Chapter 1 Fortunately, it was not at the end of the Ming Dynasty
"Dongshan Prefecture has received people! Anyone can accept anything, as long as you work for 3 years, you can regain your freedom! ”
Although the leader of the group shouted very hard, none of the prisoners in the cell who were curled up together to protect themselves from the cold paid attention to them.
Only a tall man in his early 20s hesitated for a moment and stood up from a corner sheltered from the wind, and immediately an old man grabbed him.
"Hey, you've figured it out, this is going to Dongshan Prefecture! That ghost place is cold and poor, not as good as Jianzhou, and I heard that there are red-haired ghosts and brown-skinned ghosts, you don't want to go back to the Central Plains in your life! ”
This old man obviously knows a lot of things, and this young man can be regarded as taking care of him during this time, and the old man, who has always believed that more is better than less, can't help but want to persuade the young man.
But the young man shook his head and insisted on going.
Although he didn't know where that Dongshan Prefecture was, it was better than being locked up in prison: "Old man, I was wronged, but the government locked me up for 1 month without even trial, and this is my only chance to get out of prison." ”
"Silly boy, the government is deliberate, just trying to force you to voluntarily go to Dongshan Prefecture!"
"Hey! Old man, shut up if you don't want to die! The guard shouted loudly.
The old man hurriedly curled up into a ball, and the young man handed the tattered and dirty clothes on his body to the old man, which was regarded as repaying him for taking care of himself in the past month, after all, he would have died without him.
This dress was snatched by a young man who froze to death last week, and the crowd was looting. After all, his height of 1.8 meters is still very intimidating in this group of people with an average of less than 1.7 meters.
"Thank you." After saying that, he stood up and shouted loudly outside the cage: "I, I sign up!" ”
The leader glanced at his figure and showed a surprised and satisfied expression: "Okay, go to the master to register." ”
The young man walked to a table in the back, and a person dressed as a master glanced at him impatiently, frowned and scolded: "It's really pickled, don't get so close, it stinks to death!" ”
The young man's black face was also a little red, he knew how dirty and smelly he was, there was no way, the whole prison was in this environment.
"What's the name?"
"Yes, my name is Liu Yifeng."
"Yo, I'm still a Han, why do you have to shave your head?"
"I didn't shave it myself, I was shaved by bandits."
Some pirates and bandits will indeed forcibly shave off someone's hair to force him to join the gang, and the master also knows this: "Yes, where is my hometown?" ”
"Bashu."
"You are a Bashu person, how did you come to Dengzhou Mansion?"
"Merchants, and then they met bandits."
"Ah, poor man." Having said that, the master's hand did not stop writing the deed of sale.
Liu Yifeng breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had passed the first level. In fact, there was not a single truth in his words except for his name and his hometown is indeed the Bashu region.
He is a native of Sichuan, went to Dalian to study at university, and started his internship in the second semester of his senior year. When he was about to starve to death, he was discovered by the people of the fishing village and sent to the government as a pirate, because of his position.
Liu Yifeng didn't know when the era he crossed was, and he didn't even know where he was, but today he knew that he was in Dengzhou. Dengzhou seems to be in Shandong, but before he crossed, he was obviously in Dalian Lushun.
"Liu Yifeng, right?"
"Yes, yes."
Liu Yifeng looked at the other party and wrote "Liu Yifeng" with a brush. Although it is a traditional character, Liu Yifeng, who has been forced by his grandfather to practice calligraphy since he was a child, can completely understand traditional Chinese characters, and even writes better than this master.
"Master, it's the first one, the peak of the mountain."
"You can read!?"
"Hmm."
"You write it."
Liu Yifeng took the brush and wrote his name on the painting place, and after writing, he realized that he seemed to have signed a contract but he forgot to read the content of the contract.
But after thinking about it, I thought about selling myself, and I still cared about the content of the contract, so I pressed my handprint next to my name according to the master's request.
"That's a good handwriting!" The master looked at Liu Yifeng with some emotion: "You are really not a pirate." ”
It's very simple, there may be people among the pirates who can write, but being a clerk who can write so well is more promising than being a pirate.
After hearing the master's words, Liu Yifeng nodded hurriedly, and before he could say something, he was taken out of the cell where he had lived for 1 month and thrown into a carriage by two big men.
The carriage was not large, it could seat about 6 or 7 people, and he looked at the other 3 people in the carriage whose expressions were numb and similar to him, and he had no interest in talking to them, so he found a place in the carriage and sat down.
The recruitment in the prison was not smooth, Liu Yifeng waited for about half an hour and did not wait for the second person to come out, and saw the leader who had recruited people loudly before chatting with a few words with an official and then walked out with a sad face.
When passing by the carriage where he was, he heard the two chatting: "Master, this number is completely unsubstantial, why don't you buy some Jianzhou slaves who shaved their braids and pretended to be pirates to make up the number??" ”
Statehood?
Liu Yifeng suddenly remembered that the old beggar had also mentioned this word before.
Jianzhou, there is only one Jianzhou in Chinese history, and that is the Jianzhou Sanwei of the Ming Dynasty.
Yourself in the Ming Dynasty?
"The adult males who can be regarded as laborers in Jianzhou have all been divided up by the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, is it true that they are buying a girl?"
The leader groaned and said: "It's not impossible, that group of raw girls are really quite capable of fighting, and they live in a harsh environment like Heishui and Baishan all year round, and that kind of place in Dongshan Prefecture is just right for them." ”
"It's really hard to take care of having a girl, if there is trouble on the way, the loss will be great."
"Don't be afraid, if you dare to make trouble on the road, kill them all, just Liwei."
"Then don't buy some mature women and real children, raise them for a year or two and become adults."
"Okay."
Liu Yifeng leaned back against the carriage and heard the conversation between the two clearly, he was already very sure that he was in the Ming Dynasty!
Although during the Jin Dynasty, there were also sayings about mature women and giving birth to women, but there was no such thing as Jianzhou at that time. The Jin Dynasty inherited the administrative division of Lufu County from the Liao Dynasty, so he could only be in the Ming Dynasty!
Liu Yifeng wanted to hear more, but unfortunately the two of them couldn't hear what they were saying clearly as they walked farther and farther away.
In the Ming Dynasty, he crossed the Ming Dynasty, and he should still be in the Northeast, because the two masters said that they wanted to buy Jurchens, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were only Jurchens in the Northeast.
Of course, it may also be the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the land of Shenzhou had fallen, and there were also Jurchens in the Central Plains. But after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, how could there be Han people discussing buying Jurchens.
So I should be in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, not the hell at the end of the Ming Dynasty.