When Yang Feng set off again the next day, it was already a large team, with six carriages carrying eighteen children, seven of whom were boys and six girls who were from the Yanzhou Nursing Home.
All.
Not all orphans under the care of the almshouse are raised in the almshouse.
Those who have relatives are raised by their relatives, but the nursing home is responsible for providing food, so it is definitely impossible for Yang Feng to take them away.
Those relatives are still reluctant to leave!
Six kilos a year!
Let’s talk about Zhu Yuanzhang’s system. These children who are raised on behalf of others are not separated until they reach adulthood. But in fact, children these days have to work, so for their relatives, it is a free labor force, and they also receive six months a year for free.
As for the subsidy of 6 shi rice in a year, it is a very difficult thing for a child to calculate.
So it is definitely impossible to give him something like this.
The ones he really took away were the ones that he couldn't even find relatives to adopt on his behalf and could only adopt them in almshouses.
As for the other three boys and two girls, there are too many people in the family to support them.
Then we can only ask Yang Feng to adopt them. Since they were adopted by Yang Feng, then Yang Feng and their parents are destined to be together.
If you are so poor, of course you need to help!
The routine operation of the Ming Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats. In the late Ming Dynasty, the gentry had thousands of child servants. Most of the charming little beauties in their families were adopted daughters. Similarly, a large part of the serfs on the family land were adopted sons. At this time, there was already such a situation.
Operation, so Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly issued a policy that adopted daughters cannot be played with. If they play with each other, they will be punished. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, they must be hung up, and the adopted sons must also divide the family property. However, it is definitely not possible to ban this kind of adoption. After all, there are all kinds of natural disasters in this era, and it has reduced to
It is not uncommon for people to sell their children and girls. Legal adoption at least ensures that these children will not starve to death.
others……
His Majesty the Emperor has not gone so far into this issue.
Protecting these carriages were seventy strong men on horseback, all of whom were military households.
Of course, they are not regular soldiers, but Yu Ding from the military household, that is, brothers of regular soldiers, but they also belong to the Wei family.
Equivalent to reserve duty.
Once their brothers are killed or injured, they have to take their place.
Similarly, they also have military land allocated by the government, which is only half of that of the regular army. However, if they can open up wasteland themselves, then these wastelands will be tax-free.
New wasteland is opened up, and science is never started.
Zhu Yuanzhang was more powerful than Mago who asked him to double the fire cost while shouting that he would never increase his salary. However, Mago is the Holy Lord and Mingjun, and he can only be a tyrant. Who asked Mago to take 80% of the firepower from the quasi-official?
But what about the fact that he skinned corrupt officials? After all, history books are not written by mud-legged people. The comments of mud-legged people will not be passed down. They will be gone when they die. Officials and literati are the ones who write history.
Their evaluation is the evaluation.
Theoretically, there are certain problems with Yang Feng's employment of them. At least it is not very legal, and is somewhere between legal and illegal.
The key depends on the guard commanders they belong to.
But the commanders of the Yanzhou guards and Rencheng guards, who were caught by Yang Feng, could only turn a blind eye to this problem.
As for Ambassador Yang's big boxes, Yanzhou guards sent people to escort them to Jinzhou.
After all, he is just a salt merchant who is going to Liaodong to build a commercial settlement. Because he has a good relationship with the commander of Rencheng Guard, he is afraid that he will be hacked to death by bandits in Liaodong, so he is asked to hire a group of Yu Ding in Rencheng Guard. This identity is understood
Everyone understands that it must be the commander of Ren City Guard, and there will be no problems at the checkpoints along the way. But if he brought a lot of gold and silver jewelry, it is hard to say what happened, because Zhu Yuanzhang has strict orders that gold and silver cannot be
Out of the country, a businessman takes a lot of gold and silver to the frontier?
What do you want to do?
Therefore, these gold and silver were sent to Jinzhou in the name of Prince Lu's Palace, which was equivalent to the guarantee of Prince Lu's Palace as his private property.
Ambassador Yang's itinerary will then be relatively normal.
They headed all the way north, along the canal, but at this time this section of the canal was still unnavigable. After the Yellow River burst, it poured into Anshan Lake. This lake was used by the Yuan Dynasty to maintain navigation, but now it is poured into Anshan Lake.
The Yellow River water sedimentation quickly silted up.
The canal is blocked here.
This area in southwestern Shandong is the watershed between the north and south direction of the river. In order to maintain a canal connection, it is necessary to maintain a river channel with sufficient water depth and forcibly change the natural flow direction. From the time of Huan Wen's Northern Expedition, projects were carried out in this area until the Yongle period.
This problem was solved with the Nanwang water diversion project, but the cost was that the entire southwest of Shandong had to serve this section of the river.
The people of the entire southwest of Shandong have to pay for the rice from Jiangnan that the dignitaries in the capital eat.
After floods occur, the canals have to release water to aggravate their disasters, because when the water is large, it can easily form rapids and affect the safety of sailing. After a drought occurs, all rivers have to fill the canals to ensure the water depth of the canals, and then all river gates that can release water for irrigation are closed.
closure.
What the people want is the other way around!
But in turn, it affected the rich and powerful in the capital.
So in the end, southwest Shandong became a region full of unruly people and bandits. It was a scar that was difficult to heal from the Ming Dynasty until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and then continued to intensify in the Qing Dynasty.
However, at this time, because Zhu Yuanzhang paid more attention to maritime transportation, the value of the canal to him was limited. The inland water transportation volume to Peking was not high. Water transportation refers to transportation from various places to the capital, and Nanjing happened to be at the center of the water transportation network.
And it is still downstream, no matter where it comes from, it can be easily reached by water transportation. As the capital, Nanjing can be said to be the choice with the lowest maintenance cost. Peking is just a border fortress. There is no need to maintain such a high-cost river for this purpose.
, it is even more unnecessary to dredge Anshan Lake for this purpose.
After all, the north must first have enough population.
After crossing Anshan Lake, Yang Feng and his party could board the boat. Although their land travel speed was not slow, taking a boat was still more comfortable than walking.
And it's downstream to the north.
However, the population decreases as you go north. After Linqing, it can basically be said to be a wilderness. That is to say, there are people around the towns, but most places are deserted, and even the population is mostly immigrants from the south.
, most of them are military households.
It is quite consistent with the poor population of the North Parallel Province at this time.
After all, with a population of 1.5 million, including men, women, old and young, it would be good if the route from Baoding to Henan in the west can be barely filled.
And so it was until Tianjin, or Zhigu as it was called at this time.
Direct sale.
"Mr. Yang, are we going to Peking or Yongping?"
The guide hired by Yang Feng asked him, who was enjoying the collision of the waves, with a smile on his face.
This guide named Li Fu is also a veteran, but now his son is taking over. He injured his arm and can no longer fight. Yang Feng's employees are all high-paying, and he will be given ten taels of gold if he dies, so of course he is willing to follow him.
, even if he really died, he would still leave ten taels of gold to his children and grandchildren. The other employed military households basically had the same mentality. Yang Fengming said that this trip was very dangerous and someone might die.
but……
He gave so much!
It's not just that people may die, these military households are originally preparing to go to the battlefield, so this issue does not need to concern them at all.
"Is it easy to go to Yongping Road?"
Yang Feng asked.
On the Haihe River in the east, a large sea-going ship was riding the tide.
At this time, the tide of Sancha River in Tianjin was so fierce that it could reach Yangcun. The tide could not reach Sanyang, Yangcun, Yangliuqing, and Yangfenggang, the three peaks of the Tianjin tide. Ships could easily reach here by riding the tide, and then
Unloading goods at a series of official warehouses on the north coast. This is the end of the sea transportation to Peking. The next transportation to Peking will be changed to small boats. This kind of transportation has been prosperous since the Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of people died of famine.
Emperor Yuan Shun was about to give up most of the capital and run away. Fortunately, Zhang Shicheng shipped hundreds of thousands of stone rice to him by sea every year for many years, so Emperor Yuan Shun did not run away in advance.
Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty also specially sent ministers to Zhang Shicheng to collect grain and shipping supplies. It can be said that Zhang Shicheng's shipping supplies were the main reason why the Yuan Dynasty was able to sustain Xu Da's journey north.
Otherwise, they would have abandoned Dadu long ago without waiting for Xu Da.
So, it was said that Zhang Shicheng contributed the most to the fight against the Yuan Dynasty?
"It's not easy to walk anywhere else to the north. It's sparsely populated, and there's water and reed marshes everywhere. It's even hard to find ferries in some places. There are some kitchen households along the coast that dry salt, and you have to go all the way to Luanzhou to find people."
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Li Fu said.
"What if we take the sea route by boat?"
Yang Feng said.
"It's okay to take a boat. After going out to sea, head north and follow the coast to Jinzhou, but it takes a lot of time. If the wind direction is right, it's okay, but if the wind direction is bad, it's not sure. It's already late autumn, and the north wind has started. I don't know yet.
If the wind blows from the south again, it will be even slower if I want to go there. However, it is faster to take the main road all the way to Peiping, although it will take a long way around."
Li Fu said.
"Then..."
Before Yang Feng finished speaking, he looked at the river in astonishment.
The sea ship was passing by not far away, and a familiar figure on the deck was looking at him with a smile on his face...
"Ambassador Yang, why are you dressed like this? Where are you in that floral dress?"
Zhang Fu said with a smile.
Yang Feng looked at him angrily.
"Aren't you serving your king in the capital? Why are you here?"
he said.
"His Majesty has decreed to give my king a hundred new artillery pieces. He was escorted by Zhang and came by sea. My king led his troops and brought the new artillery to Liaodong. Together with the King of Liao, he patrolled the border to test the artillery, and recruited Nvzhi and other troops.
Arrive directly at Nuergancheng to cut off Can Yuan's escape route to the east. In addition, His Majesty's imperial edict also said that you should lead the way for my king, and you will not be allowed to return until Nuergancheng."
Zhang Fu said.
So, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Di to wipe out the Jurchens?
Therefore, this was also the reason why he rewarded the Liaodong armies in advance. He really had a grudge and would not wait until he found out how his Ming Dynasty fell, so he hurriedly came to raid them in advance.