I bought 20 baked cakes on the side of the road as dry food for the road, and bought a bag for 10 cents to carry the baked cakes behind me. Then 50 Wen bought a kettle filled with water, Su Ming returned to the inn to fill it with water and get ready for the trip, and walked outside the county seat of Shanghai.

This step in and out is very significant. The Ming Dynasty did not check the identity cards of people leaving the city and asked about household registration, but when entering the city, it was definitely checked.

That is to say, it is difficult for him to come back after leaving the county seat of Shanghai, and it is not possible to go to other cities or health centers, if he can't go back to the salt factory, the only place he can go is some remote villages, or go into the mountains to be a coward.

Due to the strict management of household registration in the Ming Dynasty, many people who did not have household registration or were wanted by the imperial court lived in areas outside the power of the government.

These people will also have children over time, and they can't find a suitable identity to rejoin the Ming system, so they can only wander outside all the time, so the number of these wanderers is very large.

Every year, the government will send troops out of the city to sweep these people, and if they are caught, they will be taken away by large families to be domestic slaves, and if they are unlucky, they will go to work as coolies, and if they are unlucky, they will give you the status of serf for three or five years, and continue to farm for everyone, and ordinary people live here like this.

And some of the relatively large wandering forces outside the city, it is difficult for the government to win, many of them are related to the families in the city, and it is actually good to be able to join these forces.

Out of the county seat of Shanghai, Su Ming felt a sense of relief all over his body, as if he had escaped from the cage. He knew that this was the consciousness of the original owner, but it also showed that the original owner was actually thinking about breaking away from the Shen family in his heart.

There are a total of 15 provinces in the Ming Dynasty, and the provinces are under the prefectures, prefectures and counties, and the prefectures are not necessarily subordinate relations, the prefectures can be regarded as the most prosperous areas in the Ming Dynasty, and Shanghai County belongs to Songjiang Prefecture and is adjacent to the most prosperous Suzhou Prefecture, which is naturally very prosperous.

The county was the basic administrative unit of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court management could generally only reach the county level. Under the county is the guard, the guard, the guard and the later generations of the town and township is not the same, some of the Ming Dynasty Wei is larger than some counties, at most will also send three officials here as a commander, and Jinshanwei happens to be one of the four Davids of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court sent heavy troops here to resist the threat from the sea.

Su Ming knew that the biggest trouble for Daming at this time was the threat from the sea, and the Age of Exploration had just begun, and Daming was also adapting. During this period, a series of famous figures in the Ming Dynasty were more or less related to pirates, and when the threat of pirates was at its worst, they could even occupy most of Zhejiang Province, and millions of people were either killed by pirates or captured at sea as coolies.

Su Ming didn't know much about the history of the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, and he didn't know when the pirates invaded Zhejiang, so he just hoped that he wouldn't just meet him.

After leaving the south gate of Suming, go east, here are some farmland villages. Shanghai County is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and most of the fields are paddy fields.

It stands to reason that the life of the people in such a field should be good, but Su Ming saw that the farmers who were planting rice on the side of the road were all dark-skinned, yellow-skinned, and thin, and obviously their lives were not good.

From the memory in my mind, I know that the fields here are basically owned by the major families in the city, and the domestic slaves of the big families who farm the land here are basically living on the subsistence line, and the big families rule everything here.

After walking for two hours, the sun has risen to the old high, Su Ming has left Shanghai County for more than forty miles, in the distance is a guard station he doesn't know the name, the guard is not big enough to accommodate a thousand people, but the city wall is built in the old high, there are guards guarding the door, most of the people who enter and exit the city gate are people wearing fine cloth clothes, and the poor rarely enter the city.

Su Ming rested outside the city for a while, and continued to go south without entering the city, and after walking for half an hour, this place has slowly become a wasteland, and a checkpoint appeared in front of the road, and a group of soldiers were waiting there, and Su Ming stopped.

He didn't have an identity certificate, he couldn't pass this level, and after retreating two miles, Su Ming saw an old farmer who was taking a family to farm in the field, so he stepped forward and gave the other party ten copper plates, asking if there was a path to Jinshanwei.

"It's not safe for Childe to be alone on the road, it's still 200 tons away from Jinshanwei, and it may be even farther if you want to walk the path.

Follow this road to raise back and walk 2 miles, there is a small road to the east to the Huangpu River, where there are some boats that can go directly to Jinshanwei, but there are more strongmen along the way, and you have to be careful on the Gongzi Road! The old farmer also guessed that Su Ming was a black household, so he told him.

"Thank you!" Su Ming thanked him for following the direction pointed by his old man to find the path, and crossed two streams through a forest, and he saw that there was a village here.

It was also strange that the village was built in such a hidden place, and Su Ming approached the village and saw that there was actually an inn here.

"There's something to eat in the store, send some!" Su Ming shouted when he entered the store.

"The guest officer came at the right time, I just steamed a pot of steamed buns in this store, how many do the guest officers want?" The shopkeeper asked.

"Let's have four! No pickles, a little more! Su Ming sat down and said.

The kind of people in the TV series who want good wine and meat when they enter the store do not exist in reality. Most of the people who can go out and walk are poor people with limited spending power, and the chefs who can fry good dishes are still outside the city, so most of the inns far away from the city only have wotou, coarse rice, side dishes and hot water, and steamed buns and polished rice are not available for long.

The steamed buns and pickles were served, and Su Ming quickly finished eating and touched his bulging belly, and asked the store how much it was.

"Four steamed buns, a plate of side dishes, a total of 20 yuan!" The shopkeeper said.

"Four steamed buns, a little pickles, you ask me for 20 Wen, you are a black spot!" Su Ming looked at the shopkeeper and asked, he was not worried about offending the other party at all.

15 rounds of his 92-style pistol, if the opponent is really strong, he can definitely give the other party an unforgettable lesson with his skills.

"Guest officer, the price of food here is high, and this is the price of food, if you don't believe it, you can go out and ask others.

Living here, you have to worry about the government sending troops to suppress it at any time, and every household does not have much surplus food, if you don't pay, I'm afraid there will be trouble when you leave here, and this store is actually not a villain. The owner said.

Su Ming knew that this was a gathering point for black households, in the words of the rich people in the city, this was a gathering point for bandits, and Su Ming knew that not all black households were bandits. Many black households hide on isolated islands in the mountains and forests just to survive.

"Alright! 20 Wen for you! Did you know that you can take a boat to Jinshanwei to get there? Su Ming asked.

"The guest officer is going to Jinshanwei? It's not going to be easy.

Follow this road all the way to the south, about 30 miles of the road will encounter a small river, after the small river there is a fork in the road to the south for more than 10 miles, you can see a ferry, there are boats to Jinshanwei, but this road is not easy to go. The shopkeeper took the money and said to Su Ming.

"Thanks!" Su Ming got up and walked out of the inn, the shopkeeper said that the road was not easy to walk, there must be a strong man.

The eastern coast of Suzhou and Songjiang was often attacked by pirates, and the imperial court ordered that all pirates should not flee, but only resist on the spot, otherwise they would be punished.

Therefore, as long as a city is breached by pirates, there will be a lot of displaced people, and after a long time, they will divide the area and rule, and the court will clean it up again and again, but it will never be finished.

These areas are the best soil for bandits to grow, and sometimes even bandits will join forces, and they will formulate their own rules to control all the displaced people in the vicinity, forming a very powerful force.

Su Ming is not very confident that he can reach the ferry, but now it is late afternoon, if everything goes well, he will be able to get to the ferry in time for dark, I heard that there is an inn to stay at the ferry, but Su Ming doesn't know if he has enough money.

The road out of the village was deserted, and the road became narrower. Su Ming walked forward cautiously, and when he encountered danger, he would take out his pistol as soon as possible.

After walking for more than five miles, Su Ming suddenly heard footsteps in the distance, he continued to move forward and saw a team coming from a distance.

The leader of this team is a man in his 40s, he is wearing a fine cloth coat and riding on a strong horse, behind him a dark and thin old man is leading an old horse, carrying a lot of goods on the horse, and two young men behind the old horse have knives hanging from their waists, this is a small group of merchants.

The man in the lead should be the owner of this team, not only have to pay a high toll for calories on the main road, but also may be targeted and excluded when seen by some large caravans, so there will be such small caravans in many health centers, they sell mostly some things that the poor need, the price is a little cheaper than the market price, and the poor people will buy it.

Su Ming didn't care when he saw the other party, and the merchant owner on horseback on the other side was obviously stunned when he saw Su Ming, and saw that he was wearing a muslin coat without any weapons, and his eyes looked at him fixedly for more than ten seconds.

Su Ming walked past the merchant master, completely ignoring the other party's group of four, this was obviously a merchant with an old family slave, and the two people behind him with knives should be the guards he hired, and they would not pose any threat to him.

Walking past the small caravan, Su Ming heard the person in front of the small caravan slow down his horse pace, as if he was talking to the two guards behind him, and he was walking when he suddenly heard the merchant behind him shouting to him.

"Little brother! How long will it take to get to Chunlinwan Village! The merchant shouted to Su Ming.

Su Ming turned to look at the other party, the merchant looked at the merchant with a smile on his face and looked no danger at all, but the other party in this wilderness would never be kind, summoned the Type 92 pistol, and only then turned around after loading the bullet.

"It's another 5 miles down this road!" Su Ming looked at the other party and said.

"Little brother come here, I haven't seen a figure in the wilderness for half a day. I'm from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and I don't know much about Songjiang Mansion, can you tell me about the situation here? The merchant said to Su Ming with a smile.

Su Ming saw that the merchant lord and the two guards had begun to approach him, and the two guards had already placed their hands on the hilt of the knife, it must be that the comer was not good, he looked at the other side and walked towards him, and was ready to shoot.

The Ming Dynasty paid attention to the farmers and industry, and the social status of the merchants was the lowest, which was not because the imperial court had to look down on the merchants, but because they had a lot of profits, the caravan left their hometown, and they did not know anyone they had money in their hands and could do anything.

It is normal to snatch goods in the wild, where human life is not valuable, and no merchant will be merciful.

"I'm not local either, so you'd better ask someone else!" Su Ming said that he was leaving.

"Little brother, don't worry! Seeing each other is fate, seeing that you are also a child of everyone, how can a person get to this kind of place, how about we send you back? "The merchant has shown his wolf tail!

"I don't have any money on me, and I won't get anything if you kill me." Su Ming said with a pistol to the merchant who was approaching him.

"Boy, if you want to blame, you can only blame you for being young and ignorant, a person dares to appear here, even if you don't have any money on you, the boots and clothes are worth a little money, and you will be so stupid in the next life!" The owner of the goods said, and the two guards behind him drew their knives and ran towards Su Ming.

Su Ming looked at the hideous faces of the two guards, as well as the smug merchant with a smug face, and pointed his pistol at the merchant who was slowly approaching him on horseback. When the two guards were only about 10 meters away from him, they pulled the trigger.

"Bump"!