"My lord, my daughter is not wrong!"

In a dilapidated thatched hut with leaks on all sides, a quarrel between family members is going on.

Du Wen Du Lao Xiucai was furious, and his almost white beard was trembling slightly, which made his baby daughter angry.

A middle-aged woman with a dignified and beautiful appearance and a face similar to that of the traitor Jia seems to be like a god, sat on a bench and covered her face and cried. A table was set up beside her, with only brown rice, a little wild vegetables, a bowl of kelp, and a large yellow croaker - this was the Chinese New Year's Eve meal for a family of four.

Du Wen's youngest son looked at the fish fixedly, swallowing his saliva. As a son of Yimen, his life is actually not rich (if Du Wen is an official, the life in the family is very rich), but he always has no worries about food and clothing. Fish and meat can also be eaten from time to time.

But since I hit Peach Blossom Island, I really can't eat enough. The Ming army only gave them brown rice, salt, and some kelp, not even oil, let alone fish and meat. Du Wen hasn't eaten such meat for more than a month. Today, because it is the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Daming Navy, which is guarding Peach Blossom Island, has a kind heart, and I don't know where to get some salted yellow fish, and one household has issued one. Du Thirteen Sister also deliberately asked for a big one - this girl is thick-skinned, she doesn't blush when talking to men, and she is beautiful, so she can naturally get some benefits from those sergeants.

And Du Thirteen Sister, at this time, she held a few books of Heavenly Taoism tightly in her arms, and there was a slap mark on her pretty face, it seems that Du Laoxiu is really beaten!

Lao Xiucai roared: "Don't burn all these rebellious forbidden books!" ”

"Can't burn!" Sister Du Thirteen hugged these books tighter, this is her treasure. It was also her hope.

Girls are very smart, and they have already eaten the Three Classics of Heavenly Taoism. Although it can't be recited word for word, the general idea and important content in it. She took it all to heart. As for a book called "Introduction to Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" (this is a self-study textbook for Kaotiandao Academy), she has already read one-third of it, and she should be able to learn it in two months. When the time comes, she will be able to go to the Heavenly Dao Academy! At least you can get into the easiest Heavenly Dao Department...... After graduating in two years, as long as you get a good grade in the exam, you will be a blue-clothed aunt. You can preside over a small Tiandao temple, and you can also go to the children's academy run by the Tiandao Sect to be the president.

In the eyes of the girl, this is a way out for the Du family!

The children of the Du family are all scholars, so don't think about farming and grazing. And again, "sinners". The identity is obvious, and he definitely can't be a petty official. So how do you survive when you get to the penal colony?

Doing business? How much capital does the Du family have, and how much business experience do they know?

Soldier? Do those people in the Du family have such strength?

The girl thought about it, and finally found that if she didn't want to go to the Qinglou in the north to make a joke, she had to go to the Taoist religion! The Heavenly Daoist Sect obviously does not reject "sinners" like themselves, and the Heavenly Daoist Sect still has a place for women.

The current Chief Heavenly Dao Envoy and the host of the Great Sect of Japan are all women! Although there must be extraordinary opportunities to get such a status, it is not something that Sister Du Thirteen dares to think of. But the thirteenth sister felt that she still had a chance to be the presiding Taoist of the small sect or even the middle sect. The Daoists of the Heavenly Daoist Sect are now divided into white-clothed Heavenly Daoist envoys and purple-clothed Taoist priests. There are six levels, including red-clothed Taoist, black-clothed Taoist, blue-clothed Taoist and Tsing Yi Taoist. Since the black-clothed Taoist priests, they are qualified to preside over the small sect, and the Taoists who have graduated from the Heavenly Dao Academy are all awarded the blue clothes. That is, just go up one level.

The presiding officer of a small sect is the leader of the Heavenly Taoist Sect in a county or city, and he can manage at least a few Taoist temples and a few children's academies. Although he is not an official, his status and power are comparable to those of a county in the Great Song Dynasty, or even slightly larger! As for the salaries and benefits of the Taoists. Thirteenth Sister Du also inquired. The treatment given to Taoists by the Heavenly Dao Sect is not low!

Moreover, the Heavenly Taoism does not prohibit Taoists from getting married and having children. I might even be able to get a happy marriage in the teaching......

Sister Du Thirteen had already retreated to the door of the hut, looking at her talented father with tears in her eyes. "Adult, my daughter is not filial, my daughter wants to live a good life and live a good life...... The Heavenly Dao Sect and the Heavenly Dao Academy are the only chance for her daughter to come out! ”

Du Laoxiu stomped his feet and roared, "Cult! Cult! How can my Du family be in the company of a cult! ”

"Cult?" Sister Du Thirteen smiled as if she was sarcastic, "You just talk about this at home behind closed doors, do you dare to say it to the Taoists outside?" Do you dare to talk to the Ming army outside? She sneered, and her coquettish face showed a seriousness that she had never been before, "My lord, for the Du family today, the Heavenly Daoism is the way of Confucius and Mencius in the past!" If the children of the Du family still want to get ahead, they can only follow the path of Heavenly Taoism! There's only one way! Adult, my daughter wants to live well, so my daughter wants to go to the Heavenly Dao Academy! ”

After saying this, the girl rushed out without looking back, crying and running towards the Tiandao Taoist Temple on Peach Blossom Island......

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Just when Du Thirteen Sister resolutely ran away from home for the sake of her own happiness and future. On Zhoushan Island, a family reunion is being staged.

This is the first time in many years that Chen Dexing has spent this Chinese most important festival with his biological parents.

As early as the end of October, Chen Huaiqing took his wife, concubine, double cultivation partner (that is, the empty mother of the Tianzhu Polo family) and a large number of nameless housekeepers, as well as a large number of children, from Quanzhou Mansion to Zhoushan Island on a super-large fortune ship with a load of 6,000 stones.

Seeing Chen Huaiqing's increasingly large team of concubines, Chen Dexing was also a little speechless, probably because the previous forty years of hard study had been suppressed for a long time, and Chen Huaiqing had been indulging in lust since he played high school jinshi (Wen Jinshi) six years ago. There are more and more concubines and singers in the mansion from scratch. After getting the Dharma Polo Kongxing Mother, it was even more like an orchid, and this time among the women brought from Quanzhou, there were several blonde and blue-eyed women with graceful figures. This old man's decades of cultivation of virtue and the truth of preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires have reached the point of profundity, but it is only a blink of an eye to corrupt it!

However, looking at the old man's body and bones as if he were still very tough, and he didn't look hollowed out by the wine, it seems that this old man didn't throw away the martial arts that he had practiced hard. Since this is the case, Chen Dexing is too lazy to persuade his father to cultivate himself.

"My lord, the dispatch of the two Zhejiang Xuanfu envoys can only trouble you. Now, can Quanzhou put it down? ”

The day after Chen Huaiqing arrived, on the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. The father and son closed the door in the study in Zhoushan Xingyuan and discussed official business.

Although it is wartime now, the year still has to pass. Regardless of the army left behind in Zhoushan, or the large army scattered on the battlefields of Liangzhejiang and Fujian and Guangdong, from today until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there will be no major tasks, unless the Song army launches a counteroffensive in the middle of the New Year. All units will stay on the spot, the amount of training has been reduced to the point of maintaining combat skills, and the scope of reconnaissance has also been narrowed to the area controlled by the Ming army.

In addition, the army's fire food is also arranged according to the highest standards. The officials in charge of the quartermaster began preparations as early as the beginning of December, and the beef and beef that were frozen hard in the ice and snow of Liaodong and Liaozhong were covered with ice cubes, and the whole ship was transported to Zhoushan and Quanzhou -- although the economy of the north is very underdeveloped today, the industrial and commercial industries can only be described as withered compared with those in the south.

But the food in the north is very abundant - if there are fewer people, more people will naturally eat - there is basically no hunger, and meat is not a rare thing, even ordinary farmers can eat oily braised pork several times a month. If it is a scholar and a family of eight flags, it is not uncommon to suddenly open meat. Therefore, the food of the Ming army has been very good in the past, but this time the southern expedition was far away from the rear and difficult to transport, so the soldiers who went out to eat poorly. Now is the right time to take advantage of the New Year, so that the soldiers below can make up for it.

However, such a delicious day of food and drink is just a dozen days of the New Year's Festival. With the addition of a large number of soldiers, the supply of meat for the Ming army on the front line may have to be tight for a long time.

Theoretically, there should be a lot of military households and soldiers on the five roads in the south of the Yangtze River, but at present, there are only six counties in two and six counties of Zhejiang, with about three or four thousand households in each county, and there are more than 20,000 households in the six counties. There are less than 150,000 tenant peasants under the 20,000-odd households, and as many as hundreds of thousands of tenant farmers (including their families) will be controlled by more than 20,000 military households and landlords -- they have not yet been controlled, but they will certainly not be able to run away in the future! Even if the law stipulates that tenants have personal freedom, they will become de facto serfs because they owe usury! Tenant agriculture with more people and less land is this virtue...... Because there are many people and little land, the landlord is naturally in an advantageous position, and the rent is high and the profit is heavy.

At the same time, since the tenants themselves are also an independent business entity, when they cannot afford the rent and interest or need money urgently, their first choice is definitely not to starve themselves to death or sell their children, but to increase their debts, and finally the whole child is drowned in debt!

However, this is not bad for Chen Dexing, because he controls the military households through the military household system, and thus indirectly controls the peasants controlled by the military household landlords. In this way, when he sent the military households overseas, a considerable number of tenants would be taken with him. Compared with a single military household, the Yimen that has been inherited for more than ten generations is too powerful, and it is difficult to remove them all without breaking and smashing them, which is also the reason why Chen Dexing has to get along with Jiangnan Yimen.

But Chen Dexing's purpose was only to smash the Yimen, and he did not intend to eliminate every member who belonged to the Yimen.

These people are actually quite useful! This is also the reason why Chen Dexing recruited Chen Huaiqing from Quanzhou. (To be continued......)