Chapter 1: Spear Mountain

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In the forty-fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1617 AD), in Qizhou, Wuchang Prefecture, Huguang, Yang Wenli, who was only six years old, was looking at the vast Yangtze River from afar on the ridge of Maoshan Mountain by the Yangtze River.

This Spear Mountain is not the Spear Mountain, the holy land of Taoism, but an ordinary mountain range under the rule of Qizhou. Yang Wenli's home is on the other side of the mountain, backed by the Yangtze River.

Six-year-old Yang Wenli is not simple, he is a reborn person, from the future of 2003 to the 39th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. In his previous life, he was just a brave and ruthless low-level gangster, who was stabbed and burped in the chaos because of fighting with other gangs.

The reason for rebirth is no longer available, and even Yang Wenli himself is inexplicable, it may be that he drank too much bull head and horse noodles, so he didn't drink Meng Po soup and cast the wrong baby. In short, he is well aware that he is a reborn, and since he was three years old, he has been trying to find a way to change his tragic fate in the future.

Although he was just a gangster and didn't read much, he also knew that just last year, that is, in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, Nurhachi, who was far away in Liaodong, had established the Houjin and created the Manchurian Eight Banners system. This means that he doesn't have a few years to be a young master, maybe he will burp again in the troubled times in the future, so he inspected the Yangtze River from the back mountain of his home at the age of six, in order to find a way out.

Yang Wenli said that he was a young master, but in fact, he was just a small landlord, with only 100 acres of land at home, and no more than 50 tenants. Even so, the entire Maoshan Chong is also the largest in his family, because the entire Maoshan Chong is his family's land.

The Yang family is not a native of the city, his family used to live in the city of Qizhou, and his ancestors opened a restaurant. Qizhou has always been a state and county office, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, prosperous business and tourism, and has been known as the capital of medicine since ancient times. The famous Li Shizhen was born here, so he wrote the world-famous "Compendium of Materia Medica".

Qizhou is also a place where literati come out in large numbers, only in the Ming Dynasty, there were 42 Jinshi and 108 people, it can be said that the style of writing is prosperous, and it is unique in the world.

There are literati, scholars, wealthy merchants, and the governors of Jingwangfu, and the Yang family's restaurant business is very good, and the ancestors really made a lot of money. However, as the so-called success is also Xiao He, the Yang family is not a family of eunuchs, just a businessman, although the money is abundant, but it can't keep the rice shop like a cash cow, and is forcibly occupied by other gentry who find an excuse. So the Yang family found the poor and remote land of Maoshan Chong, bought a field and settled down, and honestly became the owner of the old money.

In the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the gentry, it was difficult for ordinary people to think about the local owners' old wealth, because the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was mainly agricultural tax, and most of the fields were tax-free.

Since Zhang Juzheng reformed a whip law, the agricultural tax has been uniformly converted into silver, which can be very easy for ordinary people.

Ordinary people are rich! If there is more, there is a little surplus food, which may be saved by frugality. As a result, the price of grain drops sharply after the crop is harvested, and rises sharply when the crop is not harvested. In short, ordinary farmers are cut several times a year, and they are scraped to a few taels of oil and water, and ordinary farmers no longer dare to be self-cultivated farmers, and generally sell their fields, or take their fields to the family of the old man of Jinshijuren, whose surname is Jinshijuren.

The reason why the Yang family can be a small landlord is because the family has a lot of money, and they can not rush to sell the crops after harvesting, pay taxes with the money, and start selling surplus grain when the green and yellow are not available, so the Yang family can always be a small landlord in peace.

Yang Wenli's family background is simple, he is the only son in the family and a full cub, he has five sisters, his father is called Yang Rongguang, and his mother is Yang Chen. Strictly speaking, his mother gave birth to eight daughters before finally giving birth to his precious son, and in ancient times, medicine was not developed, and three sisters died, so his parents were actually old. His father died last year, and his mother is now in charge.

Of course! When his father was alive, his mother was also in charge, the ancients paid attention to unfilial piety, and there were three queens, and his mother gave birth to eight daughters in a row before giving birth to him, which was very rare in ancient times, and it wasn't because his mother was powerful? If someone else had changed, they would have already begged for a few side rooms.

At the same time, this can be regarded as Yang Wenli's luck, Yang Jianuo's big family property is his, and there is no brother to share with him.

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"Ouch hey! My full cub, where have you been? When Yang Wenli returned home, his mother Yang Chen quickly pulled him into her arms and carefully inspected him. He is the only seedling of the Yang family, and his mother treats him as if he is a baby, holding it in his hand for fear of breaking it in his mouth for fear of melting. Even after less than a quarter of an hour's work, she was very worried.

"I went to the back mountain to see the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River is spectacular." Yang Wenli pretended to be a child and innocently replied to his mother.

"Do you dare to go to the back mountain alone? There are tigers and wild boars on the mountain, my cub, you can't go to the back mountain alone in the future, you know? Yang Chen warned him sternly.

"Hmm!" Yang Wenli nodded heavily and agreed. His mother didn't scare him, there were indeed tigers and wild boars in the mountains in ancient times, and he was a six-year-old child, so he really couldn't go up the mountain casually alone.

In this way, Yang Wenli has been grounded since then. Yang Wenli, who was extremely bored, had no choice but to exercise and boil his muscles and bones, and he knew that a good body would definitely benefit immensely in the future.

In addition to regular running, Yang Wenli mainly exercises. As the saying goes, one force will drop ten times, and in ancient times, cold weapon warfare was the mainstay, and it took strength to dance swords and shoot arrows. He is still young now, his muscles and bones are not fixed, and he is not suitable for training weapons. Besides, he doesn't have a famous teacher to guide him, and his random practice doesn't have much effect.

The Yang family is a small landlord, only long-term tenants, and there are no subordinates in the family. The food is far worse than ordinary people in the 21st century, except for festivals, you can't eat meat all year round, and there is not much oil and water, and eating white rice is a rare food.

As the saying goes, the poor are rich in martial arts, and the meaning of this sentence is not to say that Xi Wen is poor and rich in martial arts, but that he must have a rich family to practice martial arts, and Xi Wen can also be from a poor family.

Martial arts training requires a lot of energy, which needs to be supplemented with sufficient nutrition, so as to refine a strong body, otherwise it will damage the body.

Yang Wenli, who came from 21, of course understood this simple truth, so he had to find a way to improve his diet and increase his intake of meat and eggs.

Maoshan Chong is dozens of miles away from the state capital, and if you have money, you can't go to the city every day to buy meat and eggs, so you can only find a way to breed them yourself.

It's good, during the Wanli period, and later in the Apocalypse year, it was still good for the rain and the people's livelihood was stable. If he goes to the Chongzhen Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters continue, and he may not be able to do it if he wants to engage in breeding.

…… To be continued

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