Whether it's the imperial capital or this mysterious island, the story here is too far away from ordinary people.

In the same October, the autumn harvest was ushered in in the third year of Hongzhi, and ordinary people cared about the harvest in their fields and the fruits of hard work in the second half of the year.

Nanzhili, Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.

In the second half of this year, the wind and rain in the south of the Yangtze River were smooth, and Xuli, which has 40 acres of fertile land, ushered in a bumper harvest, with 1.5 stones of grain per mu, a total of 60 stones.

After deducting one-thirtieth of the regular tax, after removing all kinds of miscellaneous items, there are still 50 stone of grain left in the house, and 40 stone of rice is shelled.

It's just that the Xu family supports a scholar who spends a lot of money, and there are nearly ten people in the family to support, so they still have to live a careful life.

"This year is a good year, but with so many mouths at home, Xu Fu still has to concentrate on studying, so don't think about adding new clothes. Let's save a little food, only when we have food at home, can we not panic. When Xu Fu has a chance to study in the future, our days will naturally be fragrant and spicy! ”

As a parent, Xu Li has his own way of life, in fact, he mainly inherited ideas from his father and grandfather, and told his sons and daughters-in-law at dinner.

Although 40 stone of grain seems to be a lot, the rice is cheap in a good year, and the amount of silver exchanged does not necessarily increase. What's more, the amount of rice and grain consumed by a family of ten is not a small amount, plus oil, salt, sauce and vinegar all need to be spent, in fact, it is also an ordinary life.

Due to the low productivity of this era, some mountainous areas were not suitable for growing rice, and even the middle-class families were living a tight life.

Once they provide for the readers, their homes are simply opening a bottomless pit.

Everything is inferior, only reading is high.

Many families of the Yin family in Jiangnan are not short-sighted, they know that the only way out is to support a non-commissioned officer, not only to get the preferential exemption of the imperial court, but also to use the power of power to ascend to the sky in one step.

It is precisely in this way that although their lives are peaceful, they also have the hope of soaring.

Guangdong Political Envoy Division, Haikang County, Leizhou Prefecture.

Due to the impact of typhoons on the entire Leizhou Peninsula, the harvest this autumn was not good.

Kang Dahai, who sits on thirty acres of land, has a weather-beaten old face, looking at the harvest in the barn floor and looking worried, chewing the betel nut in his mouth over and over again.

In a normal year, the yield per mu is 400 catties, but this year, affected by continuous typhoons, it is only half of that of previous years, and the total output is 6,000 catties.

The regular tax needs to be deducted 400 catties, plus all kinds of miscellaneous items of the government, and the grain that the family can get is 14 stones.

Kang Dahai spit out the betel nut in his mouth, the saliva has turned bloody, and the 14 catties of grain can only last their family's livelihood, and this year they don't want to buy meat for the New Year.

"This year's vintage is not good, so we have to save food until next year's spring harvest, and put less oil and salt if we can. When there is a surplus in the exchange of food, I will buy a dried fish and come back to make a New Year's dinner. ”

At dinner, Kang Dahai also told his own plan, and this way of making a living has lasted for generations.

Eat meat in good years, fish in normal years, and soil in disaster years.

Due to the differences in the fertility of the land, the people in Jiangnan can still find ways to support their children to study and get rich, but the people in remote areas are more concerned about their livelihood.

If there is a way out for them, I am afraid that they can only sneak to the sea to make a living, engage in murder and overkill, and then get rid of this barely filling life.

It's not that they don't want to be a scholarly family, it's just that the harvest of their hard work is in front of them, and no matter how hard they work, they can only fill their stomachs, and the yield of this kind of rice can't make them save at all.

Henan Political Envoy Division, Fugou County, Kaifeng Prefecture.

As the Yellow River continues, Zhao's fields were affected by the flooding, and crops that had just grown well were suddenly submerged in the river.

Their family has been busy for half a year, and although they have received tax exemption from the imperial court, they only get 1,000 catties of grain for the 30 mu under their name.

"The imperial court is renovating the Yellow River, as long as we survive this year, then we will be able to fill our stomachs next year! Although we can't eat enough now, it's better than leaving our hometown, so we all endure it, take advantage of the winter solstice in the future, and dig wild vegetables and store grain outside for the winter! ”

Zhao Laoshi pursued the spirit of hard work of his ancestors, although he drank weakly and the whole person was weak, but he still made a speech to encourage everyone.

The soil in their area is good, but it is located on the side of the Yellow River, so the river is frequent, sometimes in good years, sometimes without harvest.

Now we are in a special period, and we can only choose to endure hardships for the sake of today, and only hope that next year's spring harvest will usher in a bumper harvest, so as to get rid of the current precarious life.

Living in this day and age, whether life is good or bad depends entirely on the yield of the agricultural products of the land, and the yield is almost determined by God.

It is this golden autumn October that the entire land of China presents the triple heaven of joy and sorrow.

Although the literati have been exaggerating the prosperous era, it is only the Anshi Rebellion that directly exposed the lies of the Tang Dynasty, and the city of Chang'an, where singing and dancing was leveled, was starving all over the wilderness.

Xing, the people are bitter!

Death, the people suffer!

……

Regardless of the period, while some people enjoyed the prosperity that came with a peaceful and prosperous era, the low productivity was destined to require more people to carry the burden forward.

It's just a pity that the ordinary toiling masses have never had the right to speak, and history is written by literati, and even defined by literati as good and bad.

The Zhou Dynasty was obviously a slave dynasty with low productivity, but under the extreme exaggeration of the civilian bureaucracy, it became a benchmark for governing the country.

Miraculously, there was not only the Zhou Dynasty of Wu Zetian, but also the Later Zhou of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, as if the Zhou Dynasty was really an era that made everyone have enough food and clothing.

To this day, even though the Ming system has a fixed title for the six Shangshu, the officialdom still follows the title of the Zhou Dynasty.

The official department is called Tianguan or Dazai, the Ministry of Industry is called Da Sikong, the Ministry of Rites is called Da Zongbo, the household department is called Da Situ, the military department is called Da Sima, and the criminal department is called Da Sikou.

Although it has undergone several changes, "Zhou Li" has always occupied an important position in political thought. The subjective view is that the chaotic times collapsed from the collapse of "Zhou Li", and the prosperous era was due to the return of "Zhou Li".

As for Confucius, whom they revered as a saint, they blamed his failure on being born in troubled times, and a unified dynasty would create a prosperous era by restoring the Zhou Li.

But now everything is quietly changing, and today's saints are not blindly pursuing weekly rites, but focusing on the productivity of the whole society and the people's grain bags.

The light of history must not only shine on the prosperous Chang'an City, but also on the ordinary people who work diligently and look at their specific harvest each year.

The words are divided into two ends, and the land of the desert island highlights the preciousness of crop seeds.

Whether it was gold, silver or gold ore, it could never be a bargaining chip to stay on the island, until Li Wenyan took out a very valuable soybean seed.

After Li Yanwen was blindfolded, he was escorted back to their camp by the group.

At first, the road ahead was soft and sandy, but soon it was solid dirt, and he even walked a little uphill, and the road behind it became more difficult to walk.

It's just that when he arrived at a soft place, he obviously felt that there were more people nearby, and there were still women's voices all around, as if he had come to a women's kingdom.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew across his cheeks, and the black cloth tied to his eyes fell off.

What appeared in front of me was a village full of peach trees, and there were women everywhere, and many of them were bare-assed.

At such a moment, his brain was buzzing, and he had no idea that it would be like this.

Hey?

The woman with the big ass noticed that Li Yanwen was looking at her, and turned to look at the young man who was a complete stranger in confusion.

Li Yanwen was kicked heavily from behind, and the whole person immediately fell to the ground, but fortunately, the ground was soft black soil, which would not hurt him.

It was just this glance that gave him some information.

He realized that it was a gathering place dominated by women, who should have lived here for a long time, judging by the age of the peach trees.

Although he had read Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", it was full of strangeness, how did this village come to be? And why can it continue to this day?

"Let's go inside!"

Before Li Yan could come to his senses, he was once again treated rudely, and before being taken to a cell, the woman behind him kicked him in, and then locked the door.

"What are you doing, I don't wash it!"

Just when Li Yanwen was still wondering why he didn't see Zhao Kuo and Wang Shouren's two companions, Zhao Kuo's voice came from outside.

Li Yanwen found that the cell was surrounded by earthen walls on three sides, but the adhesive parts of the earthen walls had been detached, so the outside could be observed through some holes in the walls.

Zhao Kuo and Wang Shouren received special treatment, and they were arranged to bathe in a waterhole from somewhere, and the two of them were arranged to bathe in a waterhole.

"Brother Zhao, if you come, you will be safe!" Wang Shouren is a very clean person, who is uncomfortable with the immersion in the seawater, and now he is enjoying himself and begins to remove his clothes.

Zhao Kuo was worried, so he lowered his voice and said seriously: "Could they be deliberately letting the two of us wash it and then ......?"

At the end, he made a neck wiping motion.

Wang Shouren had already taken off his clothes and went into the water, and said very calmly: "Life and death have their own destiny!" If there is really any regret, I am afraid that I will not be able to serve the court in this life! ”

After all these years of experience, he is no longer so obsessed with becoming a saint, but he wants to display his talents, so as to follow the current Ming Emperor Hongzhi to create a prosperous era belonging to China.

It's just that fate made people, and it was obviously a very meaningful overseas trip, but the three of them fell to this desert island in order to avoid the traitor Cheng Yan.

Now, the three of them have become prisoners of this mysterious force, and they have no idea whether they will kill or chop after taking a bath.

"I must escape, that bastard Cheng Yi is definitely not dead, I must personally go to the emperor to expose Cheng Yi's crimes!" Zhao Kuo is a vicious and hateful character, and immediately said hatefully.

Li Yanwen had been squatting in front of the hole in the wall and peeping, although he could see the situation in the bath clearly, but the distance was a little far, so he couldn't hear what the two of them were muttering.

He also didn't want to die here, and vaguely he had a sacred mission to complete.

Although he knew that he would not be able to become an imperial doctor in his life, he always felt that he would make some achievements in the medical Tao, or cultivate an outstanding offspring.

When night falls, it's quiet outside.

Zhao Kuo and Wang Shouren had just been arranged into the cell, but they were called out one after another, leaving Li Yanwen alone to stay here and freeze.

originally thought that Wang Shouren and Zhao Kuo were called away to interrogate, but there was still no one until the third watch in the middle of the night.

Li Yanwen boiled out a pair of panda eyes, and asked angrily in the face of the woman who came to deliver the meal in the early morning: "What happened to your two brothers?" What did you do to my two brothers? ”

The woman's face turned red, and she immediately dropped her food, and fled without looking back.

In fact, not only Li Yanwen was looking for someone, but Xu Shiying, the governor of the East China Sea, also sent Huo Hai and other cadres to shuttle between various islands, also wanting to find the missing Wang Shouren and others.

It's just that there are countless islands in the vast sea, and how easy is it to find here?

In December, the city of Beijing was covered in snow and ice.

Perhaps the biggest disaster of the year was the smallpox epidemic at the beginning of the year, which not only forced the closure of all squares in the capital, but also took away some infected people.

However, the imperial court's epidemic prevention measures were appropriate, so that the smallpox epidemic could not be infected in a large area, and then the imperial court gradually promoted the prevention and control method of pox.

Although the epidemic situation recurred in May, the imperial court was always able to firmly control the situation, so that the smallpox epidemic has become a less important memory in everyone's mind.

On the contrary, the plan of cotton cloth to go to sea was carried out in an orderly manner, especially after the financial industry, more and more crony capital entered the textile industry, thus promoting the development of the entire industry.

Now, whether it is planting cotton, becoming a textile worker, or engaging in textile sideline private capital, they can enjoy the dividends of the vigorous development of the textile industry.

In fact, the capital is not limited to the development of the textile industry, because a large number of ordinary people have received dividends, and virtually promoted the consumer market in Beijing.

Not to mention the large number of young female textile workers buying cosmetics, like Zhao Laosi used his savings for many years to renovate the house, which is also invisibly driving the consumer market in Beijing.

Now facing the upcoming Spring Festival, everyone's pockets have become full, even the thrifty people want to have a lively Spring Festival.

For the people of Huaxia, if they are alone, they can be casual, but if they can make their wives and children happy, they will naturally not be overly stingy.

"Luxury house is sold at 20% off!"

"Prime location, 20% off sincere sale!"

"Adjacent to the university, eight-fold tearful sale!"

……

History seems to repeat itself, and there is a sudden wave of house sales in the capital, but this time they did not know in advance that the imperial court was about to introduce new measures, but only that the annual financial meeting was about to be held.

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