The outside of the cave dwelling looks like a courtyard house, except it is larger and sunken.
Yuhebao is a rare place with flat terrain nearby, and there is a lack of food, so it was originally built as a sunken cave dwelling.
First, a large square pit is dug, and then arched cave dwellings are dug in several walls. The number of cave dwellings on each wall is different, depending on the size of the pit.
For example, their Jiadingyuan is a cave dwelling with two sides, ten households on each side, and forty people living together.
On the remaining two sides, there is a sloping wall to go up to the ground and a cellar to be dug out for storage; on the other wall, a stable is built, a well is dug in the yard, a millstone is placed, two shade trees are planted, and the yard is full of stone locks and weapon racks.
The rules for cave dwellings in underground caves for ordinary frontier soldiers are similar, except that the infantry caves replace stables with corrals. In the past, they could raise some livestock when they had plenty of food.
This type of sunken cave dwellings can still grow food on their roofs, and some places even have streets with underground courtyards.
Up to now, regardless of whether it is the corral in the kiln or the field on the roof, they are useless. The corral is cleaner than the cave dwelling, and the roof has no other use except for the loess road.
After eating the golden millet rice, Liu Chengzong was at least half full.
Wandering all the way to the barracks, I threw the red flag into the stable and locked it. I picked up a short branch from outside the door and lit it on the long-burning stove in the yard. I took it into the house and lit it on the table, and the bottomed oil lamp lit up.
Xiao Zuanfeng, who had followed him into the house, sniffed first and looked at the oil lamp with dissatisfaction. He raised his front legs and tried to go to the table to put out the smelly thing. When Liu Chengzong stretched out his legs, he was so frightened that he put his tail between his legs and whined and went to the corner to dog him.
Lie down well.
What is burned in the lamp is linseed oil. Because linseed looks very much like a louse, it is also called tick linseed and has a faint smell. People do not use it for cooking and eating. A lot of it is grown in Shaanxi and Gansu and is used as lamp oil.
It's okay to burn it.
In his memory, the thing that this man thought was ignored became a good thing for cooking hundreds of years later. It seemed that it no longer smelled bad, and he didn't know why.
There were so many things that he couldn't figure out about the other memory, and Liu Chengzong didn't bother to delve into it. Thirty years can change the appearance of the world, not to mention spanning four hundred years of history. It's not surprising that any changes have occurred.
Instead of worrying about why flaxseed oil could be eaten four hundred years later, he was more willing to think about how he could live a life of eating three meals a day and three vegetables in one meal.
Liu Chengzong's martial arts skills, which were almost destroyed by starvation, were hard-won.
Eating three vegetables in one meal was the only time he had eaten like this in autumn when he was studying martial arts in Dalao, Mizhi County.
The prison in autumn is a good time, and you can make ends meet.
The good times began in the second year of Tianqi. The two brothers' father, Liu Xiangyu, who had a great reputation as a civil servant, resigned from his post as Confucian instructor in Yan'an Prefecture and was transferred to Mizhi County's Dianshi.
Although Dianshi has no rank, he is still an official of the imperial court who is selected by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and can only be appointed with the approval of the emperor.
Specialized in arresting prisoners, his office is located to the west of the county government office, commonly known as the Fourth Master of the West Government Office.
It was the first year of the Apocalypse, and Du Wenhuan, the commander-in-chief of Yansui, in order to avoid the emperor's order to aid the Liao Dynasty, carried out an operation to destroy Mongolia's nests, which attracted the captives to retaliate and went south to plunder.
He plundered for ten days and left.
Du Zongbing couldn't avoid the battle, so Liu Chengzong's uncle was killed by the looting bandits.
Because of this incident, Liu Juren had the idea of finding some martial arts masters for his two sons who were determined to take the imperial examination.
Directly raise the goal of the sons from ordinary literary Jinshi to the height of Xiong Tingbi with both civil and military talents.
It was like the parents in his memory four hundred years later who expected their children to succeed. Even though their children were still in preschool, they were already worried about the high consumption level in Beijing after they were admitted to Tsinghua University.
During the six years when Liu Juren was a pian, the Liu brothers learned a lot of various Kungfu and worshiped countless martial arts masters. None of them were famous, but they were all professionals.
The bow and horse of the Yinchuan postman, the beheading knife of the Mizhi executioner, the meteor hammer of the county yamen officer, the oral survival skills and practical experience of the horse thief in the county prison, and even the Shaolin flower spear learned from the monk who lived in the cell for a short period of time.
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The stick with an eyebrow and a spear head has mixed stick skills and spear skills. It is the opposite of the Majia gun and Yangjia gun with the gun bone and stick skin. It stabs less and smashes more. It is suitable for fighting alone in the rivers and lakes, and showing off bravery while jumping around.
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But this technique is useless in the battle formation. The spears are thrusting forward and the spears are thrusting away. In a horse battle, one still has to use a big spear five feet six feet long and a small spear seven feet tall at the end. Even if he moves around, he can't withstand the three spearheads.
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I think back then, every prisoner put in jail in Mizhi County would first be asked by the Liu Chengzong brothers what skills they had. However, when it came to decapitation, the elder brother was more particular than him, and he was still young at that time.
If you don't know how to do it, you'll take advantage of it if you catch it.
He couldn't help but cry when he was tried, saying that he was extremely hungry; he also felt that the decapitation meal was a waste, and most of the prisoners on death row who were about to be executed couldn't eat much, so they drank a pot of rice wine the next day to survive.
He was not afraid at all, and later Liu Juren let him go.
The retribution came very quickly.
In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Liu Juren completed his term of office and was promoted back to Yan'an Prefecture, where he was appointed as the ninth-grade ambassador to the Department of Tax Affairs. The good days of the old Liu family were over.
In those two years, northern Shaanxi experienced alternate seasons of drought. In the spring, seedlings died of drought, and in autumn there was another round of drought. The people were forced to burn their houses and go to the mountains to avoid paying taxes. There was no way to sell the wasteland.
There are rich and big landowners who harvest the land, but they pay a premium to buy your land, but you still have to pay the tax on the land. If the land is gone, can farmers still pay an egg?
It was really impossible to collect taxes. Liu Juren, who had been cautious all his life, became brave because of his cowardice. He saw how the people had been forced by natural disasters and did not dare to collect taxes again.
I could only go to the magistrate's office, and I suggested that I submit a letter to the court for tax exemption and disaster relief, but my words were a bit fierce.
He said that if we don’t provide tax relief for disaster relief, I won’t be able to finish my work in six years and we will all die together.
The prefect didn't die, but he really didn't let him work for six years.
After being cursed as an official, coupled with poor work performance, Liu Juren was directly imprisoned to make room for others.
Being an official means doing things. If this person can't do it, replace him with someone who can.
The two brothers were going to take the martial arts exam. Because they were the sons of criminal officials, they failed to pass the test. Halfway through the exam, they were kicked out with sticks and were recruited by He Renlong, who was the deputy examiner.
Liu Juren was right. Three months after his successor took office, there was a village in the mountains where one hundred and ten households could not collect taxes at all, so he personally led the government officials to collect taxes.
Unexpectedly, there was only one family left there.
In the Ming Dynasty, taxes were collected according to local quotas. At the grassroots level, it was the amount of tax that ten households had to pay. If three households were eliminated, the remaining seven households would still have to pay the same amount.
One hundred and ten households have moved away from one hundred and nine households. The last household is the village chief or grain chief, and has to pay the taxes of the one hundred and ten households.
If it weren't for a lame and blind old lady, the last household also ran away. She really couldn't run away. If she left by herself, she would be forced to hang herself. If she was taken away by the official, she would be forced to starve to death. There is no other way to pay taxes.
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Finally, the tax collector and two government servants were tricked into the woodshed, and a fire was locked outside.
Before the officers who arrested him arrived, I starved to death and hanged myself.
Later, Liu Juren was imprisoned for half a year. He was released when Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the whole country. Liu Juren, who returned to his hometown to work in farming, was stripped of his honorary title.
There is no gold or silver in the family, and we still have to live with a false reputation.
The world is going to be in chaos.
Liu Chengzong knew very well that his knowledge of classics and history since childhood and his memory four hundred years later would determine how far he could go, but martial arts was the foundation of his career.