At this time, it is already a winter show, Sichuan rarely snows, and there is no snowflake this year, but the air is unusually cold, and the cold air goes straight to the depths of people's hearts, and the soldiers of the Zhu Army from Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan are all shivering with cold, especially the soldiers who are ordered to be stationed on the city wall, they cannot move when they stand guard, and must stand straight.

Someone couldn't help but scold: "Damn, this place is obviously in the south, why is it colder than our northwest?" ”

A soldier couldn't help but say: "It seems that the Sichuan people have a harder time surviving the winter than our Shaanxi people......"

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Zhu Yuanzhang sat inside the county yamen and listened to the spies report to him.

The spy reported: "General, after Zuo Guang retreated first, he went to the direction of Chengdu, and in a short time, no one will come to Guangyuan to find trouble with us." Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are now running around in Sichuan, they attack a county town, tear down the city wall and immediately withdraw, attack another county town, and then tear down the city wall and withdraw, keep flowing, the officers and soldiers first Zuo Liangzhu is the main general, pursuing the thief army, but Zuo Liangyu did not move, saying that he would not contribute. Yang Sichang was angry, and changed to the general fierce as a tiger as the president (note: not the general soldier, but the president), Zhang Yingyuan as the vice president, let them chase after the 36th battalion, and now the tiger has been chasing behind their buttocks......"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but laugh when he heard it: "Zuo Liangyu, this guy ......"

The spy smiled: "Yes, Zuo Liangyu refused to contribute to suppress the bandits, which made the 36th Battalion have a good impression of him, and the fierce tiger chased the rogues all day and night to hide in Tibet. The leg is about to run away, and now there is a joke circulating in the 36th battalion, called 'If you want to kill my left town, run and kill my fierce town'. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said nothing, but Ma Xiaotian and the red lady next to him listened happily, and laughed: "Interesting, very interesting." ”

Xu Renjie interjected next to him and asked, "This president's name is as fierce as a tiger?" Is it a real name? How do I sound it, he is like a nickname taken by a thief, and it sounds similar to what kind of jumping tiger, starry sky, and mixed 100,000. ”

The spy nodded and said, "It's the real name, and their family is all surnamed Meng." His son's name is Meng Xianjie. The nephew is called Fierce Tadaya......"

Xu Renjie shook his head and smiled: "The names of his son and nephew were not good, and they were not as good as his fierce tiger, so I named my son Fierce as a leopard." The nephew's name was as fierce as a wolf. ”

Everyone laughed. Ma Xiaotian said: "According to what you say." His grandson had to be demoted to another level, and his name was as fierce as a dog, and then he came down only as fierce as a cat. Fierce as a mouse...... If the Meng family continues to develop like this, it will only be as fierce as a worm in the end. ”

"Hahahaha!" The room was filled with laughter.

At this time, there was a sudden figure at the door, and someone walked in and laughed loudly: "What are you brothers laughing at?" Let my brother come and hear it too. Everyone Dingqing saw that it was Bai Yuzhu, it turned out that he had brought three thousand Bai family troops, and he had just escorted grain and grass from Hanzhong, and the mountain road was rugged and difficult to travel, so he finally transported some potatoes over, and wanted to come in to report to Zhu Yuanzhang, but he heard everyone laughing.

Seeing him coming, everyone was in good spirits, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Brother Bai came just in time, winter is coming, the life of the Sichuan people is not easy, I just want to open a warehouse for them to put some food, but the military food in my hand is about to run out, just waiting for you to come to the rescue." ”

Bai Yuzhu hurriedly said: "Brother, I am afraid that I will miss the general's major event, so I don't dare to delay a little along the way." ”

At that moment, he handed over the grain to Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Renjie counted the amount, recorded it in the account book, and then handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang for a look, Zhu Yuanzhang left part of it to the army, marked most of it, and instructed: "Zhang Bang posted, let the people of Guangyuan receive relief food according to their heads." ”

This matter naturally had to be handed over to Guangyuan Zhixian to do, and the Zhixian County received the order, and his heart was terrified: If the thieves don't burn or rob, they will just give food to the people according to their heads, which is really the sun coming out of the west.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered by the way: "Let's pay according to the person, the people will definitely drag their children and daughters, and they will all come to order food, take this opportunity to recount their household registration, don't miss a single person." ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population flow was extremely large, chaotic, and the household registration system had been destroyed to a pulp, Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the opportunity to open a warehouse to release grain, and just remade the household registration, so that it was more convenient for him to manage the people of Guangyuan, so that he would not directly receive a confused account from the imperial court.

Guangyuan Zhixian thought in his heart: It turned out that the thief opened a warehouse to release grain was fake, and it was true to take the opportunity to remake the household registration.

He didn't know that it was true that Zhu Yuanzhang opened a warehouse to release grain, and the remaking of the household registration was only a secondary purpose, and in the future, he would really remake the household registration of the whole world if he unified the world, and it was not very important whether the system was made or not at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang said to Bai Yuzhu: "Brother Bai, you rest for one night, and hurry back to Shaanxi tomorrow to bring more grain, and ...... You go to find Ric and Anwensi, and ask them to use the means of Catholicism to help me get some corn seeds and people who know how to cultivate corn, and this matter must be done before the beginning of spring, and at the beginning of spring next year, I will promote corn in Guangyuan. ”

Although Bai Yuzhu didn't understand what corn was, he didn't ask much, answered, and hurried down to rest.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned to Xu Renjie again and asked, "How are our soldiers trained?" He asked about the 20,000 soldiers from Shaanxi.

Xu Renjie nodded and said: "They practiced the skills of mountain warfare with the black pole soldiers in the mountains, and now they are a little skilled, and they are no longer as good as when they first entered Sichuan." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned to the red lady again: "Let you clean up the rich people in the city, how did you clean up?" ”

The red lady hugged her fists and said with a smile: "I came to the door and said that I wanted to collect taxes, and those rich people who didn't know that we were thieves had an arrogant attitude, saying that they never paid taxes, and it was disgusting to watch." I followed your instructions and made it clear that I was a thief, and General Zhenxi was self-proclaimed, and as a result, I scared them half to death. Then they were taxed, and the attitude of these people immediately became obedient. ”

The leader next to him laughed.

The red lady said again: "But after I reported the amount of taxes collected, these businessmen were all happy to keep their mouths shut, it seems that we have collected too little......"

Ma Xiaotian said with a smile: "The amount of tax collected by our Zhu Jun from the rich is the same as the amount of tax collected by the imperial court from the poor, this amount of money is a piece of cake for the rich, of course they have to be happy...... Because if other rogues ask them for money, they will not only ask for money, but also for life and women...... Take everything up. ”

The red lady frowned: "It's just a matter of asking for money for your life, and it's really uncomfortable for me to hear the three words of a woman." ”

Ma Xiaotian shrugged his shoulders: "I don't think it's useful to take money with my life, but it's a little useful for women, and it can be used to have children......" He was actually joking, when men talk about this kind of thing, they always like to talk nonsense and make a little joke, but as he spoke, he suddenly found that the red lady's face was not good, so he quickly shut up.

The red lady said aggressively: "Ma Xiaotian, you seem to be more than twenty years old, and you are still a big bachelor, right?" Honestly, have you ever thought about robbing people's daughters? ”

"No, I definitely didn't think about it!" Ma Xiaotian hurriedly shook his head.

"Don't fool me here, what you said just now didn't taste right." The red lady said angrily: "The old lady hates the thief the most, if you have the courage, you can go and rob a people's girl to try, see if I fight with you!" ”

The beads of sweat on Ma Xiaotian's head fell downward, and he said hurriedly: "Don't rob, really don't rob." With you, how can I rob other women. His words are obviously confiding in his heart, there is a taste of not marrying you, but the red lady is really thick, she can't understand this, and she thought that Ma Xiaotian was afraid of her, so she hummed: "Hmph, it's good to be afraid." ”

This person who is only afraid has nothing to do with being afraid or not, and people who are not afraid of rebellion will be afraid of you as a little girl? All the leaders shook their heads in unison, thinking: Red lady, when will you grow up?

Zhu Yuanzhang has finished asking the questions he wants to ask, and the things he has to deal with have been implemented for the time being, so he said seriously: "I have been here in Guangyuan for several days, and I have been bored in the yamen to deal with business, and now that it is finally done, everyone will accompany me to patrol the city...... Take a look at the life of the Sichuan people and learn about the local situation. ”

All the leaders were interested in this proposal, so everyone changed into regular clothes and dressed as ordinary men, although it didn't look ordinary, but there was no official or thief flavor, and there were more than a dozen people in the group, Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Renjie, Ma Xiaotian, Red Lady, plus a few guards, and walked on the streets of Guangyuan.

The streets here are bumpy, high and low, and there are bluestone stairs everywhere, and it takes less than a few steps to climb up the hill, and a few steps to go downhill and slippery, which is really outrageous. There was a group of poor people on the street who were rushing in the direction of the yamen, it turned out that Guangyuan Zhixian had already begun to release grain in Zhangbang, and the people heard about the release of grain, so they went to see the list with great interest.

On the corner of the street, there is a group of little children clapping their hands and singing, a unique Sichuan nursery rhyme, with a strange taste: "If you want to, there is straw paper, don't tear my rotten mat; If you want to pee, you have a night pot, and don't draw a map on the bed; If you want to fart, there are cans, don't put stuffy smoke in the bed......"

Listening to this unique nursery rhyme, everyone couldn't help but laugh dumbly, what a mess this is.

After the children finished singing this strange Sichuan nursery rhyme, suddenly their voices changed, and they sang another ballad, only to hear them sing with a smile: "Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine oars, open the city gate to meet the king, and when the king comes, he will not pay for ......food."

Hearing this nursery rhyme, Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly shocked, huh? Has this nursery rhyme been born? This children's song is obviously a children's song that has been in Chongzhen for thirteen years, and after Li Yan joined the army, he made suggestions to Li Zicheng, and then it was circulated all over the world, why did it appear in Chongzhen for ten years now? Really...... History has changed because of its arrival!

(Note: According to historians' examination of history books, Li Yan does not exist, and it should be a wrong character made by misusing folklore in history books.) But this children's song is real in history, and it is impossible to know who made it up. This book adopts folklore and attributes this children's song to Li Yan, which is a novelist's words, and should not be regarded as a canonical history. (To be continued.) )