"Brother, you're okay now, don't you dare to be like in the past."

"Brother, it's not easy for your father and mother to provide you with education, you have been smart since you were a child, let's not ask you to take the exam as a lifter, just take the test."

"Brother, you won't have anything to do with those scoundrels in the future, what can you do if you run to the Qinhuai River all day long."

"Brother, besides, they usually talk to the heavens and the earth, and when you fall into the water, none of them will go down to save you."

"Brother, we are different from others, my father is looking forward to you taking a fame test. If you work hard, maybe you can still be an official in the future, but what kind of woman did you want at that time? Those sassy women on the Qinhuai River, none of them are good! ”

……

Yang Chao was lying on the bed, listening to his sister Yang Yue'er count sentence by sentence, but he couldn't refute a word.

Because "myself" used to be really too much of a jerk.

It's just that Yang Chao couldn't help but be secretly a little aggrieved, because he was obviously not the brother that the other party said......

This matter starts with the background of the thing he possessed after crossing over.

This scholar, Yang Chao, was the son of a craftsman in the south of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, and his father Yang Yong was a skilled blacksmith. The artisan household was a kind of household registration in the Ming Dynasty, and as a craftsman, he not only had to pay regular taxes, but also had to do conscription for the government, and he had to spend ten days a month working in the government's workshop.

It's not a big deal to do things for the government, and you can not do it, as long as you pay the acting silver, but now the oppression of the officials is getting heavier and heavier, not only do you have to pay the acting silver, but also the officials at all levels and even the eunuchs of the supervision bureau often extort, and the craftsmen have to do all kinds of private work for them, not only have no money to take, but also have to put in a lot of money.

Therefore, Yang Yong has always had a wish, hoping that his son Yang Chao can get a fame, so that he can get rid of the identity of a craftsman, and be a flat-headed common man in the future, without the bullying and extortion of corrupt officials, his life will be better.

This is the Yang family's greatest hope for the future, which is very humble and pitiful.

But this scholar named Yang Chao is not angry.

As the only son of the Yang family, Yang Chao has shown a different kind of intelligence since he was a child, which made his father Yang Yong have an idea, and he gritted his teeth and sent him to a private school. But Yang Chao got a bad problem in the private school, and got together with those prodigal children who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it all day long, boasting that he was suave, and ran to the Qinhuai River where Qinglou was everywhere every once in a while.

A few days ago, the Lantern Festival lantern night was the most lively. There was no curfew that night, Yang Chao went to the Qinhuai River with a few little scoundrels on the street to see the excitement, but he was accidentally squeezed into the river, the scene was chaotic for a while, and when he was scooped up, he was already out of breath.

The doctors invited all asked to prepare for the future, but the Yang family did not give up, kept shouting names, kept pouring soup and feeding medicine, and persevered for three days, which made Yang Chao spit out a mouthful of muddy water and miraculously survived.

It's just that......

This Yang Chao who came to life is no longer the Yang Chao of the past, but a student from the 21st century who has the same name and surname as him.

In another memory of Yang Chao, he had just returned from studying in the West, and with enthusiasm, he was planning to make a career in the hot land of China, when he met a girl falling into the water by the lake one day. So Yang Chao jumped into the river to save people without thinking about it, and in the end the person was rescued, but he didn't know where he had touched it, and suddenly his brain was dizzy, so he sank straight into the water.

After that, his consciousness was dizzy and fluttering, and he didn't know how long he had been wandering, and when he slowly woke up, he found that he had become another person, a young scholar who did not learn and did not know how to do it in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

used to be a scholar, but now he is a scumbag, this contrast makes Yang Chao can't help but feel the impermanence of fate.

"Brother, the last bite, after eating, I have to sleep obediently, I can help my mother work."

Because of malnutrition, the younger sister who looked yellow and thin-skinned carried a coarse porcelain bowl and fed the last mouthful of porridge to Yang Chao's mouth, then stood up and helped Yang Chao tuck the quilt and went out.

Yang Chao lay down with peace of mind, and couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart.

To be honest, if he had a choice, he would not want to come to this backward world. In my own time, I also had a home and relatives, which were equally warm. But since this is already the case, after the grief and pain in my heart, I have to rejoice, because this family is really good.

Although he is poor, his family cares for him very much, and his father and mother naturally don't need to say it, even this sister is also very sensible, although she often mutters in her mouth, but every day she is on time and carefully serves her brother to eat and sleep, and she is not impatient.

The only thing that made Yang Chao a little difficult to adapt to was that after he came to this world, he turned into a scumbag!

A scoundrel who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it!

All day long, I followed the big boys in the private school, and I messed around in Qinhuai for ten miles, and I didn't have the consciousness to study hard!

But now that Yang Chao has become a different person, he naturally can't do this.

Yang Chao has neither the desire nor the interest to continue without learning and unskilled, but what should he do?

Honestly study for the imperial examination?

Thinking about Baguwen, Yang Chao's head is as big as a fight, although he used to be a scholar, but this ancient literary skill is really not good.

Yang Chao couldn't help complaining that modern society is really a lack of traditional culture, if he had also studied classical Chinese before the crossing, and also passed the imperial examination Bagu, how good would it be.

……

Nanjing Chengnan Iron Workshop is an ancient alley, established in the early Ming Dynasty, the government placed the vast majority of blacksmith households in Nanjing here, so this two-hundred-zhang long alley lives, almost all are blacksmiths.

In a blacksmith shop at the entrance of the alley, a strong man was sweating and pounding a piece of iron plate in the shape of a kitchen knife.

This blacksmith has been working on iron for generations, and as early as when Zhu Yuanzhang first became emperor, he was made into a craftsman household in the Ming Dynasty. Farther afield, even in the Yuan Dynasty, their family was a craftsman.

This blacksmith is Yang Chao's father, Yang Yong, a blacksmith household at the lowest level of the Ming Dynasty.

The craftsman is not a decent status, just a little better than the military household of "good men are not soldiers".

Military households have to send people to serve as soldiers in wars, and they also have to farm for officers at all levels in peacetime, and their names are military households, which are actually similar to serfs.

Although artisans are not required to serve in the military, they are required to do labor, and according to the regulations, they must have 10 days a month to serve in the government's workshops for 10 days.

If you don't go, you have to pay a penny of silver to the government, which uses it to hire craftsmen to work, which is called substitute silver.

A penny of silver is not much, and the various regulations formulated by the Ming government must be for the people to live, but just like the taxes borne by the people do not seem to be heavy, but after the layers of exploitation by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, many people are forced to sell their sons and daughters, and finally simply rebel, the blacksmith's acting silver does not seem to be much, but there are many additional exploits.

The Yang family's monthly service silver is one penny, but they also have to pay the taxes of the normal people, and the most serious thing is that they are often asked by the low-level officials of the Ministry of Industry to help with the work.

Often in a month, the Yang family has to be stripped of more than one or two pieces of silver by these officials.

Fortunately, Yang Yong's craftsmanship is very good, and it has been passed down for hundreds of years, and many of them are unique skills that have been passed down from men to women. Therefore, the Yang family's blacksmith shop is well-known in the south of the city, and there are many people who come to him every day to do work, so he can barely survive.

Originally, with Yang Yong's craftsmanship, he could not only support his family, but also live well. But because of his status as a craftsman, he not only had to bear the labor of the government, but also worked for the craftsmen as officials, as well as the eunuchs of the supervision bureau for free, and was extorted from time to time.

Therefore, the income of the Yang family is not high, after paying more than one or two pieces of silver every month, he can only have three or four dollars of silver left, and in recent years, the world has been raging, the smoke of the peasant uprising has burned to the north and south of the Yangtze River, and the prices in Nanjing City have risen a lot, and sometimes this money can not even be fed and clothed.

Therefore, Yang Yong wanted to let his son get rid of the identity of a craftsman, so he simply took out a small part of the already small income to provide his son with a progressive study, not seeking to be admitted to any official position, but only to take the test for a show talent and get a fame.

In this way, not only will the family be exempted from servitude, but they will also be able to change to civilian status.

To be a serious and ordinary person is the greatest wish of blacksmith Yang Yong.