Chapter 2552 I hope I will be full for the rest of my life
The stones are changing, and the Li family in Longxi is changing. These small changes, among the three assistants in Guanzhong, are like the waves in the river. They seem inconspicuous, but it is these waves that form the rolling river.
Keep moving forward courageously.
Times are changing, productivity is changing, and production relations will naturally change accordingly. This is the truth discovered by Ma Dabeard, and its root lies in human thinking, which is unpredictable.
Also changed is Niu Dalang.
Niu Dalang had previously said that he wanted to join the army, but he was a little young, and his family suffered changes and could not settle down, so he was not selected into the army that year, but postponed it later.
It is difficult for ordinary people to have the same ideas as those of officials.
It is basically impossible for all people to have a highly unified thinking.
You know, not even God can do this.
The Jew took the money and smiled.
Where there is a will, things come true. The cauldron sinks the boat, and the hundred and two passes of Qin finally belong to Chu.
If you work hard, God will not let you down. If you lie down on the firewood and taste the courage, three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu.
In later generations, when Fei Qian saw this couplet for the first time, he wrote it neatly on the title page of his book, and then quoted it many times in some argumentative papers to prove it.
Support your own arguments and so on.
But as the years went by, the shortcomings of this couplet gradually became apparent.
limitations of class.
"Qin Guan finally belongs to Chu", regardless of why this "Chu" later became "Han", is this "Chu" simply the "Chu" of ordinary people? Similarly, the "Yue" who swallowed Wu
”, could it be an ordinary Yamakoshi?
Xiang Yu was originally a noble.
Goujian was originally from the royal family.
The ugly duckling was originally a swan, and Cinderella was originally a princess.
And those ducks that expected to become real swans from ugly ducklings fell down mid-flight.
What's more, the complexity of the world cannot be covered by just a few random examples.
Especially these current generation of nobles.
It is also like the hundreds of schools of thought before.
Because they are smart, have wealth, fame, or status, their personal demands cannot be unified, and the innate diversity of the disciples naturally creates divisions among countries.
But now, it is undoubtedly very difficult for Fei Qian to unify these scholars and have a common belief and a common understanding.
But after all, someone has to do it, and it is obviously better to do it sooner rather than later.
When a dynasty solidifies and declines, the first thing that appears must be the solidification of class and the decline of its upward channels.
The monopoly of educational resources by the gentry and classics families in the Han Dynasty is a typical example.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the emperors who came from relatively low-level backgrounds were surrounded by ministers who were of relatively low-level status, including wine sellers and pig butchers. This was the case until Liu Bei's generation, and perhaps there were still people who followed Liu Bang's example.
The idea of Dragon Balls, but I have never been able to get it together...
Therefore, after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, there were a large number of middle and lower classes in the Han Dynasty, who were freed from the shackles of the old aristocracy. There were also a large number of military personnel who stood firm during the subsequent civil strife.
On the side of the Han Dynasty, the old aristocrats who tried to pick peaches were completely swept into the historical waste heap.
Starting from the Han Dynasty, the old aristocratic system from the Zhou to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period basically disappeared.
Instead, it was the aristocratic family.
The aristocratic families accumulated over the three to four hundred years of the Han Dynasty.
Most of these aristocratic families were not from famous families in the Spring and Autumn Period. They broke the restrictions left by the old aristocrats, but turned around and put the restrictions on others. They smashed the original class blockade and opened a new path for promotion.
channel, but turned around and began to put a ceiling on its own channel.
There are classes in society, which is not terrible. What is terrible is that there are no channels for promotion.
There are no channels for promotion, so we can only see that Xiang Yu has a chance, Gou Jian can work hard, the fake duck can fly, and the princess in distress wears glass slippers. Others can only imagine and have sweet dreams.
Then when you wake up, you have to face a hard life, accumulating resentment until it explodes.
It's like Zhou Shuren's words that were banned.
Fortunately, among the big men at the moment, Fei Qian poked several holes in the originally thick coffin board. Although it was not completely opened, the fresh breath passed in and blew on Niu Dalang's body.
Niu Dalang still got up early, um, or is it called a straw mat?
Grass mats like this have always been a happy home for all kinds of bugs. Every now and then, Niu Dalang has to find some mugwort or something like that to smoke these straw mats. Otherwise, as time goes by, all kinds of bugs will be found inside, including...
Limited to mites, lice, fleas and bed bugs.
Even so, I was bitten almost every day.
Niu Dalang scratched his back, but there were some places that he couldn't scratch, so he just rubbed it against the doorpost a few times, and that was it.
Anyway, I'm used to it.
There was no reserve training today, so he was going to work in the fields and tidy up the ditches beside the fields. If there was still time, he would tidy up the tiles and shed covers on the house...
He went to the small courtyard, broke open a water jar with some thin ice, scooped some from it, rinsed his mouth, then dipped some water in a linen cloth that was almost rotten into a fishing net, wiped his face and hands, and that was it.
Finished washing up.
As for his sister, she didn't even bother to wash herself.
On the one hand, it is cold, and on the other hand, I have to get up early in the morning to cook.
The trauma caused by Niu Sixia's death still remains in this home, but it is no longer as bloody as before. As Niu Dalang gets the attention of the inspection, even if he occasionally walks around, he can give Niu Dalang some encouragement.
, bringing two or three yuan worth of steamed buns is enough for the surrounding neighbors and the Tingchang elders in the village to drink a bowl of water.
It doesn't require any special care, as long as you don't deliberately destroy it, the cattail grass like a cow will grow out of the cracks in the rocks, and then push away the rocks pressing on you.
This year Niu Dalang participated in the preliminaries.
Preliminary selection of soldiers.
Nowadays, children from poor families have two paths to take.
Go up.
There is one article and one martial art. Of course, at this stage, there are relatively more martial arts paths. Because it is very direct and the rewards are quick. Although the risk is higher and you have to face death. But children from poor families are not afraid of death;
poverty.
The path of literature is vague, some places have it, some places don't. Chang'an Sanfu Zuojin is better, but other places are not so good. After all, the imperial examination system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was put on after constant pulling and friction. Nowadays,
If you want to get the benefits of clamping, you still need to adjust and run in.
Cow Dalang bit into the thick bun.
The thick buns were mixed with bran, which was very scratchy on the throat. But Niu Dalang ate it very well, and Niu Xiaomei also ate it very well, so it was okay to chew on it.
Their lives seemed to have climbed up from the abyss, or at least got a little better.
After the little sister had finished eating, Niu Dalang took the hoe and shovel and went out with the little sister, and then took the two sheep with him.
The lambs were initially brought for inspection, and were lent to Niu Dalang first. After a few months, the lambs grew up, were bred, and became pregnant, and were sent to the Hussar General’s livestock station to give birth.
I bought two lambs, one was brought back to raise, and the other was left at the livestock station, which was considered as a small repayment of the debt.
Although the grass and blades are all withered now, the temperature during the day is fine and only gets cold in the middle of the night. Moreover, it is the instinct of animals to search for food. Let the sheep eat some outside. When the heavy snow comes, they will have to eat the stock.
Niu Dalang glanced at Niu Xiaomei.
Because Niu Xiaomei followed the lamb and ate some goat's milk, her face was somewhat of a blood color, and her hair was not as withered and sparse as before. In addition, she was wearing a decent-looking indigo coat.
She became more lively. She held a stick and drove the big sheep. The little sheep didn't need to pay special attention to it, it would follow the big sheep on its own.
The younger sister is almost growing up and needs to prepare some dowry. Niu Dalang is thinking that if he goes to serve as a soldier and has the settlement money, he can buy two or three more sheep and let the younger sister raise them, till the fields and so on.
Just like other military households, they were entrusted to the public in the village for rent, and the rent was collected according to the harvest. They did not expect to make a fortune, but they could provide some food.
The military household's farmland and the village don't dare to have any evil thoughts. After all, under the same hussar, there is still a certain amount of affection for the emperor. Even if Niu Dalang is outside, the rest of the retired people will do some inspections and so on.
Please note that if you are found to be corrupting the military, the penalties will be heavier than those for ordinary corruption!
After all, military law is strict, and it is easy to lose one's head. Corruption of military households is basically the same as involving military discipline. An additional penalty is indispensable, and it is basically a death penalty once discovered. So the rent is more valuable than the brain.
How much will make people weigh it.
When I come back...well, maybe I won't be able to come back, but no matter what, if I have some money, I can use it as a dowry for my little sister. If I have enough dowry, I can find a good family. If I have a good family, I can do it myself.
Even if you die on the battlefield, you can rest assured.
Niu Dalang thought to himself, and greeted the neighbors he knew from the village along the way. Some of these people from the same village had helped Niu Dalang back then, and some had just stood by and watched. Are all the villagers like this?
It's not that bad. Generally, when people are in trouble, these people will help out if they have the spare capacity. What they can help is a matter of personal preference, and they can't be resentful if they can't.
After all, you can't expect others to help you, you still have to fight for yourself.
After they arrived at the field, Niu Dalang went to the field first, while Niu Xiaomei took the sheep to the wasteland nearby, then walked around nearby, first picked up all the excrement that could be seen in the basket, and then went to pick it up again.
A bundle of firewood was tied up with a belt, and he put it on the roadside with his back bent, and then came over to help Niu Dalang plow the fields.
Niu Dalang waved his hoe up and down.
After Niu Sixia died, their cattle were taken away to pay off their debts.
But it doesn't matter, Niu Dalang just thinks of himself as a cow.
"Brother! Are these lands going to be plowed?" Niu Xiaomei asked, then she also took a shovel and followed Niu Dalang to help.
"No, turn over this piece first..." Niu Dalang waved the hoe and breathed out words, "Over there, rent it out and don't worry about it. Keep this piece, dig it up and grow grains..."
Niu Dalang was hoeing the ground while talking to Niu Xiaomei intermittently. According to Niu Dalang's arrangement, this piece of land must be planted with winter wheat first, and if there is time, radish will be interplanted...
However, radish can only be planted after spring, so Niu Dalang didn't know whether he would have time to help plant it, so he could only tell Niu Xiaomei about it.
Because the training location for new recruits has now been changed to the new camp of Jiangwu Hall, those who are relatively close like Niu Dalang will arrive at the barracks later, while those who are further away such as Youfufeng, Longxi Longyou, Hedongbei, etc.
Wait for the military children in the area to set off in winter.
Niu Dalang continued to dig the ground, and then hoe after hoe, he said, "You can harvest radishes in April and May. Sell all the rest and pickle them and keep them for eating..."
Because a large amount of lake salt from the Western Regions arrived in Guanzhong, the price of salt was lowered a lot, and people were willing to use some salt to pickle their own dishes. Salt-pickled radish was the most common dish, and could be eaten until the next year.
"Huh..." Niu Dalang stopped for a moment, took a breath, then raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead with his arm, "When the time comes, if there are too many radish to sell, I will sell them to the military camp. There will be more radish in the market."
, but it costs a lot of money and takes more time, so it’s not worth it... Phew... After harvesting the radishes, add another crop of grasshoppers, and then plant some sunflowers or something in the yard. Generally speaking, that’s enough.
I have something to eat with you... I can have enough to eat all year round..."
Although Niu Xiaomei was still reluctant to give up, she stood beside Niu Dalang with a strong expression and nodded, "I'll remember it! My mother said that she heard that silk is selling very well now, so she wanted to raise some silkworms at home.
When the time comes, you will first sell silkworm cocoons and then learn to learn slowly. Later, if you can draw silk, you can sell it for a good price... Also, silkworm chrysalis can also be eaten..."
After Niu Sixia's death, the great grief and fear for the future made Niu Sixia's wife seriously ill and almost lost half of her life. If Niu Dalang hadn't gritted his teeth and shouldered the burden of the family, I'm afraid the Niu family would have been
collapsed.
Later, as Niu Dalang restored the Niu family's vitality little by little, his mother gradually got better. Although she was still unable to withstand the heavy lifting, she could always struggle to survive after seeing hope.
"Raising silkworms..." Niu Dalang hesitated for a moment, "You have to herd sheep and take care of the fields. If you also have to pick mulberry leaves... are you busy enough?"
Although raising silkworms is not a heavy labor, silkworms need to eat mulberry leaves almost every day when they grow up, especially before spinning silk. They are simply ruthless eaters. There are only a few or dozens, but they want to sell some cocoons.
Money, that’s not enough to raise thousands of animals...
"My mother and I will give it a try this year and raise a few first." Niu Xiaomei also has the stubbornness of the Niu family, "Don't worry, I will be careful in the beginning and I won't make any mistakes!"
"You girl..." Niu Dalang stretched out his hand, habitually wanting to rub Niu Xiaomei's head again. Suddenly he saw some mud on his hand, so he hesitated and did not reach out. Unexpectedly, Niu Xiaomei came up to her.
As if he was still a child, he put his head on Cow Dalang's hand and rubbed it, like a puppy.
"I looked around and saw that there is a mulberry forest over there. The sheep can be put there to graze. Then I will pick mulberry leaves without delay!" Niu Xiaomei grinned, "Brother, what do you think? I'm smart.
stop?"
"That's really good." Niu Dalang smiled at his sister, touched her head and said, "In the future, all the work in the field will depend on you... If you are too busy harvesting wheat, don't do it recklessly. You should spend some money to hire someone."
Just hire part-time workers! Don’t worry about the money, it’s not worth it if you’re exhausted! I have military pay! I heard that if you train well in the military camp, you’ll get extra rewards!”
When it comes to the treatment of the military, Niu Dalang is full of longing and seems to be full of motivation.
Because Fei Qian's benefits to soldiers far exceeded the original standards for soldiers in the Han Dynasty, the recruitment system in Guanzhong was almost full every year, with people vying to become soldiers. Even because of being a soldier, his family became a military household.
, you can start to enjoy some reductions and exemptions.
In the Song Dynasty, military households were only thieves who were assigned to the army. In the Ming Dynasty, they were low-ranking households and low-ranking people who were not allowed to take the imperial examination. In peacetime, they looked down on soldiers and thought that soldiers and military households were inferior to others. Only the rich, nobles, squires and wealthy people deserved respect. As a result, they met
In times of national calamity, can we still expect military personnel under such circumstances to stand up and fight for the country?
Of course, not all the army is a collection of saints, and not all are good people. There are also some who use their status as soldiers to commit crimes. But fortunately, both Fei Qian and the generals from various places abhor this kind of crime. If it is in the camp
In general fights inside, and sometimes in order to cultivate blood and courage, the board is raised high and put down gently. But once it is found that someone is really using his status as a soldier to bully the people outside, it is almost always strict.
Disposed of by military law!
In addition, the rangers and libertines in Guanzhong Sanfu and other places are almost extinct now, and those recruited are from good families, so in terms of observing military discipline, they are relatively stronger and better than before.
"When the time comes..." Niu Dalang picked up the hoe again and hoeed the ground, "When the time comes... don't send me off... I hate seeing people cry the most..."
In the past, those who went to serve as soldiers in the village were really a bunch of people crying, parting and dying, it was inevitable.
Niu Dalang didn't like this.
Because he had cried before, he even knelt down to cry to others and kowtowed to beg, but it was in vain.
It's of no use at all.
Others just laughed.
So from that time on, he stopped crying, and he didn't like people in his family to cry either.
Cry, I can’t cry, I can’t pray, I can’t pray!
Everything you want can only be achieved by yourself!
"Well, Mom likes to cry, so she won't go," Niu Xiaomei rolled her eyes, "I don't like to cry, so I'll go see you off!"
"Hey, at first, I didn't know who it was, crying like a mud monkey..." Niu Dalang revealed his shortcomings unceremoniously.
"Ah, brother! I don't like crying anymore!" Niu Xiaomei argued loudly.
"Okay, okay, you don't like to cry anymore..." Niu Dalang continued to hoe the ground, "By the way, sister..."
"Um?"
"What kind of person do you want to marry in the future?"
"I want to marry a soldier!" Niu Xiaomei was also unambiguous and responded readily, "Like a brother!"
"That's it, I'll, when the time comes, hey," Niu Dalang dug up the ground vigorously with a hoe and laughed a few times, "I'll find one for you in the military camp!"
