After helping Zhang Qian pack up the things in the market, Zhengliang and the others followed Zhang Qian all the way, through a somewhat narrow and dark alley, to the slum in the east of the city, through a small arch, into a small courtyard.

This is Zhang Qian's residence.

It is a dwelling hidden in a somewhat narrow and gloomy alley. The house is made of wooden shingles, and the dark wooden windows seem to tell the history of the house. The gate of the house faced a small courtyard, and there were several identical houses scattered around the courtyard. Obviously, these houses share a common yard. At this moment, the wooden doors of the surrounding houses were closed, and the sound of crying could be faintly heard from some of the rooms.

"Hey," Zhang Qian shook her head and sighed.

Zhengliang and Liu Le glanced at each other and became puzzled. It seems that the death of Zhang Qian's father is not a simple matter. But since Zhang Qian didn't say it directly, it was difficult for the two to inquire for the time being.

After Zhang Qian took care of it, the two officially entered the house to pay respects to Zhang Qian's father. After the worship, Masayo retreated with great interest and closed the door. The rest is a matter for the two of them, and it is indeed difficult for Zhengliang to participate.

After waiting in the courtyard for about two quarters of an hour, the woman's crying suddenly came from inside the house, and it grew louder and louder. After a while, the crying slowly stopped, and at this time, Liu Le also walked out with tears on his face.

Masara walked up quickly, his eyes inquiring. Seeing this, Liu Le shook his head and signaled that Zhang Qian in the room was fine.

So the two sat down on a rock in the courtyard. Liu Le told Zhengliang about what happened to Zhang Qian's family. Zhang Qian's father was indeed killed.

This is about to start from the beginning.

Zhang Qian's father's artisan household. To be precise, it's a dwelling craftsman.

The Ming Dynasty followed the artisan household system of the Yuan Dynasty, dividing the households into three categories: civil, military, and craftsman. Among them, all the craftsmen are handicraftsmen, and there are also many people in the military who serve in the ordnance bureaus under the jurisdiction of the various capitals, called military craftsmen. In terms of legal status, these craftsmen and military craftsmen who are included in the special household register have a lower status than ordinary households, and they have to be inherited from generation to generation, and they are not allowed to divide their households in order to make up for it. If you want to break away from the original household registration, it is extremely difficult for you to get out of the original household registration, and you must be approved by the emperor.

When a craftsman is enlisted. "Enter the game early every day", contrived under the supervision of officials, and "disperse at dusk". It's hard work. Some of the whole families were involved in the game, and most of them were former artisans who had been captured or were forced to become artisans, and had no income other than salt and grain and occasional clothing from the government. Therefore, life is difficult, food and clothing are not provided, and it often happens that the children are condemned. the other part is that the craftsmen themselves enter the bureau, and the courtyard is enlisted, and they get a share of salt grain; After work, you can go home and work with your family and buy and sell on your own. Most of them are artisans issued from the private sector, and their situation is better than the former. But the Authority, the officials of the House at all levels. often set up clever names, "chasing the wind and catching shadows, encroaching on artisan households, for food and clothing". Therefore, the exploitation and oppression of any part of the artisan households is very heavy, but the degree is somewhat different. Like the civilian households, military households, and station households, there are also some wealthy upper households among the artisan households, and the Yuan government selects bureau officials and court officials from among them, and the treatment is different from that of ordinary artisan households.

In the second year of Hongwu (1369). The Ming government ordered "all soldiers, civilians, doctors, craftsmen, yin and yang households." It is permissible to take the original newspaper copy as the determination", and it is not allowed to act arbitrarily and become chaotic. Artisan households belong to the Ministry of Industry, and are divided into two categories: shift craftsmen and resident craftsmen. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that shift craftsmen should take turns to serve in official workshops every one year or five years, with an average of three months per shift. Resident craftsmen serve in the official handicraft workshop for 10 days a month, and if they do not go to work, they must pay a penny a month to hire someone else by the government. These two types of craftsmen are free to work outside of their duties. To a certain extent, he got rid of the shackles of being detained and working in the official workshops all year round. However, the identity of the craftsman is still the death of the father and the succession of the son. The service is forever charged. The children of craftsmen were recruited into the Inner Needle Work Bureau, and the number of "young craftsmen" was recruited. In addition to being exempt from some miscellaneous errand labor, artisan households cannot be exempted from regular service and tax grain. …,

Zhang Qian's father is a resident craftsman. And the residents of the courtyard where Zhang Qian is located are all artisan households.

A few months ago. The case of Shishi's father stealing and selling weapons in the treasury was widely implicated, and the artisan households who were accused of participating in the theft and sale of the storehouse were not only Shishi's father, but also some craftsmen in this courtyard. These people all died on the night they were arrested and imprisoned, and the news came out that they all committed suicide in fear of crime, and there were even blood books as evidence. The government official was still "incorruptible" this time, and saw that the suspect committed suicide in fear of crime without trial, so he ended the case with a stroke of the pen, and did not implicate the families of these craftsmen.

However, the fact that the government officials did not pursue it does not mean that the families of these artisans did not pursue it, especially some fathers and sons who worked in the same workshop for two generations, and they were even more unforgiving. Zhang Qian's father is also an upright person, and he has always been the leader of all the craftsmen in this courtyard, and this time there was such a big event. And these craftsmen died so strangely, of course, they want to seek justice.

More than ten days ago, Zhang Qian's father took the rest of the craftsmen in this courtyard to the yamen to seek justice. As a result, not only could they not be avenged, but even everyone who went with them was beaten with dozens of boards, and everyone was beaten into a blur of flesh and blood. Zhang Qian's father is the oldest, where he can withstand such a large scale, coupled with anger, he couldn't afford to get sick after he came back, and his condition continued to deteriorate, in order to treat his father's illness, Zhang Qian scattered all his family wealth, but in the end he couldn't save his father's life, Zhang Qian's father finally went west.

Originally, her mother died very early, and Zhang Qian, who had always relied on her father, suddenly lost her most support, which can be described as heartbreaking. With the help of the surrounding neighbors, he reluctantly began to take care of the aftermath. But at this time, Zhang Qian encountered another problem, that is, there was no money. The family's storage had long since been dissipated to heal his father, and he even owed some money to his neighbors. It is important to know that almost every one of these neighbors has relatives who have died or been injured in this case, and it would have cost money.

Besides, most of the artisans have always been poor. Why? Because the craftsmen will also be exploited by the officials during their visits. Therefore, after working, the income can only support the family.

Seeing that it was the first seven, but her father was still parked in the Yizhuang outside the west of the city at the moment, Zhang Qian burst into tears. In desperation, Zhang Qian could only take out the dowry that her father had told him not to sell before he died, and prepared to be used as a temporary one, but he didn't expect to be met by the demon Huahua Taishuai in Ningbo City, and he kept pestering until he met Zhengliang and others. (To be continued......) ……，