Chapter 103 Exiles
Wang Dazhuang is a homeless man, but until six months he was a farmer under the rule of Nanchang Prefecture. I rented 20 acres of land from the landlord Liu in the village, and my life was not bad.
Landlord Liu's rent is not too ruthless, as long as sixty percent, which is much stronger than seventy percent in other villages, and he and his father can have a good meal and clothing for a year. Maybe in a few years, my father can save enough silver to find a wife for himself, originally Wang Dazhuang thought that this life would be like this.
Unexpectedly, the rogue Zhang Xianzhong came, and all the food was snatched away by this gang of god-killing rogues, and my father said that how can we live, we were hacked to death by those wolf-like rogues.
Wang Dazhuang's owner, Landlord Liu's family, was killed, and Landlord Liu's beautiful daughter was also taken to the city by Liukou, and her life and death are unknown. Wang Dazhuang became a glorious outcast.
Wang Dazhuang followed the brigade to avoid the rogue and went south. I heard that the north is even more chaotic than Jiangxi, and now only the south is considered peaceful.
In this way, Wang Dazhuang hid in the mountains for half a year and came to Guangdong, thanks to the fact that after all, in the south, the temperature is not as low as in the north. No matter how you say it in the mountains, you can get something to eat, so this group of homeless people did not have the same tragedy of cannibalism as in the north.
When I arrived in Nanxiong Mansion in Guangdong, at the beginning, the local government still took care of these homeless people, and gave up a meal of gruel that could show people every day. But as more and more displaced people move south. The government has stopped giving porridge.
Wang Dazhuang is eighteen years old this year, and when he was growing his body, it was really a torment to not have enough to eat. Sometimes it's better to think about it than to die like my father.
At this time, Tong Yangjia's people came to Nanxiong Mansion with the road strip issued by the Dongguan County Ya, found the prefect and said that they would recruit people to go south to farm. The prefect couldn't wait for all these mud legs to get out, not to mention that he also got the benefit of five hundred taels of silver, so he naturally fully cooperated.
In this way, the homeless Wang Dazhuang and more than 10,000 other able-bodied homeless people went south to Dongguan to work for Zhu Hongsan.
After a month's trek, Wang Dazhuang finally came to Dongguan, which was much hotter than Jiangxi, which made Wang Dazhuang very uncomfortable. I lived in a shed outside Dongguan for ten days, and three groups of displaced people came over. There are more than 40,000 people in total.
When I got up this morning, the steward informed everyone to go out and line up today, and there was a factory to recruit workers, and each person who was selected had three meals a day, and two taels of silver a month. After becoming a regular worker, I heard that it was five taels of silver.
This news made everyone crazy, what is the concept of five taels of silver, it is enough for a family of three to live for two months. So everyone waited outside early, waiting for the factory to come.
The factory recruiters and the army recruiters came together. The army is not as particular about recruiting as factories, and it is directly shouted that there is no one to be a soldier with 20 acres of land. This sentence is more powerful than silver.
However, the requirements of the army are very strict, depending on age, height and temperament. A lot of people went to sign up and were brushed off. Wang Dazhuang is old, and he has a good figure from farming all year round, so he is easy to be selected to become a recruit.
Others had no choice but to try their luck at the factory, but it was not bad, and most of them were able to pass the selection. After three days, only 10,000 of the more than 40,000 people outside Dongguan were left. The army recruited 3,000, and the rest were all recruited by the factory.
Wang Dazhuang and the three thousand lucky people followed the recruiter to Nanhaiwei. The first thing to do in the barracks was to take a bath, and these homeless people have been adrift for most of the year, and their bodies are full of parasites. Ma Jingyuan ordered them to take a bath, then eat, and nourish their bodies.
When Wang Dazhuang saw the food, he was glad that he didn't sign up to go to the factory, not to mention anything else, the food as a soldier was too good. Don't say that there is meat and fish, the staple esophagus is enough. Also three meals a day.
Wang Dazhuang thought about it, I don't know if it's the rich owner, and the amount of money he gets is not enough to eat.
On the third day, Wang Dazhuang began to understand why they were allowed to eat so well, because the training began. The intensity of training is increasing day by day, and Wang Dazhuang can still hold back at first, but in the end he really can't do it, and he has the urge to escape.
However, after seeing the three heads of the fleeing people, Wang Dazhuang dispelled this impulse. It's okay to be tired, but if you run away, you have to cut off your head.
In the next step, Wang Daqiang opened his eyes, and there were people who gave them lessons in the evening. Slowly, Wang Dazhuang knew about the matter of eating and drinking for himself, and the chief Zhu Hongsan wanted to die for him.
After listening to the brainwashing class for a few days, Wang Dazhuang felt that he had worked for nothing for the first eighteen years, and he just understood why he had to suffer poverty all his life, and he also knew that if he wanted to get rich, have a land and a wife, he had to follow the chief Zhu Hongsan.
For the sake of his wife and son, in order to avenge his dead father, the exile Wang Dazhuang devoted himself to recruit training. And their beloved chief, Zhu Hongsan, was working the concubine in the seventh room at this time.
Zhu Hongsan felt deceived by Bai Bantou, as if he had forced this wife into himself. However, the seventh lady Magnolia made Zhu Hongsan very satisfied, this woman actually has Sanjiang Chunshui, one of the top ten famous instruments.
You must know that in the previous life, this kind of woman was the treasured plaything of the rich man, how could it be the turn of Zhu Hongsan, a little deflated man.
Zhu Hongsan soaked in the Seventh Lady Magnolia for half a month, which made Ma Xiaofang very dissatisfied.
In the past fifteen days, Tie Niu has finally come up with several sets of modern musical instruments. Zhu Hongsan asked the head of the day shift to play it, and he didn't know if it was because the instrument was wrong or because they were out of the law, so they had the level of the drum band invited by the township to do things.
Zhu Hongsan was not angry, and recalled the feeling of going to the countryside to catch up with the gift before. Then he said to the head of the white team that he had to work hard and make sure to make those songs.
While Zhu Hongsan was struggling for his own life, Li Zicheng in the north had already led his 400,000-strong army east to Shanxi. And in Ningwu Pass and the general soldier Zhou Yuji fought for a month, and finally Zhou Yuji was defeated and committed suicide.
Before his death, Zhou Yuji wrote the last book to Emperor Chongzhen, in which he said that the north was no longer good. Long live the southern tour. It was folded into Chongzhen's hands, of course he knew that what Zhou Yuji said was right.
Chongzhen found hundreds of officials and asked them to think of a way to do it. The implication is that if you can't do it, just run. But these ministers have been frightened by Chongzhen's bear temper, and it can also be said that those who can do things and dare to say have been killed by himself.
Some people also say that no, let the prince go to Nanjing first. This was also a solution at the time, but Minister Guang Shiheng jumped out and said: "You can't do the old things of the Tang Dynasty Lingwu." It means that the crown prince can't be allowed to go out and set up his own emperor like Tang Xuanzong's son, and give Chongzhen a emperor. The matter of the prince going south is no longer over.
The court meeting of the day naturally broke up unhappily, and the ministers who were handwritten on the table could be killed.
Chongzhen returned to the harem and thought that now the treasury can run rats, and these ministers have money in their families, so let them donate some money. He issued an edict asking the ministers in Beijing to donate.
Chongzhen was also afraid that the ministers would not donate, so he found his queen and asked him to bring a message to the national abbot, let him be an example, and donate a few thousand taels first.
Queen Zhou knew what virtue her father had, so she asked the eunuch to send her father five thousand taels of silver, and asked his old man to fill in another five thousand, and get ten thousand taels to donate to look good. His daughter's 5,000 taels ate 2,000 taels, and in the end she only donated 3,000 taels.
As for the other ministers, it is similar, two cabinet ministers, Wei Zaode and Chen Yan. One donated a hundred taels, and the other put a note on his door to sell. It means that I don't have any money now, but I have to pay the emperor for the purchase of a house.
The court in the north is in chaos like this, but our Zhu Hongsan is living quite comfortably in the south. Play Mrs. every day, Guangguang Dongguan City.
Zhu Hongsan really hated the city of this era, there was no water in and out, and men defecated everywhere. It's better on a sunny day, but a foot of sludge when it rains.
Zhu Hongsan swore that he must take care of the infrastructure in the future, after all, Zhu Hongsan did this in his previous life. But there was not a little power before.
Now it's different, Zhu Hongsan already has a county town that can be used as his own test field. It just so happens that Dongguan is not big, so it is used to practice first, and if it is successful, it can be promoted to all occupied areas.
Do what you think, Zhu Hongsan took Zhu Hongyi to Dongguan County after the New Year, and began a week-long examination, and at the same time saw if his ideas could be realized in this era.