Chapter 103 Refugees
Wang Dazhuang was a refugee, but six months ago he was a farmer under Nanchang Prefecture. He rented 20 acres of land in the village, and his life was pretty good.
The rent from Landlord Liu's family is not very ruthless, only 60% of the money, which is much better than the 70% in other villages. He and his father can still have enough food and clothing in a year. Maybe in a few years, his father saved up two taels of silver and could find a wife for him. Wang Dazhuang originally thought that this would be the case in his life.
Unexpectedly, the bandit Zhang Xianzhong came, and all the food was stolen by these bandits of heaven. My father said, "How can we live?" He was hacked to death by those bandits who were like wolves and tigers."
Wang Dazhuang's boss, Liu Dizhu's family, was killed, and Liu Dizhu's beautiful daughter was also captured by bandits and died in the city. Wang Dazhuang became a glorious refugee.
Wang Dazhuang followed the brigade to avoid the bandits and went south. I heard that the north was even more chaotic than Jiangxi, but now only the south is still considered peaceful.
In this way, Wang Dazhuang hid in the mountainous area for half a year and came to Guangdong. I would like to thank him for the temperature in the south, and the temperature is not as low as the north. In the mountains, you can get some food, so this group of refugees did not have the same tragedy as in the north.
When I arrived in Nanxiong Mansion, Guangdong, the local governments were in charge of these refugees at the beginning, and they gave up a meal of porridge that could make people feel good every day. However, as more and more refugees went south, the governments had stopped serving porridge.
Wang Dazhuang is eighteen years old this year. When he is growing up, it is really a torment to not be full of food. Sometimes it is better to die like his father.
At this moment, Tong Yangjia's men came to Nanxiong Mansion with the road from Dongguan County Government, and found the prefect and said they wanted to recruit people to farm. The prefect wanted all the mud legs to get out, not to mention that he had gotten the benefit of 500 taels of silver, so he naturally cooperated with him with all his strength.
In this way, the refugee Wang Dazhuang and more than 10,000 other strong refugees went south to Dongguan to work hard for Zhu Hongsan.
After a month of trekking, Wang Dazhuang finally came to Dongguan. This place was much hotter than Jiangxi, which made Wang Dazhuang very uncomfortable. After living in the shed outside Dongguan City for ten days, three groups of refugees came here one after another. There were more than 40,000 people in total.
When I woke up that morning, the manager informed everyone to go out to queue today. There were factories recruiting workers. Each person picked three meals a day and had two taels of silver per month. After becoming a formal worker, he heard that it was five taels of silver.
This news made everyone crazy. What does five taels of silver mean? It is enough for a family of three to live for two months. So everyone waited outside early and waited for the factory to come.
The factory recruits workers and the army recruits soldiers. The army recruits soldiers are not as particular as factories, and they directly shout that there is no one in the army to twenty acres of land. The power of this sentence is more effective than silver.
However, the military requirements are very strict, which depends on age, height and temperament. Many people are beaten to register. Wang Dazhang is a good old age and has a good figure all year round, so he is easily selected to be a recruit.
The others had no choice but to go to the factory to try their luck, but it was not bad, and most people could choose. In three days, there were only 10,000 people left outside Dongguan City. The army recruited 3,000, and the rest were recruited by the factory.
Wang Dazhuang and Sanqian Lucky Man followed the recruiting officer to the Nanhaiwei. The first thing he did to enter the military camp was to take a bath. The refugees had been wandering for more than half a year and were covered with parasites. Ma Jingyuan ordered them to take a bath, then eat, and provide them with health care.
When Wang Dazhuang saw the meal, he was glad that he did not sign up to go to the factory. Not to mention anything else, the food for the army was so good. Not to mention the meat and fish every meal, the main esophagus was enough. There were three meals a day.
Wang Dazhuang thought that he didn't know if he was the rich boss, and it wouldn't be enough to make this money.
On the third day, Wang Dazhuang began to understand why they were so well eaten, because the training began. The intensity of the training increased day by day. At the beginning, Wang Dazhuang could still hold it back, but in the end it was really impossible, and he had the urge to escape.
However, after seeing the heads of three people who escaped, Wang Dazhuang dispelled the impulse. It was okay to be tired, but he had to behead his head when he escaped.
Next, Wang Dazhuang opened his eyes and someone would teach them tonight. Later, Wang Dazhuang learned that Zhu Hongsan, the chief minister who provided him with food and drink, had to work hard for him.
After listening to the brainwashing class for a few days, Wang Dazhuang felt that the first eighteen years had been in vain. He just understood why he had to suffer for the rest of his life, and also knew that if he wanted to get rich, have a land and have a wife, he had to follow his superior Zhu Hongsan.
For the sake of his wife and son and to avenge his dead father, the refugee Wang Dazhuang devoted himself to the training of the recruits. Their beloved superior Zhu Hongsan was working hard on the seventh concubine at this time.
Zhu Hongsan felt that he had been deceived by the day team. It seemed that he had forced his wife to him. However, the Seventh Lady Magnolia made Zhu Hongsan very satisfied. This woman actually had Sanjiang Chunshui, one of the top ten famous weapons.
You should know that women like this in their previous life were treasured toys by the rich, so how could it be the little slut Zhu Hongsan's turn?
Zhu Hongsan spent half a month in Magnolia Seven, which made Ma Xiaofang very dissatisfied.
Tienniu finally made several modern musical instruments in the past fifteen days. Zhu Hongsan asked the day team and the others to play it, but he didn't know whether it was the instruments that were wrong or the day team and the others were not good at it, so he was very good at the drum band that was hired by the township.
Zhu Hongsan was not angry and recalled the feeling of going to the countryside to receive gifts. Then he said to the day shift that he had to work hard and make those songs.
Just as Zhu Hongsan was struggling for his life, Li Zicheng from the north had already led his 400,000 army to march eastward to Shanxi. He fought with Zhou Yuji, the general guarding the pass for a month at Ningwu Pass. In the end, Zhou Yuji was defeated and committed suicide to his country.
Before his death, Zhou Yuji wrote the last memorial to Emperor Chongzhen, which said that the north was no longer possible. I would like to live the southern tour. When the memorial came to Chongzhen, he certainly knew that what Zhou Yuji was right.
Chongzhen found all the officials and asked them to think of a way to do it. The meaning of being in and out of the way was to run away. But these ministers were already scared by Chongzhen's bearish temper, and he could also say that all those who could do things and dared to say were killed by himself.
Some people said that if it doesn't work, let the prince go to Nanjing first. This was a solution at that time, but the minister Guang Shiheng jumped out and said, "You can't do the old things about Lingwu in the Tang Dynasty." This means that the prince, like the son of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, cannot go out and establish himself, and give Chongzhen a Supreme Emperor. The matter of the prince going south will be left to nothing.
The court meeting that day naturally parted in dissatisfaction, and Chongzhen angrily wrote to the table that ministers could be killed.
When Chongzhen returned to the harem, he thought that mice could be run away in the treasury now, and these ministers had money at home, so he would not let them donate some money. So he issued an edict asking the ministers in Beijing to donate money.
Chongzhen was also afraid that the ministers would not donate, so he found his queen and asked him to bring a message to the father-in-law, and asked him to set an example, donate a few thousand taels first.
Queen Zhou knew what her father was doing, so she asked the eunuch to send her father five thousand taels of silver, and asked him to fill in another five thousand taels and get 10,000 taels to donate it to look good. Thinking of this, Mr. Zhou, it was really OK. She ate two thousand taels of her daughter, and finally donated only three thousand taels.
As for the other ministers, it was similar. Two cabinet ministers Wei Zaode and Chen Yan. One donated 100 taels and the other posted a note at his doorstep for sale. It means that there is no money now, but I have to pay the emperor even if I buy a house.
The court in the north was in chaos, but our Zhu Hongsan lived a comfortable life in the south. He played with his wife every day, and glamoured Dongguan City.
Zhu Hongsan really hated the cities of this era. He did not get in and out of water, and men urinated everywhere. It was better on sunny days, but he got into the mud after rain.
When Zhu Hongsan traveled through time, he vowed to renovate the infrastructure in the future. After all, Zhu Hongsan did this in his previous life. But he had no power before.
Now it’s different. Zhu Hongsan already has a county town, which can be used as his own test field. Dongguan is not big, so he can be used to practice first. If he succeeds, he can promote it to all occupied areas.
Chapter completed!