Zhang Gui said: "In this way, in the name of the Department of Planning, I will ask Your Majesty for an order, and I will say that the beggars and monks and nuns in the world cannot be ignored by the imperial court, and they cannot be allowed to live a normal life." Therefore, the imperial court should take the initiative to help them and organize corresponding forces to help these monks, nuns and beggars who are unwilling to learn the trades to regain land and directly participate in farming in sparsely populated areas. ”

"After all, since they don't want to do engineering and study medicine, they can only farm, agriculture is the foundation of the world, and in the final analysis, everyone in the world is the son of farmers, and everyone should be able to do farming."

Zhang Gui continued.

Wei Zhongxian also nodded: "What Uncle Guo said is true." It is necessary to help the beggars to engage in farming in sparsely populated areas, which not only helps them live a normal life, but also helps the community to be stable. ”

So, not long after, the apocalypse issued another decree, the Ministry of Civil Affairs set up a Department of Welfare to raise and relieve orphans and unemployed people in the world, including monks and beggars who have no livelihood, these people will be specially arranged by the imperial court to regain the opportunity to earn a living in sparsely populated places such as Guanwai.

According to the official newspapers and periodicals of the Ming Dynasty, the reason for this was because the benevolent Emperor of the Apocalypse could not see that the people were poor and could only beg.

Of course, this is essentially a disguised form of exile, which can be said to be a heavy blow to those who want to get something for nothing.

There is no way to do this, there seems to be a natural contradiction between the imperial court and these people who want to lie down and be salted fish.

Rao is Zhang Gui, the person who actually presides over government affairs, will also inadvertently force the bureaucrats who are attached to him, drive the beggars and monks and nuns of the world to the outside of the pass, and force these people to plant potatoes and dig potatoes.

"Oh my God! Why don't you have to get along with my Uncle Jiao! Whining! ”

Jiao An threw away the broken bowl he had just snatched from a little beggar, knelt on the ground, looked at the sky, and cried.

Because he really didn't expect him to be so miserable.

He was originally a good domestic slave in the Wuqing Marquis Mansion, and he was about to be promoted to a first-class domestic slave in charge, but he was dismissed from the mansion.

Then, he could only be forced to become a monk.

But he saw that he became a monk who took care of the vegetable garden every day in the family temple of the Earl of Dongning, and finally could live a quiet and comfortable life again, but he encountered the rectification of the Buddhist temple, which forced him to choose to be a beggar directly.

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There is no way, Jiao An really doesn't want to make a living from his own labor.

Since he was a child, his living environment made him think that people who live by their own crafts are lowly and inferior, and it is the most difficult to achieve a class leap, and only by dealing with people and thinking about getting something for nothing will he live a more comfortable life, and may even have a class leap.

In Jiao An's view, although the slave who serves the powerful is very lowly, it is easy to rely on the master's shadow to soar into the sky, the man can at least become the head of the village, and gradually have his own field, and the woman may be able to become an aunt directly, if she gives birth to a son, maybe in the future, the mother will be able to make a decree with her son.

Therefore, Jiao Anzhen does not believe that labor can get rich and cross classes.

Therefore, Jiao An can only be a beggar after he can't be a house slave or a monk now.

After all, now only a beggar can earn something for nothing, and for people of his class, he has the opportunity to come into contact with wealthy families.

But Jiao An is sad that now beggars are not allowed to be.

In the name of helping beggars become self-reliant, the government will send beggars to outside the customs and to places where birds don't poop, saying that they will have land and land and make a living from farming.

Jiao An is now targeted by the patrol Yushi, who is specifically responsible for relieving beggars, and is ordered by the official soldiers to immediately get on the car and go to the gate to accept the help of the imperial court.

Jiao An really didn't want to go, he would rather beg in Jingshi City for the rest of his life.

But he knew that he couldn't resist the people of the imperial court, and at this time he had an emotional breakdown.

"What to cry about! Isn't it good to divide the land for you? It's better than begging for food, I really don't know what you poor and bald donkeys think! ”

The official soldier who ordered him to get on the mule cart didn't understand why Jiao An was unwilling, so he scolded Jiao An, and then urged Jiao An to get into the car.

Jiao An could only get into the car honestly, and then wept silently.

He now regrets that he should have come directly from the palace, so he might have become a slave in the palace.

The Han people of the Ming Dynasty have now entered an era of changes in the nature of the old and new societies, and there is a phenomenon that the Han people who want to be slaves want to be slaves but cannot.

Jiao An is one such example.

The current changes in the Ming Dynasty are painful for Jiao An, but for people like Xie Qian, who are willing to live as a dignified Han person, they are happy, and it is a good era that they never dreamed of.

"Xie Qian, you are very talented, it hasn't been long since you have learned the most basic arithmetic. What's more, you still know how to read. I am still very hard, and I have already taught myself history and geography, especially for my previous naval battles in the Ming Dynasty, I have also begun to study and write articles, which is very remarkable. Weishi thinks that you should not just be a sailor, so Weishi decided to recommend that you apply for the Advanced Mathematics and Physics School first, and strive to enter the Daming Wubei School in the future and become a member of Tianzimen! ”

Xie Qian, who had been studying for a long time in the Tianjin Shipping College Science Hall, which trained sailors, was suddenly called by Jiang Zhaokun, the school's head student, and Jiang Zhaokun smiled and told Xie Qian about his advice on his future life choices.

Xie Qian replied gratefully: "When the student used to be a house slave in the Han family of Youtongzheng, he was a scholar, so he knew how to read, and because he was responsible for copying books in the library building, he could also write, and he also took the opportunity to read some books, so he learned quickly. It's just that Mr. asked the students to apply for the Advanced Mathematics and Science School, and then went to the Martial Arts School, the students didn't dare to think about it, because the students were born as slaves, helpless, and did not go to Beijing to entangle, and they could not prepare for the exam in Beijing, and they could be a sailor in the future, be self-reliant, and live the life that ordinary people should live, which is enough! ”

"Don't let yourself lose your dignity because you're a domestic slave! You are willing to make progress and learn, and you are already different from others, so how can I not help someone like you who is willing to benefit? This is also an opportunity for you and me, if you don't take the initiative to study, you won't have such an opportunity. ”

Jiang Xuezheng asked someone to bring a plate of silver: "This is fifty taels of silver, which is the silver I helped you, and another letter for you to take and go to see the current dynasty to reveal the champion, he will appreciate your arithmetic talent." ”

Xie Qian was moved and surprised after hearing this, and hurriedly bowed.

Xie Qian therefore packed his bags and returned to Beijing shortly after this.

At the same time, Jiao An got into the car to go to Guanwai.

In addition, the monks and nuns who were exiled to the western Xinjiang also went to the northwest.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty had already recovered Hamiwei, so the first batch of monks and nuns who came to Western Xinjiang settled down in Hamiwei first.

And Jiao An and his party, many of whom were monks who were begging for Ning Huayuan and unwilling to be self-reliant, came to Guanwai together, Zhang Pu in Kaizhou also saw their group of people, and then asked in surprise Mao Bijiang, who was holding the child: "Why are so many monks here this time?" ”

Mao Bijiang was also surprised, and said with a smile: "It seems that this gate is going to be more and more lively!" ”

"Second master! The county lord asked you to go and help distribute the fields to these monks and beggars, and by the way, take a few old farmers to teach them to grow potatoes! ”

At this time, someone from the local county government came running.