The Arhats were all imprisoned in the firewood shed behind the ancestral temple. These guys were all idle gangsters in the county, and they were all marginalized people with no relatives or friends, such as bachelors and widowers.
Even if these people have relatives, their relatives would rather they not go home. Even if they disappear for a few days, no one will care.
The government of the Ming Dynasty always insisted that the people should not be prosecuted, and no one would report the crime. Even if the person died, no one would come to ask questions.
Of course, Su Ze was not suffering from a heart attack. These arhats injured many young men in Changning Guards. They bullied and bullied the city in the county town on weekdays, so they deserved their death.
But Su Ze has some vague ideas about making money, and realizing these ideas naturally requires manpower.
If you can subdue these Arhats, they might be able to help him.
After dealing with these Arhat's Feet, the Changning Wei Ancestral Hall held a banquet in the square and celebrated with great enthusiasm. The old man took out another receipt and said to Su Ze:
"Azezai, this is a written record of twenty acres of reed fields. It was awarded to you by the ancestral hall's public meeting."
Su Ze quickly took it over. Lutian was not an acre of land legally mandated by the imperial court, and it was not included in the fish scale inventory in this place in Fujian.
Most of Lutian was occupied by private gentry or large clans, so this document was just an agreement within the Changning Guard.
There are many such documents in the genealogy revised by the Seventh Uncle in the later generations. Although such agreements are not land deeds issued by the imperial court, they have a strong effect within Changning Guards.
This is why the ancestral hall is the most important institution of the entire clan, and why the grandfather has such a great reputation within the clan.
In the Ming Dynasty, where the government could not take care of things, ancestral halls took the place of the government and controlled order. Although this set of order was not very fair and reasonable, order was always better than no order.
In addition to Su Ze's reward from Ashida, the defenders who participated in the battle also received corresponding rewards in accordance with the previous agreement.
During the fight, they retreated without permission, and the defenders who were disadvantaged in the battle were also fined with soup and medicine money. Although these people were a little unwilling, Su Ze had clear rewards and punishments, and now with the power of victory, they could only lower their heads and accept the punishment, and in their hearts
I secretly made up my mind to do my best in the next battle!
[Rewards and penalties, "Art of War" skill +1, Lv2, 45/200]
comfortable!
If there were a few more weapon fights, Su Ze's "Art of War" skill would be able to reach level five.
When the banquet was over, Lin Liangjun returned to Baihusuo with his chubby belly in his arms.
Most of the people in Changningwei went to eat at the ancestral hall. Lin Liangjun walked into the empty Baihu Residence, but saw that the light in his bedroom was still on.
Sister is back?
Lin Liangjun rolled his eyes and tiptoed towards the bedroom.
The door was ajar, and Lin Mojun was sitting beside the bed, holding a red wooden box in his hand, with a reluctant expression on his face.
Lin Liangjun pushed the door open and said loudly: "Sister! That's the dowry my mother left for you!"
Although the Lin family has been in the family for generations, Changning Guard is a small guardhouse, and the families in the past generations have been upright, so they don't have any frivolous wealth.
The previous Lin Baihu died in the war. In order to compensate the soldiers who died in the war, the Lin family invested a lot of the Lin family's ancestral property, so that Lin Liangjun complained every day that he didn't have enough to eat.
Lin Liangjun has seen this wooden box many times. It is the last legacy left by their mother who passed away.
Lin Mojun touched the wooden box and said, "I heard there was a big victory today?"
"Sister! Big victory! Brother Aze is so awesome. He beat those arhats to the point of crying for their fathers and mothers!"
Lin Mojun smiled and touched Lin Liangjun's head and said:
"It's a good fight for you. The fine for fighting with weapons is quite a lot. The ancestral hall has no money."
Lin Mojun added: "The purpose of this fight is to fight for the reed fields for the Changning Guards. The guardsmen cannot move. Now they have to pay fines. As a hundred households, I have to make some contribution."
"Mother left it to your sister, and left it for you to find a wife. Just take my share and hand over the fine."
The little carrot head hugged the wooden box and said, "Don't pawn it! This is the last thing my mother left!"
Lin Mojun was naturally much stronger than Little Carrot Head, but she was not in the mood to fight for the box with her brother, and just sat on the bed in a daze.
"Sister! I'm going to find Brother Aze! He is a scholar, so he must have a way!"
"You can't do it!"
After saying this, Lin Mojun rushed out of the Baihu House and ran towards the ancestral hall.
The banquet in front of the ancestral hall had dispersed, and Su Ze had taken Lin Cainiang back to the ancestral hall to rest. Hearing a knock on the door, he opened it and saw Lin Liangjun with tears on his face.
"Have you been beaten by your brother again?"
He was fine when we just left the table, but why did he cry like this all of a sudden?
Lin Liangjun pulled Su Ze and said, "Brother Aze, can you make money?"
"Making money? Who do you owe money to?"
Lin Liangjun gritted his teeth and said, "It's not me, it's about the fine of silver for fighting with weapons."
Only then did Su Ze react, thinking of the sad look that flashed across his face when he handed the county government documents to his grandfather.
"Is the health center already so poor?"
Lin Liangjun pointed to the front hall of the family temple and said: "The statue of the third master empress who was our former Chang Ningwei is gold-plated."
Su Ze couldn't help but fell silent when he thought of the tattered clay statue.
Lin Liangjun pulled Su Ze and said, "Brother Aze, you are a scholar, you must have a way."
Su Ze raised his head and asked, "Is it true that the health center has no income at all?"
Lin Liangjun sighed and said: "When my father was here, I could still get some work from Qianhu, but since my father left, the relationship has stopped."
"What's that job?"
Lin Liangjun said: "Smuggling and selling stolen goods is all that is done in the coastal guards. As long as you are not caught by the court, you will be fine."
"But my brother said that our father died at the hands of these Japanese pirates. If you sell the stolen goods to them, you are sorry for our father. Changning Wei will no longer do such things."
Su Ze didn't know whether to admire the integrity of the current Baihu, or to blame her for being too straightforward. The Japanese rebellion in the southeast has not been quelled for a long time, and the corruption of the Coastal Guard Office is also a big reason.
According to Ming historical data, smuggling has been common among coastal guards since the mid-Ming Dynasty, and some guards even used patrol warships for smuggling.
What's more, some officers and soldiers from the guard station came to the shore and went out to sea to become bandits, colluding with Japanese pirates to rob merchant ships.
A health center like Changning Guard is definitely an outlier among the outliers among the southeastern guards.
However, one of the reasons why Changning Guard was able to avoid being dragged into the water was that the place was remote, and the Japanese pirates simply looked down upon smuggling and selling stolen goods here.
Speaking of selling stolen goods, Su Ze asked: "Is there an underground black market near Changningwei?"
"Underground black market? Are you talking about the ghost market?"
Open at night and closed during the day, it's like a market open to ghosts.
Only then did Su Ze remember the name of the ghost market. This was the underground black market with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty.
Merchants have to pay gate tax when their goods enter the city, and they have to pay store tax, stall tax in the city's market, and they may even be caught by tax collectors to pay special taxes such as irrelevant mining tax.
If merchants are unwilling to enter the city, they will find a black market outside the city to sell their goods, which forms a ghost market.
In the ghost market, there are not only legal goods, but also stolen goods stolen by Japanese pirates and then sold, and there are also some goods with shady origins, which will be traded in the ghost market.
In fact, Su Ze was also thinking about ways to make money. He said to Lin Liangjun: "Is the ghost market open today?"
Lin Liangjun clapped his fingers and said: "Open! The ghost market is open at the end of every tenth day of the month, and today is the end of tenth day!"
"Take me to the ghost market to see if there is any way to make money."