Chapter 71 Are you worthy of the surname Huang? (Fourth update, please subscribe)
Next to the pier of Huangjia Village is Mr. Huang’s old house. This is a geomantic treasure!
Mr. Huang's ancestors came out from here, started business in Guangdong, and created the family business of the richest man in Daozhou.
Although Mr. Huang's family moved to Etang Town after his family became prosperous, the old house in Huangjia Village is still in excellent repair and maintenance. Outside the old house, there is also a memorial hall dedicated to the Huang family with a Huanggai tablet of Lingling Huang Patriarch. There is also a family ancestral hall and a Huang family mat.
There is a large open space between the old house, the ancestral hall, the private school and the wharf. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, villagers from more than a dozen nearby villages come here to attend the market. Usually this open space is where people with the surname Huang from Huangjia Village gather. .
Today is not the time to go to the market, but there are also about 200 Huang family members gathered here. They all look like they have little money. They are wearing shabby clothes. They all have sallow complexions and thin bodies. The men all have long and thin hair behind their heads. Braids - cutting off braids is also an important item in "Dividing Farms and Dividing Land".
Cut off the braids first and then divide the land, and from now on we will all be Taiping people!
Under the kind words and persuasion of the "kind-hearted Taiping Army", more than half of the villages around Etang Town have cut their hair, divided their land, and divided their wealth... In every village there are some who are quick-thinking and unwilling to suffer. Young adults who had been poor all their lives joined the Taiping Army or the God Worshipers.
Those who joined the Taiping Army are now training in Etang Town and will soon become the pillars of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Those who joined the Church of Worshiping God became "candidate lecturers" and either went to Etang Town to participate in training, or they further promoted the "dividing of fields and land" in their own villages - they would become the pillars of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the grassroots level.
However, the feudal forces here in Huangjia Village are obviously a bit stubborn... Under the auspices of several generations of Huang family elders, no one of the more than 200 Huang family men has cut their braids.
It was so smelly and hard that Wang Yan, who came in with dozens of Taiping troops, didn't know what to do.
He can't really use force to massacre the village, right?
They are all from Etang...and Wang Yan also ate Mr. Huang's porridge when he begged for food!
Therefore, he did not want Huangjiacun to be carried behind and massacred by the Taiping Army... After much deliberation, Wang Yan decided to use the method of disintegration. Several people from Huangjiacun were poor and lazy and could not do farm work. , looking for a breakthrough from the nerds who were about to starve to death. In the past two days, he had been looking for a few "off-bottom coffins" from the "Shi" generation or "Shou" generation to eat and drink, and promised them some benefits... Now... It depends on whether they dare to stand up and expose Huang Shijie's crimes!
Standing at Zhang Baxian's table outside the old house of the Huang family, Wang Yan couldn't help laughing as he looked at a group of Huang family members who were actually in abject poverty but thought they were from a middle-class family.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Hearing Wang Yan laughing, the Huang family below were stunned, and someone immediately responded: "Wang, what are you laughing at?"
Wang Yan glanced at the man. He was a skinny old man with gray hair and a wrinkled face, wearing a long gown.
This man's name was Huang Shicheng, a poor scholar who had failed to pass the scholar examination all his life. His family was extremely poor. He had a son named Huang Shouren, who was also a scumbag who failed to pass the examination. He was already over thirty and had not yet married a wife.
Huang Shijie saw that his father and son were pitiful, so he made them teachers in the Huang family school.
But now that Huang Shijie has run away, naturally no one will pay them any wages... They are about to break up, but they still can't take off their gowns or cut off their braids.
"Old sir, what's your surname?" Wang Yan's eyes widened and he asked knowingly.
"I'm sorry, my surname is Huang!" Old Man Huang said, puffing out his skinny chest.
"What? Your surname is Huang?" Wang Yan said with a look of disdain, "Where are you from Huang? You can't be Lingling Huang like Huang Shijie, right?"
"What do you mean?" Old Man Huang glared, "Of course I am Lingling Huang! Our Huang family is a famous family in Yongzhou...
"Bah! You're from a famous family...You old guy is almost starving!" Wang Suo opened his mouth and scolded, "How old is your son this year? He is over thirty, right? Has he ever touched a woman? Can he still marry a wife? ?You can't starve to death and still be a boy, right? He went to the underworld like this and still has the face to see Huang Gai and Huang Gongfu?"
"You, you, you..." Old Man Huang was so angry that he couldn't even speak clearly.
"What am I?" Wang Yan said with a smile, "I, Wang, was not far away from starving to death a month ago, and I couldn't marry a wife... I also wanted to sell my girl to Huang Shijie, but he didn't want her!
But now I have turned over! I am a good man from the Taiping Army. I joined the God Worshiping Association. My sister and I were assigned ten acres of paddy fields! Ten acres, all paddy fields... The matchmakers who came to my house almost came to my house. The threshold has been broken!" He patted his much stronger chest: "I haven't been hungry this month. I eat fried rice with lard and eggs every day, it tastes so good!"
He pointed at Huang Shouren, the son of Old Man Huang: "Huang Shouren, how many days have you not had enough to eat? Can't you open the pot at home? Are you still holding on? Do you really deserve the surname Huang?" "Me, me."
Wang Yan waved to him: "Come here, come here...come here and join the Taiping Army. We will be brothers. From now on we will have food to eat together, clothes to wear together, and fields to farm together! No matter how rich Huang Shijie is, he will not If I give some to your family, not only will I not give any to your family, but I will eat up all the ancestral property of your family!"
"Shut up! You're talking nonsense."
Huang Shicheng, old man Huang, was heartbroken by Wang Yan's words, and he immediately became anxious.
"Dad, he's not talking nonsense!" Huang Shouren howled suddenly, "Dad, our family's little ancestral property has long been given to our fourteenth uncle... Our family has long been impoverished!" Huang Shijie was in his room. He was the eldest brother. He was divided into Huangs in the Etang of Linglinghuang, so he was ranked Fourteenth, and he was known as Huang Shilang.
"Son, what are you talking about?" Old Man Huang became even more anxious when his son said this. "Our family still has fifteen acres of paddy fields... What we have paid for is just the skins of the fields. The bones of the fields are still there, and the skins can be redeemed at any time." Come back!"
"Redemption? What to redeem for?" Huang Shouren yelled, "Dad, wake up! All the field skins have been used up, and the remaining field bones are in your hands and you can't release them to collect rent. You still have to plant them yourself." Even if you ask your uncle Fourteenth to rent a piece of land, you can get it without deposit, but you still have to pay it, and the usury money you borrowed has to be repaid with interest... Can you afford it? Do you still have to pay it?"
The more he spoke, the more excited he became. When he finished talking, he simply turned around and said loudly to a group of fellow clan members: "Uncles and brothers, think about it carefully. Who in the village can redeem the farmland that was pledged to Uncle Fourteen? Who is not getting deeper and deeper into the situation? Instead of doing this, it is better to sell the land with the skin and bones, so that at least you can get a few more money and have more meals... In this case, the skin of the land is gone. No one wants the field bones, not even for Uncle Fourteen, which means nothing! Doesn’t this mean that Uncle Fourteen spent 60% of the price to eat up all our family property? Do you think he has a conscience? Is he a human being? .
"Shut up! Shut up! You and I are both scholars. As long as we can pass the examination, are we still afraid that we will not be able to redeem these ancestral properties?" Old Man Huang became more and more angry as he listened, and he didn't know how to refute. After all, what his son said was the truth. , so I had no choice but to change the topic. "Juren? Dad, you have been taking exams all your life and you haven't even been able to pass the exam, and you still want to win the exam? Why is it so easy to win the exam? Unless..." Huang Shouren suddenly looked fanatical. Said, "Unless the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom opens a new subject to recruit scholars!"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Old Man Huang was furious, "How can Changmao open a subject to get a scholar? Changmao worships a foreign god and doesn't read the books of sages. What subject do they offer?"
"I don't care!" Huang Shouren clenched his fists and shed tears, "I want to eat, I want a wife..., I'm hungry! As long as I can eat enough and have a wife to carry on the family line, I can also worship God!"
"Okay... I shouted well. "Huang Shou is busy, I think you are very talented to be Master Hong. I don't know how to join the lecture class. As long as you learn the principles of the God Worship Association for a few months, you can take the exam. If you are good at it, you can be a civil servant, and you can even be a high official in the Nanwang Palace and the Angel Palace!"
Huang Shouren immediately raised his arms and shouted: "I want to eat, I want to be an official, and I want to worship God... Before he finished shouting, the old man Huang yelled: "Wait a minute!"
Everyone looked at the old man and saw a sharply polished dagger in his hand!
"You, what do you want to do?" Wang Yan looked at him nervously, "You can't kill your son!"
Chapter completed!