Chapter 82: Tang Family Law

The indomitable resistance of the Miao people shocked the rulers of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to mobilizing officers and soldiers to kill, the Ming rulers also actively built a military defense system. During the Xuande period, Governor Xiao granted 24 forts such as Wanxi to build "7,800 strange officers and soldiers" and "defend the place around it", and began to form a circle around the "Shengmiao" area of Laershan, which was in the center of the junction area of the three provinces of Huguichuan and where the Miao people had repeatedly revolted. In the Jiajing period, after the governor Zhang Yue suppressed the uprising of the Miao people in Laershan, he "dredged out the forts such as Wanxi and set up a post Fan 13", and built around the edge of the Miao area of Laershan, from west to east to north, constituting an arc-shaped defense line against the Laershan area. In the forty-third year of Wanli, Huguang participated in the politics of Cai Fuyi, "personally experienced the frontier, survived its dangers, and forced Chen Yingshao Luobu, the Miao Road was rugged, and it was difficult to curb its peeping, so please ask for 40,000 strange gold to build a wall along the border. Up from Tongren, down to Baojing, the mountains and rivers, where three hundred miles", Cai Fuyi's "earthen wall along the border" is built on the basis of Xiao Zhu's "twenty-four forts" and Zhang Yue's "where there are three" outposts, this is the historical name of the Miao border wall, with the side wall as the boundary, divided into "raw seedlings" and "mature seedlings", the Miao people outside the "side wall" are called "raw seedlings", and the Miao people inside are called "mature seedlings".

The border wall of Miaojiang starts from Tingziguan in Fenghuang County in the southwest, runs through Fenghuang in the northeast, extends through Qianzhou to the magpie camp in Baojing County, and travels for more than 380 miles. This mysterious group of architectural relics is the product of the isolation policy of the Ming and Qing feudal rulers who imposed a military blockade on a large area of "Shengmiao" centered on the Laershan Miao District.

After the Ming Dynasty ascended the throne of Yingzong, it was a period of decline after more than 70 years of Emperor Jing, Xianzong and Xiaozong. During this period, eunuchs were in power and politics were corrupt. Economically, land was highly concentrated, a large part of yeoman farmers, and even small and medium-sized landlords went bankrupt under the heavy exploitation of large landlords and officials, and after a large number of powerful landlords and officials encroached on land, they did not accept land, and the Ming court had a financial crisis. In order to increase the financial revenue of the Ming court, the land taxes due to the big landlords and officials were transferred to the peasants. Under the unbearable oppression, the peasants rose up one after another. Among them, the scale and influence were the uprising of the Guangxi monk Yang Xingxiang, the uprising of the bankrupt peasants led by Ye Zongliu, a native of Zhejiang, the uprising of the silver miners in Huangfeng, Fu'an and other places in Fujian, and the peasant uprising led by Deng Maoqi in Fujian. In order to suppress the peasant uprising, the Ming court increased taxes to accommodate military spending. This creates a vicious circle. The decline of the Ming Dynasty was reflected in the financial crisis and the peasant uprising.

In the first year of Hongwu, Taizu promulgated an edict, "recovering clothes like the Tang system", prohibiting braided hair, vertebral buns, Hu clothes, Hu language, and Hu surnames. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was also explicitly forbidden for the descendants of Pu Shougeng in southern Fujian to become officials. Pu Shou Geng is a Muslim, during the reign of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, he was awarded Quanzhou to raise the city. After entering the Yuan Dynasty, because of his meritorious contribution to helping the Yuan Dynasty destroy the Song Dynasty, Zeng Guan went to Zuocheng, Jiangxi Province. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, because the southern Fujian Muslims represented by Pu Shougeng had helped the Yuan Dynasty unify China, Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of this to take revenge, resulting in the decline and assimilation of the Muslims in this area. The "Ming Law" stipulates that people with color eyes are not allowed to marry each other in the same way, and if they violate, they will be beaten with 80 rods, and men and women will be enslaved by officials.

Tang Yi said: "I saw that since the monk could guess my Miao Jiang, I was also a little surprised in my heart, I quietly snorted haha, and said: "It seems that the old man has underestimated the ability of big things, I can't imagine that the master will look at the face!" Jue Xiao smiled and said: "The old castle lord should go to Miaojiang to find a donor to take revenge this time, but most of the things in the world are not settled, and which donor is still the person loved by the eldest lady, could it be that the castle will make the eldest lady sad for a lifetime?" I was stunned when I heard this, and thought: "What this monk said is not reasonable, although the beast is ruthless and unrighteous, but Ying'er always has him in her heart, I took such a bold step to go to Miaojiang to find that kid to take revenge, if Ying'er knew, wouldn't she be even more sad!" Thinking of this, I broke out in a cold sweat. I decided to go to Miaojiang alone! But who wants to fall for that dead bald donkey! Lu Shuang exclaimed: "How come? Tang Yi said: "It's just that the old man was too confused at the time, thinking that the dead bald donkey did this for Ying'er, but who knew that the dead bald donkey was originally trying to get the key to the mechanism in the library from Ying'er!" Lu Shuang said: "I want to get the key, but what does this have to do with whether the castle master goes to Miao Jiang or not?" Tang Yi said: "At that time, I listened to the nonsense of the dead bald donkey, and decided not to go to Miaojiang to find that kid to take revenge, but when I gave up, Ying'er had an accident again!" Lu Shuang said: "Something happened to the eldest lady!" Tang Yi nodded and said: "Our Tang family has lived a simple life for generations, and it is a family-style Jianghu sect, since the establishment of the Tang Sect, all the children of the Tang Sect have only happened within the family, and it is rare for people with foreign surnames to marry!" Lu Shuang seemed to understand a little, and interjected: "The eldest lady already has a child before she gets married, and the father of this child is not from the Tang Sect, this is considered an insult in the Tang Sect, right!" Tang Yi nodded and said: "Yes, the children of the Tang Sect can only marry the people of the Tang Sect, once anyone breaks this rule, they will be punished, not to mention that you are the daughter of the castle master, even if you are the castle master!" After the death of the castle lord Tang Xiao, his eldest son Tang Ying was unwilling to take over as the head of the Cuiyan Sect because he liked Yin Hanyan, the head of the Cuiyan Sect, which caused the rebellion within the Tang Sect to seize the master, and the Tang Sect has been in a state of collapse since then. Therefore, in order to prevent the castle owner from having civil strife again, the next castle lord stipulated that the children of the Tang Sect could only marry the children of the Tang Sect when he died, and once anyone broke this provision, he would be punished by the Tang Sect family law! ”

Lu Shuang sighed: "This may be why although the Tang Sect is famous, but because of the indifferent concept of martial arts good and evil, they only live in their own world, neither want to make friends with famous and decent families, nor disdain to be in the company of evil demons, giving the world the feeling that it is always good and evil, Tangjiabao has always been shrouded in a veil of mystery." Tang Yi nodded and said, "What the county lord said is true!" This may be the real reason for the decline of Tangjiabao! Lu Shuang whispered: "Maybe!" Tang Yi smiled and continued: "Although I tried my best to hide Ying'er's affairs, Ying'er's belly grew bigger day by day, and on the night I was about to go to Miaojiang to find that beast to take revenge, someone in the fort finally knew that Ying'er and a young man from Miaojiang fell in love, so that night Ying'er was brought into the law enforcement hall by the law enforcement elders of the Law Enforcement Hall to enforce the Tang family law on her!" Lu Shuang hurriedly shouted: "Enforce the Tang Family Law, don't those law enforcement elders know that the eldest lady is already pregnant with a child?" Tang Yi sneered and said: "Of course they know that it is precisely this that they have to implement the family law, otherwise there is no point in the existence of the family law!" Lu Shuang hurriedly said: "Don't they know that the eldest lady is the daughter of the castle master?" Tang Yi sneered: "I know, how could those old guys not know, but can they be blamed for all this, if it weren't for that kid being so irresponsible, would Ying'er be punished by family law?" Lu Shuang was silent for a while before he said: "The castle lord keeps saying that the family law of the Tang Sect, what is the family law?" Tang Yi's voice was a little sad and said: "The family law of the Tang family stipulates that; If I am a disciple of the Tang Sect, if I fall in love with someone with a foreign surname without authorization, then I will abolish my martial arts and think about it for ten years! Lu Shuang let out an 'ah' and asked nervously, "Then if it's a female disciple?" How is the family law punished? Tang Yi sighed softly and said: "Whoever is a female disciple of the Tang Sect, the light one is assigned to the temple, and the one who is heavy is always accompanied by the green lantern all his life, and the heavy one? Lu Shuang hurriedly said: "What will happen?" Killed? Tang Yi shook his head and said: "The heavier one is facing the wall for ten years, and he will not be allowed to marry for life, and he will suffer from thirty cane scoldings!" Lu Shuang said: "Then Miss Tang will also be punished?" Tang Yi nodded and said, "Yes, and the punishment will be heavier than this so-called family law!" Lu Shuang said angrily: "What, it's heavier than this, what kind of family law is that!" Tang Yi's voice trembled slightly: "What if the Tang Sect's disciples are pregnant female disciples before they get married? Lu Shuang trembled a little and said, "What will happen?" Don't? Tang Yi said: "Yes, knock off the flesh and bones in the female disciple's belly!" Lu Shuang exclaimed, and said half-loudly: "This ...... This...... This is simply too cruel, the flesh and blood in the belly of the eldest lady? Tang Yi nodded with a wry smile and said, "Knocked out!" Lu Shuang's face was pale, as if he didn't believe it. Tang Yi continued: "When I knew that Ying'er's flesh and bones in her abdomen were knocked off, I was grief-stricken, in addition to the hatred of the beast, I still hated it, looking at Ying'er to endure the torture of the family law all day long, I decided to go to Miao Jiang to find the beast to take revenge, but Ying'er's body is getting worse day by day, I really can't bear to leave like this, I have to find someone to help me take care of Ying'er, I thought about it and finally thought of Monk Juexiao!" So I went to the library that night, found the monk Juexiao and begged him to help take care of Ying'er, the monk heard that I was going to go to Miaojiang to find the beast to take revenge, and I didn't stop it anymore, I heard me beg him to help take care of Ying'er, he also readily agreed, I saw that Ying'er was taken care of, my heart was very relieved, that night I took a disciple to Miaojiang, in Miaojiang I found the little beast in the old Tusi's house, the little beast saw me, I was scared stupid, I caught the beast, I forced that beast to eat my Tangmen unique poison black silkworm Gu poison, I saw that the beast ate our Tang Sect unique poison black silkworm Gu poison, my heart was very happy, I wanted to wait for seven days to watch that kid bleed to death in seven holes and then return to the Central Plains, but who would have thought that at this moment, I saw Ying'er! ”

Lu Shuang muttered: "Miss, how could she go to Miaojiang!" Tang Yi said: "I thought that when I saw Ying'er, I was shocked, naturally I didn't want her to know that I was going to kill that beast, but who would have thought, she actually knew everything about what I was doing in Miaojiang this time, and the reason why she came to Miaojiang was to stop me from killing that beast!" Lu Shuang said: "It seems that the eldest lady has a deep love for that Miao Jiang kid, that kid hurt her so much, she can even come to save him!" Tang Yi sighed and said: "Ask what the love in the world is, and teach life and death to promise."

There are double flyers in the south and the north, and the old wings have been cold and hot several times.

Happy and fun, parting bitter, there are even more crazy children.

You should have words, thousands of miles of stratus clouds, thousands of mountains and twilight snow, only the shadow to whom.

Hengfen Road, lonely when the drums, the smoke is still flat.

The soul is a little more groaning, and the mountain ghosts are crying in the wind.

The sky is also jealous, and the warblers and swallows are all loess.