After staying at He's house for more than twenty minutes, Li Xuan got up and left, and then visited almost other families in the village. One of them was the local village police chief, who was also a retired soldier.
Li Xuan also chatted with him for a long time. Patrolman He was actually a descendant of the He family. Most of the people in this village had the surname He, but they had been separated by many generations.
In his early years, he joined the army as a soldier. After serving for four years, he retired with the rank of first-class private. Then he returned to his hometown and first worked as an ordinary patrol policeman in the county. When he reached middle age, he naturally did not want to wander outside, so he applied for transfer back.
He serves as the village police chief in his hometown.
Li Xuan carefully looked at the village police chief's home. Although it was not big, it was a brick house. His family could have enough to eat, especially the little granddaughter of the village police chief, who was more than one year old.
The baby is white and tender, with big eyes that can last for a long time without blinking. She looks very cute.
Li Xuan couldn't help but reach out and pinch her face!
This family is actually a typical middle-class family in contemporary Datang society!
Squires like the He family are not truly middle class. They belong to the upper class. Two generations of their family have been officials in succession, and if nothing unexpected happens, in a few years there will be three generations of officials.
The family wants a mansion, a mansion, and a factory. Would you say that such a family is middle class?
The He family can slap you in the face!
Families like Chief Hecun's are ordinary middle-class families. They basically meet their needs for food, clothing and housing, and they begin to expect more and try to cultivate the next generation.
Sheriff Hecun’s eldest son is studying in Shanghai, at Songjiang Normal University!
For such families, if their next generation wants to go to college, and if they are not geniuses and can get scholarships, going to normal school is actually their only choice. If they are willing to do nothing else, the tuition is cheap.
As long as you sign a relevant agreement and agree to work as a teacher in a government-run school for a number of years after studying for three years, well, it is usually a government-run school in a backward area with a shortage of teachers and poor economy and other aspects.
Then you can get discounts on tuition fees, and some can even study for free!
Sheriff Hecun’s eldest son is such a person, and Sheriff Hecun said he was quite proud of his son!
Yes, such a son is something he should be proud of.
As long as you successfully avoid it, even if you work as a teacher in a backward area, you are still a teacher.
As long as you survive the teacher contract in the first few years, you can then take the examination. Needless to say, if you pass the examination, you can become an official directly.
Even if you fail the exam, being a teacher is still a decent job and the salary is often not low.
In addition to the village police chief's home, Li Xuan also visited several ordinary people's homes, all of which were real lower-class people.
She didn't have any decent clothes on her body, and even though it was a farmhouse that looked relatively well-off, among the six members of the family that Li Xuan saw at that time, only the hostess's clothes were not obviously patched.
But Li Xuan had a sharp eye and knew at a glance that she was probably wearing these clothes temporarily.
After all, the time it took for Li Xuan to enter the village was not short, it took more than half an hour in total, even though the Guards had completely sealed off the village and did not allow the villagers to go out and move around.
But basically anyone who is not stupid knows that a big shot is coming to inspect the village.
Except for the hostess, whose clothes were still intact, everyone else's clothes were patched. The only difference was the number of patches.
The family's financial situation is relatively good, but the family's financial situation is the worst among them.
After listening to the stories of the old woman and several other people in the village, Li Xuan frowned!
This is the one in the village!
There is only an old woman in her sixties who lives with four grandchildren, the eldest of whom is fifteen years old and the youngest is only six years old.
This old woman’s husband served as a corvee more than thirty years ago and died under the whip of a soldier!
After her husband died, she raised three sons by herself!
But it was not easy to bring up the eldest son and the second son, but they both died in the war.
What war?
Needless to say, it was a series of battles fought in northern Zhejiang when the Tang Dynasty royal division and the Ming army were fighting for the world!
Her eldest son was forcibly recruited by the Ming army at that time and became a young cannon fodder in the Ming army in Jiaxing City. However, he died under the artillery fire of the Tang Dynasty on the first day of defending the city.
The second son was also captured as a young man, but not by the Ming army, but by the Tang army.
Of course, it cannot be said that he was captured as a young man now, but that he supported the army in fighting and voluntarily helped the army transport supplies.
As a result, it is also gone forever!
Coincidentally, her second son also died under Jiaxing City. When the army attacked Jiaxing, civilians were used to dig trenches.
It happened that her second son was killed by the Ming army's artillery. You must know that in the so-called Battle of Jiaxing, the attacking side of the Tang Dynasty, including civilian husbands, only a hundred people were killed.
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Both of her sons died in Jiaxing City, one died in the city, one died outside the city, one was in the Ming army camp, and the other was in the Tang army camp.
In addition, because her second son died at the gate of Zhenjiang City as a civilian husband and not a soldier, the Tang army at that time did not even send a death notice to the mother, and it was even less possible to provide compensation.
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At that time, the Tang Dynasty was in such embarrassment that it could not even pay officials' salaries. There was no such thing as pensions for regular soldiers, and it was even less likely for civilian husbands.
It was only after the founding of the Tang Dynasty that pensions were paid to the families of soldiers who died during the Unification War, but civilian husbands were still not included!
Her third son, however, escaped the war period, got married and had children when he got older, and lived his life honestly.
But in the 21st year of Xuanping, in order to earn a wage, her third son went to work on a railway construction site. Although he worked for a few months and received some wages.
However, the farm work at home was heavy. Not only did he do farm work at home, but he also went to work on the railway construction site. After a few months, even a hard-working man could not hold on!
In just half a year, I was exhausted, and I couldn’t afford to fall ill. I gave up in less than half a month!
The daughter-in-law of the third son of an old woman was originally weak and sick. After her husband passed away, all the burdens were placed on her shoulders. How could she, a weak woman, hold on!
In order to survive, she worked hard to spin and weave, and farmed with her children and her old mother-in-law!
In the end, she died too!
Last autumn, when the rice was harvested and the harvest came, she fell down in the rice field and could never open her eyes again!
He left behind three children and a mother-in-law in her fifties!
The old woman didn't say anything sensational, she just said it very simply and straightforwardly. She didn't even say it on her own initiative. She only said it after Li Xuan asked.
Unfortunately, what she spoke was the local dialect, which Li Xuan couldn't understand, so several local officials nearby acted as temporary translators.
Li Xuanshi could even tell that when these local officials temporarily translated, they deliberately made it artistic.
We dare not hide anything, but the same thing can naturally express different meanings by using different words and translations.
Li Xuan doesn’t care either!
He looked around and then focused on the three children behind the old woman. These three children were two boys and one girl. The girl was the youngest, about six or seven years old.
The older boy should be around twelve or thirteen years old, but judging from his appearance and the calluses on his hands, you can tell he is an old farmer who has worked in the fields since he was a child.
The slightly younger boy is estimated to be about ten years old. It can also be seen that he is a small farmer who works hard all day long.
Even though the girl was young, thin, and a little shy of strangers, Li Xuan could guess that even though she was young, she should be helping the family on weekdays.
It’s not easy for a family of four like this to still be alive!
Li Xuan stood up and wanted to say something. Originally, he wanted to ask local officials to make some special arrangements, or directly leave some money to support them, but what was the point of doing so?
Just helping a family was not worth mentioning in Li Xuan's eyes. What he was thinking about at this moment was how to get rid of so many similar poor families across the country to get rid of their damn current situation.
Although this family was the poorest in the village, Li Xuan walked along and saw that the situation of several other families was not much better than this family.
There are only a few families like this in an ordinary village, but how many families are there nationwide?
Li Xuan can't imagine it!
At this time, although the slightly older boy was limited by his knowledge, he actually still didn't know who Li Xuan appeared in front of him. Even if he knew about the emperor, he didn't know what the emperor was.
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But he knew that Li Xuan and the others in front of him were the only big shots he could come into contact with in his life.
And just one word from these big shots can change the fate of their family!
But he didn't dare to speak, he could only look at Li Xuan and others like this!
Although he can change his destiny as long as he does something at this moment, he can't guarantee that it will be good!
Li Xuan also saw his expression at this time, and he vaguely guessed what the young man was thinking. He just wanted to seize the only opportunity he could encounter in this life and change his destiny.
In fact, Li Xuan knew better that this young man did not have to do anything at all, and he did not have to do anything. After today, this village will definitely receive the attention of the local government. If Li Xuan comes to Zhejiang again in a few years, he will see
This village must be another Zhouzhuang.
The government may not be able to change the lives of people in the entire province, but it is very simple to change a single village.
However, what Li Xuan is thinking about right now is how to change the lives of extremely poor families in the province and even across the country.
Li Xuan didn't expect too much, at least he had to let them live!