When the military masters send it, you have to see ...... "If a martyr like his family is treated, he is treated very well." In addition to a large pension, there is also a martyr's allowance for ten years. and various living allowances for five years. Rice, salt, sauce and vinegar, meat, poultry, eggs, sugar, every month, and festivals have to be added. Some of them were mailed straight to me, and some of them were converted into money. In addition, they will have a comprehensive agricultural tax within three years, and the agricultural tax will be halved in the next five years. If the martyrs' families still find it difficult to make ends meet under such good treatment, then there is a problem.

The sister-in-law said that she was breaking the bill, but the wine and meat took her daughter back to the stove room and quickly rectified it. At this time, a sturdy man had already come out of the house, not the eldest son of this family.

This man is honest and dutiful, but the rough man is the most impatient. Just beckoned Ding Ming into the house, and shouted to the mother and daughter in the stove room to hurry up and clean up the wine and food. His mother came out of this. The two sides saluted, and the big man let Ding Ming into the room.

After a while, his mother-in-law held the tray, and the two cooked vegetables in it were brought by Ding Ming, and then one was cold and one was hot, but it was a scrambled egg and a canned fruit. Behind her, the little lady held a wine jar and a wine bowl.

Next, the men ate wine and meat, and the women went to the stove to get busy.

After eating two bowls of wine, Ding Ming wiped his mouth and said, "I came here today to discuss something." "But the construction team under the Ministry of Industry needs to recruit laborers.

In other words, the construction department under the Ministry of Industry needs not only a large number of unskilled laborers, but also a group of mature technical officials.

These technical officials/officials also need to have a certain number of small workers, even small workers, or even small workers.

In fact, it is a matter of not being admitted, but if you have some foundation, you will also be a craftsman if you enter it and go through a period of edification. Only the real "craftsmen" can be selected into the construction school under the Ministry of Industry. The latter is the same as the accounting school originally established by the Du Branch Division and the Lijin Bureau, but now the latter is bullish.

It is no longer a single school, but countless subordinate branches, from the provincial capitals to the state capitals at the bottom, and even some economically prosperous counties, there are financial and accounting schools. Many branches are already self-sufficient and can pay some of their money.

Na Ding Ming has also heard of the construction of the school, saying that the head of the sect has always wanted to extend the latter, just like financial calculations, but the obstacles in the DPRK and China are not small, and money is a big problem, and he has always only listened to the rumors but not the reality. Otherwise, he would like to send all the nephews in the side yard in.

People can have a skill beside them, and they are not afraid to go to the south and the north.

"It is said that the people recruited this time will go to Yuezhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and the imperial court will build a big port in Yuezhou, and there will be more people to go. Although Brother Tang Ping is a good hand at farming, what is the potential for farming, isn't it more promising to go to Yuezhou? ”

In addition to farming, Tang Ping is also half a mason, can also do some carpenter work, and is also a good basket weaver. In Ding Ming's view, these can be used in Yuezhou.

But if you can go further, then you will be able to have an official ration to eat. There is no need to worry about being transferred out of Yuncheng and going to another country. There are also workshops in this county. When the dispatch from Yuezhou is over, people like Tang Ping can return to their hometowns, and the government will be resettled.

"Brother Tang Ping is a martyr, and this identity is a guarantee." Needless to say, there are many words. Even in Yuncheng, it's not like the families of military martyrs are everywhere. Not to mention that they also have two capable people in Tang Temple. It is not comparable to the Chao family, nor the Song family, nor the Ruan family, but it is also extraordinary.

Ding Ming turned back to his home, and his mother-in-law held a small girl in her arms, and a four-year-old boy in her hand greeted her.

has a wife and a family, children and daughters, a father and mother are alive, a large family is harmonious and beautiful, and there is no worry about eating and drinking, such a life at least exceeds more than ninety percent of people in China today.

Moved the things brought back into the room in different categories, then took out the rattle bought for his son to tease the children, took out a few feet of new cloth for his wife, and brought back the peach crisp for his parents and elders, looking at the happy faces of his wife and children, the elders smiled happily, and Ding Ming's heart was as sweet as eating honey. People live for a lifetime, isn't this what the picture is?

He has no heart of struggle than his brother, and he is satisfied to live like this in this life.

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Or the mouth of the Yangtze River. Two seagoing vessels returned from north to south. It was Faisal and Shahrukh's ship. Flying high in white sails, two celestial merchant ships streaked two white water marks on the blue sea.

The blue sea and blue sky, the sun is shining, and the wind is blowing, what a comfortable moment.

It's just that the owners of these two ships are happy or worried, and their expressions are uncertain. In fact, it is this freshly baked Lu Qi, who has good and bad feelings for them.

First of all, Fanfang will not exist in the future, and naturally there will be no more fanchang. The beliefs of the Fanshang could not be widely disseminated in the local area, especially to induce the local Chinese people to become Christians. Those who dare to preach without authorization will be severely punished once they are investigated.

Second, the amount of the municipal tax is so high that it hurts people's flesh. In the second period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the ship tax was two out of a hundred, and when it came to Zhenzong and Renzong, it was one out of ten. The Shenzong Dynasty was changed to fifteen draws one. In the era of the great artist, the official system was corrupted and the officialdom was corrupt, and it returned to the level of one out of ten.

At present, the Qi State Shipping Department stipulates that all imported luxury jewelry, such as treasured jewelry, ivory coral, etc., will be taken out of ten; Other precious items, such as gold and silverware, and spices, are all taken out of ten. For general goods, take one out of fifteen. An additional tax will be levied, one out of thirty.

This is the flesh of the merchants, but they have to endure it. Not to mention that you have to pay taxes on selling, and you have to pay taxes on buying.

However, the amount varies.

For example, jewelry, gold and silver utensils are all one out of ten. Fine porcelain, silk, lacquerware, medicinal herbs, tea, etc., are also one out of ten. Ordinary overseas porcelain, silk, tea and other bulk goods can be taken from 20.

How can such a rule not hurt people? But Faisal and Shah Rukh had to endure. Because even so, when they ship the goods back to heaven, it is still very profitable. And China has also promised that they will make more standardized regulations for shipping companies.

Not to mention, the new dynasty followed the system of the previous dynasty, and there were no exact restrictions on the merchants, who could move and reside freely in the port trading cities, as long as they could obey the laws of the new dynasty. Even if they want to live for a long time, they only need to apply for a residence permit at the local government.

Overall, the Chinese are still friendly to them. Unlike the pagans of Europa, barbaric and vulgar, but with a deep sense of greed. Make people vomit!