"Ran'er, be careful!"

"Oh! I know..."

"laugh!"

"Crack--"

The year is over with the sound of firecrackers, and the spring breeze brings warmth to the summer.

At the entrance of the Ganqing Palace in Beijing, when Zhu Ciran lights firecrackers at the entrance of the palace, accompanied by crackling sounds, the boy rolls and crawls back to Zhu Youxiao, watching the people around him having fun.

The sound of bells and drums followed the sound of firecrackers, and then the sound of firecrackers rang out throughout Beijing.

In the next hour, firecrackers kept ringing throughout the capital, which also heralds the past of the tenth year of the apocalypse and the arrival of the eleventh year of the apocalypse.

The entire Ganqing Palace became lively. Zhu Youxiao took his favorite concubines, as well as Zhu Ciran and other six brothers and sisters, plus Zhu Youjian and Yuan Xi, a total of sixteen people started a family dinner for the reunion. .

It was the huge round table created by Zhu Youxiao himself. Sixteen people sat on it. Next to Zhu Youjian were Yuan Xipin and Zhu Youxiao, and next to Zhu Youjian was Zhang Yan.

"Apart from the village officials, is there anything unfair in the village?"

"I heard that there were troops walking around the mansion before the New Year. After this battle, I guess it would be safe for a while, right?"

He thought about managing the local area too easily.

The reason for this regulation is to prevent some places from overpopulation, resulting in a large population and a small land area.

One person planted 100 acres, which almost made Li Dashou and Li Zhang both bit their tongues.

It was not until dinner that Yang Rushi told him that Li Dingguo had run away home.

At that time, Zhu Youjian didn't know that Li Dingguo had already rode a horse and told Zhu Ciran that he might have gone out.

"When the two dog officials died, the villagers were so happy. Every household raised some money and bought firecrackers to set them off at the entrance of the village for three days. Your father also asked someone to kill a pig in the family."

Speaking of this, Li Dashou was a little proud, but Li Dingguo was very embarrassed.

Li Zhang interrupted Li Dingguo and complained to Zhu Youjian on his own and out of his words, looking down on the generals and soldiers.

Three people and six dishes, this is the configuration of the Li family for the New Year. Although it is not as good as Zhu Youjian and others who are also having a reunion dinner at the moment, the small households and rural game are not something that can be tasted in the palace.

But he didn't eat it all, and he also had a task when he got home this time.

"What are you doing in such a hurry? You can come back slowly."

However, when he said this, Li Dashou was moved: "Then do we have to..."

"Later I asked, it was not corvee service at all. The court gave us wages, but the dog officials above did not give us it, and just used corvee service as an excuse."

"We, the group of mud legs, couldn't see them at all. We didn't know when they came. We only knew that they were here when the village was asking every household to raise money and prepare chickens and ducks."

"Didn't he say anything else..." Li Dingguo felt embarrassed, so he wanted to ask some good aspects.

"How can you discuss what Your Highness asked you to do?" Li Dashou also looked sad.

"The censor said at the time, who dares to exploit us and force taxes, let us tell them, and when we ask him how he tells him, he tells us to tell the village officials."

"I think this is OK for the Ministry of Revenue to request the exemption of summer tax from these governments."

"But the things done by those two village officials were bullied in front of us. How could the people in the village not hate them?"

"He's going home for the New Year, and you won't see him this year."

"I discovered it when the people from the Imperial Horse Prison gave us a gift once. I pulled it to Caishikou in Yanshan County and beheaded."

Zhu Ciran felt the details of Li Dingguo clearly, but Zhu Youjian shook his head: "I'm going to Yanshan County."

In the case of plowing oxen, a person can plant at most ten to thirty acres of acres.

"A censor came to the village at that time. He was a second-rank official than the censor. I heard it was..."

Li Dingguo wanted to know more about the village and understand the difficulties of the people, because this was the knowledge he learned in the official school.

"Dad! Is it good for us to go to Yanshan County to escape the summer heat?!"

Their village has almost been divided into the land of the headlands, and after Li Dingguo came back, he saw many families having children.

"Hey..." Li Dashou couldn't help but smile dryly when he heard Li Zhang's words.

According to his guess, many families should move out after the third Northern Expedition in Dongshan Village.

"If you suffer from disaster, you will be exempted from the whole year, and there will be no summer tax or autumn tax."

As he ate, he looked up and said, "Dad, mom, your highness asked me to stay in grades for a year."

"The difference is that the censor in the past came to the village. The village needed the villagers to take out chickens, ducks and geese to entertain themselves, but now the village is to entertain themselves."

Although they all knew that these people would have to deal with them after they were corrupt, and the officials above would benefit, but they would have difficulty in hating them for village officials and county magistrates before they met those high-ranking officials.

"Yes..." Zhu Youjian responded, and seemed to have known that Zhu Youjian would make such arrangements.

It's a blessing that he ran in time, because less than two hours after he left, Zhu Ciran rode his bicycle to find him.

"Oh yes yes!" After being reminded by his wife, Li Dashou immediately thought of the countryside, so he said:

"Can you go up and complain?" Li Dingguo felt that it was a bit untrue. This was different from the "integrity" Censorate he heard in the royal palace and official schools.

But what she said made Li Dingguo a little embarrassed.

Zhu Youjian, who was sitting in the seat, shook his head with a smile on his face, remembering the scene where Li Dingguo rode back to Yanshan County with his schoolbag on his back on his horse during the holiday.

"Haha..." Looking at his parents' appearance, Li Dingguo smiled heartlessly:

"Don't worry, it's not dangerous to follow His Highness. Your Highness is just commanding the Central Army. I'll go over and see it for a long time."

"Wait until I go back and ask Your Highness." Li Dingguo did not make any decisions, but was preparing to go back and ask Zhu Youjian.

It is too obvious that Li Dingguo cannot say, so he can only say that.

"One hundred acres? How can our family have three hundred acres of land? How can we get it?"

Li Dashou couldn't believe that everyone farmed 100 acres of land because it exceeded his cognition.

"As for the inspectors, the former inspectors left after they finished eating, and they had to ask for some money before leaving."

Let the villagers find the village officials to report the corrupt officials. Isn’t this just let the villagers run directly to the corrupt officials and say they want to report the other party...

"What is the difference between now and before?" Li Dingguo wanted to know about the Ming Dynasty in the past and the Ming Dynasty in the present.

"Well..." Li Dingguo nodded. Of course he had an impression of the civil war in Shaanxi, even though he was still young at that time.

Before the family dinner began, as soon as everyone sat down, Zhu Ciran ran to Zhu Youjian and asked in a tremendous manner: "Uncle Wang, where is Li Dingguo?"

Li Zhang paused, unable to remember for a moment, and Li Dashou said, "Seventh-grade."

Although it has not reached the peak of the Little Ice River in the late Ming Dynasty, the global temperature has actually dropped between one degree and two degrees.

Speaking of this, Li Dashou couldn't help but sigh: "The situation is much better now. When the inspector came, he would ride a horse and walk around the village in his official robe."

Look, both families were injured during the New Year.

In the familiar small mountain village under Yanshan County, as Li Zhang's heartache sounded, Li Dashou and his wife were sitting in the earthen wall yard for dinner, looking at Li Dingguo who was eating with a big mouthful, with an uncontrollable smile on their faces.

"Does the people in the Censorate do not care?" Li Dingguo was still too young and actually placed his hopes on the Censorate.

That snow disaster affected Guangdong the farthest, and the Little Ice Age that Zhu Youjian is facing now has actually begun to show his power. The winter climate outside the pass will be more severe than the winter climate in later generations.

Zhu Youjian shook his head, rejected his brother's words, and said about when the war would end.

"That's too dangerous, so we can't discuss not going?" Li Zhang immediately became anxious when he heard that his eleven-year-old son was about to go to the battlefield.

In his opinion, the unfair thing in the village was probably the day before yesterday that the Zhang family had slashed half of the ridges of the field, and was blocked by more than a dozen people in the Tian family and beaten them. Then the Zhang family brought people to hammer the Tian family.

But what they said made Li Dingguo curious: "When the corrupt county magistrate and prefect of Yan'an were arrested, the village was so happy?"

After all, Li Dashou is a man and is quite curious about the current situation. As for Li Dingguo, he nodded:

"When Jianlu is destroyed, Dad, you guys are ready to make some money and food. By then, many people in the village will move to Nuer to work."

"Remaining the grade? What does it mean?" Li Zhang and Li Dashou were stunned for a moment, not understanding this.

Li Dingguo thought this sentence was very reasonable. After all, in the six years when he was sensible, he had never seen the Ming army look like.

Li Zhang kept talking about the bad things the village officials did, as if in their eyes, the prefect and county magistrate who embezzled tens of thousands of taels of silver were ordinary people, but the village officials who embezzled dozens of taels of silver were unforgivable evil people.

He also asked Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian's answer to him was "It is the court's problem that the soldiers are looked down upon by the people and have nothing to do with the soldiers."

Unfortunately, although Zhu Youjian has been increasing the reputation of ordinary soldiers, most of the people of the Ming Dynasty still think that being a soldier was "Qiu Ba" and not as noble as a scholar.

"About this, if you can't destroy the enemy before nine months, you may still need to be stalemate until the beginning of spring."

"..." Hearing his father's words, Li Dingguo couldn't believe that the people below could do this.

"What about those two dog officials?" Li Dingguo didn't expect that his parents could meet such corrupt officials.

Zhu Youjian told the common people of the Ming Dynasty calmly about some disasters encountered by the people of the Ming Dynasty before the New Year. Among them, the blizzard in Qiongzhou Prefecture can be said to surprise Zhu Youjiao:

He originally thought that if he killed corrupt officials and replaced them with a group of people, he would be cleaned up, but he didn't expect that the people who came were not as good as the previous village officials.

"In addition, several places in Huai'an, Yangzhou, Xuzhou and Jining suffered heavy rain, flooded the embankments and flooded more than 30,000 residential areas, suffered more than 260,000 people, and more than one million mu of crops were eliminated from the accumulation of mud."

When Li Zhang felt proud when his son said last year that he had let the heads of corrupt officials in several villages fall to the ground.

It’s like most people in the county town criticize the magistrate as a dog official and will not scold the government office at all.
To be continued...